001Check. One, two. Almost ready to get started. Good evening. I would like to call the August 6, 2025 board of education meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Please join me in a moment of silence for Barbara Brackett, elementary teacher, Patterson, Northeast, Hubble, 1964 to 1994. Also, please join the moment of silence for Karen Vivid, board of education member 2007, 2023. Secretary 2007 to 2011, and vice chair 2011, 2013, and 2015, 2019. Thank you. As a reminder, please be sure to turn on your microphone when speaking and voting to ensure those online hear you. Now, we moved to staff and student recognition. I will turn the recognition over to Superintendent White. >> Thank you so much, Vice Chair Simmons. Hello everyone. Hope everyone having is having a wonderful summer. Um it's my
002pleasure to formally recognize our two state championship little league softball teams. We have the Bristol Junior All-Star team and we also had the Bristol 11 who won the regional series championship in Maryland late last night. and the team members uh represent schools across Bristol. So, we're very proud of you and very excited and very happy to have this recognition for you. And at this time, I invite Coach Bryes, who's also a Bristol Central High School teacher, the head coach, if you'd like to come up and say a few words. >> Oh, yes. The podium. >> Thank you. >> Let's make sure that the Oh, thank you. make sure the mic is on. >> On behalf of our families, our players, our coaching staff, we just want to extend our gratitude at the opportunity to be
003able to be here today uh to represent the city of Bristol, the state of Connecticut. So, thank you to the board. Thank you to Assistant Superintendent Hawk. Thank you to uh Superintendent White. um as well as to the community that was so supportive of us as we were trying to raise funds to uh get to their the Bristol Blues, the Parkside Cafe. Um we had churches in town that were were chipping in. We had um uh Rich Farms that was also uh a spot where we had some fundraising. So without the community support, I don't think it would have been possible. So from the bottom of our hearts, we really just want to thank every So thank you. And I believe Mrs. Martino is willing to take a picture. >> Yeah, sure. That's a great
004idea. Let's have the commissioners and maybe um our councilman Thank you again for coming and congratulations. Thanks. Amazing. That's the best way to start a meeting. Absolutely. Okay. Now, we will move on to approval of the minutes. First, we have the June 4th, 2025 regular meeting minutes. You have all received a copy of the minutes in your packet. Are there any corrections or abstensions? >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I didn't ask for discussion, so I apologize. If there is any discussion, we certainly can do so. But sounds like we're all good. Okay. All right. Wonderful. Now, we have the June 11th, 2025 budget workshop minutes. You have all received a copy of the minutes in your packet. Are there any corrections or extensions? >> Second. I have a
005motion and a second. Any discussion? Um, all in favor? >> I wonderful. Motion passes. Okay. Oh, do we have Commissioner Pagriello online? >> Yeah, I'm here. >> Okay. My apologies. Um, are you >> you're affirmative in the last two? Okay. My my apologies. >> Okay. And we don't have any other commissioners online. Correct. >> I don't see any. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. So, crossing those two off. Now, we have the June 11th, 2025 special meeting minutes. You've all received a copy of these minutes in your packet. Any corrections or abstensions? >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? I >> I >> Okay, wonderful. Motion passes. >> And to the next uh June 16, 2025 budget meeting minutes. You've all received a copy of the minutes in your packet. Are
006there any corrections or extensions? Okay. Um can I have a motion to approve? >> Second. All in favor? All right. >> Hi. >> Okay. Wonderful. Motion passes. July 21st. >> Jumping. July 21st, 2025. Special meeting minutes. You have all received a copy of the minutes in your packet. Are there any corrections or extensions? Okay. Wonderful. Can I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve the July 21st meeting. Motion has stated made and seconded. All in favor? >> I I passes. Great. Now we have our committee reports. I do not believe we have any committee reports this month. There were no committees that met. Okay. Um chair report. There is no chair report tonight. We will move now to the superintendent report. White. >> Thank you very much, Vice Chair Simmons. So, I wanted to
007begin um by reminding everyone that we have our annual back to school bash that's taking place on August 20th, 2025. Again, we'll be at Baines. Um very similar to last year, we'll have vendors, a lot of exciting vendors and we have uh free backpacks for the first 150 students. So, I know Erica Trani left, but Erica Trani is the main organizer for the event. We want to thank her for all the work that she does and for all the community partners um that participate and volunteer their time and services. So we look forward to seeing everyone then. And for our convocation, our convocation is Monday, August 25th. Um and during climate camp, um the group came up with our theme which is kindness will stick in 26. So that is our theme for next for
008next school year. Um, we listened to a lot of the feedback. Um, and based on feedback from administrators and staff members, um, there was a real interest in having the opportunity to, um, report to their school buildings first before heading over to Muzzy. So, it's a little different schedule this year. Um, Deputy Superintendent Hog sent out a survey and ask folks for their feedback. So, it's going to be from about 10:00 am to 11 o'clock a.m. U W Deput Superhog also sent out a survey asking folks where they would like to have it because of course last year we had it at the Bristol Central High School auditorium, but the general consensus was we want to be back at Muzzy Field. So, we'll be back at Muzzy. Um, weather permitting. Hope we won't get tricked
009again this year. That like I got tricked last year. Um, I don't know if there's anything else you'd like to say. deputy super health convocation all surprise. So, and as always uh for the commissioners, we hope to see you there as well. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to um share some of my priorities for the next school year. Um really some things that um I wanted to make sure that our staff, our community knows that I'm focused on. Um, some of these priorities will also be tied to um, my superintendent goals that I'll be uh, working on with the uh, board of ed commissioners. But I wanted to take an opportunity to share some of these um, tonight. It's not an exhaustive list. Um, we're still looking at, for example, smarter balance data.
010That data has not publicly been released yet. That should be released at the end of this month. So once I have an opportunity to um review that data with um chief academic officer Carly Foron and her team and think about um some part particular focus areas districtwide that we'd like to focus on. Um so this is not an exhaustive list but um some real key priorities that I'm looking at for next year. And the first one really focuses on positive learning environments. Um Deborah Superintendent uh thought we had a conversation with her at central office private on Monday about looking at a development of a climate mission statement to really solidify our belief that a foundation of respect, trust and shared responsibility is essential to achieving academic excellence in a thriving school of community. We
011want to focus on we want everyone, staff, students, families, administrators, everyone to feel that they're learning and they're working in a positive learning environment where they're supported, where they're respected, and their opinions are valued. And this is something that we'd like to put in a district-wide statement. But of course, we want to um have input from staff in terms of what that statement would look like. We also want to make sure that um once we have the statement that there's an understanding that we're going to supplied supports, resources in order uh to help make sure that this this statement um is visible in all of our our schools and our spaces in our classrooms. We also want to work with staff to really develop what this looks like in practice so there's a common understanding
012across the district. And we want to continue to provide mental health resources. We want to enhance support systems to help students cope with stress, anxiety, and challenges, fostering a well-rounded and healthy learning environment because of course we know and we believe that if we do this, this obviously really contributes positively to student achievement. So, we want to be able to to focus on that next school year. Enhancing student voice. Um we've done a lot of work on this area uh this past school year um in partnership with the partners for educational leadership um Bristol in Hampton has been involved with a special real impact initiative where we've gotten a great deal of um feedback support and how do we enhance student voice um we were focused particularly at the two high schools Bristol Eastern and
013uh Bristol Central and they've just done a wonderful job. They really embrace this um and they're moving forward. They're really taking the leadership across the district on this. But um the partners for education leadership are so impressed with the work that's happened so far around student voice um that they're sponsoring teams from Bristol Eastern, Bristol Central, Chippens Hill, and Northeast Middle School to participate in a student voice institute collecting and analyzing student voice data to drive school improvement. um that training will take place over the course of the next school year. So that's a really a wonderful opportunity. Um I know during one of the um strategic data reviews, Bristol Central, uh Principal Wager was presenting some of the work that Bristol Central was doing. Amy Bosian at Chippus Hill Middle School really just jumped
014on it. So we really wanted to include the middle schools as well because they're very interested. So, we're really looking forward to what they learn and hopefully we can scale this up across the district. I'm also looking at doing um having a superintendent student advisory council um during our last policy committee meeting in May. Um, we had representatives from CADE and they were talking about the work that other that they're doing around particularly student representatives on board of education, but they also were talking about um superintendents and other districts that have a student advisory council where students are really providing feedback and giving their perspectives on school policies, curricular and extracurriculars. So, I know that the board has had some conversations about how do we engage differently and deep more deeply with our student representatives.
015Um, but I also think this is opportunity to expand that to other students across the district. So, I'll be pro providing more information about that soon. And we really want to focus on continue to seek student feedback on their school experience including academic content, school climate, extracurricular offerings. And one of the things that the partners for educational leadership really focused on um with the real impact initiative is if we're asking students for their feedback, we want to make sure that we're showing evidence that we're listening to their feedback and they're implementing changes along the way. So enhancing student voice will be a definite focus next school year. While we want to enhance student voice, we also want to enhance staff voice as well. And again, we want to foster our culture where staff feel heard,
016valued, and respected. And we want to create and sustain a district-wide culture where staff voices are consistently invited, actively listened to, and meaningfully acted upon to improve morale, retention, and organizational effectiveness. Uh, one of these areas that I would like to um focus on is having a superintendent advisory council. uh this council would have representation from all the employee groups and um it will probably have an external facilitator. We already have identified someone who's willing to do it for free um who's really interested in the work in Bristol and wants to support us. Um and so this would be an advisory council to myself and then I would bring any recommendations to the board um for their review and for their approval. And much like I said, we're asking students for their feedback. If we're
017asking staff for their feedback, we want to make sure that we're showing them that we are listening to their feedback and specific examples of changes that we're making based on that feedback. We want to make sure that staff are committed are invited to participate in uh committees for major initiatives. I know this does take place, but we want to make sure that we're getting advanced. We have different staff have the opportunity to participate that we're making sure that we're opening up so everyone feels that they have that opportunity and it's not a feeling among staff that only certain people get invited to participate in these. We also want to develop a process to track and resolve staff concerns with transparency. We want to be proactive. If there are concerns in school buildings, if there are
018concerns among personnel, among staff, we want to make sure that um school administrators feel um ready, supported, feel trained in how to handle these concerns um before they become even more major concerns. We want to be able to provide more leadership development in that area and always follow up with individuals or groups who raise recurring or serious issues. Again, trying to be proactive, make sure people feel supported. Improving communication. I've got a lot of feedback about my communication. Um, constructive feedback always and it's very much appreciated. Um, and I'm listening to the feedback and I'm taking it very seriously. So, in developing these um priorities, I thought about how I could be more visible in the community and how I could be more timely about my responses and communication regarding events um concerns that might
019be in the community. And so, I'm looking at different ways of how to do that. I'm always open to feedback from the board or any other suggestions that they have. But I thought about hosting town hall meetings. I know that there's some superintendents other districts that have coffee with the superintendent once a month um in different areas in the community. Um utilize social media to provide updates directly from me and also provide opportunities for families to ask questions. Um continue to strengthen community partnerships. We have great um community organizations here in Bristol and so many of them really want to work with us and support us. So, we want to find ways that we can be have really constructive partnerships and really focusing the partnerships on areas that would be really keyed in on um
020aligning with our goals um here in Bristol, but also the needs of the individual schools. So, how do we do that? Um because again, we have a lot of people who want to partner with us, but how can we do it constructively and make sure that it's really in alignment with our goals and our priorities. And the last priority I want to talk about tonight is fiscal responsibility. And how do we continue to prioritize efficient resource allocation while maintaining the quality of education? How can we ensure funds are being used wisely for student success and exploring cost effective solutions for challenges? Again, continuing to uh pursue shared resources and partnerships. Continue to look at grant opportunities. continually to actively seek out state, federal, and private grants to supplement the district's budget, particularly to support student
021mental health initiatives in the arts. And also, how can we make the budgeting process more transparent so people understand the budget decisions that are being made and that they're being have that opportunity to um see the budget process more from the beginning? Are there ways to maybe have workshops earlier before the initial superintendent workshop in January? Uh maybe having more public presentations or budget breakdowns that help people have a better understanding of how funds are being spent and what the priorities are and where the alignment is. So those are some of my thoughts for priorities for the next school year. >> Wow. Well, that's a lot to digest. Um, and I think it's fantastic. I what I appreciate is um, you know, this recognition that we're all growing and receiving feedback and doing so with
022grace. Um, but knowing that when action needs to be taken that this is what we have to do to move the work forward. And I appreciate as well there was that survey, that paper survey that went out to the vast majority of staff in the district. And I see a lot of um points that were uh addressed in your plan that were um points of concern or points or feedback points in those surveys. Um so I really appreciate that. I look forward to seeing how these um focus points develop and grow and improve our work as commissioners, but obviously improve the work of the district and have impact on students. So >> thank you. through the chat. >> Yes. Um, thank you for providing this this set of district priorities and I see they cover
023a a wide range. I know you mentioned that um um I know that you you said that we don't have that as much, but I'm hoping that when you come back there will be some additional information about goals in the district that focus on student achievement >> and performance and making sure that we're still providing quality education to prepare students to be um post-secary or workforce ready in a global uh economy type of way and I'm very interested in seeing a lot more information about that as well. Absolutely. Mr. Wharton is our vacation this week. So that's another reason why I didn't I wanted to I think it would be nice if we can do that presentation. We thank you for being back. >> Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Moving on to the consent agenda. Can
024I have a motion to approve the consent agenda which will include items 7.1A to 7.2B? Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion? Okay, then go to stance please. Um for the um second are we that hasn't been determined yet. So there would be no >> meaning there might be no an instructional supervisor for elementary. I I wouldn't want to collect. So I haven't had a chance to talk with her since I learned that visit. >> Okay. Um let's see. So we a motion has been made and seconded. So all in favor >> I Okay. motion passes. Next we have wait let me get my spectacles. Um okay let's see public comment. Okay. Miss Everett, did you receive any public comment? I did not. >> So, oh gosh, we're checking our online public comment
025and our inperson. Okay, thank you very much. Now, we will move on to deliberated items, district leadership team reports. First item is um Bristol Central High School, France trip, February 2026. Mr. Ward and Miss Rochester. >> Good evening, commissioners. Um, I have the pleasure to being with you again to request permission for another trip abroad for our students uh to France this spring of this year. Um, unfortunately due to some um logistical complications, the traditional exchange between um Bristol Central High School and the partner school in France will not be able to take place this year. But Mr. Rochester is looking into the trip, which I'm sure she's excited to tell you more about and can't answer any questions about um and I just want to reiterate how lucky we are to have teachers who
026are willing to put in the work and plan these trips about these opportunities for our students. So, I'll get out of the way and let Miss Rochester tell you more about the trip, but happy to be here and can help answer any questions as well. >> Thank you. Good evening. Um I'm Anna Rochester, French teacher at Bristol Central High School. And as you said, we're used to having an exchange program with a partner school just outside of Paris, but you know, things are out of our control this coming year. And um my students were looking forward to their opportunities. So I'm hoping for permission to take them on a opportunity that is guided by a tour company. I've never done that for France. I typically do that at the piano and want to leave my
027friends trip is all on me. So, um, if approved, I'm looking forward to relaxing in somebody else doing the planning work. So, if you have any questions about that trip, uh, >> um, any location or destination, itinerary, what do you think of? >> So, it's straight up Paris with everything that I've always done. um the sites in Paris Orbee and I think most San Michelle was stand but um it's the typical tourist um locations in in in the city of Paris and there's a there's right there's a there's an itinerary I think that that is that details everything day by day with um Jump Street and that's who I use when I take my students to QEX. >> For those who um may be listening, what month? February >> February of 2026 and there are
028a couple of reasons behind that if you want to expand that out. >> Sure. If you have a >> um cost costwise it is um far less expensive and as is this this trip is costing students more than they're than we're used to paying for the exchange because before with the exchange we would be staying with families. This case we're going to be dealing with hotels. Um so costwise airlines and um accommodation February tends to be cheaper. I also have a number of students who are either student athletes or um actors in the in the school musical which is normally in April. So um trying to make sure that everybody gets that opportunity. >> Will students have an opportunity to raise money? that I've never done that before because you know there are only so
029many hours in my day. Um but because of the cost this time I did put it as an option that we would you know I'd work with my group of students who are trying who who want to go to see what we can do and work alongside um Miss Gallow also the Italian teacher because she's done quite a bit of um fundraising to to finance to help finance the trips. Is there anything that we can do to help support your work? Um, we know that this is um, a considerable task to take on and I had the pleasure of being in the elevator with you on the way up and got to hear a little bit about it, but um, if there's anything that you can think of that we can help. >> I I'll
030think about it. Nothing that comes to mind right away. Um, you know, other than your your blessing pretty much. >> Thank you. Any other commissioners have any questions? I put up a motion to approve the first cent France trip February 2026. >> Motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> Okay. Well, sounds like that motion passes. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations and thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Now we'll move on to early dismissal time consolidation. Deputy Superintendent Good evening. Currently our district operates on two separate early dismissal times. One is for weather related and the other one is fores. Well, the practice was originally intended to meet the specific needs of each of the situations has led to ongoing confusion for families, staff, and
031for transportation providers. The use of two different early dismissal times creates logistical challenges and communication inconsistencies. Many things struggle to keep track of which time applies on a given day. This leads to issues with child care missed pickups and um parents being very frustrated. In particular, the early dismissal time used for conferences significantly compresses the bus schedule. And many of our buses can be 30 to 45 minutes late, which especially at the elementary school level means families very nervous of where their children are. By consolidating to a single out uh early dismissal time for both weather related and conference dates, we will create a more streamlined predictable system for all of our stakeholders. Check. >> Oh yes. Um, so this is just it's early dismissal for weather and hot. >> Yeah. So if you look
032up at the 40 just about the what what we do right now is we say we're going to have it on way too far. Okay. Well, it's going to be a conference day, so your child's going to get out at 10:05. Then we say, "Oh, we're going to have an early dismissal for snow." Okay, that's 1:35. And um parents get very used with this. So they tell grandma to pick up at 10:05 or at 135. It just it it's been really difficult. I believe historically the reason why we did this was because we needed more time at our like when Chipp was really big like thousand widows to try to get everybody through lunch. But that's no longer a concern. So I would like to go to I ran it by transportation. I share with
033me how difficult those two things for the buses. Also, sometimes bus drivers forget which one it is to work or just I was just thinking I don't remember last time for weather. So, I was a little I didn't I I I guess I'm also confusion. So, okay. It makes makes sense because I don't it's been a long time so this makes sense to just for clarification to the chair. Yes, the um short and day schedule is the preferred schedule going forward or the inclement weather one. >> The inclement weather one actually gives the buses a better buffer. So we can predict that the buses will run on time whereas the early dis. So when we give our children more time. So it's the chart to the right is the chart that um we're asking the
034board to consider. We just want to take a minute to review. So I see that there's an extension of the day and how how will this um be communicated to um all the relevant parties. So we asked all the schools to hold up on their first day packets um so that we can see if this goes through and so it'll be in the first day. we can reiterate it with our beginning of the year uh message and superintendent White has a superintendent to support parent square. I mean I I'm sure the principles have their ideas about how um to get the information out um as well. I'm just thinking that might because that's been a conduit conduit for us and the transportation companies all the private transportation companies and obviously for students so they would
035be well notified. >> They would be very excited. >> Yes. >> To the chair please. Last question. Um the PM preK uh the inclement weather schedule says no PM briefing. So what happens to the PM prek construction? So when there's a 2hour delay, there's no AM. And when there's a inclement weather release, there's no Q. This year though, luckily, a majority of our preK is open. So full day. just going to say I know uh when my daughter was in preka a few years ago we had that experience as well. So, what may the impact of adopting the time on the right have on uh PM preK students in the event that there's inclement weather and also parent conference dates. I I agree with the question. I think we need to provide equity um with
036the instructional time whether they have full day pre of a can't have some ink be or at least adversely effective on the other 100% all that. So I'm sure there some other solutions in there. Would there be a way um to have the pre and I don't know what time now the Oh, wait. Okay. Well, see the am prek would end at 11:20, which then would not allow very much time for the premp PM prek to start at 11:25 to even have it be 11:25 to 11. What time would it be? 25 to one. >> I don't think we have to solve it here. I think we just can put it out there and maybe the superintendent and deputy could get back to us and find out how we can mitigate that. >> Well, I
037think the challenge is if we're going to vote on this tonight, then we might not be willing to vote in affirmative without having some kind of idea about PM3K and the impacts it'll have. I mean, we can bring it back to the table for just a be on prek, but kind of lead to that limbo a little bit. Chair, >> yes, >> I I so I understand the um whole thing, but if we're talking uh an early release, trying to get the AM3 prek home early just to allow PM preK to have gone in for a little bit. It's been it's been the way. I mean, my my oldest is going to be a senior and she did prek three and four and um one in the morning, one in the afternoon. That's how um
038I think it's really the only way that it works out is if there's a delay, there's no AM. And if there's early release, there's no P.M. And unfortunately, if the morning class gets, you know, the shorter end of the stick because we're more often having delays rather than early. We're not mandated to keep the exact same hours and the alternating is the best approach. Then I would just make maybe make that clarification here that I'll be alternating between AM's and PM so that people don't think that once we pass this that day is always the one being impacted >> because it does I mean looking at it that Lee says >> I think we would just hopefully have people understand that it's not having a really adverse impact to PM preK because the kind of
039the way that it looks having that length there, you know, visually if I would be concerned that, you know, people could people could think, oh, this is going to have a really adverse effect on PM preK. Um, but okay. Well, the um schedules do go out together, so it'll be a delay schedule and yeah, it'll be for schedule, right? So we can maybe put like an asterisk. >> Okay. Works. >> Okay. If there's no other discussion, um I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the early dismissal time consolidation. Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Um all in favor? Um I motion passes. Thank you. Next we have Russ Central High School roof replacement project. Um education specifications. We have um Miss Landon and Mr. Fusco. Okay. No, we're not disappointed. Happy to
040see you. Good evening, commissioners. So um as you have been through several of our projects, you know that these are state recommended or state required uh resolution that passed by our board of that and then sent over ultimately to the city council and what the state actually looks for is the city council approval but we have to ask them to first. So here I am and the first one was the ED specs. You should have been given a copy of the specs or the crystal central. So motion has been made and seconded to approve the education specifications for the roof replacement project at Bristol Central High School located at 480 W Street versus Connecticut. Uh any discussion shut about 90. We're definitely at our over 30 mark. Yeah. Thank you. >> Any further discussion? >>
041Okay, motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. Thank you. Uh, looks like we have you for the Bristol Central High School school roof replacement project authorization of schematic drawings. >> That's correct. So this is another one that is a statewide uh resolution that needs to be approved by our city council. So the purpose of this is for us to request that the city council approves this authorization to prepare the schematic drawings and the outline specifications. That's basically asking them to allow us to the design professional for the roof project. Yeah, I'll go there. How about So, a motion has been made and >> second education request city high school located street. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> I motion
042passes. We also have you for the Vista Central High School roof replacement project established building. Same situation in order to apply for the grant with the state. They require us to have the city council establish a building committee. So our job here is to request the city council to do that for us. Next month I'll be coming back because we'll need to appoint somebody once they authorize that building committee. Motion education requested city request. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Motion passes. Ah, we have you again. We have Bristol Central High School roof replacement project. This is the most grant for one. This is again a request the city council for them to allow us to apply to the state to uh request a grant
043to help out in the funding of this project. Board of Education request city council office administrative services. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now we have people personnel services report. This is Martino. >> Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Uh this report is going to be uh the last of this style for the 2425 school year. So I'll continue with the number report. Um, but as of July 1st, 2025, 1,856 of the 8,085 enrolled students were identified as requiring special education program. This enrollment reflects 22.96% of the total BPS student population. As of July 1st, we had 131 students with disabilities requiring out of district placements at private special education schools. There were 94 students requiring special education
044programming at other public out of district schools which includes magnet schools. During the month of June 2025, 26.5 of the newly registered students required special education programming at the time in enrollment and we did not have any students that required out of district programming at that time. Then lastly, during the month of June, there were 17 211 and four 911. So I started my report tonight to talk about this is the last report of the 2014 school year report. And you know, as we move into next month's report, I think you know, the numbers only say so much. So in addition to the numbers, you'll get a more of a snapshot of what are we seeing that represents those numbers, but then also some of the fiscal lines that people personnel services governs and what
045is really being expenditured so that we can really give a sense to our community that what do the costs represent on behalf of our students and the type of needs that we have in the district. So I'm excited to report I won't just talk about numbers anymore. Uh, so I will entertain any questions that you might have. >> I appreciate that there's going to be a change in that reporting. I think it will definitely help during um our January um budget meetings and help explain and having a look. My only request is that you um I know until we get actual report things, but if we could have your act the full like um verbiage of your report included as an attachment with our meeting materials. We'd be appreciate that way we can collect them,
046stick them in our budget books and say we've been telling the story. >> Absolutely. And it helps us as commissioners when we're being asked by members of the public questions, you know, it's easier for us to refer back to that instead of trying to go through the meeting again. Let's let's see what she said. So if it if it's not going to add an undue burden, um I think we'd appreciate it for those reasons. Absolutely. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Next we have uh textbook adoption AP psychology um with Mr. Ward. >> Hello again commissioners. Um, I'm here to ask for approval for the AP psychology textbook, uh, the Myers Psychology for AP course, which was published in 204. The College Board requires access to a college level textbook
047published within the last 10 years. And the textbooks we currently have for AP psychology were published in 2010, so they're past due for a new edition. Uh, the AP psychology course was revised by the college board in 2024. and uh Bristol public schools revised our curriculum was this last spring in 2020. Uh the text textbook committee examined a couple different resources and the amendment fourth edition um which is fully revised to align to the revisions made by both the college board and public schools um improves access to their achieve platform. It has the ebook uh videos quizzing feature and um other resources for the teachers as well. So happy to answer any questions you may have otherwise ask for legal meers quality. >> Um and if I understand correctly um part of the motion part
048of the request is that this is a first reading correct and we're asking to wave the second reading to allow time for ordering the textbooks because we did not have a student achievement meeting this month. should we need a second reading that would really sort of delay our ability to order the textbooks in a timely. So um so if I can ask is this correct that you're asking for a motion to approve the AP tech psychology textbook as presented and to wave the second reading to allow time for the ordering of the textbooks. >> One additional question. >> Yes. Um when we say things like the college board requires us to have textbooks within the last 10 years so that we can explain to our constituents that we need to do this because the impact
049of student is that if we don't teach a course with a college level textbook published within the last 10 years that the college may not grant them the AP recognition. Is that correct? Uh I'm not sure if the college I'm not sure if the college would would withhold credit. The AP the college board approves a syllabus the teachers submit every year. So I think that would be the point at which the college board may raise a red flag about the syllabus they're getting that listed textbook that's older than than they need. >> Either way though a potential impact to the student and that's why we're ordering new textbooks. So when people ask us why are you ordering new textbooks for psychology is so we don't impact those students that are taking meet the expectations of
050both college boards as >> can I have that motion please to approve the AP psychology textbook as presented and wave second read >> second motion has been made and seconded any discussion >> all in favor I >> Okay, motion passes. >> Thank you. Now we move on to textbook recommendation for history of American popular music. Second presentation, Mr. Badley. >> Good evening, commissioners. Um this is a second reading. I presented in June the textbook for American Property Music. Uh because this is a Yukon ECE course, um it is a a required text to go along with the course. Um, I hadn't received any questions, but I'd be happy to entertain any questions. Otherwise, uh, ask for your approval of this text. >> I have a motion to approve the history of American popular music textbook.
051American popular music from >> what is that word? >> Minstroly. Thank you to MP3. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded. and I feel like I learned a new word. Um, any discussion >> for taking that >> that was I took a leap of faith and it didn't out so well for me. But >> minstrals were like >> well I I I'll add this. U minstral see it is considered one of uh America's first musical art forms. Um the music that came before was a lot of immigrant music that they had brought with them. But as far as an American art form, that was one of the first art forms that came directly from. >> Now, we've all learned something new. Wonderful. Well, maybe not all of us. Some of
052you may have known that. I definitely didn't. Um, okay. So, we have a motion that has been made and it's been seconded. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, motion passes. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you so much. Okay, now we'll move on to new business. Do we have any new business? Thank you. Anything else under new business? Okay. Now we have liaison information reports. Are there any commissioners who would like to share a leaison report? >> I can >> please. Yes. Thank you. >> All right. We have the mayor's pencil hunt is back. It's the 8th annual. It's going to be a muzzy field and it's going to be from 5:00 pm to 6:15 p.m. August 21st. What to expect? The mayor's pencil in the city of Bristol
053arts and parks and recreation community services department invites all pre pre kindergarten through 8th grade uh youth and families to the 8th annual mayor's back to school pencil on Um, each participant will participate in a pencil hunt and a scavenger hunt for pencils, as well as take home an age appropriate goodie bag filled with school supplies. Youth who pull specialty pen uh marked pencils will take home silver or gold prizes in addition to their school supply bag. The pencil hunt is a fun way to gather some school supplies uh for the new school year as well as connect some friends or make new ones over the summer. In addition to the scavenger hunt, there will be several community resources and other vendors to provide uh information and handouts for all. Um come by and check
054it out. Again, that's August 21st. Uh rain date will be August Monday, August 25th. Um if there's a rain if there's moved the rain date um the the program remains the same but it will be updated. So field 5 to 6:15 on the 21st >> and those interested do they have to register with um parks and brea >> I I believe so >> yes it's free um but pre-registration is required and that can be at Bristol Bristol rec um bristolreck.com. Any questions, contact Bristol Parks Rec Community Services at 860314-4690. >> Thank you. Wonderful event. Thank you so much for sharing. >> I actually love the event. It's fun to see all the kids running around. I run around too with I'm a big guy, but I run a little bit. So, >> I want to
055go just to see that for real. Thank you so much. Um uh any other are there any liaison reports and what about any additional information commissioners would like to share? Okay, wonderful. So now we will vote to convene into executive session. Can I have a motion to convene into executive session for discussion concerning the superintendent's evaluation, year-end report, and goal setting? And we will be inviting superintendent White into the executive session. Motion has been made and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, motion passes. We are now moving into executive session.