e e e e e e e I'd like to open tonight's meeting of February 13 2025 everybody please rise
for pledge of Alle with Comm and lay will be participating at tonight's meeting remotely uh roll call please Mr lame yeah Mr G yeah Mr bah here Mr Mor
yeah Mr Richardson here Mr Hogan Mr sh uh Mr Richardson anybody signed up for all appearance nope negative thank you sir School commune Communications are there any I don't believe
so um report of the student representative uh he is not able to make it tonight but everybody has his uh information in front of you there have a motion to approve the January 23rd minutes so second so moves
Mr chairman questions or comments all in favor please say I I oppos unanimous I a motion to wave the reading of the warrant to wave the reading second all in favor please say I I
opposed unan do I have a motion to approve the expenditures of 4,217 3660 so second second all in favor please say
I I opposed unanimous there is no report of the general councel Madam superintendent the floor is yours thank you Mr chairman so the first item on my agenda this evening is I'm happy to inform the committee that mass higher low career center has been
awarded a youth Works Grant uh setting aside $40,000 to partner with gr Technical High School to offer an adult certified nursing assisant program uh great news wonderful news the next item
on my agenda I'd like to ask the committee for their approval to accept a donation of $100 from staff at L General Hospital These funds will be used to assist our health and medical assistant programs that are a need of financial assistance
to purchase uniform supplies and their testing fees for their CNA and CMA certifications thank you to L general for that donation and I'm looking for an approval to accept that donation so moved
second all in favor please say I I oppose unanimous the next item on my agenda is the Cooperative education report and as always uh the report is in your packet and for this month it indicates in your
packet that 250 senior students are participating in Cooperative education program at the end of January but I'm always happy to report that as of today's date there are 256 senior students out on Co-op or a total of 45%
of our seniors are out on Co-op and our Junior students have begun to go out this month and I'm happy to report that 13 students have currently gone Junior students have gone out on Co-op which is 2% of our junior class and I'm sure I'll
have an update to provide for you in March with well more of our Junior students out on Cooperative education but once again uh thank you to miss banson for her work that she does uh in our Cooperative education uh program uh
I'd have to say that 45% is one of the highest percentages of our senior class uh to be out on co-op in a very very long time so we're proud of our students and we hope to get our Juniors out next more Juniors out next
month great job awesome outstanding report the next item on my agenda I'd like to ask coach Coach K to come up uh who's going to provide some information about out of state travel
for our wrestling program and and I'll leave that up to coach uh K Kowski to uh share with us I'm uh Tom Kowski one of the assistant wrestling coaches here at Great Tech uh midle Fab instructor down
here in in the school for the last few years um so we're looking to send a couple of kids uh we're we're we're hoping we're counting on two hoping for four to probably make it to the new englands you know uh so we're looking for fun so maybe are students who travel
out of state to the new englands down in Providence Rhode Island uh when they qualify uh we're hoping they qualify and and they've been wrestling real tough uh we're wrestling division one uh and and in the mass State uh with our wrestling team we finished the season uh last
night yeah with a good win over westfit you know uh 40 to 33 uh we're wrestling tough uh we're also uh wrestling with a lot of kids down there on the mat uh and and teaching kids just not just wrestling skills but life skills with
trying to uh get physically fit and and and stay in shape and and be committed to something awesome so that's that's great so I appreciate that I'm just going to clarify what the committee we're looking for it's again we're projecting because this competition
would be for the month of March uh and probably before the next meeting so we're making a projection of up to four four wrestlers and two coaches to go to the New England and Scholastic wrestling champion championships in Providence
Rhode Island uh we're looking for a total of $1,280 uh yes is that enough yes it is I'm GNA break that down for you and the breakdown is in your packets uh it's an entry fee again we're projecting four
wrestlers at $20 which is $80 for an entry fee the hotel is four rooms for for one night it's only one night for $480 and then meals for the two days uh
and the one night of $720 for a total of $1,280 for the six individuals to go to Rhode Island for that uh Championship so Mo second all in favor please say I
opposed good luck coach thank you very much for your thank you very much sir thank you have a good night I noticed he was working the cane or crutch yes maybe he was wrestling so so the
next item on my agenda is like to I'd like to invite Lisa Martinez our director of Technology enrollment and information to provide us with an update on our admissions good evening
everyone I have to go this there we go okay um so to to the house so we I have a application update as as um many people may already know the application deadline passed on February 3rd and uh
we extended it an extra an extra day because of the weekend and uh so wanted to just give you an update um for our ninth grade applications and let's see for our um ninth grade applications up to February 3rd um currently we have uh
1,218 applications and that is about um uh three less than uh this time last year which was about uh 1,221 but we get many many um late applications and I'll have an update of
for total applications in in October once we have those numbers um actually in in SE in September once we have those numbers well most of those applications filled out online yes yes I would say 95% of them okay were they mostly filled out in English I mean how many different
languages do we have the applications sure we have uh the applications in multiple languages and they're available online in hard copy we have uh Liaisons that help with uh with um applications here um in the in Family Resource yes in
the Family Resource Center and so people have take advantage of that and um so we work with the families in in their um native language good and is it required to fill that out online or can they actually fill it out no they they can they can fill it out in paper and P so
but most people especially in this day and age choose to do it online so it's a a very simple application sure great thank you so um so that's where we are at that um uh so far for um incoming uh I think uh 10th graders um for sophomore
again they can apply there's uh until uh the summer and currently um we have 13 3 uh applications for 10th grade which is about the uh a little bit less than last year at that time which was
141 okay um this year we've actually um the past few years we've focused on marketing and recruitment efforts um to increase engagement and awareness about CTE and and just greater loow Tech uh and uh and vocational education to
historically underserve students and families in our sending communities and we have a recruitment team that's been going out uh for the past uh two two years or so two or three years and it's made up of uh uh teachers special ed education multilingual and Community Le
Liaisons and they promote the school and our programs in CT at events in all our sending communities um after school and on weekends um in addition to what we do here for open houses our presentations as well as tours and so forth they help
with the emissions enrollment process um with with uh the sending um community and they they also um collect applications and um go out and help uh with enrollment documents from the local schools promotional materials are also
available in um the students family home language whenever possible and if there isn't a language available we try to get that um promotional materials or whatever materials we need in that language and so we work with that and um we will be working with the boys and
girls club as well as tomorrow we have a a meeting with a student Rowan Murphy who is uh going to be our liaison With Girls Inc so we're going to be doing some recruiting and some uh partnership with uh Girls and Boys Club and Girls
Inc in regards to uh trying to engage our families and the younger students there in in our school Community yes we're very excited about it this is um a program and targets um some of the seventh and eighth graders not just not just eighth graders but the seventh
graders and it's handson and um the uh we sending some of our vocational instal instructors to do some little creative uh projects with them with them so it it'll be very exciting so um be happy to report how that goes after that so
yes could you tell me how many open seats we have uh for so generally um the year it's based on total enrollment but the average is about 595 to 5 585 to 595 per
year so those for for the freshman and what about 10th grade 10th grade um again um that depends on um enrollment and um sometimes we have 10 seats sometimes we have 15 open seats it it it
depends and it it changes from year to year so you have double the capacity over the last 10 years yes we have yeah yes we need to increase that
capacity excellent job thank you Mr B Sure great job with the recruitment efforts um to reach out to the boys club and the girls club The Girls Incorporated some of those students don't go to public schools they might go to private schools and such and
they've never never really identified you know with what vocational education speak the seventh and eth graders too I think important sure are very important so it's a great job you know that we're branching out and we're doing that to give every student an option to come to Greater loal Tech and understand what
vocational schools are all about so outstanding work when do the acceptance notifications go out so they usually go out mid-march cool thank you very much any other question awesome great job thank you app thank you thank you have a good
night and that concludes my report for this evening thank you business manager Mr night all right good evening I have just a list of budget transfers for you uh for this meeting the um I was just doing
budget cleanup as we're getting into the year here and uh we're a little over halfway done the year so just filling in holes where we uh went over budget and taking money from where we had some excess uh previously if anyone's got any questions happy to give you a little
more detail on any specific lines motion approve second all in favor please say I I opposed unanimous thank you thank you sir anybody have anything for old business
anybody have anything for new business just want to thank the dance team for the cop absolutely yeah yes that was nice nice that was nice yeah that was very nice committee person motions there's no sub SubCom reports no
motion Jour second all in favor I thank you very much everybody thanks guys and ladies e for