001All [Music] right, good evening everyone. It was hard to pull ourselves away from that amazing presentation out in the gallery. So clearly we're just a little over our start time, but I would like to welcome you all and um call the to order our Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 meeting of the board of education at 7:01, I think is when I started talking, so I'm going to take credit for 701. Um if you don't mind, we're going to start with a roll call. For any of you that are new to joining us, you'll know who's up here speaking. I will start with board members. I am Deborah Chute. I am the chair. We also have Dr. Thage Singh, our vice chair. >> President Deb, thank you. Jeffrey Fleshman, our secretary. >> Present. Thank you, Deb. >>
002Lynn Katz, >> present. Thank you, Deb. Sarah Heath will not be able to join us this evening. Nicole Russo, >> present. Thank you. >> Suzanne Zakaris, >> present. Thank you, Deb. >> Chris Campbell, >> here. Thank you. >> And Romesh Candilly, >> present. Thank you. >> Thank you. And our administrators, Dr. Carnola, our superintendent, >> here. Thanks. >> Mr. Gianini, assistant superintendent, >> here. Thank you. >> Mr. Medic, assistant superintendent. >> Present. Thank you. >> Miss Russo, our business manager, >> here. Thank you. and Miss Sardinskis, our executive assistant to the superintendent and board clerk. >> Thank you. If you would all join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible,
003with liberty and justice for all. >> Excellent. Thank you everyone. It's nice to be back together with everyone. Um, I'd like to start our meetings by reading our mission statement because I think it always reminds us of the work that brings us together and why we are sitting here at this table. Our mission is to inspire in each student a joy and passion for learning and a commitment to excellence, personal integrity, and social responsibility. This is always the perfect segue into our recognition um component of the evening as well. And I'm very excited considering we just got to witness what Maria Mascoli actually does out in the gallery space. Um, we had 42 internships that were represented. Is she still out there? >> I We might We might have to keep moving because I think
004she's trying to like me get >> Okay, she has to wrap that up. So, we will come back to Miss Mascoli, but I'm excited to recognize her. So, we'll move to the next portion of the the business we have ahead of us. Um, do I have a motion to approve the minutes from the board of education regular monthly meeting from August 19th, 2025? >> Thank you. That's Lynn. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. Second by Chris. All in favor? >> I. Passes unanimously with eight. Thank you. All right. Communication from the public. Do we have anyone signed up? We do. Okay. So, if you bear in mind with me, I just have something that I'd like to read to explain how this portion of the meeting works. This is the section of our
005meeting where Avon residents have the floor to share their thoughts andor concerns with the board. It is not an opportunity for conversation. Rather, it's the board's chance to listen to feedback from the community. Please add your name to the list. Miss Ardinskis will then call you in order, you must state your name and address for the record. Each speaker will have up to three minutes to speak and in an effort to hear as many of you as we can. We must adhere to this time limit. You can certainly state that you agree or disagree with the previous comment. If you'd prefer to be brief, brevity will allow for more attendees to be heard. After 15 minutes are up, the board may choose to extend public comment or not. No speaker will include charges or complaints
006of a personal nature against any individual Avon Board of Education member or individual employee of the Avon Board of Education. Whether the speaker names the individual or not, please refrain from clapping or cheering. Miss Ardinskus will be our timekeeper tonight. If you should reach 2 and 1/2 minutes, she will alert you with a 30-se secondond warning. At the 3minut mark, you'll be alerted again to signal that your time is up. We welcome your engagement and participation. So, Miss Ardinskus, if you want to call someone forward. >> Just please state your name again and your address for the record. >> Hey, good evening everyone. My name is Adam Fakir Navi. I am here to request the board of education to include the observance of our holiday eid holidays for upcoming years for the A1 academic school
007year. I think I have been having a conversation with the superan for the last couple of years and this is an opportunity for me to come here and then express and then ask for it. And we as a Muslims celebrate Eidul fither uh or the feast of breaking the fast ordul adha the festival of sacrifice are very important holidays of giving and gratitude that involves special services ceremonies traditions celebrated with the family and community as well. I have a kids who are going to the high school, middle school and elementary school and they are going to come and talk what they feel and when they are getting that eid as a holiday as well and and again a big thank you to the A1 board of education and the support staff for the last couple
008of years for accommodating the Ramadan. During the Ramadan, I think there was a big support for all the school students and even my kids are so happy when they hear the announcement, morning announcement saying that Ramadan start of the Ramadan month, the kids will fast for the 30 days and sunset to uh sunrise to sunset actually while fasting. This demonstrated the A1 school and a board of education commitments towards the diversity and inclusion. Again, it is much appreciated. Avan Farmington Valley is a home to a sizable and a growing Muslim population. Hundreds of families lives in Awan and a large portion consist of schoolage children and an young adults enrolled in Awan public school. Awan school district recognizing Eid as a holiday would provide Muslim students with a longer overdue accommodations. So there are lot
009of nearby towns like the district they have recognized either as an holiday for example like Stamford, Manchester, Bridgeport there are there are a lot in the states that are the Trump, Fairfield and New Heaven as well. So we believe that Avon should be on this list as well. And Avon has a dedicated days off from the school for many non-religious and religious holidays including uh Good Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Diwali on Yam Kapoor as well. Recognizing Eid as a holiday will allow the students to observe their faith freely without the need to choose between religious observance and attending school. as well. So this recognization will help reduce Islamophobia in schools and by fostering a more inclusing environment whether Muslim students feel a stronger sense of belonging and connections to the community they call home. Recognizing
010Eid will strengthen community bonds promoting unity, harmony within staff community while encouraging the dialogue, engagement and collaboration among students, families, staff from diverse background. convey a powerful message to the Muslim students showing that their culture, traditions and religious observants are respected and valued. It will celebrate rich cultural diversity within our district and encouraging acceptance, understanding among the students among all backgrounds. Thank you for listening me. Appreciate that. >> Thank you very much. And we have another [Music] [Applause] Good evening everyone. My name is Rxana Fatima Adam. I am in fourth grade in Royen Brook School Elementary School. I love my I love my school teachers and staff very much. I'm very I am of I am ve I am a student council member as well. I stand here to request to request Avon board of
011education to add Eid days ether break face of breaking the fast and eat a lot feast of sacrifice holiday in the school calendar. Many other districts in the Connecticut state organized Eid as the holiday in their school calendar. My friends have their holiday offs like Chris like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween, Halloween, and Dwallik. All I'm asking to give is one day off each holiday. Avon is an is a more exclusive community. I hope you recognize our holiday and make us feel included. Thank you for listening from to my speech. >> Thank you very much. We have another >> uh good evening everyone. My name is Aris Adam. I'm currently a junior here at Avon High School. Today I'm standing here to talk about why Eid should be included as a holiday during the school year.
012As many of us know, Eid is a very important holiday for us Muslims. It is an opportunity that comes to us twice a year so that we can come together as a community and express gratitude to God, give ch charity and celebrate together after fasting the 30 days of Ramadan for Eid al fitter or to sacrifice an animal for Eid ala. Year and year many Muslim students face the challenge of choosing between Eid and school. Attending school on Eid would allow them to keep track to keep on track with their school work but at the same time it will cause them to miss a very important day for all of us Muslims. On the other hand, if a student were to skip that day on Eid, they would be able to celebrate Eid, but it
013would cause them to fall behind on their schoolwork. In order to allow for us Muslim students to be able to stay on track with school while at the same time being able to observe our religion and also promote diversity in our school, which is something our community in Avon is very fond of. I would I would like to encourage Avon public schools to make Eid among one of the holidays which we celebrate as a community throughout the school year. Thank you all for your time and consideration. >> Thank you very much. Anyone else? Okay. [Music] >> Good afternoon everybody. My name is Afro Adam. I'm in seventh grade at the Avon Middle School. I'm here to request that the Avon board of education include the Eid Eid alther in the Avon public school calendar as
014a day off from school. Adding Eid to the calendar will make Muslim students traditions, culture, religious values feel they are valued and let they it'll also let Muslim students celebrate their holidays without thinking about missing their schoolwork. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Anyone else? >> Good evening. My name is Ayat Capidala. Um, and my address is Fox Hollow 19. I'm an eighth grader at AMS and I'm here to speak on behalf of all the Muslim students that go to school in Avon. Granting a school holiday for Eid is not just a scheduling decision. It shows a powerful statement that our district supports every student and family's beliefs. Eid is one of the most important days in the Muslim faith. It is known by early morning prayers, large community gatherings, and meaningful time with
015loved ones. Without a day off, Muslim students are forced to choose between honoring their faith, and keeping up with their education, a burden no child should have to face. Recognizing Eid as an official holiday sends a clear message that our schools celebrate diversity, respect all religions equally, and are committed to creating an environment where every student feels seen and included. Just as we honor other major religion other major holidays, giving students the day off for e affirms that all cultures and traditions have an equal place in our community. Thank you and have a good evening. >> Thank you very much. Anyone else? Christine, that's it. Thank you very much for coming and we appreciate your feedback. We usually at this time just encourage that Dr. Carnival will reach out and speak to you on this
016topic, but well done. Thank you. >> I just want to say thank you. What a nice job you did. Our young folks coming. I appreciate it. And just to make sure we put it out there, there would be a lot of young people happy if Halloween was a holiday that we were off from school, but it is not. So that's that's one that is not in the calendar unfortunately for some of our young folks, but you guys did a great job. Thank you for coming out tonight. >> Yes, we appreciate the hard work that you put into that. Thank you. >> Oh, excellent. Okay, so we started to recognize Miss Mascoli, but now she's in the room, so we can do it a little more formally. Um, we would love to call you forward. Um,
017the beauty of recognizing you this evening is that we got to walk through the gallery space and speak to 42 of your interns tonight and I got to most of them. I feel like maybe there were five that I missed, but I really did my best. And you've grown this program so incredibly. And it's just truly a testament to the hard work that you put in, but also matching them so well. I can't think of maybe one student that realized maybe it wasn't quite the right fit, but they still valued the experience so that next time they want another one, they can try something else. And so that's just huge and we're so incredibly proud of this and we're glad that you're at the the forefront of it. Um we definitely want to recognize you.
018Did anyone else want to speak to Miss Mscoli or is it my show tonight and I get to do Okay, then let's >> come on up. Maria, we want to actually see you. >> Yeah, >> I'm glad we all saw you out there. >> Um, I just wanted to for for those who may not know and I think um some of the board members even may not know because the program started years ago um before my time and I think any of yours maybe maybe not you Deb or Jeff perhaps. Um 2014 was the when the program began and went very well. We were working hard at here at the high school. there was uh someone else the the initial person Miss Brisco who I worked with when I first started um and it was
019one of the things that the pandemic shut down on us basically and um at the time also Miss Brisco decided to retire and so we were left to figure out how to keep this program moving forward or not to keep the program moving forward. Um I think you all know that I believe in the program very um much and had your support to as the board and our high school same. So, who better, I thought, than Maria after having worked with her for the years before. She was an interventionist in our schools for those who may not know that. And I like to refer to her, she may not know this, as Mrs. Avon. So, I knew that bringing Maria in to a role like this, she is someone that won't stop until the job
020is done, whatever that means. It's night, it's weekends, it's holidays, it's summer. Um, whatever Maria needs to do, she does. She's that way with everything she touches. So, a few statistics for you. She has been with us since 2022. Um, she has placed 180 interns since then. Um, we've had 20 new mentors within the past year, which is a is a huge accomplishment because to keep growing the program, we need more mentors. And overall, since the program was incepted, 700 interns have been placed through Achieve. Um, Connecticut, Mass, Rhode Island, Maine, Germany, the UK, and India are just some of the places that our interns have gone. Um, oftentimes they're offered full or part-time jobs. Saw some of that even out here tonight. We have, as Maria told me a story earlier, a president of
021a company with one of our students tonight telling her anything she needed now or in the future as she was going through school, she would assist her with. Um, I think it's just a testament to first of all our students that come through that are so wellprepared that they are invariably able to do this and to represent themselves and the town and the school and the school district. Well, so thank you, Maria. I wanted to make sure I had the chance to say in public in private. I've done it many times, but I think this is a different opportunity. Um, Maria asked about putting slides together and I said, "Well, maybe you could, but we really are here to recognize you tonight." So, I think that maybe later at the end of this toward the
022end of this year, we'll have more official presentation on the chief program because, as Maria reminded me, uh, we haven't done it since 2022. Everything lately feels like the blink of an eye. So, in my mind, it was last year, but it was not. Thank you for being here, Maria, and thanks for all that you do. >> Yes. We do have a certificate for you. So, we'd love to come come on up. Let us shake your hand. And then >> you want to say anything? >> You can. >> Yes. >> I had use the microphone. >> You had something in your hand to say something. Just like >> So, um, first of all, thank you very much Dr. Carnamalo, the board, everyone else for inviting me here tonight. um very passionate about this program and
023I'm so honored to be able to lead the internship program here at Aan High School. Two things, I could talk about this all night, but I I won't. I promise. Uh two things mentors are always sharing with me. One, I wish I had this program when I was in high school. And two, how did Avon High School create this? I wonder if we could do it in our town. Mentors all over the state of Connecticut are saying that. And I feel so fortunate that our students have this opportunity, not because I'm running it, but because they're doing such amazing things, and we have mentors all over the state um supporting our wonderful students. Our students are so grateful to have these opportunities to get out into the professional world, roll up their sleeves, and apply
024concepts from the classroom, and explore careers they think they are interested in post high school. The 60 internship 60-hour internship can either solidify their career pursuits or confirm that they don't want to work in a particular field which is extremely valuable. As you can imagine, the internships are very diverse. Our interns are working in cutting edge medical research wet labs with Yukon Health faculty members and their posttock students. They're working alongside college professors at Yukon and uh Hart engineering schools. They're working at CT's top manufacturing and engineering companies. They're working with local dentists. They're working with cancer patients and senior citizens. And they're working in architecture, marketing, finance companies, and a lot more industries. This year, this summer, we had 12 different job clusters. So, pretty amazing. Um tonight's guest uh for mentors included executive
025management teams from New England Air Foil Products, MTU Aero Engines and Rocky Hill, Junior Achievement and Hartford, Yukon School of Engineering faculty from Stores, Yukon Health faculty members from Farmington, Bower Aerospace and more. And many of those are new companies that um offer to support our students this summer, which is amazing. Um the mentors attendance tonight and the job offers our interns are receiving are a testament of how well regarded this Avon chief internship program is throughout the state. Thank you all for supporting the program and um you know coming and supporting the showcases every semester. It's really wonderful to see you all out there and I look forward to leading another great um group this year. So thank you. Thank you, Maria. >> So, we will hand you this, but we would love to
026take a photo with you as well. >> Thank you. >> So, appreciate it. Thank you, >> D. >> All right. Yep. Let's take a picture. >> Come on, I got to stand to your right. >> No, I'm scared to scan. Thank you so much. >> I'm used to left, right? >> I just excellent. All right. Now, we have the thrill of welcoming a brand new student representative for us. Um, Dr. Lockheart, our principal here at the high school, wanted to join us this evening. She usually likes to do a little introduction for us when we get our new junior or senior. Maddie um is unable to attend because she has a volleyball game, I believe. Is that right? So, I did get a little bit of information about Cyra. She is a um member of
027the Red Cross Club, the Smile Club, National Arts Honor Society, Falcon First, and she manages Varsity Swim. So, those are just a few things and she's adding now the student rep to her resume on the board of education. I wanted to give her a quick moment. Would you mind mentioning what you did this summer for your experience? >> Um, I am Syra and um this summer I had a part-time job um in West Hartford which was really fun. Um and I also did volunteering with both the Red Cross um doing plasma donation, I mean um platelet donation and um blood donations where I acted as um it's called a donor ambassador. So essentially it's kind of like just keeping record of um the patients and making sure that they're aware of like all the concerns
028and everything they need to know. And I also volunteered with Yukon Health um as uh just a general volunteer helping with um patients and kind of learning about how they intake patients and how they kind of deal with different scenarios. I was near like labor and delivery which was exciting. Um and the emergency department which was really interesting for me to learn and yeah you know since it's junior year there's a lot of um things going on like SAT prep. So, um I know a lot of junior students did that over the summer and so did I. But yeah, >> well, we're thrilled to have you. Welcome to the team. >> Thank you. >> Um and we look forward to hearing your updates. So, I know you came prepared this evening to tell us what's
029happening in the school. >> Sure. Um so, I can start with our own high school. So, I'm just going to be covering Maddiey's notes. Um so, on September 17th, so tomorrow, we have a half day for professional development. Um September 23rd we don't have school as um we're observing the holiday of Rashashana. Um and the college fair is being held fairly soon on October 6th from 12:45 to 1:45. So students can go um and the AHS theater program is going to be holding their first meeting on Thursday, September 18th. And their fall play is going to be a Christmas carol this year. Um the internship fair was tonight which I also enjoyed. Um, and all four fall fall sports are in action and it's really nice to see everybody coming together for like the volleyball
030games, the football games and soccer and all the different sports we have to offer. And now I can move on to AMS. So um again half day September 18th is the open house for Avon Middle and um they are al also observing Roshashana um and on Friday September 26th which sorry I was interested to learn about um they are students will be wearing their team colors in order to collect donations to support a student from Lusaka Zombia which um the school sponsors. Um, fall sports are also um up and running here and they are clubs are being open and they're accepting signups and same thing for AJS. And as for um TBS um the band information night was held on the second day of school with um Mr. Vulpi who I believe is the band
031teacher and I was reading about a new binder system to it's called bass binder where it's taken to every class with them to kind of help build their organization and um study strategies um it sounded like which is I think a really important skill to learn especially young and the open house um was hosted on the 10th and as for PGS um the curriculum night went very well um upon reading the notes um lots of parents learned different ways to support their children academically and socially. Um I it was nice to hear that orchestra is still very popular and a lot of parents were um excited about this opportunity. That's another great thing that I think we offer so young um because it's important to learn um an instrument young. It can be really great
032for you. And um the safe expectations were reviewed for all the grade levels. And I like to see that um the other schools are also utilizing Cahoot and online activities and I think they're pretty popular among students. And um they did a little like game based on the school expectations which I think is a really good way to kind of make it less less um almost stressful for the students. Um many activities are also in swing. Um, I've heard a lot about I've heard a lot about the after school activities like whiffle ball, dance, jewelry making, book exploration, and there was many others. Um, and there's also a fun movie night up that's upcoming. Um, good way to socialize. Um, it's under the stars in the basketball courts. I don't remember the exact date. I
033think maybe September 27th. And as for Roaring Brook, um, there is an ice cream social event that was hosted for back to school. And I was kind of confused by this concept, but it's a new book for the book watch bookw walk which um is replaced like um every few months and the honeybee is a current one. And I was just looking at it and it seems like a wonderful book. And I think um international dot day was also celebrated on September 15th. Um which I remember reading that when I was in elementary school. It's it's very it's a really good thing to just I think it really can resonate with students. So, I'm happy to see that they're still continuing that. Um, and fun event that the Wolfpack mascot Sonar is arriving to the
034school on October 22nd. Um, just to say hi to the students. And I believe there is a special RBS night that's being hosted by the Hartford Wolf Pack at one of the games. And the book fair is also beginning in October. And bike safety week will begin the second week of October. And I think that's really important. Um um because students learn important biking skills, just remembering how to stay safe. Um and I think it's a really great way to just make sure that everybody's being safe and still having fun um with their friends. But yeah, that's all I have for today. >> Fantastic. Well done. I think you get a round of applause. >> Welcome. All right. Thank you. We'll move on to our financial report with Miss Russo on page nine. >> Thank
035you. I always have to follow the exciting student reports with the really boring finance reports. So, I apologize ahead of time. Um, this month we're covering the end of the last fiscal year, uh, so June 2025 as well as, uh, for August of the new school year. So, we ended the year with just $775 left or statistically 0%. So, for a $69 million budget, that was quite the feat. And um I'm proud of everybody to be able to put those funds and I thank the board. Um the remaining savings we have from supplies and equipment uh and a couple other sources were put towards the new reading program, my view. Uh and we were able to encumber $336,952 towards that program. That amount is a little less than we discussed at the August meeting and
036that was due to some additional invoices that came in throughout uh the summer. Our unodudited financials um include also a ending balance for facility use fund just over $39,000. There were some projects approved by the board that were encumbered throughout the summer. So you'll see a lower um facility use balance once we hit August. They don't that fund carries over year to year. So we didn't close it out so to speak in June. And in your packet on the consent agenda is budget transfer 2025035, which you'll see uh I like to do at the end of each year is allocate our expenses actual to budget. So we see a final clean financial report that we'll present to the auditors for review. Also, our technology uh protection plan ended at only $9612. I thank the uh
037the department the IT department for spending down those funds and making those purchases before those tariffs kicked in. So, we're able to get u more Chromebooks uh and get a lower price. So, thank you for that. In special education, uh this year we put one settlement into escrow for $77,900. Uh and just to remind the board, that's a legal settlement we have. That amount is budgeted for any um appropriation that was for it is in our current budget as well, but we have that set aside in our special education escrow account. For the month of August, uh we ended the month with just over 10% unencumbered compared to a year prior of almost 12%. Um that along with some other if you were to look at the financial report and our our supplies, equipment as
038well as our contracted services line, they're spent much higher um to date than they are usually at this time. And that's due to some unexpected um rising costs for supplies with the tariffs, uh shipping costs, and some other things with fuel prices. as well as we've had several unanticipated repairs that we discussed at finance committee. Those include um here at the high school over $25,000 repair for the west wing um HVAC control unit. We had another $9,700 for some TBS roof. We had to begin the project to um with our consultant to plan the the design of the roof so we can include in this capital cycle and not start do stage one of the planning and then put out the roof. We don't have time to wait to do that. It's leaking already. Um
039there is the TBS sprinkler repair from last year. If you remember, we had that uh blown gasket and we had a flood there. We had additional repairs that carried over. Still not enough for the insurance given our deductible, but still enough to incur additional expenses. That along with some other um what normally is routine repairs or I see this every year, I know, but just are higher every time we try to go out to bid for something. Uh get our three quotes. it's just a little bit higher each time. Um, any of those folks out there want to go into the the the trades, uh, it's it's a good way to go. Um, also, you'll see, um, this time of year included in the cons, um, consent agenda is some budget transfers 2026007 and 2026006.
040Uh, seven is our salary cleanup. um when we budget this time of year, we're starting for next year where we think some folks are going to land, who we're going to hire, when we're going to hire them, changes. So, this first transfer cleans everything up to who transferred and makes all the salaries equal what where they should be. Um in the second transfer, which is our supply and equipment transfer, other expenses, uh there isn't transfer instructional supplies for those K math K5 math materials. Last year, the board approved a new program that we put into play. At this time last year, we didn't know how many resources we're going to use. We did budget to the best of our abilities what workbooks, what's other um consumables we would need. That was a little bit higher
041uh than we anticipated. So, there's a transfer to cover that as well. In special education, we're still in that process of in um encumbering all the funds for those outplacements as well as those transportation invoices. So, you'll see more progress in that in September. All right, thank you. Any questions? We had a great conversation at our finance meeting last week. So, thank you. You always put such a user friendly one sheeter together for us and um we appreciate that. So, thank you, Susan. All right, moving right along. Committee and Leaison reports, curriculum and professional practices. Lynn, >> hi. Yes, I need to make a change. We just confirmed this change tonight. So, I'm sorry I couldn't get it to everyone for the agenda, but um our our first meeting of the year will be held
042on October 7th, not October 28th. It'll be ver virtual and at 6 o'clock and everyone on the committee will be able to attend. So, thank you for everyone's flexibility. >> Great. Thank you. Finance, um that would be me and we just got to hear the update of our conversation that we had at our meeting last week. Our next meeting will be October 14th. Um, negotiations Suzanne, >> I'm not aware of any upcoming meetings right now. >> Nope. Thank you. Policy Sage. >> Yes, Deb. Our first meeting is going to be 9:30 2025 and that will also be virtual. >> Excellent. Thank you. And our liaison to correct Chris. >> We meet tomorrow in Harford. >> Excellent. Thank you very much. All right. Next is the board chair update. I just want to now that we're
043in the room together. We had a virtual meeting last month and I welcomed everybody back, but it's nice to sit in the room and just see your faces again. And just we're off to a great start, keep at it. We got this. It's September. We're almost at October. We're getting there. We're doing it. Um, and I also just wanted to recognize for those of you who came to speak tonight, we're not offended if you want to excuse yourself because I know they have school tomorrow. So, we won't be at all, you know, judging in any way if you want to sneak out. But thank you very much for taking the time to come and um share with us this evening and I will end it there. So on to the superintendent report. >> Thank you.
044And we'll go to Mr. Medic for the hiring report, please. >> Good evening. Tonight's hiring report showcases several staffing changes made for the start of the school year. For the start of the school year, we've welcomed several new hires uh based on res resignations that we received at the close of last school year or over the summer. Our new hires include a Ashley Rue, a second grade teacher at Pinerove School, in addition to Jen Probeck, our new music teacher that shared between Pinerove and Roaring Brook. We've also filled eight non-certified positions across the majority of our schools that were vacant from those employee separations. Resignations and non-certified staff from Avon High School, Avon Middle School, and Roaring Brook School are also present on the hiring report. We thank our departing staff for their service to
045the district and warmly welcome our new team members to Avon public schools. Uh at present we have postings for the following positions. A.5 special education teacher at AMS. Four pair educators split between AHS and PGS. Two nutrition service positions, one at AHS and one at AMS. An interventionist at PGS. a long-term substitute pair educator AMS to cover an upcoming leave, a seasonal position for assistant swim coach here at the high school, a seasonal position for um staff to support our AHS fall play, and we are currently working to build back our substitute pool for our custodians and our school nurses. Those are ongoing pools that we collect applications throughout the year. >> Thank you. Thank you. Enrollment, we picked up a few students since August, which is typical this time of year, and we reopened
046uh preK with a couple more seats um after some changes there. So, should and we had a waiting list as you know, so we're working through that now with the seats that we have open. Uh moving on, I want to divert a second. I think Mr. Janini brought some first of all some props so we could talk a little bit about our continued portrait of the graduate work. >> Not sure that you had all gotten to see them finished. >> Beautiful. So really grateful for there was a lot of work. Um students, faculty, uh certainly you Mr. G. Elizabeth Ferry. Um, we've gone around to uh all of the schools. I think you hand you and Elizabeth handd delivered them, I believe. >> Yes. Um, they are hanging in every classroom and in other common
047areas of the building. As you know, this work started in years ago originally in preparation for NIAK many years ago. And again, I know we've talked about this before for but for anybody who maybe was didn't have the benefit of being here at another time, we talked about it. Um, we grew this into a district-wide portrait of the graduate for Avon public schools, not just Avon High School. And that's taken the time to get the feedback from the community and to keep working through um, many facets of it here between curriculum, assessments, and now the visual representation of it. So turn to you, Mr. G, for a few more words related to that. And we have a lot going on in terms of teaching and learning already this year. >> Absolutely. Um, thank you. Good
048evening, everyone. As Dr. Carnival mentioned, these posters are up in all classrooms. And a big thank you to Elizabeth Ferry. Um, and Justin Schumacher, who's one of our digital art teachers here at Avon High School, who came in actually a few days over the summer to help put this together. Uh, we have a new printer, uh, in his department. And while we were able to figure out most of it, we needed his expertise. So, thank you to Mr. Schumacher who was able to do some troubleshooting and getting uh, these posters printed and out to our classrooms. Uh it has been a busy start to the year. Uh as as Susan mentioned, we uh you know did purchase a new K4 reading program last year. We launched that program in August uh with our elementary teachers
049coming in a day early uh to have two full days of uh professional learning with the program. And actually this week uh they're experiencing their second in a series of workshops. So, they're going to be here at the high school in grade level teams and expanding on uh some of the things they learned in August, but now it's an opportune time because they've had a couple of weeks of actually using the program under their belt. Uh and so they're ready to go and dig in a little bit deeper. Uh and so far it's off to a good start. Uh, speaking of our elementary teachers, I say if you see an elementary teacher in Avon and you ask their permission, um, that you give them a hug, uh, because they adopted a new mathematics program last
050year and now they're adopting a new, uh, reading program this year. So, that's a lot on elementary teachers plate. Uh, and but year two of think is off to a good start. Uh, we're going to continue to offer them some professional learning this year, but uh, we're also excited because I guess opportune is the right word. uh Think launched a sixth grade program this past year uh and they gave Avon the opportunity to pilot that program. So we have a teacher Shannon Murphy at Thompson Brook School who's piloting the sixth grade version of think. We're really excited about it because it's a you know we talked about the self-study at Thompson Brook School and embracing that bridge school mentality and the sixth grade think program is really a bridge between the elementary program and secondary
051mathematics. So, we're excited to see how it goes and we'll have more updates uh for you as the year goes on uh with Think Mathematics. Keeping with that mathematics theme, as you know, we've had a multi-year mathematics plan uh here in the district. Started back K4, uh moved up to the middle grades last year and has finally made its way to the high school this year. Our 912 teachers are participating in a math studio workshop this week. Uh they'll have two additional studio workshops later this year. Uh it's a unique experience where we bring in this outside expert from the teachers development group. Her name is Shelley Allen. And she uh it's interesting. It's a three-day experience where they plan lessons, they teach lessons, and then they observe in their colleagues classrooms, then they reflect
052on how they could apply those strategies into their own teaching. So, we're pretty excited about that. Uh and that's taking place next week for three days here at the high school. Uh again, more mathematics. Uh it's been a theme. Uh we're also um launching a new intervention program K6 this year. It's called the Bridges Intervention Program. Uh Sue Dela, one of our curriculum specialists, has been working closely with our K6 interventionists to get that program off the ground. Uh it looks to be something that will have quite a big impact for us here in the district because it's a very structured program uh complete with assessments and then uh follow-up lesson plans for our interventionist to utilize with students who receive tier 2 and tier 3 intervention here in the district. So again, more updates
053to come with that, but it should be a nice fit and a nice complement to a lot of the mathematics work that we've done here the past few years in Avon. We're excited about that. Uh second step, you've heard that program mentioned uh several times in the past. It's our district's SEAL program, social emotional learning program. Uh we've utilized it K8 in recent years and the high school will be launching it which will complete the um completion the succession of uh offering that program K12 in the district. So, they've done some workshops at the beginning of the year and then we'll have that program fully implemented K12 by the end of this school year. Um, and last but not least, our curriculum and professional development council or CPDC for short has its first meeting this
054Friday. Uh, we sent out applications to our teachers. We had over 50 interested teachers in the district who wanted to join that work. Uh, that's the group that approves curriculum and textbooks prior to coming to CPP and then uh finally to you as a board. but it also leads quite a bit of teaching and learning work here in the district. So, uh, every three years we reopen membership to the staff and we've got a new group coming in ready to lead that work uh, as a district for us. >> I'm wondering about the second step at the high school. Who teaches those classes? >> The the teachers themselves do. >> Uh, yep. Uh, they do that during their advisory periods. second step. One of the uh benefits of that program is it comes pretty complete
055and ready to go for the teachers to utilize. So everything soup to nuts. Uh it's it's a quick turnaround for them to there is some prep work of course like anything good teachers are always going to look through the materials prior but it's um it's ready to go for them. >> It's the health teachers only but it's everybody. >> Everybody is a part of it. Yep. For sure. Um, is that curriculum available online for parents to see as well? >> Second Step's resources are available through their website, but they're not linked on our blueprint yet. >> Jeff, >> can you give us an idea of the type of content that' be covered in these lessons? I think there's a lot of buzz around that term and I don't know if we all understand exactly what
056the that term means. >> Sure. So there's four pathways that Second Step offers at the high school level. Um the first one is belonging and connection. So there's things like getting to know you bingo. Um they might do um a class questionnaire. What's your you know it starts off very mild with something like what's your favorite sandwich? and it might move into um what's a time you felt uncomfortable in a social situation. Uh so that's the first pathway. The second is confidence and capability. Uh and it has a lot to do with growth mindset. So setting goals, planning for the future, what courses you're finding success in, which ones are challenging for you. Uh third one is agency and opportunity. So it's a lot about voice and choice. So students feeling uh empowered in their
057experience at school. Um, and the last one is well-being and community. So, it has to do with some uh of your own like, you know, awareness of yourself as a learner, some of your uh well-being, and then of course being civic-minded in the community. Those are the four pathways of the high school. >> Thank you so much. >> Would it be possible to get it on our blueprint just to make it clear and transparent? >> Yeah, absolutely. It's on our to-do list to get that posted as well. I just want to go back to the math uh subject right so I think you mentioned that some of the teachers are going through the studio training right >> how many teachers are going in and how many is it cover across all the high school grades
058or >> it's all 912 mathematics teachers Jody might have to help me out on the exact numbers of of that but um so it's all and then we're also bringing and uh a teacher from Thompson Brookbrook and a teacher from the middle school to participate in those studios. As we've moved this work along, there's always been one teacher from the other grade levels who's attended just to, you know, any knowledge that they absorb through that process, they'll bring back uh to their departments, but it's the entire math department at the high schools participating. Yeah. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Nine teachers, is that right, Jody? >> 15 total with with the other schools. Yeah. Thank you. >> It's a professional development model. >> Yeah, it's a it's a coaching model, I guess, would be the
059closest way to say it. So, uh they will meet and discuss some whatever the current unit they're in. So, it's really hands-on and applicable to the work that's taking place at that moment. They'll uh meet. So the first day there's actually some work with administrators and the coach who come in talk about some current trends in mathematics that we're seeing. They then plan with those studio teachers. So we actually select a few teachers ahead of time. They volunteer and and um they do some pre-planning with that uh coach. And then on the second and third day they teach those model lessons uh and their colleagues actually come into their classrooms and observe the lessons. and then they meet afterwards to do some reflection. >> It's a powerful model. >> Yes, we've we've had a lot
060of success K8 with the co with the uh lab model and this studio is just it's propri proprietary. Did I say that right? Is it proprietary? Thank you. Um to their you know the studio model is from the teachers development group but it's very much a lab experience. >> Thank you very much. We've had the opportunity to be out there and in um some of the math studio PD and watching um our ELA program be implemented out in the schools over the past few weeks and some PD here today. We had the opportunity to come through and uh sit with Roaring Brook as they were working through um our new ELA program. Uh I think it's been going very well. I think our, as Jess said, it's a lot um for both faculty and administrators
061working through. Um but it it's been going pretty seamlessly, I think. So grateful for that and the work that was put into it and that we've had the opportunity. Well, we've carved out the time to make sure that we're out there um seeing in action ourselves and able to bring it back to speak to you about good. I think we've mentioned this before, but um Jod Krzanski, our director of curriculum instruction and assessment. Uh and then our two curriculum specialists, Janessa Blasch and Alli Morris, have had a big hand in making sure that program has rolled out successfully. So, thank you to the three of them for sure. >> And likewise, Sue Dulka, uh the other curriculum specialists who has been primarily involved in the math. Um I don't think you mentioned we have a
062new math intervention program too, one more math piece. Um and um Sue has been working with our interventionists to implement that and it is a nice complement to our math curriculum programming. So a lot has been going on even though we've only been here for a few weeks. Um second step the other thing I wanted to mention about that um you can yes we can link the it's programmatic and the cur the curriculum and the program are pretty much the same at this point because the state um you might remember years ago uh began the requirements to have social and emotional learning as a part of schools. Now it they passed a law that you ha it has to be and it has to be K through 12. So we had already started the work
063when it initially was brought to us and plus as you heard from Jess the topics are they're age appropriate those are the high school when you look at the elementary level and I don't have them in front of me but I've worked with them enough to see it. Um, we're talking about anti-bullying. We're talking about kindness. It's it's talking about how to make friends. Um, executive functioning skills, kind of like you heard from um, sorry, I thought you were disease. Um, our new board rep about the binder system at um, Thompson Brook is an example of that for executive functioning skills. So I think one of the other pieces we have been talking about back to the transparency angle of it and just making sure that people understand what it is is sending home there's
064pieces that can go home to parents along with the lessons that give you the goals and objectives of what the students are doing in class. Um that's a newer piece that we've worked with from second step. So, I think in doing that this year, we'll have a little more um knowledge and buy in of what they're teaching at school. Any other questions about that? I just wanted to address the elementary side because I know you're talking about the high school because it's new there and honestly, as you know, again, as a former high school person and I know Diana's there somewhere, it's it's a it's more difficult to implement these types of things at high school at the high school level. um if they're not totally embedded, which is part of the reason that it's
065all of the teachers doing it and doing it through advisory instead of it being in a certain area because we're looking for it to be an experience for the students that doesn't take away from curriculum and instruction of of content areas, but adds to it because it's teaching them skills alongside of it. Just a couple general updates. I know we're trying to move through this uh tonight because we have an executive session and want to thank thank Chief Drife for being here. Actually, do you mind if I if I pause a moment because I don't know that everyone has met Chief Drife and I I know that he'd probably like the opportunity to be able to meet you in in public session before we start to talk about our um all hazards plan which we
066do in executive session. Chief Drife, >> thank you. Uh thanks for the opportunity to to be here. um you know in spite of the executive session that talked about the riveting all all uh all hazards plan look I I'm at the beginning of month three here as as the chief for those of you who don't know u my family and I have lived in town here for 19 years uh three kids uh went through the school system here um we feel my wife and I that we were very well served by the public schools uh the opportunity uh the first time in my 35 year career to actually work in the town where I live was something I uh I jumped at when the opportunity came up. Um it's been a kind of a busy
067two months as you might imagine getting to know everybody. Uh my primary focus, as you you might imagine, was inside the agency. Um I was joking with some of the officers there that if they've been here for more than five years, I'm their fourth chief. Um so that's a lot. Um I based on that I I certainly felt that they had the uh the opportunity they deserved the opportunity to get to know me sat down with everybody and and now kind of trying to work my way outward. Um the opportunity to go around to the schools on the first day uh was uh again something that uh I certainly plan on doing uh every year. Uh hoping that uh we have a good turnout for the light to school on uh on Friday. um get
068some officers to escort your your uh the kids on the ride. Um as you can see tonight, I certainly impressing upon the men and women of the organization that being presence at public meetings and other gatherings in town is something that's important to me. I'm happy to report that um it's important to them also. I didn't ask them to be here tonight. They just are. Uh so uh again I look forward to having a chance to chat with you all in an executive session and uh again thank you for the opportunity to come here tonight to introduce myself and uh again I told everybody I'll hang it up but if you go to the website you find my direct phone number uh and again I'm happy to respond to emails and uh and phone calls.
069Um, yeah, I believe in being accessible and I think it's an important part of the job. So, not just to, uh, you know, folks who play a role in the community, but residents and students and, uh, everybody else. So, thanks and we'll chat shortly, I'm sure. >> Thanks, Chief. Thank you. >> As as you heard from Chief Drife, we had a great first day of school and uh, he accompanied me. I said when he was driving Miss Daisy, he graciously uh drove with me, drove me, I should say, around uh as we met everyone on the first days of school. um as we we started as a tradition I think a few years ago and so we've continued it and it's I think it's a nice thing that we do because he gets to meet
070uh a lot of our faculty and staff and our students and they get to see that not only do we have police that keep us safe and come in and out of the schools and our own SRO's but even the chief is is here and accessible to them. So we um appreciate that and I think we had a great opening. Just want to thank everybody again. Uh faculty, staff, pretty smooth. Uh you know, there's always bumps in the road, but generally speaking, it's been great. I wanted to thank um all of you as the board members that were able to come along for convocation. Uh we did our traveling convocation this year, and that was uh it was tough for you if you hung in there with us for the whole day and most of
071you did and or tried to. Um, thank you, uh, Deb, Jeff, Thge, uh, Nicole, and Lynn for coming out. And I know that the rest of you, um, it's a tough swing that day as we go around during the day, but, um, I think we had a pretty good time and spent a lot of time out here in the schools. So, thank you. Um just uh we'll talk more about it when we get down uh to new business in a moment and I'll let Susan speak more to it because she joined the um town council meeting where they discussed theou that's on the agenda tonight for the new building. But um you can see that we're the move date got pushed up um for a number of reasons which you know is to be expected
072when this is the type of thing we're doing and there's some construction going on and there's moving and you know permits and so forth. It's just taken more time than um we had originally thought. Um it can't come soon enough. Um just last week we had I think I mentioned at the finance committee meeting we had another flood. Uh the day that it rained really hard. It was on the side of the building that's usually dry. Um where Miles's office is downstairs. Needless to say, that's he's not down there. He's not down there anymore. Um and uh yeah, just not great. So we've we've cleaned out from that. But um we have some damage again downstairs um to to that office area and to some other pieces in the basement. So we are looking forward
073to moving over. Um and just a reminder that on the consent calendar tonight, the uh assistant for nutrition services contract is there. That's because we needed to get it approved by the three towns in the consortium and now it's been signed. So wanted to make sure that you were able to see that. Thank you. >> Right. Thank you. All right, moving on to the consent calendar. I do want to acknowledge um what an amazing opportunity it is for the high school to have another field trip to Canada. I know my own daughter experienced that and we still have the group photo up on the wall. So, we we enjoy those memories. Um does anybody want to remove any of the items for further discussion? If not, do I have a motion to approve the consent
074calendar as laid out? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Jeeoff. Do I have a second? >> Thank you, Suzanne. All in favor? I passes unanimously with eight. All right. No old business. Now we're on to new business. Discussion and possible approval of the memorandum of agreement for 200 Fiser Drive on page 39. [Applause] >> So is that a Susan? >> Yeah. Just to kind of lay the groundwork, this is required um of us to have to enter into it in writing with the town as a part of the acquisition of the building. And so, um, they put it together, um, between Brandon, I believe, and the town attorney, right, and discussed it. It had to be discussed first on the town side before it was brought here to you. Basically, and Susan will speak more
075specifically to it, as I said, but we have to have an agreement for how the building will be maintained and management overall costs and so forth. We we must do that in writing, and that's what we're looking at tonight. >> So, I uh Thank you. I worked with um Grace Tezi, the assistant town manager um to construct this document. She did a first draft of it. Her and I collaborately went through it um we were both comfortable that address the issues that we both thought it needed to be addressed. The most important being um how's the building going to run? We're a tenant in a town building and there's other tenants in the building as well. So to make sure there was a seamless way our maintainers, our custodians aren't going to maintain this building.
076Uh it's handled a little bit differently. This uh agreement outlines how that's going to happen. The town has maintained the previous owner of the building, Castle uh Property Management. They're going to have a small office within 200 Fisher and the wing that's going to be continually rented. Uh that's separate from the board of ed. They're going to manage the property very similar to how it's managed right now. They're going to do the snow removal, the custodial, the clean cleaning, everything they have to do with the building itself, they'll take care of. Um, so this outlines even who to call, phone numbers, really gives us a working document to be able to um, function in that building and not be calling DPW every two minutes, which I think was was a big point of this um,
077as we do Mr. Ultimus. Every time something goes wrong, we text him. So, this puts I this puts us in there. John, who um, and I I apologize to John. I I can't remember his last name. I didn't write it down here. He's the owner of Castle. um property management and he has been so collaborative working with us as we've been tracesing in and out of 200 Fischer Drive ever since we bought it. Uh and he's really helping facilitate the renovation and the buildout for what we need for our needs and he's really worked well with Mr. Williams at DPW as well as u Mr. Ultimus for us. Um so we're looking forward to continuing that relationship with um him and Castle uh Property Management. So as Dr. Konamoto said the um town council did
078approve this at their last meeting. Um there was very little discussion on it. If you were to read their meeting notes, there there really wasn't any um any questions or any hesitation on their part. They just wanted to solidify what the arrangement is with the board of ed. Um and I'm going to work with Tom Dustasio over um on the town finance department to determine our contribution. And the contribution listed here was as if we were moving in the first day of August, which we obviously are not. Um, right now we're tentatively scheduled to move uh the last week of September. Uh, 9:29 between 9:29 and 10:30 is what we're we're uh honing in on. Um, I have to thank uh Tom Klein and the entire IT department who's been working tirelessly over there to
079try to get the wiring, the phones, the internet, all the infrastructure things you don't think about when he's like, "Okay, there's a building. we'll move in. It's great. No, there's a lot of work that goes behind the scenes to get that done. Um, so if all things are working, the furnitureures, the movers, all the pieces come together, that's the week we're shooting for. Um, and we were doing that because we have another holiday that week. So, there's one day at least that the students won't be in the buildings. Gives us a little freedom um to to be a little offline uh if we need to be. um in on the rest of the financial basis. As I said, Mr. Dazio and I will work through this. The board of ed has paid the utilities, continue
080to paid. We're operating there at 34 Simsbury right now. We'll continue to pay those through the end of October. Um to keep the building accessible because that move date is not set in stone. U we may not be able to move everything all in one day. We're going to need to dispose of some items. It it's going to be a couple week process to get through. Um, so we'll keep that and then the town will take over the building. They have a plan on what they're going to turn off and turn on, which is going to be almost everything gets turned off until they decide collectively as a council what they're going to do with the space. And then we'll go ahead and take over the contribution towards the special revenue fund that the town
081set up at the last meeting to collect the rent from the leis, collect the board of ed um contribution to then run the building and pay all those costs related with the property management of it. Uh and then Mr. Dazio and I will work through uh what to budget for next year. We'll look at 2425 actuals. We'll look at where we are 2526 um once it starts to get occupied by the board of ed. What does that do to utilities? What does that do to electrical? And then we'll we'll go ahead and budget for that. What you'll see on the budget for next year is it'll be one line item. We're not going to spread it through all of central office operating expenses. We'll consolidate that down to all just one BOE contribution for facilities.
082Uh so it'll be easy to identify, easy to track, and we'll we'll know where we stand for prior uh upcoming budget years. >> Go ahead, Jeeoff. >> Forgive me if it if you said it and I missed it because you know me numbers. I just want to make sure I understand this. So the reality is the property management company we're not responsible for. >> Correct. >> Right. So if if they want at some point when they renew their contracts, it's all with the town and then the town could then come back to us and change our rent for lack of a better description or contribution or is our contribution going to be set. How long is that set for? >> It is not set at all. It's set based on our occupation of the space
083and what the actual costs are and the offset of the leases. So the town is hoping to be net zero >> within that budget. It's also a capital reserve um so that we can start c in case anything catastrophic breaks within it. It's operating expenses based on their best guess of the prior year just like we do the budget but they're trying to keep our um contribution as well as the lei's contributions into the special revenue fund that then pays the management fee and pays all the other operating expenses including utilities. >> Okay. So humor me minus the the lees and the management company. Is this similar to the process we currently have with our current facility? Do we pay the town for usage of that facility or do we the board of ed own
084it? >> Yes and no. We do not own it. The town owns it. >> But we are responsible for everything to do with the building. utilities, um, insuranceish, >> um, but all the utilities, all the operating expenses, anything that breaks, we fix it. We, we're fully responsible for the building. >> This is going to >> This would be different. We're not responsible. >> Correct. >> We're just renting the space, for lack of a better term. >> Yes. >> The town is then responsible for all aspects of it. The only thing that we talked about the board of ed continuing to be responsible for is if Mr. Juni wants a whiteboard hung up at his office, we're not going to call property management to do that. One of our maintainers that we keep on staff will
085be able to access and come in and do that to change a light bulb for us is going to be castle management because that's part of their thing. But hanging up some pictures, >> okay, >> TV mounting, things like that will be our maintenance. So something we want to do to beautify our space >> will be on us or through a capital process. Um the m the maintain the maintenance of the building as it stands and the function as a renter if we'll use air quotes with that will be the responsibility of the town and the property management. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I think Jeff was hoping you can change the >> No. My wife won't let me do that in my house. Trust me, >> I'll electrocute myself. >> Oh boy. I think
086part of the uh way to differentiate it is it's in part because there are other renters. There are quote renters that we're not technically renters, if you will. We're another town agency utilizing the building, but it is an investment that the town has also by the fact that there are renters that are not a town agency in the building. So they have to continue to maintain the building in a way that not only helps us but helps the renters that are still there. They have leasing agreements with them to maintain the building. And one more piece I think that's important to note is that the town contracts services for u much of their maintenance rather than having a big um a staff like ours. So they're >> uh mowing uh plowing and so forth. They
087already contract those services for the town. So this is just an extension of how they do that, but we are paying our own bills like we do here. >> And they did want to put just to add on to that, they did intentionally put a layer with the management company because the town did not want to be in the business of being a landlord, >> right? >> Even though they bought this building for us to use. Um, so this puts that layer for them. So that >> property management is really like landlord for the renters. >> Okay. Any other questions? >> All right. So, you need us to take action to >> Yes, please. >> If the board would approve theou so that Dr. Connor Mullik has signed it and then we'll give it back
088to the town. They've already adopted it and Mr. Robertson's always already signed it. >> All right. Thank you. I will make the motion to approve the memorandum of agreement for 200 Fischer Drive. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Sage. All in favor? I. Passes unanimously with eight. Thank you. And Christine is checking if anyone else signed up to communicate from the public. >> Chief Drive is Lieutenant Smallberg coming in too. >> Up to you. We just we have to name who's coming in. That's why I'm asking. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Very good. Anyone else? All right. Thank you. How about communication from Avon board of education members? Anyone? All right. Well, I would like to make a motion to go into executive session for the update on a safety and
089security all hazards plan submission. We invite in Dr. Carnamola, Chief Drife, our director of security, Jim Connelly, and um our assistant superintendent, Jessini, assistant superintendent, Roberto Medic, and also our business manager Susan Russo at 811. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Jeff. All in favor? I we move in at 8:11 with eight [Music]