Good evening. I'd like to call the school committee meeting of June 24th, 2025 to order. We all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, Chris, why don't you read the statement? Uh, found public schools mission. The found public schools creates worldclass student learning experiences. Our clippers are empowered
to pursue their goals with curiosity, integrity, and resiliency. Found public schools vision. Clippers are creative, inquisitive, and engaged learners who participate in their community as socially responsible citizens. Clippers effectively communicate and solve problems that impact the world around
them. Hey, um, we are reopening after executive session. I don't know if I needed to mention that, but just as a point of order. Um, and I would like to read the recording statement. In accordance to the Massachusetts open
meeting law, I would like to remind anyone that this meeting is being recorded. If any member of the public would like to make an audio or video recording of this meeting, please notify me by raising your hand either in person or remote. Okay. Thank you. Um, would
you please state your name? Okay. Okay. Thank you. Additionally, all participants are reminding are reminded to mute their microphones when not speaking to minimize background noise. Um,
so we will now have public comment. Members of the public are welcome to speak about items that are not on the agenda. Comment should be limited to 2 minutes in length. Due to open meeting law, the committee cannot act on public comment. For items on the agenda, the chair may accept comments from the
public following the committee's discussion of an item. Additional comments and feedback can also be submitted by email to found school committee at falmouth.k12.mma. us. Is there anybody who would like to
make public comment? Yes. Yes, please. Um recently um we are required to ask your address. You don't need to give your street number but just your street name please. Good evening. My name is Kathy Thomas. I
live on Ticket Highway. I am a concerned grandparent of two children who currently attend the Felmouth public schools. I have had a child or grandchild in the Felmouth public schools for the last 39 years. Going forward, I do not know what your plan is for the elementary schools. I know you
want an early learning center. I have nothing against early education as I myself am an early child educator. I do have a problem with Felmouth Public Schools opening one if your solution is then to merge two schools. I seriously thought the school merging was off the
table and I'm hoping that was true. If it's not true, it should be. I strongly oppose overcrowding, but it's not acceptable, especially if this happening in just one school. If one school is shut down, then all of the elementary schools should equally be affected. I've
heard at a past school committee meeting a member say that they're here because they care about the students and their education. Do you? Do you really? Then the decision should be made as to what is actually best for the children and not what is easiest or most convenient for you. Please take a hard look at what
is best for the students and the families involved. I heard at one meeting a committee member say she didn't want to make a decision against the merge because she had not heard from any parents who are for it and she wanted to hear from them before making the decision. She did not hear from any
parents in favor of emerge because there weren't any. Who would want to sign their child up for overcrowding? The superintendent said the overcrowding would just be for a few years. So for these few years, the education of the students at this particular school wouldn't matter.
I'm hoping that you will look long and hard at your choices and pick the choice that benefits the children. All of the children, not just some of the children. I appreciate your time and I hope you're truly listening to what the families who would be affected by this want. The voices of the families deserve to be
heard. We do know what is best for our children. Thank you. Is there any other person who would like to make a public comment? Okay. Thank you. Was there anybody at home? I don't no. Okay.
All right. Moving along then. Our next item on the agenda will be an update from the superintendent. Right. Thank you, Terry. Um so the first update um continued good news with the state budget um process. Um so the it went to the um uh budget conference um that uh I
talked about at the last meeting and they did u vote um to go to the higher number that the Senate um submitted and so then it passed the House and passed the Senate. So it is now on the governor's um table. So this is so um
I'm speaking about the uh circuit breaker um portion. Um this would raise um the reimbursement from a 44% level to a 75% level of reimbursement. Don't get too excited. It's not 75% of the entire
bill. It's only 75% after you meet the threshold. So, I just want to, you know, but still it's a it's still an improvement over um not only did they do that, but they um so you're um so next year we get payment
for this year. So, it's always done in a year later. It's already also um budgeted for the FY27 and voted so um so for the next year. So, it's very good news and so I just wanted to share and um and that's now sitting on the the
governor's um desk. So, good news. Um the next thing I want to mention, we have talked uh many times about the circuit breaker and the amount of money and the cost um you know over the last couple years and that we have been drawing down from the stabilization fund
uh and we've talked about the replenishment. So I just wanted to mention now that um we will uh be bringing forward a article um that's um going to ask to have it replenished at the November meeting. So, just more more to come, but just wanted you to know
that um uh we're still in the process with the town as to, you know, getting those articles together. So, I want to do that. And then the third thing tonight I want to um uh talk about is the Northbouth roof procurement process. And I'm going to actually turn it over
to Paul um so he can uh speak about that. Okay. Um, let me just say we're going to go into a little bit of detail because of uh questions asked by the public about the procurement process for the North Thoth
roof. Um, so I just wanted to walk you through the thought process behind that. Um, so you all may be familiar with it. Um, some of it get may get a little detailed. So, u I beg you forgiveness on
that, but it's a good time to get people familiar with it. Um there was a bid protest that was filed by a citizen um that we have responded to that by outside council. Um so, while there can
be a couple questions, I prefer that we kind of hold questions until that matter resolved. But let me just walk you through the high level of it. And uh first let me just give you a bit of history. So if you recall uh there was a tick
roofing project done in uh in the summer of 22. All right. Uh where the entire roof was replaced and some masonry work done on the outside of the building. That project uh was budgeted for 3.5
million. It came in just around 3 point 3.7 million for a budget. It came in uh the total cost was around $3.5 million. So it came in under budget. The uh the OPM, the owner's project
manager for that project was company called Left Field. And the individual who was assigned to that project from Left Field, the senior project manager was James Freestall. reef stall. Um, and
the architect on that project was Slam Collaborative and the contractor on that project was Capeway Roofing. So, those three uh companies delivered that project under budget and on time. And for the general
public, one of the challenges of doing a school-based project is getting it done in the summer months. So you have roughly 44 days for example to do the north south roofing project. We have
eight rain days on top of that if we get rained out during the work week. So you you're really under a lot of pressure to get a project done. Otherwise it could end up by affecting the opening of the
school come September. So on but on on time is a really good uh uh feature and obviously under budget speaks for itself. So that was the that's the context. All right.
So in April of 2023 uh the town approved an article for $240,000 to study the roofing needs of three schools. East Salmouth, North Salmouth, and Morris Pond. East
Salmouth was determined it did not need a roof. Uh the two roofs that were determined to be needing and the one that needed it the quickest was north. So, uh, at this point, we could use that
money that was approved under the town article to then continue on into the next design phase. In this case, for the North Felmouth project. So within that 240,000 we had accomplished the study of the
three roofs and now moved into using the remaining fund for the actual architectural initial architectural design of the roof. So that was April 23 moving into the
summer. Now, come October of 203, we submitted uh what they call an RF RFQ, which is a request for qualifications. An RFQ
uh they uh is how you choose an OPM, right? It's qualifications based. It's not pricebased. So you pick a firm for example that has done a lot of work on schools that has
extensive experience say with the MSBA projects um that has done work for the town or has done work for the SEMA public school system and for us the most important feature feature of that is have they done work for the school
system have they done work for the town and did they meet the other qualifications having done extend ense of school stud uh schoolbased work on that basis left field was chosen
again to be the OPM for the initial stage the initial stage of the design work for North Falmouth. Likewise, another RFQ was issued for the architect and under
that criteria, the same criteria, uh, SLAM collaborative who had done the architectural work for the TT ticket school was selected as the architect to be used for the NEMA project. So that
started this work. Now that initial phase went to up until the point of what they call the 50% design stage and at that point the arcing detect can now submit
the design that they have to their cost estimators and they can then come up with the total cost of the project. So that came into the March, April, May period where those final numbers were completed
and now pens down that ended the first phase because you cannot spend any money beyond what was initially allocated. All right. So in April of 24,
we then go to the town with this cost estimate for the $4.9 million roofing project for North Fallon. All right. Town meeting overwhelmingly approves that project. It goes to a ballot
measure. town vote is overwhelming. We approved the the project, but the funding doesn't become available until July. So now we have to start a second phase
of this now this project. So we issued a second RFQ request for qualifications. We issued another RFQ for the architect and design and through this process and
a qualificationsbased process which is essentially a subjective process we then choose the firm next level to be our OPM. The question is why next level? It's
because the individual who worked at left field who who worked on the Ticket project who then went on to work with us on the initial stage of the North Felmouth project has now spun out and
created its own firm. And so it is that individual that we felt the most comfortable with having our knowledge of having worked on the tick project and on the initial design of the north thmouth project. So
on that basis, since he was working with us on that design and on other smaller projects, we chose him to continue to work with us under the RFQ process. And we also picked SLAM Collaborative to
continue given the same history to continue the work with us on the and finish the design on the north. So now the design work was finished and the project now goes out to bid
and we received four bids for the construction of the project. The highest bid was 4.7 million and change. The lowest bid was 2.1 million. The lowest bid
did not include the engineering work, the civil engineering work that was required under the project. They viewed it as only a roofing project despite instruction otherwise.
That bidder as soon as they realized their mistake withdrew the bid for what they call clerical error. They made a mistake in the bidding process. So that eliminated the low bid. The next bid up,
the next lowest bidder was Capeway Roofing at $3.3 million and change. Capeway roofing won the bid. They are the same company that we had done used
on the T ticket process. So through a competitive process, T uh Capeway roofing won the bet at $3.3 million. They were the lowest bit. All right. So what do we have today? We have an OPM
that worked with us on Ticket. We have the architects that worked with us on the Ticket project. And now through the competitive low bid process, we have Cape Capeway roofy uh doing this project. This project is underway. Um it
started in fact Monday with the stripping of the roof. Um it's well progressing etc. But that essentially the team that delivered the heat ticket project under budget on time has been
reassembled through a competitive process to do the north roof project. So that's the history of the the process. All right. All right. Okay. We go around the room
for remember our severed questions. So I just wanted to say thank you. Okay. Thank you. It was really informative. I just wanted to acknowledge that even though we could answer questions that they've complained or whatever, but I
don't have a question. I also just want to thank you and thanks for uh getting the dream team back together. Yeah, you know, see being somebody who sat here and watched the T ticket project come in under budget and on time to know that that potential is there again is
remarkable, especially it's unheard of in construction. So, thanks Susie. No, I'm good. Thank you very much. Thank you, Paul. I felt like I was watching um Oceans 11 or something. That was crazy. All right. Thanks. Thank you.
Anything else? No. Oh, I want to thank you. I also want to thank you for the thoroughess of of your work you do because we have to do the north found roofing now because it wasn't done correctly and knowing that you are very careful about what you do. We really are
grateful for that. Thank you. Nice part. One thing I wasn't aware of is the um drainage problem that leaks the water into the building too. That's far away from what I thought a roofing would entail.
Yeah. So, thank you for very thorough report. Thank you, Superintendent. Anything else? That completes of the update tonight. Okay. I'm really happy to announce the next item on the agenda, which is a pres presentation of the
sharing kindness program. So, you can be really careful with this chair. Thank you. Um, good evening, superintendent. It's nice to see you. It's nice to see you
public schools. I'm Kathleen Sha O'Brien. I'm the director of clinical and community services at Sharing Kindness. We are a nonprofit. We're relatively young. We are seven years officially a 501c3. We started um with suicide prevention
awareness education work and we morphed into doing peer grief support which is actually suicide prevention in a more upstream way. And one of the things that happened as we were starting to do our work and fit the gaps in services across
the Cape and both islands um we were sort of reassured that the people in Cape Cod don't like to travel especially over the bridge but not exclusively over the bridge. We are in Harwitch. And so what we decided we
needed to do in order to meet the needs of our school children who were bereaved was to begin doing peer grief support in schools. We met with Lori, we met with Alan, we met with Sandy. Um we stated our case
and we were granted permission and I believe it was brought before this committee for um approval. So thank you. So, what I'm here to do this evening is to just tell you how much I love your kids. Okay? Um, I'm I'm a sandwich
person for many, many years, close to 50 years. We recently moved to Bourne and I said to my husband after my first six weeks in doing a found project, why the heck didn't we move to found? So, I will tell you what sharing
kindness did. We facilitated four clinician-led peer grief support groups at Morse Pond, Lawrence, and Falmouth High School. The really operative word here is clinicianled. All of our peer grief support groups are
led by a licensed clinician who are trained by us in addition to having their state lensure for a couple of reasons. We want to make sure that they are grief informed. We want to make sure that they are giving psycho education to people that is correct information and
not part of a family bias or their own grief lens. And so we have been very very fortunate to have a number of clinicians across the Cape and the islands that have been trained. They all have other day jobs um and they have worked with us
before the groups actually start. And this is one of the key points that I want to make. I provide what's called grief 101, cultivating a grief informed school in each of the buildings where we are going to have peer grief support. And the reason for that is imagine we do
all this work for six or eight weeks with the kids and they leave the group and they go to a staff member at their building who isn't grief informed. It potentially can undo all of the work that we've done. It confuses children.
It may give them misinformation through no sense of malice, but just because somebody thinks that they're doing the right thing. In order to do a grief 101, um, administrators in buildings have to do a big dance. They need to make sure that
they're maintaining the contractual agreements with their staff. They scoot me in when they can, and I oblige. And I am able to do this, as you know, superintendent, in 30 minutes or less. if you all have a presentation that comes before mine. Yes. Sorry about
that. No, it was very informative and I can speak really fast and so we we shot it all done. The point is we need to create safe and supportive environments for conversations about grief and loss and we recognize that grief isn't only about death loss. It's about other
losses, but for our purposes, it's a death loss. We also know that we improve student outcomes by providing grief support and having those supportive people within the buildings. We also advocate for grief informed strategies with school leaders. We identify appropriate grief and loss intervention
by age group. And we allow staff, this was fascinating, we allow staff to look at their own grief biases. What did your family do when somebody died? Could you talk about it? Did pictures come down? Was it never
spoken of again? And whatever your story is, how have you internalized that and perhaps unwittingly extended that to the students that you're teaching? And I don't think we've ever had a grief 101 where at least two or three faculty
members have come up and said, "Oh my god, I think I need to write letters of apology to students I've had in the past." Absolutely not. What you did was out of the goodness and kindness of your heart. You didn't know any better. but now YouTube and what difference that's going to make for the kids.
There is um a wonderful PDF that you can access. I didn't bring copies. It's very long. Um it's called Becoming Grief Informed, a call to action and it's put out by the Dougie Center, which is the nation's oldest bereavement center in the country out of Portland, Oregon,
where I happen to be trained the summer of 2019. So that sort of puts that piece in in its nice little package. Each six-week group is a curriculum-based program. All of the students, as you probably
already know, are chosen by guidance staff in the buildings. Sharing kindness provides them, theou has already been signed. Sharing kindness provides them with a letter to the parents and a registration in building. They send that out to the
parents. The parents return it to that person in the building who then share it with us. In that way there's no confusion about who's in charge. Down with public schools is in charge. We are just coming in. And may I also add and perhaps important um at no cost to the
school. So when we do our curriculum um we start with brief information. We we talk about feelings, we talk about emotions, we talk about coping skills, and we always have really fun activities that we do. We do a really cool one called care tags. And I have the kids come over and
I ask if I can look at the back of their shirt and I say, "Oh my gosh, this is so cool. To keep this shirt perfect, it has to be a line drive no." And the kids are looking at me like, "What?" And I say, "Can I see the back of your neck
when there's no care tag on the back of your neck?" Kids that are grieving don't have a care tag. How do we fix that? And so the kids create their own care tags about the things that they need.
We also have done affirmation rocks. We've done circles of support. Who are the people that you can go to? Who are the people that you trust? Who are the people that make you feel seen and heard? Who are the people that you can say the hard things?
And then one of my most fun things at Thomas High School, Lori, are you okay? I want to add, you know, I do have rings to people. I have never had anybody choke on my watch, so please
that's not Thank you. Sorry about the interruptions. Um, so I said to the kids um one Monday, next week we have a panel of experts coming in and I think you're really going to like it. These are people that really know about grief. They're going to be very informative and I think they're really going to help you
on your journey. The next Monday I come in with Katie FA. You're looking around, nobody's there but Katie and me and 10 kids. They like, "What happened?" And the expert, "Oh gosh, see those chairs lined up over there? Would you all go
over to the chairs, please?" Now they're like, "She lost it." And now you are our panel of experts. you will be echoing your own had pre-arranged with one of the students to
ask pre-esigned questions of these other students in the group. It was phenomenal. It was phenomenal. And high school students are really hard to crack the core particularly when it comes to asking them to be vulnerable
and to share some of these really, really hard issues. And they were able to do it. So success all theirs. Our end of group surveys were overwhelmingly positive. 100% of the kids said they'd recommend the group to other bereieved students. One student said they would
not. And I asked why and they said because that means somebody else belongs to the dead parents club. Fair enough. Most of the students were unaware that there were other bereave students even in their own class. So, we're sitting
around a table, whether it was the younger kids or the high school kids, and they were like, "You too, you too." And as they started to share their stories in very careful ways, some of the more stigmatized losses were able to be talked about, and that's
certainly suicide, homicide, and drug overdose, of which there were many. All of these students in these particular groups had all had parental loss. So there was a separate bonding that happened around there. Um and second houses were about moving to a new
town, having to have new friends, coming to a new school, uh loss of familiarity, changing family dynamics, living with grandparents, all of which was really difficult for these kids at the beginning. And then they were able to talk about it and and give
tiny little pieces of advice about how they negotiated and navigated some of these secondary losses. It was also helpful, I think, to be able to contextualize these feelings as normal. You're it feels like you're going crazy. Even if the loss happened
when you were two and you're now in 8th grade and as you're looking to move to high school, what does that feel like? Many families don't talk about grief with their kids. They don't want their kids to talk about it with them. It makes them sad. So this was a safe
place, a very brave space for them to be able to to share some of these feelings. A lot of times kids want to talk about anger. I'm really mad at them because at least they talk about it. I would
rather you talk about it in this group and you get it out here and we can come up with some healthy coping skills than have you sck a kid in the McDonald's parking lot when you're angry about this but something they've done has annoyed you.
One student at Lauren school said, "You know, Kathleen, I pray to my dad every night. He's still a good man and I'm proud he was my dad even if it was a really short time." and she was a little girl that was two when he died. And what she hears from her family and family
friends is that he was a no-go so and so because he was a drug user. And she's like, "He's my dad and I'm still proud of him." So, I want to do one thing in closing. First of all, I want to thank you for allowing us to do this. Um, I have have
to give shoutouts to Morris Pond, Lawrence and High School, Kathleen Fidelli, uh, Selby Bourne, and Katie Fel for their guidance, support, love, and partnership. Adore them. Um, couldn't ask for more wonderful, compassionate people.
Very happy to partner with them. Um, no issues. We had zero issues. If we had questions, we went to them. They were answered. If they had questions, they came to us and we all did our jobs beautifully. Um, but one of the things that I want to share with you tonight, uh, Sandy had asked if I wanted to do a
PowerPoint and I said this, I have to share this. So, one of the things we did was, um, grief for watercolors and we took pieces of watercolor paper and we put plain water on it and then they were invited to drop dabs of paint on it and
with a straw blow the paint around with the intention that as they're blowing, they think about a grief experience. They think about an emotion. They think about a memory. So, I really wanted it to be intentional. So, bear with me.
I'll show it to you because it's very cool. This young man who's a seventh grader said, "This represents when I die, please don't cry. Look in the sky and
just say goodbye." This is from a young lady who's an eighth grader. I've grieved you longer than I knew you. This is my I was two when my father died and now I'm in eighth grade. Young woman is just phenomenal. I will be really
excited to see where she goes. this is her painting. And she put it down and she said, "That's enough. The other kids are madly blowing paint all over the place." And the next week when I asked her what her painting represented, she said, "This
isn't mine. This is from Dear Evan Hansen. Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, and when you're broken on the ground, you will be found. So let the sun come streaming in as you reach up
and you will rise again. Lift your head and look around. You will be found. Her partner across the table in eighth grade male said, "I have no words. I don't feel seen or heard. No one
understands. I'm invisible except for in here. Can you imagine being a kid and being able to do this and say this to your peers? Can you imagine the feeling of the weight being lifted by being able to
acknowledge I missed you longer than you were here. I've loved you longer than you were here. I don't feel seen and heard. and to be able to feel loved and supported. So, I will end with please
invite us back. We would love to come. It has been an extreme pleasure for all of us to be here and your kids are pretty fabulous. I say whatever you're doing for these Clippers, keep on doing it because So,
thank you all very much. Thanks. I know. Okay, the next item on our agenda is a first read on the capital plan for the November town meeting. All right. U back to me again. Should we
add in the pack at the um you have a copy? You got a chance? Yep. Oh, sorry. Thanks. Thank you. We got to get a bigger paper,
right? Um, so this is a copy of the 10-year capital plan. I'll just give you an overview real fast so you know how to do it. Uh, so when we when it comes time to acting on the capital plan for next year, it'll be the uh obviously the fis
year 26 column. um that uh will be uh acting on this. You go ahead. Uh I'm going to walk you through this. Let me give you uh some higher level thoughts.
Um you'll see funding April 2026 if the MSBA imitation is received in December. So, and you'll see $2 million set. Uh, so I put that
down here, but it will not be an article for November reference point because we're talking about a capital plan over 10 years. if it gets approved, if we're invited in December,
uh, and depending on which cohort we're invited into, the first funding request could come as early as April of next year. Um, so that I wanted to put it down here for that purpose, but for next
week or for the next school committee sheet, what you will be voting on will not include that $2 million because that will be an April idol. So, we just clear on that. Um, and then and it depends
again on if we're invited by the MSBA to join uh u in the school renovation project. I want to go over to the other fiscal year 28 number and I just want to I want
to make this statement 150 times over. This is a guesstimate. This is a placeholder. There is no science to this number. We have to put something down for the town to have for
its 10-year plan. So this $150 million, you can't come back in two years and say, "You told me $150 million." We do not have a number. We're just putting a placeholder on this column for fiscal
year 28. And it all depends on if we're invited into the program. We will not have a a number for this renovation about until about two years from the date of invitation. Okay. So, we have to put something down
for the town for a capital number, but this is a placeholder only. It's a guesstimate. I can't emphasize this enough. There's nothing official on this number. Just everybody out there, please.
All right. So part of the sensitivity was 50 uh fiscal year 26 was just uh because we may be coming down the road here in the 2 million to think about what our true needs for the district are
going uh for this for next year. So let me just talk through the fiscal year 26 goal. First one is project venture. You may be familiar. We we just came for town funding on this project. However, we now think there are two better
locations for the project adventure. Project Adventure is the challenge course at Fmouth High School. You know, the uh with the zip lines and um climbing soda, etc. that um and it's in
the back uh by the football field uh at the high school. Uh it it currently rests on partly on the property of the YMCA, so we do have to move it. Uh and the where it's today, it's right in the middle of the trees.
There are several other locations uh on the other opposite side of uh the football stadium uh that it would be better located. As a result of that relocating, we're going to have to redesign it. Uh we can
have to impermanent it. So, we're going to have to have engineering plans to to put this on the course. Um, and the other thought behind this is that we we want to add some lower elements uh for um you know, if we have handicap
students that wouldn't be able to use the high elements, the zip lines and so on, there are other obstacle uh components that we could use at lower elements. So those two features we're going to go back to add 75 ask to add $75,000
uh to cover the cost of that project. Um we will our hope is to have the project uh done by the uh second semester or uh the
second half of fiscal year 20 of next year fiscal year 26. uh with the all lower elements added thereafter. So it'll be two phases here. So that's project adventure roughly 75,000.
You move down to t now is uh the modular units at at t ticket essentially just need to be resided. There's rot underneath the current siding at tick. We need to pull it off. The modular units themselves are in good condition.
they're actively used so we do want to maintain them. So that's an estimate of the residing uh for that project. Um and then the the the remaining categories are categories that we have every year.
So that is uh door replacement u $80,000 and doors are anywhere from 10 to 12,000 for a single door for uh an outdoor door, you know, do an exit door or they
could be $24,000 if you had one of the big double doors uh like in the front entrance way of a building. Um, so we quickly go through this budget every year. We had nothing left of it. Um, the
next one down is floor repairs. We've been doing projects at individual schools across the district. Um, we are doing that this summer as well at Ticket and at East Falmouth. Um, North Falmouth
as well, but under that article. Um, so we uh and we've done projects at the high school. So flooring appears, this is what we've been asking for every year. Uh, painting, this is both exterior and interior painting. Uh, we
have a need throughout the district to, you know, sort of update our our rooms. Um, van purchases. Um, in this case, we're going to add uh replace one of the white vans that you see outside that the
7D vans what we use for special education transportation. Um, the oldest ones are in roughly in the 225 to 250,000 mile range. But the other purchase that we're making is that
last year we bought a 14 passenger bus uh mini bus that we use for transporting the athletic teams and the coaches can drive the bus. They don't need the commercial driver's license to do it.
That one bus that we bought at last year has saved us close to 60,000 if not more um by not having to hire Lucini to transport a sports team. And so and it's
very expensive to do these uh sports team runs. So purchasing one of the another one of our buses allows us to use it for the bigger teams, not quite as big as a football team, but for you
know the tennis teams, the you know golf teams etc. We may need two buses. So that would be in there as I mentioned plus the 7D there. So the total m uh would be 2,870.
Again, if we don't and uh the $2 million would be uh that dependent on the MSBA project. So that when you come to vote at the next meeting, that will not be in this figure. You suggest voting on 870
for next year's uh capital plan. Um is there any any question? Margaret. Oh, sorry. Um, are any of the vans electric? The new van? Yeah, we do have one van that's electric. Uh, we're
adding another electric van as well. Um, and that second one van that we have that's electric, we use for the clubs this uh, you know, a chess club meeting to go to in Mash, right? Not as far not
as far as off Cape. We don't send it over the bridge. it uh it just doesn't hold the charge that much. We'll do another electric fan this coming year and that will be put on some of the daily routes uh for the special
education. We'll be testing that as a vehicle for eventually uh seeing how to use it locally. So this replacement van that you just mentioned though is the normal van just a replacement for Right.
Right. Mike, I have two if I could. Um, the first one's a is a two-parter. The two million for the uh MSBA funding, what is the difference in the 2 million, the 150 million? Sure. So, the when
you're invited into the program, Yeah. uh for renovation. The first step that happens in that process, you have to raise roughly in a million and a half to $2 million rate uh uh to between a
million and a half and $2 million. And that money is for hiring an OPM and a designer to help you with the project. So the MSBA says okay by this date of the after the following the invitation
you have to get that initial funding approved by the town and if you don't then you're out of the process. Okay. Okay. So that's the first and then the next stage you go through the design phase and you come to an agreement with
the MSBA on the entire project and funding. you now have to come to the town and and have it vote on the entire project cost prems funded. Um so they want you to say
the town is appro if the project is 150 million they want the town to vote on 150 million even if maybe 50 million of that is coming from the MSBA. They want approval for the full project
cost. So that's the second vote, but it's it it's really as a way of the MSBA judging the support of the town over the phases of the renovation project. Okay. And then the follow-up question would be
that if hypothetically you did the 2 million and that 150 million failed a townwide vote, then we just we just lost $2 million for design. That's right. That's and then I don't know you know off the top of your head you don't know
this but what would the tax implication for an override of 150 be for the average household because I think that we need to address that before we go too far into this one of our purviews is finance obviously and if the tax burden
on that 150 is so great that we we're not going to get support for it and this is on the heels of the new nitrate septic systems you're people in fixed income's looking at 30 40,000 for a new septic. I mean I um was working a little
bit with the football field and the the senior center which was much smaller project. Sorry Rack the mic. Um and we had a lot of issues getting there. I'm just concerned that we should know the the tax burden for that 150 before we start throwing $2 million
into something that we might not get done. Then my last point is I do have concern where Morse Pond over the next six years has no capital improvements at all. Then year seven there's just X's as if this is already a done deal. We're
giving Morris Pond back to anyone. And so those six years, the kids who might be at Morris Pond, the teachers, the faculty, whomever, it seems like we've already cut bait on Mor Morse Pond before there's been any
discussion of that. And that is very concerning to me, especially when we have just X's fiscal year 32 on this paper looks like Morse Pond is gone. That's extremely concerning where we are putting money into every other building.
Any student and every student in Felmouth does go to Morris Pond and there's zero dollars being allocated at all for that building. So I just wanted to make that point that it looks to me that Morse Pond is already gone and I
don't agree with that. So just for the public record. Yeah. Can I just address that for a sec because I I'm glad you brought that up. Um, and again, this is a a a 10-year a plan. So, but let me give you an address the exact point at
uh we're making on Morris Pond. We just put out to bed uh a painting project for $100,000 uh uh for painting Morris Park. Um, so for this summer, so the the exterior of
the building uh is being painted uh for you know for and we have $100,000 from last year's capital budget to do that very work. Other work that's needed in in the in the Morris Pond school. For
example, we've done flooring project. We just did the uh several rooms at Morris Pond. it's in the systemwide account. So when we say 300,000 for uh flooring
or $80,000 for doors, uh that's we're just what we do is we take that and then we look at individual schools and where the need is and we spend that out of the systemwide budget. I understand that. So Morris Pond had several new doors added,
had several new uh floors that were done. last year. It's being painted this year. It just had a brand new boiler put in, a brand new univvent. Uh all the univvents in the room were done. The
boiler I mean this was all within the last year and a half. So I I I think we have spent a good deal of money on Morris Pond and continue to spend on Morris Pond. The only reason to have it
out here is that if there's projects and if the the the school decisions is is made uh we wouldn't be making decisions thereafter. I you know if it's uh to
that point on my point I could take the X's out. Oh when was the last generator upgrade in Morris pond? Was that done? recently in the last 5 years, 10 years. No, no, because all the other schools have generator updates in the next three or four fiscal years. So to me, just
eyeballing this, it looks like more spawn is already lost cause and that's I that's how it looks. But yeah, but again, we're we're spending $100,000 here this summer on Moss Pond. I I I
don't I think that that would be uh uh in you know that wouldn't the reality is and we spent a substantial amount of money there last summer as well. So I understand that I understand the optics of it looks like this whole system has
already written off Morris Pond without a generator upgrade. Uh there's no discussion with were windows put in recently to Morris Pond. So I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, but the the windows are the windows are under the uh the
systemwide line. So, um the the only uh uh major project for windows that we did uh for school was Lawrence. We've been replacing them uh over time at different school as the window need repair. So
we allocate if you look under systemwide windows you'll see the budget for windows every year for the um yeah that that budget doesn't change after most pawn been offline hypothetically in this but I I will digress. I don't want to get too much.
Susan, any questions? No. Thank you Melissa. No ma'am. Um I have two. Um one is just a comment. I'm really glad that we've got the um the AC project now in the in the years out because we've
talked about how we're, you know, we're not going to be able to keep school going in September because it's 100° in the classroom. So, I'm grateful for that. And then I had one question. Um so, for the turf field, you know, we we know at some point we'll have to do work
on it. Do we have to do work before we do the work on it? Do you know what I mean? Like so often there's like the assessment or planning or whatever has to happen. Are we going to have to do that before we get to the part of needing to Yeah. As as we approach a
project, you really start have to plan for it several years ahead of in order to get to the point where you now are spending a significant dollar amount on that project. So the design work that
goes into it, you know, the approval for the initial design work into it, the bidding process, the contracting, then you get to the eventual goals. So if you're looking at a turf field in uh fiscal year 34,
uh you start to in fiscal year 32 start to put down design work because I'm just guessing like I don't know when there's a need to replace it. There's probably like people that's a hire. It's like, okay, it's still you. Well, we we have those people
come in every year. Oh, okay. So, that's that we that's that the turf field has a very specialized maintenance program that comes in every year and that field is treated. Um, and all of the debris
that gets packed down in there gets pulled up um and and the field is essentially restored. Because of that maintenance pro program, we've actually extended the life, okay, of uh extensively
uh from what the original estimate was on that field, but we do this multiple times throughout the year. And then they're the ones that say, "Okay, now you get close." Exactly. That's what I was doing. Thank you. That field is in
very good shape from what I'm told. That's great. Um Chris, oh just a quick question. Um under the playground CPC funded are those is that funding that we've already received. Uh no that would be we would apply for that separately as we approach
those years and that's a that's a ballpark estimate but uh the money that we have received uh is for the Mullen Hall playground uh that we'll be renovating uh come the winter when it's
not in use as much as it is now. Okay. But uh that was this CPC gave us 250,000 for that renovation. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Are the are any of these for any specific schools or kind of just in general? We we kind of put down and and and we're going to do a playground
assessment for each of the schools and and and then come with the timetable, but we've kind of we've our first effort we we have a lot of projects going on. So our our first efforts to deal with the sort of the pipeline of projects we
have now which includes a playground for Mullen Hall. Thanks Paul. Thanks. So, okay. Just Oh, you did you have a question? No, I didn't. Um, so just as a reminder, we we do these 10ear plans and if you pull out last year's, you will
see that there were different items here. And so even though we're planning for 10 years, we're addressing immediate needs each year and so you see the changes. Um, and these are a lot of this is placeholders because we we just don't know what it is. So, just as that
reminder. Um, and when you vote uh in July, uh, again, you're only voting for FY26. You're not voting the entire plan. So, the rest of it is just that. It's just, you know, kind of forward thinking about some needs that we might have. Uh,
and then, uh, again, the 2 million will come off. So, in um, July, you'll vote for the 870,000 to go forward to November plans. Sure, you can go around. had asked Lori about the Mullen Hall um playground renovation if there was any information
about what that would entail because I've got a lot of little kids asking me whether their precious rings and monkey bars are going away and whether they're going to get a seesaw. No, they curiosity. Yeah, we we didn't want to do it in the summer because of the it's
just so heavily used and so our thought is uh in sort of prioritizing the time schedule is to do it more along the lines of the winter and so it's going to be going out to bid um in you know the
next few months. Know anything about what is getting renovated? Is the whole playground getting redone or is it just elements? Now it the well the whole pre play playground uh will get redone. I mean most of the almost all of the equipment needs at some level of repair
from the evaluation that we see. But we're going to have a design element first and then a a construction process thereafter. So I'll ask you more questions later. Yeah. One thing that Katrina had asked about was a tree, the shade tree, but it was
dead. So we wanted to everyone noticed when it went away. Yeah. A lot of trees on that street were re in the last what three years or so they've been cutting down trees that have had diseases or whatever on that street. So
anyway, just to add to that public we brought it up. DPW takes care of all of our grounds. Um and they assess all of that. They're very good and they really keep up on on everything on our property. So quick shout out to DPW. Thank you. Um, but also just so you know that they really keep an eye on all
that. Yeah, of course. Thank you. Thank you, Paul, for a very thorough explanation of the capital plan. The next item will be a discussion about the student activities accounts. Okay, you'll be sick of hearing from me.
Never. Never. Um, all right. This is a a desi requirement. So, uh, essentially if a club isn't used within the, uh, a three-year period, if their activity account has has, oh, yeah, thank you, Chris. Um, has become
dormant, then you need to, uh, deactivate that account and transfer the money to other accounts. Um, and so we've gone through that process. This is part of the you know this will be part of the yearly house housekeeping we do
at the and each year we'll evaluate which accounts haven't been used. So the list of um organ uh club organizations and these are provided by the individual schools. So three schools have student activity accounts. The high school
obviously has the largest number of clubs and organizations uh within it. Um uh that is you know a a a large number as I mentioned that Lawrence has about
24 clubs uh or uh activities accounts and the then Morse pond has only a handful. Um and so you'll see the club or uh organization left column the residual balance that's in that account
uh the last date of activity uh and then the recommendation uh by the principal as to where to transfer that account to. Um and so these have uh you know these are fairly uh with the exception of rugby and the the team plus
account these are these are not a large dollar amounts rugby amounts is being transferred to the wrestling club etc. Um you'll see some where you see the team one two three four five six on the
left um you know Lawrence school had six teams three for seventh grade three for uh eighth grade uh they now dropped down to four teams so we're just consolidating those teams and taking the balance so in
the 1711.32 that's being distributed it to the two remaining seventh grade teams and the 1252 will be spread to the two remaining eighth grade te teams etc. Um the one
the other ones for Lawrence are really just a name change. There's no uh but we have to sort of follow the rules here. Uh and the team plus was a discontinued program 2019. um that balance is uh to be made
available to the uh where the principal can use it for field trips or for student activities in general. So that's where you see principal discretion. Any questions on that Chris? Um so where
some of these accounts just go back like how how far back do they go? Well, they there you you know if you look at I'm sorry it's 2018 there was no activity. Okay. Um the you know so three years is the rule. There's been clubs
that have been inactive for longer than that. We're just catching up. Next year when we do this we'll probably have one or two uh versus the list that you see here. So we're just uh bringing ourselves into compliance with Desi.
That's it. Thank you. Sue, are there any class of like class of 200? No, actually we we did all that last year. Okay. So those any class So to sue's question, if you had a class
from 2015, you have to go through the same process. If they had a balance in the account, you have to go back to the class officers and have them re uh either come up with a way of spending it or have a Yeah. To have them donate back to your
school, etc. Yeah. Any other questions going around the room? Yes. Um, so when it goes from golf club to unified basketball or rugby to wrestling or Portuguese club to Clippers for Change, does that mean that Portuguese club, rugby, and golf club no
longer exists? Yeah. Yeah. When you see uh no uh no activity, the club has not existed. Um either there's been no kids, no faculty advisor. It's it's it's been dormant. Okay. Interesting.
Just sorry. Sorry. Um I'm in trouble. Um in July you'll vote on um these accounts. They're closing accounts. Okay. Thank you. Um, next on the agenda is an update of
the building needs task force develop. Sure. Bear with me while I just open my document. So, uh, the building needs task force update. At the last meeting on 61625, it was unanimously decided the mission was
completed. Chairman Dr. Antonucci opened discussions on universal prek. Then discussions on what we were going to call prek. Um if it was going to be universal or what have you nomenclature if you will uh then rolling into the
need for prek discussions rolling ad discussions included rolling admissions growing staff etc. Dr. Antinucci states we can endorse but it's up to the school committee and we are not micromanaging. The first motion was to support uh preschool education at Felmouth public
schools. This was seconded and unanim unanimously passed. The discussion on the NZDC options as well as uh navigating the future options discussions on current school options. There was much discussions around there. A motion was recommended to the for the
school committee to implement an early child center for school year 2829 to redesign boundary lines and bus routes with plenty of time for staff and family input. This was seconded and discussions were heard. Concerns with current issues
and dates being so far in advance that K12 is excuse me that K4 is not currently equitable. timeline on preschool before 2829 being very intentional current students and future students in preK and their
specific needs. Three members opposed and the rest were in agreement and the motion carried. After the motion, a member who voted against it clarified it was because she thought the timeline was too far in advance and she was not alone with that concern. However, agreed
with the motion. Um so there there was conversation uh to I'm just highlighting this one piece. There was conversation to um not just
combine two schools but to be uh to look at the equity across the elementary schools as a whole to specifically to not jam up two schools kind of thing or two schools into one kind of thing. There was lots of
discussion around there. That's kind of it. It was um sort of I don't know, Sue, what would you say the vibe was? The the the vibe agreement. I think it went well. I think
that uh Dr. Antinucci pointed out that uh due diligence was done. Uh Dr. Antinucci and uh Dr. Dur. We're very uh grateful and thankful to the people who not just sat at the table, but at the
people who uh sent in their thoughts, who participated, who showed up, who um asked questions, and that's about it. It's my update. Sue, do you have anything to add? No. Okay. Thank you
guys. Sure. take now. Chairman Daryus, can we ask questions about the update or not? Um, I just had one question, that's it. We'll be quick. No, we're just we just received the update. We'll think on it. Um, we're not ready at this time to
entertain any kind of questions. Okay, no problem. Okay, thank you. Okay, next item on the agenda is to act on school committee meeting dates. So I guess it's start in the middle time for
questions. So Melissa, do you have any questions? Oh god, I haven't even No. No. Kelly. Oh, sorry. No, Chris. Sure. Nope. All right. Margaret, um, I just wanted to ask the September one. I had
forgotten it was because of Rashashana that we only have one, right? Do we generally observe a lot of holidays in our planning for the school committee? I just don't remember that discussion last year. So I'd love to know. Um we do um
uh recognize the high Jewish holidays but not like Muslim holidays or special days or you know just wondering how far. Okay. No. No. So, I appreciate the fact that
the uh November 24th meeting was moved back to the previous Monday. I think we'll have more participation that way, right? And Sharon and I checked and it's a select off week. So, we're fine with that. Yeah, because we can't afford to lose a meeting. Okay. All right. Any
more comments? So, all those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstaining? Okay. Good. passed unanimously. Next item is the um assignments subcommittee assignment.
Great. Thanks, R. Okay. Um Margaret, I guess it's your turn to start questions. Yep. Is the health and safety committee, the health committee I was on, is it disappeared or is it some other title? Uh we didn't have anyone that wanted to
sit on it. So it's it it's my committee. So, and sometimes there sometimes we have a school committee person assigned, sometimes we don't. It all depends on whether people So, we did remove it because they're okayern. I I Okay. The other kind of thing I had mentioned was I think it's sometimes
helpful to have a um person who can substitute if the person can't come. But that's okay if we don't want to do that. Okay. Any other comments? Um, one thing that I
looked I researched you know me I'm the queen of research this year. Um, anybody can go to any meeting you know we worry about the three people assigned to these standing committees for example. Um sometimes we toy with four people on
them. Um we don't want to, you know, you worry about um open meeting laws, but anybody on this committee and all nine of us can go together as long as you listen because quote unquote, you have as much business and privilege to be at
these subcommittee meetings as the public. You're just listening. You can't comment. So, and I recommend people to go to other meetings than the ones you're assigned on. Like once in a while I'd like to pop in on a budget because aside from what Paul has educated us
about and very well um the budget to me is fuzzy. So um anybody can go to them. Okay. Just don't talk. Yes. I don't think that's true for negotiations. So I would have to say thank you. We have ground rules. Are they open to the
public though? No. Okay. So that's that's the difference. I just I was I just didn't want people to see it on the agenda and be like, "Oh, I'm going to come." And then No, that would be if they're public meetings is what I was talking about. Okay. They're all executive session. Yeah. Okay. So, are
do we vote on this? Yeah. Yep. Yep. We're in discussion. I'll vote on it. Oh, okay. All those in favor? Any abstension? Any um nos or extens? Abstensions? You're abstaining. Okay.
All right. Next item on the agenda is to act on the memorandum understanding about the sewer installation contract. So Kelly's getting the second. Yes ma'am. Sorry.
Keep it simple for Sharon. Sharon doing the work here. Thanks. Did Lori want to say something? Thanks. But I just uh wanted to maybe introduce it. Yeah. Glad you guys are um just um this is just the um for the public just to to uh remind
everyone that the sewer project that was um voted at town meeting and then on the ballot um is the sewer project in Ticket and the reason we're having uh voting on a memorandum of understanding
is that the the substation for the sewer project is already installed on the corner piece of the Ticket property. And they will use that main line, that main uh the substation for the line that goes um off the corner of the property
and um and it's all underground for the piping. And when it's done, they'll restore the grass and um anything else that's disturbed, but just want to say okay. Um I don't know about taking a question
from the audience on this. I have a different understanding of that from maybe. So, um I had but the property and I I granted to come up and say address if if you were going to go out and speak. I mean, she told me that this was going to be
discussed tonight and I didn't think she didn't come then it wouldn't properly be discussed and she's not here. So, if he's going to talk, he has to come in the table. Yeah. But the select board is going to vote on this in July. The same line that's coming through this full
property. Sir, if you're going to talk, you're going to have to come. Well, you know what? Let's leave it. Let's just cut it. Um, you can contact us. Um, you can call tomorrow or something. This would be done meeting at
at school committee. It it is the be voted by this select board next month after this board that gets their vote. So if this vote doesn't happen, that vote won't happen. And what we need to have done has to be but we're
about we're about to vote on that. Harry, I I believe and I I don't I don't I believe and I don't know this gentleman. I don't know Amy well necessarily, but she works for the town. So this seems to be a question to go to the select board and it does not affect the vote. It does affect the town school
because to put the easement in through my property, they have to tie in the the line through my property from the school properties. We can't dig on the school property without our vote is only to allow for on the ticket property. Yeah.
Okay. There's nothing to do it beyond nothing beyond our property. Yeah. If the town decides not to do it, then then they wouldn't do it. But what we're voting on is we would allow that to happen. I can tell Amy that it doesn't address. Okay. And I think it's a town
issue, not not our Yeah. Not to poo poo your concern, but it isn't really in our domain. So yes, but it'll be too late if Okay. All right. I'm sorry that we can't
hear you anymore. Okay. So, do we have a motion on this already? Okay. And any other questions? I second it. Okay. So, I now have more questions. Like I we didn't have a first read on this and now we have concerned citizens. And not that
I um I certainly don't want to hem up the flow, but I also feel some sort of responsibility to be good neighbors to our neighbors. So, you want a table to join? I hate to do when is the select board supposed to
um because you guys have to vote before they can vote, right? That's the way it is. But because it's we're only voting on the property so I think we need to be really careful to stay in our lane and if the if and a
butter has an issue I understand your point but I think we can we only have control over the things we have control over and the only thing that we're saying is if if the town proceeds with this project they can use the corner that they
already used basically. So I think that the additional issue of an easement within a butter that's a town like Mike said that's a town issue and what we have before us tonight is the portion of
it that pertains in our lane. Can I can I sorry Paul will go for Yeah. Yeah. Can I just add some clarification? So there's there's a a sewage line that currently runs from the building down to
the back as Dr. Door was mentioning to the lift station in the back. They're going to add another line uh that comes from the Pearl uh Pearl Lane to that same that will connect into our sewage
line to that uh to that lift station in the back. And then they will dig a third line that will go back up that is uh uh will go back up to the major station that they're building uh the Augusta
property um on Brick Killed Road. So they need this uh uh these lines to be put in place in order to affect the sewaging of this neighborhood. And I believe uh this gentleman is one of the
abutters on that property line that's has an agreement to have uh that third line come through his property not with us just that's what the town's agreement with. So
the the town needs these lines uh dug as part of the new sewage system. They they will be between five and six feet below the surface. They will not affect the uh the basketball court or the playground
that is in the back. I've walked this area with Amy Lowel. Um and so it's it really has no impact on the surfer level. If there's any damage done uh in the in the dropping of these lines, uh
they will pick up all the the cost of any restoration work. U so they have to do this though to they have to have our approval first in order to start the project uh with the town. So I think that's the point here tonight. Oh, just
say they're going underground like with those. Yeah, these lines will be buried roughly around six feet. So they don't are they like digging into the ground or put down? Yeah, they're sewage lines. So they'll be down below below the surface and any any disruption to the the
property within uh the T ticket school property line will be restored. They're cutting down not like with that machine. Just again, um, to to reiterate, we're we're voting if the town votes to move forward, they they've had our
approval to use our it's up to the town to vote and deal with anything else. All we're we're giving permission if it goes forward, right? That's it. That's all we're we're just voting on our property, not the overall product. Sorry. And as I
understand, if there's any um con destroying of trees or things on our property, it will be replaced. So I would venture, I don't want to speak for the town, but and a butter, I would think, would have the same um recompense
or damage. Um I don't know. That's just my opinions. So, well, I'm granting the town 2,000 square ft of my property as an easement. Save the town about $160,000 because if they don't have a gravity
system, they have to go up Pearl Lane to Mara Vista. The town has to provide laundry pumps where we pay for all the electronics. We pay for the installation. But it's gravity. If if it's gravity goes through my yard, there
are no there are 13 grinding pumps eliminated which saves about $160,000 in excavation cost through 28 and we're going to go through my property connected that the attorneys are done my attorney
attorney have agreed to all everything and said that you were going to go tonight to allow them to dig down and phase the tie me into phase one so I don't have to wait three years to have that project come through my yard so I
can open addition on my house that's all been approved by Amy and and board steps that's right he's I'm sorry I didn't he's what he's our butter on the
property on the corner of that piece and and and his property will be connected into ours plus the the uh the force man the the main switch that they pump back to the treatment center will go through
his property. So he's u as what he said he's come to agreement with town. So the issue isn't that he has a complaint about this process. He's in support of the process u of what we're what the town's asking us to do. Um and again
these are these are being buried if there's any disruption uh to the any of the playground area the basketball courts etc. Uh Donald covered it. You want us clear? Thank you for clarifying. I was
under the impression going to be here to say Amy was planning to date camp but she had planning committee tonight. That's why she called. She called and told him this was going to happen that I may not
just to get for clarification. So she can't dig on your property this summer without permission from the school. Okay. Yeah. Great. Uh I'll vote. So we already have the We have a second. Are we done
with discussion? Yeah. Great. That's okay. All those in favor? Any opposed or abstaining? Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. That's very hard. I didn't mean to be shutting you off, but
had the information. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Paul had the information. So, wanted to bring make that public so we knew that they would like to be like ASAP so we can tie in and build our addition 75. I want to have the edition
done on 78. You go for 75. Shut your mouth. Be quiet. Be quiet. You were just waiting to slip that in. Okay. All right. We got to move on now.
I'm just kidding. Okay. The next um item on the agenda is to act on amendment random of agreement with and FBA. I'm having a hard time articulating the science.
Okay. Yeah. I just wait for Lori to introduce it. Okay. So, I guess it's Chris's turn to start. Do you have any questions or talk about it? Okay. Okay. Um, so this is uh
just to uh we have every now and then we uh have a um difficult time finding a certified teacher for some of our programs and um and we are very fortunate to have some teaching assistants that can step into that role.
So, uh, in this situation, um, the current contract, um, allows teachers to, uh, or, um, we we would pay teachers $50, um, a day if they step in for the, um, the teachers role. Um, but I'm
saying if it's going to be long-term, I think that they uh, absolutely deserve um, a higher funding level. So, um, what we're agreeing to is, um, you know, if a member's more than 10 consecutive days, they would be paid $75 a day. Um, and,
um, if it's more than 60, um, days, it would be $100 a day. And this is on top of the regular salary. So, when they step in, it happens very rarely. Um but this uh MOA allows us to retropay um uh
the situation this year or a TA actually said it stepped in with if we did not have another person. So I appreciate the vote we can make our home any comments?
No. Okay. I'll be refusing myself because of family member. Okay. Thank you. All right. All those in favor then? I. Any opposed or abstaining? One person abstaining. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
So now we will move along to routine business which would be the minutes. Anybody make a motion on those? Second. And I had it. There's a tiny typo. It looks just like a typo in the motion to
move into executive session. just says FBA units ABC and AMP page one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Is that the only edit? Yes.
Okay. All those in favor? Any nos or abstaining? Okay. Um are there any committee reports? No committee reports. Okay. Um two quick things. One hit on my list. Um well, two
um folks have been working on our materials and um hopefully we'll get them to the full committee at some point for review. Um that was the goal that we set in. Um and then I had a committee sort of report. Um I had mentioned Terry just
quickly before the meeting. Um, we heard about the back to school bash and I think of the awesome school committee was there entire table and chile with people and I'm happy to organize if so do you have never turn down volunteers that's for
sure. Okay, thank you. All right. Um, are there any requests for followup? Mike, it's not a followup. More so a comment. I'm going to throw it in here. This feels like the time. Um, I love everyone coming here. I love everyone at
this table. But if we could refrain from talking during the meeting, that includes the public and the members of this committee because I've noticed that over the last, you know, a few months more and more people have been side talks and such. It's distracting. So, if we everything goes to the chair
and if we can keep it like that, including all new folks, that would be helpful, but also us here. But that's it. Okay. Thank you, Terry. All right. We love to quum. Okay. Well, then I would mo take a motion to adjurnn.
All those in favor? Any nos or abstaining? Yay. We're done early. 10 minutes. No, he has to rebuild there.