001okay browser ready to go all right thanks good evening everyone today is wednesday may 19 2021 and i call the regular meeting of the brookfield board of education to order in accordance with executive order 7b suspending sections 1-206 1-225 1-2 of the connecticut general statutes the public will not be able to attend this meeting in person but will have the ability to view or listen to the meeting in real time by way of the brookfield board of education youtube channel furthermore such meeting will be recorded or transcribed and posted on the board's website within seven days of the meeting and made available as required by law all speakers taking part in the meeting are reminded that they are to clearly state their names and titles if applicable before speaking on each occasion that they speak
002individuals wishing to participate in the public comment portion of the meeting may do so by calling the following numbers area code 301 715-8592 or area code the 929-205-6099 id is 924-8607-7242 and the passcode is 862092 and i think that will be the last time that i have to read that paragraph so we will be transitioning to live meetings next month so um more on that later um let's stand for the pledge 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 okay we have all of our board members in attendance tonight and this first item on our agenda is the student spotlight at wisconsin middle school so mr renda the floor is yours all
003right i'm very excited for tonight's presentation uh mr conklin can you um share our google slide please as mr conklin is sharing the google slide presentation that we do have i want to introduce to you um some of our uh the advisors that we have here tonight uh miss bratchell mrs grace miss haas and also ms marshall is one of our advisors also but she could not make tonight um and i'm just so excited that they uh came to me and volunteered this year to start the diversity coalition because they are just so passionate about building a positive culture for all of our students at wisconsin and at this time i'm going to turn it over to them so they can introduce our fantastic students go ahead good evening everyone so i would love to
004introduce you to three of our student members of diversity coalition and we're going to give them some space and time to share their experiences with the dc so right now we have melissa sria and julie and they're going to actually introduce each other as well so take it away listen you go first okay it wasn't letting me out mute so sorry hi my name is melissa and i'm an 8th grader at wms um one of the reasons why i joined this club is because i love to share my experience navigating we lost her julie do you want to jump in julie in the meantime sure um hello my name is roberto and i'm also an 8th grader at wms the reason why i joined diversity coalition was it's kind of always been my passion my
005parents raised me to always be aware of everything that's going around me and everything that's going on in the world especially as a woman of color and because of this i've always been interested in societal issues and it's i've always i've gone out of my way to research and find out about events that are happening and when i found out that the school had a diversity was creating a diversity coalition group it was like a perfect opportunity for me to talk about my passions and also share the things that i've experienced with the group sharia you want to go um hi i'm sharia calcar and i am in sixth grade uh i joined the diversity coalition to learn more about racial and gender equality in school and i'm really passionate about this stuff i think
006the big issue because of all the protests happening this year um it's really important to talk about this issue in school because not many people are aware of this issue and i want to raise awareness as well so it is great to have the diversity coalition as a safe place for whoever wants to talk about gender and racial equality at school all right melissa do you want to can we can you talk i apologize uh my computer was not working hi my name is melissa baines i'm an eighth grader at wms and one of the reasons why i joined this club is because i love to share my experience navigating life through a black woman i've obviously experienced many different microaggressions and racism and this club was just an outlet to share about my life
007can you click there eric so why was the club created in the first place it was created to be a safe space for all students no matter their gender identity race and religion um another reason is we wanted to spread awareness about different events happening all around the world that we might not be able to discuss in class um like i mentioned before we wanted students to have a safe outlet to share their stories and experiences and learn from them on how we can create our school to be a better place can you next good sharia yeah um so in our first meeting of the diversity coalition we talked about what societal issues we wanted to discuss and discuss in each meeting and just got to know each other so we could feel comfortable with
008everyone who's there um and then in our consent meeting we talked about the most critical issues and we also created a set of norms or um values to follow so that we can make a safe space for everyone if they wanted to talk about something personal or just about racial and gender equality in general and those were our first two meetings which made a positive impact on all of us in our third meeting are our advisors our advisors created a peer deck in order for us to talk about the recent increase in asian hate and after that on our fourth meeting we developed groups and student roles and committees in order for us to put our thoughts into action in order to spread around the school what was going on planning on monday our advisors
009sent out a survey to learn about our experiences in the club and what they can do next year to make it a better experience for everyone some of the questions include how we can be a more visible group in school what's our plan for next year our experience and our takeaways good mr confident so what are the next steps well there's many things that we wanted to do but a couple of things that we as a group came up with were that first we wanted to we wanted more opportunities to put our ideas into actions we wanted to connect more with the student body and make sure that we gain more knowledge on our own students and create a better environment for everyone in general we also wanted to make sure that we explored all
010sides in all sides of issues and current events and make sure that we fully know the situation before spreading anything all right we're good um uh advisors is there anything that you would like to say before i talk to end or how about i talk first then if there's anything else we'll go there um as you know uh this past year i put in uh we were uh lucky to have the budget passed and one of the things that i know i've been in for wisconsin was allies for diversity club um i think the biggest thing as we look forward as as a student said we want to make sure that the biggest thing is making sure that we have that positive culture so everybody feels comfortable they talked about safe space being able to
011discuss issues um that are going on um in the world today or like she uh like one of the students said in our own school with diversity and also in the community um whether it's you know about race whether it's about religion whether it's gender identity it's everybody um inclusion um and that's the purpose that we really want to make sure that um our students and staff and the community understand that that's what this um diversity coalition is about we are excited as we look forward to um help maybe you know do a little bit of a professional development if you want to call our training with our staff members around some of the ways to as one of the students talked about navigating those microaggressions that happen or said in classrooms helping our staff
012of how to um be able to um talk about something like that that may happen in the class or how to react to that um because sometimes it's it's very uncomfortable situations sometimes but also i think the big thing as we move forward is helping to look to train students not just diversity coalition students but also our peer leaders also our student council members of how to be allies um when they see these things or when they hear of these things and to reach out to us to be able to um to work through those different um things that they may see and again the whole idea behind it all is that we make wisconia a better place for everyone that's the big thing behind it all is there anything that um any of the
013advisors want to say to end if there isn't really quickly i'm sarah bradshaw art teacher over at wisconsin proud art teacher at within your middle school i just want to give props really quickly to shriya melissa and julie for their presentation and i just want to continue to support that um diversity coalition is really a student-led organization and i just i'm so proud and thankful for these students because they have so many ideas and they really have um so many answers for us moving forward and they really know how to build connection how to bridge the gap and i believe that they're the ones that are going to lead us into more inclusive inclusivity and to building a better culture at wisconsin thanks julie melissa and shriya and our advisors thank you any questions i
014don't have a question but i will say that um this is this is a lot of really good work that you guys are doing and it it actually reminds me a lot of the social emotional learning that is obviously going on in the school i mean identifying how you're feeling about issues and learning how to articulate that um and you know like your advisor said you're bridging that gap and how to now reach out to others um and sort of bring everybody into the fold so it's really important work that you guys are doing and we're very proud of you what else well thank you for giving us the opportunity to spotlight um i made it a quick it wasn't a long presentation um but i thought it was something that we all felt that
015it was something that uh we are very proud of and the students and the advisors that have volunteered their time this year to um to put this together and then chances to meet for the students to be able to discuss and talk about things like this so thank you thank you all right the next item on our agenda is public comment is anyone here for public comment all right hearing none i will move on to the student representative report hi i'm tambie chenera as a student representative um so in the beginning of may we had a lot of students who were fully remote who were able to come back so it was really nice to see some faces that we haven't seen like all year ap exams started this week so some students are kind
016of stressing over that and it kind of goes from now till the end of the school year and rook summer remote and summer in person too um juniors had their prom last friday on may 14th and it seemed like they enjoyed it and dressing up and just getting to um see people and hang out with their friends the nhs induction ceremony is happening tomorrow on the turf the back turf and we're welcoming the new nhs members for next year and kind of recognizing the current members as well because we didn't get a in-person induction last year um swc and state games have also started for sports that qualified for those the two-day senior prom is finally here this weekend and students are super excited for that on friday it's at the high school on the
017basketball court and parking lot and they'll be like a dj and food trucks and a photo booth and for that students are allowed to leave school at 10 20 as long as they're there for the first three blocks of the day and then on saturday is quasi which is like semi-formal and there'll be a food dj and then the rides will be open for the end of the night and then june 12th is graduation and there'll be a car parade from wisconsin to the high school at 10 30 that starts at 10 30 and then the ceremony on the football field is planned to start at 11 45 i believe and um so guests can watch from the stands and outside the fence track and they'll also be a live broadcast of that and each
018graduate gets four tickets to bring their family and that's all i have thank you funny questions thank you any questions for tampi all right thank you uh moving on we have written correspondence deborah ann wrote regarding the municipal elections and dan fulchetti wrote regarding school curriculum okay approval of board minutes i'll move that the board approve the minutes from the regular meeting on may 5th all those in favor all right that's unanimous thank you um the superintendent's update all right thank you rosa and thanks for everyone who's here and presenting tonight already thank you very much really appreciate the effort so a number of things to talk about and update everyone on in terms of covid um our data data in town continues to trend downward which is a positive for us two weeks ago
019we had one school case last week five cases and so far this week cross your fingers no cases so in school it's going quite well um and the staff and students are continuing with our our typical mitigation strategies in addition to that uh we uh as part of esser and i'll talk about that in just a second um this is laforgia our nurse coordinator myself and mr conklin sat down uh earlier this week and we started putting pen to paper on updating the you all might remember the 50 or 60 page reopening plan that we had one of the requirements for the ester grant and for opening school next year is that each district developed a new fall opening plan and so we are working on a new draft of that of course there's lots
020that we don't know yet and await guidance on as the next couple of weeks and months come toward us and uh i actually engaged the reopening committee and i know rose and joy are on that so they received an email just the other day with an updated draft of the documents to start taking a look at providing feedback etc we also will be engaging in some um conversation with either ptos or different forums and sharing that document over the next couple of months um in addition to that related to covid the governor has extended his executive order uh two things pertinent to the board and i did email the board uh earlier today just to give a quick update so you had a heads up one in terms of public meetings uh the governor's order
021to transition after tomorrow night into public meetings that does begin and that is unchanged by the new executive order um but in terms of uh the extension of the executive order it does impact um outside gatherings and mask wearing and who's vaccinated who's not vaccinated and it relates down through department of public health and so we are working not only with other districts to see to interpret exactly what all this means as it just came out but also with attorney murphy uh to make sure we're making the right decisions and what's great about that is with the beautiful weather coming up there's been questions about what's happening outside how does it change we still have in-school mask wearing that's that's an automatic um for the time being and that likely is for the remainder of
022the year outdoors um there's discussion of length much lengthier mask breaks for the outdoors when kids can keep separation at either recess or phys ed time um and so we're looking into all of that including spectators if they're able to space and so forth at different outdoor events so we're working on all of that and like always it as it unfolds and develops we'll provide clear communication as to what our expectations are the esser grants just a reminder update um in terms of sr2 uh that was approved a couple of weeks back and then in terms of the american rescue plan sr3 that we've discussed um uh i've actually put a communication out uh to bob and rosa and um deb and i need to communicate with jen um i'd like to get a special
023finance meeting in next week so ken and i and dr ruby um and the gang could share a little bit about what we're thinking uh in terms of esser uh from that financial perspective um and that grant just so everybody knows is 827 000 20 or 167 thousand dollars needs to be put toward learning loss and acceleration or social emotional supports so there's very strict guidelines and again with the ester grant it's tied to you know a safe reopening in the fall and it's also tied to public engagement and getting feedback from the public uh and also opportunities for conversation at public meetings such as this um so i just mentioned that about public engagement trying to schedule some time with ptos to get in and talk about the ester grant and so forth and
024i would do that obviously after i work with the finance committee tom you already talked about a little bit about the two pieces i want to talk about for my last items tonight which one was uh both are involving academic excellence first national honor society eight o'clock tomorrow night at the high school outdoor event we are really looking forward to that um we know how proud the parents are and how proud the staff is of these magnificent kids who work so darn hard we're just so proud of them can't wait to honor them tomorrow night and then we just received uh summer reading challenge news the governor summer reading program earlier today and it was a surprise mr render didn't even know it was coming it just came that let me get my notes i
025want to make sure i say this correctly whisking here is one of 17 total schools in the state but one of seven middle schools um to be recognized for the amount of reading our kids uh did over the summer and as i understand it 691 of the uh over 750 kids at the school participated um reading a total of that's 93 participation reading a total of 5 490 books or an average of eight books per student over the summer and so that recognition will be on may 26th at a virtual ceremony um in the morning on may 26th so congratulations wisconner another spotlight for tonight great job mr renda and team very proud of you um and that is all i have i don't know if anybody has any questions thank you for indulging me
026any questions all right thank you thank you okay uh on to subcommittee reports and the first up is facilities okay so we met on may 5th we reviewed the school dude reports the wms water update so we're doing our second round of water testing and we should get the results for the end of the week from then we can begin our plan we anticipate using the phosphate injection system boys locker room was tested with some high levels of lead we replace a lot of faucets which is typically routine things to do we're looking into aquarium water and tying in a 1600 foot run from the condos engineering considerations from cca is next and we're waiting for their proposal custodian staffing update eight invitations for applicants were given out four positive replies next tuesday there's a
027round of interviews three positions still need to be filled two night custodians and one lead supervisory position we review the capital project updates we're hoping to get a lot of quotes soon for summer work pa system needs to be addressed because we need to be able to communicate when staff is in the courtyards and boiler rooms there will be meetings with administrators to review security needs the hvac the bid specs are ready tecton is wrapping it up they will need additional time to do an updated floor plan we can use the floor outline that we have but it needs to be redone uh for the inside bids are going to go out in the next few weeks expected work to be started this summer with a hope of getting the work done before the cold
028season we are using the abs company this is the same design company of the new school the good news is that the wiring is in place which is a tremendous savings and we have some integrity left in our systems the wall update at the middle school the abatement is completed quality construction companies still working on the bid specs for the masonry work we will manage and monitor the site ourselves this work is going to be a process it will be three to four weeks um just to lay the block six to eight weeks to get the block and we're hoping that the work is done by the start of school but it's not a guarantee osha follow-up on april 20th they came to our school and interviewed some employees they had a question and answer
029session and toured the buildings they published a report based off all of this and the quick summary is they found two hazards um one being a dead mouse trap and a trap a dead mouse and a trap sorry and the second one was electrical wiring issue um power strips plugged into power strips so their recommendations are to have a district-wide food policy and the second recommendation was to improve our communication since each building works independently um the admin has to work with their staff and encourage them to communicate their concerns and actually there's another recommendation that a spreadsheet of location and quantities of traps for the ones we place ourselves be made and then we had some new business we should expect an unfunded mandate to address our fire sprinkler system so we need to
030update our signage and the fire marshal is recommending increasing our frequency of testing to accord to quarterly instead of annually also conducting a five-year test that tests the integrity of the system and that's it enjoy that was by the the fire piece there that was um a state mandate that for everybody that is not just a brookfield issue that is right yeah okay thank you do we have any idea how much that might cost um we didn't discuss that you can get into that yet um but i don't know if mr post is there if you might know i am here but i don't i don't know the cost of that okay um with for the boys locker room um have we thought about what we're going to do or how we're going to navigate
031when we don't have that at all and school starts i know that joy or do you want me to i know you met with um steve you guys had a meeting to address that sure so actually very exciting news obviously um with the budget passing that means the capital program passed and that extremely involved and large project passed so we're really excited about that um just to give you a little background today uh eddie from techton came and and they did a walkthrough with the prospective bidders on the project so that happened this afternoon so that was already on the schedule um and and we have looked at the base bit plus the two at alternates and how to go about that um mr ferland i see your your uh picture popping up there if
032you want to say a little a little brief piece of how we've considered things uh without getting into all the gory details sure dr braille no problem my pleasure um so there you know it really depends on the type of um you know what what ends up going with the bids and how long it takes to get things done but basically what the plan is at this point is to move the equipment out of the health fitness center uh into the old gym to one side of the old gym put down some stuff to protect the floor move that equipment in there that allows them access to that side um you know at this point you know we will we can make do and figure out what we're going to do in terms of not
033having access to the rest of the locker room we'll still have access to the weight room and weight facilities because we'll just move it into uh the small gym it does decrease our capacity to to utilize the older gym but at the same time we're hoping that with weather being good in the fall we can get outside as much as possible so it doesn't really it won't affect our pe classes as much as it would previously in terms of changing for pe which is the only kind of other thing that's there and um including using the boys locker room for uh sports and teams after school we've been able to get by without using it at this point it's not ideal it's not fantastic um but we have been able to figure out how to
034do that thanks to kovid i can't believe i said that out loud i didn't mean that thanks to covid but due to covid we were able to figure out how to how to operate our um our athletic program without use of the locker room it's not ideal but it's something we can certainly do for a short amount of time knowing that the project will soon be completed and that's basically what we're going to plan on doing at this point okay right thank you joy um finance hey can you hear me okay yep okay good um so uh finance committee met on may 10th um it's actually a pretty quick turnaround because our april meeting was late in the month because of the school break um the uh you all have copies of the financial reports
035for both the month and march and month end april um in your in your package for tonight the net of the discussion was actually quite a brief meeting uh this month we went through the the budget status for the current year and we actually um uh improved our budget position by 48 000 so you know as you remember we've been running a loss and the board of finance will cover us for that loss because of the covent spending um and now we're at a point where we're actually over our budget by only sixty seven thousand dollars at its peak we were over two hundred thousand dollars so we've been doing a good job of finding the offsets as we've gone through the year and that's what the board of finance had asked us to do
036right see what we could do this month the uh the savings were identified in the extended duty and instructional supplies to counts um and uh and they were offset the big offset was the we got less on the ecs funding uh that went than we had expected and we released uh the contingency amount we've been holding and we've been holding it quite frankly because we expected that ecs you know uh funding to come in and we wanted to do them at the same time um so uh good news right and the the outlook for the current year um good news that the budget just got passed so we did talk briefly about that but uh at our meeting but it's uh but it's that's now uh done you know done and voted on which is
037great um and other than that we just got some of that very brief updates on essa grants on the wms wall project we are going to be doing a food service contract renewal um and mr post will bring that to us next month and and then in the fall we'll be doing a bus contract bed so and if you remember we had pushed that off because we wanted to get closer to the new school project so now is the time to start dealing with that and it will be a bidding process um and uh and that's pretty much it it was uh it was about a uh 35 minute meeting so really short one all right any questions all right then let's move on to equity okay uh we met on may 13th we began
038by getting reports from each of the five subgroups one person from each group summarized what was discussed at their initial meeting ideas and questions that came up so for group one i'll just give a brief group one whose focus is to create opportunities to celebrate differences in others beliefs ideas and backgrounds they had an idea to like create an interview forum in the community where people could share something from their background or culture and it could be posted online similar like a humans of new york type of thing group two which is focusing on supporting the board's initiatives and creating community conversations and diversity and equity that will lead to systemic improvements discuss what voices need to be heard including students staff parents in the broader community and the possibility of collaborating with other town
039boards such as the library and student groups such as the diversity coalition at wisconsin to facilitate community events group three whose charge is promoting an appreciation of diverse cultures groups people and perspective is looking at census data to reveal the diversity in town and exploring the idea of creating a diversity calendar that could possibly be imported into the school calendars to highlight some lesser known or non-traditional occasions group four is working on celebrating individual academic social and civic contributions of individuals within the community and they're mostly looking to get students involved at this point and see what's already clubs and offerings are already in existence and building on those and group five will be assessing the school's promotion of understanding respect caring problem-solving conflict resolution anti-bullying and some questions that arose with them or how
040to collect the data to have a baseline to work from possibly examining curriculum and policy possibly surveying staff students and parents on climate issues and forming some focus groups and possibly equity teams at each school is something that they discussed so this is just a sampling there's a lot reported that's going on and everything's in the early forming ideas um from each group so that's what's going on there and all those groups are based on the board objectives so after the subgroup reports we sort of took a step back in a way we want to be sure we have a clear focus in the work that we're doing because this is such a broad and complex endeavor and we want to be sure that our path and our goals are clearly defined um so jen
041leyden shared with us an equity framework overview that she came across in her doctoral studies i'll just give like a brief it's a concept that we thought we could possibly use to help the committee define what lens we're viewing this work through and there's three lenses deficit-minded diversity-minded and equity-minded i'll just give a brief example if anyone has further questions i'm sure jen could answer them but like in a deficit mindset if there's an achievement gap the goal is fixing the student through tutoring remediation etc with a diversity mindset the goal is more increasing access and representation of marginalized groups without mention of outcomes and in an equity mindset the institution is the focus so data is analyzed to find the gaps which can then be targeted to fix through policy and practice so after
042she presented the five subgroups went into breakout rooms to kind of discuss those concepts then we all regrouped again for some brief further discussion and to set a direction going forward so all the subgroups have meetings scheduled before our next committee meeting in june and the focus um for that will be determining the definition of equity while remembering this is a human issue not a political one determining what data each group needs in order to begin analysis and adopting a framework in order to begin taking meaningful action steps that's about it any questions sounds great thank you okay the next item on our agenda is the consent agenda i will move that the board approved the items on the consent agenda which are new hires resignations transfers retirements and the march and april financials do
043i have a second second thanks joy all those in favor hi hey rosie i just um i i asked mrs diamond just to say a little something about the uh mrs daniels who's retiring from center school she's been with us 12 years and uh we obviously wish her well and thank her for her service but i thought it'd be better to let mary rose say a few words so mary rose please thank you um natalie daniels has been a para educator in the aba elc program um since the start um and is one of the most gentle and kind people you would ever want to meet so she will definitely be missed she she is a huge heart um and i know she's looking forward to moving on and using uh you know applying those
044skills and her great uh capacity for compassion um with other people as well in her life so she's really um excited to move on i think but certainly sad um and she again is it's just been a real gift to the center school community so we're very grateful for everything else done congratulations on your retirement if you're listening all right um see the next item we are in new business now and the first item is approval of the idea grant application i'll move that the board approve the annual submission of the district idea grant as required by state law second thanks joy um maureen or dr ruby did you want to say anything here dr breal did you want to say anything here actually it's there's not a lot to say it's an annual submission
045that we have to do state law that the board approves it's not just submitted by administration but actually mrs wagonic's on and she could actually say a few words about it i believe i see mrs white mr post and myself work on this grant together and um basically what it covers is salaries for a couple teachers paraprofessionals the transition coordinator and also the um non-public school cla which we have a special education teacher that we hired to support over at cla the services for the students that are on service plans so that's basically what the idea grant covers okay any questions from board members all right so all those in favor aye thank you that's unanimous and the next item on our agenda is the 2021-2022 board of education meeting dates did everyone get a
046chance to look at those all right oh sorry there's a motion sorry amy i'd probably cut you off i will make a motion that the board approved the subcommittee meeting schedule or the board of education 2021 2022 board of education meeting dates do i have a second second second thanks debbie all right um any questions or changes edits at all on any of these this is just for the board of ed right at this moment yeah yeah okay so all those in favor aye all right all right thanks that's unanimous and the next item is the subcommittee meeting schedule july through december 2021 i will move that the board approved the subcommittee meeting schedule from july to december 2021 okay thanks debbie um jen did you i just have to oh maybe she was gonna
047say what i was gonna say the bef i'm the bef representative oh okay were you gonna say that then uh yes but i got something else too we changed date of our um cape meetings to thursdays i think if i remember correctly it says tuesdays uh which it usually is tuesday yeah yeah jen we had put it uh lisa and i worked on it we had put it back to tuesday but i know the cape committee may need to talk or you i don't know what dates you all prefer so um i still can't do tuesdays but you know that's something maybe that okay sidebar that and figure it out yeah i think we need to work on it within the committee because we have people who uh teach you know dr murphy teaches and
048i teach and it would be a matter of once again like i change i had the university change my class from what our cape eating usually is and uh you know i think that we have to internally decide um what uh you know i don't know i don't remember um like what your teaching date is so i don't need to take board time uh meeting time i got lucky last semester jen knows i frankly text her back would you guys like to table this until yes next meeting we have a meeting tomorrow night so maybe we could talk yeah we can do it tomorrow yeah yeah do it at the next meeting so do we need an uh do we need a motion to table that or can we just table it as before we
049do that i just have one other i noted that the finance committee in october is scheduled for columbus day um is that an issue for anybody in the administration um because i know it's usually a pd day yeah yeah it's a pd day it wouldn't affect me i can i don't think it affects be okay no effect on me no effect on you and anybody on the committee agenda you had a problem for you or rosa okay all right so i'll make a motion to table this item for the next meeting okay i'll second that um i'm sorry rosa and then one last thing uh amy and i had talked a little bit earlier about not holding the equity inclusion subcommittee just because it's such a large committee to get everybody together with the various
050vacation schedules we didn't think july and august would make sense to but we're going to work on that um so it's i think it's perfect that we table this it's good that we have a little conversation here and then each group if they need to do a little back and forth with one another and then we could uh myself and lisa could work on the master bring it back for everybody so anybody any of the committees who need to make a change funnel that's with lisa and uh and we'll go from there yeah okay um so all those in favor of uh the motion to table okay hi that's unanimous okay so uh let's move on to item d waiver of policy four one one two point four two one actually i'll let you go
051ahead and read the motion because you're gonna end up saying those anyways gotcha i will move that the board wave policy number four one one two point four two one slash four two one two point four two one pre-employment drug screening as it relates to workers who are students within the brookfield public school system second thanks joy um dr braille did you wanna yeah this is a very very targeted waiver of this policy for very short term um for this a specific group of students our uh future teachers of america club we have me uh several students i think it's about seven or eight students from the club that will be working as uh teacher assistants to support our uh summer school summer enrichment program um this summer and so dr ruby and the principals
052of the team have been working on that and we just didn't think students who are already our students who are underage need a um have to have a screen and we want to make sure we dot every eye and cross every t and make sure the board is fully aware of what we're thinking and what we're planning and so it was very targeted not for any other employees potential employees we would still do all regular background checks on everyone else just not our students okay any questions on this all right so all those in favor aye okay actually i have a question i was slow to hit the mute there um so how how old are the students that are that are student teaching or what they're there there would be they would be assistance
053to the teachers helping out is like teacher aides there's about seven of them and they're interested in pursuing education as a major in college but they are still our students um so they're underage they're not they're not 18 years right so i mentioned that probably presents a legal issue oh yeah well if we yeah if the board didn't want to leave the policy then we would have to get parent permission and of course if the parents didn't get permission then that child would not be able to work with us in the summers if the board didn't want to waive the policy that's the other side of that thank you mike okay it's for 16 and 17 year olds the 18 year old by law have to okay um so that motion passed unanimously uh thank
054you um so the we're on to old business now and the first item is the uh board of education budget estimate for 2122 um it's been said before but we can say it again the budget passed so yay um the education town and capital um all passed at a near two to one margin so um that's uh very good news for us and um that's uh that's the only item that we have for any discussion point on that uh any questions roso do you know what the overall turnout was in voters 14 yeah oh so pitifully low but better than all the other towns yes yes okay got it bob i heard the other towns were all in the single digits they were they were they were horribly low good for brookfield for being the
055highest town in the area yes all right um next item is the canada woodlake elementary school building project last night the nbc had a meeting um so i got these updates from there and most of the foundation has been poured though some of the sections are still being prepped for that so um while that happens the building walls are actually starting to go up um so that's really exciting and the electrical and telecommunications conduits have uh started being laid underground so they're coming up to the the building itself um those are being laid under what will be the um eventual driveways to the building um the next major milestone is the delivery of structural steel so the steel has already been inspected and the expected delivery date is sometime in the middle of june so
056things are really moving along over there and it's uh it's very exciting so that's all i have on the building project and um three main points we're here already wow that was quick it was um so i was thinking maybe an update about the boys locker room and maybe the new school update that you just talked about and then sorry yeah i know i said that's always a good update yeah yeah and then i was just thinking about um a general covid update and some of the information john shared in his superintendent report about um fall reopening yeah definitely i think that sounds good all right that was easy um so then the uh we have upcoming events amy yep um all schools have an early dismissal next friday may 28th and are closed on
057monday may 31st um at center school and at huckleberry the abc end of your countdowns are ongoing at center school there's a free family book walk tomorrow from 5 to 7 pm outside at center on wednesday may 26th is an incoming kindergarten information session at that's at 4 p.m via zoom and the virtual smarts fair which will be on thursday june 3rd the sign up um sign up by may 31st for that and principles let me know if i miss anything that's what i have for center for huckleberry friday may 21st is a virtual pto meeting tuesday may 25th is the pto sponsored event side by side science and wednesday may 26th is the third grade virtual bronx zoo trip at whiskeneer there's a food drive ongoing they're accepting donations through friday may 28th friday
058may 28th is also career spirit day dress is your future profession and wednesday june 2nd is a spirit day in honor of ms nason and that is idiom day and at the high school tomorrow may 20th is the national honor society induction and tomorrow is the senior prom at the high school and saturday is the senior prom at quasi that's all i have great all right uh anything else all right so then we have uh an executive session tonight okay i will move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the superintendent's evaluation unaffiliated unaffiliated salaries and contracts second thanks joy all in favor aye okay um so that concludes uh the live stream for tonight and um board members i'll see you over on the other link good night everyone
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