[Music] Carla has been on the school committee um off and on for 21 years um I have had the privilege of working with Carla for
The Last 5 Years um I know how much work it takes to be a school Committee Member and I know how much of your time that you've invested into making sure that we looked at things in A New Perspective and and turned a light and and really just took it out of the box that we were in and flipped it on its head and looked
at it differently and I appreciated working with you on this the subcommittees because of the way you thought about things so thank you for your dedication to the school district and any other member here who has worked with parla that would like to say anything um I'm going to open it up to the floor is there any I I would definitely like to jump in I
would like to thank Carla for her time I worked with Carla only for the last two years that's all I've been here so far but it was a tremendous pleasure working with her both on the school committee and in the subcommittees the public relations subcommittee and the academic
excellence subcommittee and one of the things that I appreciated most about working with Carla is she always wanted to focus on the students and it was never the students as numbers right when we were at academic Excellence we would
say look here's our nwaa scores and here's our mcast scores Carla would push back and say that's really not what I want to hear about I want to hear about the engaging things that the kids are doing in the classroom I want to know how they're learning I want to know that
they're they're getting great experiences and that they're interacting with one another and I just treasure that Insight from Carla because that's what this work is about it's about the kids in the classes learning and I want to thank you for all of the time that
you dedicated for those 20 plus years to the students of AOL and royalston and to this District Carlo so thank [Applause]
you resp because you just summed up everything that I have found rewarding and positive in my times as a school committee the sense of working as a team
the sense of focusing on what's really happening in the classroom on the engagement um creativity um and really in the last couple of years I feel like we're getting where we need to be it has been
a really long time different superintendents have tried in different ways um not always with success and here we are here we are talking about engagement
collaboration autonomy creativity both for teachers and for students and it is an absolute Delight even though I'm you know I'm not here to enjoy it to to know that that's starting
to happen going on in this system thank you car so thank you thanks to everybody who has been involved in making that happen I want to thank you very much for your services for the students and to the district thank you for your services
again thanks Tammy Tammy may oh yes Lee yes please I just wanted to say thank you carer Carla and uh just people need to know that KLA Rabinowitz has always been something that I've admired that I could never be and that's
a voice of reason my voice of reason was always dictated try I TR my voice of reason's always dictated by my BL close level so Carla you've been a a steadfast supporter of this district for many many years and in between time off and retirements you know we've worked
together for a very long time and I just want to say thank you congratulations Carla thanks Matt you thank you very much specific U we brought the principales um to speak today so next on my list but not certainly in any
particular order this evening uh we have a teacher of 34 years at Aces Myra calie and there is a principal here come on up oh my all right so our best right here this
all right sure it is my pleasure to recognize Myra calie majeski for 34 years of service to the students and families of the Ala royalston Regional School District Myra is not only a lifer in terms of her teaching career but she was also a student in this District having
attend sander Street School athl junior high school and athl high school she returned to her Roots teaching at sander Street school and ending her career at Asus I have a unique relationship with Myra we have truly come full circle um she served as my
mentor I practi this I know not well my mentor um when I was a novice kindergarten teacher who was hired two days before the start of SCH school um and I replaced a teacher who left 35 years worth of stuff in my
classroom um Myra became my friend and colleague and I always look to her for guidance on student engagement and making learning joyful and F I was also blessed to have her teach two of my four children and I was able
to see the magic of her classroom from a parents eyes the circle was complete when I I was hoping this was the last one when I joined Aces and got to work with her as a principal in each role
Myra has exhibited a commitment to her students in this community she was an advocate sometimes relentlessly but her students were always her focal point so on behalf of all that you have served in the past 34 years thank you and a well deserve
she has she has a I practiced that too it's just been a blessing working theal royon Regional School District I couldn't have asked for a better career who gets to do this for 34 years and
love every day of it maybe not the last three years but um it was great and Kylie I got to have her in my classroom two years looped with her she's a phenomenal person and I can't be more
proud of you to be on this committee so thank you very much I've been blessed and great and [Applause]
just we could just recognize them say they wanted to um we do have two names from Aces this evening but we'd like to recognize them um also from ases Holly stto she's a teacher for 18 years and um Don McCarthy who is a spe speech pathologist
for the last 10 years we thank you so much for your service um we do have a plaque for you so if you get to watch this video um please you have St perfect okay yes so yeah so if you want to come right up to the microphone perfect I'll try I didn't have to write these so
we'll probably do better Donna McCarthy started her career in 2013 working between the Sanders Street and Riverbend schools she' previously worked in private school setting as well as a Skilled Nursing Facility with that breadth of knowledge she has given the children of this District exceptional
speech and language Services her calm and gentle style has endeared her to her students her F her friends and faculty and families over the years we wish Miss McCarthy a fulfilling retirement one that she truly deserves now we have one more um for the
past 30 years Holly stto has called the athle royalston Regional School District her home during that time she has provided outstanding service to the district and her students Holly has fulfilled many roles in our district including par professional kindergarten teacher first grade teacher second grade
teacher and most recently reading interventionist in addition to her teaching responsibilities she has served as a mentor Advocate and support for both students and other staff members Holly has worked tirelessly to ensure that the needs of her students are met she is always willing to work hard learn
and take on new responsibilities Holly joins the title one reading intervention team a few years back from her first day she jumped in got right to work quickly learning the testing the intervention materials that we utilize she used many of her talents as a classroom teacher to help the students in their intervention
groups grow it is evident that Holly has made a lasting impact on her students as they continue to seek her out in the hallway or when her former students attend their own children's events at Aces she devoted her entire teaching career to the alel community her
dedication to the students and staff of this district is unmatched she will be missed at Aces and we wish her all the [Applause] best uh so next for our retiree this
evening we have Linda Robinson a teacher for 30 years is Linda with us this evening [Applause] been teasing Linda since the beginning of the year and I'm like no stay extra
time Miss Robinson has worked in the AAL Regional uh AAL rson Regional School District for 30 years Linda started in 1993 teaching fifth grade at the Riverbend school the next year she worked at Pleasant Street School teaching grade six for three years Linda
Linda then switched to fourth grade which she taught for 20 years then she moved to ases to teach third grade ELA for one year and she came to RCS and taught third and fourth grade for four years before finally switching to a self-contained third grade classroom for
the last 2 years the most challenging part of her educational career according to her was teaching during covid she said that she had limited computer skills and had to learn a lot to teach remotely now she enjoys seeing students that she had in the past out in the
community some are now police officers and business owners in royalston Linda has enjoyed seeing her former students now now as parents come to RCS with their own children her reflection on the last 30 years is that her career has been rewarding Linda's professional
leadership has shined through this year with her work in our building instructional leadership team and her students growth and their achievements as an educator Linda has made many positive relationships with families friends and colleagues she will be missed we will miss uh we wish her all
the best for her retirement and hope that we'd see her again on campus so Linda sub me anything I'll call you okay yes please [Applause]
congratulations thank you it's a great uh next with RCS we have a paay professional for eight years Jean sonan [Applause] um Jean's in Florida yeah she's in
Florida her son James was going to come join us but miss sonab Ben has dedicated many years of her life to students she began her work in education over 40 years ago she has been a substitute a long-term substitute and administrative assistant Jean has also worked in the
fields of real estate and banking for the past nine years she's been a part of our school district she joined the district in 2015 as lunchroom support at rolleston community school then she became a par professional at RCS and then later par professional at ases she
returned to RCS as a par professional and retired last year miss sonab Ben continues to be a valuable member of the RCs family serving as a substitute for pair professionals and teachers I am thankful for her kind heart and her continued dedication to RCS she is uh
she's currently enjoying her retirement and spending time with her friends and her family and enjoying time with her five grandsons who keep her very busy from arms we have Kathy Steve Miss Steve for teacher for 32 years so I I battled with this
microphone last night at our celebration so bear with me um I I know that uh Miss Steve was not able to make it tonight uh she kind of tried to retire once and was unsuccessful because she came back uh to help us at the Middle School uh for uh
the first half of the year and I just uh wanted to say that she was uh very selfless in her time she uh was very helpful with our new teachers was always a resource for them uh as she was helping with our eighth grade as a special educator um and even after she had completed the first half of the Year
helping us she was able to volunteer her time to help out uh in a lot of different ways so we will miss her and we're very thankful for her efforts this year so just wanted to mention that so thank you I don't think Dan is here Dan Hill this is he here this evening I don't see him I don't unless he's hiding I don't I
don't see him Mr Dan Hill he's been a teacher and an assistant principal um for The Last 5 Years yes and so uh Mr Hill actually we were able to uh surprise him last night at our eighth grade stepup celebration and recognize his efforts but he too uh was uh
integral this year um until he wasn't able to uh finish the Year off just some matters he was um uh dealing with but he was also another person who was very selfless uh with his time dedicated to the students a lot of comments about the different kinds of hats that he would
wear a very creative Soul um but was dedicated to the kids H and in my first year I just I need to say that he was very helpful helping me uh kind of learn the ropes and and get to know the different uh people and resources and and things about our middle school so he was very helpful he'll be missed um and
so I wanted to congratulate him so thank [Applause] you TJ TJ are you over there I didn't know if anybody prepared anything for
Victor malanson grounds keeper for 10 years did you want to say anything Victor malanson started with our district in 2013 as a custodian at Arms he would move on to the high school and in 2019 he settled in in grounds where I
had the opportunity to work with him for the last three or four months of his retirement and speaking with numerous people in regards how Victor was on grounds he was very particular and took pride in all of his work and uh I see it saw it in the three or four months I had to work with him and I see it on how he
passed it on to our current grounds and he was unable to make it tonight because he is off traveling but he was in last week in good spirits comes in periodically to say hi and is doing very well awesome thank you thanks [Applause]
DJ that wraps up that part of this evening we're going to be moving on to unfinished business but I wanted to give anybody an opportunity to step out if you'd like to although it's enthralling and I know you want to stay please feel free to leave it this time yeah yep no you're
good um we will be moving on um the unfinished business that we have is school choice District availability um I believe believe the numbers per grade were in your packet oh thank you yep got it thank you
um so the last meeting we approved the minutes I mean we approved the opening of school choice and there question came up with what seats are going to be available um Matt do you have words you wanted to speak to to this about um um we did read them at the last meeting um
however we were not certain that those were going to be the final numbers and Consulting with all of our principles but at this point we are prepared to announce what seats are available at which grade level and I'll start with AOL High School in the n9th grade there
will be 15 seats available for school choice in the 10th grade there will be seven seats in the 11th grade there are 12 seats and in the 12th grade there are five seats at AAL Middle School uh AAL
royalston Middle School there's a typo on the paper I apologize there's the fifth grade has 10 seats the sixth grade has two seats available the seventh grade has three seats available and there are no seats available in the
eighth grade at Royal community school there are three seats available in the first grade there are no seats available in second or third grade there are six seats available in the fourth grade four seats a available in the fifth grade and
10 seats available in the sixth grade and at AOL Community Elementary School there are no available slots at any of the grades so those are the numbers that we have for the upcoming school year school
choice correct me but do we have to vote on that do we have to vote on those numbers okay um I'll entertain a motion to accept the school choice opening seats as presented by Matt I'll make the motion second motion made in second is there any discussion seeing none all
those in favor thank you moving along to new business first on the agenda this evening is the Washington DC trip with mros and you is Megan here for you too Megan you want to come up [Music]
[Applause] I brought my Entourage of people so I would like to take this time to thank our superintendent Matt aaronw worth AAL High School principal Mr Dave King Mr Dan Dei and our entire school committee on behalf of myself and the
sophomore class I would like to thank you for the generous opportunity that was given payment in full for an educational field trip is unheard of this trip is important to our students on so many levels having an opportunity to explore outside of your own community
may never happen for some of our kids experiencing history firsthand stepping outside of a textbook and in in an experience in itself and lastly alleviating the financial burden not having to decide between paying the rent
and food cost or saving for your child to attend a trip of a life lifetime words cannot express the gratitude that those families felt when they signed the permission slips for their children to attend again thank you I do have um a
slide some slides of the trip and we're also passing around um some pictures that were taken um this was in the harbor District um one of our students sure how to do
this that's one of our students pieace whoops you got it thinking it wasn't working these were some statues um outside of the harbor District that some of our kids took pictures and photos with um one of our
students in the harbor is a little Beach area that has a a volleyball net set up um they do movies um there's also the Capital Wheel which the students got on it's a big ferris wheel that overlooks the harbor um they have some statues
outside that the kids can try to climb on and um get some physical uh experience jumping up and down them um this is not moving sorry this is one of our
teachers who went on the field trip that's Miss official he teaches uh science one of our other student students this was a great defeat for him to climb up he was trying to do what everyone else did and managed after several attemp attempts but he did
it this I'm sorry this is sticky this was inside this was inside the the capital inside the capital um we got the opportunity this year to visit the capital and the Supreme Court
um I'm sorry this is not we can hit the button for you if that's helpful that's where I thought I was jumping up this was inside one the Natural History Museum there was um a butterfly a little butterfly area that you could step into and the butterflies would come up and
you would be able to experience having the butterflies fly around you this was a group photo that was taken outside of the Supreme Court this was inside the Supreme Court also the Supreme
Court also the Supreme Court also the Supreme Court um one of our teachers taking it was very hot and we had to walk the Capital Area um to get from point A to point B where the buses drive us um it's all uphill and it takes quite
a bit um we that's the capital um the next photo I believe was one of the monuments of Martin Luther King we visited all of The Monuments um I think I left the itinerary on the table as to um what we the entire week that we were
there um this is Lincoln Memorial that is the World War II Memorial the capital again this was inside the Holocaust Museum one of our students who was reading and also paying tribute to the
Holocaust uh eternal light that was also in um these were all this was a r room inside the Holocaust Museum showing all of the families the museum is about four stories four four or five stories uh tall and this went
from the bottom floor to the top and it showed all of the family members this is the Vietnam memorial uh this is the this was the um notam um Korean War
Memorial this was outside of the um world uh world World War II no which one was sorry yeah e Memorial sorry also they were doing every year that we've gone so far they've been doing drills and practicing for a big uh
performance that they put on for the Memorial Day weekend so we've got to experience that for the past uh few years and this is um The Secret the administrative secretary who also came along and without her help of doing some last minute paperwork she's going to
kill me she sees this photo so I'm apologizing in advance get so I also Megan um is also here to speak on behalf of the um so I'm Megan chesy I teach math up at the high school I've had the
opportunity to chaperone the 10th grade trip the last two years it's a great experience for our students one that many of them would probably not get to experience if it wasn't for the district and school committee approving and paying for the trip the last couple years um during the trip our students
were exposed to many new experiences and are able to learn valuable lessons about our country's history this year one of my highlights was getting to visit the capital building um I as well as the students learned a lot about the capital building
on that tour that I didn't know before like the Hall of statues that was originally built to house all 100 statues which is two per state but they quickly learned that that many statues would be too heavy and it started caving in um so they have to display them
elsewhere in the capital another highlight for many were The Monuments that we visited the monuments are not only works of art they were the kids love to see them but they also got to learn their significance to our history speaking from experience as I grew up
going through the appal schools and I actually participated in the DC trip when I was in eth grade these students will remember this trip for the rest of their lives I want to sincerely thank you all for allowing us to take our students on this once in A- lifetime trip now I'm going to be completely
honest I didn't write anything I like these two so this straight from the heart guys um I just want to say the DC chip was truly something to experience now I loved every bit of it there was not one part that I hated even though it was
something sometimes so sunny and I wore the wrong clothes while we were walking I wanted to thank all of you from the bottom of my hearts I mean from the bottom of my heart sorry and I wanted to especially thank all the chaperons because I know the ride on those buses those kids were getting on your
news but I most I really love all the museums we went to like the Holocaust Museum I learned a lot and all and I especially love the ending when we went on the Carnival and I also love the multiple times I had to call my parents because
you know I was hungry and I wanted to spend some money but thank you guys so much for making this possible all right and even though a lot of the students aren't here I could all tell they would say the same thing because this was
always um an experience that I would remember the times where I wouldn't be able to wake up to get ready for the dorms or I could definitely tell when I was packing I didn't want to leave I don't go out often you know out of my own home so this was just an amazing
experience and I know it costed so much money but thank you guys so much and if I could just add I did not make Mr dei's um uh planning of his finances very easy so I came with a party gift thank
[Applause] you and before you walk away I just wanted to say thank you we went on this trip together three years ago and I think it was your first year maybe doing it of three years ago you do a
spectacular job and I you put so much thought and emphasis on what gives those children the best experience and I my my kid still talks about it she went she went again and paid to go a second time um so thank you for all the hard work all of the chaperon put in to make the
trip memorable I know how much it means to them so thank you so much thank you so much thank you thank you so if I may uh andn gave me a couple of t-shirts for for the staff in the business office because let's face it uh they're they're the backbones of all
that I do and I'll be the the first to admit to it so I just want to say publicly if I may uh that uh these uh three t-shirts are for them to thank them for all that they did to to make this possible so uh thank you
ladies awesome thank you moving on to our next um item of business it's our business manager contract and introduction um I am going to butcher your last name I do apologize but Nancy come on come on up um maybe you could pronounce it for me and then I can learn
so we're going to go with Nancy kinsky perfect we're going to just skip the middle of it because I think it'll be a lot easier so I'll go by Nancy Kinski welcome thank you thank you everybody for having me I'm very excited to start my career here at the athal royalston school district um I come to
you with 12 years experience um from a couple different districts and I'm excited to get started here um I was fortunate today to spend the day here and I quickly learned that the leadership team here who I met with they were so friendly and welcoming and it
really was a great feeling um to know that I'll be joining them um I also was very fortunate to sit with Mr deei today um who has a wealth of knowledge and was very willing to make sure to share it with me before I start on July 1st um
and I could quickly learn from speaking to his colleagues how appreciated he is so I I can feel that I have big shoes to fill in the short time he's been here um so thank you and I look forward to starting July 1st welcome welcome AB
great thank you thank you okay our next order of business is Kil removal at AHS the high school has purchased a new kilm for the art room and is requesting permission to remove it the recommendation is to list it for sale for approximately $500 as it requires outdated manual k k uh sitter
technology um looking for a motion to uh remove the Kil and place it for for sale motion made second second motion made in seconded is there any discussion about the kilm seeing none all those in favor perfect thank
you technology RFP are you okay to go you okay um next order of business is our technology um RFP move that over to back sure so I am bringing to the committee today um template of an RFP
this may very well not be the specific RFP that we use um more than like more than likely will be uh however there may be a couple of additional documents that we need to include to make sure that we cover some legal bases however I'm
coming to the committee this evening um to explain why this RFP is here currently we are going to be searching for a technology director for the fy2 school year and I am posting the
position so that we will get uh candidates that are applying for the technology director position however in the experience of my two years here we've had a very limited applicant pool
when it comes to qualified uh technology directors and with that I'm looking to put out this RFP as well to to see if we can procure services from a company that would be able to come in and essentially
perform all of the duties of a district technology director however it would be a contracted service um to be clear any company that applies for this and is looking to complete this request for
proposals they will have to have an individual on site for a minimum of 4 days a week and more than likely up to 5 days a week so I want to be clear that by Contracting the services out it is
not going to leave a void in there being a person on the ground here in the district as many of you know there are a lot of opportunities for technology directors to do a bulk of their work remotely anyway since it's all computer a lot of it is computer-based however I
want to make sure that our technology assistance are support on the ground and I want to make sure that we have ease of access for whoever the point person is that someone is in our offices and in our buildings on a daily basis so I just
want to make that clear but at the same time I am asking for the committee to just take a quick glance at this request for proposals and I'm looking for approval to send out an RFP to entertain hiring either an individual or
contractor with the company as we move forward with this process I'll move it we have a motion made to accept the RFP as presented by Matt this evening is there a second second motion made in second is there any
discussion seeing none all those in favor thank you very thank you very much the next on our new business list is student handbooks which you should have all received in your packets um um do we need to authorize we approve them yes so the the student handbooks do
need to be approved by the school committee I have each of our principles here to discuss any changes or anything of significance within their handbooks I do want to say h I'll I'll bring up our Asus principal Miss Cleveland first is
that um while she's coming up or or both of our ele School principles I'm not sure if they wanted to it is essentially the same portion of the handbook so if they wanted to highlight any of the changes that would be great while
they're doing that I am going to come around we there was a there is a clerical issue that we put the wrong version of the Middle School handbook in these packages around the table so I'm going to go and hand these out while they are speaking to the elementary
school package I don't think we have had any significant changes new principle at acis on the cover um but um we did add our it's not a change in our practice but we just really laid it out in the discipline section about what that
restorative piece looks like I think sometimes we talked with parents about tier one and tier two and we gave some clear feedback about what that is but I really think that's the the only only significant change um and it's not a change that what we we just gave we
added the chart that was an example if anyone has questions happy to answer them to the best of our ability yeah I had um when I was on um I always had a parent always said
to me it'd be nice if they had school committee members names in there and numbers in case anybody wanted to contact or anything and let them know so I don't know so I just want to yeah I I mean that's that that would be
something that you could talk I I don't know that it would be our decision about that I didn't hear what she said she said that um she wouldn't wondered if school committee contact should be on there um they're listed on the website for people to find um this is building specific for a student handbook so the
the what we do we would be above like the business office so if somebody needed to contact a school Committee Member I think they would go to our website but I don't think it'd be appropriate to be in a student handbook unless someone else felt differently no I just had parents when I was on wanted them to be on you that's all was saying
yeah they thought it was a good idea I think now it's with everything is digital we don't give a a printed copy anymore so we give a digital copy and so I think if they're going to look there they probably will look on the school
committee link um because we don't typically give a printed copy unless requested so probably will work that way I don't have any questions I I did review all there wasn't many changes in there no there really we really didn't have changes other than adding the chart
to just give a little more clarity to parents about um do we accept these individually or do we accept them as a bu I would normally do them individual so since of us have the aces the aces I just have two yeah I just have one page
after we just have one page and then the page and then it goes right to Middle School app while they can okay there is a huge there is a huge here you can have mine cuz I and there I think I believe they were in the packet they're together Elementary on ther one
and RCS one Aces and RCS is almost exactly other other than when you go to the arrival and dismissal we State there's no difference in time but just where students get dropped off okay yeah I did get a complete set in mind so maybe we ran out of paper at some point
I'm not quite sure but they were in the um email packet okay go ahead I'd like to move approval perfect thank you motion made and seconded to approve um Apple Elementary community school and RCS um do we have any discussion I have
a question yes um the date on handbook are wrong um I can't see the elementary one the elementary one still say 23 24 I don't know if that's it needs to be yeah we will definitely update good dates on and also
there are a couple of these I believe now in the package that may already have outdated uh Personnel so the dates we did try to update the Personnel could not not specifically the elementary school I'm actually referencing different school so we they were as up
to date um as possible when they came in some of the positions for the administration weren't actually even filled so that we didn't know what The Replacements names would be um but the dates and any contact information for the administration or administrative
assistance in the building we will make sure that those are amended prior to dissemination and and posting on the website Lee would you like to change your motion to move them with the changes of the dates in the administration y perfect and would you still like to second that accept it okay
so the motion is made to accept as presented with the changes of dates and personnel as they come in is there any further discussion for these two schools weird not seeing any all those in favor thank you thank you thank you both
thank you so we'll go to the middle school next that's just handed out um we'll have Mr Webster go over any major changes in the book that you'd like to reference certainly um
get this back up here our essential Focus was uh to look at things like uh student behaviors uh and such to make them in a more uh kind of family and student friendly language so it's more understandable uh that was
our main intent and I'm happy to answer any questions as far as uh questions that the council might have committee might have um I also I asked Dr Kennedy to speak to another change that we did make in the middle school that's particular
to the academics and um the students that may or may not not surpass certain subject areas um so it's on page 14 and it's highlighted um although this copy that I just handed you is um black and
white but it's highlighted it's the first full paragraph on page 14 unfortunately the pagination needs to be repaired on this as well however um we just changed the summer school policy there was previously a summer school
policy that said that St Stu uh families had to pay or they had to do volunteer work and so we made it a little bit more um familyfriendly and and just made it so that it um allowed for um building
administrators and teachers to have um the say in what students need to go to summer school in conjunction with in tandem with families just just a question there's no set fee schedule we have not in my time here running the title one um summer school
we have never charged families and so I didn't want to wholesale change change the policy or you know I I wasn't quite sure what this was based on but we have not charged families but so in the past we've never charged a family in my five
years here no not to my knowledge long time ago yeah I I remember something from a long time ago but this is just basically saying that a parent there may be a cost but typically we haven't if if in future years there was a very stringent lean budget and we had to pay
for summer school or we had you know um I think it makes sense to leave it in there but as of this year we're not charging any families for summer school okay um thank you there's a motion made to move as presented is there a second a
second motion made and seconded is there any further discussion seeing none all those in favor thanks Mr W thank you uh next we'll have principal King come on up you have the version has blue one it
so all the all the changes should be in blue yes yes right yes so basically the blue aligns with uh all of our systems and structures that are happening within our school now um biggest one is we now use a Smart
pass system so we've updated that information um kind tried to identify what chronic tardiness meant it wasn't uh explicitly laid out before so you'll see smart pass updated multiple times throughout this document our biggest
change made is um the use of social probation academic probation uh we've had with restorative um Solutions needing to be utilized um we're looking to lean back on on the notion of social probation in our school for students
that don't meet meet academic and social responsibilities um ultimately our athlete um if they don't hit a certain amount of academic success meaning they do not pass more than uh so if they fail more
than one class they're they're they're not eligible for athletics we're looking to set that same standard for every single student in our school um what that means is we're setting a high expectation for students our students are expected to show up in our school participate in the educational process
participate um throughout the throughout the building in order to reward themselves with the social things that happen in our school whether that's a dance uh whether that's coming to athletic events to support our school but we want to hold them to the same standard as everyone else um in our school so you'll see social probation uh
used there and and ultimately what we're what we're trying to do if a student says no I I'm not going to follow the cell phone policy year we really can't suspend them but what we can do is we can hold them socially responsible in our school and therefore not not be able to have access to the same the same
levels of extra things can't take away academics but we can certainly address those those challenges with within our school by not allowing them to have access to those um additional extracurricular type of activities so
that's that's the big change within our handbook okay um move it as presented we have a motion made to move the high school uh handbook as presented is there a second a second motion made and seconded is there any discussion seeing n all those in
favor thank you so much um moving along we have uh Communications is District enrollment that is in your packet if there's any questions please feel free to reach out to Matt sorry that's okay I'm Matt Matt
hi Matt okay next we're going to move on to financial statements and approval of accounts we have Mr Dei come on up for us bring in that airplane Mr Dee you stole my opening line I know I do every time yeah it did um good evening
everyone uh thank you just uh bit of housekeeping uh I had Mrs Lazard uh put at your chair this evening a motion sheet we've got a number of motions that we need to go through this evening and and secondly as we discussed these in
budget sub last week um each motion was approved by budget sub unanimously so if I may Madam chair we're going to bring the jetliner in for a landing bring it in for a landing okay I'm wearing my green for a lucky reason tonight yeah you go got a game so I know that we're
at the end of the agenda so I I I realize that I'm I'm probably standing between you and and the Celtics game and uh this we've got we've got a little time Dan it's okay this probably a great opportunity to have a um a financial um
um uh filibuster there we go Financial filibuster so um we won't we we'll get through it all right so the first that will tackle you what's that we put on the end for a reason he'll take you out I don't watch basketball
so here we go here we go all right we're going to have a financial fi of bust ladies and gentlemen what a way to go M Vis will climb over member sh all right good to have a sense of humor um so first of all uh we reviewed
uh the minutes from the May 8th meeting uh they were reviewed and and they were discussed uh by the subcommittee secondly I spoke again about the y23 audits I believe superintendent spoke about that at your May 15th meeting we are Knee Deep um in the audits right now
we have uh three ongoing audits we have the end of the year report audit uh we have the FY 23 audit and we also have the FY 23 single audit uh the the game plan if you will is that uh all three must be completed uh by June 30 and as I
had stated to to budget sub um hopefully we'll have a draft report uh due to the superintendent and to you um by mid to to Late July um and if I may um I I did State uh during the meeting because I've lived this now for probably about three
months uh thereabouts that um i' I'd be happy up to you uh to to look at that draft report and to respond to that on behalf of the district the offer is there so we we completed that the fun part we get into the the the final
numers for fy4 um as I have stated to you in previous meetings um and in budget sub uh we were looking a number of revenues and as previously stated uh there are several revenues that have been trending well beyond the Benchmark for FY
24 that being said I have before you this evening a first motion I've mentioned this in the past to revote the amount that you're going to use uh for school choice in the FY 24 general fund budget originally a year ago you voted
approximately 250,000 to use school choice given the fact that several revenues are trending well in excess of The Benchmark and I did present this to the budget sub to revote the use of school choice and the revised number
would be bring forward additional as we've talked about additional school choice funds into fy2 and to help you with the FY 25 budget so that is the first motion before you I'll move it second motion
made in second and is there any discussion does everybody know what the motion is good okay perfect seeing no discussion all those in favor thank you on the expense side of the general fund budget again you have your packet
uh a detailed light item budget um if you go to page 32 in that very detailed report you'll see that the unencumbered balance at that time at that snapshot in time was 1,352 453 is under 1.4 million as I
stated the budget sub during our meeting these these numbers are fluid especially this time of year because there's a lot of activity as we clean up between grants revolving and in the general fund I also at budget sub then uh listed a a number of anticipated expenditures uh
for uh the end of the fiscal year for example um under Mass General Law chapter 50 I am obligated to move a sum of money from the general fund into chapter 50 per Mass General law secondly we'll be voting on doing a journal entry
later on um of moving of moving the the expenditures for the DC trip out of school choice uh into uh the general fund so there were a number of um expenditures that I I presented to them the unofficial balance and and and key
wordss are unofficial our key word is unofficial is at that moment in time a week or so ago uh we were looking at a fund balance in the general fund of $730,000 in change that is a fluid number and and we are on a daily basis
making adjustments between grants revolving in in the general fund so we we talked about that um as part of the cleanup process and I presented this to budget sub as well uh there are two budget transfers uh before you and uh again just looking to make
several of the the Desi series whole um at this point in time so you have a a motion before you to transfer approximately 135,000 $778 from the 2000 series and the 3000
Series and then there's a second I uh to transfer approximately $26,000 between the 2,000 series and the 7 and 8,000 Series in the general fund I'll move it second motion made and seconded is there any
discussion seeing none all those in favor good to go thank you the the next motion um is to authorize me uh to approximately 100,000 from the general fund to the transportation stabilization account and
again for the fy2 budget we're using for the probably for the first time in a couple years a stabilization account I'm asking for your approval to transfer approximately $100,000 out of the general fund into the stabilization account to be used for the fy2 transportation budget make that motion
motion made and seconded is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor thank you Mr D and then staying with FY 24 and and as you heard from Mrs de barel it was a a great trip uh to to Washington DC in the
latter part of May um the committee last December voted to use school choice funds to to support this trip I am now asking for your permission because you voted to use school choice uh and we did we we did uh we spent just shy of
$90,000 in school choice um approximately $88,900 998 um in school choice I'm asking for your permission and approval to do a journal entry in essence to reverse those expenditures out of school choice to
continue to build up the fund balance in school choice and back it into the general fund to reduce the fund balance in the general fund make the motion motion made is there second motion made and seconded is there any discussion seeing none all those in
favor thank you um we talked real briefly um real briefly about the grants are revolving funds you have reports uh um in your packet and just a quick note uh you know that last month we reported that there was still significant money in S3 if you
look at the report that was run about a week or so ago that has been reduced significantly and again those funds are available to to September 30 but uh we are we are reducing those funds significantly but those those reports uh again are in packet in the last point I
just want to make about FY uh 24 and I mentioned to the budget sub um is that the district was awarded from Desi in addition of $158,900 through the extraordinary relief program um this is similar to the Circuit Breaker Program first and
foremost I have to give a shout out to the sped staff why um in my almost 20 years as a school business official um every year uh we we've applied for this as well and you know and our sped expenditures did didn't meet a certain threshold it's not easy to get this
money I would be remiss if I didn't say publicly congratulations to to Christie and her staff for a job well done that being said we have received this money and we must expend these monies by by June 30 uh 2024 and and we will we have
um either through tuitions or through special ed Transportation but I want to bring that to your attention this this was not anticipated this is good news and again we'll spend it very quickly any oh I'm not done good job Christie oh
we to go we a ways to go s right that was early um all right FY uh fy2 um I shared with budget sub and again you have it in your packet I I did a quick comparison of the the Cherry sheets the Senate uh cherry sheet
numbers came out a couple of weeks ago um and I did a quick analysis of you know the Senate's numbers the house numbers and and the governor's numbers so so that's in your packet um the final uh Cher numbers again uh the compromise committee and those will probably come out uh probably sometime in July and
then we'll have a a final state budget and you know we use the governor's numbers but at least you'll know uh where you stand and you can project out potentially uh next year um the regional transportation where that number stands that number has not changed at all in in
the in the uh the three ideations of of the state budget uh to date um also uh relative to sfy 25 um Council May appreciate this week we actually have a contract uh uh to to present to you for
fy2 uh this was again supported by by budget sub um I ask you to to vote the contract approximately 63,000 for the period of July 1 2024 uh to June 30 of 2025 so move second motion made and
seconded is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor thank you all right uh the last um item relative to uh 25 we did have a little bit of discussion um and that was the creation of uh two stabilization
accounts and the question was asked of me so why why why two stabilization accounts are the two accounts that we're we're looking to create um and only to create not to fund um is a capital stabilization account and a special education stabilization account there
are several reasons um number one uh you can you can take the funds that are deposited into these accounts and you can invest those dollars you can invest those dollars it's like retirement you you're creating you're creating a plan a long-term plan um with these funds um
number two uh you've submitted uh statement of Interest with the msba uh you know I recall I think I mentioned this to to budget sub when I was rookie business official some 20 years ago uh we had a new building and the the costs for the new building were some
extraordinary um you've got with the capital account you you'll have a fluid account if you will um once you begin to make deposits if you do um that will help you with those unanticipated unanticipated Capital expenditures um
there are other reasons I realize the the clock is ticking um budget sub did did approve this these this is a two-fold process in terms of the approval of the stabilization accounts because number one is uh school committee needs to approve it and then it must go to town meeting the annual
Town meetings for both AOL and Royals have come and gone um so if you decide to go forward with this you would need to bring It Forward uh to either the fall town meeting or next year's annual town meeting what I'm asking is only for the creation of the accounts not to fund it
um if you were to fund it that's a discussion for a year from now so move second there's a motion made and seconded to create the capital and special education stabilization accounts is there any discussion seeing none all those in
favor thank you and then the the last item was FY 26 oil yes I did say FY 26 oil um we uh I I participated in this year in a procurement our current oil contract expires at the end of FY 25 uh so I
participated in a procurement that was sponsored by the French River Education Center or more commonly known as uh frck um I've been involved with them for a number of years when I was a school business official in in Central Mass um and there there were a couple of benefits uh to to going the way of
French River um number one um there'll be one number um for oil as opposed to two are three numbers um number two uh there there is a uh there is a smaller uh tank allowance um for the delivery of
oil and I I did a a quick analysis that I I did share with uh budget sub and if you look at the projected usage keyword is projected for FY 25 and you look at the usage that I used in the procurement
for FY 26 you're looking at a savings um of approximately $117,000 um you know we are a little bit ahead of the curve here uh but even the number that I have before you uh this evening is even less than the number for fy2 so I have before you a motion um to
vote uh $26 26972 per gallon for oil effective July 1 2025 through June 30th 2026 with Dennis K Burke as the oil provider motion motion made is there a
second second motion made and seconded is there any discussion go ahead Bobby um the question I have is um the cost that it would be at that time if it goes down will this go down also through the chair no this is a lock number this
number uh this procurement uh was inclusive of about 20 20 school districts um from central Massachusetts and this number was based on an estimated usage of of oil gallons approximately 2 to 3 million gallons of
oil for all these school districts so once you vote this we are locked into this number um come FY 25 should the number go down I will say this this is a very aggressive number um for for FY act 26 26 very aggressive number if I
may so is a motion made in second is there any other discussions or questions about this seeing none all those in favor than you thank you thank you madam chair that concludes my report this evening very good Mr D
thank you so much yep um moving on reports of the committee um trying to think if I had anything off the top of my head but I don't I might Circle back but I'm not sure so we'll move on to budget and finance Lee I could repeat everything Dan Dei just said to keep you from your basketball game but our report
has been submitted thank you so much you're welcome um facilities I yeah we met tonight we discussed thank you the um completion of a several projects across the district
and that's the main CCE of we had tonight I did see some pictures of some playground equipment that Mr Jack was on so thank you Carrie for bringing those um from RCS yes uh I did see it no you don't have to share but it was funny to
see uh Eric spinning around on that so thank you I'm glad some some uh equipment was up at RCS so thank you for that um negotiations nothing to report okay um academic Excellence yes we met on Monday um we met and spent time
looking about how the past meetings were run and how we'd like to see them moving forward um talked a lot about The Chronic absence attendance things like that um and then we set our next meeting for September for September great public relations we have not
met and policy we do have one policy in your packet up for first read that's our jih policy which is searches interrogations this is a brand new policy so not a policy that we have had in the
past great and that's just for first read this evening so it'll come back okay yep awesome okay moving along we have Committee Member referrals U Matt has asked to say a few things so I'll start with Matt and then uh we'll move over to
thank you uh so I just wanted to say uh a few thank yous and congratulations so in the past couple of weeks I have been at the aces prek stepup celebration I have been at the aces fourth grade
stepup celebration I was to the RCs sixth grade graduation from the building and then I was at the eighth grade Step Up celebration just yesterday evening where our display is still there on the
podium and of course I was honored to be able to give some remarks at the high school graduation and every one of those ceremonies was just a fabulous opportunity to see the families and the students just really celebrating the success of our children and them
advancing through their academic careers and I want to say to the families and to the kids congratulations you guys did an awesome job and to the schools and to everyone that put in all of that effort to organize those tremendous events
thank you I know how difficult it is to stop doing the daily work of running a school building and actually educating students and then turn your focus to creating a celebration for the community and each one of them was so welcoming it
was so well prepared and it was just really a tremendous honor for me as the superintendent to be present and to see all of that activity and and quite candidly it was just genuine happiness all about the district so while it's
been a busy couple of weeks it has been just such a phenomenal experience and I want to make sure that I thank everybody that's been involved in those in those celebrations uh and while I'm on the topic of the thank yous I also was able
in the last couple of weeks on uh this past Monday night I attended the AOL town meeting the annual town meeting and I'd like to thank both the uh representatives of AOL the finance committee and all of the residents of
AOL uh on Monday night our fy2 budget was approved at the AOL annual town meeting there were no questions because Mr deei and our team our leadership team thank you to the principles and to
everyone who was involved in the development of the budget everyone did such an excellent job of explaining the budget and having their Finance committees understand what was presented in those budgets there were no questions there were no exensions that I noticed
and nobody voted against our budget at the AAL town meeting so I want to say a tremendous thank you to the town and to the residents of AOL and similarly I got the pleasure of attending on Saturday morning the royalston community
uh meeting the annual town meeting sorry and similar practice happened there uh we thank you by the way to the administration of the town we were moved up taken out of order so that we didn't have to sit around all morning and
through the meeting not that it wasn't a riveting event I'm sure it was so I want to thank the community for allowing us to to be taken out of order but more importantly once again there were no significant questions there were no
abstentions or uh votes opposing our budget and I want to just thank the community and the residents for fully supporting our fy2 budget it makes our district able to run and I'm very very
appreciative on behalf of myself and the entire District Bobby we'll move to you well I want to thank um shiry Mitchell she's at the high school um and she was there for the
foodathon that we had that we had and it was the last time I had heard the amount was 34,000 but it's going up but I also wanted to thank Jessica vas Natasha Castello
Erica I may I'm M the days uh Verno and and the a high school students that were involved with it and yes we do have some wonderful caring and loving dedicated special ed teachers and yes
they're right here at AO High School our students are being very well prepared over there for the outside world it was really really a very invent
very interesting evening the students were wonderful and everything at the um for the special ed students it was wonderful wonderful time and I also want to thank the uh teachers and the students for a great job that they did
at the multi multi cultural program that they had and all the other ones that that are super had mentioned they were awesome it was really really good the only one that I really didn't that I didn't make and I'm sorry I didn't make
it I wasn't here for it was uh for the Ron community school for their step up over there but the all the other ones I tried to make and another that one I didn't so thank you thank you nothing for me tonight Kylie nothing for me
tonight um I just want to congratulate this past weekend uh the Studio of orange had their recital and we have numerous students from this District that participate at that dance school and even though I know recital can be
long um they did a phenomenal job uh it was 3 hours and those kids didn't stop moving at all and they did a great job so is it um I would like to thank Mrs Cleveland for her years of service here
as she leaves us at the end of June so thank thank you you'll be very missed I to it I just have a couple thank yous and congratulations as well um to the RCs dare graduates um I always like to bring this up every year because it's a
wonderful program and it's a really special opportunity for those students at RCS and so congratulations for all their hard work um and I also with our last day of school being this Friday I just want to give a huge shout out to teachers staff and Families we made it
through another year and we're all ready for a nice summer vacation but we certainly would not have made it through without all the dedication from everybody who's involved in making a school Run for the year so thank
you than here Lee do you have anything nothing this evening um just quickly wanted to um say thank you to principal King for making an awesome experience with the teachers at the high school for my girls who graduated um watching you orchestrate those children that day was
actually kind of eventful and funny um but thank you to the high school staff for helping me get my kids through and the middle school where my kids started uh it's been quite the adventure for me um getting them through the school system so I I'm very appreciative of everything that the school has done and
I am so looking forward to seeing what my little guy decides to do and looking forward to uh any additional academic um programs that the high school may have to offer specifically around Healthcare if you want to know he is interested in in age cop program so uh thank you to all that you guys have done up there to
make our students leave High School more prepared than they are it's a huge difference so thank you so much and that is it for this evening I will entertain a motion toour motion to adour is made second motion made in second all those in favor have a good night go Celtics