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at wisconier there's a parent meeting on monday the 21st at 9 00 am in the seminar room march madness for 7th and 8th grade students after school on mondays and thursdays through march that's volleyball handball and badminton tournaments and march 31st is a pto assembly for eighth graders on public speaking brookfield high school has tomorrow night the danbury hat tricks game to benefit the senior class the school day sat wednesday the 23rd through wednesday the 30th and the musical greece the 23rd thursday the 24th through sunday the 27th and then all schools have an early release for a plc day on friday april 1st that is all i have okay any questions all right so that takes us to the end of our agenda and so unless there's any objection we're adjourned for this evening and thank you all for coming and thank you for all the people who came here in person today and watched in on the tv thank you so much [Music]
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i'm just going to keep going if anybody needs to take a break or grab some fruit or cookies except you john help yourself library media center 2750 square feet you can see you know again i think this is fairly standard in terms of size for an elementary school for any size school yes but we will have a library media center so it's really the 27 plus the 2 plus the 400. no it's usually closer yeah i'm just like good question if i could um and there's not to be answered now but to anticipate purchasing new library books for these for bringing because a lot of clients get outdated i know the media specialist i think we predominantly bring what we have okay because we do keep our stuff relatively up-to-date okay okay good because you know when we purchased something we did in south winds or that was about 125 000 to fit out of you know those media centers and you know they're just outdated and we did with their ineligible costs you know their books themselves our books are ineligible to the state so it just it's also just good for our budget so if we had to you know be bumping up a little bit for that so that's good to know the other way i see that though i mean we sustain a quality library you know quality diversity library materials now in every building and we want to just the same sustain that now perhaps in a situation like the north end school we might have to supplement that because the size of the building is so much bigger and we'd be hard to really can't like pull all half the books out and do little and half audit who's going to pick what book we'd probably have to supplement that building but um norton i would think would remain pretty much the same okay but to go you know like i said from 300 kids to 600 kids you we're going to need more books i don't think yeah so maybe for the north then we just you know plug a number yeah for those 50 000 or something for books you know just the the placeholder and supplement yeah yeah at least and it all depends how the whole rest of your ffd budget shakes out that thing's going to move a lot and you know you don't have to stick okay at 2 million for furniture well you can move that and purchase other things it's just that we kind of try to budget for it but you can move them in different categories like you do with an operating budget or anything else same thing yeah i mean it's full of project budgets this is fiction you can't move oh we're good okay then we have a small breakout room uh you know meeting space is always tough in an elementary school or anybody's move really so you'll see a few places where there are you know meeting rooms a conference room with each of these buildings as well um women page 15 reading math coaches office 200 square feet and there were two of these and you'll see we've tried to keep to a standard so you'll see a lot of the you know school psychologists the school counselors trying to keep those around 200 square feet so there's consistency across the district the general education intervention services for reading and math these are 600 square foot rooms but they do accommodate for adults working with students in those rooms and we would have two of those rooms we close there from one side but i apologize but um for all these um intervention spaces and work rooms um we plan it for any tech in there or even for future accommodations thing with that the instructional fall instructional spaces have the same package as a classroom okay so here we have the whatever interactive point forward uh okay good that's good we shall make sure because the designers they get into it if it's not in there like well it's an ad service i'm gonna pay more money for them to design something that should be in there you know even if it's a put a back box for a b and power for the future let's make sure it's framed or it's cheaper to do it in construction coordinate it with the furniture and stuff like that so let me clarify they aren't in the offices they're not in like the coach's office but they are in the international rooms yes like a small breakout room for example would there be you know one in there i i would suggest we at least put a comedy for future technology at least for like i said a back box that they can you know pull because otherwise you know getting wire mold which is you know i'm sure you see all over you end up having that in your building and it's like we should have thought about that so having that accommodation even if you don't buy it right away you could always have your electricians run power and pull that in or one-on-one assessments you know a parent wants to work with two or three children outside of the classroom so those would be spaces to sign out you know yeah everybody wants more places to do individual assessments yeah we didn't have them in one school and we started building i'm sorry like oh we want monitors here okay so just smoke scar tissue yeah so with the breakout spaces um is so the thought is to have them spread throughout the building yes or in like the general administrative area so within the attempt here is to be within the academic classroom wings so most and again this would be a design decision with the architects but what i was hearing is that teachers wanted these to be you know maybe one of the primary area one intermediate upper intermediate so that there are multiple options 600 square feet of room checkout rooms 125 the intervention services rooms those are the 600s without that i'm sorry because like i said that's the program for people working in small groups with kids okay yeah because the one the only one i really saw was i was kind of thinking about where you're walking through too little they had you had the bridges uh area right yeah sort of that conference area in between two classrooms but then you had the other spaces um that were sort of tucked behind the line in the library area right so is that sort of the thought where you can have something here some there you know it's not all centralized so cause i'm just wondering when if you're gonna space them out like that does that allow for enough flexibility if you had to add on if you know if the program changes 20 years down the road or something like that listen you know it's small enough specifically building in spaces like that in this corner instead of just like larger spaces that can be divided you know just a thought you know you align those lines then um i'm i'm looking here i can't seem to find him i know i took pictures uh five six years ago i went and did an instructional visit in wilton and they had in kind of saw something like this in guildford too where within pods they kind of had a larger outdoor button outdoors but the common area that was outside of the classrooms but i remember a dedicated classroom but they put like furniture out there to accommodate individual small group meetings in these common areas it's not some of them were more private than others but it provided flexibility as things evolved i thought maybe relatively cost effective way to provide conference in space but we could look into some of those other options but i don't know if you've seen stuff like that i i i've seen uh architects use what they call the core factor which is all right dedicated to hallways airways lollies all of the non-instructional spaces i've seen them use some of that space to carve out you know almost break out of spaces within the hallway or courtyard type things so that again would be part of the design yeah to say this is kind of what we we're looking for as many of these spaces as possible that could be used for flexible small group or in your experience in other districts is this this normal is this what other teachers are other districts are looking forward to have yes and again these breakout rooms are really in the general ed area because that's where you usually have your el teachers who are constantly testing their kids you know for the annual requirements multiple times a and then all kinds of other assessments that are going on and then when we get to special education you know they have more specialized spaces uh you know from the students they work with lincoln well speaking of special ed on page 16 is where we start with special services programs so you'll see that there's four special ed resource rooms 400 square feet each and then i'm just going to kind of run through these k through 6 ot pt and speech resource room and that was the way it's right here we would have two spaces one is a 500 square foot room for otp shared by two staff members and then a speech area which is smaller 200 square feet and then over at page 17 social worker psychologists speech area so you have four 200 square foot offices and then a 250 square foot counseling room and you just refresh my memory on the counseling room would be different than an office though uh i i learned that the counseling room would be accommodating small groups of students which is why we made that one a little larger okay but then we may have duplicated the speech line i would just notice that too because i haven't included my related services so we'll revisit that but when they just picked up a couple hundred and so that's kind of the special ed area for this particular school i'll pause that for a second because then the rest is just administrative spaces page 18 so we have the principal's office 250 square feet the assistant principal is slightly smaller 225 square feet conference room um you know during our administrative review you know we did change this to one 300 square foot conference room instead of two 200 square foot conference rooms without recommendation because there are other spaces that can be used within the building and we were looking you know trying to pick up 100 square feet for some other areas health services 650 square feet that's the school nurse's office again all these are pretty standard in terms of size the teacher work room on page 20.
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you'll see that there's another 300 square feet combining that with the faculty lounge which is on page 22 so we actually were able to come economize and pick up a little bit of spread footage by doing it that way and marlene you can speak to that a little bit because that's what you did at chapman i think where you combine faculty and a work room i mean i don't know what dan's thoughts were but we were able to do that i just took a storage area and turned it into a faculty room so i think the the only question i would have is are parents using the words as well no they do not okay is that that's been problematic if you have parent volunteers in the work room that's combined with teacher lounge maybe there's a way to design it in such a way that it's separated by the join that kind of thing yeah so you're talking about 900 square feet to address both of those programs that right that's i think a design i mean that's that's where the architects come in the expect say you have 900 square feet to like play with these two areas and then they come up with creative ways to make that work yeah some of the places like thinking about people's parents working in the main office and they had access to everything that they needed for copying and doing things like that yeah we were trying to economize and flex for the needs and our experiences at the local level and how we use things that's the whole purpose yeah exactly adam oh finally in the space you're referencing of chapman is that that larger room that's in the basement sort of behind the stairs it's like all nice and brown if i recall or something like that a storage space and made it bigger for people and updated it so the thought is that there would be two defined spaces now and not or there's 600 for like a lounge collaborative area everything that you need is in there you don't have to go just nicer than what i'm thinking right now the problem what you're missing adam is you have no idea what that space looked like before right right it was redesigned yeah this is the upgrade the next space on page 21 this is where um we needed to free up some space so we could hand it so food services area 2800 square feet for the cafeteria to see the little note there that's based on five lunch waves and i think there was agreement that that's a good size cafeteria for this many students however the kitchen uh food service director erica biagetti looked at some standards and you know feels very strongly that a kitchen at 1300 square feet for that that size um you know building in terms of enrollment is too small so yeah we borrowed spare footage from other areas and we took 1300 square feet we're pushing it up to 1950.
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erica still thinks that is too small so i think that's something that we'll continue to discuss but what about moving the right there we've got five lunch bags some will be combined [Music] we do that now in some spaces combining second and third or first and second so you can get 10 classrooms that's you might not 26 sometimes yeah so the formula that the state usually uses is the number of launch waves the student population divided by the number of launchpads tags 17 and a half square feet so i think i use five lunch waves and this is a little more than that so you're talking 670 students right what's that what is it so today well how much time do the weight have for lunch minutes for the younger students and 20 minutes for younger students half that time was probably fine right well i'm not happy well i mean yeah so i don't know if increasing there's a formula i guess that probably ergo is using the kind of size of the wave and the top location to be able to get through that door and maximize kids accounting and the number of lines right yes she has two pointed sails and she's the expert so you know because i kept asking the question you serve that many kids in 25 minutes she was more concerned about having more lunch lives because then you start serving at 10 in the morning that's the other side right right so what about so like i'm trying to be biased as soon as i i am a trained chef so yeah i wouldn't do it for full-time in the kitchen the restaurant business is different but eric has some of the extra on this the size of the kitchen this is also is there a separate storage area for freezers i guess america's looking for additional space and kitchen to probably think about uh storage and make sure she actually she's talked to other food service managers who are operating now in new bui yeah some bring food into elementary schools those are prepared like the high school or whatever and that the space requirement there would be different we try and prepare on site especially your north school that's so far away from yeah it looks like the transportation would be right about that north end school being relatively remote from like you'd have to prepare that at the high school i would think and when you look at the high school kitchen that's like beyond dated and then to get things all the way to the north end that's not happening um yeah i was trying to figure this all out my head i'm i'm thinking about like highland right highland is supposed to it's supposed to be a kitchen for 900 students something like that yeah um that's only a little larger than the current northern cafeteria so while it's 400 square feet bigger um the kitchen at what was it okay 1900 is it always are we going in 1900 or 1300 no we're we're in 1950 right now 1950 um okay so there are so that'll be significantly larger than what's that island right okay that's what we're looking for it's outside walls could be a corner of the room could be a walk-in like this design you can you know yeah that's how big that is yes like that's large that's that's what that's like thousand square feet the kitchen yeah yeah yeah that's about whatever coming from yeah that's what i think let me see you know how much oh yeah work area is including food storage so just to clarify right now highlands a little over 2 000 square feet in the kitchen right because we've got the food prep area 1161 the receiving area the dry storage those are 455 each okay yeah so that's all broken i have to add those up and then the wic is the walk-in cooler so island's about what we're recommending okay and how many staff normally work in that area is that like five or more yeah well in the kitchen area and then you have a couple point sales folks okay how many lunch rings are highland i don't know well i'm just looking at chapman's existing cafeteria well i don't know because i'm yeah yeah that blue section right underneath it has the stages about 2000 square feet so yeah i think it's just the floor and the cap is at the 37.92 but i this this is kind of the exercise you just illustrated what we were trying to work through right right what is that space compared to other district spaces just to kind of conceptualize it what are the numbers relative to those numbers and we know that we kind of got the sense that 1350 was too small to get those kids through like saying it's important so we both was concerned i she's feisty i see the way dan's just shaking yeah the program on page 22 we're just about any of the end here so the faculty lounge we started talking about it we combined this with future work on page 23.
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this is an add-on um but we did make room for technology work within a storage area of 200 square feet because of the number of devices that we have in our schools at every student's hands now you know just a place to be able to update set up new equipment store the equipment as the end of the year it's it's a small ass but it's sorely needed so we did add this you know sorry spaces like that but it's it'll be functional and then custodial space 150 square feet which includes you know some locker spaces for the staff a couple of desks you'll see the next section on storage 800 square feet of instructional storage 600 square feet of general storage i'm i'm assuming that's pretty standard it's probably going to be too small as well i'm sure but there's never enough some of that is shared storage for instructional materials for two grade levels so within their near their classrooms there would be a 200 square foot space for them to put things like science kits and other kits that i don't need in the classroom all the time and there's one of those for each that sixth grade was initially designed to be in the sixth grade team room right so if we're changing that to be something that we have the sixth grade team and we're gonna have a fine place different stories and we talked about using that sixth grade team room as a general team room not limiting it to sixth grade although if it's built in the vicinity of sixth grade then it might get the most used there so we didn't eliminate that space we just so i think that's where that came from the request for collaboration and a place for their stuff well that only gets more discussion yeah thanks tim thanks yeah uh with regard to this i'm trying to envision the storage uh 200 square feet what's going through my mind right now is the high school so if i recall correctly uh mr noel and mrs richardson had classrooms right next to each other and in between there was i don't know for the storage space or what but it was probably let's say the classroom so then all of a sudden you have a 30-foot strip that's seven feet wide so there's 200 square feet and it was basically being like used as an office in between those two is that the storage space you're talking about something like that or is that impossible probably but where are they located well those are sacks i'm just wondering how it turns out we're calling it we're calling it you know storage space and just wondering what is this you got two things you have storage and square feet construction storage right there and technology and storage yeah you know what i'm just saying if it's i mean 30 feet by 70 would be the 200 foot storage space it's about that amount of space does it end up getting put like in between two classrooms like it's a slice or it would be the architect you know they'll have that amount of space to work with so yeah typically i see them because they're shared by two different grade levels they tend to be making the first second grade wing somewhere so that they all can access that um but that's where you know what you get into the design phase the architects will use this document to say okay we've carved out the equivalent of 800 square feet for instructional storage it's been recommended parcel enough before 200 square feet but somebody might get 150 square feet and somebody else might get a little more depending on the layout of the school and where they can find this [Music] i guess the only thing the only thing that sort of concerns me is the long term here like what i was just envisioning i'm not saying that this is what was inviting 30 years ago when i was in high school but where the rooms just sort of morph over time from one thing to another we have a youth center down the road that was a youth center it was not for park and rec offices that's what it was designed for and it changes over time then we have to have the yellow house and these things just change and i just want to be understanding that this is the real intent is for storage and it's not to slowly be taken over by whoever is right next to it that's the intent not saying what will happen but well if you look at the existing schools they're using every single corner closet that was not intended to be a greeting office or marlin you know they were not designed for that sure because these programs didn't exist when those buildings were built so i don't think any of us can promise that space is being designed with certain attempts will never be used for anything other than no absolutely not i would expect that but the discussions that are held tonight and at this time could be looked back in 10 or 20 years and say well this actually was not the way it was supposed to be right and i think that's important just to point that out i mean as a general statement i think what's being designed here is right right sizing the schooling right sizing the space 200 square foot about a month later there's a new function i mean i've been amazed by you know how some people have been stuck literally in a closet that they call an office went to high school to belittle i mean yeah okay next page 23 through page 27 um i'll just make a general comment here that that's section nine of the expenses required um that includes things like the building system that we'll know in particular the bottom of page 23 on page you know we did add some language about renewable energy and net zero emissions being considered as part of the building systems we don't have to talk about it tonight but we want to worst with that we can because again it's it's part of the specs so you know it's going to be the state wanted to see that in order to keep it eligible so if it wasn't in there they said it'd be a challenge to them they just need to see a word so if we you know whatever you do they can support it and the rest of the items related to the building technology security phones those you know were edited you know not only by dan and myself but also you know my pop-up on the technology side and rich on the facility side so we did get you know further input adam has a question okay um is there a website or or something uh some documentation on what leaked silver means i thought at that i thought the beginning of this process and now it says silver and i just want to know what that translates to as far as you know what the buildings need to look like that's all right yeah so the connect the connected high performance building requirements basically state connecticut took um from i think and adopted basically their lead silver requirements and from i've been told the same thing except instead of applying for a plaque and all the paperwork to say this is you know that they supply concealed silver we go we do all the same things except for apply for the paperwork and pay for the money that clock to put up for that that's state law that's required by lawyers you have no choice in that in that map now whether you go above and beyond that that that's not just like the record what the requirements are for lead silver except that i can just google that i can't itself it's a lot of fun reading there um but yeah it is in the statute and something exactly that well yeah you'll find it very easily you'll find very easily all right yeah we're actually trying we're gonna we're um we're gonna bring in a consultant at ces uh their mvp consultant they do a lot of schools uh maybe the next video where they weren't available tonight unfortunately um but very very kind of answer some you know what are some of the technologies that are being used you know currently in their area to speed on that so we thought that would be a good idea to do that soon oh sorry all these acronyms right yeah mechanical electrical and plumbing so you know just i love you all i'm saying architect and they do the floor plan they're they're basically the i'll say the profit master of all the consultants you have civil engineers structural engineers um uh interior designers are really you know they're they're part of the architecture i'll say a theme um and then mechanical electrical plumbing that includes fire protection um your id infrastructure typically acoustics because there are requirements for acoustics or sound transmission coefficients and the hack system's got to be you know insulated and quiet as well so but uh yeah apologize for that thanks for asking tim thanks thank you um yeah the telephone system so i already have has cell phones now but we're putting in phones in each classroom does that make sense and that's what i'm asking security yeah emergency security your public address system typically tyson with your phone system these days your master clock system they're they're really you know super integrated with each other the other thing i know i know but you know the other thing about our phone system is that it does have e911 capabilities so if someone picks up and closed from the high school classroom 82 that information was transmitted to 9-1-1 and that's important for first responders they want to know exactly to the extent they can where a call is coming from you don't get that the cell phone's going to cell tower [Music] you know it is used as the official phone number so you know somebody's leaving a voicemail for a teacher you know you don't want them to do that on the teacher's cell phone and just managing the logistics of that yeah would be impossible i mean it's not a weird question but i just don't think it would work in the school setting no i i get it i just think i think somebody could look it would be like you know obviously yeah um and so my second question is on the heating and cooling which is um so thank you very much for adding the point in here about that then under human coins as heating coins should be produced with natural gas with conventional boilers consider including geothermal wells for energy efficiency and cooling systems we're talking about natural gas here do we have the ability to hook up to natural gas at either these new locations well you know i mean i'll answer that generally at norton which is the existing building there is no natural gas that's close by well there's no natural gas along the street there is natural gas that would probably cost us it was eight hundred thousand three years ago to be able what was that in connection with the state doing work on that road no those aren't intersections not though that was taken was doing work on the road we asked we met with and kind of pushed to say hey you know they're tearing up the road you know that would be the time to bring in natural gas and it was they didn't want to do it without us paid for it essentially yeah so at the time we passed on that um at the new north the new north end elementary there is natural gas it's the same issue though it's not that close yeah but the recommendation is if we can get natural gas get the natural gas and then the scheme of a building project you know if it's a million dollars and somebody's got to do the calculations on whether that makes sense to do but in the scheme of a you know 100 million dollar building project if you can get natural gas i would certainly suggest that we consider it because otherwise we're going to be using you know oil heat which is not ideal for a large building and that doesn't mean we can't have other methods of producing heat but you'd always want to have a backup in the school building so the preference is natural gas potential identity but here's the so here's the hitch all right 200 to take one mile i don't know how far it is exactly 2 100 million budget is probably doable but i don't know and i don't know if anyone here does know do they have the capacity there because if they don't have the capacity then it would probably have to go to pura and pero could reject it and say we're not expanding it because it doesn't benefit the entire uh all the great all rate payers i'm just adding that to the discussion like so what we're doing here is we're saying natural gas for renewables and i don't even know if that is a real discussion it could be oil versus renewables and i think that's a slightly different discussion because the natural gas is not going to be picking up particular matter all the nasty socks and knocks and all that sort of stuff natural gas is sort of clean the oil isn't and i just think i want to see us move forward past all the bad stuff in the air that's the same my same concerns like diesel school buses it is there right we can get past it so my simple request is if we could just find out is it actually possible to get natural gas to those two locations because if it's not that it's just not part of the discussion it might be possible i have no idea or whatever we want to add but no absolutely we could but i think that's a slightly different discussion in terms of environmental health whether you have all that bad stuff out there and i prefer to avoid that i'm gonna just so we don't mess it that decade we have decent slight numbers but we i think we want to put that separate to identify that um so we know what it is we can make a call anything else on section nine yeah i just had a question on uh security um there's a lot about the interior of the building not a lot about the exterior um and so is that on purpose so it's not that like the sources and methods kind of thing or it's not just not been thought of you know like having you know you can't be outside yeah cameras cameras on the outside or uh you know that's not vehicles from one right in the building and all that kind of stuff yeah i mean there's well some of the items that are in the intuition like the camera system we certainly have exterior cameras like we do now you know don't mention that you know we would have to lock down strobes on the exterior of the building there's going to be certain standards that the state just requires or the architect you know as a matter of course all schools get certain security measures so this is intended it's pretty general it doesn't mean it's it's what's actually going to get designed and i know that just like the entrance says they have to be blast proof that's part of this back i mean can you just talk about what's kind of standard for security yeah so it it it varies widely um unfortunately with with sandy hook um they had to come up with the ssic measures school search infrastructure council you can look that up um they have the guidelines there that specific topic um yeah i wouldn't put anything too specific in here because it becomes a public document and you want to protect that but that whole discussion is all you know you you have to put together you know obviously fire police your security other community kind of that becomes a whole meeting in itself during the design process um but also you know looking like you said the interior and the approach and also obviously on the interior so by law we have to follow ssic measures and there are requirements and recommendations um there's a difference between the two and some of them are costly measures of course they get something like what we're gonna put you know um uh ballistic rated glass and that's probably the term i would use is ballistic rated uh in old school well that's very pricey and that's something you think you're going to want to do we need a comedy for that um may or hardened entrances you know and they'll use different types of technologies mostly at the entrances sometimes you know you'll be discussing and look at maybe the cafeteria you know larger assembly areas maybe the media center if it's on the first floor um i would certainly encourage to keep the media on the first floor because you have to if you for that that i wouldn't recommend putting too much um you know i i think if any if anything um maybe we put just comply with ssic you know requirements or something like that you know um but law will require it anyways so right as jeff says that's a really high level confidential offline meeting during the design process with the the town safety officials the architects so it is a little bit intentional that this is made are a lot intentional but this is big yeah and we try not to be too specific anywhere within the ed spencer because you're going to get into the i mean that's really a design piece but to chuck's point we could add a statement just to comply with you at to stay in federal mandates and they're already so that kind of covers that actually yeah yeah and anybody any any architects this goes implied they all know that's all right because most of the stuff that i'm thinking about is actually going back to the old uh the middle school design from 2015 or whatever that was how they designed they were like all the administrators on the upfront so if there was at least a say called a frontal attack everything is funneled to a single point almost where you have natural observation yeah administrations coming in you see the perimeter you know but you don't want it so hard that it obviously looks like a prison i mean it's trying to use but there's a lot of creative ways to um you know putting you know you see these you know benches that are concrete benches for sitting but they're actually bollards that prevent a car from you know coming you know from the front entrance right like that gotcha and then thanks uh page 28 it has access so are we ruling out the rear access i'm sorry so let's talk about [Music] development uh playgrounds and stuff like that [Music] i hope that you keep in mind uh charging for electric cars just to build for half a million of them around the country and i do think this is going to probably change the next few years over the years [Music] what's um it always becomes a balance of how many you need for your staff but that's somebody that publicly wants to come in charge during the daytime when you're in operations right that's the part now you're just talking about that you know you know is it through there because the planes and zodiacs are starting to pass regulations that are so many spaces you have to have so many but when you get to a school function during the day you may say you need 10 volts that that's the discussion yeah so honestly i think that's i think that's open for debate what it is right now you guys should have to pay for it i mean bottom line i mean there's a logistic issue there with you know how that occurs what exists in connecticut right now is a lot of free available charging the operating costs would be worn by businesses or organizations and the capital costs are based important by the state and it was you know negotiated agreement we'd give you this for free the product that you paid for it ongoing for three years is what the actual deal was although this three years has passed on most of them but i'm i do believe that a lot of the charging stations will be charging people money in the not so distant future i actually took my uh electric car out to newport this past summer and the place i charged up was uh i had to pay probably like three dollars to charge up yeah um also there are there are some of those companies out there that are doing that yeah there's also slow and fast charge nice charge should be more expensive so hey i was wondering on our other school districts designing the ed charting stations plus science lately valley yeah that was the discussion it was south winds are in it because the planning and zoning again i was saying they they there they passed it that you know a certain ratio kind of can't you know accessible spaces but dr carter's concern was like well you know this isn't a public charging station for one word in school we don't want to always have them in this chart so that was kind of the so what we did is we put the infrastructure in for them you know so they can expand it but i think we'll put in three there um i think we decided on at the end is to put three you know what's reasonable for you know staff because you know it's really who you're providing them for so it's just a logistic discussion sure you can make it available through id access by the time you build it you know yeah yeah once you put all the conduits in the parking lot and put a you know put a home run boxes you know if you have to bring it to the building that's the main thing actually you don't want to be tearing up parking lots after the fact that it's like you said about the boxes in the classrooms it's just over that that stuff's cheap to put in when the holes open right you gotta rip it up after a fact that that becomes another two inch you know pvc pipe that's cheap you know over the grand scheme it's the back backfill and then paint everything and one thing i have to mention on page 29 we talked about landscaping there's a big movement right now in town about implementing these species planted on all public spaces i'm sorry native species and all public spaces so environmental commission education they want to be sustainable i mean if it's not native right you're surprised what's not native i'm learning a lot a lot there's probably a lot of my art for muted right yeah the the tough part with landscaping honestly though is that with the kite guy performance it's tough to put it like like to keep up your landscaping you need water and the problem is you get hit on that on the green counts for watering so it it there's this balance and then you can't use the keys pest signs or designs so you're going to tell your front you're going to it's going to take two years to get a really nice one at these schools we're going to open up why it's got crabgrass well we're finishing it in the spring we're playing it but you can't use the chemicals that you want to get like we do at our house it's going to be a challenge so don't be surprised by that but it'll come in eventually it just takes a while it really does unless you put inside the next lawn is not natural so if we are trying to avoid some species basically a logical extension is avoiding that wash which we're going to have it's playground so that's always a challenge just bringing the landscaper back in you know you want to cut for that opening day and nice and green and plush but then there's crabgrass and we're just cutting crabgrass you know once you cut it fresh it looks okay you know it's always a challenge so is it that we're gonna do the next school now also wrap up here the next school will be really quick so you tell me how much you want to do so page 29 and 30.
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this is the summary of all the spaces okay so we just went through all the spaces so just look at page 29. we're at 65.75 square feet that becomes the important number for chuck and john from colliers to analyze and make sure based on the projected enrollment we're within the right range so you want to touch on that really quickly chuck yeah i mean essentially the goal if you go to the state um they want you to be 100 i mean the space standard relationship which is you know it says square footage times the number of kids and so it's a reimbursement calculations a little bit everybody kind of mistakes like oh they won't let you build that it's really a reinversion any fraction thereof that you're you know above that um technically they can take that percentage say if it's 90 of it and apply that to your reimbursement rates 0.9 times whatever you know reduce your reimbursement rate that's applied to all your eligible costs a lot of folks look at it's not going to pay for them that you build kind of sort of it's actually a reimbursement reduction so what's important um is you know we want to get back with the state take a look at it and um unless they give us a space waiver to make the rest of it eligible and we'll make the argument there's certainly going to be some areas that we say hey because of the programs we need like the rc program right um we want it all to be eligible but it's really important to understand that when we're talking about the budget for the project it impacts the taxpayers and what your bills estimated to be if we don't have that space waiver we have to really include and go you know the high side is we're estimating x without a space waiver if we get it it'll reduce it and make more costs eligible uh for that but until we actually have that in from the state you're always going to be at risk of giving a reduction in your reimbursement rate so that's why it's important to try to get as close as we can to your space standard um i very rarely see it i mean we did it pleasant valley over just below scratching your head wondering how we did it but um with the larger schools it makes it a little bit easier too you know the smaller schools especially 50 60 000 i think it's really tough these days because all the four programs you need in a 800 student school meeting at 300 student schools still you know the same thing called special programs but you know i think we're working towards that and trying to whittle it down and that's where this discussion of you know it's the give and take and do you know do we want 1200 you know square foot fitness room well that's going to bring it down in percent and the states but whether or not they're going to let you do that that's the next question we really don't know that with this new administration if they're saying because what they get concerned about is you push on the priority list you know you don't have a space waiver your the um your legislators can go in and submit not withstanding legislation to make that eligible and it becomes law that office then um doesn't have any they can't say that about its laws you know um in years past is not withstanding legislation so that's why they've been safeguarding you getting on the priority list so much because of the emancipation you're if you're not right size i'm not pulling out because it's gonna cost the state can i get more money and india is right with that and so we just wanna just hope so we can so i mean but just as a general statement for the expected enrollment because i know we don't have final numbers yet from slr but we think we're on the right ballpark for that projected enrollment at the 65 000 square feet we're close for so for norton um where we project it we take that value we call it core factor we were saying that dan's mentioned a couple times circulation means 1.43 and that that tells us where we're at compared to the space standard and so with that program or about your space standard on 669 kids is a little over 86 000 square feet um with the program as it is now we're about 93 000 square feet so that calculates about a 93 standard ratio so we take 0.93 multiply it by the reimbursement rate of um of 35.72 you know and do the math and it brings it down a couple a couple points um you know for that you know take it down to 93.
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two percentage points two and a half percentage points you know multiply that find your eligible costs you know 50 uh report i think we had a range of a high and low range between 88 and 96. yep so you're right there yeah we're gonna yeah the um school it doesn't really say about that yes so i'd have to go back to the north then it's going to be higher than our high end because we did push in darcy right the other factor um that we've been talking obviously with the executive committee is is our cost per square foot um our recent bids are up pretty uh pretty dramatically i don't think that's a surprise to anybody given what the economy is doing um so that's going to be driver and and matt bowman obviously brought that up you know a couple times during the process and valid questions just we didn't know what it was going to be we our basis on recent bids from november um so they're about as new as we can get we're touching base with our construction manager partners and estimators to see if there's anything else changing the other factor we're going to need to discuss is um escalation and what percentage is right now it's 78 we're saying do we carry that for three years out is that reasonable that's a discussion we just need to have um and an amount of contingency i think we kind of talked about those in the past so just some factors that require discussion holistically leadership i thanks david yeah so if i heard you write just a few minutes ago you were saying that you know we're at 5 000 75 the two numbers i thought you said a second ago like eighty six thousand ninety three thousand because you have to take sixty five thousand right multiplied by one point four three so we're at eighty six thousand and i thought you said ninety three thousand for the number of students so that to me is sounding like we're within there so this is your space standard for what the state looks like for 669 students for your grade ranges they're saying no reverse 86 397 square feet the current spec is estimating you'll that you want to build 93 365 so you want to build lower than what they're willing to reimburse right now okay okay so that's what i was yeah that's what i'm wondering about so i mean does this get into a situation where it just starts getting gained because i'm looking at the gym and it says 800 square feet a thousand square feet of chair and office storage so we just say all right we're cutting a thousand square feet off give us the full reimbursement for all this and then oh we're gonna put a storage container over here next to it after we're done with everything i wouldn't go that far no it requires a discussion with the state um it's it's a it's a very organic process um i i think the team the administration is still working on it but at certain point it's kind of pencils down let's go to the state go here's where we're at this is where we want to bake and we walk through and it is kind of a negotiation they're going to test us and go you know they've seen a million of these things so they're going to know where to look they're going to go do you really need escort footage can you justify it we're going to talk about it they're going to there's probably a suspect some give and take and they're going to say whereas a letter first space waiver that's what we can support or not and um you know and they'll give us a an idea of what they think they can do again different administrations so we gotta see how that's gonna play out is it we're planning the building to be where that is needed for the students your plan for what you believe you need for your programs the spaces state connect it says well our space centers say x now it's somewhere probably in between there so because we could spend markets well you could but they yeah basically you know as far as the homeroom seats i don't know if that's what you're referring to um because i don't see like where is it they don't really look at that that's kind of a nice little secret that i use because it's like okay you're you know we did i think uh i think pleasant valley is 803 and i think i counted like 950 seats but we're with the space station right [Music] and i was doing that i kind of fell across that to be honest i was like oh this is kind of interesting like the actual homeroom disease are some key a lot of cases exceeding the projected enrollment you know um it all depends on your sectors you know that utilization study that dan's been working with you know with mike zuba they all kind of come into play um okay so it's going to be a discussion we got to be in the mid-90s at least historically we have for them to talk to us here below 90.
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they'd be like go back to the drawing board and come back when you're ready but that's because the old regime was allowing it was permitting 86 they weren't like on a percentage basis are saying not you know what percentage basis ratio if you're below 90 percent they would challenge like no you got to right size and get closer to the space state okay so i think it's coincidentally you're talking about percents and i have this yeah the number's 86 um instead of you know through legislative uh language and we're not that far off right no we're not that we're not that far off it's those little slices and little cuts here and there until you get to the point where you listen we can't this is why we need it um i mean michelle's gonna put she's seen it and she's gonna know where to push and you know she's gonna i know you got a couple more questions she said to me it's not my program i don't know how to do it um but you know she will she'll push back a bit and um you know then it's always a challenge in the design you know the designers are you know um you're gonna look at your corners like well they're not as wise as we want well it's the space standard it's always a give and take you know you say your cafeteria your kitchen specialist they want a bigger kitchen well it might be you have to give up a little bit you got to give up a little bit this person's going to give up a little bit to get us wherever you need to be that's and what's going to happen they're going to go through the programming that dan's going through and architect's going to come in we're getting like well this isn't what we discussed with dan hanson well when we get into the design you're you know the fitness room well i had to come out how quickly can somebody just explain what cape cod style curve is it's at a 45 degree angle i googled it so like from the road up to the curb it's like a 45 degree angle so that plows don't flip the curb they can just kind of they're they're basically now little curves so instead of having a sharp curve like emergency personnel you can drive small granite court so if you give me five minutes i'll explain the difference between norton and northampton is gonna go the only difference is that the north end school is exactly the same as normal with the addition of birth to three so all the spaces are exactly the same except for the items we described on pages 17 through 19.
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and so those spaces um are the birth tree resource center 100 square feet for a d3 office 300 square feet fourth degree secretary office 200 feet then the early intervention center 1100 square feet four classrooms and an intensive ed classroom of 1100 square feet the delta between the size of the two buildings because we're adding in essentially the dorsal program that has an additional 650 square feet so it's north plus 14 650 gets us to 79 725 is where we are currently you know as chuck said the most important thing here is when we did the original plan from school modernization the darcy program is not included and so when we compare the budget of this building that includes the darcy program it's going to be higher well we're down because the presentation that planning communication is 20 000 square feet well it will be when you take the 14 000 times the 1.43 you're still around that that that 20 000 or so is that quarterback we're talking program versus building areas and stuff got uh yeah i think primarily because of course you know is probably the number one factor um and then the others talk about and um you know be like transparent i like you here's what is sad i mean we used to set them up side by side and go here here's a high and here's where we're at now we highlight here here's something it's square foot escalation and they're going to be continuously that's what those numbers and square plunge and i think people are going to ask why we put darcy in this program first i'm going to remember the exercise we went through so highland that's really important in the categories listen we're just going off the space stand calculation we're not programming the building and you know our memories are short and you know say we didn't analyze it during the sfc portion of it and it seemed to indicate we could but obviously we went through that exercise that it doesn't so i'm thinking it might be a good exercise to shout between the cips that there's school would require as well as the operating costs for that school i mean we'll make that money up as a district or as a town relatively quick by building that 15 000 square feet across the school okay so that's iteration one done that's so my questions are about the external on the uh the north campus is that i know that when you when you tour darcy one of the the biggest well not one of the biggest but one of the things that the staff always talks about is the great trails and stuff in the woods that are in behind carson and i know that there are nature trails literally across the street from this new site and i wasn't but i wasn't sure if there was a way to be able to incorporate those trails sort of maybe in the same way as there are darcy and then the second part would be um sidewalks like the norton property there are sidewalks all over the place but there aren't any at the north property um and you know that you know we have a lot of their houses up jarvis street but i'm sure will want to be districted into the walkers um and you know there's new developments going down the other way uh for walkers that way too so i wasn't sure if that's something that has to be considered for this is that something that can be facted into construction of that property or is that something that the top is responsible for like a future date or something so um the for the project it's the the state supports basically the project limit so anything outside this property actual property line even if it's right in front of it is ineligible it's just a blanket and it doesn't matter what type of project but when you start extending beyond up the street and then down the street those you can build them but they're going to be ineligible as well so whether you do them an hour later i think that needs to be looked at kind of in a master plan type of way to go where it would be because you get that sidewalk and it just dead ends into nowhere right and that means i'm sure you've all seen them but there's that's that's potential but on the actual site yes you can put those in that's not factored in you could have potential walkers with those sidewalks yeah well outside the project limits the blob when coming in from like the drives and will come will bring right up to the building there'll be sidewalks for that yeah once you get outside i'll say the site proper that's typically a town project um most most you know most projects for that so unfortunately if you don't have the infrastructure there already now you're talking about the cip project for the town because the north property is basically sort of like virgin ground you probably have a lot of business where are we with the traffic study um john do we have any idea from slr on the traffic study i have not heard anything back uh chuck i can follow up with them tomorrow on that um i believe that they have the po i know there's an issue or challenge with respect to the wording that was added uh to theirs and to um leggings um of eos their proposals so i'll follow up with arnett and sean and see if those were issued i have not seen it myself but i'll double check on that thanks sure okay i'm not sure this question may be for you the property we do the town owns property on that bridge up there uh so west of marion is all the way out uh it's two different parcels yeah is any of it is any of that parcel is there access like directly across yes from this power collateral across the street from the school okay yeah no i think i think i know i think i know exactly where it is yeah i've been up there but i couldn't recall exactly the location i'm just curious could that get incorporated into the school property well you you don't know the property um so i think it's probably probably more of a policy with you guys of crossing the street bringing kids across the street you know issues it's time on property so i'm just wondering in terms of the budget and getting state reimbursement as far as development that'll be totally there's no real estate reimbursement for any improvements okay that's fine yeah outside the property line so they would consider that a separate parcel um for that i mean unless there's a big change but i would expect no no that's fine i figured um yeah and i certainly would hope i mean i would think that i i would like to see sidewalks there i would like to see you know a crossing guard there because marion does get some pretty fast traffic but i certainly would like it to you know sort of falling out what adam was saying about the kids if they could go for a field trip go for a walk whatever it might be across the street at night turn that to you anything all right thank you everybody
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all right time is 7 p.m welcome to the march edition of the columbia school district board start by calling roll please kimberly here tammy hines here andrea corey here craig meyer here lisa schumacher here scott middle camp and tyson search are absent that still makes a quorum so we're ready to proceed next time is our pledge of allegiance everybody would stan i pledge of the allegiance states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice thank you all right welcome all the visitors we had a good crowd today thank you very much for participating do you have any public comments any call-ins or anything all right easy enough correspondence i think is going to pass around do we have any correspondence perfect we're just flying right through this great all right on to our consent agenda mr cody if you'd walk us through that yeah um we've got the the the resignations and the employments i'd like to point out that kelly hintus is our fifth our new fifth grade teacher she's here stand [Applause] i'm adding two names robert post who's our high school english she accepted the position today and then uh carolyn kish she'll be here next month but she accepted and she couldn't make it to the board meeting tonight but she's gonna be high school science and so those two names are the uh additions to the certified personnel um and then we've got the the vacancies um i believe there's no questions or comments on that if there's not a administration recommends that you approve the consent agenda as presented any questions comments concerns without entertaining any motion to accept the con consent agenda as as stated yes andrea corey yes craig meyer yes lisa yes welcome aboard both all of you thank you for attending the maintenance night it's always nice to put a face with the name when we do this so thank you all right on to our communications and presentations our enrollment report is in the packet any questions on that administrative report we'll start with the columbia middle school good evening mrs hughes welcome thank you amber haven is here with me this evening and we're going to take some turns to share information about cms tonight um over the last month this month and next month we have a lot of positive events happening at the middle school currently going on right now is the march reading madness this year the library is hosting a school-wide reading tournament called march reading madness it is similar to a sports tournament 16 books are competing against each other for the title of best book the students are able to fill out a paper bracket with their predictions and then they vote online using google forms for their favorite books we're hopeful that this will build even more book love and reading excitement at cms this spring we're down to the final four and those votes are being made i think tomorrow and next week so it's really fun we also have our paper rock scissors competition happening right now among the staff the annual prs competition is organized by mr ackerman it commenced this week with the first round of games in the books participating faculty members filled out a bracket with their predictions on who they think can overtake last year's champion mr janie let's see if it happens again we also want to thank carly atwell for all of her leadership in our st baldrick's donations she and others have raised a great deal of money for st baldrick's and we have over a thousand dollars raised by fifth and eighth grade fifth or eighth grade students participating in various dress-up days tomorrow we have another day it's crazy blue and white and in addition the snow angels team members have raised over seventeen thousand dollars outside of school the big event is a shave event that's on march 26th that ace is wild in columbia from 12 to four we also have german students visiting thanks to mr um mr nickerson and miss hellman for organizing those events on april 29th we're going to be welcoming some students mostly to chs but also they'll be visiting cms as well and we're excited about those visitors rpe students are going to be roller skating starting on march 30th they bring in a lot of um they look like bookshelves but they open up and there's tons of skates in there look very similar to when i went to school i'll speak for myself um it's a two and a half week long unit and the gym is turned into the skating rink with lots of time for free skate and various games and activities that's nice and fun we also have the young authors contest happening right now this year over 20 students wrote and submitted books for the young authors contest 17 students are representing cms at the young authors conference in waterloo this year we're really proud of their accomplishments and how many turned up student council planned a kindness spirit week this year in february as an alternate alternative to a valentine's day theme and we worked on spreading kind and uplifting message through locker notes and posters we are currently brainstorming about a spring dance for seventh and eighth grade through student council and second step lessons taught by mrs lang gang and ms klein are taught to our fifth graders every monday for 20 to 25 minutes lessons include topics such as empathy respect responsibility compassion kindness and managing emotions we have dare happening in fifth grade right now our dare program sergeant zach hopkins instructs like i said the fifth graders on tuesdays and thursdays it's a 10-week program and it comes to a close with a final celebration with t-shirts and ice cream provided by the columbia police department we have some spring sports at the middle school right now we have girls on the run our season has started girls on the run is a program for fifth and sixth grade girls it's a social and emotional curriculum and we we practice two times per week we work on physical stamina as well this ends in forest park on may 14th with a giant 5k with all the metro st louis area schools it's really really cool event this year there are two start times i don't know what the columbia start time will be but i believe the options are 7 am and 10 am just to kind of keep with some distancing recommendations we have over 40 plus girls between cms and parkview and together we are going to run our practice 5k in the city park here on monday may 9th and we welcome anyone to come and join and cheer us on with just your voices your claps silly string glitter anything you can imagine mark your calendars um it's going to be really fun we also want to say thanks to those who are organizing d-league basketball for fifth grade boys and girls to work on basketball skills which i think makes a gigantic difference and track season has started we have 30 girls and 30 boys participating this year so we want to thank mr whereinberg our boys coach and miss lang gang our girls coach we will be having 10 track meets this year compared to only three that were able to have last year with covid and the other sports being squeezed at the same time so really excited about the spring we had a sixth and seventh grade an eighth grade chorus concert on march 3rd titled music in our schools month with kicked off kicked that month off we had two concerts for art on march 24th cms will be participating in the annual roe art festival public and parochial schools in both monterey county and randolph county send students to participate and we have 15 students entered they are working with still life sculpture figure drawing illustration and cartooning so mrs packard mrs foreign and miss fulty will serve as judges for the competition that will take place at spps in waterloo and the fun fact of the day is the last time the festival was held was just before the pandemic and we hosted it at cms it seems like 10 years ago miss faulty we just completed our third quarter incentives through the pbis program that mr ackerman pioneered at cms the fifth graders celebrated with complete open access to the gym in our commons so we had lots of equipment out for the kids to have free play in the gym and board games and student choice in classrooms and commons areas the sixth grade students who earned the incentive had a block party style where different classrooms had different games and then there was an ice cream bar as well the seventh grade had a trivia in the cafeteria that was really fun and then the eighth graders got to go to the zoo now we are going to talk about some fun things happening in the classrooms a lot of teachers at the middle school have gone to projects lots of project-based learning happening and you're going to hear a lot about it here the 5th grade science classes welcomed the monroe county ag in the classroom someone came in and taught all of our fifth grade science students about corn and they dissected a corn kernel that's fun um the fifth grade science is also going to host a star gazing event with the help from the ptas fall grant fifth grade students and one of their parents will be invited to the remote control airfield on bluff road the date is to be determined it was originally scheduled for march 11th but we had some snow so we had to cancel that students will attend three stations that evening one will be a make and take constellation box with a battery operated tea light one will be a constellation star scavenger hunt in the night sky and the third will be a telescope station where some high school science teachers and hopefully our fingers are crossed some members of the st louis astronomical association and society are going to come and volunteer their time in their telescopes to guide us through the night sky watch last year the event had 80 attendees and that was just with one hallway and now we're opening it up to both hallways so we think it'll be a fairly big event the sixth grade special ed class is creating a 15-page comic book it goes along with the novel that they read just recently called strider and after two years of being put on hold the sixth grade science classes conducted the classic and much-loved peppered moth lab this model's natural selection i saw some pictures students were wearing glasses and some of the glasses had ziploc bags taped across the top to skew viewing and they had different shapes of beaks and things like that it was very interactive students take turns being birds battling to find and hunt the most peppered moths to bring back to their families in this lab sixth graders explored how variations within a species such as camouflage and beak adaptations all lead to changes within that species is light bloomy i can keep going yeah i think so you can keep going okay sixth grade social studies mr pitts has had his history students research the 20 different wonders of the world making a google slides show in a handmade poster and then they finally presented that to their classes and in sixth grade language arts the students are currently learning about greek mythology and mrs williamson is running a contest where the kids are creating their own god and goddess and then the students are voting on the most creative one among the class this week we had pi day which is march 14th and in mrs avorica seventh grade math class the pie contest took place if you're in a classroom you would see she has a gallery wall of winners it's a very big deal so we had the prelims and then the final contest was held on tuesday march 15th students that recited 60 or more digits on monday went to the finals last year casey bernard recited 650 digits which completely blows my mind and this year she has the current school record her brother bradley is in second place with 367 2018 and the winning student gets the name on mrs zaworka's wall of fame or hall of fame a 15 gift card and to a place of their choice and a pizza pie delivered to lunch uh this year we had five of the 15 students in the final contest who were able to recite 100 or more digits including kendall hempkin ushia james maddy brandenburger aaron eisenhower and this year's pie reciting champion grace nowak she had 414 digits i can't even imagine mrs oborka even counting that but it's just mind-blowing i'll never it'll never happen to me i'm so excited for them some special ed students in eighth grade are learning how to write a cover letter and resume as well as write interview questions for each other and ms klein is here tonight and she has a some 8th grade students who have visited parkview parkview on march 4th a very important activity in 8th grade language arts is writing for a real audience so 8th grade students interview parkview students and write a personalize and illustrate a personalized book for them it's a very fun thing there's also a career day coming up at cms on april 12th where high school students will speak to their 8th graders on that day and 8th grade students are participating in another march activity called march mammal madness which is a simulated combat competition against animals so we're excited about those academic activities as well another science big deal is we have are about halfway finished with our illinois science assessment this year each grade level takes three separate tests and we're also looking forward i suppose to iar it's a very big change of pace um it's a lot of testing on the week of march 28th and then we'll also have map testing in early may our end of the year 8th grade celebration is also scheduled for may 26th we have a columbia education association friends of education banquet each year the illinois education association region 4 honors those in our area who work to improve public education with the friends of education banquet the nominations are given to those who make our district a better place for everyone to work this year liz cole has been awarded the honor of attending the banquet on behalf of the many ways that she personally and the pta help our school and community in addition to liz cole as the friends of education winner the cea recognized two other nominees lainey randall for her work in the special education department that goes above and beyond and tim folte who donated hundreds of dollars worth of materials and countless hours towards making wooden whirly gig kits for the summer school program last year i just wanted to say worley gig again i sent our mrs fulty sent both of the runners up a letter a gift card and their nomination letter and she feels like all three were very deserving of the reward but liz fit the spirit of the award award the best cms is also involved in taking care of some pta auction items we're just so thankful for the pta's involvement it's such a relief to have a great relationship and working working relationship with liz cole and jessica ray all the things we do for our students and the fun some of the fun things we've mentioned is so easily planned because of their time and effort and funds so it's just a huge relief to have them as a working team i'm also excited about the morning of march 23rd in an update that i sent parents in july i think no not july what am i thinking january uh i was so excited to finally be able to possibly talk to parents in the building without a mask on simply because it's hard to develop a relationship only over the phone and via email so i'm happy to say that 33 parents rsvp'd and they're coming to cms on the morning of march 23rd just to mingle and meet some other parents but also match names to faces because i like i said i talk to parents on the phone many times i email with parents yet i might patch them in schnooks i don't know who they are so i'm looking forward to march 23rd we also want to say say thanks to our subs who have brought us through through the trenches teresa bradshaw stacy haltom and joyce henson heather cuevero and liz schreckenberg are just really devoted to cms and keep us keep us alive to say the least and then also i wish everyone could understand the daily puzzles that tracy hayes and saracoca stump saw for us to make sure that our days go as planned i also want to thank the republic times for recognizing katie jack for her southwest region teacher of the year award and finally i want to say thanks to our rockstar teachers who have earned awards this year i like to show them off on social media so hopefully you've seen their face if you follow us on instagram or facebook don williamson callie zavorica theresa farrens carly ottwell joe birch jenna stewart sarah dahl will pitts katie jek jeannie rice amber haven and most recently mickey spivey and kelly landgraf i want to thank them all for their time and dedication to cms and then finally i'm really excited to welcome cali and christine to the cms family thank you anything else i don't know maybe all right our assistant superintendent reported so i am really glad that mrs huells and mrs haven talked about all of the really exciting things going on um mostly at cms only because this month is i was just going to bring up that we are getting into that um standardized testing mode so next week on the 23rd while mrs huels will be having fun doing a parent meet and greet mingle our high school juniors will be taking the s.a.t where they will also be enjoying taking the s.a.t um maybe not as much as mrs huels will enjoy her time but that day then our seniors will be going and doing some community service around that day and then the following week like mr tulel said is our illinois assessment of readiness testing that will go on with our third through eighth grade students um again not as fun as all of the really cool things that they mentioned um but important nonetheless for different things obviously i think any educator that gives that assessment would really like to see results faster and be able to do something with it but it is important as a something that the state asks us to comply with and we do utilize a lot of that information in the best ways we possibly can so um those are coming up and then um the only other part i was going to mention is that i am really hoping that you approve the financial literacy course tonight um i had the pleasure of going and speaking to the chamber of commerce this week and while i was there um started speaking to several of the different businesses in town about how they can contribute and help us with our financial literacy um and i was overwhelmed with the number of people that were already there that stopped me and then um if i didn't get to speak to them there that day that they had emailed me and reached out some had ideas of what their business could offer to our financial literacy class others of them had a full-on simulation that they would like to then see implemented at the high school level so it was just really exciting to be able to reach out you know a lot of times teachers are faced with students saying why do i have to know this why do i have to know this and so by bringing in the community it will be a perfect example of this is exactly why you need to know this so i'm excited to get the community behind behind our new course hopefully if you approve it superintendents report last not least all right it it's it's amazing to hear everything that's going on um it this is what we call scheduling nightmares because all of these things have to happen on certain times and certain dates and you don't want them to conflict with other things and it's just um it's hard work well received because all of the efforts that the people put in to make sure that these things run it's great for the kids and it's great for the community and it's just great to see graduation we talked about last month and we talked about may 14th being the saturday for it and 15th being the sunday rain day we talked about the time and um we do have a baseball game in the morning there's a double header that there's an issue with it's also the girls regional for soccer and so we want to make sure that the time we do will allow baseball players to play and soccer players to play and talking to mr reeves and uh mr horner we believe six o'clock on saturday would allow the soccer game to occur the baseball games to occur and nobody would be able to miss i say that with the acknowledgement that we did i was contacted by a community member who has a child who's graduating college that same day and it just it pains you that they have to you know you can't be at everything but it's just so many things are going on it's the way it is sunday if we get rain on saturday sunday we would still want to do the 1pm um time and so i will update you more but saturday is going to be 6 p.m sunday is going to be 1 p.m and that's graduation march 31st is soaring eagles and i encourage the board to attend that at the high school every faculty member picks a student and they talk about the student and the student gets a little pin and they wear it then when they graduate on their um on their graduation robes but it's a really it's a neat event looking further ahead pensler award is scheduled or this was going to be scheduled for april 28th which is the fourth thursday however it had to get moved because the roe scheduled the i'm not going to say it right the outer order murder erder the earlier banquet got scheduled on the fourth thursday and so mr reeves moved the pensler event and it happened to be on the 21st which is our board meeting and so i think what we're going to do is i'm going to look at the calendar and trying to find a time that we can move our board meeting so that we'll be able to attend these events and and see where we're going i apologize for that clerical oversight however it's just so many things going on you can't have everything free and so we'll try and move our april meeting so we can attend that um april 18th the germans come as we had already talked about april 22nd is the ace olympics that's uh athle athletics challenging each other and that'll be at the um the multi-purpose field and during the day you'll have athletic coaches and the students participating it's not special olympics because we can't use that term but it's very much of the same thing there's a bunch of events going on that day and it's gonna be just a blast um what was the date for the astronomy to be determined okay because i'm i'm excited about that one as well i'm kind of a star geek but just all of these events and everything it just i'm glad we're not wearing the masks i'm glad we're all back in person but these events these activities these things that we do which is icing on the cakes for all of our students is just um it's rewarding to see and so i want to thank everybody who is actively involved in making those things happen i appreciate it that's all we've got for my report thank you what was the name of that banquet again murder on for our items for action is the first one is the approval of our 2022 to 2023 student fees yeah and at this point in time i don't recommend changing any of the students fees i i can't stress enough that the last few years with the federal kovid dollars and everything has really kind of made the financial planning and moving forward a little um hard to understand what our normal revenues are and what our normal expenditures are so at this point in time i would not recommend that we change any of the students fees you will see that we've taken off the middle school pe stuff because they are no longer changing out we also are taking off the chromebook cases we sort of regret not just including the cases with the chromebooks from the get-go and so we're going to slowly segue into new cases that come with the chromebooks every year but with that the administration recommends the board approves the fees as presented the numbers did not go up and they did not go down we are still waiting for the federal government to tell us if we're allowed to keep our lunch prices where they're at there's a calculation for it and i can't explain it but they will let us know and so that might be the only thing that would change any questions is there a lunch fee right now i know for the first time yeah and so when you get your school approved lunch there is a fee in that cost no no no no the first meal is free that's what i thought online because we're still under uh still under covered the first meal is free if you want to buy a second meal you have to pay for it or if you want anything a lot cart you have to pay for it so then next year will they be free again is that what you're saying if there's not a no i believe that there's going to be um the normal price so like if you wanted a second meal that's the price of the of the of the meal i think it's two dollars and will there be a sea then for the first meal yes okay i believe so if the government tells us no then no we get reimbursed by the government either way and so when they say there's no free lunches the government can can make that happen but are there questions just so i understand you're saying approve it with the exception of taking out the costs for pe shirts shorts sweatpants and so forth at the middle school okay but the high school high school still has it still changing out okay okay i understand so chris for one of the notes is the ap dual credit course fees those are going to those will depend on the fiat the course itself or because there's no dollars yeah it'll depend on the course itself and and how many credits it is and what the uh the university is giving you the dual credit charges so those will just be disclosed when the student's approaching that time to potentially register because that's not going to us that's going to right that's not going to us right i just didn't have a number so any other questions we'd like to make a motion to approve the 2022-2023 student fees thank you lisa one second i'll second it thank you andrea please unanimously item b is our approval of the non-re-employment of non-tenured teachers this is a consideration we have to do every year and so the administration recommends the board approve the resolution to dismiss frank cage a first-year probationary teacher at the end of the 21-22 school year and not re-employ him for the 22-23 school year okay so we like to make that motion can i say a comment i had a parent contact me over the weekend in regards to um they're concerned with um the grades in his class so like they said a and b students are you need to contact mr reeves mr reeves yeah have them contact mr reeves and talk to him about that okay any other discussion we have the motion in writing the maybe you'd like to make that i will hand you the form somebody handed it to me looking for a volunteer i'll move that the board approve a resolution to dismiss frank k cage teacher at the end of the 21-22 school year and not re-employ him for the 22-23 school year okay motions over a second a second thank you vocal please andrea corey yes greg meyer yes yes tenured teaching staff for 22 23.
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hi everyone craig smith proud principal at middle school central couldn't be more proud than to invite heath wingler to come up here with me so this is heath uh he's one of our amazing eighth graders at middle school central and uh i could tell some stories because i i don't often get to say that i've known a young man for seven years uh that i've been the principal there because he has only been with us three uh but he's been a gym rat i think for pretty much his whole life so uh i uh had some teachers talk about you does that make you nervous about that we'll see what they have to say all right so here here's what they had to say about heath heath works hard and gives 110 in all that he does whether it be in the classroom or in sports you can always count on heath to have a smile on his face heath is the perfect definition of well-rounded young man he's fantastic in his representation of everything middle school central heath or fernando i did not know that in spanish class he is always polite kind caring and ready to learn he is one of the best and brightest students the kindest and most respectful student who stands out the most and lastly the most impressive thing about heath is his commitment to being a good person this teacher is amazed and impressed daily with the patience care and love that he shows every human being in his life he makes everyone's life better because he is in it and i think that that just encompasses everything about pete wingler and that's why i brought him here to be our spotlight little uh student our our student he's not little anymore to lead us in the pledge of allegiance so without further ado heath if you'd lead us that would be to the great for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all congratulations [Applause] that's wonderful the first thing we need to do on the agenda is adopt the agenda anyone opposed no but just in case you guys are curious we are down two board members tonight due to uh spring break family vacations and whatnot so hope they're having a great time yeah okay moving on first i'm gonna do is uh do some recognitions and some awards this evening uh the first thing i'm gonna talk about is uh i'm honored to introduce these next two to uh high school kids uh the board like to recognize senior drake buck buckingham buchanan man i should have practiced that and hayden watson uh for finishing high school wrestling career state champions drake wrestled in the 182 waypower class hayden wrestled in the 145 pound weight weight class these young men helped lead our wrestling team to a january county tournament championship and make championship for the first time in school history and a sectional title the team broke the mixed scoring record sent 14 wrestlers to semi-state which is a school record and each earned individual state awards drake was also named an ihsaa mental attitude winner and they are not done yet drake has committed to wrestle at the united states air force hayden is committed to wrestle at citadel the board like to formally congratulate both of you on your great high school careers your state titles we wish you both the very best of luck in the future [Applause] [Music] director and i just want to you know these are always fun events they've gotten a lot of recognition this winter and deservingly so um but what these guys have done um a year ago they were actually my inspiration for our winter bank our winter awards program and that was redemption because a year ago they finished runners-up in the state and to do what they did a year later and be a state champ have that focus that drive just says a lot about their character their work ethic their discipline to the sport so we are very proud they fin i think they both finished with the record of 43-1 correct 43-1 which is super impressive um you know winning a state championship like we did in football this past fall is great and wonderful but to do it as an individual is something truly special because i mean these are the best of the best of the best in the state of indiana in their weight class 145 and the cherry on top the whole tournament was this young man being named the mental attitude award winner goes to one senior in every sport he got it in wrestling it's based on obviously you know his skill set on the mat his academics his character his citizenship and that is huge he's the 11th athlete to to own that title at center grove our first wrestler to to be named a mental attitude award winner so i i know it's not much they've been you know uh awarded plaques and whatnot at our award ceremony but the ihsaa who we are governed by our governing body the indiana high school athletic association there's 420 plus schools in this state and at the start of the school year they send every school a box of these pins 20 pins every school gets 20 pins and it says you make our school and community proud and this 25 pin i hope when you look at it you know that you have made this school and community very very proud so one for you drake and one for you haiti all right 178.
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st patrick's day board of ed meeting uh before we get into it uh mr jessica have a roll off a quorum please here is harrigan here thank you i ask that we stand for the pledge of allegiance i think we're all getting acclimated to not just no mass but no dividers it's like we're it's good it's nice i think anyway welcome everyone we have a large crowd tonight joking uh annabelle it's all yours what do you got for us this evening okay hello everyone thank you for the opportunity to get to share with you the tons of things that we have going on at cheshire high school it is a very long list today so the first thing is the spring musical that is why rowan my partner in crime is not here today drama club members have been working very hard for months now for the upcoming spring musical so cheshire high school drama is thrilled to invite our community to witness a tale of murder mayhem and scintillating scandals with their production of chicago the teen edition so tickets are now available and shows are thursday march 24th friday march 25th and saturday march 26th we encourage you all to get your tickets and enjoy this wonderful show the drama club always does an amazing job and is very successful in their productions this monday this this past monday the on the 14th it was we had pi day so our math teachers mr redford and miss angeli took 12 students to scsu for the mathematics puzzle program this was a competition and it was a scavenger hunt type of event where clues acted as solutions to puzzles so the students had a great time and are looking forward to participating again next year we were lucky enough to have two teams um made of six people team super rambushus and team unscramblers and art one of our teams super ambitious took third place in the competition so that was really cool we're very very proud of them for that on march 15th the senior class hosted our mario kart tournament we were very excited that we were able to get so many students as well as faculty we had a team of administrators um participating in the mario kart tournament so that was awesome we raised close to 200 and we're excited to put those funds towards creating a very memorable prom and being on the prom committee myself we are already hard at work um making sure that we can make this event very very special for our seniors um also on march 15th we held a virtual junior parent night and a virtual financial aid night so those very important conversations um especially for the junior class they were recorded and they will be shared with the parents of the junior class that were not able to attend that meeting yesterday 45 students as well for an in-person tour of the connecticut center for advanced technology and they got to tour their government state of the state of the art facility on the raytheon technologies research center campus so students learned about different types of technologies used in additive manufacturing versus it oh sorry precision machining i don't know why i can't get that word out um and automation and metrology so they were able to have informative breakout sessions with industry experts to help inspire students to explore careers in that field and also encourage some underclassmen to take classes in that area at cheshire high because we offer a lot of those classes another great accomplishment that chs was recently able to accomplish was that we were able to raise seventeen hundred dollars of um funds that go towards helping ukraine and the current state that they're in right now so everyone was very willing to participate and help donate to a cause that is so present and important and that we feel is a big part of our lives and and growing up with everything happening in the world another thing that i am very excited to talk about um is a fundraiser that i am actually running for the leukemia and lymphoma society to support blood cancer research so i'm participating in a student of the year program that is a seven week competition across nine different schools in connecticut trying to raise the most money as possible we've had great great great success we're actually entering our last week of the campaign tomorrow and i can't disclose how much money we've raised since it is a competition but i can say that we have raised an insane amount um and in our t-shirt sales of rams for remedy leukemia and lymphoma society t-shirts we have raised a again very large amount and i'm so sorry that i can't tell you how much it is and how successful we are but next month i will be able to share that with you all and i'm very excited about that um so we have planned a dress down day for teachers and students this coming thursday where everyone is going to be wearing their lls red out t-shirts so that's very exciting also on that thursday the junior class is taking the sats so that's an upcoming thing that we are all looking forward to and just today we held our school-wide volleyball tournament which is a tradition that has been going on for over 20 years and walking into the gym and seeing spectators cheering on the participants and all of the teams wearing their team spirit it really honestly felt like a different school year because the positive energy and the encouragement and the atmosphere was so so wonderful and it it showed some signs of normalcy and and signs of life and and just positivity back in the school which we're really really excited about and so just a couple points for athletics to wrap up um spring sports will begin on saturday march 19th with the first competitions beginning april 2nd so we're excited to jump into the spring season senior hannah merritt is a finalist for the connecticut association of athletic directors director's essay scholarship so over a hundred student athletes applied and hannah is one of the four finalists so that is an amazing accomplishment and her and her parents will attend the annual athletic directors conference on march 24th to receive her award so hannah is a member of the girls swim and lacrosse teams and we are so so so proud of her me being a senior myself i am very very proud of her and then lastly 21 cheshire high school students will attend the annual ciac sportsmanship conference that's going to be held on tuesday march 29th this conference although this is virtual this year it'll still have guest speakers and interactive activities to help promote sportsmanship and develop good character traits in high school sports the participants will make up our 2023 class act student group so those are some updates in athletics we're excited to get going with our spring season with the weather being nice so that is all i have for you all today if you have any questions or comments please feel free thank you annabelle any questions or comments from the board mr grippa um i'd just like to comment at the robustness of your report firstly it's a fantastic amount of information and the positivity is just fantastic it's just i i hope that if half of half of the people at the high school are as positive as you then it's really going to be a great uh you know last third of the year so it's really a lot of hope in your voice and it's great to hear yes mrs ann i have one quick question annabelle what do you do in all your free time i actually just came from babysitting so i was i i just love to babysit and i just relax as much as i can the a answer was what what's free time thank you yes faith i just have to say it what a difference a mask makes or not one um i love seeing your pretty face um i do um i applaud you i'm just wondering can you do hand signals on your t-shirt sales i'm that's not saying it [Laughter] no i'm looking forward to hearing that and congratulations on um such a worthwhile cause and obviously successful even now so um i hope you bring home the trophy and um thank you too for your um just all you guys in the in the school your um awareness and sensitivity and concern for the people of ukraine i think they're all in our prayers and so um thanks for taking action of course thank you just a couple of quick follow-ups with respect to the chicago play i the musical there i sent the board a link for tickets if you're interested next wednesday thursday or friday or thursday friday or saturday excuse me i'm going on thursday looking forward to it uh the raytheon trip that annabelle spoke about i've asked sean mcewen who helped spearhead that trip uh if he could bring a couple students to talk about that at our next meeting because i'm sure you'd be interested in hearing about that and the last question i had for you annabelle is do you have more t-shirts left for sale or not we do we're selling them through the end of um through next week um what's a t-shirt cost it's twelve dollars yes okay all right so during lunch waves during lunch waves and then um we're selling them on my school books as well okay so yeah all right and um we're also having a bowling night on sunday um from four to six at apple valley bowl so you can bring your families and friends and we're selling shirts there so so if you want to send me the link and about i can get it to the board or anybody who's interested okay i will thank you good luck thank you and i just want to say thank you for an awesome report and uh it's nice seeing your smiling first time i've seen you smile since you know uh covet so thank you and uh you don't have to stay so you have some free time tonight take advantage of it hopefully but thank you so much and we'll see you again before school is over thank you everyone have a great night uh up next on our agenda's audience if there are any members on us i wish to address the board we certainly welcome it the board education welcomes public participation and asks that speakers please limit their comments in three minutes speakers may offer objective comments to school operations and programs that concern them to protect the integrity and partiality of the board we discourage any expression of personal complaints or definitory comments about border vet personnel students nor against any person connected to school cheshire public schools if such excuses do exist those should be brought the attention of school administration and if folks need help doing that board members are happy to help guide the way that being said they want to address the borders certainly welcome to doosan you don't have to but you're welcome too i'm jane bate 454 riverside drive i hate speaking publicly but this needs to be shouted from every rooftop in the country no more mandates ever and for those who believe that the mandated vaccines and associated tyrannies we're all about health and safety i have a couple of questions for you one why have hcq and ivermectin been hidden or maligned as a treatment for covid when they have been proven cheap and effective by dr zelenko and others two why have congress members been exempted from taking the inoculation aren't they important enough to save aren't they without inoculations endangering dc and there are plenty of other questions but in the interest of time we'll move on to two important pieces of evidence which i believe help to establish the reality of the dangers of the vaccines the first is that ceo scott davison of one america insurance company in indiana has found that death rates are up 40 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels moreover he states that this is the highest rate in history and that most of these deaths are not being classified as covid19 deaths the second piece of evidence comes from several department of defense whistleblowers and can be found in senator ron johnson's letter to secretary lloyd austin regarding the dod health records these records include increases of 400 percent or more over the average occurrence rate of cancers infertility and much more alarmingly some of these figures have now been altered again there are many more sources of info on the problems with these rushed experimental inoculations but we need to move on so lastly i offer the what-ifs what if a staff member dies or is harmed by one of these jabs that cheshire has mandated an apology isn't going to cut it nor is all the money in the world the lessons here go beyond researching the subject thoroughly which would have demonstrated the vaccines need much more testing than these ever had the ultimate reason in my opinion is that every citizen in this town has the right and freedom to bodily integrity and with the eu parliament currently writing bills to make these mandates permanent this conversation must continue in earnest thank you thank you space by the way you speak perfectly well in public you do a great job thank you i could just correct one point cheshire didn't mandate our staff to be vaccinated the state of connecticut required vaccination or testing and we did have some that did that so just want to make that point of clarification if there's anyone else you're certainly welcome to come to the podium hello my name is sharon houck 424 cardinal lane last board meeting we heard two young students say that cnn was being shown in their class i questioned a middle school student and it is correct every friday their teacher puts on cnn my question is why are they watching a political opinion talk show during class time is this part of the curriculum if so are they watching fox also if they are favoring one political show over another or one side of the political spectrum isn't that indoctrination my opinion is no political shows should be shown to middle school student age school to age students this needs to stop this age group is very impressionable also the middle school classes are 45 minutes long so to me the teachers don't have a lot of time to teach the students the needed curriculum now they are teaching only four days because they're taking friday off to show the cnn shows so this equals only 180 minutes or three hours if there's no interruptions or disruptions this cnn thing is very disturbing and i'd like to know some of the questions on why it's being shown what's the purpose and is is this um town wide or just pertaining to one or two teachers okay thank you sharon in fact since the last meeting i know the administration's done some research so i don't know if dr sullin or ms solano if you want to talk a little bit to what you found is that one mine okay so the cnn videos that are being referenced is something called cnn 10 i sent a link to our board members letting them know that it is utilized during some middle school social studies classes it's not cnn as you would see at home it's a special segment that was found anyone would be hard-pressed to identify what network the broadcast was coming from is this something that we can as a public could watch the cnn 10.
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for bridget are you able to see all the attendees uh yes so i will keep checking to make sure i don't miss anyone who comes later but i think i have everyone thank you perfect okay great okay all right so let's start off um we'll move it right over to the agenda let's get going and i will turn it over to kevin to start us off tonight thanks luisa and good evening everyone and happy thursday evening i have a agenda um i will put that on the screen shortly but i want to take this opportunity to thank our partners from the city um dan petrovic and antonio anarella want to thank them both for their partnership and stewardship throughout this process and we'll be walking you through um a number of things on the agenda this evening give me one second see if i can't share the screen with everyone and so we have uh four agenda items um two of them quite frankly one of them real big juicy agenda item uh talking about danbury career academy um an update for everyone regarding danbury high school facility and accreditation update um just some overall discussions that um dating back to i believe um early 2019 and talk about some k5 enrollment growth and possible solutions and we have our city partners this evening to talk through talk through some of those um and then last but not least an enrollment study update for the committee and then i'll provide the same update again um at our board meeting so i just wanted to make sure we had an opportunity to walk through those things but i think it would be great to start with we have danbury career academy a couple of weeks ago we had an amazing and exciting press conference with the mayor antonio um mayor esposito um our board was there we had bought representation um and uh very happy and and proud to be there on behalf of this exciting project um danbury career academy itself um we've had people working on the city side uh moving this work forward and two of those gentlemen are here this evening joining us i mean i was hoping they can be here and we can share some of the exciting designs of the new school many people of the public didn't have an opportunity to have access and some board members did not have an opportunity to attend the press conference that evening and we we'd love to give it up up close and personal kind of review and update danbury career academy i know everyone on the committee has heard the update and the academic programming plan for the site but may not have had an opportunity to see up close and personal um okay not personal but up close uh version of the architectural plans uh so we'd love an opportunity to do that with you this evening antonio before i before i shared the plans did you want to say anything first before we get started if not i'll jump right in uh sure kevin i no thank you for the introduction and uh um i'd just like to say that uh although we've been talking about this project for a while i probably talk to you or your staff every single day um we um have this project to a point where it's gelled up and seems to be um in a state of format where we can actually update the site and facilities folks uh with some real information you know what looks like a real project so um that this is why we're doing this today and we're providing this update this will be one of many updates uh that we will be providing you as we move the project forward um you will along with the rest of the board of education will be intimately involved in approving ed specs that were uh in a draft form right now and ultimately the design development drawings for the entire uh new career academy so um again i want to thank you for uh inviting us tonight kevin and uh we're ready to kind of kick it off and and give you a quick presentation of what this exciting project looks like antonio thanks so much um which one would you like to start with sir well i i think maybe we start with the career academy um it is the focus of our presentation tonight and then we do want to touch upon a couple other projects that uh we've been working on while we're developing the career academy so uh uh you we we've been working on board of education needs and facility needs and projects um consistently while we've been developing the career academy uh project so i thought it was a good update a good time and a good uh format to give you an update on those projects too and do you want to start with the order in which dan sent them in terms of the aerial review and then we'll get to the pretty pictures at the end yeah why don't we kind of i just like to i like the uh the folks to kind of understand the overall site logistics of the plan what we're actually purchasing we also have some uh incredible opportunities first first right of refusal on a purchase of another parcel which is immediately adjacent so i think it'll be good to share that okay all right wonderful good good all right so antonio i'll keep going through ariel and then once i'm done with the area i'll let you know what's coming up next or you can just tell them yeah that's perfect okay sounds awesome thank you so much so um the the parcel one that you see in front of you is really what is consistent of the existing cardis site it's uh a building of 270 000 square feet um just over 1300 parking spaces 24 acres of property uh and it's all usable property it's relatively flat it's a gorgeous parcel and it's perched up nice and high overlooking the western side of danbury our airport uh it's just a beautiful facility so uh parcel one is is the entire cardis purchase that the city is moving forward with um in addition to that purchase we have first rider refusal uh on a parcel right between one and two uh which is the uh that is the uh logic building is that right here antonio that is correct so that currently is actually owned by the same person that owns parcel one and uh with that corporate partner leaving danbury that parcel is readily available or will be available at some point in the next year or so to actually be purchased so uh that's a phenomenal opportunity and we secured first right of purchase on that parcel to provide an opportunity for the board of ed to expand what would ultimately be a strong presence on the western side of the western side of the uh city um so uh kevin if you could go back to that map absolutely i'm just gonna there's some additional benefits to the purchase that i like to just cover with you um immediately over to the right perfect you'll actually see a parcel number two uh parcel number two is going to be a gift to the city including the entire road right away which is in red that is actually part of the purchase of the uh the 24 acres which consists of parcel one so if you could start to imagine uh the opportunity of this western campus it becomes pretty uh it becomes pretty exciting uh where we could really use uh not only more additional property but we could really kind of at the first time in a long time look at expanding without being under such tight constraints as we have been pretty much from the time i started here i've been here almost 17 years we've always been struggling with limited area limited space we've maxed out most of our schools for additions this is the first real opportunity to provide a campus that would give us the potential future expansion in addition to that as i mentioned to you while that that corporate partner is going to be leaving they actually own the other parcel uh which is directly south right there yep right over to the left a little bit this way no to the left um right to the right where the red and the green me okay oh no not here i'm sorry no it's okay it would be if you go to parcel one okay and come straight down with your pointer a little bit now over to the right a little bit more that parcel right there is owned by the same company that is looking at pretty much uh um moving on from danbury so what i'm trying to mention to you is we will also have an opportunity to potentially purchase that uh that parcel is in separate ownership um but the corporate company will obviously uh be be very interested in potentially selling that to us because um it it it provides great opportunity uh for us for future expansion obviously all of this would have to be negotiated out but if we're lucky enough to secure all these parcels we would have a western campus of over 39 acres uh so it's just an incredible opportunity in addition to that if you uh kev if you go to the far left you'll see a bunch of red arrows where it says city of danbury we actually own those parts of the land already uh and when you combine that with all the other items that we just spoke about all the other parcels uh you will see uh you know we really have a site that could uh accommodate future expansion for a long time um so that is the existing uh uh site that carter sits on and some of the really great opportunities that we have uh to position ourselves for future expansion and um so uh kev you could go to the next slide okay and tony i have a question about the two acres right here um six four six point four eight six point four that's parcel two my apologies and so i remember i mean we've been over to this i've been over to the campus a couple of times now and and as you enter the campus it actually continues to elevate is this flat land right here no it is sloping it's sloping land and uh i mean we build on sloping land all that that's right that's right take a look at the back of the high school that's right three years ago that addition was uh built right into the hillside but yeah there there there are some limits on that 6.4 acre site um uh but it's it's it's a uh it's basically a gift we're not paying anything for it yeah okay that's awesome that is great news i didn't realize that was part of it i'm happy to hear that okay i'll go to one dca floor one pdf yeah awesome okay so uh what what this is showing is some of the very preliminary conceptual space programming and we go through this exercise to make sure that uh whatever kevin and his staff envision for an educational curriculum that we can actually uh that we we can actually fit it into this building and what we found was that we very easily can fit that curriculum in addition um to providing an opportunity for the first time ever for the board of education central office staff to actually be together um so um there is there are two small additions that are programmed into uh the 270 000 square foot of existing uh building and that is the gym which is uh just up from the point or where you are there is a brand new gym it is a high school uh sized gym and then just to the right there is a small addition for pathway project that we are providing and that's just to the right a little bit more right in there those editions are approximately 16 000 square feet so in the end we will have about 286 000 square feet to accommodate two schools this would be a middle school and a high school um as as uh anticipated by the preliminary uh ed specs that kevin and his staff have been working on which ultimately the board will be presented and will be asked to certify and approve uh that's next as we continue to move forward um but uh it was such an easy fit to get that program into the space that uh you know we were used to the challenges provided over at the summit that this was uh oh my goodness it was such a an easy task for us to kind of work through um of the 286 000 square feet there is about 30 000 square feet that it will be dedicated to the central office staff the central office staff will have its own entrance it will have its own dedicated elevator it will be isolated to the public uh yep thank you that would be the main entrance it will also have its own separate parking spaces and what we want to do is allow the staff to be able to go into the educational space if they want to but lock the pub public down so the public can't can't do that the public will actually have to go through a vetting process there is a security checkpoint uh there is a security lockdown area and uh only after a person has been vetted out will they actually be allowed into the uh board of ed space and uh it has its own dedicated elevator uh so it's just a it's really a perfect scenario uh to provide for all of the board of education staff the academic folks uh and the balance of the the administrative folks to all be pretty much at the same campus and really the synergy between uh those folks all being there should be so much more productive for them um and and that that is an opportunity that we never had uh over at the summit um so overall as i mentioned to you a total square footage of about 286 000 square feet there's two editions 16 000 square feet and out of the 286 we'll have about 30 000 square feet dedicated uh to uh the central office folks uh kevin and his staff and and tony i just wanted to share with the committee um at the top would be and so for board meetings the board room space would be here at the top and made the entrance for the board side would be over here with the district office but as you come up that driveway which you saw in the aerial view which was here just trying to orient myself we would be coming up here and coming into the campus this becomes the main entrance for kids and then that looks like this so you would drive through the campus as you're coming in you would park over here somewhere and right antonio this still becomes the main entrance coming up these nice stairs right here that is correct we do have two dedicated entrances one for the middle school one uh for the uh high school that's right the high school right right yeah and and then the third entrance with the primary entrance will be the one we just described which would be for the central office and uh the layout that we're showing you allows the public to come and attend one of your meetings without walking through the entire building right you ready for the next one yeah let's let's go to the next one so now we're getting deep into uh the programming for the next uh floors so let me just go to my sheet here i'll give you a quick overview on what that is antonio how current are these drawings uh these drawings are the drawings that we actually used about a week ago and uh they're about as current as uh they stand but they uh they're constantly changing based on uh in uh input that we're getting from the board of vet staff yeah so as you will see you have a number of general classrooms on the second floor um the space in the middle is a space that connects the the two schools together uh it it basically the high school is predominantly on the uh right side i'm sorry the high school is predominantly on the left side which is four stories and the middle school is predominantly on the right side the spaces in the middle are shared space only on the second floor so you have you have sort of um you you have some common spaces that can be shared but still it keeps the two schools uh uh independent uh and separated which is one of the key elements of having one school inside of another um and then you'll actually see the second floor of the board of ed space which is to the top there yep thank you so the 30 000 square feet of the board of ed space is about 15 000 on the first floor and approximately fifteen thousand on the second floor all right and we could keep going kevin wonderful so as we get to the uh to the next floor you'll you'll actually see that um the center area stops coming up that's the roof of that common space that i just described to you which would be used for uh potentially by both um schools the middle school and a high school and now we're really into some pretty hard academic spaces for both schools the high school and the middle school and um we are installing some additional stair towers uh you'll see them piggybacked up against the existing yep thank you there's one there's another one in the far bottom right um right in there those uh additional stair towers provide the capacity that we need in order to safely allow our children during a potential hazard of fire or something of that sort to be able to effectively leave the building in a safe manner uh that is part of the project right now and antonio i don't remember is that a single stair now and we're making it a double i don't know that's correct yeah it's a it's a single staircase and we're gonna be adding to it where it'll be a double staircase so it provides for the capacity that we need in order for our children to effectively exit the school in a safe manner okay thank you sir and for that yep we'll go to the next one next one's predominantly going to be the high school okay so the high school side is the only building that actually has the fourth floor and you'll see this is where we're programming a lot of the pathway uh classrooms very specialized classrooms to accommodate the academy curriculum and you'll also see this is where we're going to have a pretty exciting greenhouse top of the page in that area there and we're going to accomplish that by cutting a section of the roof out and actually building a really nice uh greenhouse in in that area and as i mentioned to you um there are the school is going to be built to accommodate two of the academies and each academy has um sorry about that each academy has um pathways the two academies that we're working on and programming into this school is the academy of science innovation and medicine and the other one is the academy of global enterprise and econo economics and there's several pathways underneath that which we have provided specific educational space to accommodate that curriculum and that's all working in working with kevin and his staff to make sure that we're able to accomplish that all right kev probably the next slide hopefully we get to some pretty pictures there we go all right there we go uh that is uh just a very quick honestly this was put together in about less than 36 hours but it is a just a quick uh um picture of what this stanbury career academy could look like as you approach it uh we wanted to have a nice strong presence or business presence something that is elegant um uh nothing gaudy but something that has a sort of a la life lasting view and the danbury career academy as you see it here really i think provides for that a lot of glass a lot of innovative space when you pull up to this area you will actually see a lot of the children working on projects in those special academies uh that's all provided for right underneath where the danbury career academy lettering is and to the left of that is the main entrance all right kev we could go on to the next one this is just a different view um a different view of uh the future danbury career academy as we envision it at this minute um again you see the entrance there you'll see the gym edition uh right in that area so you can see it's a pretty substantially sized gym edition which would accommodate a high school uh uh uh program and uh in addition to that um there will be some flex space there where we can actually utilize it for a gathering area and it's it's uh we always try to design flex space into all of our schools because we we never want to lock kevin in with a staff we always want to provide the biggest opportunity they have to change their academic program in an area that works for them and and that's what we always strive to do thank you sir [Music] and this is more of a upper image uh again you'll see the main entrance with the edition you'll see the gin and this one you'll actually get to see the uh the greenhouse which has been cut out of the roof of the three-story portion of the old cardis uh site um so um it's uh it's the phenomenal views out of that greenhouse i'm gonna tell you uh you're already up in the air there but the views coming out of that greenhouse are going to be spectacular they really are they really are and and i just want to share with the committee um the buildings is kind of bridged in the middle here and so some of those barriers um that antonio was referring to you begin to see those as you're walking through the campus and as the remaining part of the building continues to go up um and antonio talked about those common spaces um right antonio they happened kind of right here in the middle because they're right in between so basically a nice barrier between two yeah so what the cardis building uh as it sits today is really the product of several large additions that were done by the existing owner uh the ibm folks originally actually were in that four-story building and then through multiple additions they created a beautiful cafeteria uh which is uh phenomenal i didn't even mention that to you guys but we have a cafeteria in a kitchen the kitchen is better than anything i've ever seen it's a commercial kitchen walk-in freezers walk-in refrigerators it's got really high-end uh cafeteria servery units the equipment is phenomenal everything in this building is so incredibly well maintained uh that it's uh it's just fascinating uh to see you know corporate obviously corporate folks have money to spend on buildings and they're not always begging the taxpayers for additional money but this building is incredibly well maintained and in great shape kev we could probably move on to the next one all right good we'll talk a little bit about about sight circulation um it is intended that the buses will all predominantly approach from the left side uh right in uh yep that driveway kev right in there and they will make their way around you'll see where there's there'll be a drop a bus drop off area there and then there'll be another uh bus drop off area sort of towards the front and we also have a dedicated apparent parking drop off that will occur uh we have an outside classroom area that we're programming in that seems to be a really um a popular theme in a lot of different school districts to provide an opportunity where an outdoor classroom could be held and in a safe environment so this is just a preliminary look at how we can integrate parent drop off middle school high school drop off obviously middle school and high school will be dropping off separately so there isn't a clashing of time um but it seems to work easily with just a minor relocation of some islands to be honest with you and and tony i believe that's it for the academy for right now that should be it um if if kevin if you want i could just talk a little bit about uh because this is the new career academy i think it's important that we talk just a little bit about where we were we're at the summit some of the constraints i've already spoken to you guys about uh in programming that space and some of the benefits that we actually have here um so we are paying about 57.2 million dollars for the 24 acres but as part of that we are getting an additional six acres and we're getting the right of way uh for the road which allows us to control control it forever and the other facility we're actually doing a condominium purchase this we're owning outright this is a direct ownership uh kevin doesn't have to worry about programming additional costs for uh what would be condominium association fees uh none of that exists here so although the purchase price is a little bit more than the other one you are actually owning land uh here where you were not owning land there directly um and you're also controlling everything on this site we don't ever have to worry about going to a condominium association if we want to change uh anything that we do in the in what used to be the old three pods that we were purchasing so in addition to that one of the things we found out is working with kevin and this is the reason why uh kevin has been working hard to modify the existing ad specs is there's such a greater opportunity here to enhance the ed specs that we figure we take that opportunity head on and work with it so that's what we have been doing and we have a what i think is a final draft of some really good expects that uh we're gonna eventually uh uh forward to the board of education and present to you uh one evening as we get closer to uh consolidating them into a final draft so kev i think that's pretty much uh uh the presentation on the career academy um and i'll take any questions that that uh your site and facility many folks may have before we move on all right antonio thank you dan thank you um i have a couple of questions um the main entrance to the academy that's going to be separate from the middle school are they is high school going in the same that main entrance is going to be for the both schools so yes the main entrance will be predominantly for uh the the two schools um and we're working through that right now we just had a a really nice change that actually uh improved uh some of the common areas on the first floor uh and we did that by just shifting some of the high school um offices uh that were located on that first floor but yes that's exactly right there'll be a main entrance and that predominantly will serve that okay and the common area the cafeteria that's also going to be shared by both schools that's correct we we would be and we would end up the cafeteria is great because it'll accommodate about 300 or 340 students 360 somewhere in there so the one single wave of middle school children can be they can we can feed them in one single wave and then obviously uh the high school uh could be two two waves possibly three if we need it but that would be another common area that we will share there's also sort of a really nice existing uh uh workout area uh we call it a sports and human performance pathway that will be there that could be shared and the other really interesting common area is if you go towards the gym kevin you'll see uh yep over to the right to the top of the right uh the gym edition yeah you'll see we actually have a presentation area there that uh exactly perfect yeah that a lot of the children could present their projects and what they worked on um and we utilized the gym as a seating area to accommodate those presentation performances um so that is what we were talking about as creating flex space is have a gym that not only works as a gym but after hours could be turned into an area for doing some really unique presentations almost like a black box theater type of a format and luisa thanks for asking that question about the cafeteria um the original size of the cafeteria where my cursor is right now i believe that beam ended about right here we've asked the architect to push that back over a little bit so we've actually taken a little bit of this fitness center space away but it was really important to us that all of our middle school students can eat in one lunch weight and so to antonio's point this cafeteria can accommodate 360 students which allows us to have four lunch ways in a school day to make sure we can accommodate one way for the middle schools and then three for the high school right so they the middle school and high school won't be having lunch together that's correct that's correct yeah that's right and the other benefit is the patio area that you see there is actually a fenced in outside dining area and there's multiple cameras this building has an incredible security system right now that exists far better than anyone i've ever seen in our school and that area is heavily surveilled it has heavy surveillance um that patio would be a great opportunity to provide some outdoor dining for kids and allow them to do that yeah at least at least half the school year we our kids can eat outside and by the way there's an outside fire place just just for a little icing on top does anybody else have any questions uh quick one the new gym area is that going to accommodate both the high school and the the middle school children that's correct ellie yeah it's set up to be able to facilitate both both uh school needs and the greenhouse did we also have a greenhouse program on the summit project we did uh and let me tell you it was no easy task getting a greenhouse into those three pods but we did have one uh this one's perfectly orientated the other one uh the orientation wasn't as good as this one but this one has got the southern exposure that we so drastically uh seek in a greenhouse um scenario and and the purpose of a greenhouse i wasn't well believe it or not there is a strong focus on uh as one of the pathways in the academies to do greenhouse utilization and we're going to actually be doing additional raised garden beds out on the site to facilitate that academic program so um might be able to get some fresh vegetables out of these kids that's right that's right okay they'll be creative anybody else kate gladys no thank you okay no thank you okay okay we can move on okay all right so the next agenda item let's just see if i can get it back up here sorry give me one second i'm working on a couple different screens here is dhs facility accreditation update and so just wanted to make the board aware there are a couple of facility items um as part of the accreditation that we need to work on as a system and one of the big ones bigger ones is i'm sorry i'm trying to pull this up bigger ones is an update of our science labs at the high school in our nest report it's um projected uh to be completed by this summer of 2023.
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and this is a a yearly um process and basically all of those teachers that are non-tenured move across and the new tenured teachers are there so the recommendation is the board approved the non-tenure teaching staff for the 22-23 school year any questions or discussions would you like to make a motion to approve the non-tenured teaching staff for 22-23 i'll make a motion after andrea want a second second raise a second roll call please greg meyer yes that's a hugely controversial item is d the approval of a new course for columbia middle school for the financial literacy yeah i i think administration strongly recommends the board approve the cms course financial literacy now on the record i think it's an awesome idea this is long overdue and it's something that i think is sorely missing with the youth of our day motion any discussion motions i'll make the motion to make some motion do i have a second a second at least a second this is no money so all in favor aye aye aye any opposed any extensions unanimous all right takes care of our business for this evening our discussion items is first one is our facility study this is that ongoing report i just want to um state that right now i'm going to coordinate a meeting with the city and with our architects to discuss the route 3.
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i'd love to have that waiting congratulations [Applause] next on the agenda i'm going to turn it over to uh amy counts this evening the board would like to recognize sophomore mia for becoming center grove high school's first state champion diver uh mia has a oh sorry i'm so sorry i'm not used to turning this on mia i'm actually so my main name is plaguemen so i had to practice saying your name so i hope that i didn't butcher it either because everybody butchered my maiden name just so you know yes okay mia has a very impressive resume after only two years of competition she's earned two sectional titles two regional titles two mick titles and two county championships she's also placed second in state finals her freshman year mia also set the center grove high school six dive record at 316.85 and remember she's a sophomore the board would like to formally congratulate mia on her state title we know mia has put in countless hours of training to get where she is and we know she has a very bright future ahead of her [Applause] a few quick things about me and the best thing about her is it was mentioned she's a sophomore so we get two more years with mia hopefully but uh you know mia mia's just an elite diver she's at a completely different level than than what you see at most swim meets and it's just a you know a blessing to have her diving for center grove she sets the bar high she's a very hard worker very dedicated just like our wrestlers they just you know are wired differently not only you know in their sport but in the classroom all three of these students are great in the classroom they're leaders in the classroom leaders you know in the diving well on the mat so you couldn't ask for anything more as an athletic director as a high school principal as a school board as a community than these three young people that that wear the center grove singlet and swimsuit so again mia you were not forgotten i also have this you make your school in community proud pin and i will say of the 20 pins we get annually they've been doing this campaign for about four years we don't give these out lightly we just don't hand these out like they're you know candy canes of christmas all right some years i don't even give them all out because i want them to meet something again it's not much but it's a small token you can put you know in a shadow box on your letter jacket and uh just think of how proud we are of you so congrats yeah mia i just wanted to tell you in my day the diving board was at a lake on top of the hill that was cinder grove's first swimming the belly flop okay that was that was great uh the next thing we're actually going to skip 4.4 and move on to 4.5 real quick um to the center grove health services team and with that being said i'm going to pass it over to dr arkanov thank you mr herbert um i'd like to have mr taylor and mrs norman come up here we're going to start by introducing our health services team this year and last year and the year before that um was probably the worst three years in the history of public education maybe and of course obviously the world but definitely in public education and um i have to say that all of these ladies and this gentleman worked hard every day and put up with a lot and did it with a smile on their face most of the time and you know really honestly there isn't enough that we can do for all of you and tell all of you to really tell you how much we really appreciate the hard work and dedication that you put in each and every day but especially you know these last few years with some really unreasonable expectations from the whole world on you so we just first want to take a moment to recognize you and i'm going to ask amy if she would call you each up and we just get a rope picture of you up here and so as we as we start that you know we just want to recognize all the folks for what they've done during this you know challenging time and you know there was a lot going on a lot to figure out on the fly and sometimes people weren't very nice to you and for that i apologize um but uh you know the good news is hopefully we are turning around a bit so thank you all so much and we're going to call them all up and then we'll uh we'll uh congratulate them all right tony newland she is our nurse at pleasant groves [Applause] she's my favorite nurse [Laughter] you better be saying that thank you now one more thing before you ladies take off we want to take a moment here and recognize two very special people that wow we all know you were down in the trenches with the with the work they were working super hard to try to make as much of your life as easy as possible and they were making a lot of very difficult decisions as i shared in probably the most difficult time in the world obviously and so with that the school board would like to recognize the both of you and i know jason you're mad at me now but we'd like to recognize both of you with the shining star award and so for those of you that don't know this is a very unique award that the board created a few years ago and the primary thing is that you've done something above and beyond um something so significant that you know it's changed people's lives and it's saved people's lives some of the individuals that have received this in the past have done exactly that out on the football field in the stands and other places so with that just thank you both and i think our folks are gonna joe's gonna read this is that right yeah i can yeah ahead so we would like to nominate amy amy norman uh for center girl from center grove health services coordinator and jason taylor center grove assistant superintendent of human resources and college and technology to the shining star award as many of you know these two have been tasked with leading the district's coveted planning for the last two years like rich said to echo that the shiny store award is is recognized for employee students or a community member for that matter who has gone beyond the expectations to make center grove community a better place to be eligible for a shiny star war the nominations must have exhibited actions that go beyond his or her normal job duties or daily responsibilities the nominee must demonstrate that he or she went above and beyond in one of the four areas those four years are make a difference in a life of someone else foster a more productive workplace or school community encourage teamwork and collaboration within the center glove community school corporation or community and initiated a positive change somehow so i just would like to personally thank you guys because you know we got beat up and i couldn't even imagine what you guys went through so um this is the least we could do to be honest with you i don't know if you guys want to see anything but like this is we're very lucky to have both of you here center grove and i uh i don't know how you guys did it honestly yeah as you know as you can imagine the board was getting a lot of questions shall we say the last couple of years and of course we had to immediately go to the medical person because none of us are medical people and i'm sure we were asking questions sometimes that you thought why don't you know this but [Laughter] you were very even keel with us at all times of course you've had to learn that living with adam but anyway [Laughter] but no we really do appreciate both of you how you stayed even keel with us even when we were asking very pointed questions at times trying to figure this all out a major resource to us so we're very grateful i agree i you know joining halfway through i can't imagine what you went through the first half of it but i can tell you that there were long meetings and not only the times that they put in during school hours i won remember one meeting in particular where we were here until 10 15 at night i mean there are hours that you guys put in above and beyond what was you know expected and we appreciate you because we wouldn't we wouldn't have made it through without you right now [Applause] thank you very much and so for those of you that don't know uh health services uh supervision switching over to dr long in a little while and dr long said he wouldn't take it until jason cured coke so apparently thank you all for coming thank you very much thank you ladies thank you so much and thank your spouses too i know [Music] i know thank you okay the next one on the agenda we're going to move forward is the uh center of alum and friends hall of fame thank you my name is jennifer royto and i have the awesome job of serving as the executive director of the center grove education foundation and i'm here tonight um to share with the public and with the board and with the administration um a great ignition initiative that we're getting ready to roll out and that's our senator of alumni and friends hall of fame next slide please um in looking at this project we came across this great quote from jfk and he said i think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life and that's what we wanted to take a look at we know that we've got amazing people who have graduated from center grove who go out into the world and who are doing really neat and cool things and we wanted to recognize and celebrate those people and that's what we're hoping to do here with this hall of fame next slide please so the center grove alumni and friends hall of fame will recognize graduates and community members for their professional achievements and their personal contributions to improve the lives of others in society and our group has worked really hard to formalize this process and looking at okay what do we want the criteria for this hall of fame to be what's the rubric and which we're going to use to judge these potential candidates and then how are we going to go about selecting and then celebrating these individuals next slide so looking at the requirements for eligibility there were a couple of things that we thought were important so for those who have graduated from center grove we're looking for nominees that graduated at least 10 years ago or individuals who have been a resident of the center grove community here for a continuous period of at least 10 years or individuals who have made substantial contributions to the community along with that we're looking for nominees who have had special achievement in their area of specialty or received honors awards or other recognitions on either the local regional national or international level and then we're also looking for nominees that have demonstrated leadership character and service to society in general or to a specific segment of the society next slide so we're currently accepting nominations so i hope that you all will think about folks that you know who have been involved with the center grove community who may be a good fit um to be nominated for this hall of fame um we're working on trying to get it out into all of our our public um news sources in terms of spreading the word and we've already got nominations and i'm really excited like i said we know we've got great people out here now we're just trying to find them you can complete the application electronically online at centerglovealumni.org there's also a printable version available for folks who might feel more comfortable printing that out and filling it out they can drop it in the mail to us and then we also have applications available here at the reception desk if people want to stop by and pick those up so once we receive those nominations next slide um the selection committee will meet and vote on our nominees um hopefully by late may we're looking at notifying those individuals who have been selected in june and are looking forward to a celebration that we'll hold this fall to recognize those folks so like i said we just wanted to share that with you guys tonight and like i said if you know of people who wow you know what they would be a perfect fit for this i hope that you'll con you'll consider nominating them um or let us know and we can look at it about getting them nominated um and if you have any questions i'd be happy to answer those at this time i have one jennifer right up here thank you um are you going to have a specific amount of people that you nominate yearly or is this just whoever fits that criteria yeah we decided um not to set a specific number in that we didn't want to have to necessarily fill a quota if we felt like um you know one year we didn't maybe have as many candidates as another year so we're looking at keeping that number flexible at this point and and the nominees that you do not select will you notify them that they release nominated and didn't make it we will we'll notify them and let them know that they were nominated we'll also keep those applications um on file for three years so they could go the next year somebody wouldn't have to nominate the next year that could go ahead and be reviewed in the following year as well okay i think that's great what you're doing i think that's great awesome looking forward to it yeah what do you mean you're gonna think you're gonna get nominated well i appreciate you letting me share with you guys this evening thank you very much public health public comments would be next i don't believe we have any tonight okay uh so moving on consent agenda items thank you mr hubbard this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the consent agenda items as presented mr president i move to approve the consent agenda as presented motion has been made executive to approve the consent gen items all in favor say aye hi anyone opposed motion passes thank you let's take a really quick minute um and we'll uh recognize tonight you want me to do that okay um i'm really honored this evening if i could have uh dr nelson please stand come on up here so dr nelson is moving over from center grove elementary which i know her staff is extremely sad but she's coming over to the central office to serve as our new director of human resources and she'll be working closely with uh jason and bill so um we're super excited for her to be uh joining us here in the central office we'll be doing this now i'm standing thank you you had like about a nice little speech to you yeah i'm just honored thank you all so much i grew up in this community um long-standing tradition and when i came back to senator of elementary school it was like a dream come true but to know that i can do what i want to do and vision and mission for our community and for our kids and to expand that even more um is just a dream i never thought i would have a chance to do so thanks to all of you for allowing me to give back to a community that i love and kids that i love and family and friends i just so appreciate it so thank you absolutely well deserved thank you [Applause] krista why don't you introduce your guest i sure will um this is my daughter carter she is a fourth grader at center grove elementary school my husband chuck i definitely wouldn't be here today without them they've been living through the past four years of a superintendent's license and a doctorate so and then online i think my mom and dad are in florida right now all right [Music] all right yes absolutely chris i just want to say congratulations as well because as you know both my daughters came through your school and uh i'm glad that they're out of there now before you left so they uh every time i went in there it just seemed like you were very you gave every person every child and student your time in your face and that is extremely important and uh thank you very much for everything you do thank you next on the agenda is the the hearing for the 1028 correct that's correct thank you this evening's this evening is the hearing prior to selling bonds to finance the middle school building projects um it will be turned over to mr hubbard to run the hearing is that correct that's not correct this is as you see on this yeah it's sugar grove in high school sorry so this evening and that was properly advertised as the sugar grove in high school renovations okay and so now i will turn this over to you mr hubbard to open the meeting yes okay i now open this public meeting i would like to turn over to dr gabriel to present the project the financing of the project and actions we are taking this evening sometimes when we read stuff up here i feel like uh anchorman and i i am ron burgundy [Music] thank you if you were with us back in february this is the same presentation we gave then but just want to review quickly the the projects both at sugar grove and at the high school that's me still sorry so at sugar grove we're doing a few things uh uh some some large things in this phase we're gonna uh build a new gym that will be isolated from the main classroom area so when it's used during the weekends like we've done at uh north grove and center grove elementary we'll add some security cameras we'll continue and finish the renovation to the south wing renovate the core educational support spaces renovate the admin offices we're going to enlarge the cafeteria we're going to use the cafeteria and the lgi combine that to make one big cafeteria we'll convert the existing gem to the large group instruction space as well as some office space for our sport again talk about the new gym and then we'll add an additional playground for the grade levels that that we're still short one playground over there the nice thing is it keeps the stack tax rate steady we should be able to do this project and with maintaining the current tax rate so just to give you an idea of what we're going to do the the the area highlighted in yellow uh is what we're working on right now it's the new edition everything in blue uh to the left and then down is uh the classrooms that still need to be renovated and then you can see the gem at the bottom there in the the yellow square and the playground right beside that go ahead so just to blow that up a little bit so this is the admin area and the the gym the cafeteria and lgi space that we we need to renovate um go ahead then this is the the hallway leading down to uh the the new gymnasium space we'll do renovation in those carpet paint some cabinetry work where it's necessary new led lights just like we've done in all of our elementary schools just to match the what the work that we've done in those other buildings as well so at the high school again we'll do some security cameras uh we're going to need to increase the size of the bus parking and uh and some additional visitor and student parking space we'll add a set of classrooms about 25 of them some collaboration space and a secondary food court as you know we're growing bigger and bigger and the cafeteria being in the middle of the high school forces us to have an alternate place to be able to feed staff and again we can do this project while maintaining the current tax rate i do have with us tonight bill payne from fanning howie the architect firm that we've selected to do the high school project so bill's over here thanks for coming down tonight bill and uh jim goalie from aecom hunt is here and i know scott's not here to ask you know when are we going to be done so one of you are going to have to ask that for jim go ahead please so at the high school this is on the south end of the the the high school near door three adjacent to the natatorium the the side in color the the um is the addition that we're planning on adding the second phase in black and white it's like the wizard of oz it's ones like what we're going to do and the other one's in black and white we're not there yet so um but those are the classroom spaces go ahead please just from a different view you can see how we're going to connect it to the school and how it connects to the the natatorium and where those classes will sit when we do that go ahead please then dr gabriel will talk to you about the hard stuff about the funding if you have any questions though please feel free to ask i think mr golly or mr payne can answer anything too so thank you so uh so we have been working obviously with the architect and with with hunt to develop cost estimates for this project and i know that behind the scenes we put a lot of detailed work into that i think the bottom line here is that the sugar growth renovation proposed cost is 10 million six that includes all of the actual construction costs as well as the the other costs for financing and furnishings and other things associated with that uh the high school project um obviously is a lot bigger we're adding on a lot more square footage there you go yes thank you and the the cost of this project again including which includes all the hard construction as well as other related costs is 19 million 750 000 okay uh this is the the legally required information we need to produce i think the key items on on this page are first of all that we'll be selling bonds and they'll be paid back over a period of 20 years and then the information that we like to highlight at the bottom and that is that the overall tax rate for the school corporation will not increase do the repayments to the bonds for these projects go ahead uh this is the chart i know the board's seen it many times but we like to remind everyone and this is our attack what our tax rate's been for since uh 2009 we we really believe that um barring any really unusual things happening we should be able to continue that level rate for quite some time into the future and then we also like to do a comparison of how we sit with the other school districts in the county this is our our 2022 tax rates and we're sitting right now just a little bit below a dollar three we've been in that middle category for at least the last decade so so the schedule for this um we had a hearing in february the first hearing this is the second hearing uh tonight uh and after this uh there's a variety of legal steps that have to be gone through we plan to come back to the board uh with a third hearing in the regular july board meeting uh and then we would anticipate that bids for this work would be completed would be brought to the board probably in december of this year and and then in terms of the completion of this work um the again the sugar growth project is smaller we would anticipate that being done by the fall of 2024 and the high school project hopefully would be done by the spring of 2025.
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it's available on youtube it is okay in fact if you or and you want to like the email us or the board we'll send you the links to the information so i and i thank you for bringing this up because someone asked it last time and when i got a chance to respond during that so we did some research but i encourage we encourage folks parents students uh parents if they're still seeing this it's not what we say it is please uh talk to the teacher you know share the concern if they feel that's not going anywhere taught the administrator uh usually by the time it gets there that you know these are problems resolved if there is one and if that's not working you certainly have every opportunity to author superintendent and if folks don't feel the process is working you come talk to the board and we'll help shepherd it through policy and work through it but this is the research that we have so far okay and we'll keep an eye on well i'll look at it too absolutely if you see something that's because we don't want to slant one way or another i don't think any politics should be in the school system at that age and i think everyone's striving to be that way but uh we still don't want the perception either so thank you for following up on this and contact us we'll get you that detail okay thank you if there is no other public comment thank you uh we're going to move on to even more exciting uh actually it is a lot going on since last meeting so up next is comm reports of standing committee so faith start with you on curriculum that's right the most exciting um okay so we met this past monday feb um the 14th of march um we approved the minutes of the february meeting um actually just we covered two items uh which were most interesting the first was an over the executive summary of the health and um pe or produced by the health and pe um curriculum council presented and a lot of interesting information came out they presented the broad skills and yes critical thinking problem solving communication and collaboration are um in top priority in these classes and as well as the pe specific skills of gross motor movement and throwing catching dance and fitness [Music] so supporting um every student in opportunities for the students and beyond the core curriculum were also emphasis emphasized in this portion of the portion of the presentation um and that would include intramural sports both at dodd and at cheshire high school we did cover the health curriculum um review and so we kind of looked at the um it looked at this by grade level so k through three four through six seven through twelve there are top key topics that must be discussed and this includes nutrition decision decision making drugs and alcohol diseases sexual health and relations relationships and i want to emphasize these are age-appropriate and um are geared toward the grade level or grade level span so um that was made very clear and then the final portion of the presentation was an overview of some of the uh recommendations and requests um that the three presenters had hoped that it wanted to bring to the board this includes promoting total wellness to staff students and community increasing the pe and health contact time we do need to find ways i believe after hearing this report to um get our kids the state mandate or state recommended mandated number of hours we do fall short in a couple of and both the elementary and the high school and um also um there are um professional development opportunities and um addressing the uh faculty needs of the to support the pe and health program and and i just want to emphasize and i said this to the group um i think if kovid taught us anything it's that we have to instill in these kids a lifelong learning or lifelong love of physical activity to keep their bodies healthy nutrition and um just general the the power of physical activity for sound mental health and um so i do appreciate the time that the that the panel put into their um presentation so we then moved on to a discussion we are examining the policies regarding reconsideration of library books and classroom resources and we have examined a number of different samples of policies from other schools and procedures at other schools for how to how folks in the community can bring a request for a reconsideration of library books or classroom resources we will be recommending that we move um the current policy which is under the community relations um series of the policy manual to the instruction section so from a 1000 series to a 600 series also we'll make a pointed effort to make the let the community be aware of where to find these procedures and um we will be providing a draft policy at the april uh or examining a draft policy at the april meeting to then pass on to the um at the to the policy committee for consideration so um that was our meeting and if anyone has any questions open yes sam just a point of clarification there we go um did you say we're short hours in pe so there are some recommendations that span a wide range and at the elementary level if you do the math it comes out to maybe three hours and 45 minutes and one of the recommendations in includes four hours when you look at that and you look at our schools they're getting that amount of time in health but the pe classroom i'm the health teacher is also going into those classes in addition when you look at the very younger grades they're having two recesses a day you know we're letting the kindergarteners go out and play so i don't know that at the end of the day their health and physical activity is any lower it just depends on where they're where they're getting that the middle school as faith said certainly gets the largest amount of time which i think is really important because they're going from schools that have recess to a school that doesn't have recess so they have a lot of opportunities plus they you know have outside of school opportunities at the high school with the way the schedule changed this year they have a significant amount of pe time and that aligns with the amount of credits that they need so while i think you might agree that every um subject area has these ideals of what ideally would be great um i agree with faith that we want our kids to have as much pe time as possible uh i think the way it shakes out in reality meets the needs of the kids but wouldn't pe time be defined as structure play versus recess which is unstructured play right and so if you're looking at what what is required it falls onto that structure play just a little yeah we could look into that this was health and pe and we didn't break out the health lessons that they get so it was it was in one but i can pull that information and i can share it with you and and sam i don't want to make it sound like they're doing nothing um it's just um i don't know if we posted that chart that showed or if you could send it to it was at our presentation and we can i would like them to see it um but you did we are dealing with staffing issues in some cases um and just in the high school level as marlene said the way the day is structured um so it it it's there i mean you see it and but we've got healthy kids i'm not saying that we don't but um i just it it was an area that i was aware that sticks out i guess and i would like to see if we can find ways going forward to perhaps close the gap a bit that's all so right i'm just asking what would qualify as satisfying that instructional time structure play requirement that's all and and if it's what's the barrier is it is the scheduling a barrier is it i don't know i'm just trying to get a sense of what you guys discussed that's all so if i can recommend that the materials presented the other night because context is very important if you can't stand all board members you know that'll help phrase it a little better but thank you any other questions mr grippa um at our last meeting um there were several i guess several public comments made about the potential of certain subjects uh perhaps being present or not present in our health curriculum uh after your examination did you find that any of those subjects were in our curriculum can you be more specific about which ones you're talking about um well there was references to let's say the the enfield pizzagate and things such as that and i wasn't sure if uh any of that reared its head in your examination that is not in there we in fact um we are using the 2016 um of the framework aren't we as opposed to the recently approved one so the recently approved curriculum framework for health was just released last week this five-year curriculum review was based on the previous standards because those were not approved and sanctioned by the state department of education for the curriculum that they were writing or will write to be aligned with that so they do cover all of those um content areas so i can certainly share with you what those content area was areas where i don't i'm not familiar with the topics that you alluded to but i think what we saw was that our pe teachers really have gone above and beyond that they stay current with the types of games and activities that they provide to students and as a result of that we have just an incredible amount of high school students involved in sports and clubs and activities even clubs and activities that would lend itself to some of those health-related topics for example our feminism club at the high school has brought in speakers on things such as sexual assault so we i think we offer a myriad of things at the at the high school even outside of i guess the best thing to say is outside of what that um that stereotypical hell a pe class is like i think what our teachers have been doing is really current they talked didn't they talk about pickleball and how they've been teaching pickleball for you know years and years and years and now it's the hot thing so they were joking that you know all the graduates that they had really made it the new hot craze so if i could chime in so this wasn't discussed in the last being in particular but i think you're talking about uh accusations of transgenderism critical race theory all the other things that were mentioned other topics not necessarily just more you had mentioned that you felt that everything was age-appropriate and that's i just wanted to make sure for this record yes yeah yeah that's all i was getting all the but what i want to say is on your topics that's been researched now for almost two years straight at every curtain community meeting we're looking at textbooks uh miss solano also i think looked at the library books recently did another inventory uh we're not finding anything but as always if parents see that we won't be aware of it so we continue to review that at every quickly meeting the other questions that critical thank you faith up next is finance mr grippo thank you mr chair um i was looking out into the audience looking for mr maciana and realized well we all get to sit up at the dais again so i uh hand the report hand the uh report over to mr massion thank you mr grippo good evening ladies and gentlemen the board members do have the updated financial report in their package i will provide a summary this is the report as of february 28th the board's budget for the year is 77 million one dollar one thousand fifty two in about 15 minutes you're gonna see that the board's budget uh has been changed by act of the town council in march but you know sticking with this report through the end of february as i reported the prior couple of months the budget is in good shape we don't have any major variances that i can report at this time we do have some impacts related to inflation that's mostly in fuel prices you know the price of oil did shoot up quite a bit came down a bit went up a little bit today you know we're around 100 per barrel not going to be a major problem for our budget the increase in fuel if we exceed the budget line you know we can cover it through some line items in our budget that we're below our budget i will talk about the medical benefits report in a moment as far as where we are in the in the budget cycle we are you know complete with eight months of the budget uh and at this point in the year we were able to increase the expenditure cap that we have on non-payroll items to 70 percent uh which is good it's it's in line with what we needed to do so the schools are preparing for the purchases of materials that they haven't made earlier in the year they're preparing for next year also at this time of year we prepare for any maintenance projects that we want to complete over the summer so that activity you know has started in earnest and as we go through april and may will start to lock in where we'll be in terms of expenditures for the year but we will meet our budget this year i'm highly confident it is in good shape i'll pause before i talk about medical benefits if there are any questions okay medical benefits we did provide the board members the report as of february 28th i'm happy to say that claims are 821 for the month of february which is an improvement over january it's actually below the 800 15 000 per month budget so we were actually able to increase the balance in the reserve fund by 69 000 this month that brings the reserve balance to 1.46 million that gives us about 1.62 months worth of claims coverage so the trend is moving in the right direction as as we've explained in the past january marks the beginning of the new hsa plan year so employees that are on our plans they're using their deductible at this point in time so i wouldn't expect claims to continue to go down although that would be really nice but certainly claims have come down you know to a more reasonable level and we hope that that continues the yeah that's it on on medical benefits so it's some promising news good there yes my question pertains to the million five that we're moving around again in our offering are you getting to that or that's the next agenda item so so what's the bad news then i shall wait is there bad news oh there's no bad news okay yeah i just i know you expect that from the past few months i was being costly optimistic i wasn't sure where it was going but no no i have just all good news tonight um uh before we move on i'd just like to say i'm happy to see that we officially have a trend in the right direction at least for the yes right exactly so uh yeah um i guess uh yes please continue on okay the next item under finance um you know we'll require broad board action and i you know i'll provide an explanation of what's happening the town council at their uh meeting held on march 8th approved an increase to this current year's board's budget of one million five hundred thousand dollars and so their action took this board's budget which prior to the action was 77 million 1052 dollars it increased it to 78 million 501.052 and so that that took effect you know as of the action date of march 8.
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um tony i believe that is the biggest project of all of them kevin that is the heart of uh the project that we're actually proposing securing some funding for um and we've already gone off for an rfp for design services um part of the the bond language that we proposed uh to the council last week includes the funding of uh these uh upgrades that you're describing okay all right and i i led with that because um it was my understanding and that was the biggest um kind of the biggest project as part of the accreditation update um it does say in the accreditation update um that this city has partnered with danbury public schools uh would be looking to secure funding um to help realize the 2023 timeline and so um it sounds like if we secure the funding in 2022 antonio is it reasonable in a year we can have that update um completed well kev based on uh the availability of funding which is pretty much uh what drives our project completion dates um if the council moves forward with recommending both uh bond um for referendum and we secure uh the funding there there would be no opportunity to get that work done this summer remember upgrading uh school laboratories is very uh it's very destructive i wouldn't want to do it uh during an occupied school it would some it would be something that i would start just before the children are out of school and then work through the summer even if i have to do double shifts so as we stand right now based on availability of funding this project is starting to look like a start of 2023 and work through the summer of 2023 would hopefully completion when the kids come back august to 23.
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i think the the idea of building on to that high school has a lot of merit but we need that third lane and the things i did talk with some people in the city and they would love to see that third lane on route three actually go all the way back to bottoms road so there'd be a right turn into the height into the middle school and whatnot and so um i dot is not currently through my kid to the high school it makes sense to me i'm not a transportation expert but we're going to have meetings to try and push that along because that's really going to be a i think a key factor into expanding on at that high school and so i just want you to be aware that that's going on right now we're still processing through whether or not idot would allow that for everybody that is not up to it's kind of like a soap opera it's a continuing saga that we've been dealing with we've identified that the town is growing we're going to have a need for additional classroom space and the board's been looking at possible solutions for quite a while the latest that we're kind of concentrating on is expanding the high school so now as mr grody alluded the the traffic seems to be our biggest hurdle with that so we're trying to get that to take care of so i miss anything nope that was that was a cliff notes apart tune in every every month oppressed any questions on two individual board member comments anybody i do i have i knew it and you can call me thank you no i just wanted to thank mr grody and kim for giving us the events that are happening in the district um did attend two this past week at the high school and i also want to give a shout out to our new band director the pops concert was phenomenal i mean it was like i felt you know the beat when you're sitting your seats kind of moving around and i kind of looked around the rest of the crowd and saw it too mr avis rouse does a great job he does do very good and he played with the band as well with the jazz band so that was cool um and then the second thing has the awards ceremony already happened for katie um to receive her award or is there something coming up she's going to bloomington on saturday with her husband for the purpose of getting the state award we had a faculty meeting at cms to give her an award other than that those are the two events we've had planned the state is hoping to hold a banquet in the fall when they can fully be out from underneath coveted restrictions i mean they said that they would notify us and at that point then it would be open to the board to more more staff and faculty members that would want to attend because the last one received was mrs bain correct i think so and that was a big i know a big to-do okay it is it's a very big deal i wish you all could have seen what katie jack did for the seventh grade trivia session that was our pbis event she deserves to be on the red carpet because she makes these videos that are absolutely incredible she did did so during the pandemic when we were completely home and then she used her video skills to make a long video for the trivia night she just goes way past past normal i think she spent about 15 hours creating her trivia night video she does such a great job and she is so sacrificial in her time and we really appreciate her anybody else we're trying to program you guys have definitely heard enough from me tonight so i'll spare you any further we do have some items for an executive session this evening so with that i'd entertain a motion to enter executive session for the purposes of the employment appointment excuse me employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity five icls 120-2c1 and also discuss student disciplinary cases pursuant to 5i cls 120 2c9 any like to make that motion yes all right we're gonna go into executive session now um there are some items for action that should be a result of our executive session you're all welcome to wait around and come we'll call you back in when we conclude our executive session all right we on all right welcome back everyone we've concluded our executive session and we have resumed our open meeting there's a couple items for action as a result of our executive session the first is the approval of the administrative contracts and wages as proposed anybody like to make a motion to approve those i'll make the motion adam thank you do i have a second second andrew ii and roll call please tammy adam hempkin yes tammy hines yes andrea corey yes greg meyer yes lisa schumacher yes all right motion pass unanimously item b is the approval of our non-union non-administrative staff wages anybody would like to make a motion to approve those i'll make the motion thank you lisa for your second i'll make the second thank you tammy and roll call please tammy hines yes anna corey yes greg meyer yes lisa schumacher yes adam humpkin yes yep that moshe carries all right that concludes our business meeting for this evening if we'd like to make a motion to adjourn thank you enjoy your second yeah everybody wants to keep going don't we thank you adam for a second all right all in favor aye aye any opposed perfect thank you thank you very much [Music] you
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and the first payment on these bonds doesn't take place until 2025 so occasionally we get asked where can i see this in in the budget well you won't actually see this in a budget until you see the budget for 2025.
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the board now has the responsibility of allocating what account to place that 1.5 million dollars into and the recommendation and the intention of the council was that 1.5 million would be allocated to our medical benefits operating budget line and then once that's done the million and a half dollars can be transferred into the medical benefits reserve fund so the the the action of the board that's requested tonight is just to authorize that the 1.5 million be allocated to the medical benefits fund account the further background on this and the board knows that the town council as we began the new fiscal year wanted 1.5 million dollars to go directly into the reserve fund coming from the opera money that was received you know as part of the pandemic relief funds so the town received about 8.3 million dollars the guidance was just received recently on on actually how to do that and so the guidance that the council received was to allocate the funds to the board's budget and then the board can you know further allocate to the medical benefits reserved so you know this transaction is technical in nature the effect of it is it it does increase our budget and the other effect is that when the budget for next year is looked at our starting point is the 78 million that has just been increased not the 77 million that we had previously so if you look at what the board approved for next year's budget when the board approved that it was a 5.34 increase now it's a 3.3 percent increase so it's a little unusual and it's a long explanation but this action really doesn't do anything to increase our ability to expend a million and a half extra dollars it's intended to go directly to the medical benefits reserve fund if you look at the accounting that we've been doing on medical benefits we already had included the million and a half contributions so this report that we reviewed previously our reserve fund balance will still be 1.46 million does that make sense obviously without this contribution the balance would be negative we would be exactly so there is a motion and i will turn that back over to mr gripper on the board uh mr chair i'd like to make a motion um that the cheshire board of education allocate the 1.5 million dollars additional appropriation to its 2021-2022 budget approved by the town council to the medical medical benefits account object number 520102 and further directs the 1 million 500 000 to be contributed to the medical benefits reserve fund thank you mr gripple is there a second sam seconds any discussion from the board yeah yes yes so my question is looking to the future because this makes two years that we've had artificially infused a million five into that medical reserve fund so is there a plan for the future so it seems like we shouldn't have to rely on whatever emergency funds come our way to the town to this should be better built into our budget should it not if it's in our operating budget we should have a plan so i'm just wondering if we thought about it at all you sort of answered the question and just to clarify the the million and a half dollar infusion happened once it's it's just one one and a half million dollars in fusion it's just a question of how it was entered so i just wanted to clarify that didn't happen twice oh i thought we did it last year no no this is it's the same million yes oh okay yes the part of and i know we're going down the road that we went with the budget but the board's approved budget request for next year which the council is considering we asked for an increase of 2.2 million dollars to the medical benefits line and if that let's just stick with how the board approved it if that's approved then for next year we're funding contributions in line with expected claims so we should not be eating into the reserve fund after this action since the budget's been increased a million and a half dollars that's already now built into our budget instead of 2.2 million needed at 750 000 will be included in our run rate so it's the same effect so if we're the point is if we're funding contributions equal to claims we should be on the right track we haven't been doing that four years prior so assuming the town council approves the budget as requested and the board if there is a change that comes back to the board the board approves it as requested will be at least running even and hopefully we end the year with the reserve fund balance that we don't you know erode because we're funding it in line with expected claims thanks vin can you remind me what we upped our monthly amount so we go from 7 50 to 8 9 or something like that or this year were funding at 8 15.
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