Call the meeting to order. Rise for the pledge of >> allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the flag of the one nationice. >> Committeeman Gria will be participating
at tonight's meeting remotely. Roll call. Mr. >> Sheen. Yep. Mr. Lame >> here. >> Mr. Bahu >> Mr. Richardson >> here. >> Mr. Norco. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yep. >> Mr. Morren?
>> Yeah. >> Uh, Mr. C, anyone signed up for public appearance? >> No. Mr. Jim, >> thank you. School committee communications. Are there any school committee communications? >> Okay. Report of the student representative. >> Thank you, sir.
The outing club has been incredibly active this year with a variety of activities and adventures. December featured a night at the Stone Zoo for zool lights and a winter solstice hike at the Ward Hill Reservation. Their next adventure will be snow tubing at NHoba Valley Tubing Park in Littleton on
January 29th. The Environmental Recycling Club is focusing on trimming and maintaining indoor plants to keep our shared spaces healthy and welcoming. They are also continuing our schoolwide recycling collection, making sure bins are emptied, sorted, and properly processed each week. The NABT Bio Club
will be divided in will be diving into the mechanics of winter sewing, looking at preparing seeds to germinate in the spring. They're also researching patterns of local wildlife to identify species by their tracks in the snow. The National Honor Society, National Tech
Honor Society, held a successful food drive in December. With the help of the math classrooms, they were able to collect 447 food items for our Griffin food bank. They are currently hosting a Valentine's Day candy sale online with C's Candy. Money from the sale will defer the cost of future activities and
events. The Skills USA freshman program attended the third annual Skills USA smart start summit in Boxboro today, January 15th. This event brings towards brings together ninth grade students from throughout the state to introduce the mission of Skills USA membership,
highlight ways to be involved and foster a sense of community. In addition, our Skills USA chapter officer team participated by hosting a booth at the conference. Our Candyland themed activity area was a fun and interactive way to introduce freshmen to the many benefits membership.
On December 12th, the winged poet, the winged poets with support from the English department hosted their second annual student day of poetry. Students from greater LOL High and Lincoln Sudbury High spent the morning in mixed teams writing and revising team poems.
The day ended with an open mic showcase in the lecture hall which was attended by Greater LOL students. The music's club, the music club's ac capella group, Dissident Escape, will be performing at the Northeast Quarterfinals of the International Championship of High School AC Capella
on January 25th at Danvers High School. Our team will be competing against 10 other local teams for the opportunity to move on to semi-finals. Full rehearsals have commenced for the drama club's 2026 performance of Checking In by Tracy Wells. The play set The play is set at the Regency Arts
Hotel where the guests personal baggage keeps staff members Bernard Natasha on their toes. Checking in will debut May 14th to the 15th, 2026 in our lecture hall. Mark your calendars now. We hope to see you there. Swim and Dive has had a strong showing in the pool so far with
multiple swimmers qualifying for the MW for the MIWA tournament meet scheduled for next month. Wrestling is prepared to host the annual MVA state championships on Saturday, January 31st. Indoor track is fast out of the
gate as usual with an undefeated record so far this winter. Ice hockey is shaping up to make a push for MIA tournament qualifications this winter. Both girls and boys basketball have very young teams that have been playing hard and look to show improvement in the
second half of their respective seasons. The competitive dance team as well as the cheer squad will start to turn their attention to the winter competition season that begins later this month. Cheer will also be hosting the CAC League championship here at Greater LOL on February 21st.
>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Anna. >> Yes. >> How do the uh kids market these uh candies? So, National Honor Societies go through the Sees Candy app and they create a profile that directly connects
to the National Honor Society, National Touch Honor Society's Treasury account. So, Candy makes a profit, but so does the National Honor Society. >> So, you can advertise by word of mouth, say, "Here's the QR code. Scan it with your phone." You can say, "Here's how
you submit an order if you want to write me a check." Or you can post on Facebook, Instagram, send an email to the teacher. I know that Miss Davis was generous enough to support us earlier today um when a student sent her an email. >> So, the student can work with Facebook
and cousins, grandma, >> fast for the for the purchaser. Yes. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Of course. >> And let's see. Motion to approve the minutes for December 18th.
>> So, move second. Mr. Sheen, >> yes. >> Mr. G. >> Yes. >> Mr. L. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. M. >> Yes.
Motion to wave the reading of the warrant. >> Second. >> Second. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gian. >> Yes. Mr. L. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr.
>> Yes. Motion to approve the expenditures of the sum of 3,619,518. Mr. Richardson. >> Second. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gia. >> Mr. L. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Report of general counsel. No. >> I turn the meeting over to the superintendent director. >> The first item on my agenda is the board
education report which is in all of your packets. Uh as you can see the report indicates that currently we have 235 senior students participating in the cooperative education program as of the
end of December which is approximately 44% of uh of our senior class participating in co-op and the uh junior class will uh begin to go go out uh beginning the
month of February and that is my cooperative education report for the month of December. >> Very good. >> The next item on my agenda, I'd like to invite uh Lisa Martinez, the director of technology, enrollment, and information
up to join us to provide an update on our 20 on our admissions. >> Hello everyone. >> Welcome, Lisa. >> Thank you. No. Didn't you want that, Lisa? >> Is that the one?
>> No. You want the one on the right hand corner, Lisa? >> There we go. >> Great. Okay. Have to make the microphone a little bit lower. Here we go. So, I just wanted to
give an admissions enrollment update. As you know, we have um new admissions policy um that you approved back in October. So, sort of giving an update where we are today. And so, in we talked about a little bit about when um we have
new emissions enrollment software and that's uh actually been launched. So we're we're moving with that. It has a new lottery component to it. We use final site and so we're looking at the applications and how many applications we've actually um we have this year as
of January 14th. So in 20 thou in September 2024 we had uh 1,125 applications and currently today we have 1,088 applications. You see there's a little bit of a decrease. One of the
reasons for that is because we opened up the application window last year in September, August, September. So, we're sort of two months behind with the new software as a launch. So, my expectation is that we're we're catching up because we still getting many applications each
day. So, so with the new with the new uh missions policy and the new um software um so it seems to to be um roughly around uh the same amount of applications. Anybody have any questions about that at all so far?
Okay, great. Um, so then we also wanted to talk about um just to sort of bring back um to the um the requirements for uh for admissions this year. We have we did use the student awareness component. So the opportunities that we've given
this year so far are the eighth grade sending school tours. they were quite a success and generally we have those were late October uh late September, early and all through October. So we had all of the sending schools participating in
in that um all the sending school districts uh uh participating in the tours this year. So that was pretty exciting. So, um, so we had many, many students be able to have the opportunity to tour the school, go into the, uh, technical classrooms and to be able to
see our students in action and, uh, ask questions as well as, um, you know, so be able to um, have a presentation of what Greater Lowel has to offer. Okay. So, uh, also the, uh, we had our eighth
grade open house. Um, and that was on December 11th, and I know many, um, people were here for for that. Again, over, you know, 2,000 people were here, uh, going into all of the, uh, technical pro, uh, shops and and seeing what the
technical program and that having hands on. Um, the the families were able to do hands-on um, demonstrations with our students that were leading it. as well as having a a sort of competition skills USA competition within the technical
program. So that was pretty exciting. We got a lot of good feedback on on that. And then we're offering some virtual um information sessions on student awareness that we are required to do. So that's actually next week on January
20th and uh and uh also January 22nd. So for the the applicants who have not met the student awareness through the tours or the open house, we have uh virtual um information sessions and we've emailed um the parents through the new software
asking them to participate um and that uh to meet the student awareness piece so that they can be considered for the first lottery. >> So uh Lisa, just to clarify, without that student awareness qualifier, they will not get put into the lottery. Yes,
they will not. The the student awareness qualifier gets them one ticket into the lottery. Okay. So, without that, it's considered an an incomplete application and they would not be considered for the um >> and they have they they've had three
they would have had as of next week three opportunities to demonstrate student awareness >> right through here through greater low. We also have the opportunity to do a module from the Department of Education and we provide the link for parents and and um and families so that they can
meet it which whichever way they they they feel that's best for their their student. So we've gotten uh quite a bit of questions on that and we've been able to help families um meet that. and then our application. Um so then we
for student awareness because this year there's a little bit of a gap with the 10th grade. We'll be offering um you know the uh an information session later in May or June for the 10th graders that apply after uh after the the January um
sessions so that they have an opportunity as well. So we'll be offering um an additional session for those students. Okay. Then uh the application deadline this year for the grade nine is February 2, 2026. So in order to qualify for the
first weighted lottery, um 9th grade students will have to have been applied by February 2nd, 2026, and they would have had to have met that student awareness piece. For grade 10, we have to wait for the records um for for uh for their grade
nine records. So that they their um deadline is June 1st, 2026. Okay. And so um and again they'll have to meet the student awareness piece as well. And we're working with the 10th grade families to to be able to do that.
Okay. The lot. Sure. Go ahead. >> Are there a lot of grade 10 entry you know applicants? >> Sure. Currently uh at this time we have 74 um applicants for grade 10 and the grade 10 really is dependent on if we
have any open seats um you know in the in grade 10 um so u >> and where we have the open >> and where we have the open seats which programs. So the grade 10 students have to actually apply for which programs they're interested in and there'll be lotteryies for each one of those
programs. Anybody else have any questions? And that's just in in case there are open seats. They're not they're not guaranteed. Are these opportunities um or should I say uh
the students do they are the parents aware of the the dates in question or they have something signed or a >> Yes, we have the emissions policy. um available and that's all in the emissions policy and these are just sort
of life excerpts from that. So we share that with the parents. >> Okay. >> And also um >> I know you gave more time but I just wanted >> Yeah. So the um the the actual sending schools um come here for our school counselor breakfast where we meet with
them. They bring back all the information to their their schools and uh students and they also uh all the students come here on the tours and we give uh we provide them that information >> plus we've sent information out >> yes information out as well on
>> our website. >> Yes, on our website in the in the newspaper. Um so and uh on billboards what the what the application deadline is for for grade nine. Hey uh sure >> just you know the numbers are close on
applicants do you foresee exceeding last year's number or >> um >> based on you know just numbers that you've seen >> they they've been pretty constant and I think this is a new new emissions so we're waiting to see but currently right
now it's about the same >> and descending schools have participated fully in uh >> they have Yes. >> Each >> each each town has participated fully this year in the school tours as well as providing the information um to their
students >> and we appreciate >> and we and we certainly appreciate that we've and um they've been help very helpful with with our students. So um the lottery uh results we we expect to
have the lottery and the results um uh mid-March uh for grade nine and early July for grade 10. They will be notified by um email. This is all in the emissions policy as well as by um regular US postal mail.
>> That's because of the change >> lottery. >> Yes, the lottery. We have to have a lottery. It needs to be live. >> We will have a live lottery sometime in mid-March. We haven't decided on the date yet. So >> to find live uh madam superintendent,
you're just going to do it on the website. Is that how is that how it works? >> Okay. All right. Cool. >> So we have a new um program called final site and they have a lottery component to it. So it's a third party. So it's very it's u want to make sure that it's um you know visible as well as uh
>> make sure that um everybody can um can see that it's public. We have to give a week's notice and we'll have that. We'll let notify all the sending schools as well as put it on our website and social media. >> So where where is the staff going to do a lot of like you going to do it here
down the auditorium? Like where does it take? >> No, it's it's actually in the software. >> So it'll be be done, you know, actually live on on software. It'll be done virtually, >> right? We'll have a live feed. >> I didn't know if we're gonna roll the bingo. >> No. >> Bingo.
>> Bingo. >> From what I hear, that's what what it used to be. Yes. >> Could you just recap the awareness feature? >> Sure. >> That's the new component, correct? >> It is. It's a new component. It's a one
that Desi allows um for us to use as criteria. So, >> without participation? >> Sure. >> There's no application. >> Yes. >> And when's the drop dead date for that? >> That would be February 2nd. So we work with the applicants and um to
let them know what they are missing. So before we finalize their application. >> So the applicant has to participate in one and we have to offer three >> right? >> We offer tours, we offer the uh open
house and we offering theformational sessions. We have to offer two. >> So February 2nd you'll have some really good numbers. >> Yes. Will the yeah the uh enrollment closes on February 2nd? I think um the question
you asked will we have as many um applicants that I'm I'm not sure because uh before we you uh we had quite a few late applicants but the lottery changes that um just a little bit because uh once um you have the initial lottery the
students who do not um who do not get um yeah get in um the first they you have to um go through uh the weight list and we'll have many people on the wait list um so that we probably won't have to have that second lottery.
>> What I'm trying to get a handle on is the awareness section will bring the field of the universe down to a manageable number. I think >> no I don't think so. I think uh many students have participated with their
families in either a tour or the open house already and anyone else anyone who hasn't done that has the opportunity now to do anformational session >> and we notify >> open house one night and it was packed. >> Yeah. >> So I I don't think this is going to be a
deterrent at all for anybody. I think to show uh demonstration of awareness is important and I think that uh that they are doing it and I don't think it's going to have an impact on a decrease in
applications. I think right now you see the decre the slight decrease is because the actual process started a little later because of the change of the admissions policy and admissions policy having till November 1 to be to be uh uploaded to
the department of education. >> I do not foresee student awareness being um you know a block for most people. We felt as you all voted on it that that would be an important uh part of this process for students to demonstrate awareness of
education and its value to to them and their futures will be a good fit. So we have that and then um the enrollment deadline um will be 10 calendar days from um the time that the uh the student actually has an
acceptance. Um so there'll be 10 days that they have to enroll. Um once they do that's an estimate to him and of course we'll work with the parents make sure that they have the opportunity to um uh know that they do have an acceptance and then they they'll have 10
calendar days to to enroll. And then for those uh students who who do um are accepted and choose to enroll, our placement test will be on um on April 11th. And again, the test is not
to um a requirement to get into the school. It's a placement test for when the students actually are accepted that we can make sure that um their schedule and placed um and their needs are are being academic and needs are being met.
anybody have any other questions on the applications or >> Okay, great. >> Thank you for the update. >> Sure. I I had one more and that was just the total enrollment um for this year and that was um that's our five-year
enrollment and uh so you can see we've increased since uh 2000 uh school year 22 went down a tiny bit um for 2026 since there was many students in the summer um there was quite a few students
moving um whether they were moving out of the country moving you know, to different areas of of the country as well. So, so, so there was a little bit of more movement than usual in the summer this year. >> Thank you.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Lisa. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> And uh that's the end of my report tonight. >> Thank you. Report of the business manager. Hey, got a couple of uh short ones for
you tonight. The first is a list of transfers we prepared um for the current year's budget. Uh just moving some money around, filling holes where we had deficiencies in our budget. Um and then excesses that have been met or found throughout the year. Um, so I will be
looking for a motion uh to approve the transfers of $612,369 >> tonight and welcome questions if there are any. >> So move. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> All right. And the second item on my agenda is actually the approval of a lease of copiers. Um, so generally we lease our copers in a couple of different batches. There's one for the
production center and then uh a handful that get the lease that's renewing right now. Um, and then a lease that'll renew next year, I believe, or the year after. Um, and generally we only have been doing three-year leases, which under the school committee purchasing policy, I
have the perview to sign without approval. Um, but the lease, uh, given the budgetary projections that we've seen for the coming years, we're looking to make sure that we keep operational cost as low as possible. So, I'm looking to do a five-year lease on the copiers
that we have coming up due this March. Um, the three-year cost on these copiers was about $2,500 a month. Um, the going to the five-year lease takes it down to $2,1857 per month. Um, so saving that 500 bucks
a month and extending the life of what we use our copers for shouldn't be an issue. Supplies and maintenance and support are all covered through the life of the lease. Um, so the frequency of breakdowns and things like that toward the end, which might increase a bit, we
shouldn't really see the a negative impact from um given that the company that we're leasing from has to support them. Um, and usually what they've told me is, you know, a three-year lease is generally pretty healthy. There's a lot of life left in the machines that were
returning generally. Um, so extending this five years, the the leasing company and the company that produces the copers didn't see an issue one way or the other on. >> Sure. >> So, you're extending on the beyond the three years with the same equipment.
>> Yep. We're going to keep it for five now. >> Does that lead to more breakdowns? That's an eightyear total for the machine. >> Oh, no. Five year total. Three years that we had. The ones that we're getting rid of right now are only three years. >> Those are going and you're getting >> and we're getting fresh ones that we
keep for five years. Um I did ask the question about the longevity of them and they said generally they're built for you know a seven to 10 year lifespan. So going to five we shouldn't really experience any any operational effect of them. >> Does the company come in and take care of any breakdowns?
>> They own service. Uh, I actually think the service guy might live near me. I see his truck frequently um in Nasha. Um, so they're actually pretty they're relatively local and their service guy if he's not same day, it's generally the next morning that he's in for service. It's never we've never experienced any
type of delays or issues. They've really been a great company to work with and I believe they serve on our advisory board for graphics and DVC. They've been good good partner for the school. Motion approve. Y
>> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morgan. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> No business. New business committee. Motions. Any committee men motions?
Report accept committee. >> Motion to adjurnn. So moved. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. Thanks everyone. Thank you.