001the board of education at 5:31 to the flag of the United States of To the republic stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all when you are ready. Mr. Burgerer here Conway here Mr. Cy here Mr. Cronin here Mr. Cis here Mr. Leo is excused Miss Hon here Mr. Kisko here Mr. Knight here Mr. here. Mayor Carbona representative Miss Ferguson here. Miss Clamazooi excuse excuse. Thank you. Miss Lavy here. Mr. Begola here. Miss Schulty here. Miss Begins here. And Mr. Wilson here. Thank you. Um I'd like to try this without the microphone. Can folks hear me? Okay. Um that's good. I didn't really love the idea of having to hold it. Um, so we'll have the approval of the agenda, but I'd like to ask that that come with an amendment
002to move the TMS roof bid proposal uh to number eight, which would be right after our student representatives report um just so that we can get those folks uh out of here. Um they have something with their family this evening. Um so I would hear a motion with that amendment if there is one. Okay. Uh all those in favor? any posts. Okay, so that's our agenda. Uh, school community service and public participation. Is anyone signed up? It doesn't look like it. Um, is there anyone here who would care to address the board? Is there anyone online? Oh, okay. So, I have to read the paragraph then. I'm sorry. Uh, the board invites members of the community to speak on topics to be addressed in the agenda or on other topics of interest. Individuals wishing to
003make comments are requested to fill out the speaker signup sheet, including your name and address, which must be stated at the beginning of your comment. The board will not allow comments regarding specific staff members, parents, students, or personal brief. Courtesy is expected in this limited public forum. The participating time will be limited to three minutes per person and 10 minutes overall. I have the microphone if any of you ladies care to use it. Good evening. My name is Alan Ortiz and I'm a Torington resident. My name is Michaela Rodriguez and I'm also a Torington resident. And my name is Ella Lee and I'm also a Torington resident. Today my peers and I stand before you representing the entire Torington High School student council body. As the governing body of our peers, we feel responsible to
004advocate for their wants and needs. I first like to acknowledge that the new building is amazing and the modern qualities are certainly beneficial to our educational enrichment. Unfortunately, its current state does not represent the Raider family. Our student body misses the iconic the iconic student murals all throughout the all throughout the building. We missed the personalized decorations that can be found in all the teachers classrooms and generally speaking, we miss the raider spirit that was so deeply ingrained in the old ths. Again, we are thrilled with the new facilities and we certainly understand and respect the thought process on keeping the new school as pristine as possible, but at times the solid colors and empty walls have become disheartening. There was a lack of sorry there is a lack of expression and the greater spirit
005is suffering as a result. On behalf of the entire student body we think that is safe to say that we can use a change whether that comes in the form of murals or decor being committed on the walls. We would be extremely grateful for any modifications to the decorative illustrations. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Is there anyone else here in the room who would care to address the door? Okay. And was there anyone online public line? I have one person online but they don't seem to be on mute themselves. So I assume they don't want to speak. Okay. Um thank you. So with that we'll pass it to the superintendent for recognitions. Good evening everyone. So the highlight uh of these meetings obviously is when we get to recognize the wonderful work that
006all of our staff do each and every day. Uh as this board is aware, last year we started something called the Golden Apple Award. And the Golden Apple Award is just another way that we get to recognize the great work day in and day out of any staff member. And I know it was a hard task when I asked the principles to pick just one. And I can tell you they asked numerous times from numerous principles to say, "Come on, just give me two, Mr. Wilson." And the answer was, "No, we got to narrow it to one, unfortunately." But there are so many people welldeserving of this honor. So tonight we have six wonderful teams. And I'm going to start with Mr. Scott to come up and recognize his golden apple recipient. I don't know
007if he is here, Mr. Scott. We can still recognize him. And I will give you his golden apple. He won't get a photo. Um, so Wayne Splitzker is our high school golden apple recipient for the year. You guys all know Wayne. He's been here several times uh himself to uh you know, he presented that piece that he had uh written for the brand new school. Um he is a two-time Grammy nominee. He was the Connecticut High School Music Teacher of the Year. Um so just somebody who is truly um uh deserving of this reward and somebody who has dedicated um countless hours. Um hopefully some of you had the opportunity to come to the Pops concert the other night. It was spectacular. Um and if you didn't, make sure you come next year. Uh next
008year we'll be back into the regular setting for the Pops concert which will be our gym. So we'll go back to the old style. Um so it's really exciting. But uh Wayne couldn't be here tonight, so I'll take the golden apple for him. Maybe I'll give it to him. Maybe I'll put on my desk. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And after all of the Golden Apple recipients receive their award, I would ask that we all stand here for a photo and we will line up like we would normally. So, Mr. Klein, you are up next. I have the pleasure of recognizing today Constance who happens to be our prek special ed coordinator. Constance does an amazing job at Forbes really connecting with our families, leading our PPT process at Forbes and also districtwide. She does
009a great job of being that first familiar face to our families, going out in our community, doing a lot of great service and support, doing home visits, and also being able to lead some great professional development for our earliest learning classrooms. Constance is that smiling face that really our first families get familiar with, and she does a wonderful, wonderful job. So, I want to take that honor. Thank you. This is the wonderful stand. Miss Gulo, come on down. I can't see. So, I have my um Toryford would like to recognize Casey Loer as our Golden Apple Award winner. She is what we call our IT girl. She's our IT extraordinaire. Um, in the world of education, the role of technology has never been more significant. And among the unsung heroes shaping the future of learning,
010Casey Laugher stands out with exceptional communication skills, really strong relationships with the staff and the students. She always goes above and beyond um with a remarkable level of expertise. She not only ensures that technology runs smoothly but also fosters an a learning environment um for our students and our staff to be learning and growing with their abilities with technology. Um something she does kind of above and beyond. She tends to come in our building every morning and set up for all of our substitutes. So, it helps us keep subs and they want to come to Touring Fur because they come in and they have their smartboard all set up and their Chromebook all set up and if there's ever an issue, she goes around and says, "Who's got a sub today? I'm going to come
011around check." Um, so just those little like knowing what to do before having to be told is really what makes her stand out above everyone else. Um, and we couldn't thank her enough for being a great part of our team. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Welld deserved, Dr. Buchanan. Well prepared for this. S would like to recognize a par educator with a great heart who consistently looks for the good in others. supports Tyler tirelessly while keeping a student centered mindset and truly has a genuine spirit. She's a leader among her colleagues. She's approachable, proactive, and taking initiative to solve problems before they even arise. It's a pleasure to work with Marian Messenger who also serves as an officer for local 1579. Mrs. Messenger is a ver educator in our DLC program and has been a ver
012educator at Southwest schools for past 25 years. The knowledge, compassion, and wisdom she has gained in the past quarter of the century reflect on the relationship she's established with her colleagues and with our students. We're also better off because of our interactions with Mary Ambassador. I tell her why be here tonight. Congratulations. Mr. Michaelelsson, come on down. Well, I love trying. Um, so tonight I get the joy of sharing some words about someone who embodies what it means to serve students with heart, dedication, humility, our golden apple award winner, Geilia Fernandez, who is there I hope in the camera pointing. Um, she's not on vacation right now. She's not at a big fancy dinner. She's not sick. She's not on something important. The truth is that being in the spotlight is not her thing. And
013I could not convince her to come. She promised me that she's at home watching. Um, and the truth is that's also part of the reason why she is our golden apple winner. If you know her, you know, she'd rather help a student tie their shoes explain a math problem for the fifth time than be up here with all the eyes on her. Someone else who's not physically in the room. We all know that she's here. Um, she is here in a way that our school and our district runs a little better with her as part of it. She's here in the confidence of a student who needed more than we knew how to give until she came. She's here in the hearts of so many of us who are better educators, better people because we
014worked alongside Lucilia. Let me tell you a little about what makes her so special. She's a kind of par educator who shows up every day. Every day. Kim likes her every day. Um quiet strength, a whole lot of heart. She approaches every student with patience, kindness, calm, firmness that lets them know she believes in them and she's not going anywhere. She took a challenge this year of taking on a kindergarten student who came to us as a new student. We didn't know him and he needed quite a few supports. Um she didn't flinch, she didn't run away. She took him on and brought him to a place where he has grown so much and has found super success mostly because of her. She doesn't do this work for awards, for attention. That's why she's not
015here. She does it because she cares. She wants to see the kids succeed and she's willing to put in the hard work. Can always count on her when you need anything, cover a class, um take care of whatever. And she was out one day this year. I remember the day um she had something that she absolutely had to do in her personal life. She left with plans. Paris plans. She left pick up plans and everything went off just like she wasn't here and she still checked in probably six times throughout the day to make sure. Um, so she might have slipped out of the spotlight tonight, but we're here to honor her anyway because even though she'd rather be behind the scenes doing her work, um, her heart, her commitment deserves to be front and
016center. I'm glad to um if you're listening later or right now I hope um to this speech that I tried to put together it didn't capture half of what we do us at language. Thank you and congratulations. So I'm playing for Shel today who couldn't be here. We are really excited at Twins Middle School to have Jill Sharaldi as our golden apple winner. Um I've known Jill had the luxury of working with her and privilege of um continuing to work with her in administration. Um she's both been an ELA teacher and currently her digital um video teacher. She's taken on this new challenge and really made it an exciting course and kids are engaged and love it. So, um, we're really happy about that. And she's always willing to jump in and just do what
017needs to be done. Positive attitude. Um, I know that when we've had some struggles with our chronic absentee students, um, she stepped in with the lead program and the minute that that program came out, she was like, I'm ready. Let's go. Let's get this. Let's get these kids here. So, we love that about um Jill as well. In addition, she's a mentor for her team. Um, and she also quarters their papers in her spare time. Um, she's involved at the state level with developing curriculum. Um, and works also with the TEA and union and is always willing, you know, to work with us at the middle school for anything that we might need. Um, and then she just brings spirit. She really always willing to step up to spite the culture and bring the positivity
018to the middle school which sometimes is really hard around middle school kids. She does it for her kids and she does it for their staff and we are just so privileged to have her working. We're going to try and do this this Golden apples in the center. There we go. Please. We'll just Great job. Congratulations again to everyone recognized. Uh we would be nothing without you. Um and now we'd like to hear from our student representatives. Good evening. Good evening everyone. My name is Matt Sai and my name is and we will be your student presenters tonight. So this month at Torington High School, we're thrilled to announce that our principal, Mr. Scott, has been turned on. I'm sorry. Oh, we turned it off. Hello. So this month at High School, we're thrilled to announce
019that our principal, Mr. Scott, has been named the 2025 arts advocate by the Connecticut Arts Administration Association. So this prestigious award highlights Mr. God's ongoing commitment to fostering arts in ths and through the point community. His leadership and dedication to this expression creativity continues to make a lasting impact. So big congratulations to PR Scott. Moving on to student updates. Our freshman and sophomore students have an amazing opportunity to attend performance of Roman and Juliet at Hartford stage. This adaption influenced by Latin American fairies and traditions offered a powerful perspective of the themes of love and loss. Students were captivated by the performances and left buzzing with excitement and thoughtful reflection of the production choices. We would also like to recognize our cast scholar athlete award recipients. So many congratulations to Michaela and and Mila. A
020true testament to their dedication to both academics and athletics. Last Saturday, the Torington track team was the NBR championship where many of them won medals in their events. Michael Allen stood out during the award ceremony where he won first place in long jump, high jump, and triple jump and also received awards for most outstanding jumper and most outstanding performance of the boy. Now on to our unified sports team. They wrapped up the season with the NBA end of the year picnic. It was a joyful day for games like volleyball, kickball, soccer, pornhole. Um they've also created activities like face painting hard. The spirit of inclusion and teamwork has been felt throughout the day with our student partners like Q success. Um also the FCCLA members had a joy meeting their fourth grade penthouse from Southwest
021Elementary in person. After a year of exchanging letters, the students finally came together for a meet and greet full of fun games and even a paper fun contest. This is the second year of this partnership and it continues to build meaningful connections across grade levels. Our art students journey to the metrop museum are immersing themselves in world around collections that broaden their artistic understanding and inspire their own creativity. Members of our science club visit the Sher Ottabon Center where they explore local ecosystems and wildlife conservation efforts and engaging hands-on extension to their scientific learning. So, our seniors had a great time at Boulder Ridge swimming, kaying, playing tenn and celebrating the new chapter that awaits them. Also, with AP testing over, our AP students had a pretty side relief. Shout out to Mr. Marshian, our
022AP coordinators and our AP teachers for supporting us throughout the journey. I know it's been like this was a rough season like the AP site just like floating on this test. Also, multicultural day when our final battle class is coming up on Friday, so tomorrow and currently seniors and juniors are to win. Um, and our multicultural members have been working and practicing hard for their performances. So, we look forward to that happening. Lastly, our General TC cadets had the exciting opportunity to join Bradley Air National Guard Base. The experience offered a behind-the-scenes look at military operations and career possibilities in the armed forces. Miss Ler was recently announced as Fington High School's teacher of the year. She's a coach, teacher, EMT, and inspiration. As our school's hosta adviser, we were able to attend the annual
023CT state conference at Nag Valley Community College where members attended several workshops and Matt and I were able to compete in an event. As a new club, we had a fair share of bumps throughout the year, but Miss Brewer has been very openminded and committed to the job. presidents and vice presidents of a host of future health professionals. We had to do a little um we would like to share what we've been doing in the school. So this month we're currently planning to uh train and get members certified in basic CPR first aid hopefully by June and to see members become certified. So furthermore, we hope to expand the club's community outreach in the future through like vaccine drives, mental health awareness, and possibly um expanding our club to be part of the American Red
024Pros. Um so finally, we would also like to address the passing of a beloved member of our community, Haley For. So Haley was a student, a classmate, and a friend of many, and this loss had large impact on the farm community. Support has been available to all students and staff in need. Uh small memorial has been set up by friends and classmates at the cafeteria in honor of her here at we're all about community. So and Haley had a big impact on this community and I hope that Haley goes up from above proud community knowing that she was loved, cherished and her country will live on with us forever. Thank you for your attention and this concludes this month school board education student report. Thank you um for both your report and for taking a
025moment to memorialize Haley for us. Um it means a lot to this school community. Um with that, uh I will say you certainly shouldn't feel obligated to stay for the rest of the meeting, although you are more than welcome if you would like. Um, we're going to move right along to the TMS roof bid presentation. Oh, great. Uh, if you're ready, uh, take it away. Sure thing. Um, my name is Mark Loringer. I'm a partner at Gail Associates and we have prepared the drawings and specifications, excuse me, for the roof renovations at the current Torington Middle School. The reasoning for this meeting is to request the board's approval to bring this project uh to bid to put this bid on the street. Uh this project will not be put on the street without your approval
026as well as a few others including the department of administrative services office of school grants uh as well as the local authorities having jurisdiction which we are in the process of getting those two approvals um currently. So, that is our request this evening is to get the board's uh approval as one of many moving forward with this project. Thank you. Um I don't know if you had anything to add or if we should just turn it right over to the board for questions. Um um no, I don't have anything to add. Um um again, we went through um going through the process right now, so I guess questions would be the best thing toward. Glen, you have anything else? I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but there is a lot of work to
027do. Um, there are going to be some amendments and changes to the bid to the package that was provided on Friday to the board. Um, I don't know if you guys want to recap some of those things or what have you, but the board should be aware of what changes are going to be done or what what some of the requirements are. Um, want our approval, we should know what we're approving. Doesn't have to be too detailed. We're on a very lengthy call today with uh Kermit Thompson from the state, a very knowledgeable um very thorough gentleman. Um but we have a lot of work to do. Gay associates has a lot of work to do on his end and Dean and Donna have a fair amount of work to do on their end to
028um complete the bid package. It's not complete as it is stands today. So I would ask that somebody just or maybe Mark if you could just give a brief overview of some of the highlights and changes and amendments that need to be done to the current bid package that sits in front of the board today if that will be okay. Absolutely. Yep. So, as part of the DAS uh review and approval process after we've already received the grant commitment letter, there are a number of uh very specialized uh forms that are required. So, those forms don't affect the bid package uh that you saw in your attachment in your in your in your packet. Uh but they are required. Um, a few changes to the documents, the drawings, and the project manual. Uh, one of
029the items is that we're going to include a new bid alternate number two, which will include um an alternate for an additional additional 10-year warranty over uh the base bid of a 20-year roofing warranty. And the reasoning behind that is that um the state will only reimburse up to well reimburse for a 20-year warranty. Uh anything over that would be an ineligible expense. So we want to look at that expense uh separately as an alternate bid item and see if that's something that the the city the board would like to purchase at bid time. So that will affect the um the bid form and it'll affect the alternate section of the project manuals front end. Does that address uh kind of what you were looking for? Yeah, pretty much. Right. Um that's again there's a
030there's a few other changes uh regarding just format and making sure we have the state project number that we were just given on May uh May 16th. Uh project number 1430078RR that just needs to go uh across the project manual every page as well as the drawing. So, it's a really a minimal change, but it's a change that we need to make. There are also some signoff signatures uh from the local authorities having jurisdiction that need to go uh onto the project manual cover sheet as well as the drawing cover sheet. So, I believe that is the uh the building uh official, building inspector, uh the fire inspector, fire chief. Uh there is a um uh accessibility and a uh health representative, health and safety uh representative. So there's four signatures required on the uh
031project manual cover sheet and their drawing cover sheet as well. Mr. Ber, anything else? No. So once all that is complete, um they have to send this to the state. They need to do their review. Then they will do give their approval and they will send a letter to Donna and Dean and Mark from Gail Associates and then at that point once they finish their bid package goes to the state they approve it they get the letter then it can go out and it's a bid finalized bid package right the schedule and timelines amended at this point um from previously um and once we get all the bids you're going to have to amend that and we may have to make decision whether we're going to really push a timeline for this year, next year,
032but that's up to these guys to decide. Great. Thank you. Um, any other quick question, Mark, just for the board's benefit, could you give a a brief summary of the project? Obviously, this is going over the existing roof. It looks like there's a a painted material that goes down like a sealant. Then you're going to put the two the half inch insulation boards. There's going to be insulation between the existing roof and the new one. It specs a whole bunch of different kinds based on what kind of strength they can handle. It was a it's a large document to read. I got through most of it, but could you just provide the board with a general summary of what the attack plan is on this? This is all the slanted portions of the roof was
033my understanding as well. And it has a spec in there for asphalt shingles and I wasn't sure where on the project those were going to be used. Um, no, there there are no asphalt shingles. There is a portion um do you guys see a screen with four different windows on it or no? Yes. Yes. Okay. So, you can see the project manual, the drawings. Okay. Um, there's a modified batumin section which affects flashings for the metal roof area tie-in to the existing lows slope roof which was phase one of the roof replacement project. Um, Dean helped me on this four years ago perhaps. Uh, somewhere in that neighborhood three somewhere in that neighborhood. Yeah. Three to four. That's the modified batumin uh section. And what I would like to just show real quick here and
034this will explain the scope of uh re-roofing work and you're absolutely correct. It is all the steep slope metal roofs. Um and if you can see this detail in large detail we have an existing roof rafter system we which is going to remain. We have existing roof plland structural plland at five feet on center again to remain. We have a suspended a um kind of a laid in bat insulation above the existing plland that drapes inward again that is existing to remain. Then we have the existing structural standing seam roof, metal roof panels on top of that attached to the plland uh with with structural clips. So that's the existing roof cross-section. And then the new roof cross-section, we look at the same existing conditions. The roof rafters, the plland, the insulation, and the existing
035panels live uh in this zone here. they will remain. We will add a subgurt unit kind of a kind of a new Zplland on each of the existing plland and we will lay our new roof panels on top of uh those new subplands. Supplemental bid one includes um insulation or I'm sorry uh alternate bid number one includes increased insulation between the two panel systems. Again, we wanted to look at that price separately um to make sure we can at least get the roof project depending on how bids come in. make sure we get the roof project um in play and then if there's enough money left over through the grant and the Torington contribution uh we will add that insulation into the middle here. Uh this self- adherent underllayment will not be here. There are
036no underllayments uh underneath the structural uh metal panel system. Uh so that that in a nutshell is the roof replacement project and that does encompass um the entire facility here as you as you see it. Last question. Are we heading to the auditorium area first where where leaks the worst? So the sequence uh has not yet been determined. Um, currently we had this uh we had this shown as a twofphased project. One summer of 2025, the other portion 2026, summer of 26. Um, seeing where we are right now heading into June. Um again that's a discussion that uh Gail uh Dean and Donna will have on how we may rephase this a little bit and when the starting point really may be. Um but if there is a desire to do the auditorium first, the
037gym first, that's something we can we can think about and and talk about sequence in these documents. Question of course, but uh Dean knows the building way more than the rest of us. So but just wanted to get an idea if we had a plan to go there. So, thank you for the summary. We will be there. Yeah. Thank you. Anyone else on the board or the team, I guess, have anything? Okay. We really appreciate you joining us. Uh, and I hope that we didn't keep you too long. Thanks. I have a course concert to get to, so thank you very much. Um, now, is the board interested in taking action on this now? We can in accordance with our agenda. If not, there's also an action item for it later. But if folks want
038to just make a motion and get this moving, I would hear it. So, we're Yeah, we're moving to Are we moving to approve this to authorize you to do anything? I suppose I should have asked that first. Yeah. So, this is to approve the bid process to put it out the bid. Okay. Um so so the formal motion is to authorize facilities to move forward with sending the bid out through this state of Connecticut DAS as amended by with the addendum mentioned by Mark. Yep. As described. Yep. That that seems fair. We can work with that. Uh was there a second? I second. Okay. See second. Uh any additional discussion on this question hearing? None. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Okay, so that's done. Vote is unanimous. Um so now we'll
039switch gears again and we'll go back to reports passes superintendent. Wonderful. Thank you. Have a good night. Take care. Thank you Mark. Congratulations again to our Golden Amid award recipients. Welld deserved. Well earned. And for those of them who couldn't be here tonight, I know the principles will make sure that they get their app tomorrow and get a another round of applause on behalf of the door. Um, in front of you this evening, you'll see the travel mug. Um, and that was given to all staff members for staff appreciation and obviously the board is part of the team. So, we wanted to include you in that and to give you a mug and hopefully that you travel well with it and bring it to board meetings. Um, I had the pleasure earlier this month of
040going to the LCSA award center. All of you saw it on Facebook and what a wonderful, wonderful evening. The dinner was amazing. The students couldn't have been nicer and more appreciative. And it was kind of funny. Mikey got recognized tonight, Mikey from the high school. And the joke was, "Wow, he's actually taller than you, Mr. Wilson." And I said, "Yes, Mikey is way taller than Mr. Wilson." So, we were bookends uh on the picture and the little ones on the sides of us. was a great evening. So, a lot of fun there. Mr. Pragola, just so the board knows, I know I give him a lot of ribbing because we know he's not the best basketball coach. However, he's a huge musical guy and he came to the musical working with me and Dean was
041singing along with the songs and I couldn't be happy. So, Dean is a great person to come to musicals with. If any board member wants to attend a musical with me, please just email him and he will be there. But, it was a great night. our uh high school students really really impressed us and to be in the Brandon Auditorium was just amazing. The sound was great and Dean and I really enjoyed our night. It was it was a good time uh recognizing our students. Our ESPA um have started and some the results are actually coming in slowly. They little changed a little this year. So we're very positive and confident that our students will continue to show growth and to do well and the early indicators are showing just that. So fingers crossed and
042we're looking forward to that. Um as my high school friends said, our AP exams, they were a little on the tougher side this year. Uh but those are done. Um we're we're confident that our students did well. I know they were saying about AP psych. I think I've heard that for the last 10 years though, Mr. Scott. So my daughter included when she took it. So I think you know AP psych is just a bear sometimes, but I'm sure that student did the best. Um, as usual, I'd like to thank all of our administrators, our teachers, and our staff for all of the hard work that they do. And our students, right? We get to see them day in and day out put forth that effort, put forth that work, and we couldn't be prouder
043of that. And as we come to our end of the year activities, we know they're all excited and they're ramped up because the last day is coming sooner than we think. Um, so we also know that's a crazy time in the building. So for our principles and assistant principles in the audience, we got you. We understand. For our teachers, we got you. can understand for every staff member, but it's an exciting time of year, too. So, we look forward to that. Um, if you also saw on Facebook, I had a great day fishing up at Burr Pond with the unified sports team. Special thanks to Mr. Marshand. He actually invited me months ago and it was on my calendar. And when I showed up in my suit, he said, "I can't believe you're here." And
044I said, "Of course I'm here." I said, "You invited me fishing." I said, "I'm definitely going to come fishing." So, as the students said, they said, "Mr. Wilson, I love your suit." I said, "Well, it's a fishing suit." I said that was my fishing suit that day. And there is a new spot at Burr Pond if anyone is interested. It's called the Mr. Wilson spot. When you cast there, you're guaranteed to catch. And two students proved that theory to be correct. So lucky for them, it happened. Lucky for me, it happened. So I'm very excited that I was invited and it was a great day. Uh Mrs. Ferguson and I love visiting with our senior class for senior day. It was a great day. And Mr. Scott, I mean, you can feel free to share,
045but I'll do it for you. He challenged me to a zipline race and um if you saw that on Facebook as well, I think we know how that turned out. Mr. Scott, I won. That's because Mike cheated. Well, Mr. Mrs. I don't know about that. I was the videographer. It was a great great day. You can show your original footage. We can we can do it. We can do it. Um and Mrs. Ferguson and I along with Mr. Scott from his invitation invited us to the general OOTC awards ceremony which was held right behind us and what a great way to honor our cadets and it was a really really nice ceremony. A lot of different people came out from the community as well to recognize our students and you know some of our students
046received some nice monetary awards as well. So, it was a really really nice afternoon and I think one mom summed it up the best for Sue and I when we went outside we said Sue knew the the parent and knew the child and she said oh my goodness and couldn't be prouder couldn't be happier and the smile on her face for the recognition not only her child but of every child there for the cadetses. Um it was a really nice end of the year ceremony. So kudos to the JOTC, kudos to the high school for putting that on and thank you for the invite. So, it was a great great night and that's all I have to say. Thank you. You know, I I think that the zipline thing it really has a lot to
047do with mass. Does anyone know why we're siding with Mr. Scott, but does anyone have any questions or remarks on the superintendent's report? Uh, okay. Thank you. and we'll go right along to the human resources report. Thank you. So, you have a shortened version of my normal report uh because we are in that very strange time of year when we have vacancies, but we're not filling them. We're using subs filled them through the end of the year, but can't really start actively doing our hiring for next year till we get our budget numbers. So, there really wasn't a lot to report on for the vacancies, but I wanted to give you the updates on the subfill rates and uh the absences so that you can see where we are with that. Um, we're really trending
048about the same in both of those areas. Um, and then you have our monthly uh percent, the totals of our different absence reasons and our turnover, which the turnover, if you're looking at the same time last year, were actually um considerably better in all areas. So, um so that's nice to see. and uh I will entertain any questions. Oh, the walking challenge. I should tell you that the walking challenge is going great. Everybody's doing wonderful and they love the new prizes. So, uh we're really excited about that. So, I will have a kind of full final report on that for June so that you can have the update on that. Great. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. I always have a question. Um just have a quick question on the absenteeism. Um, I took a second
049to go back to some prior years, the 2022, 23, 23, 24, 24, 25. And I had a question. The teacher absenteeism has had last year 4,400 requests through your meeting in 2022. In 2023, it was 5,500. This year, it's back down to 4,200, which is great. Um, unsung hero here is the TPS. So, the to our TPS retirees, that is a TPS bill, right? Yes. I mean, golden apple to all of them as well because they have really picked up the pace. I mean, we've had a lot more of those spills. Um, but my real question is that Paris, what are we what are we doing? What's the plan for the the trend of requests on the Paris side? It's gone from 2200 in 2023 to 3,200 this year through now. Yeah. and our fill
050rate is getting better, but I don't have the delta t numbers from the early year to really make a comparison, but I wasn't sure if we had a if it was a challenge we're working on, how we're working on it because it's as we all have talked about in meetings prior, kids in front of people, it's always been the board's a difficult task for you, but what are we doing to kind of mitigate that? No, it's an excellent question. And if you actually look at the absence monthly percent totals and if you go back and look at like previous years, you can see that for the paras, what's driving that number being higher this year than previous years is that long-term absence. So if you take a look and compare that because I've been digging,
051Donna and I have had these that's why she's shaking her head because we've really been digging into this data. Um, and the the long-term absences for the paras this year in particular seems to have spiked. And so, you know, again, that's attributed to various things like workers comp, FMLA, uh, you know, people taking, you know, long-term absences for for whatever reason in accordance with their contract that they can do. And so, we have a higher number of those than we have had in previous years. So, we have to hold those jobs and look for somebody long-term sub to be able to fill it, but it still shows up as an absence. So in December, for example, we had 12 paras that were out for the entire month of December for a long-term absence. Sure. Which
052is which is a large number in comparison to normal years. Sure. That counts as 20 absences and legitimate absences just you know it's just it's just a you can't predict FMLA and those things. So my other thing is just also in the TPS bill there. I mean, kudos to all the retire these retirees. Do we use the retirees for the long what's the process? Do we do we hit ESS for the long-term subs or how are we changing there? Yeah, for for building subs and long-term subs or the daily subs, the our retirees. The beauty of the retiree program for the incentive is that they can do it however they want to do it. So, we have some of the retirey subs that work one day a week in the same building and do the
053PPT coverage, but then we have others that look for that long-term absence so they can get their 30 days out of the way and then, you know, decide they're going to take the rest of the year off and and so they get to kind of pick and choose what works best for them and their family to be able to take advantage of that program. And thankfully for us, they're doing it just for the board's info. It's like 850 TPS fills we'll call them in the last couple years has been the average this year through now it's 1,250. So that's awesome. Awesome. Really great. Anything we can do to keep them coming back it helps keep people in front of uh the kids. So thank you. Yes. You know I actually talked to one of our
054retiring teachers the other day and uh she was excited uh to be able to come back and sub and not have to work full-time but not have to totally let go. So, I think um you know, our teachers to to Jeff's point really do they they like being here even when they're retired. They just don't want to be here every single school. Um any other questions regarding the good resources report? Okay. Um do we have a sped report or should we take that in writing? Yeah. So I can so I just wanted to um Miss Clizuzki to thank her for her years of services uh to Torrance and public schools and to education in general. Unfortunately, she did not be here in this interview, but she did include her report and if there's anything after
055you read her report that there's questions on, please feel free to forward them to me and I will make sure that they get answered. But we wanted to thank her for her years of service and for her dedication to touring to the public schools and to our students. Obviously, it's going to be tough, but we will miss her and uh wish her the best in her return. So, thank you. Um we have received most if not all the leaison reports. I saw some still coming in this afternoon. Um but if any of our building administrators have anything to add or Mr. Kisco does on behalf of event advance, now would be the time. Um great. Um, so then we'll go right ahead to the monthly financials. Um, I don't have a packet in front of
056me. I just have an agenda. Um, but I don't know if uh, Ellen wants to do monthly financials or if you'd like to mention anything about them. Sure. I mean, I could start and you can add in, Ellen. Um, so yes, the April monthly financials were given out um, at our budget meeting and they were posted on the website and sent to the board. And once again, um we will actually send them in the minutes. Um so you have the hard copy or the uh digital copy in front of you. Uh we are in great standing once again. Uh we're about 80% through the fiscal year and we're about 80% spent down. Um so that's um a wonderful thing. And we had gone over the student activities funds and those are in good standing. There
057were some questions uh with our budget and I will be addressing them at the June meeting and we also um had a question I believe um that Mr. Corey you were asking about the building uh use revenue that that number had pretty much stayed the same and we updated it so it went from around 1,000 or so to about 7,500ish. Um but again you can view all that online um in the budget committee minutes uh folders. Great. Any questions? Um is that in line that building use revenue is that uh in line with previous years more than less than where does it compare? So I believe it's a little less than we did have somebody who was or an organization that was using the facility that was um using it a lot and we were
058getting a lot of revenue from that. Um, so it's kind of trended down a little this year, but we are recouping our costs uh for custodian fees. And uh this I'm not sure if this is more of a you question or dean question, but related to that um is the actual use of our facilities pretty steady less the loss of I guess one large organization. I mean, you know, because we changed our policy a couple times in the last few years, but people it's steady. People are still able to get in here, use the buildings, they can afford the rate, all of that. Yeah. That's that's not the reason why they're not here. Great. Thank you. Uh, anyone else have any just one fact. When do they have we revised the policy or costs to
059reflect the new building? We haven't done a policy change since then. I think the costs are set by policy, right? I we we talk we talked about it that we're going to have a brand new building may have different costs associated with you renting out the theater and things like that. Yeah. No, we haven't we haven't made any interest. Has anybody actually asked to use the facility yet? Um, actually, uh, yes, but they backed up. State reps coming in or something of that nature is they backed off for some reason, but other than that, just the normal usual suspects, I guess, were using um, you know, that we did make an adjustment, but a large uh, St. Jude is up at the floor at the middle school now. for being safe just because of certain
060aspects of this building compared to that one. But no. Awesome. Thanks, David. Anyone else have anything related to the monthly financials? Not uh I would hear a motion to accept and approve them. Is there second? Okay. Uh any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Okay. Monthly financials are done. Um committee reports. Mr. Hisco for school improvement. School improvement committee met as usual on first Wednesday. I heard a report about preliminary plans for the summer school program. Of course, no numbers yet because we don't know how students are doing how much we're going to need for summer program. We learned a couple things from last year in the program and we build on that this coming year. And Mrs. Ferguson, would you like to talk about the math program
061that we adopt? just please. Sure. So, at the school improvement committee meeting um that John is referencing, we uh Mary Gad came and several of our instructional coaches and really made a beautiful presentation, I think, to the committee on a math resource that several of our teachers across the district have been I'm going to use the word piloting because I think it works. um volunteered to kind of use this resource throughout the year to get a sense of how they felt about it. Um you know that our goal a few years ago had been focused on literacy and what we needed to do to really kind of turn the ship around and we feel like we've done that and we're just full steam ahead and now we need to expand our focus to mathematics. Um,
062Michael and I have met a couple times over the last year and a half with our state representative from our alliance grant who has really strongly encouraged us to look at a way to adopt a resource for math instruction that would give us uh consistency from kindergarten all the way up through grade 8. So, we've also been partnering throughout the last year with um an education specialist from Ed Advance who is very familiar with this particular program. It is a very highly regarded math resource uh not just in the state of Connecticut but really nationally. Um and our teachers are very excited about it. It's really really kind of grown legs. Um, even in just this year, the pilot teachers, if you will, have seen already great success. The kids in their classes are excited.
063Uh, so I'm I'm super excited. And the committee that evening voted to bring it to the full board for approval. Um, I don't know if you want me to tell you what the what the cost would be, but at this point, um, we have received a quote from the vendor of if if we were to go with the program and purchase it over five years. If we entered into a five-year contract, it would be $865,000 for the five years. Um, but it's kindergarten through grade eight. So, if you do the math, uh, it boils down to about $67 per child per year. That includes the consumables. Yes, it includes everything. And, and it's it's really a beautiful process. It's the same thing that we're doing right now with our literacy program. Every spring, they just
064ship us uh the consumables that we need. And this this math resource would be handled in the same way. There's an electronic component. There are, you know, consumables. There are print resources. Uh the professional development is baked into that cost. Um the teachers and the kids are really excited about it. So you're going to be excited about it, too. I'm excited about it. Very excited. Happens for Mus. Yeah. Uh even though we have it on our agenda later, I guess while we're on the topic. Um so with the literacy program my very sort of broad strokes view of it is that it's largely a return to traditional if you will instructional methods that worked for a long time. So uh right is is the math program similar are we it is it is very similar
065in that I think what you're yes so I can draw the a correlation you know it's a return to phonics and phmic awareness and all the things that we know work and how how most children acquire literacy right so we are committed to doing the same thing in mathematics making sure that children have fact fluency and that they are not leaving elementary school without those things committed to memory. So that that fluency then allows them to use their bandwidth, their brain bandwidth to think more in more complex ways, right? Um so the resource allows for that. It is a hybrid type of a thing because we also we don't want to go back to you know the the days when that's all we're doing, right? is teaching the algorithm. You know, I'm going to show
066you how to do it and then you do it, but don't ask any questions. It allows for children to um come up with their own ways to solve a problem because I may solve it a different way than you do, but get to the same answer and that's okay. Right. But yes, to your point, I understand your question and yes, um yes, that that's been very important to us that we do that for our kids. Great. And you'll appreciate there's some vertical math in those books. I flipped through it. Right back to our day, up and down math. Yeah. Look, there there's not a lot of problem solving to five times five, but you need to know it before you can do the real problem solving, I guess, is what I was putting on. Um,
067in my humble opinion as a non-educator. No, I totally agree with you. Uh, anyone else have anything related to the school improvement committee report generally? Okay, one more thing. Oh, yes. high school report next Wednesday at the last school meeting of the year. Great. Please come. Thank you. Um, next we have facilities and technology. Uh, Mr. Burgerer, you already had the show once for the roof, but tell us what else you got going on. Well, at our previous meeting, Rachel and her team, I believe we finished up with the majority of the school websites. Those are complete and online. She gave us a great update on social media and the traffic. Um, and as far as facilities, we had three um, items on our agenda. One was the TMS roof, which we already spoke about,
068project updates and contract renewals and revisions. Um, unfortunately, those attachments didn't make it into the packet, so I don't remember I don't remember what we spoke about. Um, but I know we were reviewing some contract renewals and revisions based upon the new high school and the new TMS as far as if any of the contracts can be amended due to the current construction going out in the fields. I think we spoke about that. I don't know if you want to elaborate because I don't have the your attachments didn't make it into the package so I don't remember what we spoke about. Uh, just that. So I guess the the Chesman Center is the big one. Our field and and outside stuff right now be looking at other things coming up those great. Anyone have any
069questions for Mr. Burgerer, Mr. Bgola related to that committee's work? None. Um we'll go to budget committee. Donna said we discussed that we're right on target for the budget process. Um we discussed the student accounts. I just want to um next meeting about alliance details and grant details and just for us to review and next meeting we'll go over them in more detail like what we have for alliance what we spend what we have left the minds um and grants some are two years some are three years some are one year just to see where we are in the process anyone have any questions for Ellen relate to the budget committee's work. Okay. Uh building committee um Mr. Arum and Mr. L didn't make it. I don't know if we specifically asked them. I I
070I hinted a reminder to the meeting when I was looking for the minutes and then I didn't have a chance to follow up. So, um well, and we also like Mr. Bledo this evening who's usually our one of our go-to folks but does anyone around the table have anything to add is there it was a very quick meeting right half an hour oh yeah that's that's probably that's a good sign I think right I'll take that yeah nothing major updates just like approving it was approving some of the change orders right yeah and going over like how far they are process right now. Um Terry County, I do have something that was uh hot button issue in the community. Um was the there's an issue with the water here? I know it's been resolved, but
071I'm wondering is that is that like does responsibility for that fall onto a contractor or subcontractor and are they taking care of it? Took care of it tonight. Excellent. Okay. I just wanted to put that out there because that that was the community was uh buzzing with that one and I want to make sure that we're not on the hook out of our operating budget for that that it it was fixed by the contractors who were responsible for it. Mr. Buck, I can add a few things. I was about to those meetings um the old building is down now entirely. The they did go through I asked a question during the the process if we had any extra abatement fees or anything and as of the end the end of that meeting we were looking
072good. There was nothing crazy that was found that it's going to cause us big headaches which was great keeping the budget on track. So people have a couple of the fields ready in time. That's the plan for being playable and there'll be a few fields that will take a little bit longer. I think there was the is it the gym gymnasium there may I think is a couple weeks behind and they're trying to pull it back in. There's a couple sections but they're on track to get the school open by and large in time for our middle school to go end of the year seven by the end of August early. So everything looked good. It was a short meeting and no major problems. Excellent. Anyone else have anything related to the building committee? Okay.
073Uh we just have one regular meeting minutes. Uh so unless anyone has any additions uh or amendments to the minutes, I would hear a motion to receive and approve the board of education regular meeting minutes from April the 30th. Okay. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Okay, those are done. Um, I would do the subcommittee meeting minutes as one motion as long as there's no objection. So, we would I would hear a motion for facilities and technology on April 9th, budget on April 9th, uh, school improvement on April 2nd, and the building committee on April 10th. Is there a motion? Second. Okay. Uh, any discussion, amendments, additions? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Okay, that's done. Um, we'll hear a motion to receive
074the consent agenda. Is there a second? Okay. Uh, any discussion? I see. No. Okay. Uh, all those in favor, please say I. I. Opposed. That's done. Um, we have new information and action board of ed calendar 2526. Is that you, Mr. Wilson? That's your board calendar. Oh, that's our board. I see. Oh, right. Yeah, we already I thought I thought we were making a change. That's right. That's our board calendar. Um, I don't have a Is that what you sent, Lissa? Yeah, that's the one that you sent. So to just to point out when I went through the calendar and checked the dates and everything and obviously she very thorough and got it all set but um just to run this by everybody generally we've had our subcommittee meetings in school improvement in the building
075that you're at and um policy follows and then budget and facilities has been at central office um it's been convenient because of a location there was a recommendation to have all the subcommittee meetings in the um building of the month, if you will. So, wherever John is hosting um sick that month, all subcommittee meetings would be in that location or continue with the the way things have been going with uh sick and policy at the building that they're host that's hosting and then uh facilities and budget. It would have to be at central office. There's kind of a little bit of a a butt in here because it's not as simple as having it in central office because it's not a big conference room. So, if people from the public did happen to come, there
076wouldn't be anywhere for them to sit. And if we did it here, then that would require monthly um Brian staff to come and open and close and clean and everything else. So, I'm putting it out there for you all to, you know, have a little bit of discussion and some thoughts and before we sign off on, but the idea is still to have two separate subcommittee nights. Yes. Yeah. To keep them as is, but just in whatever building happens to be where you're hosting that month, it would be for all four subies. Does it impact? I mean, somebody's staff has to stay for us in whatever building we're in. Right. Right. But it shares the wealth as opposed to Brian staff having to do it every month for budget and facilities. Each building um they
077would have somebody whatever building of the month it is. Sue, I'm sorry. Just as a point of clarification, yes, Bryant, but also Shel because it would be remember on the other side is where it's going to be officially set up for the board meeting. So, it be the same kind of entry point. We would just walk down yonder. But yes, but yeah, you're correct. I mean, and if I may reason for sharing the sharing the wealth was, you know, just not to burden one building or one principle because there's a lot going on and we understand that and we recognize that. So what Sue I think was sharing was you know that's what you know we tried to do. Marissa really mapped it out and I kind of you know gave it the once over
078but if we do have it upstairs and to Sue's point the issue is while we do have a large conference room there's no seating on the outside like there is a so so everyone would just be around the table which is sometimes awkward for meeting purposes um I think um but that was the reason why we had discussed that I think I don't know if I articulated that. Yeah. No, I think that's that was the concern. But I think moving it around does also not burden any one principal to say, "Are you coming here again?" And not that they complained, they uh but I Fair enough if you do, but I also, you know, it might be nice to visit some of the other buildings as well and give them a little visit now and
079again. So that was the reason for kind of juggling it up, if you will, and mixing it up. Just so you understand the thought process. The only thought I have is some of our buildings are quite old. Um, so I know over the years uh we've made a lot of accessibility upgrades. So I just want to make sure that we've thought about that that wherever we're going to be having these meetings will be completely accessible um to anybody who may want to attend regardless of any mobility or accessility issues. Correct. Okay. As long as we thought about that before we scheduled them. Uh I don't the last thing I want is somebody to show up and find out they can't get in. Understanding. And right now they're all set for here budget facilities. I think
080went back the other way because we were kind of going back and forth this weekend and um so if it's up it's up to you all whatever your thoughts are. I guess I'd like to hear from everybody because it'll be your meetings. I John Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. I think that is that it's a great idea to share the wealth. the the uh the the fewer amount of times I have to try to t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t my stairs in vision, the the more I like good the media centers in the various buildings are quite quite good for these media. Oh, that that's true too. We have the media centers in in this building you're referring to or
081the all the buildings. All the other buildings, the elementary schools and Yeah. Fine. Perfect. So then we could Yeah, we could do that then. It's good just Yeah. So each building and then there's you know I know there's times where some of us haven't been in some of the buildings and opportunity to or principles to show off their locations. Drive it somewhere so it doesn't m Yeah. Exactly. Right. So whatever works. Yeah. All right. So then if you want to pop it back hopefully to save us both Sue's crazy way and then your way. So uh so if it's not is it set in stone? Can we vote on it? Um because we do have to set it by what? Next month. Yeah. Did anyone have a chance to look at it in the packet?
082Yeah, I think we're set to vote on it. I just wanted to put that out there as a location so that was on the same page. Right. I just wasn't sure based on what you were just saying whether it it was ready for voting. I just I saw the packet but I don't have it in front of me. So I I only have so much recall space in here. So I think the motion would be with the um contingency being that she put back budget and facilities will be with at the same location. Okay, you got enough equipment in all these schools or are we going to be totting this around to every Okay, great. Uh so I would hear a motion to the effect of of what Sue was just saying which is that
083we would approve the calendar with the dates and times that were written uh but with the amendment that budget and facilities will be held on the same dates at the same time but in the same facility that policy and school approvement. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Uh okay. Any additional discussion? Uh hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose or abstensions? Right. So, that's adopted. Um, math textbook uh it's more textbook program. Well, the math textbook adoption, I guess, is what the agenda says. Um, which we already talked about, right? We've discussed that a little bit. Does anyone have anything to add? Any additional questions? This is to replace bridges, right? So this is we will phase out bridges the second edition in favor of what we saw that
084night and that'll roll in the whole district all in one year. That's the most we have to do it that way really. It makes the most sense educationally but also financially. It's the best way to do it and it's it's baked into our live script we're posting for next year already. I just wanted to point out um that I was there for the presentation and um really the teacher feedback was was amazing. Um and it seemed like a really good program to be outed into our systems and um I just I really think that we need to get behind it as a team because even though it's going to cost significant amount of money um it is best for the students and really is best for the the teachers and our staff. Um the ones
085that we heard from were extremely enthusiastic about it. Um it's a program that I think would really benefit our students because like as Sue said, it's not just one way of doing something. There's multiple and you know, as we know, a lot of us are parents and have students in the school system. Every child learns differently and it's important to embrace that. Um so I think anything that's good for our students as well as our staff is something as long as we can afford it, we need to But one last I actually never mentioned my children to these meetings, but I asked one of my daughters at Southwest about the math room if she'd heard anything about it knowing that she had she hadn't had it. And she actually was able to tell me, "Oh
086yes, one of my friends is in another class, mentioned the teacher's name, checked the list, and sure enough, that was a beta." So the the kids seem to have an awareness of a new program in a different way. And she said that her, you know, her friend school thought it was great. So I mean it was just I was surprised to get the feedback that kids don't always notice or talk about those things. So to your credit, she did notice them. Mr. I was also at at that meeting and and was um very impressed with with with the presentation, but but u you know the the most of it. Uh, yes, it's going to it's it's there's a cost, but as S said, it was the cost is is is for five years. But the
087thing that that that really got me was the enthusiasm of of everyone in in the room, the uh teachers um um the you know, the people who were actually going to be you know do uh doing the instruction and um Sue is as it was being and the board just the enthusiasm of of everyone in the room. dur during their pres presentation and I I you know it was it was really it was really great to see. So I I'm al also hope that uh that um it won't be too cost and and that and that we um this program will be able to be implemented because uh you know it's it's a it's it's a it's a winning situation for everybody. Thank you. Uh I agree for what it's worth and the cost uh
088I mean look we with the exception of teacher and par educator salaries I don't think that there's anything uh that is more directly engaging to the education of our students than the materials that we're going to use to educate them. Um so that's what we're supposed to be doing. The taxpayers give us this money to educate their kids. Um, so with that, asuming there's no additional discussion, uh, I would hear a motion, uh, to approve the program. So, okay. Any final discussion on the question before us? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say I. Any oppose or abstension? Okay, that's approved. Thank you all very much. Thank you. We did the roof bit. Uh so we have now um possible executive sessions sessions. Uh um well no there's possible actions. Yeah. So we have
089to do two separate here. Um right is it two three. Um so all right the first one will be a possible executive session regarding a discussion concerning a confidential attorney client privileged opinion regarding legal legal steps on how to commission a forensic audit for the internal service fund inviting in the superintendent and that's it. Uh is there such a motion? So move second. Okay. All those in favor please say I uh we are in executive session at 6:47. We are back in open session at 7:21. Can I see the draft motion? Um, so we do have possible action concerning the commission of a forensic audit for the internal service fund, but I want to make sure I take this motion correctly. Just bear with us one moment. Sorry, I closed it. It's right around right
090after May 5th. probably this one last year. Oh, here it is. Yeah. Go ahead, Michael. today. They were quicker though. I think it deserve an extra question. He Okay, I have the motion. I just locked it. That was classic. Okay. Uh, let me the bottom. Yes. Um, I will hear a motion that the board hereby authorize Shipment and Goodwin LLP in consultation with the board chairs to engage forensic auditors uh to review the funding of the internal service fund in accordance with the board's purchasing policies where applicable. So, I'll second. Okay. Uh, made by Mr. Burger, seconded by Mr. Pis. Um, and I just want to clarify this because the motion m makes it a little bit opaque. Uh, but the the board collectively will um engage the auditors. Um, so it won't just be
091Sue and I in consultation with Shipman choosing one. Um, we will have them bring one or several before the board. Um, with that, is there any discussion or debate on this before? Uh if not uh we'll have this vote by roll. Paul will be with Mr. Burgerer. Yes. Yes. Mr. Corey. Yes. Mr. Cronin. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. KCO. Yes. You can consider it functionally the same as an obsession. Mr. Kisco is present and voting. But Obama present several times. News in the Senate. Yes. It's often done. Mr. Knight uh Mr. Knight asked uh so he he remained in the executive session room due to some accessibility issues, but he has asked that his vote be reflected as present for the record. Mr. Putnham. Yes. Okay. So that's uh seven seven in favor, zero opposed,
092and two voting present. functionally the same as an abstension. That motion carries. So, we will get to work on that. Um, we next have a possible executive session regarding a discussion concerning confidential attorney client communication regarding the freedom of information complaint process. Is there a motion to enter executive session? Second. Okay. Uh, all those in favor, please say I. I. Uh um 7:25 uh we in executive session at 7:25. We didn't need session here at 7:45 down. Uh there is no action related to that. So we next possible executive session regarding contracts is there to okay by Mr. and seconded by all say I executive session at 7:43 Jeff and Patrick. We are back in open session at 751. Uh we have a possible action regarding the non-UN contracts um as they were presented. Um
093is there such a motion? Is there second? Second. Okay. Any discussion? Debate? None. Uh, okay. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Uh, Mr. Burgerer. Any abstensions? Okay. So, that carries. Uh, items for the upcoming agenda. Um it'll probably have to be a special meeting, but we will definitively have our budget number by uh next week is when the city's voting um so we'll have that maybe hopefully some stuff related to the roof project if it goes quickly. Um that's all I have top of mind. Anyone else have anything? The city meeting for the building same time. Excuse me. You are. Yes. Actually, can I have an excuse, too? Yes, we can reschedule. So, it's fine anytime. Yeah, I'm liable to get thrown out of city hall, so I'll leave that work
094to you guys. Um, okay. March in a parade. Why would you be able to go to city hall? I know it. Comments for the good of the fun. Good meeting. Lots lots to do tonight. Got through it. So, thank you, Bill. Um yeah was um good uh good readings some uh um some um um there were some uh some good some good discussions and you know um um um from from my point of view things went well which were in the paper today actually did justice to June Ser. Oh, she passed. It was a I didn't know only to say remember because it's been very recent for her reading and enrichment program that she ran in the glass building. She worked so hard for kids and so much with awareness of dyslexia for instance and
095so on. Sorry to hear that woman was Brits would say I think it's more of a Brit phrase a force of nature. That she was and that means don't with no filter. Yeah. a lot. I think we need to recognize we have lost. Thank you, Kristen. Great meeting. Um, uh, one month from today, I will be, um, on another vacation. As Gary says, um, I did buy the Wi-Fi on the cruise, so hope you still be able to join. Um, if I can't, I apologize. It's okay. I'd rather be on vacation with me. Good. Great meeting. Uh just kudos to everybody on your team, Mr. Wilson. Uh wrapping up the year. I'm looking forward to getting through the end of this year. There's a lot going on and there's a lot to prepare for uh
096by September and uh looking forward to one more month and see how it goes. Great meeting, a lot of information. Congratulations to all the Golden Apple award winners. I love the Golden Apple. I really want one. Not out of pity, just because I want one. You seem like you're gonna have to I loved it. I know. I loved it last year and I again I I'm not gonna lie. I'm disappointed I didn't get one. But um that was a really good meeting and and thank you everybody for your contributions and thank you. Uh great meeting and I just want to give a shout out again to Casey Lawer, my technician who got one of the golden apples as well as everybody who got one. Um but a special shout out for representing technology. Great. Look
097at this guy. He's ready to go. Good meeting. Thank you. Great meeting. I look forward to serving in this capacity moving forward with an awesome team. Donna, I appreciate this opportunity and I will not disappoint. Hopefully, I think we know. Um, yeah, great meeting. Thank the board for uh thanks to the board for supporting the math adoption. And I just want to mention that last night right here in the auditorium, the academic awards night happened and um we honored our distinguished alumnest at that event, Joanne Ryan. She was delighted. Yeah, it was it was a great night. It always is though, isn't it? Yeah, especially with the distinguished alum. It was a really nice night and it was so impressive. We had so many students because we typically give the distinguished alumnest award out at
098scholarship night but we switched it up this year and so this event oh my goodness the the students who received these academic awards most that's great I saw a lot of pictures from it great meeting thank you to dean and his crew obviously setting this up this evening impromptu but I think he did a great job Great. Thank you. So Dean, thank you and thank you for doing this. And Ra, thank you for the tech was not an easy task. So they pulled it together. So thank you. So I'm sorry. I'm going to add to that just because it was um a very much team effort. I mean Donna has been doing stuff that um you know this is non-stop. Marissa, everybody we're all in. We're in a four-hour meeting today about this and um
099but to get to that 4 hour meeting was probably 30 hours leading up to it to get to that meeting. So it is a definitely a team effort. Um and you know our two leaders are are showing us how to do it. So the seal of bio literacy is Tuesday at 6 p.m. So it is last year we couldn't come and we did sneak away for a couple minutes because it was the same night as a meeting our meeting but at least this year we we'll be able to enjoy it. 30 something. 32. Wow, that's awesome. Is this your highest number yet? Congratulations. That's so exciting. I'm gonna do my level best to make it and I hope everyone else will. Um I just I have a few thank yous and recognitions. I I just
100want to again uh really uh recognize and thank our our student representatives for taking a moment to memorialize Haley, their classmate. Um I I think that was brave and difficult for them to do and and well worth doing. Um and I'm proud of them for bringing that forward during their student report. Um I'm also really excited to have our first meeting here uh in this building. Um so thank you for everybody who put some work into that. Thank you to our ASO as well uh for looking out for us um and for opening the doors so people knew where to enter. Uh we appreciate that very much. Um, also want to just again thank Laura for all her service in case I don't see her before her last day. Um, I don't know if I'll
101see her at graduation or anything. So, um, she really has been just a tremendous asset to this community, this board. Um, and we will miss her dearly as much as she has well-earned retirement. Um, I I don't I don't know if I have uh the words for all of the good things that she deserves to have said about her. Um, and with that, because I guess we are still transacting business, um, I will really quickly go through the future meetings. We have Wednesday, June 4th, uh, here, um, school improvement at 5:30 and policy, uh, 6 p.m. or immediately after. Wednesday, June 11th at Miden, facilities and technology at 5:30 and budget 6 p.m. or immediately after. and Wednesday, June the 25th, our regular board of education meeting here. And with that, I will hear a
102motion to adjourn. So move there. Second. Second. All those in favor? Five. We