just don't want to waste time so You'll end up having Order the Royal Regional School Committee meeting for Wednesday April 16th 2025 um typically we do the pledge of allegiance at this time
i aliance 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 i'm asking for a vote to move school
committee recognition reorganization from new business to the next item on our agenda is there a motion motion moved is there a second second motion moved and seconded all those in favor perfect thank you so now we'll go to the school committee reorganization
per our policy adopted on July 21 2010 for the purpose of reorganizing the school committee at its first regular meeting will conduct district elections annual elections which will elect from its membership a chairperson a vice chairperson a secretary all of whom will
hold their respective offices for a term of one year or until a successor is elected a majority of the members of the school committee will constitute a quorum and we have a quorum here this evening the election will proceed as follows first elections will be nominations of the office of the chairperson will be made from the floor
is there a nomination for chairperson i'd like to nominate as chairperson thank you you have a vote for Lee are there any other nominations for chairperson okay so we have a vote for Bobby and Fr oh sorry Bobby
say that again frank for Frank okay okay all right so um from here on it will be a roll call vote for the members present in voting if no nominee receives a majority vote the election will be declared null and void and nominations will be reopened first um
nominated was Lee all those in favor of Lee and all those for Bobby and all those for Frank excellent excellent so we will move um to nominate Lee as our chairperson for the school
committee um and him and I will switch places and he will go through the um nomination for the upcoming vice chair congratulations i was going to say It's not my cup all right first and foremost thank you
um you know it's it's been a while but it's it's uh you know I'm appreciative of this by all means and um first and foremost just before we move on to the next vote I do I do want everybody to rest assured that I'm going to do my
utmost best um to help move the district forward uh you know and I have no there's no animosity at this table as far as I'm concerned for anybody it's a fresh start and we move forward okay so nominations
from the floor for vice chair Laura I nominate Tammy any other nominations seeing none we can vote on Tammy even though she's unanimously uh all in favor of
Tammy thank you all right so Tammy will be the vice chair and traditionally in the school district the office of secretary is held by the superintendent so well actually we have had
conversation about that okay we have discussed that Jod actually does serve in that capacity and we checked with council and they she is able to be appointed as the secretary that's fine is there Yes i'm not gonna I'm not gonna allow I'm
not going to allow her any discussion so um all those I'm not going to allow for any discussions all those in favor okay unanimous thank you congratulations thank you thank you that's true next up the uh approval of
minutes for March 19th is there a motion and a second okay motion made in second any discussion seeing none all those in favor all right public input eric was there
any I think it's on the other side oh okay okay thank you student representative we do not have one this evening okay uh earlier uh before this meeting there were recognitions uh student
recognitions althum and Caitlyn Rossi arms Bentley Irene and Alicia Cubves aces Jacob Butler and Dante Mono and RCS Beverly Matson and Elliot
Narwitz under unfinished business this evening there is none so what we would do is um move right into the budget public hearing uh you do have the public hearing uh documents uh budget
presentation um that is the most recent version in your packet so uh we'll turn it over to Matt and Nancy um will rapidly turn it right yes and it's actually called to order at 610 just for
the record y so up on the slide I have the budget public hearing document so at the last school committee meeting I did a brief overview of where we stood at that point in time so the first slide I'm going to bring
you to is the changes that have been made since the since since then the total changes it comes to $150,751 um it's an assortment of adding in two paraprofessional positions uh BCBA
districtwide some professional development expenses um some special education expenses and some software and then it was made up with some revenue adjustments um between Medicaid in interest school choice in a
grant um the ECA ECG grant which came to $150,751 and it did not affect the assessments it was just revenue that we were able to adjust with it so the next slide goes over our full budget request so our full budget
request is 38,83,857 and this slide can show you how it's broken out amongst the main categories in the budget you got your administration your teaching your student services operation your fixed charges capital debt and your out of
district tuitions yes oh yeah thank you so then the key budget drivers so the key budget drivers for next year the number one is special education our
transportation costs are extremely high between foster care education foster care transportation and the Mckin Vento transportation and services for our kiddos in special education just rising keeps rising um speech and language
occupational therapy we need additional pair of professionals they're all All of those contribute to the additional costs that we're seeing in this year's budget and we added them into next year's budget we had a key budget driver with salaries we added in the elementary
school dean at ACS ACES and RCS um miscellaneous duties and stipens in summer school programs were added in they weren't put in the FY25 budget but
they're put in the FY26 budget but they're they're funded yes so now school choice fund and so we put that intoeneral
And it still will be split and it also includes the increases to the ATA which is the two and a half% in lane changes and any non-unit increases that are negotiated our health insurance our health insurance costs have risen risen
substantially i've mentioned this in a prior meeting combined with the 19.97 increase that we've had we've also had a shift to a 7030 participation structure so those two combined have been a
significant hit for our employees um so that's another part of that the next slide is our lowinccome grouping as we mentioned in prior meetings our lowinccome grouping we were at 11 last year we dropped to 10 for
We were at 11 this year we dropped to 10 for fiscal year 26 that's a loss of 956,647 at the last meeting I mentioned that there was a possibility that we might be able to uh find an additional 17 kiddos but unfortunately uh that
didn't happen so we're hopeful for next year and we're going to keep plugging along and hope we get there the assessments this breaks out the assessments for the town of Athl and the town of Royalston and it so you have
your required minimum contributions that is set by the state and you each town has to pay then you have our debt expense that's from the high school and then we have our transportation expense broken out for each and this page totals them so the
total assessment for Athl projected for fiscal year 26 is $5,63,530 which is a 3.8% increase since 25 the royal assess Royal assessment is $85,482 which is a
6.33% increase for since fiscal year 25 our chapter 70 we put in at 25,520,562 which is a 3.5% increase and I just got to Yep
you sure i am going to cut you off okay that's fine i think I was just going to add in there that I just got an email walking in here from the health ways and means they met today and chapter 70 stayed the same so there'll be no adjustments with that go ahead thing
that I did want to point out for those watching at home and anyone in the audience that wasn't here previously if you flip back and forth a little between page six and seven right page six has your minimum local contributions that are listed there from the towns and page
seven shows you the change from the FY25 to FY26 budget i'd like to point out the change in Athal's minimum local contribution was 2 [Music]
5,996 and their assessment only went up $25,32 so the district is doing everything and more that it can to absorb costs i will say I've discussed it with the budget subcommittee
particularly in the area of transportation our transportation costs have gotten extremely high and we we ate a lot a small portion of it i shouldn't say a small portion of it we've eaten some of those
costs so that we could make the assessment for the towns palatable so um otherwise the assessment increase might be seven 8% maybe even higher similarly you can check the
Royalston numbers uh again you can see that their minimum local in uh contribution went up $50,000 and their change is $47,954 so I just want to point that out for the communities
thank you and then the regional school transportation we projected 93,156,000 which is a 16.66% increase and that was right very close to what with what the House Ways and Means came back with and the charter
tuition reimbursement we put in 53,845,000 which is actually a drop for us and will remain a drop for next year um at 55% so overall with all our funding
um it comes to a 3.18% increase in so in our revenue our revenue sources that are allocated to the budget from our own funds come to 1.9
million which I'll go through right here so everything in yellow on this slide are revenue sources that are allocated to the budget and then anything that's not in yellow are our
grants so I'll go over them individually um so for athletic revolving we allocated 35,000 to the budget for food service we allocated $100,000 to the budget excess in deficiency we allocated
50,000 to the budget last year we did $450,000 so that was a big difference school choice $331,15 out of district revenue 100,000 and then you'll see the grants you have your title one grant title 2A
and title four those have all pretty much in line i kept them a little bit small differences from last year circuit breaker put in at the maximum at 1,417,000 rural aid we put in at 558,598 and then you got your
entitlement grants so the 240 entitlement grant 510,000 262 grant 12,500 and your TAG grant which is 105,500 then you have your early
college grants for 77,500 your ICP grant I can't see it from here sorry
36,000 your I A grant for 350 interest income for 30,000 and your Medicaid for 300,96 we have a small open sed grant for the middle school 11,665 and our chronic absence for
300,000 and the last thing we're doing is from our 240 grant for this fiscal year we're rolling over 400,000 to be used towards next year's budget you scared me for a second it's 3,000 not 300,000 i said 300 just for the chronic
oh yes 3,000 thank you okay i just I just thought about that and I'm like "Oh and that's why I need my glasses and I can't read from there." Okay no yeah i could read one side and then when I got
to the other Yeah i'm done for so I So the total amount that we're requesting for the school committee to approve tonight for the budget is 34,792,94 and then to be clear I just want to be clear for the
community and everyone um that's just the general fund portion of the budget so as Nancy just went through the various revenues that we have and all of the expenses we try to be as transparent as possible we show every expense that
we have and we show every revenue that we have but the actual only source of revenues that the school committee vote on are the general fund and so that's where you see the difference in the number of the total budget where we're in the 38 million to really the 34
million which is our general fund budget so I do believe we have to vote to approve whenever you're ready y we need to approve tonight the general fund budget number and then we need to approve the individual assessment
numbers for each of the towns that's my presentation the rest is just miscellaneous you know the appendix unless you guys want to go through it i think I we kind of went through it at the last meeting but if anybody has any questions please let me know
i have a motion uh for a motion that the Athel Royalston Regional School District School Committee vote to approve the FY26 budget in the amount of 34,792,94 is there a motion okay is there a second okay made and
seconded any discussion all those in favor next one I'd look for a motion uh that the Athal Royalston Regional School District Committee vote to approve the Town of Athl assessments as follows
transportation assessment 1,189,280 debt assessment $163,970 required minimum contribution of 4,250,280 with the total town of Athal assessment being 5,63,530 is there a motion okay all right any
discussion seeing none all those in favor okay the next one uh looking for a motion to the Athal Ro that the AHA Royalston Regional School District School Committee vote to approve the town of Royalston's assessment as
follows transportation assessment $69,549 debt assessment $7,655 required minimum contributions $728,279 total Town of Royals assessment 85,483 is there a motion
okay motion made and seconded any discussion seeing none all those in favor and finally uh look for a motion that the Athl Royston Regional School District School Committee vote to approve the use of $50,000 of certified excess and deficiency funds from the
excess and deficiency account as a funding source for the FY26 budget second any discussion seeing none all those in favor thank you thank you i'm happy to say we can run the schools
next year okay oh sorry Bobby go ahead i just wanted to make a comment Nancy thank you great job thank you really good thank you very much appreciate it moving down the list to memorandum of
agreement uh between the district and the ATHL teachers association this one would be for the school nurse hours i believe you have a copy of that in your packet i'm just waiting for the sidebar sure yes
is there a second okay and discussion this has to do with um for the public has to do with work hours for uh school nurse here at arms matt did you hear question no I apologize speaking to Russ about something on the MOA momentarily okay
i did not I was just questioning because um three of the days out of the week they want to extend her work day 30 minutes later than what it normally would have been is that to cover like after after school activities or something like that what was the
uh so this is uh because our nurse has some family obligations uh that she was working through uh during the time we were working on um employment and in hiring her uh so that uh three days of the week she would be arriving a half an hour late in order to be able to
facilitate those responsibilities and therefore those days she would stay 30 minutes later at the end uh to compensate jason can we just confirm the time we had a question on number two yeah so it says it begins by 7:45 a.m
which is 30 minutes later than the 7:15 contractual time but workday ends 30 minutes later than contractual end of work day 155 is 155 the current end of the workday or is that with the 30 minutes that's the current and then it would be 30 minutes after that
on the MOA yes put 225 y just like you did in the beginning of that probably should read the same way just to be clear question she's the only nurse employed at arms so otherwise we would have to rely if there are any needs medically for anyone's
health we would be referring to ACES or whoever's nearby like I don't know you know I'm just concerned that there's going to be a period of time there's nurse available on a regular basis so we've contacted the families of any students with immediate needs to let them know about
that arrangement and so that uh is something that the nurse has been able to work on with the families so that they're comfortable with that my understanding is it would be moving forward i mean Seeing none all those in favor sorry
oh sorry add in the end time for her day to 2:25 p.m okay there's a motion for amendment to uh correct that time from 1:55 to 2:25 is there a second okay
any discussion okay seeing none all those in favor of the amendment all right now is there any further discussion on the motion as amended seeing none all those in
favor thank you all right so do we want to do we want to make a clean copy to Yes jody will take care well yeah i'll have um Carrie edit it okay and we can I'll
get a new copy to you okay yep yep the next one is memor memorandum of agreement by and between the district and the association um and this one is
the establishing a new club at Athl High School uh called the kindness team this club will be open to all students grade 9 through 12 and the club will have two adviserss which will be receiving uh a $400 stipen per year
second okay motion made and seconded any discussion okay seeing none all those in favor okay and just so in and so before we go on to the next one I just I should have I should have done this earlier but
I just I certainly wanted to thank Tammy uh for her years of leadership on the committee and I also want to recognize Royalston's new member Chris Devono chris stepped up under his own power wasn't coerced wasn't strong armed uh recognized the fact that there was no
candidate so you know we thank you for that Chris next one's memorandum of agreement uh arms code club and that is to form a new club at ARMS coding club uh the club will be open to all students grades five
through eight one adviser with an $800 stipen is there a motion is there a second okay motion made and seconded any discussion seeing none all those in
favor okay all right the next one is a donation for the National Junior Honor Society uh they'd like to donate items to ARMS uh which would be a TV a bracket
a Chrome box uh that the NJ NJHS would pay for and like to set it up in the cafeteria so students can see announcements pictures info etc um while they eat because this better serves the students because not everybody hears the morning announcements um is there a
motion to accept the donation frank okay motion made and seconded any discussion seeing none all those in favor okay so the next item on the agenda is the DUP uh law office
contract and um this is pretty much the yeah this is pretty much the standard contract that uh I'm used to seeing uh and has have been seeing for a while from Duprey uh but Matt will highlight the changes yeah so there is
one major change and that is number six uh currently Dupereet for the many years they've been serving the district has not charged the district any additional money when we've entered into a board of special education appeal process which
is essentially like a hearing and that takes place it could take months the preparation is hours and hours and hours upon document preparation and a lot of work with Christy Fontaine our pupil
services director so they've through the course of this year and going through a BCA appeal with us they've come to the realization that that was not in our contract and we this is money well-earned for when they're doing that
work and it's definitely above and beyond the traditional guidance at the school committee meetings and advisory this is solid straight work like they they're taking on a case so um that was added in number six the um just so you
know the the term of this retainer uh agreement is July 1st 2025 through June 30th of 2026 and the actual rema uh the retainer amount is $5,250 per month in addition to what
Matt spoke about so is there a motion tammy okay is there a second frank okay go ahead timmy how many hours would we say one cases and how many cases are we looking at i'm just looking for a ballpark
figure what where that puts our district understanding we have a complex special education district it's I think I mean I can answer for Christie but I I want to make sure that I turn to my expert in the area however
I think it's unpredictable you can get one BSEA case in four years you could get two in one year or more i've been doing this for almost 30 years and this is my second BSEA hearing in
all that time um yeah so it's uh It's dependent on the number of hours and the facts of the case so my bad a lot longer than four years you can go anybody
else seeing none all those in favor opposed extensions okay i will say to your question it's a good thing this wasn't in this year's contract eric can you grab muscle not that I expect a need you know
but um continuing down uh the 2526 uh school committee meeting schedule is um in your packet and we usually do vote on that so I'll entertain a motion for approval
okay okay okay motion made and seconded any discussion tammy just a quick discussion joey had let me know um about a week or two ago that the July 16th meeting um Matt is away he's at a conference in Cape Cod
and will not be able to attend last year we um just canceled the July meeting which I think happened to be nice for everybody on the committee and if we could potentially vote to cancel the July meeting and give everybody the month up I would that'd be great
okay is the motion to amend the calendar with taking July out all right is there a second second okay uh vote in FA in vote first on the amendment all those in favor okay
opposed extensions okay so now we'll go back and vote on the uh school committee meeting schedule u as amended all those in favor okay nobody okay thank
you and the 2526 uh district academic school year calendar yes so do you want me to speak to it if you want to yeah no go ahead so this
calendar looks a little different um the union and administration have been working together and discussing what potential options there might be for reorganizing the calendar one of the main differences um is we are thinking
about moving all of our full day professional development to the beginning of the year um having full day professional development sporadically through the course of the year sometimes isn't aligned with the needs of the district to be
clear from for professional development this year I can say there are three pieces of work that we are looking to be moving forward in this district we're going to be partnering with Dr ross Green uh he's the author of the
explosive child and a number of books um lost at school and he practices CPS which is called the collaborative problem solving process it's a strategy that all of the teachers will be
instructed and and coached on through the course of the year but what we would like to do is frontload that full day so that everyone can get at least the overview of the program and the process
before we embark on going through it for the for the remainder of the year and then others will be trained as experts to help facilitate the work that's that's moving forward the other piece that we're going to be doing is looking at there's a rubric that we're using and
a protocol for ident looking at lessons right and identifying whether or not lessons are appropriately addressing the standards and addressing them at the appropriate level of rigor and we want to make sure that all of our staff are
familiar with the protocol and make sure that we get that work moving the last piece is data cycles our coaches have been hard at work this past year with focus schools and their principles getting deeper and deeper into using the
data to drive instruction and how exactly to do that and this coming year the thought was we'd like to put together some professional development for all staff on the data cycle and then the process that we're using and then
for the half days that are moving forward throughout the course of the year those will be opportunities for the staff to be reconvening and working on those three focus areas so we'd like to get all the upfront PD the general
trainings out of the way and quite candidly this will also give us a little more time and flexibility in the beginning of the year to let the teachers get settled in right we come in we have two days of professional development there's the mandatory staff
meeting there's mandatory trainings there's professional development you set up your classroom and then the next day the kids come in and it is a whirlwind by putting these four up front we can give the right information to
start the year and we could do it in a palatable way so that they're not drinking from a fire hose just walking in and then we can follow up through the course of the year with those half PD days and quite frankly the work that I'm speaking of is not just happening at the
at the PD days so when I say will follow up at the half days that work's going to be going on in CPTs common planning time for teachers it'll be going on in instructional leadership team meetings and other forums but those half PD days
give the schools the opportunity for everyone to come together at once and be working on the same thing and then be cross-pollinating with either different grades or different content areas it it just provides the opportunity to really dig deeper into the work when everyone
can get into it together so that is the plan and that is why we laid this calendar out the way that we did i see in October it's a Wednesday in November i think it's supposed to be that Monday i think the symbols are just wrong but then in
December it's a Wednesday it's a Thursday may we do know I'm sorry march like I just know that from a parent side it's it can be really
difficult to remember half days and stuff especially if it's not consistent like that like when you know you have a one Wednesday a month that's going to be a half day like you can it's just it's a little bit more predictable um so so truthfully I was less directly involved
in those conversations about the placement of the half days i'm not sure is Carrie here i know Carrie did you have any other insight on the placement of the half days we did that intentionally because the request came from staff that we always
had on the same day the same kids were missing certain classes or certain blocks or certain periods all the time and some schools adjust for that in shorten blocks but other schools don't adjust the same way so the the request
was made that we or alternate periodically the that were half days so that different subjects wouldn't always be the suffering the loss of a class period so that's why we laid it out that way thank you thank you
very much no that's Veterans Day no I'm sorry what was I looking at i don't know um and then we're all just like we really like that half day the week of Thanksgiving we like we love that am I the only one that hates it
yeah it's just so difficult as a working parent to have three half days in a row i see thanksgiving contraction built into the contract so we can't we can't change those two we
could potentially vote to not make the day prior to Thanksgiving a half day but actually I'm not even sure that may be in the contract also before I have to double check sorry before I get too far behind myself can we get a motion
for now okay is there a second okay and continue the discussion if you'd like to yeah i let Jody know who seconded the motion i'm sorry frank thanks Frank yep i missed I apologize what did Eric mention november 10th is actually should
be November 11th oh okay thank you okay all right any further discussion see none all those in favor your Yes go ahead question so Monday the 10th is not the day off it is Tuesday
the 11th correct okay all right calendar in front of me yes second second motion to involves the no
the Veterans Day date actually being um November 11th any discussion seeing none all those in favor of the amendment now going back to the motion uh as amended for approval of the
calendar all in favor nobody are you abstaining Eric okay all right moving along under communications you have um the district the normal district enrollment sheet in
your packet and also the updated uh DG networks technology update which I believe at the last one we were just you have it if you have any questions you would bring them forward to administration anthony yeah Anthony
is our lead in the building but Dan Saltzman who runs the company Dan and Anthony work together if anyone ever has any questions or thoughts on technology please send them either directly to Anthony and Dan or send them to me and I will certainly relay and make sure that
we get the answers okay all right um under communications there's something for MSBA update is there actually anything for So we did decide to put an MSBA update on to the agenda
as a standing item as of right now there's not a tremendous amount of information that has changed um our our invitation date is May 1st and currently through conversations with the PR
subcommittee myself TJ Dave King we've been putting together oh Frank again our subcommittees and some of our administrators have been working on putting together question and answer sheet for important information to
present to the community and Our first thought is that we may start just trying to put together some information and put it into a Bears Den episode and then start pretty soon thereafter with our major campaign but we'll discuss that
further with PR sub and then move from there okay and financial statements and approval of accounts i think we already took care of the votes needed for the uh budget public hearing uh at this time I would
like to make a public disclosure i'm going to turn the next vote over to the vice chair um because I do currently receive my benefits through the district through my spouse um but I am in the process of leaving the district insurance and going over to uh my
company's insurance just so that there's no future issues tammy so we would need a vote on the health insurance opt out incentive which is located in your packet um to review for the public it looks as though we
have um six different tiers of potential incentive payouts um to various employees in the district um it the payout is based on your plan type and coverage um does uh is there a
motion so we can discuss so thank you motion made a second okay so is there any questions about what the incentive payout is or who's qualifying for it no nancy do you want to talk a little bit about that my company personally
does it so I'm excited to see this option for people who don't use our insurance who can opt out so that's great so do you want to talk a little bit about it absolutely so we thought we would in try to introduce this and get this voted on as a pilot program for um
opt out incentive so as I've mentioned many times the health insurance right now has increased dramatically it's a and that between the contribution change has been almost a 80% increase per pay period for the employees so due to that
we're we're introducing this for two reasons one for the potential cost of the employee so if they they at least can get a little bit of something if they have to go if they have an option to go on someone else's health insurance another one is for the district cost
because it is a savings to the district um so we thought we'd share a little bit of that with the employee it's a couple of criteria we put in with it um one would be that it's available to active employees who are currently enrolled in
the district's health insurance as of as of our open enrollment date of April 28th the next is the employees may elect to opt out during our open enrollment period which is April 28th through May
23rd um payments are going to be made in two installments and the employee must be act actively employed by the district at the time of each payout to receive that installment and lastly we thought we
would add in that if an employee has to reenroll due to a qualifying life event the employee should reimburse the district for the pr-rated amount for any incentive payments that they have already received and the incentive payout is based upon
you know the tiers of the each program and then by individual or family seeing none all those in favor okay um absentions one two anybody absent okay yep did you get all that
Jody are you okay and Lee yep yep thank you thank you uh Nancy do you have anything for FY25 review really quick just in your packet you'll
find year-to- date expenses and revenue sources that are received yearto date i really don't have many other up to notes on the year-to- date expenses at this point in time right now you know all our lines have been encumbered and
forecasted out it looks like hopefully we'll come in um right where the budget is as long as we don't have any big surprises coming our way with the expenses um and I'll leave it at that for right now it's for unless anybody
has any questions i do not have any this year uh this evening uh moving on to budget finance subcommittee you've already heard the presentation um so I feel we're good there uh facilities um this
evening as far as getting things around district okay academic excellence okay public relations um when we last met we just talked a little bit about how things are going with the vision of the graduate and at
this point um at the last meeting we had not heard the compilation yet of all the surveys that had been done and everything so I can throw in just recently I went to the steering committee meeting which was I don't
remember if it was earlier this week or last week my days just blend but it was a really great opportunity uh at that steering committee meeting Dave was it this week what it was Monday thank you feels like it feels like a year ago but
uh on Monday we had our steering committee gather and we did get into the data that was collected from the surveys and also from the focus groups and we started disagregating the data and trying to identify like just in the
basics before we get into words smmithing but what are the real big picture pieces that the community and and our students are suggesting they need to have those skill sets essential knowledge and characteristics so the
work is moving along really nicely uh and I think there's a subgroup that has recently gotten together and they're going to start trying to fine-tune the specifics even even more so and then we're going to come back to our next uh
steering committee meeting and start word smithing for the first part of the project so for the entire committee I just want to remind this first part of the project will end up with our vision of a graduate which is our front-facing
information for what we expect to see when these kids cross the stage a lot of times like that's the visual it's supposed to be appealing and make sense like and be clear but people read it and then think there's no meat to the work
it's not just a one-page document the vision of a graduate after the development of the vision that's when the work gets deeper because we go school by school and we work with the staff to identify how each school is
working to get to those skills and characteristics that we've identified for our vision of a graduate and quite candidly I intend to make our vision of a graduate the north star of our next
strategic plan so it's a it's a tremendous amount of work it's really important for our students here and it's going well and it's it's a great thing sorry that was a lot for a little update uh policy
Is there a motion for the third reading second good any discussion seeing none all those in favor opposed all right uh committee member
referrals tammy we'll start with you yes if we could um ask to put this beedh at the table so everyone can read it going forward so we just laminate a copy or whatever until it changes that way people who do come for public comment can understand what the committee is
expecting that would be one item um yeah um and then Lee and I talked a little bit but um regional agreement really needs to be updated so I would refer us to look at the regional agreement move forward with some changes because some of the schools are outdated in the regional agreement um we didn't
do a negotiations update but um Matt is working that's okay it wasn't on the list but you you didn't miss it um the cafeteria's workers contract is in progress Matt and I'm assuming it's going well we did start conversations nancy has scheduled some meetings with
Carolyn so that they could go through the finances together and I had my first meeting Nancy and I had our first meeting today with the with the managers and assistant managers and it went it went splendid looked good fine um and then the only other thing I have this
evening would be to um ask to form a small subcommittee for the superintendent standards and to set his goals because he doesn't currently have any and um I put together a document as chair that outlined what we thought as a committee he should be focusing on and I really appreciated you outlining those
three goals that you said for the um the professional development so somehow work those three into that together and come up with a um superintendent standard so we can actually evaluate that and that was it for this tonight thanks
Frank budget constraints that we have now um you know some of our facilities you know issues that we have um I'm just concerned with some of the you know sidewalk issues that just simple sidewalk issues that we have you know
might be worth investing in if we can find some money here and there because I think it would be a little bit cheaper than uh one incident happening that's all christie I just wanted to mention that at ACES we were getting ready to do the
PTO is going to do a readathon in the next month so we're working on all of that and are just excited to get the word out i would just like to thank Tammy for her couple of years on the chair you are great thank you it's been I just will say it's been awesome to be the chair
i've learned so much i think everyone should have to sit in that chair uh it is not easy it is a numerous amount of hours um you learn a lot you dedicate your time for the kids and I think that focus and my goal was to have more families on the committee and I cannot
believe how different we look today than we did six years ago so thank you to all the families and people who volunteer their time here it's really making a difference laura okay uh I have nothing other than I should welcome back Tammy and Laura as well so
Kylie no chris I know you're new so Okay Bobby i want to thank you thank you for your services that you have given to this district you gave a lot of hours and I appreciate it the other thing I have is
that we had uh received a television for the students in the cafeteria can we please send them a thank you for that absolutely thank you all set Bobby yes thank you
also want to thank Tammy a good job and hard work okay that completes our agenda for this evening so I will entertain a motion to adjourn take your time Bobby take a sec Frank okay uh we don't normally look for
discussion on that motion so all in favor okay thank you very much congratulations nice job back in the seat yeah