001And for the pledge of allegiance, [Music] Oh, heat. Read that arms. I pledge algiance 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. Order. Arms. Post. Right. Hey or arch. Okay. You see I'm sorry. >> Okay. >> Louisa, would you do roll call, please? >> Yes. >> Al, >> present. >> Teresa, >> present. >> Michelle, >> here. >> Katie, >> here. >> Glattus >> here. >> Mary Lauren. Juanita >> here. Rich [Music] Julie. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, J. >> We at this time I'm going to turn over to the super to do the recognition. Okay, we have a new bar set tonight. This is the first school that provided swag for their spotlight
002of your school. So, you've created a you've set a new standard. So, I'm going to be making announcements to all schools. I love Yeti cups. I love all kinds. Towels are great. So, uh but thank you for these first of all. Uh thank you for coming. I'd like to welcome Milri Elementary School and our led by our principal Michelle. >> Good evening. Thank you for having us. I'm the very proud principal of Milward Primary School and I'm excited to go first for Spotlight Your School. Um, that's what happens when you go first. You set a new bar to everyone, right? So, I'm the very proud principal who gets to go first for Spotlight Your School. A little extra special. This is probably our last meeting in this boardroom. So, um, I'm happy to be the
003the way that we finish it um, with our wonderful school. So, um, I wanted to give you a quick peak tonight into what makes us so special and also into what we're working on this year. Um, our school motto is every student every day, no matter what. And I hope throughout that presentation, um, that's exactly what you're going to see. Every amazing person who works in our school does just that. They work super hard every day to meet the needs of all of our students. Tonight, you're going to get a peek at how our young scholars, our little kids, are becoming strong advocates, collaborators, communicators, innovators, and learners. And following this presentation, I invite you to come visit us because we would love to show you around and show you all the great things that
004are happening. Um, I want to take a minute to point out my incredible staff who came out on, you know, Wednesday night to support our school. So all that they are part of what makes us so great and without them I wouldn't have something wonderful to spotlight. So I just want to make sure to point them out. This year we're working hard. He's not sorry. Um this year we're working to grow our leadership team. Um and so we have a wonderful group of volunteers who is um committed to helping us grow our school. some very skilled educators in that group who are helping us to look at data to capitalize on what we're doing well and to help us figure out where we can grow and to help us look at what we can be
005doing better. So, I just want to introduce the people who are here in the room that are on that team. Not everyone up there is here, but Kirsten Lang is here. Um, she's our student support specialist. Mrs. Krosa, our MLL teacher, Cali Bates is our kindergarten representative, and Jacine Smith is our third grade representative. Um, we are going to talk to you about the two wildly important goals that we're working on. So, you know that we work on a million things every day. There are two things that we're devoting all of our time to, not all of our time, two things that we're really making our focus this year. One of which is to increase reading proficiency of our students by a minimum of 15%. And the second one is to decrease chronic absentism in
006our school to at least 8% or less. So, we know that sending our kids out of Miller Primary, being a a primary school, sending them out of our school by the end of third grade reading at grade level is one of the biggest things we can do to set them up for future success. So, we're putting all of our efforts and our brainstorming powers on that goal. Um, but we also know we can't meet that goal if our kids don't come to school. And so, we want to work on targeting um absenteeism so that they're there for us to teach them. So, I'm going to show you a little bit about where we are right now in that. So, right now, we are proud to have increased our overall proficiency of our third graders from
00726% to 40% last year. So, we saw a gain of 14% in the percentage of kids who are achieving at grade level, but 40% is not where we want to be. Um, and so we have a lot of work to do to grow that, but we are super proud of the progress that we're seeing. We've seen a nice trend in our literacy data and I realize you cannot see that mountain but if you could what it would show you is that last year with all of our targeted literacy efforts our kindergarteners 70% of them left proficient on grade level and 60% of our first graders left proficient on grade level and almost 60% of our second graders left on grade level. So, we have a mountain climbing theme this year and we see ourselves like
008moving up that mountain. And so, um, while we're not there yet, we know that most kindergarters who are at 70% are going to be our first graders this year and very soon are going to be our third graders. So, we see a super positive trend in our data. Some of the things we've been doing to help make that happen. Um, I I do think our new our core curriculum and a lot of adult learning for our teachers, we've built in a lot of collaboration time for them to work together and to learn from each other. We're doing some very explicit instruction now in phonics and awareness and we're we're doing some creative scheduling to try and make good use of the limited resources that we have with our intervention team so that we can be
009with as many students as possible. And all of those things together are helping us to move more kids um to be at grade level. We're we're working really hard to make sure everyone has access to grade level curriculum, but also to support their needs to help them access that. Um, and like I said, attendance, um, we we were very proud of our attendance, but we did see an increase in the percentage of chronically absent students last year. So, we feel like it needs to be a target for us again. 12% of our school last year was chronically absent. And we know that being in school every day helps you feel like you belong as part of that building and also waiting them to be there consistently to teach them. So, we do um sharing of
010attendance data. We have an attendance team that meets one-on-one individually with each family because every student's reason for not coming to school is different. So, we target those needs one kid at a time. Um, and we do a lot of celebrations and surprise days to help support that. Um, to get the students on board, too. So, at Milish Primary, um, we are intentionally teaching our young learners how to learn and how to work together. We're embedding social emotional skills into all of our classrooms to teach our kids how to communicate with each other and how to collaborate with each other and how to advocate for themselves. Um, we are also we're teaching them like how to be a learner and what you do in school to be a learner so that we are setting them
011up for future success. We also know that our kids are a lot more than their numerical data. So everything that we do in our school is centered around trying to meet the needs of our whole the whole child. Um some there's things that we do every day but some of what we work on um is our PBIS expectations. So we set common expectations in our school. Um we model them. Every student knows what's expected of them and they know the expectations in our school which we feel makes a safe environment where everyone can learn better because they feel safe at school. um our entire school practices them, they model them. We also strive to make the students, the staff, and the families feel supported. So, we work really hard to make sure that we have
012positive staff and student relationships and positive staff and family relationships. We welcome our families and as partners and this year, we've set a goal to regularly communicate with our parents about what we're learning in school and how they can help kids at home because they know they want to. So we want to keep them informed on on what their kids are doing and ways to help at home. Um and then we run programs to meet individual basic needs of our families. We do food drives and holiday giving drives, coach drives because if our basic needs aren't met, then it's harder to work with. Um we also know that being a student can be hard, being a parent can be hard, being a teacher can be hard. Um and so we try to build in ways
013for them to um recognize each other. So, every month our staff sends little postcards home to families, maybe a student's pet talk um or parents to hear something good about their child and then I give the parents opportunities to send in like messages to the staff thank you for put them all together and and nothing feels quite as good as having 180 positive messages that were sent in from your families. So, we we really work to build each other up as well. Our school is full of a lot of reasons to celebrate. Um we operate on five core values uh which are respect, responsibility, kindness, hard work and safety. Weekly we celebrate kids who show those values. Monthly we celebrate kids who are are kids of character and kids who are on a roll with
014their learning who are showing some type of academic um improvement. We celebrate our hard work, our learning and our attendance milestones. And so I have a quick video to show you of just a few of those celebrations. I just hope that when you watch you'll notice all of the community connections in a video because we believe really strongly that our kids need to be the connected to the community that they're a part of. So I think you'll see I I hope you'll notice you'll see some DHS students in there. You'll see some central office members in our video. Um and some other people from our community. I close my eyes and I can see a world that's waiting up for me. Then I call my home. Through the dark, through the door, where no one's
015been before, but it feels like home. They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy. They can say they can say I've lost my mind. I don't care. I don't care. So call me crazy. We can live in a world that we design. Cuz every night and night, the brightest colors fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. [Applause] I think of what the world could be. A vision of the world I see. A million dream is all it's going to take. [Music] sing. >> That's a song by the great show. We can live by a million dreams keeping me away. [Applause] Thank you. And I just wanted to end with this one quote and it says, "Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who
016understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be." That's a quote by Rita Pearson and our school is filled with just that, champions who um are really ready to help our future graduates thrive and make sure that they have someone to connect to every day. [Applause] That was wonderful. How many years have you been a principal? Five. Five. You You could be like at 15 right now with the amount of work and accomplishments that you um created at that school in such a short time and in collaboration with the staff that clearly supports you and is even happy to be here. The fact that they're smiling on a Wednesday night and they all came out to show school spirit. Um there's a lot to be said about how you've
017led that school in a short period of time and uh just how positive and warm school is but yet there's an expectation there's high expectations for kids. Um so I just want to say thank you very much. Um this was a wonderful presentation. >> Thank you. I don't know why the video was so excited about it. >> Thank you. I'm very proud to be there and they're really what makes us so great and and I every I have a newsletter that I send to the town each week and it says there's nowhere else I'd rather be and that's the truth. Like I can't imagine myself somewhere else. I love our school. So that's it. >> That's great. Awesome. Thank you so [Applause] much. No. Okay. [Music] >> The board welcomes public participation and asks that
018speakers please limit their comments to 3 minutes. Speakers may off may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them. The board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about board of education personnel and students nor against any person connected to the dam public school system. >> So I guess no one is coming towards the board. So we have move on down the agenda. Okay. Thank you. Al, could you make the motion for the consent calendar? I make the motion that the board of education approve the consent calendar exhibits 25-124 through 25-126. >> Motion made by air. Could I hear a second? Seconded by Michelle. Any question concerning the consent calendar? Seeing none, all in favor could I hear I? >> I. Motion so carried. Thank you. Do we
019have anyone doing coming before the board on my educational staff team? >> No, students are not here. [Music] >> Presentation presentation. No. >> Okay. >> Superintendent report. >> Okay. Well, um I'm hoping is not the other building. she was supposed to attend tonight to do to talk a little bit about family university and our farm tot initiative. So I will just quickly um update the board. We there is a a wonderful flyer in the back of your packet and um actually just make sure you all have that in there. Well, the the events, I'm not sure if it's in your packet, but um Ann was going to speak just a little bit about some of the wonderful programming and events and just a a huge community um gathering for our family university, which is on
020October 18th. Um and so we'll be celebrating again our community providers and connecting with families uh in meaningful ways. So, I invite you to all come out and um if the information is not in your packet, we'll certainly get that to you. she may end up sliding in um when she figures out the the location uh for tonight. But um in any event, we welcome everybody to attend that. I will be there. And um from what I understand, I'm also going to be helping to run a pollinator session with bees and honey and helping to show the kids how uh the the role of pollinators in in the community. Um so that's a new one for me. Um the other uh update is on our farmtotable initiative and uh that is going going well. We
021are growing uh multiple sites. Um we're able to get a little extra grant money embedded into some of the things that we're doing. So we're going to be growing um more beds at more schools. Um and Chartwells has been wonderful with that collaboration. So they're very open to those ideas. Um, and then we're also interested in establishing some some partnerships uh with some local farms and in our community. And we also just made a a great connection with uh Connecticut Foodforthought. Not sure if anybody's familiar with that, but they are a huge hydroponics uh organization that has opened up a facility in Torington. and they uh first started with their um they had first started their initiative was to just help feed the local population and and folks who are in need of food. Um
022but they've uh since grown their production and are now a provider sole provider for Big Y uh in Connecticut for hydroponics uh you know grown um produce and they're also going to um work with us to help us set up our greenhouse. Um, we have we're going to have a small group of teachers and a couple administrators going out to see their facility, tour it, learn about the industry of growing soils, food, um, and then bringing that back to help us get that that pathway off the ground. So, we're very excited about that. But all these farmtotable and uh, food growing initiatives um, are kind of uh, starting to multiply in terms of opportunity. So, we're we're excited about that. Just a short update on that. and Ann has been instrumental uh in that work
023and growing out that work. Okay, moving on. Federal funding status. Uh last time we were here, you know, I was uh quite worried about uh the monies coming in particularly for title one, title two, and title three. And just this week, they did release those funds finally. They have populated into our EGMS system. And then we will program those mostly with what we had in them last year uh without too much worry about uh a bucket stat. So, we're happy about that. Um, we do know that title 2, from what we hear from all sources, will go away, um, coming next year. So, uh, we'll be looking to make sure that we take any staff that was in that grant and slide them into alliance and make sure that we have enough room in there
024on the grants to accommodate. Uh, it's not too you only have about two staff members in there, so it's not not too bad. The rest of the funds are used for teacher professional development. Um all right, moving down the line, cell phone policy and implementation. I was asked to just give a little brief update on how it's going and I can tell you that it's going quite well. Um overall, there's been very few bumps. The students have been extremely cooperative. Um you know, minus a little bit of uh huffing and puffing sometimes with uh having to put the phone away, the students have been very cooperative, locking the phones up, taking them out at the appropriate time at the high school level. Um and it's been a non-issue um K8 we've heard of really no
025issues whatsoever. Um in terms of the student side again the staff is very appreciative of their ability to teach without the distractions in the classroom. Um still has always you know compared concern about making sure they can get a hold of their children. Um but that comes with a little bit of trust with the school system and knowing that they can access the administration when they really need to get a hold of someone. Um, I know Trice and I are having a little bit of a conversation just before the board uh meeting started and I don't know if you want to I think you attended a PTO meeting. >> Denver High. I'm not sure if you want to talk a little bit about that through the chair. >> Yeah, they were saying um the only
026class that was having an issue with it was the senior class. >> Uh but freshmen were terrific, you know, but the senior class because they were used to having cell phones, >> right? which is understandable. It's a it's a hard shift but um still no behavioral challenges as a result of the policy. Um so things are going well in in that regard. Uh transportation. So also things have gone very smoothly and are pretty much on track with transportation. Uh we've had a couple of runs late being late here or there but that's like a typical year. Um given all the changes that we've had in the volume uh and the number of buses that we've added, this has gone incredibly smoothly. Um the first, as we mentioned last time, the first couple days of a
027school in the first week or two of school, we traditionally have longer runs as not only the drivers are getting to know the the new roads. um some of them are brand new drivers but also um you know making sure that the dismissal process is as organized as it can be so that students are efficiently exiting the building in a safe way possible. So all those systems have been um have been really worked on in the last few years and honed and refined ironed out and um we're in really good shape with transportation. uh the 612 run that folks were concerned about early on, not hearing anything. Um and so uh there was, you know, maybe a question or two in the beginning about the runs and nothing. Kids are being very well behaved um
028collaborative, cooperative with one another with without issue. So it's a really good report on transportation. >> How is uh the transportation from the uh west side to the main campus for like after school activities going? It's it's going okay. Um, you know, I I think down the line I would love to buy a six student passenger van at some point. Um, because I think there's always going to be a need to student who maybe either missed a bus or had to stay late. Um, so maybe down the line we might consider that. And I also think it might be vital for to be able to make sure that we can get some of our students uh who have the opportunity to to um might need a ride to an internship after school um or transportation
029between the campuses during the day. It hasn't come up as a huge need right now, but I could see maybe down the line um as the campus um fills out and we really start to kick in with uh more opportunities for students to work in the community and to shadow, we might have a need for that down the line. Teresa. >> Okay. >> This is not exactly about transportation, but you brought up about the Westside campus. Are we going to get them jackets? Were there each academy like they had in Nashville? >> Well, the student ambassadors. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, yeah. So when we were in Nashville, the student ambassadors are a select group of students who chosen to lead and be the lays on for uh for visitors and to do the tours
030and then to lead other student activities. So they're kind of like peer leaders and uh they did have lovely jackets by academy and yes we have um have set money aside for this year. In fact, the training for student ambassador training was this week and our administrator spent some time with NCAC uh engaged in that and so they're going to be turnkey the training with our students and yes there is money in the budget um set aside for the jackets. >> Are there any other questions to the superintendent Mr. Janelli or Wani? >> Okay, I have them. Thank you. >> Yes, Mr. Janelli. Go ahead. No, I don't have any questions. Thank you. >> No questions. >> Oh, okay. Through the chair. Um I just want to confirm um Dr. um with the >> sorry
031the disappearance of the title two funds um do you know roughly how much we're talking about there? >> A couple hundred thousand. I have to get the exact amount for you, but we had uh I think it's maybe closer to 400,000. We had two staff members in there and that we up about 50 almost 50% of it with benefits and then the other half was for professional development. Okay. >> Um and I already created a pocket and alliance to absorb those two. Thank you. Correct. So to the superintendent that uh amount of money is in for this year but we will will go away 2026. >> Correct. That is that is what I understand. And so I I've already kind of slid those folks in and accounted for them so that any money that we
032spend this year are sort of onetime funds so we don't create a conflict. So they were part of the planning of [Music] and that could change but that's the that's what we're here to be proactive and not to have it. Okay. And strategic planning beyond 2026. So um as you know we our current strategic plan runs through 2027 which means that over the course of next year so we should start planning in the spring. We should really engage the public stakeholders um teachers parents students board members in a strategic planning process um that refreshes what our goals are our priorities and aligns our kind of fiveyear vision down the road. Um and it it our current plan may need some major overhaul. It could just be some minor tweaking. Um but we've had some conversation
033about the need to sort of re-engage the community. If you remember or were part of the community conversations just a few years ago. Um those were really helpful with understanding the perspective of the community, perspective of business owners, perspective of our teachers, our administrators, our board, our students, our parents. Um and and those conversations uh left an imprint on me in terms of um you know what resonated what things that parents had to say their hopes and dreams for for their children um resources that they wish they had different access uh to instructional resources or social emotional resources um or how we uh just position our communication and what they need and versus what we're providing. So, um, it's a helpful process and while we have some time to plan it, um, I just wanted
034to kind of put it on the radar that that's something that I think is going to be important and we should take the time to to think through the planning component. Maybe through community conversations would be a great uh uh, you know, venue to to start having those conversations. Um, it's not right on uh, you know, urgent at the moment, but something that we should definitely be thinking about um, coming up because it will come around kind of fast. and we want to do a really good job of it. We should meet with with a group stakeholder group over an extended period of time, surveys, focus groups, um, etc. and have some facilitation. So, I just wanted to put that out there um around the community connection piece around strategic planning. >> Do you have
035any, uh, specific date, not this year, but 2026 to get that started? >> Yeah, I think I think we should leave this school year with a plan and dates heading into next year. So we should we should leave, you know, close the school year with a plan so we walk in ready as opposed to spend multiple meetings trying to figure out what what we're going to do. So I think that would be important plan wise. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. And then the last uh piece here is dress code. I think we had mentioned in a previous meeting um that we're going to be start focusing in on revisiting the policy. The policy itself is relatively new. Uh but you know, we want to make sure that uh we're supporting our administrators and our
036teachers with portion of that policy. We like to review some of that um with the groups and have a similar process to what we use for the cell phones, which was a really pretty well thoughtout process. Kelly led that she did a great job where we ascertained some of the feedback from the different levels and their perspectives which really fed into um how we shaped the policy but then also how we laid out the regulations to the schools and communicated with the schools. I think the dress code policy is another one uh that should be handled in that way. So before we we touch the policy we use feedback and focus groups to inform policy development which I think would be you know u welcome. Um, and I also think it's it's going to be
037important to have some students involved in the process as well. So, um, we'll be getting some sol we're soliciting some volunteers from PTO sitting by PTO to engage um, our folks who are are really involved in the school. Um, we'll have a couple of board members, a couple teachers, a couple admins, and a couple students as well. And that is it for the superintendent report. >> Thanks. >> Okay, Mr. Scott, I'm sorry. Dr. Casemar, two two things. Um, first, you mentioned about moving with the last there was a lapse of funds and you're going to move some expenses into the the alliance grant. Is it possible that at the next finance meeting we have to have a detailed budget or listing as to what is comprised of that reliance amount at this point? >> Yes.
038So then >> yeah, I'd like to see that and then perhaps we can project out, you know, in the near future with the incremental increases um how that money is going to be, you know, developed and at what point are we going to maximize that grant amount? >> Sure. >> Yeah, that's a great question. I spoke with Mike and uh we're going to he's going to present what you know the alliance we have to have a a board similar to some other grants you know you have to have the stamp of approval um you know for I have applied we submitted our alliance grant we're waiting to hear back but usually when that comes back that's when we bring for the board approval as well um because it has to go through state approval but
039uh we certainly have the the amount of salaries and benefits and everything else carved out and I asked mine to update through the finance first so that everybody has a chance to more spend time to talk about it. They have questions and then we'll write it to the board. My second question is I'm not sure if it's appropriate here, but uh a week or two ago, Teresa sent me a document uh and I passed it on to to you and to I think Dan Garrett about a notice in the flyer that Julie Kushner uh sent. I I don't know who she sent it to, but Teresa got a copy uh that she was said that Julie had had uh obtained uh 60 or $80 million. I don't recall the exact amount in in the state
040budget for education for for Danbury. I was I have no idea what this impacts or how it's part of whether it's part of our allocation or or guess what. Um I sent an email to Dan Garrick. I copied you on it I think as well as Teresa. Have you heard anything back as to what this money is for and how it passed up? >> Did you? >> No. And I think um you know the the numbers like that can be comprised of a lot of different things. It could be ECS. It could be money ascertained for additional grant funds. It could be one time AR money. I don't I don't know Richard. So I think um you know we'd have to get more clarity before I would feel comfortable speaking to a number that someone
041got. Thank you very much. >> Okay. >> Contracts. Yes. for the for NEA >> for uh teachers and >> yes we are going to discuss that tonight in executive session and come back out and share publicly >> sorry >> it's all good it's a good conversation >> moving on down the agenda if there's no other questions uh will you do action item no I'm sorry uh any committee's report I see the u minutes from the sites and facility committee. Good. And I encourage our board members when you have time, read your minutes. Some of the questions that you ask in out here in public, you they're already answered in the minutes. So, you know, we we can kill time by uh going over the same thing over and over again. Uh are there any committee
042reports? Okay. Yes. Just a real quick reminder that tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. is our first policy meeting and it'll be uh via Zoom. >> Okay. >> And uh finance meeting is next week too, >> I believe. So >> yeah, can't be. Okay. Okay. Uh action item air. I make the motion that the board of education accept the Mckini Vental homeless assistance fiscal year 2025 to 2026 grant in the amount of $50,000 in accordance with exhibit 25-127. Okay. And I made the motion. Could I hear a second, Teresa? Any question concerning the motion? Seeing none, could I hear all in favor? >> I motion so carry. Thank you. At this point, um chairperson very brief. Um I attended a citywide PTO meeting. Um, it they had a relative nice group and we talked about very
043briefly. Everybody know I'm not a talker. I talked about the first day of school. It went okay. Um, we talked about um possibly the dress code. We didn't get into that because we wouldn't not want to talk about that until everything was in place. and we talked about uh encouraging parents to really read the disciplinary code for their students. Okay. I attended um oh I can't think of the name the collective uh >> J and I had missed quite a few uh of those meetings and I was just there uh to learn but they were really dealing with absentee and how they are working together as a as a group to uh really work with parents so that they can understand absentee and make sure that their child in school. Okay. Uh citywide. The last
044thing I want to mention to board members is that um on the 14th, okay, we are meeting. So, I want you to take the um board of education goals. Look at the goals that superintendent had in her her blue folder that we all got. And if you didn't get it and you don't have those goals, the board goals, I'll make sure that Carol emails them to you. Okay? And so when we come on Wednesday night, we have our questions we can answer and then we can move on down the agenda. Okay? >> When is this? What day? >> I think it's Wednesday the 14th. >> 15th is Wednesday. >> Okay. Tuesday. >> Is it here? It will be on the new at the new place at our new. >> Okay. What in person? >> Yes.
045>> Okay. >> Yes. [Music] >> 14. Thank you. >> We have a busy week next week. >> Um and that's all um to the uh board members. Um, I will send an email out to you because we know that the holidays is coming up and I want to present something and I don't want to get here on the uh holiday that we do our little, you know, things and we have to do something a little bit different. So, I'm going to talk to board members about that, but we have to wait. Okay. Okay. Uh, Kate, if there's no other question, I ask you to make a motion to go into executive session. I'll make motion that the board of education recess into executive session for the purpose of discussing the negotiations for a successor agreement
046between the Danbury board of education and many a Danbury with possible action in public session. >> Second >> moved by Kate second by A. Did I hear all in favor? >> I thank you. Motion so care. might take us a minute to clear the room. Make sure that everything goes off on everything. You >> got it. >> Can I just I just got an email. Huh? for 18 months. >> I know, right? Not much longer. >> Yeah. [Music] and Kim uh could you talk about our representative from the board that was on the committee with you because it's very important that we you know and I've stressed it years that this is why we need to sit on certain committees to understand what's going on. >> Yes. So, um, a bit of background. So, what
047happens after this process, should you approve and ratify today, this contract then gets finalized and it goes to the city. >> The city has city council has 30 days in which to approve or reject the agreement. And if they take no action, it's approved. So, it's going to sit there. So, you know, if we can kind of do our best to maintain as much confidentiality around it, we're going to get that over to them to go ahead and vote. And so, what's important about the process is to have a representative from the city on the negotiating team with us because it also needs to go through the city. So, that's why we had um Mr. Carney was selected and asked to join us. He's also going to join us in some of our non-certifies. I
048think it's just a great bridge. It's really helpful to have his input. He's uh while he works um in the mayor's office right now, he's a touring board of men member. So he brings a lot of knowledge um and has I think been super helpful as the negotiating process continued as well. >> So you don't want us to say anything? >> No, I think let's let's um we'll do our vote tonight and then we'll let the the parties decide how to publicize. >> Gotcha. Motion. I'll make a motion that the board of education ratify the agreement with the National Education Association uh NEA Danbury for the period July 1st 2026 through June 30th 2029 as presented. >> Second. >> Uh the motion has been made by take second and by with the question. So if
049everybody in favor of the motion could I hear I >> I >> Okay, motion so car. >> Okay. >> Great. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Thank you for >> many hours. Thank you. We never get >> motion made by Louisa. I have a second. >> Louisa made the motion. Louisa made the motion to sec to adjourn.