CorpusRecord 110311

Farmington BOE Special Meeting - 03/03/25

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Source
YouTube / Nutmeg TV
Date
2025-03-04
Location
Capitol Planning Region, CT
Material
Transcript
Extent
516 words · about 3 min
Collected
2026-06-17

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001[Music] call to order start with Pledge of Allegiance please pledge of allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation godible and Justice before we get started tonight I would like to uh observe a moment of silence first for a former student of ours who who sadly passed away uh last month uh n naiah uh Walton um was a graduate of the class of 2024 uh she was beloved and accomplished student a very talented individual who made a positive and lasting impact on the FHS community so I'd ask for a moment of silence for her thank you and uh we also learned over the weekend of the passing of former um the long-standing teacher at I uh and former president of the FAA uh Mark

002deazi pass wow wow yeah so I would like to observe a moment of silence in his memory uh may his memory be a blessing to all his friends and family and those who loved him um so just we can do that please thank you all right um before we go on invting we see couple com there's there's no one here so I'll just move on from that uh and then we'll begin uh new business just so we're clear I'm calling I didn't say this at the beginning I apologize we are calling to order the special meeting uh notice for uh today March 3r 2025 of the farmon Board of Education uh new business we are discussing the selection of the search firm for the superintendent um going to actually turn this over to my friend

003Andrea who is the uh chair of the search committee Andrea can you just kind of give us a report of what you've been up to and and where we are yeah so um we um post Ed the RFP request for proposal for the search consultant on February 5th and proposals were due by February 19th uh we received five proposals and after uh reviewing the prop excuse me reviewing the proposals uh we selected three consulting firms to interview the interviews were uh conducted last week um and then we uh I think unanimously one consulting firm came to the top um as the firm that we would like to go with for um this process of searching for the superintendent next superintendent okay um thank you for all were able to attend those meetings I know I

004wasn't able to attend um but I know we had six PE seven people for Monday was it seven seven seven Monday and then six on Thursday so thank you all I was kind of short notice and I appreciate everyone's involvement uh given that uh we're going to be discussing this uh you know the business that's you know that we should probably go to Executive session I think at this point so kind of get a motion to go into executive session motion second all those in favor signify by saying I I opposed motion carries no we're in executive session all right we're out of executive session back into the um into the main meeting if we could I need a motion to appr point well we have to come back in we did I think we

005just did we back in yeah right uh we're back in regular session at 7:13 sorry purp okay all right um I need a motion to appoint cave executive Search Services as the executive Search Services firm to assist the Personnel search committee in the search to appoint the next superintendent of schools and to authorize the chair of the Personnel search committee Andrea sininsky to negotiate and sign a contract for such Services motion second uh any discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I opposed motion carries okay congratulations guys good job all right St one just I just want to say thank you to everybody for participating in the the review and the interviews a really great collaborative effort thank you Andrea for taking the lead in this this is a lot I know

006and I appreciate all your hard work do a great job with this um okay um nothing no other is this before us uh motion to adjourn motion second then we're adjourned at 7:4 [Music]

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