Board of Education Meeting

001[Music] good evening today is Wednesday June 20th 2018 this is our regular meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education if we could all rise with Pledge of Allegiance 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 five members in attendance right now Debbie will be joining us late and evaced caught at work so the first thing on our agenda is a year-end report from athletic director Steve Baldwin thank you we have another fantastic year in athletics my gave you three handouts one is of the report one in a song an article about the microscope and I love program folk awards night so this year we have 567 students out of 895

002playing at the athletic program that's sixty-three percent of our student body which is very very high for any high school in the city there's 29 varsity sports the CIA C offers we could be in 27 of them and as well as dance chair and Unified sports this year you're awarded with the Michael's Cup and as their class at school and I'll just read this CIA C class act initiative is designed to empower schools and particularly students to take ownership for all issues related to sportsmanship with the mathematic Department schools are getting an opportunity to opt them as a class act schooler which we did doing so includes striving to follow establish guidelines set for behaviors at sporting events in creating student-led group which we have we overall student-athlete class act team and leadership team this

003team has come up with rules for athletes and they helped me assess the athletic program they assess me they helped me with what we what our needs are because who better knows our needs and the kids that's what we're here for we have president is Jenna Joshi and she's listed on the CIA C say as our student leader and she does an amazing job and that's why I will one of the 14 schools in the state that received this award this year we started Unified sports at risk and error and this was actually on a voluntary basis the coach volunteered and mr. Rondeau was a very bit of help with that you know one state championship and two runners-up boys swim and again culture is 10th with plays 11th overall softball just came in second

004in the state finished in a great year and dance was runner-up again how we are once cr1 swc Championship dance and three Patriots division championships volleyball soccer and golf we had three swc sportsmanship Awards which were very important to us each one of those teams got t-shirts and they won this award field hockey with a soccer and golf very impressive stat 250 normal our first city student-athletes that represents 75% of our varsity athletes receive all swc academic honors which is a 3.75 GPA or higher that's awesome we have won an American a McGrath guard and diving we had several students name to Allstate Julia the Salomon track Michael scored no football madam O'Leary and swimmin dogs were mad I've captured Sharky man and O'Connor and swim the dive Justin cause named Carol and Thomas foster

005and swim the valve Kayla lemon and Melissa blame any and softball and tennis and Mobley and cheerleading 73 outfits or name today on us WC Ian and this is very impressive we haven't had one of these and several years Alisal a Ananya was named to the last eight academic softball team that's extremely difficult because you have to make they all stay athletically and then have when the top ten GPA is out of those athletes to make that it has to be of golf of 3.75 so that's awesome for her just some capital improvements looking forward to the next few years that I'll be on it for the budget not all in one year remaining a new church chill not a new wrestling mat of a new high jump it in a new poll Hall pet

006which was spread out over the course of four or five years whatever you all deem the best for for us storm updates on right now still uncertain on the lights if they started the project today the light lighting project would be completed to 23rd so we're still not anywhere close to that according to Park in Iraq the process is kind of moving slowly and our kids are starting to panic and I'm starting to wait for them some of you came in earlier I was meeting with our coaches which is trying to figure out how to shift practices and times if we don't have lights and I'm hoping that we get rolling on this just ringing for some stuff from parking rack in bits to come in and in the whole process so hopefully with this

007that's moving over quicker so our kids could relax over the summer know and they're going to have you know night soccer field hockey in football games and in the fall the glass there's still glass and the lighting on the back field which concerns me we're waiting for a company to come in and clean that I just do our signs up I just don't want anybody to get hurt back there and that's supposed to happen within the next few weeks as of right now we don't have football goalposts or soccer balls which doesn't really affect us until mid-august when practices can start but it does affect the youth and the youth sports in the community they can't use the fields field hockey grills got smashed we do have some other ones but some of those are

008being orders across safety Macross safety netting is on order insurances cover that and throw back the cross insurance cover that and that's on order - another big concern is the cross-country trail I don't believe that that will be ready for the fall Cobra and I went back there today we got about 20 yards in on one of the machines and how to climb over a tree there are several landing trees that's a huge project because it goes up behind the school over here through a couple miles of widths and I I don't feel safe looking at some of the trees how they're hanging a lot of tree work acid got done for them to get back there and we're going to be working with Park and rock on that overlay on there's a picture from

009on the last thing on my report from awards night which we took now all of the banners trophies medals everything the kids were over four years and let them take pictures whether after they got all the rewards on awards night and that's and like I said in the packet there's a unified Sports press release and this great award looked at Kristin made for us thank thank God for her and the Forester club and all that they do helps me tremendously I don't know how I would survive without her other than that any questions a couple and number one what a fabulous job at the at the athletic award senior night thank you very much to all who put it together and it was quite impressive with all of the awards received with all of the

010storm updates are these are all covered by insurance or there's some that we're gonna have to put it on our own where's the they ate the two though that I'm not sure of is we're trying to they're waitin to see if they're going to cover light replacement or because like we had old wooden poles and I don't we can't put wooden poles in anymore so I don't know what they're gonna cover and that's Parker rocks working on that okay and the other equipment is you know the first ones the poles the last ones to trial I don't know how much they'll cover I'm the cross-country trail which that's something I don't know that's that's through parking rack so I just worked through through Mary a parking rack and I try to get as many answers

011as I can out of her I mean I know she's working hard to get this stuff done and she's got a lot going on - so damage is covered property it's covered and if it just falls it's not what's in insurance statement FEMA yes yes know if that was Mary told me that she did put all this into the favor reporter okay good for cross country and you may not even know the question I guess this might be a coach my question but will they try to establish a different trail or will they just run all of them right off I talked to Coach bud today about possibly doing it happy landings and which they have done it there in the past I heard that when this happened several years ago they needed special permission

012so I'm going to do some research into that and find out what we need to do for that because I'd rather keep races off of the road agree you know they're just for the safety of the kids and you know obviously if we have to go to another course it's going to cost us more boss money too thank you very much for the other two like the recent incident with Fairfield prep and staples high school yeah well actually our kids came up with some great ideas and these people and a degree that they were actually going to have a fan practice before the first football game the kids are going to go and we and a mark mark had gotten the idea from Texas A&M if you google a Texas and I'm a fan practice

013they just grave or positive Cheers you just try to create that positive culture out of our kids but I can't take the credit for that it's our kids it's our student leadership group it's it's it's you know we have great leaders within that group they do so much work because they want to have a better high school experience and they're such good leaders and I think you know when we do something really well it's important to stop and go well what are the underlying reasons why we're doing so well and I'm sure those kids are great but there's probably a bunch of coaches and teachers that have laid the foundation for that leadership and we have great coaches out here and went through a two hour meeting that usually takes us 15 minutes on just

014hashing out whatever they do if there's no lights who can help out who who could we practice and it was it was a wonderful meeting that all of our coaches just work together and got it done and we just went day by day well usually I just put it in because they have set times but we're in the unknown right now yeah but you know what it'd be interesting to sort of ask some of those kids before as they graduate you know what do you think contributed to our success and and getting an award like Michaels Cup because it would be great to hear from them what were the underlying experiences and reasons that led to our success because that would be something we'd want to replicate I have each year that I have a

015survey that they do and it just goes through it breaks down everything like where do our strengths where our weakness is what do we need to improve what am i doing what am I not doing about woody need for me what do you need from your coaches what do you need from the school and then we take that information and they break off into their subcommittees and and that's how we work on getting this stuff done you know I it's we're here for that I need I need to know their answers now I played already it's not I'm not playing anymore they're playing it you know it's that's why we're here thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you okay next we have the year-end report from the Brookfield Education Foundation hi everyone

016I'm Kristin Joshi the president of the propelled Education Foundation each year the BEF briefly reviews the programs that we have funded both to celebrate the innovators of these projects and to thank our generous donors who make them a reality it's been a phenomenal year with a vef funding grants that we've been very excited about and pleased to report that this year in front we funded eight grants and we've awarded approximately $26,000 more important these grants help empower innovative education in our schools and in our community a brief review of the grants is as follows we have Tower Gardens at whiskey near Middle School it's a major grant that funded three science classrooms with aeroponic Tower Gardens the goal is for the students to be involved in year-round growth of fruits and vegetables mrs. Baur tozi

017Mr Petrino and mrs. Cohen youtl utilized this innovative growth system for educational lessons and hands-on learning by students the next one is the chamber orchestra here at Brookfield High School it's championed by BHS student Molly birds'll this grant funds creation of a string ensemble it initially existed through the current concert band program and now it serves as an individual chamber ensemble the addition of a string ensemble benefits the students education and character development in addition to performing at BHS functions the ensemble can also compete at the statewide level by representing Brookfield the long-term goals of this grant include the spread of a strings program to the middle and elementary schools and potential future creation of a BHS Orchestra next is the Entrepreneurship business that's here at BHS the Brookfield Career and Technical Education Department developed

018a program that allows students to start and run their own business under the direction of grant champion Rob's a pour through the purchase of a laser engraver and cutter students use the equipment to make their own products that they can sell students research develop create and market products for their laser engraving business they will learn about business structure evaluating demand calculating pricing marketing production distribution and sales the students will use the profits to reinvest in the business and support itself for their club travel needs this program emphasizes BHS is core values of research critical thinking communication collaboration and active involvement then there's the ruler program at whisky near Middle School it's a major grant championed by whiskey nair principal Dean Rhonda it's an approach to social-emotional learning that has been developed by the Yale Center

019for emotional intelligence ruler teaches the skills of emotional intelligence those associated with recognizing understanding labeling expressing and regulating emotion the program teaches and fosters emotional intelligence in the classroom settings as well as in other contexts including sports the home and the community at large it is the expectation that ruler will improve school climate and create a culture in which both students and adults know that emotions matter students will learn the skills necessary to regulate their emotions in order to be focused productive and successful this program is being piloted at whisky near with intentions of spreading it to the remainder of the Brookfield public schools we had a first aid and CPR mini grant funded for the Girl Scouts who is it was awarded to a Brookfield high school rising senior reselling she was in pursuit

020of her goal de world for Girl Scouts she facilitated first aid and CPR classes along with first aid kits for Girl Scout troops and the Brookfield community we have an early learning backpacks program at the Brookfield library parents with young children can now check out early learning backpacks the early learning backpack program supports early literacy through the use of 12 backpacks containing books and activities the activities promote early learning early learning literacy practices such as reading talking saying playing and writing the backpacks will be introduced to the community at a program for parents and children by two right feet performers who promote arts literacy and school readiness through stories music and interactive activities the goal is to inspire interaction between children and their caregivers that will promote early literacy we funded a robotics program at

021Christian Life Academy it was a mini grant awarded for the formation of a Robotics Club in the upper elementary grades at that school teams will design build and program a small robot to compete in tournaments during this process students will learn about the concepts of engineering as they apply math science communication and teamwork skills and our final program is our live well program at the Brookfield Senior Center the livewell program is a six week workshop facilitated by trained leaders which will give participants with chronic diseases an opportunity to learn how to take control over one's life set goals and make a step-by-step plan to improve their health throughout through use of a self-management toolbox finally in addition to funding these grants we've also celebrated our ninth year of our honor and educator recognition event year

022after year we enjoy celebrating our teachers coaches music instructors and other community leaders we continuously find that individuals are thrilled to be recognized and honored through this program the vef extends its most sincere gratitude to everyone who has made these programs a reality from our very generous contributors to those who envisioned and brought these funded projects to life we are truly a reflection of a community invested in and giving back to itself thank you so much any questions at all for Kristen I love the fact that all of these programs really represent the entire community education from early literacy the library to the Senior Center and that's what I think makes it so successful a question fund raising how do you raise the funds for your grants our main source of fundraising is our gala

023that's held in the fall and we also raise funds through the owner and educator program and through donations from the community through our fund drive so as ex officio member I'm going to encourage everyone to attend the gala it's a truly a great time at a great community event the date I know it's been moved to November and a location it's at the Candlewood candlelit in this year and I'm drawing a blank November it's a Friday before Thanksgiving yeah so November may be like the 15th there's a feeling that we have that other thing in the calendar up like crazy little robos mm-hmm it's the Friday before Thanksgiving my address probably the 16th event sounds like the 678 no we don't have a football game that's why 16 it is the 16th okay November 16th

024Campbell wooden yes yes mark your calendars get your babysitters get ready - a little bit creeped out time thank you thank you so much all right next we move on to public comment we have one speaker signed up it's Patricia Chung mystic name and address it again our dr. Patricia Chung 52 October here mobile food hi John hi so I moved here in 2009 because my husband and I feel that profil school is very good for our kids and everything was fine until a couple months ago when something allowed me is I have concerned about the well-being of the profil community because of the unlawful and unethical practices of certain members I'm not going to go into details because for me is very embarrassing of why people will commit such an ad so what I'm

025doing now is just to tell people OFF members that tomorrow I'm going to send a certified mail to every single one of you and I hope that the address that you put on their website is up-to-date ok that are the package will include on comforting letters which is about 15 or 16 pages long sorry for that and then some are supporting documentation and also my increases to the school district for the work that I've done when there are administrations you have done okay - and I would like a explanation of how discharges occur and then I will also make recommendation of our maybe for the idea of 2001 18 to 19 school year the recommendation of our professional development among the material first I would say during the past two months of my interaction with

026his own district I found that communication is really not the level that I expected so I would recommend this cold learn to read is fundamental of understanding emails in committee and what effective communication and the second one that I will highly recommend for the district to consider for the administration is from 101 oh is tips on how to conduct business effectively and make the most out of your career so this is my comment and my concern and again whatever material that you need will be in this package all right thank you thank you is there anyone else that has not signed up that would care to speak okay moving on dan I'm gonna apologize because normally at the second June meat board meeting school is no longer in session so we no longer have our

027student representative so we're going to insert you in okay don't you lucky dick yes well most of the clubs this year have already finished anyway like last week is a week prior so in the year right now I really only have a few statistics to share I'm Spanish Honor Society raised over five hundred dollars to send two victims in Puerto Rico with their food truck fundraiser on June 9th and then the National Honor Society helped with the food truck fundraiser and they also hosted the week air 5k earlier this year they raised over seven thousand eight hundred dollars in donation to Tommy Korres and that's because of the generosity of our community also our librarians asked me to share that over the course of this year fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty eight students visited

028the library independently in an average of sixty eight point one students per day that we're in the library working on research projects this Saturday will be the class of 2018 s graduation ceremony and tomorrow will be the awards night for the seniors as well as the gravel walk unfortunately that is the last piece I haven't shared with the board I just wanted to thank you for a great year and it's been an honor to watch you all work so diligently we wanted to thank you you've been very thorough and I love the fact that you more often than not sat through our entire meeting we appreciate all of the effort and time and eloquence that you've added to this to this board Thank You correspondence okay Christina Zarin there's five correspondences regarding the budget Jennifer

029crane man with our Fremont regarding the music program Heather Buckley regarding the music program Leslie Rogelio regarding the music program Olympia FATA regarding the music program and Ron Jaffe shared an article and wrote regarding the school facilities Thank You approval of Board minutes recommend a motion that the board approved the minutes listed below is recommended the special meeting on June 6 2008 een and the regular meeting on June 6 2008 een any discussion questions okay Owen favorite host okay moving on to the superintendent's update Thank You mr. I be very brief this evening in your packet and as approved by the board and distributed this earlier this week I just want to remind everybody about the adjustments to the 2018-2019 school calendar per state statute we built in 185 student days to give us flexibility

030in scheduling the graduation and also build in weather-related and other school emergency days and that builds in three days because we will continue to go 182 days for our students and so I just want to make sure everybody was well aware of that the other thing kind of related to calendar I didn't want to send it out yet with the calendar I think I think it would be too confusing but as a superintendent I do have to already begin to think about inclement weather so to give us a little bit more time in the mornings with school delays there were a couple of cancellations this year that perhaps could have been avoided if we had another hour so like some of our neighboring districts who already worked with the principal's we're going to incorporate a

031three-hour delay for those days where we just need the extra hour so that's on the docket for next year and you might help us gain back a few days so with the emergency days built in due to the 185 days student days scheduled at work we're putting together as well as the three-hour delay hopefully we won't end up in a situation we were in this year with prior to the spring May 15 storm we already had nine lost days so the total was 14 this year so we really want to try to avoid it and make up the days wherever we can so that's something I wanted to make sure I shared and communicated out to every one of our stakeholders the facility's survey really the the crux of that particular survey really was crystal

032clear and its first question providing the community with the committee's distilled four options that the committee is very comfortable with and they're not just four options that the committee's comfortable with but I think for those on the committee that are here they're the viable options that are actually realistic and can be accomplished so that has been sent out we sent it out again we're up to all close to 300 respondents thus far originally when I put it out last week I said that the deadline would be this coming Friday I think considering that I'd like to see some more responses on one survey and that the committee is not meeting until July 18th we might as well leave it open so we're going to be putting another communication out with the survey link Eric has

033updated Facebook is trying to almost do it daily where it pops up for people to conduct to complete that survey and then the other survey we just put out really exciting already thinking about October in planning the development stages of our budget for 1920 we had talked about in this budget development year readying ourselves for preparations in 1819 to get ready for 1920 what are we going to do about an additional world language at the high school for our world language program really excited about that so Kim and Holly are a world language in English language learner coordinator developed a survey that went out today and the survey in essence ask people about their opinion about an additional world language and then specifically if they have a particular world language that they think who should

034be offering to get their opinion on that so that's out there and we hope to get a lot of response and that went out we make sure that went out to student emails as well so we want to hear from our high schoolers as to what language they're thinking about that would be good for our kids and that is all I have does anybody have any questions um one what other districts in the area use the three hours or less oh gosh I couldn't tell you at the top of my head but there are a few of them and a couple of my colleagues that only have the two-hour delay like we do are moving to the three hours yeah great okay any other questions for dr. brill okay moving on to subcommittee reports the

035first one is a security task force and I can speak on that the security task force met on the 8th of June essentially we started establishing goals and they really are twofold and that's to review and evaluate the practices that we have in place and then to review and evaluate the facilities structures and processes I'm not going to be speaking a tremendous amount at each meeting about the security task force because there are things that we're going to need to keep confidential as we review the security processes in place and make recommendations so we're going to be glossing over just the main ideas at these reports the security task force which consists of bob rosa and myself dr. Borel and chief Purcell did interview not interview I'm sorry but but looked at several people who

036were interested in community members and found those that seemed to have the best fit of what we are looking for so we did invite Brian Chen now ski Kevin Durkin and Monica Bevilaqua into the security task force and they are willing to join us so we're happy to hit the ground running at our next meeting on July 12th I have a question for the newly selected members what kind of criteria were we looking was there anything specific we're looking for for qualifications or did they summon a resume or how was that actually they submitted either either or as a resume and or a summary of their experience and we talked about that we were looking for somebody folks who had not only perhaps private sector security experience physical security experience we weren't really looking for

037people with cyber experience but also behavioral management backgrounds we were looking for that a little bit too not just folks who knew about structures and being able to tell us about Ballard's and physical things that we need might need to do to harden facilities but also behavior of would be concerns as well as members of our communities that are inside the buildings employees students etc and how behavior works and so forth so that was a big part of it questions we can go into finance cuz I'm reporting on the June 11th meeting and since we had our Finance Committee meeting we've actually done our budget decisions and that was actually the bulk of what we spent our time on on a relatively short meeting so we I'm not going to repeat that here because we

038talked about in our last session and we went through the normal reviews of the the financial reports that look does look like we will finish the year within budget there's been some gives and takes and I'll talk about one in particular but it looks like that will land well we talked about we went through the chat registers and the specific checks being written we went through the capital budget and what's going on with the town capital budget submission and and we talked through another number of other small budgetary related items now I do want to talk about three specific things first of all storm damage we do have are we we heard our athletic director talked about some of the storm damage but broadly for the schools all of the items for the storm damage

039had been identified by a facilities director they've all been filed with insurance and also coordinated with Greg Dombrowski on the town side for any potential FEMA reimbursement so we went through the process that's going on with that with mr. post and that seems like it's well in control everything has been identified damaged there's some areas of damage that we have to deal with a lot of our athletic fields but also on some of the buildings that needed to be dealt with so we went through that list of items secondly we went through on Student Activity accounts me if you recall I had talked about the fact that we've gone through those in detail the last time this time wheat actually talked about some of the controls in place about handling of cash and and then

040particularly around ticket tickets ticket collection and you know how cash is checked and the fact that it's double counted by the two different volunteers that are there they check it against the ticket number in both start and finish and they try and reconcile to the two and then there's a thermal report filed at the end of every gate receipt and file so that we can have records of it so a lot of controls been put around tickets and I know that times that's concern for members of the public so I felt that was actually very well you know from my experience on how you put business controls on our own cash management it's got a lot of the important characteristics of good well control cash management and then the further and I think most important

041for the board is we had embarked on in our budgets about Medicaid reimbursement we had put revenue items both in this year's budget and next year's budget around getting reimbursement for Medicaid eligible items especially around the area of special education so that we could file and get the town some reimbursement interestingly enough that requires parents to agree in advance to be able to file things on their behalf and we have been finding that parents are not signing up or giving permission for the district to go make such filings there's been some but not nearly the take-up that we would have hoped so we talked about different ways to reach out to parents to explain to them that this is not a personal thing with them this is a way to help fund our district you

042know by getting some appropriate and Medicaid reimbursement for these expenses and reaching out through septa and reaching out through our communications channels and through our special ed meetings to the parents that we really would like them to do that but it's important to remember it's a parent's choice whether to participate or not we can't coerce or even strongly influence a parent to do that but I just will tell the board and I will tell the public it's a good thing for the district if we can file and get some Medicaid reimbursement for this year if we had put a budget of $50,000 in next year a hundred thousand dollars and it doesn't look like we at this point will make either of those so it's already causing some scrambling to try and figure out if

043we cannot kind of build that up it will cause us to now have to go rebalance again within our budgets to try and find other areas to reduce in order to not because we can't make this revenue so it's a problem and we'll continue to monitor it over the summer and in through the beginning of the fall so I did I capture that about running it perfect so that's really what I had to report any questions any comments from the other committee members that I captured okay okay and not on here but didn't know if we had any members of strategic facilities committee that would like to comment enjoy a belief sure you're the representative so on June 7th we had the public forum on destroyed hurry but dr. brillo mentioned Tecton presented the four

044viable options regarding facilities and we strongly encourage everyone if you haven't done so already to fill out the survey regarding the four four options thank you any questions for joy I want on the question but I'll tell you what that was a really good presentation I buy you that really understanding what those options that they're facing will really clear I thought I've been very impressed with our consultants and if I may add joy if it's okay July 18th is our next regular board meeting but before that we have this next strategic facilities meeting we'll have it here so for anybody who's you know paying attention tonight we'd like them there the meetings are notice they're public we love people to be there see the inner workings of that committee okay consent agenda recommend emotion that

045the board approved the items on the consent agenda has recommended resignations and retirements second any questions discussions I just like to wish mrs. de Moura a wonderful retirement she's been with us almost a decade teaching science at the Middle School a couple of years ago she was Teacher of the Year and it was a later retirement so we're just learning about this since last week and just can't thank her enough first service and wish are the best she'll be missed she's sure we'll be okay all my favorite post okay moving on to new business we have the approval of the Perkins grants recommend a motion that the board approved the concept and sustainability of the Perkins innovation grant submitted to the State Department of Education second did you want to comment on that at all

046no mr. Blandon okay I'm sorry it's very close sorry Jessica anything to do with a grant so the this is our annual application for the Perkins grant money which is part of a federal grant that gets awarded with the state of Connecticut basically every year the state gives us a number that we can apply for they give us an exact amount this year it's seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty eight dollars which is what we can actually apply for and then they charge us with finding out you know determining where we'd like to spend that money and so there's a couple things as you go through that that packet that talks about where we'd spend that money things like adding an FBLA advisor Future Business Leaders of America advisor there's a way to add that

047right now we have a deca advisor currently in a deca program there's been a great interest in creating a Future Business Leaders of America program as well workshops for teachers you know this allows us to pay for them to go to a lot of these workshops things like a personal finance workshop which is something as we continue to expand that program knowing that's a graduation requirement for all students that is helpful to make sure that we can expand the breadth of who teaches that course so the two business users are going to be going to that next year hopefully a lot of expansion and technology with you know now that we're moving towards a stem department is our our channels where we're going next we really want to expand that technology piece and that's what

048part of this Perkins grant is for so we're looking to send misters a poor parts a good teacher to some Adobe Photoshop trainings Corel Draw with laser advanced laser 3d scanning some of these things are going to be also applied to that outside business that everything and everything engraved easy I think is how Tripoli I always get the words mixed up a 3d scanning wire bending those are really all technology trainings that mr. Szabo would like to attend and then also for mr. Horace who does our family Consumer Science program go to a sir safe training which is something any of you do through home AK that G help students with proper handling of food and those things that I could have done studies to get an expert on occasion without an NS setup the

049other course we have few things plans translation is one of the big plans there as well sort entertaining marketing before they went to a Argos a game they saw by unseen they didn't want a tourist on fires as well this is a great like burning a jalopy which is very unusual but students were able to attend many workshops before the game learning the bargaining it's a very similar opposed to the Argos students to concede you the Pliocene piece there's also the personal finance were financed Wall Street Studios that paid for the default Leadership Conference getting our our child in students to really do a head of start training so they go on sites you can start our programs little bike and how they work also our design program in a minute earier design program we're

050going the brain we're planning to design programs so they can learn about layouts and interior design and as well as paying for the fit up to shoppers choose from the perspective of culinary classes are going complaining no menus and actually buying groceries and come back next even in the south as opposed to just being supplied roses in a bikini and it's just to do some instructional supplies things that we're also looking to get into purchase you know careers again we want to have these pretty much assessments through the determine where students are relative to Sanders and there's a program we have used precision exams it's a little the actual exam standard aligns to the career technical education standards and allows us to better align our creative living with what we need to do and be

051very over the last few years to replace our infinite simulators through CDs they become more and more sophisticated for our developing classes they're amazing if you've seen intimate work also looking to add power ardor and he pressed an insertable those are the big that accounts for this pretty much dollars she'll in a row our career advisors are there and a lot of this work and imitation so doesn't happen there's an advisory board that means twice a year that involves people from the community and from school and they were an improvement the planet old CIA the plan and it's really coherent the develop here's what we need going forward here some of my programs as we continue to move down the stem technology but also marketing programs and you know whether our home back and think

052of the courses that have a district or teachers she teaches cello doll in it teaches its culinary and interior design she's a lady when you do to the spot anything overlooking understand or knowledge bases he could also be due to daughter choices forget it's great to be thorough she's very top I think read about it really and any partition service-level mana okay all in favor aye sure great thanks not only to sequence alignment there was a lot of value in sort of mr. Hathorne area value for the dollar finding his chairman but uh the other pieces that we have to thank the board for leadership Indonesian we couldn't do anything we couldn't be the majority of what mr. blanton talking about without the addition of the years ago we had an addition business heater now

053so the thing about personal finance everything else we're talking about adding a pla so in pursuit of hating this work engaging us this ran no context so I just want to know the board that helped us get that in a sort of immunity so thank you okay next we have approval of filters for sports recommend ocean that the board approve - list of sources for the 2018 2019 school year so every year he wins in a panic oh my god I've gotta move that meeting critic to get us disapprove at the glass because they are in our own way so fitted out with one shot call them in our region anyone on all those to New Orleans for the possible silver NASA facility calls in the time of the state opening they move on to

054the which is possibly a Maine mature said half the sale right boys swimming at I've their annual audit range but at the floor process they become quality and say this because in Taunton and stay open to qualify for the sauce my parka morning the new even factor in their Lassiter was in the answer and started a vaca morning so it was four hours why the National one hour ticklish recent a debate so they will not cross that off beautiful yes in the summer they and mayor of nineteen days while it is planning on training shot at the floor like several schools do you know based on a lawsuit whether they could get outside and kind of the playing field and then same thing with dance last sighted in the season qualify for the loans the

055next week and it's as far as sometimes to get an emergency meeting should is trying to save the last minute it's often to try to say some of you guys your time any questions I hate these okay we have to the Mandarin Elise beyond here yeah well many motion to amend amend the motion to delete the July cheer camp okay all right so all in favor of the amended emotion I opposed thank you this drama thank you so much okay we go to all business discussion recommended action of the board engineers the discussion of the 2017 budget okay so we did have the referendum passed its last one and there were more people that came out in a moment that I think had in several years so this is just a thank you to the

056community for your support in this budget and also three to stay engaged stay involved ask questions attend meetings and continue to vote please so the moving on from that we did ask the administration to come back with almost seventy four thousand dollars in additional savings that's what we had left to reduce from the five minutes serve [Music] so we were able to we do have a plan for that fifty three thousand nine hundred ninety eight dollars to get to five hundred thousand six hundred forty eight dollars and so I'll sure that we do the second one of those you know that we heed the board's direction which was no positions and as a last resort try not to go there so so in the account lying for travel and conferences whenever lose that by 10

057miles instead of $86 in textbooks 5 $20,000 that really will do this our humanities department head came to me actually the next day because the afternoon that two-week so that we were in evening we were talking about all of us the department meeting and they decided that the actual state budget for an economy here at home hold on you use different resources without spending money on new task force so there's many thousand dollars there in extended duty to go there and we decided that will reduce that by ten thousand dollars a little bit we planned but did you tell time we have many health cities instructional supplies mr. post work with our principals and we're going to reduce across all four schools the instructional supplies comes by $10 knowledge final determinations of exactly where the

058money is and things are a consideration and can also based on their the increase that each will receive is to be fair to all of our tools and in fact humanity caterers are used by $3,900 that is commensurate with those Fe doctors that I VA made going forward that gets us to the total of knowledge so with all the changes the budget analysis as well as approve correct parameter hella painful Oh some of the supplies or notions sure I asked dr. Ruby two of you prepare to have a little bit of discussion all that way thank you so one of the things that we look at in terms of materials that things that seem to drop every year that we get used to using and I'll highlight some of the items that we may have

059had our classrooms we here silastic story works and things like that and when we went to schools and talk to teachers and principals to ask how certain of these items were aligned to the curriculum and the standards and then how are they being used and they were varying you know responses to that so where there is not a direct alignment to the curriculum and the Stander's we're going to make less and these you know lady a little bit much when they come home a child's backpack you know but they're quite costly for a person so we're we're gonna be doing more review of theirs we use a lot of these materials and where they're not they're lovely and they do add benefit current events for example but there are other ways that don't cost s

060nine dollars per person in a classroom or a level to get a current an S so it's not something that is specifically used with our curriculum those areas were it does add up to some pretty all the honors so for example like anytime for kids that you know Community Development you know here's yes as parents I think those are things that most of the things that that are being used there are free online digital resources available so it's not like you can do without maybe it's not as convenient as having you know these items or they have a we have a we have quite a an array of these materials and cutting them out is not going to learn that because there are other ways to go about it that's gonna be it and I

061will say that any term sort of playing and those educated you know if you don't know these things coming out you know at a time if you don't know what it is that you're getting you can't really thoughtful an intentionally plan for that to be part of your curriculum so we really have to question someone they send you they send all the copies a good plan or anyway surprise okay we had thought we decided to us let's see Zoe well just like we talked about before with the proportion of an amount for each school so when we budgeted for these tend to be with me man-hours tournament hours we needed you know we did estimating based on before we have stable paid per hour for teachers online able to calculate this out and we work

062through the different schools for the different curricular areas at summer and came up with the numbers so we're going to take that ten ten another cut and a proportionate equally thank you any other questions but it doesn't involve position changes so that we really don't need to vote on it will you just get a general approval that that I was a little bit these suggestions and then you're going to appreciate the administration's work especially keeping away from twisting air force we understand this is very difficult eyes okay does anyone have anything else okay so does that enter school on Friday June 22nd prevailed on world on Friday 229 is less a school 15 is nestled huckleberry this week already in class three quarter into conference on portal and in Friday June 29th alas a school

06312:15 cynical with a sitting here Friday June 29th last a school 11:30 cynical and at high school tomorrow June 20 verse from 1145 to choose a senior Brad walk and also tomorrow is a senior words from 7:00 to 9:30 hello Adrian Friday June 22nd from 8:30 133 vertical and when you get up June 25th or final exams Friday the 29th being a day and in Friday to drizzle SAT school alone illogical usually if I had one d thank you for mentioning him or her so that's this Friday for K through four report are available via the portal for the singer schools or my school 29 and I will just do a shout out because I was sitting to one of the chairs of the grad party last night and they said oh they are still

064looking for volunteers especially for the second grad party sort of people wanted to go onto their website and they have a sign-up sheet and then it would have me happily take any volunteers to the fabulous birthday well they will not be able to free walk through the community the only ones that are not allowed to attended of Sears because time time it has changed to this year come mr. Lanz do you remember it has changed to this year because of this it's like 12:45 to 3:45 yet everything pretty learn about half the time efforts are already made something gonna happen so I will just reiterate your point on volunteers so that it does take all here's to the poll is off and I volunteer this I think every year for the last 14 years and

065it is not just a great experience for our seniors and adults helping out is register so you know you get to see the kids who just graduated and if their last equalize the class it's an experience that it's worth going to so those of you who are thinking about it do it for the Phillies and the former senator all right okay so that concludes our public portion of the meeting and our area thank you everyone for joining us [Music]