001everything. >> It is it's my passport, your documents, codes for immigration. It's >> I'm just now starting to come back >> your own today for um >> it's not going to be here with everything. Okay. >> Oh, really? Who else Tammy? >> She's on Tammy. >> That's her live, guys. Tom's on his way and he's a little late and Joe should be here. >> Isn't Tom's going to go somewhere else? >> It's over. >> They awarded it to uh Mr. Sally. >> If we knew >> we're not starting yet. Sorry. Not yet. Is it 6:30? >> Almost. >> The mics are live. It's like when you're on mail. >> 5 minutes. >> Okay. All right. We're going to go ahead and start the meeting. If you'd all rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge
002algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> We're going to open up with public comment. Is there anybody here that wants to speak? And I'll hand it over to you, Dr. Parlotta. >> Thank you. So this evening our student recognition is both Hill and Plane and Northville Elementary Schools. Um I'm going to turn it over to Principal Calibri from Hill and Plane, Principal Gallagher from Northville. Uh and we have quite an extra extravaganza for you this evening. That's one way of describing it. Hello everyone. Thank you so much families for coming. Thank you for having us. Um we're excited because we're going to give you a glimpse of literacy work
003that happens in our schools each and every day. This all came about because a teacher um a student from Gwen's school came to Hill and Plane. they transferred and it was so great because one of the lessons they had the day before tied right into the lesson that our teacher was doing that next day. So that was one way for them to feel at home. Um so the same things are happening in all of our classrooms. And so we have first graders here for you tonight. Um and so we know that literacy is the foundation of all skills. And so the teachers and the students, they work hard each and every day. And so they're going to show off their skills to you. Yes. So, tonight you're going to see students and teachers modeling three
004of the key components of our literacy program. It's our HEGY program, which is um our phenemic awareness program. It's UFly, which is the phonics. And then we tie it all together with our book rooms and shared reading program. So, you're going to see firsthand tonight how we're fostering competent, capable readers who love to learn each and every day in our classrooms. So, we're going to start with our Northville teacher and student. She and the teacher, Mrs. Leto, Leto here, and she's going to introduce her kids. We have Ethan Russell. Come on, Ethan. Find your spot. And we have Roman Lion. And we have Henry McDermott. >> Future mayor. And we have Miss Talia Scott >> and Miss Sophia Martina. And we have Claire Lyman and Brooke Hartling. And so from Hill and Plane, Nikki Orletki,
005um our first grade teacher is here and she'll introduce her learners. All right, we have um Kehlani Vasquez. Sorry, I got really nervous all of a sudden. We have Charlotte Clark. >> We have Maddie Masco. We have Landon Weber. We have Isaiah Lopez. We have Jack Haver. And we have Cooper Mountain. And as teachers, they're so easy to in front of their kids, they'll do all these things, but here in front of adults, they're like feeling. Before we get started, if any parent wants to kind of come up and look around to see it, you're welcome to stand up and get up if you want to see the the activities. So, our first part of our program that we're going to show you is Heggerty. Our students begin by building strong phenemic awareness skills through
006Hegerty. This program helps children recognize and manipulate sounds and words, which is a critical foundational skill of reading. So you're going to see the students actively participating. And so they do this every day. They're listening. So they're practicing their listening skills. They're practicing rhyming, segmenting words, chunking. Um, and those are all the uh essential skills for understanding. So that's funological awareness. We're trying to learn sounds and be comfortable with that. >> Okay, first graders, look right here. Put your hand right here. Take a deep breath. >> You got this. All right. All right. So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to do rhyming words. I want you to listen to my two words. You're going to tell me if they rhyme or they don't rhyme. Remember, say the two words first
007and then you're going to give me a yes or a no. Ready? Rich pitch. >> Rich pitch. >> Do they rhyme? >> Good job. Listen. Peach teach. >> Peach teach. Do they rhyme? Yes, they do. Great job. Listen. Lash is >> lash is. Do they rhyme? >> No, they don't because remember they have to sound the same at the end. Listen. I'm now going to give you um three words. You're going to listen and just tell me the beginning sound. Not repeat the words, just the beginning sound. Ready? Listen. Shake. Shaft. Shake. What's that beginning sound? Sh. Good job. Ready? Listen. Chirp. Chain. Chop. >> Good job. Last one. Listen. White whale. Wear. A great job. Now, I'm going to give you some sounds. You're going to blend them together. Are you ready? Listen. B.
008>> Excellent. BB-sh. >> Excellent. Ready? >> C Ah. >> Very nice. I like the way that you're listening. Now, we're going to do our sounds to all of them. I'm going to give you a word and I want you to tell me the ending sound. Listen. South. >> What's the ending sound? Good job. Listen. Push. Excellent job. Listen. Excellent. All right. Remember, you don't have to do it if you don't want to, if you're too scared. But if you think you're good at blending sounds or sorry, not blending, chunking your sounds out. You can tap. Give me a sign up hand. Ready? The first word. Give me a hand up if you want to do it. Ready, Landon? >> Dish. >> Excellent job. Ready? Fresh. >> There. >> Excellent. Great job tapping those sounds. And
009my last one, punch. >> Good job. >> That end is a sneaky sounds. I like the way that you did that. Sure. Let's all do um let's do each together. Ready? Get your tappers out. Ready? Each. Great job tapping. Great job. All right. Are you ready? Get your fist out. Get them out. Ready? We're I'm going to give you the ending sound, then the beginning sound, and you tell me the the word. Ready? Say ace. >> Ace. >> Add ch. >> Excellent job. Sayip. >> Add ch. >> Great job. Say airy. >> Add ch. >> Sherry. >> Excellent job. Put both hands out. Say chat. >> Chat >> without the ch. >> Great job. Say think. without the >> super job. And the last one, say shame. >> Shame >> without the sh. >> Good
010job. Take your hand. Kiss it. Give your kiss brain a kiss. You did a great job doing Heagerty. Great job. >> Boys and girls, for our next assignment, we're going to practice the things that we do during UFly. And UFly can take us a long time during the day. So, we're just going to do a small part of you fly. So, boys and girls, I need you to just turn your bodies around and look at the board. Beep beep. Turn around. >> There we go. >> Can you see the board? >> All right, boys and girls. I want you to tell me. >> Introduce. So, you just finished. That's phological. So, that is sound. Now, Ufly is um phonics and it goes coding program. So that's when you put the letters to the sounds. Um,
011and so UVI provides explicit instruction to help our students connect the sounds to the letters, strengthening their ability to read fluently and accurately. Today, our students will model how they apply these skills in real reading tasks, demonstrating systematic and structured approach to that ensures every child develops a strong decoding skills abilities. I'm going to hand this to you, >> University of Florida Literacy Instruction. Uh yes. >> Yeah. >> So our UFFLY um curriculum has different components depending on the day and this happens to be a day one schedule and day one has five different components. We're going to focus on the visual drill and then the auditory drill. >> Okay, boys and girls, are you ready? Eyes up on the screen. >> Tell me the sounds that the letter makes. Good job. GG and >>
012Nice job. What sound do you hear with this letter? And you hear the C and this. Nice job. I heard both. How about this one? A says A and >> Nice job. I says I and >> Good. O says O and >> A. >> Good. E says E and >> and it says >> silent. >> U says U and >> three sounds of E d. Let me hear some. >> Nice job sounds. Nice. >> Another one. >> Where are those teeth? Where are those missing teeth? Show me. >> I have a lot. Nice job. >> Let me hear it. Unvoiced. unvoiced. Let me hear it voiced. >> Nice job. >> Shushing me. >> Good job. All right, boys and girls. Nice work. Turn your bodies around. It's time to uncap your markers. Put your hats
013on your tails. >> We're going to move into the auditory drill. Now, these are letters and sounds the children have already been introduced to. So, it's a review of things we've learned earlier in the year just to keep it fresh in our brains. Okay? Please write for me the letters that make the sound Write for me the letters that make the sound. You could hold it up and show me. Beautiful job. Erase. Erase. Erase. Erase. Please write for me. Two ways to make the sound ch. Two ways to make the sound ch. You've got ch. You've got tch. Nice work, first grade. One more. Erase. Erase. Erase. Erase. Can you show me two ways that we can make the sound t? Two ways to make the sound T t's and D's. Bees have a belly.
014Bees wear a B's and D's. Nice work, first graders. Okay. >> Erase. Erase. Erase. Put your tails back on your hats. Put your marker tails back on. make them hats again. There you go. And put all of your supplies down for a nap. We don't need them anymore. They did a nice job. So, that was Ukly her um phonics program. So, now we're finally getting into our um brand new programming that we brought you the uh the board of education brought to us. Um, it's called Bookworms. It's our reading program, and the students engage with rich texts to develop comprehension, vocabulary, and a love for reading. Through shared reading, they discuss stories, make connections, and practice strategies that help them understand and enjoy what they're reading because there are different parts of the day. And
015we're going to just highlight the shared reading part. So, you'll see students interact with their texts that they have, and they'll interact with each other. So, they do that every day. Um, and then they're going to apply the skills that they learn in meaningful ways. >> All right, boys and girls, we're going to get ready to read with the reading partners. So, you know what we need to say as we grab our books? >> Elbow to elbow, knee to knee. Look in the middle so we both can see. >> All right, before we start, let's look up here. Our books are in the middle. Don't open them yet. Keep them closed. Keep them closed. put them in the middle. All right. So, what we do is um parallel introduced um our I can statements. Um
016we have tried to implement that at least in one subject. So, a lot of us um said, you know, the shared reading is a great way to get that started. So, we'll go over that really quick. Uh boys and girls, when we were reading today, remember um we can read our book with fluency. Remember we talked about fluency as reading smoothly by using a smooth and beautiful voice. >> To do this, we must learn and understand all the words in her story and how to sound and blend those words together. We have to practice reading those words smoothly like a storyteller. And we are going to show all the grown-ups tonight that we know how to read without stopping too much. We can use our smooth voice and a beautiful reading voice. Remember, when we
017see that exclamation mark, what do our voices do? >> They go up. When we see a question mark, they >> Yeah, we we have to use our question voice. Okay. We're not going to sound like a robot. >> And we'll know we're successful when our reading sounds smooth and make sense, right? We always read like a storyteller. >> All right. So, that book is in between you. Remember, we're good partners. We're going to look at the beginning or the front of the book first. Everybody take a look at the the book. Okay, so we have the the title is Biscuit Goes to School. I see something on the front and it makes me think of something that when I know going to school, I see something that I don't see all the time. >> A
018dog. Have you ever seen a dog before at school? All right. So before we start, I want you to turn and talk to your partner and tell me if you went to school and saw a dog, what would you do? >> Ready? Turn and talk. Go. >> If I went to school and saw a dog and I would answer my >> This is true. We've talked about eyes back here. >> I saw some people talk about how sometimes we have a guiding dog if somebody might need one in the classroom. >> Oh, what a great idea. Would anybody else like to share what you and your partner talked about? Landon and Isaiah, what did you guys talk about? >> I remember what would happen if you brought a dog and bring it home. >> You
019would want to bring the dog home. Oh, okay. All right. Up here. What did you guys talk about? >> Um, I said um I I forget. >> You forgot? Maybe your partner remembers. Do you remember? >> Well, not that much. >> You wouldn't do that much? >> Yeah. >> Are you just used to dogs cuz you have one at home? >> No. >> Or you're just not interested? >> Kelly is my cat girl. >> Oh, okay. All right. We're going to get one more. What did you and Maddie talk about? I would ask pet cuz maybe the owner would be there with Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> I would just pet it cuz >> Yeah. Maybe if it was yours. Yeah. You know what I was thinking? I was thinking if there was a dog at
020school, maybe it shouldn't belong there and maybe I should tell a grownup, too. A lot of different ideas. You want to share real quick? Go ahead. >> Yeah, that's a great idea, too. All of you guys had some really great ideas. Let's open up to the first page. We're going to go to page four. >> Boys and girls, we're going to do coral reading tonight. Are we all on page four and five? >> It is a familiar text. I'm glad you noticed that, Sophia. Fingers up. >> Fingers up. >> Fingers down. >> Ready? >> Here comes the school bus. >> Good job noticing those exclamation marks. Turn the page. Turn the page. Page here. Biscuit. Dogs don't go to school. Woof. >> Ready. >> Here is Bis. Where is Biscuit? >> Where is Biscuit going?
021>> Is Biscuit going to the pond? >> Good question, voices. Is Biscuit going to the park? >> Good dog barking. Biscuit. >> Biscuit is going to school. >> Boys and girls, we're stopping here for tonight and I have a question for you. Close the book, please. Stop following those directions. Why do you think Biscuit followed the little girl to school? I'm going to give you a minute to think about it. Why do you think Biscuit, this little dog, followed the girl all the way to school? See lots of hands thinking, >> "Why do you think he called the girl to school?" >> Because maybe he feels lonely. >> Maybe he's lonely. Why? Oh, we've got some friends agreeing with you. >> Uh, Brooke, why do you think he followed the girl to school? >> Because
022um because the dog loves the girl. >> Don't leave me. Oh, you agreed with her with that, too. We actually I tomorrow morning will you tell me more of why you think this? >> Yes. >> We actually have to stop right here. >> I know this was fun. I want to keep going with biscuit. But I think Mrs. Gallagher has more to say. Let's turn and see what celebrations. So we just wanted to thank you for giving us the opportunity for all of you. You did amazing. Everybody give them a clap. So this was our chance to show you our literacy program with sounds, putting letters to sounds, and then them putting it all together by reading for you. So we're very proud of teachers work and students growth. >> So again, we appreciate your
023uh the board of education's uh your continued support for the work we're doing together to foster a love for reading in our students. Um, again, I want to thank our students for coming in, their families for bringing them in and getting them all dressed up. Our teachers for making their match costume today. I think they're all we're all lucky for what we have here. I want to thank both of our assistant principles for coming out tonight and for the board of education and the uh central office for being here. So, we do have some certificates for our kids >> and some books. >> Right. When I call your name, you're going to come up here. You're going to get your book. You're going to stand over here for us to take a picture all together.
024So, we're going to start with Roman. >> Roman Lion. >> Claire Lyman. >> Henry McDermott. Brook Hartley is there. Okay. >> Ethan Russell, >> Sophia Martino, Talia Scott, Landon Weber. >> Charlotte Clark. >> UBER MALCIN HERE. >> Maddie Mosca. Vasquel, >> Isaiah Lopez, >> and Jack Abra. >> All right, >> let's see how this is going to go. >> This is so not cool. >> Come in, Mrs. Gallagher. Mrs. Calib. Hold your certificates up. >> Like this. >> On your bellies. On your bellies. On your bellies. >> So we can see. >> Yes, please. Handsome and beautiful pieces. >> You'll get it for us. Thank you. >> Adorable. So cute. >> Great picture. >> Happy St. Patrick's Day. I love you. I want to wish my happy chicken. >> Oh go around that way around.
025There you go. >> Good job out there. Nice job. >> They should grab a cookie. >> All right. Thank you everyone for uh bringing your child. >> Thank you. >> We appreciate it very much. Uh you don't have to stay. You can go or you can stay. Thank you so much. >> The day I decide to start my fast they bring >> you corn bee. I'm like I have a three-day war. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> For the next three days, >> girl. Thank you. I have trouble. >> I'm struggling. >> I got to do it. I >> like 11 months. >> Not too bad. >> Good shape. >> Dude, I just threw everything out. Oh my god. Come here. I have such a dead sweet >> just for today surgery. is
026amazing. >> So they were >> They're very cute. Give them a meeting fast. >> I'll see you later. I've done it. I was doing it once a month. >> Three day pass once a month. >> Then I stopped it. I was like, I'm done. >> I had to get my >> good job. >> I just scanned it for I don't know how many companies that entails as a survey. >> I usually grow. I mean, I could really not worth it. I could have one. Not worth it. Not worth it. >> But I started last Sunday. >> I know. >> It's very hard though. And >> idea why I'm standing up. We're seeing every chase. >> Are you afraid you're going to have to do that? >> Maybe. >> I want to get my camera going.
027>> Small world. >> Get your camera going. >> You have a job that I need. >> You were chasing >> the NBC. It was no drama. Arch. We ready? >> Take to cover this entire review. >> Okay, everybody ready? >> Move on to >> Oh, no. PTO, I don't think. Right. >> And we'll go to the student representatives reports. >> It wasn't so long ago that penny mark for that age. You know, >> I know. >> Okay. Starting off at Northville. Thanks to the generosity of our PTO, our students had two assemblies. Zoro interactive performance incorporates traditional Ghanaian dances, songs, and stories and playful engineers who teach specific maintenance of simple mechanical parts through hands-on design and construction sessions. Excellers and second graders had dental hygiene presentations from both the Kichi family dentistry and dental
028associates. Your second graders raised $2,300 during their annual jump rope support event. Your students had vision screened by the local Lions Club. And soon, our first graders will have their hearing tested by our school nurse. It's that time of year, kindergarten registration is taking place. Families with children that turn five by September 1st are welcome to register. And for Helen Plane, February was a busy and exciting month followed by a successful marine care package drive and a visit from the Harlem Wizards that brought energy and fun to their school community. Students also celebrated Valentine's Day, participated in free screenings from the Lions Club, healthy dental habits. March off with our school readathon, enjoyed the celebration of Dr. Zeus featuring cool days and special guest readers from Mark and >> at um Sarah Noble author Lauren
029Harishes visited their fourth and fifth grade students. She's a rock star in children's literature as the author of the I survived series. It was a great event for their students. They heard about her adventures and writing processes and they had the chance to ask her questions. Their string players went on a field trip to the high school to learn with and from the SMS and NHS strings players. culminating in all school concert with 140 string players in total. It was a wonderful event where school played and then everyone combined. Today, SNIS hosted a bag piper parade in a local Irish dancers featuring many new Milford students and there was no report from Scatakoke or New Milford High School. >> Thank you, Penny and Mark. >> Thank you. >> Take treats on the way out. A
030little more. Okay, we'll move on to approval of minutes. I'm going to need a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes for February 17th, 2026. >> So, >> Eric and Brian, any discussion? I'm just going to say Sarah, just for the record, I'm going to abstain because I wasn't here. I did read through them and I know I can vote on them, but I'm just going to um all those in favor. That's everybody. Thank you. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to vote. Okay. >> And then we're going to move on to the a motion to approve the special meeting minutes dated March 15, 2026. >> March 5th, 2026. >> Second. >> All right. Dean, you're going to abstain. >> Okay. >> All those in favor? >> Thank you. That's everybody >> and the superintendence report.
031First, I hope you enjoyed our student um recognition. So, we talk often about all of our programming that we have, but to see it in action gives it a certainly different flavor. Um so, we're very proud of of that work, I'm sure. And uh that was cooked up by the principles. That wasn't my idea. So just so you know, um they told me that was happening and I said, "Okay." So >> that um March is Board of Education Appreciation Month. And so we are so very fortunate to have a hardworking and dedicated board of education leading our school district. These volunteers spend hours upon hours full board meetings, subcommittee meetings, and specialized committees such as negotiations and student hearing. The board establishes policies, adopts a budget, and appoints a superintendent as their statutory duty. And
032just as importantly, members provide their perspectives, always ask the right questions, and cheer us on along the way. Our work as a district and our momentum are possible because of this board's support. We thank them for their hard work and extraordinary care for our students and our schools. So, thank you everyone. >> You're very welcome. >> Hey, um my report's going to be seriously short. First, I'd just like to thank Mr. O'Brien for heading over to uh NBC earlier tonight to represent us. I appreciate that. I would like to thank Merich for telling me that um if that if the meeting lasted 1 minute over 6:30, I was forgiven for but it didn't happen. So, here I am. >> Here you are. Thank you. Um and also thank you to the board members for serving.
033This is, you know, it's it's a heavy lift at times, right? And we make the hard decisions that not everybody likes, but here we are. Okay, we'll move on to subcommitteees policy first. Tam's not here. >> Tammy's not here. >> There's no meeting >> and there's no meeting and no meeting for you either. Right. And facilities. >> Um theformational portion of the Okay. >> We have four items uh to discuss >> um miss mostly Mr. Cunningham, but I'll have an update as well. >> Cool. >> Is this follow there? >> Um the normal monthly reports and I'm sure Anthony will do an overview. We it wasn't too long of a meeting so we could keep the comments for this evening uh on for um discussion. So nothing really major. >> Thank you. Um we're going
034to move on to discussion and possible action for the monthly reports budget position purchase resolution and uh request for budget transfers. I need a motion to approve the budget position dated February 26th. >> So moved. >> Oh wait, no, I'm not done. >> What date was was that? 28th >> February 28th February it's not on here dated February 28th 2026 purchase resolution D 804 and request for budget transfers >> so move it again second it >> Brian Brian you're on it tonight >> any discussion okay all those in favor items of information fiscal year 2024 audit report will address that topic. Thank you. Um the um external auditors uh produced their report and presented to the board of finance on uh January 28th. Um as far as the board of education goes, there were zero
035deficiencies noted. Um I want to just say and thank my staff. Um, a lot of work goes into this following policy procedures established by the board and intergovernmental agencies when it comes to general government accounting procedures. Um, clean audits don't happen by accident. They take a lot of hard work and that's through the support of the people in my department and a lot of departments within central office as well. I wanted to say that um the middle section of the memo that you have in front of you breaks out the ending balance with a few carve outs 232,96 committed transferred back to the town. That is the educational cost sharing grant that the town that the board participated in which the town's um educational cost sharing state and there's an agreement that we turn that
036amount back out of fiscally balance. This board also take took motion to deposit $100,000 into Turfield. And the third piece is that there is also um the commitment for the ESG project uh for the payment this year that amount of roughly $522,000. Once you subtract those out, the ending balance go to the board of ed capital reserve account should be 1,318,67. If you're looking at the memo online, the electronic version, you can click on that link, it'll take you right to the full audit. And the second page of the memo outlines the motions from the board of finance meeting where these were approved ahead of the audit which is something I encourage going forward and I'm happy to answer any questions about audit memo anything else related. >> Oh sorry no worries. >> Sorry >>
037that's okay. uh to follow up because I I knew this was on the agenda and we briefly touched upon this at operations so I I didn't want to be redundant. I know I'd asked a couple questions a operations. I don't expect you to bring that to the board because they were pertaining to the town. You know, what was the town's end of the year balance? um if we had any idea of that. Um and looking to see if the town as they usually do uh matches the $100,000 turf uh match for match with the board which would put us over the million-doll threshold which we are probably about two years ahead of our target for that account um for replacement. So that's a really good thing um that we've done for the taxpayers um you
038know rather than some other districts who are being you know challenged with bills to replace fields. We already have that set aside. Um with regards to the overall audit as you said Anthony it doesn't happen by chance. It's a lot of hard work and there's no material weaknesses and the audit also, you know, these things drive our bond ratings and everything else and the bond ratings drive our buying power and it's just a it's a huge cycle. So, in audit report, I would encourage people if they have an opportunity to look at it, please do. Um, I had a question about the um ESG. Uh I think I had asked that at operations if we knew um what we had set aside for this coming year I believe was one of my questions >> the
039budget that we just adopted and what the town payment towards the ESG was going to be. So for the 2026 payment, the board of eds is roughly 52,000 and the town is 251,000. >> Right. Obviously, and that's in our budget that you just adopted. >> Correct. >> Uh do we know what the turf field for the town is? No, >> I do not know what that amount is. I know that there's 928,000 roughly in the account now and that is before our deposit from the board of ed of 100,000. I do not know the town's contribution. >> The only reason I ask is when I've looked at the town council minutes from previous year, I haven't seen a specific delineation for that line item, you know, an emotion. So, it's hard for me to keep
040track of it. We just want to make sure and they they've been matching it. You know, there was one year that they were off and that was towards the beginning, but it's been going pretty well. So, I'd like to follow that. And I couldn't agree with you more. I'll leave you with this. No matter what happens, I urge this board to continue to ask for the motion in June to be set aside, you know, that once that audit is is done, the June motion carries the automatic placement through town council and board of finance for the monies to go to the capital reserve. we don't have to do it again. Um that's held us up in the past. Um and as we all know when you um when you have finances that are held up
041for whatever reasons, timing boards, whatever, it is a domino effect on projects what we line up. So that process has worked out really really well. We started it I don't know four or five years ago. >> Doing it in June is the right way to do it. um% we would been doing it >> March now >> um during the same time as we were proposing our operating budget >> and it also works nicely because next month we'll be bringing you the um next iteration of the 5year capital plan. So, it's also helpful to have all those motions taken care of and the deposit made into our capital reserve so you know how much funding we have in capital reserve that's up to date for when you consider the next um slate of capital projects for
042the board of ed. >> And so page 404 of our reports will reflect differently at next month's uh meeting. It'll be 1318617 higher. >> Yes, that's on the left hand side of page four of the um budget position listing. Thank you for your question about the deposits into turf. Um I have not been tracking each and every motion that the town makes the deposit to that account, but once I see it recorded in that account number that's referenced at the top in Munice, whether it's town or board event, I will add it the following month as I've been doing to this um attachment >> to the overall because that's how I mean for me personally that's how I track it. It's much easier because you're posting it because you're seeing it in munis I would
043imagine. >> Yeah. As soon as I see any I'll report on it the next month. There's been no um nothing on this report related to your report as of February 20. >> It's a good report. Is this a is that audit report? Has that already gone before board of finance or no? >> Yes, on January. >> Okay. Thank you. Missed that. Thanks. That was it for me. >> Anybody else? >> Okay. We'll move on to ESG. the solar project. >> Yes. >> Um we know that there was a preliminary report, the first measurement and verification report was released and um Mr. Frank and Mr. Jvenon could chime in. >> Any additional information? >> So that report was um sent to the board I believe last month. >> Yep. Right. Um there was a first time
044measurement verification report and the savings that are contained in that report. We are following up with the town through a scheduled meeting to find out exactly which buckets those go into as far as what kind of zerracks the town got in uh in association with the project and any other credits that they may have received that could go towards paying down this bill. And out of those is $4 million in credits that you're referring to >> approximately 4 million 12,000 whatever off the top of my head but roughly $4 million. Um and we're looking I because this was brought up at the last board and I believe briefly at operations. We just want to have kind of a um I guess it articulated where those credits were, what the breakdown were was, where they were
045credited and how they were credited. so we can understand because there have been some supplemental charges, unexpected charges, some that are in our budget pertaining to this program. We had what $9,000 and we had uh something else. So, I think that we need to tie in all these numbers. Um $9,000 doesn't sound like a lot of money, but when it's unexpected, it is a lot of money. And um when you have credits that offset it and it's a town and a board project, it would be nice to kind of drill down on that. So, hopefully tomorrow we'll have a a better idea of where we may be on that. Yes. Yes, we have a meeting tomorrow. >> And this is is this the first time that we've seen credits? >> Um, this is the first
046>> I mean I I don't even know if we've seen the credits. >> I think this is the first time that the credits have been captured in a full measurement verification >> in a report >> report. >> I believe they've been discussed as a possibility. We've been on calls way back when in the old day that they could be a possibility, but now they've actually been captured and there's been a number attached to those credits. So, I I'm looking forward to going through that tomorrow. >> Is there a chance that there were credits that we never knew about in uh the last year or two? Two, three years. >> Potentially, yes. >> Yes, potentially. >> Are we ever going to find those or probably not? Or we're not going to >> I hope we do
047it tomorrow. >> That's tomorrow's meeting. >> I'll be there. I had identified the credits associated with the project and now we're looking to find out how much how many of those credits and what the dollar amounts were baked into the original cash flow of the project and which ones might be additional above and beyond. I don't know that sitting here right now today we'll have to see tomorrow that but we're looking forward to getting more information tomorrow. But the the the the other piece on that is that this has been a little bit of a complicated um project and there's been some twists and turns and you know when when you have to budget for a half a million dollars out of your budget that you make sure that payment is made I think it's
048incumbent the board and the town to make sure that we can make them. And so those numbers are really important to reflect what our overall they affect our operational budget to some degree. They have to trickle down to us in some way, Anthony, eventually if there's credits, they have to. So I think that um these are big numbers and now that that that has been captured, I'm really hoping we can have a good conversation as to, you know, how we got here and and what they've been done and reported back to the board. So I'm actually looking forward to that. It's a, you know, it's a good thing when you can save money, but you also have to be able to explain it as well. >> Yeah, >> we'll move on to -ate bids. >>
049Uh, you see that there's a memo from Mr. Turner. See that? >> Yeah. Mr. Turner might step out and say a few words. >> Mics are on, Mr. Turner. >> I couldn't hear if there was any questions. >> No. No. Is there anything you'd like to say about this? Is there anything? >> Uh, we went through the -ate process. There were three companies that did bids. One company did not read what we were looking for. So, right away, two were left over. Uh, split between the two. Uh, hardware was through Omnidata and they'll be doing 25 new access point runs as well as access points and licenses. And then the second company is Computer Wear out of Virginia. They had a better price on our wiring, which are the wires for our um our racks,
050which our network engineers going to redo, as well as all our trip light supplies, and it ended up saving us an extra $4,000. Just a reminder, this is something that would have cost us 50,000, but with great, we end up with a 60% discount. We paid just a little over $20,000 for these these products. >> Thank you. >> And facilities. Um, I'll just say you can find the facilities report on page 33 of agenda packet and I'll turn it over to Mr. Cunningham to speak to the specific items. Sure. So with the new high school tennis course, we've reached out to potential landscape architects either to directly hire or if we need to, we'll proceed with RFP for their services just to really get a better understanding of the design process and try to find
051a company that could work for the USA grant and uh she process. So that's where we are now with the tennis courts. We'll do some local band-aid work on them here. We actually will meet with a contractor this week to go over what we need to do to make sure they're playable here for this season. >> Any questions for tennis courts? >> So the uh central offices we've met with engineers from Silver Petraelli to review the scope of work for the business and the assistant superintendent's offices. Uh we plan to execute this work during the summer recess. In addition, this firm will also provide an updated conceptual plan for the overall central office improvements. We should have that here sometime later in the spring. >> Moving along to get you an office. >> Indeed. >>
052So, we've also started programming for the future culinary space at Wilford High School that's underway. We're working architects to develop a layout and conceptual drawings for this space later this spring. Sorry, I was very enthusiastic about that. Looking forward to the program. >> Well, we're certainly at the beginning stages of that. >> Oh, yeah. >> I'm gonna cook something up. >> Our brains around and what programs we can offer them with the equipment in the space and what the cost will be associated with that. >> That's great. >> I believe Mr. O'Brien might have an update on the new Northville roof. I know that went forward to NBC this evening. >> So, um I want to acknowledge Mr. Cunningham who drafted an RFP um for the NBC to um send out. Uh they received three
053bids. Um and they had special meeting tonight to choose to award the contract. Um the high bidder was a company called Lo at 325K. Um next was Russell and Dawson at 210K approximately and Silver Petraelli was the low bidder at about 114,000. So uh they awarded the contract to Silver Petraeli. Uh, one thing I will add is that um, >> the architectural piece >> that's the that's the achite and design. >> Yes. I I I'm like, whoa. >> Like, wait a minute. >> Like, wow, we're quite a roof. >> There's a problem. So, the purpose of this is to just create the plans and that can be uh to enable roofing contractors to um bid on the project >> and that would be the next step. >> That'll be the next step. One thing I
054do want to say because everybody with with not forgetting the high school, everybody's very concerned about supervision on this. So Mr. Cunningham also provided three options on you know in terms of cost how they could hire third party supervision. Okay. So >> was that decided on? >> No, that was not. So they they got bids on a like a weekly daily basis from each of them, but they tabled that discussion until after the the drawings. Basically, what they wanted to get going now is just done. And then I think when they finally send it out to bids, you know, to actual contractors, that's when they will also um include the supervision package somewhere in >> I won't hold you to it and I won't hold them to it. Um, is there still a thought that
055this is going to try to be done for this summer? >> There is a thought that it's still >> technically um that's what they're asked for. They had the meeting tonight, but uh there was the only real discussion that went around, it was a 15-minute meeting, >> okay, >> was a number of them pointed out everything that would have to be done. you know, it's going to take a month to get the A&E done and then get it sent out in probably another at least three weeks or so um before you can get the big >> so you know you're looking at June anyway. So, and they were talking about as you had said every good contractor is probably going to be already booked for the summer. So I think they are they are coming
056to the conclusion that it's not going to be the >> uh two other elements to that is one is we also would have to be cognizant of the amount of lead time necessary to get the wall panels right >> um school we'd like to see that project done in conjunction with the roof. Uh and secondly there is also the DAS grant element to that and they are not looking to expedite anything for us. They're going to take their time as we do. They have a lot of schools looking to do grants and they've got a lot of irons in the fire throughout the state. So, those are also two other things that would probably hinder our ability to try to get that project done here and kick it off this summer. >> I I just
057wanted that because I'm not holding anybody because, you know, I think, you know, we need to learn, you know, um how we've done things in the past. I think staying in front of the message rather than chasing it is really important. And so when people may think a roof may be done this summer, that that's that's not the case. It it's slim, but you know, it's still in people's minds. So I think that's important. The other thing is um >> correct me if I'm wrong. Um and I apologize. Has the type of roof been decided? >> So what they're going to >> Did I miss that somewhere? >> No, it has not. I think my understanding is they're going to ask for two bids. Um, and these bids are based on the original study that
058Silver Baptist Valley did. >> Okay. >> With auction at all within the bid. So, they'll probably look for a conventional three tab asphalt shingle and they'll also look for a standing seal roof. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And no EPDM on the flats or >> Well, the EP the flat would either be an EPDM or be what's called a modified bit, which is what we have on the school roof for instance. So I think at that time too that's going to predicate how much money they're going to have then to see what kind of um oversight they could afford. So essentially when they go out to bid here and they get the bits back depending on how much money they have in versus how much they cost. Now they how much money they have essentially to
059play with to say do we want to look for a daily we look for a milestone or a weekly type of oversight on this job. >> Do do I'm sorry. Do they have a um do any of these companies that are going to bid I guess you can find out if they have a dedicated project manager for that job? You know, it should be a a lot of times you'll dedicate a PM just >> there will be construction administration as part and parcel of the actual lump sum. But yes, in addition as opposed to having a a clerk of the works which NBC could still elect to do. >> Sure. >> Uh and hire a third party like the number of the Lanesville fire roof. Uh that has nothing to do but we did put
060in a mechanism so that they could work with the architect and the architect gave us numbers down on what those rates would be. So yes, They could have an additional per versus a they will have a project manager on there but uh the degree of which they'll be on site so remains to be seen too. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to employment report. I see some big names retiring. >> Yes. So we put the retirements on the March employment report and you can see there's quite a number of years represented there >> uh on the bottom of the first page. And for the rest of it, it's pretty stable. Okay. And enrollment report, uh, same thing. Stable enrollment. Fundraising. They're going to >> Yes, they are. >> Raise their money. >>
061They will. And field trip. They're going places. >> Yes, they are. >> I think that's it. >> Did anybody have any questions, concerns, or anything about any of what I just told? Okay, great. Then we're going to go into the discussion and possible action. I hereby move that the board enter into an executive session for the purpose of discussion regarding a pending 2021 litigation matter before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. And I further move that the board invite Superintendent Dr. Parlatto into the executive session. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Eric, did you Eric second? All those in favor. >> That's it. And what time is it? >> 67. back at >> everybody with the mic. >> I almost >> 7:38 got 7:38. >> Lauren and Sarah. >> Yes. Got it. Okay,
062>> thank you for this sh >> I here I here I hereby move that the board approve the proposed $10,000 settlement of the 2021 pending litigation matter before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and appropriate 10,000 for such purpose and I further move that the board chairperson Sar Lesie Saridge sign such proposed settlement agreement on behalf of the board pending any necessary legal review. Second. >> I'll move it. >> Oh, I moved it. >> You did. Okay. >> I got to catch that more often. All those in favor? >> Thank you. Um, and then I need >> motion tojourn. Too eager there. >> Wendy and Tom. All those in favor everyone. >> Thank you everybody. Good night. Thank you. Please let me