001Miss Carlson, since you're joining us tonight, you want to lead us? Sure. >> I aliance 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. >> All right, chairman update. All right. So, um we had the town budget meeting on Thursday. Um I think it's pretty clear the situation that the town is in. Um both the municipal as well as the school side. We're all one community. We are in one uh massive situation across the board. I would like to address some of the comments that were seen on social media in regards to the superintendent lining her pockets. I'm going to state this now. The her salary is voted on by this board in public. It is
002public record. All of our financial activities are done and are available through public record. If you have evidence, bring it forward. Otherwise, stop because the misinformation is not going to continue. Superintendent has my full support and I will continue to support the integrity that she's provided our students from the time that she's been here until the time that she leaves. And that's all I have to say. So, we'll go to citizens comments. We'll start in the room. Any citizens comments? I should have said sorry. >> Selectman Donahghue. >> Good evening. 15 Buck Hill Road here in Thompson, Connecticut. Also your first selectman. Thank you for a great budget presentation the other night and I know today was kind of a unique day this morning. There was a bit of uh unique press. I want to
003say great job for handling that incident this morning and uh keep moving forward. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> May I make a comment? We have >> board member comments. >> Well, no. I want to address an issue that you just brought up. >> Let me do the Zoom comments first. >> Okay. All right. All right. Uh any citizens comments in the Zoom? Going once. Going twice. Sold. Kathleen. >> Okay. as past chair and as a private citizen. Oh, Kathleen Herbert, 122 Wilsonville Road. As past chair of this board and as a private citizen, we have done our research. Melinda who has done Miss Smith has done a fantastic job in bringing this school forward. and progressing this school as to where it is today is one of the lowest and go out
004and do the research. The lowest paid superintendence in this region that's all I have to say. >> Okay. Thank you, Kathy. All right. Moving on. Finance director report. >> Just the good news. providing anyway provides us >> everybody. >> Uh revised budget is unchanged at 21.8 million. Our year-to- date spending as 13.7 million right now, 62.9% of the budget, a little bit behind where we were last year. Our year-to- date incumbrances are running slightly ahead. We've already started to try to trim those back. Um because obviously we have our challenges um in pupil services. Uh however, we are making a valiant effort to try to still finish the year in the black. I know it's going to be a complete uphill battle, but everybody in the district has really jumped in and they're trying to
005restrain any spending that they can. Obviously, we're, you know, well, my god, we're already coming up. I feel like we're coming up on the end of the school year already. We got a little ways to go, but it'll be here before we know it. But we did ask for a supplemental allocation from the board of finance. >> Right. Right. Which is which unfortunately more than likely will be needed, but I I'll always try to come in into the black as best we can, but it's probably a long shot, but we're doing what we can. Projected spending of 21.7 million, 99.9% on the budget. That's a little bit ahead of where we were last year. And as we mentioned last month, this includes every lever we could pull. >> Yeah. the special ed excess cost payments,
006which I want I want to raise a point there. Our first payment actually came in a little higher than we had projected at $74,000. So, I mean, it's it's peanuts, but it was nice to see a number in that category, bigger than we expected. It's been first time in a long time. Um, two departments uh as usual um projected to be over budget, pupil services, a projected deficit of $357,000. It's the same drivers we've talked about from month to month. Out of district placements at 570,000 over an RBT and related spending at 193,000 offset by lower um special ed transportation costs and a couple of minor salary um uh positives there too. And ESY that won't change from month to month. So that's the same $5,000 that we've been talking about. Any questions? All right.
007Facilities. Is Mr. Burch with us? No. All right. I think that's it for that. Correct. All right. On to approval of minutes. We have the budget meeting from February 2nd, a regular meeting from February 9th, special meeting from February 22nd, and a budget meeting on February 22nd. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the budget meeting on February 2nd, the regular meeting on February 9th, the special meeting on February 26th, and the budget meeting on February 26. >> Any discussion on the minutes? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Any extensions? That passes. All right. Subcommittee update. >> Okay. >> Start with communication. >> Yes. Um, we had a meeting on February 26th. Um, it was pretty jam-packed, so I'm going to give you the quickest version I
008can. Um, we discussed a bunch of ongoing initiatives like the did you know campaign, uh, the student spotlights and the pathway spotlights. Uh we talked about um promoting the TMHS collaboration and community service projects. Um many of them have been promoted but there were a few um that we need to get out there. Um we talked about the incentive program and how that is doing. Um talked about uh doing a slightly better job with the sports promotions in terms of um promoting uh senior nights and things like that and um sponsorships uh in the next year. Um, we talked about letterw writing campaign, which hopefully everybody has seen by now. Um, and Jess is going to be taking what we have for signatures on Wednesday. Um, so if you still are looking to sign and
009haven't, um, you have another opportunity to do so at the town hall um, tomorrow at 6:30 to 7 right before the board of finance meeting. Um, new initiatives. Um we talked about the annual surveys that we typically do with parent, student and staff and this year we are going to just focus on um the staff uh survey >> staff and parents >> parent this year um and that will be for a little bit while still I think we're shooting for next month possibly um but it's the same survey that we did last year and we're going to use it for comparative data against what we got for information last year. Um the leadership local government roundt is uh planned and ready to go. It's for March 27th. Um we had the students um already do
010their research. They did u many of their shadows though some of the shadows will happen day of um if it's a town hall um sort of um function. Um and then those students and our local leaders that were involved in this year's um roundt will get together for a lunchon where we can uh hear from the students what they learned and see some of their promotional uh material. We talked about the capstone um and how this um year, you know, how we're doing some trying to do some marketing, having community stakeholders um the possibility of incorporating some kind of video shorts or something from last year um so that we can just uh make sure our community knows more about what the capstone process is that may not be part of our school community. um
011following up with the same sort of things that we've done last year regarding college acceptance or decision day um for both um collegebound students as well as for employmentbound students um and that is May 1st. So we're we're looking to do something at around that time frame. Um we discussed the TMHS pathway development um and how you know a couple of ideas that are moving forward with that. The adult evening education opportunities one being welding with the potential for maybe more in the future. Uh we've discussed the referendum upcoming referendum vote communication um and just how to get the word out regarding that to our family and the comm our families and community. Um, and then lastly was to kind of just brainstorm a little bit more as to how we can do a better
012job commuting communicating with our community both about budgets as well as successes that the school um has. Uh, so that was discussed and our next meeting is in April, April 4th. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Pauly, >> well, we had a busy and productive meeting, but not nearly should be in your shadow. Um, so we discussed three three policies and sent sent to the board for approval later in this meeting. Uh, the first being student dress wanted to keep it simple yet practical and enforceable and our our committee to the to the superintendent. We we wanted to just make sure that these policies are enforced broadly and correctly and not discriminatorily which that's I think that was one of our major problems. So that is that's the summary of that and it's a it's a
013revised actually we had a very minor policy before so it's a revised policy and it's much more straightforward. Um and the uh tuition waiver policy uh just one minor change to that and basically it was um >> from will from May from May to will on um supplemental tuition. Um but the other thing was just to reinforce that we can do that. It's at the superintendent's discretion to wave um tuition. And the third one was the um behavior reporting form and that was uh no no >> yeah and that was um basically shortening that and and streamlining that and making it more modern more modern. >> So that's >> okay. Thank you. All right. Superintendent report. Okay. Well, we we're off from a very busy week of last week being NEAS serial challenge and rolling
014right into um Lily Wonka. So, the district's been a bit busy. Um as far as enrollment goes, there's no change at Marfisher. We have 326 students. We do have a decline of three students at the middle school from 280 to 277. And at our high school, we have a reduction of one student. um for a total of 772 students. That's down four students from last month. Last month we had 776. >> May I uh ask a question regarding the enrollment? >> Yes. >> Uh usually when there's a three three students in one month is a big change. Was that one family? >> It looked like they all went to Texas. I looked at I didn't notice it was four students. Yeah, they all >> Yeah, I looked too because I was like, whoa, what's happening
015here? >> Thank you. proceed. >> And that is our enrollment report. >> Oh, there it is. >> Yep. Um so I am so pleased to invite Principal Melon, Cindy Wlette, Tracy Williams um who uh along with their colleagues back at uh at Turtle Memorial High School were instrumental over the past two years of implementing the recommendations and suggestions made by the visiting team from NAS at that time. and you know that we had a visit last week and they're going to get into the very specifics of the visit. Um we don't get a formal report until June, but they were kind enough to give us some written feedback which I think they're going to share with us tonight. So I'm welcoming Principal Melon, Cindy, and Tracy. >> Thank you. >> Good evening everyone. So, uh,
016I spoke out last I think it was Wednesday. Is that Wednesday? It's going fast. Um, about this a little bit. I read the the last summary page, um, but I first before I get into actually the report, I want to thank, uh, Tracy and Cindy for their tremendous amount of effort along with the rest of my uh, team uh, including uh, Deb Spinelli. Um they this really started day one when I got hired uh in that first summer and it's continued all the way uh until last week and then uh two years from now we'll do another report out. It won't be another extensive visit. Uh but we do have some goals. Uh all the goals that they gave us are pretty much things that we asked them to put in the report, things we
017we wanted to improve upon even even further. So it's the senial visit. Uh every 10 years this happens. Um it comes from you know what is so what is NIAS? It's New England Association of Schools and Colleges. They're an independent voluntary nonprofit organization that accredits public uh independent international schools. To be accredited is a very very important thing um for a high school. Um it was a very rigorous process uh dating all the way back to a couple years ago to this end point. Uh I would say hundreds if not close to a thousand hours have probably been been put into this whether it's report writing or varying our schedule. Um doing what's best for students looking at intervention programs um trying to improve culture and climate all these things uh went into it and
018again uh very supported by my team and that's um they're truly uh amazing group of people to work with. Um and really so the accreditation uh signals uh to families that a school meets rigorous, regularly reviewed and objective educational standards. Um you know one of the things that they kept telling us was especially at the end was usually you don't get this much praise. Uh actually to the point where they started leaving out commendations because they felt it was too many but those will be included in their final report. Uh so needless to say um it really went very very well. Again, testament to the staff I have uh and the great group of students. Um at this point I will turn it over to Tracy and Cindy and you'll hear from me again in
019a little bit. >> Um so I'm just going to give you a quick overview of the accreditation process which started uh two years ago with the collaborative visit in February of 2024. And at that point we set our four priority go area goals to work on. Um we attended shortly thereafter the members some of the members of the steering committee attended uh a collaborative conference that NAS put on and that was really um amazingly beneficial to us as a group because there we saw a school um put on a presentation about a flex block and their use of adaptive scheduler in powers school to make that run and it was like here's the information you need on this platter. It was fabulous. Um we have been working in the two years since then to develop
020the different plans. Uh working to um put in place those processes we need to um meet our growth to meet our priority areas. um we had to write and produce um fairly lengthy uh report for the group that was coming to um look at what we've done and then of course the visit itself which was last week and it was a great visit. I just wanted to uh recognize the visiting team that came um and of course a NEAS visiting team is headed up by a visiting chair. Uh and and sometimes they are actively um you know practicing in education. Uh we were fortunate to have got uh we got Paul Smith who um has recently retired but has since been called back to be an interim superintendent and um when you're good these things
021happen. Um and uh so he he is retired but he he works for NEAS and and does these visits. The rest of the team um were teachers from from other other districts um as well as an assistant superintendent. So these are you know educators um who come from the outside to see what's going on on our inside. So what's cool is that three of the educators that came for the collaborative visit um came back to see the growth that we've made. So, it's really satisfying um for us to share that growth with them and also for them to feel as though I think I hope they feel as though they were a part of it. So, um that was just really great. So, we want to thank the visiting team publicly for coming out. Of
022course, they they had to take their time to come do this. Um and it's a lot of work for them to put the reports together. So, we're really grateful for that. >> So, thank you Tracy and Cindy. So, um moving to the next slide. And so what were the major contributors to our success? Um so first and foremost our tiger block. Um that's the period that happens every other day. Uh 2B um it provides a system to effectively incorporate learning interventions, enrichment opportunities and activities and is essential component of the TMHS schedule enhancing student learning and enriching our learning environment. Uh for our staff who've been creating authentic and creative learning experiences for our students. uh we revamped the entire curriculum in every single subject area uh which was a which a huge undertaking. Um
023they were quite impressed about uh how well we did that in a timely fashion. Um you know obviously we're going to go back uh look at it again. Always going to fine-tune that curriculum that that the staff created. But again that was one of their uh focus points for uh commending us. Uh grant funding um this goes out to the public as well. Uh, I tallied up just in my time here, um, $2.1 million in grant funding to help sustain our programs at the high school. Um, so, Superintendent Smith is certainly uh, welld deserving of whatever salary she gets because she's out there every single day working tirelessly um, to get the best uh, for our students uh, and our teachers. So, thank you, Superintendent Smith. um the inclusion of grant-f funded career pathway coordinator.
024Uh we have Michelle Walworth uh this uh past year. Um she assists with our pathway teachers establishing strong business and community partnerships uh and and introduces our students to postsecary secondary career opportunities which is vital uh for them to thrive especially those students that aren't going on to college. um making sure every one of our students leaves here with an idea of of a solid job that that that they could uh obtain uh once they graduate high school. Again, continuing uh contributors, community partnerships, uh the numerous and wellestablished career pathways as I mentioned, um diverse programming in STEM and humanities despite being a smaller school they not. So again, these are all things that um the NAS team noted. uh welcoming, supportive and uh nurturing environment created by dedicate faculty uh dedicated faculty um and
025staff of the school. Uh college credit course offerings which enables team HS students to earn college credit at little or no cost helping to make a college education more affordable. Um a portrait of our graduate which drives the school's beliefs about learning. our capstone showcase requirements which encourage students to identify for themselves how their work reflects their growth and mastery and which attributes to the portrait of the graduate and then the freshman seminar course uh that introduces students to the experiences and I mean sorry expectations of the high school as well as the portrait of the graduate. Any questions so far? Okay, so now we're going to move on to next steps and I'll turn it back over to Tracy and Cindy. I'm going to just talk briefly about the tire block which is really
026become so foundational for the success of the school. It has uh provided for us the system and the time for uh a specific uh protocol for intervention. It also allows us time for enrichment and activities and teacher collaboration. So this one shift in schedule has made an enormous difference to the school. Um the we were very proud of the fact that the visiting chair asked us to submit a proposal for us to present at the uh next annual NEAS conference about he suggested we could call it school turnaround through flex bluff. Um but he said it was time for us to stop sitting in the audience and start presenting our own ideas because he thinks schools would be very excited to hear about the work we've achieved. And I'm just going to read a little
027piece from the preliminary report which has to do with tire block. The meticulously executed implementation and commitment to continuous planning of the school's tire block have resulted in an efficient means for intervention while allowing for a block of time for enrichment and activities as well as a creative and meaningful use of time for teachers and the administration. Some other key ne next steps for us as we continue to work um is to, you know, keep, you know, keep that tiger block um and keep the time that we need to look at the curriculum and and continue with a revision cycle with fidelity um and really um which will allow us to you know do what's best for our students. Um we also although we do uh just like the communications committee, we do so much
028work um to promote our students and their accomplishments and you know to reach down to the middle school and and build relationships between the high school and middle school students and staff. um you know they recognized you know it's just we need to continue to do that and find new ways to uh they recognize the disconnect between what is our reality in the school building and what people seem to not understand is our reality in the school building. So, um, you know, we need to just continue to work at that, find other ways and, um, and, uh, you know, keep that enrollment up and and let our community know, uh, that we're working hard for our students and our students are thriving here. Um, and then, you know, the need to continue to pursue grant
029opportunities um, so that we can support ongoing programming. Um, and I know Principal Melon mentioned it already, but you know, the amount of grant funding that we receive um, through the hard work of I know particularly um, Mrs. Smith, it's so pivotal for the support of our school. It's just a little, you know, it's it's a little scary when you think if we don't get that grant funding, what could happen? So, um, I just think about the contributions even of of Michelle Walworth this year and and all she's doing with our students to ensure that they have that concrete plan as Mr. Melon stated it's just it's it's amazing the work that she's doing and and to to think that could go away is just I hope it doesn't. So I just wanted to mention
030that those are some key next steps that that the NES team recognized for us and um and as Mr. Melon said earlier those were steps that we intended to continue to take. Um but it is it is good to have the um the priorities out there for everyone. So Mr. Melon >> I got the most sides because I'm the principal. So Uh, one thing before I uh go over my last couple slides, the the importance too of just the community and the middle school parents just knowing what a hidden gem that they have up here. It is truly an amazing school. Um, and you know, we we still have that habit of our students getting coached to other schools. I mean, it's right here. This is the school in the Northeast Corridor. Again, I would
031send my own kids here. Um, I've been trying to get my younger one to to leave Lincoln, but he's he's embedded in there. Um it it truly is the staff um the support from from the people at this table um and the students that we have like Maddie over here. It's it really just makes everything an awesome place to be. Not every day at every hour but the majority. That's right. >> Um so really the highlighted statements from the plural report. Um I read this at the last meeting I was at but just some highlights. Um really important things that we we need to let people know about. Students rely on the school for the stability it offers and know that there is a promise of preparation for post-secary education and/or career development. The teachers
032and staff of team HS are coaches, mentors, and heroes who willingly wear many hats and make sure that every student receives individual attention and guidance. I've been at a lot of different schools between teaching and being a principal. Uh this I believe is my sixth uh school overall. Um, and one of the things I do notice here, you know, and it happened at my last middle school a little bit, but here the teachers take on so many different jobs and support one another. Um, and this is well after hours, well after the school is closed. So, I just want to thank them again for what they do. Um, they are the kids heroes. Um, another point with notable growth in academic performance and increase in attendance and a higher level of graduation rates, the high
033school has accomplished this is really incredible. In two years, what most high schools aspire to achieve in five to eight years. I think that's very very telling. Uh, despite challenges such as budget reductions and staff losses, teachers are being dedicated to meeting student needs to maintain this level of success. It is critical for the school to secure ongoing support from the town. Um, and then we wanted to thank some people here. Obviously, our students, we're very proud of your cont contributions to the visit, your tours that you you helped uh guide people around the meetings and the showcase of your work. Uh, the board of ed and Mrs. Smith for supporting our work. Uh, TMHS uh administration uh teachers and par educators for the commitment to achieving NAS standards and goals for their strong dedication
034to Turtle. uh Bill Bur and his team for the preparation of the facility and upkeep of the grounds despite challenging weather. Uh obviously chef uh Zenaph and his culinary students preparing and serving delicious lunches and other sustenance needs for the visiting team. I think it definitely helped with the report. Um uh Danielle obviously and Melinda for arranging the accommodations, meals and gifts. The team was highly complimentary uh of the Watson boutique. So thank you for that. uh district admin for taking the time to meet with and provide input for the visiting team's report. Uh Donna Okonnell, our secretary for processing visitors and raging for coverage for teacher meetings, as well as uh Sandy Hasset for her work on beautifying the front foyer. Um the unsung heroes uh of our school and then the tech department
035for their assistance preparing technology to suit uh the needs of the visit team. So thank you all. We appreciate that. >> Thank you. And I just want to take this opportunity to encourage everybody to show up on April 6th at 5:30 for the CHS showcase night. Chance for everybody in town to come in and see what we're doing. Uh so we hope to see lots of people there, get a sense of the different types of work kids are doing. Uh there'll be some musical performances. There's going to be an art exhibition. So it' be a great evening. Oh, and culinary sampling. That's what you have to say. >> So, we have our our show this is going to be our first year for our showcase nine grades 9 to 12. We also have um this
036is our second spring showcase um for our seniors and this is their culminating presentation about um their alignment with our portrait of a graduate. It's basically our seniors telling their stories. Um and if you've been to one, you you I see some nods. They're pretty powerful. Uh we are currently seeking um members of the community to come and serve as you know judges if you will on the panel. Um please email Danielle Person if you're interested in being a part of that panel uh being a part of any of the the judging panels. We would love to have you um in tool to see the the great work of our students. So that's on March I'm sorry March forgetting to be May May 21st. Um and uh again, if you're able to to come in
037and serve, we would really be appreciative. Uh please contact Daniel. Thank you. >> Thank you everyone. >> Excellent. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I have a couple a comment and a couple easy questions. Um comment. I'm I'm very proud to be a very small part of what happened here last week. Um and it was a there's a lot to do in those two years and over the last nine years uh or the last 10 years since since this the last NAS um but the the other thing I want to say was the portrait of a graduate I was on the committee where we did that how many years ago was that four or five >> oh a little longer than that >> so it's been a while and to see so a lot of times I'm
038thinking about like in in the corporate world a lot of times you know HR people develop a thing hey this is what we're doing now and then in a couple months it's gone and so however many years it's been feels like a a while but it's also flown by. It's impressive that we came up with this and that we've stuck with it and that everything has fallen in line you know to these presentations. This is going to be is this the first full class or the second full class of the presentation? second full class. So these kids, >> these students have have grown up. All these students that are graduating this year are fully invested in in the Pog and it's really impressive to see what's happened. Um so I'm I'm very proud of everybody
039here uh and you guys and I know it's a lot been a lot of work. A lot of work. Um and two easy questions. Has anybody from Thompson ever served on the yes committee? And is anybody planning on it? >> Yes. Yes, I have. And I would love to go again. I wanted to get in again before we had our visit, but yes, we have. And it's really quite an experience. My choice to >> I thought so. Um, >> and so thank you for doing that because that's also obviously a lot of work. And my second question, if somebody could just address more to the public than to us, what happens? Not that it's going to happen this time, what happens if a high school loses their accreditation? I think I have an idea, but
040can you say say it out loud to say how how important it is? We know it's important, please. And thank you. >> You want to do it? >> If you want to go ahead, >> I can I can certainly speak on it. >> You're the boss. you guys. >> I'm not I'm not the I'm not the boss. Matt, >> right, Maddie? >> Um, so having a nonacredited high school, I mean, that's a that's a huge black eye, not only for the high school, but for the district itself. Um, we talk about recruitment and then retaining students. I think, you know, nonacredited high schools, um, you know, aren't the place where people are going to want to raise their families in towns like that. So it has everlasting impacts. >> What happens to students when they
041go to college? >> Uh same impact on college acceptance. So if you're nonacredited high school, that impacts uh students, you know, going and venturing out to to colleges. So it's a lot. >> It's a big deal. >> A big deal. >> So this is a big deal. >> Yeah. Very big deal. >> So thank you. >> It was. >> Any other questions or comments for the NIA team? >> Other than congratulations. Thank you guys. >> Okay, FY26 school calendar updates. >> So, because mother nature has not been very kind to us this year, um we uh I took a look at the calendar and we do have one more professional development day on May 22nd. I am proposing to the board to make that a student day um rather than a professional day. Although we
042do need the professional development time, I would like to have that uh day back um as an insurance day. More importantly, if we have another day off, we're going to roll into Junth and that's going to cause all sorts of headaches and then we'll have to roll into the following school week for makeup. So, I'm proposing um we couldn't do it on uh March 6 because we had too many wheels in motion. Um but I'm proposing that we make May 22nd, 2026 a full school day and take away the professional development day >> and the 21st would still remain a half a day. >> Yes. Yes. Because that is for the Pog showcase. >> Oh yes. Um, so we dismiss so that the teachers in middle and elementary can come up. >> Um, you need
043to motion that under new to be added to new business. Correct? >> Yes. >> So, we'll need a motion to add the calendar to new business. >> I will make a motion to add the calendar to new business, changing the 22nd to a full day. >> I'll second that. >> Okay. All of those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion passes. We'll add that to new business under B. All right. All right. Any old business? >> No old business. Okay. New business policy approvals. Um, first one is student dress. I'll make a motion to uh approve the revised student dress or is it revised? Revised student dress policy. >> Okay. >> So, you have a Kathy motions and Kristen seconds the new student dress well revised student dress policy. Um
044motion and second. Any discussion? >> Matt, >> when will this take effect? Next school year or tomorrow? Um, I would say, um, we can get this out to everyone by next Monday. >> Before it gets warm. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Before it gets warm. Exactly. >> Thank you. >> Although tomorrow >> Well, nothing you can do about that. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Just wear clothes, people. >> All right. All those in favor of the student dress policy, say, "I." >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion passes. All right. Um motion to approve the tuition fees non-residents mission. >> I'd like to make that motion uh to approve the minor change into the tuition waiver uh policy. >> There second it seconds. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed?
045Any abstensions? Moving on. All right. uh behavior reporting form. >> I'll make a motion to accept the behavior reporting form as presented by the policy subcommittee. >> I'll second that. >> And Matt has the second. Any discussion? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposition? >> Any abstensions? Motion passes. policies are >> done. >> Thank you. All right. And then um fiscal year 2026 calendar change. >> I'll make that motion. >> Kathleen makes the motion. >> Second. >> Matt seconds it. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion passes. Correspondence. In your packet, you'll see a letter or sorry, email from Woodstock Academy um that I had received that provides uh they had seen the radio interview and had uh requested
046discussion. I asked for fiscal year 2027's tuition rate um as well as the tuitions for their special education programs as well as a 5-year projection on tuition increases which while he provided fiscal year 2027 um claimed he was unable to provide me an accurate projection for the next five fiscal years. I um received the budgets from the five previous years from Conference Board of Ed. Um over the past five years, it has averaged out to a 4.6 increase on all tuition lines to WA over the last 5 years. I think we can all agree 2 * 2 = 4. 3 + 1 also equals four. Um I don't foresee the need for a $50,000 um audit to determine what tuition would be if we were to outsource our students. Our enrollment reports are online. This
047letter is included in the packet. The numbers are on their letter head. Um I did out the math for next fiscal for fiscal year 2027. I removed this eighth uh our current seniors. I accounted for a very conservative estimate of only keeping 50% of our eighth graders, which is not going to be accurate. Um, we would be keeping more than that. And it's still over $4 million a year. So, I wanted to advise you of the correspondence. If you want to take action on that, you guys can make the motion to do so. However, I wanted to be transparent in the communications we were receiving. Okay, citizens comments. We'll go on Zoom. Any citizens comments? Going once. Going twice. Sold. Citizens comments in the room. Going once. Going twice. Sold. Board of Education comments. Going
048around the table. Heather, Matt, >> no, I've made my comments that he asked. So, thank you. >> Perfect. Kristen, Kathleen, >> Daniela, is this on the agenda? >> It's It's just a It's just a report. Okay. Yeah. >> Rick, >> Maddie, >> Come on, Eddie. >> I stated what I needed to say earlier. So, uh, motion to >> move to second. >> Wow. Ajourned 7:43 >> with a presentation too.