Board of Education Meeting

001foreign I'd like to call the regular meeting of the Brookfield board of education for September 21st to 2022 the order please join me for Horizon images foreign happy birthday the First on our agenda is public comment and I'll just uh say this again because I've been saying it ever maybe we have two sessions for public comment on the agenda and because we need to get from the business of the business of the day we reserve the first session which is right now for people who are commenting on items that are on the agenda and because we need to get the public input for our items that are on the agenda anything that is not on the agenda goes in the second uh session which is after the business items on tonight's week so I've looked

002at the sign ups and neither of there are two people signed up um I want to just ask Mrs Matthews are you are you commenting on the policy or in general no have we gotten a copy of it is there a copy of it well if you haven't gotten copy of my comments yeah so we're going to put you at the end at the second public comment I mean you're a bit the second public comment session as well um so we're going to move on to our student representative report Caitlin once you're down there hiding it on the other side however hello everyone students at Brookfield High School are in the midst of an extremely exciting week we have successfully completed three out of the five days for our spirit week which is ending Friday

003with our Tech Valley homecoming fair and homecoming football game Monday was color Wars where each grade had their own color theme Tuesday was decade day today was USA themed Thursday will be costume day and Friday will be Bobcat spirit the varsity cheerleading and dance teams are collaborating for the first time ever to make a combined show-stopping halftime performance for the game student council is in the middle of planning a wonderful homecoming dance at our very own high school which is scheduled for Saturday October 1st as a senior I understand that this is a big adjustment from the previous homecoming dance plan and the decision has not been made lightly but I know we will make the most of it student government has created several several different committees within their group such as advertising activities Finance

004volunteer and Club Council we also held our club fair today for students who lead clubs to promote them with signs flyers and treats kids were given time to tour the table tables to discover and sign up for clubs and address to them each Club has been planning fundraisers and there will be many to come so please look out for advertisements this previous week the high school administration has completed the beginning of the year assembies for each grade that went over rules and regulations as for the other Brookfield public schools with Skinner Middle School soccer and field hockey teams will begin games this week cross country starts next be sure to cheer them all thank you thank you very much I appreciate it as usual I for second time I have a very informative report so

005any questions for Caitlin um all right so next up on our agenda is written correspondence Nick Schmidt Linda Jake with Rachel aligna and Matt Melillo wrote regarding gender identity policies and Jim detrimon wrote regarding the Brookfield prep centers after school program vaccine policy okay next is approval of board minutes the regular meeting October 7th 2022 okay it's been moved and seconded by Mrs Fernandez and any questions or updates to the minutes from any newborns is hearing none all in favor turn over the microphone to Dr Burrell thank you Mr Belton good evening everyone so I have a few updates uh specific Ally starting out with Communications for this meeting I want to let you know that Dr Mann um has her monthly newsletter was published last week that will continue on for the remainder of

006the school year if you will begin with a assistant superintendent monthly newsletter in addition to that Dr Mann has her website under construction and he's doing a lot of work with Eric behind the scenes to get the uh the webpage ready to go with all the work with Rubicon Atlas and our curriculum work especially in addition to that Mrs D Nicola Hickman our uh supervisor of director excuse me of special services her newsletter went out this afternoon that's also a monthly newsletter so really focusing on the strength and communication here in the district that it's important to remind the board that we have budgeted this fiscal year budget some funds to update and take start looking at and updating the district website and so in working with Eric he's going to once we get through

007the technology package and get it into Canada year that's the next project on his agenda is to start looking at that on February and get us ready as we then launch decide on a vendor move forward and then do a lot of work over the summer to be ready for the following year so there's a lot of planning and work that has to go into that so I wanted to make sure I manage expectations there and everybody's you know understood where the priorities lie at this point with the district website the next piece uh strategic planning just a reminder I think Lisa and I scheduled a email reminder to go out on Monday Thursday next week from 3 30 to 5 30 we were strategic plan large community meeting 3 30 to 5 30 at

008the Town Hall at the board of ed offices update on security two of the uh we have four of the five monitors in the hiring process two have start dates in the next couple of weeks and two others we're finishing up some background checks and then we still have the applications open to hire the fifth security monitor so we're really moving forward and hoping to have all five filled by mid-october like we talked about what we'll definitely have four in place it looks like by mid-october in terms of the assl for the high school the police chief shared with me that the job description is with HR right now and still being worked up and and interviewed the process going fairly soon and actually have a high school administration involved in that as well so

009we're really excited about where that's going um next I wanted to share we're going to be sharing a calendar tonight Dr rudel Dr pepsowski is leading Us in that when Rosa leads us in the summary of Candlewood Lake in the update and it's going to be called countdown to Candlewood and it says it's a high level calendar but I think for those people who haven't seen all the dates it actually will look like a lot of detail I think when we're used to seeing 23-page documents with 10 font of what's on the details of this this doesn't seem as detailed but it's pretty cool we'll take a look at it and it's just going to go it's not going to go back too far but some green checks you'll see next to it to see

010what's what's done and then what's in process so really excited to share that tonight and then the last thing just to share we did have specifically at the middle school there was a spike in Kobe cases and really went through the staff even more so than students and we had a lot of Staff out at the end of last week and through this week so we're still managing some of that the other schools are faring quite well but it hit the Middle School part this this time around so I just want to let everybody know we're paying close attention to that and the nurses still need to report coveted cases that are reported to them to the state to dvh that is something that's still a requirement that we have to and that's all I

011have are there any questions all right thank you very much next up we'll do subcommitting reports we'll start with uh Finance okay so we last met on the 12th and one of the things we discussed was the budget development calendar um the big things to sort of take away our administrators will be given their budget materials in the next couple of weeks and for us we will develop and improve our budget assumptions our October 19th meeting so if you have any ideas or things you'd like to definitely see in the budget that's when you would need to bring them forward we spend the bulk of our meeting talking about a really important emerging issue or so um as of right now we are projecting um over a half a million dollars as a general budget

012deficit this is mainly due to expenses being over budget in heating oil by about 176 000 that was based on a new estimate that was just received this month uh diesel fuel by about a hundred thousand special education tuition by about 267 000 and special education Transportation by about 116 000. um additionally um there is an overestimation of our teacher turnover savings as you remember we we book in a 200 000 Savings in our budget we that's how we budget it and right now we are we've overestimated that by about 100 . um we also have some increases in health insurance given that now that our new hires have been made and just the employee population have some also contribute contribute to some of our overages we do have some Savings in some accounts so

013we have administrators that have turned over this year unfilled positions and some of our extended school our extended school year program was under budget quite a little bit so as a net we're looking at about a half a million dollars right now but it's something that we are obviously keeping and we will report back to everyone any questions on this specifically I had a flop along so after our finance committee meeting I had the board of Finance meeting was the following Wednesday and so I shared the same information with the board of Finance um they have uh indicated that they really want to work with us because some of the items that we're over running on are things that they will carry on contingency for so so they I've told what we agreed to do

014is you know first week of September is a little early to you know be you know sending of the alarm Flags but it Banks me for the input and we agreed to talk again of their October meeting before selectment is advised me to go visit with that as well I'll use the same information right licensing this is a big deal that's reminding me of I would say four years ago right when we had that big overrun on special education it's going to be a town-wide issue I think and that's a horrible time because it's the year before the bonding comes in for the new school right so you know you don't want to use up all your savings contingency because we're going to use that to cover some of the bonding costs so it's hard

015so okay next up is Kate last Wednesday the first thing we discussed was Anthony Alessio a presentation on the current the current curriculum and pretty sure that there are no changes since the state came down with guidelines in May he also reassured us that the skills that are taught in the current curriculum are always tied back to the sorry the skills are taught during the day tie back to the curriculum as a whole um it was it wasn't a overly busy meeting uh documented also stress that the curriculum is not copied from anywhere and any changes to the health curriculum is done through Katie we all uh all members of The Academy where I thought we were all pretty excited about the tie back to the portion of the graduate which is overall skill sets

016that we expect our graduates to have upon graduating and document updated on updated committee on opening School instructional coaching model and District planning process but really we spent some time discussing possible investments in new breeding material for the upcoming year for uh came through K through three questions from Mike next time okay we met on September 15th we reviewed the school do reports and we briefly reviewed the capital plan we're going to spend some time looking at over and taking a hard look at our next meeting we did ask Dan and Kenner we look at the numbers and all the estimates of the cost of each individual project and add in a 20 contingency because we came to the conclusion that we really need to be more aggressive on these projects and then once the

017bed comes in to add an additional five percent our Focus moving forward may need to be security this upcoming budget season and we may have to slow down some of the projects in order to see what happens with some of the upcoming issues that we're facing custodial Staffing update yay we are fully staffed it's been years since I've said that so that's exciting and we did this discuss Staffing at Candlewood Lake Elementary School we discussed come January what that's going to look like we'll have three grades and we have four custodians at Huckleberry can we do you know come September it's definitely going to be a budget item um Dan would love to add three custodians but most likely only be adding one and the NBC will be meeting with Hillier to go over new

018equipment needed for Canada like we got approval for the Worcester near wall in addition to some contingency from the approval from the board of Finance however we didn't receive approval for the high school locker room the board of Finance would like to receive an answer from the town attorney about whether or not this has to go back to the voters in the meantime we'll check though reached out to Eddie at techton to ask the supplier for a 30-day extension to buy us some time school security the principals are currently going through the process of hiring security monitors the administrators have been collectively interviewing a number of applicants as John had mentioned his superintendent update we did have many questions um should we do an assessment of our doors what shape are they in should we

019invest in door sensors when they're left ajar with the security film that we have are we happy with it what was put in is it top of the line what are the standards of what we put in do we do we have any one-way doors should we have one-way doors and remove some of maybe the outside Hardware so we have a lot of questions in terms of security as it relates to facilities the guided swing roof here at BHS three bits came in the lowest bid was 343 0.38 with five percent contingency built into the project we are 140 000 over budget material cost is driving the price it's not Technical and it's a one rooftop unit Dan reported that availability is improving so costs can follow that possibly however he doesn't think we can

020get the cost down but so at this time we're going to just go out go back out to bed um new business so the boiler condensate tank replacement here at the high school the Tank's going to need to be replaced the tank has failed but it's functioning we have the ability to override it by adding water instead of recycling it so the whole system is thirty thousand dollars but that does not include the installation removal and contingency so our next step is finding out what it will take to get the old tank out and deliver and lead time for the tank roof links we have a lot of chronic with leaks um specifically South BHS or the office but no new ones at the middle school there are nine chronic leaks and around the gym

021at Center there are a bunch of chronic leaks but mainly due to the asphalt and shingles on the roof so our next steps are going to do a walk through and put together a plan that addresses through fleeks because the roofs are not getting any younger any questions thank you John all right next up is our consent agenda I'll know that the Border approve the items on the consent agenda which are new hires transfers and resignations discussion or comments okay all in favor all right so uh now we're going to move on to new business and the first up is the Athletics update all right thank you hello everybody um they're very high numbers this this fall especially female athletes um a number of males playing fall Sports is 135 females 103 168 for a

022total of 330 303 fall athletes which is up from last year last year total for the whole year we have 469 athletes we're on Pace to be well over that come on Spring last year we had 51 of our student body playing Athletics this year at project about 60 percent plan which is which is awesome the fall sports are you know off to a good start um Caitlin mentioned uh was getting her boys and girls soccer started um field hockey actually had a game today across boys and girls across country at Western near numbers are very high and again thank you for adding that coach two years ago which was needed um whisking their unified started last week as you know they were outstanding team in state in 2021 um here at the high school

023cheer started dancing started dance action doubled in numbers from last year to this year um boys and girls swim and dive volleyball we have all three levels freshman JV and varsity field hockey we have freshman JB and varsity but this year we have actually limited freshmen our numbers are a little down for freshmen and field hockey but all of the teams we played track their freshman team so we're playing very limited um freshman schedule for field hockey but all the freshmen are playing Cav so they're going to be getting a lot of playing time there too boys and girls across the country and actually their last home meet yesterday they had two home meets to start the year girls soccer defending state champions or off to a good start or defending swc's Champion sorry boys

024soccer won yesterday they are currently undefeated as well football have had a tremendous turnout with the first couple home games big crowds boys golf is currently 9-1-1 swc I'm hoping that they can win the championship I don't think we've ever won one before and unified soccer here at the high school we're struggling to get para coverage but I've been working with our principal um our director of specialized Amy and Dr Mann and trying to figure that out so we don't lose the season for the kids so with you know the high school and Whispering area we have approximately 425 students playing fall Sports and 40 coaches two weeks ago we had a Class Act pledge night at Chick-fil-A we've had 285 kids sometimes they signed the pledge on how they're going to act on the

025field in a positive way and in the stands they received a Class Act t-shirt and passed all the home games so maybe that's why we've done a pretty good support at the games that our kids are playing sign up to be positive students as you know last year we were Mike just caught the winner again that's due to the fact that we have such a tremendous class at Council reviews our Athletic program what I do does work within the community last year had a very successful food drive we dropped stuff off at the Brookfield Pantry this year we're going to partner up with the police department again into the Tory drive as I mentioned before the Class Act pledge and this year the kids want to start helping Class Act by going to the middle

026school and working with the kids after school and possibly going down and just helping them and getting them to sign the pledge as well and hopefully we get some of them in our games as well the field days for cider school and Huckleberry which will continue to do that Chick-fil-A has been an awesome sponsor of perfume Athletics last year and this year they will continue to sponsor all of our scholarships at our Awards night for athletics the ciac recently passed a fast Club will need a shot clock not this coming season but next school year I've already talked to Tim and put him back into the budget because we're going to have to get those in the gym and um get that so hopefully it's still out July 1. last last year thank you for

027allowing the kids to play gymnastics and boys volleyball huge success unfortunately our gymnastic coach who was looking for a job last year calling a job at Hartford so now we're looking for a new coach but we're confident we'll find one um excited today that I missed out to the ciec because we have some a lot of interest at Huckleberry and starting a unified program and they informed me that they have some grant money available for us to start that so we're excited to get Dave and Danielle started over there with Unified um as you know last spring our kids went to Florida um I just want to thank the community for all the support with the fundraisal body kits didn't pay anything to go to Florida because of the amount of raffle tickets they sold

028so if you don't know we did a rational in 100 of the whatever a student sold went back to them so it was it was off of them and we had about seven of you gift baskets from all around town which was awesome uh this week the football players the seniors have decided on Friday morning they're going to give their game shows as to a teacher with high school influence their High School career the most to wear for the day and then the game in October home game we're going to go to Whiskey near and then the November end we're going to go to the Center School in Huckleberry school so we look forward to seeing our teachers and and the football uniforms and hopefully attending the games and we hope that you know other

029sports follow the league um I'm very excited and this is you know thoughts to everybody here our hockey numbers are way up this year and I'm assuming it's because now we're gonna we're gonna fund the kids to play and uh hopefully some kids who couldn't play are going to play um I'm I'm excited for this that we're going to have um a student from our advisor at all three ciac student boards this year we're the only school in the state will have one on every board so we'll have a student on the ciac athletic advisory the ciac student quality Advisory board and the ciac sportsmanship committee um our sixth Class Act officers wrote essays and Mr belanum myself and Mrs Allen are going to pick the three students who are going to be on the

030state committees I'm also proud to announce that we as a district have have who are the most represented on all the ciac Committees meaning I serve on seven committees Mr Belanger suicide committee Dr perilla serves on a committee is to run the suicide committee and Dr Mann not only serves on the four committees but she's chair of all four of those committees so we are well represented at the cic and Cass so that's you know thank you to all of you and all your hard work for all you do for our kids thank you you have any questions thank you any questions for Steve it's awesome thank you I'd love to hear the participations yeah thank you right next up is our budget planning calendar foreign moves at the border approved the 2023-2024 budget calendar

031as recommended by the finance subcommittee and Director of Business operations campost Ed by Mrs Fernandez I'm supposed to be one of those uh come up with the Santa walk through it sure good evening everyone the process starts for us within about two weeks from now and I would be Distributing actually being actually a few of us started the process early I think connecting with Mrs various Dr pepsowski surrender because those three will be contributing to put together the clas budget which is the budget that's going to be in place for 23-24 so we've already started planning the process of Howard how do we go to collaborate to put that all together and then officially the first 800 years October 3rd were a distributed budget materials to everyone involved that we're going to have the budget

032assumptions at the October 19th meeting budget data is due back to me on October 28th and then over the course of the next couple of weeks me and Joan will be compiling and putting it together and adding the pieces that we do and then we'll be meeting individually with the principals the department heads in mid-november with the ultimate goal of the getting the budget ready in time for the November or December 5th finance committee meeting so we're doing that a little differently this year since the Board of Education meeting with the superintendent's presentation is not until the 14th we wanted to make sure we had enough time as a finance committee to properly vet the budget and go through all the meetings we tend to meet every Monday in December with the exception of Christmas

033week and then on into January as needed and those are all noted on the on the calendar with the ultimate goal of getting a budget approved by the board event in late January and submitted to the first selectment by January 31st and then it begins the process of vetting through the board of selectomin and the board of finance and ultimately public hearings town meeting and then referendum amen it's a long process it is so it's this is very similar in the last year's schedule other than the John's presentation is a little later correct okay um I also know that you skipped past there's a budget round table with the board on November 16th just before our board meeting it'll be at 6 pm at we've been still in Minnesota we're going to be going back

034into the media center at the next meeting so we'll probably be in the media center right now so uh so it's an hour-long meeting where the public is invited to give us things we might not be thinking about that should be priorities and it gives us some great input when we get input from members of the public on you know things to think about as we go through a bunch of reviews in the next month so it's been pretty spariously with a similar meeting scheduled for January 4th also before that board meeting we kind of discussed you know you know same thing having the same result but respecting a different result so maybe we can be more creative to get output and put yeah so we'll talk about that next slide in this community about

035how to maybe get some another source of input and we have to advertise it better I think so um the other thing for the specifically for November 16th this is for the board members um uh specifically the policy committee I think there's a there's a conflict there so the policy committee can take a look at that debt and we can figure out another time we were talking about that earlier tonight anyway in addition to that the um public hearing on January 4th there is typically that would be a facilities committee meeting so we're gonna have to think about that date however the second semester into the new year we don't have the subcommittees formerly adopted yet so just putting that on everybody's radar to think about it thank you John all right any other comments

036on that all right hearing none all in favor of adopting the uh the budget calendar please okay all right so thank you next up is uh we're moving on to Old business that's it for new business we have four policies to address and those of you who are waiting for public comment is the last thing with more public comments so um that the board approved new policy number 6164.11 instruction drugs tobacco alcohol for our final reading is recommended by the policy and Communications subcommittee the first reading was on August 17th I will also move that the board approved Moon policy number 6159 instruction individualized education program special education program for our final reading as recommended by the policy and Communications activity first reading was on August 17th I will move that the board approved new

037policy number 6171 special education for our final reading as recommended by the policy and Communications subcommittee first reading was August 17 2022 and I will let the board approve new policy number 5144.2 use of exclusionary timeout for our final reading is recommended by the policy and communication subcommittee first reading was on July 20th second of Los Angeles is foreign policies that we should talk about tonight okay hearing none all in favor of approving all four policies please uh um okay those policies are adopted all right uh next up on our agenda is the second session of public comment um and uh the first Speaker who signed up is Patricia bossio come up to the microphone I would appreciate it and then you name and address before your comments for the record thank you Trisha bossio

038to Whitetail Lane I'm here to discuss the proposed expansion of the Title IX bill it has a very nice title but it's a terrible piece of legislation it's called non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs for activities receiving federal financial assistance this was originally instituted in 1972 to help women achieve better quality and higher education facilities in sports but it has been extensively changed to include mandate and regulations that take away parental rights and endangered children the bill is 190 Pages along with you can go to childparentrights.org or look for docket ID colon [Music] ed-2021-0cr-0166 if you would like to research and rent suggest parent student there are many issues in this bill but I would address only one to nine I'm here to point out the gender identity protocol because I'm not

039so sure students realize the ramifications of something like this it means boys men who are anatomically mailed consider Feel Like a Woman of the female bathrooms locker rooms and chairs or vice versa it's a girl let's take one step further what about the transgender person who wants their own space will there be gender neutral areas for that don't they deserve their privacy as well I can say from personal experience that I've been in a woman's restroom and there has been a man in there I don't feel comfortable with that apparently the federal government is telling you you're not going to get any money unless you comply with these requirements I believe parents should know what's going on in their child school because another part of the regulation in this bill is that parents don't have

040to be told what's going on in the schools and really have no say about it parental rights are being usurped and I hope they begin to speak up and get involved the schools may tell you this is not going on right now by this past it will be implemented all public and private schools K-12 colleges and universities must comply to get money for school lunches breakfast food items and other programs I'm just a resident of Brookfield and high school taxes and feel the public should know what is being taught in their educational facilities with their hard-earned money and I'll end with a quote from Jesus in Matthew 18 says but whoever misleads one of these little ones who believes in me it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck

041and to be drowned in the depth of the sick that's not my words that's it thank you thank you very much thank you all right that's it for double comment uh next up is cannibal Lake Elementary School while he's setting that up don't rush um they actually have like kind of a long update for you guys so we were able to tour the facility yesterday um there's Seth is filling up some photos that we'll be able to see but I'll just speak to some of the construction going on right now um downstairs in the Pre-K ring um the mechanical electrical and plumbing is ongoing um uh the ceiling into the ceiling as well as the interior framing in the first grade Wing which is all the way on the left of the building and in

042the back all of that is done and they're moving on to sheetrocking in the second grade language is lower level Center Lane in the back they're installing the ceiling grids that will hold the drop down ceiling in the moving upstairs into the third grade Wing the bathroom tile is ongoing so we've actually been able to see some of the bathroom tile in there which is looking really good in the fourth grade Wing painting is ongoing and in the fifth grade Wing they are installing those ceiling grids that hold those drop down ceiling panels um yeah yeah okay yeah um okay so this is the front main entrance where a lot of the exterior brickwork has been done um I'm going to be posting some other pictures um that show you kind of a close-up of

043some of the exterior masonry work but a lot of that's being done and we can we can really kind of see what that that picture of what it looks like currently is really starting to look like what it would have been this is the rear of the building you can see all of the glass and the windows are in this is going to be the one of the play areas the main staircase is not yet and it kind of still looks like what you see here but you can kind of see that the spaces are much more defined the media center is that space that you're starting to see over on the left and the this what I would be calling the grand staircase is sort of is going to be on the right on

044this wall and you'll be able to look out onto that into that big window into the multi-purpose area and this is that multi-purpose space where if you look at the rendering you can kind of see someone um sort of standing in front of that giant window that's way up high looking in that is one of a big Landing that's uh at the main staircase and you can see the multi-purpose space has sheetrock now so things are really starting to move along and move on to taping and painting in their neck this is the cafeteria you can see the sheetrock is is in there taping is going on what you can't see is the stage that is on the left side of that photo the stage has the brick work done in front of it so

045we can really see how big the stage is going to be and that it opens up into both a multi-purpose space as well as this cafeteria this is on the administrative area on the first floor so um they're still working on framing in there then they'll move on to sheetrock but mechanical electrical and plumbing is this is the gym so this room doesn't get sheetrocked this room is going to be painted the concrete will be sealed and there'll be pads along obviously all the way around the gym you can kind of see that they're toying around with some colors um um and this space does look a lot bigger on the very far end what I thought was interesting we learned yesterday those two very giant um openings are going to have basically essentially an

046enormous garage doors that lift up and that also connects to the gross motor area so you could have classrooms or events that use the entire gym as well as the gross motor area or you can section it off however you'd like to use it so the building is really well adapted to a lot of different purposes this is that gross motor area so if you're walking through some of those big doors this area is not still is still ongoing there's still a lot of Framing and stuff going on in mechanical and electrical going in there what you can kind of see all the way in the back near those windows that's going to be well on the back in the left side of it is the lower tax area and this is that space so

047it's the smaller cafeteria just for kindergarten in first grade and you'll be able to see some of that framework going in next the entry into the neighborhoods will all have these these spaces where there are going to be sculptures or artwork hanging down that you'll be able to see from the first or second floor and a lot of these spaces look a lot thin a lot more finished than what you see here with drywall and taping going into a lot of that information typical classroom a lot of them have sheetrock taping and they're moving on to painting but it looks really nice now that everything is sort of in there and you can see those are the ceiling grids that I was talking about that hold the the drop down ceiling panels so you can

048kind of see every classroom is going to have nine foot ceilings and so they're starting to really close in the space and that's that's generally it so there's a lot of progress going on I love it looks really good and actually Dr P and Dr riddle have some I'll leave I'll give it over to them because they have some more a good way to close out this section but anybody have any questions on progress all right I'll give it to you Rosa thank you um so it's Dr P and um drill made the weighted microphone um one of the things that they'll mention in in terms of calendar and taking a look at things is we are in a um situation where January 3rd is our Target and so we're talking about three three and

049a half months away excuse me so a lot of work even though we saw a lot of progress a lot of work still has to take place we're really excited about that looking forward a lot of meetings when we continue to occur with OMG and with the NBC to make sure we're staying on task in addition to that the the main focus now is to make sure that the area that will be occupied which is the main area on the north side of the building the four three to four wings that would involve grades two three and four cafeteria et cetera are all completely finished for move-in with the grades two through four faculty and staff there is a likelihood and we need to accept the reality that the Pre-K and kindergarten area would still

050be likely under construction the important thing there and we'll send informal communication out is finished walls will be put up anywhere where there would be any kind of an opening for security so students could wander into curiously wander into a construction site and certainly workers wouldn't be able to access the school so that's part of staging and shifting and Logistics and we'll work on that with us to check out the team as we continue on but Dr P Dr Rivera let's turn it over to you thank you thank you Dr will uh probably about a week ago the regular officers set up my desk is in front of my door to a young Doctor Who was across the hall and I said hey what are you working on she said the countdown to Candlewood I

051thought how cool I like it it seems countdown to Candlewood so I've adopted it as my own and this is the countdown to Candlewood it's a little transitioning plan over what we're doing so far um uh so the transition to many actually CLS is made up of people from Center whiskey near and Huckleberry mtsl uh we have met a few times as a whole committee and most recently it was to develop the cles mission and release Dr bill has shared this with the district I personally think it's the greatest mission in Village statement ever and I I got Jonathan Costa said that too around the creation at Candlewood Lake Elementary School we are a student-centered community dedicated to challenging supporting and empowering all Learners to contribute positively to our world to achieve our mission we

052create a safe and welcoming climate so everyone can develop academically socially and emotionally we build collaborative Partnerships with parents and Guardians as they are a child's first teacher we assure that the curriculum promotes critical thinking and creative products out of them allowing all Learners to persevere and find their own way we provide meaningful and engaging learning opportunities so all students feel connected and are active motivated Learners we honor everyone's progress and celebrate growth as well as achievement uh the series Alias uh transition committee as I said we need regular list is members of ceshes WIC TSO we also have our subcommitters inevitable meeting more frequently we have our climate and culture uh there's you know considering ways to celebrate Milestones social emotional programs uh do some Gatherings to build the build the culture between the

053the among the three buildings we have our academic stuff subcommittee intervention structures curriculum materials and Grading we have our Logistics subcommittee which is a rival dismissal and schedules we have our supporting systems subcommittee budget technology security human resources and finding our communication subcommittee which is uh you know how we're going to get the word out to staff families in the broader community and that being said I now turn it over to Dr Moodle to talk about communication thank you Dr P so we are excited to introduce the countdown of Candlewood in it you'll find key milestones and celebrations in the areas of the new schools construction such as the stairwells Mainframe as well as some of the highlights from the transition committees that Dr P just introduced in order to successfully merge seven grade levels

054into one amazing School community the countdown to Candlewood is organized to draw attention to key areas of the building such as grade level neighborhoods technology common areas and then an overall aspect of the ongoings of that transition important documents are also linked into the countdown that can be found in blue for example the security presentation that Dr Burrell gave it's welcome back newsletter as well as the progress photos that we just saw in addition there's also a Google form linked to the document down at the bottom to act as a driver to as we create an updated FAQ section this is a living document so as updates and Milestones are reached the document will be changed to reflect the celebration as you can see up here with the check marks Dr Burrell mentioned earlier this

055document will also be posted to our district website and will be a tool for keeping all of Brookfield updated on the progress towards clefs we hope it will get all members of the community as excited as we are as we become Candlewood so I'll care to see some of the overall excitement that has been going on generator installed moving contractors chosen you go scroll actually Daniel why don't you take a moment and walk through some of those big Milestones everybody's interested no problem so we have our grade level neighbor in the area of grade level neighborhoods our furniture and Equipment have been ordered our classroom cabinets and storage have been delivered um the bathrooms as mentioned earlier and some of the tiles and paintings being done fixture installations all underway stairwells with the exception of

056that grand staircase and Library staircase are actually cranked out scroll down the technology bid went out so we're awaiting I think tomorrow that's due um technology equipment will is anticipated being delivered in November or December so that's upcoming um in certain common areas so this is the nurses Suite the kitchens the cafeteria for the upper grades for grades two through five drywall as mentioned earlier has been started as well as the breakfast sod for the stage and the multi-purpose room and then the overall transition mission of beliefs as Dr P shared has been complete um like we mentioned the presentation of the security the welcome back newsletter the progress photos are all directly Linked In so this really becomes your One-Stop shop for everything Canada would like update we went through yesterday as mentioned some

057upcoming events that we're really looking forward to um we'll get some more packing and moving uh Direction coming up soon next month um our TCO is a temporary certificate of occupancy is uh scheduled to be early December tours as well as parents and student tours we're hoping will be early December as well and as Dr Burrell said the anticipate a partial School of construction completion so that Huckleberry as we know it can move in through January 3rd scrolling two and through for a report demo of Huckleberry starts potentially in February site work for permanent driveways and parking lot scheduled for April June 13th Pre-K great through grade one as well as fifth grade begin their packing in August 2023 we become Candlewood Lake Elementary School and I will say during the construction pretty much every

058classroom sorry during the construction every classroom of Huckleberry pretty much faces Canada lake so you know bless the teachers and the students because distraction of the Bulldog service in the stand it was just awning my own distraction this is so awesome the nice thing if there can be a nice thing about a demolition of the school is that the second third and fourth grade classroom wings are in the back and they don't have a cumulative set demolition so they overlooked beautiful woods and and the backyard area and place caves and Courtyard so not going to be a distraction so let's she sees me through the walkthroughs because I have to pay a little 12 year old boy going through a construction site again but it really is exciting and Dr P really likes wearing the

059construction uh hat last night he was really excited about that we need to get him a Brookfield Bobcat sticker on it though like it's a football helmet that I think that would be really exciting a couple of things I wanted and Danielle thank you thank you very much Dave thank you I wanted to share a little bit and certainly turn it over to the board if you have any questions um in December we talked about finished temporary parking lot and and bus turn around it's gonna be very tight um the driveway that will be used when go into Candlewood Lake and staff close to Canada Wood Lake will be the construction road right now that'll have a uh as Mr checo explains a smooth finish to it but it's not a full finished driveway of

060asphalt but it will be smooth it won't be a grandma type finish um but it is going to be temporary so you know we don't want to um promise to anybody that's going to be perfect temporary parking that means they'll be parking along the driveway or looking to get 125 spaces that was discussed at the MVC meeting last night there will be a very tight bus turnaround in there so apparent above is going to be a very difficult uh challenge so we're working with Dr P right now and some ideas and some things we might be able to do because the actual same time as buses go in um just won't be possible to fit in parent pick-up and drop off so we got to figure that one out so we're going to be working

061on that in addition to that demolition once the students are out of Huckleberry the demolition begins it's important for people to know that demolition isn't just a one of these wrecking balls that just shows up on site and starts smashing walls down there's a lot of very specific materials the materials that are at the building have to be specifically demolished and then disposed of in a proper environmentally sound wave so that's that takes a lot of time it isn't something that happens in a couple of weeks with some backbos and bulldozers and so forth that does take time and then the site board has to begin as well during the springtime all the way through hopefully quickly into June and then it's done maybe July to finish it up driveways parking lots curving all of

062that stuff so we could move into Candlewood Lake and be ready to roll uh in in mid late August with the perfect parking lot driveways and all the light and paint and all of that so turnovers in order for some questions or comments or Dr P or Dr a little if you have anything else and then one other thing we're really excited Amy and um and Steve Baldwin uh and um Rob tens of the project manager we're going to be meeting about the various playscapes um to not only have them accessible but really have them so they're totally inclusive and not only will be for the school but really are a community resource on the weekends and after school when people want to play so we're really excited about that too obtain any questions from

063the board I think we joked about this in the past about what happens with the existing furniture in in Huckleberry and we joked about big tag sale but is there has there been any further talk about what to do is there going to be an opportunity to see if there are any other schools or town offices that can use any of the equipment the school so the first thing we're going to do we haven't had with the opening school as I can't talk about the preparation budget we haven't had a conversation about that recently the the first schools that get dibs on any furniture and it might seem counterintuitive because of the size of the kids but Mr belanda and Mr redmi get first run at going through the schools taking a look at your

064desks and all kinds of things so Table conference tables um I know Dean is definitely excited about this I'm not sure about Martin how excited he is these kids are a little bit bigger but Dean is ready to go um so there's that piece and then opening it up to other schools if we can or a community you know Community organizations here but we do need to follow board policy so we're going to double down and make sure we're following that war with Ken on that um and Mr Caldwell um uh in addition to that I know Jordan you asked a couple of uh meetings back about a walkthrough of Huckleberry I think our best bet on that uh more than happy to help organize that would be once the students are out and in

065Candlewood Lake maybe ptos can help and helps run that and have one of our sros there or something like that some supervision and then you know have a set time range where people can do a walk through it'd be kind of fun um I did work with um Mrs Sturtevant who's a former board member who was at the beginning of this uh project very early on six years ago or so as well as talk to the PT both ptos about historical celebrations it's not something that District Administration has the capacitance so there's community members alumni staff alumni students some people have reached out I've connected people who've reached out with the PTO leadership those are certainly for both Center School and Candlewood Lake I mean in Huckleberry any celebrations people want to have get-togethers whatever

066however they want to do it that's up to them I know it's a very important piece current faculty who've been long-time Veterans of either School very you know there's a little melancholic even though they're excited you know they're going to be moving out in a building that they spend a lot of their life in so we want to honor that but it made it very clear that that needs to be kind of yeah Community Grassroots that's a great word Grassroots because Administration needs to focus all of their energy on making this a successful transition thank you for that any other questions from the board all right thank you all I look forward to more information on that that'll be really good as that pleasure Zone okay um with that the last couple of items uh

067three main points okay um I was thinking that it would be good to provide a security update that Dr Burrell mentioned in his superintendent's report about the new hires in that process I really was impressed with Mr Baldwin's Athletics update so I'd really like to get share some of that good news about our investments that we made last and then of course the countdown to Candlewood clps update yeah three main points that we've done right next is upcoming events I have no school this coming Monday September 26th for Rosh Hashanah and the following Wednesday October 5th for Yom Kippur and Monday October 10th there is no school it's a PD day at Center School picture day is Thursday the 22nd Tomorrow there's a kindergarten trip to Silverman's Farm on Tuesday October 18th the PTO sponsors

068book fair is October 14th to the 21st and the PTO is also sponsoring the Halloween family fun night on Friday October 21st at 6. Huckleberry has picture day coming up on October 6th and preparations are underway for the second annual and I'm assuming final Huckleberry hustle whispaneer has open house tomorrow night for sixth grade and the 29th or 7th and 8th school picture day is this Friday September 23rd and the walkathon is Thursday October 13th with t-shirt orders due by September 27th and a rain date of the 14th and at Brookfield High School as mentioned the homecoming Carnival is this Friday and the homecoming dance which is in the gym is October 1st that's all I have thank you so that's it for our agenda tonight um out in the objections we're urgent thank you

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