001I'm not going to use the gavel just gonna I'm gonna kind of not try to use that feels a little too powerful um welcome to tonight's meeting tonight hard to believe is March 3D and I love um when we celebrate our our students so see a lot of families here tonight so welcome um Mr Angley can you please call attendance Jo Abella Greg Cavo Victoria Salon Stephanie KCK Angela Matula Alex MCN Justin Angley here Jen pod here Jane Sergeant she's online yep she's Pete Tagle Mary Weber Christine wiing thank you Justin I'd like to ask Dr rodrig to introduce our Visual Arts students well after talking uh budgets for the last couple of meetings this is one a wonderful uh change of pace when we get to recognize and celebrate our student artists so um
002I am going to call each student up so students when I call your name come on up because I'd like to shake your hand give you a certificate and then please we ask you to stand in front of your your artwork so that we can uh talk about it later so I'm going to start with Senna TI isington a kindergartener at Booth free school Sena learned about texture and different ways to create visual texture she first Drew her monster using different shapes and lines then painted her Monster by creating patterns using oil pastel to imply that texture spooky and spectacular congratulations Senna next we have Morgan Wilbur a second grader at Washington Primary School students learned how artists used line and pattern to create and evoke interest they drew pumpkin still lives and created sections
003with a different pattern in each section then they used watercolor washes to paint their gourds this excellent example was done by Morgan great job honey next we have Christopher lingan feler I hope I pronounced that a fourth grader at Burnham School there we go he just corrected me lingan feler right okay Christopher learned about optical illusions and how different artists have used optical illusions in their own art he divided his paper into segments and gradually work to fill in with a sharpie students in the class learned about gradation and used black and white colored pencils to highlight their segments wonderful job honey next we have eth grader Ariana pagos she here okay well I'm going to tell you a little bit about after analyzing the techniques artists use to create mood in a work of
004art Ari an created this temporis self-portrait painting that shows a strong emotion so even though she's not here congratulations Ariana next we have Nicollet light who's a freshman at chog Valley High School nicholet also not here I'll tell you a little bit about nicolet's work this is a pencil portrait to to demonstrate her knowledge of visual storytelling strategies Nicollet demonstrated exceptional observation skills and always pushed herself with challenging angles and intricate designs congratulations Nicollet JP stano students learned in JP's class to create functional and decorative Pottery using various handbuilding techniques and explored ways to finish them with glazes and underglazes JP has always gone far above and beyond course requirements according to her teacher exploring Advanced building and finishing techniques nice job honey thanks to all of our students and I will turn it over
005to Mrs pody thank you all for coming and we love your artwork so we're going to take a quick uh recess so we can come around and you can talk to us about your artwork have any questions for you let's take a few moments oh audience everyone in the room great half of the boring stuff so moving on with the agenda we are on to public comments on agenda items only is there anybody here who would like to say anything about any of the agenda item only once twice okay we are moving on now to the consent consent agenda is there anything on the consented that you would like to change if I adjust nothing okay fantastic fast we're moving along pretty quickly already okay moving on to presentations uh presentations of the 25 26
006budget highlights on shells you're up first welcome well good evening everyone thank you for considering our uh presentations tonight and I'm just going to talk a little bit about some of the requests we have at chicag and why we think they're important and we are asking for a social worker and again that's districtwide but we expect it to have a big impact on our school I spoke a little bit about this last time how the different training and Outlook of a social worker can cast a wider net of services around our students and we think that will um impact our kids and aligns with our diversity belonging and well-being uh Strand and strategic plan we are part of an accreditation group called Nas the New England Association of schools and colleges every high school in
007Connecticut does that to get accredited and maintain their accreditation and it's also a group of critical friends that comes in uh in 10e cycles and helps you evaluate where you're going and how to get better and we are now in neas review cycle the first event that's going to happen is in December and this is relatively new we're going to have something called the collaborative conference visit where we work with the visiting committee to establish priorities for what we want to improve on over the next cycle and there's a small cost for that and that's why it's here that will culminate in December of 2027 when we have the big desial visit and that's where we'll really iron out the things that we want to collaborate with the committee on and talk about and develop
008and grow around we're asking for support for a planetarium coordinator and um the planetarium has been just a godsend for our school we appreciate the board's support and bringing it back to life it's not only a powerful tool for pedagogy and our science classes our astronomy elective and many other science classes but it's used for interdisciplinary um Ventures the other day they had history kids in there looking at the alignment of the stars as they would have been uh um at the Boston Tea Party um and that kind of stuff and art students go in there and all other kinds of stuff so it's it's good for that but it's also been a magnet for us getting people in from the community and connect to our school there have been so many full housee shows
009of seniors and community members and students and parents sitting in there watching these amazing planetarium shows as if it's the Hayden planetarium or such and um that is good for our students learning it's also good for um connecting with the community family involvement and it's it's an innovation because we're delivering Services um in a different way that's really powerful so we want to support that the coordinator helps the place run um for all these events we also are going to have a more expansive planetarium service contract in Chapo's budget this year because there's a lot of really delicate equipment in there and it's fine-tuned and calibrated and has to be maintained and there's a contract that we need um to get that service and make sure that we protect the longevity the of the equipment
010also we're asking for continued support for our after school tutoring and support services the smart and easy Academy this is really helped students get extra help and support in math and science and in the humanities they sit with teachers after school and work on math problems and essays and um it's a game Cher for a lot of these kids and we just did a deep dive into the attendance records of this program and it's very well utilized and we think good for our kids and good for powerful learning and good for our diversity belonging well-being aspects of the plan because it PE it brings kids in who might otherwise be marginalized and helps connect them with extra help we do have this it's a cycle this year where we have an uptick in our need
011for textbooks we because of the way students are enrolling the courses they're taking uh in calculus and statistics especially in math we need new textbooks to meet that need and we need academic workbooks for our Science middle school students they use uh workbooks in life Earth uh life and Earth Science U um and they cycle through them for all three years they use these workbooks and it's an important part of the instruction we need to buy new workbooks and finally we're we've asking for a small stien to allow us to have mentors for new teachers which is a great way to help bring them into the profession and make sure that they're being onboarded well and supported well at the outset so these are the things that we're asking for that are built in into
012the budget and um the alignment to our strategic plan and why we think they're they're important and we do appreciate and our students and our staff appreciate the board support any questions thank you so much thank you very much uh next up the agroscience academy with Tyler kman Tyler it's on you righty good evening every everybody um excellent job to our artists in the room too uh so we are uh pretty straightforward requests this year firstly being uh some additional support for our National FFA convention uh we have discussed bolstering our fundraising efforts next year with some new ideas being thrown around as well to help support this effort um but this school year was our largest turnout and most interest that we've seen for this trip and it has helped our program culturally in
013numerous ways uh so this is an important trip for us and I hope that the ball can continue to roll on that trip and we can bring more than 28 students if possible next year that would be the goal um a new sync for our Floral Design shop if you guys have seen we have been running a floral arrangement of the month uh option out of the floral shop this year uh it's not too large of a fundraiser but we have made some profit from it but we have a small sink in there that's like three in deep or so so it's not conducive to soaking foam and filling bases and filling buckets it's uh especially for the volume that we we made 40 arrangements for Valentine's Day so we really need uh a deep
014three Bas sink to fill containers and soak material we are looking to budget for our uh our annual Barn cleaning operation obviously clean CLE cleanliness and sanitation in our facilities is important and we want to continue to prioritize it especially in the uh animal science facility so I'd like to build uh this annual expense into our budget for the coming years uh I'd like to do a dedicated budget for our exploratory courses which includes our ninth grade exploratory uh our eighth grade and our seventh grade uh basically now our teachers are spending uh their individual budgets to cover that class and it's been it's been working fine but uh just to help us plan better and keep everything organized I think it would make sense to have a uh dedicated line for our exploratory classes
015and then finally our Floral Design uh I'd like to just Branch our plant science instructional budget off into starting a floral design budget to to purchase flower materials um we tried splitting this year and it worked but again just to keep it organized and help us plan have that individual uh instructional flower budget uh for next year just a quick enrollment update we are looking to accept 56 students into the program for next year um and that would bring our total enrollment to 191 students for next school year uh which is an increase of 22 um and that's kind of we haven't got the okays back from these students yet but that's that's our our hope so that we will soon any questions Vicki there we go um how much does an annual deep clean
016cost depends we we had a few different quotes last year it really depends on the scale so uh I'm not sure how familiar you are with the inside of the the arena area but there's a lot of mats and each mat weighs anywhere from 90 to 200 PBS so if we were to remove those it costs a lot more um but it can be anywhere in the neighborhood of 7,000 to 14,000 was our quotes last year and do all agroscience programs in other schools they all that's something that they do is an annual deep clean is it is it a requirement I don't think so uh I can't speak for all the centers but um I think with a with a facility like ours that's so new um and just state-of-the-art you know we we
017want to maintain it and take care of it as best we can uh what we're requesting is a company that come in and they use an animal safe uh sanitizing chemicals which is sort of the heart of this um and then they also they they vacuum all the m mats they even did the ceilings they did a really thorough job and I that's sort of what we would like to do in the future too and has this been in the budget previously or this is a brand new line item this be brand new Mar um last year there was some concern about putting in another teacher we heard you we heard the people and what we did was we had Tyler teach two classes so that the plant science could be uh be complete so
018I just wanted people to know that we did hear you and it was put in but it wasn't put in as a05 which is a full-time but a.2 which is two classes so I just wanted to highlight that because I know people were concerned that we didn't do that L yeah it was a point for that Tyler's teaching and they were ask asking for a 1.0 which is fulltime not a 0.5 just wanted to clarify that but you're right we did we did do that because we heard thank you I just wanted everybody to know that that that's what we did and that we didn't ignore what people said yeah um of the 56 kids how many are from region 12 do you know um I believe it's 14 14 is that sort of typical
019uh less than last year but more than the year before so it kind of it's been hopping around but that's all of the region 12 applicants though so every region 12 applicants is admitted for next year thank you yep Angela how many applications Okay Tyler could you tell us a little bit about the exploratory classes what's what what do they do what's the purpose and how many students participate in them sure so uh I can start with seventh grade uh basically that's for my understanding it was one of the elective courses uh introduced to 7th graders um when they come here to chipad all of our exploratory the content is s it's similar but it's scaffolded so it's all all of our spaces a mechanics animal science plant science food science uh ecoin science what
020have you but it is uh tiered so that as the student progresses through school the Les the lessons get more rigorous and and the content gets a little bit more in-depth uh so seventh grade we really just want the kids to be excited uh some of the kids have never set foot in an animal center they've never even touched a course so we really just want them to be fired up interested in what we're doing and want to continue our eighth grade class we really are trying to treat as a recruiting class so we want students in that class who are considering the program and we're hoping to sort of funnel those kidss into applying and then continuing the program as they go through high school and our n9th grade class would be the first
021official uh class in the program and that's where our our uh you know our most out of those three our most advanced skills are presented those students might actually start welding they might write a horse those that sort of they'll definitely drive a tractor so the uh Labs that they're experiencing will be uh progressing up to that point but it's it's all all those classes all the exploratory classes are meant to introduce students to all of our Labs that we offer in order to see what they like the best [Music] yep one question um you said that there were 106 applicants yeah do you have a strict criteria for accepting like how do you have a you know how do you determine who gets in and who doesn't get in I mean you know obviously
022if they have you know if they have experience on a farm or or things like that does that help the per does that help the applicant or can anyone apply it's not a lottery system correct they're interviewed and and so for yep so there is a uh a criteria there's a Statewide application as common application all the centers use it uh I believe it's on page eight of the application it breaks down the scoring criteria uh demonstrated interest which is what you're talking about with experience and whatnot uh personal interview academics Behavior attendance um assessments and there's one or two other areas that I'm I'm missing right now but it's it's that's how most of the centers most of the directors that I talk to they all scorm with those seven categories uh they give
023them a rating for each one and then the students who score the highest uh get accepted the counseling department also tag team this admissions with me this year so they came with me for interviews and helped score the applicants um and it's not easy it's not a easy process either once you get down to the you know those last kids but uh it's it's pretty accurate I would say because it it doesn't leave anything to chance if the kid has experience then they get the points if they you know so um it's fair and uh takes time but I I feel like it's pretty fair okay and and and the last question do you go in with a number in your mind saying okay you know we have room for 50 students um or you
024know is that you know that's sort of where my brain was at this year but you know ultimately it's it's a collective decision amongst okay all of us here but uh so no I I really just go in trying to find the right kids for the school and uh the number of kids we can determine together but the quality students is really the ones that we're interested in thank you so much y anything else I actually might have a quick question so I I think we talked we touched upon this I think last week but I just want to revisit it again so was it 32% of the eight grade was applied for the um for the program uh last year this year this year I don't know I know last year we had a
025bigger eighth grade class and it was about a third of them you know what I I don't I don't want to get the number wrong I know last year we had a bigger class I feel like the 32% is like stuck in my head yeah I was just and I sharing that with Alex it was less than that it was I think 27% I can check that it was 32% for those coming in for this acceptance so that was 32% this year yeah which I just think is an amazing percentage for the eth grade and I know that there have been some conflicting uh opinions about that yeah um and not to drive it home but I just think that 32% of a class is pretty impressive great um and so I'd like to just
026you know congratulate you and your staff for for attracting that many um applicants to to the program so Kudos thank you and and that's a lot to be proud of yeah yeah we're doing good and uh you know we had over 100 applicants last year too I I it's a good problem to have you know it's it's it's good this there's interest I hate the high number on the wait list but uh I'm glad to see that there's demand and it allows us to get the the kids who really want to be here so all right all right guys thanks okay so uh next up is the uh Central Services part two the full br congratulations to all of our art students as well great job um and also with the agroscience enrolment which just
027did math the 32% is actually the number of sha kids that will be throughout the program all the whole years if you want the number of eighth graders that apply to the program it's 36% actually actually 37 it's 36.8 and that's why you're the numbers person short I'm short sorry um that's great thank you 36 really 37 if you want to round 3684 so to pick up where we left off where I left off last week where we all left off together last week um let's take a look at some more areas of operational costs um we'll look briefly at Debt Service the superintendent budget the board of education budget and the business office budget um Debt Service is interesting for us this year it is the most significant reduction um in the 2526 budget
028that is because we were able to repay the agroscience ban that we have been carrying for a number of years due to the release of the hold back by the state of Connecticut for um our agroscience project and our science labs project um and just as an aside we did have an Fano committee meeting this morning and I shared with them that we have also um been released from the state audit or the science lab portion of that project um with very little push back on anything from the state and they're releasing an additional $248,000 to us for that piece of the project um so we will be anxiously awaiting the audit of our agroscience project um the next three budgets are all sensitive to annual inflationary increases because of the nature of the services
029that are budgeted within them um because of this we did work very closely to make sure we aligned everything to historical spending sometimes you budget more than you need and we wanted to make sure to give those dollars back against the increases um there were a few significant changes which I'll touch on briefly um in the superintendent budget you'll see an substantial increase in that budget now it's a small budget so substantial increases in a lot of dollars but it is a large percentage um this is because we added a data consultant to the superintendent budget um and this was a transfer of dollars from the payroll budget so although it looks like an increase in the superintendent's budget it's actually neutral to the budget because the person that is now acting as our data
030consultant was formerly an employee um that employee left Us in the fall and we have filled those services with a working with a consultant from Ed Advance um and we had intended to continue working with that consultant next year but um some changes have occurred in the technology department and we're thinking about possibly rehiring an in-house employee so um if we can find the right person to fill that position in-house we'll do that and then those dollars that are currently sitting in the superintendance budget will get pushed back over into the payroll budget um so that's sort of something that's happening as we're we're working on this budget so just wanted to make sure that you all knew that those changes might take place um and also in the superintendence budget we have increased the
031support for the high school kids who go on the trip to participate in the model un um those prices went up quite significantly this year we do send an average of 24 students to Boston um every year for a 4-day participation in this in the model un um and I think I know that you are aware of what happens there it's a very worthwhile learning experience for these kids um and um even with some increased support that I found for this year's budget with the increased costs um the cost of families was still over $300 and by putting this extra money in the budget we'd like to hold it there um so that our kids can continue to take that trip with Mr Dennis who does a wonderful job arranging it um that is it
032for the superintendent's budget for the board of education budget it actually went down um this year the reason being we had historically budgeted um to work with a marketing partner that we no longer work with and that's true of this year as well so we repurposed those funds in this year's budget to partner with Panorama who has been doing our surveys um we've been using it across the district for a lot of different purposes and we found it to be a really successful partnership so we did take those dollars out of the board of education budget but we put them into the curriculum budget which you may have seen when Carrie presented last week she showed some areas where her budget increased but it increased with the dollars coming from other places so it's really
033a transfer out of the board of education budget into the curriculum budget to continue to support Panorama rather than the marketing partner we were working with uh and last but not least the business office um is the least exciting budget it is where we keep all of the district liability and property insurance policies we usually see a modest increase each year in this in these numbers um this year is no different um it is the policies for all of our property all reliability our flood insurance for Washington Primary School our board liability Pro property board liability policy that protects all of you um cyber insurance and also workers comp insurance questions so for the additional support for the model un has it's increased significantly does that still does that still mean that the uh students
034that participate and their families have to pay something yes they do okay so basically what they've been paying all along they'll continue to pay the superintendent's part of the budget is just going to take the additional so it's interesting because it changes every year and Chris and I work on this in the fall each year the one thing we can rely on remaining the same is the be for the kids to participate but what changes is Hotel accommodation yeah and what we ran into this and also the cost of bus service because we do Charter a bus to get the kids out there one thing that we ran into this year was there was a lot of Hotel remodeling going on in Boston and we were forced to get Suites for our kids because that's
035the only way we could um find them rooms that's how they roll so so so this a little pricier than the normal rooms so we kind of scrambled to find some extra support and I think in the past we've tried to keep the the fee between 3 $250 and $300 and I do think even with the additional support that we provided this year from some other um line items that I was able to pull together for them I think the family still paid 365 this year which is a little more or it might have been 325 but it was a little more than we we had hoped but um our portion of of the support we proved was significantly higher because the rooms really did cost a lot more money this year and we can't
036plan for that necessarily like we didn't plan for fact that the hotel was going to be under renovation um okay thank you thank you I appreciate it yes always thank you uh technology good evening everybody thank you for uh having me here to discuss some of the highlights of our proposed um initiatives in the technology budget um first thing on the list is our annual uh Chromebook replacement cycle purchasing uh we replace the Chromebooks for our second graders sixth graders and ninth graders second graders their Chromebooks are expected to last them through uh fifth grade 6th through 8th and nth always till graduation um it's been our standard practice for the last handful of years and it's gone very well to keep us up to date running with very uh reliable equipment the next thing
037we're looking to do is uh replace all the iMacs in the TV studio they are aging um somewhat gracefully but they are a little bit slower and uh classes don't necessarily maybe run as efficient um as they running their operations it just takes a little bit longer to do some things um so is pretty important that in their class time they get done what they need to get done so we would like to replace those um in that room also in our art classes we would like to um along the same lines of thinking is replace the uh MacBook Pros that they are using in there um to better equip and help them do the work that they do in those classrooms on a daily basis also the K1 iPads are in dire need of
038replacement there's a uh a schmorgus board of of models and ages of those iPads that have been outfitted for those students so replacement of them is very important as well and to some maybe what might be some of the more important stuff on here is a replacement of your um microphone setup um some of the audio pieces that uh Ben works very hard and uh work some magic back here to make things happen so we've uh Ben and I have met with a few different vendors on getting some pricing onto how so everybody can have their own microphone and we can have some sound quality sound without then having to work some magic to Red reduce the noise that U was developed during the broadcast and recording so we're we're excited um and hopefully all
039these initiatives can be fulfilled and we're excited to um get them in the hands of our students any questions uh refresh my memory what do we do with the old uh computers so we will uh first uh wipe them uh meaning We'll erase the hard drives and make sure there's no existing data on them and uh at that point anything that's still workable um we can work with anyone and try and get them perhaps sold off or donated um anywhere um if there's no takers on anything like that they would just be recycled the most thank you environmentally friendly manner um two questions so with the way technology is advancing you know by in it does it make sense for us to own these as opposed to them um that's a question that we always
040um um ask ourselves um I think it can go either way um will probably answer that better so we currently lease all of our staff devices um and we did uh three years uh five years ago we answered into a four-year lease for student Chromebooks leasing Chromebooks is a little trickier just because we do have um kids coming out of in and out of district and kids losing them and with leasing um you have to have your inventory tight and you have to report on it every year and you have to return it and what we figured out is that the savings that we get with leasing Chromebooks is really insignificant um and it's a lot of headache having to gather those advices and get devices and get them back at the end of the
041lease um and it's a lot of Manpower that doesn't save us really any significant money and the lease length is still three or four years to make it um cost effective see to realize any kind of savings so with the staff it's easier they're adults they they have control of their devices it's easier to keep track of those devices and those happen those tend to be the more expensive device so Leasing and that with the staff devices worked out a lot better for us so what we did is we sort of bifurcated and now we lease staff devices but we buy student devices with student devices you get one get your Chromebook in sixth grade and you keep it all year round and so it doesn't have to get refurbished or updated or cleaned or
042anything at the end of the year um no we've been um at one point in time we allowed them to stay with the kid um student throughout their time of their ownership um we um sometimes see many of them come through with either minor damage or we've had a lot of students come in and just like to use our computer friendly cleaner and we clean it for them and whatnot as far as um updates of the hardware firmware software and all that that's all managed centrally we don't necessarily need to have the device um to make that happen and is it would it be more I realize now it's what $50 a year per device for the insurance have we ever looked into the District working out some sort of a deal with the manufact
043or whoever the insurance company to cover that um I will say that there is a growing Trend among school districts to do self insured or have a self insured model um is not something that we really had a conversation on yet and I don't think it's something that we can just turn over um and and make it happen I think U of the course of this next school year in this budget cycle it would be something that I would be talking to Administration on possibly will to thank you um we do have we do put manufacturers warranties on all of our devices and they are warranted but we the reason we need that backup Insurance piece is because warranties don't cover like damage or breaks that are caused by an incident whether you drop it
044or they really only cover the like basically malfunction of the warranty so even though we do add that every time we buy a device we put the warranty on it as long as we can um the student insurance that is separate that the parents can buy we just find there's no we did look into one year it's probably four years ago now because it was the first year we leased the Chromebooks we looked into trying to get a districtwide policy and the districtwide policy when we looked at how many um morine who works in bick's office had done an analysis for me of how many machines had been returned for service or had to be serviced or replaced it would have what we figured out was it's basically to just sort of quot quote self-insure
045because we could have replaced every single device that had been broken for less than we would have paid in the premium so it doesn't make sense to pay the premium it makes we might as well just more self-insurance and fix them as they come um ourselves but the the student accident plan is a nice plan if parents want to take advantage of it because um so many things can happen as they're walking through the halls and going to sports and they get dropped a lot thank you Mr parach Athletics good evening everyone um next year's athletic budget is very similar to past budgets you've seen we have a few features that are unique in this upcoming proposal uh one of the main differences that you will see is we've relocated athletic uniforms into their own
046line item uh which that has been done to provide Clarity in the past depending upon the price of each individual uniform piece uniforms were included either in the supply or the equipment lines which made pretty easy for them to blend in and not be visible without digging into each line so putting uniforms into their own category puts them front and center and makes these proposed purchases much more visible um an area that you will see in the athletic budget uh where there are some slight increases it's both in athletic transportation and in software um these increases are do really just to inflationary price increases we're not trying to expand anything we're not trying to do anything drastically different than uh what we what we've been doing um also for this proposed budget we've included annual
047golf cart servicing in our athletic reconditioning line in the past this was paid for in a variety of different ways but just like what we're trying to do with the new uniform line item we just want to provide Clarity by including this service in the reconditioning line where we feel it makes the most sense um moving forward as part of the long-term capital plan we're evaluating the upgrade the locker room lockers as well as the bleachers and the soundproof paneling in the gym all of those are original to this building and they're really uh it's time um and uh lastly uh everyone here on this board is uh well aware of the interest held by the community in having turf fields install installed here at chog uh the community members that are spearheading the fundraiser
048for this are currently working with a local law firm uh at their recommendation of former member Jim herfield gave us the contact UM to set up a 501c3 nonprofit and uh pretty soon you should see materials being distributed to publicize this effort and to solicit some donations so those are really the highlights for the athletic department uh anyone have any questions only when you're on people who don't know I I don't know I don't know how many years ago nine 10 years ago I was giving her a ride somewhere uh during her homecoming and I don't know why I did this but I took a quick turn and lying off it was thank God we were on grass and not on black top towards the pond I'm just gonna say so I would I would
049encourage her to be seat belts I'm just saying we can look into that Matt one quick question uh what's going to be our next state championship oh boy Jinx no Jinx don't you know you don't like that better start knocking out right now Alex hope you know it's been a good year and there's no reason for that not to continue that's a good answer Matt thanks Matt appreciate it it's good hey reports and recognitions um I don't have a lot to say actually I know that's hard to imagine but um but I do want us to say one thing because I know um Lor is going to be talking about um the athletic sure but I did want to say I was sick last week and I didn't have the opportunity but I've been dying
050to go to the coffee house that um is here at chog for the triam and the um for the choir and uh I missed it but I did get little Snippets of it on Instagram and I'm just so blown away by the talent of our students here at chicag I think they're so amazing and I would love to be able to get a little uh sample of them to come at some point to thing to us but um I would encourage us in the future to maybe consider going to that at some point and and bring some of our family members to listen because I I just think the talent is just amazing so I was disappointed for missing it but I was happy to see a little bit of it on Instagram so tune
051in yes ma can you tell us when it is well it was last week I know so I don't know but I definitely will in the future um because I think it's something worth uh seeing because they're really amazing so that's it for me okay so before I go into Athletics I do have a few things so I wanted to first introduce uh for those who don't know Diane Decker uh who's from our College and Career uh counseling office and she will be filling in and taking minutes for us uh in place of Danielle who will be out for the next few meetings so I just wanted to say thank you for doing that um we have uh one thing the CIA boys basketball tournament uh number one ranked chog Spartans will host the CIA
052second round tournament uh game and that's I believe tomorrow um Tuesday uh at 6:30 and we'll play against uh number 17 ranked um Adam Killingworth cougars uh we have parent teacher conferences I can't believe we're already there at parent teacher conferences um and that is March 13th and 14th uh I will also be taking a leadership team again with me uh to the Caps uh spring conference and the theme uh coming up is leading transformational learning and shaping the future this will be held as it was last year for the first time at the Bristol Conference Center if you've never been there it's really really quite a nice place I took uh Carrie Snowden she wasn't even an employee yet and she came uh as well as the whole leadership team was last year it
053was well worth the trip um and if you there were there are always outstanding keynote speakers National Speakers U that's why Ron berer came to speak at our convocation and um The Learning targets um and the checking for understanding those instructional strategies we were talking about at a previous meeting that came out of that um and we were all I think inspired I know the we had they had such positive feedback all of my leadership team for that conference so I'm really hoping that we have the same experience we're all registered to go so we're excited about that and it really does help promot promote student learning and growth our understanding as we as we grow as well so and then I wanted to go through the uh winter athletic season is coming to a
054close it's been as you heard um Matt it's been a great season so the indoor track team is finished and having participated in the first ever Burkshire League championships um it was the first season that the league officially sponsored the sport two seniors on the team were recognized as Burkshire League All Stars Nathan steinis in the 300 meter race and Nate kic in the pool wall in both wrestling and girls basketball they finished their seasons and both have had their fair share of success senior girls basketball player uh Emma owire helped lead a team that showed a lot of in improvement over the season at throughout the season and they are look to compete for a top spot in the Burkshire League next season Chapo's wrestlers who compete on the Brookfield Chapa Co-op wrestling team
055finished their season uh and that was during last week's CIA tournament uh shog Senor senior Jimmy feather had a very successful season and our young wrestlers gain valuable experience during the season that will help them become more successful in the years to come uh the chog swim team recently competed in the Burkshire League championships and while the official Allstar list has not been uh released yet the team was voted by the league coaches as the winners of the Ted Alex sportsmanship award um led by yeah uh led by lone senior Sarah Waters the girls swimmers uh for shapo will compete at Saturday's Splash classic meet in planville before the entire Team Heads to the C CIA Championship meet um the ice hockey team led by shog seniors Claire Moore Luke Nichols Dan shelters pton Thomas
056and Miles Wilson had a successful regular season as well the team is is awaiting their CIA tournament draw and they expect to be on the road for a game next Monday the cheerleading team can't forget our cheerleaders led by senior Sarah Alexandro witz has been a fixture at the Ted Alex gym during home basketball games throughout our That season and they will travel with the boys basketball game to any and all CAC state tournament games that take place on the road next week and then last lastly the boys basketball team has had a historic season as of today they have a record of 23 to zero uh won the Burkshire League regular season title won the Burkshire league tournament title and our set um as I said to host the CIA second round and that's
057tomorrow so great job to all of our students I mean we really should be proud in this District we have some great athletes and then finally uh Personnel one appointment of w Ray bucknam who will be the boys tennis coach at chabog congratulations to him um is there any uh possibility of getting a f I know we do fan buses for the finals but next Monday's game is really far away and I feel it's extremely important to have presence chicog presence there um it's we don't know yet we right yeah we were last was it last week we were an hour away I mean we were over the river and through the woods and you know nag had this huge presence there and while we had a lot of you know students there it could
058have been more and I I feel if if it's really far away again um Lake View had a sandb that was semi Lake View had a s they must have had there and we had 13 kids something I it's a far drive I mean if I had a new driver I wouldn't want them driving up to you know Northwest and you know it's a car drive and it's a school night night and it's a late night so and I and I recognize that it does cost a lot of money to have a fan bus and I recognize that in the past we haven't had a a a a large showing for other sports um but basketball really seems to be um a huge attraction and like for me personally Ryan is a new driver and
059I didn't want him driving an hour so I was exhausted did but I drove him up there and you know just because I love going to the games anyway but I do know for a fact that there were plenty of other people that wanted to go and because they were new drivers or their parents couldn't drive them or they couldn't find a ride they didn't go and I feel if we make it you know if if we do well and um you know maybe get an idea of how many students would would want to participate and if if five say yes understood well that was that was going to be my next because I've been in schools where we had fan buses and it it always depends on the you know the district and how
060many students really want to participate um but Don I don't know if you wanted to say a word on that too just my yeah thanks for having a care for our fans yeah you know we've looked into before how to do this and do it well historically we when we get to the point of a state championship we've asked for a fan bus there could be other times where we should get one and It's tricky because we ran a couple this year and there was a high cost and low student um attendance but for those kids it was pretty pretty important you know what I mean they got to have this experience that they wouldn't have had otherwise I was on one of those buses there were maybe seven kids on the bus but those
061seven were like wow this is cool and an experience that they don't always get get to have so you know you try to balance that the budget impact against what we're really here for the kids and their experiences and I think sure if we can get a sense ahead of time of what the event is where it's going to be and maybe float a survey see how many people would use this service it would go and what are the costs we can evaluate it and see whether we can make something good happen for our kids we know we want um an audience there for our athletes and we want our kids to feel like they're part of the event and sometimes we can help that with a fan bust and then sometimes it turns out
062there's other ways that the kids get there and the same result happens so I think we should I think tomorrow what I should do is confer with Matt and try to figure out how we might get a handle on who would use this and when we would do it and then I'll I'll get back to how's that sound yeah supposedly Don one of the students has and I definitely think we should especially since now it looks like hockey is going to be a competing sport on Monday not albe it in the semifinal uh one of the kids did do do a survey of all of the kids and said 70% of the kids would be interested in fan bus for Monday night providing we get there for L yeah okay so we would we would
063do that and then try to lock people into you know that Earnest intention um and maybe even a reasonable contribution to to the to the ride and did you want to get my attention the the easiest way to do that we've done it in the past or other organizations have done it in the past is the kids pay something like $20 up front if you show for the fan bus you get your $20 back that's they have a little bit of you know so two things if 70% of our kids want to go we're gonna need more than one fan bus um but um there is money and is Matt still here no uh there is money in Gate receipts that comes in the central office now that that's a great use of that funding
064is to be yep he probably meant like 70% of one particular I don't think he meant 70% of whole school but yeah yeah okay well let's let's see if we can make something good happen and I'll I'll leave Mary um the other thing was how do people get tickets for tomorrow's basketball game now it's all online yeah show do it online um as you're standing there there's a QR code and you just do that they don't unfortunately take cash which is you can do it ahead of time yes yeah you can do it ahead of time and Matt send something out today I haven't opened it but Matt yes with the QR code okay good and I do I am doing it at the senior center for any seniors that want to go and can't
065figure it out they can come see me and I will get them set up cool yeah so we're all set with that okay thank you okay treasure report Okie do um uh Nicole has gotten out the February numbers uh dated February 28th and which I found amazing since I got this on February 28th uh there were only a couple of issues that we came up this this morning one was a requirement by the state that we Supply some services to private schools um uh including busing um uh that's running about it looks like we budgeted 990,000 for that uh it's something we can't avoid because it's state mandated if the uh certain number of students are from the state and other things uh anyway that's the one or one of the two items that I
066highlighted the other was our Frontier phone lines uh Don has been having a battle uh with Frontier about that uh good news is as of right now uh the percentage remaining after the uh uh encumbrances is 15.8% uh last year at this time it was 13.9 so we're in a little better position this year than we were last year at this time and that is my report from the treasurer well thank you Alan committee reports Agro science Mary there's no report but we will be meeting next Monday so we'll have a report next thank you curriculum Justin um nothing new our next meeting is March 24th okay at Advance Joe nothing new we have a meeting this Thursday thank you finance and operations Alex yes uh Nicole stole my thunder uh I was going to
067tell everybody about the quarter of a million dollars that we got back but uh he already did that um um anyway uh we had a meeting this morning um we went over the financials which I discussed we talked about some budget item transfers um is is people have mentioned today sometimes uh things get reclassified and move from one area to the other it's a net cost to us it's just a matter of verification um as you remember we uh at the last meeting uh authorized some money for the uh uh Turf program to pay for the the legal fees and uh we had any questions about the budget which there were none at the the meeting today and we did not particularly talk about Capital Improvements uh Don has uh put together a list of
068those and we've reviewed them in the past and that is it thank you Alex uh labor negotiations cor uh nothing to report policy Justin right nothing new our next meeting is in a at the end of April thank you uh strategic uh long range planning we met earlier today and Carrie uh presented about the teaching and learning Council subgroups and working on the Strategic plan she shared that there are four subcommittees that are working on the different strategic uh priorities uh powerful learning for the first three and then the last one is uh specifically for Innovation and delivering value so we're really excited about uh the work that they're doing and even more so that they're going to be coming to present their findings on May on May 19th to the board so we're looking
069forward to that so thank you so much and that is it for committees old business uh consider for approval second read of policy 3517 security of buildings and grounds right I move we accept proposed policy uh 3517 Security Buildings grounds for second read second anyone Vicki second discussion no all in favor anyone opposed extensions moving on new business nothing can I have a motion to adjourn second great thank you everybody