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Part 1 (Video ID: YDQM5LMBpcU):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Called to Order; Executive Session Motion
- 00:01:48: Reconvene Open Session; Recording Statement Read
- 00:02:37: Mullen Hall Highlights Presentation: Effective Communication Focus
- 00:04:02: Student-Driven Communication: Little Library Request Letter
- 00:07:52: Teacher-Driven Communication: Fourth Grade Poetry Unit
- 00:10:06: Fourth Graders Present Original Poetry Readings
- 00:14:10: School-Wide Communication: Student Letters on School Improvement
- 00:20:45: Student Advisory Absent; Public Comment Opens
- 00:21:16: Public Comment: Megan Zabby - Grade Reconfiguration Concerns
- 00:23:01: Superintendent Update: Student Achievements and Robotics Success
- 00:26:33: T-Ticket Playground Committee Presentation Begins
- 00:28:15: History of T-Ticket Playground and Current Project
- 00:30:37: Fundraising Efforts and Community Involvement Overview
- 00:32:06: Meet the Committee Members and Fundraising Achievements
- 00:35:46: Playground Design and Accessibility Features Highlighted
- 00:41:31: Community Focus; Questions and CPC Grant Discussion
- 00:45:45: Monstrous Grants One Falmouth Road Race Discussion
- 00:51:41: Discuss Lawrence School Grade Configuration; MSBA Involvement
- 01:02:50: Act on Surplus World Language Materials
- 01:04:50: Act on FEF Funding for the 2026-2027 School Year
- 01:08:30: Motion to Send Evaluation Back to Subcommittee
- 01:14:45: Approve Routine Business: Meeting Minutes
- 01:15:57: Committee Reports: Multicultural Fair, Alice Drills, CPAC, VIPs
- 01:22:13: Terry's Farewell; Recognition and Gift Presentation


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Good evening. I'd like to call this um school committee meeting on May 12th, 2026 to order. If you could stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. So the first item on the agenda is I make a motion to move into executive session to discuss strategy with respect to to a complaint against public

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officers, specifically two open meeting law complaints. Purpose one, MGL C3A 21 A1 and purpose 7 MGL C3A. section 21A7

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to comply with or act under the authority of any general law or special law or federal grant and aid requirements specifically in accordance with the open meeting law mass general law C3A sections 22F and 22G for the

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purpose of conducting a review of the following executive session minutes January 29th 2026 February 10th 2026 and March 5th 2026 Having any discussions in open session may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position. It is

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anticipated that the board will return to open session. >> I'm going to second that. >> Okay. So, a roll call Chris >> Yes. >> August. Yes. >> Let's keep Yes. >> And Maduras. Yes. Okay. So >> I'd like to reconvene the school

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committee meeting of May 10th or May 12th, 2026. Coming back from executive session. Okay. So the first um I would like to read the recording statement. Then this meeting of the family school committee is being recorded in accordance with

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Massachusetts open meeting law. Anyone who wishes to make an audio or video recording of this meeting must first notify the chair. Please raise your hand and make the presence known if you intend to record the meeting. Okay. This does not include parents whose kids might be doing something tonight. You

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can walk right up here and record away. So, okay, please. All right. Um so we will begin with um a presentation of the Mullen Hall highlights which always

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make us happy to hear from the kids. >> Hello everybody. >> How are you? >> Good morning. >> Hey I'm so I'm we are very happy that you're all here at Ma High School. I'm Shannon Carlson, the proud principal of this amazing place, and we are very

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excited today to share with you some cutouts from our Clippers. Now, I'm going to share my screen, so just a moment, please. All right, here are our highlights that we would like to share with you at our school committee meeting this evening.

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To begin with, I wanted to tell you our theme for this evening and it is focused on the E in clipper. The E in clipper stands for effective communication. So if you read it right there, I can speak

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and or write easily understood language that is both direct and clear. Well, this evening we're going to be sharing from our studentdriven written language, our teacherdriven or connected directly to our curriculum as well as our whole

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schoolwide writing from our students as well. And I'm going to share with you right now an example of our studentdriven communication. Now, Miss Katuska is a first grade teacher and in her reading group, we had three students

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who were reading a book about a little library. And they decided to write me a persuasive letter explaining why we should have a little library return to our outdoor learning space. So, if you wouldn't mind directing your attention

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to the screen, I'd like to share with you what they had to say. Dear Miss Carlson, may we have our little library bag? They are cool. Thank you so much Zoe, Nina, and Josiah.

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>> Dear Miss Carlson, >> it was this note is I No, >> the third month which is March the fourth day and this 26th year which is 2026

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today. >> We think little flowers will help our >> others would want to read and learn. You do not need a library card to get books.

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Everyone can get book. It will make the community happier and shock. We can share books that we sart heart.

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>> Thank you, Nina. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Can I have a round of applause? So we truly want to make sure that when our students use their voice and they share their reasoning and be effective

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communication communicators that that communication is honored and that there is a product and reward at the end. And so we will be celebrating that new little library at a ribbon cutting ceremony a little bit later on before the end of the school year.

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Now, our next um highlight today is about teacherdriven communication um connected directly to our ELA curriculum. Um I am very proud to introduce Lisa the Rockets, our uh one

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of our fourth grade teachers. Um and the fourth grade team did an incredible job implementing a unit of study all about poetry. Please, >> thanks for having us here in our young poets. And um our first module in our

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ELA curriculum this year in grade four was on poets and their inspiration. And students learned about different famous poets and what inspired them. And then they took that knowledge, synthesized it to write their own

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original poetry. um in which they really had to think about a topic that was meaningful to them and they practiced a speech where they had to effectively communicate what their inspiration was and how it was evident in their home.

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And then they also created images to showcase their inspiration, one digital and one with watercolor. Um, and they needed to effectively communicate how does this how do these images portray their inspiration. Um,

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and I think when you look through the pictures you you can see on their faces they were so proud of their work. Um, that uh our class particularly hosted a poetry party so that they could showcase their work in an authentic and

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meaningful way to reach a wider audience. Um, and we invited some administrators and some staff and it was really lovely to be able to share this with a broader audience. So, we have some wonderful poetry poets that are here tonight to share their poetry with

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you. Um, would you like to turn back? Yes. Okay. I'm going to stop sharing my screen for a moment so that we can share our students who have joined us this evening. All right. Okay. Clippers, come on up with your

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follow. >> You're first. >> Come on up here. You can stand right here and you can talk just as if you were talking to Dr. Dor. Okay, go away. >> Wonder by Cecilia W. Very fluttering elf

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skirt. We never know if they could be real. No, we'll never know. They may be hiding underneath the tough grassy patched ground where we don't see. We'll never know because they keep their secret high up up up where humans can't

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reach. We'll never know until maybe one day it will drop down down. I'll invite parents again because their backs are to you please and come closer. We Outside by Liam Hendel Spitzer. Fresh

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air, the breeze, the tree. I can lean on the bright morning sun in the woods upon. I see all that and wants all of that. But I want one more thing. I'm nature. I run with my dog blue as the bright colors and his energetic eyes are illuminate. Cotto walks around. He

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notices the pond. Let's swim. Um, one stone later. I lay on the grass as two wonderful dogs. My house is waiting, saying, "Let's turn inside. Walk through my door. What should I do? Stay outside the afternoon sun."

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>> Lifeless by Clara. I see the lifeless tree on the gray hill. I see the branches flowing like a river, begging for light. The wolf howls, the mouse squeaks as the earth

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goes to sleep. Dog versus cat by Henry Davidson. A dog sits clawed with ideas. A cats on a mountain. And when they meet crash, the dog barks as loud as a sun and cats

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as tall as a mountain. But Royale has begun. Class clash splash class. Trees. Trees. They're homes for bees. Yes, they're homes for bees. They can stand in the rain and they don't complain. They can grow so high that they touch the sky. They're as hard as a

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rock, so you can't knock them down. They come in so many colors like rain and brown. Trees, trees, their homes for by Camila. A stuffy is always there for you when waiting and usually you go to bed. Then it comforts you and helps you fall asleep. When you're scared or alone

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or sad, just give it a little squeeze. They're as soft as a blanket and as squishy as a marshmallow or a pillow. So, if you're embarrassed and you still see the stuffies, just know you're definitely not alone. And you definitely hopefully not throw them. I want to thank all of our poets for

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joining us this evening, but I also want to not only highlight our amazing staff at Mll who are teaching them every day, but their families too who came here this evening um and their support and their partnership. So, please round of applause.

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Wish me luck. I'm sharing my screen again. All right. Our last section of this evening's presentation highlighting Yelen Hall as effective communicators um is schoolwide. Now, our equity team as

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well with uh Miss Joe, our librarian, and Miss Bazadi, our teacher of DLCS, um who are very supportive in regards to this schoolwide writing invitation. Every student wrote me a letter sharing

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why they belong, but also talking about what they would like to do to make Mullen Hall even better. So, as you can see at my little pie chart here, we highlighted different themes that we saw that we noticed from these conversations

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and in these in these letters. There were some highlights in terms of our school plan, our schoolwide expectations. They were very interested in the playground. They were interested in cafeteria ideas, uh, sports teams, welcome ideas, animals were a hot topic,

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and as well as some personal thoughts and reflections. So, I wanted to share with you just a few for a taste of what the students had to share and say. I'm not entirely sure why it's not advancing. Give me a moment, please.

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Here we are. >> Miss Carlson, I'm writing to you because I wanted to change something and now is my chance. I think that we should have greeting signs at the door for when students walk in so the students feel welcomed at school. For instance, one of

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the signs could say, "Your smile makes me smile." Or, "You are welcome." If this could happen, then that would be great. Sincerely, Olivia. >> Here's Pedro. He's talking about possible basketball team. >> Yeah. Mr. question. What

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a basketball team and you you >> Alisia really likes our artwork. >> Dear Mrs. Pson, I like the artwork here.

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We should get more. >> I love how >> Here's Everest. He's going to talk about classrooms. >> Here, Mr. Carlson. Everest. I think we should do more classrooms because we can learn more

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about what other classes do. Jane has some really good ideas about hallway reminders. >> Dear Miss Carlson, I would add more hallway and stairway plan reminders like signs or something because some students

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are forgetting. Thank you, Jake. >> No, me too. Owen has an idea for a compliment box. >> Deal. I would make a compliment, but if you make five compliments, you

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get a reward by it. >> Here's Maggie. She's thinking about a welcome sign. >> Janice Carson, I think that should have a post that says everyone is along here from Maggie Clower.

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And finally, Maddie has some thoughts about a welcome program for new students, as well as an idea for a mascot. Dear mascara on Tuesdays, I can only hang out with my friends for an hour. But if there were

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different days, we could hang out for longer. And I feel like that could make the school a little better. Another idea I have is for a welcome program for the new students

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that come in in the middle of the year. We find a nice kid in the class, they're elegant and they have a buddy to hang out with so they don't feel lonely or like they don't belong or for new kids that haven't been to the

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school before. Another idea I have is for a mascot to come on half days and um at community meetings so we know that we have a mascot and it could interact with the students. If you could please make

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this happen, I would be very thankful from Maddie. >> Thank you very much for sharing. AGAIN, I really want this evening to highlight our staff. Thank you for joining us this evening. Thank you all of our students

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and our families as well as all of you for sharing in our highlights from all at home. >> The kids are always the best presentation. Even if they mess up, they're great. Okay. Um, next on the agenda is our

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student advisory, but Bella, um, is at playing an away game, so she couldn't make it tonight. She gave that as soon as I >> Okay. Um, the next item on the agenda will be public comment. Public comment will be limited to 20

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minutes. Members of the public are welcome to speak during public comment. Comments will be limited to two minutes in length. Due to the open meeting law, the committee cannot respond to or act on public comment. Additional comments and feedback can be submitted by email

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to school committee at found.k12.mma. us. Okay. So, um on the list we have Megan Zati, please. Hello, Megan Zabby with carriage shop road. I want to express my

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disappointment with the process surrounding the proposed grade reconfiguration. From the community's perspective, this feels rushed and lacking meaningful engagement. Only two of the three promised public forums were held and many parents and

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community me community members feel their emails, questions and concerns have been disregarded rather than genuinely genuinely considered. In addition, no community survey has been conducted to formally gather input from families and residents about a decision

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that will significantly impact students and schools. Most concerning is that the voices of families with children entering kindergarten, the students will be most directly affected by this reconfiguration do not appear to have been adequately included in this

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decision-making process. A change of this magnitude should reflect collaboration, transparency, and trust between the district and the community. Right now, many families feel unheard and I urge the committee to slow the process down

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to fully ensure that any decision made is truly in the best interest of the students, the families, and the broader community. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mayor. >> Okay. Next item on the agenda will be an

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update by the superintendent. >> All right. Thank you. Um so my uh year of the clipper um announcements today. The first one is fantastic news. We have two students who participated in the national council teachers of English

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promising young writer contest uh recognized uh with the highest honors. I'm proud to announce Grace Bennett and Tess Ledwell earned the highest distinguished first class uh in this year's contest. The purpose of this

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contest is to stimulate and recognize the writing talents of eighth grade students and to emphasize the importance of writing skills. This year, schools nominated 200 students to participate from 30 different states, Puerto Rico,

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South Africa, and uh South Korea. So, congratulations uh to Grace. It's a test um and to our English teachers. Uh it is quite an honor that um two of the students selected um with high honors uh came from Famouth public schools.

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Um many of you know I began the uh certified medical assisting program a year ago. Uh senior Victoria Vajo was part of the first cohort and as a senior this year has completed the program including her internship in the next

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couple weeks. um and she is being hired as a uh a a medical assisting uh physician with the Cape Cod uh community health center. Many of you will remember that that's where we started uh when we started the medical assisting program.

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We uh partnered with um the Cape Cod uh community health center. Um, and then just today I got additional information that a second student, Kendra Nan, has passed her exam and will complete her internship in a couple uh weeks and has

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also been offered a position with the Cape Cod Community Health Center. This is extremely exciting news. This is exactly what we were hoping for when we started the program and we now have two students um offering position uh positions um after going through the the

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program. Um there is another student that's passed the medical assisting uh program and a couple more that will be taking their exam I believe on Friday. So we're very hopeful. This is all about interest and success. It's a powerful combination um for our flippers

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and taking and and talking about quick success. Um our robotics uh team joined first uh recognition uh first is for inspiration and recognition of science and technology. So they joined first um as competitors just one

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year ago and then they uh you approved their trip um to uh Texas for the worlds and finished 14th uh in the worlds uh in just two years. That is absolutely uh amazing amazing skill and amazing teamwork. Um so just three examples I'm

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sharing this time about the Clipper experience um opportunity and excellence in FA public schools. Um, we also live in an amazing community, uh, and that supports our schools. And I just want to give a shout out for, um, the, uh,

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Ticket Playground Committee that will be up, uh, next. Um, so looking forward to hearing their presentation. >> Thank you for the update. Kids are always the best thing to hear about. Always, always. Thank you, Ry. Um the next item on the agenda will be a

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presentation from the T ticket playground committee and I just wanted to say it's the work they did but um it's in our community that I mean I think back years ago when the Mullen Hall playground was put together by the

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community and we have um FEF, we have BIPS, we have the Famouth road race. I don't really like to name names in case I miss anybody, but our community is just bursting with people who help the kids. And under the leadership of this committee, which we're going to hear

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from, we'll see what's going on now. Okay. Thank you. >> Mr. Kapula, do you have a um thing to queue up? >> I do. Yes. >> Sure. Well, thank you for having us. I'd be

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remiss to say uh tonight and last thank you and um special thanks to my former French teacher even though she's can't believe she was you know my teacher and um I thank you for all your service. I appreciate you guys supporting this

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project especially as well. So I wanted to thank you >> say that prior. >> I'm still not going to change your grade though. I took French one for three years. I'm going to share my screen. Well, while he's doing that, everybody,

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you should have a picture in front of you. This is what the final proposal that we chose um to a tune of $398,000. Uh we added this seating area with the canopy which is nice. We spoke to a lot of parents, talked to other people on

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all the playgrounds and that was one thing parents said. The benches are great, but we really like a table or a coffee or homework or McDonald's whatever it might be. So the large version is on Dom's hand. So >> um Wow. Well, we'll have everything up on the

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>> Sorry about that. I'm just here for you, but I don't I know you guys are pressed for time, so I'm going to just start if that's okay. Um, on our first slide, which I'm sure will get up quick. Just so you know, a little bit of history, we were the first ADA playground on the Cape. Um, we were built, the original

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playground was built 2021 with the help of George Febey and back then it was called the Handicap Commission. They don't call it that now. Um, basically the town had already gotten a CPC grant and then the town kicked in $90,000 and originally the site was going to be Mullen Hall, but at the time there were

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other things going on and the principal said, you know, I'm not sure that we can take this project on because the kicker was you had to get your own volunteers. So it took three weekends and 150 volunteers. And at the time Michael Arf was our principal and he said, "What do you think?" And we all the staff said

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that we're in. So we spent three weekends putting the playground together. Back in those days, you could volunteer and put it together without warranty issues, liability. As you know, you can't do that anymore. >> What year was it? >> That was 2020. 20 year. I'm sorry. 20

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>> 20 Oh, 2000 >> 2000. It was a 2000 year 2001. We installed it in October. September, October was installed. It was completed in 2000. Um, it served it us well. 25 years. We had rubber tiles which were

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great. Um but we've got better products now which is even better. So we have um unfortunately we had to deem it unsafe. The DPW came in with an inspector. Um we closed it immediately. The DPW was so helpful they came in removed it because even though we had fencing people would

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still get on the playground um on the weekends etc. Um so at that point we had missed the CPC funding and decided you know we can't go another year. This isn't going to work. Um it was very hard on the staff as well as the kids this year. So, um, we started fundraising. Um, I think that'll go on the next

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slide. Go ahead. >> Yeah, I'll take over. Sorry. Uh, >> yeah. So, I mean, the mission of this, you know, this project and, you know, starting this committee was really to get this project done as fast as possible so the kids have a a space to play. And so, you know, October

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playground is deemed unsafe. And then December, end of December, that's when uh the 501c was created. And then January 14th was the day that letters were sent out. Uh and you know today

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we're 118 days in uh you know uh Dominique's been a huge help with uh the Facebook the social media page really getting the word out about this project. And then uh we all said uh Julie Dany created the website uh you know for for

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the playground. super helpful uh just to have so many uh community members be, you know, and you know, staff coming together for this project to really uh get this going, get get it off the ground and get to where we are today.

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>> And I'm sorry, this is Jeff Rose, former teaching graduate, owned his own business, and was our first big donor. So you can follow along the slide with you won't be if you're looking at we understand that >> all right so please

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>> I'll introduce you we know that again so I'm the treasurer Carrie Shanahan who is the secretary Jeff Rose who is our um >> member of member at large, Steven Kapoka, our president. We also have

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Julie Duffany, um, member at large, Stacy Budro, member at large, and Aaron Ko, member at large. All right, so how we got here today, day 118, we decided that we were going to apply for any grant that could be

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applicable to us at any given time. It didn't matter. $400,000 is a really big number to swallow when you're sitting at zero. So when we said 400,000, we knew that it wasn't going to be the stop and shop donation that was going to give us $20 or it wasn't going to be, you know, $250. We needed to go for the bigger

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picture and the small stuff. We weren't saying no to anything. Um, we hosted a lot of community events. So if there was a place that would have us, then we were going to go. So we did car washes, gym games, bingo, restaurant nights, raffles. Again, if somebody said that they would have us, we were going to be

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there. We had a lot of businesses step up. You guys can actually see your coasters. This is um one of our favorites. I think we're in 27 different restaurants here in town. Um so all the businesses, tough winter, cold winter's just a tough time in general. We said, "How can we get there and how can you

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guys all be meeting as a committee and look at your coaster and say, "Oh, the playground." We knew that the playground needed to be at every single person like on the top of their brain. If it wasn't, then we weren't going to keep the money flowing in. So we had to do it. Um we had a lot of alumni support. So people are really proud to run the halls of

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Ticket and it goes as much as certain foundation people were coming in and they're raising their hands at anything that we would and be like I used to run the halls of Ticket. So it was really nice to see that especially I'm not from Felman so I don't know all of those things but people coming out of the woodwork to share their experiences and talk about Ticket was really magical.

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And then volunteers okay there was so much heart and soul that was poured behind this project so far. And I'm also talking like it's done. It's not done but there we've made a good portion good headway. Um, but so many people came out and they just helped and they were like, "You need something here. I have an

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idea." Like we just we would take it. Um, so I think the number one thing that got us to where we are is that we said yes to absolutely every single thing and immediately implemented the next day. There were sometimes that we were texting at 6:00 a.m. There were sometimes that we were up until midnight doing whatever we needed to do to get it

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done. And no idea was too wild because we wanted a playground as fast as humanly possible. So, we did multiple radio ads. Turns out we can do that sort of stuff. Um, we went on presentations like this. We did a TV segment and we've had multiple newspaper articles. Again,

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if they'll have us, well, we'll be there. >> So, how much have we raised? Well, we are at $354,695.54 and we're >> um sorry, there is an additional 4,000. Again, it climbs every day. So,

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>> perfect. Yes. So, we're still, you know, we're still looking to, you know, raise more money. We have 306 individual donors. We've gotten three grants. >> Sorry. >> We got three grants accepted so far. We've done four

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>> four >> four in memory uh for loved ones. Uh you know, people you know, raising money for you know, a loved one. Uh we've hosted 11 events and 189 Facebook posts. Like I said before, the social media aspect of

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things has been a huge uh you know just getting the word out. Uh power you know powerful tool social media can be. Um, and you know, at the end of the day, we've done this in 118 days. And when I joined on the committee early on and donated, it was uh a very far, you know,

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$400,000 is a lot of money. And, you know, to start there and be here 100 almost, you know, 4 months later, uh, is just really incredible. And it's really a testament of, you know, our community as a whole. Um, you know, super proud to be a part of this community and be a part of this project. um as a community

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member. Uh and it's really just uh a full circle moment for for me uh you know being at Ticket many moons ago and here here I am being able to give back to the community um that's given so much to me. So >> well and mind you when Jeffrey made his

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large donation we didn't have anything at that time. So it was a belief in what this project meant. So, the first few people that kind of went out there and put their name on the line, that was huge for us because again, you stand anywhere and you're like, I'm raising $400,000. They're like, "Okay, little

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girl, go." Like, you're not going to do that. I was like, "Oh, don't tell me." No. >> But he was in the snow making a video. We were all standing out in the snow in the rain making videos. And um I mean, there's a lot more donors that you don't see because we had a raffle. We raised $12,000 in a raffle. Many of you were at

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that event and bought raffle tickets. So we can't even count the number of people that have donated in that way too. >> Mhm. >> So definitely over 500 I would say at this point. >> Yeah. >> And this behind seeing see this is an interesting slide. I don't know if you can see it but um there's different

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levels. >> Yeah. So the tiger friend um that's everybody who donated $250. The Marav Vista friend was $500. The anchor friend was $1,000. The compass friend was two

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uh 2500. Clipper friend 5,000 T ticket friend 10,000 and legacy builder is 25,000 and up. So a lot of people really came together and these are just like you know the bigger ones but there were

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days that we would run well March 17th we just asked everybody to donate $17. We had well over 100 people who gave multiple times but just donated $17. Again like when we say that there was no donation too small. Somebody once threw 27 cents at me and we put that in our

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our bank account. >> Okay. So, on on slide six, um this talks a little bit about the new playground, which you have a picture in front of you. Um so, the committee and actually, just so you know, the students were part of this. So, when we first started the process, we had to have some kind of

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design to just share with people so we could explain what we were trying to raise money for. It wasn't a sandbox that it was a big deal. So, um, we asked the kids and we asked the staff, "What what are you missing the most?" Monkey bars. We want monkey slides. We want a tall slide. Um, and then we had a couple

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of different ideas and when we shared them with the kids, they all love the ship. And so, obviously, the Clipper ship was the way we went. Um, we made some changes to the original design, but we wanted to make sure we had the same, if not better than what we had in the past. So, there are three slides on

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here, several sets of monkey bars. Um, as you know, we hold we have um 29 ASD children in our building. So, we want to make sure that we can accommodate all of those children as well as all the kids in the community. So, there are ramps here so you can get onto the ship. We

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have 25 different panels. A panel might be a brail panel. It might be a sensory panel, which is um a musical instrument, chimes, drums. We wanted uh things that will spin and turn. There's a bridge on here that the wheelchair can go up to. And then there's parallel play. So a

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child can be in a chair and and a peer can be next to that child. Both playing on that same piece of equipment. That was important to us. Um and as you know, our numbers are in increasing. All everybody's numbers are increasing in the special ed population and we need to be able to service all the kids in this

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town. So that was part of the design for ship. >> Gary, could you explain that tier thing again? where >> the two kits can be together. >> Yes. So there's actually I can uh share the share a picture of it.

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>> Yeah. So that's a separate bridge and there's two there's a steering wheel and another piece of equipment here. So a wheelchair can come all the way up here and the kids can play together. >> There are around 52 pieces of equipment that are on the ground. So if a child didn't want to climb or go up that area,

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they can stay on that that ground surface and still have play. Um and the rubber surface is huge. So our we had rubber tiles which were recycled um airplanes and tires, right? And we had bees that got underneath them. So there were a lot of problems with that and glue and we it was Yeah. So anyway, this

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is a new pour in place product. So what will happen is um we're going to pour slap. It's going to be installed on the slack and then they will pour the rubber on top which will be safer and easier and it won't crack. You'll have a better warranty. But we picked um blue for the

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ocean and sand obviously sand color for the ships. So that was part of the theme as well and that was originally we had orange color and the kids said why are we doing sand and ocean? So great whatever you guys maroon for >> and we changed the colors to maroon. So originally the design looked a little bit like this. It was green

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But we made some changes with the kids help and um the staff because Stacy's out there for recess duty every day. She knows what they're missing and and and it causes problems when there's nothing to play. >> All right. So, one thing about this is

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if you notice in our name, we're not just the Ticket Playground. We're the TT community playground. And the reason being is because especially if you've had young children and you're bored, you go to multiple different playgrounds. you don't just go to one or just don't go to the one that your kids play on every single day at recess. So, we know that there are right now four elementary

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schools in our district. There's preschoolers, all the things those are all the young ones that are going to be coming and using this. Um, like Carrie said, special education near and dear to my heart, but it's on the rise. And I actually went back and watched your video to see the real numbers. And in

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2022, we were at 20.1% special education and now we're at 20 in 2026, we're at 24.9. We know that's not just us, but that means that our surrounding communities as well can use different aspects of this. Um, something that we have at TIG and the playground

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was designed for is children with autism, um, developmental delays, sensory hearing, sensory vision, neurological, emotional, uh, specific learning disabilities and different health issues. So, that's the ones that we house here right at Ticket, but we also know that that goes broader to

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other things. So, especially children with autism, they use a lot of sensory for regulating their body, regulating their nervous system. Something that I do truly believe that they miss every single day because a playground is the extension of a classroom. It's easy for them to go and look for those sensory

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issues from jumping, from crashing into things, the musical elements, just touching different things, um, running, you know, like all of those things are really important and we wanted to make sure that we could deliver that at all times, not just during school hours. So, something that we thought of and it was

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one of the things that we went back to the design people, we really wanted to have that outdoor seating because the community can use this now as free birthday parties. I don't know about you, but cost living is not that fun around here. So, who can spend $500 on, you know, something that kids can just go outside and go play and have a playground, especially a brand new one.

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Um, so we really looked at this project and just said, well, life gave us lemons. We should just make lemonade. So, we tried our absolute hardest to make it as like the best that we absolutely could for every student, not just for circumstance. I think that's it

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questions. >> Anybody have any? Yes, Katrina. >> So, you have how much left? Just about 30,000. Are you doing more of that? >> Yes. Apple. Sorry, I forgot to mention that one. Yes, we are. Actually, if you guys are free and you want to come and hang out um this Saturday at the Daily

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Brew from 6:00 to 9:00, we will have a playground jam session. So, there's a bunch of different artists that have volunteered their time. The tickets are $25, but 100% of the proceeds for ticket sales go to us. So, if you can come and make it, it'll be a lot of fun. And then I don't know exactly what's left.

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>> We do have some grants that we're waiting to hear back from and we're hopeful on some of that information. Great Margaret. >> Thank you. >> A financial question. Good job all of you. But this is more towards Paul if I

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could. What happens to a CPC grant that we discussed for this project? >> The uh application opened up in April. >> Yeah. >> And uh their decision is in August and then it gets voted on in November. So

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it's still there. Uh and if we going to proceed forward given that there are really right at that edge. So we'll proceed forward and and then we'll uh take you know cancel the application at some point.

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>> Are you whose idea is this? >> It's brilliant. >> It's brilliant. >> Well, I guess the firework committee wants to do it now. egg. >> I just Well, it was my idea. Julie definitely created it. >> Okay. >> But they're big in Florida.

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>> Really? >> They're big other places. >> In Germany, they call these beer decals. >> Yeah, that's Yeah, >> in some people's houses, they have stacks like this. You don't collect in those. Okay. >> I'm sorry. I wasn't supposed to comment yet. Why am I turn? Go ahead.

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>> No, you don't. >> Yeah. Um, wow. I uh have dabbled in grant writing and especially in this climate I know that a $10,000 gift is huge. It's more along the lines of 2500

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to 5,000. So the fact that you got these monstrous grants one thanks to you guys because it was the Felmouth road race to 50,000. So that really was helpful. >> So actually those are two questions if I can ask through you to for Paul. Um, so

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you had the Falmouth road race on your list as far as a donor that was what' you say 20 50 or >> it was 25,000 and up just the legacy builder is the highest. So both of those donors gave more than half. >> So are we uh so

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through the schools from the thalmouth road race are we gifting $50,000 is that for the project or >> so um the road race um each year um will give a certain amount

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to the school system and so uh we put uh different projects forward to the Fmouth road race. this year. The only one I put forward was the Ticket um playground. Um they've committed 50,000. Um and there could possibly be some potential more.

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Um so they they've been watching things and and whatever. But so that's that's usually how each each year. It used to be twice a year. Um now they they accept it once a year. This is actually out of cycle. Um but they were so excited about

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um wanting to be a part of this that um out of cycle they've um committed the 50,000. >> Yes. Great. >> That goes to the August. >> They did come and paint the thermometer. So we have a thermometer on the street. So if you drive by anybody who did a thousand or more they're on the thermometer. >> We thought of it like NASCAR. So you

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know how like NASCAR if you're driving around looking at the cars they have all their sponsors on it. So we said well we should do that instead of like lawn signs that cost money or different things. So instead, if you drive by and you see it, everybody who gave $1,000 or more, their business, their name, in

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memory of whatever, however they did their donation, it's up there. >> That's amazing. Just one other quick question. I think at I don't know if it was the last school committee meeting or the before that there was an announcement about um Representative

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Vieiraa um earmarking some money for for the project. Is that is that still in the works? Uh so the um House did vote uh money but now it has to go through the Senate um and then it has to go through so there's a there's a process when you earmark the money. So yes, uh

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50,000 was earmarked through u that process. Um the Senate has to vote on it and I believe their budget week is um this week or next week and then it then it has to, you know, the final um whatever works out then Governor Healey

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would sign off on. We usually don't know that until July. Um but I think if it passes the House and the Senate, it's likely that it's going to go all the way through. So, so we're watching that as well. >> Thank you, >> Susan. >> So, if that were to happen, you can get

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started this summer, right? What's the lead time for construction? >> ASAP. >> We hope to have it finished by August 14th. Yeah, >> we we're confident that um that we're going to get there and that's what Paul was kind of indicating. We're we're

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moving forward as um though we have the funds because we're we're fairly confident it's not going to come in. >> Nice job, everyone. That's amazing. >> It really is. >> We'll be inviting you to the dedication the first week of school. >> Awesome. >> It'll be a dedication. >> Yeah. >> No, just just great job. It's great to

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great to see community members kind of step up and and take charge. >> It's amazing. Absolutely amazing. >> Yeah. >> I just love to add your next Sorry. >> No, no, I'm I'm good. I made a fool of

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myself with a beer. >> We have extras here. I just want to say that it's a really a testament to the people seated to my left and behind me and the people that aren't here on this committee that organized and got this going and it's

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really as you mentioned community and the enormity of it. You know, um the the connections that this school has had with people and the people the individuals of our staff that have made these connections is really what is the catalyst for all this. And it goes right

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up until the the$127 cents donation right up until um the our biggest donation which I remiss not to mention that the Lindon Collar Russo Tribal Foundation granted us $150,000 and that is a direct connection to

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Ticket because two of the two of the trustees of the organization went to Ticket. They're like the you know one of the other trustees Mr. Louis's grandkids went to Dickett. Um, and it's really a testament to the hard work and connection that they have made over the years. Um, you know, as a community

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school and a community, it's amazing. I mean, you know, many of this, I mean, fact that I signed the 501c3 letter in December 31st, 2025, and we're sitting here, you know, just shy of $30,000. Um,

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it's amazing. And it's all these guys. We thank you for your support and I won't see you tonight. >> Yeah. No, thank you because you guys have been supportive and it does mean a lot to us because without your support, we can't really build on property.

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>> So, maybe I'll see you on Saturday night. >> Yeah. Thank you so much. >> Nothing can follow that after. Okay. Um the next item on the agenda is to discuss and possibly act on the Lawrence school grade configuration.

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Um well we have gotten communication from the MSBA that um a decision deadline they would have liked to have had a miss decision deadline that we didn't because we didn't have enough input at the time. So now we will work

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with them um during we're still in the um eligibility period um after a few months and we'll be in the feasibility period and um MSBA offers data. They help you collect data. They do not um

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advise you how to vote the configuration, but um to me it's a great opportunity because we get we don't we were thinking about feasibility studies for a lot of different things that we do. We don't have to pay for this. We get unbiased

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um information um handed to us working in along with them. So, um, we could vote tonight. Um, and but we might have to vote again and change it if they come up with some data that we hadn't thought

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of. I mean, it's their expertise and they um love love love they said it so many times to work in collaboration with towns. So, they they are welcoming the opportunity for this. So, um, we could,

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somebody couldn't make a motion for a certain configuration. Um, I can give my opinion cuz I'm leaving and I don't care what you do. Sue me, but I'll be gone. Um, that why not take this opportunity to work with them. Um, and not do Eddie

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vote tonight. Okay. But, um, so I don't know if I would make a motion yet because No. Okay. um would start um with comments on this side. >> Um I I I follow your lead, Terry, on it.

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I I don't think that we I don't want to get ahead of MSBA. And I even more than that don't want to make a decision and then have our community hear it and then get new information and then might need to make a different decision because that's a

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terrible place for families to be in where they think that they know what's going to happen and then we pull the carpet out. So, um I'm inclined to not make any motions. Um yes, I I would definitely be in favor of deferring a vote until um feasibility

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study is done and more information is gathered. >> Again, when the feasibility study, give us more information. >> Um I agree and as we heard from our public comment, um we still need to do a

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survey which we had tabled, but we still need to do that of the parents. Um, so, uh, yes, we still need to gather more information before we make a final decision. >> Melissa, >> um, I absolutely asked for a survey for

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the families, uh, a while back and, uh, I couldn't agree more that waiting for the feasibility study. It would, uh, provide us with much needed time to make sure that we hear from everybody and that we get our surveys back. And I just want to

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make an informed decision. I think I've said it from the beginning and I continue to stand by that statement. So, I would like to uh hold off on that. Mike, yeah, I have a real issue with how this thing went down because there were

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members of this committee who asked for a feasibility study before we gave up Morris Pond. And at that time, it was not necessary. We had no information. scale Morse pond with one data point. In the summer and the fall for four

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consecutive meetings, we were told we have to vote great configuration before MSBA. At every single meeting, finance director would say it would make us in a stronger position. November, December, we started getting

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emails from parents. 95% or more showed interest in one grade configuration which was the opposite of administration. About twothirds of the teachers surveyed say the same grade configuration the opposite administration. I had asked

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this to be on the agenda since January. Every agenda I asked every agenda I was denied. March 13th, I made a motion at the end of the meeting and it passed to be discussed at the April 28th

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meeting. Early in April, early in April, the superintendent called people up, said she spoke to the MSBA. None of us have ever spoken to the MSBA. So, calling up members saying we couldn't do it and then I said I still want to do it and then canceling the

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April 28th meeting. this entire process. If we wanted a feasibility study, why did everyone fight against it for most? Because that was offered meeting after meeting. And why was there a big push in

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the summer and fall? I think, and I might be wrong, but I think this is just a delay tactic until we get new members on the board who will rubber stamp ideas. And that's wrong. Every single time that Shawn guy comes

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for mask, he asks each and every one of us, who are you here for? Why did you run for school committee? And everyone says the children over 95% of parents want one thing. Twothirds of teachers want one thing. It is the opposite what the administration has presented. So the

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question is, who are we really here for? And obviously we're not going to discuss any further, but that's my only question to everyone here. Margaret, >> you know, I really do believe that every person on this committee really cares

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about students, really has uh believes that they have the students best interest at heart. Um, however, different people have different points of view and that makes it difficult. um

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a feasibility study now has been authorized and would pay for and it would not have been paid for in the very beginning of this process. And so I do think that um we need to wait. I think what Kelly said about we do not want to

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make a decision and then tell the parents this is what's going to happen and it changes. We need all the information we can get to make a good decision and I think we need to wait for a little study and to work with you. >> Um I because I had not seen anything

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about this in writing from the MSBA. I actually called them spoke to someone named Katherine um I'm forgetting her last name. It was an Italian last name and she gave me the email. she was very helpful and um said why don't you reach out to Claire Learner who's the senior project coordinator and Claire was very

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helpful and wrote back to me. So the the description she gave is um I can confirm that the MSBA has no issue with the district's decision to vote on the proposed grade configuration for the project. As a reminder, regardless of the results of the vote, the district

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will be required to study the options outlined in the eligibility period board action letter, which we got back in um December um as part of the MSBA process. So, what I got from both of them was we can vote now, we can vote later. It really doesn't matter to them. We still

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have to study the options, but there's no reason why March 1st changed anything. So, that was I think the confusion for me. Um did we miss a deadline and now we can't vote? No, we could if we wanted to. Um nothing changed once we entered the eligibility phase is what they're saying. It's just

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um now that we're in the eligibility phase, we will go through the feasibility study and have to study the options. So um I agree that it makes sense and I am um willing to delay because I want to get our survey from

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families. Um and I will trust that we're going to actually untable. It wasn't tabled. It was just delayed. whatever you did to the agenda item to have a survey um that that will come back before us very soon because I think my

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concern is that if we say we're not going to vote now and we're going to wait for the feasibility study, we don't really know exactly when that phase is going to be wrapping up and we don't always understand when we're going to have to take an action on something before we get there. And if we don't do the surveying in time, we might reach a

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crunch deadline where we have to vote on the U grade configuration. And I'm just saying this from my experience being on this committee that I don't want to get have a a moment down the line where we're told that we don't have time to survey people. So if we can do that

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survey ASAP and then if we want to do another one um in September, we can do another one closer to the time and see if the public viewpoint has changed. More data is better. you see it now, you can see it again later and get those two data points to compare. So, as long as

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we are all on board with doing the survey, then I'm okay with um delaying because according to the MAC, it does not really matter to them when we do it. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> I have a followup for whoever the chair might be in the future.

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>> Why haven't we had the MSBA person at any meeting? Why can't we talk to them? Why is the information that my colleague Miss Neban giving the exact opposite information that we got on those phone calls of April 1st and 2nd? There is a real issue where in the

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summer and the fall we were pushing this. People in their evaluation said that we need to make a decision and anything that's lacking because of our lack of decision is not our administration. And then those same people come here at this

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meeting and say we should wait. There's there was we could have had the survey in this discussion on April 28th. There was no reason to cancel that meeting. I'd asked for MSBA to come and speak to us. No one has done that. So, I

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apologize, but I don't trust anything's going to happen ever again because Miss Nevin asked for that survey on March 13th. We don't even have a draft of the survey. We have nothing. So, I feel this is a delay tactic until

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they get a more favorable board who will just stamp everything the administration wants to do. That's all I'll say. Thank you, Terry. >> Okay. Um All right. So, I guess what we are doing is nothing, right? Cuz it says in here

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possibly act. So, we're just going to do nothing for next. >> Okay. All right. So moving on to the next item would be to act on surplus world language materials. >> In your packet you have um a memo from

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uh Dr. Teller about uh the uh materials u listed that are surplus and we're asking um that you act on the surplus. >> Is there a motion to act on the surplus? >> I'll make a motion to act on the

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surplus. Second. >> Is there any discussion? >> Um, >> so we start in the middle with voting. Um, >> I just have a question. >> These folks haven't been hanging around since 1972, right?

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>> 1949. Yeah, >> there are a handful of uh copies that we have found as we had gone into a couple of different storage areas and they were saved because there were some passages or references that were being used that we can also access digitally should we

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choose to continue using interest. >> Okay. Um so any other question? Just amazing to me that there's enough storage closets that every year we have >> the walls of that building are storage. You don't you don't realize it. You think it's a wall, but all

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>> the roofs from 1965 holding up the building. >> Yeah. >> I guess they're like insulation. >> You want your 1895 >> part of the renovation. >> Yeah. >> That's an antique. >> Yes.

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What's going to happen to >> you language doesn't exactly change right still French >> that might in 1985 >> so we're going to vote >> yes

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>> thank you >> lumpy yes >> yesina yes >> yes >> yes >> yes >> and the deer yes so thank you >> all right Um the next item on the agenda is to act on FEF funding for the 2627

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school year. >> Uh years ago uh we worked with FF to uh streamline this process. Uh they are actually in their meeting uh tonight as well. Um this happens um every now and then. So they are uh the board that is

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voting at the same time you are um to accept these projects uh and um to accept the overall um uh donation of the uh projects or I shouldn't say donate it's a grant of 125,930.

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You can read the thumbnail description of each green. >> Okay. Is there a motion to >> I make a motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Um,

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comments or questions? Starting with Katrina this time. >> Oh, I love reading through the descriptions of these. Um, they're all so exciting. I wish I was a student right now studying our railroads through an engineering field. They're really cool. Our local railroads. Um, I'm

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really happy that the Bold program is getting more funding. That's a great one. I hear so many good things about that program and um I was also excited about school farm that you met at school. That sounds really cool. >> Margaret, >> well, first of all, I'm just grateful for E FS

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for their contribution to us. I'm also very grateful for the ingenuity of the teachers and the projects that they are developing uh that really help our students to move forward not just in breath but in depth. I just have one question. Who How are

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the grants decided? >> Carol teacher Franklin. >> Any questions? >> Uh just a comment as somebody who's been uh I have um chaperowned a lot of these trips and I can't say enough about it and it really feel makes me feel good

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about um you know donating to VIPS, donating my time, donating um across all the things. So, um I encourage and support all the educators that have written grants for themselves, for the

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students. I can't say enough about it. We live in a very uh special place that we have this opportunity. >> Um I second Miss Souza's comments. This these are amazingly innovative teacher grants and uh the FEF is so generous.

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It's it's incredible. So, um wonderful work. >> So, thank you to FEF. Um it's been so many years of granting these different projects and uh they are

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truly helpful to our system. >> Chris, >> um no, just essentially seconding every everyone's comments. Um we're very lucky to be blessed uh to live in this community where we have such such tremendous support from grassroots organization. So agree

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>> definitely a day a lot of generosity. >> Right. Okay. So um there was a motion. Okay. So we'll vote. I guess we start with Kelly this time. >> Well just yes >> yes. >> Yes.

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>> Wilk yes >> yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Madirus. Yes. So that's unanimous. Okay. So, the next item on the agenda, um I would like to say this before um

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this item um I'd like to voice that um due to a discrepancy in the interpretation of the Massachusetts um dees evaluation process, I motion to send the evaluation back to the

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evaluation subcommittee to confer with council and then to bring it back. Okay. So, that's my my motion. Is there a second to that? >> A second. >> Okay. Um, so >> we can discuss this, correct?

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>> No. >> No, we can't discuss it. >> Well, I I spoke to Desessie today and what we're doing is wrong. >> You can't So, no. I have a real problem with this. It needs improvement on standard one. >> Excuse me, Mike. Please be quiet. Okay.

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Be quiet. Okay. It is not up for discussion. It's going to be reviewed by legal counsel. Okay. So, we had a motion and a second. Um, there's no discussion. We start voting in the middle. Right.

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>> Cohen, no. Augusta, yes. lumping >> Terry's thinking. >> Yes. >> Terry, is there anything else you can say about what? >> No, we are not discussing it. Katrina, >> I just don't understand it. >> Um, I don't understand either, but I'm

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just going to put um my confidence in the chair that there's something I don't know and I'll just trust the process. So, Welch, yes, Katrina. So, are we tableabling it or what is what is >> Yes, we're tableabling it. We need >> Well, you're sending it back to committee, right? Correct.

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>> That's different than tableabling that. >> Yes. >> So, I'm just one I'm confused about the motion cuz we're not tableabling. We are referring it. >> I have my little card and I'm trying to figure out what we're doing because >> refer to committee is subsiding. >> Okay, guys. And we do we really need to

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hassle through the legal name. >> No, I just wanted to make sure we're doing it the right way. She didn't use the word um The description of it is we need more information. Whether it should be tabled to get more information, whether we should use the term referred to get more information.

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>> Well, there just different like you might you have a majority but um refer to committee and for tableabling. >> I don't know how to work here. >> Simple majority, right? Okay. So, as long as it's a majority for both, I just wanted to make sure >> point of information. Did we discuss a

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referral on your little Robin's rules charts at Patuna? I don't know >> because if it was referral that means I'm open for discussion not just a vote according to Robert's rules. >> So I think that we should follow >> we are I am not going to allow

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discussion. I think I can do that. I'm there's a reason for the no discussion. So >> um can I ask a point of clarity? We've all submitted our evaluations. Legal counsel can't change anybody's evaluation.

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Right. >> We are, excuse me, we are not looking to change anything. We are looking for a legal interpretation which we don't have ourselves. Okay. >> Okay. We cannot change anything that was

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submitted by May 1st. >> Okay. Nothing's going to be chang you understand. We want to make sure that we score them correctly. >> Okay. >> All right. just for the public and I'm sorry I'm losing it but um scoring the documents

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is really difficult in that some of the definitions such as prepundonderance are hard to get around. So we want to be sure that we're doing it clearly legally. Okay. So >> um and just we're going to be voting on this with new members.

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>> Yeah. >> How's that? >> Okay. Um >> unless we're having another meeting before the election. Either way, it will work because there will be a um either six or seven people, which is a majority of the committee that's here now. It can either be done by another meeting or

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after the elections. It doesn't matter. >> Okay. All right. Thank you for all that clarification before. >> All right. Um All right. Nothing. Yes. >> Okay. >> Um Hen commented. I just want to make sure that what I have here the preponderance is not going to change the

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overall needs improvement provision because I spoke to Desessie today. >> Mike, please. >> No, it's a big no. Mrs. Wrong. >> Okay. Melissa. >> U Melissa keeps yes because I'm trusting the process because there's more to this that I don't know and I'm trusting.

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>> Okay. Um and Madiraas says yes. So did somebody count those? >> I did. So we have um >> seven yes and two, >> one two no and seven yes. Okay. >> Can I can I ask a clarifying question? If we have our meeting after the

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election, how will the people who are on the committee now who who evaluated have the opportunity to discuss their evaluations in an open meeting which we

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are required to do. So, so we'd have to have another meeting before the election. >> Can I respond to that? >> Okay. You >> can I just >> We don't know for sure. So, we'll get a legal answer about that. Linda, >> okay.

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>> Okay. None of us are attorneys, so we will get a answer for that. Okay. Can I just say that my first year on the committee the election the evaluation was not done when I was new on the committee we voted for

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>> I kind of think that we have done that in the past we have not always had evaluations before elections but I'm going to check into that okay >> okay so with that done um

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routine business. That would be the minutes. >> Anybody make a motion on your minutes? >> I'll make a motion to um approve the minutes of April 14th, 2026. >> Is there a second?

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>> Okay. Any edits? >> Just a quick Yeah. Okay. Um, right before routine business, the discussion of superintendent is just a type of spell. Okay. No other edits. Okay. Is there a motion

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to approve them? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Anybody second it? >> Second. >> Okay. I forget where we are to Oh, is it back over this side? Okay. Katrina. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes.

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>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Madiraas. Yes. Okay. Um, committee reports. Mike, >> I um had a table at the multicultural fair this past weekend. Henry was there

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representing. It was a good time. It was at the East Found School. Um there was some some discussion from some uh Wampaog folks and there was dancing and uh the gentleman next to me from Venezuela, this is the best part. He had

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come over and told me how the Irish had gave Venezuela their independence in the 1840s and I never knew that. Very interesting. And they have a whole place uh in Karacas of General Olirri. So, I was talking to Henry earlier and it was a great event and I think I would like

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to see it grow more and I would like to thank Christine Christina and Amy >> and Bethany >> Bethany Jay Christina Amy >> and they got all >> forget all the names. Sorry. >> That's it. Thank you. >> Okay. Any other committee reports? So,

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um I attended the district health and safety meeting yesterday afternoon where we were briefed on the Alice drills, uh the fire alarm drills, uh and updated new safety measures in the central command room for cameras, interlocking doors, and camera

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replacement uh as well as there was there were reports from each of the schools. So, if anyone has any questions, either see me or see Dr. D. Okay. Um, right now,

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>> wait, Kevin. >> Oh, I I'm sorry. This um we were invited um once again to have um information for voter registration at graduation rehearsal. Um which I've done I don't know how many years now. Um we

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host the bre the breakfast for the seniors that are graduating when they come in for rehearsal and just make sure that they understand how to register. Um, and it is Thursday the 4th of June. I think at 8:00 a.m. in my calendar, but I have a feeling that's not exactly

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right. So, if anybody wants to join, just let me know. >> I had joined last year. >> Great. Thanks. Um, so I had my first and only sadly meeting with CPAC. Uh, the emails were going to the wrong email address all year. So, I did finally have

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a Zoom. Um and I'm forgetting the presenter's name of our organization on that was who was supposed to be right. >> Right. So there was there were no attendees sadly but I did learn a great deal about CPAC. Um and um as a followup

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I have talked to parents that I know who have students with 504s and IEPs and they didn't seem to be getting the CPAC email. So I should have just told you that but I would have had to do an email thing. So maybe an issue, I don't know. Um and then my other committee report is

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um that uh the student advisory, which was great. It was I love those kids so much. It's really nice. So I brought in some things that were in um superintendent um Der's um evidence for the year talking about um legislation and I wanted to hear their thoughts on it and see if they had anything to

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share. So, we talked about the cell phone ban that has been put in place in other places like Rhode Island and is currently in the um uh Senate, I believe, right now. Um screen time limits, which is another piece of legislation that's passing through the state. Um and financial literacy um

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mandates, which is a third piece of legislation with the state house. Um and we had a really robust interesting conversation. They felt for for cell phone games, they were very much concerned about negotiating after school um changes of plans and whether not

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being able to keep a breast of stuff with their parents during the school day would impact their sports and after school extracurriculars. Um they had a lot of really good points. They were also wondering how things would be enforced. And so I was talking about there's a state level and then each district has its own way of enforcing

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that and um implementing it. Um screen time limits. They also did not feel that they it was not a popular idea to limit screen time. Um they worried about enforcement. Um and then the financial literacy piece. Some of the kids had taken those courses explicitly as part of the CTE

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pathways or business and um some there was a freshman in the group who was worried that she had missed something. Um and then Dr. Der came back to the meeting just at the right moment to explain that those are incorporated into their classes. but having it mandated might impact AP students being able to

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take um math classes. Um so anyway, it was a great conversation and their thoughts are recorded if anybody wants to hear more about teenagers views on screen time and cell phones. Thank you. Okay. So, um the VIPs

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committee is um this week in reading scholarship applications. Um it's so much it's great the or how much they do with students. Um anyway, so that's what's going on. BIPS. Um next

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month will be the um end of the year volunteer recognition u recognition. Um, and I hope some of you um have they they've been asking for input from from teachers too and things. I I know if you've heard any gotten anything from them some of the Yeah. Some of the

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teachers out there. Okay. On the other committee is the um is the Cape Cod collaborative. Now, when I'm when you are uh appointed to some of the committees such as VIPS or the

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collaborative, it's a year-long commitment. Even though your term is up in May, the commitment ends in June. So, I just want to make sure everybody is okay that I fulfill that. Okay? Especially since, well, I'm the chairman of the collaborative board, too. So,

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they have to elect a new chairman and stuff like that. So, just to finish up that business. Okay. Just to make that known. Okay. All right. Any other committee reports? Then I'll take a motion. >> Hold that thought.

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>> No, no, no. >> No. I want >> Hold that thought. Terry, >> I have my gavvel. I can over you all. >> Terry, I can talk for a while while they're getting their thing if you'd like me to. >> Terry, you can hit this with your gavvel to close our meeting. Yeah. Yeah.

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>> What did you call it again? >> Beer. >> I was I was surprised you didn't know that. Beer deco. >> Beer deco. >> Beer means beer, obviously. >> And you know in Germany how they bill you for your beers. They make X's on those little things. >> And if you get a, you know, a full round

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of X's, that's how much money you have. >> So Harry, this is your last meeting. >> Yeah. And I don't even know how I had a whole I was going to reach out to Sharon and ask her when you got on the committee,

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but then I was like, but your time in this seat really goes before then. And then I thought, well, I could probably, you know, ask you or Timmy when you started at working at Founder Public Schools, but then I thought, no, you've

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been a Clipper since forever. and from one to another. >> 1977 is when I started. There's your answer. >> But then she went to Lawrence High School, >> right? You graduated from Florence. So I I thought to myself, you know, you're just a clipper through

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and through. And as somebody who takes such pride in our community, I have learned so much from you, Terry. You have impacted >> going to make me cry. this committee, all the committees that you have um sat

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with at this table, you have impacted students, as we heard from Mr. Kapula earlier, you've impacted students that weren't even your students. That's me. You know, previously, I know that it's been a bit of a grind this year.

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However, >> you don't say. >> However, the good still weighs off the bat. And it's not that it was bad. It's just that, you know, it adds and flows. So, we to say thank you seems so minimal and it's not enough. But, um, if you

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could accept the flowers on all of our behalf, thank you for your time. You have to read it out. >> Committed survivor >> and to you as well. >> So, it's not just flowers for now. It's

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also flowers for later. We also got you maroon and white tulips for your new place. but not until the dust settles and you plant them in the fall when you get your berries. And also from um Sharon Ryan um our administrative team u

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thank you for all the years you put into this and uh so you started the year the clipper and so there is a clipper gift in there for you. So um from one of our students so >> Oh thank you. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Say something. >> Say something. You know what I really I

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loved it and Henry St. Julian is one of the reasons has one of my best memories is that I got to go to Kate Birdie Arm and the reason was it what is for students. it was to make connections,

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you know, and so we our Margaret and I and there some evaluators and Sonia right um tked over there to try to make these connections with the students and that's one of the highlights of my time on this committee. The other one was um

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David Vieiraa um asked me to be a representative um for the collaboratives actually because I was on the collaborative. I've been on the collaborative for a long time and I got to go to the state house in Boston every month for an entire year. >> Um and I walked in and got into the room

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and I you know and was with the the leading um representatives and um senators in the education in the state. So it was very interesting. And so um those are the things I'm remembering not Mike's comments for example but those

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>> you got to remember my comments. Thank you very much.