001like to make a motion to approve. Second. Any further discussions, questions, corrections? Hearing none. Um, all those in favor? I and then one abstension from Commissioner Ozenowski. Motion passes. Um, next is public comment. >> No, no emails. Any takers online? None. Okay. So, that moves us to number four, uh, an update on our CA policy audit, and we're specifically going to focus on two um time time-sensitive recommendations that were made. Um, we have uh the title Nucation, but there was 10 in total that they had made recommendations for. And Miss H, would you like to start us off off with this? >> Okay. So, the title N is incredibly important because we need to revert back to the 2020. The recommendation that was made to me by Cade was to um pass this through without
002two reads just so we have a policy on the books and um I've already sent it to our uh law firm for them to review it and we can always revise it but their recommendation was to accept the one that Kate has written. Good question. Um, in regards to um, the attorneys reviewing it, um, have they provided any recommendations so far or any feedback? >> They have not so far, but um, they've only had it for a short time. >> Okay. So I anticipate there might be some but this is the one that cave is recommen >> and the policy as it's presented tonight is cave's model policy. >> Yes. Okay. Yeah. >> And so therefore it's it's been vetted based on this the updated um statutory language. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yes. And this
003was uh supposed to go into effect on January 9th. And so they really recommended that we get it as quickly as possible. >> Any questions, further discussion on this? I'd like to make a motion um to move policy as written um to the full board. >> Second. Um any discussion or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I motion passes unanimously. So that brings us to letter B um special education the preschool uh preschool special education policy. >> So this is a policy again that um was mandated and we don't currently have as a policy here in Bristol. Um I believe it was mandated a year ago. Um, so it basically makes it that we need to provide preschool for children with disabilities. Um, which we are doing. We're in complete compliance as a district,
004but we just don't have the policy on to the chair. Has this um model policy been reviewed by our legal team? This one has not. >> But again, this is CAB's model policy and it aligns directly with our statutory requirements. >> Yes, it will bring us into compliance. We're really trying to grow our preschool prep program. So, I wouldn't want anything to fall back on us that we don't have as a district. I'd like to make a motion to pass policy 6171.2A special education to the whole board for review and uh approval. >> Second. >> Any further discussions, questions? >> Hearing Oh, go for it. >> Question. Um just the the language where um it says um supervisor special that you using our language we can >> I think that's a good recommendation um >>
005you have to >> could I know Good catch. Good catch. That was my >> So, there is a motion on the floor. So, we're going to have to amend that. Yes. a motion to um so I would like to amend the motion um to pass policy 6171.2A 2A special education. Um with the uh change to on the in the second paragraph third line where it says the director/s supervisor of special education to read uh the director slash supervisor of people ser people services. Does that make sense? >> Is Amy Martino's title the director of personnel or director? >> Amy, you're online, right? >> I am online. >> Hi, everyone. >> How How does your uh title read? It's pupil personnel services. Director of pupil personnel services of pupil personnel services. Personnel was in there except
006two. >> Good catch. Thank you. >> The amendment would read director of people personnel services. That's a director of painful. No, >> I hope that's not like foreshadowing or anything. >> This reminds me of autocorrect >> in our bylaws. And um I'm presuming that that language also um is reflected in the functional job description, right? Like so that's Amy, we're having trouble hearing you. We can see the transcript on um on the screen, but we're just not able to hear you. >> I actually was unmuted. Oh, okay. Was there a question for me? >> Uh, no. I think we've got it now. So, it's the director of pupil personnel services. >> Correct. >> Perfect. Thank you so much for weighing in. >> No problem. Thank you. >> Look at all this participation tonight. >> Just
007I'm gonna try to come up with a question for Mrs. Brown. Oh, >> that's easy. I could We could do that. Yeah. That was a good catch, Lori. On the amended uh the amended motion, there's a lot of discussion around it. So to summarize, the amended motion is that we accept this policy as written with um the amendment as follows. The director/supervisor of the pupil personnel services is responsible to coordinate and evaluate setting. So that is a motion. Um just wanted to review to make sure that there are some other might use that information. Um there is number one last sentence. So maybe that second paragraph that language will be updated and in number one it will also be updated director of personal services. So that's the amended motion. And I'll second that that amended
008motion. >> Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? I motion passes. Uh move to full board. >> So that brings us to number five. I thought it would be helpful for the committee to start talking or brainstorming and hearing suggestions um as to how we might want to prioritize or tackle some of the recommended mandates that were made in the policy in the CA policy audit. out of the 10, aside from the two that we had just reviewed, were there any other recommendations as to how we should prioritize them? So, the other one that I had um provided you with is a real brief one about every uh teacher gets a 30 minute um duty free. And they just said that this could come up in pupil personnel um as an
009issue. So, you probably want to have it as a policy. Bristol did put this into place uh two years ago. Um but they don't have any policy around it right now. Again, this is the one vetted by CAD. Um it's 4113.12. Um it is a mandated policy. It's a very basic policy. Um so I thought that I if we could do three of the 10 today. The other ones are uh quite uh one of them is quite lengthy um which is about the um the drug test for the bus drivers and that one I'd like to collaborate with first student and with Colin about before um I make any recommendations for that one. Um the there is one that has um a nutritional uh side to it. So, we did have David Fold um be
010in on that one uh just to give us some um insight as far as um it a lot of these things I believe Bristol is doing. We just don't have the policy. Um there's also there's one on a challenging curriculum and there's another one on gifted students. So I meet with Alan Theoriel every month and he he and I can go over um the gifted one and give any recommendations but for all of them I do have the cave vetted policy. So it's just making sure that what we're doing is in line with it. Um the one there's also another one and I don't know if I've shared it with you yet. It's not due until July one of this summer, but it's based on um climate, school climate, and having um things in place
011um such as F FRC's. So, we we that one also is pretty lengthy. So, I'll share that one with you, but we won't plan on doing it until um June just to give you time to kind of uh go through it and uh dissect all the information. Again, a lot of things we're already doing though, like every school has a climate team um that we have a district uh person who coordinates climate. They get professional development in climate. Um it's really impressive how far along we are on that. Um but and I can collaborate with um Christy Telli and Bridget and um Erica Trani can probably weigh in on some of those policies as well, but a lot of it we have not. We have a climate survey that goes to parents to staff students.
012So we're ahead of the chair. um pursuant to the climate policy that I know we're going to be tableing more discussion but we are in compliance correct with some of the previously required statuto right like you had mentioned the project coordinator and such those things um had been codified previously in response to updates in statute >> yes >> right so right now does it appear that the exception of this piece of um legislation or or statutory requirements were up to date. >> Okay. Because I remember um Dr. Deer was kind of conferring a bit back and forth with state department of education for changes that were um in quue and so he was giving us some updates periodically. I just wanted to make sure that there weren't things that were sort of required of us
013that hadn't yet codified. Um, and yeah. Okay. So, I'll just leave that there back to further discussion and implementation for July. Right. I think I did share that. And the um yeah, I was just looking up um the personnel certified the duty free lunch. Um I was looking for a current BPS policy on it >> and um it looked I couldn't it doesn't seem like we have this specific policy. So that kind of to me made made me feel like it might be something they need to address sooner rather than later. I wasn't sure if this component might be in another EPS policy at all or >> the people who did the audit didn't see it. >> Didn't see it. Okay. >> Um and they did look specifically for it. So, it should have its
014own policy. Should have been embedded into another one just because it passed the legislature. I think wasn't this pass. >> Contractually though, this is um identified in the contract. Yeah. >> And is the recommended language specific to teachers? >> Um certified staff. Okay. >> Okay. >> Um so that might be something for us to consider. Um ensuring that you know our language contract and mirrors the statute. So because the title here minimum duty reading for teachers but then in the language below it reads teachers and other certified staff. So just be mindful of how keep on just I wanted to look I believe it all went out in our agenda. So, I know this one specifically isn't identified um like A, B, and C, but I'm wondering if it uh I believe they all were
015all the policies were emailed out with our agenda. >> And I feel like it can fit under number four if we were to review, discuss, and pass this one tonight. So, I'd love the committee's feedback on that kind of what you guys think. What was the question again? I'm sorry. I was I was trying to look up the I wanted to look up the contract. So, I'm pulling up the contract. >> Yeah. Why don't you look that up first then? >> Um, do you know if the updated contract is online? >> Um, so the teachers just Okay. We're on our website with house conference right here. Does nobody know who? So this um Switch on over. bit of search in the BFT contract for lunch, but nothing better. I would think because this legislation came
016in midway through the 22 to 25 contract that it would be something on the fund and amended to the contract. I'm not seeing anything on. >> Well, we certainly can always move this to the pool board and amend any language in the interim so we could we can examine the updated contract language in the interim to see if there's Oh, good. So for purposes of this discussion um the BFD contract does cover school psychologists and like other certified staff includes >> yeah social um that's the way that it reads Now, um, we just want to consider updating minimum duty free lunch period for teachers and certified staff to the title so that there's that congruent language in the description below and leave it as it reads, Board of Education compliance with PA22-80 shall provide an
017interim 30 minute uninterrupt uninterrupted lunch period for teachers and other certified staff. And can you read that language again? And in the contract except first sentence. That's what that's what I'm considering for free of duties versus um uninterrupted that's that could be impossible if there's an emergency if there's you know my goodness a phone call and it's a parent I don't know not to say you must stop your lunch but that idea of free and fees but I I've also So we want to see how the the statutory lady would treat so that we're not in conflict. Um I will say um our understanding of this when we were implementing it was you can't say you know an art teacher has 15 minutes now and then they have a class and then they have 15
018minutes and that's their life. >> So that was the way that we pushed it out. >> Absolutely. So you're not breaking it up. >> Yes. But interruptions are interruptions. >> I just feel like the word interruption uninterrupted is the challenge in the event that there is an emergency or a phone call and supervisors calling and might not know that it was the lunch and it's you know I just wouldn't want there to be that. Um so let me just think about this. statute doesn't go through um area and and I know that this process can feel a little laborious and there's not there's only us and there aren't very many people online but I think it's important for the public to see us actually working doing the work. This is what the work looks like.
019This is why we meet publicly. This is why we're meant to work publicly is so that people see like more work that we're actually invested and involved in it. So I know it could feel right. Exactly. Like like we're taking care tonight. Right. And that all voices are so deliberating on statutory language just to make sure put these bills together, they throw so much under one title that it ends up being that was stuck in not always stuck in there. Um, okay. So, it reads, it does read uninterrupted and it's actually line. >> It is. >> But you know what? this was the bill. So this doesn't necessarily mean that this is how the statute was uh website now where they give the legislative summary. So reference by and it's 22 2022 regular session general
020assembly member statutes that affect public education in Connecticut. So then this would be reflective of the actual summary provides a brief overview of some of the more significant changes for us. So minimum duty period But it's a relevant collected bar. We're pretty sure that the contract contract. Okay. Um so I mean um thoughts about having a language. Um each profession by the state board of education shall have it next single period thoughts. I do want to consider um because the the statuto language speaks to because when you say certified staff they might have certification but they're not working that certification and I like that this langage clarifies each professional. It could be each professional in Bristol public school employee um who works directly with children shall have a guaranteed uninterrupted shall for example I required
021as custodian. I could have special education certainly certification and not be working under that. The language in the statute speaks back. You qualify for this if you are working directly with children. There are people that are working different that have certification by that person is certified but not employed under that certification. So I know it might seem like but it's specified statuto language but I don't know that it hurt to make sure that our policy was specific as well. I I think the more specific we are, the better we are as a policy. Um, and I I agree with chairman uh Simmons that that does happen, you know, that people are, you know, have a certification, but they decide that they want to do a different uh thing in the building. secretary have a special
022I think so I think that it could um directly statute but it reads and the way we would sort of modify it is 60 certified by the state board I mean each professional employee um professionals in public school certified by the state board of education to work directly with children shall have grantee period for lunch as a period of 30 Um, yes. I just want to read that model. Um, okay. So I do like that model policy prefaces what I just read with the board of education in compliance with certainly it's always good policy. So let's read it one more time. So I could read the board of education compliance with PA2-8. Um so if you do it this way then consider shall provide a minimum 30 minute uninterrupted dutyfree duty-free period for shall be
023scheduled as a single period. Board of Education shall provide about 30 minutes uninterrupted free lunch. for professional for each professional employee certified by the state board of education and employed by Bristol public schools. Okay. Um so board of education in compliance with PA 2012 shall provide a minimum 30 minute duty-free uninterrupted lunch period teachers instead of from teachers and other certified staff for each professional employee certified by the state board of education to work. >> Yeah, exactly. to work directly with children. Yeah. So statuto language clause um we can even say instead of the board of education versus the board versus the board of education find public action by the minimum 30 minute uninterrupted the 23 months period for each professional employee certified by the state board of education. We want to say these people
024need to be working directly with students. Those those Yeah. that or those professional employees certified by the state board of education work directly children don't like that I don't like that that the end of the sentence like it feels >> um it's a policy policies policies aren't touchy Right. shall provide minimum 30 minutes uninterrupted lunch for each professional employee certified by the state board of education for each professional employment. Yeah, especially certified by the state. >> Yeah. First of any minute certified by the state education directly work directly with you. and I think with this one there's not as much of a rush. Um, right those first two there's a big push to get them through. So, whatever you're comfortable with. >> Okay. So, I thank you for bringing to the attention. I think to
025be, you know, to be safe and transparent, what we could do is um put on the next agenda and in the interim, why not reach out to the and just, you know, in a in good faith say this is what we wanted to include. um to make sure that our policy is now aligned with the contract and with the statute and since we have the time a good relational approach. >> Yeah. Um and so if this wanted to just hear it one more time and know that we're going to round it out. item. Okay. Okay. Well, we already know that the statute is the king or queen and anyway, we can't violate the statute. So, we have to do this anyway. We're okay. Um, but So >> yeah. Um and have um so um the
026way they could potentially read is the Bristol Board of Education compliance 22-8 shall provide a minimum 30 minute duty free uninterrupted lunch period for professional employees certified by the state board of education Sh. You want me to email that to you, dude? Good. You got it. Yep. Roger that. It's something, right? So, I have them split up um three for May, four for June, and then the climate one in July because that'll give us more time with that. Uh the ones for May are um the gifted and talented and the second one is called um student enrollment and advanced courses or programs and the last one is called policy for challenging curriculum. It just felt as though these three we would need to defer to the same people to either OTL, you know, um or
027uh Alan Furiel. So, if we had all of those together, um I think that the meeting would go a lot smoother having them. Uh the next one is a little bit chunkier, but uh we would have the um childhood obesity the um concerning childhood obesity and physical exercise in school and the policy that was about the nutritional standards. I think those would go together pretty well. Um and then there is also one that's called non-instructional um time and it I'll read just the first paragraph. The goal of the food service program is to provide students with nutrition, healthy foods through the district's food service program that will enhance learning students nutrition program is essential. So again, it kind of goes on the same uh vein and we could tap into some um experts in the
028district. And I also thought that when we're doing that, those three we could tackle the bus driver. Um, and I'm up for suggestions. The bus driver one is like 29 pages, just so you know. So, yeah. Um, it has a lot of policy in it. Uh, and then July, the um cave uh climate. >> We're not July. July. >> All right. Oh, you guys. Nice. Right. >> And is is it No, the Yeah, the climate one um should be implemented in July. All the other seven when I reviewed them, they're things that I'm familiar with that we do do in Bristol. We just don't have the policy tonight. And so it just puts us in a unique situation should anything take place and somebody say, you know, what's your policy? Um I think um because
029I I personally don't love when statute tells us that we could avoid that we should. I just don't think that it was great especially if something I know as a parent that's happened where I called the district and I asked about a policy and this is before I was and policy outdated and you know so talk a little about that policy um so I think we should do it in May and I think we should hopefully be ready for it to um voted on potentially in the June board meeting and ready to be implemented by July 1st. Okay. Now, the four that I was thinking we could have in June that we would have in August, we want to keep those there. They're nutritional and the bus driver. And those dates are >> couple years
030ago. >> What's another couple months? >> And it sounds like though the bus driver that one did has a lot of moving parts require collaboration with student Collins office and that's going to obviously impact our practices. So we have to be prepared to definitely examine like how our practice might change if there's any budgetary um implications because I don't know I I I haven't have that policy but that somebody now has to pay for something to be done differently. I don't know. So No, it it's very straightforward. Um, it's and it's a lot of things. You can call me at any time, but it's a lot of things we have in place. So, it's good. I slowly So, the last like 10 pages are kind of um more forms for like uh kiddos to fill
031out, you know, or for administrators to fill out if there's an investigation into bullying or something like that. So the actual um narrative 10 pages and five pages of course No, I do. Um, also there was a question. Why? always prioritize that which could get us sued. That's straight up what you do. You're supposed to take what's that? >> You're supposed to mute your mic. Well, just in case anybody was questioning the priority, you know, we always want to make sure that our policies are statutoily sound >> and our practices are aligned with what is >> um so 5114. Yeah. Yes, that sounds good because I think there are also some you know documents provided by Jella voting that we that we can review. I know he provided a suspension family guide PDF. Um, and
032we've also updated the model policy to reflect changes in the suspension laws that passed in the 2024 legislative session. Um, so we've consolidated several some of policy and align drive 1.4 to the Connecticut school climate policy as it related to like restorative practices. Um, so yes. So I think that those be skillful to do those 2151. We're going to take both for right now. Possible action item. And then number seven was a discussion item and like to that's one that we could agenda. Anything else before we motion? Uh so there's so move or seconded or all in favor. >> Thank you.