001Um for roll call. Michael Buller. Michael Ber He Sharon. Michael Sharon. He Joe Kleti Joe Kleti He Kirstston Erlandson Kirstston Erlandson Andover Pam Fington Pam Fington Marorrow Carrie Folino Harry Folino Marorrow Drew Gin Drew Gin Marorrow Gabe Marks uh Gabe Marks Hebra Amy Romanchuck Amy Romanchuck Marorrow Scott Soyette Scott Soyette Andover Heather Heather Summer, Brianna Autooku here, Samantha Maxwell Middle School, and Oliver from high school. Right. And everybody rise to the pledge of allegiance of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Perfect. So that takes us to public comments. He Andover and Marble community engagement and attendance at board of ed public meetings is welcomed. The public comment section of the meeting agenda is set aside so the board may receive public comments.
002Procedurally, public remarks will be limited to three minutes and citizens will be asked to identify themselves. Because the board is limited by the Freedom of Information Act to discussing only matters on the agenda, the board is not permitted to engage in a discussion of the comments presented. Is there anyone present that like to public comment? Okay. Anyone online? Hearing none. Okay, perfect. Um, next we have the addlete agenda items. I I'll move that we add agenda item 10.7 discussion and possible actions on the food service inter school agreement with Marro public schools to the current agenda under new and unfinished business seconded. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? I againstain passes unanimous. and the student life report. Um, I guess I'll start us off. Um, welcome everybody to March. We finally have our shades
003open. We can see outside. Um, today wasn't a very nice day. However, it has been nice and past. I'm very excited about it. I love warm weather. I love being warm. Just I want to get out of winter, guys. So, we're getting there. I'm very happy about that. Um, so some things on the agenda for March. Um, so we have our trivia night. Ram trivia night Thursday. I'm going to be participating this year. I'm very excited. Um, you're looking at the future winner. So, you know, we also had last week our blood drive. Um, that was very successful as it always is. I'm very happy. You know, RA is a part of that. The last two things, um, we have our Decad field trip and we had our kids versus B uh, Cops basketball game.
004That's all I have. Um, we also have the SATs coming up tomorrow and then the seniors have their portfolio redoss and makeups. Yeah, for anybody that missed them. And I'm a little louder, please. Sorry. Um, yeah, really not much going on for March. So um for RAM middle school we had our student le conferences um earlier and all students had to prepare slideshow to show their parents their progress in school so far. Students either showed their parents at home or at an imper in-person conference at school. Um Matilda the musical was also this weekend for the middle school and the high school. The Ram players club did an amazing job and their hard work definitely paid off. Um also happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody. To celebrate, Ram Middle School is having a spirit week
005this week and today was green day. In upcoming news, all students have smarter balance testing coming up soon. John everybody is very thrilled about to say the least. Um, also any middle school band, chorus, and jazz students who auditioned and are accepted into the Eastern Regional Festival um are having their concert this Saturday, March 22nd. We have put in a lot of work um to prepare for this concert and are very excited to show off our skills. Thank you. Thank you all. Um the board of ed chair report I don't have anything additional to report so I'll turn it over to Colin. So thank you. I uh yes happy St. Patrick's Day indeed. Best holiday of the year in my opinion as an Irishman. Um and also happy almost spring. Um I agree with you
006Oliver. I'm super excited when I leave work and it's not pitch blackout. Um that's always an exciting thing for for to to be happy about. So it's great. Um the the what I also want to start with with regards to the report of the superintendent is uh March is also board appre board board of education appreciation month and I wanted to take this as an opportunity on behalf of the faculty and staff and the students to thank our uh board of education members or student board of education members for representing their respective talent or for their respective schools. Um the the contributions that you all make are um often go unseen. Um and but I certainly know as I work with all of you very closely that um a lot of the great things that
007happen here in uh region 8 are a result of uh support that you provide to the district um and to students and staff. So um what we put together just so everybody can see it is at their place everybody should have uh just a not pad regional school district 8 board of education notepad and then there is also a notebook that we had personalized stickers made up with a RAM logo. So, um, those are for all the board members and for those board members that are either not here or attending remotely, we will make sure, thank you, that, uh, we get those, um, uh, tokens of our appreciation sent out to you, um, in the coming days. Uh, just to piggyback on something that was already mentioned, we did have a blood drive last Thursday.
008Um, we had our medical career students here a couple of weeks, a couple of months ago. Uh, Kathy Green and her medical career students do a fantastic job. just to put some um information or specific data. Uh they collected 85 pints of blood over the course of the day. Um and 21 of those uh individuals were firsttime donors, which is a pretty cool thing. I I think I've said this before. Uh the first time I ever donated blood, which I've been doing for years and years and years and years, was actually when I was a high school senior. Um so hopefully those 20 uh 21 students or adults who donated for the first time, it will hopefully not be their last. Uh, I also want to congratulate the Ram Math High School, the Ram High
009School math team for the successful 24-25 season. Uh, the team finished third overall in the Greater Middle Sex County Math League and the junior varsity team finished second of second overall out of 10 uh, different teams in their league. So, certainly a wonderful accomplishment. And finally, I also want to congratulate the cast crew and faculty adviserss of the Ram uh, Ram Players Club. Um, I was able to, um, attend opening night of the show, which was on Thursday night, and there were also shows on Friday night and Saturday night. Um, I I I think that we had some tired cast members on Sunday who probably slept quite a bit because, uh, um, it it was a a long show and it was really, really well done. Uh, it's just another great example of the hard
010work, dedication, and talents that our students have, and uh, I appreciate their work to provide such an outstanding and entertaining show to the school community. And that concludes my uh superintendent report. Thank you. Um next we have the studentprogram spotlight. So I I'll just start this off as well. Um the board knows I've said it often in these meetings that um unified sports, unified theater, it's uh one of my favorite events to go to uh that I get the opportunity to go to. And so I was thinking the other week that it would be wonderful to highlight the unified program. And um I talked to uh Mr. Trudeau, our athletic director, to talk specifically about uh unified sports and he has brought some students with him to talk a little bit about uh their participation
011and our coaches as well and and advisers. So I appreciate everybody being here for for this. And I'll turn it over to have Mr. Trudeau start us off. Thank you. Why don't we have um all of the students and and coaches too that are here um you can kind of just come up and surround me at the podium. Um on behalf of all these student athletes and coaches, you know, thank you for taking uh tonight and taking this opportunity to recognize this um this great athletic program and uh athletic team that we offer for uh the high school and the middle school. Um you know, piggybacking off of what Dr. McNamera said, uh, this is, uh, personally one of my favorite, um, athletic programs and and, uh, sports and two teams that we we offer
012here here at RAM. Um, that, uh, that I get to oversee and and frankly, I just get to enjoy. Um, Erin, I'll let you change the slides. Um, I'm not really going to read off the slides, but I think our our slide presentation has a lot of great pictures with a lot of smiles in it that uh I think capture what Unifi's all about. Um, but you might be asking, what is unified sports? Um, unified sports is a program that uh is affiliated directly with Special Olympics and the Special Olympics organization. Um, it started way back in the 90s. Um, and RAM has been a founding member, uh, as as far as I know, um, you know, for as long as it's been offered in the state of Connecticut for for, uh, uh, intercolastic athletics.
013Um, it's it's a sport or a group of sports that combines uh, our student athletes, our unified student athletes with our peer helpers of similar age groups. Um, Aaron, you can go ahead and change it. Um they do compete in sort of light competitive environments. Um which is absolutely fantastic because it focuses on development, skill development. Um important athletic development and and physical development of of our student athletes. Um and probably most importantly social interaction and fun for these guys. Um but again they compete in a light competitive atmosphere. um it is an exemplar model of what sportsmanship is and what sportsmanship should be um across the board in in high school athletics and and middle school athletics. And and personally I wish uh you know every sport from football to boys lacrosse to girls
014basketball all had kind of the same um mentality of sportsmanship and appreciation of each other and and appreciation of each other as as competitors. Um, all right, Aaron, you can go to the the last one for me. Um, again, I talked about it over the years. Um, RAM has been a a founding member of this program. Uh, it's like competition. We we engage in traditional competition with other uh neighborhood high schools, area high schools. Um, we participate in statewide tournaments for both the middle and high school. Uh and our high school team has even participated at Moheaggan Sun um during the uh finals of state championship basketball games um which actually took pa took place this weekend. Ram wasn't a competitor this year, but I believe the year before we were um during uh the
015the Northwest Catholic and KBY Cathedral um state championship basketball game. So, that's just a again a great atmosphere and a great uh exhibition uh to show off these these great student athletes. Um we have three students uh who have volunteered their brave time to talk. Um I'm going to list them off and let them fight over who wants to go first, second, and third here. But we have Olivia Talaga from our high school team, Evelyn Leage from our high school team, and Rhys Loma as a representative from our middle school team. Hi, my name is Evelyn. Um, I've been a part of the unified basketball team for the past three years. Um, I really enjoy being a part of this team. Um, it's just a very non-toxic sport and I love doing it. Um, I
016think it's important because it provides equal opportunities for those who aren't able to participate in the other sports. Um, and it's just in a very open and inviting environment for both the peers and the players. Um, like last year we had like I think like 10 peer helpers and this year we had more than 20 which I think that was great that people want to participate in this and yeah, it's just a very important aspect to RAM and making it more inclusive. Thank you. Hi. Hi. I am I am I am a junior at WHIM High School. I have been playing Uni B since seventh grade. Uni B is fun. My favorite part is playing with my friends and I have met a lot of friends play basketball. I I see them in my class
017launch and in the hallways. We all to go away. I have been to E Smith High School, Rockville High School, and Town High School. Does anyone have any presents? I do. What's your favorite favorite part of it? Oh, it is. Yeah. Always told me it's being on the bus with us. Yeah. [Applause] Um, hi, my name is Rhys Aloma. Uh, this is my first year doing unified basketball and I thought it was a really cool experience and it gave me an opportunity to spend time with my friends and also build newer friendships. I was able to help the help the athletes learn sportsmanship with the opposing team as well as being able to learn how to be a positive teammate to one another. One new friendship that I made this year was with Arion and
018uh I did not know who he was before we started playing and now I enjoy giving him a high five in the hallways every time we see each other. Overall, this has been a very positive experience for me and I hope to continue and do it again next year in eighth grade. [Applause] All right, that was a great job by all three of you student athletes. Um, do we want to do a a picture? Sure. Do we still do that? Yeah. All right. So, what we're going to do is we're going to have the student athletes and coaches um kind of line up in between the tables right now. And does anybody have any questions before we go for I I can go for I I just would be curious. So, the people that spoke
019did a phenomenal job. Olivia, I love the question that you answered on what was the best part. So, some of our students that came and joined us this evening that maybe didn't have a prepared presentation, what's your favorite part about Unifi besides the bus rides? You can't see a little answer. Anybody else? Um, I really like all the new friendships I've made. Any of other students? Come on. You drove all the way out here with mom and dad. like a highlight. I think one of my highlights was when Arion first began shooting the ball, he would shoot underhand and by the end of our only little little one or two months, he was shooting overhand and making them in the basket. [Applause] Does anybody else have any other questions? I don't want to have I'm
020curious about how the peer pairing works. Do you pair with this specific student or is it just part of a just just on the team together? No, we're just on the team together. Okay. Part of the unified what they give us as directions is three peer helpers and two athletes on the court at any time. The peer athletes don't the peers don't usually shoot. They usually help the kids to get to where they need to be and help them to shoot. If they're a level one team that really has a lot of skills, then all of them are allowed to shoot. But, um, they're there mainly to have friendships and to help the students that are athletes um, improve. I don't know if anybody saw, but Unified Division One just had their first CIA championship
021game yesterday. A full game. Yeah. I have a question. Do any of you uh play other sports besides basketball or do you have any favorites? [Music] Excellent. Okay. What else do you do? Special. Many of Yeah, many of the peer helpers do have other sports. Um, track, lacrosse, softball as well. And unified sports is like a part of Special Olympics. It's just what's accessible during the school day or within the school building. Um, so a lot of kids participate in uh Special Olympics outside of it. And those sports vary from bowling to bowl to swimming skiing. Oh, that's great. I ski and I play ice hockey. I hockey team. Yeah. Skating. Awesome. Yeah. Great. Also has um unified drama which is a similar group but it's just a different avenue. And the middle school, high
022school do performance every Yeah, I've been to one of those. It was terrific. Yeah. is very heartwarming as a par here um for nine years now to be involved in this program. Um it just I tell all my fellow paras if you have the time and you want to dedicate it to this program for basketball in January, February, um it's truly a blessing. I really feel it just you see our kids in such a different light and they shine. They can play better than a lot of people I know including myself. So it's very heartwarming when we come home or the bus. It's just very uplifting. So well I I agree with that statement. You board members have heard me say I it is by far anytime there's anything related to unified sports, unified theater,
023it is the best part of my day no matter what other good things happen in my day. So, it is great. Um, and I appreciate all of you coming out here to highlight the program and I would highly recommend if anybody on the board has not had the opportunity to go to a game. Your season's over this year, I believe. Yes. So, we'll get you out next year. It's uh it's fantastic. So, let's get a picture. Could we do a quick picture, guys? We'll just maybe uh It's the closest thing. All right. Awesome. Thank you everybody. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. probably. All right. Uh, yep. So, we'll move on to now the consent agenda. So, um there's just a couple of things on the consent agenda. Uh one is obviously the
024minutes from the last regularly scheduled board meeting and then uh 9.2 has a number of different policies that are coming to the board for a second reading. These came to the board of course in our February meeting as a first reading. I received no comments or feedback for any necessary changes and my recommendation is to approve the consent agenda as presented. Do I move? Second. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? I do right now. Next on to new and unfinished business. So, the the first item for new and unfinished business is a review of the indoor air quality report. Um, I'll just set up a quick context for this and then I'm going to turn it over to um, Michael Schlayhoffer who is attending the meeting um, uh, virtually with us this evening. Um,
025a report the indoor air quality requirement uh, came to fruition probably two years ago, I think two or two two or three years ago where we needed to go through a um, have an assessment done of our of our air quality. Um we had that done and uh a report was uh prepared and provided to the district. The information from that report was actually already given to our facility subcommittee back in the fall. I think we did it. I can't quite remember the month, but it was present the information was presented to the facility subcommittee. um we wanted to make sure that we are compliant with the law related to this and so the law specifically states that the information need the report needs to be shared with with the board. So we're making sure
026that we are in compliance with uh legislative requirements. So Michael is going to uh there is a memo in your packet. Um it is enclosure 10.1. It's just highlighting the fact that the indoor air quality assessment was done and that we are actually uh already have things in motion to make sure that we are following up with their recommendations. Um and then Michael could provide a again a high level overview about what those recommendations are. Mr. Schllayhoffer please. Thank you. Um so as as Colin stated this was um a state mandate that we had to conduct this review. Um we partnered with uh Sustainable Energy or Engineer Solutions out of Berlin. Um they finalized the report and out of the report there's two different ones. There's one for the high school, one for the middle
027school. The high school report um outlines the recommendations that they're looking at for is [Music] They want install outdoor air flow control sensors in the 25 uh rooftop units. The next recommendation is to recalibrate or replace the demand control devices which also handle the CO2 in seven units for the high school. And then in the middle school again it was outside airflow control systems installing those in 17 of the units and then recalibrating and replacing the demand control ventilation devices that also handle the CO2 for two units in the middle school. Um, we're working with with the engineer and actually Eversource is involved um because we're looking at possible incentives that would go along with this to help reduce the cost and save energy in the near future. And um based on that, we're still
028developing a budget um reaching out, getting quotes, and the funding for this would be from the HVAC grant. The reimbursement we got from the media center and the wait room and the locker room project. We have about $385,000 to put towards these uh recommended repairs. So of course once once we have more finalized budget numbers or or proposals for this we will definitely share that with the facility subcommittee which can then um share it with the entire board. With that um if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. So the timeline on the repairs is puts them and the cost into next year's budget or this year's budget. No, so it's grant funded. So depending on when the projects actually start, it can roll forward because it's grant funed because it's all
029100%. So we it's the um uh air quality grant that we received two years ago, I believe. Yeah. Um that we're using those funds to pay for the work that they're recommending. Cool. A couple of middle school units needed more work than the others. They needed some some kind of sensor or something. Is there any concerns about the air quality in those spaces immediately? Is there a No, there's no immediate um immediate threat. These are all recommendations based on budget and repairs. any immediate issues were addressed uh before the report was even even got to us. There was a unit down that was noted in in one of the reports and it was due to a power failure. So, we addressed everything as as the findings were being done. Can this work be done while
030school's in session? No, this this is something that would take place over the summer or after hours. It's not something that can be done um well not all of it can be done during school hours. A lot of the controls and programming can be done during school hours but the work that has to be done physically in units or classrooms would have to be done after hours or over the summer. Any other questions? All right. No action needed for this. This just simply making sure that we provided uh the information to the board. Michael, thank you very much. If you're going to hang on for a little bit because we might have some questions for you and a couple of agenda items, please. Yep. Just keep going. All right. So, the next item is 10.2.
031It's just an update on the proposed uh 2025 2026 um uh proposed administrative budget. So, this what I'm passing out to board members now here in person is a copy of the updated spreadsheet which shows um a number of different things. It shows uh anticipated revenue um and overall what our entire budget is going to look like based off of adjustments that were made since the last time um we came together. Um the budget currently is at a 2.6% increase. Um, obviously that's a decrease of what it had initially been when I presented to the board in January. Um, thank you so much, uh, board members. I at at home, I if I didn't email this to you, I can make sure I get it to you tomorrow. [Music] Um, so uh, we we were
032primarily waiting for a uh to have our insurance healthcare premium uh what the change was going to be from our current year to next year. uh we ended up making the decision as an insurance consortium to make that uh increase be a 7% increase. Initially uh when we were going through the budget process and when I proposed the initial budget back in January um the number was actually an 8% increase. So the reduction from 8% to 7% did uh result in some uh reductions uh from our budget. Um we at this point do not anticipate any changes to where we currently are right now with the 2.6% 6%. Um, I will tell you that in looking at the landscape of budget increases across uh our region and our state, uh, a 2.6 is an is
033a place that I think that there are many districts that would be envious of of being at this uh, uh, place. Um, I think that in our current economic times, um, we're we're really putting forth, you know, a a budget that will give the district what it needs to to to continue to move forward in a positive direction. We're also conscientious of the difficult financial times that that many towns and municipalities are facing. Um and and I'm really happy with where we landed. I did um have a a a meeting last week scheduled with the Andover Board of Finance to present the region 8 budget. Uh unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties that um hindered the ability for that meeting to take place. So, it was cancelled at the last minute. I think Scott and
034I were waiting online for about 10 or 15 minutes and um I I got an email saying, "Hey, the meeting's been cancelled." Um I did make myself available to the Andover Board of Finance. I said, "Let me know when you want me to present." I'm happy to come at any time. Um I've not heard back from them, but if I do get uh if it does get rescheduled, I will certainly share that information with uh with you all. Uh just so you know, it in the town, we had a charter change recently. Yes. which has sped up the budget process maybe too much for our board of finance. Yeah. Yeah. So, they're having a hard time getting getting stuff done. Yeah. He had indicated that there was a tight timeline this year. So, um I
035am scheduled to present the region 8 uh budget to the Hein board of finance board of selectman tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the Douglas Memorial Library. Um and again, I'm I'm really happy to be able to present to them where we currently are right now. Um even I can certainly do our best to answer any questions you might have. Um but that that's what I wanted to provide an update about. You're saying 2.6, but on here it says 2.81. Where are you? Where? On the top of this sheet that change. That's gross expenditures. It's It's right here, Scott. It's Oh, okay. Yeah, down there at the bottom. Any other questions? I do have one. Yes, please. Um, the community use of buildings looks like it's going down a significant amount. Is it being used
036less by the community or are we charging more? So, this is a so this it's a great question. Um, it this is again, of course, anticipated revenue. It's it's it is a bit of a guessing game for lack of a better term. Okay. I will tell you that um we ended up having to make some adjustments. In fact, the timing of your question is really good. We did have to make some adjustments with how we how our community use of building process plays out. Um, we actually had an individual who was a staff member who was the kind of the go-to person who always was the person who was here um, for really the significant events for the community as a buildings, things like dance companies um, and outside for-profit companies coming in to use
037our building. Um, and that person decided that they didn't want to continue to do that, which I understood because it chewed up a lot of free time for them. they were often here from, you know, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock until Sunday night at 7 or 8 o'clock and pretty much non-stop. And so we we ended up um having to make some adjustments. And so we wanted to just really cautiously go forward with this. We I will tell you that we're booking already. Um but there was a period of time where we were in flux, for lack of a better term, and we weren't quite sure of how that was going to impact our uh the reservations that were being made. But we do have a uh we've reestablished the process. Um we actually have
038a policy related to the building use facilities use and we revised the policy. Um it'll come to you guys tonight as a first read. And we also modified our fee structure for for our facilities use because what I don't think we'd updated our facilities use fee structure for approximately 10 years, maybe a little bit more. Um you know, and and um you know, you're talking about labor costs being a part of that. uh you're talking about um costs for uh things like air conditioning, lighting, you know, all the factors that come into play. Um we we really uh Eva and Michael did an analysis of other school districts that utilize or I'm sorry that allow uh facilities use. Um and and we really tried to make sure that we were in a kind of the
039sweet spot that that makes us still appealing, but also making sure that we're not being taken advantage of for for the facilities that we have. and and um again we can discuss that but that's I we should end up in a good place. So the tuition figure is based on 189 0 36. So you have um eight freshman one rollover and two rollover students from one from Columbia, one from um a different town. Yeah. So it's 10 in all. It's it it is uh nine of them are set at the rate that we established with our Colombia partnership, right? The 10th one is not from Colombia. And so we're with that particular tuition rate, we're adhering to our policy related to out of district students coming, which is they pay um they pay an increased
040rate. It's based off of really what is the state identified per pupil expenditure. Okay. That's why if you divide by 10, you don't get the number. You got it. You got it. So, you know, we I I and just to speak to the the tuition, I'm really glad that you brought it up. Um I had informed the board of this uh in an email communication. Um eight students are eight eight freshman students from Colombia are have identified Ram as their high school of choice. Um while I certainly would have been happy if it was a greater number than that, I'm not at all disappointed with with eight students. I I this is speculation, but I think it is well found in speculation. I believe that as we go through this partnership and it grows. Um
041I think that we're going to see more students from from Colombia coming to us. I think the reason it's lower than than you know what I had obviously hoped it would be is because there's a lot of students. You know, Eio Smith has been the primary choice high school for for Columbia students. And I think that there's some momentum that are that's there's two things. there's momentum if if if they don't have older siblings and then I think if if incoming freshmen have older siblings their families are not going to want to have their kids split up or even if those kids don't go to EOS Smith anymore the older siblings I think that there's just an an affiliation for lack of a better term to to to to Eio but I really do believe
042that as we get more I'll use the term first generation high school students uh metriculating out of uh Colombia I'm very optimistic that that our our our numbers are going to grow with regards to to Columbia students. I think they're going to come here and just be incredibly impressed with what we offer. We'll start seeing more uh more kids choosing RAM. Any other questions? Fantastic. 10.3 discussion and possible action regarding the recommended use. Okay. So, so we had a um facilities and finance joint subcommittee meeting last week. Was it last week? It was last Tuesday. Goes by quick. Um and this was uh a topic uh this was an agenda topic. So, we have found ourselves we currently uh are sitting in a in a positive net favorable position. Um, and there were some things
043that were brought to the attention of the administration after the initial budget had been presented to the board back in January. Uh, Eva certainly made note of what those things were. Um, but they were things that we said, well, these are things that we can look at getting for the 26 27 budget. Um, we we didn't want to come to the board, present our needs, and then a week later, a month later come back and say, "Hey, we need another bunch of stuff." And and to be honest with you, these are things that in some cases can wait until the 26 27 school year. However, we find ourselves in a good financial standing right now. Um and and there are um it really just makes sense to us as an administrative group to say if
044we find ourselves in this situation by making some purchases with our current funds, we we are not reducing our budget for next year, but we are essentially reducing our budget in future years. And that I think is a very smart and strategic way to go about using our current net favorable position. that encapsulates the majority of the things on this chart which is on uh page 10 point I'm sorry enclosure 10.3. There's there is one um project I would I'll use the term project. It's not a piece of equipment but it is a project that needed to be completed. There was a a leak um as a result of a drain a toilet drain. Yeah. Like a connection behind the toilet. Yeah. The connection behind the toilet um in one of the restrooms at the
045high school. um uh stopped uh doing what it needed to do. And unfortunately, we had a pretty sizable leak. That um incurred about 32,000 um I think $32,100 in unanticipated repair costs. So in that is included in this chart. Um that is not something that we could have waited until next year to do. That is something that Michael has actually the work's already being done. Um and and so uh that is something that wasn't an additional thing for years later. It was just something that we needed to um respond to obviously in in real time. Um but the remaining things on the list on enclosure 10.3 again are things that we're we're recommending we utilize current funding uh for as well. Um if there are any questions, we could do our best to to answer
046them. Michael's here and and between Michael and Eban and I and obviously we you know Mike and Drew can speak to this as well because they were part of meeting right I mean the bathroom was big because it was a backtoback facility right bathroom effectively bathroom yeah so two bathrooms connected by two toilets and unfortunately it was leaking in the walls so that's why no one really saw it so a little bit of abatement that had to occur and then of course all the walls need replacement tile fixtures so I questions about the some of the numbers that sink mixing valves 40 45 of them for $77,000. So I I'll I'll start and then if I misrepresent anything I'll ask Michael Schllehoffer. It's a big price tag. Um and I think you would indicate in
047your email you know why can't we just get used each sink is about $7,500 each sink. So this isn't a traditional sink that you might have at a home vanity. This is a you know it is um controlled by a motion monitor. So the the sinks have a significant cost to them and so this is really proactive maintenance because of the fact that they're no longer making the parts that we would need to repair the mixing valves that we have. So we have to replace everything. So and that's $7,500 per sink plus the cost to actually the labor cost to install the sinks um by getting the new um equipment that we're recommending at the $77,000 price tag. That's actually something that we could do the work internally. we we actually have the capability. Our
048maintainers can actually switch those parts out. So, this is coming at a significant savings of of of what it would be in a scenario where we're looking to replace. Michael, did I Michael actually negotiated down the price? It was 86,000. Michael, did I get that pretty pretty correct? Spot on. Thank you, sir. Doesn't happen often, so I'll take a win. The tool sheds, why why do we have to replace all the tool sheds? So, and again, Mike, I'll I'll start and if you could jump in if I if I misrepresent. So, the the tool sheds are are I'm not quite sure how old they are, but they are in disrepair. Um, we have rotten floors, uh, ceilings are roof roofs that are leaking. They've they're um they need to be replaced in order to for
049us to to adequately store materials and equipment. You in in the question that you had sent me online, you had said, you know, why not one or two big uh uh larger storage places as opposed to to to having smaller ones. The the primary reason for that is because of the fact that the tool sheds are spread out. Like we're looking to replace ones that currently exist at athletic fields um adjacent to the high school fields. Um we're looking to actually add one to um the athletic field that's adjacent to the middle school baseball. Correct. Middle school baseball or softball. Um and and so because of the fact if we had one or two larger ones that were more centralized, then you would incur challenges like, well, how are you going to get things moved
050from point A to point B when you need them? Um the district is already committed to invest in uh uh mats for our our our track and field program. Well, if we don't get these storage sheds, we're not going to have places to store those mats, and then they're going to deteriorate at a faster rate. Um so it is a it is a big investment. I to to your to your question you had asked me uh via email but they are um they are necessary for us to make sure that if we're investing in this equipment or if we have invested in equipment that we are adequately protecting it from the elements when they're not being used. So our current net favorable position is about 84,000 correct does this it was not removed from there
051so we would have to deduct that. that. So be more like 46. Okay. Just want to make sure I Sorry. No, go ahead. No, I was just going to say if there's any other questions, I could try to answer them. Not okay. Do I have a motion to transfer $341,871 as presented in enclosure 10.3 to fund the cost of identified one-time purchases? So move second. All right. Second, Mike Shane. Um any discussion? All in favor? I against opposed or abstain. pass unanimous 10.4 10.4 I will turn it over to the speaker. All right. So this is our annual healthy food certification. This is the one um motion that needs to be read at verbatim. So what you see you have to read. Um so basically this is where the state of Connecticut gives us additional
052funds um to ensure that the we're following um healthy food and can Connecticut nutritional standards um as for snack or any other items that are not s sold as part of the reimburseable breakfast or lunch that the students are eating. Um and then that would be the first one that the board would like us to participating. The second one would be to exempt us from afterhour sales. So half an hour after the close of school at the location of the event um we are able to sell non-healthy food. Um oh does anyone have any questions? hearing none do these separately. Yes. So you have to do one at a time. I'll move that pursuant to Connecticut general's statute section 215 the regional school district 8 board of ed certifies that all food items offered for
053sale to its students in the school under it schools under it jurisdictions not exempt from the Connecticut nutritional standards published by the Connecticut state department of education will comply with the Connecticut nutrition standards during the period of July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2026. This certification shall include all the food offered for sale to students separately from reimburseable meals at all times and from all sources including but not limited to school stores, vending machines, school cafeterias, culinary programs, and any fundraising activities on school premises sponsored by the school or non-school organizations and groups. Do I hear a second? Second. Second, Drew Goffin. Um, any discussion? We'll take a vote. Vote to approve. I I oppose. Abstain. Unanimous. Somebody else's turn. I'll do the second one. uh entertain a motion that the regional school district 8
054board of education will allow the sale to students of food items that do not meet the Connecticut nutrition standards and beverages not listed in section 10-221Q of the Connecticut General Statutes provided that the following conditions are met. One, the sale is in connection with an event occurring after the end of the regular school day or on the weekend. Two, the sale is at the location of the event. And three, the food and beverage items are not sold from a vending machine or school store. An event is an occurrence that involves more than just a regularly scheduled practice, meeting, or extracurricular activity. For example, soccer games, school plays, and intercolastic debates are events, but soccer practices, play rehearsals, and debate team meetings are not. The regular school day is the period from midnight before to 30
055minutes after the end of this official school day. Location means where the event is being held and must be the same place as the food and beverage sales. Uh, add a second. Second. Second by Pullier. Um, all in favor? I I Any opposed? Any abstensions. That's unanimous. And we will start with the first read of policies. Well, before before we do that, I I did want to make a comment that I noticed in the student the school climate survey that the number of students at the high school complained about the lack of junk food, if you will. And so, you might want to communicate to the school body that we are limited in that regard because of this. I'm blaming you. I'm blaming Yeah. Yeah. Blame the school. You just voted for this policy. Yeah.
056Right. Blame the school board. I am I throw us right under the bus that we did this in order in order that they can eat right. Uh so I I'll jump right into the first read of different policies. The first policy uh is a consideration for revision. It's policy number 1424 which is fundraising. Board members may remember actually that we just had updated this policy back in April of 2024. However, I had brought forward a um a policy a separate policy to the board subcommittee to consider for um to consider for deletion and it is simply um it's a policy that uh called solicitation of funds and and the last um really wording of that policy said there shall be no solicitation of funds from students in the school except for school specific activities. when
057I brought it forward for deletion to the policy subcommittee, uh the thought was well, they felt it was an important I don't want to mischaracterize this, but that it was an important thing to keep in our policy book. So, instead of having a standalone separate policy on that particular item, it fit really well into fundraising. So, we're just simply updating our fundraising policy to incorporate that language. Um, any questions about that? You're going to keep rolling off. All right. So, 1410 is community use of facilities. This is the one that I had actually just discussed based off of the question that Drew asked about the um or I'm sorry the question that Joe had asked about facilities rentals. Um we did update this to align with the uh legislative changes that did uh come into
058play and made those changes. And then also we did update as I said the schedule of fees um uh and the application process the the application process that was actually in our policy book was outdated antiquated. had people who identified in there that haven't worked in the district probably in 10 or 15 years. So, um we obviously utilize uh technology to do that and again the updated fee schedule is is there as well. Um any questions about that particularly. All right, the next one is bylaw 9135 which is role of board and members. Um, there actually was a standalone policy that was uh I I I believe it was called Well, it's going to be coming up here later for deletions. It was called public complaints or it is called public complaints. Um, and it
059was just a a a standalone policy of that talked about how the board should respond if complaints are brought to the attention of the board. Um, which of course doesn't happen. Um but what we decided to do was that was a joke. Yes. Um and what what uh what we decided to do was instead of deleting that policy which was which technically isn't necessary, we added that uh the language um at the end of this policy of response to public concern and it highlights kind of how uh when concerns are brought to the attention of either the board or the administration that we try to deal with them at the lowest level and how we address those those issues or concerns. So, we're essentially memorializing the process that actually already exists. And this will enable
060us to delete that other policy, which we'll we'll get to later on. Um, the next one is policy 6145, intercolastic athletics. This is a policy that is not mandated by uh any type of of legislation. Uh, so I had brought it to the policy subcommittee to consider for deletion. The feedback that I received at the policy subcommittee was that the members of the subcommittee felt that it was um important to have this. It it kind of states the board's position and philosophy and beliefs about the importance of intercolastics uh intercolastic athletics um and and uh said no they fel felt that this was a policy that was worth keeping. So, it was a much longer policy, but what we did was we really I worked uh collaboratively with the introduor athletic director and we took
061it from a I think a two or three page policy that had two or three pages of regulations associated with it and we just made it into a single one-page policy um that that really captures um the essence of of our thoughts and beliefs about intercolastic activities. Um and I brought it back to the policy subcommittee for a sec for a second review when everybody was satisfied with it. So bring the floor forward to you today. Any questions about that one? So the next one is 1423. This is for to consider for deletion. Um this is the one that I've mentioned before. This one sentence policy is now a part of our fundraising policy. So it can be deleted. The next one is 5123 student progress. Um, it is it is not required legislatively that
062we have this policy. In no way, shape or form am I suggesting that we stop informing parents about how students are progressing and we will still do report cards. Um but but really this um with the with the um advent of Powers School and all of the the ability that families have obviously to have access really in a in a real time um period to to access their students grades and and see how their their their kids are doing. Um you know obvious to be honest with you Power School and having that ability to do is just as if not more important than report cards. Um so we will still obviously provide report cards. We're still going to provide transcripts, but just as a way of practicality, this is an unnecessary policy because we we
063have a process in place. Power school updates every night at midnight. I know that because I hear it. When my son was in high school, he powers school because I got it on it every day probably at 12:01 to say what he had not done that day. It was a lot. Uh so uh the next one is is uh uh policy 6000 school district goals. Um this I'm certainly not suggesting eliminating uh the desire to h to have identified goals as a school district, but we already actually have a policy under community which is in the 1000 section that uh addresses this particular topic that we have um that the board identifies goals. Um, and so this is just redundant and unnecessary and I'm recommending deletion because it's found elsewhere already in our policy book.
064The next one is bylaw 9405, board member electronic meeting participation at board of ed meetings. This is a um an outdated policy because we actually updated bylaw 9314 uh probably last year or the year before uh which is called the title of that one is called meeting conduct and actually that policy covers uh how board members can participate in board meetings electronically. So again it's just a redundant policy because it's covered elsewhere. And for that same exact reason, um I am recommending the deletion of policy 9410, which is board member electronic meeting participation at subcommittee meetings because again it's covered under that one meeting conduct policy. Um the next one is bylaw 9435 which is board of education hearings. This is a one or two sentence policy that is simply restating uh what is legislatively
065required for board hearings and so it's unnecessary. So I'm recommending deletion um of of that particular one. The next one is policy 1412 schedule of fees. Uh, as I mentioned earlier with revising the um school use of facilities policy, instead of having one that was about school use of school use facilities and then a separate one altogether about uh schedule of fees uh for use of board facilities, it made sense to combine the two. I'm trying to be as efficient as we possibly can. So, this policy obviously can be eliminated as well. And then I think the last one, thank goodness, is uh public complaints. And as I indicated earlier, this one simply falls under the revised policy of I think it's role of board members. Um, we added the language about how Ford deals
066with public complaints or public concerns in a different policy. So, we can delete this one. That's why I went and got a thing of water because I knew I was going to be talking. That concludes that concludes my my policy recommendations, but certainly um myself or Drew and Scott and Gabe and Carrie online can answer any questions people might have. Good. I'm starting to get time for a countdown. How many policies left? A lot less. A lot a lot less than than a year ago, I'll tell you. We're getting close. We're chipping away. We're chipping away. Um, good for financials. All right, we'll go to Ev with the financials. All right, so 10.6ka in your handout in your packet. Um, I'm projecting a net favorable position of $83,765 at the end of February 28, 2025.
067Um on Mar on or about March 5th, the governor andor the legislative body reached an agreement that increased this current fiscal year's excess cost funding. Um and we shall be receiving more information on that. Um so hopefully by next month I will have an update on that. The capital improvement fund, we still have the U middle school baseball field ADA project. um the bids um the bid was posted in the newspaper and um everywhere that we needed to post it. We're hoping to get um submitts by April or on April 2nd for opening and review. Um and again as a reminder the capital nonrecurring fund is no longer part of this. We are now called the reserve for general education fund. Um and um the one thing that is left open in that is the
068M uh material containment center and we are hoping that um there should be a meeting between ourselves and um the town representatives um to move that to the next step hopefully. Um and then again the people services department keeps reviewing their um purchases the purchase orders based on the individual education plan for their students and either opening adjusting or closing um purchase orders accordingly. Are there any questions that the board may have at this time? Yeah, just thought of one excess for this year been up but there's significant cuts from next year. Um, so the goal is to try to keep it the momentum going forward, but on Wednesday is the educational committee and they're talking about um, ECS, the educational cost share. They're not so they're not so they're not really highlighting excess cost
069and we don't get ECS. The towns get our ECS funded. So So I think if I'm hearing your question correctly, they gave us the additional $40 million for this year. Great news. We have no idea how much we're going to get. So, it's a bit of a we're just it's a waiting game. We also don't know how much money is going to be allocated for next year. And so, um, so I was very conservative and I budgeted at 60%. Because in the past, I've done 70% and we don't get nearly close that. So, I this year I bit the bullet and said 60% was what I was budgeting. So, we that's in our budget as anticipated revenue. Um, obviously we're hoping we get at least the 60%, maybe even a little bit more, but you
070know, we didn't change the anticipated revenue. Um, it just it's what I've been told in meetings that I've been to is that we should anticipate getting some additional like as as Eva just said, I think really adequately and and perfectly is the momentum to continue forward, but there's still a a great unknown. And so um our feeling is be conservative and and hope hope for more funding. Any additional questions? All right. So moving on to 10.6B is the food service monthly sales and expenditure report. Um so at this time at the end of February 28th of the program is currently running at a loss of $54,888.69. However, the positive news of this was that it's $22,000 less than last year. So, we made a correction. We're going in the right direction. Um, are there any
071questions that the board may have on that? Okay. Thank you for including that. No worries. That's a good reference, too. I thought when I looked at the number from last year, I'm like, "Oh, that's a positive." You got to share positive news. All right. 10.6 C. the um student activity reports for the high school and middle school are in balance with Webster Bank, our bank. Um are there any questions that the board may have on that? So, hearing none, 10.6D is the short-term investment fund account. At the end of February, we reinvested the dividend of $1,791.98. Are there any questions that the board may have on that? All right. So, the last item for this portion is the budget appropriation transfers that um stemmed from January and February. Um so there were 23 journal entries.
072These 23 journal entries totaled $188,678.70. Um they went from for various items. We had an unanticipate unanticipated insurance claim so that we have a deductible of $5,000. Um the athletic director noticed that he needed additional soccer uniforms. Um oh there was um so we unfortunately this one caught us off guard a little bit. the $2,55. Um there's actually an we had to do an upgrade for software that the facilities department uses and unfortunately now there's an annual fee included. So the annual fee was $2,55. So we can budget for it next year. This year we didn't know about it so we had to do a transfer for it. Um the rest is basically um you know just price increases things that um the middle school themselves found a new tool to enable parent conferences scheduling
073for it that makes it a smoother transition. So it was $160. So we did it. We said yes. Okay. Um so now that we said yes okay I'm hoping that the board says yes okay. So, are there any additional questions that the board may have? I have one. Okay. I notice multiple fee uh personnel transfers for February. Why are they broken out inually? So, I usually do them after every payroll. So, you usually get two to three a month based on that. Um the last one was um I was freeing up. So, we had a lot of personnel shifts and um so people will also jump on or off our insurance from time to time. So, I did uh I had the director of accounting review um what might be free, you know, just sitting
074around um spoken for when it's really not spoken for. So, I freed up that money to go into the unallocated personnel. Thank you. Yep. So, this is just transfers between accounts. It's not additional spending at all. anywhere. Yeah. Right. I mean, I could see that in the personnel I asked. I move that we approve these transfers just in the amount of $180,000678,678.70. Second. Toughen. Um any discussion? All in favor? I opposed unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. So 107 it was what you guys voted on which is your um addition to the agenda. Um so basically what this is is currently um we have a food service management company that handles our our food service program. Marorrow also has a food service management company that handles their food service program. We are we go out to
075bid every five years. So you or shorter depending on how things are going for you. Um so it's you you go into you enter into a one-year contract that renews annually for up to five years. So at this time it made sense for both um Marorrow Elementary and Marorrow public schools and ourselves to um see if an interchool agreement made sense um in totality for us. So based on the discussions that we were having um we came up with some benefits that um I outlined um in this memo so that the board can um see the value of of us joining forces. So basically what would happen is the contract of the food service program would fall under RAM's uh opices. So we would take care of their food service program through the food service
076management company. So it would just take from our perspective there would be one determining official which we have. Um, a determining official is the person who has access to um the state site who can see if they're um Medicaid free or reduced students and then that information gets put into our student information um database system power school. Um so then this person from our end would then communicate with a point person at Barbara Elementary to let them know who their people are. Um I personally would have to go out three times a year to make sure that the um food service management company at that site is doing what they're supposed to be doing. Okay. Um we are seen as two sites here because we have a middle school and a high school in one
077big building. Um and then the elementary would be a third site. So it would just be we'd be treated as a normal regular um K12 district basically as well. Have we done this before with We have not done this. Okay. would it make sense to try and end up or so I I'll it's a great it's a great question. So I'll give context for kind of how this evolved. I meet monthly with the superintendents from the three elementary districts and and I will tell you that every single time that we meet, we talk about a litany of things, but but within the context of almost every conversation we have, we talk about needs that we might have that might be able to we might be able to partner with one of our other districts. one
078or more of our other districts whether it's a staffing issue like hey I need a you know an elementary uh superintendent might say I need a point4 music teacher you know is there any you know college you have somebody who is working lesson 1.0 I know FT you know so you know those are types of conversations that happen on a fairly regular basis. We um you know we we we are trying to uh partner with them and collaborate with them on on things like instructional um curriculum and instruction initiatives right and so Mary Rose meat our new um uh curriculum director is is you know working closely with them around here are some initiatives that we have going on talk the more that we can partner with our feeder districts I think it it's more
079advantageous it just builds a more unified region and so this this uh interchool agreement and came out of one of those meetings and the superintendent from Marorrow said, you know, hey, listen, I've got to go out to bid, you know, where are you guys at? And and um and I said, well, you know, ironically, we're we're going out to bid, too. So, we just started talking about the possibility of this partnership. We did talk with the other um superintendents from the other districts. Um I will uh basically what I was told uh from from the Andover superintendent is Andover is currently partnered actually in a in a in the exact same type of agreement, but they're they're with Coventry. They've been with Coventry for years and um and I don't fault the the the superintendent
080there basically her the impression I got was we're really happy with what we have and I'm not looking to make any substantive changes at this point. Totally understand that. Um Hebrin is is in a similar situation. They are actually there's two different ways to do food service. You could either be do it yourself and and and have your own employees or you could do food service is what we do. Hubin is currently um doing uh their their own thing. They have their own employees. They they manage their own kitchen and I was told at this point we're not really looking to make any changes. So yeah, the offer to do the inter school agreement with other districts was offered. Um I don't think that the door is permanently closed on that. I think it's one
081of those things where, you know, this partnership that we make with Marorrow that, you know, how how good it goes could could maybe have some influence over over future partnerships with with some of our elementary districts. But again, I I see this as a really good thing. It just builds a more cohesive and aligned uh regional district, which is what we're looking to do at every opportunity, right? And so there is a recommended motion. I certainly take questions, but there was a recommended motion. So the the process is moving forward is uh the board would need to authorize me to to do two things to to negotiate the terms of the inner school agreement um which is something that I would do with uh the the leader Eva and I would do with the leadership
082of of of the Marbor school district and then ultimately once the terms of the agreement are negotiated um it would be entering into the agreement and so um Marboro has has not had this conversation yet um with their board. I think their board meeting is the end of it, 27th, 28th, some somewhere around there. Thank you. So that this is a conversation that is going to be had at the Marboro Board of Education to to move in this direction as well. Um you know, the the leadership over there anticipates, you know, their board being supportive of it. The timing worked out that we had this meeting last Thursday after our agenda had been posted. And when I said, "Well, I got to get this in front of our board." The timing is perfect. So, which
083is why we had to add it to the agenda for for today. But, you know, if there's any questions, we can certainly do our best to answer them. But if not, there's the recommended motion that I provided to you all. I would just note that there's 116. Say again. Did I do that quickly? 1162 students, which means it's 22 in total. I I did the memo really quickly. This This was at the witching hour on Thursday afternoon. We were like, we got to get this out. So, thank you. Better economy of scale. Yeah. Yeah. better. You can so I'll make a motion to authorize the superintendent to negotiate the terms of and enter into a food service inter school agreement with Malboro Public School. Perfect. Thank you. Um any discussion? How does the finance that
084work? Do we pay it and they pay us or? So all the so the sales of the food become ours because it is our program but we have to help maintain the pro the site. So if so that's part of the negotiation in terms of if there's capital improvements who might be paying for that. Is it coming out directly from the food service account? If there's not enough in the food service account what portion what share? All of that needs to get negotiated. Any other discussion? All in favor? I any thank you all. So that brings us to committee reports. Okay, we'll get us started. We had a joint facilities and finance subcommittee meeting on March 11th where we discussed a number of topics that we've gone through on tonight's agenda. Um our next meeting
085is scheduled or will be scheduled for April 8th. We'll see if that turns into a joint meeting or not. Depends on our needs. Uh over to that. Thank you. Um finance anything what he said was a joint meeting. Hold on. Same thing. And our next meeting is the same that um policy Carrie, sorry I couldn't get off mute there. Uh policy, we're just continually going through the different policies for um revision and deletion. Does anybody else have anything to add on that? Oh, I heard the difference. Um, program and communication. We have not met. Um, we have a meeting scheduled for April 2nd. And Carrie, anything from Kate? No, nothing new from Cab either. And then next we haveformational items. Yeah. So, uh, in your packet is enclosure 12.1A and 12.1B. I'll just highlight a
086few of the things that that we have going on. Um, um, we have, uh, actually tomorrow we've got some senior portfolio presentations that are happening at the high school. I'm excited about that. I've got the schedule and I'm planning to attend attend some of those. Um, we have a professional development day at the end of this week on Friday. That's obviously districtwide. Uh going into April, we have our spring concert coming up for the high school. Um and one of the things that I always enjoy too is there's a career day for um on April 11th. And um our school counseling staff, one of our counselors in particular, puts together a career day for um our our sophomore students. um you know they do a really good job of um you know trying to ascertain
087um particular careers that students are interested in learning more about and then they go out and seek people from uh within the community and even outside of the community to come in and speak to our students. Um I went last year and it was a great event and uh I'm excited about this year's this year as well. Um, as a couple of our student uh student reps mentioned, uh we're in a different type of March Madness here at RAM in the sense of lots of testing going on. Uh students uh students certainly love all that happening. Um we have NWA testing actually at the at is taking place. That's our um sixth grade students that are going to come into us. They will take some tests that gives us some baseline data that we utilize
088at the middle school. Dr. Ruse and his his staff at seventh grade used to to identify um you know where students need to be and and and how to make sure that we can um work with them. Well, um uh one of our students mentioned the SEMA Eastern Regional Music Festival being held at Coventry um later this month as well. As I said, it's it's hard to believe we're it's spring already. Like I think Thursday is the first day of spring. I think the week after that or two weeks from now it's the beginning of the fourth marking period. I don't know how the year went by this quick, but it did. Um I I will mention something about the middle school um calendar events that I would really encourage board members if you haven't
089had the chance to do it. Um is the music and arts coffee house at the middle school. I think that is the it's the 10th. It's from 6:00 to 6:00 to 8. It's actually held at the high school because we use the um we use the the cafeteria in the atrium. It's very similar to the evening of the arts, but it's specifically for the middle school. Um it's a great event. If you've never have if you've never gone, I would highly encourage you to go. Um just highlighting the the phenomenal talents of our of our fine and performing arts students. Um and I and then uh it's later on in April, but we do have an alltown jazz concert. Again, it's a really neat event to go to. It's certainly not just specific to the
090middle school. It's um uh bands from um our three feeder districts come. Um sometimes we've had bands from like Bacon Academy come over and and perform with us. We actually have um uh performers who are not in school who who will come. We have you know jazz musicians who live live in the community come and and perform with our students. And it's just a really really great event um that that I would encourage people to to try to come to if if they've never had the opportunity to do it. That that concludes my events. I I'll roll right into student discipline. I you know uh enclosure 12.2 2 A and 12.2B identify the in and out of school suspensions for uh the high school and the middle school over the past month. Data is in
091front of you. That's that concludes everything for me. Perfect. Thank you. Um next, do I have a motion to adjurnn? Moved marks. Second. Thanks, Mike. Um any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Abstain. All right. Thank you.