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And we'll ask Mr. Cicero to please lead
us in the
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pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
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republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
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justice for all.
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» And before we get started this evening,
I'm going to ask for a moment of silence
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uh for Dr. Alfred Letterman. And thank
you, Mr. Brown, for uh bringing this up
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for us. Mr. Letterman passed away on
July 24th of this year, leaving behind a
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profound legacy of leadership and
devotion to public education. Dr.
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Letterman served as the director of
secondary education for Southernington
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Public Schools until 1978.
Following his successful tenure here in
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Southernington, he assumed the role of
superintendent of schools for the East
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Graanby School District until his
well-deserved retirement in 1994. Can we
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please give a moment for Mr. Lman?
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» Thank you very much,
>> Mr. Brown.
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» Can I just mention um
Al Letterman was the guy that actually
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interviewed me. this has got to be 50
years ago and hired me in Southernington
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and one of the nicest men you'll ever
meet. We had great conversations and um
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was saddened to see that he had passed
away but he is we go way back 50some
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years uh and he was a good man.
>> Thank you, Mr. Brown. And Mr. Brown, I
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think you have a motion for us. Uh, I
move that we move items 7, B, and C
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to 3, C, and D.
We have a motion.
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» Second
>> and a second.
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» All in favor?
>> I opposed.
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» The motion passes. Okay. Uh, we'll move
on to approval of minutes from our June
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18th meeting.
>> So, moved.
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» Second.
>> A motion and a second. Any discussion?
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» All in favor?
>> Opposed? That motion passes. And then we
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are looking for a motion to approve the
July 30th meeting. That is the special
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meeting where uh Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Cardy,
and Mrs. Anastasio were present. So
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those are the only three that could vote
on that. So I'm looking for a motion.
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» So moved.
>> Second.
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» Motion and a second. All in favor?
>> I.
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» Any opposed?
>> We don't vote. Do it.
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» Right.
>> Okay. So the motion passes unanimously.
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» Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Cardy, and Mrs.
Anastasia. Yes.
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» Okay.
Um, move on to item B. Uh, appointment
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of principal for the Flanders Elementary
School. Mrs. Carmy.
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» Yes. I move to appoint Mr. Jason Cecerio
as a new Flanders Elementary School
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principal
>> at an annual salary of $151,361
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effective August 6, 2026.
>> Second.
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» We have a motion and a second. Is there
any discussion? Would you call the role
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on this?
>> Mr.
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» Yes.
>> Mr. Brown.
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» Yes.
>> Yes.
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» Yes.
>> Mrs. Clark.
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» Yes.
>> Mrs.
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» Yes.
>> Mr. O.
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» Yes. Congratulations
>> and welcome.
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» Welcome. [applause]
>> Why don't you come on up and say a few
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words?
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» Oh, good evening members of the board,
members of our district team, Mr. Mansy,
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Mr. Pepe and members of the
Southernington community. It's with
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great joy and excitement that I begin my
tenure as the next principal at Flanders
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Elementary School. Um I am thankful to
both the board as well as to the
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district administrative team for the
confidence and the trust that you have
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in me to lead out this learning
community. And um I was going to say
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like I'm ready to get to work, but it's
been about a week now and I've been hard
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at work for the last week. Um, many of
you are already aware my family's away
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in vacation on the Cape uh this week and
so they're hopefully they logged in on
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time so they can see me. Um, but uh, one
of the things that became very evident
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when I did my research on Southernington
was how much of a tight-knit community
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this was and through the interview
process, there were a handful of
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questions in all of the rounds related
to the community that exists at
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Flanders. And uh I've been there for a
week exactly as of today and it's been
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evident as teachers are already coming
in to get their classrooms set up,
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already having conversations with
parents. Um it's a tight-knit community
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and I'm so excited to be able to support
them. The bedrock of the work we do in
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education is all about relationships and
from the moment I set foot in the
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building and had a long conversation
with the custodians and some of the tech
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people, um all of those relationships
are already starting. So, I'm looking
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forward to not only a fantastic year,
but a fantastic career here in
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Southernington. And thank you all for
the confidence that you have in me.
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Thank you.
>> Thank you.
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» Congratulations.
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» We also have the privilege this evening
of introducing the new director of the
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Karen Smith Academy, Mr. Mike Drury. Uh
Mr. Drury has a long history in
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Southernington of doing a lot of good
things for our students and our
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community, and we're really pleased to
have you join us in this new position.
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Mr. Why don't you come on up and say a
few words?
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» All right. Thank you very much. I'll
keep it short. Um, just want to thank
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the board of education, uh, Mr. Mansy,
Mr. Pepe, Mr. Aoyan, uh, for kind of
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entrusting me in a very important role
within our district. Uh, for the past 15
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years, Southernington has been home to
me. I don't live in Southernington, but
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it I'm I'm in Southernington more than
I'm in Bristol, I'll tell you that much.
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Um, also my family's at the Cape, so I
can understand that. Um, I'm sure they
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didn't log in because it's probably
insanity up there. But, um, I I just
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want to thank this the district number
one for the past 15 years to allow me
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grow as an educator, a coach, and now
most recently as a leader. Um, I truly
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enjoy waking up every day, coming to
school, um, working with the staff, the
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administration second to none, and most
importantly, the students. Um this past
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spring I had the opportunity to go down
to KSA Karen Smith Academy for the first
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time in my career. Um I was asked to go
down there to help out with some of the
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supervision um help the staff and
students and the first moment I walked
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in I immediately saw how invested this
staff was uh to the students there and
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the students felt at home, accepted,
comfortable. So it was a great
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experience. um looking forward to
improve and continue to build um the
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culture there and help our students
achieve the goals postsecary wise uh
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within high school and help them
overcome all the obstacles that may come
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forth. Um so I want to say thank you
very much and I'm looking forward I've
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already been at it working hard so we're
going to continue on. I I welcome
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anybody to come down visit um spend a
day or a couple hours there or half hour
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with the students and I would really
welcome it down there. So thank you very
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much. Thank you. Congratulations.
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» All right, we're going to take a quick
recess and so the board members can come
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down and say their words to to you two
guys and uh we'll reconvene in about
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five minutes.
>> Okay.
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» I just say yes to you, but I can't do
that, darling. But you are nice and tan
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and I don't like that.
>> Okay, come on in.
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» Let's vote.
>> All right, there we go.
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» We are going to reconvene uh our meeting
and we're going to move into public
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communications. We're looking for
communications from members of the board
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of education. Mr. Brown.
>> Yeah. I got three things. Uh, first of
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all, the wall of honor. We met several
months ago and we finally have notified
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all the people, which takes a while
sometimes because they're all over the
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place. I'm going to announce who they
are. And then something really special
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this year we're going to do. So, the
first person, there's no particular
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order here, Joe Delapora. Uh, if anyone
knows, he's very active in the town.
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He's a veteran himself. He's involved
with the veterans in town and and the
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school system, but when you look at his
resume, I just was going through it,
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it's two pages of volunteer work. So, an
amazing guy. Uh, second is Mark Ramsey.
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Again, these are people I think many
people in our community know. Mark's
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been involved with Lewis Farms, the Leaf
program. Uh, he donates food to all
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kinds of charities in town. Again,
another terrific guy. The third one is a
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guy named James Ben, who may not be
quite as well known. James Ben is an
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author. He's written 21 books that have
been published, which is amazing. Um,
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just talked to him this morning. The
fourth one is Austin Florian, the
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Olympian. Uh, we decided not only was he
an a sports guy, but he's an
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inspirational speaker also. So, he is
going to be inducted. And the last one
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is Donald Dorman. Donald Dorman is the
soldier who uh was shot on during World
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War II and was identified just recently.
and um had a lot of ser had a ceremony
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in town. So the the special thing this
year is normally we have a ceremony at
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the high school and it's very simple.
This is our 20th year. We've got a
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little over 50 people on the wall. So we
decided to go to the aquaturf make a big
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deal this year. We're going to induct
these people and then invite all past
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honores.
Uh it's December 8th. Write the date
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down. It's going to be the event of the
town of Southernington in the last
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century because the people on the wall
are just amazing. So, we'll have more
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information about that as it comes out.
Second is the sports hall of fame. We're
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we're also meeting on that one. It's
separate from the wall of honor. We are
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reinstituting that. We had our second
meeting. We have a great committee. We
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are going to slowly go through the
process of having applications and that
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one existed until 2015 and then it was
disbanded. We are now going to go back
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to 2015 and continue to now. Um, more on
that one. And the last one, I've been
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reading a lot of stuff recently about
Scandinavian schools. And one of the
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things I'm reading about is how many of
them have realized that we've overdone
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the technology perhaps in the classroom
and that they're going back to books and
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writing, a novel idea, no pun intended.
Um, [snorts] I don't I'm not saying we
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should do that, but I think we should
examine the impact of the technology
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trend and this trend because our job
really is to find the best ways to
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educate our students. So, I'm all set.
Thank you.
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» Thank you, Mr. P. Anybody else?
>> Okay. Uh, looking for communications
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from the administration.
>> Thank you, Mr. Oana. Um several items
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tonight, but some are just uh
strictlyformational. Uh as you're aware,
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annually we have to uh submit our
teacher evaluation plan to the state
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department of education for approval. Um
given that there were no changes to it
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this year from last and it was approved
last year. It was approved again this
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year. Um and so that's justformational
to the board. Um also I had sent out
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some information recently, but I thought
it was worth sharing publicly just what
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a great uh summer our students had at
Camp Invention. Uh, as usual, it was
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sold out. Um, I we got to see some video
of the kids in action. And I just think
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it's great to see it almost leads to I
actually responded when I got the video
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to uh the program director. There was no
screens in any of the videos. It was
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kids just, you know, hands-on learning,
collaborative groups. Um, and so very
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creative thinking. So, just a nice use
of time for our students in the summer.
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Um, and so a great opportunity. Um, our
summer projects and maintenance work.
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This is always the busiest time of year
and Mr. Romano and his team, the
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maintenance staff, um, never cease to
disappoint. Uh, one of the big projects
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is the strong elementary school roof
being replaced and that is, uh, 90%
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complete and it is on schedule to be
finished on time and under budget. So,
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we're proud to share that.
>> Um, I think most of us and a lot of
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people have talked about the Aside Barn.
Uh, it looks amazing. And so next up uh
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to the barn is we're going to do some
site work and there is a former axi
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student uh who owns a landscaping
company that's going to donate his
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equipment and labor to do rockhound the
uh the top saw and plant grass seed
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there. So, we also had um some members
of the the district staff attend the
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open space committee last week and they
talked about uh the paddics that we
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would need for the horses and they
talked about two paddics and when we
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talked about moving the livestock over
there and then getting things set up, it
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it's starting to become more realistic.
So, um there was conversation about a
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possible ribbon cutting ceremony during
the apple harvest weekend to try and
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just kind of acknowledge a lot of the
people that were behind that work in
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making that occur. Um, the tennis courts
and parking lot project. I did send the
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board anformational email today. There
will be 40 cement trucks on Pleasant
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Street tomorrow lined up ready to pour
the concrete for the tennis courts. Um,
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and so that continues to be on schedule.
Um, once that concrete is poured, it
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does take 28 days to cure before they
put the top coat on it. So, that portion
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of things will will sit for a little
bit. Uh, the parking lot itself though
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and the paving is scheduled to be
completed on time uh, for the start of
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school. And then the intention there is
to shift the zoning in the surrounding
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neighborhoods in terms of the parking
restrictions during school hours. So,
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we're excited and grateful for the
additional space that we have and also
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that it's going to be ready on time.
And we have uh the high school solar
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project um that is also on schedule to
be completed on time. Um also under
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budget, so we're proud to share that.
And it's uh something that this is a
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unique one for us that we'll watch
closely because this is the first array
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in town that we own versus leasing um
and and paying a portion to the company
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that had initially purchased and
installed the panels. So it'll be
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outright savings for us. Um and so we'll
keep the board apprised of that. And uh
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the last is the locker rooms at the high
school. Uh again, internal work by the
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maintenance department and just really
try to overhaul and improve the
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condition of the boys locker room. Um
one of the things I've charged the
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athletic director with and the coaches
is to make sure it stays that way. Um
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it's easy for all for it to fall in
disrepair if you know kids don't have
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pride in the space and they think
someone else is going to take care of
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it. Um, so now that we've got it to a
baseline where it's clean, it's
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wellmaintained, and it should be kept as
something they should be proud of. And
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so coaches need to please it before and
after practice. Coaches need to hold
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kids accountable that abuse the space.
Um, and kids need to have some pride in
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that because a lot of people were behind
the scenes this summer trying to provide
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them that space. And so, uh, we're
thankful for that. Also, uh, tomorrow we
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have our admin retreat. Uh we all we
started uh we do some time in two days
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in June typically to start the summer
and then we do uh a third full day in
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August when all of the administrators
are due back and I've asked Mr. Pepe to
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speak about tomorrow's topics for all of
you.
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» Thank you.
So the majority of Tuesday afternoon
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release days are dominated by
professional development. that
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professional development is planned by
our administrators and this year we'll
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continue with two major topics. Um and
tomorrow we have two gurus of one of the
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topics uh Joanne Fryberg and Pat Chicone
and they'll be with us to talk about
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restorative practice uh specifically
restorative circles and it's a great
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resource for our administrators. So the
learning that will come from tomorrow
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with with these two folks will be used
to plan PD for our teachers throughout
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the year. The second is we have Dr. Ross
Green and you've heard me talk about the
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green team. Uh and that's a cross
sampling of people in district. Um but
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our our administrators aren't all in
tune with Dr. Green's work. So tomorrow
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Dr. Green himself will be with us for a
few hours to give an overview of his
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theory, his processes. Um, and we have
next year planned two uh site groups,
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one at J A and one at DEES where we'll
have six total staff members who will be
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trained bi-weekly, six week intensive
training on his model. Um, and we'll
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also have myself and one other person
yet to be named uh go into a
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[clears throat] 24-week intensive uh
training that ends up being a a trainer
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of the trainers.
If we're successful the first 10 weeks,
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we get invited back for the next 14
weeks. I do plan to be successful. So,
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it'll be an experience and one that will
yield support for our teachers and our
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students. So, pretty excited about
tomorrow.
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» Nice.
>> Thank you, Mr. Pepe. Uh, another item
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informational to you. You may recall uh
two years back we were part of the
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science of reading master class that um
CAPS in the state department of
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education put on. We applied again and
were accepted to the cohort six. So we
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have a whole full whole another team of
um staff attending the science of
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reading master class this year. So it's
it's a pretty intensive comprehensive
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professional development series that Mr.
Pepe and I both attended the first uh
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cohort when we were part of cohort 3 and
found it to be extremely beneficial. So
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I think that'll help our students you
know and as we continue to focus on the
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science of reading. And then lastly just
some dates that areformational. We
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talked about tomorrow's admin retreat.
Next Thursday and Friday is always a fun
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day. It's the new teacher orientation.
Um, our entire admin team shows up first
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thing that Thursday morning. We meet and
greet all of the new teachers. It's
[21:44]
great to see I mean I look at the group
and I always I feels like yesterday that
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I was one of them. Um, how excited they
are for their first teaching job and you
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know and also maybe a little naive. Um,
but you know we have great hires this
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year. Uh, we're pretty much fully
staffed at this point minus any last
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minute resignations that we're getting.
So they're uh well positioned for that
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orientation. And then our staff return
on Monday the 24th, 25th, and 26th for
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three days of professional learning. And
then our students will be here on the
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27th. So it's all coming to a close
pretty quick. Um, and so I I'm proud to
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share that a lot of the work that we
needed to get done this summer in order
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to be ready has been completed. And that
concludes my report.
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» Any questions for the administration?
>> Just one. No, no, you go.
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» Um, I I had one quick question. Um, so I
received uh from Mr. Oyan um essentially
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the new cell phone policy, what the
expectations are for students. Um, which
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I think is great. Um, one of the things
that I had a question about though, um,
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you did mention students with
individualized plans which require the
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use of a cell phone will still be
allowed to in classrooms. Can you
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» sure through like what that would
entail?
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» Yep. Yeah. For some students, they have
apps that are associated with their
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phones. For example, diabetes. Um
there's like blood sugar monitors and
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things like that. So, there are some
specific circumstances um that there are
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specific apps whether they're related to
mental health, physical health, you
[23:13]
know, ailments and whatnot, but that has
to be programmed for through the AP.
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That's not a teacher saying yes or no
based on, you know, a preference to a
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student.
>> Gotcha. And is that something where I
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guess at at some point in a perfect
world where we could essentially supply
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devices that only have that particular
app on it to make sure that
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» Yeah, I think the challenge there is you
have students monitoring their blood
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sugar in two different ways. They'll be
monitoring it one way at home and one
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way at school.
>> That that's a different situation in my
[23:42]
opinion is more like medical but more of
like maybe if it's a learning related
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program or
>> most of the learning related needs we
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are able to cover with the technology
that we do provide them.
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» That's great.
>> All right. Thank you.
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I know this isn't our area, but have the
neighbors been notified up at the high
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school?
>> So, yes. Yeah. Nope. Good, great point.
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And the the correspondence that I had
shared yesterday indicates that it was
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going to be blasted out when they were
closer to the completion date to let the
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neighbors know when it would be
starting. I think there's been a general
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awareness in terms of it's coming. Um,
I'm not quite sure how it's going to
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work logistically yet because it
basically says students can't, but
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neighbors and guests and stuff in their
neighborhood can. And I don't know how
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you'll discern who's visiting a house
and who's a student, you know. Um, but
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I'm going to leave that to the folks
that handle parking and and you know,
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that type of enforcement because it is
off school property. Um, we will
[24:36]
certainly cooperate and support any way
we can and if that means continuing to
[24:40]
communicate with families and students
uh that may we do sometimes see kids
[24:45]
walking from certain spaces and they
don't live on that street. You know,
[24:47]
those are examples where if we can offer
dual enforcement based on what we can
[24:51]
see tangibly, we will, but we won't be
pleasing those streets. Um, that we're
[24:55]
going to leave that to the authorities.
There is signage uh quite a bit of
[24:58]
signage that's going to be installed uh
to make that very apparent. And quite
[25:02]
honestly, the amount of spaces we are
adding, I'd be surprised if it if it
[25:07]
does become a challenge. Um, every kid
now will have an assigned parking spot.
[25:11]
And when we did the math based on the
kids that didn't get parking passes last
[25:15]
year, mostly juniors, all seniors got
them.
[25:17]
» Um, we believe we will have enough um to
accommodate all the students that are
[25:21]
going to drive. neighbors. Okay.
>> And about tomorrow with the parade of
[25:26]
cement trucks um that I just had a
thought. Do people in the neighborhood
[25:31]
know?
>> We did notify the police department.
[25:33]
» Did they put it I
>> Jimmy Armarmac was notified. So we leave
[25:36]
it to them to deal with the
>> I know it's not our it's not our thing,
[25:39]
but I was just curious to see if
>> we did put it out to to the police
[25:42]
department.
>> Okay. Okay. Hopefully they'll put
[25:44]
something on Southernington talks.
>> It'll be around town. I'm sure.
[25:48]
» I'm sure it will. I'm sure within 15
minutes it'll be
[25:51]
» Yeah.
>> Do you know which company is supplying
[25:54]
the concrete?
>> I do not.
[25:56]
» I'm just My cousin works for Telcon so
[laughter]
[25:58]
or FNF rather. So I was just wondering I
I would imagine it's a combination of a
[26:02]
lot of companies.
>> I can't wait. I'm really excited.
[26:04]
» Yes, me too. Lots to do.
>> 40 is a lot. That's a lot. 40 is a lot
[26:08]
of trucks. I'm very excited.
>> Okay. All right. Next on the agenda is
[26:12]
uh communications from the public on
items on the agenda. Is there anybody
[26:16]
that would like to speak on an agenda
item this evening?
[26:21]
Okay. No, we will move on then to excuse
[clears throat] me, the superintendent
[26:25]
report uh the personnel report.
>> I recommend that the board of education
[26:29]
approve the personnel report as
submitted by the human resource
[26:34]
department.
>> Second.
[26:35]
» We have a motion and a second. Any
discussion?
[26:38]
» All in favor?
>> I opposed. Motion passes. Uh old
[26:42]
business, any town government
communications, Mr. Bansancy?
[26:46]
» Done.
>> Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Um, new
[26:49]
business, uh, the class size report,
initial class size report.
[26:52]
» Sure, I can speak to that. Um, proud to
share that we are within the board
[26:57]
guidelines across the district at all
schools in all grade levels. Some are
[27:01]
pushing up against the fringes, but
still within or under the guidelines.
[27:06]
Um, and I think we were able to do a
well enough job, especially in the early
[27:10]
grades, to try and maintain the best
that we could with the staffing that we
[27:14]
have. Um, as I say every year, you know,
this time of year, the next two weeks is
[27:19]
a very much a flurry of registrations
and withdrawals. So, this is really a a
[27:24]
very fluid document at this point in
time. So, we can give you definitely a
[27:28]
more concrete look at these numbers
again at the September board meeting
[27:31]
once the school year has started. Great.
>> Excellent. Anybody have any questions on
[27:35]
the report?
>> I was going to say how many um I'm 10.
[27:39]
We're down 10 teachers from last year in
the FTE total. Um,
[27:45]
have we been going down?
>> Yes.
[27:47]
» Over the We have. Okay.
>> So, I I want to say and I I should I
[27:53]
looked at the current one 154 to 144. We
went from 159 the year prior. So, we
[27:59]
went from 159 to 154 to 144.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, we won't have the
[28:03]
actual number of students and number of
teachers until the October. You have to
[28:08]
report it October.
>> The state uses October one as kind of
[28:10]
the hard guideline for the student
counts and pieces. It's that that
[28:13]
student information system where they do
all their accounts.
[28:16]
» That's what's used to determine like
education cost share formulas in terms
[28:20]
of the enrollment for students and all
that. The October one is when they truly
[28:22]
finalize it.
>> Okay.
[28:24]
» Okay. Thank you.
>> Okay. Any other questions on the report?
[28:29]
» Okay. Hearing none, we'll move on to
public communications on items that are
[28:33]
not on the agenda this evening. Is there
anybody like to speak about an item that
[28:37]
was not posted on the agenda this
evening?
[28:41]
Okay. Seeing none, uh, we're looking for
a motion to adjurnn.
[28:45]
» So moved.
>> Second.
[28:47]
» A motion and a second. All in favor?
>> Opposed? We are adjourned.
[28:51]
» Okay,
[28:54]
» 7:29.
>> Steve, they're coming in. They're coming
[28:58]
at 6 a.m.
>> Can Can I Can I go? Can I show up? I
[29:04]
love to watch them. I love them.
>> Did you see all the rebar laid out and
[29:08]
stuff?
>> No. Can I Can I really Can I really go?
[29:10]
So, wait. 6:00 a.m. like tomorrow 6:00
a.m. Right.
[29:13]
» Little kids.
>> My cousin works for FNF. He really does.
[29:16]
» I'm not I'm not sure exactly what time
the trucks are coming. I think might
[29:20]
have been in the update.
>> Yeah, it is 6 a.m.
[29:21]
» But um
>> I can go. I don't get wet.
[29:24]
» It's not closed. It's not closed.
>> Yeah.
[29:26]
» Even if you parked on Analise, you'd be
able to watch the whole thing.
[29:28]
» I'm really excited about it.