good evening everyone please rise for the pledge of the allegiance to the flag to the flag of the stands nationy andice for all
thank you um roll call veronica miss Hernandez is absent mr organ present miss Enriquez present miss Cabraw present mr gomez Pereed absent
today miss Balderas present dr neville present miss Kovas Caravayo and Miss Al Faro present thank you the school committee minutes uh the approval of the minutes of the special meeting on March 26 2025 and the
regular meeting on March 27 2025 in closure A motion please madame Chair motion to accept minutes from March 27 2025 in closure 8 i second the motion thank you
now we're going to pass to the uh public comments that's the portion that uh we allow you to give uh you had three minutes to talk if anybody here in the audience that I would like to go for the uh right okay trying to to do well the the
chairwoman is not here today so I'm covering for her but I'm trying my best anybody that I would like to go to uh for public comments okay see none then we're going to continue for the Oh okay go ahead
and please state your name and address for the record you said name and address okay hi everyone good evening jake Small i use he and they pronouns um oh I just moved it's either 30 or 33 Medford Street um
but District 8 and uh great to see all neighbors um I understand that in part today we'll be discussing school safety and student safety and as we get ready to have this conversation and as uh our elected officials um chat about different
ongoings in our city that we all love so much I'm just really grateful that we have um elected officials as well as school staff members who understand the importance of um students not just having access to high quality public education but public education where
safety is a huge concern and safety of course includes the health of our students the wellness of our students physically mentally i think that holistic approach will be really important to center to ground us and so I thank you to the folks who um who enter this work with that top of mind um
thank you to all the students who are in the room today all our neighbors um and understand the importance of a really and I can't stress this enough holistic approach to student safety because of course the things that make our students safest are not always materials or
physical resources but the trusted adults the teachers the pair professionals and the educators um in their lives to ensure that safety can be a top priority um so no questions but that comments on my heart today thank you all so much thank you so much
anybody else that I would like to address comments thank you so much now I'm going to pass it to uh Dr abera i always get the pleasure of doing our name strength and story award and um the award tonight is actually for Miss
Stacy Gerska um So I'm going to just tell you a little bit about Stacy uh she was nominated by her administrative team at the ELC and so um Stacy is the teacher we would like to nominate she
puts in 110% she knows her students by name strength and story she is an inter integrated PK teacher she also works with great success in our K1 after school program teaching in our
most difficult classroom students with challenging behaviors and diverse academic needs students respond well to her caring and empathetic nature her deep understanding of child development and the importance of family involvement
from decades of owning a local child care agency in Chelsea Stacy has benefited the ELC community and the students immensely she was born and raised in Chelsea while she spent some of her early years in parochial school she
attended Chelsea High School all four years and graduated do you want me to tell everybody when you graduated in 1985 stacy is super creative and gets all all students engaged she takes the time to
get to know each of her students so that she knows their interests families and backgrounds and as a result is well equipped to motivate and engage them so thank you and uh Stacy for all that you do for our children and I know I've been
in your classroom and it is a lot of work because I've seen it and just how you you work with your the little people is amazing um I only go five year old and up and I like I couldn't do what you
do every day because it's it's it's definitely a work that you do from your heart and we're we're truly blessed to have you in our school system and um thank you we just like Yeah i um I just want to add I I know I don't
know you um personally that well but uh because you're not my son's teacher my son is also he was until very recently in an integrated prek classroom which was uh you know half students with IEPs and half students without IEPs and um I
know the the challenges of that sort of classroom but I also know how important it was for my son's development and he actually was able to move uh you know just a couple weeks ago out of an integrated room and into general education full-time so um I guess if I
can say on behalf of the parents of children with IEPs and sometimes challenging behaviors thank you so much for what you do thank you and we have a little Thank
you okay and then the next portion of the agenda is a superintendent's report so first part will be our presentation on safety and security at Chelsea High School so I'm going to have our interim principal Alan Bosle come up and our
director of security Frank Henry henry all right thank you um bear with me this is the first time I've ever been up at the podium in front of school committee so this is a first um one of the first things Dr aa asked me to do when I took over as interim principal is to put
together a safety and security presentation for school committee so Frank and I and Dr beta have been working on this for the past week or so um some of the stuff has been ongoing some we've been tweaking in the last couple weeks since I took over with the help of central office and people like
Malik Hosin uh Felicia Paisley um Christine Lee so I appreciate the help and support at the high school so thank you for that so we're going to dive in so I'm going to try not to read verbatim because that's not a good teaching move i've been out of the classroom for a little while but that is not a good teaching move so you see up here we talk
about the numbers in our security staff we've increased over the last couple years to about 15 security staff at Chelsea High School and we're looking to retain that number for next year um excuse me i just want to interrupt a little bit because I don't know if everybody has um translation okay we
want to slow down so I don't know if Thank you um so it also outlines some of the trainings that our security staff gets under the supervision of Frank Henry uh they get safety care training which is deescalation training uh while we also have an SRO at the school too you want
me to stop and pause every so often or want to keep going um go ahead and keep going and then we'll do Q&A afterwards okay beautiful all right um so also CHS admin we started to uh implement regular meetings with our lead security guard
Fido Ramirez in order to increase uh communication and collaboration between admin and security we also partner with CPD on a number of things including runhide fight drills the escalation training um and youth uh outreach and identification of different things that
are happening in the community one of the things that's been kind of a hot button topic is the dress code policy so in the last month or so we in reinforced our dress code policy which is no hats or hoods in the school so there's always like back and forth on
this it gets a little tricky sometimes the real purpose is for safety and security we don't want um people in the building that we cannot identify so students are asked to either take off their hoods or a hat with a brim because you cannot see their face um we've
realigned with the school handbook to make sure that things like do-aggs and uh bonnets and headscarves things that are culturally responsive for students are allowed to be wear uh in the building as long as you can still see and identify the students within the building um we've worked hard to message
this with students and families have worked with Michael Sullivan the communication director to send messages out to family via parent square our CHS weekly newsletter um student email accounts and we are having house assemblies tomorrow at the high school to reinforce this message with our
students and I've also had some nice conversations with some of the students in the room in in the past week or so random searches so this is also something we've been doing regularly um it is not a consistent schedule it is um
up to me to qu um communicate with the assistant principal of operations and we decide um when the random searches will take place the admin or security works the door is to pick a a number so it is truly random whether it's five that day
or seven that day and the fifth or seventh student coming through that door is the one that's picked for the searches so the kids that are picked they go to a set of tables frank is there a lot to help out and support with his team um students are asked to take off their bags and empty their pockets
um staff or security that is there deans admin search the bags um empty ask the students empty their pockets like I said and then once in a while a student is asked to go through a separate line where they are now using the wands to um do a further set of
searches that's recently how well would you say like two weeks two weeks ago about two weeks ago um so that has been a new safety feature that we've also added is the wands so when students enter CHS the doors of CHS do not open for students
until 7:30 unless a student has special permission to um be with a teacher or u work on a project or if they have special permission uh from an admin so the door for CHS opens at 7:30 once inside CHS at 7:30 students are expected
to go to either the cafeteria for breakfast or the library where there is a a staff member on duty um so students then are expected to head to their class for an 8:00 start so if you are in class after 8:00 you are considered late and if you walk in the building at 8 or
later you are considered tardy so students who come in at 8 or later are expected to go through our tardy line they check in they put in their student ID numbers into the Aspen system and they're given a yellow slip to uh head to class and that tardy line runs until
about 8:45 and then security does the check-ins from there on out student IDs so this is something we're working to develop um hopefully next year and we're working to get new pictures and IDs for every student um this will ensure that we can quickly
identify all students that are in the building um the expectation is that students will have their ID on them at all times and we are working to have this in place for next year cell phones so obviously the school committee passed a policy in December of 2024 where cell phones are not permitted
to be used during the school day chelsea High is not quite up to speed on that yet but we are working to develop a plan for full implementation in the fall of 2025 so we have established a cell phone committee where it is a number of uh
staff members teachers myself we just had our third meeting the other day where we're working on a rollout plan and communication plan for staff students and families um and this is all in uh collaboration with central office on the messaging and everything that's going out to students and families we
began messaging at family night last week where we shared a flyer with with families to say like this is coming this is where we're going to give them a heads up and we'll continue that communication as we move forward and the flyer was also sent out to families in the CHS weekly
newsletter okay that's the big part sorry hope it wasn't too rushed for everyone questions and answers and Frank's going to help me out so I do have one clarification i know one thing that came up and that I heard from students is the random searches so
could you explain that real quick just the how they work what's the procedure because they were wondering like are you just are you one thing I heard was are the students being just picked based on
what they look like and so I just if you could explain that this is something that me and Frank have definitely worked on in the last couple weeks is to tighten that up and make sure that it is truly random so anyone that is working the door we have told them that they need to pick a number and it needs to be that particular number of student coming
through the door before that I don't think it was necessarily 100% random um but we weren't the ones uh running it and we weren't in charge of that so we've definitely tightened that up in the last couple weeks so when you say pick a number it's like Five and then it's every fifth student
or seven every seventh student absolutely and it stays for the whole search every person yeah we don't want people to feel like they're being targeted or singled out we want to make sure that it's 100% random thanks i have a follow-up question to
that which is um you you also noted that you've been adding um metal detector searches with a metal detector wand but it's not necessarily every student who gets randomly selected right every fifth one will say you'll do a bag search and
the seventh will get Can you speak it into the microphone actually because it won't get caught on what we'll do is um say every third student will get the bag search and every fifth student will be wandered okay right so this Yeah it's same as the bag we we count them out right thank you i think that's really
important that it's systematically random it's not just um and the real important part of the wand implementation is Frank has been there every time we've used the wand so Frank has overseen the security is training them working with CPD to make sure we're using them properly and effectively so he's really been hands-on in this effort
thank you i have a question uh I just curious what happened um when the students are inside and sometimes they open the other doors for other people to come in do they doing something from
that do excuse me do they what I say that I mean sometimes you know it can be students inside the high school open the other doors like the field doors that sometimes people can go through there and I don't know if they have camera there or I don't know if they Yeah we we
have cameras on all of the exterior doors um and we have a security that's always manned at the front desk security desk where all of the TVs are so if we know that a door is being opened on the outside then we look at the cameras we find who these individuals are as long
as they are students we will have them search to make sure they're not bringing something um into the building that they're not supposed to have um and go from there okay did I miss anything on that yeah the the doors leading to the track and field they are all alarmed right now but
we have them set on like a five minute intervals in case somebody goes out but we're checking it to now having it done immediately so if someone opens that door we get a text right away someone's in the building okay thank you and that's something we talk to the students about too is not opening the doors for
outside people even if it's their friends like it's just a security risk that we don't want to take the chance at we encourage everyone and and require everyone to go through the front doors through security get checked in and go from there thank you um so two things um for the
IDs um I know that in different buildings we have um for example like if um I know that you said that they can punch the numbers in um in the event that for whatever reasons they left the
ID maybe we can have it so that I know like when I have to go through different security clearances if my my um license has already been swiped um because I've checked into the building um it pops it populates in the security desks um
perhaps for cost purposes and also just um identification purposes we could perhaps look into something like that um it shouldn't deter the student from obviously carrying it just because it also gives them the opportunity to practice being in the real world and
carrying their driver's license but um from a punitive perspective also I would hate to see them then come back and say "Hey um I didn't have my ID home and I you know I got in trouble for that." So um if it's about making sure that we
have the right student um accounted for um as far as the ones are also concerned then I would also say um you know I love the concept of having the conversation of what we're doing but
then it's also one of those things that the more we say then the smarter situations get um because where there's a world there's a way too um so as long as we're not specifically targeting students but then if there are outside altercations that are taking place
inside because obviously that's where we're going to um find each other right because that's what really happens um then administrative kind of or administration or the teachers kind of know right
because we've all been that age at one point right we got there um so perhaps it's not that they're targeted because of the way they look but because of a specific situation um
there's laws that prevent um that from being speaking out to the general public and keeping the peace um and protection uh so it's not so much that there's a certain level of transparency as much as there's we're trying to be as
uh containing a situation uh if if if you will for just being broad um so there's there's a lot of components so I'm sure that you guys are thinking about everything um and trying to address it um in the best way possible
yeah we visited or not me in in person but other people on our staff have visited other schools to see how they work on the ID system and when a kid loses an ID sometimes they have a temporary sticker um in our system in Aspen when they type in their number their picture pops up so you can verify
who the students are and then to your last point about like privacy versus sharing right we want to give people information but we also have to protect people's privacy so we're trying to increase communication with staff and families and students while maintaining confidentiality at the same time so it's a fine line that we're working with and
we work with central office on that all the time sorry so just to follow up what what I meant was like I I don't want necessarily to create such a rigidness where it's like oh no every third bag is going to get checked and every fifth
student is going to get wanded and then have you guys feel like oh no they said that the fifth student was going to get wanded and then it was the seventh you know like that's not what I'm there's a there's a a rhyme or reason so yeah safety is the the main goal so
Oh Mr thank you so much uh I don't have a question but I do have a couple comments so thank you so much for this additional context about the state of safety and security and we've heard from our youth and community members that they've asked for connection community and collective action and I just want us
to consider you know continuing to streamline um the security process for entry into the school specifically around like notifications to families and I appreciate that there's a youth task force so that we're creating that co-authorship for youth to be involved
in this process um and that clarity on on random searches was helpful too and hopefully the IDs come with some cool CPS lanyards um yeah that would be nice for sure make things way easier awesome and then I also want us to consider um
and and this is more broadly for school committee around you know increased budget for mental health and school counselors um or at least additional professional development around social emotional learning as we consider these um initiatives around safety and
security um and I know there's a lot of work being done for afterchool programming as it relates to the work that Malik is doing so shout out to those initiatives um and just want to con um remind our committee to continue to explore um ways to make a safe learning
environment without policing or criminaliz overcriminalizing our black and brown youth most importantly so thank you for centering that in your discussion and excited to continue to um engage in this conversation if I may um
we have an amazing um array and portfolio for SEAL and mental health and so um Dr jennings take note you're up next month you and your team thank you for the extra presentation we
I It's an opportunity to really share all that we're doing because we're we're very we have multiple resources for students we're using a some AI um Awesome so yeah so we will gladly share so you can see the array thank you
appreciate y'all i had a question in terms of the u security you you mentioned about having 15 security guards and what about the um the SRO yeah I would like to hear some Officer
Garrison Daniel is is our SRO at Chelsea High School and he is there pretty much daily um 7 to 230 7 to 2:30 um and he supports us with a number of things he does outreach to students he supports any emergency situation um we talked
about stuff that happens in the community he is a contact for us in the community and gives us a heads up on things that might be happening outside of school too so we can have that line of communication with Chelsea Police Department and making sure that stuff doesn't carry over into school um we
just finished setting him up with his own office so he'll be moving in there when tomorrow i think tomorrow so um he'll have a station where he doesn't need to leave the school to um get paperwork or things that he might need to do his job more efficiently so he'll
have a place that he can do work when it needs to be done to help help move the school forward in terms of security and safety thank you so much any other questions yeah I have a follow-up question which is um I feel like I should already know this but unfortunately I haven't done my homework
but um a few meetings ago we awarded the SRO's with the name strength and story uh award and there were several of them maybe five or six so how's that set up that um actually let at the uh Clark a school we have Matt
Dola um he's the SRO up there he also runs the cops and barbers program where he takes the kids out on the boat all summer um at the high school we have uh Garrison Daniel at the um Mary Cab complex we have officer Jamie Robbley
he's fairly new down there and at the Williams school we have Officer Joe Studo and these are all Chelsea guys who grew up in Chelsea is they went to the Chelsea school system so there's a total of four and also we have Jonathan Maldonado who
is their backup and he's wonderful he's very helpful as well and I do have a submission from my fellow school committee member Jonathan Gomez Pereira so I'll I'll read word for word what he shared here um he states "I'd also like to express my thanks to students who showed up to the youth
listening session on March 26 on such short notice and um bravely shared some of their concerns regarding their experiences within our schools while I do not have the answers to the challenges we are facing I hope to work together with my fellow school committee members and personnel from central
office and Chelsea school committee to develop datadriven responses that do not hyper criminalize our students the topics shared range from critiques of school culture communication within CPS and to our families and students security guards bathroom policies and more students also expressed their
concern regarding their safety in schools throughout the duration of that half an hour meeting no student mentioned that they would feel safer with the implementation of metal detectors youth violence is a tragic reality that occurs outside of our schools i would like to share my condolences with all the families that
have been impacted by this violence considering metal detectors should be a topic of robust conversation it is worth noting that these instances of violence occur outside of our schools and installing them would not only be a cost burden but also further entrench us in
the school to prison pipeline system our schools are already equipped with safety measures including cameras security guards and a resource officer it is essential that we live up to our responsibilities as school committee members and members of this community to create a school system where students
are thriving in our schools rather than replicating the conditions of prisons i expect to continue this dialogue with fellow committee members students and families in order to develop processes and systems that further center the safety of all members of the CPS
community thank you any other questions thank you um I'll just want to briefly say that I know that we're going to continue this conversation and um I'm really looking forward to that um I just
want to hone in on uh what Johnny mentioned about data driven and I know we have a subcommittee meeting tomorrow to talk about this but um as we uh approach you know different um policy proposals I'd uh like us to be considering like data and and facts and
stuff and hopefully bringing those to the meetings to discuss them um you know about like numbers of incidents and stuff like that um but more importantly what I what I really wanted to say is I'm just really grateful um that and and I'm a little bit like amazed and really
pleased at how directly um you guys were able to respond to the exact comments that the students brought up and so you know I want to shout out to the students for raising your voices even though it was difficult and even though it was sometimes contentious it clearly
resulted in very clear changes so um kudos to the students for speaking up kudos to you guys for listening and imp implementing changes and um if I don't want to put you on the spot with this question but um I'm curious like are you
uh kind of thinking about new methods to have more of that uh communication with students and hearing their feedback and how to respond to them maybe within the school building not necessarily so they have to come all the way to school committee meeting and stuff yeah absolutely that was one thing I wanted to mention before we were done here is
we have two big opportunities for student voice coming up we have our um student summit next week that is a part of our bar foundation work where malik how many students are going to be we have 120 students that are going to be sharing perspectives on on their experience at Chelsea public schools and
Chelsea High School in particular it's a full day event so we're going to get a lot of feedback from students there and we're also about to roll out our Panorama spring survey to students where students can talk about their experience and be as honest as possible and that information goes directly to central
office and the high school administration to be able to look at that data and that information and see how the students are truly feeling and hopefully make some changes based off of that information so encourage all your classmates to complete the panorama survey for sure so and one thing regarding the bar
foundation where year two of receiving funds to really reimagine redesign Chelsea High School what is that going to look like so year one Malik and and the administrative team at Chelsea High School they visited a lot of schools
throughout the country to learn and see best practices and then this year has been more focused on hearing student voices and instruction and so we're really trying to like reimagine what what should Chelsea High School look
like and it's a five-year process um we will also send out a survey um to the community and we have I that we're working on that right now to get out and that will be that's part of the high school redesign like what kind of career pathways are you interested and what
what are the career pathways that are going to be a need in in the Boston area and maybe you know we build career pathways to align to those needs so there's a a whole lot of work that we're doing at Chelsea High School and so that
input's going to be really important to to hear so and I I too want to thank all our students for speaking out because we did listen um we did take a lot of notes and hopefully we're addressing a lot of
the concerns and we're grateful and hopefully at the student summit you'll get more feedback um and you can go from there so thank you and thank you for um your leadership Ellen um this is week
well I don't know what day it is for you i don't even know but um thank you so much something like that no we're so grateful and Frank also thank you for your your leadership with the whole district and in terms of security I will
say I I our schools are are very secure and we you know do we have areas to grow in absolutely but at the same time I feel like we are also doing a good job so thank you and I want to I I just want to uh follow up echo this um gratitude
uh of this having this conversation here today because this is like uh the continuation this is the result the outcome of the um concerns that our students present at the last meeting uh and let's continue having this
conversation then let's continue working together for the best uh our students and and the safety and security this is this is great thank you so much Mr franken thank you Mr alan great okay so now I would like to bring bring
up Dr tamar Blakey our assistant superintendent to go over our indicators of success um for those of you that don't know why we do our indicators of success it's because we have a strategic plan in place and we
are holding ourselves publicly accountable for improvements and for what we say we will do in our strategic plan and at the end of the day it's about teaching and learning or our students improving and um so we are feel
very uh compelled to do this every single month um because it's the way we're holding ourselves accountable thank you Dr aveda tonight we only have three
indicators of success to report out we I will be reporting out on our attendance rate our dropout rate and our mobility for grades 1 through 8 the average daily
attendance range from 91 to 93% for grades 9 through 12 the average range is about 80 to 83% for our prek students the average for
the month of March is 90% and overall as a district we're almost at 89% that's our daily attendance rate the next is our high school dropout
rate so as of October 1st our enrollment was 1,827 the number of students that has dropped out thus far is 69 the last is our mobility
rate for kindergarten eight students in five out that's a difference of three elementary six students in 18 students out that is a difference
of 12 for middle school 13 students in eight students out that's the difference of five and for our high school 22 students in 12
students out which is a difference of 10 and total overall for the district for the month of March we had 49 students in 43 out that is a difference of six
cumulatively from September to current time we've had 663 students in 518 students out that is a difference of 145 thank you so much and one correction when I shared the
elementary data where I stated that there were six students in and 18 students out that is a negative 12 not a positive that's a negative thank you thank you
thank you Dr blake Campy thank you so much should we continue with the student sure i'll do the next one so um we also do our personnel reports and we are looking at our
demographic data because we are also one of our goals and our strategic plan is to diversify our educator workforce so this since um March 1st our hiring data is um 60%
Hispanic 40% black and then 0% Caucasian 0% AsianPacific Islander and then on the next report we've been pretty stable we have 6,125 students right now and I would
like to commend these two reports for the record and that completes my report and then our student report thank you um good evening madame chairwoman superintendent Dr oeda and to the rest
of the school committee members um I hope everybody's doing well i want to start off by talking about the academics at Chelsea uh today was actually Chelsea High School students last opportunity to take the stamp test and this is basically a biiteracy test exam that
they can take that um gives them a certificate saying that they're by by they're both bilingual and proficient in two languages which is useful when um for colleges and college credits so they don't have to continue on with taking um
language courses uh good evening madame chairwoman and Miss Enriquez uh superintendent Dr ba and the rest of the school committee members um moving on from I mean still in academics Chelsea High School counselors are hosting scholarship
health event help events for seniors uh Wednesday April 9th so today uh from 5 to 7:00 p.m and April 11 from 12:30 to 2:30 um p.m seniors are encouraged to attend
if they need help applying or have questions on how to apply for scholarships including Chelsea specific scholarships uh which are found on the MIFA pathway and then to move on to the STEM acceleration academy this occurs during
the spring break and basically students are able to pop in I believe it's like a regular school daytime um throughout the whole week and they end up taking a field trip at the end of the week it's a great opportunity to get any extra credits they need for graduation
requirements and just if you have nothing to do over a break you can join it's really fun I've heard um Chelsea High will also be hosting a college fair this Friday 11th uh from 8
p 8 a.m to 11:30 p a.m sorry in the red gym um CHS red gym many colleges and organizations will be attending and it's a great way for stu for students to get a
broader broader perspective on colleges and employments available to them to move on to the extracurriculars um Levida will be having their cohort for the class of 2027
um the first meeting actually started yesterday and they are accepting new scholars from the class of 2027 um we encourage scholars to apply we're both actually LEVA members so um they've been really helpful they help
with um later in the process for colleges and uh definitely a good back support for that stuff uh now moving on to the Cinderella musical which already happened uh it was very wonderful i saw Madame Chairwoman
Hernandez there and I saw Miss Ara's post and I believe everyone had a good time everyone was very wonderful skills acting was amazing singing was amazing the play was amazing everything was
amazing and it's actually my first time going to a musical and play so I was just kind of sad that it was the only one that I did get to go my whole high school career so a message for anyone watching go to the next um musicals
place hosted by CHS cuz they're a bomb they're like very good so I go interrupt and Sarah was sitting in front of us too and Kati I saw you my I took my husband and he came home and told everyone in my
household it was so good and he's like "The acting the singing the stage props the the um the costumes it was it was it was stellar." So congratulations to our performing arts and our administrators
at Chelsea High School it was amazing so if you get a chance to go like you said it it's it's it was it was excellent uh the Christian Fellowship Club they just had their first field trip it was a movie theater field trip
um many kids a part of that had fun and hopefully they have many more to enjoy from uh on a student spotlight uh Sophia Vasquez a SHS 10th grader uh was accepted um into a prestigious into the
prestigious Katherine Stansmore MD mentorship program at MDH and we're proud and the CPS district will be having a music concert which will be
Tuesday April 15 at 6:00 it'll be held in the Williams school gym and everybody's invited to attend so go support any if you know anybody who's going to be playing and stuff and lastly yesterday April 8th uh
the track and field teams for boys and girls both won against Medford and Everett thank you so much thank you did it great um thank you now we're going to continue with the um committee reports i will commend the committee report for the
record uh motion please i make a motion second thank you uh now we're going to be moving to new business item 25 SC27 consideration and action to a second an increase for
the uh Tylon uh 28 grant for the 20 245 school year for a total of uh 300 303 sorry 3002 3002 837
um and closure E um roll call please mr organ yes miss Enriquez miss Enriquez yes miss Cabraw yes miss Balderas yes dr neville yes miss Kovas
Caravayo yes miss Al Faro yes that's seven in the affirmative and two absent seven in the air affirmative uh and two absent now we're going to continue with the item 25 c2a consideration and action
to accept 10,000 F uh Y25 from DC for the advanced learning uh pilot deeper learning implementation grant enclosure F um procco please mr organ
yes Miss Enriquez yes miss Cabraw yes miss Balderas yes dr neville yes miss Kovayo yes yes Miss Al Faro yes that's seven in the affirmative seven in the affirmative and two absent
uh item 25 SC 29 consideration and action to approve a budget transfer of 45,000 to move funds from uh curriculum development contractor services to public personal contractor services for SY 2024 2025 enclosure year um broke up
please mr organ yes miss Enriquez yes miss Cabraw yes miss Beras yes dr neville yes miss Kovaso yes miss Alaro yes that's seven
in the affirmative and two absent seven in the affirmative two absent um the next item in the agenda is communications any communications from the committee members on the agenda nope i Any
announcements I think announcements is next um sorry i do have one announcement from Johnny and then uh one that is my own um so again this is from Jonathan Gomez Pereira uh Johnny wanted to share that he'd like to congratulate the
Chelsea High School's drama club performance on their spring musical of Cinderella he said "This was my first play that I attended at Chelsea High and I was amazed by our amazing student performers our student our CHS staff who supported the play and the live orchestra that brought another dimension
to the performance." And I believe Ricky was there recording so if you didn't get a chance to see Cinderella it should be posted on our YouTube as well um and then uh for my own announcement um just in the spirit of being inspired by our
students um this year I'll be starting an annual scholarship called the change agent award and wanted to give a reminder to our fellow school committee members in case they would like to collaborate but I wanted to just read a couple different um uh elements of this award so it's recognizing and honoring a
graduating senior in Chelsea public schools that demonstrates a strong commitment to public service um continuing to foster a positive community relationship and inspire students that take an active role in shaping a better future for our city of Chelsea some eligibility requirements
are a three word 300word essay hopefully that's not too much um but we would love to hear your commitment to continued public service through a demonstration of significant involvement in projects or activities that benefit the Chelsea community a long-term commitment to community engagement and ongoing
dedication to public service and a showcase of spirit of continuous learning whether that's pursuing post-secary education or um training after graduation so wanting to just continue to celebrate our students and the many ways that you continue to
impact us truly you are the change that we want to see in our community so just wanted to uh encourage our school community members to um if they'd like to get involved I'll be sending some this information along to Paula Sanberg soon thank you thank you Miss Kar any
other announcement so I just want to um just uh acknowledge that some of our students have been taking the MCCAST um so I know that they're still potentially doing that um so families my heart goes out to you guys um
uh because I know that uh between I I was not a very good test taker um so for all the educators out there I know that you are probably being very supportive in more than one way um so definitely uh shout
out to you guys for doing your part and to all the families you know when I went to pick the guys up first thing the mom said fresh out of FKO was like "How are the MCAST?" And the child just like gave
the mom a hug so it's like I you know I and I know that we voted to like lift the requirements and everything so I could only just um imagine like still that you know we still have to verify how we're doing um academically and
everything so um it's just to remind everyone that there's still students out there that are having a hard time and and going through you know test taking is still you know a thing um and you know take care of yourselves take care
of your health um if you're sick make sure that we're being um mindful um because attendance does matter and we don't know who's immune compromised at other people's homes or you know younger children are not necessarily as
um healthy yet so and there's also you know aging parents at you know at home so it's a ripple effect you know things are getting better but we still have to take care of each other so in the spirit of things we still should in my opinion you know do what we can to take care of
each other um and I did see some of the youth um come out um and speak up at council meeting um as well um for uh you know sanctuary city um advocacy um so I
will commend you for that as well um so our our budget uh presentation for council will be uh soon it's it yeah it's got changed a little bit again um so pay attention to uh the community uh
forums and the updates because there's important stuff going on within our community and um that's the only way to stay informed and to be um actively participating and changing and being the voice but if you're going to be using
your voice make sure that we're um doing our own critical thinking and we're being you know honest and that our our minds and our hearts are in the right place so thank you so much for all of your advocacy um and I look forward to
working with everyone thank you motion one quick announcement it'll be quick um I'm really excited to say that the Chelsea Research Festival is going to be on May 15th during last period at the high school and then we'll have another session at 5:30 so I
encourage everyone to come uh we just um closed the abstract submission period for um academics who are going to be submitting so uh 20 people 20 groups from universities and hospitals and and
city government and nonprofits submitted abstracts and then we're going to have a whole bunch more students also presenting alongside them so I'm really excited about Please mark your calendars thank you we're done any other comments
a motion for to adjourn the meeting i make a motion to adjourn meeting adjourn