Good evening. I would like to call the school committee meeting to order on of the Bridgewater Ranham Regional School District on Wednesday, November 19th at 7:01 p.m. Um, please rise and join us for the pledge of
>> allegiance of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please note we are live
streaming our meeting on our YouTube channel and the recording will be available on the YouTube channel following the meeting. I would like to introduce our school committee members and admin in attendance this evening for our regular school committee meeting. On my left I have Mr. Selenus, Miss
Davenport, Miss Hoy Thomas, Superintendent Powers. On my right I have Mr. Fitzgibbons, Miss Tjon Cece, Mr. Guthro, Miss Conrad Labberto, and myself, Rachel King, school committee chair. We also have in attendance,
Assistant Superintendent Barry, and Mrs. McDougall, our recording secretary. Vice Chair Lo had a conflict this evening and could not be with us. First on the agenda, we have correspondence and recognition. Um, first, I have a report of community
emails. Um, we did have an email from a parent regarding a special education matter to which Mr. Powers responded. We had an email from a community member regarding the middle school sports program regarding the fees. Both Mr. Powers and myself responded. We received
an email from a community member regarding a summary of PRS complaints from 2023 through 2025. I did respond as well as Mr. Powers. email from Ranhham Pincom um member regarding a capital item on the Reinhand capital budget. Mr.
Powers and myself have responded to this. We received an email from a school committee member regarding a busing question from a separate community member. Mr. Powers did respond. We did receive a resignation letter from Miss
Mayville on October 23rd, 2025 affected immediately. Regarding that matter, on October 23rd, 2025, the Bridgewater Regions Regional School Committee received a resignation letter from school committee member Cleomi Mainville, effective immediately.
We greatly appreciate Miss Mayville's time and contribution to the Bridgewater Ringham Regional School District during her two and a half year service. During that time, Miss Mayfield was also a valuable part of various subcommittees, including long range planning
subcommittee chair where she played a pivotal role in streamlining the superintendent evaluation process. Enhancing its clarity, efficiency, and overall effectiveness. Miss Mayfield always brought a different perspective and insightful questions to our meetings
and subcommittee meetings. Pursuant to our amended regional agreement dated January 1st, 2011, the school committee is required to fill that vacancy within 30 days. Accordingly, the town clerk posted this vacancy requesting letters
of interest on regarding this. Our three remaining members, sorry, I'm getting a little bit of a cold. uh from Bridgewater as well as the nine Bridgewwater Town Council members met on Monday, November 19th, 2025 to
discuss, interview, and vote to appoint a new school committee member from the town of Bridgewwater to serve the balance of the unexpired term until April 2026 town election. That being said, I would like to welcome our new school committee member, Mr. Matt
Selenus. He is a Bridgewwater resident for over 10 years and father to three children in the school district. Mr. Selenus, would you like to say a few words? >> Good evening. >> I'm pretty loud. I'm not sure if this is on. Um, I just want to thank you school
committee members um for giving me this opportunity. I really look forward to working with the school with students in the district. Most importantly, I want to learn and gain an understanding of working um and being part of the school committee to be able to be a thoughtful committed member
of the regular school community and really have the best interest of the students and the other stakeholders um as part of my kind of vision as a school committee member. So, thank you very much for last night and I look forward to working with all of you.
>> Thank you. Welcome to the committee. Um, and I know this was really trial by fire. You were voted in last night, sworn in this morning, and welcome to the meeting right away. So, hopefully it'll go smoothly. So, we appreciate you volunteering and and being here with us.
Um, next we have um a recap of the Veterans Day programs with Mr. Powers. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. King. Uh, yes. Uh, as you, uh, are aware, uh, schools across the district celebrated Veterans Day on November 10th, a day early. We wanted to make sure that we were able to
schedule all of our programs. uh many of our schools uh did a various uh various activities both on the Bridgewater side and the Rainham side. Um but I do want to point out uh obviously as as you know because you've been able to attend in the past as have other members uh the RAVE organization here in Rainham always
plans a very special day in tribute to our veterans at all three of our schools Maril La Liberty and Rainham Middle School. I had the good fortune of attending two of those three ceremonies. Um, and it's just so such a special day to be able to welcome all of our
veterans back to the building. Um, many of whom have gone through our school system. And I know Miss Watson always talks about this. One of our greatest days is graduation when she recognizes and uh asks all of our future service men and women to stand and be
recognized. And I I think you know we all can agree both towns Bridgewater and Rainham uh really you know the red, white and blue runs deep through both communities. We have a very strong sense of patriotism and it really was just a great opportunity for our schools to be able to recognize and acknowledge all
all of our veterans in our communities. >> Thank you so much. Um I know I was able to attend uh the one at Liberty and they're always a great program. So thank you for being there. Thank you for Rafe who always does these really important programs for us. So we appreciate it. Um
next we have the Fisc Title One donation uh with Mr. hours. >> Again, one of the sororities from Ptoart State University uh had contacted um one of our former school committee members, Miss Hullbrook, uh who had been working
with them uh had some contact with them over at the George Mitchell School and they had done a fundraiser and uh donated backpacks to the school system. So, we do have those backpacks full of school supplies in our office. uh they are asking that we donate those
backpacks to our title one schools which um our elementary schools receive title one services. So Miss Richards and I are are working on identifying uh you know students in need that may not have backpacks or may not have school supplies uh and we want to be able to give those out. So again a big thank you
to uh that organization and their very generous donation. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. Uh so the greater Bridgewater women of today made a donation to the high school. Um we were floored uh by their generosity. Miss Canandler uh came to the high school,
met with Miss Watson and donated uh approximately $2,000 worth of gift cards uh for Miss Watson to use uh for families in need, especially around the holiday time. Uh so Miss Watson and her team have already identified uh the four families that um require you know
greater level of assistance. Uh I know those families are so appreciative of of the outreach and and so thankful again for uh the Greater Bridgewwater women of today and their organization and and their very generous donation to the high school. So again, it's four $500 gift
cards, $2,000 alto together. Thank you. that is um really we really appreciate everything that the community does for us especially um now when we really could they couldn't use that. So thank you. Um next we have public comment. Um the school committee
welcomes information, concerns and opinions from those attending our meetings. In order to give those wishing an opportunity to speak, ensure compliance with open meeting law and other legal obligations and avoid disruption of the meeting. The committee will not engage with the speaker or one another in deliberation on comments as
they are presented during comment periods. At its discretion, the committee may schedule issues raised by the speaker for deliberation at a future meeting. To reiterate, this is a time for members of the public to voice comments and concerns on agenda items and the committee is not able to respond
at that time. If you would like a personal response, please email the committee or superintendent powers directly following the meeting. The chair will now open up public comment for a period of 12 minutes per policy behind your name and address and please limit
comments to 3 minutes. I will now open comment um public comment at 7:11 p.m. Um we did have someone sign up, Mr. Jim Dupon, if you would like to come first. Well, you signed up. So, first come
small switch on the bottom. If you twist it, you see a small push. If I had known that, I brought my own mic. >> Uh, James Dupont, 118 Elm Street East, Rainham. For the record, I just have a couple of things that I want to say to
the committee. Got three main points to make, and I know you can't engage me with it, but I'm going to tell you right now. starts tonight. This doesn't end. There's three points I want to make. Number one, you people are elected to carry out a constitutionally mandated
task, public education. You are here to represent, advance, and protect the students. They are your primary responsibility. Not the teachers, not the taxpayers, not the parents,
the students, all of them. I attended the budget summit that you had a couple of weeks back and I came away from it very disheartened because it seemed as though in on the part of the BR members there wasn't a focus of making it clear to the member towns this
is our job this is what we're here to do now I have to say these these are blunt things you're not here to work with the towns or help them balance their budgets so they can comply was prop 2 and a half which I held right.
Prior to prop 2 and a half there was fiscal autonomy of school committees. A budget was presented to a town meeting and the town meeting could accept it or reject it. There were no changes. I think the way I see it is simply this. I think that the Bridgewater Rain
Regional School District should present the assessments to the towns and a deal is a deal pay. And if they are short money or they need to have an override, that's their problem. Your obligation is to develop a
budget that will deliver the best education to these students, not balance the budgets of the towns. And it's time to stop, this is the kind of the main point. It's time for you as committee members, and I did it for 18 years.
It's time to stop accepting half a loaf. It's time to stop lobbying our local state representatives and state senators for how hard they work. It's time for them to step up and give
you the money that you need to educate these children. Now, at the recent fiscal summit, one Bridgewater Rahm school committee member the audio were there was pretty bad. I heard the statement, well, there's the
state and there's nothing we can do about that hogwash. The way I see it, it's time to stop making excuses under the pretext of working with these people and blah blah
blah. When I see legions of state employees walking out of state buildings with pink slips in their hands, then I'll know how hard it is for them as your state legislators cuz that's what they say. It's so hard for us.
We're so tight. Now, I've been following Chapter 70 and Chapter 71 since 1973, and not one single year was that fully funded ever since then. Never once.
Where' the difference come from? The tooth fairy. Name one person in Rainham or Bridgewater who calls their state rep or their state senator when they get their tax bill from their town. Take as much
time as you need. It's time to hold the people responsible who have both the responsibility and the power to fully fund local aid. all categories,
not just chapter 7 and chapter 71. Me, I'll be watching because I've had enough of te of people accusing this district. I know the superintendent and I know several of you of bad management,
overspending, generous contracts, hogwashing. You're here to educate students and you're doing a good job. I think the superintendent you have there is one of the best we've ever had and I knew them all. I want to thank the committee for
their time and I I look forward quite frankly a strong line in the sand. Stop putting the burden on taxpayers at the local level who blame you instead of the people who could use the money that came out of this district to cut their taxes. Thank you.
Do you have any thank you with no one else? I will close public comment at 7:18 p.m. We do have another one at the end of the meeting if anyone else would like to speak. Next, we have the consent agenda. I will
entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented, which includes minutes dated October 22nd, 2025, the Reed's annual performance report for fiscal year 2025, the personnel report, approval of payroll warrants dated October 16th, October
30th, and November 13, 2025, and acceptance of gifts relative to an RMS car wash fundraiser, $2,000 in Walmart gift cards for families in need, and the from the Greater Bridgewater, and also the greater Bridgewater women of today and five sig title one donations for
school supplies and backpacks. >> Uh motion made by Mrs. Davenport. Sorry. Uh second by Miss Conrad Laberna. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Next we have educational reports. Um our
first educational report is the student advisory report. Um we did have a meeting. Um one of the things we did discuss that I wanted to bring up at our next meeting um when I did go to the MASC conference, the day in the hill which is the field trip that we do go on
uh or that we have gone on the past few years with the student advisory committee um has been moved to March 30th. Um it's generally been in May. Um but it has been moved to March 30th which is earlier in the season. Um the
executive board at MASC did say that the May meeting was so late um past budget season. So they're trying to really make an impact and move it earlier in the budget season. So when we go up to the capital, we talk about budget um and the students get a chance to meet with their
senators and representatives. um they cannot have more of an impact before the budget has been set. Um so we'll be talking more about that in our upcoming meetings as well. Um so I would first like to welcome to the podium um Miss Kais TJ Cay.
Is that Good evening everyone. Tonight I will be recapping the meeting Superintendent Powers and Principal Watson held with 12 selected students last Friday morning at the high school. A discussion was held on the impact of the failing of the override amongst the students and
teachers. Topics of discussion included the long-term emotional effects to the students, staff and families, class and loss of course rigor and pressure on the guidance department to fulfill hundreds of students needs. Students reported that they or other students have settle
in a level of a class even if they wanted to change it because of the large class sizes. After school and extracurriculars such as clubs and sports have decreased in engagement and for a lot of students they have to make the choice of only being in one activity or none. This has also affected teachers
mentally as they struggle to cater to around 35 students in a class equally. Additionally, the National Honor Society is in full swing of planning our breakfast with Santa event in partnership with the art club. It will be held on December 6th from 8:30 to
11:30 a.m. in the VR cafeteria. The event will be funfilled with over 20 kinds of crafts, breakfast, music, and photos with Santa himself. The event is cash only and we will also be collecting for Toys for Tots at the event to donate to children in need for the holidays.
Mark your calendars, spread the word, and we hope to see you there. Thank you, and I now welcome Sophia King to the stand. Good evening. Madam Trey Wman, school committee and superintendent powers. Tonight we'll be reporting to you about the the high school spirit week and the
football team. The high school spirit week started this past Monday and we kicked it off with sports day. We encouraged all of our students to their favorite team, play our sports gear. On Tuesday, we switched up for teachers dressed like students and students dressed like teachers. I saw a lot of
sweat suits on teachers full suits. It was very odd. And then today was anything but a backpack day and we had some very funny. I saw at least three shopping carts and one yeah fertilizers Friday. It was funny.
Tomorrow will be our decade. The seniors are going to take the 2000s, juniors with the 90s, sophomores with the 80s, and freshman with the 70s. This upcoming Friday, we have our pajama day. Next Monday, by popular request, will be Adam's Day. Tuesday will be our class war. So, you will see all the school
students dressed out in their different grades colors. And then our final spirit day will be next Wednesday where we wear have a red nation day as well as a pep rally. We have many fun activities and games planned and it'll be a nice send off for Thanksgiving break. I also have an on our football team for you today.
We've had an amazing season so far. Doing well enough that not have that not only have we made it into playoff, we were the third seed team. It's a huge accomplishment for us and speaks greatly on how we've improved not just since last year, but also overall. While that by itself is cost for celebration, the
team has exceeded expectations even more. Since the first time since 2017, Bridgewaterham Regional High School has made it into the final four for division 2. This means that this coming Friday we'll be playing in the semifinals. The entire team has worked incredibly hard
and the school is so proud of how far they've progressed and improved. Thank you. And I now welcome Sydney Six to the stand. Good evening everyone. Tonight I'll be reporting on the current actions of the class of 2027 student council. On November 24th, the junior and senior
girls will be going headtohead in high school's annual football game. All of the 60 junior player slots have been filmed and our class has a total of 11 coaches to help us win our games. The student council with donations from local businesses will run concession.
Along with this, the student council has launched a cookie fund. Community members will be able to council from today to December. The choices include holiday birthday cake, frozen hot chocolate, cinnon roll, bisc ice cream, or regular chocolate
chip cookies in a 4. The cookies aren't your favorite. There's also salted caramel brownie or chocolate cake to choose from. Any picked up days of December 22nd will be ded to the fire and police officers of Illinois. It's
our hope to bring a little holiday to school this summer. Thank you for your time and I welcome to the Good evening everybody. Thank you for having me here tonight. I'll be reporting on the VR math team and the Honor society triam. The rear math team
won the first competition of the season earlier this month. The team is coming back from being division champions two years in a row and is hopeful for another win this season. We are also in um in the top 10, which means we might have an ability to go to states this year, which we haven't been able to do
in the past couple years. We hosted the competition and had the highest score of the meet as a BR junior Hank Cross. Other high scorers who contributed to team victory were Kevin Posa, Fletcher Rinky, Gus Barry, Aan Deosi, myself, Marissa Brawl, Colin Horan, Carolyn
O'Brien, Wyatt Culie, and Jackson Cox. The Trian Music Honor Society also hosted its annual trunk or treat event in October and had a very successful turnout. It had been one of our best years yet, musically, creatively, and financially with raising nearly thousand dollars to put towards the chapter.
Thank you again, and I now welcome Jackson to the Good evening. Tonight I will be reporting on the recent visualized fifth grade mentorship presentation that took place last Friday. This was the first of five total presentations to take place at the Williams Intermediate School. This presentation took place in front of
the entire fifth grade. The next four will take place in the separate fifth grade classrooms. The presentation gave a glimpse of what the next present presentation would be like. Each presentation is one module where each module will dive to a specific topic and each topic will include subtopics such
as brain development and coping mechanisms. All these topics relate to the overall goal of which is to prevent the use of harmful substances by kids. Each module will also include several activities related to the topics. The next willing to occur on December 4th where
we break up into small groups and present the individual classes. Thank you. And this concludes the student school committee advisory board. >> Great job as always. Thank you to the students for your report this evening. We really appreciate it.
Um next we have the school improvement plan. Uh, first one we have is Mrs. West. Um, and Miss Christine Richards from Merill Elementary School and the Liberty Elementary School. Double duty for you guys.
Good evening, madam chairperson, Superintendent Powers, and members of the Bridgewater Rainham Regional School Committee. I am before you this evening to present the school improvement plan for Merryill Elementary School and La Liberty Elementary School. Both plans are aligned with the district's student success plan and developed with the
assistance from school administrators, staff, families, and members of our community. Both the Merrill School improvement plan and the Love Liberty School improvement plan are based on the four pillars from the district's success plan, which includes safe and support of schools,
curriculum, instruction, and assessment, operations, and human capital. At this time, I would like to share with you each plan individually, highlighting several action items for each pillar. for the MEL school improvement plan. I would like to thank the members of our
school council. Tracy Ray Ray who's a teacher, Corey Bigalow, parent, and Ellen Pisk, community representative. Under safe and supportive schools, we continue to focus on expanding our schoolwide PBIS initiatives. As a result
of these initiatives, we increase positive adult adult and peer interactions, complying with school expectations, and the use of common language and routines. We are also providing all staff with professional development in the area of social emotional learning. Under
curriculum instruction and assessment, we provide teachers with weekly grade level professional development in the areas of reading, math, and social emotional learning. This ensures the proper implementation of our curricula and the sharing of best teaching
practices. We also facilitate child study meetings to identify struggling students, document interventions, and monitor progress. We also have this schoolwide implementation of secondstep social emotional curriculum.
Under the pillar of operations, we continue our security training for staff with the assistance of the Rainham Fire and Police Departments. under human capital. Through our wellness committee, we plan and implement building based wellness initiatives
for the law liberty school improvement plan. I would like to thank the members of the school council, teachers Deb Collins and Sarah Sylvia, parents Katrina Fischer and Fallen Dale, and community representative Ellen Fitz.
Under safe and supportive schools, we have multi-tered systems of support or MTSS interventions that are scheduled three times per week. This includes when WIN mean N meaning what I need now where students at each grade level move to a
different classroom to receive targeted instruction in a specific skill area. This includes students who may need extra support or students who may need to be challenged. We are also expanding our implementation of the PB initiatives and review and revising our PBIS
handbook. We are in the process of restructuring our recess time. We recently surveyed students asking their input on recess initiatives and routines through their through the support of our parent group, the LPO. We will put several of these ideas into action. We
are also providing staff professional development in the areas of social emotional learning under curriculum instruction and assessment. We ensure the proper implementation of district curricula. We have an extensive child study meeting process that identifies
struggling students, documents interventions and monitors student progress. We have also implemented the schoolwide uh social emotional curriculum of second step. under operations. We have our building based emergency response team
in order and we also conduct monthly walkthroughs throughout the building to ensure safe and positive learning environments. Under human capital, we have a hu a wellness committee to review and implement our wellness policy. We also have a sunshine committee that
sponsors team building activities and promotes a positive work environment. I thank you for your time this evening and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> Thank you. Do I have questions uh from the committee for Mrs. West?
>> U Mr. Guner. >> Not a question but more an observation just recognizing that you are overseeing both schools. Um, and having being the father of a fourth grader myself, um, it seems like things are going very positive this year despite a lot of the challenges and just wanted to commend
you and the staff particularly where my son is, but at both elementary schools for, uh, the hard work and, you know, putting their best foot forward every day for the kids. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate that. >> I just want to reiterate that I don't have kids in that school anymore. Um,
but I have heard from many parents that were really nervous how this was going to be and what it was going to look like this year. But there has never been a time where they have felt that someone wasn't in the building when they needed them for the staff or for the children. So, I really commend both of you how
you've worked that out. So, the there's always someone in the building um when there's a need. So, thank you. >> Thank you. And I have to say that this this wouldn't be working without the help of Mrs. Richards and also the help and support of Mrs. Burns, our administrative assistant, and Mrs.
Chering at um at Well Liberty School assistant there as well. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Western. Uh next we have the school improvement plan with Mr. Cruz from Rainham Middle School.
>> Good evening, Madam Chair, school committee members, and Superintendent Powers. I'm happy to be here tonight to present the Rainham Middle School improvement plan. As you know, the RMS school improvement plan is aligned with the district's student success plan. This plan was developed in collaboration with school
administration, staff, and families. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the school council who assisted in the creation of this plan. Our co-chair Amy Alexander, special education teacher and district parent, Mike Texeras, social studies teacher and
district parent. RMS parents Katrina Fischer, Susan Cashmania and Katie Lombardo, Sue Cantelli, PE teacher, community member and school parent, and Cameron Chidelmeer, community member and RMS parent.
As you know, the district student success plan, which drives our school improvement plan, is built upon four pillars: safe and supported schools, curriculum, instruction, and assessment, operations, and human capital. Although we have multiple school-based
action items built into our plan, I'd like to share the action items we're prioritizing this year. Under safe and supportive schools, we plan to continue to develop and expand our schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports. As part of our ongoing PBIS initiative,
we continue to recognize and reward students for exhibiting our core behaviors, safe, open-minded, accountable, and respectful. All staff in the building are encouraged to give specific praise when they notice these behaviors coupled with a Raven's Buck. Students can spend their earned
Ravens Bucks at the school store, which is run by our student council, or enter into bi-weekly raffles. Items in the school store and incentives available in the raffles are based on staff input and student surveys conducted. This year, in conjunction with our
partners at the social emotional behavioral academy, our district coordinator, and our building based PBIS team, we'll focus on developing tier 2 and tier three interventions and supports for those students who require more support and benefit from small
group or individual behavioral supports and interventions. These students are identified in various ways including through our yearly DESA screener where teachers score students on their overall and specific social emotional skills. Data is collected throughout the year through an analysis
of behavioral trends including incidents in power school. Under curriculum instruction and assessment, we aim to strengthen our current and develop new strategies and systems for analyzing and utilizing individual student data. This will help
us target specific areas of growth for individual students, whole grade levels, and specific groups of students, and will help us identify where future improvements to instruction can be made, especially among groups of students who are vulnerable to achievement gaps.
This year, building administrators at RMS and EOMS along with district administrators have begun tri-weekly data review meetings where schoolwide and specific academic data is reviewed and analyzed with a focus on middle school students. These findings are then
brought back to each building for a more specific breakdown. Some examples of data analyzed are I ready diagnostic scores, weekly I Ready minutes goals, pair assessment scores, and common assessment scores. In addition to this, our faculty is
focused on data analysis of all IRA scores in their common planning times and are encouraged to meet with students individually to review their scores, areas of strength and potential growth areas. We believe this will foster a greater sense of ownership over students own academic growth and success
throughout their challenging middle school years and help instill a growth mindset where students focus on incremental improvements rather than becoming discouraged with a low score in a given area or viewing their own skills and abilities as fixed. Under operations, we continue to put an
emphasis on student safety and security protocols. In conjunction with district leadership, our facilities department, and our custodial team, we've completed the trapdoor setup and accompanying camera system for additional safety and security when guests are entering the building.
Similarly, in conjunction with Rainand Police and our school resource officer, we've reviewed and updated some emergency protocols and procedures. Our building response to emergency situations is reviewed frequently with students both in large groups like school assemblies and in smaller groups
like home runs and advisory periods. Periodic alice drills and fire drills are conducted so that staff and students are prepared, focused and calm in the case of an emergency situation. This year we have begun frequent previewing and debriefing before and after these drills so that students feel
safe, calm, and supported during emergency or emergency drill situations. Under human capital, we've rolled out a staff recognition initiative where staff are able to nominate and recognize each other through a digital recognition form. The staff recognition team,
consisting of administration and counseling staff, follows up with staff who have been recognized with that week's token of appreciation. Some of these kind words from a colleague are shared with the group at faculty meetings or in the weekly email to staff. Our goal is for our faculty
and staff to feel recognized and appreciated for all of their amazing hard work, patience, perseverance, and dedication to our students and the RMS community as a whole. I'm happy to answer any questions the committee may have regarding our highlights or other questions about our school improvement
plan in general. >> Thank you, Mr. Cruz. Do we have questions from the committee? Mr. Heather, >> um, similar to McMrell, uh, as a father of a seventh grader, um, you know, certainly want to commend, you know,
everybody at RMS and your work and your leadership this year at the school for um, you know, what certainly on paper at the start of the year looked like was going to be a challenging year. It certainly is a challenging year. Just because things are going as smoothly as they can doesn't mean it's not. Uh I think all of us who have children at RMS
are keenly aware of some of the class sizes are among the largest in the district I think in the seventh grade. Um but along those lines I just wonder if you could speak uh at all about just sort of you know with class sizes just how is a staff staff morale how have they been coping you know any concerns
as the year goes on about the impacts that might have either on staff or or on student learning outcomes. >> Yeah thank you very much. Um it is a challenging year and I'm happy to say our staff and our students together are kind of just rolling up their sleeves
and we've talked a lot um to students and staff. There's a lot of the same language going on in those discussions in both um that we have what we have here. The situation is not going to change for this year. So all we can do is put our best foot forward. Um
persevere and I think both groups of students and staff are doing that. Um the class sizes are difficult and challenging with physical space as well as learning when there's so many students to get to for a teacher. Um I think teachers are leaning on each other
very well with common planning time and all the other times that they see each other throughout the day. Um which is modeling for the students I think what we want to be modeling which is we're going to stick together and do our best. >> Excellent. Yeah. Credit again to
yourself and to um the staffs at RMS Liberty and Mar School. We appreciate everything as parents that you are doing with the what you've been able to have. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Cruz. >> Thank you.
>> Uh next we have administrative and school committee reports. We have the report of the superintendent. It's going to be a presentation if everyone wants to have a seat so they could see the presentation. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the school committee, uh, members of the administrative team, and guests here
tonight in the audience. Um, I did want to provide a few updates prior to getting into our assessment accountability presentation. Um, I did want to recognize Mr. Bill O'Connell, who is our currently our coordinator of athletics, wellness, and athletics. He was just recently uh recognized as the
uh district 8. The state is broken up into uh multiple districts for um athletics and he was rec recognized by the Massachusetts secondary schools athletic directors association as the district 8 TED Demco award winner. Um
this award is given uh by this association uh to an athletic director or an athletic administrator having five or few years of experience in the field and uh someone that's made significant impacts on his or her school in the athletic and wellness department. So we
were able to recognize Mr. Okonnell today at our administrative team meeting, but I also wanted to give him a shout out this evening. Um, I also wanted to announce that we have uh hired our open special education administrator position. Mr. Dan Duca will be joining
us December 1st. Uh, Mr. Duca is coming to us from the Norwood public schools where he is uh served as both a department head and team chair. So, he will be uh starting that Monday after Thanksgiving and he will primarily uh for now be assigned to both of our
middle schools. Um as you know as we've discussed here before uh the both towns the town of Bridgewwater and Rainham have requested that the district undergo a financial review for efficiencies. Um that is something that u obviously the school committee work through uh with
the towns and we move forward with that. At this point we did go out to bid. We solicited we sent this information out to at least uh 10 I I believe it was 12 vendors alto together. Unfortunately, we did not receive as many quotes back as we had hoped. We
only received one. Um, you know, it's it's obviously disappointing because we wanted to make sure that we had, you know, received the best quality work. That's not to say that this one vendor won't provide that, but we have really nothing else to compare it to. Uh, so at this point, uh, the initial poll came in at $55,000.
Uh the town of Brainham this past Monday at their fall town meeting did approve their portion of that 55,000 and we're just waiting for Bridgewater to do the same as they work through the town council process. Uh once those funds are have been approved by both towns, we
will then engage uh the vendor that uh provided a quote uh for us to complete this review. Our hope is to be able to start this review uh beginning to middle of December depending on when it's approved. And I know both towns are hoping to have this completed uh by February. So, more to come on that, but
I just want to provide a quick update. Um, in addition, I did reach out to both towns uh the select board and the town council and invited those elected officials to tour our schools. U obviously, I think it's important that they see firsthand the current state of
our classrooms and our learning spaces. You obviously just heard Mr. Cruz and and Mr. together talk about some of our classes being very large and that's common throughout the district. So I think it's you know we talk about it you're aware of it because either you're a parent or a community member who's active in our schools u but sometimes we
have others um some of our elected officials may not be parents or um you know may not have been to our schools recently and so this is an opportunity for us to invite them and encourage them to tour our learning spaces. Uh we established two dates uh this coming Friday the 21st and December 4th. uh
we've kind of divided the district. So this coming Friday, we'll start with the Bridgewater Middle School, Bridgewater elementary schools, and then finish at the high school. And then we'll repeat that same process on December 4th. We'll start at the Rainham Middle School here at Rain Middle School, go to the elementary schools, and then finish at
the high school. Um we not much of a response unfortunately. We um I know Miss King plans to join us, Mr. to Kasanova Davis from the town of Bridgewwater and uh we only had four elected officials respond that they would either be interested or plan to
attend. Uh but you know we will welcome them and continue to uh share out information as we go through the budget development process. Um I also wanted to share um Kayla kind of gave a a brief overview. uh we had started to meet with
students as you know uh part of one of my superintendent's goals was to form a advisory council made up of our stakeholders an advisory council of students advisory council of staff and then obviously being able to meet with our families uh we were able to spend time last week with our students from
rain middle school middle school and the high school and you know that I I know I've shared with you in the past anytime we can interact and be with our students really the best part of our day but they were very informative They did share about their experiences, what it's like to be in a class of 35, what it's like
to be in a class of 40. Uh we plan to share that uh in greater detail with you at an upcoming meeting. And I say that because I also want to be able to include the feedback that we receive from our staff. We actually have a meeting tomorrow uh with our staff um after school as part of this advisory
council. We did um send them a survey already because we knew not everybody would be able to participate. So we have that data as well. And uh then we have a meeting scheduled December 3rd I believe it is with uh some of our parents. And so my hope is if you know we can get it
on the agenda for December uh to be able to give you a greater overview of that. Um I think you know a couple takeaways you know the students are very keenly aware especially at the high school level about the current situation. They are disappointed that they weren't able
to get into all their classes. Uh we talked to one senior uh who I think he said he only was able to get into two of the classes that he wanted. Uh all the other classes uh were not being offered and so therefore he had to be assigned to other classes that he just unfortunately wasn't interested in taking. Um so really you know that
that's been a challenge. Uh we did hear from students both at the middle school and at the high school level uh how gracious they were and and complimentary they were about the faculty and staff and how hard they're working but they also feel as though that you know there is that connection lacking because there
are 3540 students. They're not necessarily connecting with their teachers like they had in the past and they're not also able to get the assistance that u they require. And we've we've heard this from our teachers in the in in the survey that on the flip side they feel awful about that because
they know that they have 3540 students. We talked to a group that had 43 the other day and again they were so complimentary about the efforts of the teacher and you know we're hearing from again the teacher on the other side who you know is really uh cringing on the
inside because she knows she can't make those connections with all of her kids. she knows she can't get to all of her students on a daily basis. And so it it really is it's it's disheartening. Um but again, I I think, you know, as Mr. Cruz mentioned, not just here at RMS,
our our faculty, staff, our students kind of realize the situation they're in. Um and they are rolling up their sleeves. They're doing the best they can, but at some point it's taking its toll. It's taking its toll on our students. They do feel somewhat defeated. I know our faculty and staff
um you know as much as they uh try to put a smile on their face, they are feeling the pressures, they are feeling the stress um and you know I'm I'm worried about them. I'm worried about our students. I'm worried about our staff. Um and again we're doing everything we can to support them to provide the necessary resources but also
just the um camaraderie and the emotional support that both groups need. um you know just to share and again we'll we'll get into this in greater detail but I just pulled a couple uh quotes from the from the students and from the teachers you know a teacher in her survey said my classes are
significantly bigger it is sad that I have so many students and I feel like I feel like I can't make a true connection with them things like group work are almost impossible because of the number of people some of the students there's 43 students in one of my classes which is a math class the teacher does an
amazing job with it but since there are 43 three of us. She can only help us so much. Another student with writing assignments, the line gets really long to get help from the teacher. Then it's the end of the class and you run out of time to get help. That that's that's our reality this year and it's it's disappointing. Um but again, you know,
it's it's a situation we're in. Uh it's a situation we're going to advocate to get out of. Uh we are going to do whatever we can this year to make sure our students and staff are supported as we as we go throughout the school year. Um I am going to transition to the assessment accountability presentation. I think what obviously you'll see as we
start to go through the data, there are cor uh correlations as you can imagine the year before being down 24 staff members. Uh this year obviously being down 50 plus when you look at the two-year trend of of staff that we've lost, it's no wonder that data has
started to slide backwards. Again, I'm not going to read all the information on the slide. I I know for most of you this is information that's redundant. You're already aware of it. um you know that our students are assessed in multiple areas ELA, math, science, technology, and engineering.
And what was new last year for our grade 8 students is they also took an assessment in civics. Obviously, what the intent of MCCAST is to assess the students progress towards meeting grade level standards and expectations. Um I just want to reiterate, I know you know this, but
just for anyone listening, MCCAST has not gone away. The only thing that really changed was that MCCAST is no longer um being used for the competency determination. That is something that is now being developed locally, but the MCCAST test itself is still here to
stay. Students must take it. That has not gone away and it's still being used uh for accountability purposes for districts. Obviously, I've included a link and we'll post all this information to our website, but to the Desi uh page where our school and district profiles are. gives an overview of the district
and then obviously the assessment results as well as accountability results. I just want to start with statewide results. Uh so you can see here um the percentage of students across the state meeting or exceeding expectations in the various grade level bands. Uh as you
know when they report out the results they do do it by grade level but then they also do it by grade level bands. uh just for reporting per reporting purposes this evening I've just done the grade level bands for you uh the next column obviously is a change from last year and then as you know uh the state
has been using 2019 2019 as kind of their baseline why obviously prior to co that was also something that I thought was very interesting um and I didn't necessarily anticipate it say from our high school students but we asked them do you still feel like co has negatively
impacted you even five years later and they all agreed that they head that it had and it still does. Um you can see obviously the state although it's closing its gaps uh you know still has for the most part double digit gaps from 2019. You'll see obviously similar data
to for us as well. Here are district results again by grade level band. I did include the state data just so you could see where we are in comparison to the state what our change was from last year and then where our change is from 2019. Uh you know a few
notable points here to to to make um you know when you go back and look at our data from say 2019 and prior. Uh for the most part you know on any given year certainly there could be one assessment here there but for the most part when you looked at all of our data we were
outperforming the state. Now you can see uh we are below the state which is obviously disappointing. Uh we certainly you know wouldn't want to just settle to be at 40% of our students uh at say at the state level. Uh we want to be higher than that and that's our ultimate goal. But at the very least we want to be
outperforming the the state average. You can see obviously our gap continues to be large from 2019. So that's something that you know we'll talk about towards the end. Uh we're keenly aware of. um we have had some success and I I want to point that out and we'll get into greater detail in the future slides but
grade 10 science, technology and engineering. Uh we did um again make significant improvements there. So we're up 10 points uh from last year which is great and you can see obviously we our score in the state in that category.
Here is subgroup data for ELA. Again it's a grade level span of of grades three through eight, not the individual grades. And you can see uh here the column just to explain again it's the percentage of students meeting or exceeding expectations. I did include prior year's
data just so you can see the trend 2023 24 and then 25. And then that last column is the change from last year. Uh so no significant changes uh from last year. Again, some positives. Uh the percent of students meeting or exceeding
expectations in ELA for grades three through eight for the African-American black subgroup did uh change positively. So that's great. I wanted to share that. But then you can see obviously, you know, other minor changes as well. And then this is the LA subgroup for the
high school. It's laid out the exact same way. If you do see an NA in some cases, so I'll point this out. You'll notice that in 23 and 24 uh we did have uh the Asian student subgroup. We did have a percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations. We now have an
NA uh for this year and obviously uh for the change column. That is because there weren't enough students in that subgroup to actually report out as a subgroup. So it doesn't mean we didn't have any students that would fall into that category. Just there were not enough students by Desi standards to actually create a subgroup.
Here's the math um subgroup data 3 through I skip a slide there. I'm sorry. Mass subgroup data for 3 through 8. You can see the change again and that's you know obviously trending in the wrong
direction right that is not something uh that we are taking lightly and we'll talk more about that again. We did have some positives. So our Hispanic Latino and multi-racial non-Hispanic Latino did show some positive changes there mass sub high school.
Again positive change for our students with disabilities but other significant negative changes unfortunately for some of our other subgroups. This is science, technology, and engineering. Grades five individually, grade eight
individually, and grade 10. Again, uh as we talked about our grade 10 students, uh significant progress from from last year. Here's some data for grades five and eight as a grade level fan.
Again, some positives to call out. Our L and former L our Asian subgroup and then obviously our multi-racial non-Hispanic Latino group and I think you know obviously I shared with you overall our grade 10 achievement data for science technology
and engineering and here you can see the subgroup for that as well you can see obviously many positives um we did have obviously one group uh slide back somewhat significantly our L and former L um as you know we've talked about um
you know we had an influx of newcomers uh into the district especially at the high school level and so you know this is you know something we're looking into deeper obviously a lot of those students have um transitioned out of the district
at this point. Um so in terms of going back and actually trying to provide intervention to a lot of these students and getting them um you know further assistance will be somewhat challenging because some of those students are not here but we look at you know sliding back 25 uh points from last year that
that's significant. I know this may be hard to read just the size of it. Uh but this is how we compare to our dark districts. And again, our dark districts are districts that uh the state compares us to. Similar grade spans, uh similar special
populations. And uh you know, you'll notice that some districts are significantly smaller. Obviously, Plymouth being larger. We always typically in our dark districts are the largest group, but now Plymouth has been included. And these do change from year to year. So what you'll notice if you go
back and look at years prior, not all of these districts will be considered a dark district. So they they do change on an ongoing basis. So you can see we're the second largest of our dark districts. Currently, Plymouth being the highest. Uh but what you'll notice again about our achievement is that we are
towards uh the bottom in comparison to the other districts in here. Again, all information for us to take in as a district and really look at our uh, you know, current practices as compared to what other districts are doing.
The accountability. So, obviously, we talk about assessment and then the corresponding accountability uh, and the state has an accountability system. Um, you know, and again, I'm not going to read everything here word for word, but you'll see how it plays out, but this is just moreformational for you. Uh but
really what they're looking at is, you know, how our students did, how did they do uh in terms of their overall achievement, what type of growth did they make, uh they measured high school completion, English learner proficiency, and then there's additional indicators such as um you know advanced uh
coursework and then also chronic absenteeism. And then what happens is based on where you fall, what type of progress you make on your targets or towards your targets, you are labeled either as not requiring assistance or intervention or requiring
assistance or intervention. Thankfully, we have been in not requiring assistance or intervention and continue to be there. Uh but even within that uh designation, there are different categories. So a school of recognition that's a top performing school with uh across the state meeting or exceeding
targets substantial progress towards targets moderate progress and then limited or no progress. We fall into the moderate progress. So you know towards the bottom uh end of not requiring assistance but and I'll show you that in a minute. So again, here's just a a little bit
more explanation about the different areas. Certainly you're capable of reading that. So I won't read that to you. And again, just as I've shared, Jesse calculates targets for each district, each school, and then each student
group. And this the data I'm going to show you in a minute is based on those targets and the corresponding points assigned. U there's really four points that can be a max of four points that can be assigned for each and I do apologize I know this is small but the way this is broken down is really they
look at um all students non- high school and then they look at all students high school and within that category the non- high school and high school they also look at the lowest performing student subgroup as well uh as I did share with you there are possibility of getting uh
four points for each category that uh they do rate them And then obviously you can see the corresponding points given. So for example for non high school there was a possibility of us earning four points for English language arts achievement. We didn't
earn any because we didn't make enough progress towards our target. And you can see that across uh the board. Obviously what we did make some progress for our lowest performing non- high school students in ELA and math. And then obviously the high school
science, which isn't surprising based on our data. And then growth again, how much of our how much, you know, growth are students making? How much progress are they making towards their goals? So, we did, you know, receive some points here, which is good. Obviously,
shows our students are making progress uh but just not significantly enough to to really increase the achievement. And then high school completion obviously is just for high school. So, you can four year cohort graduation rate. Doesn't mean we don't have
students graduating in four years because we didn't get any points. It just means we didn't meet our target. And then obviously extended engagement rate. That means um you know our students that uh might take an extra year, we're able to get them back into school. Uh and obviously we've earned
all of our points there which is great. And then annual dropout rate. Again, we don't have a significant number of students dropping out but yet we didn't we made progress towards our target but we didn't meet our target. And then you can see the additional indicators. Chronic absenteeism
and high school I'll point out received all their points for chronic absentism. They've lowered their chronic absenteeism rate and they did get points for advanced coursework which is great as well. And this is how it it plays out in terms
of our designation. So you can see on the left here not requiring assistance and should hopefully show up green up there. Uh we are in that moderate progress towards target. Uh you can see the number range is 25 to 49% and as I indicated we fell at 35. So
that's why we're in that category. So again our mission is to provide excellence in education to all. You have seen this. This is something that I've shared with you in the past. It really lays out our path to excellence. How are we going to meet our target? Um, and I I
truly believe that any significant change, and I've shared this with you in the past, takes three to five plus years. Um, obviously, I also don't want to stand up here and blindly defend our plan and say, "Yep, we have to stick with our plan. It's working." I think it's an opportunity for us to really
take a look at what we're currently doing and what things we know we can continue to do and what things do we really need to hit pause and re-evaluate. Uh obviously some of the things that uh we feel strongly that we can continue is to implement our new
curricular resources. School community has been so gracious to be able to purchase that. The state has provided us with some of those resources and those are all designated high quality instructional materials by the state. So, we feel like, excuse me, those are things that we can continue to do
despite our current challenges. We can work to make sure that our systems are aligned, that they're equity-minded and based on the instructional core, doing what's best for students, staff, and then also the content. Uh, we also feel strongly that we can continue to invest in our people who shape our students learning experiences. to our staff and
although uh we may not have the financial resources from the towns to invest in our people, we know that we can provide them support. We can provide them professional development to continue to have them grow as educators. Uh we also know that we continue to partner with our stakeholders, students,
staff, families in the community. What I want to be able to do though is to take a really strong look at our student success plan. Uh obviously you heard tonight that you know our school improvement plans are based on this success plan. But what I want to make sure we started to actually do this exercise today with our administrative
team after we looked at this data is to make sure that we're having high impact high yield result strategies in place. And although you know when we look at these on paper and we feel as though that the plan we've laid out in our fiveyear student success plan was
initially going to get us towards our target. I'm starting to uh you know hit pause and really take an opportunity to engage in ongoing reflection because if we're saying we always have to you know get feedback, we have to reflect on our practice, that's what we really want to
make sure that we're doing. So this is an opportunity for us as an administrative team to really hit pause on our student success plan really to re-evaluate it. And you know there are some things that you know unfortunately that we had hoped to be able to do but we don't have the staff. uh you know as you know Miss Richards is one of our or
one of our coordinators of teaching and learning. We did have two there were a lot of highlevel things that were happening at the district level that Miss Richards and Miss Joyce uh who was our counterpart in STEM were responsible for leading Miss Richard Miss Richards is now currently assigned to a building and Miss Joyce uh has moved on to
Attabar to a more uh secure position. So therefore, you know, we really are saying, you know, some of these things we're not so sure that we can actually accomplish and we want to make sure if we can accomplish them that they're really going to have a high high impact. So more to come on this, I did want to just, you know, share that, acknowledge
it. We're not saying that, you know, the results that we're getting and we talked about this as an administrative team. Regardless of our situation, you know, our declining results are not okay and no one is saying that. No one is saying, well, there's not much we can do about it. We're saying, what can we do about it? And so for us right now, it really
is digging back into our plan. What, you know, if if our situation doesn't change, what do we need to do to change? And so that's important for us right now to to really self-reflect and to go through that process. So more to come on that. Um, obviously I I think across the
board and I'm sure as school committee members, uh, you know, this these results are disappointing. Um, 100%, you know, we're we're as a leader of the district, I you know, I take full responsibility for this. uh it's something that I don't take lightly and it's something that you know committed to making sure that our students do have
better outcomes and you know there yes there are some challenges in front of us there are some roadblocks on our path here uh but we have to figure out ways to get around that because you know I can't rely on things changing next year when in so many ways we don't have
control over that but what we can control is what we're doing with our staff what we're doing with our students and that's what I'm committed to not just to the school committee but to the community and to the administrative team. Um that concludes our presentation. I'm happy to answer any
questions. As you know, we say this all the time. You've heard me say this. We do have a collective responsibility. I know the school committee is behind our students and staff. I I know obviously our staff has come together, but this is in our community rallied around us. Um you saw that in the springtime and so
thankful for their support. and and we need to really develop a strong partnership with our towns to make sure that they are also u you know sharing this responsibility as well. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Powers, for that
presentation. Um, I would first like to say as a school committee, we have three jobs. It is budget, policy, and the hiring and overseeing of Mr. powers the superintendent. Um so honestly the
failure is not on your shoulders alone um for such a decline. It is something that we also share that burden of because the budget policy and overseeing you is on us. So this is not totally on
you and your staff or your teachers or your students. It starts with the school committee. and we're 5 years past CO. And while I acknowledge that yes, COVID students missing one to two years of school, um that's a hard thing to do and
I see that with my own children, but we should be gaining some momentum. So, we really need to take a hard look at our budget this year, where we're going to put our resources. Um, as Mr. Dupont made at public comment. We need to
really rethink our budget and what our what our action is going to be this year. Um what our policies are going to be, what us as a school committee are going to do this year to change that because that is a hard fact that we are continue to decline with all of our
areas almost and that's extremely disappointing as a school committee member. Um, who would like to comment question? >> Mr. Dro, >> sorry that I'm chatty tonight. Um, I take a slightly different purview. Uh, I
don't look at it as a failure of the superintendent. I don't look at as a failure of the school committee. I don't look at it as a failure of the teachers across our district. You know, when I look at those scores, the irony is not lost on me. And I'm not sure if this is supposed to be formed in a question. So if it is, I'll I'll frame it with don't
we see all see the irony that we just heard from Mrs. Wellel, we just heard from Mr. Cruz sharing resources between buildings, large class sizes, and the work that's being done to try to create a great learning environment when we simply don't have the resources. And then we turn around, we have to look at MCAT scores that are declining year over
year over year. All that tells me that's a failure of the towns. That's a failure of the state above all that has put a system in place and then refused to properly fund it and give educators like yourself, our principles, and our other teachers the tools and the resources
needed to properly deliver on that system. Um, while also boxing us into different rules, regulations, requirements, mandates, uh, again that we can't simply afford because they're not giving us the resources to do. I see those test scores. We all know it's
going to be a difficult budget season and my top concern is that people are going to look at those scores and go the school district is failing. We need some type of a change within the district. We're talking about this uh you know the review of of finances that that we've agreed to do which I think is important
but I also think it's not going to find enough resourcing to recover 50 jobs let alone the jobs that we should also be adding just to get to you know normal and you know fair and you know what should be positive class sizes. So, um,
you know, I I I hear as you speak how to heart, you know, you take those scores and, you know, and that's a sign of a great educator and we're really lucky to have you and our other great educators here. But, you know, I'm just going to speak as a school committee member that that's not a failure of anybody here in this district. It's a failure of the state that's put a system in place that
we can't possibly sustain. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Cru. I'll just say um I think the scores are disappointing. Of course they are. You know, we would all want all of our kids to achieve and I know um you know people look at MCAST and say it's a it's a
point in time. It's one day in time and it is kids can have good days and bad days just like adults, right? Um but I I do think and I appreciate Mr. Powers um taking responsibility and standing up here and saying again we need to do
something better, right? We need we need to or not better but we need to pause and reook at what what we can do and how can we do it because we can't count on funding with that though again I go back to the funding and and um I go back to even what Mr. Deont said earlier is we
are here to protect our students and provide the best possible education. And I just think we really need to take that to heart again when we come to budget um into the budget timeline and reviewing budgets because we can't we can't keep doing this. We cannot keep cutting teachers and staff. Um, and I know from
hearing from teachers, um, you know, it's hard to educate kids in a classroom when you're trying to count and make sure they're all in the classroom and where they're supposed to be. Um, so I again, I appreciate the work the
teachers are doing. Um, but I think there's again, as Mr. through just said there are very s systemic problems at a state level that are um again helping or driving some of these numbers.
Thank you. Yeah, I just want to reiterate this is a resource problem. We provide a service which is providing excellence in education to our students. We cannot provide excellence in education to our students and provide that service without resources. Our
resources are staffing, which is where our money goes to. Without money, we don't have staffing. And as you've heard, our all of our scores are going down. Our teachers have too many students in the classroom. They can't dedicate those the time to each student.
So yes, when it comes time for budget, which we have already started, we can see that correlation of a lack of funding, a lack of resources is contributing to this. Um, and that's on us. It's on our towns, it's on the
state. Um, it needs to change and which is something we keep saying year over year and we can see the hard facts of what's happening right now. So, do we have any other questions or comments? That's why John,
>> yeah, a little off the tune of what we all said just because I don't want to echo it. Um, with the competency determination on our agenda tonight, is that attitude towards MCCAST in the high school from the students, how has that changed with um that elimination? So I I
I think it's really just a re-education of uh you know getting the students to understand that despite what maybe what you've heard this is still important and also sharing that there's opportunities for them uh such as the Abigail Adams scholarship the John and Abigail Adams scholarship so that you know there are
opportunities for them to still uh do well on MCCAST and and be rewarded for that. Obviously, it's not the competency determination, but there are other benefits to it. And just again getting them to understand that, okay, yep, you know, you think it went away, but it didn't. Um, but it still counts for
something for the school, still counts something for the district. Um, and it's something we're still giving. You know, we're telling them you have to take it. Um, you know, that none of that has really changed. Um, so I I don't think, um, you know, I've been talking with Miss Watson. I know they gave um they
just recently gave an assessment a retest that didn't have any negative feedback from from that. So, I'm hoping springtime rolls around that, you know, we won't have any challenges as well. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Next is the budget subcommittee report
um of myself, Rachel King of um the subcommittee meeting November 10th, 2025. On November 10th, 2025, the budget subcommittee met just um just before the 5:30 p.m. super in the budget
subcommittee met at 5:30 p.m. in the sub superintendent's conference room. In attendance were Mr. Fitz Given, Mr. Lo, Miss Davenport, Superintendent Powers, Assistant Superintendent Barry, Miss Babalola, director of business services, Miss Roashau, the treasurer, Miss
McDougall, our reporting secretary, and myself. Um, first, we had a budget a fiscal year 2026 budget update um regarding the enrollment update, which will be coming up with Miss Cohen. So, I'm going to move on from that. Um, she
will give further detail on that. Um, we had a capital update at the at the October meeting. Um, we approved the amended capital budget which was sent to both towns for approval. During that process, Mr. Powers also was working with the towns, DESIE, and DOR to
confirm how to proceed for fiscal year 2027 and beyond. Regarding capital, specifically, if we will follow the regional agreement and approve capital in the fall, separate from the spring operational budget. The town of Ringham has the capital budget. Um and that was
approved at the town meeting warrant for approval on Monday, November 17th, 2025. That budget amount passed at the town meeting. Rainham VidCom had also um prior to that asked that in fiscal year 2027 and ongoing that we provide
estimates along with capital item request incom prior to submitting the warrant article and to meet with them. Um, the town of Bridgewater also had the capital budget on their town council meeting agenda for last evening, Tuesday, November 18th, 2025. It was
referred to their finance committee and will go back to town council for a second reading and approval at their next meeting. Um, once those are have both been approved, we will start working on capital items for this year. Um, do we know when those might start or are we going to hold them all now until
the summer? >> Nope. Once um Bridgewwater approves their capital, we'll start those projects. Obviously, Rainham approved uh this past Monday night. So, if there's any specific projects to the Rainham schools that we don't need to wait for Bridgewwater for, you know, we'll
definitely start those. But Mr. Chaka and Mr. Sh um are eager to get going. Um any of the projects that we can do while school is in session or on vacations, we will certainly uh try to do that, but we may have to actually wait and do some of the bigger projects over the summer.
>> Thank you. Uh we did receive an update on activity fees. Um this year we are making an effort to have the high school specifically um collect club fees which we have in the past but that have not been enforced. Um so we did review the collection of the attorneys the activity
fees um and the activity fees and sports fees will be reviewed um for the winter and spring as well. Uh we've had a brief update on the base and the Rainham Park and Recre program which is taking over the ARMAC program. Um updated financial reports will be
presented in January um to ensure that that program has been taken over by park and wreck and that we are still on track to be um not in a deficit again this year which as at our first um financial report at the last meeting we were on
track and we were not in a deficit. Um, we did have a B budget monthly update with Miss Babalola. Um, we did review the monthly line item report. The budget has been frozen since October 1st, 2025 as we normally do. Capital projects are
on hold until the towns approve those funds. Um, and we are watching the sublines, utilities, transportation, etc. that are always lines that we watch um, especially going into um, the winter season. Um Mr. Powers did just speak um
regarding an update on the operational review. So I will move on from that. Uh he also Mr. Powers also gave us an update on the status of the Colin Center um budget work that they're doing. Um the budget recommendations and presentations will be presented in
January. Mr. Mr. Powers will request and provide an interimm status report in December to budget subcommittee. Um, regarding fiscal year 2027 budget discussions, Mr. Powers and the business office have started working on the fiscal year 27 budget. Um, where to cut
costs, what increases that we are expecting and also specifically focusing on health insurance. And I know that Miss um Conrad Lareno is working with negotiations uh regarding the PEC. Um so we are hoping to have budget projections
by the beginning of December. We will be meeting with FINCOM prior to that on both sides of the town. Um and we will be meeting with the joint both towns on January 21st um to discuss the budget and then prior to our school committee
meeting which is January 28th. Um we did also approve um October 22nd, 2025 budget subcommittee minutes. So there were no voting items to take action on. Those were just all um updates and statuses. If there's any questions
regarding on any budget items um seeing none, I do um miss I know there was many mentions of chapter 70 listening sessions. Um and I know that Miss Hoy Thomas and Miss Conrad Labreno were able to attend this evening. I had a work conflict come up so I was not
able to be there. Um Miss Conrad Labbero, do you want to give a brief update on that? Sure. Mrs. White Thomas, feel free to speak up. You were there tonight. Um, so tonight, um, in Lakeville, there was the fifth session that the DESIE and the
Department of Lab or Labor DS, is it DLS, I don't know, had a held a hearing around, it wasn't labor, um, around chapter 70 and to seek feedback from, um, stakeholders um, around the funding mech around the funding formula. Um I
will say the this was the fifth session. Um there was a virtual session also I believe last night and there is one more session I believe in Newton. I at the session tonight or this late this afternoon in Lakeville there was probably somewhere between 70 and 80
people there. Um most of the folks um I will say from Bridgewater Random was um represented well. There were four council members from Bridgewwater, two parents um and myself and Mrs. Mrs. Toy
Thomas to Thomas that were there. Um of those folks uh six of us spoke or seven of us spoke, seven of the eight spoke. Um many of the themes that came across um were concerns
with uh how the state is funding towns. um the increase that districts are facing around transportation, insurance, utilities, special education um and the rate of the rate they use for inflation, the chapter 70 has not kept
up with the the rate of inflation that school districts are facing. Um, I will say many of the towns that were or many of the folks that that were there tonight were town council members, selectmen, um, representatives from the
teachers, unions, uh, school committee members, um, a few parents, um, majority of the folks were there from actually smaller to what I would call smaller to mediumsized towns. in the southeast only what I would say large there was only
one large town that was actually present to n so um a report is supposed to be forthcoming I do not know the timeline um from the folks that are collecting all this these from the information from the listening sessions I don't know if
this is >> December of 26 summer 26 is supposed to be a report coming and then that goes to I guess the legis legis I don't know what happens with the report. >> Thank you for being here, Miss Conra
Lberto and Miss Hoy Thomas. I appreciate that. Um the only other item of note regarding budget, Mr. Powers did advise budget sub just of a concern um at the high school regarding the roof. Um there were some leaks on the roof um and some areas that
the membrane was separating. Um so that is something that Mr. truck um is looking into um regarding do we potentially need to repair that? Are we looking at a potential roof replacement in the future? So,
nothing for action, but it was something that he brought to us that has been something of a concern. Um if we do have actual leaks for the gym roof at the high school, that could damage the gym floor, which would be extremely expensive. Um so more details once he
looks into that and brings that to budget sub but just something for the committee to note um upcoming capital item. Uh next on the agenda is just a brief report of MASC annual conference that I attended.
Um I attended the annual MASC MASS joint conference in Hyannes November 12th through November 14th 2025. I participated in multiple workshops and events. Um, each year I try and focus on specific issues that are pertinent to our district or to me specifically as a
school committee member. This year, many of the workshops I attended focused on building more positive and collaborative relationships between the school committee and the towns as well as the community. Um, in addition, I also focused on legislative and special education updates and budget concerns.
Um, I did list in here many of the workshops I attended if anyone wants to review those. I won't go through all of them. Um, there's also some notes on some books that I could recommend as well. Um, but there were some great speakers. Um, I know this year we only
did one get t we did put in the budget one ticket um, regarding the conference. I'm hoping next year even with budget constraints that we could have another one. Um, I think it is extremely important for myself going to those workshops to learn what other school
committees are doing, what other towns are doing, build those relationships and networking with other towns to see how are they addressing their concerns. We all have the same concerns regarding budgets, overrides, working with towns, working with the community,
communication. Um, it's all the same problems whether they're a small district or a large district. So I find it extremely important to talk to them even when we're feeling down and we have a lot of challenges um to talk to them about maybe different out of the box
ideas that they have. So it's I think it's extremely important especially making those connections and getting new ideas when we're there. Um I also did attend the resolutions clinic which was on Friday. Um
so on Friday I attended the delegate assembly. We voted in the new executive board officers and approved last year's minutes and financial reports for MASC. Um MASC brought forward six prior resolutions that were set to expired and
those were all passed unanimously to continue on as slate resolutions. Um the one new resolution they had this year was removing BMI testing from schools. this past um notes during the debate and comment period um the current BMI
protocol has no action steps for referral for health services unlike screening for vision hearing and scoliosis um there's also a mental health component that has been noted by many nurses that concerns administrators nurses parents etc um so that did pass
um so that will go to the MASC executive board um in addition to that they are going to be focusing on resolutions from last year regarding budget concerns. Um, and that concludes my report regarding the MASC conference.
Next, we have policy update on policy subcommittee report with Mrs. Conrad Larto. Thank you. Um, the policy subcommittee met on um, sorry no um, November 10th, 2025 and in
attendance was myself um, Mrs. King, Mrs. Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Gunthrow, and Superintendent Powers and Mrs. Barry. Um, at last meeting, you remember we um waved the first reading for the comy determination. Um, IKF, we did not
receive any additional feedback or any comments since our last meeting. So, at this point, I would make a motion to wave the first reading IKE competation. Oh, the second reading. Yes. Sorry. >> Wait. The second reading. Sorry.
>> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Um, and at this time, I would u make a motion to adopt policy I KF comps determination. made by Mr. questions on that.
>> I would just remind folks is um we did not add any requirements into the comp determination um to pass any kind of specific test. It's more around their grades at the end of the year would determine whether you meet the um the
competency requirement. >> See no other questions. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Um next um is uh policy EFBA school food and nutrition um around meal modifications. Again this was something that was recommended that review by
MASC. Um the school committee reviewed the policy at the last meeting determined that changes would be added um to the current wellness policy because many of this much of this falls within that policy. Um, in the meantime, due to new DESIE guidance, the policy
needs to have further updates. Um, since the policy now needs to include language, specific language surrounding physical education curriculum and initiatives. Um, the subcommittee agreed that we would wait for the the policy to be completed and those parameters and then we would go back and review that
final version hopefully um in December. So, no action was taken was taken. And the next policy that we reviewed was transportation services for children. Um again, uh at our last meeting, um Mrs. Hoy Thomas had inquired whether or not parents could formally wave the right to
take the bus by filling out an opt out an opt out form. Um they would fill out an opt out form if their child were not to take the bus. Um Miss Hoy Thomas felt that this could result in significant cost savings for BR Regional School District and fewer buses would be
needed. Um Mr. Powers um did say that many families hold seats on the bus just in case they need it. Um he was going to contact um Lucini bus lines to obtain a report of eligibility versus who actually rides the bus to turn how many families may qualify who are actually
using the bus. Um and they would get back to us and then we talked about potentially surveying families around some of this. So no action was taken at the meeting. This is an ongoing conversation around this around this policy. Um the next policy that was reviewed or
talked about was um JDE was district issued electronic devices. Um Mr. Powers and um the high school principal, Miss Watson, and the director of technology would like to move um to uh BR regional school district issued electronic
devices at at our high school. So currently um there are students more at the high school that are using personal devices versus our Chromebooks. Um and some of the challenge around that is those personal devices don't have
firewalls. They don't um protect around any kind of security breaches or sensitive student information. Um and there's been some challenges. We'll just put that out there. Um particular I have a high school student. I know what some of these kids are doing or I've heard through the grapevine particularly um
where we've gone to kind of no cell phone policy. Kids are bringing in their MacBooks and texting friends on their MacBooks um and that's not able to be stopped or any of the security things when they're using those versus using our devices. So um we are consider to
roll this out in fall of 26 um with the announcement of these changes coming in spring of 26. Um the table was pol was table uh excuse me the policy was tabled until the spring and no action was taken and the next was um oh uh BDA school
committee organizational meeting I brought this um policy forward to the subcommittee's attention um around the rotating school committee chair position each year feeling that it is very problematic um I explained that it takes a year um just to get the lay of the
land as the chair and feel comfortable in the role and establish a relationship with the superintendent. Um unfortunately probably seven eight years ago um the uh at that time the committee felt um they needed to change the policy
in requiring the chair to rotate two towns each year. Um that was for multiple reasons. Um, I will say is I reviewed policies from 10 to different 10 to 14 different regional school districts and none of
them have this requirement to rotate the chair between towns every single year. Um, one thing I do want to add by removing the rotation language does not change the requirement that the chair needs to be voted on every single year
by the committee. Um, so I'm sure there's going to be some discussion around this, but at this time I would just again to put it on the floor like um I would like to wave the first reading of BDA school committee organization meeting. >> Mr.
>> And I guess I I know it's just the reading but before we again we will go back and review this again for a second time. But I guess I would like to ask from committee groups here if you have um feedback on this right now, thoughts, data.
>> I'm not technically posted. I just had a question. I think when they created it, right, it was because of the two towns and to have >> Okay. So, this was changed in 2021, I believe. I had only been on school committee for
a few years. Um, prior to that, um, Rainham had been, I think it was Mrs. Riley and Dr. Primidowski. We had had a Rayham chair for quite a long time. Um they are voted in every year but it had been one town which had been Rainham for
quite a while. Um which had made some hard feelings for the other town. Um so we it was approved. I don't we have a brand new board. I'm the most long-term serving and that's only seven and a half years. Um so there's been a lot of
turnover. So right now it's very difficult year to year switching back and forth. We've had members that where they're all new from that town. Um they might not feel comfortable for serving as chair and like Mrs. Conrad Labberto said, it also takes a while to build
your relationship um with your superintendent, between the committee. Um so it's it's a lot of turmoil and turnover to be switching that year-over-year. Um especially if you don't have also someone that's willing to serve but that wants to serve.
>> I will say there are other regional districts again And no other regional districts policy that I looked at does this. Um where there are multiple towns. Um and there are other regional school districts again that have multiple towns where the chair has been the same person for eight years. Um that is not unheard
of. I'm not saying that's what we should do. I think we should have the option if we wanted to keep the same share that we have the option to do that. And right now our policy does not allow us to do that. Do we have other questions, comments?
Okay. Um, like Mrs. Conrad Lover just said, this will come back. If you have other feedback, please let her know. Um, this will come back for a second reading um at the December meeting as well. The only other thing um was there was a conversation um at the committee to
review our public records request policy. Um the item was tabled and was agreed um to be reviewed at a future meeting. >> Thank you, Mrs. Conrad Labberto. Uh, next we have the October 1st
enrollment report with Miss Cohen. Good evening. Good evening to you all. I'm here to uh present to you the um October one seat count. which is submitted through our sim
submission each year. It's taken on the October 1st of each year. Um and it's a snapshot of students attending our district on that day. Um so you have the paper in front of you.
Um so I will just uh read the totals for each school and answer any questions you may have. So at Mitchell currently we had on October 1 911 students. At Williams Intermediate there was 818.
At Edward J O Middle School there was 851 students. at Merrill Elementary 281. At La Liberty Elementary, 533.
At Rainham Middle, 691 therapeutic day was eight students. At the high school, it's 1,318 students. Our itinerates, who are service only students, um we're 21.
um in the Excel program with 32 students in out of district were 44 students for a total of 5,58 students. Um I do want to tell you that um
this these numbers there are we are still in the reporting period um and So, as this does say, these are the final numbers. They could be a give and take on these numbers once um the final
two reports are submitted. So, I can always come back and and um tell you about those differences, but currently um it's 5,58 students. Of that, 27 students are um
non residents. So, of the student body, 5,481 are residents of either Bridgewater or Rainham. Um, 300 3,47
were Bridgewater residents. 2,74 were Rainham residents. And that's your student population. 3,4 27. >> And I did just want to uh clarify a point too because obviously I've been
sending out enrollment data to the community. You'll notice our numbers are slightly different only because the enrollment information that I've been sharing with the community does not include some of the uh students that Meg just went over uh such as the itinerate service only students um the excel
students and then our out of district students. So minusing those numbers out um but that they're not included in the data that I share on a regular basis. So these are just Megan is sharing the students that we are responsible for um
overall but again the data that I've been sharing doesn't necessarily capture out of district students excel students and our itinerates it's those students just sitting in our seats remember which D was this at the last one. So, as of last week, um again, we
had uh roughly 5,453 students um sitting in our seats. So, again, that's November. You know, we've had new students enroll already. So, as I've shared, we are, you know, continuing to increase. Um but that, you know, that's why you'll, you know, see
some discrepancy in the numbers. It's just because the numbers here, the 5,453 do not necessarily include the itinerates, the serviceon students, excel and out of district. Those are only in district sitting in our seats. >> Uh, Miss Cohen or Mr. Powers, can you
let us know based on enrollment because of the budget how many students we've lost then this year? We're approximately down uh a little over 200 students when we look at enrollment from last year. Um last year I think you know around this time last
year we're about 5,682. Um and so obviously we're you know 5,400 plus. So we're we're approximately down 200 students from from last year which obviously defied the trend that we were on. As you know, we were we had been
increasing our enrollment every year by approximately a 100 students. And so we were on pace originally if that held true to be at 5,700, you know, 80 students. And unfortunately, we, you know, are now down 200 students overall. Um, so, you
know, we seen an increase in the number of students leaving the district in terms of school choice. um obviously uh the vocational programs and then you know some of the private schools as well. >> Thank you. Do we have questions on the
enrollment report? >> Thank you so much. Uh next we have facilities report. Mr. Tracker Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the committee and superintendent powers. I'm pleased to report that the overall state of facilities across the district
remain strong. As you know, we currently maintain seven buildings totaling approximately 1.1 million square ft of space. That's 1.1 million square feet of space that must be cleaned, maintained, and operated every single day. Beyond
our buildings, our responsibility extends to nearly 100 acres of land in Bridgewater. This includes a high school stadium and track, uh, four softball fields, three baseball fields, the Odona Hugh Stadium, which serves as a soccer, lacrosse, and flag football field,
multiple practice fields, and the landscape grounds surrounding all district facilities. It is a significant operational footprint and our team works hard to ensure that these assets remain in excellent condition for students, staff, and the community. This year, one
of our major accomplishments has been the successful roll out of our new maintenance management system, FMX. While we expected a few minor glitches during the transition, overall feedback from both staff and community has been very positive. FMX is already proving to
be a valuable tool, streamlining work orders, improving communication, and enhancing scheduling for our facility use. To give you a sense of activity, as of November 14th, we have had 1,917 sto total scheduled events across the
district, totaling 11,425 hours of use, which is an average of just under 6 hours per event. On the maintenance side, since September 1st, we've had 685 work orders have that have been submitted, and our team has completed approximately 87% of these
requests to date. as a breakdown of those requests. Uh right now we've had 19% of those requests which is uh plumbing, 18% is HVAC, 13 fall into the other category, 12% electrical, 11%
carpentry, and 11% landscaping with the remaining um percentages including pest control, safety and security, vehicle maintenance, and a variety of miscellaneous needs. One of the most significant enhancements FMX brings is its integration with our
asset tracking initiative. Every repair, every inspection, and every service requested or associated with any major equipment from boilers to rooftop HVAC units, pumps, district vehicles, hot water systems will all now be logged and
retained automatically in the system. As this data grows, it will provide us with a full service history on every major asset. Most importantly, future capital decisions will no longer rely on assumptions or anecdotal information. We we will be able to plan using clear and
careful data, focusing our resources on equipment that demonstrates the greatest need, improving budgetary accuracy and supporting SMER life cycle management. Our facility operations remain supported by hardworking team of 46 employees
including six custodians, four maintenance personnel which include a plumber, a carpenter, an electrician and an HVAC technician. Two utility workers, one of them being a great mechanic who has already saved the district thousands of dollars in repair costs. One head groundskeeper and 33 custodians
districtwide. The team provides daily coverage of all building and grounds to highlight and to highlight just one example of the workload they manage. Each night custodian is individually responsible for cleaning between 32,000 and 37,000
square ft of space every shift. Their efforts deserve recognition and we are extremely grateful for their dedication. As the community is aware, the 112 budget period imposed limitations on what we could accomplish over the summer. Despite these challenges, we
move forward with as many projects as our time and available funds would allow. Progress continues on our priority needs, and we remain committed to ensuring all facilities are safe, functional, and well-maintained. Districtwide, we have also begun systemically collecting empirical data
on all major infrastructure assets, including 23 boilers, nearly 50 rooftop units, hot water system systems, district vehicles and grounds equipment, and other essential building systems. The initiative further supports
preventative maintenance planning, accurate forecasting, and long-term capital improvement strategies. In closing, our facilities continue to be in strong condition. The roll out of the FMX has already delivered tremendous improvements in efficiency, communication, and accountability.
Though our budgetary constraints slowed the pace of some work, our team continues to make steady progress in maintaining and enhancing district assets. And with the addition of comprehensive asset tracking, we are better positioned than ever to make informed data-driven decisions that will
benefit the district for years to come. Thank you for your continued support and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Do we have questions uh for Mr. Chunka? Miss Conor, >> I would just like to make a comment. Um I probably spent the last four or five
weekends every weekend at the high school for cheer. Um and there have been a million cheer competitions there of all ages of we are renting out the gym space every weekend to cheer competitions. Um and I would commend your staff. They have done a phenomenal
job being there at 10 o'clock at night cleaning the gym. Um, and there's lots of people and it is packed at the high school every weekend if you have not been there to see it over the last few weekends. But your staff have done a phenomenal job keeping the building clean and upkeeping with the amount of
people coming in and out of the buildings. >> Thank you. >> That's what we like to see. Revenue. >> Yes. >> Um, Miss White, >> just a quick question. Um, with FMX, will you be able to create like an aging equipment report from that?
>> Yes. As we gain more data by putting in every everything that happens on a daily basis, it will start the the data will start to populate more and more every month as as we maintain each piece of equipment. >> Thanks. Any other questions?
>> Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Uh next under new business, approval of general ledger warrants. I will entertain a motion to approve general ledger warrants dated October 16th, October 30th, and November 13th, 2025.
Motion made by Miss Hoy Thomas. Miss Dav, sorry. Second by Miss Hoy Thomas. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Um, next. So, I did mention this earlier. I just want to highlight this.
Um, I will entertain a motion to move the January 21st, 2026 school committee meeting to January 28th, 2026. >> Motion made by Miss Conrad Labrento. Do I have a second? >> Second by Miss Davenport. Um, just a
note, we're going to be holding a meet joint meeting with the towns and the school committee on January 21st, 2026. they had requested that we meet with them prior to the presentation of the preliminary budget. So, we're going to we are going to move our meeting back a little bit so we can meet with them on
the 21st. Um, and then have the preliminary budget presentation on January 28th. That is the reasoning for that. So, I will entertain a motion regarding that. Did I already Okay, sorry it's getting late. Um, all those in favor?
>> Any opposed? Thank you. And then along with that, I will entertain a motion to change the venue for that January meeting from the V Rainham Middle School to the lecture hall at the high school just so we have a better um sound system and better presentation access um for
the budget presentation. Um for regarding that, I will entertain a motion regarding that. Do I have a first motion made by Mr. Gothther? Do I have a second? >> Second by Miss Hoy Thomas. Um any discussion? All those in favor?
>> Any opposed? Thank you. Um I do not have any other business. Um do we have anyone for public comment? We do have our second public comment period. Come right up. Um as again earlier, please state your name and your
address. Um and limit your comments to under three minutes, please. Dave Patrick, vice president of the BA. I would just like to state that the $55,000 that's being proposed for a audit slash review of the school
district would be much better spent on the salary of teacher for half a year, at least half a year, maybe maybe even more. All right, that would reduce cl class class size somewhere where it's
really important uh or most needed. That could also bring back an elective for uh at the high school for the second half of the uh school year. I don't see how we can justify spending that kind of money when we're in the situation that
we're in. Thank you. Do we have anyone else for public comment? Seeing none, I will close public comment at 8:59. Uh, regarding announcements, uh, Rainwater Players has their High School Musical on Saturday, November 22nd and
Sunday, November 23rd. So, please everyone go and see the show. They do a fantastic job. Um, the next budget subcommittee meeting will be Monday, December 8th at 5:30 in the superintendent conference room. And the next regular scheduled school committee meeting is Wednesday, December 17th,
2025 at 700 p.m. at the lecture hall at the high school. Do we have any other announcements? >> Mr. Fitzgibbons, >> thank you. Yes, happy Thanksgiving. The holiday is sneaking up on me for next Thursday. Um, seeing that I will
entertain a motion to adjourn um at 900 p.m. exactly. >> So moved by Miss Con Labrento, second >> by Miss Hoy Thomas. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? I can't.