good evening and welcome to the public hearing for the um the budget this evening I'll ask I'll call the meeting to order and ask everyone to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance flag United States of America stand Nation God indivisible liy
and justice for all this time we'll do the introduction of members I'll start this way around Tara Lin milville Chuck dunon Blackstone mat calano milville Ted novio milville Aon Pano
mville uh Dan Keith Blackstone Joe spagner Director of Finance and operations Jill P gallerani assistant superintendent director of student services Jason DeFalco super inant all right next up we have consent agenda a I'll take a motion to approve the
warrants motion made by Matt second second by Tara lockin any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I any oppos the eyes have it and to approve the minutes from February 11th 2025 some Move Motion made by Tara
lockin second seconded by Matt Catalano any further discussion was Chuck oh sorry Chuck okay maybe it is my fault that these names are not getting recorded correctly uh any further discussion all
those in favor signify by saying I I any oppos the eyes have it public for Forum there isn't anyone here at this um is this the only is is this the only agenda Jason yes there's just one agenda okay we're gonna um going to pass over
for because at 6:30 I think we have um a uh someone explain a donation and and as we get going to the the um on the agenda we have um Isaiah Lucia scholarship yep and so Julie is M the
mother is going to come in and just say a few words oh very nice yeah yeah um so I'll just put that in public well she can come under that but just so um so I guess we'll get right into then the public hearing and at this time I'll take a
motion uh to open the public hearing for the school budget some Move Motion made by Tara lockin second seconded by uh Erin any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I hi hi any opposed the eyes have it Mr
superintendent you have a budget excuse me budget presentation yes sir yep uh good evening everybody uh nice to see all of you second time this week for some of you the fourth forat U but it's very nice to see everyone um we have this evening for the school
committee and for our community uh those tuning in um a presentation regarding our fiscal year 26 draft budget um however uh we did spend quite a significant amount of time on Monday evening at our joint meeting with the boards of Selectmen and the finance
committees uh in our school committee of course on both towns uh really walking through uh the budget all the material the revenues all of it expenditures um in a very kind of methodical slow pace um and so this
evening we have a bit of a um an a bridged version of that um just kind of thinned out Monday's presentation a little bit uh because it was public it was out there it was you know live streamed it's on our YouTube channel um so tonight we have a very similar presentation just scaled back a bit um
so that those uh family and friends that tuned in on Monday um you'll hear a little bit of a shorter version but it still has all the important information um and pertinent information as it relates to next year's budget um and again thank you to to Joe and Jill who
are going to walk through this um with me no oh I got it there we go just need the on Buton um so uh as uh everybody is very much aware
uh that perhaps either tuned in on Monday or they've been following our budget uh process from the very beginning uh which for us was in December when we had our first public conversation about forecasting some of those needs um we always start with our
district strategy we are in our last year of our current District Improvement strategy um and um very excited that we'll be bringing to the school committee I think at our next meeting in March or April um an updated strategy
for um July 1 um so the school committee and our family and friends at home know how very important this is to us and that everything we do anchors back to our Improvement strategy um including of course our budget our fiscal plan needs
to match our instructional plan for the school system um with that the other pieces that really helped guide our process uh again our blueprint our district strategy um our 2024 accountability and mcast data um the
feedback that the school committee provides to me through my evaluation um I think the committee knows at this point I know the community does I take that very serious and we see evidence of that feedback showing up in our um in our future forward plans and so as we
look ahead to school year 25 26 um you'll see evidence of that showing up in our budget and of course likewise with our uh School Community surveys from our students uh staff and families again incorporating some of
their feedback into our next steps um is is very much alive and present in our FY 26 budget Jill so again I know we've all seen this slide quite a bit um just our demographics of our student population um and kind of percentage of some of the
subg groups we have and to make note we did put at the bottom here that um you know our overall low income has actually grown about 16% over the last few years and again for those students who have reported um at the last meeting I did talk about we had mentioned our English
language learner population right now is about 3.2 that is growing and I know someone had asked the question about languages and actually I checked into that and we actually have 10 different languages across in our district and students from 17 different countries and our um a language is um Portuguese right
now um our next slide again our state determined measures we are a district that is making moderate progress toward our goals um and we also what's really important to bring to light is we are a district that has no um indicators for
any state Assistance or intervention that are required and as I explained there is an accountability system with the Department of Education that looks at our attendance our graduation our suspensions our progress um again no findings there and the other thing to mention is we have tiered Focus monitor
ing on a regular basis for several different areas including special EDS civil rights title ones um we have um indicators when they take a look at our data for students who are entering the district as preschoolers and who are exiting as high school and again none of these area including English language
learner education none of our finding we have no we've had no findings um over the last several years for any of the programs that we have um in place which is a really great thing um you'll see here I won't go through every single one of them but our m cast performance in
our clustered grades and you can see it's just in line with the state averages but thing to bring notice to there were some areas as a district that we actually exceeded the targets that were set by the Department of Education for us one of them was in the area of science who exceeded all um targets also
our absenteeism rates and um our English language um acquisition targets and these are things that we continue to look at um and Target to make sure that we continue to uh meet those meet those standards and those targets from Desi what's driving our budget we
currently have and we always say we're just over that 1500 student Mark and we actually um because in my office we also have our student Welcome Center the registration we actually are getting new registrations um on a daily basis so we do have that you know influx of students that are coming in so again just over,
1500 and growing every day um we have just under uh 50% of our students who are classified as high needs so they may fit into several different subgroups um with our increase of student enrollment we have had an increase of our students with English language Learners we've been in the 40s over the last few years
and now we're into the 70s um students placed out of District those Auto District tuitions are definitely growing um probably about anywhere between 6 to 14% every year but over the last couple of years our aod district placements have increased a bit not because of our
programs that we're developing we've had students who have moved into into the district who were already outplaced or they were placed by agencies so you know it kind of came to us we didn't place our students out another thing I know there'll be some more detail we've talked about maintaining our class sizes
so we are looking for additional staff and we currently have 2.6 English language learner teachers we're looking to increase that to three total so to increase the budget by a 04 there um implementation I know Jason just mentioned that of our strategic
plan which may our blueprint 3.0 right we're up to the the third or um we are also looking we are finding our core literacy programs we're looking to make some adjustments um to the program we're also looking to strengthen and really
Implement um writing um from our preschool all the way up through grade 12 and again um and I'm sure Joe will get into a little bit more of our um fiveyear revised Capital plan some other factors that are driving of course health insurance those are
things we're still looking into um there's always some increase but we're looking to try to minimize that with our looking into all programs um as I mentioned before collaborative and private tuition increases for students who may be out a district that's always on the Rise um we've had that annual
cost increase as well as the increase in student enrollments facilities needs we know this is an ongoing communic uh ongoing conversation uh about the high school as well as our short-term Pro uh uh projects um contractual
obligations and our U Min um mlc our minimum local contribution and I know that will get into a little bit more into the budget on that and of course our transportation costs so looking at the Strategic priorities as it relates to materials in resources um and again this is none of
this information is new and as a matter of fact this is probably um the most um repetitive piece of our discussion point because these are the things that we thought we were going to need to prioritize and and after of our budget internal budget meetings with our cost center managers over the throughout the
fall so we've been talking about these since December um but at a high level looking at that revised literacy program um again we're doing a lot of work around writing so we're going to see a two-year program with that as far as our literacy committee is concerned um continued refinement with our assessment
system um looking forward to that meeting on March 18th with our district instructional leadership team which includes uh the best part which is our students so they will come and give us feedback on their performance and what they think is working and what's not um and so we'll get deeper into our current assessment system and see what we need
to kind of quarter turn with that feedback um again our Capital plan we have two items from our year one priorities uh that we're moving forward and you'll see those warrants in front of you this evening um and we'll review those uh momentarily or at some point
this evening um an increase in programming summer programming after school uh frankly before school we are still running our before school uh kindergarten programs we got about 18 students uh for that which is great coming on a consistent basis um and then
of course supporting um in general our overall student behavioral needs staffing uh as Jill referenced these are the numbers and I know we've looked at these at various workshops uh so I'll move fairly quickly through this but these are the numbers uh of uh
students enrolled at each grade level rolled up for next year so these are all the projections for next year based on this year's uh student enrollment and as far as the Staffing is concerned based on this year's Staffing uh numbers so currently we have four second grade
teachers we have four third grade teachers um our second grade classes right now are rate around 25 because we have about 100 students and again that'll be next year's third grade um one of the challenges we have with these two particular grades is if we see an
influx of students we're going to see those numbers climb um so we are looking to increase the um classroom positions one for second and one for third grade uh for next year so that we would actually have five kindergarten five first grade five second grade and five
third grade that would maintain our classes right around 20 uh 20 22 students it gives also that wiggle room in case we get some movements which we tend to for whatever reason this year our current school year it was second grade they all came the last couple of weeks in August um so that's why we saw
that that bump in numbers if we see that again without adding those uh two positions those numbers could could continue to climb which we don't want to have happen um moving up to our Middle School um class sizes we are going to maintain as they are listed here we're
not asking for any new classroom positions but we do need uh an additional enrichment teacher um and if there are any questions about that Dr RKA is here I could certainly speak to that um but right now we're looking at I believe a World Language teacher um to really help work particularly with
the students that are not opting into chorus and not opting into band uh I'm glad to say we have a good problem and that we have a lot of students that are opting into those programs but it does leave a group of students who you know who haven't opted into that um without an elective although Dr Rema and her
team really did a nice job this year of putting together a program for those students um and recently as you know that U uh we discussed with the school committee we added for the second semester virtual Middle School which we had 25 students enrolled and really enjoying it um so with all of that we're
looking to add one elective teacher for the middle school and uh one second grade and one third grade for milville elementary and then for the high school and Miss fallis is here if there's any specific questions on uh any of these FTE or any of these U additional
positions uh and we're going to hear from Miss fallis anyhow a little bit later in the agenda about our career Pathways and course options uh there lots of information to share tonight on that um but before we get to that our numbers uh next year for the high school um look very strong every one of our
classes is over 100 students which is again is a very good problem um we typically have about 60 applications to BVT this year we have 22 um so the school committee's decision to move the kids to support moving the kids to the e8th graders to the high
school uh is bearing up and is showing good um good outcomes as it relates to enrollment we're really pleased about that once you get into that culture and climate um kids want to stay and I think we're seeing that at least this year which is a really good sign um so we're
pleased to share that with that however we do need to add a science teacher a social studies teacher and an electives teacher and again I know Miss phis will will um will get into the electives side of this um the science and social studies is a little more kind of direct
as it relates to what the position would do um it's also important to Just note and I Joe will talk a little bit about this but in last year's reductions we had eliminated 18 and a half positions um 11
of those were classroom teachers the rest were Administration or or uh student support positions so of those 11 we want to bring six positions um back but again in a very targeted succinct succinct
Way Joe so getting into the financial P um if if you can move to the next slide too of course yeah thank you uh our total budget for FY 26 is $32 m5475 that's a 7% increase over last
year's budget um of that 7% we have various revenue streams that we've looked at to make sure we can minimize the impact to the towns the we will be using 100% of our uh approved end less the 50,000 that
we've approving for opab use so that's $48,600 th000 uh and that's all due to mainly the enrollment increasing that we're seeing so we take a look at all the state and federal revenue op uh offsets that we have they total
4,818 340 of the 7% that we'll be using then we look at some other Revenue sources some of the special Revenue funds that we have we're going to be doing some one-time uses of um some miscellaneous should we be looking at this Joe the
proposed budget sheet now yes but I was just summarizing that or should we go through line by line well that's okay yeah keep summarizing but we're on the proposed budget sheet y I apologize um we have various uh Revenue sources that are other sources some of them are one-time use sources um for
examp example we have miscellaneous onetime revenues of $90,000 those are various um special Revenue funds that have been carrying year-over-year that not really utilized any longer we'll be consolidating those funds into one and using them to offset some of our expense
um we'll be using some revenue from um from the Athletics fund and our prek fund uh rental of classrooms Medicaid we'll be using and our athletic and music user fees we'll be utilizing those funds also uh one thing I want to mention uh briefly is uh Regional
Transportation and school and um and ch um chat tuitions and things the regional transportation we're going to be using is $856,000 worth of of out of District tuition which Jill had mentioned is an increase to the district by pre purchasing
$350,000 with this year's funding uh we're going to minimize the impact for FY 26 uh from there so with those changes in those Revenue offsets that's 7% the increase to the Blackstone assessment is
3.95% and to milville is 2.54% and one thing I'd like to point out is if you look at the minimum local contribution on the schedule you have where we compare 24 to FY 26 the state is requiring a 5.5% increase to both uh
towns for the Lial local contribution so if you look at uh for Blackstone for example that's a $467,000 increase but the overall increase because of our offsets and the change in our Capital which I will go
into in a minute it's only a $471,500 uh dollar based on what the state's requiring they're actually seeing a decrease overall down to 99,5 um also included in this form is the sheet that has the detail budget lines if you'd like to go through those
you can and I've also put in uh um the capital budget which I'd like to go through now unless you have any questions on any of that no so on the next slide um we show the capital
assessments uh so Blackstone is going to see as you know the uh start with this the middle school bond was paid off in August so we see that reduction but we did just um actually we just received the funding uh yesterday too for the um
the feasibility study portion that the town is is providing the $500,000 that ban is now in place so that includes the addition of this ban with that the net effect of blackstone's going to see an 11% reduction in their uh assessment as
a capital assessment as compared to last year and milville is going to see a 4% reduction so the total Capital assessment for both towns is $ 53,9 um I did provide the breakout to show if you'd like to take a look at it exactly what makes up those dollars to
each Town another part of the five-year Capital plan as Jill had mentioned one of the uh things that are driving the budget is our short-term capital needs we have some aging equipment we need have some uh Capital needs for the
middle school out of the $1.3 million if in a in a in the perfect world we'd get all of that for next year but that is isn't the reality we have about $1.3 million of needs but we prioritize that down to just two that we felt that we
really can't do without um the playground equipment for the middle school for $70,000 will give us age appropriate equipment for the fourth and fifth grade that have moved up into this school and then the uh we have a plow truck in here for
$120,000 the current vehicle that we have now is just rotting and becoming a money pit we're putting a lot of money every year since I've been here anyways into this vehicle just to keep it running I mean the bed is literally rotted off the sander isn't functioning properly so it's time to replace that if
we can this is a step down in size because this will be have more utility for the district it doesn't have to be just sanding and plowing we can utilize it throughout the district um that's pretty much it unless
there's questions on any of that yeah yeah and then next steps are here so any questions you know what's the year on the truck that we're trying to replace just so uh know I don't think it's I don't think it's really old I I I
don't know the exact year right now I think it's only a few several years old okay it doesn't have a ton of Miles cuz it was designated that could only be used to do the the property that was on the problem is that it sits with this sander on it and it it just rots the
whole time so I'm not even sure there's a lot of miles it's probably 30 40,000 miles on over it's like 15 years old that's but the problem is that's considerable yeah and it's only one one seasonal use kind of thing
right they already Ching the had a dump body on they had it they take off CU it red repair the chassis and and they just then mounted sander on on the actual chassis itself so it's got a great motor it's probably
got like 20,000 miles on it yeah we'll see if somebody if we get out might be able to that's it uh anyone from the public uh like to address us on the budget prose POS proud
of this meeting all right hearing none I will uh take a motion to close the public hearing some motion made by Matt second seconded by Ted any further discussion all those favor in favor of closing the
meeting signify public hearing signify by saying I any opposed that's unanimous all right back to the uh get back to the agenda um
I'm going to go back to public forum we have uh Eric heand here uh if you want to come right up to the as a donation to that we'll probably accept the next meeting Eric how are you good thank you thanks everybody uh yeah I have some uh
computer equipment I'd like to donate to Blackstone how however you guys want to use it I have about 15 24inch monitors I have six eel those will probably be handy I have some additional HDMI cables and a bunch of power strips all slightly
used but instead of giving it to Best Buy fig let's you know give it to the school let you guys use it as you will um and I can arrange delivery whenever you wherever you want it I can make delivery for it but happy to do it that's great that's excellent thank you
well thank you I I did send an email to miss Schaefer and also Jessica Sinclair who's HR said she sits on the side of the it resource wish she is um but just waiting to hear back
okay all right and um after speaking with you the superintendent reached we they're aware of the the perfect yeah yeah it's great we really really appreciate it thank you my pleasure yeah great thank you thank you thank you very much thanks takes a village takes a
village that's right donations all the time and and then um than I'm going to just take out of order um the Isaiah Lucia scholarship and we have
uh um Isaiah's mom here if you want to come on come right up to this table here hello hi hey so my name is Julie lucier this is Emma um I am here on
behalf of my husband and myself our son Isaiah Lucia passed away in sixth grade at this very School in 2019 Isaiah would have been graduating this year with the class of 2025 we we started Isaiah schol Isaiah
smile scholarship in memory of Isaiah with a lot of help from Becky Boule and all of our friends and family one senior class one senior from the class of 2020 5 will'll be getting $1,000 from Isaiah Smiles ship scholarship I hope to to continue this
for many years to come well thank you thank you very much any uh questions for Julie that's great thank you more details to come we just have to get things questions we're going to do an
essay but that's pretty much it the application okay well thank you very much I'll take a motion to accept the scholarship as presented motion by Matt second by Chuck any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I
it's unanimous thank you very much and we'll keep Isaiah's name uh in our in our hearts and our minds and our history thank you thank you I I'll just point out the Garden in front is in his memory so yes thank you
I was going to say it but every day he's thought of when yes everyone enters and leaves the building so I love that thank you thank you guys so much thank you Julie Julie okay Moving On We're no one else for public forum done moving on that now
we can take a vote to certify uh the fy20 six bu and this is a series of votes I yes um so we have uh a page with motions and typically we just go around
the table if we can start with Matt and uh we'll start with Ted we'll keep him on on uh on his toes over there if I can find it I can start that's fine Ted it's the easy one that's why
the all right uh motion I move to adopt a gross operating budget for the 2025 2026 school year in the amount of 30, 22,5 motion made by Ted so move seconded by Chuck any further discussion all
those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose it's unanimous I move to apply the following reimbursements to reduce said Gross operating budget for the 2025 2026 year
Chapter 70 12 m808 Regional Transportation [Music] $856,000 and Charter School reimbursement $222 ,16 above reimbursements total
$3,340 310 the total operating budget for the 2025 2026 is 32 mil 54 718 motion made by Aaron second seconded
by Tara lockin any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose it's unanimous I move to assess the amount of 12, 54 put these glasses on 12 million $5
54,5 to the town of Blackstone to be applied to the operating budget for 205 2025 2026 year which includes 8,980 523 for the minimum contribution 1 milon 145,000 28 in exclusionary costs
and 1,928 960 in supplemental Investments second uh made a motion seconded by Matt all th uh all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppos it's
unanimous I move to assess the amount of 3 m850 38 to the town of mville to be applied to the operating budget for the 20 2025 2026 year which includes $2,845
3113 for the minimum contri ution $374,500 in supplemental Investments motion made by Tara lockin second seconded by Aaron vaco uh any further all those in favor signify by saying I I
any oppose the eyes have it unanimous I move to apply the following amounts to the gross operating budget for the year 2025 2026 excess in deficiency 48,6 Medicaid
$190,000 revenue from user fees $82,000 revenue from gate fees $115,000 revenue from classroom rental $100,000 and revenue from prek to a
$395,000 a motion made by Chuck second seconded by Matt any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed it's unanimous I move to adopt a capital and interest budget in the amount of
$339,950 353 to be assessed solely to the town of Blackstone which includes 99,5 12023 for the JFK boiler Windows project
$1499 $1 149,90 125 for the roof projects and 9,539 5 for the BMR Fe BMR High feasibility study motion made by Matt
second seconded by Tara and aarin um any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed it's unanimous moveed to adopt a capital and interest budget in the amount of $1
163,944 99 to be assessed solely to the town of milville which includes $ 67,68 29 for the milville boa project $
66,67 and7 5 for the roof projects and $ 29,6 18895 for the BMR High School feasibility study motion made by Ted second second by Matt any further
discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I may oppose it's unanimous I move to certify the alternate presentation of the total budget representing only Monies moving into and out of the general fund this
presentation will be used by the Department of Revenue in the calculation of excess and deficiency e and D motion made by Aaron second seconded by Tara lockin any further discussion all those
in favor signify by saying I I any oppose the eyes have it unanimous all right I don't uh I don't a rather smooth
uh it's done yeah uh next up on the agenda is to approve um the annual town meeting warrant articles which we have updated ones in front of us I will correct just
um with that uh we can start this way read them and then we'll read them M if we'll start there we can um school committee stips to see if the town will vote to authorize the members of the Blackstone milville
Regional School District school committee to be compensated for their services as such members and to set the amount of said compensation at $1,500 per member and $1,800
for the chairman such compensation to be paid in three equal installments in the months of July November and March provided however that no such installment shall be paid a to a member who is not in attendance at least 60% of the meetings of the district school
committee excluding however any meetings not attended by such members due to the provisions of Massachusetts General Law chapter 268a in the 12month period prior to July 1 November 1 or or March 1 as the case
may be if such member has been a member for 12 months 12 months or 12 months or more months prior to each of the said dates or B to a member who is who has not attended at least 60% of the meetings of the district school
committee excluding however any meetings not attended by such member due to the provisions of Massachusetts General Law chapter 268a in the period prior to each of dates or take any other action relation here
to motion to accept the school committee warrant article school committee stiens by Matt second second by Chuck any further discussion I have a question sure is this new language or exactly the same I just don't remember the general law being in there before the same
language it is okay didn't we discuss not putting this in and doing what BBT does and adding just having it um on the warrant right on the on the um
budget right when they approve line by line they approve the the milville one is listed separately on the BBT line this has to be I don't know how but this has to be by Mass General law but
BBT doesn't put it in uh for Regional School Districts I just looked it up you did I did actually yeah because I I actually just looked it up the other uh the other day and and it
has to be accepted uh by both towns U member Towns at town meeting I know I I get I I probably looked it up for the same reason why you're asking that question yeah uh any further
discussion um there's a motion for the second all those in favor signify by saying I I I any oppose the eyes have it unanimous next will be OPB other post employment benefits to see if the town will vote to
raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $24,600 into the other post employment benefits liability trust fund of the blackone milville Regional School District
established under Massachusetts general laws chapter 32b section 20 said funds to be used only to pay some portion of health benefits for retirees of the Blackstone milville Regional School
District okay Chuck that's a motion right yes uh so uh Chuck made a motion for a warrant article regarding OPB as read by Chuck can I have a second second second second by Tara lockin and Ted
uh any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed the eyes have it it's unanimous uh hunet playground reading a motion I make the motion to see if the town will vote to raise an appropriate or transfer
from available funds the sum of $17,250 for the purpose of Designing purchasing and installing a playground at the FW Middle School motion made by T loin second second by Ted
um I took off all your I thought it was a 7 oh okay a milville clarification that's right um okay uh so motion by Tara lockin
seconded by 10 and I just reminded my thank you for reminding me that the are simply millville's ends of the warrant article which is clearly marked on the top of the uh um any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any
opposed the eyes have it uh let the record show that Kerrie and Tara scobby are present okay next is um and so Carri and Tara we're we're reading these as motions for the warrant articles um
to approve on the last warrant article for the utility uh for the utility truck so you guys can catch up um these were a supplement to our packet correct tonight yes we had so they may be they're right in front of you on there
okay U so I I'll take this one um I'll make a motion to see if the town will raise an appro the town of milville will raise appropriate a transfer from available funds the sum of 29,5 $80 for the purchase of a plow utility
truck for the use of the Blackstone milville Regional School District second uh make a motion seconded by Tara lockin any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppos the eyes have it it's unanimous Ted I'll pass the
Blackstone um school stien um probably skip that if you want to just make a motion to accept the Blackstone school stien as read uh to by Matt for the milville school state make a motion to um for Blackstone to accept uh the
schools committee stiens as read by Matt earlier so so moved right motion made by ched Ted second second seconded by carrye any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any
opposed the eyes have it sry op OPB for Blackstone yep make a motion to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $753 into the other post employment benefits liability trust fund otherwise known as OPB fund of the black soille
Regional School District established under Massachusetts general laws chapter 32b section 20 said funds to be used only to pay some portion of health benefits for retirees of the black soble Regional School District motion made by
Carrie second seconded by Eric uh any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppos the eyes have it is unanimous I motion to see if the town of Blackstone will vote to raise an
appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $ 52,7 45 for the purpose of Designing purchasing and installing a playground at the FW Middle School motion made by
second seconded by Carrie any further discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose it passes unanimous and I will make a motion to see if the
town will vote to raise an appropriate a transfer from available funds a sum of $4,420 for the purchase sorry 9,420 9,420 for the the purchase of a plow utility truck for use by the
blackone M Regional School District second seconded by Tara any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose the eyes have it it's
unanimous so that brings us right down to um so right now we're in school committee uh item d uh present a CD proposal for July conference vote to approve for 1700 okay there yes yeah Dr R you want
to join us up um so some months ago um Carrie purcel you might remember Carrie from Focus schools had a conversation with Dr Rema and members of the instructional leadership team um and to see if we
would be interested in bringing uh the good work that's happening with the uh student instruction leadership team to the National level um and present in the end of very very end of June early July at the ascd uh
conference in San Antonio T Texas um it's a very competitive process there's many many many proposals that get submitted uh to this conference because it is such a it is such a national draw uh and Dr rkas was accepted and approved
uh so we have a seat at the table should we decide we we want to get BMR on the national stage um and uh Focus schools has been gracious enough to uh not only split all of the costs with us but actually pay for a third teacher to go
with Dr RKA uh the entire cost so um we are asking the school committee for $1,700 to be able to send um Dr RKA and two of our Educators to the San Antonio conf confence to present nationally um
to Educators from coast to coast and Dr R you want to add to that we did put in the packet the print out which uh is there uh for public review which is really great and your bio on there which is exciting to see our name connected to that good work but I don't if you have anything some want to add I'm just very
thankful for the opportunity um I didn't think we would get picked because it was hundreds of applicants and proposal um so we got Peg I am very excited um we have come a long way from when we started you know Implement that student
iot we really didn't know the whole the full scale of getting student involved Bo do they tell like to tell you what to do um so we get to the point now kids really getting involved looking at the data and looking at programs please they
tell me some of my programs need to step up a little bit so we have a lot of conversation and I think it would be great to share with you know other school districts you know Nationwide um because we're Empower
students they are the center of education and they should have a voice at the table so I'm very excited for the opportunities so if any of you are around on June 29th on a Sunday and you happen to be in San Antonio from 12:30
to 130 stop by Dr R table approved to see her in the presentation for I'm hoping we'll get like updates on like social media or the website the schools yeah is there any need for an additional um
chaperons please absolutely as long as you pay your own way that I'm just excited for the two teachers that been spending a kind all these time effort working with students they great and and Jenny who are those
who are the teachers oh Megan Mory and Grace Martin and they've both been teaching oh they came in with me except Grace we just talk about that Grace came in a year after me so Megan's six years Grace five years they've been doing that
student ilt program with you from the start of it too right yes yes yeah it really has evolved I mean to we were doing case studies and things in the beginning and they actually approached the PTO early on to change some of their fundraising structures and things I mean the stuff that they do is amazing to now
where you know in a couple weeks they'll be presenting to the district IL the kids present the information and next steps it's really it really is quite amazing student leadership at its finest so the overall cost is 3,400 for
two um and then Focus schools is splitting that so they're going to pay the 1700 and they're paying 100% cost for the third person so we we really just need half of two of our staff to go on the trip which is $1,700 that's great
which is really awesome so I'll take a motion to approve the $1,700 request for the ascd proposal for July so moved motion by carry seconded by teras scobby any further
discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose the eyes have it it's unanimous enjy and thank you for representing us thank you bringing us Nationwide pictures and msba
update I do this every time no it's okay I'll do just a quick overview because there's a lot that's been going on but um we have spent uh quite a bit of time in on the feasibility study portion that relates to uh what is called education visioning and really thinking
about what is the uh academic plan that we want at the high school that's really going to drive the kind of the physical plant uh if you will and so um we have a team of about 28 30 members that is this
educational visioning committee that is a subsection of the school building committee uh which of course some of you you know um are participating in that um we have students we have staff we have families community members uh it really is a great again you talk about the
student involvement and student voice um the students and staff in that group have been very active uh as of our parents uh so we're really grateful for their time and their meetings are long you know they're virtual they're about two and a half hours and again so I know many of you are are on those but um it's
a big commitment um particularly for our kids who have to turn around and get up you know at 7:00 in the morning the next day and they're up till 8:30 you know doing these virtual meetings um so we've had two of of three uh the third session of the educational Vision visioning
Group is next Tuesday um from 3: to 600 and it's in person at the high school so really excited to actually be together in the same space instead of just being on the screen um but um running parallel to that we have had uh two educational
Vision visiting sessions uh actually this week um I believe it was Tuesday do I have that right it was okay all right um Tuesday um night no sorry uh Tuesday afternoon we had it with the uh staff members and then uh Tuesday evening we
had with our community members um at the evening session collectively with those uh friends that joined us online and those that were in person we had around 60 um participants uh we had about 30 online and about 30 in person give or take a couple either way and the online
kind of ebed and flowed and actually so did the in person a couple of folks um had to exit a little bit early um so uh all of that feedback has been really important we have another uh big session next week of of course not just the in
person with the education visioning committee but we did not capture the number of staff that we wanted um at our staff session so we are uh going to do it with a captive audience during our professional development day uh so we
will have all of our grades 4 through 7 uh 4 through 12 excuse me staff um all of our unit a staff all of our unit c staff um and we've uh allocated an hour of that time for them to go through this whole process um this is a really
important step because uh essentially uh what David who was our lead consultant for this does and many of you participated in this but for our friends listening at home that haven't and the committee that hasn't had a chance to plug into that yet um he's really introducing these Concepts um these kind of architectural
Concepts like Main Street and Street Scapes and you know all these different things that we have to think about uh and what we want to prioritize uh as far as kind of key design attributes that's important because um David's going to take all of
that information and kind of aggregate that and then use that as um data to have follow-up conversations at a much deeper level um those conversations believe it or not will actually drive the design of the building um so you
know when again to our families and friends listening at home anybody that has not engaged in that and hasn't you know wants to please don't hesitate to reach out to me or terra's the chair of the school building committee um we are we are happy to make sure that you are plugged into this um because they're
going to they are going to take this feedback and they're going to use it for um you know initial design so there'll be so many iterations of that design over this whole process so I don't want people to panic either and think that if their voice isn't heard now it will never be heard uh and it's a one andone
kind of process it's not that at all um so um lots of exciting things happening lots of really good work ahead of us um we have until we have until um I believe October the feasibility study um kind of
designs and drafts will be done so we'll be having much bigger conversations I think in the fall about what direction 6 through 12 7- 12 8- 12 how do we want to design it what do we want our Focus to be uh with the goal of having it in front of our communities um a year from
now uh in the spring of 26 to vote so lots of exciting work I think it's going to really start coming Fast and Furious now ter did I miss anything no that's good thank you okay any fur any questions on that no all right that leads us into the
report of the superintendent career Pathways at BMR High School yes thank you uh Miss fallis would you like to join us up front uh and take some time to review with us uh we have some very it's been an exciting time at the high school as far as uh grant
opportunities that are in place now to support the acceleration of our career Pathways work but also our career preparedness uh work so in your packets as uh Jill's making her way up you have a few different um materials to help
kind of tea up the conversation um you do have uh the latest flyer around environmental and Life Sciences uh that's a new pathway that we're going to have at the high school um Jill and I were blessed enough to go to AOL High School last Thursday with the governor
and um the Secretary of Education where BMR um was awarded the Innovation Pathways for environmental and Life Sciences so that is in your packet you also have an overview of a very kind of a cheap sheet if you will of the program of study um for next academic year at
the high school that outlines the Departments the courses the credits the grade levels and uh a recent survey that Miss phus issued the students to assess their interest in additional elective opportunities and so with all that I'll
kick this over to you Miss FS thank you um I was fortunate enough to present some of this information to some people up here on uh Tuesday uh because we're beginning our scheduling piece um it was
uh this started well this is started this has been ongoing this probably three years of trying to get this Innovative Innovation Pathways um going and uh something that I surprised us was that only 25% of the schools in
Massachusetts um are Desi Innovative Pathways designations have that so um and once we're in we're ready to get going and I'm ready for the next one when we'll be adding Advanced manufacturing to in the uh whole once
that once that's open I'm ready I'm ready we're ready to go we've already got it mapped out um so through this we started to look at particularly the increase we'll have 30 more students um in the eth grade so it's that started us off and we were like huh that doesn't
divide by five nicely um we're going to need more than one team but we don't team um at the high school so went down this rabbit hole we started with the survey that you had um in there we were pleased initially we started
with feedback from around 161 students um uh added uh not anything interests me even though they had 19 choices to the list and then we ended up pushing that out a couple more times and we have 3 81
students now if you add the seniors to that uh we've got almost I mean we've got a high percentage of students who were able to give that and um surprisingly not one senior took the survey so I I did scan through to see if we had any seniors in there with that
data um we kind of had a head scratcher so how do we do that there's not really one Department that oh we need this teacher um so we started looking at some options um noticing that a number of our
teachers who are currently teaching eth grade electives could really step up to teach um the electives that had um some of our high priority um feedback uh so that's where we started uh we have that we started uh looking at
what what the career Pathways would be as well um we have a website now and it is live so if you go to our high school website on the front page it now says guidance and it now says Pathways and the pathways go to a website that I'm
pretty proud of um and I had a proud mama moment when I went into one of the counselor's office today and she had the website up and was talking to a student and showing them the different Pathways that was on there tearing no um so uh
yeah so we're we're just very excited that we have this opportunity we have a lot of um money that we get to spend um we're already starting this to to do some trial runs um and you know we have over 50 elected for a school um that is our size to have over 50 electives to
offer to our students I think that's pretty impressive um increasing our AP uh offerings as well um but one of the most important pieces of this is with this integrated pathway that we have um this is for all students this is not an honors track and we wanted to make sure
that all of our families know that this is not an honors track this is something that if a student is passionate about what they're doing we have the course courses to offer that's going to keep them hopefully engaged and then getting through that class that they maybe they
don't really like geometry sorry math people but they just have to get through it because they know that once they get through it there's going to be more options for them so that is what where where we were um can't tell you how appreciative we are with the additional
um uh staff uh that science as you can see from the numbers there were heavy science and um social studies for the top responses there um so we're going to keep pushing the expansion of opportunities for our
students and I know there's some a vote later on the money part so we're just going to keep coming I just found out today we also got a $5,000 Grant $5,000 grant for pltw to add a design and modeling um which will hit our engineering pathway um for our eighth
grade next year so we just got this so just [Laughter] keep I think you're up to 90,000 in Grant still somewhere around there right 9,600 I'm looking for that for no we actually have and we still have a we
have one Grant out um for with our uh to support our Civics project um that is a $25,000 Grant as well for next year so we're hoping that that will that will come through and support our Civ Civics project in um eth and nth grade awesome
what's the Civics project just that we do a Civics fair and so for all that and then transportation and all of that stuff yeah the materials so that the same Fair like when they do it down in the that there the one that they do down in the cafeteria the cafeteria yeah okay yes in
it was impressive last year it was one of the judges it was impressive very good and maybe you'll get a swag back a judge do it for the love I you do any questions and
any I think I answered some questions that people had on Tuesday so I was happy about that I really do encourage you and give me feedback on the website it's a work in progress but the GU the counseling one and the pathways one we're really really proud of um and there is a uh while it's not desie
designated there is a um uh a Visual and Performing Arts pathway um on that that we have that we've built out biomedical science uh public service and education and um like I mentioned the manufacturing and Engineering which will
be ready to go I'm going ask a quick Jill on the uh guidance web page I believe that's where the program of study yes is posted so just to anybody that's listening at home um if you are you know wondering what the high school has to offer what those course
opportunities are I would encourage our families um and particularly of our younger students to go check that out there is a bunch of information here regarding the different departments and the course offer um it's impressive when you see all of the different opportunities that our
students have as far as electives are concerned core academics um the AP offerings the expansion through that um some of the Hands-On um you know industrial Arts manufacturing one manufacturing 2 engineering Essentials robotics principles of engineering civil
engineering I mean there's so much here um for a small Comprehensive High School that I think really puts us on the map so I you know would would encourage our community members to check that out now that we have fixed the website and that this information is updated um and thank
you to our committee members to bring that to our attention so that we actually have the right information parents can access the uh the slideshow from my presentation on Tuesday is also available there but it's it's nice to see this all in one place so we all know what Jill
did for February vacation that was my Fe vacation but that's okay it this is going to be helpful and I saw it in action today or if anybody has questions feel free to ask for families that don't know because most of us know this but like
the guidance counselors will be sending out course scheduling or I don't know if anyone is listening that wants to know how that works so next week um Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday of charger time uh we will be meeting with each class individually the level of support will increase as we continue
through so we'll be starting with our Rising senior class the class of 2026 um that information has already gone out I am going to tomorrow send out just the here are the links these are the things please talk to your to your students check out that one pager um we have copies of them available in in the
counseling department some kids um may know that they can start um registering it is technically open but we're not opening that until we have those conversations with the students when are they what is there a deadline for them to to turn in their requests uh the what
is the Friday 14 21st yep so there'll be there'll be that um to go through all of that piece a little more handholding again with the with the our um Rising nth grade but for the most part they only have most of
that is already scripted for them they really just need to make sure they're putting in the right levels into the piece and then what is the elective that they're looking for and just to our parents if your child or children or anything like mine mine submitted his
form already without me seeing what coures he take so the DeFalco family had a very difficult breakfast this morning in hence why that may have been a little delayed to our call say no no no we don't submit that without the parents taking a look at the form to check it
out send it to me first we don't have a parent sign off on this in X2 but for anybody's looking go and ask your your child to pull up X2 and on the leftand side it'll say requests and if you go into requests it will also have the recommendations for the teachers the
teachers will say oh really they recommended you for honors H yeah what do we think about that do it so I have a question what if you do have a Del Falco how do we how and the parents want to be involved how do we switch this that
that's where you would they can go to guidance right okay and be like my kid chose this but it's not absolutely um we we encourage that to have that and if you would like to have that conversation uh we have had instances where parents we have called parents and been like you know is this something that we really
want to look at also if anybody is taking an AP class we have an AP contract this year which is new oh it is an AP contract it is two-sided page of AP um the AP teachers got together and really wanted to talk about the rigor and there's a number of I think there's like four or five spots where the teach
the parents and the student have to initial and sign off to let them know like you're aware that this is the schedule change you're aware that there is an exam you are aware like all just laying you're aware there summer work you know and you don't get to not do the summer work and then come in in August and say I want to drop this class a
question on the exam sorry okay um now that they're um you're signing off on that they're still not mandated to take the exam they just have to be in the room correct if you're taking the a if if you're taking an AP course with minimal exceptions y you should be
taking the AP exam now what you do with those AP scores is up to you okay so you can take the AP exam and never send the scores anywhere you don't have to click on that if you don't want if you don't want to bring it up because there's a fee with
it that's why up yep there is a fee but that was also part of the in the um in the contract contract yeah and for the rising eighth grade families that might be listening in going how is my student going to know how to do any of this there's hold their hand and take care of
that we have a um we have a stepbystep slideshow and uh you know and if I can get on if I can get it on the um website I will do that but there is on the website there is it's an older form but it's still relevant and it's actually a video that will show you how and you can also see where that is so talk to your
kids say what's going on with scheduling are you cl to pick are you coming to the Middle School to meet with the seventh grade students and seven uh we're actually we're hoping we can we might be able to have the location change and be at the high school so then we can have our students here um to also give the
opportunity to give tours so that will be happening on Wednesday March 26th Wednesday March 26 6:15 follows our building committee meeting so it's perfect time so yes and then we will be ready to um move with that by then we'll be able to now that the budget is clear
we can um solidify our next steps as far as electives are concerned for the most part if you're a seventh grade parent you're looking at am I going to participate in band or chorus and would I like to take Spanish very good any further uh comments well thank you very much for all your hard
work on this and continued hard work on this thank you have a good night have a great night District of one yeah a lot going on with that um save the date to everybody um Saturday
um May 10th and um it is shaping up to be a pretty remark arable event again um we're really working to showcase our students talents we uh with our athletic director support have scheduled uh home uh tennis match home softball home
baseball a track Invitational meet um we have a student who wants to do a wathon um for a project that he's doing we also have a group of Educators who are working with our students to do a poetry slam uh more toward the end we'll be
attending um a community event next week where we have a nice flyer made that we'll be asking our local businesses to kind of scan the QR codes sign up get a table for the event um it's shaping up to be I think a really a really great
turnout Matt what I miss that's about it yeah I think uh possible there might be a few more things that will'll be adding on with some Community Partners um yeah I think that was pretty much the long and short of it so save
the date everyone it's going to be a really uh really great day where we get to really show off our kids and so we're excited about excited about that opportunity and then uh just a quick update on the health curriculum so everybody knows where we are uh we've had um since our last meeting in
February I think it was February 11th um we have had an opportunity to have many conversations with families and we are continuing those discussions we'll be meeting with our PTO on Monday of next week uh we have a 6:30 meeting um and have been asked to put been have been
asked to go on the agenda excuse me um so we're looking forward to those discussions um I will say that I am very appreciative of the time our families are putting into these conversations um they're not easy discussions by any sense I think for anybody to have um but
I think the level of U honesty is important and so I look forward to our continued conversations next week with families in the um goal is to bring back to the school committee at our March 20th meeting the revised materials and
the recommended changes for the school committee to review and hopefully approve that evening um so a lot of work has gone into uh into this since our last meeting and um one of the things you'll see um if we're ready for the for the March 20th meeting just a quick forecast
we're using the document that we presented to the school committee in OCT oober and we are intentionally working off of that document we're redlining things we're adding new language in red we're moving things we have a summary slide um all that frankly has already been put together because we've already been meeting with parents and getting
feedback and having conversations around that so um we will bring forward whatever iteration of that is ready for the meeting on the 20th of March I hope along with the updated materials so you'll have a chance to see all of those
as well as well um so the goal is to make sure everybody's comfortable with you know what we're doing uh moving forward the best we can and we know that um we are getting feedback on um a multi from a multitude of places we shouldn't be doing any of this to we should be doing all of it and there should be no
changes so right kind of as expected there's a lot of people have very strong feelings on um on you know across the whole Continuum so we're working very hard to try to um you know kind of make it work uh the best we can for for every
so I just wanted to give a quick update so the school committee knows where we stand on that uh our family meeting that we had over February break um um Dan and Matt were present for that which I appreciate um your voice at the table and then um like I said we have a PTO
meeting on Monday all right our next up is state of the business office thank you wel um you have your the Personnel changes for March showing the
appointments and resignations that took place in March to be put on file um and then the next is the forecast for FY 25 I don't see a lot of change happening as you know you know we
I update this regularly to as current as we can be with the current expenditures and current uh incumbrances and we're still hovering around the amount that we originally discussed as far as how we're going to end the year we look like we're in good shape you will start in next month's um
presentation start to see some budget more budget movement because we're beginning our purchasing for the additional supplies and materials that we'll be using to help lessen the burd reply 26 and as those come through I'm going to be doing budget journ just to
cover those at that point in time instead of waiting for the end of the year um with any questions on the report for this year okay and then the budget journal entry you can see there's only two so things have smoothed out nicely the only
one that has a movement between any function codes is the first journal entry on here it's Journal number 134 and all that is doing is setting up the budget in the um cable funds uh fund so we'd have a budget line that we could put expenses to when it
came in there was no budget set up initially in there so that's really all that's doing um and we just updated some Department codes under maintenance and Equipment any uh question uh for Joe on the budget journal entries I'll take a motion to approve
the bud joural so motion made by Tara scobby second second by Ted any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I any oppose the eyes have
it we have a Innovation Grant yes there are two grants that we need the school committee to accept uh this evening uh both of which Jill was actually referencing um the first is the Innovation Pathways grant that is the um environmental Sciences Grant uh for the
high school the second is um The work-based Learning implementation of resource grant for 21,000 just a quick piece on this this is a very important Grant as relates to our work preparing kids for Workforce who are not going to two four two-year four-year or um
military as the committee knows we've had some conversations about we really need to do a much deeper uh level of work transitioning those work-based students after they graduate and making sure they are ready to step into um a
career right a career kind of pathway so um we actually went for a grant to help us really Leverage mycap program uh which is essentially a curriculum a career Readiness curriculum that we'll be doing with our our classman so um
that 21,000 goes for the development of that those materials those resources to make sure that we're really capturing that group of students that is you know has decided they want to go straight into the workforce so we are trying to again it it's it's a it's a blessing to be a smaller School sometimes it can be
a challenge um but we are trying very hard to to really support and work with those students that want to go straight uh on the career track did anything ever come of the conversations with the Blackstone fire department when they were asking to put signs up and
advertise and yeah yeah so I'm smiling because we're actually looking we've got a variety of things we're looking to do so we are looking to have our fire department our Police Department um our actually um Dean bank has offered to do
financial literacy uh class we also have a clinical uh group that wants to come in and do some work with our students so we're looking at and then also should mention he's not here so he can be volunt told but Scott's going to do a small engine repair class he just doesn't know it yet he's on vacation this week he is he doesn't know yet but
yes is his birthday coming up yeah it was February 10th what did I yeah so during charger time we're actually looking to start running um we're going to start with uh we picked the week it's in April I just remember at the top of my head um one of the uh charger time
Cycles you know they run in a like a a seven-day cycle the first day is advisory so we'd start that days two through seven um and then just trying a week so a week of in their 30- minute classes so a week of first aid a week of first responder a week of small engine
right that kind of thing so we're in the next stages of um just getting those those pieces in place thank you for that yeah yeah we're excited all right all right I will uh entertain a motion to accept the
Innovation grant for $35,000 so Move Motion made by Ted second seconded by Matt any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed the eyes have it and I'll take a motion to uh accept the
work based learning implementation and resource grant for 21,000 so moved motion made by Tas scobby second seconded by krie and Matt was that you Chuck I Chuck I you're throwing your voices over
there um okay with that uh any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I any oppose the eyes have it it's unanimous so with Matt sorry Matt with um our facilities director on
vacation I will you want to give the report Jo I'll put on my Scott Hebert hat um a project Scott's been working on at the high school that as you know there was a leak in the circulator pump um the update on that the pot's ordered we expect that to
be fixed within four to 6 weeks uh during a Ras of power outage the transfer switch for the lighting panel did not switch over to the power of the generator FM gener FM generator found that the breaker inside the generator had been switched off and nobody will
say who they but they turned it on and now it's working um the men's room outside the gym had an uneven floor uneven flooring was supposed a trip tripping hazard so Scott and his staff ripped up the flooring releveled it out re recemented it and now that's been
repaired uh several Plumbing issues were addressed during the break by Joe Roy's plumbing and the universal environmental Consultants conducted their six-month o hair report inspection in February 25th and didn't find any issues of damage to the asbest within the building okay for
the Middle School in the sprinkler system um new pressure gauges were finally installed the hot water mixing valve was rebuilt during winter break cars and the main floor academic wing wing were uh painted during the break and broken
broken pingpong tables were replaced in the loby and an air hockey table was added at the complex uh the compressor motor was making a loud noise am compressor determined that the bearings in the motor were bad and need to be rebuilt so that's in
process um again the O'Hara report was also done um at the complex and no issues were found during that inspection and during the week of February 24th through the 28th the complex suffered two separate power outages during this time the generator
came online and the boilers kept running but seemed to be struggling to maintain adequate power to keep the full heating system running um he's going to be looking working with FM generator to come and perform a load test to determine if there are any issues with that generator in milville elementary school
the sprinkle pump test was conducted on February 18th and note issues were found Joe can I just ask for Scott to check the tennis courts I got a text from a parent today that they thought there was a large crack that had developed on the tennis courts okay I
know it's been an ongoing B there yeah she said it was pretty much in the center like you walk through the gate and just right off to the left okay sorry
I Jason and I have our own meeting over here thank all right so you thank you Joe for that update and we do have a facility's request um in the field trip the field trip yes
yeah that got out a little late yeah um present that Mr superintendent sure yeah the field trip was just a Wizard of Oz play at the stadium interior for third grade and we're looking to go on uh March
28th we have enough chaperon coverage 18 you want to go wow make Dan W are the buses paid for by the PTO or Grant received yeah it
says Transportation PTO oh yeah the B I didn't see it till well they could just follow the yellow brck Road they good walk I had to we
go one gold I should say I'll make a motion to approve the field trip requests for our Mees third graders second motion made
by um Erin seconded by Tara squid the uh any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I and the opposed the eyes have it and a facility's use request um the uh looking to do a uh a
basketball summer camp for grades 5 through eight at the be held at the Regional High School in the gymnasium this isn't until next year which is um July 28th to the 31st Monday through Thursday from 9: to 2:30 and they are aware of the cost in
charge for holding the camp make a motion t a motion made by Tara lockin second second by uh krie any further discussion all those in favor you said this for NE next year or this coming
well I say next year in July any further questions and discussion on that thank you Mr Catal all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed the eyes have it
unanimous all right um school committee Forum school committee members does anyone have any Chuck uh the end of the sports season
um you do any uh evaluations uh did we talk about this in the past about having uh surveys sent out to students they went to the students uh the coach evaluations went up yeah yeah I think it was actually this week I don't think
they went out they're going out either tonight or tomorrow I was there's a post well there's a posting on our website about so I double checked today they'll be either sent out tonight or tomorrow morning okay all right yeah so they're coming then but I did see the post that was out there about evaluations
y okay thanks sure thanks shuck anyone else uh just want to say thank you to Dr deelo and Dr Rema for upcoming this Saturday they'll be um coming to the pack 3144 crossover uh have some Scouts
moving from the Cub Scouts into the troop it's a pretty momentous occasion for the for the boys and two girls that are doing it will'll be the F two first girls that um I mean the first time that girls are moving from the pack to a troop in Blackstone uh so it's pretty uh
significant and Dr DeFalco and Dr R will be there to uh to give their well wishes and we appreciate that so what is the what is that is it that's going to be happening at Divine Mercy um at the Parish Hall on Saturday time uh
everywhere from 11: to 1 is it open for the ceremony is yes which should commence around 12 o' okay there's a lunch in before that's uh by invit invite only okay Dan check your email not get check your email I was I was
actually putting that out if anybody was watching that you sure it will be actually live streamed um so thanks to uh you know um the same folks that do aw I was just trying to live stream for the for the community and for those uh
abroad would miss it it's a good point though to remind me to check my email but I was aware of that one never KN Miss calendar calend anything else uh everyone uh I just like to thank
Eric heand for the donations uh uh for the computer equipment uh and and Julie lucier um uh for starting that um uh scholarship fund on behalf of her late son and the administration and the
committee um this was a rather seamless budget process uh which isn't always the case and you know I was just doing a little bit of we're always talking about the budget and different angles and and um the
the the additional contribution you is usually the big argument and and it increased by 16,000 over last year like which is nothing in the big picture of things and decreased with milville by by by 30,000 and that's just simply the difference in the enrollment with
Blackstone students and and milville students and I mean it's it's crazy that to me that like the additional uh mandate by the state was 467,000 for Blackstone and our total increase for that town is 47 it's like
4,000 more that that's like unheard of and and and milville is actually decreased and so I thank the administration in the in the in the committee for I mean we reduced it by 2.3 milli
milon last year and you know it's it's uh we're holding a line so um I thank everybody for their hard work on this and with that I will take a uh the next meeting that we have is March 20th 2025 um if there's no further comment I
will take a motion to adjourn so Move Motion made by Tara uh scobby second second by Chuck all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed it's unanimous good evening