So, you know, kind of taking a step back and and observing and having those conversations and getting at the why, the why there's a breakdown, um, would help to guide that for me. Um, that's not I wish that that was a unique scenario, but it's not. And and you know, when we think about differentiating for kids, it's not just in their grade level classroom, but it's in their unified arts classrooms. Um, and that's where providing accommodations becomes critical but challenging. Um, so I I think having those honest conversations and looking at the why is important. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Two. All right. Obviously, I'm not an educator. I'm not the questions. I'm just a dad. Yeah. Right. We have a lot of just dads around here that we have to make sure we do right by. And I think that, you know, that's one of the things that um, was was nice about Beyond the Book when I kind of opened with the beginning is that, you know, uh, there used to be a time and I think we're we've gotten better at this where you would sit in a PPT and hear a lot of ed jargon.
Yeah, no, that's great. And I apologize, I don't recall the conversation specifically from 5 years ago, but I do This is just for me, I look at the Cheshire school system when I was a student and now, and I feel that it does a really great job with kids who are moving toward college. And they will have some of the personal finance some of those personal finance, um, uh, concerns that they'll need to take care of, but the kids who are not going to college, it could get My feeling is it probably could get more real for them faster than somebody who's going to college. Where you might have your meal plan and paid for, and therefore you're just not really thinking about that other than it's a component of your student debt, but they don't have the grocery bills going every week. Well, go back Yeah.
That's ridiculous. Also, are you replacing all the basic skills teachers with your I forgot the name, Partheon, whatever that AI thing. You know, AI slop. You guys loved it online. You guys commented that my slop is so bad, but now you're replacing specialized teachers, special needs No, basically basic needs teachers with that Partheon Technology LLC, which is a startup. So, and it looks like it's all AI based. It's one owner, two investors. So, are you selling our information to them? Cuz like I don't get it. What how that's going to work? But, um that's all. That's all I got for today. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to come up and make a comment? Could you please state your name, hon? Sure can. Danielle Marcello, 66 Krakow Street. >> [clears throat] >> So, I'm doing some back of the napkin math here, and I'm coming up short.
And he realizes he can't just stay in the forest and do nothing anymore. And as he looks at his old bear, he asks Pooh a heart-wrenching question. Pooh. Whatever happens, you will understand, won't you? I suspect that many of you feel that same tension today. You're excited to leave, to start your careers, or to head off to universities, the military, or trade training, and to finally have the autonomy you've craved. But there is also a part of you that wonders if you are leaving the best part of yourself behind in these hallways. So I want to tell you today that you're not leaving anything behind you. You're carrying it with you. Christopher Robin gave Puh a mandate that has become one of the most famous pieces of advice in literature and I give it to you now as your superintendent. Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
So, that's that's my perspective. There may be people I mean there are probably people um in the community and very likely people on our staff that are anti-semitic but that doesn't mean just because they are that we say it's okay to be anti-semitic right like we still include those protections and um same thing with being racist right so um I I don't personally feel like any group of individuals is any different than any other group of individuals um but you know and I'm pretty pretty well queued into the board feeling very strongly about that as well. I don't know if that helps or not, but >> yeah. And and and again, I just want to add I'm not afraid to have the conversation. I'm not unsupportive of it. I I just think that it's it it's something to keep in mind, but I I like the way that you uh I like the way that you present it, Jay.
Uh Andoria Tabor is uh handles all of our accounts receivable. Okay, so I'm not going to read this slide. I know it's a really long night, so I'm going to summarize it if it's okay with you. I'll be happy to talk more about it if you so choose. Uh basically what this boils down to is what we do. We advocate for students, support learning environments, manage resources, and we act with timeliness, transparency, and responsibility. Here we go. Next slide. Why does it matter, huh? Yeah, I'm setting the bar high for you guys. [laughter] Um why does it matter? So, in the words of my colleague again, I'll summarize it. Uh Ed Bracey is a colleague of mine I've known for a long time. He said it best, if you don't manage the money, you won't have the money. If you don't take care of the money, you won't have the money to take care of the students.
So it is possible that students who are on the zero to one list are very connected and involved in lots of sports and activities and have great attendance and great grades and are just saying if I have a personal problem, I'll just talk to someone at home and not talk to someone at school. So we were careful like we said not not to necessarily use the zero to one as a judgment that something was wrong, but just as an important data point for us to be aware of. I think one of the now that we're doing this year over year, though we'll be starting to look if there a launch like a kid that goes year after year after year, right? And we see the student show up multiple years in a row, it might be a time to at least lean in or ask a question and a little more directly.
I now know I'm just progressing on this part of the standard. I know what I need to work on. And that helps families to be able to see what are the specific areas that they need to grow in. Um I think when it comes to standards-based grading, the biggest difference is in elementary, we want kids to know where they need to grow. We don't want to shut down their love for learning, right? And so, what it does is it allows families to see more into what their child can do versus um in August, they might have gotten an A on this and then all of a sudden a B in October and then a C in November and then all of a sudden we throw in some more A's and we're averaging this all together and they're they're about a B, but we found that they actually were really doing really well on some stuff and we couldn't celebrate that because it got hidden in the B even.
Thank you. Um, so we started this process last fall, and we started by evaluating about a dozen of different content filters. So, we reached out for different, um, reviews. And, uh, also looked over about 2 years of reviews from other, uh, Indiana school districts on those filters. Um, and we also evaluated them, um, against some non-negotiable technical requirements that we had at BCSC. And from that first vetting, uh, we ended up with five filters left. At that point, we, um, collected a team of 10 individuals, uh, who were teachers, administrators, and technicians. Uh, with their help, we were able to create an evaluation rubric and evaluate the remaining five solutions based on the demonstrations that we had um, with the vendors. The highest ranking solution was put to test at East Central and and Lincoln as well as other testing devices. And when we were sure that this filter was going to be able to provide us what we needed, we were able to commit to the new filter which is called Linewise.
Like it is affected by barometric pressure and temperature so much. It's crazy. And trying to get it flying for senior day, really got a little overambitious with the helium. And they If If you're just a little too much, though, it takes off to the ceiling and it's gone. Like it's just gone until it runs out of helium and comes crashing down to the ground cuz it don't have a rudder or anything. So yeah, it was it was really fun and it's something I think they did a decent job of there was showing you kind of the journey to watch you go through the process of how to actually engineer something like this. It was really really cool to see it. Uh and then making the big turns from big large envelope style zeppelins to something rigid airframe that they could control specific amount of volume of helium inside of them.
Okay. And Aleah's not here. We have anything for her? Oh, Aleah. Sorry, Aleah. I I'm excited. You know what, Aleah? I can't see you. You're down there. Hi. Just a lot of moving prices and station as we get for summer and the summer trips. We have some employment shifts going on. I just want to continuously say how grateful I am for the drivers that we do have that consistently show up and and get our kids to and from school safely. Thank you for all your work on that. That has not been very easy. I want to kind of skip around here. I'm going to go with I'm going to go with Kim and then I just don't want to forget to come back to Jason's retirement. Kim, what do you what do you have for business? Okay. So, Central did have a food service annual review earlier this school year.
>> Okay. I was say I'm sorry I have to go back to the >> You're fine. I say you can watch the the video later if there's a response. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. >> If I could ask I I'm sorry. I I think it's Johnson. I don't have the first name. Is it Tar? >> Tara. That's T. I'm sorry. Tara Johnson. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you for coming. I apologize. I just couldn't make out the spelling. Um, could you please state your name? >> Yeah. Terra Johnston, 905 Huey Drive. >> Thank you. Same rules.
science and fine arts and it came in second. It's just >> just amazing. We again we are the high school with the most wins throughout the history of the competition bar none. >> And then the third graders had a wonderful tour last Friday all around the town. >> Yeah. Our middle school academics. We had one state champ and Yeah. So, just excellence all the way around. >> Proud of those kids, those staff members. >> All right. Has anybody got anything else? If not, I need a motion to make. >> All right. No discussion. All those in favor? >> I [laughter] thank you.
New Jersey just passed the whole state has skipped the stuff, which it looks like Asheville's trying to pass. And that's where the restaurants don't put in the extra condiments and cutlery unless it's asked for. So, um, there's small things, but they add up. exponentially bigly, yeah. Yeah, I'll I'll just say, like, I think this movie is is, um, helpful. I think the conversation around the health impacts is is a different conversation than you should do this because it's good for the planet. I I hopefully that will help shift people's mindset and certainly if this information gets out to people who are trying to have children, I think that's a a real huge um benefit. So, thank you for doing this. I have two questions back there. Curious about where cellophane fits. Plastic. Plastic. It is a plastic. Single-use plastic is one of the worst ones.
Um the next two comments are on cut and fill information. We've updated the soil management ground water storm water plan to address those comments. Um regarding the flood plain and compensatory storage, we'll circle back on that uh once the peer review is completed and we move on to that next topic. There was a comment on the buffer line on the plan that was misrepresentation. It was meant to be the wetland line, so it represented the approved resource area boundary. Um and then the last comment was about having an LSP. As Mr. Anglin stated, an LSP will be directly involved through construction on this project. Um there's full intent to do that. It's required by MassDEP. Um and so they'll they'll be an LSP on site throughout construction. Um Question. Yes. Does that mean anytime there's excavations going on that an LSP is going to to on site?
Um so you know I I think we we are audited out um the amount of work we do in this but I think there's something to be said and you know I thought it would be important to bring it to the full committee uh in consider in consideration. We do have a um a joint budget advisory committee meeting tomorrow um that myself and Bess and Mr. Kylie will be uh attending. And you know, I just think it's worthwhile to at the very least have some discussion around this. Um yeah, it'll cost a little bit of money. Um, but what not only would we be looking for potentially, you know, and no one likes to hear the word and I've had some discussion with some other um some other elected officials and appointed officials in town and there is some concern about, you know, the appetite for for overrides and in the coming years debt exclusions because we're going to be asking for for debt exclusions um for our buildings uh that we're we just put in for a uh consideration for a new middle school um on top of any kind of general operational override.
The niece they wanted to put at Newton and they were not allowed to so we lost three kids because that didn't happen. So I just want to You know, you talk about the bleeding of out of school choice so what happened was this family couldn't inner school choice so therefore they out of school choice together as a unit. So like few times Yeah, we're going to see that right now I mean I don't want to see that. No, we're going to see but if you don't want to see it then it gets to be then just let them go where they want. I'm kind of joking this may not be this budget preview but for the quick point is if you're going to let the superintendent then decide and then everybody's going to come forward and they're all going to want to go where they want to go in that sense so then you don't even need the lines.
Uh and a lot of uh you know, talk that was not uh easily accessible by the layperson. Uh and that's really who our parents are coming into this for the most part that they don't know uh what these tests are and what they measure and what that translates to and what's quote average and different and so um in the interview process we thought that uh Beyond did a really nice job of being able to articulate um even more sophisticated issues in a way that's accessible for for everybody in the room. Um and and considerate of everybody in the room. So, um Beyond will will look forward to seeing you on Thursday. We really appreciate you being here today.
It It's so It's just where I come from. I I think I just want to make sure that we're giving, uh, those kids as much attention and I Yeah, it's it's for every everybody takes the personal finance course. Yeah. So, no matter what, you know, what their plans are after high school. And I I know I I have students that are are going into that, you know, HVAC or some type of, you know, hands-on hands-on job. I I have a I have a mix of students that are and then students that are going to college as well. Yeah. Thank you, I appreciate it. Sure. We talked about internships, too. Oh. In the area. They have investigated some where our kids go out into There's a couple that may be opening up at Quantum-Cocket. And so yeah. >> Yeah. How many people are in each class?
Yeah, sure can. I'm coming up short with um some of the financials here. So, I'm going to tell you guys this in a very polite way, but I was given the list here of um team members, 870-something, 857. I can't tell who was renewed or who wasn't. In prior years, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't mind being corrected, it was evident who was not being renewed in the grid that we were given. This grid gives me lots of names of individuals, but doesn't tell me exactly who's not coming back next year. So, I'm going to use some estimations that I made up, I think, but if we're looking at potentially 30 certified teachers or team members, that may be under or overshooting, you guys can tell me how many are not invited back next year into this district, but if you look at fringe benefits and you look at annual salaries, you're looking at roughly $80,000 per person.