[Music] this is just my own thoughts that um you know anything to do with like sports in town events in town that the school should be able to send that out without authorization of the school
committee i agree like it's like like if it's like Kingston lacrosse or silver like football celebrating that shouldn't be something that we're going to I mean I would assume that we would approve it to get it out to the kids right no and I mean my and so understanding kind of where the pain point was for Ellen which
is waiting till we can approve it and she said it used to be that way i don't actually know when the policy changed do you know Jill or was it before your time um it was before my time and it may have just been the practice versus people following the policy yeah I can't I would have to go back and look to to get
the history on that um what what we can do is you can either vote to approve KHB and KHC which would only make um school events and flyers possible to be able to be sent
out not approve it if you don't approve it and you want to make changes to the current policy we can bring back a version that reflects what you spoke about today but we would have to go back and make those uh changes adjustments of the policy okay i like your idea Lauren
giving the autonomy back to the principal so that things are done timely um but I would add that I would prefer everything to be electronic through parent square rather than printed and handed out by our teachers one we're
going to reduce resources on our copy machines or whatever i was going to say she doesn't copy anything if they want it to be paper they have to provide it even still passing out the papers does take time and nine nine times out of 10 our custodians are probably picking them
up off the floor so we are probably going to have better communication with the families through parent square so if if the organization can just provide a digital copy and it's sent out that way yeah I don't have a problem with that at all i would also prefer that there be a
disclaimer from the school on there saying that we don't support or endorse any programs that way if there's a situation where um god forbid there's abuse or anything like that at one of these organizations it's not tied back
to the school we can ask we can ask legal counsel if that's possible and what that would look like i think the only time that we've had questions about flyers that have come in front of us is if they were presented by a business so there I can't
remember national one of those but that was the only one I ever remember us having concerns with and it was because it was a business so it was just like I feel like it didn't pertain to the kids really but yeah no I mean I I feel like
if it's from a forprofit business it should still come to the school committee but if it's an in town sports event activity then I think it can be at the principal's discretion as long as it follows our other policies mhm
um so this I mean so you don't need a motion if on those two if you want to remain the same and just have me bring it back okay so we don't need to make a on KHB and KHC if you're not going to motion to approve them so we Okay okay so we don't need to do anything with
those no we can just bring those back we don't need a motion to bring it back no okay you can just ask me to bring it back will you bring it back okay thank you um and then now the other policies um if someone wants to make a vote
to wave the actual reading of those policies and approve them on a single read um we could do that does anyone I don't know the policies in front of me do you need me to read them all um is it do you have I'll make a motion i'll make a
motion to vote to wave actual reading of policies J I CFB JK AAA and ACE and vote to approve in a single read per policy BTB policies JFB JKA and ACE second okay
um all in favor yes i Okay um so my understanding is these are updates that we needed to make in order to be compliant it's language that we needed to be compliant and I know I was in the policy
meeting where we discussed it and it made sense to me so I don't know if there's any discussion or if we want to just voted to approve it oh we just Okay never mind we're done okay I
Okay great perfect all right all right so now um approval of build schedule this light my computer just flashed on me our meetings are out of sync with the warrant cycle there was a warrant that was due to the town on April 7th that went out as a single
signature warrant it was for 342,99658 the next warrant is due to the town on May 5th which will also be a single signature warrant perfect thank you um school committee correspondents and reports i don't have any new business
not aware of any we already we'll do uh subcommittees now we already went through the policy negotiations um we've had meetings with the HTA and also the custodians and are in process of that so um Pilgrim Area Collaborative so they
did meet i unfortunately wasn't able to get to the meeting so I don't have any updates for you at this time okay youth and Wreck Katie yep so um an Easter egg hunt was held last Saturday 300 children attended over 4,000 eggs were found and
thanks to Bob Clancy for his support the gym floor will be completed 421 a fifth grade sixth grade dance for May is in the works and they're also currently working on summer programs and there's more information to come on that
great thank you pto our rep is not here capital budget didn't meet admin review um we have a meeting in the books but um that's it okay uh DIB subcommittee
did not meet okay union 31 did have a meeting and we went over data for all of our test results for all the elementary schools and also well no they did the middle and high school as well y okay and next week and next week how
about next next meeting we will have um uh more data as it relates to Halifax Elementary School specifically we didn't go deep into the individual school data we're going to do that at each of the the um school committee meetings at the end of the year okay
um our principal is sick and Christiey's not here so no update this evening no update okay um Sarah so when I go through the financial report that I put in your digital folder
I go through and I make note of everything on there and then I highlight anything that is new for that I didn't talk to you about last time seeking permission to just talk about the new things sure so on page two of the financial report
that you will see that there's a school adjustment counselor uh there's a school adjustment counselor lines um 2710 and those are over budget that's two reasons for that one is I've moved
the school adjustment counselor out of the special ed lines where it was inappropriately put and moved it into guidance where it belongs because the school adjustment counselors are for all students and then if you recall we had a school adjustment counselor position
that was reduced from 1.0 out to.5 last year and that person chose not to stay here and principal Bodri was unable to find somebody to come in and take a.5 position and so we have had uh contracted services you so you'll see
two lines for the school adjustment counselors also on page two of gas and electric so you'll notice with the gas and electric bills it looks like they're overspent by huge amounts and I wanted to point out that that is actually
inaccurate and then what is what has happened is when we um start out on the year the accounts payable clerk encumbers money so we know we're going to spend x amount of money on electric
bills so she sets aside that amount of money for the electric bills that happened and then uh the town manager reached out to us he had negotiated a purchasing agreement basically Brockton overs subscribed to net metering credits
and town manager Hadad negotiated purchasing from them for 80 cents on the dollar so um we are actually paying less for electricity than we would be and we just need to clean up the old incumbrance in the system that's good
yeah and then on can I ask a quick question about the um school adjustment counselor so that's a position that's been vacant all year and we're filling it with two contracted services is that correct yes so we will next year also
have a 0.5 wreck for that position cuz we didn't change anything correct how likely is it that we're going to be able to find a.5 or we going to continue to use contracted services i know crystal ball time right crystal ball crystal
ball and my good friend uh from HR is not here yes so um Yeah i'm just concerned about how much that will increase what we budgeted for if we don't have I thought that we also voted that we were going to take a
different certification which might be easier to fill the position with i want to say that was like two or three meetings ago was that for speech or that was No it was for also for this and back to BCBA
yes we went from BCBA to some other certification i forget now um but I'm wondering if the position has been reposted with the new certification requirement i can ask um when was the last time we reposted because this is
the prime time to find someone mhm and also does does any do any of the other schools they have full time um so we can't like share with another school with like LinkedIn or something not that I'm aware of okay i just thought someone
asked for a reduction in their hours which I'm not aware of but I don't believe so okay i just trying to think sorry i just hear contracted services and yes assume it's really expensive let's just thing I have
been keeping track of so we had a certain amount of money budgeted for the salary of the 0.5 um behaviorist and I'm sorry school adjustment counselor and I um met with principal Bodri and said this is how much you had set aside this
is how much you spent to date this is how much you have for the rest of the year okay so okay when that money runs out then I guess he would need to come here and ask for additional funds for that okay um on page three the special
ed so as I as you've heard me say every month there's a lot of moving parts with special ed and the special ed bookkeeper maintains a separate spreadsheet which tracks the special ed contracted services tuitions and transportation um those expenses and then the those are
paid out the operating budget the circuit breaker account and the 240 grant funds her up her spreadsheet which was updated for this meeting shows an overall surplus in these accounts for which we have allocated $200,000 of the circuit breaker money to be held for the
FY25 circuit breaker to be held to offset the FY26 budget and as far and for grants and donations we have no new grants and donations at this time and that concludes my report
okay great dr clifford okay um the first piece is on April 10th there was a progress report update on the strategy for district improvement the joint school committee we updated them on the strategy for district improvement and also gained an overview of K through6
curriculum um a data assessment data and also 7 through 12 data which as Dr f said we'll do more of a specific uh presentation to the Halifax school committee coming up at the last um meeting this year um in uh as far as
math is concerned um tomorrow we have our last core program review team meeting and at that meeting we will um discuss the final tallies on the rubric which all of the members of our committee filled out on two of the um
curriculums that we reviewed HMH and I ready and so we will know the results of that and um I will present more information on that decision when we meet for our last time here as a school committee um but we'll also be working soon to
create um an implementation plan which will be an activity timeline of how the curriculum will actually be implemented which is just as important if not more than the actual selection of the curriculum so I'll have more information on that um and
um professional development this is really particular in for for the Silver Lake Regional High School as far as co-eing at the grade um 9 and 10 level but we'll be working with the consultant to really focus in on strengthening our co-eing um abilities at the at the high
school in particular and last but not least we have a search committee that has been working last week on the director of special ed position and we'll be interviewing um finalists this week and for the Halifax Elementary
School we have convened a committee we met today for an hour lauren was part of that committee and we were able to go over the guidelines and the questions and we have interviews set up Wednesday uh night and Thursday night and then
after that um we're hopeful to recommend to at least two finalists to Dr approve but on the 28th and 29th we would like to bring each one of the candidates to Halifax Elementary School to meet with students to meet with administrative team to meet with families to meet with
faculty and staff and kind of spend time here roughly like 1 to 5 on those two days there'll be an ability for people to provide feedback i'll be here for both of those times with the candidate and and collecting um I think written feedback is what we'll ask people to do when they come and um you know watch the
or talk to the candidates and then after that um the candidates will be interviewed with Dr crew and so um information will be coming out from the office here i've been working with Ellen on making sure that families are aware we just we'll send out that information
make sure everybody knows so that's what's happening right now in that process and that's everything I have thank you is there a way for us to view HMH and I ready we have the ability to review those curriculums ourselves yep you can go on Desessie's website on
curate math and you look at programs that are K through five meets all the way across you'll see HMH at IRA that's probably the best place to really look look at that what they've got there okay and then are we keeping or are we getting rid of that yep l will stay will
stay okay yep thank you all right Dr cruz okay i have two items well uh two flyers and um then a possible budget discussion so the first is a flyer from Southshore Savers this is for profit there is a
registration fee of $150 um we're asking whether or not the school committee would like that to be distributed to parents electronic um I'm concerned because they're for profit and I I know that's and I I mean
that's it's getting it's getting kids active at the same time and it's so close i know but I I I just don't like the fact that it's for profit and we have we do have football that are that is offered what is I'm sorry what is it sorry tackle football it's a travel tackle
football the second one is the Southshore Music and Arts uh collaborative summer program so um there is a fee with this but it is a collaborative it is an organization um and again I so while it is
um not the same kind of uh program for profit there is a fee associated with uh programs so again uh if you're Well I mean the registration fee for this I don't think What is How much is
the registration fee for Silver Lake Youth Football i'm pretty sure it's around the same silver Lake Youth Football is a for-profit organization it's not actually Silver Lake right i don't hate this if I'm being honest i don't mind I wouldn't mind having this electronically be sent i don't want papers
but I don't hate this i I I like both if I'm being honest i would vote yes on both just to keep our kids active i think there's the more ways we can get parents in the know i know that there's Google and all those things but keeping the parents in the know it's hard to find this stuff my kids play football
and I've never heard of this so that's just my opinion so I'm very conflicted on this um cuz I don't love that it's I I hear what you're saying Jessica um but I don't love that it's like a forprofit um I also know when I was a parent there
were times when I asked um at the middle school level for us to share flyers for a particular summer camp called PCC which is an incredible program that program no longer exists anymore because of low enrollment largely because they couldn't get information out to schools
so I hear what you're saying about wanting to get kids the information yeah um but you know I think this is a slippery slope like when you let one in then it's you know well you let that one do it you can't you know so I am very
conflicted i I don't know i feel like there's other ways that they can get that information so for me I think it's a no cuz I again I just I feel like we are opening up a can of worms that um is going to be
difficult for us i feel like we need to create some more guidelines because while I agree that both of these are worthwhile organizations for our
kids to be involved in I just want there to be cons some consistency with how we're deciding and right now I don't feel as though we have an agreement on on guidelines well one thing too that I think too is both of
these are outside of our school district and I think of equity and people's ability to get places and pay for them and while I I mean I think of Silver Lake youth football as more like Halifax's youth soccer and things like
that and which um is community building like I think Silver Lake Youth Football is helpful for kids going to middle school but I worry about and again like I'm not I think both of those programs are fine and
wonderful but I agree and I would kind of rather stick to things that are in our district to sort of limit what we do allow and especially since those Well I don't know if the music one is out for profit or Well it appears that they're
charging to at least cover the cost of the programming okay well and it's hard to know because we don't know what their you know tax status is right right this says right here they're about us as Southshore Sabers Youth Football Inc exists to function exclusively for
charitable purposes to provide recreational sports activities for ages 5 to 13 youth of Lakeville and surrounding areas the programs seek to provide opportunities that promote skill development sportsmanship and positive self-growth all programs promote volunteerism community and parental
involvement in the activities that are economically feasible and realistic for all families so I'm just going to play devil's advocate a little bit i mean all that sounds good but like if the local karate place which is a for-profit said "We're having summer sessions and can you please advertise this?" Like again that
g that gives kids great values but they're for-profit business i don't know that I'm comfortable with that and I feel like we're endorsing for-profit businesses which is not the role of the school it's not just providing information when it comes from the school it can be seen as an endorsement
i agree i I agree which kind of brings me back to the disclaimer that I was hoping that we can add so that one it does show that we're not endorsing any one particular organization for a multitude of
reasons but liability for certain you could ask them to provide their tax filing status it's true but it also goes back to I'm trying not to create more work for our admin so like it's like we're trying to balance all these things you
know two pieces of paper okay no I mean that I think that's fair that I would like to know their tax status because I am not comfortable endorsing for-profit organizations i almost you know no matter how great what
they're doing is I don't think as a school we should especially you don't know if they offer SC like I just think you know again there's transportation concerns there's um financial concerns that I you know but
anyway sorry so what I was going to ask is and I'm forgive me I'm a old softball mom and my memory's gone but do things like um the Halifax Hurricanes or like the All-Star teams that Halifax does during the the summer months do they get
school support and sending out like "Hey we're having triyouts." Or is that all done kind of like at a rec down league level i know basketball does recreation tends to come through the school right the difficult part and and I would
discourage be quite frankly any forprofits because sometimes you have individuals who live in town but they're making a pro profit off of particular camps it becomes very difficult to say yes to some and no to others and consider when something that you don't
necessarily endorse or you find controversial asks for the same opportunity so those are the things you have to consider when you say yes yeah i mean that's it it's it's the consistency
piece that can get challenging but I'm just trying to like again like I know there's a basketball league and then there's you know that are allstar leagues they're not or travel teams like to my recollection I don't remember stuff like that coming through the
school that was usually like "Hey at the last meeting just so you know this is triyouts for the Allstar or the travel team or whatever." It was that community of players that were playing in town found the information up that way it was
more targeted um so I don't know i again I also worry about traveling the message gets messy for me when it comes from the school i think we should definitely support any activity we can for our kids
however for consistency perhaps they fill out an application that goes with whatever flyer so we have more information are you a 50c3 organization um when is your event
who is invited to this event um like just getting some more background information other than just a flyer because if this organization was here we could ask them these questions and have an answer today but since they're not here we really don't have a
whole lot to go off of other than any research we do on Google really quick or our own personal background on these organizations one of the policies rewritten to um only include things in Kingston Halifax Plimpmpton then that
would also naturally limit right the um ones that are brought for consideration which I think is fair to do i think it's fair to limit to Kingston Halifax Flinton mhm
you know just because I I think I agree but but to Lor's point we could have many organizations with or business oh no nonprofit i mean sorry nonprofit i mean like you know thank you for the clarity no no I'm sorry yeah no I meant
definitely nonprofit Halifax based yes which sort of parameter that I hope we can get into a new policy that would you know it's community building that's you know that's in my opinion it's good for
the kids it's community building and it sort of makes a nice line so that we're not having to have entertain you know if you're not in Kingston Plton or Halifax it can easily just say "I'm sorry we only share things in our community that are for nonprofits." Like I think that's
a personally I think that's a good line to have okay all right so the next meeting we will bring back revised guidance do we need to make a motion on this or since we're not doing anything we don't have to do anything you don't have to do anything okay all right um Oh yeah and
then if these organizations are listening I mean there's always Facebook post it and share it great so then the next item is here if in fact it is the will of the committee to reconsider the budget vote in light of um the board of
selectman meeting um where it is my understanding that they approved or they recommended a budget that was approximately 32,000 uh less than what um the school committee had approved so um this is here just in case the school committee
wanted to revisit um prior to the town meeting and that being that if we revisit it it will hopefully make town meeting be more streamlined so that we can more easily get our school budget passed which is in
so much better shape than it was so so my question is is where are we pulling this 32,000 from any recommendation from administration yes yes the salary line there was one
teacher that was part of the three teachers the um the retirement was uh a teacher who had a salary who was considerably higher than the 70,000 we were so we had said three teachers
$70,210,000 so it would be no additional cuts over what we already did okay is that a win did we just win again yes we just won we did so if we were to amend which I would be nice for town meeting because we're
still going to need the support of the town because they are using free cash to cover the difference um well and if it doesn't pass an override of what so we'd be asking for an override of $32,000 and if it doesn't pass then you lose it all correct no we're not asking for an
override at all we wouldn't but what if we don't say this oh if we don't it would probably have to be amended on the town hall floor and it would just it would make it messy okay so I Well I guess I mean unless there I
I'll make a motion and we can have more discussion but just read all of it okay i will make a motion to move that Halifax School Committee approve $7,615,813 as the fiscal 2026 local education budget operating budget and
further that the total appropriation of 7,615,813 is in compliance with the Education Reform Act of 1993 and is recommended by the Superintendent of Schools and further the school committee directs the superintendent to allocate the following additional funding sources which total
$387,576 fy26 anticipated circuit breaker special education reimbursement of 132,75 fy2 circuit breaker carryover of $200,000 and anticipated FY26 grant
revolving account funding totaling $54,871 the final approved expenditures for the schools will be 8 million $3,389 second okay any discussion we just have it right mhm yeah i just Okay um I'll do a roll call vote for
this one um Katie yes lori yes jessica yes and I'm a yes as well and thank you to the board of selectmen and the fincom and everybody else that helped us figure it out without an override great sarah and Sarah and Sarah big time who never
slept still isn't sleeping sarah will you will you be sending the new number to the town yes okay thank you and we still need to encourage people to support the school budget and to come to town meeting yes please yes and their
lawmakers because we're going to be in the same spot next year i've been meeting I've gone to a few things with lawmakers to plead for a change in the amount of chapter 70 funding per student and doing the best we can and we're not the only school like it's comforting but
also frustrating that we're not the only ones in this um situation but still hopefully we're heard and things hopefully can be better next year so um all right so I will The next dates
are April 18th this Friday no school for Good Friday April 21st or 25th the school vacation our next meeting is May 12th um is that Are we having a meeting before the town meeting or is that just because we'll be at town meeting i believe we do that because we're going
to be at town and we might have a open meeting okay so we're not having a meeting here for because we don't need to because we No sometimes we in the past we've done it as like a little buffer in case something had to be you know fixed before we get there but at
this point we have nothing great so it's just there to protect us no no we're ready we're prepared i know the way it was said hello in the best possible way exactly we're prepared we're prepared all right um
I'll take a motion to adjurnn as moved thank you and all in favor i all right have a good night everyone you too [Music]