rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> No, you have to >> the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'll
call >> Call the meeting to order. >> Mr. Gia. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bahu. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Narco. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yeah.
>> Mr. Morren. >> Uh, Mr. Gry. Has anyone signed up for public appearance? >> Uh, no. Mr. Uh, school committee communications. Are there any school committee communications? I believe or not. Report of the student
rep. >> Thank you, sir. The National Honor Society and National Technical Honor Society proudly welcomed 81 new members during their annual induction ceremony on Thursday, November 13th, 2025. Membership in National Honor
Society National Technical Honor Society is highly selective, requiring candidates to hold a minimum of 3.8 8 GPA and demonstrate meaningful community service, active involvement in their school and community, and exemplary character. The environmental club has
been busy monitoring and observing their lettuce experiment, tracking growth, and documenting changes in the soil conditions. Members have also been working their bug farm, carefully sorting meal worms and beetles, and transferring them into a composting environment to support decomposition and
nutrient cycling. Over the past month, Anime Club has spent time analyzing the emotion, symbolism, and storytelling that makes anime so unique. They also explored Kyoto animation style, noticing how subtle details bring characters and
emotions to life. Students loved spotting the small gestures, comedic timing, and visual cues that make anime storytelling so layering and engaging. The freshman and sophomore planning committees conducted their annual Butterbraid fundraiser during October.
The funds raised will be used to defer the cost of future events. Community members also created ornaments for the school tree to be displayed at the Chingsboro Festival of Trees and will be taking a field trip to the festival in December to see their work on display.
The MA United Nations team has been working diligently in preparation for the upcoming crisis conference being held at UMass LOL on November 21st. Delegates have engaged in extensive research and composed speeches representing their assigned historical figures. They're also analyzing
potential scenarios that may arise during the conference and collaborating with fellow members to develop strategic responses. The junior class planning committee is putting the final touches on their plans for prom being held on Friday, December 5th at Lindses in Draket. This year's
theme is once upon a dream. promises to whisk away our class of 2027 into a world where fairy tales come alive and memories last forever. Greater LOL participated in District Attorney Marian Ryan's empowering conferences this past month. On November
29th, 20 students represented all grades attended the empowering citizens conference which includes topics ranging from engagement in civic life to building bridges across the American divide. On November 13th, another 20 students attended the Empowering Girls
Conference. The conference featured powerful female speakers with a goal to motivate girls to have a positive influence on their peers and a positive impact on their communities. Skills USA officers and advisers will be headed to the Skills USA Mass Fall State
Leadership Conference being held from November 23rd to the 24th in Malber, Mass. At this 2-day overnight event, over 500 chapter officers from high schools all over Massachusetts will learn firsthand about teamwork, professionalism, and personal standards
of excellence. Our student officers will also be taking their Skills USA leader exam, and participating in team leadership competitions to prepare them to facilitate events on the local level. The music club has a lot happening this month. Their ac capella group, Dissonant
Escape, has been chosen to compete in the 2026 International Championship of High School AC Capella Competitions on January 25th. They will be competing against nine other teams in the regional quarterfinals with the hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals in March.
In addition, the music club is working on filming our annual holiday show. This year's holiday show will once again feature a Saturday Night Live vibe and will be livereamed through YouTube on Tuesday December 23rd, the last school day before vacation. In sports news,
unified basketball had another amazing season with all of the athletes giving their best. We look forward to many more such successes. The varsity dance team took home a second place finish on November 2nd at the Endicott Invitational at Endicott College. The
dancers will move on to MSSAA states on November 23rd. The team also performed all season long at our varsity football games. Field hockey continued to grow as they embarked on year five of the program. The team fielded a solid group of players that competed hard in every
contest with the Griffins compiling compiling their best overall record in the program's short history. The boys and girls soccer teams have tremendous successes this fall. The boys team captured the CAC league title and both qualified for the MIAA Division 3 state
and MVADA vocational tournaments. Golf had arguably their best season in the program's 8-year history. The team secured the most match wins in program history and followed that up with solid finishes at both the CAC and state locationational tournament matches. The
team also qualified for their second consecutive MIAA tournament appearance. Girls volleyball had a successful season as the team netted 11 wins on the year on the year and qualified for the MIAA Division 3 state tournament. The cheer
team did a tremendous job this season, placing first at the MVADA state vocational competition on October 26th, followed up with another first place finish at the CAC League competition on November 8th. The team will not set their eyes on competing at the MSSA
state competitions later in November. Football currently sits with a season record of four to five which includes wins over Bristol Plymouth Fitchburg and Boston Latin Academy. The team will look forward to defend the Mill City Cup at their annual Thanksgiving Eve Eve clash
with LOL Catholic on November 26th. Cross country ran a historical campaign this fall. Both the girls and boys teams captured the CAC regular season title, the CAC League meat championship, and the state vocational meet championship. To top that all off, both the girls and
boys teams captured the first ever MIAA state meet championships in the program's history. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Nice job. >> Great job. I just want to add something to that news uh that is came up just uh
the other day that our very own coach Mack Dave McLaclin is the Mass Baseball coach was inaugurated is going to be inaugurated into the 2025 Mass Baseball Coaching Hall of Fame. So well deserved.
Congratulations Coach Max's the best coach. >> They don't come any better. Absolutely agreed. >> Just wanted to add that to the news. >> Yes. Thank you very much. Uh motion to approve the minutes from October 20th.
>> So moved. Second, >> Mr. Gia. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morren. >> Uh report of the treasurer. Motion to wave the reading of the warrant. So
>> move Mr. Chairman. Second. >> Get you. Mr. Gia. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. B. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morren. >> Yes.
>> Motion to approve the expenditures of 6,38389,75755. >> Second. >> Mr. Ger. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sheen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes.
>> Report of general counsel. Not tonight. I'll turn it over to the Adam superintendent. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The first item on my agenda, I would like to proudly invite math instructor uh Miss Robin Tillum along with our WBLA design
challenge winners from team modem MK who are here tonight to present their winning project. And I'll uh call them and they can uh push their chair up forward to uh to present their uh winning project. First, Marcus Fetchner.
He is a senior from the engineer in our engineering program. Next, Oliver McCarthy. He is a junior in engineering. Aiden Simmons, a senior in engineering.
Christian Carlton, uh, a junior in electrical, and Maya Zabcowski, a junior in electrical. So, they're here to present our project tonight. So, we are going to >> cool
>> step back and I'll ask Mr. Barcelona if he could dim the lights a little bit and we'll begin whenever you're ready, Marcus or whoever's beginning. >> All right, I'll go ahead and play the video. >> Sure. Do you want to introduce the video for us?
>> Oh, sorry about that. Yes, >> I didn't I wasn't trying to uh control this. So this was a project about uh urban farming basically in the local area. What we had to do, we had to design a sustainable farm that we could run on solar panels and aquaponics in
order to feed our community. So sorry, >> year round. >> Yeah, year round to make sure it's sustainable for even more years to come. Uh we had to go over many different factors such as what plants to use, the animals, which would be fish. We had chickens as well, composting. Uh, and we
had to have a lot of data to support this as well. We had financial data, which was Danny, who unfortunately cannot be here. Then we had Oliver. >> Oh, you want me to? >> Yeah, Oliver. >> Uh, I was the one that made the CAD design. That's the layout for our farm.
That there's a poster over there. And that's just the basis of if we were to actually build this, what it would kind of look like or just like a base plan. Um, and like it'll the video will get more into it. >> Then we had Aiden Simmons. >> I was the head of communications. I made
sure we had a marketing strategy like that. We made sure we had community outreach sort of um programs that would sort of reach out to our community and make him make them know that it this was
an available source of food if it was a real thing. >> We had Maya Subkasi. Um so I designed our CSA plan which is our community supported agriculture plan um to ensure we have a actual profitable um running
farm set up and I also designed our aquaponic system as well as did research for the plants and animals we used. >> Last but not least we have Christian Carlson. >> I was the team support. I did everything that I was needed to help with, but my two main contributions were the power calculations for our solar panels and
generators and helping with the budgeting, who our finance manager unfortunately could not be here today. >> Hi, I'm Robin Tillum. Um, we were approached by WBLA um to be invited as part of this challenge. We This is our third year in
a row working with WBLA. So far, 17 students have completed a virtual internship through WBLA. Um, six students completed a CAD design thinking project. Three students completed a cyber security project. And we have
eight students signed up for the January clean energy internship. I thought this would be a great opportunity and I'm very proud of our team here. >> All right, I'll go ahead and start the video. >> Been farming. I am Marcus Speer. the team lead.
>> I'm Oliver McCarthy, our lead designer. >> I'm Aiden Simmons, head of communications. >> I'm Danny. I'm the Binance manager. >> My name is May Zakovski. I am the community impact coordinator. >> My name is Christian Carlton. I'm the
team support. >> Nice to meet all of you guys. So the overview is this is we will be talking about our general infrastructure, our CSA plan, finance and community outreach. >> What exactly is our problem? According
to the local food consensus from 2022, the biggest problem is food affordability and the accessibility of nutrition. Reporting in progress. >> According to Master General Bighgam, studies show that the food insecurity rate has risen 37% in 2024 and will
continue to go up due to the rising prices of food. >> This first graph is common food barriers for those in mass and in the biggest problem is affordability with need more money and the other factors all have to do with accessibility. Then this next graph shows determining
values or the values of food with the biggest being affordability and the rest having to do with convenience as in nearby fresh local. Our solution affordable food accessibility and nutrition are hard to obtain especially for the citizens that are struggling to get by in Lowel.
Therefore we have founded an urban farm dedicated to solving these problems. an urban an urban agriculture farm for low which is 6,000 square feet sustainable. We are affordable, accessible and nutritious with a flexible CSA model. Lower costs we are accessible with a
central pickup location at low and 45 street located direct in the community and we are nutritious with fresh loc and organic vegetables. Our urban farm layout. So, when you first walk into our urban farm, there'll be a pickup station.
And then as you continue onward, there are 12 vertical farms. And as you continue on after that is a shed with six solar panels on the roof. And the shed stores our materials and an incubator for the chicks of our chicken coop, which is next. And then after that
is our greenhouse with an aquaponics system, which an aquaponic system is a fish that clean water by being natural filters and their waste helping our plants grow better. And our greenhouse has a design for a slanted roof for the
best exposure to sunlight. And then onward is compost for our soil to be richer and to keep food waste out of landfills. And then there are eight more vertical farms for more food. And all around all of the vertical farms are
raspberry bushes and peppermint bushes. Raspberry for runoff water which is bad for the environment and peppermint for detering. Our vertical farms we have two different kinds. The one on the top is for our beets, radishes and baby carrots. And
the one on the bottom is for potatoes since they need to be deeper. They vertical farms are farms that are stacked on top of each other to save space. And we have 20 of these in total, five for each plant.
The plants and animals on site. So these are a list of all our plants and our animals. So aquaponics plants are plants that are more sensitive, so they'll be kept inside and be more temperature controlled and looked after. The vertical farms will have plants that are more hearty and can deal with
The perimeter plants as I explained earlier are for purposes. And we have live animals. We have channel catfish, boyish, which are natural filters and Austria chickens which produce more eggs than normal chickens. >> Our power calculations due to everything
from our heaters, lights, and ventilation adds up to about 3.2 kwatt hours. That's assuming you're running something that runs on kilowatts for an hour. Wires will be ran through ROMX and conduit which is good for underground runs. LFMC forite flexible metal conduit. For the day we will rely on our
solar panels while at night we will rely on our generators. This is our aquaponic setup. We will have four 2,000galon tanks including one of which being a dedicated nursery tank. Our plants will be positioned um on metal rods and in grow containers above
the tank with a consistent water supply being brought up from our fish tank through a water pump system which will then bring the water down onto the plant to simulate real life. And as the water substrate um the water will drip back down into the fish tank which will also
act as airating the water to bring more natural feeling to the tank for our fish. Our fail safe aquaponic system will also include a solid waste filter as well as a bof filter to ensure that there is no potential for harm to our
plants or animals. Each tank we will have between six kish and 150 catfish. We keep the koi fish in there to act as a natural filter because they mostly eat algae. In our community supported agriculture plan or CSA plan. We choose to have two
options a monthly and by annual plan. We also hope to accept food stamps as well as hip which is not commonly found in all of our pickup will be on site and we are change focused. So we plan to adjust and adapt to our community's needs especially over the first five years. We split our um production into 100
pieces or which I've been calling shares to be given out through our membership. Uh so our bi annual share there's a 50 membership spaces for by annual shares. The price will vary from season to season to account for potential changes
in crops but our summer price is around $700 and our winter payment is about $350. This will provide seasonal vegetables and catfish. And there's an optional upgrade for eggs as well with a constant additional year round price of
$100. There's only 25 by annual egg upgrades available to our customers. Then for our monthly share, we um will have our monthly options be $125 for year round pickup. Uh they will pick
up once a month and they'll be given what a typical by annual member will be given without a direct payment or direct payment or um this will also have the vegetables and catfish. There's also an optional upgrade of the eggs for $25 to purchase and there is 25 monthly egg
upgrades available our remaining 50 shares will be sold directly at our farm stand to our community. This will not only improve freshness andility, it will maximize the benefits of our eggs and we choose to sell these around $2 per dozen. Our main
pickup location for our members will also be the farm stands and we plan to accept our membership payments there as well as over the phone as um to improve availability for our customers. >> We are a nonprofit urban aquaponics
farm. We are self-sustaining and community centered. Our total estimated budget was $100,000. We have managed to come to this bud come to below budget spending about $52,000 with infrastructure and housing being our highest cost at $37,000 with a contingency of $10,000 with our
maning budget at 36,000. We will save that for future maintenance. Our annual operating cost for our staff is around $47,000 to $62,000. Our yearly income for our CSA plants is $62,000 at our lowest and $87,000 at our highest.
Our community impact is to improve nutrition a along with providing constant sources of vitamins and overall improving community health. Our potential partnerships will be with local public schools and local small businesses. For lower public schools, we will be able to
provide lower income families with better nutrition along with teaching younger kids nutrition. And with small businesses, we'll be able to help out restaurants with improving public health over getting the word out of violent mouth. statistics. We plan to feed over 75
families monthly by the end of the five years. Here is our community flyer. This flyer showcases what our farm is all about, including but not limited to our state-of-the-art aquaponics, our greenhouse, and our wonderful CSA operation. It also includes our contact
location, our contacts, and our location. Thank you. This is the end of our slides. We are mode MK. Does anybody have any questions? >> So, we are mode MK. >> So, I'm actually going to stop right there. Uh, does anybody here have any
questions about this? >> So, just the man in the corner was actually one of the judges in the competition. This was actually the live competition uh on the day of the challenge. This was their actual presentation. Go ahead, Marcus.
Yeah. Does anybody have any questions about our project? This was just our this was our actual propo proposal which gave us a real opportunity to see what the industry was like. >> When are you going to stop building it? >> Uh that may I'll second it.
>> Maybe uh I'll suggest it on my co-op soon. >> Well done, guys. >> So, do you want to talk about some of your community partners that help to support you through this challenge? >> Oh, yes. We work with a ton of industry professionals including um people from
Mil City Grows, multiple um engineering firms and many many more. We worked and as well as teachers in our school. We had teachers who came in and helped with fields that they were experienced in. Um we did a lot of researching and a lot of learning and it was extremely extremely
helpful to have this many people be able to help us out. So, I want to just shout out uh Filamina Mayberry who uh was from ASCE who was a big support her team was a big support in coaching our our students uh during
this challenge. >> Cool. Definitely. >> And um I guess someone wants to put an emotion for it, but where would you hope to put it here at the school? >> I'm sorry. >> Are you hoping to put it right here at the school? Um that is unlikely but if we if we were
to get the opportunity I think that maybe some things could be done alongside say masonry electrical many other even our own engineering and CAD shops here that would probably love to benefit to this becoming a reality. >> Cool. And and how large would it be? I
see you have 100. >> This was going to be uh 6,000 square ft. So this was initially planned to be in an empty lot somewhere downtown or downtown Lowel. Uh, so 6,000 square feet would be the the space that we were given, but if we need to make
adjustments, say for our school area to make it to scale, I think that that could be a possibility. >> Outstanding. >> Thank you. >> It's very exciting. Hopefully, it uh comes to fruition for you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. So, we're very proud of these students. >> Very proud. >> Great. Great challenge.
>> Good job, everybody. >> And some of them are not in the same program. So, did you all know each other prior to the challenge? Um, so I knew Aiden through a club, Oliver as a friend, and then Christian was in my shop. I did not know Marcus Prior or
Danny. So they they were sort of just thrown together to uh >> to work together, and I think they did an incredible job and made some friendships out of this. I personally only knew uh Aiden and Danny, but uh I grew to know Oliver, who's also in
engineering alongside Aiden and Danny. And then Maya and Christian are both in my AP physics class. So I don't I didn't know them that well, but we definitely got closer because of this. >> That's great. >> So, not to toot my own horn or anything, but I feel like >> I had more
>> uh as my role team lead, I think that I did a good job being able to pull everything together. you know, we get everybody going along well and it was fortunate that we all had some sort of sort of connection to each other. >> That's great. Congratulations again. >> Thank you. You should be very proud.
>> We are very proud. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks, guys. Great job. >> Yeah. Great job. ready. >> Great job. So, the next item on my agenda, I'd like
to inform the committee that uh Mass Higher Low Career Center has been awarded a youthworks grant, setting aside $40,000 to partner with Greater Lo Technical High School to run an adult
certified nursing assistant or CNA program after school for up to 20 adults. Nice. Next, I'm happy to inform the committee that Great Old Tech has been awarded a MEIFA Pathways grant from the Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education in the amount of $7,000 to develop curriculum and resources that will support students in completing their pathway portfolios, which is going to be a new requirement by the Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education. The next item on my agenda is the cooperative education report. The report uh that you have in your packet indicates 179 uh senior students participating in
cooperative education. But I'm always happy to report uh the most recent data which is that there are currently 210 senior students participating in co-op which is 39% of the class of 2026
and a copy of the cooperative education report is in your packets too. So, the next item on my agenda is I'm going to be inviting uh our assistant superintendent principal, Mr.
Barton, and our leadership uh team members up uh to talk about this year's MCCAST and accountability report. Uh however, you know, I just like to say a a couple of very important
things about Mr. Barton and uh this entire administrative team. You know, I'm happy to report and you'll hear more about that from the team that this year's accountability rating is at the 64th >> is at the 64th percentile, the highest
rating in our school's history. uh and I thought it would be important that members of our leadership team are here uh to thank them for their hard work, their dedication and professionalism under the guidance of our assistant superintendent principal, Mr. Barton,
our administrative team, and every member of our staff, you know, their leadership, uh, their commitment to our students and the belief in working together through difficult times, uh, have truly paid off and have really made a difference in the lives of students
that we serve. And you will you will hear that and it is going to be reflected in the presentation that they have uh put together uh to put to to uh present to you tonight. So I wanted to to personally thank them all uh for
their incredible job and their commitment uh to the students of this school and to the entire school community. it takes a village uh and I'm proud uh to to work alongside of them and to have them as part of our
leadership team. So with that said uh I I just want to introduce I think it would be important to introduce everybody too because sometimes uh so I guess I'm going to start over here with Jennifer Santiago. Jennifer Santiago is an assistant uh principal in our main
office. Tracy and Kernasio, the director of uh school counseling, Mr. Ron Verselone, dean of students. Ariana Arfanakis, our director of math and I'm sorry, our uh chairperson of math and
science. Uh Kate Paladino, our director of English language education and reading. Gregory Hos, who's right here in front of us, our director of curriculum instruction and assessment. Nicholas Bochamp, our uh assistant principal,
Paul Matt, our chairperson for math, no sorry, I'm sorry, English and social studies, Mr. Jamie Costa, our senior assistant principal, and Mrs. Alim Allison Rahani, our uh director of special education.
Did I get everybody on this? So, thank you all. Uh it takes a village and this team has done some incredible work over the last two years to uh move our school forward and I really believe we're we're in an upward trajectory and it's it's thanks to all of them working together
along with our entire uh entire staff. So, >> I've always used the adage, uh, there's no eye in team, and I think this is a a great team that I've viewed for more than several years here. Um, I hope
no one's leaving too soon. Uh, but I'm very happy at the the work you perform and produce, and I thank you very much. So with that said, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Hos to uh begin the
presentation or Mr. Mr. Bart. >> No, I think uh Superintendent Davis, you set the stage, Admiral and I don't think I can add anything that you already so I'm going to turn over. >> So thank you. >> Um one just quick moment before I jump into the MCCAST results and accountability. Um I just really wanted
to give a ton of credit to Robin Tillum as the teacher coordinator and also Dr. Arvnakis um working on the STEM week design challenge. Um I I know the students were very proud of their work and I think um not as bold as they should have, but they did actually win for the state. So in all of the
competitions across the entire state, that team is the the winner for the state. So again, I think a huge compliment to um Robin and Ariana and and our students. And just so you know as well, they only had from Monday until Friday morning to put this entire thing
together, including that presentation >> and some of them didn't know each other before. >> Exactly. >> That's intense. >> Yes. >> And not only was it a true collaborative effort with our students, um, as Superintendent David said, Davis said, we did have a ton of other support. We had our marketing teachers, Mike Knight
went down and did a lesson on budgeting and how you run um, successful budgets. We had several representatives from ACE um one of our partners, our industry partners in the engineering field. So, it really was a great effort and kudos to all their hard work. >> Nice work. >> Um with that, we'll jump into the 2025
MCCAST results in the accountability overview. Um I'll pause at a couple different intervals just to see if there's questions as we go through. Um, in general, I'm sure as it was um, well publicized on the news this um, tail end of the spring into the summer across the
entire state, there was a decline in MCCAST performance, mainly with high schoolers knowing that it wasn't part of the graduation requirements anymore. That said, um, I think we can be very proud at greater LOL Tech that within all three subject areas, we did not see that kind of drastic shift that that was
seen across the entire state level. In fact, some of the programs actually saw um improvements from last year, specifically mathematics. Um so looking at English as a whole, we are still um slightly below the state. And again, similar to the other years, I'm going to be focusing on the combined
percentage of meeting and exceeding expectations, which is what the department views as kind of acceptable performance. Um, so in English language arts, we did see a little bit of a dip um from where we were last year again, but still nowhere near as um drastic as
the state level. And we're closing in on um that metric where the state was at. So currently we're only 3% um different from the state. In mathematics, we saw again a little bit of a shift, but um we are now above the state in terms of our students and
their um math performance and meeting and exceeding expectations. And that would be a first time for us. And then in science again um minimal changes but we are in much better place um from where we were previously although um we are now kind of seeing where things are
normalizing from when we went from biology being a two-year course into a one-year course. And kind of the data um now it's not a year delayed. It's starting to balance out a little bit. Um any question just in terms of the overall student MCCAST achievement? The other piece that once we get to
accountability that's equally important is growth. Um so in terms of our student achievement really we get the students that we get and we try to move them as far towards exceeding expectations as possible. But what we have control over is the students growth. So it's looking at their MCAT scores in eighth grade to where they were in 10th grade which is
really a reflection of our efforts here. Um and you can see in both instances the yellow line is us. We always want to be higher than the blue. So, um, we had a little bit of a dip in growth in English last year, but we're back above the state average, um, for the third year since the pandemic has ended, and we are
continuing on the, um, great trajectory that we've been on in math where we continue to go above and above and above. So, that's, um, a really positive sign of that what we've been doing is is yielding the results. in um I think between Paul and Ariana and the rest of the team that works on um supporting
student academic performance um that we're well situated to see that growth in achievement improve even over the next couple years. Um the next group of slides is looking into specific student groups um ones that the department typically looks at
and then also ones that are um more impactful in terms of the overall accountability rating. So the first being our English learners. Um in English language arts we match the state in terms of the number of students meeting and exceeding expectations. But then in mathematics as well as biology
where we're were above the state average. Um we have seen some dip again from prior years. Now the MCCAST isn't as um critical of a a component for students not tied to graduation. Um, but again, I think it's a testament to Kate
Paladino, our EL team, um, really keeping the English learners engaged in their academic work, obviously the academic co-teers that we have and the additional supports that we have in place for those students. Kind of a similar um, conversation with our students with disabilities. We saw a
little bit of a dip um, from previous years, but definitely not anything near compared to what the state average was. Um we in fact actually have seen um even with some of the shifting in terms of state performance and our performance that the gap or the um kind of difference between the overall state
performance for students with disabilities and our performance is closing which is exactly what we want. Um so again it's um Allison Rahani and our special ed teachers as well as the content teachers working with those students really figuring out what they need to um be the most prepared for
MCCAST and really kind of connect the academic content to other things that are important to them like their career and technical education. Uh our lowincome student group um we actually are performing very very well compared to the state. In English, we're 12% above the state. Mathematics, 15%
and in science and technology, 10%. Again, this is one of the metrics that the state looks at in terms of funding as well as in terms of how the school's performances overall. We do have a high low income percentage of students. Um, so it's a really really good thing for our accountability and our overall performance that they are performing as
well. The next group I'm going to review briefly is um our Asian student group. And the reason that this slide kind of pops up every couple years is because of their performance as a student group compared to their peers across the state. Um years prior, we've been kind
of at watch or required assistance because of their performance. Um when we get into accountability, you'll see that we're not kind of there yet, but um this is a group that we do have an opportunity to um work to improve. They are still below the state in English, math, and science, but we did see
massive gains this year in that student group. There was a 7% increase in meeting and exceeding in English language arts and an 8% increase in mathematics. So absolutely moving that group um in the right direction. And the last student group that I'm going to be kind of highlighting tonight
is our Hispanic student group. Uh again, this is one that across the state they were kind of keeping an eye on, just it's not um as historically a high or a higher performing group compared to others. So, it's something that I think when we see that our average in English is 9% above, math is 13% above, and in
science or biology specifically, it's 15% above the state average that um it really underscores the welcoming community that greater LOL Tech is. Um how regardless of a student's background or their race or ethnicity, they get the same supports and um resources and strategies that they need to be
successful. There any questions just in terms of the hard data for MCCAST performance? All right, next couple slides are just really highlighting um English language arts and then we'll go into math and science, but I'm gonna kind of turn it over to Paul Mette if he wants to speak
anything. Obviously, we won't read all the slides. You had them in your packet, but just highlights of the last year. >> Uh I mean, the biggest highlight to me is the is those individual student breakout groups Greg was just talking about. Um this particular low the excuse, the lowinccome and Hispanic
groups. um we've got the that little bit of ground we need to make up with the state. So I think the the biggest piece to draw your attention to now is at the bottom continuing to focus on professional development, reading and writing, looking at ways that AI can not just be used to cheat but actually
enhance writing. Um there there are a number of opportunities there that that teachers are coming up with and bringing to us and and I really liking to see that going on. Uh we've reworked our tutoring program this year to assign tutors to specific grade levels so that they're familiar with the content, able
to pull students out. Um and as this is our what second full year now with STAR data. >> Yep. >> So obviously using that data that we can develop ourselves um it's test very similar to MCCAST where we get individual student performances and we can target what those students need. you
can break it down by student need, by class need so that we can start to put the the necessary supports in place well before we're looking at MCCAST data now. So the longer we're with that program, I think the better that we'll see the results of that show up in classes.
>> Um, as much as I sorry, >> would that be one of the matrix you use to see a math climb pretty nicely? I would say internally um I know Arian will probably speak on on her end some of the different assessments she uses
but we do implement several benchmarking assessments throughout the year. So before we get to MCCAST which is kind of that um as far as accountability goes that make it or break it. We've run several assessments in advance of that so that we can see if there's any areas of deficit or where we can push student learning from like meeting expectations
over to exceeding expectations. Um and both the cluster chair people did a great job in terms of really digging into that data and then um working with teachers directly to um translate that into classroom instruction. >> So it goes down to the classroom level. >> Yeah.
>> And identifies individual skills for each student in that classroom that they can work on to improve. Um, one final piece with English language arts and um, as much as I don't want to be talking about pre-COVID life anymore or COVID in general, um, you'll see that will pop up again when we get
to the accountability. Um, so in terms of English language arts, one incredible highlight though is that prior to COVID, so the 2019 MCCAST administration, there was a 28% difference in meeting and exceeding for greater lull compared to the state and we have narrowed that down
to 3%. So that really is incredible coming out of pandemic. uh managing student attendance issues across the entire state but then to see these gains here is really a testament to everybody um internally uh mathematics pass it on
>> you so I am very proud to be able to deliver some great news about our math performance um when we compare our performance against the state performance in almost every key area we really have exceeded and had our best
performance that we've had uh looking at all the past years from 2019 to present. So for example in our meeting and exceeding category we are 30 31% higher um and the state in comparison is 24%
lower in 2019. Um so that's a huge improvement right there. >> When we look the exam is broken up into four categories. So in all four categories we have improved against the state performance. So algebra and
geometry are the biggest two categories and we are scoring higher than the state in algebra which was our lowest scoring one last year compared to the state. We were 7% below the state um last year and now in 2025 our results we are actually
higher than the state average. So even our lowest performing category, we've significantly brought up. Geometry continues to be our highest performing category, 4% higher than the state uh in 2024 and now we're 7% higher. So I bet
good news. Yes. >> Is there anything that you would attribute the boost so to speak? Uh >> oh, I'm glad you asked that question. Definitely. Um so a few different things. Uh, one thing is that we are
actually having our chemistry now in the 10th grade year. And chemistry is a little bit more algebra based. So that actually lines up nicely because most of our freshmen, they're either doing algebra 1 or algebra 1 and two. And then sophomore year, they've already
developed those algebra skills. They'll repeat some of them when they're in geometry, but they're also remembering and applying them in chemistry. So that crosscurricular work right there. >> Yes, exactly. It's helped show some enormous growth.
>> Um we've also >> this year we're also putting in and we've restructured some of our support classes. So we're going to have more support for students now that we're able to identify them with star testing and other means uh in the ninth and tth
grades. That way we're not waiting until junior year or senior year if students have some gaps in math. We can really tackle it headon. So there's been a lot of work in the math department. Um we had final exams that all students had
even in ninth and tth grade. Those final exams were another great example of we could take a look at the individual kids who needed a little bit more help and make sure that they were getting that. So, it really prepared them for
both the state assessment and what they were doing in their classes in chemistry in um the future classes and I'm sure it carries over into their shop performance as well. >> Very enlightening. Very enlightening. Thank you. And our subgroups, as you can
see, too, um, we're 48% higher for lowincome students compared to the state, 57 for Hispanic students, and 80% higher than the state for English language learners. The last key thing I really want to mention is our um the
growth, our student growth percentile. We are 61%. That's the highest we've been. Uh, looking back from 2019, we were below the state. We are 61%. Now when we compare our so the student growth that's
saying every kid kind of comes to us with a mark of how well we think they're going to do right based on their past performance. How well do we think they're going to do? Our kids did so much better than we thought they would be able to do than anyone did. They're
61% for the student growth percentile. Compared to our sending district schools and compared to the other tech schools in the state, there is only one school that scored one percentage point higher
than us. Um, we scored a tie with Grten Dunstable when it comes to our student percentile, growth percentile. Um, and then we are higher than all of the other schools. >> Well done. Any questions?
>> Why not? >> And this is another example where in 2019 the gap between our performance in the state was at 23%. Um and for this past year it's only 1%. The difference is we are above the state average this time. So um massive shifts from being
well below to moving in the absolute right direction. With that, we'll move over to our last content area before we move into the accountability, which will be biology. >> So, for our biology performance, um, we were 30% 31% higher than in 2019 when it
comes to the meeting and exceeding expectations. So, as Mr. Hos mentioned, you know, we don't want to keep talking about it, but everyone uses this as a comparison. How have we managed to bring the kids back from what happened during COVID from that type of a learning
experience that they had there? And we've not only brought it back, but we've exceeded what we were doing before. Um, so you can see in all of the categories with biology, we are uh higher um 5% in ecology for our lowest.
Um, and so we're outperforming the state average in our in our school. Low-income students outperformed their peers at the state level by 34%. Hispanic students outperformed it by 65%.
Uh, one of the changes that I implemented last year was actually how we did our review program for biology. So instead of having students stay after school um each day for an hour over
multiple weeks, we actually had two boot camps on Saturdays. They were intense boot camps. Um but it really had some success with the students. We saw >> Yes. >> Did you enjoy it? >> I killed that test.
>> Yes. So we actually had 73 students attend on our first Saturday and we had 54 students attend on our second Saturday. So if you want to compare the years, we had about 64 students per hour
of instruction with this new format compared to just four students per hour of instruction with the past format. So that was happy to say a success. Um, we've also increased labs and hands-on
learning. That's been a big priority for me. And it's just one way of seeing kids get more engaged and be able to apply what they're learning. >> And on the Saturday boot camps, were they asked to come or were they sort of told to come? >> Oh, no. They So, we put it out there.
Anyone who would like to join us to have this nice review did so. Um, so they volunteered to come on their two Saturdays. uh and there were a couple drives to that. We also had a final exam in biology which we hadn't had before.
So that was one incentive for them to kind of come on a Saturday and further their knowledge. That final exam was timed nicely right prior to MCCAST. So they were able we were able to use that final exam to show kids, hey, maybe this
is something that you didn't understand. we could go through the questions with them and they could see that before taking the MCCAST exam. >> Excuse me. And they satisfied their own rights. Correct. We didn't supply transportation. >> Oh, we did not. They came themselves,
but also um the public transportation system is free, so anyone who needed to could come that way. >> I can't can't believe the number of parents that took advantage of the uh >> Yes. Actually, I had requests for it to
also be offered in math this year, too. So, it seemed like they were very eager to have something like that. >> Very well done. >> Yeah, that's that's pretty good. >> Any additional questions related to MCCAST? >> All right, hearing none, we'll move over
to accountability. >> I mean, I'll make a comment. I mean, this is great news. I've been here for 14 years or so, and um math scores were always a struggle. to see where we were against the baseline in the state. We
were always looking at the bottom tier. And to see this growth, to see us above the state, to see the low income, to see the Hispanic, to see this to to see this tremendous growth with the most at risk that we
have is something that is by far uh the most exciting thing. And I can see the excitement on all of your faces. And congratulations to all of you. >> It's probably, you know, congratulations to the students as well. This is this is by far better than anything that I've ever could have expected. The
accountability is going to be more of the same. I've looked at it, but great work. >> Well, let us share the story. >> How do we get the teachers? >> Let them live their moment. >> Yeah. So I am thrilled to say our
teachers are very invested in our students here. >> It shows >> um we I can tell you the second these scores come even before the scores come out um everyone is very eager and awaiting them and the state made us wait a little longer this year and it was a
little nail-biting for us and that's just a sign of how passionate our teachers are. Um and we tried to make this as much of a fun experience as we possibly could for the students. We had uh pizzas and salads and the calf and we really tried to make it something that
it was more of a sense of community as we're all trying to be here um to try and get through learning this material. Uh but I just I am so proud of all the teachers I've been able to work with here and just seeing how much they care about the students really has this
impact. >> You all should be proud. Pretty pretty impressive. they've already put it in their calendar even a year ahead of time. >> I'm I'm astonished at the number of parents that took advantage of sent their child here and uh they must they
must have thought of something too >> but uh the impact is great. I that's not only great news for you people uh >> great news for kids. >> I don't have to speak for myself. The board feels real good about it.
You have a student right here. >> When MCCAST first come out, >> there were some administrations that didn't really embrace it. You people have clearly embraced it and polished it
and those charts were unbelievable. You really >> How do you >> Well, I think it's a testament to our mission. I think it's a a testament to our mission of what we say we prepare kids for. It's it's preparing students for college, career, and citizenship in
the future. And we are two educations in one despite what despite what's out there, we we have a mission and I think we uphold to our mission. Well, >> they identified the problem and solved it.
>> Correct. >> Um, so in terms of accountability, this slide just briefly goes over again what's in accountability. So the achievement and student growth is primarily related to the nth and tth grade performance um in academics. Um but there is so much more that goes into the successes of greater LOL. Um our
high school completion again it's a lot of work of our school counselors our teachers our coaches uh the main office team getting kids in the building keeping them in the building through graduation. Our English language proficiency so um how students are doing growing their English skills is measured
by access. So Kate Paladino and her team um chronic absenteeism again working the main office but really everyone um superintendent talks about the power of presence and when we're here and our students were here that's how we're seeing the gains that we are. Um so >> just to add to those percentages while
we're here our attendance rate is was 95.8% graduation rate 97.5% and dropout rate.1% for all grades. Um so this slide does it shows the
student attendance rate. Um it's our attendance compared to the state. So again the main office does incredible work keeping the students motivated and in house. Um our students are here for the teachers for their coaches for their academic and their technical work. So um you can see that um you know prior to
the uh pandemic we were above the state still but um right around 2020 2021 there was a little bit of fluctuation but um since we came back fully in person our students are here and consistently are here >> and I thought it would be important to have them here tonight if they want to
make any comments about attendance their focus on attendance creating a welcoming accepting supportive environment we celebrate students attendance during During our class meetings, we celebrate students in home room attendance with a
celebration. And every time we reach that 95%, we celebrate at during lunch with some ice cream. And it used to be a DJ, but now I think it's just ice cream. >> But uh
>> and also the work of our attendance monitor, >> uh retired uh Mr. Timmy Fallon who does a great job working with our main office to to re-engage students back in school as well as with our school counseling
department, Tracy and her counselors, everybody working together to uh ensure that students get the high quality education and come to school and learn. So I appreciate our uh assistant principles and our main office staff,
our dean who are here with us this evening uh because that is a huge part of uh of our school community. Students have to be here to to learn. So thank you for all that you do every day. >> So it's another night. I've been doing
this for like four years and every time I leave these meetings I'm never disappointed. This is another one of those nights. I mean, I think this is a real celebration of the administrative team, the school staff and what we really been working on for for the last several years on building the school
community and it really shows that it is a community and what working together can achieve uh for students. So, thank you. >> Well done. >> Well, we're not it's not over yet. So in addition to our uh daily attendance rate which is definitely something we are
interested in keeping above that 95% threshold um chronic absenteeism is part of the accountability process. So that is um the count of students the percentage of students that are out 10% or more. So 18 days out of the 180 school day. Um ideally we want them all
here as often as possible. But um again in this u graph you can see that our chronic absenteeism is significantly better than the state and it's only improving year-over-year. And that's just again, as Superintendent Davis said, just a testament of everyone's hard work >> and and students wanting to be here to
learn. So >> came on Saturday. >> They came on Saturday. >> Yeah. >> Well, what a change realistically from 2022 to 2025, >> right? Your chronic absentee rate was 22 21% in 2022
>> and 7 and a half% in 2025. >> That speaks volumes in itself. >> Yeah. I mean when you have a culture and the students want to be here that's that's what >> I mean I think that was our focus after co to rebuilding community >> in and
>> good job >> prevailed >> I think it's really come together >> um so in terms of actual accountability metrics um and committee member Richardson you said this like you did a good job now what um that's somewhat how the department views this as well
>> um so every year they're they're setting a target um and typically it's in the spring and they'll set a target for achievement and growth, high school completion, advanced coursework, etc. And the points that you receive is based on how you fall compared to that target.
Um so in this instance, it it looks like it's somewhat of a negative in terms of English language arts not earning points for um their targets, but that is because last year we did much better than the state said. So last year they're like, great job, you better do better next year. So when we saw a
slight decline, the you know the determination from the state is that we didn't meet the target that there was a decline and so we didn't earn any points in that regard. Um the two in math is that we saw some some gains but still below what the state was looking for and very similar in science. Um and
primarily that goes back to um the data we shared with you last year which saw similar gains that we've been seeing year over year over year. You know, again, last year's targets were based on this kind of assumption that MCCAST mattered and students were going to go into the test trying as hard as they did. Um, so that's, you know, statewide
there was a little bit of a a shift, but um, in terms of, um, our change in this area, it's because we did better than expected last year as far as the Department of Ed is concerned, and then, um, when they set that bar even higher, we just didn't get there. Um flip side, you're seeing really high numbers in
growth, which we also saw in that charts uh previously where English is back above the state. Um and the math is the highest it's ever been. So we did really well in that category. Um again, in our four-year cohort graduation, so that's um really again collectively keeping the students here engaged throughout. Um we
earned all of the points there. Our engagement rate is um really the minimal students that we have that need either fifth year or um you know we can kind of re-engage if they were not coming to school or dropouts. Um again we earned all the points that we needed to there.
Our annual dropout rate superintendent said Davis said was 0.1%. Um so way beyond what the state expected. The English language proficiency for I believe the second if not third year in a row we earned full points in that area as well. And that's again our English learner team and Kate Paladino. Um
chronic absenteeism. We were beyond the target that the state set and we met the target in advanced course work which is um junior and senior year dual enrollment early college uh advanced placement or project lead the way courses. Um so really just a positive
year um overall for our entire student group. And then the other one that came back on board a couple years ago was the lowest performing. So they look at um kind of based on um socioeconomic uh gender, not gender, excuse me, um race,
ethnicity, um eighth grade MCCAST performance, kind of who they the state anticipates is going to be our weakest students. Um and you can see that they in most instances earned a lot of points in those different categories. So again, a testament to everyone working hard and making sure that every student gets what
they need. um our overall um accountability rate and our um progress towards target is set over two years. So um last year's results are still coming into effect as well as this year's results which is making up 60% of our progress towards targets. Um so you can see we're at 50
8% of meeting the targets that the state has set for us. Um the good news and why we had included that Asian student group is that there are no um classification issues. They are not in that lowest performing student group. So, um, we're continuing to keep a kind of a focus on them and making sure that, um, while we
support all students, that they're seeing equitable or equal, um, successes. >> And then at the end of the day, that has yielded a great low accountability percentile of 64th percentile. >> Let me ask you a question about the Asian subset because it drives me
insane. Our Asian community is a heck of a lot different from the Belmont, Lexington, Welssley, Newton, Cambridge Asian community, and we're being held to that standard. Correct. >> So, it kind of skews what our Asian subset is.
>> It is It is a different student makeup than >> It just drives me insane that like the Asian community that we have is much much much different >> from the affluent communities. >> It is. But I think, you know, again, a testament to everybody. massive gains in that.
>> No, I agree with you. I just don't like how we're being it's it's, >> you know, compared because our Hispanic uh subset is doing wonderful and I think our Asian subset is doing wonderful also, but we're being I just don't like how it's
>> compared to the affluent community. It's just a different It's just a different standard. >> Welcome to Desi. >> Yeah. Well, I get it. You know how I feel about Desi. So let's focus on this. >> So this is all the good news, right? >> Bring us back to the subject matter.
>> This is the subject matter. Yes, it is a great news. >> So this is the great news. We're consistently wanting our accountability, you know, to be above the state average. So in the highest 50th percentile. Um you can see that, you know, kind of it was the 33rd percentile prior to COVID. the state flatlined it because the um
pause in the MCCAST administration in 2020 and then just kind of giving districts a little bit of flexibility to get back up to um speed. But then you can see that as soon as the accountability system has come back in place um and again this is really a testament to superintendent Davis uh's
um vision and leadership and assistant superintendent principal Barton where um really from 2022 on we've just increased year over year over year to the highest percentile rating the school seen. Any questions so far? >> No.
>> All right. The last couple slides um I know a few years ago you asked um me to show how we stand compared to other vocational schools. So similar pattern to what we've done in the past. This is a breakdown of um the accountability percentile for all of the uh kind of wall-to-wall vocational and agricultural
schools. So the average accountability for all of us collectively is 50. So, we are the yellow line in this one, but you can see that we're we're well above and we're on the higher end of um the different agricultural and vocational schools. With that, we'll drill in a little bit deeper to try to find the
ones that are most like us because we know that there is such um difference in how these schools operate and their makeup. Um the first slide here is just looking at enrollment. So, um when we pull the enrollment numbers, we had 2314 students. So again, by far the largest vocational school in the Commonwealth.
Another factor that we looked at is the percentage of low-income students. So we're on the higher end in terms of our um low-income student enrollment. Our enrollment of English learners, again, we're toward the higher end of the state in terms of English learner
enrollment and narrowing it down, looking at those factors specifically. So, our low-inccome, our English learners, um we did pull in some student with disability numbers, and I believe Hispanic enrollment is in here as well. These are the 10 closest um schools to grid a
little tech, and you can see that we have surpassed all of them in terms of our overall accountability for this this past year. Any questions related to accountability? MCCAST, you have all of us here, a giant team, so we can happily answer any
questions. It's just a great job done by all of us. >> Yeah. >> I mean, when six, eight years now, we've been looking forward getting to this point. >> We're there. I mean, we just keep going up and up. Math's going to be tough for
you to taught this. So, I it just >> I can say the teachers were already drilling into that data and already planning how to tackle um every little thing to see even more success. But I do agree it >> it's gonna be tough challenge. >> It's gonna be tough.
>> It will be a challenge. >> I think we all acknowledge that. >> Yeah. No, it's going to be a challenge. But I think, you know, continuing to work together, focusing on what we're focusing on. Uh I believe it's possible. >> You got the right team. >> Well, it's it's a treat when you walk in
here at 4:30, 5:00, and the mall's full of kids. >> So, you know they want to be here. >> We don't have to ask what what's your secret. just uh >> so I think the secret is collaboration working together student focused
>> looking at data >> correct >> and and supporting students to meet the expectations well the proofing that we want them that we want them to meet >> and and with with all of that it takes uh it takes everybody working together
and I think that that uh you have it right there special thank you to Mr. Barton and his leadership with his administrative team, instructional leadership. >> Thank all of you >> and I just I I want to congratulate you all. You know, comparatives are
something that we trying to stay away from generally speaking. However, I'm looking at some of these comparatives and you know, our scores are being compared. We're on the level of Minute Man Tech,
Shasheen Tech, Essex Tech, all together different communities, Monty Tech, and and Southshore Tech. >> Wow. Like that doesn't happen overnight. And it it's been a long time because generally we sit here and say, "What are
you going to do better? English scores are down. You know, our EL scores are down. How do you plan on making this better? We can't ask that. We can sit there and say, "How do you make it better?" But ultimately, you you you've hit such a high point that we just thank
you and I hope keep up the great work because we're proud of of all of you and and I speak as the whole team here. So, great job to your team from our team. I'm sure we all thank you and the entire committee for the support because over the last couple years with staffing and
resources, it's you're seeing the results that have come from it. >> So again, thank you Greg for the presentation. Thank you all for coming tonight and uh just thank you to the staff who is not here tonight for uh
creating a welcoming, accepting, supportive and inclusive environment for our students and making uh making their learning experiences in their classrooms and in their technical programs uh spaces where students want to come and
learn. So uh again, thank you all. I appreciate your time and everything that you do every day. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> It's party time. >> Thank you. >> Funny thing is they'll all be here tomorrow morning. >> Yeah. >> Yep.
>> Yeah. >> No, it fell. >> So that's the is Oh, I have one more thing on the agenda. One more thing, I apologize. Uh, the final item on my report, I'd like to ask the assistant
superintendent, Mr. Barton, to remain to provide information regarding out of state travel for Mr. Hos. >> Yes. So, um, Mr. Hos, our director of curriculum assessment, who gave that excellent presentation. So he has been
awarded a very prestigious fellowship to participate in the fullbrite leaders for global schools program and he has been selected competitively um by literally hundreds if not thousands of applicants to go to Finland
from uh January 18th to February 1st. So he will participate in a professional development program to go to vocational schools, businesses, industry, comprehensive schools in Finland. And um we all know that Finland has a wonderful
vocational training program. They have a great emphasis on education and a great emphasis on technical education. So um Mr. Hass is looking for eight professional development days to attend this program in Finland. It is absolutely no cost to the district.
>> That's awesome. and I wholeheartedly recommend him. >> Food seems pretty good, too. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Yeah. >> Congratulations, Mr. >> Absolutely. >> On that achievement. >> Have fun in Finland. >> Yes, Mr.
>> Brings us back some reindeer. >> Take a lot. Take a lot of nice photos, >> Mr. Mr. Lame. >> I want to see the schools. We're >> doing a roll call. Mr. Lame. most durably. >> Mr. Bahu,
>> yes. >> Mr. Richardson, >> yes. >> Mr. Hogan, >> see. >> Mr. Sheen, >> yes. >> Mr. Morris. >> Yes. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Mike. Thanks, Greg. >> And uh that's the end of my wonderful report this evening. >> Thank you, Jill. >> Yeah. Thank you.
>> Yep. Nice job. >> Report of the business manager. >> Uh I just have a couple items for you tonight. There's uh three on the agenda, but we're going to actually scratch to the last item. Uh the first just being a short list of transfers, just moving some money around for some departments and uh filling in some budget gaps with
some overages. >> Motion to approve $74,950 transfers. Second, >> Mr. Gia. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bible. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Morris.
>> Yes. Uh the second item is a motion to dispose of a paint hood and cabinet setup that was purchased by PND in 2022. Uh didn't end up working out for the program the way they had hoped. So um something that we don't need is just taking up a little space right now. So we're going to move it on and um
uh dispose of it either through uh auction or see if any of our sending schools were interested in it. >> Motion to approve. >> So move >> Mr. Gia. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lay. Yes, >> Mr. Bahu. >> Yes, >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hogan. >> Yes, >> Mr. Sheen.
>> Yes, >> Mr. Mo. >> Yes. >> And the third item, like I mentioned, I'm going to scratch that was a solar proposal. They had talked to people about the expiring pro federal programs that were going on around solar energy development. We had a look at something that we could have done on kind of the
back parking lot. U but financially, I mean, there wasn't a whole significant benefit to the uh the proposal that was put forward. So, um, you know, we'll keep keep digging and hopefully find one eventually here that comes out on top for us.
>> Thanks. Thanks, Mike. >> Old business, new business, committee, person, motions, report of subcommittees. >> Mr. Chairman, if I could real quick, uh, myself and some of my colleagues uh, came to lunch today, the Thanksgiving
lunch at the school, and the food was amazing. The kids did a great job. So, my hats off to everybody in the uh culinary program >> and the hospitality >> and the hospitality >> tourism program. The hospitality students did a wonderful job uh serving.
>> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You guys save me a plate? >> Of course. >> Motion to move. >> Second, >> Mr. Gia. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bahu. >> Yes. >> Mr. Richardson. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Holden. >> Yes, >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mor. >> Yes. talk about it.