001We're live. Thank you, Jeff. All right, we're going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. If everybody stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Um, we're going to open it up to public comments. No public comment. PTO report. Somebody doing that tonight? I I guess I can. Are you here for the PTO? So, I came with to be with Megan. I'm the new townwide president for Okay. Oh, welcome. if you want to just give us a quick Okay. Or you don't have to. No pressure. No, I can. It's totally fine because I I actually the high school. I was
002a treasurer at the high school. Okay. Um so I can tell you about the high school quick. Okay. If you could just give us your name. Denise Reese. Thank you. Sorry. Um so the high school we had um the senior picnic which went over well. The PTO helped um with breakfast for that. Um and I think like ice the ice cream toppings. Um we also did the senior bagels for them. Um and we did field day and provided um popsicles for them. Um and then we got an ice cream truck for the senior class for the high school. Um they did that one day after um their rehearsals. So that's Oh, there's my um so that's the high school. I don't know if Oh, sorry. Thank you, Denise. appreciate it for anything else but late
003Megan. I know. I was putting together our final numbers for the year, which are amazing. I bet um answer. So, thank you Denise for uh Do you want a minute? You can take a minute. I can move on to something else. All right. Okay. So, um, over the course of this year between all schools, the PTO donated 170,89 81. Oh, wow. Y social events at Hill and Plane, the fall festival, family paint night. Those were all activities that the PTO sponsored. Excuse me. Sorry. garden upgrades to their brand new garden. Playground grants at Northville, spelling be at Northville, yoga for XL for both the schools, cultural arts programs at all the schools except the high school. Veterans Day hospitality, STEM enrichment, science enrichment, literature enrichment programs, field trips, second, fifth, and eighth grade sendoffs, walking
004project pedometers, and science or Oh, I already said science. Sorry. And $7,000 in scholarships this year to school. Oh, nice. Thank you. So, it was a busy year. So, and right at the end of the year, um I decided to make things crazier for us and we did the um quick turnaround um I voted stickers contest that um which the kids loved. The registar also loved and um the registar reached out to me and I think he mentioned to me that he reached out to Jenna as well. They would very much like to keep doing that with us and they will actually pay for the printing of them in their budget. We'll run the program and we'll run the stickers contest. So that's great. Great way to join the community there as well. And I
005think that was really it. Thank you. That's amazing Megan. Thank you. We appreciate everything you and the PTO do. Can I ask you a question? No. And it might be well so is there any record year after year of what how much donation we get from the PTO's the schools and um has it records and get that for you. I know last year we also broke 100,000 but I don't think it was any near or near 170. I just think that I I find that interesting. Yeah. Uh you don't have No, we set we set um budgets at the beginning of the year that include funding of approximately $10 for every student um that goes on field trips K3. Um we sp set set aside for each school several thousand dollar for enrichment programs for
006each of the different categories, arts, literature, science. Um trying to think what else we do. So it it adds up fast and just these past few years the busing has been outrageous. So we've done what we could to go above and beyond the $10 where we could for parents and offset those field trip costs. Yeah, if you can get us that that would be we'd like to see that. We could share it. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Um okay, approval of the minutes. I need a motion to approve the following board of education meeting minutes. Regular meeting minutes May 20th, 2025 and special meeting minutes May 29th, 2025. So move Brian. All those in favor? I don't think I was at one of those. Okay. So you're gonna Okay, he's gonna Eric, you
007got that? Uh Sarah, you're on today, girl. [Applause] superintendent report. Thank you. So, we have reached the end of another school year and 2024 25 was certainly a productive and busy one. We continue to make progress as a school district in building valuable learning experiences for all students as well as important connections with families in the community. We had a wonderful promotion ceremony last week for Scottok 8th grade and we wish those students the best as they progressed to high school. On Saturday, the New Milford High School class of 2025 experienced a meaningful graduation ceremony followed by a fun and exciting allight graduation party. Thank you to those parents and community volunteers for creating such a magical evening for our students. Thank you to the community members who voted in the second referendum on June
00811th. Having a budget that passes allows us to quickly begin the hiring process for the positions open by retirements as well as for our new positions that resulted from the budget's approval. I can't stress enough how important that is. Special thank you um certainly with uh Megan backing up Megan here. Uh special thank you to our PTOs at each school. Their work truly enriches our students experiences and PTO members are also caring cheerleaders for all of our district efforts for sure as well as for our students efforts. Here's to a rejuvenating and fun summer for us all as we look ahead to the 2526 school year. Thank you. Thank you. So for the um the board chair's report, I'm just going to piggyback on what Janet said or Dr. Coro, excuse me, said regarding um
009our budget and the voting. We'd like to thank the public for coming out. Um it was truly supported by the town and we appreciate it. It was a a fair budget. Um and it's going to help move everything forward. So, we're very very appreciative of that. Um the next thing I'd like to talk about is graduation. What a fun event that was. It was the first time I had the pleasure of handing out diplomas and seeing those kids just bounce up there smiling was something that was really heartwarming. Um, and I also want to thank uh Mr. Cunningham and his team for being able to quickly pivot and move it inside. Um, I don't think there was any issues that I heard about. It was a good day by everybody and we're very thankful. The
010board is thankful. So, thank you. And I'll move on to policy. Tammy's not here. Okay. Committee on learning. Okay. I had to stop and look. It seems like so long ago. So much has happened in two weeks. Um we were presented with lots of new classes uh to consider. Very exciting. And almost every subject area, I believe. And so we'll be taking a look at those tonight in your 144. or cages. That's how we do it here. Thank you. Facilities. Uh I think Mr. Cunningham might be on vacation, a well-deserved vacation. So um when we get to the facilities portion in the umformational portion, I'll do my best to give a summary of the um ongoing projects that uh that we have. Um, I I will point out if you're looking, we do have a
011list and it's on page 1,443 of today's Thank you, Tom. Thank you for not printing it out. Thank you. And um Wendy Oh, I'm joking. Wendy, go ahead. For operations, we had a relatively short meeting because we thought the conversation would be appropriate at the full board for wrapping up our um fiscal year. And so you'll see um you know some possible bid awards, the monthly reports, our end of the year balance and all of that financial rep. Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to discussion and possible action for the monthly reports. I'll turn it over to Anthony and Wendy. I'm sure you can direct us. You need to put the motion out there first. Oh, okay. Sorry. I need a motion to approve the budget position dated May 31st, 2025, revised
012purchase resolution D-795 and request for budget transfers. So move a second. Brian and Tom, all those in favor questions. Oh, discussion. Sorry, it doesn't matter. There's no right order. Um Anthony, did you want to do an overview on the monthly reports as you did at um operations? Yes, thank you. Just briefly I'll open up the question position shown 31st shows we are 98.22% or in comfort. Same time last year we're at 97.57. Um I will open up some questions on the budget position before we discuss resolution and transfers. I'm going to save some of my questions for um unless you'd prefer it now um for roll out or balance because we do have you know some motions pertaining to that unless we just want to run through it now can certainly do that whatever whatever
013you would like. Okay. So thank you and if anybody else has any questions let me know we had some of these at um at uh operations but they're brief. So we're at 98.22 22. And if we take a look at the estimated um end ofear balance and then we take a look if we could go to page um the revenue page. Let's go to page 17 if you will. So the capital reserve account of 3581. Is that number authentic of 3581? Where are we in relationship to that? That's as of May 31st, but doesn't include the 5-year capital withdrawal associated with the 2526 budget. Approximately 1.7 $1.8 million would need to come off of that balance. So, we would take the 3.5 million and approximately a million six or seven coming off of that. Did
014you say 1.8 million? Okay. would come off and then whenever fiscal year end 2425 is concluded there will be a deposit into that account pending the final audit. That's correct. So I mentioned that because obviously we've had this conversation. We're fortunate enough to have that relationship with the town to have a capital reserve. But when you take a look at it dated May 31st, one would think that that number holds true of $3.5 million. Yet, in our five-year capital plan, the first column of that is going to once we conclude this meeting, the intent is going to be to draw on that and go to the town and the board of finance to execute those requests and draw that down a million8. Yes. Yes. So, I wanted to put that on the record. Um, couple
015other quick questions. Um, as we roll out the end of the year, how does the um ESG payment calculate into this? So that's going to come need come out of a motion regarding fiscal year end balance. The majority of that is going to come from our electrical line and the payment due in December 2025 is roughly $513,000. But it's coming out of this it's going to come out of the end ofear balance for this year. And if I could just remind the board that this whole project and its billing cycle billing cycle versus the actual construction phase is basically one year off. Correct. Because we got off to kind of a late start. And so do we do we know when we have a payment that's due at the SG, how do we know what
016our savings is? So we don't know the full 15 savings. The first the preliminary M&V report is ded to the district June 30th and then within 90 days of that we are due the year one synopsis. I have a followup. So that um percentage uh the end of the year possible balance does that already take into account that ESG payment? No, it does not. So later on during discussion possible action there's a projected fund balance and the payment to ESG would need to come off of that number and that's a half million dollars. Correct. So I just wanted that on the record as well. through the chair. M&V is measurement and verification report and that gives us a sense of what we're saving and what is uh being generated by those panels. Thank you for
017that clarification. Thank you. Is it possible um maybe at a future meeting? It depends. Could you break out the other services that when we end up after our our finances are complete in that particular um area of the budget what that is? Sure. Just similar to what we did for professional services. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. No problem. That's it for me. That's it. Anybody else? Just briefly. Um that was just the budget position. There are no transfers for request. There is your purchase resolution. Just want to note that it is revised since you've seen it at operations. Um actual there's a correction I'm going have to make here. The one two three four fifth one down. Um heard 795 revised to solant. That's a candidate referral fee. It says two nurses but it's actually two positions.
018It's one teacher and one nurse. I apologize for that mistake. Is that in addition to what we saw at ops or is it just a number change? This was not on the ops purchase resolution at all. So the actual purchase resolution, this is a new item. Yes, it's revised. It should be marked on your uh your hard copy revised. This is not the same item that operations. The only change is that one addition there. chair. Oh, question. Maybe a stupid question. I apologize, Anthony, but on page 17, the under revenues, the first line, excess costs. Could you just explain that a little bit for me? And it looks like we have a balance of a negative 684. So, I just explain exactly what that excess cost represents and you know where it stands right now,
019year to date. There's a memo on this later um under items of information, but I'll unpack this a little bit now. That's the revenue that the district budgets for reimbursement costs related to out of district placement, tuition, and transportation both combined. Um we receive two payments usually in any one given year. The memo later on in this agenda goes through and describes how we have a projected shortfall and how the state has um authorized additional money to try and close that shortfall not just for New Milford for all in the state of Connecticut. So, the budget position listing shows it $684,910 short. Once we receive the third payment, by June 30th, we're coming up on 30, we will still be short after receiving that payment, but it'll basically cut what we expected in half. So,
020we won't be 684, 910 short. We should land only 322,849 short. These are approximate numbers. Do we have an explanation as to why was it was it we didn't have the bunch of students? We didn't get reimbured. Yeah, exact. It's uh it's twofold, right? What's going on here is that there are some placements that didn't last the full duration of the year and there were some placements that didn't reach the the threshold to have reimbursible expenses allowed for them. So, it's a little bit of combination of both. And the third factor here is that the state overall um needed to inject more money into excess cost reimbursement for districts across the state. I just have another comment. It doesn't because it's all tied into one. When we go into our um possible motions for end
021of the year balance, if you take a look at where we are on um the turf field replacement, if if a motion goes through of what we usually try and set aside, we'll be at almost a million dollars in that account. That's correct. We are ahead of our commitment to the community on that and I'd like that on the record. Yes, indeed. Go ahead, Dr. Parlotta. Did you have something? Oh, I was just reminding um I was just reminding everyone that it's not an automatic reimbursement. You have to reach the threshold, which is four and a half times per pupil expenditure. So, you have to get there in order to get the money. So, you were I'm sorry, when you were you were saying but net over time were we're were up. When the when
022the fields were put in, we made a commitment that we would take our end of the year balances, whatever we could, depending on the year, you don't know what it is, and put into an account jointly with the town so when those fields needed to be replaced um that we wouldn't have to come back to the town of New Milford with a million and a half or whatever the bill would be at that time. Um and some years the um reimbursement or I should say the allocation if you will to that account was um less than others because of various reasons. The town has matched uh I believe if not all most of those contributions and we're at a million. Oh so we're net we're we're we are at least fulfilling the the goal of
023having that much if not more into the account. So we're we're ahead of the game. Gotcha. I think also we've uh we've been managing the fields well lasting longer than we expected as well. was so smart to have that replacement fund coming that didn't. No, I believe the first the first um payment went in in what 1617 or somewhere of that 1718 and at the time we thought we would need a million dollars in around 10 to 12 years and we are about four years ahead by about two two and a half years meeting that goal and as um as uh Anel brought up the longevity of field has been lengthened as well through proper maintenance. It's a really good It's a It's a good thing. Quite smart to do that. Okay. Anybody else? All
024those in favor? That's everybody. And we'll move on to bid awards. The RFP-2425-6 I'm sorry, the occupational therapy services. I need a motion to approve the bid award RFP E2425-00006 for occupational therapy services and Dean any questions we didn't have these numbers at operations these have just been submitted for for the board um the lowest bidder is not necessarily the best bidder but I would I would guess that there's a relationship ship that that also works through this you know there is a process right we've been working with integrated pediatrics y um they're consistent they're knowledgeable they um their staffing is excellent they supervise their own staff um we've never had problems with missing or vacant positions which is really important services and they consistently come in you can see the numbers right with quality
025services I mean they haven't even increased in three years. So great. Anybody else? All those in favor? That's everybody. [Applause] I need a motion to approve bid award RFP-2425-00007 for therapeutic physical therapy services move second Ryan any questions all those in favor everybody um number three is the RFP for enrollment study. Are we doing a motion on this? No. No action. Just to I could Yeah, you could want to say a few words and then I will too. Yep. So, while there is a memo on this that carries forward from operations, it has been revised at operations. We talked about possibly having a recommendation for award tonight. Um, Dr. Parlato and myself checked the references on the vendors who submitted and at this point in time, we're not making a recommendation for award. When we
026look back to when we last posted for an enrollment study in 20 2020 2021, we had four vendors who submitted bids at the time and they were all four bids would have been 48,000 to $69,000. That's not to say that this work will be more expensive today, but the um the stagger of prices discrepancies between the three vendors who submitted has prompted us to to pause and post this at a later date. Not only that, right now there's not money identified in the board of education budget um five-year capital plan or operating or grant funding anywhere actually pay for the study once we do select the vendor. So right now we're electing to pause and not award. I have two additional Oh, may just add two things. Yes. Uh so first, um the numbers that
027we have are still pretty good. Even though it's starting to get stale in terms of the the uh quality of the statistics, it's still pretty tight. Um, and second, uh, looking at the legislation regarding zoning in communities, uh, gives me pause to, to wait and see how that's going to play out because it might change the way units have to be aortioned in communities and it might change an enrollment study if we did it now. I'd rather wait a year to see how that legislation plays out and what the requirements for each community are going to be. Uh, because that might change the nature of housing in the town. That's just a Yeah, if I could add to that um I I I had asked that question operations how this came about. Um that rationale
028made sense to me, but I would also ask that you know we follow that timeline because we do need to be ahead of this rather than behind in enrollment concern. And I would hope that we can partner with the town. This is not a board of education uh topic. This is a town topic. They're all our children. They're all our students. they are all our residents. So, um I think that that the funding for this project, even if it's a year from now, should also be discussed. I I'm just going to ask a question. How long did this How long last time did the study take? Um I don't know off the top of my head. Um which one? Oh, the SR. So, they did um enrollment study. They also did school utilization. So, that
029would have caused it to to take a little bit longer, but it doesn't take that long. It doesn't take a year. That's what I was going to cuz I think we could wait a year if it's going to take a year. Yeah. No, no, you can do that in a couple months. Good enough. Anybody else? Okay, I'm going to move on to um what is this? I need a mo to the um I'm sorry to the turf field funds. I need a motion to approve a $100,000 deposit into the turf field fund for the end from the end of the year balance pending final audit. So, Wendy, second Brian. Any questions? I think we covered some of it. Most of it. All those in favor? Everybody, I need a motion for capital reserve withdrawal in
030the amount of 513,000 for the 2025 Energy System Group, Bank of America lease payments. Brian, Dean, any more discussion, questions? All those in if we could after we do receive some type of data regarding the actual savings, I hope that that's brought back to the board. Um, so we can kind of pick up where we are with that. All those in favor? That's everybody. I need a motion to move the remaining 2425 end of the year balance pending final audit to the capital reserve fund and to make that request to the town council and board of finance. So moved. Second. Tom and Brian. Any discussion, questions? All those in favor? That's everybody. I need a motion to approve the 2526 budget in the amount of 76,332,587 with the following adjustments. 8,000 from BZA2543 object 25900
031workers comp and 10,000 from BZ B A25943 object 552000 LAP insurance per kerma update. So moved. Second. Eric Dean discussion quickly. These were um items that were received notice town received notice on at the same time. That's amounts required for both workers comp and life insurance which is uh liability auto and property insurance. And these amounts came in after the board adopted their budget. Uh the mayor incorporated these adjustments when he made his recommended budget when he made his recommendations upon the board's adopted budget to the town council. Okay. So this amount of the 76 million that includes those that that is the resulting amount after those two adjustments. Okay. That matches the approved second referendum that passed. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else? All those in favor? That's everybody. I love clarification. Sure. I
032forgotten to ask. It's the goal to go back and look at our list for the first year of the capital request and make that a separate motion at the board pending a list from Mr. Cunningham or what are we doing with that? That's done over the summer July or August. Okay. I just want to make sure that we get on the schedule for the fall if we're going to withdraw from that account because we still have to go through three meetings to do that. Do I? Thank you. Okay, we can move on. Okay, new policies for first read. We're going to start with 5130, restorative practices response policy and new policy for second read 1340, naming or renaming school buildings components of school buildings and/or school grounds. I need a motion to approve the following
033new policy 1340 naming or renaming school buildings components of school buildings and or school grounds moved. Second. Eric. Any discussion? All those in favor? Everybody. I need a motion to approve revisions for the following policies. 1111 school security and safety and policy 1250 visitors and observations and experts. So moved. Eric, I'll second it. Okay. Okay. You want to talk? I don't care. You're welcome. I'll take this one. Any discussion? Did we skip 5130? You mentioned it, but we didn't have to first read. Let's go back. We don't discuss, right? You want you can discuss it. You should discuss it. Okay. Yeah. Because we talked about it briefly in policy. Um and I just wanted to get it on the record. What we quickly discussed was that and Dr. Palo, you identified it a lot better
034the word other than restorative. I forget what the phrase was you used. It was a better word than restorative practice to explain exactly what that means. So when um Oh, so reintroducing someone. Oh, so yeah. So yeah, for sure. So reintroducing or reintegrating someone within the school community. Yeah. Um Yeah. But really the point of that policy is to look at the full continuum of quote unquote student or school discipline uh and what that means. So it can be a conversation all the way to expulsion. And so it's clarifying what one side of that continuum consists of. Thank you for that clarification. And then just again for the record, we discussed having the the climate plans made available for us to review. Dr. Bal said we would have an opportunity to to look at those
035um to review them to make any edits that we wanted to make to those and I know we're working towards that. I don't have my notes in front of me. Dr. Parlott, I'm sure if you gave a date is when we would have that, but I think it was a couple of months if I'm not mistaken. We uh yeah, the meeting is July 17th maybe or so, whatever. July, it'll you'll get it before that. Okay. Yep. Thank you. All those in favor. This was not the day to forget my glasses. I know, right? Oh my god. Yes. [Applause] I need a motion to delete the following policies and administrative regulations. 4116, increasing educator diversity plan and minority hiring recruitment plan. and 5131.911 bullying prevention and intervention in safe school climate plan and administrative regulations. Move
036second clarification. So we're deleting these completely. They're not they're they're gone. Correct. [Applause] Anybody else? All those in favor? That is everybody curriculum for approval. I am not going to by any chance read all of these. So I would just um add to the agenda this I need a motion to approve the following curricula and it is 8 point is that one or I where are you? number that's one that's okay 8.1 or is there more so everything that's listed on there I am going to ask for a motion to approve move second any questions comments all those in favor that is everybody and now we'll go to items of information. We'll start with 111R administrative regulations regarding school security and safety. Does anybody have any comments or anything about that? Okay. Administrative regulations regarding
037visitors and observations to school. I just have a quick question about that. The observation in the school, does that also include will that be including parents who want to come in and audit a class? Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um number 7,000 concept and roles and planning for educational facilities 5131.91R. That's just you know administrative regulation regarding Connecticut school climate policy and employment report. Miss Terry. So we have um started as you mentioned the recruiting. It's fast and furious. Uh so we have filled just today one position with an external candidate and three positions with internal moves which is really exciting. So um we are we came came out really quick which is really good. The budget pass Dr. Pearl. Yes. We had talked about this a couple of months ago. Would it be possible
038to include in the employment report moves within the system? Sure. Sure. Oh, so you mean if somebody moves from one school to another or one grade to another, you can make an internal moves box? Yeah. Yeah, I can always get a box. Absolutely. I like that idea, Sarah. It's nice to see people. Yeah. Make changes and employment um we did I'm sorry, enrollment report. Uh yes. So the enrollment report, if you look at the um the grid on the bottom left, the two columns to the right are the most important at this time. So the one that says 2425 variance from the projection. So that shows how close the projection was to what actually happened. Uh so that tells me that our enrollment projections are still good because those are pretty close other than the
039high school. um even though 44 isn't that far off, but to be that close by three students, four students, four students, um makes me not worry so much about the quality of that projection that we have right now. And then the the last column all the way to the right shows the difference year-over-year. This is the actual difference in kids that we had in the school district in June 2024 versus uh June 2025. So you can see the difference of course preK to two because of the kindergarten change. Um but if you look at scatakoba that's very interesting right? Scatico is above 19 over uh from one year to the next. Thank you. CN wifi grant. Mr. Turner sounds like you're up. Uh we were awarded a $250,000 Wi-Fi grant for the high school and
040the middle school. Uh working with the town, uh David Watson and Victoria Carmalo, who is the grant writer. 150,000 will be for our school, 100,000 for the town. Um we'll talk more about it and get more in depth during capital. Um for that, it is a um it is a zero payment grant to us. we just have to front the money which we'll talk about in capital. I'm also working on a second round of this with the town with um two parks and three schools still to add outside Wi-Fi. Yeah. The intention of that is outside Wi-Fi. That's that was my question. Yes. Yep. Which is great for safety and for visitors and many different reasons. So, one of the reasons we wanted to mention it is because I believe the town council will also
041address it coming up soon. So, we didn't want to be a surprise uh to you. What's the time frame on that? We have to be done by June of 26, but my expectation is the fall. I'd like to get the second round if we're able to get the second round in. There was a $10 million grant. Only 3.6 was used in the first round. So, I'm hopeful that we'll be able to get all five parks in the town as well. Nice. Thank you. Again, at zero cost. Thank you. And the reimbursement comes in the same fiscal year that we drew it on. Correct. Soon as the work is done. Okay. Thank you. Excessive cost. Excuse me. Did we miss the employment report? You were sleeping during it apparently. You weren't doing it. No, I think
042you were sleeping. We did do it. We did do it. Terry was speaking. Okay. Did you have a question? Did you have a question? I did not. I did not. I don't know. I just zoned out from Oh boy. Okay. Yeah. Excessive cost update. Excess cost. Yeah. Excess. What did I say? Excessive. Your cost is excessive. Yeah. Oh my my my. This is just a line item information. I think we covered it under question. We discussed it in ops, too. Anybody have anything on that? No. Okay. Ongoing facility projects, you're up, Tom. All right. Let me see if I can get this one right. Again, it's on page 1443, which is almost at the end of our big long um agenda. Um uh top of the list is the high school guns, which we've discussed
043for a number of years. Uh contractor has been hired. uh will start um within the next couple weeks and will be done this summer. So, the gutters, those seams will not be leaking when school re starts. Um same with the uh hill and plane canopy, uh contractors been hired. Uh they should start shortly and Mr. Cunningham estimates that maximum two weeks that job will be done. Um SMSUS, that's the underground storage tank at uh Scatakoke. um that's been delayed slightly because the state has a new um uh mandate in terms of underground storage tanks that they need a leak detection device between it's a two-layer um tank and they need a leak uh detection device. So the RFP will have to reflect that. So but it's not going to take as long as the SA
044will take. No, we're pretty sure. Um and uh the new thing farmhouse roof RFP that's the L Larsson farmhouse which is um on the high school grounds which is the headquarters for the facilities team. So that's a very old asphalt shingle roof. So uh there Mr. Cunningham's put together an RFP to replace that roof with uh similar asphalt shingles. And then I believe Sarah we're going to paint it. order of operations as Matt would say. Yes. And I gotta say, uh, if you've never been inside there, um, it's nice gave me a tour. Um, it's an incredible house and he's doing an amazing job of of um, maintaining and restoring some of the building. So, he really he really a conference table made by his own hands. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we should all go
045over there and take a look at it. So, that that house that house is in good hands. somebody who likes old houses. I really appreciate it. I think a picture of something like that should be brought to the board. You have a someone doing something like that. I think it's Yes. It's pretty incredible. Very much so. I also take a video of the steepness of the stairs which are like this. Yeah. And me going up them. Yes. Uh last thing on the uh facilities is central office. I think we have all had to recognize that our administration is going to be in this building for the foreseeable future. Um, and they have they have issues with with the current situation specifically in terms of privacy. So, Mr. Cunningham is putting together an RFP um to
046solicit bids from architectural firms to uh design um ways to improve the current offices and um also if HVAC needs to be modified that as well. So that will be brought to the board when the uh uh at the proper time. Thank you. And just quickly, do you have a question regarding that? Regarding that, regarding the central office, um because we talked about this at facilities and at operations, um I think it's fair to say that the changes uh have to come from us to make this happen. Uh privacy is ridiculous. We should not have people having to make calls from their car, having conversations disclosed. that is a vulnerability that is gone on and I am not happy about it. Um there's just we've got to do a better job here. So the time
047frame on that to get those studies done and find out what we're going to do. I'm we have some left in the capital that we have not expended all towards the central office. It's not a lot but I know we have some. Yeah. So $8,000. Okay. Um but my point is when you're dealing with privacy and security that should not be confused with a luxury because it isn't. It's a job function and we're required to carry out those in very um strict manner. So, uh, I really hope that we can get some of that information back and make it work and and, uh, and and get those changes made. Just for clarification, we're just waiting on we're going to do an RFP on it to get some offices, etc. Done. I'm sorry. We're going We're
048waiting on um I guess Matt's going to send out an RFP. Yes. And we'll get some bids on on architectural firms. Yes. That are going to draw it up for us to then we go out to bid and have people Correct. Although um some of it we can do inhouse the uh the carpentry work can probably be done inhouse. Um if there's HVAC modifications would probably go out to bid but Mr. Cunningham is confident that team can do and they've proven it you know many many instances. So um yes the hill and plane canopy. Yes. Did you want to touch on that or I did so I did I I'm weeping boomer just came around and says smack to me in the face. So what I said about Hill plane canopy is that work is
049starting over the summer and will be done within a couple weeks. Okay, thank you. It's a very good list. We've facilities has just done a great job. We really have. Um where are we? Field trips. H just a few for June. That's a short Italian Mia. They're going Italian Mia. They went. They went. Oh, 63. They did. All right. That's fun. Sure. And then June um fundraising report. Uh yes, you can see they sold water graduation and collected donations for Ann's place. Very nice. Okay, moving on to number 10. I hereby move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose to interview a candidate for the prek through five supervisor of special education position. I invite into executive session invited into executive session are Dr. Janet Pllado, superintendent of New Milford public schools,
050Mrs. Teresa Kavanagh, director of human services, and the candidate who will be virtual. I'll second that. Who? Oh, I said that right. Okay. All those in favor that is everybody. for that. Okay, we're coming back from executive session, Lauren, at 7:36. 7:36, we're back. Okay, I need a motion to appoint Kristen Phillips to the position of prek through five supervisor of special education effective July 1st, 2025. So moved. Eric, Brian, all those in favor. That's everybody. Let her know that the board welcomes her. I just hit send. Okay. Okay. Scoop them up. Um I hereby move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the employment and salaries of non-bargaining unit employees. I further move that the board invite superintendent of schools Dr. Janet Parl and the director of fiscal services
051Anthony Giovani. I'll second it. Thank you. first. I'm sorry. She last I moved it. All those in favor? That's everybody. And the time is 7:37. Did I butcher your name, Anthony? Horribly. He's okay with it. in at 7:51. [Applause] Are we voting on anything now? Right. Uh, yes. There's a motion there. Notion. Got it. I see the motion that we're going into executive session. There's no motion to vote on anything. Okay. Should be a motion to Yeah, we do need to vote on I'd like to put a motion on the table that the board uh approve as per items discussed in executive session non-bargaining unit employees. So moved. I'll second that. Tom, all those in favor? That's everybody. Thank you. I'm recording that. I'm recording that. We'll get the light. Feel good. She'll get the
052has the language. Worry about it. Just put it down. I just wrote Sarah Lauren. I just put down that Laura. You got it. Yeah. I just put down um Shannon. Okay. I hereby move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing a proposed contract of employment with the superintendent of schools. I further move that the board invite into executive session Dr. Janet Parlott, superintendent of schools. Second. Who moved it? Okay. Um, all those in favor? That's everybody. We're entering into executive session. Lauren, thank you. question at 8:07. We'll do. I hereby move that the board authorize the board chairperson to execute on behalf of the board the per the proposed contract of employment with the superintendent as discussed in executive session and subject to any necessary legal review. Second. All those
053in favor? That is everybody. Thank you. Thank you. I need a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Who moved it? Tom Dean. Yeah.