001make a nomination. Okay. I nominate Jill D'Angelo Powers to be uh the temporary chair. Thank you, Miss Temple. Do we have any other nominations? Do we have any other nominations? Seeing no other nominations, I will close nominations at this time. We will now move to vote. Miss Ludis, could you please take a roll call vote for the temporary chair? >> Yes. You don't need a second because it's a nomination. So with Robert's rules, you don't need a second. >> Kristen Zapata, >> yes. >> Laura Djo, >> yes. >> Bill O'Brien, >> yes. >> Ivon Temple, >> yes. >> Chris Cormier, >> yes. >> Mike Fierella, >> yes. >> And Jill D'Angelo Pal, >> yes. >> Unanimous 70. >> All right. So I thank you all for the nomination and we will move forward. So, the
002next order of business on our agenda is to elect a chair of the Strapford Board of Education for the term of 2025 to 202 Oh, I'm sorry. Can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance? My >> Could you lead us in the pledge, please? [clears throat] 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 justice for all. >> Thank you, Mr. Cormier. Okay, our next item to concern about that is electing a chair of the board of education. We're going to do the same process. I will now open nominations for the chair of the board of education for a term of December 2025 to December 2027. Do we have any nominations for chair? Mr. Cormier,
003>> I would like to nominate Mrs. Jill D'Angelo Powers as chair for the 2025 to 2027 uh term remaining term of this order. >> Thank you, Mr. Cormier. Do we have any other nominations? >> I'll nominate Chris Cormier. >> Okay. Do we have any other nominations? I will close nominations. Miss Lakudas, could you please take a roll call vote? >> Yes. >> Mike Fiorella. >> Uh, Mrs. D'Angelo Powers. >> Chris Cormier. >> Mrs. Dandel. >> Ivon Temple. >> Miss Dangel. >> Bill O'Brien. >> Chris Cormier. >> Lord Angel. >> Chris Cormier. >> Kristen Sabat. Miss D'Angelo Powers. >> And the chair, the temporary chair votes D'Angelo Powers. >> 53. Jill D'Angelo Powers for chair. >> Thank you. >> 52. >> I mean 52, excuse me. >> Thank you all. All right. We'll repeat the same
004process for vice chair. I am now seeking the nominations for vice chair for the term of 2025 to 2027. Do we have any nominations? Miss Sapata, >> I would like to nominate Mr. Michael Fello for vice chair. >> Right, we have one nomination for Mr. Fierella. Do we have any other nominations? Do we have any other nominations? All right, nominations are now closed. Miss Ludis, could you please do a roll call vote? Kristen Sapata, >> yes. >> Laura, >> yes. >> Bill O'Brien, >> yes. >> Ivon Temple, >> yes. >> Chris Cormier, >> yes. >> Mike Fela, >> yes. >> Julie Angelo, >> yes. >> Congratulations. >> Unanimous. >> All right. So, unanimous. So, now we will move on to the secretary for the board of education. I will now repeat the same process. Do
005we have any nominations for secretary in the board of education for the years 2025 to 2027? >> Yes. >> All right. >> I would like to nominate Mr. Chris Cormier. >> All right. Do we have any other nominations? Do we have any other nominations? Seeking no further nominations. Nominations are now closed. Miss Liquidis, could you please call a roll call vote? >> Yes. >> Mike Pella? >> Yes. >> Julie Andrew Bower? >> Yes. >> Chris Cormier? >> Yes. >> Ivon Temple? Yes. >> Bill O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Laura Deja. >> Yes. >> And Chris Zap. >> Yes. >> Set a zero. Unanimous. >> All right. Congratulations, Chris. All right. According to our bylaws, committees are appointed at the first regular scheduled meeting following the election of officers. Tonight, I will entertain a motion to wave
006the bylaw requirement so that the board may proceed with committee appointments this evening. Do I have a motion to wave the bylaws time frame? >> So move. >> Moved by Mr. O'Brien. >> Second by Mr. Cormier. Is there any discussion? Seeing no discussion, we will just do a regular vote. All in favor say I. I. opposed abstained. All right. So the vote is 70. So we will move forward with uh waving the bylaw. So as per our bylaw 9121 and 9130, the chairperson shall appoint the committees and the committee chairs to the Straford well with subject to board approval. I will start with athletic review. I would like to appoint Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Ken Pew as co-chairs of athletic review. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Board approves. Congratulations
007Mr. Pew and Mr. O'Brien on the committee. Our next committee is curriculum. I would like to appoint Mr. Fiorello as the chair of curriculum. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Forward approved. 70. Congratulations Mr. Furello. You are now the chair of the curriculum committee. Next is going to be finance. I would like to appoint Mr. Cormier as the chair of finance. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Say no. >> Board approves 70. Congratulations Mr. Cormier. You're now the chair of the finance committee. Next we have the personnel committee. I would like to appoint Mrs. Temple as the chair of the personnel committee. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Congratulations Miss Temple. You are now the chair of the personnel committee. 70. Next is plan
008and planning. I would like to appoint myself the chair of plan and planning. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Approve. The board approved 70. Thank you. I will plan a chair of plan planning. Next is policy. I would like to appoint Mr. Cormier as chair of policy. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Opposed. Congratulations, Mr. Cormier. You're now the chair of the policy committee. Formulation of a new special committee community culture and climate bylaw 9133. The chairperson of the board of education shall obend uh shall appoint a temporary or special committee as deemed necessary or advisable by the board of education. Board secretary, Mr. Cormier, can you please read the description for the record? The mission of the climate, culture, and community committee is to foster a school culture
009that supports students success, staff well-being, and genuine community engagement through proactive initiatives and district-wide collaboration. The committee aims to strengthen the overall climate of the school community. The committee does not hold decision-making authority. However, community-led recommendations may be brought forward and shared with the appropriate board committees such as policy for further discussion and consideration. Thank you, Mr. Cormier. The chair [snorts] will now entertain a motion to establish a special committee titled community, culture, and climate. Is there a motion to create this special committee? >> So moved by Miss Sapata. Is there a second? >> Second by Mrs. Temple. All right. It has been moved and called seconded. Now we will do a roll call vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Okay. Okay, the motion passes. I know. Sorry. >> Discussion. >> Oh,
010I'm sorry. Any discussion? Sorry. >> No, sir. >> Thank you. >> Don't worry, I'll work the king out. >> All right. Seeing no discussion, we'll take a roll call vote or a unanimous vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> All right. So, now we now have a new committee called a special committee called community, culture, and climate. I would like to appoint Miss Sapata as the chair of this committee. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed? Say no. Approved by the board. Congratulations, Miss Sapata. Next, we're going to do representatives. We have the CES representative, which stands for Cooper Cooperative Educational Services. I would like to point Miss Kristen Sapata as the representative. All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Congratulations, Miss Sapata. You're now the representative for CES.
011Next is our Cape representative. Cape stands for Connecticut Association of Board of Education. I would like to appoint Miss Ivonne Temple as the representative to Cape. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Congratulations, Miss Temple. You are now the representative for Cape. That concludes our chairs and representatives for our current committee. If a need for a committee should arise, such as naming committee or bylaws committee, I will appoint when necessary. It is now time to appoint committee members for each committee. I'm going to ask that each committee chair read the list of committee members for the record starting with Miss Temple for personnel. Okay. Thank you. Um so this committee is is a smaller committee. Uh we have uh Miss Shmaine Johnson Cohen and Mr. Kenny Pew as um community members. And then
012in district of course will be uh Mrs. Heather Borges um Miss Courtney Brown and Miss Cara Turman. >> Thank you Miss Temple. And can you just say it's still to be determined when that committee is meeting? Yes, it's four times a year. >> Okay. Mr. Bill O'Brien, could you please read the athletic review? >> Sure. Let me find that list. >> Okay. I'm co-chair with Ken Pew and on the committee we have Christian Zapata, Chris Temple, Gar Grarambling, Katherine Proto from Sterling House, Sean Kennedy, community member, Tony D'Angelo, the AD at Straford, Wayne Thraw, the AD at Banell, and we have openings for a Straford High booster and a Benell booster. >> Thank you, Mr. O'Brien. Next, we have finance. Mr. form. >> Um, I will be chair for finance. It will also include Jill
013D'Angelo Powers, Michael Furello, Ivonne Temple, Kristen Zapata, Bill O'Brien, Laura Dancho, Heather Borges, and Pam and Jen as non- voter members, um, Greg K, Amy Wily, and Karen Tracy as community members. >> Thank you, Mr. Cormier. Next we have Miss Potterer, community culture and climate. >> Okay, so this committee is going to be comprised of voting and non voting members. >> All right. So voting members we have myself, Jill Dando Powers, Avon Temple, James Chunka, Ja Carrero, Harold Grace, Ebony Soel, Aaron Williams, Mary Ferguson Hunter, Sam Q, Maria Makavoy, and we're going to have a student um from each high school be a representative. We're going to have a student from each middle school be a representative. Um non- voting members that we hope to have come in just to share um their thoughts and
014what they're working on. We're going to have the opening admin, Stratford Pals, CARES, PTSAs, our PTOs, Father's Club, South Community Center, Sterling House, YMCA. Um, love is love. And we will be meeting every third Thursday of each month at 8:00 p.m. Nope, 6 p.m. Thank you, Mr. Potam. Next, we have Mr. Cormier with policy. Uh policy committee will consist of myself as chair with Fion Temple, Bill O'Brien, Laura Dancho, Maria Marina Cherini, Susan Burge, Heather Borges, Caroline Caroline Reed, and Liz Granling as as members. Um we will meet on the third. We're going to keep it at the third Wednesday of the month, but we're going to move it to six o'clock instead of four. It's harder for us. >> We're not voting. >> Yes. But yes, you are. But you're you're very integral to
015to after 2 years. I I know that. Um so it will be the same day, the third Wednesday of the month. Um but we'll be meeting at 6 instead of four because well committee members. >> Thank you, Mr. Cormier. Next we have Mr. Fiorella with curriculum. >> All right. Members will be Jess Carrie, Chris Cormier, myself as chair, Dr. Katie Graph, Teresa Jaxis, Ashante, Kelly James, Andreas Morangos, Michelle Neermmeer, Robin Proto, Leanne Ready, Jessica Scandura, Kiana Taylor, Ivon Temple, and Jill Peter. >> Thank you, Mr. Fel. >> And we'll meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. starting next month. >> Okay. Next, we have plant planning. That's myself. I will chair that. And we'll also have board members, Mr. Bill O'Brien and Mrs. Kristen Sapata. I will have Regina Batu, Ed
016Kingston, Mark Giuliano, Kyle Corkran, Bonnie Reynolds, Peter Carroll, Alan Llewellyn, and Brian Masler. We will meet the first Thursday at 6:30 p.m. of every month. The following item on the agenda is an overnight field trip [clears throat] to the Springfield, Massachusetts with the Benell varsity basketball team. I believe the coach is here to give us a little bit of detail on that if you don't mind. >> Yes. Um so the basketball tournament is a national invite tournament only um from uh schools from uh New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and uh we are trying to hope to spend the night um 17th and 18th with the basketball team. Thank you. >> All right. Do we have a motion to move this item? >> Moved by Mr. O'Brien. We have a seconded by Mr. Cormier. Any discussion?
017Seeing no discussion, all in favor say I. [clears throat] >> Opposed. Motion passes 70. Our next item is a donation from the Victoria Sodto Memorial Fund. Um if Miss Gorgeous could just explain a little bit more about this. We received two wonderful generous donations. Um one goes to the preschool that is at Straford High School and the other one goes to our Victoria Sodto preschool. Um the hope behind these is that they will be used for board books, early literacy, and other resources that help nurture the love of reading from the earliest years per our policy. Because it is a $2,000 gift, the board needs to vote to approve that. >> Right. Do we have a motion to approve? >> Moved by Miss Temple, seconded by Mr. Verello. >> All right. Any discussion? >> We're
018very quick to approve. [clears throat] >> It's such a wonderful donation and I'm very fortunate that the district receives that um yearly. So, [cough] so thank you to the Victoria Sodto Memorial Fund. Um seeing no further [clears throat] discussion, we'll move this to a vote. All in favor say I. I. opposed. >> Sorry. >> All right. Motion passes 70. Our next meeting is December 22nd at 7:15. Are we skipping that one? Okay. [laughter] And then I'm looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Moved by Mr. Bryan, seconded by Miss Temple. [laughter] >> All in favor say I. >> I just want to thank everyone. Congratulations to all the new members. Thank you to all the members that are leaving us and everyone gets home safely.