001It's our regular meeting of Tuesday, February 10th, 6:30. I welcome everybody to the meeting. I welcome our administrators are here and teachers that are here to listen a little bit about our our budget tonight. With that, we start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Lucas. Well, tonight it it's it's exciting that we're going to be able to hopefully fill the the board seat that was left by uh Clinton Rucker. And um I am going to ask um Michelle Kul to just give you a little background of the subcommittee and the process and what we went through. Russell, if you'd like any commentary, you can chime
002in there, too. But Michelle, I'll turn it over to you. >> Sure. Thank you. Um, okay. So, we posted the position on January 21st and we had a deadline of January 30th for all applicants. We received nine applications total, three of whom withdrew before the date process. Um, on February 5th, the appointment committee, which was comprised of Mr. Daniels, Mr. Bush, and myself, introduced five very qualified and passionate um candidates. It was really nice to to see everybody, and they were all great candidates. We had one no show. Um, but we were thoroughly impressed by all of the candidates, but Miss Lechance rose to the top because of her qualifications and the value those skills can bring to specific challenges currently facing the board. Um, most notably, she brings experience in the state school's construction
003grant program with policy development and strategic planning at a time when our district is facing aging infrastructure and the resulting budgetary challenges that go along with that. um her familiarity with state statutes and regulations along with her extensive experience working as an attorney for the state and the general assembly, the department of banking and the department of administrative services will benefit the board tremendously. And Mr. Daniels, Mr. Bush and I are unanimous in our recommendation to the board. >> Thank you, Michelle. Russell, do you have anything you looked at? >> No. Thank you. So, all the board had a chance, we sent out the uh resumes, you had a chance to look at and you had a chance to see Amy's. And by the way, Amy's right there in the front row if you don't
004know. She's right there. Um, so, uh, any questions to the committee? And by the way, Jordan sat through it the whole time. So, thank you for doing that. >> Long process. Okay, hearing no questions. I'll take a motion then that the move to the camp board of education appoint Amy Le Chance is member of camp board of education for a term to expire on November 16, 2027. We have a motion. Thank you, Kim. A second. Thank you, Michelle. We're good. Uh, any further discussion and hearing? None. All those in Felicia's online. Hello, Felicia. All those in favor three. So, we are unanimous as 480. Thank you very much for that vote. Amy, congratulate. Tracy Marco here is our our town clerk and uh she is ready to swear you in. And we actually have a
005temporary platform for you and the seat ready to go. So Tracy, if you wouldn't mind, >> we're going to take some pictures as you're doing this. >> Where would you like to sincerely affirm as the case may be that you'll faithfully discharge according to law your duties as a member of the Canton Board of Education for the town of Canton, which has been appointed to the best of their ability to still help you guide penalty of All right. >> Thank you, Tracy. We'll see you. Okay. Uh with that, that was a good piece of business. We'll move on to the part of public comment. Um public comment is an opportunity for anyone in the audience or online to uh to make a comment or a question. The board will not respond uh typically to any
006questions or comments, especially if it's not on our agenda. That's one of the main reasons. So, we will then go to the crowd. Anybody have a a question or comment for the board of education? Hearing none, we'll go online. >> Sure. So, if you're joining us online tonight, you can go ahead and use that raise hand feature of Zoom. I will call on you by your Zoom name and you can make your comment. >> No raised. >> Okay. Hearing not, I'm going to close public comment. Thank you very much. All right. We're going to move right along. Chairman's Corner. Uh there's two things I have tonight for Chairman's Corner. I attended the legislative breakfast this morning, hit the capital. It was very enlightening and um what what we pulled out of that was uh some
007of the priorities by by both CRE and Kade is to see and you heard it from our representatives a couple weeks ago. Uh the priority is to get um some to improve the ECS funding and to put it on a yearly index. That's one goal. The second is to get the uh extra trust grant uh to move that up a little bit for special education. They are they are moving in that direction. They felt that they were a little disappointed in the governor's um proposals because it really didn't change much on education, but it seems that the legislators both uh both parties Republican and Democrats are very committed to those two goals. And uh I think we're going to see some action. The legislative session ends on May 6th and I don't think we go
008to our budget vote till the 9th or somewhere in that that area. The other good news was, as you all probably read, uh they're going back to um full paid breakfast, free breakfast for our children that come to school. They think that's important as did the governor. Um when we pushed a little bit on on lunches on free lunch, we didn't get it. There wasn't as much success. However, there will be they feel that there'll be some offset cost offset uh going forward and I'm going to use this as an example and maybe a dollar per student. What they're trying to do is drive down that that uh deficit that we we've incurred a little bit as a town. So, um we may see something along those lines. So, that was really the gist of
009the legislative session. It was uh very very interesting. The second thing I want I want to consider uh and I'm going to hand this on. I showed this to Mrs. Robin, I told this superintendent I was doing this with and he hates surprises, but um the uh the Rotary Club hang um anyways the Rotary Club with the interact club that's part of part of the high school. Um they are looking to reduce the amount of plastics. I'm not going to get into a lot of this, but Rotary is going to start collecting plastics. They're hoping that they can plastic bags and there's some unbelievable statistics. Um they they have a goal of collecting a,000 pounds of plastic and uh I turned in Thank you. Thank you. I turned in um I turned in a bag
010at least two pounds. So, you can you know how long that's going to last. They're hoping that we'll be able to put a receptacle in uh in our high school building and maybe at CIS uh for parents, kids, cafeteria that want to put uh plastic in there and then they'll come and collect it. So, but I just wanted you to have this as a statistic as something interesting. Um you know, we've been trying at home to cut back on a lot of things like that becoming more green, but I think what goes on with plastic bags and in Miami Sound and out in the ocean is just atrocious. So this is one way that we can all participate and when we hear things about our schools when when we stand up here we hear so
011many good things that doing collecting coats and and and being active with Fabar and other things. I think this is one thing our students going to gravitate to. So um I'll talk further with the superintendent and our school administrators about maybe getting more involved in that. But I wanted the board to have that. So that's all I have for the chairman's corner. Um, any questions if maybe Okay, hearing none, we're going to go right to the superintendent announcements. Dr. D. >> Thank you, Mr. Davis. It's good to see everyone. I do want to say there most of our district is online uh to see now present due to possibility of weather. So, I let them know the ones that are are commuting from a distance. I just told them to remote so everyone knows. Uh,
012sweet chance. Welcome. Very nice. out of the superintendent's office. It it seems like there isn't a night or a morning for me to be able to sleep late and night that I'm not at an event that and tomorrow morning will be no exception. Tonight is no exception either. There's so many activities going on in our schools right now and and there's a lot of excitement. We had boys basketball game last night as we were coming through tonight. at girls uh basketball game. Wrestling is going on. Track is going on. You walk down to the the high school into the auditorium. You'll have play rehearsal going on. There's a fundraiser. I've been told that is going on at Port Briana tonight. So, if you're ever looking for something to do, there's always something to do at
013the camp schools. I I know that I believe there's a Valentine's thing at Cherbrook that that is coming up through the PTO or already had it and happened. There's just so many things and last week I had the opportunity to attend the prisons concert. What a great event that was and again it was packed as it always is. So I want to commend the students and then tomorrow night we have coral concert that that is happening. There's just so much going on in the community and the people that are online, e, even if you have younger kids, what a great opportunity to bring our younger kids to see the mentors of the middle school kids and the high school kids in in action. It's just really exciting to to watch. And yesterday I had the
014opportunity to visit with our Cherry Brook friends. It always seems that right before a board of education meeting I'm at Cherburg Primary School and there there's just nothing better. You could go into every single classroom yesterday and the theme of what they're talking about within uh ELA is the same in every single classroom appropriate level but it was the same. And so I I got to commend what I saw at Cherrybrook yesterday. We do have a little bit of a break next week on Monday and Tuesday. We have our, as you you know, we have our board of education budget meeting this evening where I'll present and then we have our board of education budget workshops on the 24th and the 26th. We have another professional development and early release uh on March 3rd. Uh
015if everyone could just make sure you put on the calendar that on March 5th at 8:30 we'll have the board of education walkthrough at the high school. So we're at that time year where we're going to our second visits of of the high school. As I always say, and for our new board members, those are the most important meetings if you can attend because I get to talk about things. We could present things, but you're able to walk into the schools. And that's atypical of a board of education to be able to walk into the schools, a principal presenting, teachers presenting, and you go right into the classrooms. And I'm just not sure what you may see. It's live, and it's an action. And so I would encourage everyone to pencil in March 5th. And
016then of course we have our finance committee also meeting on March 10th. And then exciting with the musical starts and this is the first time I've seen these dates March 12th to March 14th last or two weeks ago when I was walking by them. They asked me to act out a scene with them and that was pretty exciting. >> This was a Texas Chainsaw. >> No. It was it was fun to hang out with them at that. >> So what was your role? >> You got to tell the player. You can't they allowed to take video and share. Was it a safe? >> Okay. But it was just fun. What's that? >> What is the fun >> Mr. So, um it it was great and just to just to sit down and um act with
017those kids. It was pretty funny that day and then went to the basketball game right after that and then I came back and they were still there. So, it was pretty funny. I'll take any questions out of the superintendent's office because you're going to hear from me a lot in a little bit. >> Any questions on anything superintendent said? I I do know there there is a lot going on. It's a lot of fun. I mean there's something to do other than equipment. Okay. Uh on to Mr. Bishop, assistant superintendent report, please. >> Super. And I want to thank our administrators who are here and online for all the work that they did along with their teams to be able to prepare for today's professional learning day. It was a phenomenal day to your point
018to be able to reflect on some of the successes and opportunities that we see ahead of us. Um but fantastic work uh and collaboration going on at each of our schools today. I also want to be able to applaud the work of our non-certified staff and that's really uh supported through the work of our future personnel services office um in collaboration with our quantum behavioral health uh supporting the continued professional learning of all of our non-certified staff as well. So a really great day to be able to focus on uh the current state of where our kids are and the opportunities to be able to keep building the board or staff jobs. Any questions for me? >> That was very good job. >> Thank you. Any questions for the assistant? No. Okay, everybody's winding up
019for Dr. Gman's presentation. >> Yes, I have all four schools tonight. As Jonathan cannot attend, so I'm going to try to keep it brief. As Dr. Gman had already alluded to, we had the Prisms concert on 31st January. That was fantastic. Um, just on February 6th, there was the Super Bowl collection, which is a can of food fundraiser and non-p perishable food fundraiser that the Leo Club puts signs is fantastic, very successful. Just uh also on the this past Friday the 6th um the high school and middle school jazz bands went to Yukon and performed there in a festival where they all go perform get uh private clinics from the Yukon jazz professors and then get a chance to watch we watched the Yukon jazz combo this year was very entertaining and very educational. Um
020there was also again on February 6th a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. The CNA Northern Regional Band Festival where students had to audition to get their seats was on January 16th and 17th. And coming up soon are all state auditions for those qualified students. And Yale Science Olympiad works on Saturday the 7th. Very successful event where students went down to Yale on the Science Olympiad team competed taking college level tests. Upcoming for the high school we have the choir concert tomorrow night. The CHS math team also has a meet tomorrow and like we said the musical is under production with multiple rehearsals a week and state conference tournaments are starting to soon for qualifying participants. Moving on to CMS they also performed at Yukon on February 6 doing the same as the high school.
021Uh the student council hosted hosted a Witcher dance with the theme of New York. Uh it was very well attended and 75% from the middle school came. very successful. Eighth graders have been meeting with members of CHS to learn about the high school experience such as mini lessons in Mandarin and Chinese. Administrators presenting on all that CHS has to offer and seniors sharing some tips that they have learned along their way through their journeys. Upcoming for CMS Unified Sports is in the middle of a very busy season. play the away game versus Grammy tomorrow on the 11th and eighth graders will be registering for their ninth grade classes on February 19th. The intermediate school sixth grade student council members participate in the statewide leadership conference. We want to say congratulations to the CIS kid team
022which finished top five 23 teams at Thursday night's competition. They missed the conference advance by just three points. Two CIS students were recognized at the CAS Elementary Celebration of the Arts last Tuesday night. And with the support of the PE PTO, CIS held a very successful third annual family paint night with over 40 families in attendance. And moving on to Cherry Primary School. Uh a self-portrait display is being installed. It's an annual project led by Mr. Reposo that builds creativity, confidence, and pride. Uh the first all school meeting on Friday, January third Friday, January 30th, I'm sorry. Uh it included musical performance from Miss Dariel's class. Uh and this Shaol keyboard solo or Shamalt, sorry, second grade student there. Um a celebration of two over 2,000 positive cards earned so far this year. a lesson
023on the flexibility via video featuring Miss Bger's third grade class. That's student leaders Kai and Audrey Bet were featured in this school meeting. A second old school meeting Friday, February 6 led by Mrs. Pomera, a PE teacher. Um we had Olympics learning and open ceremony traditions. There was focus on community excitement, community and excitement. Um the I wonder event is under planning and participation where I know some high school students will be going to volunteer. Uh there are 90 plus participating second and third graders which is the largest group they've had yet. Uh child centered STEM inquiry enrichment projects are being uh offered to the students and there is the PTO pancake breakfast on Saturday February 7th. the 100 day food drive which is running through February. February 13th sports the candy food bank with
024third graders leading connect collection graphing tallying and organizing donations and cherry singers new session started led by Miss Card for second and third graders with legal rehearsals building teamwork confidence and the performance readiness for >> that was pretty good. Thanks everybody. So, any questions for Lucas? >> Great, great, great job. Lot of activity. Thank you very much. >> Okay, next up is our business manager report, Miss Robs. >> Good evening. Uh, this evening, we're um reviewing the results and projections as of January 31st, um, 2026. Um I'm going to preach our forecast um was um while still unfavorable is more favorable than last month by about $17,000. Um and that is attributable to some changes to special education. Um the first change um to the positive was our billing to other towns where um you
025know we do a preliminary billing and then we do this final billing and that came in um much higher than anticipated or and budgeted. So um that resulted in a in about $35,000 um of a favorable push. And then on the other side, we received our new what they call uh the NC, which is the net current expenditure per pupil, which we received from the state. It's calculated based on financial information that we upload. Um that new number increase our deduction for excess costs. So, our budget of 850, um, we're now projecting that to come in at 7:22. So, that's a little lower than anticipated, but overall, um, we are, um, we're headed in the right direction. We started off the year, you know, in $400,000, you know, so we're we're down to 123. We
026just sent that an email today, our annual email to get those purchase orders in um so that we can um you know take a hard look at where we can trim to get that $123,000 loss down. But we're at least excited to be going in the right direction. >> Very good. When is the board of finance meeting this this month because of the holiday president's day? >> Great. Thank you so much. Any questions on the business manager report and the members you heard? Okay. U hearing none then I'll take a motion to move board of education approve the January 20 26 financials is presented. Thank you Jordan. Thank you Joe. First and second. Other questions? I'm I'll sit down for a lot of this when we get together. So all right I have a first
027and second. All those in favor? I leash is in. Good. Okay. Um we're moving right along. A couple things before um superintendent begins. Um one is I I understand that last night at the board of selections meeting they spent four and a half hours on their budget. So I asked Dr. Gman to do it around four. I don't want to go much further than four hours today. So that's that's number one. Um, and number two, we're going to do the same thing on questions. So, go through the presentation, develop your questions. If you have a a clarifying question, certainly, uh, you can ask it. But if not, as you go through the budget, you have to really go through it, let it permeate through. Um, you'll send your questions in to Claudia and we'll at
028the next session, he'll be answering those questions. So, with that said, Dr. Silver, >> thank you, Mr. So before we get begin, Mrs. Nardy is passing out a a presentation to you that is on the screen. It's also posted on our website. All our materials will be posted on our website. They're on there now for any of the public to get and all the recordings of our meetings will be posted on our website so people can also follow along within the budget process. Before I begin, um, I always like to thank people that were involved to to make this happen. I'm the one and it says superintendent's proposed budget, but putting this budget together, it it's completely a team effort. And I I I got to say, and you know, you always miss people when
029we thank, but our staff with our teachers and our non-certified staff and working with our administrative team, with our principles and our directors of presenting to the administrators a budget that was presented to me was one that was responsible, thoughtful, and really looking at our district. And what's really exciting is that they were able to ground their requests in the strategic plan. It's the first time that I could say presenting to the Kant board of education that our budget is grounded in the strategic plan of what we are looking to do over the next five years. So, I commend you as a board for having a vision of where we want to go within the five years and it was filtered down to everyone within our district. You know, behind every budget, you really have
030to have a really good business official and and trusting your business manager and making sure that what you're presenting it is correct and accurate in what we need. And and I'm fortunate enough that this is now I I think the seventh budget that I've done with with Mrs. Robbins for in our previous district and I think this is our third uh together and just knowing that I have Anna there to really solidify where we are is something that is truly special. So I thank her for that. And you know, you really need somebody to make you look good. And Claudia certainly makes me look good. Um, she puts all this together. Um, this has nothing to do with my typing skills, her presentation skills. Um, she really has had to learn of who I am
031over the past three years. And now it's just clockwork that it's just sitting on my desk done. And I I do got to thank you for for doing that. And without all those people in the administrative team um and the teachers, I wouldn't be standing here today presenting. So, it's an honor to present to you and I do want to remind you that this budget is grounded in the vision of the graduate and the vision of the can public schools to be a creative thinker, communicator, collaborator, critical thinker, and a compassionate citizen. This budget is grounded in the board of education goals that are within the strategic plan that was designed from 25 to 2030, which is exciting. This budget is grounded in board of education goal number one, student growth and achievement. Board of
032Education goal, partnership and community engagement. Board of Education goal, financial stab sustainability and efficient operations. Board of Education goal, learning environment and belonging. Board of Education goal, embracing equity, and board of education goal, workforce development. It's exciting that when we look at the administrative team priorities and we report to you every week in your in our updates of really grounding everything that we do in our board of education goals, the strategic plans. And what we really had to do as an administrative team is really narrow down and zero in on our administrative team budget priorities relative to student achievement in all areas across the district. Maintain our class size according to the Canton Board of Education policy. I commend our policy committee for allowing me to have the confidence in what I'm presenting you tonight
033that we're in the the range of our class size. What's most important is focusing on teaching, learning, professional development, and social emotional well-being of all our students. Provide a safe and healthy school environment. and propose a fiscally responsible budget that aligns with the camp board of education goals and the community design 25 through 2030 strategic plan. You know, each week when we when we I present to you what's really happening in the schools and the schools present to you what's happening in their reports that they present weekly to you. And when we come here to the to the meetings, we really talk about the successes that we have within the K public schools. And you know, not often do we really sit down and really celebrate where we are. And and it's an opportunity when
034you present a budget that you really have to ground the work in the successes that are happening within our school district. Because if you don't, what's the purpose? Why are we doing what we're doing if we're not becoming successful? So, let's talk about Cherry Brook Primary School. In 2024, Cherry Brook Primary School was honored and recognized as a school of distinction as being a school that scored in the top 10% on the Next Generation Accountability Index. In 22, Cherry Brook was recognized by the United States News and World Report. For the 15th year in a row, the Canton community was recognized by NAM, the best communities for music. Students at Cherrybrook Primary School continue meaningful growth in their literacy with Dibbles. Students at Cherrybrook are shing foundation numeracy through intentional targeted instruction. For the past
035three years, 140 second and third grade students have participated in Cherry Brook Steam event, I wonder. In 2024, a third grader won an award for their invention in the Connecticut Invention Convention and was a finalist. For the past four years, over 50 Cherry Brook second and third grade students have joined Cherry Brook Primary School singers led by the music department. and intermediate school. Per per US News and Report, CIS is ranked 58 out of 561 Connecticut middle schools. Now, think about that for a minute. That's our fourth and fifth grade students in sixth grade that are being compared to sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. and they're 58 out of 561. Based on the 2025 aspect scores, CIS has no achievement gaps in any content area measured by the state. Improved from the Connecticut State Department
036of Education School of Category, which is a big deal of moving from a three to a two, showcasing overall school improvement. And again, I mentioned the NAM. Two sixth grade students were honored at the Connecticut Association of Schools 20th annual elementary celebration of the arts. In the fall of 2025 and winter 26, CIS offered 18 before and after school clubs. The sixth grade student music competition composition was named the intermediate school winner of the year by the annual school band directors association young composers finalist contest. Excuse me. Four sixth grade members of future problem solving team qualified for the state competition in a winner in 2024. and middle school awarded among the 2025 best middle schools in the state of Connecticut by US News and World Report. Continued recognition by man. Nine CMS musicians were
037accepted to perform in the Northern Region Music Festival. The sixth grade grade band placed first with a platinum rating the highest possible at an adjudication in May 25. The CMS student was the intermediate division winner of the 2025 young composers competition. CMS had a successful ongoing partnership with the Connecticut State Department of Education. Continuous improvement in ELA growth index for all students over the past four years, eliminating the achievement gap. And you've heard this before. Overall growth on school performance index was the fastest in the Farmington Valley region over the past four years. Our boys outdoor track team placed second and the girls team placed third at the Woodbury Invitational. At the middle school cross country championship in 25, a student won placing first overall. We had four students in the top 10. And I'll
038say this, you want your high school to be your flagship school in the district because that's the pinnacle of where our kids end up. Canton High School. Canton High School was one of seven high schools in the state of Connecticut named a school of distinction this year per the next generation accountability system. Kent High School was ranked Connecticut's 23rd best high school in the US News World and report and number 10 in the Hartford area. CHS grade 11 students completed the next generation sty standards which resulted in 89.9 of students of our students at above or at or above proficiency. The score was the highest in the state of Connecticut. our combined SAT reading and math average of 1087 for the class of 2026. In 2025, 143 students enrolled in a total of 222 AP
039exams across 17 subject areas. 47 students were designated AP scholars with 10 students earning AP scholars with honors and 14 others receiving AP honors with distinction. and 89% of our students earning a passing of three or higher on the AP exam. 32 seniors receive medals for outstanding academic achievement at our latest honors award show celebration and again a NAM foundation for the 15th year in a row. Kent High School athletics has 23 varsity sports. During the 202425 school year with 278 students participating in the fall of 25, four of our teams made it to the state quarterfinals and the girls soccer team reaching the semifinals and as you're aware, the girls volleyball team reaching the finals. In addition, the boys soccer team won the NC title. Canton is doing it and we're doing a really
040good job and we need to make sure that we share our story and the reason that I bring that up is a lot of these things that we spoke about cost money and they're budget related. So it's important that we share our story in the first aspects of our budget book which you'll get in a few minutes. We share our story with the highlights of what's going on in the Canton Public Schools. district enrollment. When I arrived in Canton three and a half years ago, it was told that district enrollment is going to rise. I've never once said in my four years that district three and a half years that district enrollment is rising. Our enrollment is actually going down. That in by 31 fiscal year 2031, our district enrollment is projected to decrease by
04148 students. The projected PK prek through 12 district enrollment of 1391 in fiscal year 27 is a decrease of 14 students overall from 26. So if you look at our chart down below in 20 uh 526 we have 1405 and next year we anticipate that we will have 1,391. I do want to thank the board of education, as I mentioned earlier, for really looking at the class size policy. I want to thank our board of finance for requesting us to look at that last year during our budget process. So, our board of education finance, board of education policy committee, excuse me, did look at that policy and as you know, you did approve at our last meeting our class size guidelines. I do want to remind you that our kindergarten through grade three is 14
042through 20, grades 4 through 6 is 17 through 23, and grades 7 through 12 is 10 through 30. This is a slide that we've spoken about, but I do want to get this out there to you. The proposed budget has been developed utilizing the the guidelines that you came up with. And our largest class size in grade K through six is projected to be grade five at 111 students. I want you to look at this chart and look in the middle first. You'll see fiscal year 26. We currently have 41 sections for the 25 26 years total K through six. Next year as I predicted that we would um be able to go down a section in fiscal year 27. I want to share that in kindergarten we're projecting 104. We're online as of Friday
043we had 76 students registered. So we anticipate um a projection of 104 with an average of 17.3 with six sections. First grade 107 17.8 with six sections. Our second grade next year we anticipate 87 students 17.5 with five sections. Our third grade 104 with 17.3 with six sections. And I want to point your attention to grade four. Right now, our current grade three is in six sections. We are proposing to fall in with our class size guideline that they have um 94 students that they'll go into five sections next year and it will be 18.8, which falls right within our guidelines. So that will be a change for our current third grade going into fourth grade. But that's typically what our fourth grade class size looks like around 18 students. In grade five, we'll have
044111 students at 18.5. In our grade six, 102 students with six sections. So a total of 40 sections. What I want to share with you is very important and it's new to this budget process is on the next page. I always verbalize what the classes look like, but one of the questions that came up at the board of finance meeting last year was, "Can you really write out what each of these classes look like and tell a story about each one of the classes?" So, kindergarten, we're not sure what the story will be yet. We just know there's going to be 104 approximately. Our first grade, there's 107 students. our first grade cohort, approximately 32% of those students of the class are requiring special education including 504 and receiving reading or math intervention. So we
045feel that the the class size of 17.8 is appropriate for them. Second grade, 38% of those children next year are requiring special education services including 504 and reading and math intervention. Our third grade, 35% of that class is requiring special education, including 504 in reading and math intervention. Our fourth grade, this is the one that's going down from six sections to five sections. They will be at 18.8 and 38% of that class is requiring 504 or special education or reading and math intervention. our fifth grade. You can see that this one's uh 47% of the class requires special education services um and targeted uh students with specialized services and intervention. Our sixth grade, this is a smaller group and this is a class that 40% of our students are requiring. But what's tricky about this
046class is additional 26% of the students participate in individual or group counseling. So, we feel that within the guidelines that we set, we feel that we are right within the board of education guidelines and we're on the lower end of those guidelines, but we feel that our team and our teachers will be able to work with all the students in in that um in those specific numbers in the section. What's very important is really looking at our expenditure and performance. our per people expenditure and how it relates to the next generation of accountability index. In each of your meetings that you've had with the the principles, they they've spoken to you about the next generation of accountability index and how we are performing against our our peers. The Canton public schools ranks 71 out of
047165 reporting districts and agencies of per pupil expenditure. Canton's per pupil expenditure is below the average. So our per per pupil expenditure and this is last year's. This is not the new number. This is last year's. Our per pupil expenditure was 23,946. The state average is 24 24,720. The district stands in the 15 percentile of our DUI B and per pup people expenditure 23946 just above the DUI average. But we need to remind you that Canton is the one of the smallest districts in in our our DUI. The next generation of accountability index of 81.9 positions ourself if you recall ninth within the DUR and 32nd within the state. The next chart you could see into the left we fall in the high range of where we are for our per pupil expenditure versus accountability.
048So I want to put it in simple terms for the amount of money that we spend on our kids. performed really really well. So where does that leave us? On December 9, if you recall, I forecasted on December 9 a 6.62 and that is down from what we projected at a tri board meeting of close to a 9% of going from 26 to 27. It was roughly about a 9%. So I came to you on December 9 with a 6.62 projected budget. So this is what everybody's been waiting for. This slide on page 15. Where's the superintendent of schools on February 10th? I got two numbers and I need to explain them. I am at 5.92 operational. From fiscal year 26 to fiscal year 27, there's an operational increase of 5.92. Let me explain what
049goes into that number. Salaries are 3.15%. Health and benefits is about a little over a percent. So if you take the categories of salaries, health, insurance, transportation, and electricity, right out of the gate, I'm 4.37 just with those things. Then when you add in special education, out of district transportation, tuition, bridges revenue, and you offset the bridges revenue with preschool revenue, which we'll talk about in a little bit, that's another increase of 0.20. 20. When you look at athletics, educational technology, facilities and maintenance, tech services, professional development, travelers and meetings, that is a 089%. And then personnel move from grants as we discussed because we were losing money from our open choice in retirement savings, which we'll talk about, and personnel transferred from the town. That's 0.25. And then our small capital is 0.22. So
050all that is 5.92. When you take all those numbers and you add them up, it's 5.92. So when you compare the operational budget from 26 to where we are now, it's a 5.92. What's a little bit different and this is why I say we have two numbers is within our audit report two and a half years ago we received bonus money from the state for education cost share which is revenue to the town. So two and a half years ago we took the bonus money that came in and we put that right into offset the education budget at that time. So, at that time it was roughly over $300,000. Now we're at $258,000. Through the audit report, it stated that they did not want us to do that anymore. They did not want us to
051take the revenue from the education cost share to offset the board of education budget revenue. They wanted that $258,000 to go directly to the town. So, what I'm here to share is that the $258,000 that was in our budget, it's going to have to go to revenue into the town, but it increases our budget. Does not increase the town budget at all. So, when the board of finance, and I explained this to the board of finance, and I explained this to our finance committee this morning, when the board of finance goes to put the entire budget together and they look at the board of education budget, the board of selectman budget, the board of finance budget, and then they look at the um mill rate and the the taxes that are coming in. Our budget's
052going to show from a 5.92 to a 6.667. six six seven but it is not new money to the town because that revenue is just shifting from our budget to the town budget. So the the taxes are not going to go up in the town because the board of edriation budget is going from the 5.92 to the 6.67. It's just going to be offset in a different spot. So that's why I have two numbers at a 5.92 and a 6.67. But by doing that, it's not increasing anything to the town. It's just moving money from one account to another account for revenue. I'm going to stop there and make sure we understand that because that's the most important thing that I want to talk about tonight that you understand that operationally we're at 5.92, but
053the revenue is going to change. So, it brings us to a 6.67, but it it it doesn't increase any taxes. It's just revenue that is moving to difference. I'm going to stop right there to make sure everybody understands that >> was last year's 6.62 operational >> and or was that also part of >> December 9th the December 9th increase? >> The December 9th increase was 6.62 but we did not it was operational. We did not know this at the time. So, if we knew, that's a great question, Kim. If we knew that at the time, it actually would have been almost a nine 9.2%. So, thank you for bringing that up. Everybody good? So, one of the things, and I'm glad that Mrs. Sini is here this evening is that you know you know there's
054always been a a charge um to really look creatively at how we handle things within a school district and one of the things that we looked at and Mrs. Simini and I have been working on it for about a year and we came up with a voluntary early retirement incentive and you've seen this slide before. I presented it to you in January and and as good as teachers are, we do have opportunities possibly to offer incentives. So we worked with the union and we worked with the board of education. great collaboration and we offered a retirement incentive and we received five retirements were submitted and the fiscal year salaries were reduced by $552,000 just based upon that. And the incentive will cost the district $55,000 because if you recall each one of them will get
055$11,000 each year. But what we're going on and you can see in this chart that the fiscal year 27 is 552,000 theou payout year one 55,000. We're anticipating the replacement being $258,000. So a net of $239,000 239,151. So that retirement savings, we're anticipating, as we spoke about this morning, of saving $239,000 as projected of what we may hire for um the fall. And I I'm going to explain that in a minute. Again, if you go to page 17, what does this mean? And going to uh Mrs. Svin's point, what is different from what I presented on December 9th and what I'm presenting now? And Mr. Daniels said when I before I started, you don't want me to spend four hours tonight. Well, honestly, folks, we already spent four hours because for the past four or
056five meetings, we spent about an hour at each meeting talking about the budget. So, there's nothing I'm sharing with you tonight that you haven't heard already. We're just drilling it down a little bit more. But what I did have to add to the budget is I had to add an EAC sick late leave payout for retirees. So anyone before in the EAC contract has a sick leave buyout. One is a five had the buyout that was 44,000. Their retirement incentive 55,000. What we didn't know on December 9th is all our teachers that were going for advancement of their degrees of going from like a master's to a sixth year will cost us 49,000 and then other salary adjustments depending upon individuals that we hired another 29,000. So a difference of $179,000 I had to add
057in. And then there is that ECS revenue of $258,000. So the total additions is a total of $438,000. So what did I have to reduce? You can see the retirement initiative 70,000. On December 9th, I predicted that we were going to offer a retirement incentive. So I accounted for approximately $180 $190,000 of that on December 9th, but we got more. So we were able to add in 70,000 additional retirement savings of $78,000. Uh meaning that um additional retirement of people that are retiring, it's a little bit more than than what we're predicting. Preschool tuition. what we are are working with the town that any revenue that comes from the board of education we're taking back that the town agreed to that the CEO agreed to that so this $44,000 has always been in the town
058revenue we're taking it as revenue to offset our budget you've heard this at our last meeting additional bridges uh revenue from the last time we spoke I'm able to add $108,000 more o of revenue into our budget. Small capital changes relative to some different numbers that we received. $50,000 special education 4,000. I do got to commend Mrs. Robbins for doing a census with our health insurance that she actually went individual by individual that it was always the town sharing with us. This is your number. Mrs. Robbins went through and said, "Well, let's look at what her number actually is." So, she did a line by line census on our staff, and that saved us $65,000 for a total reduction of $420,000. So, that's where we land on that. Our operational is 5.92 and our with
059that education cost share revenue it brings from the 258 it brings us to the 6.67. You've seen this chart before relative to the open choice funding in enrollment. Nothing has changed with this. This is where we anticipate that we'll have 81 students next year and we anticipate bringing in a a total of open choice with various grants around $959,000. on slide 19. A, as you know, 79 to 80% of our staff of our budget is made up of personnel and uh benefits. So that that's important to know that this isn't there's nothing new in this budget. We're actually, as you know, reducing staff, certified staff by 2.2 1.2 out of the high school, 1.0 0 at the elementary school. And then you can see on page 20 what makes up our $37 million. It's just
060a a a different way of looking at the the chart and it it shows the regular education, the special ed, the utilities, special education just tells our story. But what one of the charts that I really want you to look at is the revenue that we're offsetting the the bridges program. We're bringing in revenue from other districts that are helping offset us of $163,000 tuition from other towns, special education, uh excess costs, and then as we mentioned a preschool. If you look on the next one, and we spent a lot of time on this, so I'm not going to go into this in detail, but our small capital, this is a total of $149,000, which we discussed this morning at our finance committee. That's not much money to fix things that are possibly broken with
061within our district. But we, if you remember, we're we're looking at a new softball outfield fence, field hockey goals, um, relative to repairing traffic markers at at Cherrybrook. One of the biggest items is replacing the tiles in the teched hallway, replacing door uh, closers at the high school is a big line item. uh removing some asbestous uh from the the middle school classrooms, a new sign at at CIS. So these are all things that we've gone through already. So I bring that to your attention. >> Yeah. And then the large capital which you approved at the meeting two meetings ago that has not changed either where we're really looking at the the boiler repair at CIS uh the school public address at CIS and CPPS 182,000 for door replacement the the stadium netting at the
062the the high school field at Nancy Grace Memorial Stadium, Legends Field. Bathroom updates, fitness room updates. And I want to remind everyone th this is not a choice that we have capital. This is something that the board of selectment will have the final say in their budget. And as Mr. Daniels stated at the last meeting, the the whole capital plan is $2.6 6 million right now between the board of education and the selectman budget and ours is 576,000 of that. So the highlights to this budget, it really prioritize and maintains high quality instruction and supporting student achievement. Invest in staff. Staffing that aligns with the board of education goals, class size guidelines, enhancing student services, and strengthening school operations. Allocates resources for curriculum improvements, instructional materials, and updated education. Expand support for student well-being through
063counseling, mental health services, and school culture and climate. funds critical facility maintenance, safety upgrades, and technology enhancements to improve school environments and strives to balance the district needs with fiscal responsibility to minimize the impact on taxpayers. You can see on the next page of where we have traditionally been and you can see fiscal year 27 is at 6.67 looks inflated. Operationally, we know it's 5.92 and we're putting on every page that we have an explanation of that it is a 5.92 but from an operational but due to the uh revenue education cost share that we need to move the revenue to another uh place and you can see the annual growth is around uh the compound annual growth rate is around 4.7 seven. So the superintendent's proposed budget totaling 36,959 58,000 reflects a net increase
064of 5.92 due to a mandated adjustment to the board of education budget. 258,943 or 7.74 of ECS funding has been shifted to the town budget. This results in the fiscy year adjusted superintendent's proposed budget of 37,217,750 which is an increase of 6.67. And I want to remind the board of ed that we have a board of ed workshop on February 24th and of what we're asking you to do if you can if you have specific questions that by February 16th which is Monday if you could send those questions to Claudia myself Anna and John Bishop and our goal will be that we will review these questions in a presentation and we'll answer the questions at at the meeting and we'll take any questions during the the board of education workshop on that day. What we
065have for each one of you and I want to explain this. Um Claudia is going to pass out to you a budget book and this is where I can say that that Claudia does u her best work. So what I really want to do is take you through this budget book. I'm not going to take you through line items, but it's different than last year. And there's a a few things in there that we added that the board of finance requested. So, I'm just going to wait to get that on book. And all these materials, CL, this is posted online, too, right under budget. So, anybody that is online, if you want to take a look at the budget book, um it's online and we're going to get the budget book also to board of
066uh finance members also. But if you look on page uh four, we explain the budget process. On five there in five through uh 10, we really are talking about our stories that are really happening within the can public schools. You can see on page 11 is our class size guideline and page 13 is exactly what the board of finance was asking for for us to explain what each class is the makeup of the class. I did meet with a a few board of finance members and explain this to them and ask them if this is what they were looking for and I got a thumbs up that this is exactly what they were looking for. So I was happy with that. And then the next thing that I want to point out is on page
06718 and 19 is a personnel summary. And what we've done in the past is just giving you page 18 is our personnel summary. What we added to this year's budget book based upon feedback is on page 19. We explained why everything either went up or down. So page 19 is just different in 20. Now the next piece on page 22, this is where it could get a little bit confusing, but it's all the same. Page 22 and 23, if you just really want to know what our budget is, is 22 and 23. If you want to just compare where we were in 25, 26, and 27, it's just there in number form. If you go to page 24 through 31, it gives you a fiveyear runout of where we were five years ago to where
068we are now of increase and decrease. Now, what's really new, and I do have to thank my administrative team for doing this and Claudia in Anna for putting this together, is page 32 through 37. It's all the same of what was in the previous pages, but it gives you a line item analysis of each one of the accounts and why they went up or why they went down or why they stayed the same. That's one of the things that the board of finance was looking for. I met with the board of finance chair to ask him if this is what he was looking for. This is exactly what he was looking. And then if that wasn't enough on page 38 through 43, we summarized it again and we summarized what each of those count accounts
069make up. and gave you a brief description on each one of those accounts. And then on page that that's not new. On page 45 through 47, we explain the revenue that comes in. And then on page 48 through 49, we explained open choice funding. And then 50 to 51 we explained the small capital large capital and then the last pages are the narratives and then we align the board of education goals uh with the priority highlights in in the budget. Th this budget I is a budget that will move our district forward. But if you're asking me if there's any new initiatives in this budget, there's not. It's to move our district forward in a way that um our our students will continue to grow and we'll be able to provide an environment for our
070staff to really educate our our children. The as I stated before there's nothing new that I haven't presented to you before. There's no hidden surprises. This is what I present. It's now just shown to you in in number. No, Mr. Daniels. Thank you so much, >> Dr. Go. I want to thank you and the entire team for putting this together. As you can see, you've taken lightear steps ahead from what was already an award-winning budget book into something a little bit more even comprehensive. So, I want to thank you for that and for your talk tonight. So, as I mentioned, if there's any clarifying questions, um I think we can entertain those if there's something that sticks out. But if not, I I just want to remind the board as you put together your questions,
071and I you hear me say this often, but uh the the board of education's job is not to run the district. It's to make sure our district runs well. So, as you begin to formulate those questions, if you kind of think that in mind, um you're certainly entitled to get into whatever detail you want to. But the fact of the matter is what we're looking to do is make sure that the uh the district is being run well. We're before we're not we're before the board of finance in March. Aren't we? >> It's on the PowerPoint. >> Yeah. >> But the the goal is for you all to approve a budget, adopt a budget on February 26 and then a few days later we have to send it to the board of finance and I
072believe you present one March. So, is there anything you haven't heard you heard here tonight that you'd like to um get clarified or something that's sticking out to you that you need a little bit more explanation to help you understand the budget more? >> Super quick question. Um, for the voluntary early retirement program, we intend to replace the retirees at lower steps. Do we have a better idea of when we might have actual numbers for that? >> Yeah, July, August. Um I won't there's a few positions that out of the five one will definitely not 1.2 out of five will not be filled due to attrition. Nobody's going to lose their job. Um but we'll have a better idea of where we're landing in July and August. The there two positions that we're down to
073psychologist school psychologists. I'm going to post those right away. Um, but the other ones, uh, we'll wait a little bit because what I I need to see where we are with the a budget with with the town, >> but school psychologists I know we're going to need. >> No, no new personnel. >> No, >> Lucas. I just The number jumped out at me on page 33, the 1,145.61% increase. Looks like it's just as I just >> on what page very quickly see it's just it says but looks like the percent I just right it's good >> excellent good catch thank All right. Um, lot to take in. Again, we so appreciate the presentation and we'll dive into a little further on the next. >> Good. Thank you, Dr. Gman. All right, let's move on to
074our rest of our agenda. And as we go into the uh as we go into the standing committee reports, uh thank you for coming. Thank you. Drive safe. As we go into the uh standing committee reports, I did make an adjustment uh hoping that Amy would be ratified and sworn in tonight. I I did add Amy to the uh policy and I've added Amy on to finesse. So there >> good. Okay. All right. Uh so ha having that uh if the chairs would just uh reach out to her and just give her some number one maybe some background on your on your committee and uh its flow and the dates. I appreciate that. >> Okay. Uh we'll go quickly on finance also. Excuse me. Most everything we've covered already tonight. We discussed the budget not
075quite and then we spent quite a bit of time talking about aging infrastructure boiler. That's good place to compound conversation with maintenance. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions for finance >> policy? Mr. Sh, we met tonight uh had a lengthy discussion about the kindergarten enrollment policy which is under consideration by the state. Anyway, couple of questions for can clarify for us what she's going to do. We talked about the visitors policy which is up for first read tonight. Uh we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. and we looked at uh probably half a dozen policies that just have some minor revisions for updates based on new legislation from ship's point of view. >> Thank you. Any questions on policy? Okay, good. Um we'll move on to curriculum. Michelle, >> sure. We met on
076January 28th at CMS and the meeting primarily focused on the ELA update over CMS. We are rolling out a new program this year common lit and it seems to be well received so far and we are noticing progress in student performance um and we'll hear more about that at the CMS walkthrough on April 2nd and our next curriculum meeting is >> thank you great questions for uh curriculum >> okay great we'll go up to Felicia on the big board communications >> um hi there um I did want to mention too Um just briefly before the report that if anyone's online for the district uh budget uh proposed budget that Jordan just went over it is easily found on the website which I feel is a great communication out to the district. If you go to
077district and then over to budget on the right bottom side you'll see 26 27 proposed budget. So just for anybody that's looking for that. Um as far as the communications committee we met on February 2nd. Um we went over or we talked about the um eighth grade families that were going to be having a incoming freshman curriculum night. Um that was on Wednesday the 4th. And then for the next student at the center principles were going to be selecting students that will be interviewed this week actually. and student reps. We're going to be conducting interviews for the next student at the center newsletter which will go out and then we are also working on um a list of goals that will be an overview of the communication plan tenative communication plan within the district. So
078as soon as those goals are formalized or formal um we will um communicate those out to everyone. >> Great. And you anticipate the newsletter to go out in March, February, end of the month? Um I don't have >> the the drafts go out of the publication by uh February 26. Sorry, the final draft and then after that they will go out um to districts. >> Great questions for communications. >> Okay, thank you. Uh Craig, um I I attended a couple meetings now with Crack and they're in the middle of their budget, so we've been going through finance. uh met the new um director Desi Nation. Thank you very much. And I was at the legislative breakfast this morning. So um one of the things that the correct is finding difficulty in is finding teachers and
079um I was talking to Dr. Gman earlier that the urban schools are losing teachers to the suburban schools and it's it's kind of a problem. So, more on that and they want to fully fund the residency program that's in place at CRE. Um, and they're hoping that the governor might put more money to that. And if that's the case, I know we at one time had visions of of participating in that program and money got cut. But if uh if the governor does more on the funding, we may be able to do something in residency. Any questions about pract? >> Sure. Has there been any discussion about the timing of enrollment for program choice besides us? I I have not heard heard any but I'd be glad to bring that up. Yeah, that's a great
080question and having seen what the trend line is for us, I'll definitely bring that up. >> Okay. Uh Jordan Insurance. >> Yep. So, we met on February 5th. Um, and we have a full RFP still out which is due back to us um, Friday the 13th. So, we will be meeting once we have all of our RFPs back. It was confirmed by our broker that they advise we stay self-insured. That was a question that the comm uh, committee had brought up. Um, but it was advised that we stay self-insured and that it that is best for us financially. Um and then we also had let union reps know on both the board of ed as well as the town side that we are going to RFP proactively and they were appreciative of that. So more
081to come. We um still are projecting 20% as of right now. I once the RFPs come through I think that may change a little bit but as of right now we're still at the 20%. >> What's the time period on your RFPs? >> So they're all due back the 13th. Um and then this Yeah, this Friday. This Friday. >> Yes, this Friday. And then based off of what we see, uh, Elizabeth is gonna put together probably a special meeting for our committee. Uh, we'll review the RFPs. USI will probably be there. Um, but we're hoping to have a decision by the end of March. Okay. So that implementation can go smoothly. So >> if there is a change. >> Great. >> Questions for the insurance committee? I mean, that's a that's a big number. Any
082thoughts? Okay, hearing none, then the final updates from Alli on the PTO's. >> I will start with Cherry Brook. Um, they had pancake breakfast on the 7th. It was a big success. Some of the teachers came to read to the students and there were 150 Valentine's cards that children made that will be sent to Plain and Cherry Brook Health residents. Uh the PTO will be co-hosting a cozy story time and craft with the Canton Public Library uh this coming Tuesday on the day off at 2:30. Um they're asking people to sign up online because there is limited space. Uh Sherry Brook and CIS PTO's are going to award pack on March 6th and if you buy your tickets by the 20th of this month, you will be entered into a raffle to win a spot
083in a high five tunnel. Sounds like a good time. Um on the CIS, as Lucas had mentioned, they had their paint night. Um they have 45 students attending. Uh more about the Wolfpack. They um the sixth grade band will be playing Star Spangling Banner at the game and they've sold over 220 tickets and they are hosting a silent auction for Zambon rides. Um they're also gearing up for a busy March conferences and they're doing personality portraits with a local photographer at the community center. Uh middle school, I did hear from them this month. Um they're fulfilling teacher robust like new equipment, a DJ form dance. They're planning the yearly we love CMS program and um their biggest concern remains membership. They have two members. Um currently no one is attending meetings. This is CIS >>
084middle school. >> Um, and one of the women doesn't even have any children at middle school anymore. She's just stayed on to help. So, anyone out there that has middle school students, please, please, please reach out. Um, there's things like, uh, eighth grade promotion that need to be planned and usually planning for that starts like November. Um, so they're in they're working on recruitment, but they're struggling in that age group. Um, let's see. I was able to go to the uh boosters meeting last night. Um they were lovely, very welcoming. Um they provide shirts for teams that have won championships and the boys soccer team who received their shirts this week for winning conferences. Um they're currently working on forming their scholarship committee who will receive their scholarships. Uh they've got some new fundraisers in
085the work that I'm not going to report on yet because I don't have details, but uh stay tuned. Um, they are also still looking for volunteers to go to the transfer station. As I talked about in my last report, the co-president, Colleen Zen, is working on making an how to video. Um, and they're also sending out a sign up genius to current members to get people to sign up hopefully in a day to go sort. I know no one really wants to go sore when it's, you know, below zero Saturday and there's 10 beaches now. So, um, >> sorry, Mr. Sh. >> That's like founding that part. She's going for Starbucks. >> I highly recommend it. >> One of the things we did talk about and this might go along with what you're talking about
086with um the plastics loop is I said people like easy too. >> So like if there's a place at the high school that people can actually take their things to and not have to go out to the transfer center that might help too. So something they're going to look into as well. >> Good idea. Um, finally, uh, CFA. Despite the cold, they had a very well attended and successful Christmas concert. Um, there's many spring concerts coming up across the district, including the coral concert tomorrow night, and there's a a Disney send off on April 6th. Um, I also should be up there that they're looking for volunteers to work those conf uh, concerts. So, there's a QR code. Lovely to hear it. Thank you. If people want to scan and sign up to help out
087at the show, it's literally an hour. sit there handout programs. You say hi, welcome, thanks, and away you go. If your kids are performing, it's a perfect opportunity. Um, and finally, they're providing support for the musical, which had a lot of press tonight. Uh, Freaky Friday will be March 12th and 13th at 7 p.m. and March 14th at 2 p.m. >> It's fantastic. Pretty important. Any questions about PTO's? That really leads into a calendar events, which is perfect because you hear about all the things that are going on. I will tell you the PTO's in in the booster club anytime a board member can be there to say hello they're extremely appreciative of our attendance our participation I know we just came off prisms I know many of you went to that also it's it's
088just great to support where you can and and chat with people and let them know that you know the board is not just in this room but the board is out in the community and uh we're enjoying all the fruits of our labor this on the staff. Okay, with that the consent agenda, I'll take a motion uh that the camp board of education approved consent agenda. I'll just say for Amy on some of these things that we're going to go over, you always have the right to abstain. You can vote no. Yes, but you always have that option. So, um so may I have a motion? Can board of education set agenda? Mr. Sher second, Mr. Bush. Thank you very much. Uh any any questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. Thank you. 9.
089All right. Um, we're going to review and possibly approve the following policies of first read. First is the non-discrimination community. Mr. Sher, I'll make a comment about the first three because they're all in the same categories. They're policies that we adopted last year, John. last year uh that had some what we felt were minor changes to keep up with some uh changes in new law uh to be in line with with where the state and federal government is. The committee adopted all three of them unanimously, but certainly uh adopted and asked you to approve them. Uh if you have questions about any of the wording, we did have a few questions, but they're pretty easily answered, but there's nothing dramatic there. It's it's um working from policies we adopted a year ago. Okay. So on
090the first read, what usually happens, Amy, on the first read, uh we approve and then we gives you more time to dig into it. uh you can come to policy and chat there or then we go to the second read and many times at the second read will actually approve the approve the policy but if there's further conversation then we'll go back or we can go back in policy and go from there so uh having said that the first one is move can board of education approve the non-discrimination community policy as first read motion thank you Mr. Sher thank you Michelle uh any questions on that any further questions Mr. Shir hearing none. All those in favor I opposed. Okay. So n thank you. All right. The second one same same situation little bit smithing.
091These are uh good one shipment policies with just minor shifts in the wording or to bring them up to date. So I'll take a motion move that can board of education approve the non-discrimination students policy as first read. Thank you Georgia for first second. Thank you, Ally. Any further questions on that one? All those in favor? I. Okay, we're nine. Thank you again. Okay. And then finally, u the next one is the renew the policy to prove the following policy. Uh the >> I'm lost here. It's not non-discrimination >> similar to the others. >> I'm sorry. That's right. All right. Review and possibly improve the following policy is the first read. That's the non-discrimination personnel policy. So, I take a motion that can board of education approve the non-discrimination students policy as a first read.
092Thank you, Ally. Amy, I'm going to put you down for how Thank you, Amy, for a sec. All right. Any further questions? All those in favor? I. Thank you. Thank you, Jordan. Thank you, uh, Felicia. Okay. Uh and finally the review and possibly approve the the uh the visitors policy. I'll take you want to speak to that. It's a little bit more deeper. >> The personel. >> Yes. Yeah. >> He did say the last one. He said I'm sorry. Um we're going to amend that to say personnel. Can I have a a motion to amend that vote? Thank you, Jordan. Thank you, Kim. um to read personnel. All those in favor I so that makes it efficient. Right. So now Mr. Sh visitors policy it's updating our current visitors policy which sets down some some
093rules about what people can and can't do if they come for a visit and what the uh procedures would be. Uh but it also addresses situation of a uh should a government official from the immigration department show up at the front door and what happens then and that's probably the most important addition to any of the policies we look at tonight and John I said I would kick that to you at this point >> gladly. Uh so for the board to be able to understand Governor Lamont uh signed into law public act 25-1 which among other things addresses immigration post schools. Uh should Goodwin have revised policy to clarify that in the event that a federal authority appears person in school under the board of education jurisdiction authorized contacts the school to request information the
094authority shall be directed between the administrator designated such interactions will follow protocols combine the school's security and safety and can share some information around the school broadly with the policy committee as well but we do have policy protocol all practice in mind for that. >> Anything else? >> No. >> Any questions on that? I know the policy took it up pretty deeply. If not, then I'll take a motion. The can't board of education approve the visitors policy is a first read. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Joe. First and second. Any further questions, conversation? All those in favor? I. We're n. Thanks very much. Um, with that said, good work tonight everybody. Uh, any objection to adjourning? Hearing none, the board of education. How about that?