good evening everybody Welcome to the school committee meeting uh the shair woman is not here today tonight so I'm going to be facilitating the meeting thank you for coming tonight so now we're going to be
doing um please rise and we're going to do the Plage United States of America to the thank you um so uh Veronica rooll call please Miss Hernandez is absent tonight Mr
Oran present Mr Enriquez present Miss cabal present Mr Gomez Pera Miss balderas Dr Neville present Miss koves
carav present Miss Al Faro present that's six members present and three absent thank you so the school committee meeting minutes approval of the minutes of the organizational meeting and regular meetings on February 6 2025 and
the special meetings on January 22nd 2025 uh enclosure a motion to accept second thank you so now we're going to be moving to the public session
if there any um public comments uh please come to the podiums and you will have three minutes three minutes seeing none non comments so I will follow with the um with the regular
um committee meetings um minute I pass it to the Dr AA good good evening good evening um it's a pleasure to be here tonight and um do the name
strength and story Awards so now I know how to get the police department here but um actually we wanted to honor our SRO tonight and just say thank you for the work that our SRO do and our
schools every day um our s are a very much important part of Chelsea Public Schools and and the schools and I just want to say how grateful I am to have you and how you build relationships with
our students in our buildings every single day and because of that you you help us by knowing our kids by name strength and story and I know I I ran
into officer Pudo one day at Subway was about two months ago and we were both laughing because we were both eating I think it was our our lunch but it was really 400 p.m. and I we were talking
and he's like you know I I love what I do I love working with the kids and I wouldn't want to do anything else right now and um that that actually just made my day but I always hear of the work that officer Garrison does the work that
officer Dan Nia does and officer robless and um we're just so grateful for all that you do officer Daniel thank you and officer Maldonado we we couldn't uh we couldn't have a better
relationship with the Chelsea Police department and it's so important that our young people see officers who care about them who know them who are reaching out and wanting to help every single day and I'm just so incredibly grateful for our partnership with you
and of course um Chief I know you're not an SRO but I'm very grateful for the relationship that we have that I can text you and Pastor you on the weekends and stuff so I'm just very grateful so I I did want to take this time to um say
thank you um thank you for all that you do and so I'll go ahead and name all four and you can all come up at the same time um officer Maldonado um officer Daniel I'm not used to saying off
officer Daniel I always say Garrison I was like oh well who's Daniel Garrison officer sudo and officer D [Applause]
Nia and officer Roes [Applause] thank you and so uh we're just so incredibly grateful and um oh let you
guys get a picture and then school committee if you can come spe [Applause] con e so real quick before our officers leave us um Aaron would you like to say
something about our work with our [Music] sro's I pressed the wrong button um it's my name is um Dr Jennings I serve as the chief of staff um for the school district and I would say that it has been um an honor of mine to work with
what I believe is probably um our best community partner I know that as a school district that we are part of the city as well as the school depart as well as the um CPD you all are a part of the city but it it serves us well when we collaborate
it serves us well when we as central office staff as School leaders know our police officers by name story and strength and so I want to thank you on behalf of our superintendent and our um superintendent executive team thank you
for knowing us by name story and strength but more importantly knowing our students by name story and strength thank you [Applause]
and and and thank you and and Frank thank you so much for your work too Bri Bridging the [Applause] Gap okay and our next name strength and story award award goes to um Philip
candelo Philip is an attendance officer at Chelsea High School and I don't know how long you've been here Phil but I know it's a long time over 20 years and um there's one story that comes to mind when I think of you when I I think of
you and it's a a student who is now in his 30s who works at La colaborativa and is mentoring young boys and he said to me if it w weren't for Mr carangelo I probably would have not stayed at Chelsea High School and
graduated and Mr carangelo made such a difference in my life that he's the reason why I do the work that I do and I want to be the Mr carangelo to the students that I I work with at La
colaborativa and um Aon I was you know who I'm talking about but I tell him you need to go thank and Mr K thank Mr carangelo for for what you did and share with him because he said I was always in his office because I wasn't coming to
school and so uh we're gonna make sure you connect with him but when when he spoke of you Phil I I know I know that to be true because when I visit Chelsea High School and I see you with the kids
or in your office you and I can't even have a conversation without the door and kids popping their heads and every five minutes and you're like I'm busy and like within a matter of 20 minutes I think 10 kids had knocked on the door one time you and I were trying to talk
so it tells me that the students are very comfortable with you and that they Seek You for guidance and so we just wanted to say thank you for all that you do at Chelsea High School and and more so and just um being there for them and for knowing them by truly name strength
and story so thank [Applause] you for you okay so now we're going to continue with
the next um item in the agenda the report of the superintendent schools great so um it gives me great pleasure to have our next presentation um Dr Tamar Blake cany is going to go over uh our presentation on
high quality instructional materials um part of the reason why we're doing this is over the years we have invested 1.7 million in high quality instructional materials and we were so fortunate to
have the funds that we had and we used them wisely and so we just we wanted to give school committee an update of where this has gone what we are doing with high quality instructional materials because it was such a major investment
um that of this in our budget and our previous budget seasons and so um Dr tomarrow Blake cany I'll let you go ahead and go from here thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity to speak to you tonight
about the work that has been taking place for the last four years in our curriculum and instruction uh department when it comes to curriculum and teaching and learning I am like a kid with a toy this is truly the heart
of what wakes me up every single day and also what keeps me up at night because I'm always thinking about what's the best ways in which we can serve our students so teaching and learning is just like my thing I am just the happiest person when we can talk about
teaching and learning um coming out of covid uh we were fortunate to have Esra fans that we could use to purchase um high quality materials for our students staff we noticed that curriculum across
the from classroom to classroom along with from school to school were not aligned we knew we wanted to purchase these materials therefore we use our Esser funds to um adopt high quality
instructional materials the first onset of this work was presented to school leaders who also present to their teachers why high quality instructional materials was necessary and how that will also help us in our
retention for our new teachers who had a difficult time finish your sentences okay who had a a difficult time being new but then also had to write their own curriculum so the first work we did was put together curriculum
councils um sorry before before you jump right into your presentation I have a question which is can you explain what exactly high quality instructional materials are like is it like a certain category is it like a like how does a curriculum become labeled as high
quality instructional materials I can take that AES I was going to get into that but I will answer that question because I think it's important to frame it out for you um so high quality um instructional materials this basically mean these are the
materials that we are going to use to deliver instruction these materials are dubbed as high quality according to the Head report because they are research based they are scientific sound and there is a rigorous rubric that we used
to determine what the high quality instructional materials were when we put teachers in councils to look through materials speak to um reps from different um vendors all of our councils narrowed
down the top three materials before they voted on the material that they believe is best to meet the learning needs of our students their recommendation was then sent to the superintendent and she approves it and
then my department begins to purchase the material in the first year of implementing the materials teachers receive professional development by the vendor we also put together another
Council in which teachers got together and they shared what was going well with implementation and what were other areas in which they needed to develop more or also they needed more time to become familiar we only had teachers Implement
no more than three units because we wanted them to really take their time in their first year and really learn the materials feel comfortable with it before they implemented the full materials in their second
year okay [Music] um at the ELC our pre classrooms are implementing um Frog Street for mathematics grades k through
eight we're implementing illustrative math at the high school we are implementing reveal for ELA K through 8 we are implementing fish tank there was a nice little narrative that goes with that so
our Elementary grades were implementing fish tank and we saw that learning really changed children were more engaged in their learning the classroom was buzzing with wonderful conversation
there was truly a joy for Learning and not so much a heavy need to depend on technology well at the uh Middle School level and the high school level somehow they got a
wind of it and the teachers asked if they could take a field trip to the Elementary grades well we took them on a field trip they saw the amazing learning that was happening and they're like well what about us we want that material now
the high school was supposed to be in the third phase of the roll out of hqy they're like oh no we are not waiting until year three we want it now and so we were able to implement it in year two at the high school so that was a really
uh nice joy to hear um from the teachers our Caminos program which is our dual language program they are using the art in grades K through 5 and then the galile area in grades 6 through 7 we've
also worked with Boston College who is writing a thematic curriculum unit um that will also be in alignment with fish tank for history we have we are in the process of implementing discovering
Justice private eye history K through 4 investigating history in great 5 through 7 and then we have Democratic knowledge project in the eighth grade um for our world language classrooms they actually also have high
quality instructional materials and at the onset we had planned as a district to provide high quality instructional materials for our core content areas but all the other grades and subject areas were like well what about us and so we
were fortunate enough to have enough eser dollar so our world language in Spanish they're using ES SCU um for French they're using the Accord and for Portuguese they're using Ponto de and contro so I'm really
excited that even our world language class also has a curriculum material for phonics we are using phonics to read in which is really high level and it also not just focus on
memorization but also allow for for students to have discussions around like diones and diagraphs and why they put certain um sounds get letters together to create certain sounds and then also learning too about some of the nuances
of the English language we also put into place tier 2 materials which is is just materials for small reading groups so the materials that I shared earlier were tier one those are materials that every single
child in the classroom get access to but we also purchase tier two for small reading groups so that teachers can differentiate learning a little more as they're working with children in their small reading groups um some of the anecdotes that
teachers share with us this is an anecdote from a first grade teacher the new phonics curriculum is packed to the brim with a variety of opportunities for student learning each day includes multiple activities aimed at deepening
students understanding instead of root memorization the consistent routine repeated throughout the entire year creates a stable process that invites student to take risk and build confidence to begin applying phic skills
independently one of our grade four teachers shares that foundational language students are focusing on RL 4.3 standard described in depth a
character setting or even a story in or drama drawing on specific details in text I got to witness today at the Burt schools our elementary children
citing from the taex but also providing justification as to why they selected that citation that is higher order thinking
that is truly getting our children ready to be College and Career not just saying it but putting it into action and that brought joy to my heart today
that also brought comfort that our teachers when we trust them to select the right curriculum they do in fact pick the material that is well suited for our little ones so thank you again
teachers there are tons and tons of anecdotes and Praises that teachers have shared I implore you to go through these anecdotes and continue to uncover and read them for yourself thank
[Applause] you so tomorrow if you can let everybody know what year we're in like with elementary middle and high school oh doc I think Elementary is in its third year of implementing fish
Tech and Middle School it's is in its second year of implementing fish tank Ela as a high school is in its second year what would have been its first year but we started a year earlier so they're
in their second year for implementing the Odell curriculum along with the reveal math math at the elementary level is in its second year and at the no at the elementary yes
second year because they did literacy first and then so kudos to our elementary teachers okay because these phenominal people had to implement a whole lot more curriculum than anyone else because they teach most of their
content so those are our super super superheroes and our other teachers are also superheroes but those are the super super super and they took it on with great strides and they were just so happy and so enthusiastic and so when I
walked through the Elementary classes I was like hi everybody good morning how is it going and they're like come in here come and look at what we're doing one of the things that the that grades K through 8 has done because we have listened to our parents and our parents
want more writing so they're also taking on common writing assessment and we've just implemented our second common writing assessment and we've seen growth from the first CWA common right and assessment to the second and so you know
what we're going to also see growth with the third and I know we're also going to see tremendous growth on the mcast big things I say in our culture big things are happening in Chelsea and I am so blessed and so delighted to be a part of this amazing work so I thank
you great and thank you to Dr Blake KY another thing just to know if you look at our mcast where we're seeing most growth on mcast is in our Elementary grades no surprise because we're in year three of implementing right now year three but last year was year two of
implementing high quality instructional materials I mean and as Dr Blake KY did say it was a little bit overwhelming at first and now what we're hearing in our budget sessions was can we have more uh professional development for tier 2 can
we have more professional development materials for tier materials from tier two and so we're we're we've been that's what we we've been doing but again where we saw the most growth on mcast it's not it's no it's not a surprise to us that
it was at elementary because that's where we started and we expect expect to see growth later on on the grades that we started implementation a little bit later with so um everyone's done a great job and we're just continuing to dig a Little Deeper every single year and it's
I think I would like to say and our two princi uh teachers Vanessa and cther can probably vouch it gets easier every year it gets easier so um thank you I don't know if there's any questions any questions from the members Johnny uh
Johnny thank you so thank you so much uh Dr Blake KY for that amazing presentation I had an opportunity to read um one of the anecdotes one of them from the middle school science teacher and this is really encouraging to sort of see that you know they're thinking of themselves as a sort of facilitator for our students sort of like creativity
their curiosity so that's a beautiful thing um but this led me to sort of think about you know how we're developing our students creativity and um a lot of these seem to be focused on like stem subjects I'm wondering if there's any and this might not exist I'm
just asking out of curiosity but like for the Arts I'm thinking about like fine and Performing Arts is that something that HQ IM applies to is that something that's being potentially explored Bo um yeah cuz we do have a significant number of students who are
artists artistically inclined and we want to make sure that we're supporting you know all students and their passions so just wondering if there's been any talk on on that there hasn't been talk talks on that not because it's not warranted but
because a lot of Publishers have not caught up yet they have not written curriculum for those content areas with that said in the Arts our students also get to engage in higher order
thinking so they do get to engage in some of the high leverage instructional practices that promotes rigorous learning you're welcome thank you m car thank you for all of the information
that you um have provided so far um I will say that during the summertime which might be something that's also helpful um we provide uh some of the tital one uh funding uh resources as
well um which the children might not like it but it's kind of a little bit of a prep towards um uh the upcoming years and it's age appropriate and um curriculum appropriate and if you are a parent and you're able to join um any of
like the Coffee hours or any of the curriculum um geared uh or even like raising a reader or any any type of the school um General Sessions right the teachers
tend to create content that is even if it's a child play or games they're inclined to learning so sometimes it's just something that you would have been doing anyway
and it's like I that's you just taught your kid seven different ways to play and I'm looking at the teacher like oh my God I can't believe you just this is this makes so much sense I didn't even think about this like and and it it's very helpful you're you know it's it's
opening up your your mind to different possibilities and again you're connecting with your child you're teaching them different ways to be um exploring and critical thinking and you're also bonding um with materials
that you already have um and also you know even the writing um yeah I would also um add that our family Leons have also come alongside the teachers so the family Leons have been going to some of
the classrooms observing instruction they've put together a team that consists of the family lons and some teachers and they have also done some workshops with the high quality instructional materials so that families also understand how these materials are
being used in the classroom um earlier you mentioned summer learning so we had a few what we call popup in the Park summer session where families came in and they met us at the park and we unpacked some of the Learning Materials
we taught we worked with the families on how to use the materials at home and then the children were able to bring the materials home with them so for the math one um to piggy back on that oh that was a hot day the the Liaisons were actually
the ones that did the you know the and they were like coins and and um you know they so even our family Lees on are Educators because it takes a whole village Mr Jay had a whole money money song that he uh shared so yes everybody
all hands on deck yes so thank you thank you any anybody else would like to ask questions to Dr CL Dr Blake no thank you so much for your presentation and for your passion when
when you are talking about uh the students and and the education that they are receiving and thank you to the teachers also for the dedications and commitment because this is something that we we are really proud of what they
have receiv receiving from from the teachers and from the community thank you so much D you can you could stay there because you have the next indicators you have indicators of success as well but I will say because we've adopted high quality instructional
materials that's also helped us qualify for Grants because Grant uh when we when it's like with the Department of Ed when they're looking at our application they want to know do we have research-based materials and because we have research
based materials they're apt to fund us one of the reasons why we qualified for the 18 ignite Grant was because we had an ecosystem already we had high quality instructional materials and that was part of the reason why we were able to be selected for the the grant so that
has been something that Grant fun funders are looking for is are is a district using high quality struction of materials is there a foundation that they can build off of so it's been very beneficial in that regard too so um
moving on to our next item is our indicators of success again that we do track our T our our student growth our learning and attendance is important and we know that attendance matters so um Dr Blake I'll let you take it from here
again thank you Dr Rea so as you know um we know that Student Success depends on a myriad of factors so as a district we recognize that high quality instructional materials is not enough to
make sure that our students are set up for Success so we do look at attendance rate as well and we are really fortunate to know that in grades 1 through 8 over 90% of our students are present um when you look at the district
average as a whole almost 90% of our students are present in the classrooms so that's really to be commended in terms of our high school dropout rate as of October 1st enrollment we had
1,827 um today we only had 68 students so we are behind on the percentage at 3.72 so that's really a great sign we do want to keep our brilliant students with us
in terms of our mobility ratees in um the month of February for a kindergarten we had six kindergartens in seven out for elementary it was neutral 15 in 15
out for middle school was 16 in 22 out high school was 15 in 10 out total as the district was 52 in 54 out which puts us at a -2 difference but when you look
at it cumulatively for kindergarten 74 out 47 in that's the difference of 27 for elementary 190 in 140 out that is a difference of
50 for high school it's 100 I'm sorry for Middle School is 14 one in 112 out that's the difference of 29 for high school 29 in
176 out that is a difference of 33 when you look at it totally we had 614 students in 475 students out that is a difference of 139
thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity to present to you tonight thank you great thank you so now we move to the student achievement student not the student uh student
representative the outdate good evening Dr ala and Madame chairwoman and to the school committee members um I want to start off by acknowledging that many of our CHS and CPS students have started Ramadan this month which is exciting and to add on to
that it's women's History Month which is really exciting for all of us it's being women here have to that and in addition to that it's also soci um social workers month so uh we want to appreciate all the work that
those um people have done I know my social worker I really love her and I have a really strong connection to her so I definitely will be saying my thanks to her um yeah um good evening Dr um albaa Madame chairwoman and the rest of the school
committee members um last week we hosted a senior assembly it was just to go over um the prom Logistics about like what was going to go down um and where it was going to be held it's going to be held in davensport which was last year's same location um we also talked about the
guidelines about like if students were not to show up the day before um prom which is a Friday they weren't allowed to attend prom and yeah um on February 25th NHS members including all the student reps here had their induction ceremony which was
really exciting a bunch of family and friends from all the members came it was a cherishable moment afterwards we had an amazing pot look where we had had a variety of food that each member brought in so it's a really a fun moment and a
core High School memory for us and this year's prom um it's going to be a dazzling Hollywood theme so I'm super excited so get your dresses on your tuex um tickets will be um available starting in March for just seniors which is
$75 and then for non- seniors it will be $80 after March um so please pick up your tickets during all three lunches uh on March 20th I invite actually all the school committee members to come to CHS to support the
self-care Fair that's hosted by the teen Action project um I'm actually a part of this group and we've been working like since we've started in September to create a bunch of activities for mental and physical health uh we invite you to come with your families with little ones
it's definitely a fun moment it'll be in the cafeteria from 2:30 to 4:00 so please come if you can um last week also the class of 2025 hosted um a successful tournament for volleyball it was a
fundraiser um partnering up also with the boys volleyball team of Chelsea High School the tournament featured eight teams six to seven players and we had people all around like Massachusetts we had people from Everett Somerville um
Lynn did I mention R yeah V we had all different people join the volleyball team so that was really really fun to watch uh currently I feel like I can speak for all seniors when it comes to how we're feeling we're probably most of us are feeling uneasy for those who
haven't committed yet but on the brighter side it's time where we're applying for scholarships now and recently they actually opened up the local Chelsea scholarship so um CHS seniors should look into those because those are really good ways to get a
little extra money to add on um on an exciting note we're so proud to acknowledge one of our senior um students Brandon Osa I know him personally we're in a nonprofit organization called La not LA laas and
um he was named as a young Latino leaders of the future planeta so congrats to him if you're watching this as March has started many of the AP Scholars are starting to get ready for their AP mock exams these aren't the actual exams but they're an opportunity
for students to get a test run of what it's like to take the exam especially for those who this might be their first time taking an AP course uh it helps them know what's might be on the test and along with preparation so that they can get the best score that they can for
the official one in May and lastly our winter sports a award tonight will be next week on March 11th at CHS starting at 4:30 and all parents and families are invited to intend thank
you okay thank you you you guys are so organ ladies are so organized you did an amazing job so thank you for being so thorough and and coming prepared and really knowing everything I had notes to announce women's history month and all
these things you already did it so I don't have to so you you can come when I'm out and and sit here and run the meeting and um so so thank you and really appreciate all that how you are
so thoughtful about your reporting and um for those that want to chaperon a high school prom I do it every single year and I love it and so um I'm speaking mostly to Cabinet I I love going going to our our Proms and I love
seeing the kids have so much fun um so always looking for chaperon um and you can wear gold it's Hollywood night so um thank you so I'll move on to our reports in terms of personnel and our
demographic data we have hired 100% Hispanic this month and then in terms of our student enrollment we're holding stud at 6,123 students I would like to commend these two reports for the
record that's all I have thank you thank you Dr so now um committee reports it is in enclosure D I will commend uh this uh reports to the uh for the record
motion I make a motion all second thank you so moving to business um item 25 sc13 consideration and action to amend the non-bargaining salary and wage
schedu for 20 24 25 and enclosure e the explanation each year the school commit reviews and approv the nonb bargaining salary and weight schedules for hourly positions and salary positions this we need a roll
call may I ask a few questions first sure um can you explain how these increases were determined sure I'm going to actually call up Christine Lee to the podium to
answer your questions good evening school committee so uh during our budget subcommittee we had discussed kind of the criteria of how these salaries are determined um every year we take a look at where everyone is
especially on the top tier and we make adjustments this year as a superintendent has um identified and we've clarified during our subcommittees we are uh noticing that there were some people who were at the top of the scale and so in anticipation
of the July 1 um effective date when salary increases will um commence we adjusted the top scills of some of the some of the Bands where there were people at at the top and so um it was an
an anticipation of some of those changes that we know we would be making come July 1st so in places where it's bold does that indicate a change or how come there are some cells that are empty and some that aren't so yes so some of the cells where
you see the bold that does indicate a change um some of the bottom tiers didn't require a change so if you look at the principal starting salary that didn't require a change because um any new any new leaders who are coming on
board um that we did look at the market scale and it does seem appropriate if there's a big someone in the beginning tier of their career um but again some of the the principal salaries will be adjusting come July first because we do
have some veteran principles um for the other categories where both numbers are bolded it's because there needed to be an adjustment as salaries increase over time and especially with um a lot of our contracts being updated this year it
bumps up against the salaries that we have at the at the bands especially the bands that are um starting from classification I that is the the band where there is a more entry level um
salary component and so that's why there's been some adjustments to make sure that the ranges are spaced out and adequate way and but also thinking about the changes that we've made to the contracts to make sure that they are
Equitable so um where there are numbers next to like classification a classification B classification C that means that number applies to all the positions that are in that category yes so then the I I see now that the only
one that's different is principles Elementary and principle so threw me off yeah that one is a little confusing um but we did space them out separately so yes okay so in every other category that
that's what I meant by missing cells I didn't understand why yeah yeah it's just that that part um they the principles are separated okay and Elementary versus high school right right um and my last question is I I
think I might Rec call at a prior meeting something about like were these increases related to the increases that are given to the bargaining units or like they they match those increases is that how it was determined or something like that
so there's a variety of factors um one of the factors as I mentioned uh takes into account salaries where there might be people at the very top and so come July 1 there wouldn't be any place to move and we did decide to do this a
little bit earlier this year just in anticipation where in previous years come May and June there's a lot that is happening in school committee and so this seemed like a good time to do that um so that's one factor and then the
second factor is the the various contracts that we've negotiated that does play into account so if you look at for example classification H Administrative Assistant um computer section this band is similar to some of
our clerical um unit members and so there that we wanted to make sure that the salaries um are are increasing at similar rates and so that's one example of how we determined
what the band would look like and how the contracts do play into factor of some of these rates but as you can imagine as um salaries increase that means that there's less people on the bottom of the scale and then it continues to move up and so those are
there's a variety of factors but those are a few to name and then just as a rule of them what we do is we settle we always settle you U the teacher contract educator contracts first then we go to the non-bargaining units and then we go
back to the units where we settled one-year contracts and then go and settle all those so basically everybody's getting pretty much the there's Equity across the board in terms of our non-bargaining units as well because they don't they don't belong to
a bargaining unit so we we do increase the pay the same as the educator unit I understand now thank you so much any other questions thank you so much um Christine really appreciate this um update just
wanted to bring um one minor edit um just ensuring that uh this is effective July 1 of 2025 unless we're offering that retroactive pay um so just want to ensure that that's updated um but otherwise thank you so much for this update thank you yeah we apologize for
that we did have um some edits and it seems that um yeah my mistake I didn't update the the 24 so this is effective 2 thank you so much and I really appreciate that we're continuing to offer competitive pay for all of our
Educators across the district and remaining competitive um in our region so thank you yes and thank you to the school committee I actually do have a question if we're going based um to a certain degree on the contract that we settled then why are we going based on 202 um and we settled the contract and
we the contract that we just settled went back retroactive then why are we going based on 2025 I know that some of the stuff is um in anticip you know based on anticipation but if that is the case then if we're being um you know
that's a good question yeah so when we started this new year we had all of our non-bargaining unit members at a 3% and because we looked at our budget and we identified where we would be able to come to given um that we knew that this
was a contract negotiation year so all of our ask me unit um CA everyone got a 3% and so there there isn't a need to adjust this at this time and so that's why um we were we were okay with the
salaries that we had and everyone's at the same at the right place and it doesn't go into affecting their current salaries because we already adjusted them on July one yeah we adjusted them last year in July for 3% increase already
thank you thank you thank you Christina all right moving on the item 25 sc16 the first reading of the revised operating protocol enclosure F uh the policy and procedures sub committee has
met on two occasions to review and revise the operating uh protocols for the chela school committee and we have a first reading before moving for the vote Madam chair we have to do a roll call for the non- bargaining first we we
need to uh move this for for a vote for the uh for the next correct but we missed the roll call for the non- bargaining oh yes oh yes thank you um we need a um a r call for the
presentation of the uh item 25 st13 Mr orrian yes Miss Enriquez yes Miss cabal yes Mr Gomez Pera yes Miss Bas yes Dr
Neville yes Miss koves gavo yes Miss Al Faro yes that's eight in the affirmative one absent the motion passes eight in the affirmative and one action motion pass thank you and I'm sorry for the next one is I don't um I
2516 the first reading and Revis oper perent protocol the explanation the policy and procedure subcommittee has met in two occasions to review and revise the operating protocols for the Chelsea school committee and will have a first reading before moving for vote any
other the members has any anything to add um before people ask questions I make a motion to wave the reading uh yes thank you and uh we need a motion to move the
um this item for the next uh meeting to um to vote I'll make a motion second second thank you so much so now we're going to be moving to new business the item 25
SC uh 17 consideration and action to assct a gift of 3,000 from the S International for student workers of the Chelsea High School student Summit enclosure G the explanation SRI International in partnership with the B
Foundation is providing funding to support the student facilitator for the Chelsea High School student Summit These funds are being received as we had agreed to complete the CMM extended student survey an integral part of the our Chelsea High School
gray imination project the massachusett general LS chapter 71 section 37a provide for the assistance to give only with the approval of the chel school committee uh Rock Off
please Mr Oran yes Miss hriz yes Miss cabal yes Mr Gomez Pera yes M balderas yes Dr Neville yes m car yes Miss Al Faro yes
let see in the affirmative and one absent motion passes affirmative one action motion pass item uh 25 sc8 consideration and action to ass sex to 145 Millions
something uh 44260 for FY 25 from the FY 24 from the es for the Emergency assistant ehl reimbursement Grant the explanation the es Pro process payment for the Emergency
assistant e shelter for the amount of 10489 a date the re reimbursement program for fiscal year 2024 we received the first payment in the amount of 150 uh, milion
71275 on May 20 2024 and the second payment in the amount of 977 2985 on August 19 2024 the massachusett general loes at chapter 71 section 378 provides the
assant the grants only with the approval to the chel school committee R call please Mr ask a question um yes I'm just curious about how this works I noticed that it has a daily amount is that daily
per student and is it in addition to like the Chapter 70 like does a a student get counted in Chapter 70 and then this so this is remember we received students um throughout this year in
Emergency Shelters and so those students were not included in the original Chapter 70 and so this is the just the Desi what they are reimbursing us per per student students per day and so
then we get we're getting this in like two different payments but it's all after in a way it's kind of after the fact because we've had the students all year long or some of them all year long not all of them does it does it apply to every child in emergency shelter or just
the ones that weren't counted in the what is it October 1st count it it counts there's somehow some kind of reporting that gets reported to desie when they register with us at PE and
they're in and classified as students who are in the emergency shelter okay I'm grateful but I wish we would have gotten it earlier please Mr
Oran yes Miss hriz yes Miss cabal yes m Mr Gomez Pera yes Miss belas yes Dr Neville yes Miss koves carav yes and Miss alaro yes let's see in the affirmative and one absent motion passes a and the affirmative one absent motion
pass item 25 sc19 consideration and action to assct 138 55969 for Sy y25 from the es for the Emergency assistant shelter reimbursement Grant the explanation is that thei has Pro process payments for
the Emergency assistant shelter for the amount of 10489 a day for the re reimbursement program for fiscal year 2025 these payments cover the period uh from the beginning of this school year to
December 2024 for each eligible student who has reported in the our district homeless and Foster Care application R call please Mr ran yes Miss Enriquez yes Miss cabal yes Mr
Gomez Pereira yes Miss balderas yes Dr Neville yes Miss kovas carav yes and Miss Al Faro yes let's see any the affirmative and one absent motion passes a and the affirmative one action motion pass consideration and action to assct
40,000 for sy25 from Dei from the Ida Federal target special education program Improvement Grant the explanation the purpose of this grant is to support schools and districts to implement I impr Improvement projects with a
strong emphasis on transitioning to to utilizations of the newly revised forms and processes the project goal is to improve outcome for all the students with disability by providing guidance technical assistance and tools on Equitable processes to school and
District professional families and students so that all students with disability had meaningful access to the curriculum framework in life of the school please Mr Oran
yes sorry Miss Enriquez yes Miss cabal yes Mr gz Pera yes Miss Valderas yes Dr Neville yes Miss kovas carav yes and Miss Al Faro yes let in the affirmative one absent motion passes a on the affirmative one absent motion pass thank
you consideration and action to ass SE an award of 25,000 in private Grant funds to support CBS music programming for FY 24 and 25 the district has received additional funds from the Moray B bin charitable trust the charal
purpose is to provide a scholarship to students as studying music at any educational level in any recognized educational institution or musical program to provide financial support in for furtherance of the ability of the student referen about to continue their
musical Studies by way of instrumental rental and other expenses re uh reasonable necessary for their continued study BR Please Mr ran yes Miss Enriquez yes Miss
cabal yes Mr Gomez Pera yes Miss Valderas yes Dr Neville yes Miss koves carav yes Miss Al Faro yes that's say in the affirmative and one absent motion passes the affirmative in one accent motion passes consideration and action to asset
a gift for for of 4,000 from Spring point for Chelsea High School participation in the transformative leaders of massachusett Fellowship THM the explanation spring Point has gifted Chelsea High School with a school honorari and gratitude for their
participation in the TM Fellowship the honorary may be dispersed by the school has they see fit considering impacts the fellowship and where those resources and efforts will be best put to
use Mr ran Mr rean yes mriz yes Miss cabal yes Mr Gomez perea yes Mr Miss balderas yes Dr Neville yes mov Caro yes Miss Faro yes let's see in the
affirmative one absent motion passes in the affirmative one accent motion passed thank you um now we pass move to the communications any Communications that are are coming from the members or
from no no Communications any announcement you have any yeah just to to uh say like uh Dr ala was trying to say happy International women's day in events I would like to congratulate all the
females in the whole District of Chelsea schools but also overall happy International women's day that is coming on May um March 8th felic thank [Applause] you I also want to say that um yesterday
we were in a meeting where they're trying to get all together to F for the justice of um for um students communities um and in schools so we can get together and fight for um our rights
and um we trying to do a big movement um statewise and outside the state uh we were 2,000 people yesterday in that meeting where we trying to get all together and five for the money that Trump wanted take take away from sar's
places so um I posted um I don't know I posted a like their sign um on my Facebook so anybody uh link uh we can also put it in the school committee um I
don't know if we can put that so people know um if they are interested to fight for for our rights and for um for the money that they want to take it away we have to if we don't have get
together and we don't fight for what um we need then not going to give it to us so we need to raise our voice and we need to fight for it so I'm just wanted to let people know that it's a big movement that is going to starting well
already starts and it's all over USA so if you want to enjoy us and fight with us you're welcome to do it and pass the War I uh there being teachers um everybody who really wanted
to to fight for this issue and uh we know that I mean they're going on a lot of things so we really need to fight for it thank you so much thank you Maya motion toj um no um just one quick announcement just
wanted to for any folks in the district that are interested in Career and Technical Schools as well like nor Eastern and other um technical schools the board of Elementary and secondary education actually going to be discussing the selective criteria for
admittance so I know that this is a passion of some of our students and wanted to give a reminder that March 10th there will be a special meeting from 5: to 7:00 p.m. um where they'll have a live stream so just wanted to give that reminder for the Board of Education um special meeting March 10th
thank you any any other announcement I do actually um I believe that on Saturday this upcoming Saturday we will be having City Hall will be having an event here and um for international women's day um and shortly after that um
the police department ver and the fire department will be um having an a fundraiser I believe it's the hope for Heroes and that will be taking place at um the Chelsea High School school I believe it's it begins at 1:00 uh from
1: to 2: you could purchase um your uh tickets at the police station or if you cannot attend you could also purchase a t-shirt um at the police station as well um you don't have to have a
favorite um but it does go to the uh it does go the proceeds go to the organization itself so it doesn't go to our our our local um First Responders it's it's um it's a charitable event um so it's two uh community events and then
also our uh bante campaign on the 15th is also going to be having something um at the lawn and I'm only mentioning these events because it's Community bonding time so it's time for us to um be able to participate at the fif uh the
March 15th event will also have like the touch of truck um events um so you'll get to also have that um going on and and on a personal level today is my son's uh seventh birthday so he is not tooth thrilled that you know we had to share this but such as such as life so
thank you very much um for uh having all of the information um provided as usual um and you guys um as always let thanks for letting us know about all of the stuff the good stuff happening at the high school level so if you haven't
figured out where you're going I'm sure you'll figure that out soon enough so the world is your oyster that's all motion that sorry I'm sorry just two more announcements I'll be quick um the first thing is I wanted
to uh shout out and thank Senator saldi Dominico because yesterday uh yeah it was yesterday he held a um legislative briefing in partnership with two other state senators about um the different
legislative efforts to fix the inflation issue which if they pass then it would give us $7 million extra in our budget which is a really important issue um I was grateful that they Loop me in to help share the perspective of um why
this was an important bill for Chelsea so that was really great and lots of thanks to S um and the second thing I wanted to say is that today um I had the great honor and pleasure of uh visiting Mr rogo's uh after school program with
Michael Sullivan um because we were going to promote the Chelsea research Festival to the students and um we wanted to get their feedback on how we can make the Chelsea research Festival better because they are some of our most dedicated attendees and um they told me
that I should promote the Chelsea research festival at school committee to make sure that more people attend so I just wanted to follow up on that promise thank you and I attended and it was fun and you learned a lot and the the students that present are actually
very very engaged and the presentations are so eloquent the the PowerPoint presentations like they they are I mean they're top tier they are so they're digital they're I mean I I you
could I I feel like there there should be a bridge between like having an intersectional um just learning you know that should be a research uh topic there now I make a motion toin the
meeting