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Watertown Board of Education
Regular Meeting
Minutes
Meeting Date: January 22, 2007
Meeting Time: 7:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: Watertown High Technology Center
Members Present: Ms. Mary Dzioba, Board Chairperson
Mr. Richard Mazzamaro, Board Vice Chairperson
Mr. Todd Griffin, Board Secretary
Mr. Kevin Killeen, Board Member
Mr. Chris Lafferty, Board Member
Mr. Thomas Lambert, Board Member
Dr. Joseph Erardi Jr., Superintendent of Schools
Ms. Amelia Grover, Dir. of Budget and Financial Planning
Ms. Betsy Hackett, Director of Special Services
Mr. Todd LoFrese, Director of Operations
Dr. Philip Pelosi, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
Ms. Kace DuPlissie, PTO Representative
Mr. William Zeman, W.H.S. Student Representative
Absent: Ms. Gina Calabrese, Board Member
Ms. Mary Colangelo, Board Member
Ms. Joanne Pannone, Board Member
Press: Jim Taylor, Town Times
Tommy Valuckas, Waterbury Republican American
Guests: Thad Hasbrouck, Matthew Geary, Pat Corvello, Marylu Lerz, Lisa Rommel, Kathy Scully, Jackie Wheelahan, Barbara Mordenti, Nadine Savage, Gail Cesarello, Russell Ericson, Fran Palmer, Sandra Greenwood, Whitey Greenwood, Robert LeBlanc, Peter Dzioba, Dave King, Fred Khericha and Charlie Beliveau
A. Convene Regular Meeting - 7:30 PM
Ms. Dzioba convened the Regular Board of Education meeting at 7:30 p.m.
B. Salute to the Flag
Ms. Dzioba led the Salute to the Flag
C. Recognition
Dr. Erardi: At this time could Mrs. Jackie Wheelahan please come forward.
Mrs. Wheelahan moved to the front of the room.
Dr. Erardi: Members of the Board of Education, Administration is pleased to recognize a lady who has dedicated 30 years of service to the Watertown Schools. I would like to share a couple of comments from your coworkers and from our Director of Food Services, Maggie Dreher. Maggie Dreher states “That you are simply a pleasure to work with, with a great sense of humor. She has great character and personality and she is by the way a wonderful baker.” The Watertown Student Lunch Program will miss you tremendously and we wish you only the best in your retirement. Congratulations
The Board of Education would like to recognize Ms. Jackie Wheelahan who will be retiring from the Watertown Student Lunch Program after more than 30 years effective February 2, 2007.
Jackie was hired in September of 1975 as a substitute cafeteria worker. She was hired permanently as a General Cafeteria Worker at Swift Middle School in January of 1976. In 1984, she was promoted to full-time cook/baker at Swift. In 1994, Jackie transferred to Watertown High School and has been a cook/baker at the high school ever since. Jackie is a pleasure to work with. She has great character and personality and she is a wonderful baker. The Watertown Student Lunch Program will miss her tremendously.
D. Public Participation
Gail Cesarello, 56 Tower Road
I am here to voice my concern, I have been reading about what is being presented to the Board about the gate at the top of the hill being opened for traffic after school. I want to voice my concern about it; my biggest concern is the safety of students who walk to and from school. There is no where for them to walk; there are no side walks on the road. Tower Road is a narrow, residential road it was never engineered for two way traffic. My biggest concern, if you anticipate or consider opening that gate, is the safety of the students that come to and from not only the High School but come from the other schools too and residents who are just out walking. In the years past when that gate was opened the traffic was horrendous. There were cars in neighbor’s yards; there were numerous accidents at the bottom of the hill. The road cannot take two way traffic and I just want you to consider this in your consideration on whether that gate should be opened after school or not.
My other concern is that I read a few weeks ago in the Town Times that only four residents called the Principal with their concerns. I am sure more residents would have called but we have six new families in the neighborhood that are not aware of the traffic situation of when the gate was open at one time.
Report from Student Council Representative – Mr. William Zeman
Mr. Zeman: A really brief report tonight considering I am going to be speaking to you about the Tower Road proposal that was just brought up in a couple of minutes. All I have in addition to that is this February 8th there is going to be, Watertown is now sponsoring the Mr. Watertown pageant, it is sponsored by the entire Watertown Student body but specifically the senior class. $5.00 admission and we will be crowning the first ever Mr. Watertown. It should be a pretty exciting and enjoyable event and I think Dr. Erardi is one of our judges.
Dr. Erardi: Along with Dr. Pelosi
Mr. Zeman: I guess he roped him into that too. So come one come all, at the High School 7:00, February 8th.
Report from PTA/PTO Liaison – Ms. Kace DuPlissie
Ms. DuPlissie: I have several things here; from Polk School they have had a very busy year planning lots of great things. The Garden Club and Bulletin Board club were a great success. The Garden club will regroup in the spring of 2007. In December the giving tree and mitten tree went very well, they collected sixty pairs of mittens and gloves and purchased gifts for over 180 tags on their tree for Polk School community. The parents and families of Polk were very generous this season. The children enjoyed an anti bullying magician program in December. Others will include a story teller in March and Shakespearians will perform The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Yearbook club will be starting on February 8th. For the month of January the children will be participating in a pay it forward month. This month the children will be noticed for their acts of kindness by their teachers and staff at Polk, we will also be having a family Bingo on January 26th.
Judson recently had a number of enrichment programs in Oct, Ball in the House, a group from Massachusetts using their voices to create unique harmonies. In November the Signature Project came to inspire and awe the children, 300,000 signatures have been collected so far to create works of art. Computer technology, art, music, culture, history are all included in this program, it is an ongoing project that will end with over 1 million signatures. Part of the project is dedicated to those who lost their lives on 9/11. All the Judson school teachers, representatives from student council and Jonathan Spagnoletti, signed the project. Mrs. Corvello arranged for the students to also enjoy a performance Shakespearians, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a very popular thing this year. Motion 360 was performed for the students during the first week of January; this is a fast paced physical demonstration using objects that range from the ordinary to specialized. The children were shown how to unlock their creativity to explore their own potential and in turn help them see potential in others as well.
Swift is planning their second fun night of the year on February 9th, this will include a DJ and dancing in the café, games in the gym and a tattoo artist and food and drinks. Upcoming programs planned for February 20th, Brett Daniels, Technological song writer and May 16th Signature Project. Our principals and all faculty are working hard for the upcoming CMTs we are planning a kick off breakfast on March 2nd with support from the PTO.
Heminway had their reward night last Friday night, everyone had a lot of fun. They also had their Winter concert last Wednesday and in February they are going to the Gard Theater in New London and then to Mystic for a class scavenger hunt.
High School, the only thing I want to say is that both Coach Miller and Coach Lafferty are doing a wonderful job with the swim team and they are going to swim against Holy Cross tomorrow night and I wish them lots of luck.
I also would like to present Nadine Savage from John Trumbull and she will give you a short presentation of things that are happening at John Trumbull.
Nadine Savage, John Trumbull Primary School PTO
I don’t know how short it will be, I took a quick look at the minutes of the Board of Ed meetings and realized we haven’t told you anything about what we have done in the first half of the year, so hopefully I will WOW you and I won’t bore you. The first half of the year has been pretty busy for us, we started a couple of new programs during the year, we started a couple of new programs during the year, two we hopefully will continue to do. The first one was called 3 for Me, where we asked parents to pledge 3 hours of their time during the school year to help their child either at school or at home, we received and overwhelming response to the parents for their pledges and so far it looks like it is succeeding. As we go back and look at our volunteer lists we see a lot of new names and a lot of people spending more time at the school, it is not the same core group of people, we have spread it out a little. The second was something that we wanted to do which was to provide a low cost family fun night for parents so hence our program Fridays for Family Fun. We started that project in December and we kicked it off with our holiday sign a long, so for $2.00 per child you got a couple hours of singing, you got some wonderful photo ops, you had a holiday craft, some coloring, some tattoos and of course some cake and hot chocolate. Our hopes were to have it outside, as you all know except for this week it was very warm for December and January but that was the one night it was 0 with the wind chill factor, so we just moved it inside to the common area.
The second program is coming up this Friday, it is a patriot laser light show, tickets are still available, we have sold over 400 and those are $2.00 per person with a $5.00 maximum per family so it is a really cheap night and a great night out, get your tickets while they last. John Farrell is coming in March and we are planning an outdoor movie for April or May, so that will tie up our Fridays for Family Fun night. Those programs are in addition to a couple of ongoing programs like our Birthday Book Club and revamping our website.
Now to recap our year, I will try to do it real quick, our first half of the year. September we saw landscaping at the front of the school, a presentation by Jerry Pollata who is an author and then we purchased his entire series of books and had them autographed for the school library. The PTO members also scooped ice cream for first and second grade open houses, participated in the Town Fall Festival, replenished all our playground boxes with lots of balls, Frisbees and chalk. October brought our every successful Halloween party and that also generated over 400 items for the food bank. Our week long book fair was complete with evening reading by our teachers as part of our family literacy committee. November brought our Educational program called Arthmatickels where the children had a wonderful opportunity to learn about how great math is and how it is a part of their daily lives, it also brought our coat drive which generated over 120 coats for the Social Services department. We had our fund raiser, our school spirit clothing sale and for Veterans Day as part of our expansion of our birthday book club, we offered parents the opportunity to purchase patriotic books for the library and we will offer that opportunity again for Memorial Day. December had our sing a long as I told you about, we also had decorate the halls where children decorated projects and they were hung through out the school. WE had our giving tree which generated a toy or a gift, hat, gloves, and either a book or a book card for over 200 children and thank you all who participated as well, you helped to make that a very successful drive. It was all delivered compliments or our Volunteer Fire Department. I would like to add that this was the first year that we started to coordinate with other schools so we had a lot of the same parents on both committees at John Trumbull this year as we had a Judson, so that worked out really well. As January draws to a close, Friday will bring our prismatic laser light show for the children during the day with some great information on science and lights and lasers and how they work. We have also been helping to increase the enrollment in the Watertown school system by helping out with kindergarten registration. So as we stay bundled up and stay warm inside we are working on our upcoming projects, some of them major for the second half of the year, including play production, our family fun fest and Dr. Erardi and Mrs. Scully, we found out we can move the dunk tank somewhere where we can actually have warm water, so the cold water is no longer and excuse (laughter). Thank you.
E. Budget Summary – (Information Only – No Action Required)
Ms. Dzioba: Budget summary is in the packet for all Board Members.
F. Committee Reports:
1. Advertising Committee, Todd Griffin, Chair
Mr. Griffin: There is no report this evening
2. Athletics Committee, Chris Lafferty, Chair
Mr. Lafferty: I have no report this evening.
3. Budget Committee, Todd Griffin, Chair
Mr. Griffin: I would just like to say that we did have a budget recap for our 2006-2007 operational
budget where we were informed of the volatile accounts and what the status of that is.
4. Curriculum & Instruction Committee, Gina Calabrese, Chair
Mr. Lafferty: The chairperson of the committee Gina Calabrese is ill tonight so she can’t be here so I will be reading a report from that. Mr. Geary, Assistant Principal at the High School gave an overview of the ninth grade honors cohort which will be presented to the Board for a vote tonight and Mr. Geary also provided how it would be presented in the program of studies to students. If it is approved there will be a February 1st meeting to explain the proposal to students and the parents. Also the committee continued to prioritize their list of personnel positions. There was an overview given of the afterschool alternative program which is being considered and continued prioritizing positions for next year’s budget which will be presented to the budget subcommittee at a later date.
5. Facilities Committee, Rich Mazzamaro, Chair
Mr. Mazzamaro: The facilities committee met on Wednesday January 17th to further discuss the three
school study. Dave King from Kaestle Boos Associates was presented further options for upgrades at Polk, Judson and Watertown High School. KBA was asked to provide information to our committee for lower cost options for improvements while still maintaining the renovate to new status for all three projects. It was agreed that Watertown High School needed the most work and given the NEASC warning and the number other issues and code violations we agreed that the improvement plans should remain unchanged at the High School. As for Judson and Polk there were options that included smaller or no additions but stilled maintained renovate to new at Judson and no addition at Polk but maintained renovate to new with the last option for Polk being just fix the code issues and the water issues in the basement. KBA is prepared tonight under the Superintendent’s report to give more details on that. The consensus of the committee that evening was that the savings, given some of the cuts, you don’t get the bang for your buck for the amount of work that would need to be cut out of the project.
6. Policy and Labor Committee, Mary Colangelo, Chair
No report
7. Cablevision, Kevin Killeen, Chair
Mr. Killeen: I do not have a report for cablevision but at some point, and I am not sure if this would be a good time, I would like to comment as liaison to Heminway on the winter concert that I attended this past week. Would it be acceptable to do that now? I did attend the winter concert, it was really, really outstanding. From a logistical stand point, the children that they allowed to demonstrate talent was just incredible. To see that many kids do as well as they did under the instruction of Maryann Michael, Becky Boybous and Anna Judd, to me just speaks volumes of the commitment that our teachers have to our children as well as the commitment that the children have to their own success. I wanted to make sure that I didn’t miss out on saying what a great job is being done at Heminway.
8. PBC Representative, Rich Mazzamaro
Mr. Mazzamaro: I attended the Public Buildings Committee on also on January 17th and Joe Vitro of O & G Industries gave his monthly project report on the Swift renovations. There has been much progress made since the last report, we talked about a retaining wall in the northwest corner that was started as of the last report that is now complete. The concrete pads for the generator and compressor are also now complete, all the excess fill has been completely hauled off site. The exterior veneer is now 95% complete and the interior masonry is now 90% complete. The interior framing is now 95% complete and the heating loop is now complete. The boilers are operating and the temporary heat is on, with that the sheetrock and taping has been started on the second and third floors and the painting has started on the third floor. Plumbing and electrical work is ongoing, the exterior veneer of the auxiliary gym is now complete and the roof installation is complete. Window installation has begun and the plumbing for the auxiliary gym is also now complete as well as the sprinkler system. Locker room is complete except for some punch list items the auditorium is also complete except the start up of the lighting system.
9. Education Connection Representative, Mary Dzioba
Ms. Dzioba: I do not have a report from Education Connection.
G. Communications – Secretary
Mr. Griffin: There are no communications this evening
H. Minutes
1. Regular Board of Education Meeting – January 8, 2007
Motion Presented by Mr. Griffin seconded by Mr. Mazzamaro to accept the Regular Board of Education Meeting Minutes of January 8, 2007.
Motion Passed
(6-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0 Abstained)
I. Superintendent's Recommendations and Report
Dr. Erardi: Items #1 & #2 once again they are presented to the Board of Education as informational items for appointments and resignations.
The Board had no questions regarding Item #1, or #2
1. Appointments – (Information Only – No Action Required)
a. Ms. Laura Roose to the position of Assistant Girl’s Soccer Coach at Watertown High School for the 2006-2007 school year at a contractual stipend of $1,625.00 payable at the end of the season.
b. Ms. Rosemary Mikasauskas to the position of long-term substitute Foreign Language Teacher at Watertown High School commencing on or about March 9, 2007 through the end of the 2006-2007 school year.
2. Resignations – (Information Only – No Action Required)
Mr. Daryl Scopino, from the position of paraprofessional at Polk School, effective January 16, 2007 for the purpose of relocation out of state.
Dr. Erardi: Moving on to item #3, Mr. LoFrese is prepared this evening, along with KBA representatives to continue the information sharing that Mr. Mazzamaro just started with the entire Board on our three school study.
Mr. LoFrese: Thank you, good evening once again, Mr. David King and Mr. Fred Khericha are here to give the Board of Education an update on the three school study with a list of options and some associated costs with those options. With that I will turn it over to Mr. David King.
Mr. King: Playing off of Rich’s report on the subcommittee decision with regard to developing options for the
cost, we have some here to present to you this evening, that is what this spread sheet shows you.
(See Attachment A)
Looking up at the top we have come up with four scenarios for the various schools. Scenario A, which is
represented by everything in that column that you see there, is the…everything in this column. Which
contemplates additions and renovations to the three schools as proposed originally in our report so that is a fully
renovate to new status including all code site work and additions which at the High School is about 29,000
square feet, at Judson about 15,800 square feet and at Polk around 3,650 square feet. The costs you see for each
one of them, for the High School at $56,024,000 and broken down in each case as to what the State’s share
would be and what the Town’s share would be. Now that contemplates the reimbursement from the State at
56.07% which is in place only until June 30th of this year. Should the project not be approved or go forward
before June 30th a new rate will be put in place at sometime by the State which is likely to be lower. Then you
see at Judson, total project costs of $15,821,000 and for Polk a total cost of $12,484,976. In column B, we have
prepared a scenario for Judson where the addition is smaller, about 7,600 square feet but it is still a renovate to
new and we still do all the site work. That lowers that cost from $15.8 to about $14, 049,000 million. Then in
column C we have prepared another set of options for both Judson and Polk where there are no additions to
either one of the schools, we still do renovation work to new, which includes the code work, we still do the
basement work at Polk and we still do the site work at both. As you can see that works out at Judson to
$12,087,000 and at Polk to $11,088,000. Then we have also prepared yet another scenario D which is really
relative only to Polk where we do not do renovate to new either, we don’t do any additions, we do some code
work, we fix the basement and we do site work. Under this scenario D, because you are not doing any additions
the code work doesn’t become compulsory in terms of code requirement, it only becomes compulsory when you
do an addition to the school, so in this scenario the code work would be done because you consider having the
building be safe and accessible.
Now, down below then, down at the bottom we have what is called possible combinations of scenarios and
these were worked up and we can propose other ones as well. In the first column here, you see we have A, A
and A that is for Judson, Polk and the High School and that is the full build scenario for all three of the schools
so that drops down to a total project cost of $84,332,000 of which Watertown’s share is $37,047,000 again that
until June 30th. The next column over shows a build as recommended as proposed for the High School, build as
proposed for Judson but no additions for Polk, just renovate to new. Under that scenario the total project cost is
$82,934,000 of which Watertown’s share is $36,433,000. The next column over which is here, contemplates
again, an as proposed full build project for the High School, the lesser addition for Judson and no additions for
Polk. Under that scenario we have a total project cost of $81,162,000 of which Watertown’s share is
$35,654,000. The next scenario over is again the full build situation for the High School and no additions but
renovate to new for both Judson and Polk with a total project cost of $79,200,000, Watertown’s share is
$34,792,000. And then finally for this evening, a scenario again full build for the High School, no additions,
renovate to new only for Judson and the code only, just the basement and just the site for Polk and that is a
$71,260,000 project of which Watertown’s share would be $31,834,000.
Those are the scenarios we have developed, there are probably a few other mix and match kind of things that
could be put together based on what the Board chooses to do, but those are the main ones. Do you have any
questions?
Mr. Mazzamaro: Basically we are looking at, if you were to take the most expensive scenario, which would
be A, A and A versus the least expensive scenario A, C and D, you are looking at a total cost savings of about
a little over $5,000,000.
Mr. King: That is correct, in terms of the Town’s share that is correct.
Mr. Mazzamaro: On the Town’s cost, I am sorry you’re right. And you are losing probably 15, 18, almost
19,000 square feet of renovation and a lot of amenities that were included in the original report.
Mr. King: One of the reasons for not having as big a difference, particularly in scenario D, which is this, is that
because we are doing just code only, we are not doing renovate to new, and we are doing the basement and
the site work, is that the reimbursement figure of 56.07% as a target, we won’t be able to meet that. We will be
in good shape if we can make 90% of the reimbursement on the code work and the basement would be
constituted as repair and there would be no reimbursement for that. So if you balance that out, your overall
reimbursement would be somewhere around 39% as apposed to 56%.
3. Three School Study Update
Administration and representatives from Kaestle Boos Associates, Inc. will present information on the progress of the study thus far.
Dr. Erardi: David and Fred, thank you, Todd, thank you. We will move on to Item #4 on the Superintendent’s
Report, Mr. William Zeman, senior at Watertown High School has done extensive work to prepare for this
evening’s presentation for the Board of Education to further discuss with the Board the back gate and the traffic flow at Watertown High.
Mr. Zeman: Thank you very much Dr. Erardi. This was proposed to the facilities subcommittee a few weeks ago and has been moved on to you guys. The title of it is Better Facilitating Afternoon High School Traffic and it is the new idea for Tower Road from the Watertown High School Student Council.
First of all the problem; there is an incredible amount of traffic congestion at WHS every afternoon, we are talking, our friends from KBA described it as a “zoo”. We are talking a single lane for exiting vehicles and there is about 300 parking spaces at Watertown High School, most of those are filled with cars every afternoon. In addition to that there are buses coming around in a loop to pick up as many students as possible, along with parents who are also coming around that same loop. Everybody is still going back on the same single lane to French which causes there to be massive delays, incredible traffic and it is a mess. It is especially dangerous in the case of an accident, if there is an accident there is no way for all those cars to get out of the High School, it is a pretty serious problem. As I said a single accident will stop all traffic. Here is a map, in your packet there is a map that I made with Microsoft paint, our friends from KBA thoughtfully provided a slightly better one that I will use of this. (Referring to power point picture) Here is the High School, here is French Street, cars are parked here, here, here and up along here. Every afternoon all these cars are coming from here, here, here and here, and all going out along the back. In addition to that there are buses, as I said, coming down through here, looping around, picking up students and then going back along that same road. There are parents that are coming down along here, they are supposed to stop here, a lot of them come around this way too. They are also going back on that same road as well.
What we are proposing is that right here, is the Tower Road access gate, and we are proposing that just for 20 minutes, from 2:05 to 2:25 every afternoon, that gate would be opened, only to exit traffic so the cars from here and here could empty out here, go down Tower Road and pick up the road up there and go on their way, sparing up some of the congestion up in here. How we came about with this is, there was a preliminary meeting back in October with the Administration, Dr. Erardi, Mr. Hasbrouck, etc. along with the Police liaison at the High School, Sergeant Sprano. I point out however the Police Department is official neutral regarding this proposal, it is entirely a Student Council idea. Flyers were put up on the Tower Road area in November to inform the residents of it and they were invited to call Mr. Hasbrouck with any thoughts either for or against the proposal. There is a copy of that flyer, I believe it is attachment 4 in your packet. It was proposed to the Student Council in December, it was approved by overwhelming numbers and they asked me to go ahead and bring it up to the Board of Education. It was sent to the Board subcommittee back in January, earlier this month, and it was approved and then it is up here for a first read and then February 12th will be the vote on it.
So what is the plan? The idea is very simple, we open up Tower Road access gate only for afternoon traffic from 2:05 to 2:25 every afternoon, we are not talking morning traffic, we are not talking two way traffic, we are just talking about cars leaving the High School to relieve some of the congestion. There is already an administrator stationed at the back gate every afternoon, to make sure there isn’t any loitering, so we wouldn’t have to hire any additional personnel. All they would have to do is unlock the back gate, supervise the cars leaving and then either when all the cars were gone or at 2:25 they would lock the gate again. It is also I would point out, purely on a trial basis, this proposal, the Board or Administration can halt this if anything unforeseen or dangerous occurs, if it looks like it is going to become a mess, it is gone. But we are just asking that at least you give it a shot.
What about Tower Road that is really the big concern. The traffic is going to be an inconvenience but it is only 20 minutes and it is no worse then what French Street has got to go through every day. And actually it will lessen the traffic on French Street as well because there won’t be as much of it. As I said traffic will only be for a brief, fixed period once per day, we are not talking constant traffic coming in and out, back and forth, we are just talking about a single, little spurt of traffic in the afternoon. There have been some worries about school children walking home and that sort of thing and this is dangerous. By the time children from the other schools in Watertown are coming back, or walking home from their buses, the gate is going to be shut again, so there shouldn’t really be any concerns with that. If they are young enough that they are not going to school yet I would hope that they are not playing in the middle of the road anyway. But even so, students will be careful and I don’t think there is anything too dangerous to worry about there. Some concerns were brought up when we put up the flyers, there were some responses from the citizens of Tower Road and those are in your packet as well, they are attachment 5. Attachment 6 is some in-depth student responses to each one of them, why we think we should continue with said proposal.
The benefits of this, obviously it alleviates the traffic problem and it doesn’t cost anything except perhaps, this was brought up in the subcommittee meeting, you might want to put, some people might feel more comfortable if there are some signs up; Slow, Speed Limit, Drive Carefully, that sort of thing. That might cost a little bit, but other than that, nothing. It provides an alternate egress route in the event of an accident on the French Street access road. It provides an immediate solution to the traffic problem. KBA has come up with a much more permanent solution where they expand the entire driveway and completely redo the High School but that is not going to come around for several years and that is going to cost a lot of money. This is an immediate solution to an immediate problem, so it is a lot quicker, it is a lot faster, it is reasonably safe and I will happily take any questions that anyone has.
Mr. Lambert: Obviously you have talked to the Student Council about this, and someone of your character would probably be willing to talk to the drivers in Watertown High School and kind of nudge them into the reality that they have to be very careful if they want this to continue. They have to be very careful, someone like you I would assume would be able to do that.
Mr. Zeman: That would be made incredibly clear before the gate was even opened and if, like I said if it started to be a problem you are welcome since it is on a trial basis to close it right back up.
Mr. Lambert: We know how great your powers of persuasion are.
Mr. Zeman: Thank you for all the flattery.
Mr. Lambert: That would be a good thing.
Mr. Zeman: That would definitely be made incredibly clear.
Mr. Lafferty: I have a few questions on this proposal. I have had the chance to look at Mr. Zeman’s attachments, his diagrams given to us from our packet.
Mr. Zeman: Sorry about the crudity of that
Mr. Lafferty: That is fine, maybe that is the reason one of my questions arose was that I see there the direction of traffic that we have here.
Mr. Zeman: Which attachment are you looking at?
Mr. Lafferty: I am looking at the current traffic flow, it is attachment 2. Right now we have it as student leaving from, students, and parents and buses from all directions leaving through the front entrance, through French Street. Now looking at the proposed traffic flow, it only shows that you have buses and parents who pick up in the front to be leaving through French Street and the back parking as well as all the parking from the pit to be moving down Tower Road. Those are, I would assume, the majority of the parking spaces, so now we are talking about overwhelming Tower Road, is that correct?
Mr. Zeman: Well it is more of a crudity there, it is not exactly saying that all the cars are going to be going there it was just sort of a rough idea of what we were proposing. Some of the cars from the pit certainly might still want to access French Street for additional stuff, plus there is a lot of parking along the access road next to the practice field so the idea that we are overwhelming it, I don’t think we are really going to overwhelm it and even if there is a little bit of increased traffic it would only be for about 20 minutes, if that. Does that clear it up at all?
Mr. Lafferty: It is but for those 20 minutes there are a lot of students and residents who are walking at that time and I am just concerned that with, like you said it might not be overwhelming but it would be an increase, possibly a heavy amount of traffic for those 20 minutes. There might be residents walking and we can’t tell residents who are people walking out, you can’t walk there between 2:05 and 2:20.
Mr. Zeman: They could still walk, they just couldn’t walk in the middle of the road.
Mr. Lafferty: Well right but they can’t also walk on sidewalks because there are none.
Mr. Zeman: No but they could walk on the grass.
Mr. Lafferty: Well some neighbors might not take kindly to people walking through their property either. So my concern is that, not to take one stance or another, just to point out that there is a big safety concern with people walking there as well.
Mr. Zeman: That is sort of addressed I think as one of the things in Attachment 6 about the safety concern of walkers. I also point out since it is just traffic going one way leaving, the other side of the road, there should be that much traffic coming, so that area is still going to be relatively clear.
Mr. Lafferty: But because it is not a one way street, there is the potential for residents or people who also pick up on that road to be coming up the other way, making it a two way road, and therefore that would void the hope just one way traffic and making it a wide enough road.
Mr. Zeman: I admit there will be an increase and residents are going to have to be careful when they are walking throughout those 15-10 minutes.
Mr. Lafferty: As will students as many of them take that way. That is all for that question.
Mr. Killeen: I would be specifically interested in the volume of traffic given that rate of time, how many cars are we talking about going through that area. I think that is something that we need to know.
Mr. Zeman: I can have numbers for you by the next board meeting.
Ms. Dzioba: I have one question for you, single session days, is there any consideration to that?
Mr. Zeman: I think that will mostly be left to the Administration. Basically we are just proposing this for 2:05-2:25, the end of the day, every day, but assuming if this goes well, when single session days come up, that will be the Administrations idea of what to do with that.
Ms. Dzioba: Any other questions?
No response
Ms. Dzioba: Nice presentation, thank you.
4. Additional Access for Facilitation of High School Afternoon Traffic -First Reading
Mr. William Zeman, Student Council Representative to the Board of Education, is prepared to give a presentation to the Board regarding additional access for facilitation of high school afternoon traffic. This is presented to the Board for the first reading tonight.
Dr. Erardi: Moving on in the Superintendent’s report, I would like to congratulate and thank the following artists of our School District.
Dr. Erardi read the list of student names below
The Board had no questions regarding Item #5
5. Student Artwork
The student artwork you see on display this evening was done by the following young artists:
Anthony Mahoney, John Trumbull School, Kindergarten
Nicole Brodeur, John Trumbull School, Grade 1
Mary Collette, John Trumbull School, Grade 2
Lindsay DiFelice, Judson School, Grade 3
Ayame Whitfield, Judson School, Grade 4
Nancy Nguyen, Judson School, Grade 5
Elizabeth Walton, Heminway Park School, Grade 6
Jeffrey Curless, Swift Middle School, Grade 7
Amanda Bugnacki, Swift Middle School, Grade 8
Tatiana Doshchitsyna, Watertown High School, Grade 10
Arielle Polites, Watertown High School, Grade 12
Danielle McPhee, Watertown High School, Grade 11
Andrew Miceli, Watertown High School, Grade 12
Dr. Erardi: The last item on the Superintendent’s Report will be a presentation on the operational plan for 2007-2008.
Dr. Erardi presented overhead slides with information regarding the 2007-2008 operational plan (See Attachment B)
I think it is important to share with the Board of Education our starting point through cabinet, through our administrators and through those who built this budget, that the critical data that we looked at before coming forward this evening to the Board of Education with Administrations proposed budget, the operational plan for 07-08. We also felt that it was important to go back before going forward. This is a document that many Board Members spent an awful lot of time with as did the school administration that reflects the 2001 through the 2006-2007 School Year. It is important to realize that starting in 03-04 and through 05-06, and we can all do the math together, that 27.1 positions were lost, full time educators, not retirements to be replaced, not resignations to be replaced, but 27 positions in a span of three years were eliminated from this school district while student enrollment was increasing. 06-07 we will talk about in a bit but 27.1 positions going into last year.
Along with individual positions that we just looked at you can see that at one point Watertown was renowned for their Talented and Gifted program, I am told to a point where districts would come to Watertown to look at the model program that was celebrated by the State Department that is gone. Over time five teachers eliminated and thank god for the work of our PTA and the enrichment that they bring to our children to hold onto what we had in a much smaller way. The Alternative Program, which we will talk about at some point this evening, once again a model program, dropout prevention program, a program for regular ed students who didn’t fit perfectly into a public secondary school, gone. Non-certified staff members, you can read for yourselves, custodians, maintainers, paraprofessionals.
What happened last year? What happened last year was the beginning of the recapturing of professional staff. I think this community was truly brought to life through the NEASC study that told Watertown High School and the community of Watertown that this school was in lots of trouble and not because of the faculty who work awfully hard but because of the program of studies which lacked depth because of a lack of teachers and a facility that was crumbling. Last year the Board of Education endorsed to the Town Council which brought forward to the community which overwhelmingly supported public schools. The High School brought aboard three new teachers, all in core areas of instruction, they will be bringing on board in a few weeks additional tech support, stationed at the High School but truly used for the entire district. I am not quite sure if this is a celebration, it is a commentary, that we were actually able to restore a fulltime librarian at the Middle School and I think that the sidebar note to that is that sadly if we look at our school district and we think that the library should be the hub of all learning, we are forced to close our libraries on too many days because in our entire school district we have two certified fulltime library media specialists. One at the High School and one at the Middle School. We were able to support two teachers at Heminway Park School last year which reduced numbers from low 30’s to upper 20’s, class sizes this year 26 and 27, 25 and 28. We were able to add through a class size reduction grant, a first grade teacher at John Trumbull School. This represents new staff, and if you do the addition and the subtraction, hold onto that 27.1, look at what we added this year and look at the places we still have to go.
Further information going forward that we looked at. We thought is was very important as a cabinet and as an administrative team to take a look at how Watertown spend money compared to other communities in the State of Connecticut. The 2006-2006 net current expenditure, what that represents, the easy formula to understand what that represents, if you look at the total dollar that was supported by a local community and you divide that by the number of public school students, that is close to having the formula correct. The 05-06, this is data that is coming from the close of the 2005-2006 School Year. I am not showcasing any one of the ten schools, nor am I telling you that they have the finer school systems in Connecticut, that is not the case but strictly for illustration purpose you can see that Canaan and Greenwich and Sharon and Cornwall and Weston and so on down the list. The top 10 districts with per pupil expenditure with an upside of $16,000 and number 10 being $14,400, they represent the 1-10 of 169. You can see the delta or the gap, 160-168 is nearly an $8,000 difference between the communities who spend at the top of the list and the communities who spend at the bottom of the list. This is Watertown, 169 of 169. There is not a community in Connecticut that spends fewer dollars per pupil than Watertown.
So what does that mean? Hopefully what it means to this community is that the budget that is being presented this evening is a continuation of recapturing the resources that we need to be competitive for our children going forward to be productive workers, and productive citizens. When I arrived in town two years ago, it was new data that I shared with the community that we were 167 of 169. I think the feedback that I got from folks that I spoke with was that they were appalled. We moved last year to 168 and we now represent 169 of 169.
What is DRG D, what does that mean? DRG means that State Department of Education they have eliminated the Economic Reference Group and many Board Members are familiar with that term, ERG. An ERG represents communities that socio-economically that look like Watertown, approximately the same size, has the same hard working adult population and that for the sake of compare and contrast there are approximately 20 communities that fall into a DRG, very similar to what at ERG represented. So for Towns that look like us, and spend like us and can afford like us, the average per pupil expenditure for that 05-06 school year, the absolute last data that came from the State Department was $10,400. The State average for per pupil is $11,200 and you can see where we are.
We built this budget on four tenants, and we did that through conversations with our curriculum subcommittee, conversations with individual Board Members who commented to me in September and October when I asked for program priorities, certainly the work of the cabinet, certainly the work of the administrative team and certainly the voice of the parents. We chose that these were the four areas that were held in the highest level, trying to recapture what we had lost over 5 or 6 years. NEASC of course remains a priority, Unified Arts at Swift Middle School, what does that mean? What that means is that for the past two years, in a Middle School concept where children should not have study halls, we have had youngsters having up to 9 study halls a week because of lack of teaching staff. We put a moratorium on two areas of study, in Tech Ed and Family and Consumer Science, we did that because the rooms were not ready. As the building project moves forward, as Mr. Mazzamaro spoke about this evening, we will have two brand new state of the art facilities ready to go for students with a proposal for two teachers to be in those classrooms. We also held at the highest priority class size and of course school safety and school security will always remain a focus of this Superintendent and I believe this Board of Education.
I am going to go through this slowly because I think it is important for the Board Members to understand, the community to understand and for staff to recognize. The proposed budget that Mr. Griffin will begin to go through, as the Budget Subcommittee Chair, next Monday the 29th shows an increase of 2 million dollars and change, the increase is 6.56%. Through the work of our Director of Business and Finance, who by the way just did outstanding work with this budget, Mrs. Amelia Grover. We sat and we looked at our fixed costs and what couldn’t we control going forward the next year. It looks just like your home, we could not control energy, we could not control contracts that are already in place, we could not control the State Vo-Ag which is directed from the State Department of Education that you as a Board of Education, that you are obligated to send students to the Vo-Tech-Ag-Science Program at a neighboring High School, we do not have that program. I am confident that I will bring back additional information on Health Insurance, whether it is good or bad I am not sure but there will be additional information. We continue to be in negotiations, the school and the town together, through Mrs. Grover’s office, that the $613,000 increase represents a 12% cost increase over this current year. If you look to our fixed costs, you look to the total increase, you will find that within that $2,093,000 nearly 97% is represented by a fixed cost increase. 6.36 of the 6.56% increase we feel we control very little of.
How does this budget affect class size? Our best numbers going forward from the administrative team that brought this information to the Superintendent’s office with the last week and a half. The increase at John Trumbull School at grade two would be a transition move, a transfer move from the Judson grade 4 to John Trumbull. Ms. Sculley and Ms. Mecca will continue to look closely at grade 1 and grade 2 numbers, and may be making a recommendation to central office about moving a grade 1 teacher into grade 2. Grade 2 is a big number for second grade, 25, if numbers hold, the 20 & 21 and 24 & 25 may end up looking like 22 and 23 in each one of those grade levels. I am pleased that at Heminway Park that we finally made some progress and we are taking the 30’s into the mid 20’s.
Board of Education Members in your packet you will see the original request for staffing, for 07 and 08. Administration felt it was necessary to look only at the highest priorities that we had set, that we could support, with a number that this community could understand and could also support. The new staffing that is represented within that 6.56% increase, at Watertown High School, one fulltime teacher and that teacher will be at the discretion of Mr. Hasbrouck and his administration after students have a chance to register. So where the bubble is, it may be in Math, it may be in Social Studies, it may in Electives. Along at Watertown High School with a fulltime teacher, a fulltime school counselor, this by the way was at the highest level and held at the highest priority by the High School Administration. The After School Alternative Program, again all three of these areas focus directly to NEASC, would be a program for approximately 15 students, it would be after school, it would be Monday through Thursday, it would be for a regular ed child who doesn’t fit into a public secondary school. An opportunity to hold onto that child, graduate that child with a very strong work component, and make that student successful rather than somebody on the streets.
Swift Middle School I spoke about, within the budget is a Family and Consumer Science teacher and a Tech Ed teacher. John Trumbull I spoke about, the transfer from Judson School that would move into grade 2, to look at numbers that would equal 22’s and 23’s. District wide positions, from the bottom starting up, the .4 ESL, English as a Second Language, for our English language learning children is State directed. We have reached a point that through an equation that is given to all public schools by the State of Connecticut, because of the growth of our ESL students, we will be looking at a .4, and that will be examined, we are hoping that .4 will hold, there is continued research that we are doing to see if we need additional staffing beyond .4. Along with a district impact will be the returning fulltime music teacher. We were charged by the curriculum subcommittee to create priorities and we looked at music this year as our priority and we will look hard at Art and Phys Ed next year. The music position impacts K-12, and results in a NEASC opportunity, it brings back the band that was lost, it supports that emerging and growing number of students at the High School who have a renewed interest in our music program. And the last position is a position that would be a position that would have oversight in a number of different areas. We now test as you know, starting in grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7, grade 8, grade 10. Testing has doubled in the past two or three years and we are in desperate need of relief from someone who will coordinate the tests, someone who will extract the data. We talk a lot about data driven decision making, our databank is in place, our input is in place, we are in desperate need for assistance to extract that data, to move on instruction. We also feel that over time with this position that with a high focus on grant acquisition in the field of technology and data management that we would be able to demonstrate that the investment by this community in that position would be next to nothing, with the impact of grants coming into our district. This is a position that we really wanted to start on July 1st but felt because of that number, the 6.56% and that $2,000,000 increase that the proposal is for a January 1, 2008 starting point.
Mrs. Grover and Mr. Griffin, along with Mrs. Dzioba, they have agreed to the following three meetings, the three meetings that you are looking at will start at 7:00pm, they will be held at John Trumbull, they will go as long as we need to go in order to finish the agenda for that particular night. The information that Board Members, that you received on Friday, to prepare for tonight and for Monday the 29th, everything that you had just over the past 5 or 10 minutes had a chance to take a look at, you have in writing. I also have for you in that packet, exactly where we are with our progress for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, you have a detailed breakdown of fixed costs, you have a detailed breakdown of certified and non-certified staff and you have my narrative which I believe represents administration in our quest going forward. It was our belief that it was our duty to report to you the needs of the schools and our work together will define where we go forward financially for 07-08. I don’t want Board Members or the community to loose sight of the fact that you hold onto that number 27.1 you subtract it from the recapture we had this year, you look at the positions that we are hoping for next year and you still see that we are less than half way back to where we were five years ago.
Questions Board Members may have at this particular time to prepare for Monday the 29th?
The Board had no questions regarding Item #6
6. Superintendent’s 2007-2008 Operational Plan
The Superintendent will present to the Board his 2007-2008 proposed operational plan.
J. Report from the Chairman
Ms. Dzioba: Thank you Dr. Erardi. I am going to move onto my report, as we have just seen we have gotten our budget homework assignment to work on for next week and I hope that all Board Members will join us on Monday night, not just the committee, were we will begin to work on the budget number. I don’t make a practice of commenting on things that I have read in the paper or letters to the editor but I just want to say that this is the first official number that has come from the Board on our budget and to ask people’s patience and understand official numbers will be coming forward as we work on the budget and our final number to bring to the Town Council. I would also like to say tonight that I have been told before this meeting that Tommy Valuckas is no longer going to be our reporter after tonight, I hear that you have been transferred to Woodbury and Bethlehem and that you will no longer be reporting in Watertown. Everybody who has been in public committees and Boards and Commissions, and who go to Town activities, everyone knows that Tommy is everywhere and reports on everything in this Town. I wish you luck in your new assignment and it is Watertown’s loss.
Applause
K. Action Items – Adoption of Items to be Approved by Consent
a. Consideration of the Approval of the Watertown High School Grade 9 Honors Cohort Pilot for 2007-2008
At the Curriculum and Instruction Committee meeting of January 16, 2007, the Curriculum and Instruction Committee members endorsed the Watertown High School Grade 9 Honors Cohort Pilot for 2007-2008. The program would be available for approximately 20-23 Grade 9 students who have achieved at an advanced level and who meet the criteria of the program. A major objective of this pilot is to prepare able students for Honors and Advanced Placement courses during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. No additional staff is required.
It is recommended that the Board of Education approve the Watertown High School Grade 9 Honors Cohort Pilot for the 2007-2008 school year, as presented.
Motion presented by Mr. Mazzamaro, seconded by Mr. Lafferty to approve the Watertown High School Grade 9
Honors Cohort Pilot for the 2007-2008 school year, as presented.
Discussion:
Ms. Dzioba: I would just like to say that I was at the C & I meeting where this was presented and it is a wonderful program and it should attract students from the High School, it gives them options and it is nice to see that we do something for the honors program and to advance it.
Motion Passed Unanimously
(6-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0-Abstained)
b. Consideration of the Approval of Acceptance of Gifts
1. The Watertown Public Education Foundation would like to donate $10,000.00 in funding for Virtual High School at Watertown High School.
2. Mr. Peter Perkinson, retired teacher from Swift Middle School, would like to donate a podium with an approximate cost of $75.00 to Swift Middle School.
3. Mrs. Druckenmiller would like to donate a half-size violin, valued at $250.00, to the strings program in the Watertown Public Schools.
4. Mr. and Mrs. Kasle would like to donate two Pfretzchner violins, valued at $300.00 each, to the strings program in the Watertown Public Schools.
It is recommended that the Board accept these generous donations and letters of thanks to be sent to the donors.
Motion presented by Mr. Lafferty, seconded by Mr. Mazzamaro to accept these generous donations and letters of thanks to be sent to the donors.
Discussion:
Dr. Erardi: Mrs. Dzioba if I could just make a comment to the Board and it is an opportunity to thank the Public School Education Foundation, the $10,000 represents total funding for the virtual High School program for the entire 07-08 year. What that means, we will be able to train a teacher and we will be able to offer 50 opportunities to students in a wide variety of classes fully funded by the Public School Education Foundation. They saw this as a natural continuation of the Tech center which they worked so hard on to give to the Board of Education as a gift in September of 2005.
Motion Passed Unanimously
(6-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0-Abstained)
c. Consideration of the Approval of Leave of Absence
1. Ms. Lauren O’Brien, Speech/Language Pathologist at John Trumbull Primary School, requests a childbearing leave of absence, under the Family Medical Leave Act, commencing on April 23, 2007 through the end of the 2006-2007 school year, with use of accumulated sick time.
It is recommended that the Board approve of a childbearing leave of absence under the Family Medical Leave Act, for Ms. Lauren O’Brien, Speech/Language Pathologist at John Trumbull Primary School, commencing on April 23, 2007 through the end of the 2006-2007 school year, with use of accumulated sick time and a medical doctor’s note to return.
Motion presented by Mr. Lafferty, seconded by Mr. Mazzamaro to approve of a childbearing leave of absence under the Family Medical Leave Act, for Ms. Lauren O’Brien, Speech/Language Pathologist at John Trumbull Primary School, commencing on April 23, 2007 through the end of the 2006-2007 school year, with use of accumulated sick time and a medical doctor’s note to return.
Discussion: None
Motion Passed Unanimously
(6-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0-Abstained)
d. Consideration of the Approval and Ratification of Nurses’ Contract following a discussion in Executive Session
This item was tabled
L. Future Agenda Items and Board Members’ Comments
Mr. Lafferty: I have just two comments that I would like to share tonight, both of them are thank yous, the first
thank you goes out to Mrs. Jackie Wheelahan who I was one of those Board Members who kindly got those
bologna sandwiches every Friday from her. This is kind of on a light hearted note, if you talk to some students
or people who, former students, they will say that lunch was their favorite subject, and kind of as a Board
Member you take that with a grain of salt but it just goes to show that the cafeteria staff that we have throughout
the school system, they are staff that people remember as well. I think that having smiling faces of you and all
your coworkers, it definitely provided for a great atmosphere. So thank you for everything you have done for
30 years, it is incredible.
Also, my second thank you I would like to go out to Tommy Valuckas who I was not aware was leaving to
cover the Woodbury area. Tommy I just wanted to thank you because I have been kept informed on a lot of
issues before I was on the Board and that is throughout my entire life, You have been covering Watertown
whether it is through the Town Times and then eventually through the Waterbury Republican, you are
everywhere and you definitely do your work well and you are also out in the public willing to get a story and
just trying to keep everyone informed who can’t be at the events. So thank you very much I appreciate what
you and fellow press members do for covering our work.
Mr. Killeen: In my comments earlier about Heminway Park School I was remiss in not noticing Ms. Rommel
who is sitting in back and she is certainly a key figure in seeing how things go there so I just wanted to mention
her name.
M. Public Participation
Russell Ericson, Pleasant View Avenue
I live on Pleasant View Avenue which is adjacent to Tower Road, the presentation for the opening up the gate in the afternoon, that means that the potential for 300 cars if I heard right, there are approximately parking spaces for 300 cars in the parking lot. That means that at any given time between those two parking lots 300 cars could be cut loose on Tower Road, Riverside Street and every adjacent street to that. Signs could be put up, there are signs up there now that tell what the speed limit is and they are not obeyed now. There were also no parking signs all over and they are not obeyed. Without a policeman there running radar which we know if impossible because at 2:00 pm that is when their shift changes and 2:10 pm and by the time they get out on the road and get up there it would be done. I would say unless you are going to have a Policeman up there all the time, that was the whole reason it was closed to begin with because the cars would leave out of that area and they would leave as fast as they could until they hit the bottom of the road and then they slam their brakes on. It was mentioned earlier there was a lot of accidents down there and there was, that is why it was closed. It was brought to the Board like it is now, in another fashion as a proposal to close it and it was voted on by the Board Members about 10 or 11 years ago to close it. They saw a reason to close it because it was a safety hazard and I don’t see any reason for them to open it now. The kids aren’t taking into consideration what we went through, I mean it is enough, we put up with the cars coming up and down in the morning and they speed now. The Police just aren’t there, they are overwhelmed and they just can’t be there. And as far as someone being there in the afternoon, I go by there at 2:00 pm all the time, there is no one in that parking lot. There is no faculty out there what so ever, there is none out there in the morning, there is none, absolutely nothing, the kids are on their own, That doesn’t fly either. I just hope you take that into consideration, I know you wouldn’t want that in your neighborhood and we don’t want it in ours either. I think the kids can wait for you to fix the parking lot up and open up the front a little bit more. Thank you.
Gail Cesarello, 56 Tower Road
Just a few comments on the presentation made. It was not also taken into consideration if there is heavy snow and the snow piles when the snow plows, it narrows Tower Road at least 2 feet, which really makes it only wide enough for one car to go up or down so that problem wasn’t addressed. Also in the morning and afternoon I believe the students are asked to vacate the top of the hill where they used to smoke cigarettes and they are now at the corner Spring Street and Tower Road in the drainage area on the West side I believe of the High School and they are congregating there more and more every day. One of my neighbors told me today that the other day two young lady students were lying in the literally in the road and she thought something had happened to them. She went out there and asked if something was wrong and they said no they were just waiting for someone. Thank you.
N. Executive Session
School Safety and Security
Personnel – Negotiations, School Nurses’ Contract – Update
Motion presented by Mr. Mazzamaro, seconded by Mr. Griffin to enter into Executive Session with Dr. Erardi, Mr. LoFrese and Ms. Hackett and all Board Members listed as present.
Motion Passed Unanimously
(6-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0-Abstained)
Executive Session convened at 8:54 p.m.
Executive Session ended at 9:45 p.m.
O. Adjournment
Motion presented by Mr. Lafferty, seconded by Mr. Lambert to adjourn the Regular Board of Education Meeting of January 22, 2007.
Motion Passed Unanimously
(8-In Favor, 0-Opposed, 0-Abstained)
Meeting adjourned at 9:45 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by
Todd Griffin, Board Secretary
Bonnie Goulet, Board Clerk
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