East Windsor, CT BOE Meeting - 4/8/26

001of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So, um has anybody checked in? Carrie? I know I checked in. I don't have anything. So, we're all here except for Carrie vetting court. And um next is an added agenda item. I'd like a motion to add to item 11, old business, then discussion. I'll make it. I'll second that motion. I'll make a motion to add item 11, then discuss it. Second. Who's that? Courtney. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Opposed? Okay. Um Now we're on to board recognition. Uh yes, uh I I can take the lead on this. Uh So, that's a good idea. >> Um I do recognize that it's April, um but March is Board of

002Education Appreciation Month. Um it was intended to recognize the board at our last meeting, but it was we had canceled that so that the board and administration could attend the Board of Finance public meeting on the budget instead. Um so, tonight we're pleased to take the opportunity to recognize each of you and just wanted to state on behalf of the school administration, staff, and families, certainly recognize and want to thank you for your continued support, leadership, and service to our schools and community. Certainly um on behalf of the entire uh school community, uh we thank every um thank you for everything you do. Um and uh we do have a number of uh uh thank yous from the kids. So, the signs behind are from Hall Memorial. Um I know that we also have some

003notes uh to pass around. Um and then um as we've done um in the past few years, um we have a series of uh books um that will be donated on behalf and in the name of the board to each of the three schools. Uh the media specialist for each of the schools uh selected the titles. Um so, certainly, if there's opportunity you want to take a look look, um you'll open the inside cover um and will um share that it was a donation um from the uh board of uh board of ed to our uh students. Um so, certainly, it's not lost on us everything you do. You volunteer your time and uh certainly appreciate uh your partnership and uh care uh for our kids here in East Windsor. Well, thank you. Um sure

004everybody on the board is very appreciative of the recognition. We um we do it for the for the kids. We certainly don't do it for ourselves. We have more free time. Not for your social calendar. And give me a little love you jumps. You've got she is a little up. Thank you. I have a strange question. The thank you cards, those thank yous, there's nine of them. Can we each have one? Or we can buy them now. Uh floor is uh floor is not in the Yeah. Yeah, she said absolutely. No problem. I mean, unless you have a plan. You want to hang them in the hallway or something? I don't really like going to hang them in here and there's nine of them. It's a It's nice. We could each have one. Absolutely. You

005can take a look. All that was a scratch but I didn't If I bite that in your heart, if I have it in my mouth and I see it, I'll say, "Oh, that's why. That's why." That's why I ate this. You're definitely a numbers person. I never counted the nine. Thank you. Well, thank you. Um And the goodies there for us. Yeah, there's a lot of goodies. Lorraine said we I can't give away the brownies, but going You're welcome to we'll share. There's enough for everybody. Um On to approval of the minutes of the March 11th regular meeting. Make a motion to approve the March 11th 2026 regular meeting minutes. Second. Motion's made by Courtney, seconded by Gaby. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. On to public participation. Would anyone in the public like

006to speak? Please identify yourself. For the record. Thank you. Okay, I want to make sure there's a lot of people here. Okay. My name's Paul Anderson, 59 Main Street, Broad Brook. Uh I have start my stopwatch before I speak. Here we go. Just in case I don't want to go over. All right. Um I have three three items. The first two relate to the presentation of the budget back in the first public hearing. Um What is the total cost per student? That means $33.2 million divided by total number of Matter where they come from, has nothing to do with it. Students in the school are students. And the budget is the budget. It's not where the money comes from, it's how much. I calculate $23,714 per student. However, my number is not a number to

007be shared publicly. I think it's up to the presentation of the budget to tell us what is the cost per student the budget represents. That's item one. Item two. The percentage of seniors graduating, which in my mind means the total senior population compared with the diplomas handed out in June. That's it. It's a very simple thing. We need to know that in the public when the budget is presented so we understand what we're paying. That is a suggestion. Okay. Number three. There are no doors on the bathroom stalls in the high school. This needs to be corrected. I understand that there are individual bathrooms, but they're usually locked. Teens need their privacy. This is a dramatic time in in lives and they're dealing with changes they don't even understand. They're trying to learn. They've got

008personal issues. And this lack of privacy is not appropriate. I consider it abuse. I've heard stories of students leaving school for a family emergency so they can use a bathroom at home. Cuz they will not use a bathroom where they're exposed to everyone. I have no idea why this started, but it is not acceptable. I've also heard that students go to the nurse's office just to use the bathroom. I've also heard that there are students that have special permission to go to the nurse's office to use the bathrooms because they don't want to use the ones they're assigned to because it just doesn't work. Okay? I think it's abuse. I don't think it's right. I think it makes for a very bad learning environment and I went over time. I apologize. But thank you for

009listening. Thank you, Paul. Um actually, I think the superintendent might have the answers to all of them, all the questions. We we don't usually do back and forth, but in this case um since we probably have the answers and you're sitting next to the principal who's looking pretty surprised that that our bathrooms don't have doors. So, um Yeah, I mean I'll answer the first two and then I'll allow uh Mrs. Anderson to answer the third one. So, regarding the per pupil cost, I can tell you when we presented to the Board of Finance last week that total cost along with the local cost, both costs, were presented to the board. It was a presentation. There was copies available for all public and is on our website. So, if you go on the Board of Ed

010website, you can find that presentation. It was offhand, I don't recall the number, but it was slightly higher than the number you referenced. That has made public is available public and is on the website and again was presented to the Board of Finance at the last meeting. What is the cost per student? Yes, sir. Okay, I want to make sure you're not spending any of the Thank you. And then regarding um graduation rate, I can tell you that's actually coincidentally in correspondence and the Board of Ed packet, there is one up there. It's 90% based on the most preliminary data from the state. Gives a total number. It's on the back of the packet. You're more than welcome to I'll tell you what page it's on, too. On your phone, but page would be for

011pupil cost. I had the whole bunch of You know what these are. Oh. Thank you. Page 58 in the packet has the graduation rate along with the breakdown per gender, race, and program participation. With total numbers and percent. Thank you. Look at that. And then for number three, I'll defer to Mrs. Anderson as far as the principal since it has to do with facilities at the high school. So, all of our bathrooms do have doors. Stalls do have doors. We have actually we and we have a bathroom that is open to all students that is a handicap but we use it used to be a handicap bathroom. We made it accessible to all students and it has a door that locks. It's a single stall, but all of the public bathrooms, every every um Well,

012it has a stall. With a door. It's interesting. The people are telling me stories that aren't necessarily true. It pays to come here. I'm glad you're here. Rumors that there's no doors on stalls. I'm sure that's a good word. Thank you for your comments. I really appreciate you both. Thanks for listening. Thanks for coming. We don't usually have We're glad you were here. Um any other public wish to speak? Then we are on to the student uh representative report. At Pine Grove Elementary School, on March 24th, Miss Watson and Mr. Ryan welcomed new kindergarten families during an evening information session. 40 families learned more about the kindergarten program and visited classrooms. On March 26th, Pine Grove Elementary School celebrated a belated Read Across America Day. Eastman High School students visited to read Green Eggs and

013Ham to students in kindergarten through grade four, followed by a hands-on activity making a pan with three eggs and ham. The school also welcomed three officers from the East Greenbush Police Department who spent time reading to students during their lunch breaks. The school-wide One School, One Book celebration concluded with a fun old spirit day to celebrate the program's success. Students were invited to bring a favorite stuffed animal to school for for the day. On March 27th, first grade students participated in an engaging in-school field trip during STEM class hosted by the Lutz Planetarium. The presenters brought a variety of live animals, providing students with a close-up look of different species while teaching them about animal habitats and how various creatures adapt to their environments. And on to the middle school. The eighth grade recently held

014their first semester award ceremony to recognize students for their hard work and achievements. On Saturday, March 14th, East Windsor Middle School students participated in the Destination Imagination tournament. In second place for the Win It Big challenge was a team of Horis, Zaden, Kendra, Juliet, Ryan, and Dane. Taking first place in the Win It Big challenge was a team of Horjita, Iris, Zubari, Gaden, and Barrett. Additionally, first place in the Becoming Super challenge went to McKenzie, Riley, Samuel, and Nathan. We are incredibly proud of all three teams for their outstanding work and representation of East Windsor Middle School. On March 27th, Miss Denson, the East Windsor Middle School band and the chorus teacher received the Emerging Educator Award from the CMEA. For the high school, for the second year in a row, our National Honor Society

015students planned and executed from East Windsor in participation with East Windsor Parks and Rec. The event was free for pre-K to grade four students in East Windsor and held alongside the annual bunny breakfast. At the bunny breakfast, East Windsor High School students offered a coloring station, an Easter egg bag decorating station, a yard game station, and a face painting station. At the conclusion of the breakfast, everyone went outside for the egg hunt. In preparation for the event, our students held a candy drive, gathered and prepped all materials, and delegated jobs for the day. They did a wonderful job and showed that they do not hide their appreciation. Thank you, Tim. And we're going to um high school. High school reports. I also want to I'm going to be slow. What do you need from a

016flash drive? Nothing. I just need to plug it in so I can plug it in. >> Oh, that's a fine. All right. Good morning, everyone. Wait, um all right. Hello friends. We'll do like this so they can see the screen. There we go. I'll do this. While we're setting up, I just we thought this time around when we gave the high school report, I know you love hearing me talk. Um but we bring people who actually are doing what I'm talking about and actually are receiving what I'm talking about. Um so we brought some teachers and some student voices here so you could hear about some of the things that are going on at the high school. Um So uh as always, um everything that we do at the high school is linked to your

017strategic plan um and you'll see throughout presentation links to goals one um three and four of or is it two? Goals one, two, and four of your strategic plan. Um and the curriculum update was supposed to be tonight as well about new courses and so we combined that into this presentation. So this is kind of with the new courses, that's where that's going to fit into this presentation. So it's all one-stop shopping tonight with my big little Let's see if this works. Now if this works, you can really just sit back and watch. It works. Hey, I'm happy to be Everyone was excited, right? She can All right. So this is kind of just when I started this already. I just kind of want to update you on this. So primarily we talk about course

018work and our think about our future week and you'll see that there's alignment to goals one, two, and three in the plan. So I'll start with one of our new courses this year. So I have First of all, should I let's have everyone introduce themselves before I do this. So, I'm I'm Allison Anderson, the principal of the high school. Just say your name and what grade you're in. I'm Andres Doncel Gross, and I'm 11th grade. I'm Nicole Brown, I'm a junior. I'm Cooper Kay, I'm also a junior. I'm Wyatt Campbell, I'm a sophomore. I'm Chelsea Pacheco, I teach 11th graders. I'm Jenna Brasky, I'm the music teacher. Sharon Wayland, school counselor. So, Jenna Brasky is going to talk about one of the new offerings we have here at the high school this year called music

019theory, and then we also offered an advanced placement version of that. Those of you who were on the curriculum council subcommittee, you remember her presenting that last year. So, go ahead, Jenna. Awesome. Hi, it's so nice to see you guys again. I was saying to someone earlier, I had deja vu cuz it was like around this time last year that I was proposing all of these courses. And I've been so lucky to get to run them. So, I'm mostly here today to talk about AP music theory. I was really lucky, we have three students studying for the exam right now, and when you think about how niche of a course that is, and how much prerequisite knowledge that that requires, to have three senior students that were willing to take on, you know, this new

020AP course to the program of studies. I'm going to be more proud of them, and I'm so happy to have them in my class this year. So, I just wanted to really quickly talk about how it's been going, you know, from the beginning to to now from last year. So, my goals with proposing both academic level theory as well as advanced placement music theory, I really wanted to expand the musical offerings with classes that were accessible to both students in and out of performing ensembles. So, music theory at some level, that's for students who are in choir and in band and want an extension of their education, but it's also for students that don't necessarily play a musical instrument that want to know more about it. Or maybe they play non-ensemble instrument at home out

021of school like acoustic guitar or piano. This is a way for them to take advantage of, you know, some more advanced offerings inside of the classroom. And and for me to connect with them in ways that I wasn't able to previously. Um, it's also, you know, for our students who are in band and chorus and who are looking for that maybe advanced placement extension, um, it's a way for them to take advantage of their learning. Um, I have more students now than ever that are telling me they want to pursue humanities, um, after high school in some way, whether that is arts or music or just something that they want to continue doing, which of course, I'm thrilled. Um, but, you know, this is this is for those students who it's an opportunity for them

022to earn college credit doing something that interests them. And I'll talk about it a little bit, but the AP music theory exam looks very different, um, than a lot of the typical advanced placement exams. So, it's an opportunity for them to get to exercise, um, some different skills. So, some of the skills that they're learning. Um, this is not a purely written exam for AP theory. There is singing, there is writing music, there is listening. So, I make a bunch of seniors sing at the end of their day. They love it. Um, none of them are in chorus, so it's really fun. Um, so there's a lot of decoding of larger pieces of music, some music that they've maybe even played in band or chorus before and some that is entirely new to them. Um,

023so it's a lot of critical thinking, problem solving, um, very akin to I would say like literacy, like a really taking a long passage of music, like a long passage of reading and being able to break it down and truly understand musically what's happening, why it's happening. If I was going to continue writing that piece of music, what what may I do? Um, advanced listening skills. Um, there is listening and dictation on the AP exam, which means that they're going to hear certain melodies or chord progressions played on a piano or like a, um, some other instrument and they're going to have to write down what they hear. So, they're going to have to notate that music onto the page that they're hearing. Um, so it's a really awesome skill to get to hear that,

024to kind of understand how am I breaking down, which notes are what, which is high, which is low. Um on the other end of that, they also have sight reading, which they'll be shown a piece of music and then into the microphone um of their computer, they will have to sing out loud what they see. So, these um these are more performance-based skills that you're seeing on the advanced placement, which I think is really um it's a really awesome way. It's really really great to see them um get to exercise. Some students who maybe have trouble writing or putting down all of their thoughts into words or maybe reading that long passage. This is a way on an AP exam for college credit to get to use the skills that they know, and those are

025musical skills. Um there's also composition. On the exam, they're going to be shown um a few chord progressions, a few symbols. They're going to have to arrange They're going to write a song as part of the exam, which I think is really, really awesome. Um and in general, it just deepens their musical understanding. This is something that, you know, reaches not just in music, but these decoding skills, these listening skills, these analytical skills are reaching into other parts of their brain and just through the medium of music and listening and songs, which I think is is really awesome to watch them grow in other facets as well. Um but I'm really excited for these uh three students to be taking the exam in May, and I think they're going to do awesome. Another thing that

026we did this year um as a new course um we took one of our classes um called Foundations and we changed it to uh academic skills and enrichment. And we have an ELA component and we have a math component, and this helps is with their scope is progression to either better prepare them for the SAT or help them with within their classroom. So, I have Miss Pacheco here who taught a section of that for the ELA component, and she brought some friends as well, and so go ahead. Tell us Sure. Um so, my name is Celeste Pacheco. I teach ELA for the juniors, and um I co-taught or I've currently co-teaching uh a second section of this. So, semester one, I co-taught it with uh Kathy Catullo, who is the 12th grade ELA teacher. Um

027so, we have a quite a variety of skills. It's sort of like a the catchall sort of a class of like skills that students either have gaps in their knowledge or they just haven't maybe practiced for a while. Um because we are working with juniors, um such as Cooper was in my course semester one, and Andres is here today representing uh for us. Um we really we also incorporated a lot of SAT strategies. So, we open up every class with an SAT question of the day. Kids come in, they read it, they put their initials next to the answer they think is right. We spend the first few minutes talking about it. Um if they all get it right, high fives around, stickers for everybody. Um if they get it wrong, we unpack that. Why

028is it wrong? We look at the evidence in the question itself, and through a lot of exposure to quite a variety of question types, kids are much more familiar um with the question types, with how to think about the questions, and um our our juniors took the um the SATs in March. So, some of the other skills Excuse me. Um that we went over, um annotating, um we looked at just annotating, which was sort of like summaries, what's happening on the text, but then also analytical annotating. So, we looked at nonfiction texts, um mostly some articles, um relevant topics. The second half of the semester, we really focused on the um analy- um reading and understanding nonfiction texts, and then doing uh questions that are like SAT-like questions. We had a lot of practice with

029that. Students worked in groups often, so we'd have a lot of collaboration, but as the semester went on, um Mrs. Catullo and I were able to back to back off a lot. Students were running their small groups in analyzing the questions for the right answer, analyzing why um certain answers were wrong, and then proving it with textual analysis, and um in a way that with confidence that we hadn't seen the beginning of the semester. Um we incorporate a little bit of typing skills cuz we noticed the students uh the typing is just it's not the kind of way that probably you or I were trained for typing. Um you know, the paper over the hands and the stress, the timer's going. Um so we did a little bit of that just to have kids get

030a little bit of exposure, especially with um most AP tests um are online now. They're digital. So like I also teach AP literature, and the typos are preventable. So we started to incorporate that a little bit. Um Oh, let's see. So we looked at we do a lot of grammar things. So like right now in semester two, we're focused a lot on uh commonly misused words, there, they're, there. It's, its. So some brushing up of skills, or if kids missed certain skills earlier in their academic career, it's just a really clear understanding of what you need to do in my Why? Um Can you boop? So this is some student reflections. I'm going to turn it over to Andres in a moment. So at the end of the semester, we had um kids look at

031their data tracker. So the second half of the semester, when we're doing those non-fiction non-fiction passages with question types, students whom were tracking um their answers. What kinds of questions am I usually getting right? Am I usually getting the vocab questions? Um am I usually missing the inference questions? So we had them do an analysis and a reflection on their data. Uh we also had them do um more of a graphic one-pager. For example, here, this one's uh from Cassidy. Just like on the course itself. So what's what do you remember from the course, etc. Um so FANBOYS, how to use commas appropriately with coordinating conjunctions. Um there's lots of stickers. You can't underestimate how far a sticker will go for a student. You can take over that, Andres. Thank you. And then these are

032just uh um comments from students in their personal reflections at the end. So I'm going to turn it over to Andres now to talk a little bit about his experience. Um Take it away. Um I definitely think ASE is a good class and that uh a lot of students should be taking it because it helps students like interact with each other and figure out how to find answers together and it also helps you alone figure out answers inside the text because you have to annotate. You have to find certain information inside. So, I definitely think it helps students learn and it helps other like it helps you with other classes like history or just any other class in general because you find out the information and then there's the answer. So, I definitely think it's

033a very good class for kids to learn. Okay. Yeah, so one of the main components is really keeping it small, too. So, we had a class of we're like under 10, I think. Uh yeah, under 10. Um so, because it was co-taught, students got a lot of teacher time if need be. But again, like Andy and Cooper were able to really take the reins by the second half of the semester and lead their own learning. We provided the materials and some feedback when necessary, but really the kids really stepped up and they showed a lot of leadership amongst themselves, but also each other um as the course went on. Some of the things too that um I noticed when I would observe the class is that um uh Ms. Pacheco and Ms. Cutula taught the

034students how to recognize what kind of question types the questions were and then where you could find the answer. So, for example, some of the questions I I heard the kids talking to one another be like, "This one's in the actual writing. We can find this one right now." So, they would go and find it's a it's an easy one. We got this. And then they they have another question like, "We have to infer or we have to make our own conclusion based on this." So, they were able to the kind of level off the questions and then debate with one another on which one they thought was the right answer and when it wasn't the right answer and then they would have to like like she said defend their answers. And then if they

035got it wrong, they had to go back and find the right answer and then convince the other group why that was the right answer. So, it was it was really a powerful class and I think hopefully it will show up on our SAT scores. Um but uh we thought it was a we really wanted to highlight that for this. You ever want to see kids nerd out and really argue about like commas and things. Um we also offered a math component to this class. Um we offered it uh Mr. Shelton taught that primarily. I know Cooper took that one as well um to prepare for the SATs this year. And so um Mr. Shelton put on the slide some of the things that he had the kids do, but they had an SAT prompt of

036the day. They went over the SAT prompt and then they would kind of do something very similar, but on the math side of the coin. Um Cooper, do you want to talk a little bit about your experience in that class? Uh I did both ASC classes. I love them both and I still love them both. Um right now in the math one with Mr. Shelton, uh it taught me a lot because I also have this class for a pre-calc class, which is helping me for AP stats next year, but it's also teaching me how to improve my SAT score. And we I also get to meet new people who I don't typically talk to, who I've known for years, but I've never gotten the chance to fully talk to them. I met a bunch of

037good friends now in ASC English with Ms. Pacheco. And in Mr. Shelton's class, that gives me a chance to talk to him more and understand more of his math, but also the math that what was on the SAT and overall in class. One of the things I see on there as well is that if you see down there, there's Desmos. Those are computer interactive things that are embedded into the actual testing platform. And so one of the things that we did in both these classes is kind of teach kids how to use technology. There's nothing like going into a test and knowing the answer, but can't figuring out how to submit the answer correctly on the assessment. So, Desmos is a way to like graph a graph a function and do things like that. And

038so that was kind of the things that we had to teach the kids too as well with the technology and we we used part of the time with the class to do that. So you can see both these class these classes and the AP music theory those definitely relate to the goal one of the strategic plan as far as portrait of the graduate. And these are just some more quotes that uh Mr. Shelton got from some students. Um you'll notice Liam's quote I had to basically um bully Liam to take the class. But in the end I think Liam Liam felt very successful was very happy he took it. Um so I really liked that first quote right there. I wanted that on the slide for sure. And then the rest were from um some

039other students that were in the class. Um and next we're going to start talking about Think About Your Futures Week. So I have Ms. Wayland. Shh. I'm with you guys. Hi everyone. Again, my name is Sharon Wayland I'm one of the school counselors at the high school and I want to share with you some of our Think About Your Future Week that we had. Um this is an annual week that we host at the high school. We're in our sixth year of having this week. Uh it is a week to promote all things college and career readiness. This year it was from March 16th to March 20th. And as you can see from the flyer well you probably can't see cuz it's really small but every day highlighted a different activity. So on the next

040few slides we're just going to go through what the week looked like. So the first day so day one was career speaker preparation day and we also held an SAT pep rally. So students prior to this week happening they were sent a survey and they were able to indicate their top three career speaker choices um and they had a wide variety of options to pick some from. So we had everybody from nursing, we had engineering, we had welding, we had electricians, we had people from the business community, we had many many opportunities for the students to choose from which I thought was great. Um most students got their first choice. There a couple of students that might have had to take their second or third choice, but everybody got one of their top three choices.

041So, the room lists were posted for students to report to those during advisory because we wanted them to meet with their advisory room prior to the speakers coming in on Friday to, you know, obviously gather so they knew where they were going and also give them the opportunity to formulate some questions to ask the speakers when they visited the room on Friday. And then they also participated in just kind of a kickoff Kahoot where they talked about different types of post-secondary education, information about interviewing, resume writing, career clusters, all all things like college and career readiness. And then the juniors I'm going to let Ms. Anderson talk about what the juniors did during that advisory day. So, that on that advisory day the juniors that was their culminating event of like a little SAT prep

042series we did with them. It was just a kind of refresher. So, we had two two weeks prior to that we had the kids get the juniors get together in their advisories and we had the ELA teachers run that and just do tips for ELA for the test two weeks prior. And then the and then we also get they also received a letter and I incentivized um how they did on their on their SATs. They would get raffle tickets based on however they scored or how much they grew on the SAT. So, for example, if you scored 1500 on your SAT you automatically got five tickets. And then, you know, if you grow this many points you might get two more tickets in the raffle. So, to show them that I was not just saying

043that, I did the the raffle with the October results from this the class. So, I pulled three names at that to kind of get them excited about taking it and we gave out three gift cards at that. And so then they went with the ELA teachers to learn to some little test prep. Not We know that they're not going to get these great skills in two weeks prior to the test, but it's just kind of get your your mind ready, how to use multiple choice responses, those kinds of things. So, we did one round with ELA, the next week we did one round with math, and then the day before this week we all got together. We did a Kahoot around SATs, and everyone got these cool t-shirts. Well, let's all turn around and show

044off. Yes, we all got a Kahoot t-shirt. And we all wore Kahoot t-shirts. And so, um cuz we were both visible. And so, we uh we all um we we did that, and so that kicked off the Monday of Think About Your Future Week to get ready for Tuesday, cuz guess what we did on Tuesday? We took the SAT. Okay. Yes, so Tuesday was testing day. So, all ninth graders took PSAT 8/9, all 10th graders had PSAT 10, and then of course our juniors took the actual SAT that day. And our 12th graders were able to have a senior portfolio work day, um because that was due like the week after, so we gave them some time to work on their portfolios. And then after testing, we had for grade 11 we had a special

045lunch, and we had some kind of indoor like field day activities I think Nicole is going to talk a little bit about. Um yeah, so the whole like debrief after and doing fun things rather than going to class, I think definitely like soothed a lot of people after stressing out about all of this. And especially the special lunch, just having it just our grade, it really did like help to not have to go back to class. Um and the indoor field day, everyone was very involved, and it was like the pep rallies that we have, and yeah. Yeah, the senior class is kind of mad at me. They thought like these guys got that. I'm like, "Listen, the idea came this year. I'm sorry." I'll I'll I owe you, but that's okay. Then they were

046like, "Maybe I'll let you die." I was like, Then day three. So, day three was our post secondary field trip day. Um so, we've been doing this actually for a long time prior to even uh starting Think About Your Future Week. We've been doing um early college exploration for, I don't know, probably over 15 years now. So, I love that we are able to get our freshmen as ninth graders onto a college campus or some type of post-secondary um institution. So, we had a couple of options for the students. So, uh freshmen were either able to go to American International College, Western New England, or Central, or to the IBEW, which is the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers right here in town. Um sophomores were able to pick from either UConn, um Central, or again

047IBEW. And then the um 11th graders we also had the college field trip uh not college field college fair trip that most of them decided to attend, but we did also provide them with the opportunity if they wanted to go on one of the other trips. Uh if that was better suited for whatever their post-secondary plan was, that was also an option. So, here are some pictures of our kids on campus. Um so, they had a great day. They went onto campus. Um typically they had an info session and a tour. So, some students had the info session and then went on the tour. Some students did the opposite way. Um they came back. Some of the schools gave them some gear um at from the admissions office. Um but they came back and um

048they were definitely walked around. I think some of the kids were surprised how much walking they were going to be doing. It was also a cold day and they were warned to bring a coat, but we had some students apparently that were a little chilly that day. Um but this particular slide, this has the IBEW and we have Wyatt here to talk a little bit about his experience on that trip. Overall, it was a very valuable experience, I feel, to be able to go, learn about the um the side of careers in the um uh in this type of labor force in the trades on larger scale electrical it was really nice getting to learn about what work for the for electricians is like how what the benefits are um what schooling's necessary overall I

049feel it was just an incredibly valuable experience. Tell me a little bit about some of the things you did there on that >> We yeah we um they taught us a little bit about the different programs they have one for indoor um commercial and industrial electrical stuff and then another for outdoor things like linemen and major power plants things like that. They also then showed us some of the equipment they have there like a simulation for operating the trucks they allowed us to go up inside the bucket truck and learn about some of the equipment they use. Um and they also had us driving metal spikes called lags into a telephone pole which is something that you would have to do regularly as a lineman. So overall it was just a very valuable experience I

050feel. Thank you. And then the next slide uh features our college uh fair visit so I think Nicole you were going to just talk a little bit about your experience at the college fair or was that Cooper? Cooper. Cooper. Sorry. Uh yeah so I went to the college fair with a bunch of my friends so I got to walk around with them but also the more important part I got to learn more about schools I was interested in. Uh like I got to talk to Roger Williams which is a school I'm really interested in and learn about all the programs they have to offer for me like I'm interested in going to sports management. And it's really important for me to know what these schools have to offer for me and what school sizes are,

051what class sizes are. Uh it's It's a fun thing to do with my friends and learn some cool things about school. Thank you. All right. So, day four was mock interview day and this was something we had done previously, but we had not done it in a while and this was kind of initiated back through Ms. Kaminsky and myself who sit on the career pathways advisory board. So, it was supported with a lot of the community members and business partners that we have through the pathways advisory board. Students were able to work on their resumes. So, we did this with students in both grades 10 and 11 with the help of our our oh, English teachers. So, it was Ms. Pacheco obviously for 11th grade and Ms. Krazo for 10th grade. So, myself and Mrs.

052Walkley pushed into English classes and we did some resume writing with students through our school links program which we use for our developmental school counseling program and we also were able to do some prep for interviewing skills like do's and don'ts of interviewing, those types of things. We encouraged the students to dress for their interview and then we had as you can see here are some pictures from the day. We had a variety of different business partners and community members come in. So, we had people from CT State, we had people from engineering firms and the students went through their English classes and then we kind of pulled them down in small groups. They came down with their resume, they met with somebody they didn't know and they you know, did that uncomfortable handshake that

053they were all so nervous about. But it was real world experience for them. I mean, some of our students have never been on an interview before, some of them had. So, it was just really good practice for them, something that they're going to have to do. It was a great day. I think most of the students ended up coming out very positive. I don't know if you have anything to add to the kids when they came back to your room. >> my first experience with the mock interviews here because they were just got brought back. And leading up to many students were, you know, not a big deal. It is what it is. And then the day was there and suddenly we had this nervous energy in class. And they're like, well, what what kind

054of job are they going to ask me about? And I was like, probably not a specific job. We went over questions I printed from a source online. Somebody's like, why would they ask about what kind of Starburst flavor I am? And I was like, it's not about the flavor. It's about your rationale. So we went over examples and they're like, kind of makes sense. So they're like, analyzing me. Yes. So they came back from their interviews and a lot of kids were like, oh. All right. It's it's okay. We had prepped handshakes and I got to say a lot of our juniors impressed me with strong handshakes. So they went in and we made sure that their first impression was solid there and they came back feeling like, oh my gosh, I just did a

055really big thing. And like Sharon said, you know, for a lot of kids it was their first, you know, real interview and I think it was just something that we should absolutely keep going every year. It was great. I mean, the kids I think for the most part seemed very positive after coming out of them and it was just also great to hear from the people that we had brought in for the interviewers how impressed they were with our students. So that was great to hear as well. I don't know if any of you guys want to add anything to what we just talked about. I really liked the resource SchoolLinks. It helped cuz every section had a different thing that you could put on your resume and it was a very good guideline especially

056for those who have not written a resume yet. And also I liked how it was the sophomores and juniors because around this time people are starting to apply for jobs and they might want to get a little look on what it might be like before they actually go and do it. And I did like how we got our feedback Um, back like a week later and yeah. Very good. Okay, all right. And then the last day of the week And the last day was like the culminating day. Um, it was our speakers day where we had over 25 different career op- uh, career rooms set up and we had I think over 30 speakers. It was great. We had people from our own school system from we had somebody from the Broward school. We had

057Sam Ryan came in was our speaker. We had some alumni come in and then just some people from our Pathways advisory board and then just through networking. So it was just really great to have so many different opportunities uh, for the students. So these are just some pictures of all the students in their rooms and I just have a couple of Some of the students wrote like little thank yous to the speaker that they were in the room up so I just brought a couple. So one of the students said, "Dear Sophie, I truly enjoyed getting to know you as a person and listening to you speak about nursing. It made me want to become a NICU nurse. I enjoyed listening to you and it inspired me in many ways." And another student said, "Dear

058Kim, I really enjoyed your presentation about real estate. This career is definitely something I feel passionate about and your explanations helped me to get a better understanding of all the technicalities of the job. I appreciate you taking time to come to our school and present to us and I'd love to see you back next year if you are able to explaining all the details to the group helped me get a full perspective on the job and what is needed. Thank you so much. We appreciate you." So that's just some of the feedback from the students and then we also had um, two students that weren't for like college spring break didn't totally align with this week but we did have some students home so we did have um, Melissa Clancy and Cindy Donahue who came

059into um, Tim's English classes and all the senior English classes and just shared some um, information with them about their experiences um, at their two schools that they attend. So. How cool. Were you able to about? Yeah, uh I actually had Brian as my career speaker. Tell us about the business side of what goes on within the school, how much things cost, what how things work. But, I don't kind of applied to my field, which I'll be an athletic director within high schools. And when you're athletic athletic director, you have to figure out money for sports, whether it's equipment, track equipment, baseballs, golf balls cuz I play golf. But, it helped me figure out like how things like that work, how you have to ask, and how much you get to spend. And so, hopefully

060throughout this presentation you saw how all of the things that we're doing at the high school link to these three goals of the strategic plan. I know this is a little longer than we normally go, but this is two member one-stop shopping situation right now. So, um so, we hope that you were able to see how like our new courses and the courses that we currently offer definitely have hit link with goal one, how think about your future week definitely had community involvement and gave students the opportunity to think about their career and post-secondary pathways, and how we were able to have student voice and faculty voice involved in all of our decisions with this. So, other than that, if you have any questions, we'll be sure to answer any. This was so interesting. I

061have a question. Are you guys using any AI? Um because I I hear that a lot of resume a lot of companies are actually preferring that format. Is that something that you guys are getting into or do you have any plans to use it? Um for this particular activity, we used our school links program, so it kind of helps with um what's part of our like student success plan. So, the actual students are able to like log and document everything into the system, and they get updated every year and then it automatically takes all the information and it transposes it into resume format for the students. Okay, cool. So, it's very very helpful. We love it. Nice. Anyone else? No, thank you for this. This is awesome, too. The faculty, the students, it's nice seeing

062how like you said the stuff that we're approving in curriculum committees is getting implemented and playing out and it's nice seeing students benefit, seeing how everything kind of lines up with that objective of expanding the career pathway. So, I I love it. Thank you all for the work that you you guys are doing. Yeah. You all can certainly stay, but you do not have to. So. Yeah, you don't have to use your laptop. So much for coming, guys. Great job. Thank you. Take brownies. Where's the brownies? Well, no. So, here are your I was obviously joking. I'm just looking over my laptop. >> was about to get up and go get a brownie. Anybody want to look at me? They're magic brownies. And you can continue on. I will call you when it's 1:14. You

063want to look at me? I'll get Courtney's stuff from you. I got to switch computers in here. I'll let you know. a cookie. I'll take a cookie. Are you going to collect extra food? Can you just turn your plate on the floor now, dear? I'm good. Thanks. No, I'm good. Yes. Yeah. I think I told her like enough for 12 people and this is definitely enough for 1200 people. Did you have to go containers in the closet? I made sure there was nothing in there. Hey Grant, can you grab me one of those red drinks? Yes. Thank you. You didn't say please though. Do you want this red drink? Or this red drink? No, the the yeah. Thanks. All right. Well, that was very interesting. On to the soup. Thank you. On to the superintendent's

064report. Uh yes, so in your packets if you look on page 12, um you'll find a family resource and program kind of like reviewing recommendations. Um so as it indicates kind of like with the um within uh that information um certainly the information recommendations are designed to strengthen oversight and operations to ensure the program's long-term sustainability. Um we do have Kate Naberly here, the director. I think most of you know who Kate is, but she is the director, outstanding director of the program. We have Mrs. Fox um here as well. So as far as putting together these recommendations, it was done in collaboration with Kate and Laura. Um and just to back it up a little bit. I think I was going back into my notes. It was May 9th of last year in which

065I presented um some of the challenges with the existing structures of FRC. Really the lack of existing board. Um and you know, and part of the result of that is also not having kind of like oversight oversight and checks and balances. Certainly we recognize that FRC has strong staff, certainly with Kate's leadership, but the concern was and the concern I shared back then and nothing that Kate and I and Laura haven't talked about is if you remove the people, we don't have the systems in place with the program to ensure its long-term sustainability. So we need greater systems to support um the program. Um So what you have within those recommendations is essentially integrating the FRC into our our existing systems by utilizing subcommittees, which should help streamline the work, reduce the need for extended

066time commitments while recognizing that capacity is limited, but also ensuring that we have systems in place to support the FRC program. So certainly um I could read all the information, but that wasn't the intent. It was really to get the information to the board ahead of time. Again, piggybacking off of prior conversation and then to utilize the time here for discussion, answer any questions, and then just kind of talk about next steps. Okay, I don't know if you want to add anything. Does anyone on the board have any questions? You brought the information. It was very comprehensive, I have to say. One of the things that I that I do have a question about as far as FRCs. It's just that it's the advisory board, you know, that that kind of the original intent was

067of course parents from the FRC that are on the advisory. And I know that's been a challenge. It's been a challenge all over the place trying to get And so I agree with I agree with Patrick's recommendation as far as some board members and then, you know, again Seth. I mean nothing. But one of the things I would really really love to see is at least one at least one parent of a child who is participating in the family resource program in any way. Do you think that's possible? I would like to say yes. I've asked parents in the past. We've had a good showing in the past. It's just been the last couple years haven't really had anyone step up. I've put out surveys to ask for involvement. And when we talked at the

068time about the advisory board and the commitment, some parents shy away from it. So. Could we try I have to say this. Could we try one more time? Maybe if they Maybe I mean, what are we talking about? Four Four meetings, four meetings a year. Four meetings a year. So, if people really kind of understood what the commitment would be as far as four meetings. Um and if we can help in any way to talk to parents to kind of recruit. I just think it's very important. Uh just my my own personal. Thank you, Margaret. Absolutely makes sense. I would I would be surprised if, you know, you can't find one parent out of the program. But, I think there was less the the structure seems to have fallen apart a little as far as

069the advisory board, right? Because we really didn't have anything to sell because they weren't meeting, there was no organization, so um We were meeting up until maybe about 2 years ago. Oh, really? >> We were having a quarterly meetings. We had uh at the time maybe six people on the board. Um and then we kind of lost interest. Some families their children graduated, and it was just hard to regenerate that that um opinions to come feeling. So. Well, thank you for being here. We certainly I hear great things about the FRC. Thank you. Anybody else have questions? Well, I have information. Um I just have a So, Patrick, the way this is lined out, we would kind of absorb it into what we're already >> already And finance would meet with them on certain financial

070things come with the finance subcommittee meetings twice a year. Same thing with curriculum. So, Daryl would hear that that part of the policy, same thing. Yep. Okay. Yeah, we would um we've already started like we've gotten all of the FRC as part of our normal uh budget cycle. So, like when I met with each of the department heads, Ryan and I, uh FRC was part of that rotation. I'd like to get them in our rotation during the summer when we update and review all in books. Um So um I I Kate and I have have talked a little bit about that, too. Um sometimes we go uh legal um um update, too, uh depending on any changes with legislation, so we include that FRC as part of that. And um just to make sure that

071we're on top of um um any type of like legislative updates, um and that um you know, procedurally like we're in line. Um It's always good practice to have checks and balances. I know the list board um understands and recognizes that uh with the number systems we've put in with our subcommittees. Um the FRC really is lacking it. It like begins with Kate and ends with Kate. Um and you know, due to her work ethic, uh she does really good job with that, but that that really shouldn't be the case, too. That's a lot. There's a lot There's a lot of moving, yeah. So So would Kate be responsible for writing the proposal? So each year you write a proposal to the state, right? >> I do a grant application. So Kate would be writing

072the proposal to the state. >> yeah, but I think it would be important to get feedback as far as like programming and like, you know, like community input and and stuff and like through curriculum council that could be done. Um small group and I think it requires full board. Um yeah, and so um Kate used to you explained to me you used to provide an annual report to your your board. We would have an annual report at one board meeting a year um to the full board, kind of like a school report. Um um which has been my understanding standard practice up until the last Yes. Um so Could you bring three year olds sometimes? And then um it it's what are the implications for budget? So we would be helping and would that be

073written into your proposal as far as how would that work or is that just part of the discussion? Yeah, I think I think if the board's on the board's on board I mean the next steps would be I'd be meeting with Kate and Laura and issue recommendations. We'd write them up to be adopted and a vote by by Laura certainly what we can do is take them put and incorporate some type of parent participation and take a look if as far as where that can be in that. I don't think we would base I Kate and I would talk um at least would demonstrate would be a listing parent participation maybe not guaranteeing it but certainly just say we'd work on the kind of the kind of how we could do that >> strategy we

074could do that. And you're comfortable with all that Kate? Yes. Most of the items outlined in Dr. Gibbons' packet are things that I was doing with the advisory board. It's just unfortunate that it did fall by the wayside um but I have been meeting with Ryan from a budget standpoint. I meet with Laura every other week to go over any sort of operational issues challenges. So I think also like to have input like um like like pricing like even for like like community based on community need versus um like like obviously one of the key aspects is is affordability but as but revenue also drives like um uh the ability to provide services. So you know you can say I'm not saying you do but these are types of questions like do you raise prices

075a little bit to provide you know a greater opportunity for services. I mean um it is self uh self-funded through both what it takes in for revenue um through um uh payment along with uh grants and other revenue sources um like uh care for kids. Um so, I think, you know, that especially having people connected with the community, tied to families, it, you know, it gives a a broader reach um um you know, when you're trying to balance both finances and support. Would you say that's fair, Kate? >> Yes, absolutely. Patrick, I think that any professional development, I don't know if this has happened in the past um Kate and and and Patrick, but any professional development, I mean, there's some that's obviously going to be very very directed toward, you know, to early education,

076but some of the stuff, right, um if the school staff, right, is having some professional development, someone coming in and speaking, that might be an opportunity for FRC staff to also take advantage of that special, you know, uh PD. But some of that is already implemented, yeah. I mean, certainly it um we didn't write in the recommendations we can include it. Um it's a really um and, you know, um and fine-tune that. Um I know they do all the mandated trainings at our site. I do believe um well, Kate, you can speak to as far as what that looks like or if there's an opportunity to do more. I mean, honestly, we haven't talked in great depth offline with you guys. Okay, yep. So, um all the FRC staff do complete the required vector training

077yep yep all those every year. Um and then usually throughout the year I try to bring in a speaker or two depending on what we're seeing in in the program or what I'm seeing with the staff. So, we've had last year we had a motivational speaker come in to try to talk about burnout with the staff. Um in previous years we've had someone come in to talk about challenging behaviors with kids, you know, once you get midway through the year. So, So, those are areas where there could be crossover and terms of you know burnout is something overall but managing behavior a lot of SEO work that that we would be doing would be crossover work. It would be great. I mean it's great as far as you know I know you're doing this you

078know that that whole idea of of entering kindergarten and what happens and you're doing all that kind of transition work already. But I am also fortunate that majority of my staff are road broken employees. So they do partake in the professional development that happens on early release days and they cross over and bring back things to me as well. So I'm fortunate in that respect. Sounds like a good partnership. Sorry. Yeah, I was wondering you have your your bylaws here and these are the prices that are currently being charged and they haven't changed since 2013. No, they have changed. That's That was that was a review that was this was just served as a a reference those were recommendations made back in whatever date that report is that's from 2013. Yeah, but that's a lot

079the reason I share that is because a lot of those recommendations are still true today. Has the upper sea been able to sustain like the volume of children and families involved in the program? I'd say we've seen a steady consistent in the yes. Right now we are the only game in town if you will for before and after school care. >> Which is a nice advantage. For sure. I worked with Stephanie from work and play when she closed last fall and absorbed a lot of those kiddos that needed care so. >> Work and play is closed. My kids went there. Um Yeah, with that too. I mean I think some of the conversations I Kate will often have wait list too for after school and so some of the challenges are that the staffing and

080so I think by having some of these systems in place maybe there's an opportunity to create and expand and if not at least we're having a discussion with like a a greater number of um uh support systems. Any other questions? I don't we do a vote there's no action to take tonight but you want Yeah, I think it'd be important for the board to take a a vote on it and and we'll I'll put it in like I'll re-message pretty much the same information but for for a vote. Do you want us to vote on it tonight or do you want us to review it and then vote on it? I don't have a problem voting on it tonight but I don't know if everybody has a chance to read the whole thing. Um but

081what what are we voting on? Exactly. I think really to adopt the recommendation so so talking about like the systems in place as far as like the use of subcommittees um Okay. Something along the lines of we did vote to You want to adopt the recommendation? >> Adopt the recommendation that we become an oversight the oversight board for the Family Resource Center. And you're willing to entertain a motion? Is that it? I think we're all willing to I think we're ready. Yes, I know. I was thinking of voting tonight. That we would become the >> You're okay with voting tonight? Good. We would become the oversight board for the existing East Windsor Family Resource Center. That's what we're replacing. I don't like oversight board something for some reason. I'm sorry. I think the advisory board

082All right, but I think that we're working in collaboration with oversight with oversight from the board of education. We're not taking it over. No, but she all of the the things that her advisory board was doing, we're going to be doing. The sub committee >> committee They're going to be SK's you know, a finance right now sub sub committee The finance sub committee, we see the financials every month for SK's stuff um we have never talked about like her budget and what's what's what's um So, we would take on more of a role of talking with King quarterly or I don't whatever it's set up for to talk about okay, should you up the rate? Should you this? Should you what should we How do we figure out? And then the same thing in curriculum.

083We would go to curriculum sub committee to talk about connecting the Which I I know from my Evelyn being a part of SK's team for the past how many years is There is a connection between the FRC pre-school programs pre-school programs so that there was not this It is connected, but it'll be more of a over not an oversight but a partnership. I I think that's what I think that's it's just the word that's given me a little algebra. The um So, instead of her having that former board we become that board, right? I I don't know how you want to word it. >> Not really because we still wanted have um It's in partnership. It's in partnership, yeah. Well, the advisory board that would be made up of the of uh FRC staff, right?

084Uh these ones are staff. Hopefully a couple parents, right? And Board of Ed would be working together to then bring recommendations to this board. Is that how it's going to work? I think that's a different vision. That's the vision. At the end of the day, now end of the day, it will come to the board, right? But Just an annual report. Yeah, I mean, you view it as a She's making the decisions then. Well, at the end of the day, FRC is still like a a separate entity. It's a advisory board, so you're advising. Now, Kate is a very collab very part Yeah, right. I mean, my my guess is like in collaboration, like like the recommendations are going to be adopted. I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, she could say

085no, but she could say no to her advisory board now. Yeah, it would just continue functioning the way it functions. >> Yes. But Kate would have off as I have an opportunity. as as a group to partner with her to talk about um whatever. Um I think that's the theory because she doesn't have those other people anymore. Um and like Patrick said, if God forbid Kate were to decide next week she was moving to China, then um we got we have no no group of people who have the understanding of how to pick up and keep going, which we wouldn't have that knowledge. She can't go for at least 4 years. I think that's the whole the whole reasoning behind it. So, I don't know what we call it. Um now it means that governing

086advisory board. >> call the you know, family resource center program review board or or you know, we act as a a as an advisory board for the FRC. And we don't have to get into any more you know, we we adopt these recommendations and act as a advisory board for the FRC. Yes. That works. All right, well then I make a motion. I make a motion that we adopt Dr. Tudryn's recommendations and that the Board of Education acts as an advisory board for the FRC. I think that that works. Is there a second to that? I'll second that. Seconded by Courtney. Any more discussion? All those in favor. I'm in favor. Opposed? Okay. Thank you. Save an agenda item six. I appreciate that. I think we just checked off one of your goals for this

087tonight. That's a big one, Pat. That's right. Um thanks for all the information that you gave us. >> Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Courtney. And thank you, Kate, for being here and Laura. Thank you. Um Okay, we are on to I I asked that we put the 27 um fiscal year 27 budget just in case there was something that we needed to discuss. I think pretty much everybody's aware that our budget was not cut further by the Board of Finance. Um Miss Computer Brain over here um recalculated the number that the Board of Finance had propo- uh approved and found that it still contained out of $100,000 that the motion did not carry. So, they are meeting tomorrow night. Wait, can I say that again? So, so the Board of There was a member of the

088Board of Finance who suggested that they cut us $100,000. Right. Um and the motion did not get a second. Right. And that's but the number was kept in the budget and they already changed the spreadsheet. Yeah, they changed the spreadsheet just by $100,000. >> They never changed the her own set of Well, I don't know. You need a better hobby, but that's a whole I the next day was going through Yeah. >> because of my obscene nature, my upset of craziness. I was trying to figure out now that they passed this what is the actual taxpayer increase relative to this town side versus the education side cuz it's important to know that how much is going. And as I was doing that, I was like Uh we're off $100,000 um so I went and looked

089to the town. It was actually the minutes. So, when No, so they made the motion to approve us at the amount that we had submitted. Yeah. But because that spreadsheet got changed when they made their bottom line vote on the total budget it it was short $100,000. So, tomorrow night they're meeting to redo that vote to add the $100,000 back. But they're That's not specifically what the agenda says. So, it might not be a bad idea to to attend because it says discussion of the budget. So, I don't know if they might end up reconsidering that 100,000. I just I don't know. That's what happened to cause the issue. It was a describing error. Somebody went in and did it and then forgot to go back and undo it. Undo it. Yeah. I mean, that's

090a big one, huh? It's only one number, but a big one. So, um other than that, um there really is no other discussion for budget at this point until um the budget >> night. I'm sorry. Tomorrow night is during executive at 6:00 o'clock, I believe. Is that at 6:00? 6:00. I thought that's what they posted. Yeah, at 6:00 o'clock. Okay, thank you. Um but um then it's May 12th is voting on the budget. So, until then, we don't really need to speculate any further. I will say in the meantime, um Brian is um is working with um um uh payroll as far as just updating salary projections for next year. Um we are still um Brian, we're still awaiting um revised medical projections from One Digital or at least clarification >> clarification >> that they

091provided uh cuz they gave us a lower percent, but the dollar wasn't even minimal. Like, so um we're waiting for clarification why um we thought it would be a uh a um more of a reduction and then we are reviewing and updating all um anticipated specialized costs for next year. Um so, in the meantime, certainly we'll get as much information as possible regarding the things that at this point could impact the budget um the most. Any other questions or thoughts on the budget? I know budget with that. Except for Nureen. Okay, so um we added van discussion to the budget I mean to the um to this um old business discussion. And I don't remember now what the discussion was. Oh. Oh, we were going to have a motion. Yeah. We I'm trying to figure

092out when we last met as board was before or after the Board of Finance meeting. I think it was before. It was before. So we had we had already made the decision as board viable about the purchase of the two vans. And then at last Board of Finance regular Board of Finance meeting in February we went and they had put on the agenda for us to go have a conversation with them about the vans. Um So we went and talked with the Board of Finance um and was Ryan, Denise, and I and um expressed to them this idea of us buying these two vans for $225,000, which would be able to cut $100,000 a year out of our budget for transportation costs from the whole thing. Um they were receptive to it. They thought it

093was a good idea. We talked to them about the um the issue of financing them over 5 years or not financing them over 5 years and just getting them outright. Um and they asked that we come back to them. We were going to gather in get um updated price on the vans and come back to them. They meet next week. Um So They had said at that the last time we met um that they would put it on the agenda for their next meeting. So So I think that we talked about this in the finance subcommittee. Right. >> Is that all We think it's I think personally I think it's best that we send something to them just asking them for an added appropriation for the price of the vans, which is about $230,000. For

094us to present it to them as we need 200, you know, we need that in appropriation $230,000 in order to get these vans. Um reiterate with them the reasoning for it and and they were all for that. They understood the transition program and the need to have that be consistent. Um and then it's up to them to decide where to get the money from or come up with suggestions, but I think at this point we just have to send it to them as this is our request. And have them decide how they want to proceed. Um So a motion would be in order to A motion would be in order to make a request to the Board of Finance for an added appropriation of $230,000 for the purchase of the new vans. So then Ryan

095and Patrick can get everything together, get it to them so that it's on their agenda next week. And we proceed from there. So would anyone like to make that motion? I feel like you worded it so perfect. >> Yeah, right. I know I was trying to write it down. You have I did. Yeah. Courtney moved. So somebody needs to make >> I'll second. Courtney moved. Oh, Courtney, okay. And second? I'll second. Seconded by Betsy. Let's try this. Did someone second the motion? Oh, you did already. >> I did. She did. Well, that's not her fault. It is now. I'm well now. I love you. You can say All right. I think I heard The fourth one was Tyra. Oh, okay. This the second was Fran, not Betsy. No, that's it. Betsy was the third. Okay.

096All those in favor. I have an amendment. Opposed. Okay. We are on to the subcommittee assignments and I have to publicly thank Jessica for taking that what I felt was a horrible Jurassic subcommittees and redid it with and this has been something I wanted since I started on the board 200 years ago feels like, uh, but that's not real. Um, but um, she did exactly what I had wanted to do. So, this is so much better. It, um, it brings it out so that the standing committees are the first page. Um, those are the ones that meet really, you know, quite often. Um, and this is all up for whoever wants to to, um, take on a particular one. Those of us that have been on, we know what the committees pretty much do. Um,

097but AC and Corrine, you probably it's all probably Greek to you because it certainly was to me when I first started. Um, so I can have, um, somebody from each committee just give a brief here's what I do, here's what we do on this committee, and then, um, we can just say who wants to be on. And really with a board of our size, we need to have three members and one alternate. Is that what the goal is? Um, we've had we have four on finance, I know. Um We only Well, that's because That's because they stopped when she left the board. Yeah. Heather used to be on Yeah. and Keith. I think it was set up finally that we have four people. >> Pretty much on every board. On every But if we only

098have three, that's okay. Yeah. You know, I mean, um I would rather see three people that have the time to commit to the board and be at the meetings and participate than have four and have one that's maybe holding people up because they can't make it and it gets confusing. So, um I'll start with board of policy review committee. Um who is And that for the new ladies, um that's what they call BPR around here. So, um who is the BPR chair? Do we have that? Yeah, we did one. We did that, didn't we? Oh, it was Heather. Yeah, but we uh we had one meeting. Uh she was part of that meeting. I don't um We don't currently have a chair. That's what I thought. So, who do um we have? Well, it's basically

099we go through the policies of the board and if anything needs to get updated or renewed, we take a look at Patrick comes up with these things. Um the the state mandates and things that need to be looked at and uh we just went through an intensive policy update where we updated the entire uh book of policies. So, we streamlined everything and we have it all with Shipman and Goodwin. Uh yes. And so, we are legal Well, we were up until but it. know if we got do get other stuff that's got to be looked at, but um we have everything is updated and current. Um but it's a good way to figure out what happens and how things happen. Why things happen. Interesting one. I'd be willing to back off of that. Now that

100you've got all the big work done. I mean one policy that will um take some time um will be AI and all that came up um today. Um we do need to adopt a policy that um obviously provides some flexibility, appropriate use, but also obviously maintains the integrity with academic work as well, too. So So that's coming down um uh the line. There's legislative updates um every year. So after they pass this um or we get through this legislative uh session. I know it is a short session. There will be something that impacts schools. Usually those come out in the fall and they get implemented usually a year later. Um So um but AI is the one that comes to mind. So um currently it's Betsy, Brian, Debbie, and Courtney. Um is anybody Do those

101that are presently on not want to continue? I know Fran said she'd come off. Um would either of somebody else want to be on it? Um I'm listed as an alternate, so I typically don't go to the meetings. Um and I'm not trying to add any more to my busy world right now. Um so I would stay an alternate. I'll see. Uh I'm I'm I would I would like to be on the I would continue to stay on policy. Debbie? I'll stick around. Okay. Just offering it if someone else wanted to you know if one either of you two wanted to check it out and Yeah, I found it really helpful when I was a first-time board member to be on BCTAR when I first started just because really allowed me to like dive deep

102and look into everything. I found it helpful. So, I learned a lot. And each quarterly, right? Or as needed? As needed. There's like 18 of these. Is Can we like think about this and talk about it in the next meeting or get back to with the email because I've looking at this for the first time and I don't really know any of these are. I'm sorry. So, I'd like to look at this. Sure. >> Thanks. >> I don't see any reason I mean, unless you need to sort it out today, then I'm going to say pass. Yeah. Should we choose Should we try Well, what each of them do? Would that be helpful? Yeah, that would be helpful. If you want to get off of one, then we can So, I feel like I don't

103want to get off of it, I'm just offering All these I've been on it for nine years. Okay. Can we go on to the finance committee then? Yeah, and these four are the major >> Oh, those are the most important ones. Yeah, okay. Okay. I see all these vacancies here and it's like >> Well, What you see as the >> join everything. I want to be able to go through what So, let's let's These these front ones are the main ones. >> Okay. You'll see the halfway down the second page. >> Yeah. There's a there's a line um From there on, they're all like as needed. Yeah. Um, because they're negotiations and if the contract isn't up You could be on it for for two years, and it's not it's not doing anything because the

104contract's not up. They would have done it. So, those are not Don't be Don't be afraid of my critics. Okay. They aren't. They are They are. And the liaisons that are at the top of that page, that second page, are um just representatives that go from the Board of Ed to a meeting of like the Board of Selectmen to just hear what they're talking about if they're if they're talking about education at all. You don't have to say anything. You don't even have to really go to the meetings. You can watch them online. You can read minutes as long as you're aware of what's happening. Um so, that um uh if something urgent happens at a meeting and and there's none of us aware. So, those are But, really, it is pretty much the first

105>> Just the first page. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. I was looking at all of these, and I'm like, "This is I see no side." Yeah, no worries. No worries. Oh, and we don't expect you to. Thank you. That's why we have nine members. Um so, I'll have um Noreen, who's the chair of the Finance Committee, sort of describe that. We meet once a month, always the first the Wednesday that our meeting, the first whatever the second The second Wednesday of the month. We meet for an hour before our board meeting. We meet with Ryan Patrick, and we go through all of the financials. Ryan brings us an updated list of all the financials that was the last month, how much where we started, how much we spent, what we got encumbered, um for both

106our our budget, the town side budget, our grants from the federal government, our grants from the state, our cafeteria, the FRC, and we talk about anything financial. You know, like the idea of the vans came out of finance committee. Ryan and Patrick will come up with things that are like, well, this might cost us some money. And so that we talk about it and then it comes to the board. Um, we meet always. We don't cancel meetings. We If we kind of skip a meeting, it can cause a wrench into things. So, it is 6:00 the second Wednesday of the month. Um, and basically we work closely with Ryan and Patrick and then um bring it all to What we talked about tonight in our meeting gets presented to the whole board at our next

107meeting. Okay, so school facilities um uh strategy committee. I'm the chair of that. Um, we meet as kind of as needed. Um, when it's time for us to do um requests for capital projects, our buildings, our grounds, that kind of stuff. This committee sort of sets out what's important, what we need more information before again it comes to the full board. Um, I think I I walked in with Colleen and I told her no subcommittee makes like motions and decisions. They make They sort of come together and agree to whatever, but it is then brought to the full board for vote. Um, so um it's an interesting committee. Um, capital improvement at the end of the at the end of the year, once the budget is passed, um capital improvements will then be um chosen

108by by the capital improvement committee. And um I'm on that as well as the facilities committee. Um, we've had to have discussions about patching roofs, about chimneys falling down. We meet with Kyle, who is the facilities manager, and it's an interesting committee as well. So, um and curriculum Courtney Um curriculum council we talk about all sorts of things including like upcoming or new courses that we might be offering, possible courses that might be really like mandated that we're going to have to start doing. We look at sites like Head Start and go into that and see how it can be helpful. Um our programs, our testing I'm missing everything, but we go through a lot. Tonight's Tonight's presentation was a perfect example of courses that were approved last year by by curriculum Well, brought to

109the board for approval by the curriculum committee. Daryl's been really helpful in bringing things to curriculum committee and making, you know, recommendations or if we ask for him to kind of look at different things or do a little research, he'll come back with some research for us. So, it's a it's a pretty interesting committee. Like when the bells got going, we're getting ready to like change the way our schedule's looking and there's different changes like that that are within the school day. I feel like those kind of come to curriculum council as well. So those are the ones that are the most important that we both urge new people to be on and maybe some of the more senior people can step off. Um I would um because I'm I'm also chair of the ad

110hoc committee um which don't, that was that was appointed by the Board of Selectmen. Um, I think it's important for for me to maintain that link while we do the um, school projects. Um, so I'll I'll continue on the school facilities um, committee. And I'll take on the liaison work for the capital improvement because I'm appointed to that as well. So, um, so I can be there as a capital improvement person and also represent the board at the same time. And then there's Which one on the second page? Oh, sorry. Just wasn't Oh, no, I was going to say, do we also still have a vacancy for the ad hoc committee as well? Cuz I think it was Heather that was on there. We had four numbers. Is that what Heather was on there? But

111she's for the Board of Ed. We had four members of the Board of Ed that were on the ad hoc committee. So, do we still have to fill that? I know we were waiting until we had full Board of Ed. Yeah, you're right. Cuz she's a community member now. Right. Yeah, so we do. Um, Who points uh, the Board of Selectmen appoint that. So, we would have to make a recommendation to the Board of Selectmen for a second Board of Ed member. If that's what we're suppo- Is it I don't recall if capital improvement is required requires the two Board of Ed. I don't think it does. Wait, I'm talking about capital ad You're talking about ad hoc. You're talking about ad Oh, ad hoc. No, we Heather filled it. No, but no, we have

112a Board of Ed member. We were short of Board of Ed members. We were short of Board of Ed members. Cuz Heather left and took the the Board of Ed uh, the >> Board of Ed's seat. Seat at the at large. At least so, yeah. I guess we do. Okay. I'll check on that. Um, Page two, there's an athletic council. That's actually a committee called it that we meet quarterly. We meet but the timing of the meeting can get changed. We kind of flip around occasionally. We've been meeting on Friday mornings at 9:00 o'clock at the main school because the athletic director works in the building. Um, we talked about everything athletic. Um, anything to do with athletic athletics. We meet um um at the beginning of every season, we talk about what happened in

113the prior season. We talk about how are teams doing and how is our participation? What can we look at for later? So, um right now we meet on a Friday morning, but some of that can also get looked at. If like Friday morning just don't work for somebody who really wants to be on it, we can look at switching the timing on it. So, Is there another room we can do by Zoom? That one, no, you can't do that one by Zoom cuz we Right? Do we have those? Um uh Could we if we use Zoom? The room across the NPT It has to be here. Well, I mean for the um That's what I was saying. That's what I was saying. Was that um the room N4 He's in 405. No, but which room

114can you like virtual um you virtual like Um N405 is supposed to but Can we do it in five? >> No. So, can we do it in four? I don't know if it I don't It's possible. At N40, we can, right? Cuz that that's our old board events. Um not um yeah, it doesn't have the tech not like um Oh, is it like Yeah, it was used just for like kind of like old schools presentations, but not necessarily the remote. Um we can look into it. We might be able to use We can use the owl, but we Yes, yeah. We can especially for a small group because set that up. We have four people. So we can amend, you know, we can we can work with it. Yeah, but athletics, that's what it is.

115It's athletics. So then the the next ones are liaisons to Board of Finance, Board of Selectmen, um Capital Improvement, um the Capital Region Education Council, um Wellness Committee, do we I mean, who's that Uh so we added that. Um Um that came out of the food service audit. Um I was going to say we don't need any more. We don't need to add more. Uh so um so the food service audit has indicated that this committee does need to meet um a few times a year. Um I know that's later on the agenda and actually um those policies are ready to bring forward. We were hoping they would be ready. Um we're still looking to get some feedback on on some of those, but um Submissions, what a pain. Yeah, yeah. The most in-depth audit

116Go ahead. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. So then we have um Pension Board and the new FRC partnership. So the the the following categories after that are all those negotiations that they come in so contracts come up and then we can sort out who can do what contract as they come up. So um I think I'd like to stay on and just to make it easy, um I'd like to stay on on the crack um council. Be a liaison to the to crack in your council. All right. So that's it. I have to go. Um We want to table this to the next meeting. Can I Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. So, the motion would be in order to table table the subcommittee assignments to the next Board of Ed regular meeting. I will make a motion

117to table the subcommittee assignments to the next Board of Ed meeting. Second. I'll second that. Second and ready to vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? So, we're on to um a bunch of policy things here. And So, um we can skip one through four. They're not ready. Oh. I will make a motion to table items one through four under new business. Thank you. So, the motion um motion's made. Second? Second. I think I'd like that team. Um all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Yeah, two, five, six are still Yeah. Yeah. I will say I fully anticipate those will be on um for the next Board meeting. We're waiting to uh from the state to get feedback as far as the revisions. So, we just want to make sure what we're bringing meets

118what they're looking for. Did we um did we have first reading of the um Um >> of conducting >> We did. So, um uh we had the request to add um uh more of a a background as far as like um so, that has been added. Um so, if that part looks good um based on feedback, it should be good to go as far as a vote. I have one question. Just one question, of course, Patrick. So, I'm just looking at the um it's underneath authorization to conduct. And um gets to that point. So, thank you for adding the description. I appreciate that. Go right on. And it talks about any certified or non-certified school personnel may conduct a home visit provided that. But then it goes on number three. It's at >> What page

119of Oh, I'm sorry. 51, Patrick. 51. Let me put that in the chat. Yeah, I All right. I I see it where it says one through four. Yes. Yes. So, then it goes on to say at least two trained school staff. And I too that wouldn't It One of them would need to be certified, correct? And one of them could be non-certified a para. Correct. Could we just indicate that in here? Cuz it just says at least two trained staff. it doesn't indicate. So, it could be two If I'm reading this correctly, it could be two paras that are not certified. So, above it says I mean >> Any certified may conduct, but then it says at least two trained. So, it's not specific about one needs to be certified, one cannot one does not

120be certified. At least two have to conduct, but one must be a certified person. Is that like by law? Like that's the only Well, that's what the training that's what the model is. I do know that. Is the Yeah, I mean I can add them back. >> Okay. Just it's just a little more specific. I'll just bring it back or Do we should do it as amended? Yeah, yeah. We just write the about our I'll just have to figure out >> Cuz everything else is good. I'm sorry, Patrick. I just that one really. Okay, do you Do you want to make a motion to change that so he's got official Do we change it to say It currently says at least two trained staff, school staff >> Everyone's going to be trained whether they're certified

121or not certified. >> Right. But we said somebody who's certified, right? And sometimes it's more than two, it's a minimum of two. And one of them must one must be certified. >> be certified? >> Yeah, it could be certified, could be a teacher or administrator. That's where we change it to These two trained staff >> At least two trained Um one being certified. One One of Yes, one staff being certified. One of the two certified? At minimum two trained school staff members, one of which must be certified. I feel I'm good. It's good. At least thing is follow that up. Okay, so with that that change emotion would be in order to So, I I will make a motion that we um amend number three under authorization to conduct home visits to include at least

122two trained school staff members are present at all times, one of which must be certified. But with that with that it um correction or addition and we're also making a motion to approve the minute Yeah, no, the whole policy. Well, I can just second what she has and somebody else can second and we'll do that. I'll second. Thanks. Seconded by Fran. Um, all those in favor of the change. I. I. Okay, now motion would be in order to um, approve this policy. I'll make a motion to approve series 5700 staff conducting home visits. As amended. As amended. Second. Seconded by Courtney. Any further discussion? All those in favor. I. Opposed. Yeah, the motion carries. Now we are on to the calendar. Um. Hopefully there won't be any more snow, so we can finalize the closing

123date of our schools. So it's now on Tuesday. Does anybody have any questions on the calendar? What are the red circles? Are those the snow days? Yes. And then the 17th is now the original last day of school. Yes, so basically you have to vote on uh, the what changed is the new last the last day of school. High school graduation date, that's the same. All other dates are the same. Uh, the only change is um, uh, voting on the last day of school being the 17th. The last day of school. What was it previously? Um, I believe it was the 11th. 11th. Oh, I see. Okay. It was 19th. Yes, please. I'll make a motion to approve the 2025-26 school year calendar to change the last day of school to June 17th due to

124snow days. I second. Second. Seconded by Courtney. All those in favor? I. Opposed? You're opposed? Yeah, I want to stick with the 11. Okay, yeah. It's still Can we? Okay, so um we're on to the certification for the FRS the exemption verification. I assume it's still dated Connecticut letterhead. March 18th. Sorry. I don't think Do you want to do March 18th? Is that letter Yes. Okay. You want to speak to that? Um actually yeah, okay here. So you So I mean it was last signed with Dr. Zabars. Um and it's outdated. I think it was part of your review process. Um so I'll let you speak to you because you know the history behind it and such. So the FRC program receives federal dollars for the care for kids program which is over under the

125umbrella of the office of early childhood. So the FRC receives an annual inspection from one of their licensing inspectors. We are classified as license exempt because we're housed in an elementary school, so we have a different set of standards. Um as Dr. Tubridy said, the last one that is on file has Dr. Zabars's name on it. So when the inspector came beginning of March, um she requested that we have an updated form with the current superintendent's signature on it. And this form basically just outlines that the Board of Ed is responsible for the oversight of staff and the programming of FRC. So I'll make a motion to approve the FRC exemption verification. And authorize the superintendent to authorize the superintendent to sign. Thank you. I second it, Blake. Casey. Any discussion? All those in favor?

126Aye. Hi. Opposed? Aye. Please on subcommittee reports. Does anybody have anything on toss about for the finance or the slightly meeting? Uh I have something really quick. I went to Craig Council meeting and they did a really good presentation on the choice program and all the different components of the choice for choice program. And I wondered if if board members would be interested in having somebody come from choice program, whether it's you know, the two people um someone from the choice program from Craig. So Craig is the administrator for choice choice program in this area. I should have said that. Um and they offer a variety of services to school districts who are participating in the choice program. We're receiving quite a bit of money from choice and I wondered um our board would be

127interested in having somebody come and speak. We can tell them for how long, but we would be we could ask questions and get even more information. Um and I just I just wanted to to if we are interested in that, I talked to Katherine or Allison Denise to see what you know, one of meeting might be useful for people. I think it'd be interesting. Talk about the lottery and then I know that Daryl and I had a conversation about just some of the communication back and forth around attendance and that would be a time when we really could kind of get into like some real ask some of the questions and get some to get some concrete answers. I would be interested. Yeah. Patrick, we can talk and you can let me know maybe what

128I know we're pretty packed right now. What would be a good month and I can let Sarah maybe summer and Curtis know if you know if they would be willing to become and I think as Denise and DK I think maybe summer sometime in summer when things are similar for everyone be best. Yeah. Let me know and I'll contact Curtis. Anybody else got it? Liaisons, subcommittees, anything. We did have the curriculum council we did like a deep dive into the at state which I really as long as I've been on the board of Ed I've never really taken the time to to look at it and something that I found interesting or what I thought was good about it was how you can really look at the trends within all of the schools now to

129be able to see you know how we were doing pre-COVID you know to the following year to you know taking like five years and actually being able to see where our growth is has gone was really cool to see and then just like the breakdown of all the different areas that you can look into within any district and you can break down all of the schools see absences or you know financials everything basically is on there. And I always appreciate and it's a good tool, not to be used necessarily as straight fact, but the transfer and interesting. Anyone else? Um Is there a public want to participate again? Well, I I'm sorry. I have one. I'm sorry. I have one liaison. I have PTO at bingo. We had the annual PTO bingo was a fabulous

130time and our superintendent did an exceptional job of calling the numbers. I can't keep up with Mr. Ryan. Is it Mr. Ryan or you, Laura, that was calling out that That was calling out the Broadbrook School admin team. Myself and my daughter struggled to keep up. Serious bingo players. You'd have to find Thank you. And you had some I had one that came up with the finance subcommittee and Daryl being extremely efficient reported the question was asked how many students were mechanically vented at one point this year. It's 12. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Daryl. That was quick. Yeah. Yeah, that was quick. Do you have any special Yes. One for booster club is that their spring purse bingo is on the 19th. So, upcoming 19th of April. That's an That's something. What time

131does that happen? Uh Let me ask you this question. It's afternoon, yeah. Yeah, something like I think 1:00. It's at the American Legion in in Manchester. Tangway Yeah, up on Let me I want this purse there. Which one? Is that new noon the bag preview 1:00 p.m. Public started. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we have quick responses tonight. Hey. Um Mr. Public. Paul Anderson, 89 Main Street, Bound Brook. So, uh for a few years I've been participating in the Veterans Day event. I've been going to the high school. Uh and I thought you might be interested in hearing an observation from someone who goes there. I don't know I'm sure you've heard about it. But uh myself and a number of other veterans go in uniform. And uh I'm not trying to make my what

132I do better than anybody else, but I like to put together a history of my time in the service with pictures to back up which I leave with the class. So, we get to go to a classroom with the variety of students. Uh the first time I did that, I just couldn't believe the quality of the questions that came from the students. I know they work on it in advance, but it was spectacular. The opportunity to sit one or two of us with a class is probably one of the best things that happens for us and for them. The presentation in the auditorium is wonderful, but the classroom time is what I consider the most valuable. Uh we give them kind of a an idea of what military is like, although it's probably a little

133different today than when I was in there. Because Old iron sides they don't use anymore. So, But seriously uh it They are really interested. And so I think it's good that you guys know that this is an event that needs to continue. It is wonderful. Excellent. Thank you. Any other um public I think you're the only one. And you have hung out till the end. Um It was worth it. We're entertaining, aren't we? I'm not going to say it that way. Let's just say you're interested. Fantastic. I agree. Learned a lot, I bet. Um we're on to miscellaneous. Anybody have anything miscellaneous? I do. Um Nice. Say you, Jess. What? What is this? Uh those are pictures from the Veterans Day. Yes, you, Patrick. How responsive are we? >> I know. Really good. Very cool.

134Done. Good luck. Yeah, we had the photographer come that day. Well worth it. Yeah, it's one of my favorite days of the entire school year. Very cool. Nice. I tell you, Paul. Frank, once again you got cut off. Weren't you going to say something? >> I was. It actually has to do with my correspondence. I think well, it reminded me that um if we could take a look at some of the forms for um like the final forms. I think Steve Bird Red is still on in some of that stuff as the um sports director. That was the virtual yeah, I tracked that week. Yeah, thank you. And correspondence >> We have them. I think you want to speak to the budget freeze. Um There's a letter Yeah, we um so so um it was

135I believe it was shared at the last regular board meeting. This is just the the email that went out. Um So I I believe verbally I shared the information um and then this is just the correspondence. And graduation results. And that's um that information's been shared too. Um again, it's just the correspondence. Amen. And a thank you to uh Betsy for very generous donation of a lot of books. Helped me. And all the books are on the website. So we've got a bunch of correspondence. I'm going to go through this whole list, Jerry. You all see it in the packet. Yeah, I The only thing I'll mention is number seven, the educator rising. Um the the middle school is actually coming uh to present with our kids on the program at a future meeting. Uh

136the high school presented last year. Okay. >> And the program has now expanded to the middle school. Uh so Mr. Brun, Mrs. Sharp, and uh the students will be coming at a future meeting. Thank Prokopec, just to make sure three. I'm correct. Is this broken? Okay. I have a motion to adjourn this meeting. I'll make the motion to adjourn. I'll second. Made by Noreen, seconded by Fran. Please say your name. All in favor. I'm closing in favor. Aye. Thank you.