001Well, hello everyone. I know we're a little late. Welcome to our November 3rd meeting. I cannot believe we're in November and I'm sorry that we're late. It's 7:06. Yikes. Um, Mr. Angley, can you please call attendance >> or not? >> Thank you. Joe Abdella here. >> Victoria Salon, Stephanie Kick, Jesse Leeman >> here, >> Angela Machulo, Alex Mcnautton >> present, >> Justin Angley here, Jen Pod >> here, >> Jane Sergeant, Pete Tagley, Mary Weber, Christine Widig, >> thank you. >> Great. So, now we get to introduce our new school resource officer, Mr. Dennis. >> Welcome. You want to introduce? >> Well, it's a pleasure to be able to help the board meet and greet a little bit with Dennis, who I've gotten to know over the past weeks, and he's added a lot to our
002school. He's helping us with safety, helping us with operations. He's going to help us do a tabletop training exercise with his background and experience. He's also getting to know our kids. And I think he's going to do some real community policing, u meaning build relationships with students and do things in classrooms and uh in in some of our other spaces and make those close relationships where that really benefit the climate of the of the school. And I've seen that already start. Um I think we made a good decision helping you join our team. Dennis, we're glad to welcome you to the team and wanted you to have a chance just to say a few words to the board so they can get to know you a little bit. >> Good evening. So, my name is
003Dennis Failen if anybody miss it and I appreciate you guys inviting me here. Um, I just want to say I've been welcomed by everybody, the principal, everybody's been in the whole school system. They've been very helpful since I'm new to the area, new to the SRO position. And I just want to thank everybody that's been so helpful. And if you guys got any questions of me, I'll gladly answer any questions you may have. >> Thank you. >> I have a question. Um when we do the tabletop, will it just be for Shap or will will we have one for each of the schools? >> We could do one for each of the schools. I mean I believe um uh the superintendent may have a different plan but I think superintendent were we going to have
004all the um administrators for the schools? We are going to do them for each school. area. And there was a there was um when I was speaking to Ethan Leella and Joe and Dennis about this initial question was will we do one big tabletop first or will we make scenarios that seem to be more applicable and specific to the different campuses and we came out on the side of making them a little more surgical so that the experience is more meaningful and tailored to what might actually happen on different campuses. So the first one coming up I think on November 18th is going to be aimed at Shepog and the kinds of things that could happen. Now of course there are common threats and >> things that I mean a hurricane doesn't discriminate by grade
005or kind what so forth but um we think we have some really really challenging um scenarios that we can use to learn and grow from and we think we're going to aim them and target them at the particular schools. So the second tabletop will be a more of an elementary exercise. >> Sounds good. That's great. Anybody else have questions? >> Well, I know that you are already very on top of things because I know that you already submitted your right the school safety report to the state ahead of schedule. >> Yes, you try getting that done as didn't want to fall behind in that. >> No, you did. No, that was really great. So, thank you and welcome. We're really happy that you're here. So, welcome to the community and I hope you feel welcomed.
006>> Oh, I definitely do. Good. Thank you very much. >> Well, thank you. >> Great. >> I think you need a microphone, right? >> I don't know when it's appropriate, but we need to add an item to the agenda. Something we passed at the FNO meeting that needs to be approved by the board. What? >> It's the uh money to be used for the Ballards and Gates over at Burnham. >> Okay, >> do that. >> But we can we can add that wherever at the end if you want. >> We should we just amend the agenda now? >> Okay, sure. He may amend the agenda, including new business items. I guess there'll be a vote on it. >> Yeah. So, why don't you do that now? >> I'd like to make a motion to add
007to the agenda under new business a vote on whether to expend $4,500 for uh out of the CNR fund for Ballards and Gates at the Washington at uh Burnham School. Second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I do new business. >> In the same vein, the the second item on the um on new business consider the appointment of members to the agroscience advisory committee. >> Oh, >> all right. So, we're adding that to the new business to the new business for the third. Okay. Thank you. So, are you adding it? No, we're subtracting >> because um the uh Agra Science Committee has tabled um the appointments. >> Okay. >> Till Mar until uh I think February. >> Okay. So then we need Can I have a motion to do we need a motion to
008take that off the agenda or to table it? >> Okay. I'll make a motion to table to to to >> just to clean it up a little bit >> to I make a motion to to uh to table the consideration of appointments of the members uh of to the Agra Science Advisory Committee till February. >> I have a second. All in favor? I >> Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mary. That >> Okay. So, moving on to public comment on agenda items only. Is there anybody that would like to say anything? >> Okay, great. Moving on to the consent agenda. Alex, this is your favorite. >> My little thing. >> Anybody else? anything that wants. Moving on to the athletic program update. Mr. Parach, >> welcome. >> Thank you. Hello everyone. Thanks for allowing me this
009opportunity to report to you about Chapag's fall athletic programs. To date, we've had a successful season with many honors and accomplishments for our teams and individual student athletes, and hopefully there'll be more, both to come before the season ends. During this fall season, we had 126 high school students registered to participate in athletics. And in middle school, we had 68. The middle school fall season wrapped up last week with soccer and field hockey teams having played their final contests and the middle school cross country team competed this past Saturday at the state championship meet at Wickham Park in Manchester. The high school regular season for all sports except for football has ended. League tournaments have concluded and our teams are now involved in CIA state tournaments. The golf team, after graduating three virtually golf stars
010last year, were very competitive and had a successful season. The team had a new look with several members earning varsity roster spots for the first time this year. The team finished with a 7-5 record with the team highlight of the season being a victory against perennial league power Lake View High School. In addition, based upon his performance during the regular season, as well as his score in the Birch League All-Star tournament, senior Wyatt Angley earned Berg League All-Star status, being the lone chap representative this year. So, congratulations to Wyatt and his dad who's sitting up there. >> Yes. >> Um, in addition, Wyatt qualified for the CIA state tournament as an individual and he competed at Kenny Park in Windsor, capping off a very solid senior season. The Shap field hockey team had an excellent
011regular season and they captured the regular season virtual league championship for the third third consecutive year. Three of the girls on the team were recognized as first team virtual league all-stars and they are Lily Bac, Reese Evans, and Nikki Lights. The Spartans beat the Lake View Bobcats two to one in virtual league tournament semi-finals. And in an elite tournament championship game, they lost a heartbreaker that went the distance with the game remaining scoreless after double overtime until it was ultimately decided on penalty strokes. I don't know how many people up there are field hockey afficionados or know how uh field hockey works, but when you get to overtime, instead of playing 11 on 11, they take four players off of each team and it's it's seven versus seven, which is just like opens it up.
012It's exhausting for the girls. Um and they went through the double overtime and it was still tied and then they went to penalty strokes. Um so it was a real exciting game. Disappointing to lose but it was an exciting experience for those girls. Um the team is playing in the upcoming CIA tournament. Uh they have the number four seed. They will host number 13 Watertown tomorrow here at Chipog at 2:00 p.m. And we hope that they can get a win then and continue on in the state tournament. Uh the boys soccer team also won the Birkshire League regular season championship for the third consecutive season. This year they finished as co- champions along with Nanawa. Unfortunately in the league tournament they suffered a semi-final loss at home here to Husatonic which pre prevented them from
013reaching and winning the championship of the tournament for a third consecutive year. Three of our players, seniors Drew Koik, Sunonny Smith, and James Kirsten, were selected as first team Birch League Allstars. Because of their performances during the regular season, thanks to their number two CIA class state tournament seed, they drew a first round buy, so they didn't have to play last week. Uh, and today they won three to one in a second round matchup against Valley Regional High School. Valley Regionals, a shoreline conference team. They're located uh off of Route Nine down in Deep River. Um, next up for them, we're hosting a quarterfinal game here on Thursday at 2 o'clock and we're going to face the winner of there's a game going on right now. It's East Hampton versus Morgan. Um, so there will
014be quarterfinal game here on on uh Thursday at 2 o'clock. Uh, CIA ticket charges will apply and we'll get the word out about all of that. Um, hopefully we win that. Move on to the semi-finals. Um, football. Moving on to football. After three years of membership in the Northwest United Football Co-op, Chapag now participates in the newly formed Nanowog Chief football co-op. The team, which competes as an independent and doesn't have any league affiliation, consists of players from Nanow, Lake View, and Chapags and has had a very successful season to date. Currently, the team has an undefeated record at 6-0. They sit at top the class SS rankings within CIAC. And there are nine Chipog students in the program, including seniors Ryan Son and Kurt Warner. And the team has uh three regular season games
015left, including a home game the day before thanks Thanksgiving. If the program continues its winning ways, it's safe to say that a birth in the CIA class SS tournament is in the cards. The Shap cross country teams both had successful seasons with the boys finishing second in the league and the girls capturing their first virtually league championship since 2018. At the virtually championship meet, we had five of our runners earn virtually allstar status. They're Lily Cassini, Molly Sadido, and Vienna Karu for the girls and for the boys, Liam Riendo and Will Abraham. Both both earned all-star status. Both teams had impressive showings in the CIA Championships with the boys finishing fifth and the girls finishing second, which was a little bit of a heartbreaker because they really had a chance going in. They came up
016just short. However, that second place finish earned them a spot in today's CIA open meet where they went. It was the top schools in all of Connecticut regardless of size. Um, and their goal there being realistic was to come in ahead of >> Cromwell >> and they did. So they consider that uh a bit of a victory. >> Um during the class S championship meet, Lily Cassini finished fifth overall and her performance earned her recognition recognition as an all-state cross country runner and with a lot of the team left uh coming back next year. The girls really hope to be a contender for the class S state championship. Uh the Shapal girls soccer team had an improved season this fall and along with some bright spots and some close games, they earned a couple of
017wins which didn't happen last year. Um and they they gained it was really a young squad and they gained a lot of valuable varsity experience. Seniors uh this season were Enzish, Via De Mo, Christian Person, Eva Matthysse, and Ava Petrusa. And they had 19 girls. We expect a big class of eighth graders. and we're only losing we're only losing six. So, we're hoping the momentum that they've started to generate and the experience that they started to build going to is going to pay off next year uh with um with all the experience that they now have. Um we've talked a little bit about postseason honors. Uh all state teams for soccer, football, and field hockey have not yet been announced. and we're hoping uh we hope and we expect that when the all state teams
018have been announced, we see some Spartans on those limits. I'd like to thank the board for this opportunity to provide an update on our athletic seasons. I look forward to seeing as many as you as possible at some upcoming games. I just wanted to open it up and see if anyone has any questions. Well, just first, Coach Parachchi, thanks for all you do to help our kids grow up, you and your coaching staff, and um it's nice to hear all those accolades and our athletes are competitive. They want the wins and they're nice to get, but they're also growing up into great sports persons. And I think that's um due to your leadership and what the coaches are teaching them. And there was a story that you shared with me a while ago. I'm wondering
019if didn't one of our teams share communication. I feel like maybe you think I'm too sentimental, but this to me kind of mattered as much as any win loss record. Maybe you could tell the board about it. >> All right. So, um, the principal at Northwestern Regional, I used to coach against him when I was the head basketball coach at Chicago. He was the head basketball coach at Thomas. I'm looking up. I want to get the wording right here. Figure out how to work my new phone. Um, yes. So, Northwestern Regional had a terrible season wins and losses wise. They they they got killed like every game and even though they're a relatively big school, they um they just had a hard time um fielding a team. and uh um the uh Shapog uh field
020hockey team made a a handmade card that they gave to them uh and it said, "You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit." Um and they all signed it and they said, "Thank you for never giving up this season." And uh I'm just looking the the coach came to the principal. She had tears in her eyes when she was just showing showing him uh what the Shap field hockey team did. I I had no idea they were doing it, but I was totally unsurprised >> when I saw they were doing that because they really are thoughtful and they they preach a lot of that and uh yeah, so thanks. >> Wonderful. >> Reminded me of that story, Dr. Shells. >> That's really >> Any other questions. >> All right. Well,
021hopefully we see some of you at our upcoming state tournament games. Thank you. >> Thanks, Matt. Really appreciate it. By the way, former Shupog Spartan, if you don't follow the Shup Spartan on social media, >> yeah, >> you should. >> Y >> and former Shupog Spartan Reed Warner tonight, Bryant Bulldogs at Sienna. >> So, if you see Angela a little distracted >> a >> It's early. It's early. >> Hey, >> it's early. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Well, another really good uh Shapog Spartan is um Claire Moira who's been doing an amazing job at Springfield College playing um field hockey and she's been really doing amazing. >> We always like to try to um when uh our former Chipog High School athletes move on to college and have some success. Yeah. >>
022We always like to try to highlight that on our social media. >> And uh she was the So she plays for Springfield College. >> Yeah. uh as Jen's son Noah is the goalie for the men's soccer team there. They participate in the New England women's and men's athletic conference >> which is called the new and Claire Moore was the new MAC uh defensive player of the week this week. So that's that's pretty >> huge. Huge as a freshman >> and I believe Noah Pod has also been the defensive player of the week. Am I correct there? >> It new mech player of the week. >> Yeah. >> Of this week. >> No no no. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. >> Sorry. I wasn't. >> No, it's all right. No, I was
023like what? Yeah. Yes. Yes. But it's great. Yes. So, we're really proud of Claire Moore because she's, you know, as a freshman, too. That's a big deal. Um, so we're really proud of her. So, it's a good deal. Yes. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um and our other let's just keep talking about Springfield but um uh Lucy Puscus who is a previous um Shepog uh graduate who is now the athletic trainer um and her grad program is the so the men's soccer athletic trainer. >> It's just a big Shap party up there which is really nice. It's I mean she played she played softball up there and now she's the athletic trainer for Yeah. So it's really fun seeing a lot of the alumni there. So, it's pretty great. Well, thank you. Uh,
024moving on to the October 1st enrollment reports. >> Thank you. Before I do that, isn't there one more illustrious alum of Springfield College here tonight? I said, isn't there one more illustrious alumni of Springfield College here? Okay. Okay. So, u most of you probably know and recall every October 1st districts report their official enrollment numbers and in your packet you have a um enrollment report table for this uh for 2526 and I just want to take a minute or two to help summarize that report and tease out some of the um bigger patterns in that. So the number of students enrolled as of October 1st is the official enrollment report that we make to the state. And we use those numbers to inform budget decisions and also to um track trends and flu fluctuations of
025student cohorts across our district such as like the number of students we have in our elementary schools or our middle high school or in Agra Science or the number of students we have tuitioning in or residents versus non-residents. So um this chart can help you tease that out and I'm going to try to help a little bit more just by summarizing it. So our October 1st enrollment this year is 812 students. That's up 15 just for context from last year's total of 797. On the left hand side of the document you received you can start first metric is to look at the breakdown by schools. So we had 74 students enrolled at Burnham. Uh and that's up six this year compared to 68 from last year. There are 88 students enrolled at Booth. That's up
026two students this year. There are 164 students at Washington Primary and they're comprised as in this way. 118 students plus 46 students in the preK reach program. So 118 K to 5, 46 in reach. And last year there were 114 students with 42 in reach. It's also interesting to note that those REACH students, those 46 REACH students at Washington Primary, come from across the region. There are 16 who reside in Bridgewater, nine in Roxbury, 19 in Washington, and two are non-residents. There are 486 stu students enrolled at Chapag 133 of those are in the middle school, 353 are at the high school and the Chap Valley partnership. The middle school's down one student um and the high school's up one student compared to last year. There's some stability there. We have currently 129 Agra Science
027students enrolled from sending towns um and 35 students uh in our aggracience program who are residents. 27% of the students in the Agra Science program are residents of the region. 164 total Agra Science students. That's down five from last year where it was 169. All these numbers reflect both resident students and non-resident students including don't forget students from Sherman tuition in students and of course the aggra science students I mentioned from our sending towns and we can take a look also with using this report at how these different categories play out. So, first as to resident students across the region, we have 584 students who reside in Bridgewater, Roxbury, or Washington. That's 18 more than last year. We have 228 total non-resident students. That's three fewer than last year. Across the district, 72% of our
028students are residents, 28% are non-residents. But at Shap that trend is closer to 5050. the percentages for chap in the high school where um aggra science is a big player um for 912 at chap 36 36.5 37% of our students are from agra science sending towns 49% are residents and 14% are tuition in including some students from Sherman or some students who are children of staff members as far as the town breakdown goes In Bridgewater there are 155 students um residents now of course 147 um uh and plus eight aggra science students. Roxbury has a total of 171 155 plus 16 aggra resident aggra science students and Washington has a total of um 20 um I'm sorry 258 which is 247 plus 11 aggra science students and these are things that you can see reflected
029in the table that you have in front of you um and it's a way for us to just sort of track how we're comprised anybody Do you have any questions? >> Um, >> I I >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Uh, so thanks, Don, for talking about the sort of year-over-year change. I think it would be great if we could have a version of the table that shows that for reference. Um >> Okay, I can >> I can try to get that for you. Yes. >> Okay, great. And I was trying to track the change in aggrocience students. It seems like for the most part we're pretty level across the board with sort of marginal changes here and there. Did I miss something on the aggra science enrollment or would you characterize it as roughly steady?
030>> It's roughly steady but there are there are blips on the radar that we could talk about and hypothesize about. you know, um, one is that we had maybe an unusually large number of region 12 eighth graders indicate interest in the program and then entered the program and then when they got into it and saw what the SAPE commitment was and what some of the other FA FA commitments were decided that it wasn't for them and there was some attrition there I think between 9 and 12 students and that leads to some instability and It's worth just um taking taking that apart a little bit um and trying to understand it because in the past I think we've all felt strong sense of commitment, dedication and loyalty to get region kids in if they apply
031and indicate an interest. But we have to temper that with the understanding that we have to get better at on trying to predict who really has that burning desire for Agra science and who really understands it and knows it. And I think we've gotten better at that. um working with sending towns because sometimes people could apply to Agra Science and they may not really love Agra Science. There could be something else, some other push or pull factor that's involved in their decision. And in the interview process, we've gotten a lot better, I think, at finding out who the kids are that really love this and want to do it by what they say and what they've done before relative to Agra Science. And there are a lot of considerations that go into admission like um
032your attendance record, your grades, your behavior record, but the jewel in the crown is can you say something to the committee that shows you've done work in aggra science and that you love it and care for it. So this is just a hypothesis, but I think there's been some in relative small but still noticeable instability in number of region 12 kids that are admitted and then find out it wasn't really their cup of tea. and to be part of a solution on that. We think we're going to try to do more to help kids understand what it really involves and make sure that we're getting kids who really want the experience, not just have a momentary um impulse towards the shiny barn and the horses and all that rather than true commitment that it takes.
033I don't know if that I kind of ranted there a little bit. >> No, no, no. I actually I that you sort of answered my follow-up question which about how well a lot of the students really understand what the program is about and I guess you know a follow- on question that doesn't need to be answered tonight but how much flexibility is there to meet students that have an interest but maybe not as intense an interest and is that is there some middle ground where we can make some of that coursework available without sort of the full commitment. >> I think there is, you know, um this idea used to be maybe controversial, at least with me when I was living through the audit and the state and I wanted to dot every eye and
034cross every tea, but I've talked to a lot of senators and a lot of superintendents. I don't mean to be not looking at you all over there when I'm speaking. um about how we can involve non-ag kids in some of the a experience without running a foul of statutes or other regulations. And it seems pretty clear that if there's an aggra science section that's fully that every a kid who wants a seat has one, let's say there's 15 seats in that class and they're full of there's 12 a kids, no more ad kids want that class. we could make those three seats available to ship students and our counselors are starting to market that more and I've talked more and more to other supers and other center directors and people from the state about that
035as a principle and I think it's done and I think it's done without an air of cloak and dagger about it. Um I first thought that it could you know be somehow count against us in our in our audit. I now think that as long as we mind those P's and Q's we can do that and that could be one way to get at what you're talking about. Okay, fantastic. Thank you. >> Yeah, I I just want to thank these numbers are great because I'm continually asked by not continually but periodically asked by people, well, how many kids do you have in the aggra science program? Are they from region 12 or are they from uh tuition in kids? And I want to study these numbers a little bit more because I want to be
036able to answer that question for the people in the future. Anyways, I appreciate getting those numbers. >> The credit for the report that you all have goes to Nicole and her team as usual. They created this thing so user friendly even I could understand it. It became idiot proof for me and I was able to write my notes for you all based on what she compiled. >> Other questions? Well, thank you. Appreciate that. Um, moving on to reports and recognition. I don't really have a full report tonight. Um, I feel like we've kind of covered a lot of grounds, so I'm going to move it on to you for the superintendent. >> Just a couple of quick points. I assure you. Yes. Oh, sure. I'll do that. Thank you, Mary. Yeah. I hope I remember
037all the stuff he said. I should ask him to stay. Yep. Yeah. This is some cool stuff. So, uh bear in mind that this weekend, Chap Drama will stage Little Women here in the auditorium, Friday at 7:00, Saturday at 7:00, and Sunday at 2 p.m. It's the fall drama. They're really getting ready for a great show. I'm looking forward to it. Um, at our elementary schools this month, it was Planktober. I got invited, but I wimped out. Plank, I doesn't mean I won't go some other year. Planktober is where they work on their core strength, and it's for students and staff, and they all get there and they plank, and the a lot of them are just moving around like a crab. They're so good at it. Um, it's great for physical fitness. Um, and
038next week they're going to do um care packages and cards for local veterans. That's news out of Booth and Burnham. And some news out of Washington Primary School is that they had a walking field trip over to town hall. Maybe they even saw Miss Pod there. And um they were there to study the branches of government. They met with Mr. Britain to talk about government and his job. And then students took their learning back to the school and presented what they learned about government to a little town hall meeting in the school. I thought that was really, really neat and really interesting. Tomorrow we have a PD day and um I mentioned to the board before that a movie is being screened among educators that's going to we actually found a way to screen it
039here tomorrow for our teachers. Two showings I think at 8:30 and one. Any board member is welcome to come if they wanted to called count it out. And it's about how math education has become more difficult and maybe more inaccessible to certain kinds of learners and how more than ever numeracy is relevant to understanding our world and intervening in a lot of the debates that we consider to be most important. They all involve a need for a certain scientific or mathematic literacy and the movie is meant to I think make us question how are we making that literacy that numeracy available to all to all students. Thank you. That's my report. Oh, here this is the this is the jewel in the crown now. Okay, they you know the a kids went to um Indianapolis
040for the big national FFA convention and this is so this is nationwide. There's like I don't know how many thousands of people from all 50 states in the FFA. They sit in the middle of Lucas Oil Stadium where Daniel Jones is lighting things up now. Us Giant fans should really be mad. Anyway, um and our kids had some great experiences. So they compe compete in different team activities that showcase the skills they learn here in Petra Pog. The parliamentary procedure team won bronze in the national contest. Bronze is a sort of the lower third of the group. But you have to remember this is thousands of people from across the nation. So it's still um interesting. And those six members, those six students, Cammy TC, Hannah Quo, Indigo Brinkerhoff, Julia Weiss, Kenny Bennett, and uh
041Quinn Kinesita McCauley. Um, they won bronze. The meat evaluation CDE team also won bronze. Tony Atensio, Tula Mccran, uh, and Rachel Sturk and Claire Wheaten won silver, which is at this level pretty darn impressive. Um, and the food science CDE team plays silver as a team at the national contests with members Marlair and Dan Baxter winning bronze individual medals and Mina Kier Elden and Ilana Quigley winning gold individual and Elelliana winning ninth place overall in the entire nation when she walked across the stage to get recognized for what she did. You might recognize some of these names as graduates. The way this works is if you win a state championship as a senior, you're then invited to come back with the team and compete at the national level. So you might be hearing bronze, silver,
042gold, whatever. For them to be on this list as a senior, it means they won a state championship in something and we're able to advance to the national level. In additions, uh, students participated in a variety of workshops and leadership activities at the National FFA Convention and Expo where they engaged with industry professionals, explored agricultural career pathways, and developed valuable personal and professional skills. They represented our program with pride and returned with new knowledge, connections, and inspiration to apply in and out of the classroom. And I'm sure if they were here, they would thank the board for supporting the trip. >> Thanks for reminding me, Mary. Yeah, great. Thank you. >> So much to be proud of for sure. Moving on to treasures report, Alex. >> Yes. Uh Nicole handed out numbers just uh for
043this meeting. Um I don't know if they're put in everybody's packet or not, but uh there really were not no big surprises. Uh the good news is uh we have uh 21.02% of our budget remaining. Uh you got to remember a lot of it has been encumbered already and that's versus 19.48 last year at this time. So we're a little bit ahead of last year. Uh there were some transfers of funds uh among departments among line items to cover uh some some unexpected expenses, but they came out of the same pot, so to speak, that they were in before. And the only issue that came up was we're still dealing with Frontier about our phone system. And it appears that they're going to end up owing us uh about uh I can't remember it was
044$1,200 or $1,400 when it all said and done. But uh anyway, hopefully by next meeting that will be history and that's my report. >> Thank you. Uh committee reports, Agra Science Committee, Mary. >> So we had a meeting tonight. It's our first meeting of the year and um as I mentioned before we moved to we tabled um having the addition of the three members that they had to the uh agroscience advisory committee because we're going to restructure that committee and that will happen for the the they have two meetings a year and the fir the first one will be the the old a science advisory committee and in March there'll be a new new one that we'll we'll we'll have we'll have for the meeting. Then um then the other thing I asked was for
045Don and uh Tyler to please give us an an idea of exactly what an advis the aggracience advisory committee is and what it should does and he they did that for us. Um, and also the of course Tyler presented the one thing I want I was so excited about was to hear about nationals and it and it that's spectacular. I just I'm just very excited about that. Um, we had a short meeting because um, well, we just did and I guess that's about it. >> Thank you. Um curriculum >> nothing new. Our next meeting is um in two weeks from today, November 17th. >> At advance, Joe, >> nothing new to report. Our next meeting is this Thursday. >> Thank you. Um finance and operations, Alec. >> Yes, we just had our meeting. Uh we
046hadn't had one in quite a while. Had it just before this meeting. So I may ramble a little bit but but go through the highlights of the notes. Um, we are received bids on uh on replacing the boilers at Washington Primary and uh we took the low bid with obviously with performance plumbing and uh uh that the number that came out there was $261,500. Um and I believe that they've already started work on it. uh to some degree. Um we will talk about the Ballards over at Washington over at Burnham later. Um and the motion to to fund that. Um just look at my notes here. Um you know we discussed the track situation and uh had not really come up with a definitive answer but uh the thoughts we might hire an engineer and
047do borings in the existing track to to figure out what we have below the surface there. Um it it will be an expensive proposition and probably will be wrapped into a bonding issue bonding issue at some point. Um currently uh uh is we still owe a million and a half to Webster Bank. It's payable over the next four years. And US Bank we owe $6 million payable over the next I can't read my handwriting. I think it's 14 years. Um, we talked about the kitchen situation and uh we may hire a cost estimator once we get plans for that um to figure out exactly how much it's going to cost. Um the audit is almost complete which is about a month or so ahead of time. And finally, we talked about uh the brush around
048the fields and the possibility of maybe getting our goats to do some trimming for us. So, um uh but anyway, uh that's it. That's my finance FNO report and we adjourned at 6:35. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Alec. labor negotiations. Vicki, >> nothing new to report. We have our first official meeting on Wednesday. >> Great. Thank you. What time on Wednesday? Where is it? >> Should be here, right? >> Or is it central office? >> I think because it's 18. >> Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, >> I'll I'll let you know the exact room. They found a space that can accommodate. I think it's one of the class. Okay. >> Can you email that to >> They have a Yes, I will email it to the committee and they have sizable
049contingent. >> So, we wouldn't have fit >> correct. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Policy Justin. >> Um, nothing new. Our next meeting is December 8th. >> Thank you. Uh, and nothing new for me to report for uh strategic long range planning. Uh, moving on to new business to consider for approval. First reading policy 5114, student discipline. >> Okay, thanks. And just to brush the cobwebs off, you might think first read. We had a first read, but this is the one, if you recall, where I had given you a redline version and explain the changes that we were going to make. And then Shipman had said to me, wait, we're making a few more tweaks to this one. And rather than have to amend it twice, I just asked us to put the brakes on it.
050Now, their final amendments are done. So, I think we should still call this a first read because I'm going to tell you only a few things that they changed. And to make it again easier for you, I'm going to once again just go over the notes that I took on the differences between this final version that's in front of you now to become our policy 5114 versus the one that we had to begin with. Okay? And this is a policy that sort of outlines and defines the different features and infractions that could subject you to discipline and how the school will handle that procedurally so that it's open and transparent. And there aren't huge philosophical changes in the new policy. There are a few ideas that are different that I'll summarize again in a minute.
051really it's just to bring this policy in sync with other things that have changed so that this policy isn't out of step with some of the other things that are new and different in other policies we've passed and in the world. Okay. So the big differences are first of all this policy now mentions the new climate policy and the new restorative practice policy that the board passed last spring as every board had to required by the state and incorporates those two just by reference into this policy about how those are going to govern the way we think about um managing student discipline problems. There's a new definition of bullying. You might remember I told you because the statute has changed that's incorporated in this new policy. This policy mentions and this is different now from
052the last time I brought this to you. Shipment has tweaked this defines better and more fully the concept of challenging behavior. The idea now is that although when you investigate any kind of malfeasence, you have a legal duty to figure out whether it falls into this or that category so that you're following the law. Is it bullying? Is it Title N? Is it harassment? Is it something like that? That's always important. But when you're working with kids, the main question is not just what box you check, but what happened and how you're going to help them out of it. Challenging behavior is the idea that there could be things that go wrong between kids that might not fall into any one of those legal boxes or rise to that level, but nevertheless need our attention
053and some restorative practice. Okay. So, challenging behavior is mentioned in this new policy. You'll recall I said this policy now mentions the concept of AI, artificial intelligence. It defines it and talks about how the school can regulate it visav things like um plagiarism or um deep fake making bogus photo photographs or videos of people to their detriment, making anything that's obscene or inappropriate using artificial intelligence. All that's proscribed by this policy. It also defines the latest technology for vaping and vape delivery devices and prohibits those the same as cigarettes would have been. It adds I I told you all this before. I don't know whether you're sick of me, but I just think it's been a while. So, I'm I'm going to go over it one more time. Um, it adds the concept of protected
054class harassment, which is in the law now. And that is that if somebody is ridiculed based upon membership in an historically protected class, that's automatically suspect and can lead to um different kinds of actions. And now status, god forbid, but status as a victim of sexual assault or human trafficking is listed as one of the protected classes that cannot somebody cannot be subject to ridicule according to policy. Um, it says that cannabis infractions because cannabis is still not welcome on any school campus, but it's not illegal for the population the way it used to be. So, the law now is that school response to cannabis, whatever the infraction, whatever the result or punishment, it can't be more serious than possession of alcohol because it's the same kind of class of an item. Now, um it
055specifically mentions use of racial, ethnic, religious, um slurs, etc. as per se infractions, which is kind of always the way we thought, but it's in there. It's actually codified in there. Now, it adds challenging behavior as an infraction that I mentioned before. And the last thing is that now if you're investigating student misbehavior before you levy a consequence you have to check to determine if the student actor is homeless because if they are you have to consider the impact of that homelessness on their actions. So now I can that was a lot and I'm enough to make anybody glaze over. I wasn't like this as a teacher. Let me assure you I had a much much more I don't know why I'm slipping into this terrible persona here and now tonight but I can make
056these notes available to you. I'll just maybe type them up and send them to you so you know. And then when we come back next time, then you might feel like you've had a real first read and you're ready for a second read and ready to vote on it. Okay? But I'll take questions now, too. Thanks. Can I have a motion for a first read for 5114 first? Can I have a second? Second. All in favor? Anyone opposed? Staying. It moves on for a first read again. >> Thank you. Great. So, now moving on to Alex. Uh, >> I'll give a little background. Yeah, please. Uh, the Burnham School, uh, you drive in to the right of the building and there are lots of parking spaces there, but the road continues around to the left
057behind the school where the playgrounds are. And there's no real differentiation between where parking ends and kids playing starts. Um there have been some small cones put up to keep people from driving behind the school. Um there have been instances where people don't understand the system and have driven back there and uh it's dangerous to have kids and cars interacting. So what has been requested and what we're proposing is to put up ballards uh about every 5 ft and then a gate to so that you can allow say the fire trucks to get in if need be or deliveries. Now, not not many deliveries are done through the back, but uh the entire uh uh uh program, the entire project will cost uh uh $4,500. Um, but we need a motion to approve it. And
058what I'd like to do is just read the motion. It's to Oh, let me find where I put it here. to approve spending of $4,500 from this CNR fund for Ballards and Gates at at uh the Booth School, Burnham Schools. Excuse me. Get my schools mixed up. Hi Yeah, thank you. It's too late. Sorry. Um, okay. So now and I have a motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> Great. Thank you everyone.