oh wait oh that's Good evening everyone the public has been duly informed of this meeting in accordance with chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 by posting at least 48 hours in advance a notice on the bulletin boards in
Stevenson and churchill schools a notice to the township clerk and a notice to the Herald news and the progress now please join us for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right for the board president's report I'm going to yield into uh our committee report because the only thing I have to report on pertains to
buildings and grounds so I will touch base on it during that now I'd like to turn the microphone over to our superintendent Mr gupta for the superintendent report thank you good evening guys uh I just have two announcements for tonight first I want to wish our second grade students
good luck as many of them are currently performing a wide range of acts at the Stevenson Variety Show as we speak um I got to see them today there's comedians singers puppeteers gymnasts musicians dancers a lot of talented kids um what was most impressive to me though is is
how brave these kids are especially the ones performing by themselves they performed I got to see them in front of all of their friends which is they'll tell you is the most terrifying part um in front of their teachers and of course now they're in front of their families so I can't imagine the courage needed to do that especially as a second grader so
big kudos to all the performers and thank you to Mr sylvestri for organizing the very well- attended event and lastly on April 2nd Fairfield Public Schools wore blue for autism awareness day church Hill staff and students were able to purchase an autism awareness
shirt from Steady Eddie Designs which is actually a local company uh owned by a Fairfield alumni um Eddie Val so thank you for Mr santana for helping out a fellow business person alumni and organizing that and April is actually National Autism Awareness Month so you
will see a lot of Fairfield students and staff wearing blue or wearing shirts with the autism puzzle piece um my wife picked out the tie there you go in case you're wondering what the puzzle pieces look like exhibit A um but I want to take this opportunity to express how proud I am to be a superintendent in a
school district that serves the needs of autistic students many schools the vast majority of school districts do not offer programs for these kids so I'm very grateful that this board has supported funding of this very important program the teachers and aids that work
with the students in our MD rooms are incredible i love visiting there it's my favorite class to observe just seeing the genuine love that the teachers and the aids have for their students is awesome to watch um our director of special services Megan Kafone has put
together a tremendous program for autistic students we are blessed to have these amazing kids in our schools and we absolutely love serving them so a big thank you to Megan and her staff um for everything they do for our autistic students and that is it for my report
thank you very much Ryan moving on to our board committee reports we'll start off with HSA hsa i have one report for the HSA uh they are having a casino night uh with the theme Havana Nights it'll be Thursday May 15th
at Seasons tickets are on sale right now on their website so if you'd like to join them uh please go to uh hsa.org to buy your tickets all the money that they donate uh goes back to the schools that they raise will go back to the schools directly to the kits so please see if
you can join them on May 15th thank you Melinda i'd like to just fill everyone in in regards to finance obviously with Mr graffiti absence i would like to say that we'll be discussing the budget at the next meeting we will go over the budget
presentation uh as of right now things look pretty good we're definitely heading in the right direction and if you have an opportunity to attend next meeting I think it would be advantageous i know our our new business administrator has uh has done a great job of preparing uh something a little
more detailed than we've seen in the past here in Fairfield and I'm sure the community is looking forward to that uh building and grounds we're going to touch on one or two things that we've discussed in the past before we move on we'll start with the Stevenson roof over
the course of the last couple months um Wall-E myself and Joe have been in contact with the roofing company that performed the roof just about 15 years ago now for those of you who have been in attendance and have been following the board meetings you know it's been a struggle we've had leak after leak after
leak and uh it turns out that after 2 or 3 months of going back and forth with the vendor that provided the roof and installed it we actually had them on site for a visit um Wally and myself walked the roof with Mr gupta our region
their regional manager our salesman and one of their techs and it was uh determined uh by Wall-E that over the last 15 years we've replaced more than 20% of the work that was done originally
so as we keep basically putting a band-aid on on our our roof we thought it was necessary to kind of go a little further and dig deep and there's obviously something wrong they've uh they've established that there's
something wrong and they want to keep repairing it in patches which we don't think is fair to the district or the children so uh right now we're kind of going back and forth we have our board attorney involved and we will definitely keep you posted as to the outcome of that uh the other thing I'd like to
discuss during building and grounds is the recreation grant uh that we discussed uh for the last several months actually in November uh Wally brought it to our attention that in his old district he was able to apply for a recreation grant which allows us to go
out and seek money for uh playgrounds fields uh you know stuff that really builds uh the camaraderie with the kids outside of the school and uh because of Wall-E's vision and applying for this grant we were very fortunate to be awarded
$87,000 uh so kudos to Wall-E and for everyone that was involved in in helping him with that and taking the time to write the grant i believe you can the highest you can get is $100,000 Wall-E and we received $87,000 that will go uh
to brighten up the back of Stevenson School uh at some point in the near future uh and with that being said we're obviously going to apply for the grant again next year if it comes out we actually shared um the information about this with the town and the town applied
for the grant as well and uh I believe they received received an award as well they received an award as well so it was it was really a great uh it was a great find by Wall-E we appreciate it and the kids are definitely going to benefit from it so thank you very much uh in regards to board committees I believe
that's it and we'd like to open up the floor to comments on agenda items only anyone seeing no one I'd like to close that portion out and move on to finance the following finance motions
are made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda items 1 through five will be voted upon in one motion i so move second we have a roll
miss Chandoli yes miss Street yes miss Alai yes mr dascal yes the following administrative motion is made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda item one will be
voted on in one motion i so move second may I have a roll sure mr andoli yes Miss Street yes Miss Alai yes Mr deep Pascal yes the following contract motions are made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda items 1
through three will be voted upon in one motion i so move second we have a roll call miss Tandolei yes miss Street yes miss Alche yes yes the following grant motions are made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools
anything placed on this agenda items one through two will be voted upon in one motion i so move second may I have a roll call miss Chandoli yes miss Street yes miss Alai yes mr de Pascal yes the following buildings and ground motions is made at the recommendation of the
superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda item one will be voted upon in one motion i so move second i have a roll call miss Chandoli yes miss Street yes miss Alai yes mr deep Pascal yes the following personnel
motions are made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed upon this agenda items 1 through 4 will be voted upon in one motion i so move second may have a roll call miss Yandoli yes miss Street yes
miss Alai yes musk yes the follow the following curriculum program motion is made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda item one will be voted upon in one motion i so move second may I have a roll miss Chandoli
yes miss Street yes miss Alai yes mr deep Pascal yes the following policy motions are made at the recommendation of the superintendent of schools anything placed on this agenda items 1 through 7 will be voted upon in one motion i so move second may have a roll
call miss Chandoli yes m stre yes miss Alai yes and Mr dascar yes all right moving on to public comments non-aggenda items only anyone no
one okay uh so old business new business i would like to just acknowledge uh something that was approved the board has been working diligently to find ways to bring money in to the school as a revenue source and recently we partnered with our recreation department we we
sought out their help to create a soccer field behind Stevenson School so with the help of recreation they help us line and pin the field and actually get it lined so we are able to rent the field out to a local soccer club Sticks and
Kicks and we've also rented our baseball field to two other organizations for the first time in many many years actually generating a positive revenue for the fields that have we've been utilizing for years so with that being said uh hopefully we this will continue to work
we're still on a trial basis with this kind of monitoring the use of the fields um if it's causing any damage that the to the grass or to the fields and we'll obviously keep a close eye on that but if everything works well we're looking forward to you know expanding this and
and actually utilizing the fields over at Church Hill as well as Stevenson to generate some positive income so very pleased and proud uh to be a part of that with my fellow board members uh next meeting be resolved that the next meeting will be held in person on April
29th 2025 public work session beginning at 6 pm followed by executive session with public session resuming at approximately 7:30 at the Fairfield Municipal Building may I have a motion motion second second roll call please
miss Andoli yes miss Street yes miss Alai yes m Pascal yes thank you very much have a great night a quick one