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All right. Thank you everyone uh for your patience while we resolved a Zoom technical difficulty. Microsoft was trying to force an update on us and we had to tell it no. Um okay. It is July 8th, 2026, 6:38 p.m. Calling this

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meeting to order. Um this meeting is being recorded by Greenfield Community Television GCTV. If any other persons present are doing the same, please notify me at this time. Seeing none, um, uh, Secretary Webb is out today, so I will call the role. I

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believe that we are all in person. Um, Mayor Dwer >> here. >> Great. Member Dyman >> here. >> Chair Ston, I am here. Member Den >> here. >> Member Child >> here. >> And member Goodwin >> here.

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>> Amazing. We have a quorum. Um, at this time we would like to open up for public comment. Members of the public may speak for up to three minutes, which I will be timing with my handydandy timer. And when you come up,

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um, just give us your name and your relationship to the schools, please. >> First up, we have Judy Bennett. Hello. Uh, I just I'm Judy Bennett. I am a teacher at Greenfield High School and I'm also vice president of the

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Greenfield Education Association. Um, thank you school committee. I guess I'm here to just say welcome to Superintendent Cruiser. Uh, we're excited uh and looking forward to working with you and building relationship, keeping the lines of communication open, all of those good

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things. Um, I know there's often people think teachers are off for the summer, but I know there's a lot of our members who are doing work at summer school and there's union issues working behind the scenes. So, it never really ends. But, so, thank you for all of you that you do

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and welcome and uh, yeah, we're here to work with you and reach out anytime. Thanks. >> Great. Thank you. >> Next, we have Melody Goodwin. Yeah.

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>> Point of order. >> Yeah. Um, >> point of order. >> Is this something that you cannot say as a member? >> I believe I cannot because it's not on the agenda. >> Is it because it is a new item that has

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not had 48 hours to to percolate on our agenda? Um, >> we could vote to add something to the agenda, but >> we cannot technically vote I was looking this up because of the other issue we're talking about. We cannot technically vote to add another item to the agenda because of the open meeting law 48 hour

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requirement. Um, we can add things to maybe discuss but not take substantive action on. Um, >> so I asked and I told I didn't give up

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my rights as a citizen school. >> You did not. >> So public comment should be something allowed to do, >> but you're allowed to speak your mind in the forum of the school committee and the public is not. So the public has the

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right to have their public comment heard and it's enshrined. But you have have additional rights because you were elected. So you speak here in this forum which is why I point of order. in the hands of

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>> I did ask this question in Hyannis specifically >> for public meeting open meeting law kinds of >> my personal opinion is I'd let anybody that wanted to speak speak I don't that's what I'd do

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>> all right um here's like I will let you speak for this three minutes, but I would love for us to not make a habit of putting ourselves outside this body because we are members of this body and we do have rights and privileges above and beyond

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general members of the public. >> Asked if we had like new business on the agenda and that that might be a place that we could >> add things that come up emerging. Again, that is a place where we can add potential topics as long as they are

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within the 48 hours and they are not topics that we can then actually take any substantive action on. That is absolutely true. I have asked um so with that I will put the three minutes on and I ask that you just keep

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it to that three minutes. Um >> that was the plan. >> Great. >> Thank you. My name is Melody Goodwin and I am um live in precinct 9 in the Meadows. Um

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I was informed about an email that went to some parents and that concern came to me. Well, I think the concern is related to somebody who has not been recognized

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the way they really should be and she's actually here tonight and I want to really thank Hannah Cherry for what she has done for our school district. Um the last 10 years we've had a lot of attempts to pull our band program and our music program together and I was

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lucky enough to attend the concert and it is a lot of hard work to put a district program together and I only got to see her from the back. So that today tonight was the first time I saw her from the front and what I saw were some

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amazing children many I knew who got something very magical. Um, and with that magic took a lot of really hard work and I wanted to thank her publicly for doing that. Um, so one of the conversations

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I is the fact that there's a group of children we're hoping that can go on in a program. Last year they won a silver medal and I'm hoping they get to go to gold. So, I'm using my three minutes to say thank you to Hannah Cherry for all

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her hard work and I will be at your concerts and I am going to enjoy the magic every single time even though I hate the chairs because they hurt my back. Um, but I will be there. And also I wanted to use a few seconds to our

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school committee is working really hard on really making great things for kids and we made the arts our priority and I just wanted to state that publicly again. Um the arts it is our priority and um we believe in

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that. I don't think there's a person sitting here who isn't promoting the arts. So again Hannah Cherry hear me. Don't go anywhere. You're not allowed to leave. Please stay. Um and please keep doing the magic for our kids.

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>> Thank you. >> Third, we have Michael Master. >> Hi, Michael. Master Tataro, 37 Cypress Street. All three of my adult children attended Greenfield Public Schools, and I have a grandson who's about to be in

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Greenfield Public Schools. Science frequencies math division reading language Italian German sometimes French endurance coordination muscle memory social

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emotional learning teamwork camaraderie self-discipline how do you get to Carnegie Hall practice listening understanding understanding cultural friendship When playing music, your brain fires on

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all cylinders. Music in public schools should not be extracurricular, but a curriculum. Music students make good students. This budget season was made clear that

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arts were going to be a priority. And now the understanding is hopefully it's not going to be the case that that band and the middle school is going to go from

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twice a week to once a week. Now I don't know what's changed in the scheduling from last year to this year. I mean the numbers haven't changed by any means. So, I don't understand it and I know you're new here, but hopefully you can get that

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fixed because it's a priority because these kids in the middle school and the fifth and sixth graders are going to be in the high school and without the young ones playing music, we will have no music program. And Hannah, I have never met, but she is doing an

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awesome job and we are lucky to have her. And I wouldn't blame her if she decided to leave. if they were going to cut her program in half. Um, so

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I'm just hoping that uh the right thing is done here for the sake of our kids, for the sake of my grandkids, and for the sake of the parents who get to enjoy their kids perform. Um,

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music is a universal language. If you can play music and you can read music, you can go anywhere in the world and communicate with somebody. So, thanks for giving me the time for my input. Thank you. Good evening, Doug Selwin. Um, Farest

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Avenue in Greenfield. Well, it turns out that what I have to say actually sort of align sort of with the two previous comments. Um, I'm here to repeat a request um that this school committee um stands

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strong with other districts in opposing what the governor is doing by reinstituting essentially the MCCAST as a graduation requirement. She's calling it something else. End of course tests, which makes it sound like

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final exams, but these are exams that are entirely created by Desi and scored by Desi with no local input. Um, it narrows the curriculum as the MCCAST did, which closes out things like the arts, which we say we value.

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Um, but we know that if what is measured um, and is what is valued that other things get closed out. um everybody's going to take the tests and we know that for a lot of students that's not their strength, it's not their interests, it's not what they value. Um so we are again

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feeding them to the state rather than having the schools serve the needs of our kids. So I'm urging the school committee um to take a stand with other districts to uh sign on to the Massachusetts Association of School Committee

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statement opposing this um if you haven't already done so. If you have done it, do it again. Um, and and recognize that you don't have to be passive about this. This is a conversation that we should be part of rather than simply the recipients of.

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Um, and I have then another comment about something else. Um, I've been talking with folks and wondering, you know, their comments about how things are in the schools and what causes people to leave or not. And I wonder whether we do exit interviews for people who are leaving. um that any family that

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chooses to go elsewhere, it makes sense to me to talk with them and find out why and what would better serve their children um such that they would stay. And I don't know what the policy is here, but I um I just wanted to raise raise that as a question and to

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encourage if we don't do exit interviews that we do them. That's it. Thank you very much and thanks for your work. Happy summer. >> Thank you. Um, if there's anyone online who would like to make public comment, please put

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your name in the chat and I'll see it or any other takers in person. Give another 10 seconds for folks. Okay, seeing none, um I will go ahead and close public comment for this evening's meeting. Um thank you to those who

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participated. Um and we will move on to reports of the administration. Um I know that did for we'll start with items A uh item A. Did anyone have any questions for our business manager about

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the report submitted? Okay, seeing none, thank you. And we'll move on to our assistant superintendent of teaching and learning item B. Any questions for assistant superintendent Sullivan who is joining us online? All right, we have a question for member

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child. I wanted to know if you could speak a little bit to uh in the literacy reports, the big spreadsheet linked inside there about the lack of progress from our IEP students and if we have a good plan to tackle it or any idea why

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they didn't progress at the rates or other groups did. Yeah, I think that's one of the reflections we had in reviewing the data and um I think one of the things we've talked a lot about in the past few months as we're thinking ahead to

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professional learning um and steps we can take next year is we've had um some subgroup focus areas the past few years in the district um multilingual learners, Latino, Hispanics, students

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with disabilities Um, and I think really similar to what we've done in terms of literacy and focusing a little bit more this year on early literacy, um, one of the things we've discussed is really,

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um, using that subgroup as our target. About one in four of our students are students with disabilities. um and making sure that teachers have support and training in what differentiation for those students look like, what it looks like in the um the

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general classroom, what supports look like. I think we're really trying to um peel back the onion a little bit and say, "All right, we've been doing a lot of this work. What specifically about this subgroup um is lagging?" Um, so we're looking at a number of

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opportunities. One of them being the universal divi design for learning approach and making sure that teachers feel supported and have an understanding of what that looks like and how it can be implemented in their planning and their classrooms um with a particular

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lens on that sub subgroup of students. >> Thank you and thank you for the data you provided in there in general. It was good to see the numbers broken down so granular. >> Of course, and I'm sorry I couldn't be there tonight, but also happy to touch

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base with any member should they have any questions um about that report whenever is convenient for you all. >> Great. Thank you. Any other questions for for Assistant Superintendent Sullivan? All right. Uh then I think thank you

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Stephen. Um I think we can move on. I am going to put up a brief slideshow from our brand new first meeting ever. Superintendent Carol Cruiser. Thank you so much for being here. I need two

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seconds to get my Zoom together. Okay, I lied a little more than two seconds just because I presentation display not full screen. Thank you. Where is there?

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Voila. >> All right. Thank you very >> I think we're doing it. >> All right. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. Um this is a very brief introduction. Uh I just technically started on July 1. So, I just wanted to come and say hello and talk a little bit

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about what the next couple of weeks and months is going to be. So, um you go to the next slide. So, just I walked in uh I actually came on Monday to start prepping uh but assistant superintendent Sullivan and David Messing had done a

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lot of the work to get our our retreat up and going. So, we had a great retreat the first couple of days um with administrator department heads and it was really great to get to know everyone, excuse me. So, just a few things about what we did. We re reviewed

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data from the 2026 2027 school year, what we would need for that ne going for the next year. We set up our calendar. We spent a lot of time talking about safety and security measures and plans to evaluate procedures and protocols

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that will be happening in the summer and beyond. We reviewed the restorative practices pilot at Federal Street and we had a guest speaker and we talked about what the next steps would be with that. We discussed the strategic plan that ends in 2028 and we talked about the

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school improvement plans and I'll be talking to the principles individually about that and with the group. So that will be going on in the summer as well. And then I set up onetoone meetings with the principles and the department heads and I've already had about well six or seven and that will continue. So that's

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been the first few days. So, we're just going in quickly. Uh, Assistant Superintendent Sullivan and myself will be at the Superintendent Conference next week, and it's really pivotal for a lot of different things. One of them is the fact that we will hear a lot about what's going on at

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DESIE when we're there next week. Uh there will be a lot of information from a lot of superintendents and um a lot of desi personnel on a lot of um important things like graduation requirements and some of the changes that are happening and some of the ways we need to advocate for a school. So there'll be a lot of

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work on that next week. For me personally, the first day uh before a lot of other people get there will be for the superintendent induction program. I did this as an assistant superintendent. So, this is a slightly different program for superintendents.

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And they uh work with us in the cohort to develop a full entry plan, which you'll hear at another time. And then they also talk about mentorship and advocacy. And they will give us a lot of information. So, I'm really excited about that. And it will also give assistant superintendent Sullivan and I

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some time to talk about Greenfield specifically. So, in order to do an entry plan, I'll do a lot of listening and learning with the one-on- ones. Um, I also plan to spend some time with one-on- ones with whatever staff want to do 15 minutes in the summer on Zoom or come in to see me

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if they're around. Uh, I'll be in the buildings as much as I possibly can to get to know the buildings, the staff, and the students. Tomorrow, I'm going to check in on the summer school at the two buildings. So, I was going to go the first day and I thought, hey, let's give them a little time to to get things

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going. So, I'm going to step in tomorrow and see them. Um, I'm going to pick some town halls for staff and families um at night, after school. Uh, I'll do a variety to give people a chance to go see them at their times that work for them. I'll go to as many uh engagements

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as I can, activities that I can. And then once school gets started, I'm really going to do some student focus groups in the buildings. I'd like to have some superintendent groups. I've asked the principles, you know, to give me a variety of students that might want to come talk to me at lunch, have lunch

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with them, um after school, maybe while they're doing sports or after school programs so that I can really get some student voice. Um so that'll be first and foremost. So, as assistant superintendent Sullivan said, we'll be doing a lot of data

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analysis, district data, school data, looking at the strategic plan, looking at the improvement plans, reviewing the budget and the budget processes. Um so we'll do a lot of data cycles and then again after the initial meetings we'll have department deep

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dives, financial review, academic evaluation. Um we'll develop strong communication systems. I've heard a lot already about communication. Um, so we'll really focus on that with the school committee and the schools on the best way to have a

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systematic response and a systematic way to get to parents and families in the best way. And then from there, you'll get a formal superintendent entry plan um, summary report when that's done. >> Great. And just thank you. Everyone has been

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wonderful, friendly, um, getting to know the place, getting to know the school, and I couldn't be happier to be here. So, thank you very much. Excellent. Thank you. Any questions for Superintendent Cruiser?

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Comments? >> All right, Mayor Elizabeth. >> Well, welcome. I just Where is the summer school? I just was What schools do they go to? Uh, four corners and high school. Great.

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>> Thank you for being here. I'm so glad you're here. It's wonderful to see you. Um I guess my question is more also for the chair as well as you. But I'm wondering um also under the advice of Roland, we had a little chat about

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if you would like a meeting with us or if you're planning on doing that where we sort I don't want to use the word on board, but where we talk about the kinds of communication that you want from us and the kind of communication we want from you so that we are all on the same

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page and we understand what to expect and you understand what to expect from us. is sort of like a get to know you session that might not be an official school committee meeting but I don't know exactly how we would do that sort of a working session since we know that we are allowed to have working sessions

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>> um and if that would be helpful to you Roland said that he thought that that would be a great thing to extend so I'm just wondering if there's plans to do that >> yes >> wonderful thank you great thank Thank you.

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>> Anything else for our incoming superintendent? Um did you want to talk about the other items under your purview? >> So the two other items um for my is about first enrollment. So right now we're closing out the old year and

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starting the new year. So next time I'll be able to give you a really big breakdown on exactly what grades in the kids in each grades. But for right now, I can tell you we have 61 new students enrolled for the 26 27th school year. So that's exciting and hopefully we'll

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continue and um in next month I'll be able to give you more details on which grades. And then the only other thing I know you were told before, but um we we have talked a lot about communication in our subcommittee meetings. We're also talked about communication. So, I just

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want to say again um about the fact that we're launching the parent square app and the parent square platform and summer school is using it and um summer eats is on there already. They're sort of doing that and then in the fall we'll roll it out to the rest of the um the

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you know the schools and I just want to let you know that I have used parent square for the last two years and it's an excellent platform. I think you're going to be really happy when we decide it will it can consolidate how we communicate to different families, how

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we communicate to different buildings. It's a very easy way for families to teachers to communicate for families to communicate and the actual app does look like a social media feed. So, I think when we have discussions about it and once it's rolled out, it will really be

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a great avenue for families in the school to be able to see what's going on um in the school district. So, I'm really excited and I just wanted to say that again because a few people had questions and I know it was said before, but just to say it again. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions about

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either of those? Yes, member to leave. >> I have a question about the Parent Square app. Um, is it only for families in the district or are there like a general awareness section for people like us like school committee members and you know other citizens that maybe

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don't need the parent section. >> It is only for parents in the district. So that's a conversation that it can't be the only thing we do because we want the you know we want other people to community to see what we post. But parent square is for families. >> Okay. Great.

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>> Thank you. Anything else from folks? All right, seeing none, I would say we move on to our consent agenda. Motion to Well, first let me ask, are there any items that folks would like removed from

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the consent agenda? Seeing none, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Great. Any discussion? Uh, you have discussion? Yes, member child. >> Just the quick point that I really like

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the way the changes to the school year calendar were highlighted. Made it very easy for me to go and put it in my personal calendar. So, I I definitely appreciated that. >> Yes. And it also makes it easy for us to know what is actually being changed. So,

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thank you. Great. Um, anything else? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? It passes unanimously. Thank you. Um, okay, moving on to school committee reports.

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First up, chair's report. Um, for those of you who might not know, the school committee is trying something new this year where we will actually be going into the library to go read to young kiddos. This is for folks elementary school aged. Um, we this is a

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partnership with their uh children's librarian. I almost said elementary school, but that's not it. their library. Um, and so, you know, we're really excited to actually get some more face to face time with kids during the summer. This is another way that we want to like encourage families and students

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to get into the library, hopefully inspire them to take a couple of books home, um, and is another sort of way to partner also with the library's existing summer reads program. Um, so we will be at the library every Saturday starting

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this Saturday at 10:30 in the morning for about anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour reading some books to kids. Um, our librarians kindly helped us pick out some books that they know that kids are going to like cuz I don't personally have any of those aged kiddos and so I'm

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sort of out of touch with what kinds of books they might enjoy. Uh but we have some really good recommendations to choose from when we get there. And there will be one of us in in addition to assistant superintendent Sullivan will have a day and our superintendent will

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also be there. I believe August 15th is your day. Going to buddy up with Ann. Um so if you are interested in coming and hanging out with us or bringing your kiddo and having us read to them, that would be really great. Come see us every Saturday at the library and take a book

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home when you leave. Next is I want to talk about the mask mass conference. Um our incoming superintendent has expressed a strong interest in going but not alone and so we need to decide among all of us who

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would like to go to that. We have funds um so that is reimburseable uh those expenses and the I forget exactly the date but it's coming up soon. The early bird deadline I believe is early September but we're going to call it August. We're going to say decide soon if you would like to be one of those people who goes. I would like to be one

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of those people who goes. Um so if that is you sort of like let me know and coordinate so that we can make sure that we've got critical mass um for getting there and uh getting some good time together with our with our new superintendent. Um,

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I do just want to touch uh briefly on other items that are coming up from the public. Um, we are looking into continuing to look into the security incident that happened at Federal Street. Um, as you heard from our

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incoming superintendent, like this is this is something that is being reviewed at all levels. Um I I do also want to reiterate that that door is fixed. It is was fixed um four days later. And I know that for a lot of

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folks that's kind of not actually the whole point. Um and that is also something that we are working to address by again strengthening communication um and ensuring that folks are actually feeling like their concerns are really heard um and that they're not just speaking into a void. So, I just wanted

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to acknowledge again that we are continuing to look into that. Um, with that, any questions for me? Seeing none, let's move on to budget and finance and warrants.

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Okay. Uh, you all have my report in front of you. Uh, we met twice. Uh first meeting was transportation and procurement and then our warrants meeting for transportation. Uh you might see that there was a motion to uh

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approve of the transportation replacement. That motion we don't need right here anymore because at the time of our discussion we did not have the granular quotes that we have for this meeting. So that can be pushed until the specific item on our agenda comes up. But basically, we talked about the age

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of vehicles being replaced and how we could save money by replacing them um in terms of being able to switch from CDL bus drivers to 7D drivers or replace minivans with the vans that fit more

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passengers. Um but we'll discuss that in full when we get to the actual van item on the agenda. Um, but one other thing reason we had that motion was because we wanted to keep things moving. Note that we're planning on paying out of

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transportation revolving funds, but it still takes time. You don't just call up and make the order. Has to go through city capital planning. Need to cross all your tees, dot all your eyes. Uh, so the other uh thing we discussed at that first meeting was a procurement. Uh, we

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had the business office come in and educate us on all sorts of laws and legal changes. school districts must follow when soliciting bids. We asked about where they're kept and we're interested in finding ways to make things more accessible, but ultimately

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could not finish that discussion until after we get that legal compliance review that we voted on last month. So, we're still awaiting that. And then there are the warrants uh highlights. We had some resolved questions and a few outstanding ones. And if you have any

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questions on any of those, we'd be more than happy to go into them. Questions for members? Okay. Um, thank you very much. And I believe I'm speaking a little off the cuff here, but I believe that that compliance review is either finished or

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will be finished shortly and should be forthcoming to members. So um all right at this time moving on to policy program and school committee handbook. >> Okay. We met on July 2nd virtually and

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discussed how best to use our time for the remainder of our meetings. We revisited our goals and made some choices about how best to move forward. Our four largest priorities this year are modernizing the vaping policies, preparing JIB JIB to be implemented,

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that is the adding a student rep to the committee, creating an academic integrity policy, and working on the AI advisory committee in whatever capacity is required. Superintendent Cruiser and Jeffrey will handle JIB. Ann will make a spreadsheet of vaping

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processes and I will connect with council about academic integrity and we will have an agenda that will cover the rest of the year and we intend to bring recommendations regarding these priorities to the full committee at each of our remaining 2026 meetings starting in September.

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Our final meeting for 2026 will be a debrief where we will assess our progress and prepare a folder of the work completed to pass on to the next group of members to serve on the subcommittee. We have several policy work requests for the full committee to approve. We would like to find all of

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the communication policies that are available in our manual and read and discuss bolstering or modernizing them. And we would also like to discuss student retention policy Ike to adjust some language. So we need your blessing

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to do this work. Our next meeting is August 24th at 7:30 p.m. and is 100% virtual. Would you like me to make a motion to >> Sure. >> receive the blessing? >> Yes. >> Okay. I make a motion that the

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Greenfield School Committee uh allow the policy subcommittee to engage in the work of discussing the communication policies and discussing the student retention policy. Ike. >> So moved. >> Second.

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>> Second. >> We've got a motion from member Den. Do we have a second from member Goodwin? Discussion on that. Seeing none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Congratulations. Please do that. >> More work for us. That will probably go

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into next year. And thank you. >> Please. Thank you. Um, any other questions or comments generally speaking outside of that motion for what they presented? Um, I just want to thank you for creating an agenda for the rest of the year and having a plan of what you're

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hoping to accomplish and also a plan to create something that can be handed on to the next iteration of this subcommittee. I think that that um is kind of I'm I can't tell you what to do, but I'm going to strongly suggest that all of our subcommittees do that uh because we know that we're not static

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over time. It's not going to be the same of us all the time on every subcommittee. And it is helpful in terms of continuity of work for us to be able to have something tangible that says this is where we were at. Here's how far we got. Here's what we did. And here's what is sort of like still on the docket so we can keep moving work forward.

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>> I will bring forward a motion to add that to our handbook in the future. >> Thank you. Okay. Uh community engagement. >> We met on Monday, but it didn't make your packet because forgot to send it to

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Becky Tower as well. >> Oh, good. Um, I think the exciting news, especially for people who are still here, is fingerprinting is happening again. You can find that information under the human resources on our website. Um, and we learned about, I'm

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going to say it wrong, parent square. Did I say it right? And we welcomed the superintendent to our meeting, but the big thing was talking about fingerprinting. um and trying to we look forward to our next meeting talking about ways we can

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reach out to the community and citizens and families and finding ways we can get information from them about what they're looking for from us. So that's our next meeting. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um any questions,

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comments for community engagement? Can you just specify was that human resources under the city side or the school side? >> School side. >> Awesome. And it's the Hampton Inn. Hampton in at least a couple of days a week is where you can go and get your

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fingerprints done. Um I do believe you have to make an appointment ahead of time and it is definitely not every day. So um if you need to get fingerprints, plan accordingly. Uh okay. Thank you. And then for the long-term facilities

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use advisory committee, uh we met last on the 29th where we actually discussed uh members of the public to appoint to this advisory committee. Um the long story short is we got most of the seats that we had available filled, but we are

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still reserving two seats for staff because we would like for some staff to u participate and fill out the form as well as another seat for a student. But in the interim, we have a slate of individuals uh who do match uh some of the specific types of person like whether they're a parent or a general

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community member um or something like that uh for you for you all to appoint to that advisory committee. Um our next meeting is in July, the end of the month. I know that we set a date but I can't remember it. Let me

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>> 27th. >> Thank you. July 27th. It will also be entirely virtual in the morning, I believe 10:00 a.m. um where we will ideally be discussing and recommending uh these three additional seats to be filled. Um as well as setting up the

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actual slate of agendas that will get us to our goal in May for this advisory committee. We really want this to be something that is like we are trying to really move through all the discussions that need to be had um and making sure that but by the time we get to the end of our charged

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period of time that we actually have a report produced and a recommendation to deliver. So um with that in mind I motion to appoint the slate of individuals as presented to the long-term facilities use advisory

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committee. Any discussion on that? >> Would you mind reading that list out loud for for those do that >> as soon as I pull it up?

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All right. The persons are Roxan Wedgardner, Amy Aean, Derek Healey, Mike Davis, Isaac Mass, Liz

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Reno, and Doug Selwin. And this would be in addition to the currently uh myself, member Deniv, and member Webb who are the school committee representatives. And then again, we will have three seats that are still left open. Two for staff and another for a student or an alumni.

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Any other discussion? >> Yes. Member Den, >> have we received any applications from staff members? >> Not yet. >> Okay. If you're a staff member, please do this. >> Please consider it. The information is online.

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>> We need you two people. >> Yes. Okay. >> Did Did you have a lot more people that put their names in or >> We had a couple of more people who put

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their names in, but we were try we were trying to balance across folks that we know have um certain experience that we're looking for as well as folks honestly we also were looking for folks that we don't hear from that often. And so a couple of

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these people are brand brand new to me at least. Um and that was really important so that we were trying to broaden the scope of folks that were actually getting perspectives from. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Seeing none, I would love to bring

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this to a vote. All in favor? >> I. Any opposition? >> Any abstensions? Okay. It passes unanimously. Thank you. Now, back to our agenda. Now, we are

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moving on to new business. And actually, if you will permit me, I would love to take these items out of order so that we can maybe get these B and C done and give ourselves time to do A. Is that okay with folks? >> Great. Um, item B, the purchase or lease

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of three transportation vehicles. Do you have can do you want to give a presentation or would you like to reserve that for the business manager who should be giving it? >> Business managers. >> Great. Andy, would you like to tell us about this motion, please? >> Sure. Um, this is coming from the

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discussions we've had as an outcome of the transportation review and the acknowledgement that we don't have an actual replacement vehicle schedule for our vehicle fleet. Um we have some vehicles that are aging and so uh with

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the fact that the transportation revolving account does have the capacity to explore leasing or purchasing. So we've got those options to consider. Uh it was brought from the transportation director uh the idea to get the transit

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style vehicles that allowed for 10 passenger capacity uh to hopefully uh replace the old vehicles that are in need of replacement and also increase our capacity to potentially look at route configuration so that we could end

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up using more resulting in less staffing needs. uh based on our struggles as we know as far as hiring drivers. So you have the options. It's a state bid of vehicle contract through the combis. Um

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we did solicit the quotes that we you see in there. We can always solicit others based on the fact that there are multiple vendors out there, but we did the due diligence per the the combis contract. Um, we do recognize and acknowledge that the city's green

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community, uh, and I know Miss Carol Collins has asked to, uh, a review and we did send to her, she's aware of the the vehicles that we're looking at that admittedly are not in line with the green, they don't fit the green vehicle

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requirements because of their capacity and weight. So, they would be outside of that that requirement. So understanding the goal of being trying to get as fuel efficient vehicles as possible um the transit vehicles are the route in which we would recommend going and also

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acknowledging as uh was stated earlier in the report um that the vehicle purchases through going through capital with the identification of the fact that yes we get to go through capital but with the funding source being for whether it be leasing or purchasing

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through the transportation or revolving questions or comments. Okay, I've got Mel and then the mayor. >> This is for our audience and our procurement. Our way we got our quotes is where located where

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>> where did we get them? >> No. Where will that information be located? Oh, and we have it in the business office. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mayor Disorder. >> So, I have a couple questions on this that actually were raised by the energy

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director, Carol Collins. Um, and I pulled up what we were looking at, the transportation report, Andy, and I think it's fabulous that we're going to replace some of the vehicles. Um,

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and I hear and I did read that they recommended um in the report on page 25 maybe thinking about um getting a a bigger one because we have five person five people

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vans right now. Um my question or maybe actually a suggestion from Carol actually was um would we want to try to buy one or two of the 10 passengers? She suggested I know that she gave this

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information to you. Um that the one that we were looking at um it's the gas that it uses um the 10seaters that were $78,000. She said they were 36 used 36 miles per

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gallon and the one that she had discussed with you was a sevenseater used um 15 miles per gallon. So, I'm not a miles per gallon expert, but I did look at the

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list of where we sent the students for special education, and I wondered um do did you think that most could fit in the the vans of 10? I'm not trying to micromanage that either, but I want it to be energy effective as well because I

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could see the ones that were in Chapie, I could see that there are several students that we take to Chapie that maybe you could put together, but do you think that it should be all 10 10erson ones? >> Uh, I don't want to speak for the transportation coordinator, but I can

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say that that is the goal would be to maximize the usage of the vehicles and to combine routes that would be feasible. based on both capacity but also there could be some things in IEPs regarding harnessing of students that would end up requiring you know

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potential addition additional space if there's a monitor required so on and so forth. So the goal being though to maximize the use of the vehicle so that we can I want to use a phrase double up where doable uh and also reduce the

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number of drivers that we would need because as is in the report getting drivers is difficult. So, if we can reduce the number of personnel needed to do the transportation by increasing the capacity of the vehicles, it would be

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the cliche of a win-win, I would say. >> So, I'm just going to I'm just going to relay her information. Her suggestion would be to do um one or two 10 person Vans and you know, maybe one

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seven. But I will go along with whatever the group thinks. I just see a a lot that were in different directions. >> Okay. All right. Have a good one. >> So, I remember this conversation really well and it really has to do with the

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drivers. So, having the drivers um and what they are required, what kind of license they're required to have. And one of the things about the smaller vans is it's

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harder to take even small groups places like I know one of the things we're looking for is a van that can take kids to the Y for swimming you know and we used to have one of those actually used to belong to the Y and we could get a

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whole class into one of those big ones but we could not get into the smaller one. So, I think it really has to do with capacity and the drivers. And you have to look at it this way. If we have less drivers, you're saving money, which you may use on gas, but um that's just

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the reality of it. Who's going to drive them? >> Okay. How much? >> Another one of our absolute needs in new vehicles is to have at least one of the new vehicles able to transport uh wheelchair using students. And so that's

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another thing that the vehicle size comes into play with. Great. Thank you. >> Yes. Member Diamond. >> I just wanted to clarify, mayor, that I heard you correctly. Did you say that uh

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the 10 passenger van gets 36 miles per gallon and the seven gets much worse? It was it was the other way around. >> I might have I might have misspoken. that that does happen every now and again, but it the larger ones we're

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concerned about, you know, we worrying about the climate change, so the the larger one, the 10erson van, >> got the least miles to the gallon. >> Thank you for that correction. So I'm just sort of trying to speak well

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on her behalf because that was what and also I think it's a really my understanding is you don't need a CDL for any of these. Is that correct? So that that's where we're >> right >> and we're going to replace we'll be

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using these to replace the five passenger ones. >> The oldest of them. Yes. We still have some five passengers, but the oldest ones that are >> the most uh have the most mileage and the most maintenance issues, >> right? Which it makes sense to be

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replacing them. So, so you you think it would be best for us to buy 310s, >> purchase or lease? Like I said, those are the options that we're looking at to see what is, you know, we'll say the most budget sensitive. you know, even though we've got the funds available, does it make sense to spread out the

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payments over, you know, three years, fiveyear lease, whatever, depending on the, you know, we want to, you know, look and see as far as to have some contingencies in place should transportation needs change through the year to be able to uh if we need to uh

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address those midyear with some funds available rather than the initial capital outlay of the full cost. So, you know, we're but all those options fall under the vehicle combis contract to explore either purchase outright or a

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lease option. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Any Okay, member. >> So, at the time that uh budget and finance looked at this, we didn't have the quotes. Now that we do, does the business office and the transportation

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coordinator do you have any sense of which direction your recommendation is in terms of buy versus lease >> right now? No. And uh the transportation coordinator is on vacation. So we were kind of waiting for maybe a recommendation would be to uh authorize

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the administration to you know procure in one way or the other the vehicles and obviously we would then come back with what it is that we decided on. The funds are there if we choose to purchase outright and the funds are obviously there because it' be spread out if we choose to lease.

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>> Great. Any any sort of last round of comments before we move to a motion? >> All right. I move that we authorize the administration to purchase or lease three transportation vehicles.

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>> Second. >> Any discussion on that? Great. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Seeing none, passes unanimously. Thank you. Next up, school committee meeting dates.

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Um, after looking at the schedule, uh, November 11th, which is would be our normal second Wednesday of the month, is Veterans Day. So, we will not be meeting that day. However, we will also not be meeting on November 4th because after looking the John's on is unavailable. >> It's also the MASC.

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>> Yes, it's also the MASC conference. And so if you have your phone or your calendar available to you, can you look right now and see which of these dates, November 9th or November 12th, works best? We're going to do this right now

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so that I can get that to Becky. And those both of those dates have already been held for us. So those are available. Um >> the 9th or the 12th of >> uh November.

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my head in for the ninth. >> Ninth is better for me, too. >> All right, we've got two for the ninth. I'm also good for the ninth. >> I think ninth is best for me, but I can make either work. >> Okay, >> amazing.

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Please hold in your calendar November 9th at 6:30 and that will be our only should be our only funky one for the rest of the year. Um, and I will pass that date along to Becky so that she can formalize that hold for us for this space. So, it'll be

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same time, same place, new date. Thank you. All right. Now, we get to move on to this fun piece of new business. um where really I just want us to have a just more of a

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discussion of what have we done for the last six months, what are our priorities for the next six months, and can we map out a rough calendar of items for our remaining meetings? Um in an effort to help uh streamline this, I'm going to share my screen

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again. Uh folks should have received in their sort of like supplemental meeting materials a handy dandy spreadsheet.

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Um and I want to thank member childs for supporting me in filling the spreadsheet out. Um, this is essentially a list of all of the motions that we have made or done

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anything with this whole year. As you can see, there are many. Um, some of these are complete, but not all of them. And so this sort of tracker was made in an

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effort to actually keep us on track to knowing where we stand on the items that we've actually already brought because we have 56 things that we've done. I mean, it's it's, you know, it it it behooves us to

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actually slow down for a minute and say, okay, of those 56 motions that we've introduced, how many of them have we been able to get to that complete stage and where do we actually still have some outstanding items that need to come back on agendas or that we need to follow up on the implementation of because it's

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not enough for us to pass motions or policies. We actually have to see what the outcome of those were if we actually intend to make some difference. So given that um I do want to just share some highlights of the things that we've

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done this year. We got a new superintendent. Yay. Um we did vote to have more student participation in our meetings by one bringing a student representative and also um making sure that we are

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following the law in terms of having a relationship with a student advisory council. This is one of those things that I will just note for the folks following along at home. We realized we don't have a student advisory council in order to liaz with them. We have a student council. We have student

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government, but that's not quite the same as the thing that's in the law. And so this is where we're at with that one. That's the status is like we have the policy. It's there. And now it's our job to circle back and figure out how to implement the thing. So thank you policy

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for circling on that. Um, what else have we done? We found a sculpture. That seems really, you know, it's it's I say we Roland Roland and the former facilities director found a sculpture for us. But

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that that's like sort of no small part. And we will be it's my my um you know goal is to see us actually do something with that and see if we can find some funds in the future to create like get a plinth for it and like stick it somewhere and have it become part of

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like our our city's whole whole thing. It connects the schools to the cities in my eye because our city has two of those other two sculptures from that same artist already. Um what else have we done? We

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conducted some other hiring. We formally moved some like we moved the handbook under policy. We moved warrants under budget. We've been working to make sure make our warrants process more transparent and accessible to the public. Um I don't want to say that we

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are like done with any of those sorts of those items. Those are all an ongoing process. But these are concrete things that we have been able to do over the past six months to actually get us places. What are other things that folks want to celebrate that we've been able to do

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that you can think of? What have we done in the last six months that you're proud of? >> Yeah. One of the things for the war process, I know more about vans and transportation than I ever

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wanted to know. Um, just knowing how those decisions are being made. >> I think we've done weeks and I like the fact that we have had the transportation. I don't know what word you want to call it, but then somebody came in

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all of our data um kind of gave us gave us that advice. I thought that was great. >> Um and I think that's important to do because taking that information to what we were doing was really important.

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>> Um we didn't know like the many of you know to get drivers having drivers and you know, the oil changes, how much it costs to how much it cost us to cut the grass at the high school. A lot of a

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lot of information has come up many of us. And I think where I'd like to see it land, which we haven't quite figured out, is transparency. So, we're looking at it, but how do we

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how do we frame it so it reaches anybody in the community who says, "Hey, I pay high show me like where this money goes. I think that to me is the ultimate goal. How to make that information. We've started to really dig into information.

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>> It's just like where do the bids or the procurement information go? You know, I was excited when I heard it because I could go paint it purple and say this is our stuff and you know, but that's where

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people want to kind of get a sense of you know, are we making our money count? And so I think that was really important. >> Great. What else? Yeah, I've got member Charles member Den Robin. >> We could round robin it.

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>> Two policy changes that I'm really excited about. Our field trip policy change to make it sane and more reflecting of reality. And I really like that we changed the public comment policy so that you don't have to dox yourself. You can just give relevant

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information. >> Um implementing JIB is totally my baby. Um that's something I wanted from year one when I first came on the school committee and it was an absolute non-starter even though it was the law. So, just the fact that we're starting to

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figure out how to do that makes me so happy because we have heard from the students that that's what they want and we're here for their achievement. And if that's something that's important to them, then I want to work to implement that. So, I'm very excited that we're actually going to be adding somebody to

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the committee to give a voice that we don't hear as often as we should. So, that's exciting to me. I'm also really excited to have so much interest from

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an and Jeffrey on policy subcommittee because for many years the only thing that the policy subcommittee did was review old policies and make sure they were fine. And now we're actually changing language and adjusting policy

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to the culture of our particular district, which is what the point of policy is. So I'm very excited that we're looking at that as more of a living, breathing, personalized experience. So that's really exciting. I'm also thrilled to hear that

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Superintendent Cruiser wants to come to the MASC conference because we have for many years been the lonely school committee there with no superintendent there and they're like, "Where's your superintendent? What's going on?" So, I'm like really excited to like take you

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around and be like, "This is she's ours." And so that will be really fun because we'll learn about things together and you'll be able to advise us on what district specific panels you think we should take so we're not just stumbling around in the dark. So that's

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exciting. Um, two things I'd really like to see us do, um, is make this whole goal process more robust and maybe even have I know everybody hates special meetings, but I would love to have a special meeting where we really discuss

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specific goals for the year >> where we're able to talk about what our constituents have brought forward to us and that we'd like to see as budgetary priorities. So, I don't know if it fits into here or something special, but I also really want us to make sure that we

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do our self-evaluation because even though it's like an awful festivist experience, it embodies the transparency that the taxpayers are asking for. And I also feel like I like to crow a little bit

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because we are a governing body of the city that does a handbook and a self-evaluation and no nobody else does that. Like we we do that. So I would like to see the city council do that and have a handbook and

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a self-evaluation which I think would be really important. But we do it. It's in our policy and so we should do it with glad hearts regardless of the outcome to show that we care about how we work as a group. >> Very good. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I spoke a lot at the beginning so I

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would love to pass to our other members. What are some things? >> Yeah. >> Well, I think it's wonderful um that the work has been started to create a long-term facilities advisory um the facilities use advisory committee. Uh we

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all know that you know the the the buildings in our district um are in various states of use um in terms of uh the the number of students who are actually attending versus the building's capacity and

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rationalizing that um over the next few years is going to be one of the most significant areas of savings I think that we will be able to accomplish. So I commend that u initiative. Um personally

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I'm quite proud to have um started the process of introducing an academic integrity policy. Um many school districts, most school districts in Massachusetts do not have a specific policy devoted to academic integrity, but a couple of them do and we can and I

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think that we should. So I'm uh really looking forward to um talking about the AI policy on the one hand and academic integrity and um con continuing to dialogue with uh

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the assistant superintendent and everyone else who's involved in that conversation about um really coming up with a robust AI policy, robust technology policy, and making sure that academic integrity is at the art as a core value guiding all of those

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conversations. >> Thank you, Mayor. >> I don't really have that much else to say, but you said some good things. I think it would be good on the um the AI one if because we had a lot of

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student participation from the civics classes which I thought was fabulous to have some input um to have some input from them and um yeah I I agree with you about the facilities that we're continuing to look

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at the facilities but good job everybody. Great. There a couple of other things that I just wanted to note is that one, we actually did have the open meeting law training. So, we closed the loop on an open meeting law violation from like

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three years ago. So, we did that. We closed that loop, which is great. Um, and then I also just wanted to note like the resolutions template and like this spreadsheet, which I'm going to turn happily over to Becky Tower, uh, the administrative assistant. And this is a

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tool that we can use and the motions the resolutions template are tools that we can use and not just we but future school committee people can do these. These are things that are like ways that we are leaving this work better and more accessible and like more robust than we

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found it. Um and you know as someone who did two years of service in Americanore that was drilled into me the leave it better than you found it motto. So, um, this makes me like just really happy that we're sort of creating systems and structures that allow people to come in and continue to do work and not have to

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reinvent the wheel and get stuck every time or worse really burn out our super and our admin assistants with having them be our living memory when we can be part of creating that um for ourselves as well. So, I wanted to note that and I

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think for me as I'm looking into the next six months, obviously there will be new motions that come up because that's how we do stuff. But I'm really excited to have to like take a look at these things that either, you know, were previously postponed or that we realized

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required additional work on our part and actually taking the things that we've already said we want to do and then following that thread through rather than continuing to just like we want to do 17,000 things. And it's like, okay, I hear us. we want to do 17,000 things, but maybe it's easier if we just do

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three things and finish them or like get them really really accomplished. So, that's sort of like the general ethos that I'm hoping for us to to sort of undertake over the next six months. Um, how does that land for folks when I say

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that? >> Yes, member Denife. >> It's better than it's ever been. As the person who has suffered here the longest, I have been asking for these things and dreaming of these things and dreaming of spreadsheets and lists and people finishing tasks and circle backs

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being circled and finished and it's never happened until now. I cannot wait to get into the spreadsheet and check off all the things that have my name on them. Thank god it's finally finally functional. Um, >> we're getting there. I won't say we're finally functional, but we are

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functioning more. Could could we have a dream another functional dream in the future of like being able to search these things? Because I was thinking about motions and I was thinking I needed to look I needed to look

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something up and I couldn't do it. There's no way to search our materials. There's no way to find anything. And I was like, I can't just have institutional memory and be like, I know we did something like that back in 2022 and then go through minutes from 2022. I

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cannot I will not do that work. So could we is this where AI finally helps us? Like is this the job we put it to or do we make a search bar or how please someday

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>> member child >> the Google drive is actually searchable so you should be able to search shared with me in your Google Drive to pull these up but that isn't terribly useful for members of the public who just go by

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those massive PDF packets. So for that I mean if you've got an OCR capable PDF reader you can download it and search but if you don't have that PDF software >> or if you want to search across multiple PDFs that so you can follow the thread on one item

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>> merge them into a mega PDF document and your computer will hate you. >> Um >> that excites me. I think we can think about what architecture would be needed to make it happen. I cannot promise that's a six-month task.

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>> It's an exciting dream for the 2027 year. >> Um, great. All right. when folks think about other items. So when I hear about the next six months and where we sort of like really

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should be sort of focusing our attention in addition to the items that come up all the time like we know we're going to get a retroact like a retrospective on the budget how we did compared to what we thought we were doing. Um we know that we're going to be um doing report

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backs on the mass conference like we know that we're going to be getting reports from our administrators every month. We know that we're going to get reports from our subcommittees every month. We are going to be following through on some of these other motions and I know that some motions have made it to my inbox already while I've been

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in this meeting. Um so like we're going to be taking these things as they come. Um and I've heard figuring out warrants transparency. I fully budget finance and warrants subcommittee. Please do that. U figure it out and bring recommendations back to us and we'll see what we can do.

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Um JIB implementation. I hear that goals process being more robust. I hear that academic integrity and AI. I hear that. I also would like to and the long-term facilities use. God help me. We will do it. We will do it. Um and then, you

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know, there's another item that's on my mind which is related to uh staffing equity and there there's another new law that is passed out there that actually requires school committees to have help develop an equity plan for the district. So, I'm thinking that we should probably

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do that if it's the law. Um, and actually that isn't just something we want to do for the law. That's something we want to do because it's a good thing to do. It is a right thing to do. Um, having an equity plan for our district. And so, that's another again, that's not something that we're going to show up

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with in one month and then have done and ready. that is a set a series of conversations and along with working with our admin team and our students and our parents and every that's like another big um thing that we want to do. So I my goal is to get that process

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started in six months. My goal is not to finish that. Um and I think we also need to be like clear that some of these items even that we want may not get done before December. But it's if if our intention is to take them as far as we can then that's that's good. That is

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where I would love for us to be. Focus. >> Don't forget negotiations. >> Don't forget how could I I wouldn't I wouldn't dream of forgetting negotiations. >> Self evaluation. >> Yes, that was in the the goal process

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more robust and self. It's it's it's all right there. >> Thank you. >> Okay. What else was coming up for folks? Are there other things that you're like, "Oh, I was expecting the chair to say this and they didn't.

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I see it. I see it percolating." >> I guess I'm just trying to figure out how and I guess this is part of boarding superintendent is our schools.

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A few of them have an underperforming issue and this is like I would like like your your chart where we could take things off. I would love that like all of a sudden there's you know 2% of the kids have gone up like in something like

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something that shows progress because when we hear about it we say everybody's fine and Then I see data and then we're not always fine. I guess I like real accomplishments, not just broad.

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>> Um I think that would be really concrete like you know maybe 12 kids at four corners read 100 books you know in the last six months. Something that we can celebrate um

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just concrete. So what I'm hearing there is an academic achievement >> tracker >> tracker data database >> which is also in your sub >> which is also sort of related to me to getting regular updates about our

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strategic plan I think at least you know twice a year would be probably for me good um linked to real data so not just a we're working on it but like a real like hey this is what we actually did >> okay Right. Member Denife.

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>> Well, if we're talking about what Carol does, I I guess I'd like to hear what Carol wants to do, like what is your like what is your plan, your reporting plan? Like I'd love to know a year-long agenda maybe from you. Like how often are you

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going to report strategic plan information? >> Yeah. you know, like like to not not what we want to I mean, obviously what we want to hear is important, too, but I want to hear like what you want to give us. Like what is your comfortable rhythm? When should we expect things?

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Cuz if we know that like, oh, she's going to do this every 3 months or whatever. Then we're not like, why aren't we hearing? Because we're like, oh, she's she's got it. She's going to do it. you know, and then that helps us see it as a larger picture because like we haven't done superintendent

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evaluation for years because we've been in such a muddle. So, in a few years, we're going to evaluate you like we have to. And you're going to want us to be, you know, on our best knowledgeable behavior. Like, we're going to want to

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know everything that you've been doing and like have all these reports. And sometimes superintendents give us the information like when they know they have to pull their evidence together, you know, and not like leading us on the

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evidence journey, but like okay, it's the six-month time and this is what I did and this is how I did it. And then we're like like I don't really know because we're not in the classroom, so I'm just assuming. So it would be great if we could find out how you like to do that and how you can give us the information over time. I think that

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would really help all of this whole process. >> Would it be fair or I think it would be fair to have that as part of like the entry plan? >> There you go. Yeah, >> I we I don't need you to tell us that right now. I I do think that a lot of

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that will be detailed in the entry plan, but as philosophically at the big picture, um I have heard very clearly and it is sort of my way to be pretty transparent and to just tell you what's

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going on out there. So, um, so I want to find multiple ways to communicate, whether it's, uh, the a superintendent newsletter that you'll receive, whether it's, uh, talking about academic data,

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but also, I agree with you, I'd really like to see us celebrate what the students are doing um, in any way, shape, or form. And we can do that a lot with a lot of different methods. So to answer your point, um I'm happy to report on anything, but when I give you

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the entry plan, it'll be more specific with exact timelines and it'll be um it will be back towards like my goals. So you'll see what my goals are and then the action plans on on my goals and there'll be a lot about the communication there. And then just um

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you know less formally I'm more than happy to to meet with them anytime on Zoom, in person, on the phone call um if you want to talk about things. I I definitely want it to be a working group and I want to um you know just keep working on that relationship. So

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there'll be much more to come. I promise. >> No doubts. Okay. So, this is probably the trickierest part of this uh agenda item is if we can get a rough

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map of how we want to do some of this. I might because a lot of this will be happening at the level of the subcommittee. I would love maybe for next time to have the subcommittees come with a sense of how they plan to get from here to there in the by December.

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Does that sound fair? Reasonable >> policy will submit an agenda. >> Very good. >> For clarity, can you define from here to there? >> Um, okay. That's Thank you. Yes. um for the things that are under your

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purview. For instance, if if it is a goal to get more transparency about warrants, sort of figure out, you know, we've discussed about having um having them be regularly accessible to the public, how what recommendation is coming from budget and finance and warrants about how to do

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that and when can we expect that from you? Like when do you think you're going to be discussing this? Um that sort of thing. just so that we can get so that then if it doesn't happen or if we need to say oh well that actually needs to get pushed back a month just so it's not sort of floating out in the

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ether and we are making sure to regularly check in about these sorts of things. Um I will also say this is helpful to me because so far I've been holding a lot of this in my brain and that's why I created the spreadsheet so it could live in the hive mind.

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Um, yes, member Den >> in July on our year-long agenda that we wrote in the car that one time. >> Yeah, >> we have post and share, edit, and republish as needed throughout the year, the year-long agenda. So, you could

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tweak the year-long agenda at this moment to include all of these things to better represent what we're trying to achieve in this time until December. And that might be a worthwhile thing since things have now changed.

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what we want has changed. >> Does that make sense? >> Mhm. >> So, it's the half year long agenda. >> Essentially, >> yeah, >> it's robust from July to December. >> Yes. Yes. Well, from August to December because it's already July.

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>> Judged up. >> I hear you. Um Okay, great. So yes, again I would love to see well I would love for there to exist. I will not personally see it because I will not be here next month. Um but I will look

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at it in the materials as I'm able uh for subcommittees to come with a sort of plan when they would like to do this and then I can work on between now and then having an updated orged year-long agenda so that they're all coming together in August so that we know what we're doing

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for the school year. Um, one thing that I want to name but forgot to mention was our relationship with CPAC is something that I'm actually really excited about that we doing a better job of formalizing that relationship. Um, and they have in

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invited and we have decided that we will be going to their meetings starting in October every other month for the duration of the academic year. Um, and they would like to come to us on the off months. So, that's something that I'm like excited and happy about and proud

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of. Um, that that building those formal like relationships and creating that connective tissue is something that we've wanted to do, I think, for a while and are actually doing. So, great. Okay. Are there any other bits on this

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agenda item that people are thinking about? Yeah, I have a good one. >> Um, do you have a format you wanted to be in >> so that when we all present we all have the same format or you just want us to

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create >> um collage? >> Sure. >> Yes. Your your best collage. No. Um, I mean, if you could generally, you know, when your meetings are, you have them pretty well scheduled out. If you could

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just be like, "In August, we're gonna do this in in September, in whenever." >> That's what I'm aiming for. >> If you want to create a play about it, sure. Um, but keep it under three

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minutes on one act, if you will. Um, member Dman, did you have something? I thought there was a >> No. No. >> Okay. All right. Um, but yes, if it's just easily readable so that we can get a sense of like, okay, here's when y'all

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are doing things. Does that make sense? Great. Any other last last call? Last call for comments, questions, concerns. Get out of here. All right.

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Seeing and hearing none, I say we move on to our old business. Old business. Um, we have a discussion and vote on how to proceed and choose a vendor to provide a literacy audit for the district. At our last meeting, we

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were provided with the quotes for this audit. Um, folks requested some additional time to review the bids that we had. Have folks taken the time, reviewed the bids, you know what you need.

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Okay. Um, then I would entertain a motion to authorize our administration to proceed with the lowest bid. >> Your mic, >> your mic, Mel. Oh, sorry. >> There are three vendors that we choose

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Keys Deliteracy as our vendor. >> Okay. Is there a second for that? And is that the lowest bid? Because legally speaking, that's the one we're going to have to choose. So >> there there >> if I'm technically not

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>> Yeah. You know, you you you just have to justify the reason for choosing the non the the not the lowest bidder. >> Okay. >> Or no lowest quote response, >> right? >> That's all. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, we have a motion from member Goodwin to choose keys for

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literacy. Um was there a second for that? >> Um usually with the motions, we let the person explain a little bit and then ask for the second. Could we do that? >> Sure. So their quote includes um visits to

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elementary schools, conversations with children and with teachers and with principles to really get a sense of you know what is happening in the schools and it's an outside perspective.

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A lot of the internal stuff we know that Stephen has actually presented data about what's happening. We have the state who comes in regularly, but having somebody and I I compare it to having somebody come in and look at transportation, somebody come in from

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the outside. Um, and there's a woman who works for them who is highly recommended. Um, I bought her book just to read it after I heard about her. and she comes in and she gives you straight out like she may say our day is not long enough and then we don't have enough

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minutes but she's just going to really do a deep dive. Um and I think when you're in it, you're like in it. You often don't have time to look at how it's all flowing. Um and so looking even at the school day and how that all

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happens. So it's sort of somebody who's objective. Um, I looked at the other two quotes, um, pretty intensively. The collaborative, um, I I don't think they're going to give you the same quality of a look and they

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actually have a literacy perspective that is not what we're currently using, which is conflict. And then the third one, and I spoke to Roland and Stephen about all three to see what they were feeling. um we already get their

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perspective because they're here. So I was looking for an outside somebody who's got who's a true literacy expert who's coming in from the outside who can give us and give the schools an

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outside picture. And it's helpful um because when you're in it, you don't know what you don't know. Um, and it could be as simple as the school day, the length of the school day. Um, which is one of the things I

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think is going to come out in um, because after talking to Stephen about, you know, different things that were happening. We used to have extended learning time at Newton School and at the middle school, which is a 90 minute longer day. Well, we don't have that

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anymore. And we're like, >> so um it may help us gather information. >> I I but I don't want to presuppose what will come from the >> No, I'm just saying we need somebody from the outside to give us that lens.

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>> Um and that's all. >> Okay. >> The other two, um I don't think you'll get the same lens. >> I'll second the motion. All right. Any discussion, questions, comments about this? Yeah.

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I would like to um think about uh this plan in um in terms of the uh the report that we received um the end of year literacy stepback that we received from um the assistant

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superintendent and particularly I'm looking at slide 26 um in in the stepback um that shows uh grades K through four and the um progress that they made over the course of the school

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year 25 through 26. Um looking at this is a very encouraging slide basically um in in terms of um the the amount of improvement we saw this year uh where we had 216 students um the the largest

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single category were well below benchmark at the beginning of the year. Um that number moved to only 153. So moving from 41 to 29% the um the improvements were the these are very impressive improvements I think. Um so I

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think it's worthwhile in light of this uh information to step back from the uh proposal for the audit and to ask our new superintendent um her opinion on the value of this kind of an audit. Um, do

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you think it is knowing what we know now, do you think it is, uh, would be very useful for you and worthwhile to have a literacy audit conducted knowing what it will cost? So, obviously being my first week and the kids not being in class, um, it's

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really hard for me to answer that. I have watched all your school committee minute meetings. I've watched what, you know, your opinions are on this. Um, so it's very difficult. I haven't even been in the classrooms yet. However, I completely agree with you that the data

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looks extremely promising. Also, we have the Prism grant at the preschool that's going to be happening um for early literacy. We have the learning lab that's coming and we also do have um SSOS that are coming as well. In addition, um the plans that I have to

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make sure that we're in the classrooms with the administration and with um the assistant superintendent and Mr. Messing um to look at this as well. So, there are a lot of things going on. Um but it's a impossible for me to give you a

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complete yes or no um only being 8 days in. Uh but I do agree with you that there's a ton of things that have been put in place um this past year. Member Deniv, >> I am heartened to hear member Dyman's

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assessment of this because I suspected as much and we have been giving been getting encouraging signs of increase in literacy for several years now. So, I knew that this was what was happening because we've been given these reports.

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Um, I appreciate um, Stephen Sullivan's more in-depth report and congratulation on the on the Prism grant. That's fabulous. Um, I had my original fear that having an audit like this would be the same as our transportation audit,

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which we paid for and didn't really teach us anything that we didn't already know. So, I'm not inclined to spend taxpayer money this way. And so I voted against it and I will abstain from any choices anyone chooses to bring forward in regards to this audit because I don't

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think that it's a good use of our time or money. Um, and I hope that we can continue to see reports that are focused on literacy and other areas in which we are trying to increase engagement and

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achievement in the future. Other comments? >> Oh, sorry. I'm a child. >> So, is there a counter proposal then to go back and undo when we voted to do the

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literacy audit, though I don't know how we would do that with Robert's rules, or is it just to postpone this to evaluate later? No, I would not recommend that we postpone it. I think we should come to a decision today. Um because we have the

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information that we would need to choose somebody and we also have what we would need to choose nobody and to the the procedure that best I can follow would be to conclude the motion that we are doing. We would need to formally vote um

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a yes vote for any one person would then commit us to doing that because we voted to do it and this would be a vote then to choose a vendor. But we would so we would need to vote to choose no one essentially and then we would need to bring a new motion to resend the prior

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vote where we authorized the audit to begin with. >> Yeah. >> So that's how it would be done if one wanted to do it. >> Okay. Motion to call a question. Can we >> um Okay. We've

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>> or do we need to >> We've been through this calling the question before. I'm trying to remember. Um majority. >> We need a majority vote in order to call the question and then we would vote again on the actual substance of the motion. So, um all in favor of calling

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the question. >> I I >> I second. >> Oh, sorry. Yes. Sorry. Motion to call the question. Second from Mayor Dorger. Um I don't believe that it's discussable. Uh all in favor?

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>> I. >> Okay. So we are calling the question. The question is on the table now. Um we have the motion which is to uh basically contract with keys to literacy which has been motioned and seconded. Um

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and so a yes vote for that would then authorize us to do the audit. A no vote um then it says no, we're not going to contract with that particular vendor. uh and then we would have the table would be blank for us to bring a new motion.

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So, um, all in favor of moving forward with keys to literacy as our literacy audit vendor, say I. >> I. >> All against. Sorry. Sorry. Was that an I?

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>> Okay. So, we have two eyes. All against. >> Okay. Any abstensions? One abstension. So, we have three nos, two eyes, one abstension. That vote fails. Um, so now at this point we have not

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selected a vendor, but we still have the mandate for the audit. Is there a motion to resend the vote? >> I move that we resend the vote. >> Okay. Let's be more specific for our

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notes. I move that we rescend the vote to let me get the exact language to choose a vendor to provide a literacy audit for the district. >> Okay. Um so we have a motion. Is there a second?

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>> Second. >> All right. We have a motion and a second discussion. >> I am the person who has changed his mind on this topic. Um I my mind has been changed by the data basically. Um I was very encouraged by what I saw. Um and I

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have a feeling that uh much of the data that we would be receiving um from such an audit would overlap with data that we are already receiving from the assistant superintendent. Um uh and that is why I've changed my mind on this

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topic. All right. Thank you. So, we have a motion, we have a second, we have one item of discussion. Any other item? Any other points of discussion? All right. Seeing none, I put I say we move to a vote. Um,

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all in favor of rescending the prior vote to authorize a literacy audit. >> I >> I >> All against rescion. Okay. any uh abstensions.

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So we have three eyes for rescion, one no for rescion, two abstensions for recent. Um we will we have rescended the vote to do a literacy audit. Um and we are reserving the right to bring that

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back in the future if future data suggests that we should do so. Okay. So we have resolved that item. Thank you uh everyone. next discussion or next item of old business and I want to thank Kendra Rosa

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for staying on this call for so long um while we've gotten to this item is around electric vehicle charging stations. So where we sort of stand on this is we have had this plan we have had many opportunities to submit further discussions or questions uh to the

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proposed vendor uh about the plan um getting all of that met. We had had some discussion that emerged from uh the city side with Carol Collins, our our energy guru. Um and I think at this point we need to vote whether or not we are going

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to move forward with this this electric vehicle. Yes. Am I wrong about where we stand? >> Just Yeah, I would I would say yes. And it's not at all saying that we don't want to do this, but this does need to be at a minimum soliciting quotes.

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There's a state contract vehicle VH122 which this vendor is listed underneath that. So it's not at all saying that they would not be able to but that the process should be that we develop the scope of services of what it is that we

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are looking for go use the veh2 combis contract to solicit quote proposals from three vendors that are listed on that of which would be be one of them as well. I

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just think um again I want to say no mal intention at all. This seems to be the cart before the horse. Yeah. >> So that we need to develop what it is and with Miss Collins's expertise to be able to work with administration as to what it is that we are looking for. If you remember with some of the

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discussions we had regarding public use of the charging stations during school hours, some of the things that I know that questions were answered based on communications we had with Miss Collins. But as I said in the communications that I had with Miss Collins and the mayor

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and the superintendent, with all this heightened awareness concerning procurement, which I'm going to say is a good thing, uh the proper process would be a solicitation of quotes from vendors on the VHA VH122 contract with Miss Collins's input.

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>> Wonderful. then we are sort of at a place then where we need to even have a vote if we would like to authorize our administration to pursue that. Um do we want that? I think folks were generally kind of

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excited about the the idea of it when it was coming up but yes >> I move to author >> sorry my microphone turned off. I move to authorize the administration to solicit bids about or bids for electric

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or EV charging stations. I apologize for that poor wording and good luck making sense of it. >> Second. >> All right, we have a motion. We have a second discussion about that. >> Yes, >> I cannot tell you how wonderful and

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beneficial it will be for the EV owners of Franklin County to be able to use something other than Charge Point and Tesla. This will truly open the world for more EVs on our streets and that's better for our environment. And if you are an EV owner, you know exactly what I'm talking

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about and the frustrations that happen therein. So >> just to clarify, these wouldn't be on the streets. would be on school property for one and also um just to this now

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dovetales into the the responsibility of which department to conduct the bid because again this being with energy related um is this Miss Collins taking the lead she's done this before I have no problem doing it I'm just saying that

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you know this is where we have that uh sort of the two-headed responsibility as to which head should be responsible. >> I understand. I'm just so thankful that there will be possible competition. >> Okay. >> Yes. Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me

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me me member child. This something else I would like to see along with what the scope put out is I would like to see uh if not the direct emails from Miss Collins a summary of how the discussion with the city went just so that we'll be

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really informed when we see the bids. Okay. Um yeah, as far as who actually does this process, that's an excellent question. I think we're excited about the possibility of having them available to our staff or to people who come and

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attend events at our schools for one and we've got some good space for it and at the same time all of our all of our stuff is owned by the city anyway. Um and if the city has experience in soliciting these bids then I want to make sure that that's in taken into

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consideration. My wondering and my question and this would be for the mayor and for Andy. Do you all ever collaborate on this sort of thing? Is that a possibility or just like by the nature of the system, is that weird? Like literally with the paperwork?

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>> Yeah. Um, normally one would take the lead, but I mean we've collaborated before, but >> at the same time also I I say this with no ill will or anything, but I have had my wrist slapped when time came for doing some potential work for I'll bring up the Federal Street elevator when we

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first started here. um prior administration and the city when I was going to go out and solicit quotes for doing the work, I was told stay in your lane. So, and we've had that discussion with the mayor as far as and then Mr. Nimbercow regarding uh you know who's

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supposed to be doing what regarding those things. And that's why like when we had this discussion last time, I'm kind of a strict interpretationist of when it comes to the roles and responsibilities with capital being the city responsibility that they would take the lead on capital things operational

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side work would be done by the school by myself. This kind of falls somewhere in between. I'd be more than willing to work with Miss Collins. We were working on the energy recovery units when we got the the grant that uh you know so it's

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not you know not like we wouldn't. So >> great. Yes. Mel >> can you >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Um I know from lots of conversations that our parking

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lots in some schools are too small. that if we have family events, they're parked out and blocking streets. Um, so I understand if you're thinking the high school, the middle school parking lot. I

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mean, just going there in the middle of the day to go to a superintendent meeting, forget it. Um, you also have a helicopter that's, you know, going to come in. Um and the elementary school's parking lots are Federal Street has to

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use the church parking lots with their blessing if they have overflow. Um Newton's is too small. There's been a fight to get that one paved in the back for years and it's never made it. And Four Corners I don't believe has space

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as well. Um someone would need to look at what is available. The only one I can think of is the high school. M >> um because it's the newest parking lot and that I understand with children who also drive cars and also maybe putting

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vans there um and other vehicles, but I think putting them in parking lots that are already crowded um may be a problem. Mhm. >> And I also really there's questioning,

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you know, I guess I've lived in Greenfield too long. It's like when you want to put in a new playground, you have to go through the wreck department, you know. Um DPW takes care of the fields. Um it's like I I just don't want it to be another

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thing. It's not my job. like city side versus school side and everybody says it's not their job because if you're going to start to collect funds or something for this and I sort of heard that conversation I'm going oh who's going to do that and who's paying the

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person to do that and so I mean I think there's a lot to work out >> detail-wise I'm not ready to vote until those sort of details and talk about a hive activity that needs to follow us.

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Um once you put those in, I think that would just need to everybody needs to understand who's responsible for what. Um that's just my concern. >> Okay. >> It's just there's a history.

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>> Member Childs and then member Deniv. Yeah, I definitely hear you about parking lots, AAL in particular, no space, but I do think it does make sense at the high school, especially considering all of the town civic events that happen there. Um, but I think that

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would be under the scope that would be developed for bid solicitation. And in authorizing the admin to seek the bids, could that be the same as authorizing them to go to the city and

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work with the city on bids? And then if we don't like what we see, we don't have to go with it. and member Deniva and the mayor. >> I think this can only be a good thing for Greenfield. The chargers that are in the parking

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garage and behind the city hall are not always working and Greenfield charges the highest rate of electric charging of any town anywhere. It's absolutely upsetting. Um it's like three times the rate of Northampton. Like it's really over the top. Um, we can make money from

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this and I guarantee you at every family night there will be an adult with an electric vehicle that's there that will plug in and pay. So, I'm really curious as part of the bid process. I'd like to see an estimate of how much we could

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make per year on the chargers and also a bit of a plan of who turns them on and who turns them off because we can set our hours and our times and our rates. So, it doesn't mean that they're always on and always available and anybody can

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park there any time. I mean, there was a really wonderful one at GCC that they just turned off. So now no one can plug in there because they can choose to do that as part of their >> stewardship of the charger. So I'm kind of curious about what that process is

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like. But I think that if we charge a decent rate that's I'm sorry lower than the city, we could make quite a bit of money. And I'm wondering how where where would that money go? Like if if we're making that money, where does it go in

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the schools? And are we able to make use of it or or no? Andy's going like, "No, >> it would be general fund revenue for the city." >> Oh, okay. All right. So, this would be 100% city money on school property.

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That see that changes things for me considerably. It changes it for me uh considerably because um because as an EV user the rates that I'm charged to I'm to charge in the city are like astronomical. So

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I'm >> so not put them in the parking garage they don't >> like put more in the parking garage would be great if they worked. >> Why are we looking at the schools which there's not enough parking and I get

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that. But I'm just saying I never in all my years, I mean, and I've been asked to do some weird things as an administrator. >> I'm sorry. >> Thought I would be asking a superintendent and a business manager to look at something some, you know, I I

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just it's bad enough how much time we've spent on vans. Now I'm in a whole new like and I get like where you're coming from because the city needs this. Totally. I understand that and we all want like to do right by the

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environment. Um, so there are big parking lots in Greenfield. There's and if the things aren't working in those other parking lots, why aren't we saying to the mayor, here's this nice woman who's willing to give us quotes.

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Why doesn't she look at the parking garage? Is there a a discount to put these in schools? I mean, >> yeah, that's kind of my question because I know that they were talking about that there wouldn't be a >> city. >> I guess we I guess I'm saying to finish

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my thought, I need I want there to be nothing but electric charging stations all over the town. That can only help us. We all like we're all driving them. It's happening. Like, I'm sorry people maybe don't want it to happen, but it's happening. So, how can we do that at the

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most like economically fair rate that encourages that use and like uses the property correctly? So, I guess I just I need like more information and a I need like a cliffnotes of how this is going to go down, but I'm down for the

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electric charging because like that affects my life every day. >> Okay. Mayor, did you want So, two things. I see Carol Collins is on the meeting as well. >> Yes. >> Um I think that it would be and this whole idea about the Chargers, this

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actually came from the school committee this but we need more we definitely need more chargers and there's a huge push for the fast ones as well. So, um, you know, if you have any question about

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that, Carol's on if she wanted to take the lead on this, if you decided to do it. Um, Carol, they've said, "I don't know what our rates are compared to another to other municipalities." I've heard you say that. I don't have an electric vehicle, so I don't know. But

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first of all, we are looking at all the ones that aren't working that we have anything to do with. And then we call mass dot because the one at um the one behind the registry has been intermittent. So, but what I hear the

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most need for are the faster ones. That's the ones that people want and they're practically lining up to use that. So whether or not we decide to have them on school property or not, I think there's a problem with some of the parking lots like you said, but the high school might be wonderful.

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And if we do do that, um um I would think Carol does have a lot of experience with that. Um Carol, you're on. I don't want to put you on the spot or or actually I'll defer to the chair first. Right. So I think there's

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a few matters that we need to to address. One, um at least with the one proposal we've received so far, it was not for the fast chargers. So there's that. The second I have a question about the source of

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funding because essentially this came to us with the with the understanding that it was free like that we wouldn't actually be outlaying this no upfront maintenance like long-term that's us but like in terms of putting them in was that Andy do you know for schools in

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particular or is that like can the city also do that? The VH122 contract is for any municipal organization to use. >> So, it's not agnostic to schools. >> Okay. Um,

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this is sort of where we're running into who's on first and the school committee can't vote to authorize a city employee to do a thing. So, that's that's sort of we can ask our folks to do things, but we can't tell Carol Collins what to do. Um,

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I think that there is strong interest here from this body in seeing the city pursue this uh potential funding and these additional chargers and I think that there is even a willingness for certain of those charges to be located

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on school grounds because we think that there are some locations that would be ideal um for these charges. Yes. Yes. So may I make a recommendation for a course of action would be to reject this proposal and then direct as you're

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saying if you want to say administration to work with Carol Collins because Carol is has expressed interest and she's reached out to Kendron has had discussions with them. She's done this obviously before for with the city. Um it's her forte. So, I would say that it

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would be worthwhile for us to have a meeting meetings with her, she and I, to talk about next steps to explore and address some of the things that we're talking about to look at the schools. Does it make sense to just start with the high school first or what have you and look and see what it is that that

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would entail to work out logistics regarding uh I get worried when they say that it doesn't cost anything, you know? So it's a thing we're just to kind of make sure and that gets to again the point of letting and this is not speaking ill of anyone that's come forward. I know other vendors have come

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forward regarding other things regardless you know but there is a process there is a procurement process where uh using another school analogy is like we need to drive the bus on this. So to work with Carol where we would come up with the scope of service about

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exactly what it is that we are looking for for that we would put in the scope want the level two chargers fast you whatever you want to describe them as um certain number the capacity to turn them on and off what have you and all those types of things we would put in the

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scope of services and you know that way there we would make sure that we are getting exactly what it is that we want and again not saying that the proposal is wasn't going to give us what we want but as we're hearing now there are concerns concerns about parking capacity at some of the schools. So that would be my recommendation.

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>> Right. So the recommendation as heard is for the motioners to withdraw your motion and >> Oh, I figured I would amend it because the motion was to authorize them to seek bids. So instead, we'd be uh authorizing them to work with Carol Collins and the

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city on the scope and bids >> as a is that a close enough amendment to count as an amendment? >> Friendly amendment. >> So I think I want to add the language that the city is sort of the primary person

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and we're the collaborator. You see where I'm coming from? That we're not we're not asking two people who I kind of want to worry about like all those warrants and stuff that we're worried about thinking about electric chargers when to me they we have somebody at the city who this she does

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this. I mean why aren't we putting them at the fairgrounds and charging people there? I mean why aren't we putting them different places? So I'm just saying >> well I think the difficulty there is what chair sex brought up how we we don't have the authority to I get that but

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>> say that I don't think >> by naming Carol Collins you're saying that it like you're giving it over to the city to work on that. >> Yeah. >> So I accept the friendly amendments. So we sort of the the gist of the motion as I'm hearing it is is that we are

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authorizing our administration to be supportive in any capacity that you have to the city doing these chargers. >> Great. Second that. >> Yeah, we'll go with that. >> Yes, Nan.

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>> Thank you, Nan. The original motion I have as written was to authorize the administration to solicit posts for the EV charging stations and um and now the amendment would be to move. Okay. There's a move to amend the motion

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to >> Yes. that that we that we sort of authorize and direct our business and finance and superintendent to support the solicitation of bids. We will not take the lead. We will support.

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>> And I'm still the second and I've accepted the friendly amendment. >> Amazing. the business department to authorize the solicitation of bids? >> Nope. We authorized them to support the solicitation of bids. >> Nisha's going to kill us.

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>> No, she's just keeping us on track. She's doing great. the business department to support >> the authorization of solicitations. >> No, >> I think we cut that language out in the amendment. >> Yeah.

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>> The motion the business department to authorize the business department to support the >> solicitation of bids for electric vehicle chargers.

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>> I have an extra. >> All good. >> I will review this on the video just to make sure we got this. >> I bet I bet we're good. >> Okay. All right. So, that's the motion. That's the second. Any additional

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discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Seeing none, it passes unanimously. Thank you uh both Carol Collins and Kendra Rosa. Much appreciation. Thank you for the future

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work that you will do uh to support this work. Thank you. Okay. Wow. We did it. Um and now um we're going to vote to enter executive session pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 30A subsection 21A3

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to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on that bargaining or litigating position of the public body. And the chair so declares and I do uh the committee will not return to open session.

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So uh motion for executive session >> second. >> Great. All in favor? I >> I Great. Uh, >> but did we have to roll call vote? For example, >> we do have to roll call vote. You're so right. Member Goodwin, >> yes. >> Member Child, >> yes. >> Member Denine, yes. >> I'm a yes. Member Dyman,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Disorger, yes. Great. We are uh into executive session.