all right Good evening Hollston welcome to the uh April 10th uh 2025 meeting of the Holl School Committee uh we will dive right in at 7:00 we have our our budget hearing but that is an official uh
hearing so we need to wait till 7 to um proceed with it so we will uh work through the rest of the agenda first um so we'll start off with a report from our student representative tickets are being sold this week the class of 2027 is having a corner market
fundraiser on April 15th girls and boys track won yesterday against Norwood um DECA had a bake sale yesterday and they are going to Orlando for nationals on the 25th the Global Citizens program is going to Italy over April break high
school spring play tickets are on sale for May 1st 2nd and 3rd um for the play Clue um AP exams start May 1st the French exchange students come back at the end of April break or the students who went to France um performing arts
went on a field trip to Boston today um they went to open Boston Symphony rehearsal they tooured the Institute of Contemporary Art and they went to see the musical Shocked nhs seniors and juniors are writing letters to younger grades term four has just started and
seniors just applied to local scholarships great thank you thank you school committee individual comment frank Hillary for me joe sarah no cynthia no don no okay and I am good do we have
anyone from the public who wishes to speak thank you miss Ryan join me here good evening barber Ryan 14 replace just um wanted to highlight uh the PTO this
year is taking over the walk bike and roll event we've supported it with snacks in the past so we be bringing that forward to you but we have Dr michelle Porter and her daughter Chenade who is a sophomore in high school and with the the Leos and she is actually going to really spearhead this so we're
very happy um with that and this is the mom and daughter team of the last couple years have hosted the culture night highlight highlighting different heritage um in our Hollist community so they've stepped forward and we're working with them so we're very excited about that May 7th and we'll be putting
that out and we've con we had a call with the Massachusetts folks um Wednesday morning so we'll tie into the larger state effort so wanted to make you aware of that if you'd like to bike walk or roll with us um all grades are welcome and we have the support of the administration and each principal and
they'll push that out in the newsletter and then as far as scholarships the PTO scholarship is available for application and that's it thank you great thank you all right rolling right along to present the rules
um so our first uh order of old business uh is the Hollison High School schedule for 2025 2026 is there anything we want to do about that well we don't have to we have a vote on there but you know we could to go back
to the current schedule of this year yes now that we have a ratified schedule for 26 27 I think it makes sense so to remove the AB schedule roll back the of the AB schedule yeah in order to give
them an opportunity to to work on the schedule for the 26 27 school year i think it's important to note the schedules so the implications of the current schedules that have been put in place i think doc or Mr list laid out last week a majority of students had
already put in classes so I think it would be good to hear from administration i know Mr ellis isn't here like what the implications are by moving back to the block schedule for students that are already scheduled so I think that's why he had um extended the timeline to give kids another opportunity you know he he felt that
most of it should lay out pretty similar just because it was a variation of the current schedule but fully version but that's why he extended the timeline and kids are I think counselors are going to be communicating as well with students and you probably receive something didn't something go out to students yes so um I think we'll be fine and I mean
in exceptions we always we always change things after the fact you know you just want the bulk of it in because it's a lot of work if you have to do it manually but there's always an opportunity if a student misses something later on through an error through P school or otherwise that they can do that manually later as well but I
mean doesn't I think your words are important that not every student needs to run back and redo their schedule right most of them should be fine but the council will be looking at them with the students and students should feel free to ask questions in the meantime okay how how has that been received for
you just like the this kind of transition schedule process i think that most students are like happy that it's not the AV anymore i haven't really heard anything like crazy and no real concerns
about their schedules laying out incorrectly or anything in good okay so um given that any more discussion than we want we obviously uh did make a commitment to the to the community to uh roll back on the
AB um so I'll uh entertain a motion to um rescend our uh vote to implement an AB schedule uh for 2526 and to continue with the existing schedule moved by John
second all right all in favor it's official we are never going to see AB at least not next year and I just want to say I'm sorry about the confusion about all of the back and forth it's been really challenging for all of you and I just
want you to know that we we hear that thanks um all right um then next up is just a discussion of the leveling subcommittee um I don't know Hillary if you have an update or thoughts on membership i know you and Sarah have been working on that
with administration yep sarah and I are going to meet with um uh Ron and Karen and Jeriel on Monday and to talk about the membership and then think and um I think Ron is going to bring some um ideas on how to elicit
community engagement with Okay so we'll have an update at the next school committee meeting so we need two community members i guess is what we voted we I know we had one member former school member who's already volunteered um do you think next week I can put on the agenda like to vote on the
membership to sort of officially um form the committee I guess to then start being able to meet um I think we might need a little more time for members uh beyond next week and they need to get sworn in too
right right so that's why because I I there's still a couple months left in the school year and you know I think the hope was to have them start working this year before the certainly before the summer so um May 3rd May 1st let's put it on okay and if something changes you
we be in touch mhm um anyone else have any sort of thoughts about that okay um lastly I put on here um just to sort of a vote to kind of authorize the
uh the bargaining uh liaison working with the HFT on the uh on the high school schedule to kind of create we as part of the high school schedule agreement we agreed uh with the HFC to have a joint statement between the
um school committee um and the uh schedule subcommittee members both administration and and uh teachers in your folder i put the draft that I sort of have sent to um uh Jamie but that obviously is not
you know obviously they have not read it reviewed it had anything to say about it so I wanted to I wanted to share with you before we sort of authorized us to go forward what kind of we were thinking but it's this is by no means you know the uh the agreed upon
what's the file name of the drive the what what's the file name in the drive I know there are four five joint statement sorry start joint statement in the April 10th file got
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So since this would come out as a joint statement from the whole committee in addition to the the uh sub scheduled subcommittee you know if if everyone's is comfortable authorizing us to sort of finalize it
um once you're ready I'll entertain a motion to do that [Music] edit this document at all um I would prefer we don't edit it now because this is what I've sent if you have some sort of suggestions um we can I'm open to
just analyze this is what I sent to to to Jamie so I don't want to change that before getting any back from her is it more typo or yeah there's just word okay yeah [Music]
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matter so what do you want you've already sent it to them so what do you want us to do now it's nothing to reprove you've already sent it to them so it's just we're waiting to hear back from them before we submit something put something out crit is authorizing us to send it out you've already sent it to
them so send out to the community something to authorize you already sent it send out to the community but it's they haven't reviewed it over yet you just said did you just say the HFT hasn't looked at it they have not so it's not it's not authorizing it's authorizing us to to finalize it with them and then send it
to the community on behalf of the committee and the the other members of the of the members of the high school scheduling committee like will we see that copy before you send it out i can share it with you but it would not be editable no I know this isn't
editable either so I guess whatever goes out I feel like we should all be able to see and vote on before it goes out whatever it is right i'm not sure we did that last time right when we came to an agreement on um start
terms right and also the contract I think we had like it was Dr seard and I met with Right we're not we're not editing what we've already sent because you already sent it so we didn't give to you back in edit it
doesn't matter anymore so go ahead go ahead i guess unless there's material changes to it we could vote on like construct of this did the HFT say when they'd get back to you they just asked for me to provide a draft
um it is typically what we say look we can also do it so it just comes out from from Don Hillary and myself if if the full committee doesn't want it to come from from them i mean that's I think it's important it comes from the full committee but I I agree i just could we
punt it to next meeting when there may be an update i I would prefer to wait two weeks it's next week it's next week oh we have a meeting next week right but I I don't think this is a process where we can send it they can make changes and then we decide we don't
like their changes to the 17th and then go back and then wait until May 1st so I think we do have to have some trust in the subcommittee and but I think it's important comes from the committee otherwise yeah I agree is there anything that's not in here that you want to see or things that are
in here well it's just first time looking at it so I haven't had the chance to look at it before now so but my point is if you've already sent it then there's no there's no point any sharing anything else cuz there's no changes that can be made because you've
already sent it to them that's all my only comment is the last paragraph I would say now that it's been voted on and ratified making it clear the ownership with the plan the implementation falls on administration where it just say more
information specifying who that will be coming from well in conjunction with the teachers yes i thought we discussed um we can work something like that in as we just unsure who that where that
information will be coming from it's definitely not us yes we can we can work on that as we finalize and negotiate the statement all right so would anyone like to make the motion
i'll make a motion to approve the current draft uh subject to some edits based on HFT feedback second yeah okay all in favor okay any opposed
okay where is the agenda all right we've got 10 minutes so um I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda moved by Don second all in favor okay thank
you does the central office team have some updates for us i just was going to mention that I will be acting principal for the day at the high school on Monday and I have a student roundt on Tuesday so I'll be sending out something to the
students tomorrow to let them know that I will be there at 12 i'll be there Monday but also to meet with them for a round table on Tuesday dr if you haven't had a chance to check out the newsletter please do so for teaching and learning we have over 2,700
hits and we'd like to get to our normal over 3,000 so check it out uh excited next week on the 17th is the Rams Unified Basketball game versus police and fire for the town of Holl so uh if you're available this should be a
real burner so be up for that um this is kind of after uh ear last week was the staff and student uh basketball game as well uh the staff narrowly narrowly uh defeated the uh I hear defeated the students uh by a couple points and and
not to put you on the spot but since I didn't get it on the agenda and figure out would you would you mind updating the committee on sort of the your you suggest changes to the capital request um yes for the high school supplies correct yeah so uh David and I now now
that um we are not moving on schedule for next year um and originally on the uh spring capital request was a $48,300 uh capital request dependent on uh or
needed for uh year-long uh schedule for next year um there we David was able to look closely in the process of building out the 48,300 um we were also able to uh inventory existing supplies that were
out of commission as a result of them being broken so these are things that we already actively earn own for the most part um that we would benefit for them for to be in circulation for next year regardless uh but would be something for us to kind of repair and uh build the
safety around the equipment that we currently own uh and then um see what we need to add in FY27 but these would be the things that would benefit us next year um as uh but would be essential and necessary in FY27 and that uh that
number is uh 23,300 something 23,000 and change is um the difference on that predominantly that is um some of our safety equipment that we have um in our in our building um our uh we have some outofcomission um
microscopes that similar to in a couple years ago uh at the middle school um an investment was done to kind of repair um microscopes that were out of commission uh to get them back into circulation this is similarly microscopes again that
we own that need to be repaired and updated so that we can get them back into use um there along with just some of the basic safety equipment that when you're tight on the budget um and aren't looking to actively build uh capital in that area um typically just kind of puts
the side and you're you're getting by with the things you need in the current schedule we have but these are things that we own and they should be in working order so a lot of things are sort of moving quickly now with the budget and town side because the capital subcommittee the finance committee is meeting uh
we've not yet been invited to present in front of the select order for our capital requests but I would imagine at some point that will be coming um and so I'd like to vote on this at our next meeting um Dr jordan if you could share it out with the committee and if the committee has questions or sort of
concerns I could reach out to Dr jordan um over the next week with those um unless I I prefer not to schedule for budgets upcoming me for just this right not for just this we'll have one probably at some point um before May 1st or May 15th as we closer we have a
better idea of what the budget picture does anyone have objections to that no so just want to clarify so this is 23,300 whatever in change over what we had estimated i'm sorry it's instead of
so half of what we it's half of what we did we had 48,300 for ELA world language wellness and science materials because of the ABC schedule yes I understood that um and so now that we're not doing that for next year but we still have other in
doing inventory um I think they identified some needs within the science department that hadn't been met and that we would have to replace anyway and so that's part of the that's why is there I was just going to say is there a reason why we shouldn't like I'm wondering if doing that inventory where there are
other issues or other supplies that we do need so reducing that does that make sense like if there's Well this is the number we would have needed if we were doubling supplies if we were if we were going AB and we and going to the seven well I'm just saying like as we're looking to the following year but I
don't I don't think we have a good case to buy it ahead like a year ahead right i wasn't really looking at buying ahead but okay but so next May before we implement the new schedule in 2026
there'll be work done on whether or not request will be for that right i think ordinarily we we would have just pulled this but Dr jordan mentioned that during that process they had discovered already identified issues that we would have need to address regardless correct no I get that i'm just wondering if that have
is this a complete deep dive or is there anything that we're missing under the floorboards so to speak the capital picture of the town is also quite tight so I think that like they we had not received um a commitment to the 40 the 48,000 so I think that okay reducing it will right be a better presenting to
finance committee on Tuesday what what was we talked about today um and talking about capital too i mean as you know the rest of uh some of these other items are uh the Wi-Fi upgrade for example if we don't do this now then we
could lose the rebate that the town in terms of the prior prioritiz prioritizing yeah okay okay okay so um reach out to Dr jordan if you have any questions about um those numbers and we'll vote on it officially um but we may have to communicate it
before that so as a placeholder in any event um okay uh do we have any reports from our subcommittees uh communications policy um no meeting next have to schedule
meeting for next week or the following after um the break but I can talk about if that's of interest um so we met this week with Dr pasca she is going to submit her evidence to you know complete
her evidence um by the 18th we're supposed to get back to her by tomorrow if there's anything that we're looking for um which is April 18th and then we need comments from the committee you know rubric whatever filled out by May
2nd back to the subcommittee so that we can meet um and to be a able to vote on this on our meeting that's scheduled for the 15th of May that's pretty much it that's enough time going to have to make it work do you
have any meetings between the 2nd and the 15th then um we'll schedule one we have it scheduled okay okay um budget and like I mentioned before presented to um finance committee on Tuesday for the capital and the
operating budget and we said we would expect to go in front of the select soon we will schedule another budget meeting in early May okay anyone have any jokes no but what about where I mean any requests for items that you want to get added on to
the agenda in the coming weeks i I was thinking back to um the change in start times for the high school and also um we were at one point talking about an assessment of the high school parking lot we don't it's not on the agenda for
tonight but maybe for one of our meetings whether April 17th or May 1st if we could talk a little bit about that we were going to try and assess some efficiencies of getting cars and and staff out of the parking lot as we change the times but just something to put on the radar of the agenda that we could
agree yeah we haven't talked about start times in a little bit what have you learned we're not talking about start times we're talking about the Well start we're not start times are set but the implications the pro like we talked a lot about traffic flows early on have we learned anything new are there any updates there especially as we get
closer to the beginning of the year there's going to be shock and aw i think we need to just be prepared for that i think you know there's I mean not talking about a new thing which was a conversation in some of the the budget stuff and the capital meetings is one of the projects that was on the capital
improvement plan were some repairs to sidewalks and parking lots at the elementary school um part of a hold on that for through for through for through for through for through for through for through for through for through for through for through for through this year is the flag project as far as the revitalization reuse of that space along
with how we're using plan to use traffic flow um through that Lynen entrance um into the campus so I'd like to be able to monitor at least that first part of the year to see what kind of project we're really looking at cuz we may need
to right now it's a single lane road that we would do one way whether we need to expand it to two whether we need to add parking and that so that's that pro delay and being able to kind of monitor that um what that looks like for example linked to the start times would be
something that we would need to consider potentially for future capital projects and what's the communication plan i'm assuming we've either started or will be to parents for those schools impacted by the different traffic flow and what's expected of them yeah I mean we we start
um in spring uh here in the next month start to communicate what uh busing and transport that transportation piece will look like um Kim Ston who is uh works in the business office with me um who also oversees transportation uh you know
we're kind of in tandem looking at school choice right now we're looking at transportation we're looking at our our traffic patterns and have drafted some some communication um the first thing that we were aiming which we brought to the policy subcommittee and then to here was just kind of updating the policy
based off of um our bus our bus pickup so now we were able to kind of set our maps and our plans based around to new school committee policy yeah and in a future meeting not tonight but if there's plans assuming the first week or so we're going to need extra staff out there just pointing people in the right
direction um well you're welcome to deputize all of you to be out there first week of school well I I I will say Joe don't kill me but but I did drive that road yesterday it's pretty rough it's got
some natural speed bumps that's his good natural axle killers yeah um maybe you can reach out to Mr reese and Mr walker and if you do uh in one of the parting
conversations of Mr hearn uh and Mr walker uh part of our conversation is just kind of having some of the leftover filled to be able to kind of pave our big holes uh there before the start of the school year so I do have quotes that
I've try to see what we can kind of get to nearly free on um to have that okay so it's on your radar screen okay um when do we normally do school choices should we add it to either the 17th or the second so go over some of the things
coming up school ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch I think we done later i already checked from last year we really I put it down for May 15th i'm going to check with you on that just because we're still doing kindergarten enrollment okay so um we usually know early May and then May 15th makes sense
for that okay um right now on the existing schedule that we had on April 17th was supposed to be a special education year-end update but then I know you asked her to come in earlier in the year to do a a smaller presentation so I'm not sure if you still want that for April 17th or you rather it later or
if it's necessary from Jess um I I think maybe pushing that later in the year just so we can get the most up-to-date numbers as we sort of exit the year i thought so too so um I can move that and then um I think I'm going to be doing with Dean a data presentation at least a
smaller one um just and we could probably do one in August or September as well um for next week but we just started that today on the May 1st we are supposed to have RAM's peer leaders coming in we probably need to let them
know that and teaching and learning updates with our curriculum team and dyslexia action plan with Jess and um the dyslex dyslexia institute attendees I think it's Jamie and Jamie Slaney and Lisa Robert and Elsa
so that could be a time maybe that she gives you a a slight update do it the same night if you'd like May 1st as an update just on school choice that the school choice applications we close that next Um then we we look at then I then I'll
work with schools to identify the number of seats i'll look at enrollment in each of the grade levels and then speak with principles as far as the number of seats that we're looking at and then um then we bring that to school committee to vote on the number of seats and it's just a reminder process
that this is meant to cap off an individual class if a class is like 20 kids you could cap it off with three more kids and that would be the if you were to take the entire build your averages you can do that and you can create kind of cap off a class it's not
you can't add like 30 kids to a grade level um it's usually just a couple kids per grade to kind of cap off a class okay may 15th we have safe and supportive schools and equity steering update but I don't think they've really been meeting
this year just to challenge the schedules but I'll let Jerry all speak to that and the school choice numbers that May 29th is the district overall end of year goals with the principles just because we just presented in February so we really couldn't do that any sooner even though there's probably
data that is important um but we really do need that time to finish that up and with kindergarten registration closing about 8 days ago do we have an idea of what our numbers are so we do um and right now we're But the problem is I think there were 22 or 42 that didn't
36 from the sent census that didn't register of the 141 um that we had that's actually as expected so what we what uh Dr swany is doing we'll send mailers out to those 36 families i would
anticipate probably half of those we would get back but those who are not um not applying to either Monator or French immersion are typically those will wait till the last second or show up um so
you know we um should anticipate uh several more kindergarters from the numbers that we have um but based off of that census I would if we have 36 families from the census we're looking at probably half of those will actually register i think she actually did already reach out to them but basically just said "Please let us know if you're
planning on registering." And the ones that responded just said "Well we didn't need we didn't think we needed to register yet because we just want traditional right?" And we do have openings within French emergence so what I said to Jamie you may want to go back out and say if you're you know that because what I'd rather do is put the
spots in there rather than having to add another teacher to kindergarten when we do have openings it would make more sense to offer that as an opportunity if they're not aware of it so through school choice too though they do they can but but we wouldn't want to open those until we know our members of
kindergarten that's what's tricky about it reach out to those kindergarten families that already registered letting them know as well she has done that but I mean I certainly can ask her to do it again there's only 36 that didn't register so there's obviously a lot more that did and maybe they weren't even
aware of many i don't know the exact number but there was a very large turnout for the kindergarten registration when they go they do a whole presentation on all the options before they actually have to pick their choices for that and our um our school choice advertisement did include French
version as an option for those families um I need to work with the M to see what was labeled on that as far as the interest um but um our monastery our French immersion classes openings in there that those can be used with school
choice slots if we if we need to so so how many kids did have we already enrolled give me a second i'll try to pull that up i have to I'll have to find it if you want to move on and I'll come back we're going to do it i mean Okay uh just for you guys to know
because you haven't been part of it before when they do school choice for the high school so um it's just for all of the high school we don't do 9th 10th 11th 12th it's just for the high school because we have more availability to move students around between classes and
that so that's your jumps in my grade did you find the current one yes far one of us should be able to find it and have it up [Music]
no date you said that to us [Music] yeah I'm going to have to see if she can resend it cuz I'm not finding it right now okay we put in an update on that for our next uh meeting so um with that we are
past 7:00 so we will um go towards our to our budget hearing for the fiscal 26 um budget thank you i will entertain a motion to open the public hearing move by Don second all favor okay you're now
in our public hearing does anyone uh have any questions or comments about the the budget yeah Barbara did you any questions about the budget a meeting just from the perspective of what we
tried to do you don't have a time limit on this you can just come and chat now well no barbara Ryan 14 no you know trying to wrap my head around what we do i think I'm speaking from a PTO perspective that
that's acceptable to the the committee um when we were looking at um gee how we all fish from the same pond we have a lot of really generous people in our community we have a lot of organizations that asked parents and caregivers and
family members to donate here there and for things so we tiered our budget priorities as a PTO like things we don't want to give up about a third a third of like if we can raise the money it' be nice to do and then the other third was we should have no business doing like
annual programmatics like challenge day is one of those things that's becoming u incorporated into the high school and junior high right so there's there's things like that so we as an organization thought about that I did participate and I know you were open to
us coming back but then um that kind of went to the wayside and we were able to again raise a significant amount of money so we're looking good in a 12 to 36-month runway from a PTO perspective to be able to
support 75 to $85,000 worth of um don you know donations whether it's a teacher asking for 100 you know something that's reasonable and you all approve that um so we're confident there i'm still learning about the budget process i
guess as a as a Holliston community member certainly I think we're entering uncertain times and so like last week I know with the dismantling of the department of education which has trickle down effects with budgetary concerns thinking about that going into
this budget you know this budget cycle is going to uh town meeting but the outy years again hoping that we look at the most vulnerable communities which will likely be impacted first with funding cuts and then you start to take from the
rest of the community which creates a new vulnerability um so I guess that's more public comment of trying to understand you know just um the budget uh looking at enrollment how you know all those projections that
if you've done any kind of budgeting before right so um I think this committee is fortunate to have people who have sat on finance committee who have do budgets at their own jobs who you know manage their own home budget
but I think we all have to look into the future and and and really look and see how and where programmatics um have to sustain and then what needs what do you take from to pay for something i just think it's complex and complicated going
forward the next you know probably two to five years um and and always going to be you know money doesn't grow on trees so it's it's a y person's job to figure it out and it's a projection and you hope you hit it and so um I know in our
little piece of the puzzle um we've again had a very very generous contributions from this community in acts of kindness in volunteerism and in coin so I hope that's helpful um you know to our staff
and administration that really and our students benefit from that directly that generosity so those are more public comments um when I had to run budgets I usually I usually was on the end like tell me what I get to spend or I'd ask
you know I relied on really really good people to to you know balance books and um but you have to make hard calls and that's where it gets tough you know because the majority hopefully does okay but someone you you
want to lessen that impact for so that's all thank you so I'm glad we're able to contribute to the next couple of school years um healthfully so thank you the contributions of the PTO is greatly uh greatly appreciated from everyone so
um okay anyone have anything else is there anybody on Zoom is there anyone oh there we do have someone does anyone on Zoom wish to uh have any questions comments anything about uh the uh the budget okay see
none um anything from anyone else all right yeah I'd like to make the comment okay it's a positive one um what I wanted to say was that I feel like we're very fortunate to live here in Massachusetts as we weather this
storm i mean cherishing and valuing education in this in this state is part of our constitution cherishing public education the foundation of publication of public education is from Massachusetts so I want to lean very
heavily on our representatives um in our state that they will support us as we go through all of this i I feel like in other states we are not so fortunate they rely only on federal funding to fund their schools and we don't we have local and state funding that also back
us up so even concerns over like universal school meals i feel like we're going to figure it out because we value public education in the state and we're not going to go backwards on it so we're doing um No I totally agree and I think even taking it a step further we live in
a great state that's very supportive of education but our town is also incredibly supportive of education if you look across the Commonwealth and at many different towns and cities they are having budget issues still and they are having to lay off staff and cut programs and and things like that um we were for
very fortunate to receive the support of the of the voters uh through the override um and we've also been able to sort of meet our commitments without impacting students and without impacting you know jobs so um so I echo what you say and and you know add on that that
through the prudent fiscal management uh from our from administration and from our from our town we are also in a exceptionally good position even within an exceptionally good well positioned state have we received any updates from our state- elected officials in response to
the joint letter that was sent with the select board no nothing yet and when we did attend Dan and I attended the select board meeting President Spok was there you specifically asked her too about any state plans to cover for if there were
federal funding losses correct and basically they are very worried about Medicaid and Medicare and essentially as far as like school be the priority we basically we're told we were likely going to be on our own i did um
just we just received yesterday from um mass superintendent and MSC that title six we were districts have been asked to certify that they are not doing work with DEI um so we were told to pause and the de secretary of
education Patrick Tala who's the acting commissioner did send a letter certifying that we're Massachusetts has already certified their title six however tune in later you know we still don't know what the results of that will be or what further action may be asked for my understanding was yeah it was
just at the state level yes just at the state level right and and they they indicated that districts are not required to take any action at this time just so people out there are not so hopefully that means status quo for related grants or
anything related to that okay um so I think at this time we will uh unless there's anything else we will uh entertain a motion to close public hearing are we going to vote on our budget we we've already voted on it we're not
changing it right now no change anything so moved second all in favor okay the uh public hearing is now closed uh we have also run out of items on our agenda so see you next week see you see
you next week let me pass this meeting we do not have a meeting for executive session so I will simply entertain a motion to adjurnn the lights are moved by Cynthia second all in favor i need a second i second all in favor all right we stand a
journey thank you very much