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Tolland Board of Education - August 27, 2025

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001Thank you everybody. We will call this meeting of the board of education to order at 707. If you will all rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, Dr. Willlet, acknowledgements. >> Yeah, we don't have any acknowledgements, sir, except that um Ariana Donair, I don't know if you noticed, she was featured on um Chelsea for the uh convention convention having won on the national level. >> So, we're going to post that on the website, but congratulations. >> Oh, I saw that. That was awesome. Yeah, that was good to see. >> You did a great job. Amazing. All right. Do we have any additions to

002the agenda? All right. Seeing none, I want to entertain a motion for the approval of the August 13th minutes. >> So move. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> All right. Rainy. >> I Bill. >> Hi. I Dana. Hi >> Kai >> Jaden. >> I Katie >> I >> Dr. Willlet Minutes are approved. Public participation. The members of the Talm Board of Education welcome the members of the public to share their thoughts and ideas at this time. When appropriate to do so, members of the board and the administration may respond to comments during points of information. However, in consideration of those in attendance and in an effort to proceed in a timely manner, follow-up discussion may need to take place outside of the meeting set. Would like to speak, please raise your hand or approach the owl.

003As always, please start with your name and address for the minutes. Go twice. If anybody out there would like to speak, please raise your your Zoom hand or approach the hour. And hearing none, we will close public participation. Mr. Willie, correspondence. >> We have one email concerning uh our school teacher sentence and Dr. Willard took care of. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. points of information. Would anybody from the board like to speak? >> Yes, I would. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I just wanted to reference back a few meetings back that um Rainey I've made a statement about some possible uh revenue uh generating opportunities for the district um about adding them to future agendas. I know we've been dealing with the executive session with the review and whatnot, but I was hoping hopefully

004sometime in the next uh several meetings we can add one or two and try to get through them before we get into the next budget cycle and into the holidays and all that. I think that'll be good for everybody whether you know we get a thumbs up, thumbs down, people do don't want to do it and at least explore and have a conversation amongst us. >> No, absolutely. I appreciate that. >> We'll bring it up to the next agenda planning. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else like to speak? All right. Seeing none, committee and liaison reports curriculum. We had a good discussion today just before this meeting about uh the uh impending NEAS uh visit, the accreditation visit. So, we went over um what is um being done, the uh the specifics of what they

005gave us a few years ago of what they would like to see done and what we've done in the meantime. So it was a it was a good discussion and uh we are being assured and uh from the data that was presented to us it looks like we will be fully prepared and um you know not have any issues with uh what was requested for us to uh begin working on >> communication. Yeah, we had um first meeting since the end of the school year. Um we uh just went over some um changes that were happening or information I was going out to parents preschool start next week. Um so went over some things regarding um uh staff and what they're using these early days for and professional development and uh moving forward I get

006updated what the professional development will be doing throughout the throughout the year. So I'll be able to communicate some of that back. Wonderful. >> Yes. So, we met and apologies in advance if you hear any kids in the background. Soloish parenting. Um but um got my noise cancelling. Um but we uh we reviewed the first monthly financial report really for the school year. Um nothing big to report here. We actually discussed it in the last board of education meeting as well. Walked through the capital requests. There are a couple items that we're we want to obviously highlight at the board level, but um we got approval from FFC basically just to move it upstream. So, that's going to be coming in a future agenda. And we got a another solar update, but I don't want

007to steal the superintendent's report thunder tonight as it looks like that's on the uh the agenda here. So, we'll see what the update is for the team and we'll leave it at that. >> Sounds good. Thank you, Dan. Yep. >> Policy Nothing at this time, Tom. >> And Jim's not here, but Bill, for negotiations, you have negotiations and press. >> Yeah, just ongoing negotiations with the uh the administrators, so it's making good progress. >> Okay. >> Jen, her her stepdaughter. >> Oh, yay. >> Baby was born. Yeah, just awesome. Well, congratulations arrived today. Everybody just breaking news. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right. Think that's all of the All right. So, chairperson support. I I will actually be brief. Uh, you know, my my daughter teaches in another district that that started early, so

008I was helping her early in the week set up her first classroom. >> Yeah. and you know the poor girl trying to deal with my lack of construction paper abilities but but doing what I can and just reflecting on you know Tuesday that happens here and Friday as all the kids go do the meet the teachers and the schools open up and all the bustling. Uh, I just want to, you know, again, lend my thanks and my appreciation, my admiration to all of our our teachers, our staff, our our janitors, everybody that it takes to to open those doors and to keep this place running. Um, I I do not envy what you do because it is so much, but I'm absolutely thrilled and blessed that that you do it. So, thank you. >> All

009right, Dr. Dr. Willlet superintendent report after Dan has set the stage for you. >> Right. So um you may have noticed in the um folder or the board of ed on the dashboard we provided the solar information that the FFC had reviewed and um and this solar there's two companies right now that we've been working with oops I got the wrong um you know that we've been working with over the last year we have Titan Gen Green Skies and we have um and we have aces up and so uh you know I did meet with the town manager um and we talked about it then I met with FFC and I confirmed today with town that we will be on the September 9th town council agenda. Uh currently the attorneys are reviewing the PPAs the

010half purchase power power purchase agreements andus which are um memorandum of understanding basically contracts. We can't use the shipment and goodwin contract for the aces up um or can't use the ship and gooden attorneys for aces up because they use shipment and goodwin as well. So, we're using Robinson and Cole to review the ACES up um documents contract and we're using um Chipwin to review the Titan Gen Green skies contract. Um Titan Gen Green skies would be doing a BGP roof and be doing the cantalver at the high school and aces up would be more at TIS TMS buildings for solar. right now the the roof the situation of the overlay roof um Peter Stav is looking and reviewing the overlay roofs and um after conversation with multiple stakeholders there was a decision to let

011that process play out before we committed to an overlay roof because you can do an overlay roof at any time. Um and that part of it uh could drag beyond the deadlines that we need to hit to move forward with these processes. And September 15th is our deadline to submit to with Penres into the um into the supply program and you know that might um that might create a potential obstacle to hitting that deadline. So, um, that that's something you could also do in the coming year if you wanted to, but it doesn't hurt to take a little bit of time to take a step back on that one and let Pete run the bases with people that have had those overlay roofs and um, you know, and then be sensitive to um, getting all

012the information ahead of that because you can you could resubmit again, you know, for that next or the district could actually commit to that and do that on its own or the town can do it on its own. You don't get reimbursed for an overlay project as we talked about it can be 1.3 to 1.5 that you'd be spending wouldn't get any reimbursement whereas on a state project full roof you get reimbursement there's but you're spending more and there was a feeling that there was more time needed just to look at that discussion >> this document has everything. It has the references, it has the companies, it has the the minutes. I have to add the FSC minutes in on tonight's meeting when we get there. But if you want, you know, when you look

013at it, it's got everything in there. Um, soups and nuts. And it also talks about um you know what the terms mean front of the meter behind the meter and uh and then the end of the document is essentially the timeline here the next steps get the references the review of legal counsel town manager acceptance we are on step four of the file >> so titan genen that was the um the first company we we >> authorized for >> that's also doing the canal lever and >> we're breaking it So they're they're >> so they're doing Birch Grove and the C. Was there a reason why because the Birch Grove was essentially the same? >> Yeah. >> Between Aces Up and >> Titan Titan Jen Sooner and it was >> they had what? >> They

014were in sooner on Birch Grove. Okay. You guys had approved them earlier, >> right? >> They're ready to respond, you know. Okay. Same thing. But um >> because that that one if I remember right in front of the meter so both of them are are essentially the same. they were treating they they each had a different approach and I don't think ACE is really minded that Titan Gen you know would take that right >> because of the approach Titan Gen is taking with um that particular project being here right >> for the Titan Gen people >> and they're also um doing the canal levers at the high school are are we looking to combine that with the repaving of the of the entire parking lot >> that's what some of conversations are is they're going

015to be doing it because you you know that's going to all probably come about on the other end of the fence that there's possibly some synergies or happening at the same time. Um and again there was that feeling from some of the stakeholders as this has been rolling along that you know let's watch out that piece you know just these are the manageable pieces but now the other one might bring up some questions about bidding and get wine and you know all of that which would slow everything kind of down and this has to be ready to roll by the 15th >> right and then the going on top of the high school um the only thing holding that up is just the uh uncertainty of the uh the the co going over as opposed

016to ripping and replacing. >> Right. >> Okay. And going over like you said, just to make sure I understand it right, we don't get any reimbursement from the state. >> Right. >> It's cheaper, but you don't get any >> Sure. It's cheaper, but there'd be no reimbursement from the state. And in essence, um, we really wouldn't be saving the town anything like we would be going the other way, but having a longer warranty >> with a w with a new roof as opposed to a go over. >> Yeah. I mean, the warranties are about the same, but there's question marks about the >> sure >> overlay that can't be don't seem like they're going to get resolved >> in time. in time. Yeah. >> And if that holds it up, you could lose the whole

017>> like if that one item prevented the rest of this moving forward, then none of it goes forward and the federal funding for this sentence. >> Gotcha. So, >> but that that potentially reopens annually that type of funding. So >> yeah, we don't know the future, but but we do know the federal government is scaling back on programs like the solar. >> Okay. Yeah, for sure. >> So that's that's so if this thing got held up for some reason for that technicality when that piece could be worked out a bunch of different ways >> um and there's been questions about it, you know, there's been questions um then if all of this got held up then none of none of it will potentially happen. So, I think that's that's the reason why that one's sort

018of like let's sideline that because these things I think most people will probably review this and go, you know, no-brainer on these other ones. But that one is the one thing that seems to be gathering some lightning rod energy. Now, if we, you know, we we do all of this now and then a year from now or two years from now, we we do the high school, we're going to have two separate PPA agreements, >> you'll have Yeah, you'll you'll basically have Jan working skies and then ACES and their contractors. But, but it's all at the end of the day, you're still, you know, it's not bad to split out maybe your >> Sure. And I'm not I'm not saying that. But if we have we have a a PPA with aces and then two

019years from now we do the high school roof, then we'll have another PPA potentially with aces >> or the other >> on less favorable terms >> because energy costs aren't going down. >> Yeah. I mean I I don't in one year I don't know if there'll be less but but I think there's just a feeling that in the span of the next few months they'll the lot will come to there'll be a lot better of a sense of the overlays >> whereas I don't know if everybody's on 100% on page with the overlay right now which could drag everything to us >> tell you there's no doubt that a new roof is better than an overlay. at the end of the day if that ends up, you know, we could go over there and and

020the high school has an array already, you know. >> Yeah. >> And things like that. So, >> okay. >> I'm I I do apologize. I had some stuff going on that I had missed that other uh meeting. We had the meeting before last with this aces up, I believe it was. So, what are we looking for this evening? Are we looking to make an official decision here? Is this justformational? Just an update. This is just >> an update to you as to where we are because um >> it's got to go in front of the >> go council making sure you guys are all on page. You FFC looked at it. You're looking at it and the next next step is over there. So, uh so I'm just looking at the bottom here. So there

021was a discussion last night. Do we know anything was says the 26th August 26 presented temp? >> Well, it was the Yeah, sorry. Yeah, it says that they felt the ninth would be the >> Oh, okay. One of the options was that actually I should make it clear that not strike it out. That was one thing at the time, but this document's old is a few weeks old now and it's been added to. >> So, originally the question was could we do it, but I think there was just too much on the agenda at that point. >> Okay. All right. So the 9th and then whenever our next meeting after that we'll have some more. >> The attorneys are all doing their thing right now anyway. So if we had tried to do it on

022August 26, the attorneys wouldn't have had all their stuff in line, you know. >> I mean, we're right on the edge, >> but they will for the 9th. >> I have no reason to believe they will not. I mean, you know, we're I I have to get it over to the council by the third. So I They know that. They know that. And they know your dates. All right. Thanks. Anybody else? All right. Seeing none, Dr. Willlet, item N1, Board of Education meeting date. So, it's that time of year again where you get to choose your upcoming year meeting dates every week. Um, >> you're not the one allowed to do that. >> Pretty sure you're not covering the audience a couple times for, you know, little seat there. >> You fill a seat there

023every now and again, huh? >> Yeah. >> So, so these are your these are your upcoming year dates. Should you choose to accept them? Like you can hear the Miss Impossible music going. Um, June, you do tend to cancel that second one. July, you know, there's cancellations, August. So, those are the ones. So, you kind of have to decide, you know, if you want to or not, you can kind of leave it in there as possible because you might do it. Um, but if you are approving this tonight, essentially, you're just approving these dates with maybe cancellations on the ones that say possible cancellation because if historically, you have canceled those, too. >> Correct. All right. So, I looked over this uh day or two ago. I have a few changes to try to keep

024the um flow of every two weeks, I think, um is a better kind of role with the team, so to speak, than every week. Sometimes people get busy every week and have one meeting and then you have the weekend and then you come the next week, it's kind of sometimes people aren't at full attention of what's even on the agenda. So, in good faith of that movement, I do have a few suggestions. Um, I'd like in April, we'll start with April, we move that one for the 15th for Passover. Um, I'd like to see if that one for April 22nd, it's going to be moved instead of having two in a row to the 29th of April. Um, would be one suggestion. And then because there isn't another one until the 13th, which should still

025keep that two week rotation going. >> Hold on just a minute. Dr. Wiggling kind of going to our calendar here. See where >> this is 25. >> There's a PD. I guess that won't really affect that. Um I don't know what the town's schedule is though either. >> They usually have stuff on Tuesday. >> Yeah. So uh I have no I mean I work for you but I I don't know a lot of times the board has done that they are everyone everyone knows all the committees in town and all that know that the boards are always the second and fourth of the month almost always and so that there's that general understanding among these groups about where each person's each board's stuff falls. >> Yeah there was five Wednesdays in that month April. So,

026I don't know if there's anything on the town side on that or you know, >> I apologize. I'm looking at 20. I got sidetracked here, but yeah, that that's what I I wanted to see if we can change that. So, >> uh the other one was um um so there was one here for June 24th says uh uh move possibly due to an admin administrative retreat. as it we're a year out. Can we not have the retreat another day instead of this particular day that we schedule those a year out? The last retreat which was last summer is scheduled out for next time next time, you know. So basically it's already hard schedule but um when we have those it runs long and sometimes late but I mean if you don't that's possible it's not

027like not set in stone so you don't have to cancel it. >> I think it's just been sometimes you have although interestingly enough I don't really think admin retrieve is the reason it got cancelled >> this time. I guess probably Jen just put it in there because it does overlap the retreat, but that's not been I don't think that was the reason and I slept last. >> It's just that it is the thing that goes into the afternoon and then just roll right in. It might we might not have a hundred items on that one because end of >> Yeah. No, I know sometimes I do get cancel because it's probably near the end of school, but >> I don't think Yeah, that's the reason. >> I just thought I was a year out. All

028right. And then the other one um hold on here. The other one I had for notes was August. That was fine. So once we got into Oh, October. Oh, I'm working with the calendar as I go here. I apologize. Oh, here. So the one in November. So we have one in November 11th and then we have a backto back um to the 18th. Um is it possible that we can >> you pull that one forward up because of Thanksgiving? >> Yeah, I'm going to push that after Thanksgiving. >> It was somewhere I was looking that there was a here the 20 Hold on. September 23rd. Oh yeah. So can we move? So what I was at So what? So >> September. It's November. >> No, no, but that affects the November. So here September 9th

029we September uh we have a meeting on the 23rd of September. But then there's a 3-week gap all the way till October 14th. If we just rolled back October to the 7th and the 21st to still keep that two week rotation, then November would be November 4th and then the 18th like you suggested. So it wouldn't affect the Thanksgiving break. We wouldn't we would have that two week span throughout almost the entire year. Do you see what I'm saying? Anyone? >> Yes. I do get what you're saying. Yeah. That's my proposal or my That's what I had to say. I got a question. >> If if our meetings are traditionally the second and the fourth Wednesday, why was a year ago, why was there a retreat scheduled on a fourth Wednesday? >> Out of all

030the days, >> you know, the 10day thing that we talked about negotiation >> where we have the question on >> Yeah. is the the 10day >> does that keep it within the 10 day? I mean, why not on the day before? >> But usually it's it has to be once school has ended and then there's some contractual stuff that happens one or two days after school and then got >> and then then it can't go beyond the 10 because then you lose the people. So that's it usually is nestled right in to the end of school actual things happening one or two days after that those three days and then that's it. people attending a monitor's leave and all that. So, and it's done a year in advance because they have to be told a

031year in advance not to schedule those days. Those are not allowed to be taken off as vacation personal, you know, if something happens obviously, but they're not they know a year in advance. So, that there's nothing that could be scheduled for those times. But in any case, that's really not that's probably not a reason why it would be cancelled. I just would go from that right into this in the AP planning meeting. Maybe we just have to know I'm going to be running from, you know, over here right back over here to set up. But it's it's really not a reason to cancel it. That's kind of just just happens to be there. You don't have to cancel it for that reason. You could keep it. It's not cancelled on this uh agenda here. It

032says possible. It just means >> you may you may decide. >> I see how Yeah, I see that. that says possible, but I'm, you know, I'm just concerned that the second and the fourth Wednesday doesn't change. And uh, you know, I understand why it was put there because of the contractual 10 days. I I totally get that. Um, just, you know, just happens to be that it's on a day that we have a meeting. >> Yeah. And it it really >> and it stinks for you having to run from that to run to this. It >> It's not a reason. It really doesn't have to be cancelled for that reason. I don't think we did it this last cycle because of that. >> So, personally, I you know, after this year, you know, we kind

033of got jammed up with cancelling meetings with Dr. Willlet's contract. So, I don't really think that we should be thinking about cancelling potentially four meetings in a row. It just I mean why does it have to even say that? Because it's almost like now the suggestion is there now it's a definite thing and people are like oh yay you know we're we're cancelling. So why does it have to say that? Can't it just be these are the meetings and then when you get to that >> section, okay, we can talk about it. >> But >> I mean, there's stuff that needs to get done. And to talk about, you know, doing like kind of like two months potentially, you know, if you take the last one in June, all of July and the first one

034in August, that's a lot of time. And there is things that need to be done. There's end of the year, there's this, that, and the other. So, I just feel like that is kind of a bad look and you know just leave the dates on there and that that's just my opinion. >> Yeah, Dr. Willlet, I would agree. When you when this whatever gets voted um the copy that then goes into the record and goes onto the dashboard should not have possible cancellation. >> Yeah, that's stricken. That's just for your own >> Yeah, let's just get rid of that for agree. It's just it's just traditional, you know. The information is good. Okay. Uh, anybody else? I'm sorry, Penny. Was that >> All right. So, this is import action. If the board likes, we can

035vote to approve with or without modifications depending on the motion. >> Like to make a motion. Nobody else online to >> nobody speak. >> Nope. Go ahead. >> I'd like to make a motion with um the proposed 2026 meeting dates with keeping the April 15th meeting due to the Passover. Moving the second April meeting to April 29th, 2026 on a Wednesday and moving the moving September, right? >> Yeah, we're moving the Trying to count backwards. It would be September. I apologize. 11 brain free. >> I was talking about November. >> We're trying to fix the November. We You're trying to fix the November issue where two weeks in a row. >> Yeah. So, moving the no the November uh November 11th meeting to November 4th, moving the the October 28th meeting to October 21st, and

036moving the October 14th meeting to October 7th. What I done? >> Dr. Will, you want to read that back? >> Says say if you can say again. >> So mo moving the a the ap in April moving the April 22nd >> the 29th. the 29th >> and then in October moving the four October 14th to October 7th and moving October 28th to October 21st and moving November 11th to November 4th >> and the intent is to keep a twoe interval. >> Yes. as I I know as a a current board member having a meeting on a Wednesday evening, having Thursday, Friday the weekend, and then trying to prep and have any sort of data for that following meeting on on Wednesday with work and kids and everything else. It's almost impossible for my at least

037lifestyle to give any concentrated focus on on what needs to be thought about. >> So the motion as it stands, Dr. Will it what >> is to is to approve the um the dates with the exception of moving the 20 April 22nd to April 29th, moving October 14th to October 7th, moving October 28th to October 21st, and moving November 11th to November 4th. >> That is 100% correct. Do we have a second? >> Second discussion. >> So I I don't know what it does to it and I don't mind at all. I'm coming no matter what. But um it puts it you're coming off of the second and fourth which is okay. This is that's what generally >> before >> right but I'm just saying so for a couple of months you will not be

038on the second and fourth. So people might be if they're saying we found that let me get that. >> Okay. So Dan I see your hand up. I also wanted to ask you that there's nothing in policy that says we have to do the second and fourth. >> Um Tony, not that I'm aware of and I apologize for the background noise as I'm at a hotel for work conference, but um I think I don't think we should move forward with all these changes. I think that we can come have a conversation about these changes, send them back to Dr. Willlet and Jen Palumbo to cross reference the district calendar as well as Walt's calendar, not Dr. Willlet's calendar. I know that a lot goes into it. I know there's a lot of moving parts above

039and beyond what we're just seeing. I appreciate what Brian's suggesting, but that's like I don't even know, four or six meetings that we're attempting to move without seeing the remainder of the calendar in existence. So, if we want to look at it, I I suggest we send it back to Jen Flombo and have her review the suggestions. Any other discussion start? >> Um, >> yeah, I forgot, but I think that's fair. I think that's fair just to have Jen look at it and because we don't even know if the room's available. >> she would have to double check all those things. So, we could be >> meeting usually coming up in curriculum with some of these, you know, that kind of thing would move maybe if you wanted to. But anyway, she can look at

040all of that. Yeah. And come back to you. next time. >> So, what do we do with the motion? >> Or do you want it? So, right now, we have a motion as a second. If you'd like to withdraw it, add it or we got to vote. >> Yeah, I I'll let it be reviewed then. >> You will draw your >> Yeah, I'll we'll draw under the premise of it being reviewed by Jen and bring us the next meeting. >> Do you have those dates though? >> No, I didn't. I'm going to put them in now. Can I are we still in discussion? >> Yes. Yes. >> There's also the possibility, Brian, that we just vote how it is and then when the new board comes in in November, we review the calendar again with

041the with the new board >> that we have. So, you know, we could, you know, depending on what the review has, just just vote it how it is, the second report, and then under the new board, we we make sure it's on agenda to look at those things >> because it's far enough out that once the new board comes in in November, those things can be discussed. >> Yeah. I was trying to most benefit of everyone's time here. That's all. >> No, it makes sense. And I'm sure it's very difficult for him for his office or himself to go from one meeting on a Wednesday night to all of a sudden trying to get stuff prepared a weekend for us the following week as well. So So we'll move on. Thank you. >> All right.

042So Dr. Willlet, if you would let's take that calendar with the recommendations Brian put forward and run it through its paces. >> Sure. >> And uh see if we can't get that on agenda planning for the next time. [Music] Okay, got it. All right, moving on then. Public participation comments, please be limited to items on the agenda. Again, if you are online and would like to speak, raise your Zoom hand, be recognized. If you're in the room, please approach the the owl. As always, please start with your name and address for the minutes. I can't see. >> I don't see any. >> Anybody online? Dr. Will, I can't My computer's being challenged at time. Nobody's got their hand. Okay. All right. Seeing none, I'm moving on. points of information. Many from the board would like

043to speak. Uh go ahead. I could give you just a little um a little quick overview of um Yes. Love that. And um and let me pull this out. the staffing, you know, because a lot of schools, you know, being in the year, there's always the news saying, "Oh, everybody short. We're doing a great job for staffing." Just point of good order. Um the men and HR offs been working amazing. First Grove is fully staff. Um TIS were welcoming one of the new teachers on September 15th and a new and an RN, a new RN on September 19th. TMS is fully staffed. Um there may be a special ed opening, but right now they are fully staffed in the high school. Um we have a former teacher stepping in to start the year while we

044continue to fill a chemistry position that uh went to Hartford. Um and we're actively filling three special ed positions. So Brow fully staffed, TIS basically fully staffed welcoming an RN teacher, TMS fully staffed. Um there might be a special para we have to staff but fully staffed otherwise and ths um we have a retired person stepping in to help for um for chemistry and then um three special >> any any other challenges getting in the way of >> No seems to be going really well. We have our meet and greets coming up the next day or so and uh we're finishing uh we're are finishing day two of our convocation in PD and heading into day three. Um and uh you know we teachers have been doing great. All the other staff been doing great.

045Um we expect a really great opening. >> Uh the buses they've done their practice runs. >> They're doing their runs. The um new >> the routes are up there for everybody to see. First view is there for anyone to log into. Um sent the routes out probably April 21st or 2nd with some updates. April 22nd all the letters went home from all the schools too. April um and then I we sent something today >> August 2nd. >> What did I say? April. Oh god. August August 22nd 21st and 22nd and then we'll tell the futures. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. >> So, yeah. So, things are going great and um and I sent out another communication today. Superintendent's bulletin the first one and it had all that stuff in it to boxes and and view.

046So, things are going great. >> Just how are does the paras are all staffed too? Because I know that's always been a challenge. >> Yeah. Well, how about a few the special ed there's some special ed ones that you have to staff with three. >> Okay. Well, that's good. Right. >> Three or four. >> Well, there's one, three at high school, one >> hang on knows what happens. >> But oh, wait. No, >> what happened? This is now remember every month it changes. It fluctuates. But what what I can say is this teacher staff's usually pretty. >> All right, that's good. >> So special ed parents were at the high school thing. You said some three. >> Yeah. And then the we have the lead program extends across all the schools. So shifting >> okay

047but um yeah any other comments? >> Yeah I just I was uh referencing the town council minutes. So, looks like the audit was complete and 3:35 will be transferred over to the board of edf >> that'll help take the middle school. >> The audit gets the Yeah, the >> there's a the audit usually in the third quarter of the fiscal year. So, it would be talking is that I haven't looked at what their minutes are talking about. I have to review it, but you know, it's probably talking about last year's confirmation of an audit week. Our audits for the close of this year won't happen until >> third quarter of this coming year. So that's probably last year's confirmation. >> Well, okay. >> I haven't looked at their minutes there because I haven't even >>

048All right. There. >> That's all I was commenting was reading. All right. Go ahead. I'm all set. >> You did? >> Yeah. >> Anybody else put some information? All right, seeing none, we'll move on. Entertain a motion to enter executive session for purpose of superintendent evaluation. >> Oh, so moved. >> Inviting Dr. Will. >> Any second? >> Second >> discussion. Okay. Ready? Hi >> Brian. >> Hi >> Bill. Hi Dana. >> Hi >> Dan. >> Hi. >> Was that me Tony? I'm sorry. >> Yes sir. Yes sir. >> Hi. >> And Katie. >> Hi. >> We will enter exit session. Dr. to the fear.

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