001I would like to call the regular meeting of the pouth board of education on March 12th 2025 to order at 7 p.m. uh please join us in a pledge to the flag 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 with liberty and for all um I would like to entertain a motion to amend the agenda to add item number 9d Communications Kelly second second um was that you Cindy Cindy all in favor I uh motion carries and to entertain a motion to adopt the agenda as amended Mr Perino Michelle second all in favor I motion carries all right item number three approval of minutes like to entertain a motion to approve the following minutes the minutes of the
002regular Board of Education meeting of February 12th 2025 so move Kelly Cindy second any discussion all in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries and the minutes of the special meeting of the Plymouth Board of Education policy Committee of February 12th 2025 oh I'm sorry do I make that motion it says it's for Kelly and L I still make it okay uh the minutes of the special meeting of Plymouth Board of Education policy Committee of February 12th so moved second Kelly and Lou any discussion all in favor any opposed and extensions other than Cindy okay so Cindy o uh abstains motion carries all right moving on to item number for our student Representatives Fallon and a hi the teral chapter of National Honor Society inducted 11 new members to the club last week the
003induction ceremony took place in the auditorium where President Tyler Spear and other members discussed the importance and the honor of being inducted into such a prestigious group Mr Falcone was also in attendance and shared some impactful advice after the ceremony all members and their families enjoyed a breakfast made by the cafeteria staff and the national H Society is looking forward to making a difference in our school and our community THS variety show had their special night last night Friday March 7th they showcased singing dancing playing instruments and other interesting acts such as air swimming performed by wrestlers we had amazing attendance at this event and even raised over $1800 with all funds going both to the THS class of 2025 and the angel fund we appreciate any of you that were able to attend on
004Friday our career counselor Miss Glazer took the van and 11 Juniors to CCSU at the all day event students T took part in junior achievements Innovation Challenge Junior Achievement is a group that offers various career based opportunities including this event in the morning alongside roughly 15 schools we learned and listened to several speakers that I'm sorry and what takes what takes to like create and run a successful business around noon we broke off into groups and were given an hour to create a sales pitch around the idea of AI Innovation terville brought two groups group one which was the group I was a member of which created artificial intelligence medical doctor and group two created a new piece of translation technology with this experience we learned how to quickly plan and follow through as well
005as work on team skills and how to use how to sorry it's a long one how to use the video editing software to wrap up the day all the pitches were played for everyone like all the schools in front of a panel of judges to see and each team's video was played while it was being played we answered questions on the spot about our pitch and finally all the submissions were judged and went announced both of our terrible teams won group one got first place and group two got second place and we'll be moving on to um the second round at Quinn ofak University in April great I just want to say I I've been to an innovation kind of yeah um entrepreneur event before with students and it's it's really fascinating the ideas you
006guys come up with blow away some ideas adults could come up with at times uh sitting in rooms because your ideas are so good but when you're on the clock and you're competing against others to know that two Terryville teams came in I think first and second told that is in this kind of event is so so impressive so nice job thank you and it is a long one you had to read that yeah the wrestling team have just finished off their season strong they had some fantastic wins throughout the whole team season but some of the highlights include Ethan Rodriguez is placing in state opens making new englands David carlac Ethan Rodriguez and Andy dearu making States in Berkshire League along with Ryan lowski this team is very dedicated and hardworking to their Sport
007and we will miss all of our seniors dearly many students have expressed how our school is the walls are quite Bland and boring with nearly every wall being blank or having a bulletin board that's been up for literally years to combat this the student council has created a committee that has already been set in motion to add color to our school some things that are going to happen are each sport and Club are going to get a small mural in and we're going to put silhouettes of jumping kangaroos going up and down our stairwells and we can't wait to see where the will go we're very excited we're partnering with the art Club too great Fallon when I became the principal of the school I noticed the same thing it was like a doctor's office
008a big doctor's office and so we bought some artwork around uh but it's good to see that we're going to put some character into our building is great to see yes nice job we're going to have lots of fun with it you guys did a great job thank you thank you all right thank you does anybody have any questions for our student reps congratulations Fallon I saw the post that the school did for both of your achievements that was great it was really fun like actually it super Funia anyone else well thank you very much Ladies as always you are welcome today and if you need believe we completely understand thank you all right item number five that brings us to a presentation from harri Fisher elementary school right believe it or not the step
009school is actually for the kids although I probably could use it myself well good evening at the beginning of the school year I shared these four goals with you maybe John not user error there we go all right at the beginning of the school year I shared these four goals with you that we would be focusing on this year as our school Improvement plan and tonight I'm very excited to share our growth With a Little Help from our students and our staff so to get started please welcome Nicole LEC our literacy good evening this has been an extremely exciting year at fiser for so many reasons but specifically because of our new Ela program and wisdom over the past six months I've seen some amazing things happening in our classrooms I've seen an increase in
010student engagement across students of all abilities all students are working in grade level texts and are participating in rigorous learning activities in which they can exhibit their knowledge and learning when you walk into any of our classrooms during our Ela block you might see students crowd around chart papers around the room all working silently communicating their ideas through writing sharing thoughts and coming to New understandings as they fill the paper you might hear a whole class conversation about the central meaning of a text in which most students are participating and excited to share their Viewpoint you might also see Partnerships reading creating or peer reviewing work there are so many opportunities for our students to access grade level text and interact with the text and each other I could go on all night but I
011won't I also want to take a minute to highlight the writing that our students are producing in wit and wisdom the published pieces that our students are completing are incredible the quality of work that we are seeing is a huge shift from where our writing has been in the past third graders are currently writing opinion essays about the history of space exploration dating back to Galileo fourth graders have written an informational essay about the literal and figurative meaning of the heart along with the formal writing process there's also time for a little fun and creativity too but I think I'd rather have you hear about those from the students who wrote them in fourth grade students did a poetry um study and we have Richard Cornish and gray Williams here to share their poems written
012in the style of the red wheelbarrow which you see in front of you by William Carlos Williams hello I'm Richard Cornish and I create the poem a yellow dog which is based off the of R so much depends upon a yellow young dog running in the fields playing hello I am gray Williams and I'll be reading to you my poem called singing so much depends upon singing giving self-confidence decorated with sound waves and people's creative [Applause] hearts and in fifth grade students are currently learning about how authors create humor with word play as they read the novel The Phantom toll booth by Norton Jester they create their own characters in the style of the text using word playay and situational humor to write their character into the story here tonight we have t hin and
013Sebastian Silva to share their newly developed character snapshots from a school called abandon Elementary hello um I'm Tatum be reading about the character need I don't care mil talk slam their hands on the ears when the bell rings ring a very short man walks out stops suddenly and slams himself on the school steps mil and T rush over to help sir are you okay mes very do you need to go to the hospital I don't care if I got any health problemss man sir what is your name asks his dog making sure he has his memory I don't care say the man off what sayso I don't care say Mano I think his name is I don't care so I'm just going to call you sir that's okay with you says m w I don't
014care says I don't care sir that shirt is way too small for you says to yeah says Milo you also have no shoes anywhere covered in stains aren't you a teacher I don't care says I don't care okay says to dress however you will but I care why should you I just met you he I don't care sir how are you getting home ask M why are you ask asking all these questions I don't even know eh I don't care says I don't care before he suddenly does off on the school steps oh he's asleep says to confused on why he's asleep on the steps can we leave question I want to explore all okay say stop last one to the car is a rten egg y stop to the distance hey no fair against
015running hello my name is Sebastian Sila and I will be reading about this character named Mrs R Milo's off got a blue painted mosquito infested H Milo heard a sounding from the classroom he peed througha door and saw old lady looking at the seil she was sticking with her eyes open the was an old woman with BL short straight hair and and she was tall hello Milo asked by the woman sitting in her black spinning chair fell back frightening Milo are you okay mil asked BL said I'm fine who are you she questioned I'm Milo who are you I'm Mrs left married to Mr Right the rting teacher but anyway I'm the geometry teacher [Applause] thank you Mrs LC and thank you to sebba Tatum gray and Richie another round of applause for them because
016they're awesome very great and now Kim Stein our math coach is going to be sharing a small update with you on our intervention good evening this year Fischer Elementary School Incorporated math and reading intervention blocks for students St in grades 3 through 5 students are afforded the opportunity to switch classrooms and are provided with instruction and activities based on their individual needs grouping is determined Based on data and classroom performance during this round of intervention blocks were focused on enrichment in this block students worked on activities such as projects challenges authentic and cross-curricular application of grade level content and book clubs in the aspect group students have collaborative opportunities to make sense of rigorous problem solving tasks authentic performance task and work to build vocabulary skills and test taking strategies our tier 2 and three
017blocks focus on small group targeted and strategic instruction this short video will give you you the opportunity to peek inside our classrooms during math intervention and hear what some of our students have to say about these blocks like [Music] uh I like intervention because someone other stuff that we don't usually learn in our fion so one thing I like about math intervention is like having like um math like having small groups and whenever like my math teacher would like help me I get to understand you kind of help me push push through it I like M intervention because it encourages me to learn new stuff and I I love MTH intervention because there's fun stuff you could do like going to a small group with the teacher and feels really nice because we get to
018meet other [Music] people and I like to go to [Music] excit all right thank you Mrs Stein um I'm going to bring all the kiddos back over here because none of this work is easy and of course we need to celebrate our successes and our Fisher Pride along the way so thank you for inviting us tonight thank you for all of your support and we'll leave you with a little song our f yes yes yes do you love f s y s y we take pride we are wild [Applause] thank you very much we really appreciate we love those presentations more than any other kind so please come back yeah and I I want to say that the children did an amazing job and you were all uh taller than miss satat when you stood
019or without the uh step stool um but the really the work that our our coaches are doing in fiser and the work that our teachers are doing at fiser um and the work that miss satow is doing it's it's transforming that school and as I keep sharing with the board and I I I heard it up here as well um we're really making a significant shift in our instruction and it comes to the collaboration time which was one of the goals the teachers working together planning together and really putting a better product in front of our students in the classrooms and we're starting to to really see the results in their reading and their writing and their math so uh great job kids and and great job teachers so thank you sure go ahead um
020Miss H I really love when you present you're so enthusiastic and your passion for education and all your teachers your students I really look forward to your presentations you're welcome anyone else all right um next we have our midyear energy update from Mr sand Shaw uh thank you for uh allowing me to uh speak to you tonight uh this is uh report is intended to show how we've improved U Energy Efficiency and uh provided a culture now that can can can sustain this here Improvement that we've had so our mission was to was to change oops I should change this here up you did okay we want to go from unintentional uh waste to intentional conservation and our goal is to reduce uh use by 20 to 30% um the next slide in base year
021you can see what we did this is 2008 that we took our and and grew off we didn't have any solar production because we didn't have any solar then we didn't sell anything back to the grade our use was 2,500 ,000 kilowatt hours and it cost $480,000 and some change our fuel and natural gas we used at that time we were using uh fuel oil to heat the buildings we Ed almost 121,000 gallons of oil it cost us $418,000 natural gas was uh around 34 ,000 uh ccfs cost us about $65,000 the total cost in 2008 was $93,900 now at the next slide did I put up right because the following slide that you see after this here is going to you're going to see that we use natural gas now and you wouldn't be
022able to understand what that converts to into oil so I I did the I did the math here if you take uh the total ccfs used and and multiply it times uh 100,000 there's 100,000 BTUs in one CCF of of natural gas you divide that by 139,000 BTUs which is in one gallon of fuel oil you'll get how many gallons of oil we we would have used in uh in 2004 so in in 20 2024 we used 95773 gallons of o oil compared to in 12,620 Gall so just to give you a perspective so you can you look at it you're going to see well we're using natural gas now and we had oil and natural gas is higher but there isn't any oil just just to give you an idea of of of what
023how it Con uh converts so um in 2008 we used 12,620 gallons of fuel oil it cost us $418,000 almost $419,000 in 2024 this the last year that we have complete numbers for we have solar production now we produced 1,486 th000 kilowatt hours of of electricity from our solar fields on all of our arrays in the in the district we sold back to the grid 7 3 7,429 kwatt hourss our total use was 1, 630,000 uh kilowatt hours and it cost us $279,000 almost $280,000 our natural gas was 148,000 almost $1 149,000 ccfs and Crosses 243 uh, almost 24 $4,000 so our total cost for gas and electricity in 2024 was $523 $523,500 compared to the cost of 9 9 13,923 th000 in 2008 so we uh we made some significant uh change uh improvements
024in 2003 and and I just all I did was look at the solar production the buyback because we use electricity 247 365 days a year where the heating oil we use it a little less than than 6 months a year so our pole our solar production in uh 2023 was 1, 579,000 almost almost uh 580 kwatt hours we sold back 770,000 kwatt hours our total use was 1 1,691 uh kilowatt hours and it cost us $283,000 uh almost almost $284,000 so it's showing you that we've made the district has made significant change uh Improv improvements in our how we use electricity we we kept our uh schools uh safe and and our usable cool in the in the summer warm and reasonably warm in the in the winter uh but but the the improvements have
025been uh have been significant and it shows that this year program did exactly what it was supposed to do it it taught us how to conserve energy and uh not to spend money on something that you don't have to do so this this program mik you should all take a bow for allowing this this program to exist it did a great it did everything that we were supposed to do thank you very much for allowing me to speak to you and I want to we've changed our culture we we've changed we' changed our efficiency it's done everything we' have to do thank you any questions certainly I speak for everyone when I say that you are really the one to be thanking we we should be thanking you for all your hard work with all
026of this for many many years so you you embarrass me when you say that because because if it wasn't for you folks here and the staff and the students this never would have happened I could have I could have talked all day long and if you didn't didn't listen and say okay let's give this a shot it never would happen yeah absolutely Marty you forget because I was here there's not much resistance anymore because you have shifted the culture but when you started this project back what 20 years ago almost uh 16 years ago yes 16 years ago there was a lot of resistance from a lot of people there was a lot of reminders there was you going around the schools on the weekends in the evenings turning things off resetting things um you
027still do it I mean you were in the buildings this weekend um not the wrong time but but I'm GNA say you know and I I use this so people could really put into perspective I have an 18-year-old daughter that's going to college next year I've known Marty Sanda longer than I've known my daughter and it is it is a challenge because part of our eliminations in our budget is eliminating this position that Marty takes on with the energy and part of it that made it easier for Matt and I to to have this conversation and make this decision is Marty came to us and said I know how much the district needs the funds and I'm willing to let this go um because I feel like we're in a good place where I can
028let this go chos you the type of person that Marty is as person but I also it's it's tough and challenging because how many positions did Marty save over the years with the Energy savings and costs that we've had so um I just want to thank you because it you you make it seem as if all this is easy but I was here when we started and this is not possible Without You educating an entire School community and changing and Shifting the culture which is not not very easy so um Marty this is unbelievable work and you should be very proud of what you've done for our school Community because you've saved a number of positions over the years and uh it really does fall on you so thank you thank you very much I
029hope we can use this example not only in future projects that the board might take on but uh what the town may do it's all about education it's all about explaining what is possible if we do this here and let's try it and if it doesn't work we'll try something else but it's all education thank you very much anyone else have anything they want to add I was just going to ask do you still leave the stickers if you see some I I I've stopped that because I I go in and I go into the schools and everything's shut down every everything's closed out I I there's a there's the occasional light that's left on or or something but but or the occasional computer but nothing like it used to be yeah and no no
030offense to theodan but they used to use lights to let them know which rooms had to be cleaned by turning the lights off they don't do that anymore we have dark campuses now and that was a big that was a big concerned that we're going to have vandalism KN on wood we haven't had vandalism with dark campuses and we sa save significant amount of energy and Cindy we cut those stickers in the budget I remember I don't know maybe like 10 years ago when I was on the PTA I would overhear teachers say Marty left me another sticker or another note and I would always laugh when I would hear it all right well thank you enough enough but energy thank you all right we are going to move on to item number six public
031comment we welcome you to come to the podium and speak please sign your name and address and then tell your name and address and you have 3 minutes each Melanie Church 328 Main Street I was at the board of Finance meeting on Thursday and I made a suggestion to them and I'm going to make the same suggestion to you I have learned over the years not one of our town buildings has been kept up so we could maybe share you have a facilities manager here and we would pay half and you would pay half which frees up some money for use and also would help the town and the town's buildings is the same as this one as over there and if we could start doing that and start repairing our buildings if you go
032down to Thomason or wut they keep up their buildings we do not and they fall to disarray so that was one suggestion I had and it would be blending the two and making a a village we can no longer keep saying well this is the board of ads and this is the towns we're falling apart and I don't mean to scare anyone I'll show you the numbers read the reports the state is overlooking us they've overlooked us for 12 years Tom uh Winstead was over was watched by the same thing same time we were they're out of there they're rated one of the top towns we're doing something wrong so we got to start changing thank you thank you anyone else for public comment oh Mr Genta Gentile 269 Mount to Road former board member
033when Mar so you were on the bar too Karen we had 10 years of zero increases remember because of all the savings yep I do so that was that was a great thing all right um volunteerism thank you guys for all being volunte I always I bring that up because you guys devote your time to do these things boards commissions whatever we do you guys got a policy that you're going to be reviewing later that's going to put some stipulations on whether you could do certain things within the board of vet it's hard enough to find people to run for positions so my opinion is that I don't feel it's right to put stipulations on who's going to be the chair who's going to be that you guys all get together vote and decide that
034but you guys are going to put a policy if you missed this many meeting room meetings or whatever and you have that choice to do that but I don't feel it's right because of once again I'm referring back to volunteers people have certain things in life I backed off of the Town Council problems came with within the family in my situation right now so I had to back away I I finished my term and then I didn't run again but when I see stuff like this come it was brought to my attention I feel the need to come here and just talk about it because everybody's devote in a time no one's getting paid on this for except people that work for the school but you guys are volunteers and I've said it for years
035I appreciate what everybody does it's very hard but sometimes medical problems come up situations with families come up and you can't always be at a meeting but as far as reading your packets being involved people devote their whole Pat devoted his basically his whole life you've been here good part of your whole life on the board of ed because you want to make and do what's right for the students and the children so was I when I was on the board of ed that's why we got Marty to save us all kinds of money it was a great time then because we were playing you know we did good because we we got extra benefits for the students because you know we had a vision but I don't think that you should bring that forward
036that's my opinion that's what I'm giving you guys you guys decide what you want to do but I don't think it's a good thing like I said it's hard enough to find people to volunteer and you know that you know so I appreciate what you guys do I would wish you just mix this thing and just leave it the way it was and move on because uh you have great people on the board and we want to get more people we don't want to deter people we don't want to put barriers up seems like a barrier so let's not deter let's get more people involved to come to these meetings you know and I will do my best to show up every now and then when I when I hear something I I I'm I'm
037fortunate because I hear a lot of stuff that's going on I'm still involved yet I'm not here but you guys thank you for your time your volunteerism and I hope you wrote the right way put this thing you know I think it's a barrier I think it's going to be hard harder for people to want to be on a board of ed when they say well you know you got restrictions you know I'm not a guy with restrictions I don't I I never like them anyways so thank you good luck thank you anyone else for public comment all right oh sorry I was I online public comment yes thank you um Virginia Canan of 18 Adams Drive prease something 3 years later I still don't understand how this town isn't getting more with the times
038with I first questioned this when my daughter was of age to attend I was not pleased with the response given but I just gave up because as usual met resistance now my son is approaching the prek age however he is born September 17th so 16 days after the new September 1st kindergarten age cut off I filled out the prek form anyway to see what I would get her usual very little information provided on the website and on the Google form I reached out about the screening and then was met with that he's not age qualified at which time I said I wanted a to complete a waiver as you all know the new five by September 1st kindergarten cut off law provides for parents to being able to complete a waiver for kids after September
0391 cut off I was then told that no waivers would be given for preit because of overwhelming responses two problems here how can you adopt the SE September 1 cut off for prek like kindergarten but not adopt the Weaver portion of that as well and going along with that how can there be no policy or anything on this just a verbal agreement between what I assume is the superintendent and the director of special education based on the response I was sent furthermore how can this just be decided on by those two individuals with no discussion two if there are overwhelming responses why aren't we doing anything about it I know other towns offer prek classrooms where parents pay there has to be options this District could pursue it seems we are very stuck in our
040ways District furthermore my son who would be part of the original age group so I can't imagine the group of students that fall after the September 1 cut off who want waivers would be such a huge number too much secret Unwritten at the mercy of the superintendent and director of special education the whole prek process is a total secret and you get in based on a screening but no one can tell me how from that screening kids are picked I think this Board needs to consider taking a look at the prek program while I'm grateful my kids go to Grammy and papa daycare where they seem to learn and Excel so much and I am confident my son will not be missing out one bit from entire year of prek but it doesn't remove the
041fact that it's not fair that this prek program operates the way it does thank you any other comments online I believe that's it yep that's it okay thanks all right next up is item number seven superintendence update good evening everyone um at your seats there's a small token of appreciation and recognition of Board of Education appreciation month as most people know and as as Danny Gentile said in his public comment uh board members are volunteers and this is a volunteer position and you're all here because you want to improve our school system and you want to make learning better for kids and these are small gifts to to thank you for your time and your effort and for all you do for our school community so thank you so much um it's a small token
042of our appreciation so on Monday morning I woke up and I received a call that there was an issue at Eli Terry Jr Middle School uh is a little bit uh more of an issue than I was hoping for and I'm going to tell you what we know we know that uh Marty sand Shaw was in the building at Eli Terry at 9:00 a.m. he was walking through on Saturday morning checking the temperatures and making sure the lights are off and and everything that Marty does and he left and then at around 10:15 10:30 on our cameras our video cameras we saw water kind of oozing into our school um basically what happened down the d-wing which is the back wing of the high school of the former High School the Middle School um a
043fitting on a pipe in the ceiling broke off approximately 82,000 gallons of water spread throughout our school from Saturday morning um at around 10:00 1030 to when our custodians got there on Monday morning by the time I received the call all and knew where we were with regard to uh the school and the condition of the school and whether we could have students there or not it was too late to cancel school for Eli Terry students so I talked to Mr Vigliotti that morning and and Mr Holtz and we made the decision to transport all of our middle school students here to the high school because it was creating such a hardship or it would create such a hardship on parents and um and just not knowing to do what their students knowing last minute
044so we moved them here to the the high school they stayed in the auditorium till about 11:00 when we dismissed our middle school students um from there we we assess the damage we have damage to books we have damaged the furniture some cabinets uh the the largest uh concern that we have at this point is our gym FL the the water did reach the gym FL um so we do have concern conerns with that uh we've been in touch with our insurance company we've walked our building with our insurance company we also had Clarence our um uh building inspector building inspector thank you come and he cleared the building yesterday at around 2:00 uh with myself match and Maison and and Mr Vigliotti there in our cust our head custodian um he cleared the building
045with the understanding that d-wing that Wing where the the flood began would have to stay closed for the time being and that we could only use half of the gym the gym side with the stage we could use the other side we could not use for now so I was forced to close school yesterday because we didn't have clearance at Eli Terry to let the students back in um and I can't say the most this was the most productive educational day when they were here at the high school so I didn't want to do that again uh Monsters Inc is only so educational um and so so we were able to let the students back in the building today Mr vot was able to create a schedule by putting certain classes in the two classes
046or three classes in the library instead of their classrooms so he did a phenomenal job our custodians and maintenance crew did an amazing job uh Matt um the central office team the high school team of of and and obviously the administration at the middle school everyone teachers the flexibility they showed uh the work they did to make sure that we were able to get kids back in school today uh there's a number of personal items in classrooms that are also rued uh that teachers purchased themselves and whatnot that we have to sort through but just an amazing overall job by elit ter and the high school staff for taking them in um and and of course central office and I want to thank them but that's where we are with regard to Eli Terry as
047of right now and I wanted to stop my report I have more to say but I just wanted to see if there are any questions from the board with regard to Eli Terry at this time do we have alarms on the water lines like a lot of public schools do if a pipe breaks the alarm sounds that there's water running do we have them or should should we install them we we do not have them yes we should look into that the insurance company might make us do it yeah and it wasn't that a pipe broke it was a fitting fou but I understand the alarm the alarm went off notified immediately the alarm would have went off correct yeah um and you know there's some there's other pieces too that I want to mention
048I was talking to John our our director of of Technology um in and he talked about the servers and how when he got here the batteries for the servers were on the ground and he moved them off the ground in case water ever hit them it would short the the server so I mean we've done a lot of things uh to to help avoid disaster but unfortunately it was literally almost the worst I we no one got hurt so that thank God for that that but the timing wise it was like Marty was there and he couldn't just have another cup of coffee with his wife and we would have been all set I don't want to blame Marty for this because he's done such a great job with the energy but it was a
049matter of literally almost half hour to an hour where we really could have addressed the the concern but Greg I didn't even know they made those so but Matt is on top of it so um yeah any other questions we do have a deductible of I think it's 10,000 10,000 that's not too bad so you saying I was right and you were wrong because I I believe I originally said 10,000 and you said five and I said I'm pretty sure it's 10 I can I'm going to let you be right so that when it does come the other way I can say see I told you so any other questions yeah I I was down there I went down after I I spoken to you uh with with Matt and and again our custodians just
050did tremendous job what what it was it was a mixing valve up in the ceiling and it just rotted out it was that's the d-wing I don't know how old that is it's probably 40 years old 50 years old so it was just but the water I couldn't believe it when I walked in they was running out the cafeteria at the cafeteria and down the dra down the road and I holy mackerel yeah that's exactly there's a lot of water in there but uh fortunately you know our custodian staff got in there Matt was down there uh Jim our head custodian was down there they had things lined up things were working and but the damage was was M basically in the science room I think isn't it mat uh that's where the big damage
051was where it came down yeah the the science room where the where the leak occurred that's going to remain closed for the rest of the year we don't we're not going to be able to reopen that it pretty much needs to to be everything pulled out and and thrown away and then we kind of have to start fresh in that room um we got water in nearly every classroom in d-wing in some fashion with the exception of the one that's all the way down at the end oddly enough you didn't get any water in that one um but anything that is wood um or a particle board we're going to have to go through and most likely dispose of that and replace um I was with the uh Assurance adjuster today and he agreed with
052with that review he was taking he took a million pictures um and as Brian said the really the biggest ticket item aside from that room is going to be the gym floor which ironically we just had redone over the summer um but it's it's showing some severe buckling already so and we're hoping to have everything back open with the exception of that room on Monday that's the goal so C you have a question with the water going underneath lockers and into every nook and cranny how are you going to know if things that you can't see dried up or mold or anything like that I don't know if you want to answer that we so well I just want to say before Matt answers that question I saw uh and people have asked me why
053we had other professionals come into our schools and address the situation when we have the equipment to kind of dry the floors this was not this was pretty extreme as as Pat said I mean the water ran across all of d-wing into the main foyer down the front Halls to the cafeteria all the way to the library in every nook and cranny and so I don't know if you want to answer that and the insurance company had something to do with that as well so to answer your question is we did bring in um remediation companies to do this and what part of their job is to do all of the monitoring of um moisture within each individual space to to make sure that we're actually dry so they brought in 100 Jim will correct
054me Tom WR but I believe 184 blowers I think we have 10 um and I we had almost a 100 dehumidifiers in the building to pull all that out and then they've gone around after they've they've gotten like the front area is dry they disinfected it and they've gone around with instrumentation to check moisture levels everywhere any place that was wood has been the holes have been drilled into it so that we can get air flow through there and they've used their instruments to test underneath there um what they said were the reason that we're actually fortunate through this is 90% of the building is concrete and block so while that is that can be um absorb water because it's been painted or sealed or whatever um it was to our advantage based on the
055age of the building um and we can't reopen sections until those that report and those readings are given to the building inspector for him to give the o to reopen so we're we're confident that we're not going to have any additional issues and when I talked about removing anything that is wood based that got wet that's also part of we want to pull all that out so that we don't have any of those issues so so you don't think you have to fill out lockers or anything never reached up high to the bottom of the locker no nope didn't get that high it got to about an inch and a half but those lockers are probably four or five Ines off the ground any other questions with regard to Eli Terry I not that there's
056ever anything that's funny that happens when this occurs but it was funny to watch Matt walking around with his socks on all day because his shoes got soaking wet you owe a pair of and his feet were soaking wet so it was that was that was fun um so moving on uh last Thursday we presented our 2025 2026 budget to the board of Finance in total we requested a 4.33% increase in our operating budget at the the meeting we were informed by the board of Finance chair that the mayor was recommending the board of education budget increase 2.85 the difference between what we asked for and what is being recommended by the mayor is $395,900 p.m in the community room at Town Hall so that was kind of where we were at the meeting we
057were informed of of the mayor's recommendation and that's where we are we also discussed at the board of Finance meeting actually Matt Matt did and he presented a few safety concerns that we have at Plymouth Center School fiser school that need to be addressed uh so Matt's going to share some details on each of the projects and our request to access money from the non laap or syncing fund uh so you all you all actually heard this uh last week but we do have some safety concerns um that we um that I presented to the board of Finance to get permission to withdraw some money from the sinking fund so the first one is um to replace and reconfigure the sinks for the boys and girls rooms over at har s Fisher school um the
058sinks are the original sinks that are there they're wall mounted uh so if kid the kids hang on them or climb on them or whatever happens um they have are falling off of the wall we have some pictures I know that Brian took some pictures earlier I don't think he has it tonight but um I think you received them the night of the uh meeting where we actually have a few sinks um off the wall and that we have two concerns one is a safety concern that should they come off the wall they land on a child and injure the child in any way uh that's the first concern the second is when they fall off the wall the pipes break when the pipes break guess what we have water again so we like to
059avoid that uh at all costs so um the resolution for this would be to remove those sinks uh install large vanities um with drop in sinks so that even if they climbed up on top of the vanity which I know that somebody brought up last last week they're not going to come off the wall and it also would completely cover the plumbing right now that plumbing is open because they hang would completely cover that there would be access for our maintenance people to get into that um with some locking mechanisms but um that would take care of this issue at this point um we do have a quote for this it's $9,100 that takes care of all four bathrooms upper and lower boys and girls the second thing um that we're talking about is to
060install chain link fencing around the basketball play area at pluma Center School so with our youngest students are when our youngest students are outside uh we have some issues with uh I'm calling them Runners uh who can quickly gain access to the parking lot which even during the day is busy with people coming and going um when we redid the prek side of the building with that playground and fence that area and that shifted some of the more use for the older kids to the other side of the building um and in talking with the staff there and um Mrs Loveland they feel that this would help um keep the kids contained and safe um in addition we still have some neighborhood dogs who like to venture over and uh scare some of our kids
061um so that's what we're looking at to do uh I know that um Melanie Church commented last time they said didn't we already fence in the whole area and the answer is yes we did the entire property area but this is a small section to keep the kids from moving up into the parking lot uh the estimate for that is $7,650 and also at uh Plymouth Center School we uh want to close in the open areas on the second floor that Overlook the gymnasium right so right now there is simply a railing and while the top of it is bent towards the thing to keep people kids from climbing over this year we've had kids attempt to climb over and fortunately because of um staff supervision we haven't had any incidents they've been able to
062stop that but it's happened enough now that it's a a safety concern frankly when I first got here I was actually surprised to see that I was like wow I can't believe that that's open like that it's probably a 15 maybe a 16t drop from there down um so the proposal is to close that in with the lower section being a solid piece of basically steel and then a window section with a quinch plated Glass safety glass and that above that would be open air so we still get air flow across the top we would do uh the side that faces the gymnasium and also the stair well that's on the opposite side of the hallway which drops down onto the stairs or into the open area uh that the cost of that is $3
06338,5 35 those are the the three projects that we're talking about um what I need from the board tonight is your approval to move this forward to the board of Finance now where do you want me to go with we want to keep our our relationship with them legally and technically the law and legislation has changed I want to say in 2024 July 1 2024 um where the Board of Education no longer needs to go to a board of Finance or Town Council for permission to either deposit money or take money out of the syncing fund for projects the Board of Education FS is appropriate um we've never done that before we've always went to the board of Finance because it was in the past what we needed to do and we feel that it's
064important for communication purposes so they have an update on on what's in our budget what's in the syncing fund and what we're utilizing it for to have that open communication with them and share you know what we're using the money for why we feel it's appropriate what our concerns are and have that dialogue with our Board of Finance we don't feel that you know the board should make the decision in in an a silo I think we should have the conversations with the board of Finance still and so you know Matt and I are in that that mindset now and so we're looking for the board to give us permission to kind of go back to the board of Finance which we already shared it with them to kind of discuss this further um again
065when we're talking student safety it it's it's really challenging for us not to to have those projects on on the Slate to do so what are we talking about 60,000 this 55 the total of these projects is 55,000 33544 so do 60 for yeah I I I want I last week I was going to ask for 60 then I was informed that the cabinets don't include the new sinks or faucets so now I'm actually would like to go to the board of finance and say it's 65 that would give me some contingency and the new sinks and faucets which we're going to have to do anyway then I I make a motion that we go to the board of finance and ask for $65,000 to do these repairs how much 65,000 65,000 yeah oh oh
066okay all right so 65,000 right that's what okay that 65 what you and I talked about that one time yeah fine there's a motion second very good all all those in favor discuss yeah we can do I I I was over there as you probably know I go on Fridays with Matt and we we walk all the schools and uh I was sort of shocked that when I saw the pr Center it's a dangerous situation and as a former safety director I don't know how I was ever allowed to have that something like that I did ask a few of the custodians over there I said how dangerous is this because I like to talk to the people that got the boots on the ground and they said we have to be walk down here
067with some of the special students because they climb up there is a step they can get over that thing and like Matt said that's 12 to 15 ft down and hit the gym floor and looking at it and and what proposal is and I went through it with with Matt and with Jim our our custodian and if we put that metal in there like they were saying and then the glass and then the top open up so we can get some ventilation in there it's great and then of course on the right hand side we have to also put it up there so that's you know it it is a safety situation and and Greg I'm glad you went up to 65 cuz my my concern and I had spoken to Jim and Matt is
068at Fisher when we're playing with plumbing that's an older building too and you pop a pipe you do something we don't know and God only knows if you can get all the parts I don't know uh you know with the terrorist going on now and stuff I mean I don't know when I did my home it took me three months to get a shower thing just three it wasn't anything fancy but nobody had it but uh so I'm I'm I'm glad I like to have that extra in the in Matt's pocket in case he needs it rather than going back to the board of Finance but going to the board of Finance is is great because communication we have to communicate we should communicate with them they should communicate with us uh there's been instances
069where communication stops somewhere along the line I don't know but going to that board of finance and I agree 100% and I'll go with you guys and but they should know what's going on in our schools and thank you and of course with all projects that we get approval from for the seeking fund is anything that we don't use go back back to go back there only Mak sense um I know I brought this up to you but um I've been in that gym and even with the space open it does get very hot down there so I don't know if you can look into getting the ceiling fans to help circulate the air because you'll be restricting a lot more air flow than what's currently going on in Theo and that building does get
070very hot um so we talked about the ceiling fans when we were there as well so that that building requires a full roof replacement and when that happens we should the pro Jim maison's proposal is that the skylights that are in that thing which leak now would be removed and that gives us the opportunity for the power to actually put fans in we did talk about that of how we can do that but but right now the concern is the the roof but we did talk about how we can do that so or even if you just get floor fans if it starts getting hot during the summer because it's going to get hot once you block it off okay anyone else discussion okay we have a motion it's been seconded all those in favor
071I I any opposed any extensions motion carries just have one more thing yes all right believe it or not it's time to discuss graduation we Chang the clocks I start thinking about graduation for some reason so barring any unforeseen circumstances the last day of school right now and I'm hoping for no more snow or anything else for PCs fiser and Terryville High School notice I said three of our schools is Wednesday June 11th unfortunately for our 6th 7th and eighth grade students and their teachers due to the closure on March 11th for the water leak and based on the legislation that says students have to go to school for a minimum of 180 days the last day of school for Eli Terry and only Eli Terry will be Thursday June 12th so three schools end
072on the 11th Eli has to go on the 12th I'm probably going to make that a half day for them um just because uh I I feel terrible that they have to go that extra day um but when I was in the auditorium with all the middle school kids they were all pumped that they could possibly be off on on the 11th and I said well there's something that's not such a bright side on that so I I explained to them and then with Terryville High School in our graduation we're going to set the graduation date for Wednesday uh June 11th and I think we hold that date no matter what because that's the night of our after grad event that is scheduled they've rescheduled to align to our snow days and so that is
073on the 11th and as always we plan to hold a graduation ceremony outside but if the weather doesn't cooperate we would move the ceremony into our Auditorium that evening and that's all I have thank you all right item number eight unfinished business um we have policy p535 which is the students use of artificial intelligence this is a second read and possible motion item so to um I would like to entertain a motion to approve policy p535 students use of artificial intelligence do I have a motion so Michelle second any discussion on this any questions all right all in favor any opposed any extensions motion carries all right now we are on to item number nine new business item a revised 2025 2026 school year calendar this is a motion item so we made some revisions
074to this calendar and the major revision we made was um the start and end date of school the feedback we received from our teachers is that starting the school year with five full days is very challenging for the students and the staff um and so working with the teachers and uh the administrators um we made the determination that we want to start and have convocation on August 20th which is a Wednesday have PD on the 21st which is Thursday and give everyone off on Friday teacher- wise let everyone have the long weekend and then on Monday we'll have our last day of PD and on Tuesday we will start the school year the 26th so by doing that pushing that day and giving that extra day off we're actually pushing the last day of school
075from the original 9th to the 10th of June which is still plenty early enough so we are basically hearing what the teachers and the administrators are saying and we're making that modification uh to our schedule that's the only major modification we made to the 2526 schedule is pushing off the first day and pushing off the last day one day any questions I have a question about the May one for the h early dismissal for the PD day is there a reason why it's Thursdays and not Friday to like help make the weekend a little longer is that what avoid people calling out or it might make some staff and faculty members weekends a little longer as well so we try to do it on Thursday um for attendance reasons any other questions all right with
076have motion on the floor all in favor oh wait no yes we did we have that motion I'm sorry apolog any opposed any extensions motion carries all right Item B is a informational item proposed 2027 calendar and we will vote on that at the next board meeting it is in your p packet should be following right after the 25 uh 20 yeah 25 26 one and then item C we have a motion item the healthy foods certification 2025 2026 this is the one that we do every year um so on to the next page I'd like to entertain a motion to implement the healthy food option so Cindy second second Mr showers any discussion on this oneing none all in favor any opposed any extensions motion carries all right next we need an entertain we
077need I would like to entertain a motion to allow the food exemptions that are listed in our packet by the motion so moved Kelly second Michelle any discussion okay hearing none all in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries and then finally we have the last exemption I'd like to entertain a motion to allow for the beverage exemption Kelly second Greg second any discussion see none all in favor any opposed any extensions motion carries all right and that brings us to item D Communications um I the Plymouth Board of Education chairperson have regretfully accepted the following letter of resignation from Walter P Sean Board of Education Vice chair as of Wednesday March 12th 2025 and I will read that into the record March 12th 2025 Walter P Seaman to the board Plymouth Board of
078Education um copying to the mayor kilduff Brian Falcone superintendent of schools dear members of the Plymouth Board of Education it is with mixed emotions that I submit my resignation from the Plymouth Board of Education effective immediately serving on the board has been an honor and I G take great pride in the challenges that we have navigated together and the successes we have achieved during my tenure we have accomplished significant Milestones including the implementation of stem programs redistricting the reintroduction of family consumer science and woodworking programs and the expansion of the the school to Career program these initiatives will undoubtedly contribute to the success of the students of Plymouth it was a privilege to serve as both board board chair and vice chair and I am grateful for the opportunity to have played a role in
079shaping the district's future I wish the board continued success as it faces the ever revolving challenges of Education the landscape of learning is constantly changing but I am confident that the Plymouth Board of Education will continue to adapt and Thrive ensuring the best possible outcomes for our students I commend all who dedicate their time and effort to serving the community recognizing that differing perspectives are essential to progress while we may not have always agreed I hope my contributions to the board will be remember remembered as positive and impactful I look forward to witnessing the continued success of the Plymouth board school system public school system and the bright future ahead for its students sincerely Walter P Sean so is that we thank Mr Seaman for all of his hard work we know the programs that
080he was able to bring back to our school and um hopefully our students will enjoy those for many many years to come I please do um and coming back to District I knew Walt from the first time I was here I W I worked closely with Walt on some safety concerns and issues for the district uh tabletop exercises so on and so forth and and when I left here um to pursue another opportunity as as a principal of of a high school there's certain numbers I put into my phone and and Walters was one of them and so was Marty sancha um just based on like how could these people come and impact my my my new school in a way that they impacted the the school I was running here in in Terryville and
081when I came back and I saw Walt was the board chair and and him and I sat together and he said we have we have some some really good work that we need to get done here and we can do it we have the right board we have the right people um and and Walt gets things done he does get things done he he he was very instrumental and leading this board to to utilize funds in a different way that they weren't being used before to looking at the budget and seeing how we could maximize um our our our biggest priority which is our people working with our kids and putting in stem programming and putting in family consumer science and putting in he forgot library media um so the the work that he did
082as a board member and a volunteer um I'm very grateful for for my years of working with him I think he did an amazing job and I think he's done a lot for our school district and our kids and I I want to thank him for the time and the effort that he put into that so thank you all right item number 10 business manager report and Personnel report thank K most of what I was going to talk about Brian brought up in his report which was uh Eli and um then the money for the improvements that we talked about but as far as this year's budget is concerned we are moving along as I've been reporting all along it will be close um the money that the legislature put back in for 2425 for
083special education costs and then the governor vetoed and then they cut a new deal and now we're supposed to get it will be helpful um as we continue to have uh expenses in the special education area you know keep coming in and Rising um but confidently I'm I'm sure that we're going to finish fine I said that last month I said I should be able to give you a number uh but I've been walking around in the water and not spending a whole lot of time look at the numbers so I don't have that for you this evening I apologize uh but with that if you have questions feel free to ask them um things are going kind of On Target questions for Mr pza Mr Perino no questions no I I've been on Match
084back pocket or hit for last couple days no I all my questions have been answered all right and you have the um Personnel report in your packet as well it's looking pretty straightforward nothing to no we're we're very lucky um to be a district that does not have many many openings because I know most do so oh yes knock on wood I'm knocking on wood well it's a testament to how wonderful we are that's what it is all right we are back to item number 11 public comment so please come to the podium Melanie Church 328 Main Street I had said at the meeting um when the board of Finance brought their budget about um mold in um hares Fisher and I learned that harri s Fisher is free of mold now and it was
085free at that time but I what I was told that did have have it so I just want to correct the statement and uh be exact on it thank you and you know I just felt it was important to bring that forward so people aren't panicking over we appreciate that thank you thank you anyone else for public comment okay online public comment okay we have two um Frank Smith of 321 Main Street says it seems to be a joke that the town wants 20 million to build a new police station but the mayor is petty pinching less than half a million for the school system and Virginia canine of 18 Adams Drive um one year ago tomorrow my family was displaced from our home due to a water disaster in our home having just gone
086through the insurance process for a water damaged claim I cannot stress enough do not rely on your insurance company's adjuster and the Restoration company only they are not working working for you as much as they may say they are they are working to pay as little as possible on your claim and will Overlook things purposely we had 20 minutes worth of water skewing from a toilet water supply line that broke while I was picking up my daughter at school you have multiple days worth of water damage Insurance initially wanted to pay pay approximately $23,000 to complete my claim after multiple months of back and forth being displaced from our home for 6 months and rebuilding taking 8 months the claim payout was $140,000 that is on my home you have a much bigger claim do
087not trust the adjuster do not rush the process water equals mold we had a Restoration company we had fans we had the hardwood drying mats everything it's not a complete solution please be thorough we appreciate that and I I'm not I normally won't comment on public on because it is the the water issue um one of the last words of advice Walt gave Matt and myself in talking today was Matt I don't know if you want to share it uh yeah so uh I spoke with Walt today and one of the things he said to me was you know you going to have your hands full my advice to you as a fireman and seeing tragic things all the time is to find yourself an independent insurance uh adjuster and have them do the fighting
088for you so I thought that was good advice and I'll be looking for for that tomorrow that's the very first thing I the mind to do list is tomorrow so I appreciate that public comment glad to know he's still looking out for us not that I'm surprised all right that's it that's it for public comment online too all right we are on to committee reports um policy committee Mrs Tilton um we just uh sent out a bunch of policies for the entire board to do the first read on so if if you have any questions be prepared to bring them to the next meeting so we can talk about them and address them can I make a statement or no sure um I thought that this new policy had to do it like social media
089and you know I have my own page on social media and a lot of times I post what's happening in Plymouth schools what's happening in um Police Department what's happening across to so I thought tonight that was going to be like maybe someone was going to tell me no I can't have my page anymore but after hearing Dan Gentile speak and I looked over really quickly with my eyes because I can M task as a teacher um about what he was talking about I had no clue about the 70% attendance um I think that should be a separate item that we vote for on the policy I don't think we should vote on all these different policies we have 1 two 3 four five six seven eight eight policies I think we should be voted
090on differently like we have in the past because I used to be on the policy committee when I first started the board of Ved and each policy was voted on separately not together as a job you pile yep well this is just the first read is just coming to us for a first read we're not voting on this yet oh I know I just want to make it aware that okay I want it yeah and and like I spoke about in the policy meeting um if there's a specific based on the way we're doing it Michelle and I I think it is a change from the past where you would go one by one it's more of the work of the committee and what they're doing there and so they're they're bringing forward the policies
091to you but if and and this is your first read so if you see concerns whether it be with the the policy that Danny referenced uh that that you're looking at there or the social media policy that you you also referenced um that's where we would have discussion you might want to table it you might want to send it back to the policy committee for revisions that's where that discussion would happen because it's not a matter of a blanket we have to approve all or none it's a matter of you can say I'm concerned about I don't know what policy number that is the one you're looking at policy uh 4 000 and policy 9,000 n the the 9,000 whatever the number is you say I have concerns over that these are my concerns can
092we discuss it's part of the discussion and then you know we'll see where the board decides to go from there whether they send it back to the policy committee and and Kelly and her committee kind of work on it with some suggestions you have or whether they decide to vote and move forward with a vote on that as well so um yeah but it's kind of how we're doing we kind of been comping them together like you're saying which is is different than but since I've been here it's kind of been the clumps so but if if that's a suggestion you'd want to make for the policy committee we can go one by one um it's more of the work we're doing in that committee though when we break it down I'm reading the summaries
093from Shipman we're talking about our internal policies and that's where we have that more of a dialogue so but but however the board would like to move forward I'm totally fine thank you all right everybody else good right item number 13 board liaison reports um Harry S fer Elementary School Kelly I got a couple right I'll start and then you can finish how's that okay on uh March 14th the uh school will be going to of Harford sympathy Orchestra and on 318th the PTA meeting is at 700 p.m. do you have the rest if you don't uh yep I just got a couple more on missed you missed a couple things Mr perago March 26th is the fifth grade p uh paint night and just a reminder that yearbooks are currently on sale so if
094you have not got one there's still time to get one and conferences are next week as well um for Fisher Okay limit Center do did you mention the book fair oh the book fair will be B March 11th through the 21st during conferences during next week during the conferences there hours y all right Mr zuska uh there's a couple important dates March 19th through 21st or parent conferences and March 17th through 28th is the fascia fundraiser which is a candy company in Waterbury and that's about it for this month um Eli Terry junior middle school April 22nd they're going to be doing grit and wit um again this year last year was the first year they did it and the kids loved it um Nicole told me that um kids have been making fidget Spinners
095on a 3D printer and the PCA buys them from the kids and then sells them to the kids so I thought that was really cool like creating like little entrepreneurs um and stuff but the last meeting was cancelled so um the next meeting is the third Wednesday of the month at 7 o'cl or two Nicole when's the next meeting I don't want to look on the spot third Wednesday of the month third Wednesday of the month 7 o' all right Mr foot Terryville High School as they made at the same time we did last month okay as always support the high school afterr fundraisers there's many of them and they usually have them either monthly or bonly uh finally at Advance um I just wanted to add I got an email from Cherryville High School
096I think the juniors are doing a flower sale fun raiser so I'm not sure the details about it you said you know um at an advanc met um and primarily the meeting was about the budget it was a lot of information and a long meeting great before a board of Finance meeting last week um so there's just you know budgets are the same for everyone everyone's struggling but if anybody has specific questions you can uh answer all right moving on to item 14 board comments let's start with Mr showers uh it was a fantastic presentation this after I really enjoyed it um and another thing Matt I'm a member of the teral fishing game I'm GNA see if we can get some waiters donated to you I could have used them I like that Kelly
097um great to see um The Learning going on in the school I myself just started with in wisdom and just after a couple weeks I am so impressed with the quality of work also love seeing the wind we've been doing that for a while in my district and it really is impactful to look at the data of what students need and to give them that targeted specific instruction so it's really great to see that happening um here and moving the needle for our our kids and congratulations to our teams not surprised that have some wonderful kids here and thanks to everybody for all you do but with the floors and the water and all that fun stuff Mr foot I enjoyed that presentation too and I'm thinking back when I was that age you wouldn't
098get me up in front of a group very brave yeah yeah kids are brave now uh Mr zuska um great presentation and Marty's a pretty invaluable person to have yes thanks Marty thank you Mr perago yeah I got a couple things first of all the presentation was was great you know I go through them schools and see them kids on there it's just wonderful and Marty I was here when we started that thing with you and uh really worked out I really appreciate all the work you ever done I know you and I have talked on the site a few times about different things but I really appreciate that and again uh I'd like to thank Walt for his time on the board him and I probably bumped heads a few times but we're brother
099fireman we always will be we'll still be friends and last but not least uh last month well there's two things last month people were here uh we had some parents in here about the Magnus School transportation and U I did some studying on it I would recommend to them that and Greg correct me if I'm wrong every third Friday from 8 to 9 down to Eagles Nest our state senator and state representative are there with their coffee hour yep Friday first Friday of the month they're at Rod's restaurant in Bristol yeah and then the third Friday they're down here yeah I figured just these people can go terrible you know maybe that's a place that they have to go and and speak to our state representatives number one our state senator is on the uh
100education committee and number two our state representative is on Appropriations so you know there sort of mix and I'm sure you know I'm when I was on before I I spoke with our Senator time with Senator kapito he got us a few dollars not much our second other Senator was Jason Welch uh he was only there for one term and uh he he didn't do anything he moved out and then I did speak to Mr uh Senator Martin at the library here when he first got in but at that time Co hit I left the and there was a whole thing I never got back with but I'm sure if they go down there and talk to these people I'm sure that it'll uh it'll help out so other than that if you remember about
101two maybe maybe a year and a half two years ago when we were talking about the closing of Fisher school and I had mentioned that we have a lot of land in town well that some of that land has sold this past week that would be the airport which is is 62 acres and piece next to it was 7.6 Acres almost 70 Acres I did go online to find out who bought it and it's called North 41 LLC out of Rh Island they built homes so looking at that look what going on on Scott Road next week There's a meeting for South Street and Plymouth they want to put Apartments there so I'm going to have to believe that our enrollment is just going to start rising up so I would just like to you
102know just mention that and you keep that in the back of your mind when you're looking at uh various things and we do have other projects I think uh one of the board of board of Finance members Vicky Cary said there was four four four things already in been cleared there's one on Scott Road too yeah hey they Haven been clear so it's it's really something to look at and stop and think you know but you know that's somewhere down the road thank you madam chairman thank you Cindy thank you for the gifts um thank you Walt for your time thank you Marty for saving lots of money youo would say yeah should have put you in charge of water um and you're going to have a long couple months dealing with the middle school
103so hope it's only a couple months I like how you guys are all pointing to Matt you're G to have a Matt a lot of money a lot of money Michelle um I want to thank uh Mr Seaman for the time he served on the board of ed and Walt's knowledge will be missed on the board of ed I know I learned a lot from him and I will miss him um I want to thank the board for the border of bed Appreciation Week gift that we received tonight that was very thoughtful and I already expressed my how I love the middle school I already expressed that during her presentation she always just kicks it out of the water and blows it away from me thank you okay so thank you to all of the
104people who came to speak with us both um public comments and our students with their presentation we appreciate all of it thank you Mr Seaman for your years of service to the Board of Education um we appreciate you and we know that you are only a phone call away and I'm sure you will be willing to give us your advice so that being said our next board meeting of the the next regular meeting of the Plymouth board of education is on Wednesday April 9th 2025 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria here at Terryville High School I would like to entertain a motion to adjourn at 8:37 p.m. Mr showers second Michelle all in favor any extensions any opposed was out of order um motion carries thank you very much everyone yeah I I remember that
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