January 4, 2017 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Rationale: 

Please note the personnel report as you will find updated employee information reflected in it.

Please take note of the January enrollment report. We have a total of 1313 students (in-house) enrolled. As a part of our budget development process and in terms of long range planning, we have updated our staffing proposals based on the current and projected enrollments. 

Congratulations to Aron D’Aquila who was selected to be an official AP presenter with the College Board.  He is now qualified to lead official AP workshops and will help train other AP US History teachers.  It is considered a high honor as there are only about 100 presenters nationwide, with only about 20 from all of New England. 

I will update the Board on the recent cuts to ECS funding.

As a reminder, please clear your schedule for the next three Wednesday evenings. We have our annual budget workshops beginning next week when the principals will present their school budgets. I have attached the budget calendar as a reminder of the schedule for the next couple of months.

 

 

 

Rationale:  Mrs. McCalla will provide a year to date budget status report as well as a contingency fund report.  

Rationale:  John and Beth will update the Board on the progress of our technology plan and any needs for the future.

Rationale:  John and Beth will update the Board on the progress of our technology plan and any needs for the future.

Rationale:  The Board of Education meeting schedule for the 2017-2018 school year is enclosed. The schedule remains the same as it has been with meetings scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month. This schedule must be posted in the town halls this month and, therefore, requires Board action for approval to post.

Rationale:  As the issue of dogs was raised at the last meeting, I have done some research and will provide information to the Board for discussion.  This is informational only and does not require Board action.

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The existing security server capacity will not accommodate the school district’s expansion plans for additional security cameras. The existing server is a nine year old repurposed server which our staff converted to a security server. Our existing security camera system is based on District purchased Avigilon software and licenses. To accommodate our current and future security camera needs we have received a quote from Sourced Security Solutions, the Connecticut Avigilon distributor for $19,350. We also received a HP server quote based on Connecticut State Contract pricing for $17,920 to compare to the Avigilon server pricing. As this is a sole source item, we are asking to waive the bidding requirements.

We recommend purchasing the Avigilon server from Sourced Security Solutions based on:

• HP server will require additional purchased services to reconfigure with Avigilon software, camera management system, and security camera connections.
• Avigilon server has higher performance processor and on board memory.
• Avigilon server hardware is designed as a security camera server focusing on efficiently processing, storing and retrieving video.
• Simplified Avigilon software support using equipment familiar to software supplier.

Rationale:  Superintendent's mid year evaluation update