[Music] Seeing 601 like to start the Freetown Lakeville Regional School Committee meeting for November 12th, 2025. Um, first item on the agenda, we will go into executive session um to return.
We'll need a roll call for that. Um, Miss Rodericks, please. >> Steve Sylvia, >> yes. >> Bob Clark, >> yes. >> Carolina Hernandez, >> yes. >> Courtney Brightman, >> yes. Tim Emory. >> Yes. >> And we will return to uh formal session immediately following executive session.
Should not be long. >> You have to say the purpose. >> You have to say the purpose. >> The purpose of the executive session is reason number two. Strategy with respect to non-UN negotiations are to conduct collective bargaining session with non-U
non-UN personnel, excuse me, for interim superintendent. Thank you. I'd like to call to order the Freetown Lakeville Regional School Committee meeting for November 12th, 2025. The time is 6:28.
Um, first item of business is pledge allegiance. Please join me in pledging allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Is anyone recording tonight's meeting? Seeing none, we have agenda item number four, public input. Speakers will be asked to introduce
themselves first and last name to the chair and state their residents. Request for public comment can be emailed in advance to the chair. When called by the chair, the speaker is invited to address the school committee for up to three minutes to present their material. Public comment shall be limited to items
that are within the school committee's authority. The full policy link is on the FLRS SD website. Is anyone here for public participation? Seeing none, agenda item number five,
reports and presentations. Chairperson's report. Um, unfortunately, Miss Blum is absent tonight. Um, so I've taken on the responsibilities. Um, procedurally, I have to read a resignation letter dated October 21st,
2025. This is sort of a repeat but requires a vote that we will do as an action item at the end of the meeting. Dear residents of Lakeville and Madame Chair Blum, due to ongoing family work and school obligations, I'm resigning from the Freetown Lakeville Regional
School Committee. Effective immediately, my children no longer attend the Freetown Lakeville Regional School District and due to many scheduling conflicts, I am not as effective as I would like to be as a school committee member. Best Crystal L. No.
>> Move to accept. >> Second. >> It's at the end of the meeting. >> Yeah, that that will be an action item vote at the end of the meeting. >> Okay. [Music] >> Uh B, student representative report.
>> Good evening everyone. The past couple of months have been extremely eventful here at Aponquip. We welcome the incoming eighth graders when they came to their eighth grade orientation here. Members of the Akushnet community also visited as well as many of the clubs
here at Aponquit hosted various events. This past weekend, the Aonoquit players hosted members of the community for their fall play. The play had a great turnout, made a lot of money selling raffle tickets and t-shirts. The robotics club is growing fast. The club
started with only two members and now has a consistent attendance of nine or more students. They are exploring possible fundraising opportunities to raise money for competitive enhancements for the robots, the new VEX robotics competition game kit, entry fees, and
buses for future competitions. Students have expressed interest in hosting local schools at ARHS to compete in these VR VRC games and building obstacle courses for their robots. Everything is an
exploration phase at the as the club tries to align their needs with their goals, but they are making good progress and of course building Robins. I am excited to welcome our second student representative, Molly McCarthy, who is able to join us now that her
volleyball season is over. Without further ado, I will let Molly take over. >> Hi, I'm Molly McCarthy. It is an honor to be here with you guys tonight and it is a pleasure to represent a Ponogit student body. As Cam mentioned before, I am on the volleyball team and I am in
the senior class. Um, additionally to volleyball, I am in student government where I am the class's vice president. I'm also a member of student council. I do DECA, Laker Leaders, and our newly founded club, OSA. Um, to keep you guys
some updated on some AONUT happenings. On Monday, the unified basketball team ended their successful season with their end of season jamberee at Dartmouth High School. The winter sports season kicks off right after Thanksgiving break on December 1st.
Our winter teams will also be hosting theirformational meetings in the upcoming weeks for returning and new players alike. DECA will also kick off their competitive season at the district conference on Cape Cod at the beginning of January.
This week, students of Aponoquit are gearing up for homecoming, which takes place this Friday at Venus Demo in Swansea. In preparation, this week was spirit week where students wore PJs on Monday and brought a stuffed animal. Um,
anything but a backpack day today and to raise money for a local charity. And we have wig day and also class color. Student council will be running the pep rally on Friday. Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Molly. Welcome. And
and great job and thank you, Cam, as always. >> Great job. Right. Now, we move to 5C, the interim superintendence report. >> All right. And I am going to very quickly turn our spotlight over to Principal Sullivan, who is here to uh
announce some very special people from Grace, who are here to give you a presentation this evening. >> Hello. Um, thank you for having the intermediate school here tonight to spotlight. Um we are are very excited to share some beautiful artwork created by some of our remarkable students in Mrs.
Bosano's art class. Intermediate school uh school students see the art teacher on a 4-day rotation. So Mrs. Bosano and her three special subject colleagues um teach every child in fourth and fifth grade. Um I want to emphasize how important the art program is to our
school community. For some of our students, our class is the highlight of their day. It's what gets them excited to come to school. I personally have seen countless students over the years who struggle in other areas, but you get them in the art room and put a paintbrush in their hand or a lump of clay and they absolutely light up. So,
I'd like to introduce Mrs. Bosano and seven of our young artists. So, they have some beautiful work to share with you. [Applause] Right right behind you. >> I was getting tripped on the territory.
[Music] It didn't work. >> Hi I'm Mrs. Bosano. I have been teaching art at the intermediate school for almost 18 years now. Um, thank you for the opportunity to highlight the art
program at Grace. Most people know the benefits of our education. If not, you can do a quick little Google search and find out that it improves academic performance. It boosts problem solving and critical thinking skills. It improves hand eye coordination and fine
motor skills. It helps develop emotional intelligence, increases empathy, tolerance, helps develop cognitive function, enhances memory retention and greater attention to detail. It fosters creativity and imagination. It increases
cultural awareness and it improves school engagement. Pretty awesome. Um, I wanted to touch on the last point specifically though. Uh, I think specials are really important for children of all ages, K through 12. They
give um many of our students motivation to come to school every day. Uh when students come to school, it obviously leads to better attendance, better academic performance, and increased confidence and self-esteem. It can transform school from a chore into
something fun that they want to participate in. It fosters motivation and curiosity that extends beyond graduation into their adult lives and careers. So with that, I would love to give my create some of my creative
students an opportunity to say a little something about why they like making art and why they like coming to art. Hello. >> Hi, Jordan. >> Hi, Jordan. >> My name is Jordan Gallagher. I am a
fifth grader at grade and I'm a Free Lake staff kid. My favorite special is art. Mrs. B is a creative and calming teacher. Mrs. B makes sure that my friends and I can always do the art project. >> Mrs. B always lets me visit during the
day. Even if I'm having a long day, going to visit her makes me happy. >> I love that. Thank you for your time. [Music] >> Goodbye. >> Thank you, Jordan.
>> Jordan definitely gets the uh the art room vibe. She comes to visit me multiple times a day just because the art room is so awesome. >> All right, Claire, would you like to start us out?
>> Hi, my name is Cla Dari. I'm in the fifth grade. Some things we do in art I can't do at home, so I value my art time. Hi, my name's Alia Capalino. I'm in fifth grade. I like art because it expresses my feelings in a way words.
>> Hi, my name is Logan and I love art and she Mrs. Bossil is so um a really nice teacher. She helps me when I'm having trouble and it's really fun. >> My name's Bridget Paul and I'm in fourth
grade and I love art because it helps me be more creative. >> Hi, I'm Gavin Duza. I love art because it's very stressfree so I can just have fun. [Applause] Hi, my name is Kirk Gine. I love art
because it lets me express all of my creativity and I never have have to be worried about if I'm doing anything right or wrong. [Applause] >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you. Thank you. Do you think we could get a picture of
everybody together holding up their art? >> Yeah. >> Just before you leave. Where's Jordan? >> Jordan, come back. >> How about if you hold that artwork up nice and high so that everybody can see it? >> Oh, look at that. >> Here comes Jordan. >> Here comes Jordan. She's going to join you.
>> And while you're getting ready, thank you for your creativity and your communication skills are outstanding. Great job. >> There we go. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Good job. Anybody have questions for our students before
they go? >> Questions, comments? >> They were great. >> Outstanding. >> All right. Awesome. >> Agreed. >> Thank you very much for being here tonight. You're you're welcome to head out this evening. We know you have other obligations or you're heading home to make a bedtime even.
>> So, thank you very much for being here. If we're moving on in the agenda. >> Yes. >> Uh our next item of business is a DECA overnight out ofstate field trip request. You might remember last month we we had several of those. These are two additions. Uh one is for the DECA sports and entertainment marketing
conference in Orlando, Florida from January 28th through February 1st. And the second one is to the Deca Providence Bruins night in Providence, Rhode Island. Details are in your packet, but we'll be looking for a vote to approve both of those this evening. >> Right at the end of
>> Yep. Any questions? Okay, moving right along. Uh we have a donation uh request looking for you to accept an acoustic guitar and several sets of golf clubs that have been deemed to be very useful for both our music and
uh athletic departments and I'm imagining maybe even the golf team. So, we'll be looking for you to accept those donations tonight. I just should say out loud publicly, we often accept donations from the community, but we do vet the equipment before it comes in. So, these pieces have been looked at by uh our
music teachers at the high school and uh and by our athletic department. >> I'd like to assign our our student representative, Mr. Poria, to assess the golf >> the golf equipment. Right. >> Okay. >> Any questions? >> All right. There are no questions. We'll
move right along. Uh it's my pleasure tonight uh to announce that because we received uh recognition for our progress in math MCCAST scores from grades 3 through 8. Um our principal Michael Ward and several teachers, Mrs. Fzone, Mrs.
Ree, and Mrs. Pelleteer will be representing the district at a Desi sponsored conference. Uh quite an honor for them to be able to attend and collaborate with other teachers uh and other administrators about successes for MCCAST. So, really excited to be able to send them to that day. Um, and I think
Terry's going to talk to you a little bit more about MCCAST later on in the presentation, but shout out to Principal Ward and the teachers who he'll be bringing to represent us. >> Great job. Outstanding. >> Make sure Mr. Ward buys lunch. >> I I think Desi's buying lunch. I think our new commissioner, uh, Pedro Martinez
will be buying lunch for us. >> Oh, wow. >> So, just a uh moving right along. The next thing we have is an enrollment update for you. Uh we're continuing to examine enrollment. Uh and I had spoken to you earlier this year about an exit
survey and we have that pretty close to completion. I'll be sharing that with you at an up andcoming meeting. But we did share some statistics with you. Right now in total we're at 2,645 students. We are uh we're over our total
from the previous month by at least uh eight students if my math is correct. Uh by eight students. So, you can always click on that link and that will give you open access to enrollment. We fill it in monthly. We're trying to look for any trends uh that we can see. In red, you have the numbers where there's a
drop. In green, you have the numbers where there's an increase. And then, uh in black is everything that's static. So, stay tuned for more information from us uh regarding enrollment unless you have any questions. Right now, okay, thank you very much. Moving right
along. We're looking for uh reapproval really of our handbooks. Uh most recently our handbooks were were reviewed as part of a tiered focus monitoring uh review process that I believe Kelly Steel maybe had mentioned to you back in August. And it was noted
that in a few of our um handbooks we had we had some missing information. So we we took liberties and we added the AI policy that you had previously voted on and then we had added some other uh policies to the handbooks to make sure that we were uh meeting all of our DESIE
requirements. So suspension and due process, thank you for correcting that, Mr. Higgins. Uh suspension and due process wasn't uh specifically outlined to regulation in each of the handbooks. So we made sure that was up to date. Uh we have a pol we we have policies
pertaining to mass general law again related to suspension that we wanted to make sure we're up to date with the changes in the law. We are required to provide an educational service plan to any student who is suspended. That's been our practice here in the district, but we hadn't had them codified in our handbooks, especially our handbooks for
our younger students, right? The high school handbooks had all of these things in them. And you'll notice that FES, AES, and Grace didn't have those. So we had to bring them up to snap. And then for some reason uh the grace handbook was missing its section on student records. So we thank Desi for its uh
keeping us accountable and those are all of the areas of the handbooks that have been updated. You have full and updated copies of those handbooks in your packets and we'll be looking for you to vote to approve those tonight pending your approval. We will not send them out to parents again, but there will be a notification in my Ripple report this
week and all of the handbooks will be updated online so parents can take a look at those. >> Great. you have no questions. I'll move right along to the last thing uh for me and that was my uh formative uh my formative assessment. So
as you all know the subcommittee for my formative assessment or for my evaluation met on October 29th. Uh I linked in there the rubric for you and that is public information the rubric by which I'm being evaluated on. At that meeting, I uh give an overview of progress toward attainment of goals and
then each of the uh four areas of standards presented to the committee that night with two to three pieces of evidence of each of the 41 elements along with an accompanying explanation of each. So, I think that u Mr. Clark and Mr. Soviet and Mrs. Richards who I
know isn't with us this evening uh spent a good amount of time taking a taking a look at that binder. It was pretty significant >> and uh I'm open to any questions you might have tonight about about the information. >> Great. And and I you're right. We met the last week in October. We had a very productive meeting and and I will say it
was um the most thorough and and uh appropriately presented book of evidence I've ever seen in my life. So it was great job. Well done. Um the committee um got together and we we looked at your three goals and your perform performance
against all the standards. um and made some recommendations as a as a starting point. Um if this committee remembers, we went back to we did a two-year cycle previously. Um but when you started, we we adopted the one-year cycle having the
formative take place early in the fall, which is today, and then the summative, which will complete in March. So, getting right into it as part of the public discussion, um we had approved your goals early in September. actually was the last week in August, I believe.
Um you submitted a professional practice goal um where you will lead the development of a multi-year three-year budget projection process that aligns the district resources with strategic priorities, supports long-range planning, and enhances transparency in
decision- making for stakeholders. Um that obviously covers some focus indicators in the the superintendent's rubric. Um, we provided a bit of a summary and an entry point for discussion. The the subcommittee recommends that you're progressing as it
relates to that goal. Discussion, edits, comments from any members on the professional practice goal. >> I know I reviewed the um formative assessment earlier today and it seemed
to cover everything. Um, it looked good to me. I don't really have any edits to it. think um Dr. Stark's done a great job and I think um the subcommittee did a great job putting this together. >> Thank you. I can go goal by goal or we can progress
to the standards. Um why don't we just we'll do the professional practice goal too. Um, the superintendent will lead a comprehensive review and improvement of the human resource systems to ensure clear, equitable, and efficient hiring, onboarding, evaluation, and personnel
management processes aligned with the district goals and legal requirements. The subcommittee recommends we are also progressing um with this goal, Dr. Starky with notable evidence including um your implementation of equitable and
transparent practices, strengthened onboarding and evaluation systems. Um you you provided great evidence supporting that goal. Any discussions on the human resource related goal or edits to the the the subcommittee's recommendations?
hearing none. We now have our district improvement student learning goal um where we will implement and sustain a consistent schedule of school and classroom visits across all grade levels to deepen instructional awareness, build trust with educators, students, and
families and strengthen district-wide instructional coherence and culture. Subcommittee is also recommending progressing at this point in the process and notes that Dr. Starky is well on track to meeting and or exceeding all
three of the goals. Discussion or edits to the presentation. Dr. Stocky's performance against the standards instructional leadership. Um the committee appreciates her visible
commitment to instructional excellence and her ability to connect with educators and students in meaningful ways. There is a tremendous amount of evidence for all of that. We are recommending proficient against that standard with notable evidence including
administrator evaluations, consistency of classroom visits, the changes to the program studies, the school improvement plans with the three-year cycle and all the data and effort including not only you Dr. stocky with you and your team with data for the bus transportation
um work that you did at the beginning of the year and decisions related to that discussions edits on that standard standard two management and operations um subcommittee is also recommending
proficient um the committee especially values your proactive approach to budgeting transparency and decision-m and commitment to supporting staff through clear systems and ongoing ing professional growth. These efforts have strengthened day-to-day operations while
positioning the district for long long-term stability and success. Um, notable evidence under this standard, your focus on facilities, the oversight that comes with that capital planning and providing support and
recommendations around the district discussion edits. Standard three, family and community engagement. Um school the subcommittee is also recommending um Dr. Starky to be
provisionicient with some exemplary indic indicators under this standard. Notable evidence includes the accush presentation, newsletters recognizing the ripple um and meetings with PTO's um just to name a few. We know exemplary
performance in the area of family engagement and student support where your visibility, accessibility, and genuine care have strengthened trust and fostered a sense of belonging across the district. Your leadership has elevated the community confidence in the district's direction and created a
collaborative culture grounded in respect, partnership, and shared purpose. Discussion or edits around that standard. Finally, standard four, professional culture subcommittee is recommending proficient.
Notable evidence includes the recognize the ripple initiative, um enrollment data tracking, school committee meetings, we have plenty of evidence of that, your capital planning survey, summer institute, and we especially enjoyed the recognition of retirements
at a school committee meeting at the beginning of the year in addition to hearing from students about their experience coming back to school in the first day of school. Um again rec um recommending proficient um as it relates to standard for
professional culture discussion edits on that piece of the presentation. Finally, I'll just read what the committee is recommending for the formative summary. Your leadership these last few months has helped to strengthen fiscal transparency, improved human
resource systems, and deepened instructional awareness through consistent school and classroom engagement. The committee recognizes and values the significant progress made under your leadership and looks forward to continued growth, collaboration, and the opportunity to review the full
outcomes in performance of your goals against the standards during these submitted phase. Thank you for your leadership, dedication and professionalism, comments, discussion, edits. Um this requires um the next step I
think through the chair we'll meet um signatures and go we'll come up with a final draft. I'll share it with the full committee and we'll go from there. Any further discussion? >> Um I it looked good to me. Um one thing I did want to call out since it's in here is the transportation. Um that was
a very hot topic and I've received far fewer complaints this year than I did last year. And as a parent, I can also say that I've received far fewer emails from Mr. Ward this year than I did last year about it. So, um, you know, that was a very hot topic and, um, I think it
was a very important topic and I think, um, the changes that were implemented really helped this year. >> That's good to say. So, the inbox is tied to performance >> noted committee members,
>> right? Well, thank you for everything. >> Thank you. And I I I just respond with it. It takes a team. It's not the work of just one person. So, the folks sitting here right at this table uh are deserve it as deserve just as much uh thanks as I do. But I do appreciate your
recognition of the work that we've done in a very short period of time. I'd also like to thank the teachers in the district, uh the students and the families for their support. >> Great. Thank you. appreciate you and the team.
>> We are in a good place. >> Right. Well, then let's keep it. Let's keep right on moving. Then we'll turn things over to Terry Fleming. >> Okay. Uh tonight we have a couple of second readings. Our proposed update to the competency determination policy,
IKF. Second reading. As a reminder, this moved us from simply um having to address passing courses to addressing mastery. And the high school has uh put in place a new um policy pending the
approval tonight of uh making sure that our students are demonstrating mastery as well as completing courses. Were there any questions on that from last time to this time? >> Not for me. And then policy IKF, our
second reading is our update to graduation policy. And again, it refers to um not it does not it removed the language of passing MCCAST and um inserted the meeting competency determination language. >> Any questions on that?
>> Not from me. Seeing none. >> Okay. The next part requires you to click through some slides as I'm sharing. Um the MCCAST results from the spring of 2025 are in front of you. I've um part and parcelled out some things. On slides 2 through 13, you'll see that
our Freetown Lakeville students uh continue to score above the state with shout outs to our math across the board. um grade three uh in particular was 18% above the state in meeting and exceeding expectations and biology was 29% above
the um state in meeting and exceeding expectations. So those first slides recognize um the hard work across the district in um staying above above the state average. And then I'd also like to additionally recognize our eighth grade
students and teachers. They are 13% above the state in the inaugural year of the civics assessment. So congratulations to them. And then as you continue to move through the slides 14 through 28 show how our students do as a cohort
um from their prior year. I like to do apples to apples. That's the apples to apples slide there. Uh so you can see on those next slides how our students did as third graders then taking it as fourth graders or fourth graders as fifth graders and so on. And um you will
see um slight shifts, but we're going to give some shout outs to the eighth grade students. Overall um they show significant growth through the middle school. So our sixth, seventh, and eighth grade programming has shown um a significant growth um towards meeting
and exceeding in all areas. And then our 10th grade ELA and science assessments continue to show a steady increase from those eighth grade scores to the 10th grade stores scores. Slide 29 has links to writing samples.
Um, and I just want to note that across the Commonwealth, we anticipated and were not surprised to see that writing scores were decreased by over 6% um, across the Commonwealth. Um, students did we had students that did really well on one essay and then didn't put a lot
of effort into the second essay um, due to that measure to I'm sure ballot question. Um, and so you'll see some writing sample links there. uh it shows what the kids have to go through. There's not just writing. Writing isn't just sitting there writing on a piece of paper. Now, they really have to go
through that technology and scroll down through 66 paragraphs, whether they're small or large, and refer back to them when they're doing their written essays. And so, um if you're intrigued by that, those links are on there. And then slide
30 is a reminder how we use the released items. So we go through the released items, item analysis documents as our staff look at those and we also were given the student essays this year. So the ELA curriculum leaders have looked at those essays, the principles have looked at those essays and we've talked
about how to build the structure of just simply making sure that the kids are renewing their knowledge of conventions to um building content um and structured essays from K to 12. Slides 31 to 35 hold the glows and grows
from each building and there was a lot to be proud of. So as you glance through those, each building had a lot of things to be proud of and shared those with us. And then 36, slide 36 shows our accountability calculations, some of the
areas that were we're receiving our highest scores. And then um because you will hear this from the state level, I want to make sure to not leave it off. Slides 37 to 43 give grade level comparisons. So the big topic right now at the state level
is how are our kids doing to compared to prior to COVID pre-COVID. Um so on those slides you'll see the 2019 um results and our current results. Unfortunately the state is looking at it as a grade level. So you're not looking
at a cohort cohort. We're not looking at how our kids from 2019 are now doing currently. We're looking at how did grade three students do in 2019 and how did grade three students do in 2025. Um so it's a little bit off and I did color code these backgrounds um for you. The
red is showing that we are behind um precoid and the blue is showing that we are ahead of precoid. So you see a little mix and of course our math was um well ahead of precoid. Some of the honors that that Dr. Starky was speaking
of stem from that. So there's a lot and there's a lot more. I like geeked out for a long time on the data. So um but there's a lot more to it, but I thought this was a nice little package of information. Um this is all available on on the DESIE website as well. Um but we have spent countless
hours talking um with curriculum leaders, building principles, and um staff on what we're going to do to keep pushing forward. And the next rung of that is to is to make sure that we're talking to the students too, right? Not just instructionally, but reminding them
that the the is incorrect that the test doesn't count anymore. So, we're kind of battling that, right? This the students have this feeling, community members have the feeling that the test doesn't matter because that's the result of the vote, right? But we we want to make a concerted effort to make sure our students understand that their testing
still matters. And we'll review some of those points at a meeting here so it's stated publicly. Uh but we're meeting with the principles soon and taking information from students. For example, at our last series of roundts, we were asking the kids, how can we get the message out that taking the MCCAST and
doing well on it still matters? It matters for you individually in particular if you're at the high school. If you're looking for scholarship money, John Abigail Adam scholarship money. And it matters to you all the way across because they're indicators of benchmarks of your learning. Uh and then they help the district guide instruction. So we
again we can get more into that at another meeting, but to Terry's point, you know, we've made the rounds talking to people about this and we need to make sure that our students and our community members are aware as well. >> Great. >> I want to thank Terry for her presentation. She she could have had hundreds of slides for you this evening.
Uh, and we're going to be sharing this presentation on our on our site, but Terry has done an amazing job going through all of the data and making sure that the people who need to have the data and then use it to impact instruction or use it to work specifically with subgroups of kids have that information.
>> Right. And I'd like to give a a thank you and a shout out to my I I'll say my right hand probably my left hand maybe, but um Ally Cassidy does a great job working with me on data crunching numbers and um she loves to just sit and brainstorm with me through them. So she's a wonderful asset to our district
and is not out in front of people, but she certainly is like strong in my corner. And then the last thing I have on mine is um we applied for and have been approved to receive um $14,000 in funds from the state for my planning and
implementation grant. Um this is was available to all Massachusetts public school districts. They awarded over $800,000. Um we were approved for $14,000 which covers the cost to create and develop a 6 through 12 scope and sequence for my
cap. My cap has to do with students college and career planning. Um so it has that you know what path am I looking for to take uh once I get out of high school. Um, it'll cover release time for staff, substitutes so that staff can
have site visits, marketing materials for new programming like our innovative career pathways and our project lead the way programs and then compensation for staff for outside of contract time meetings and the specific development of the scope and sequence 6 through 12. We have a a large team that's involved in
this. It's includes our high school and middle school administration. It includes all of our guidance counselors from the middle school and high school and our adjustment counselors. And then um currently we have um eight teachers from the high school that are involved and we're looking to then build middle school teachers into the layer as well.
So super excited about this and so um we're asking for um approval acceptance of that. >> Great. There are no questions. >> Yeah. No, just just a comment from me. Um, congratulations on that. And then
again, thank you for all the work on the MCCAST. Um, you you certainly break it down to make it easy. The extra effort on the cohort stuff is appreciated. Um, just one question. Do remind me. I can't remember if everyone has to participate
in the vocal survey. That's the culture. >> So, so we do not opt into that. >> Okay. um we could opt into it and it certainly would provide data extensively above and beyond just um academic data for us um but we have um not
participated and I would love to have that conversation. >> So I don't have a strong opinion either way but I see it in real time with our student presenters and and what we see come before the committee all the time that my sense is that the culture and climate is really high. So
>> maybe it is a discussion we have um to to look at that just to see because we see it in real time and I'm sure the teachers and parents and you see it daily but it might be >> it would give everyone a voice, right? It would give everyone a voice for that >> in the areas we might need to to amp up
a little bit. >> Sure thing. This side of the table would be very much in support of the students engaging in the local survey. >> Okay. >> To be continued. >> Be continued. I note that >> there are no questions. We'll move on to uh Jack Higgins.
>> Yeah, thank you. U I would like to provide you an update on the FY26 budget. Your monthly general fund summary is in your packet for your review. Uh but in addition to that, um as we closely monitor expenditures across all areas, I think it's important to note that we have seen our special
education costs uh higher than expected uh due to student changes in student needs since after the adoption of the budget. Uh notably transportation uh as a result of some student additions uh unexpected student additions, but also
in addition to that um requirements as a result of health or um behavioral a need to split students uh we we were expecting to be able to ride two students on a van or three students in a van and then necessary for us to put them on separate vans. So transportation
costs have gone up as a result. Uh in addition to that, we had um we've had out of state moveins. Uh in the case of an out of state move in, the reason why that's important to note is that if it's from out of state and they are an out of district placement, then we don't get the relief of the first year being paid
by the district that's they're coming from. Uh and then in addition to that, we've had some placement changes uh where the costs have gone up as a result of those placement changes. So we are utilizing we'll be utilizing circuit breaker funds to make up that difference. Um but understanding that
that's circuit breaker funds that um we had not originally allotted or prepared for. So we will be utilizing some of the funds that we would be expecting to use for next year. Um so that's important to keep in mind. We'll also be considering applying for extraordinary relief at the end of this year for any of those uh
expenditures that are um could be considered extraordinary relief. We could be receiving those um funds, the reimbursement funds that we would get next year, we could receive them this year to balance it out. Uh for anybody who's driven by the FES playground recently, uh on the week of
October 20th, we had uh after several weeks of delays due to weather, we had the we contracted with Real and Associates, which is a um a company on the state bid list that does uh playground installations as well as playground uh evaluations. They
installed for us the equipment that the fees PTO had donated to the district as well as donated the the cost of the installation. It's a shade structure, a um a ball game that went where you can
see in the picture the orange ball game. You throw the ball in the funnel and it pops out in one of three locations. And then there's a balance beam, a zigzag balance beam as well. All three were successfully installed uh the week as ahead of October 20th. Um and we are happy that that uh the students are now
able to participate and use those things. The the shade structure is really going to be very helpful when we get into the spring. And thank you again to the FBTO for their generosity in both the donation as well as the cost of the installation.
If you'll remember a few weeks ago, actually a few months ago now, we had Sullivan Gray, who's a life scout uh with Lakefield Troop 26, who was uh presenting his Eagle Scout project for approval. He has completed the the project. And those of you who've driven
around the campus, you can see it with the posts have all been painted. uh not only the the um guardrail posts but also all of the yellow ballards that we have around the district to protect um sensitive equipment. In total, there
were 429 posts painted. Um there were they also relabeled the posts that we utilize with numbers for uh fire drills outside of the high school for um rallying points. Uh overseeing 145 volunteer hours uh for an Eagle Scout
project. the key the most important part is the oversight and the leadership not so much actually the hours but the oversight hours. So um it's I think it's important to note that he um led led 145 man hours worth of volunteers which was
fantastic and then he is uh donating with a vote donating two gallons of paint one brown one yellow for touch-ups as we need as necessary. We should have kept him on the hook for the touch-ups, >> right? >> Yes. >> U
to your word able to paint the last post. >> Well, you were only painting the last post if you ran out of time. >> So there it's interesting. There is actually after the completion of the project, there is still one post that needs to be painted. It's right out in front and once they repaired it, now it
can use paint. So I have the paint and I have the brushes. >> We'll get pictures. Yeah, that's right. Please. >> But we thank we thank Sullivan. That was a big >> It really was. Really made a big difference on the campus. Uh an update on the Grace Pool um engineering
assessment. If you recall, due to chronic issues related to filtration and chlorination, the Grace pool was closed during the summer of 2024. In the spring, the Freetown Lakeville Regional School Committee voted to have an engineering assessment completed, which was done over the summer, and we
received the report on October 15th of this year. Some of the pictures uh you can see on the on the board behind me um that were uh included as part of the assessment. Many of you had done walkthroughs prior uh so you had seen some of these things
before from the assessment which we received. You can click to the next one from Aquatica Pools Inc. the engineering company that did the assessment. They have a summary of recommendations. Uh first of all an overall assessment of
the pool is it is in fair to poor condition. The items that they identified in need of of repair. The stainless steel gutter return is in poor condition. Uh the pool equipment room is dangerous and should should be secured. We can go back to the pictures. I could show you those things. Pool filtration
and recirculation should be replaced. It's uh due to age or it's und sized. And the um the reconstruction of the pool deck and the drainage system. Uh it's according to what the assessment says is that
there is a need for an adjustment to the for the drainage due to code. There is a single drain which was within code when the pool was originally built but it is required now to have two drains um for safety purposes so that someone can't
get stuck on the bottom of the pool. As it is right now, we have a um a particular safety cover to the single that allows us to still operate the pool, but the recommendation would be to go to the the the code of two main drains. Um replacing the pool piping,
replace the pool lift, which is in need of uh replacement. And then one of the recommendations they have is also is to altering the depths of the shallow and deep ends, though that is an additional recommendation, not one necessarily to meet code. Um, the estimated cost to restore to good condition is stated in
the assessment is $1,323,550. >> Jack, real quick, is that is that a range or is that the >> that's at the that's at the high end that includes all of the recommendations including those things that they identified like the reducing the depth of the deep end and increasing the the
depth of the the shallow end. Those are um those are included in that number. >> And I'm sure we'll hear more from the pool committee at some point, but is it as simple as a menu item and you can pick off different things or
>> I I I'm I'm sorry. I don't know the answer to that. I mean, I'm I'm sure you can do some things, but there might be uh without without knowing for sure. I would have to assume that there are some things that could be done and just checked and others that would rely on each other for the repair.
I guess we'll wait to hear from the uh pool committee on that. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask a question? Yeah. >> So, the 1.3 million is just to get the pool usable. >> Is the pool subcommittee also going to be giving us estimates for what it's going to cost not only to get it working
so people can use it, but what it's going to cost each month to maintain this. Is that something that >> I will I will say that's coming in the pool committee update. Okay. Shortly. >> Okay. >> Um a brief description of it. But yes, part of our process. >> Thank you. Great. Thank you.
>> And then we'll move right along to Kelly Steel. >> All right. So, our student services update. I'm sorry, I'm still a little bit sick, so I'm going to speak as loud as I can. Um, we are up uh 10 students total in the district from the start of the school year. Um, this is our lowest increase typically. These are students
that were probably referred in the spring, were tested September, mid-occtober, and then we had meetings towards the end of October. So these aren't any referrals from this year. These are mainly referrals from the end of last year. Um it's it's a typical pattern. So you'll just see that our asawset um and fees those are our
biggest increases. They typically are um those are our kids that are being first identified um either last year and then now starting into this year. I expect those numbers always to be higher than the others. Gra is is status quo at this point in time. Um and then one down um at FLMS and ARHS. One was a move out and
one um didn't qualify at reevaluation. So, those were those numbers. And then our out of district has remained the same. Um, I know Jack had mentioned a move in, but we've also had a move out. Um, but that doesn't necessarily mean the tuitions are even because it depends on the program and things like that. So, we don't have an increase um in
students. Uh, we just have a change in service at times. So, overall, our district is at um, like I said, plus 10 and we're on track. Um, I projected about 563 students total for the district um, in special education by the end of the school year. and my numbers
are still kind of sitting where I would expect them to be. So, that's where we are in special ed um numbers wise. And then our CPAC update um November last Monday, not this past Monday, but the Monday before, we had a speaker on anxiety. Um so that was good. It wasn't
highly attended, but it was it was a good number, better than the month before. Um and there was really good feedback. Um coming up December 2nd, we have a arts and crafts night and bringing the kids to come to that night, which is great. Um, and also, uh, Justin Smith will be here, the secondary
administrator to do a tour of the life suite, so people can see the apartment that's set up, um, and they can see the work that's been doing been happening down there. Um, I got to be down there for a bit on Friday and it was great. The kids set it up the way they wanted. I had one student who loves playing darts and he was shooting darts and like
nailing it every single time. Like was so good. Another kid for his leisure had set up like a little mini basketball hoop and they had picked that up themselves to discover what kind of leisure activities that they like. Other kids were folding laundry. They were really broken up into different spaces and um they spend a good amount of time there when they're not out in the
community. So, it's pretty great to see and I would love for people to come and tour that program. So, that's CPAC. And then after this, the rest of the meetings are the first Tuesday of the month from 6:30 to 8:00. Um, typically here in the library, if there's a change, we'll post it like a lecture
hall or something like that. Um, and then lastly, I didn't put a slide up because Molly had spoken to it, but we finished up our unified um, basketball season, which was great. They had the Jamberee on Monday. Um, unfortunately, I was out sick and I couldn't go, but um, I heard that it was really successful.
And moving forward, we still have some really great inclusive opportunities at the high school, specifically um with life club, Portuguese club, uh we have homecoming coming up um with a lot of our kids attending on Friday and then spring track will be here before you know it and they'll be doing unified
sports again um come the springtime. So that's just a roundup of student services. >> Thank you, Kelly. I was at the jamboree on Monday and uh the Lakers were in the house for basketball. Great time, very competitive spirit on the court. If I may, I just want to add with Kelly
referencing the out of district when we're talking about the referencing uh moveins that I'm referring to are ones that took place after April, after the budget was approved, but before the school year started. So, those are where the numbers have of affected us.
>> Thank you, Kelly. >> Things over to the school committee for subcommittee reports. >> Right. Uh let's regional finance committee. We have a meeting later this month. >> Later this month. Perfect. Evaluation committee. We just wrapped that up. We'll be looking forward to the
summitive phase. Wellness and health committee. No update at this time. >> No update. >> No update at this time. Uh policy subcommittee. No update at this time. Capital committee. No update at this
time. Poll committee. Well, uh, I just have a a brief update for tonight. Um, nothing overly riveting. Um, I'd like to publicly thank Jack, uh, for his hard work in putting together
um, his presentation regarding the um, the engineering study that we did receive only um, a month ago. Um, I'd also like to thank Greg Goodwin. Um, he and Jack met with the pool um, subcommittee at the end of October. We did perform a walkthrough um of the pool
area as several of us had not been privy to see the disrepair that is there. Um we deliberated after um the our walkthrough to bring up some questions
or concerns that we had regarding the pool study um and regarding what it it could entail. We went back and forth with with questions and Jack was um gracious enough to circle back to Aquatica and Habib and Associates to try
and get some answers for us. Um those answers has just come in um in the last day or so. Um we do have a meeting next week um prior to our meeting Wednesday uh where we'll be going over um some of
the answers that the um Aquatica had for us for our questions um because we did bring up some of the we had concerns regarding some of their recommendations and with a group of six of us we wanted to make sure we were all taking the best
interest to heart. Um, also, um, a quick shout out to, um, Jim Kabusio. He provided us with some links regarding the history of the pool and that area. Um, dating back all the way from the 1900s.
um mainly the mid9s to more uh to more present times with grievances from the teachers all the way through um some of the repairs that happened in the 201011 area all the way through more recently with some of the repairs and disrepairs. Um that being
said again we do have a meeting next week. We have um asked questions about operation costs. Um, we've looked into and and are getting answers if we don't have them already regarding our current costs. So, we're aware what we're currently spending as a district to not
have our pool right here and to rent space. Also looking into what other districts are paying for their outsourcing of the pool usage. Um, so we're trying to look at all aspects in a a wide range
and then try to bring it together. So, I don't have answers on operational costs or some of the similar questions, but it is part of our thought process to deliberate on what makes sense for our towns and our schools moving forward regarding the pool so that we can bring
better information to you. Um, we did review um the um the mission and the charge of the pool subcommittee. So, we are all on the same page that um we should expect an initial
report to the full school committee um no later than uh January with I think it was January with a full report by April um for the school for the full school committee. >> Great. Thank you for that timeline.
Thank you for the work on that >> and thank you Jack and and and everyone involved in that process. sort of related to the bull. I had asked Jim this question last time. Does our swim team have a pool to swim in yet? >> Yes. Swimming in Middleboro at the Y.
>> Oh, perfect. Okay, good. That's it for that um discussion. Oh, yes. Judge recognized. >> If I could if I could squeeze this in, I just report back to the committee that we had a very successful senior citizens
uh breakfast last week. I think the numbers came in about 60. >> Oh wow. >> And uh yeah, it was it was pretty good. I'd like to thank the food service directors, the cafeteria principal, the eighth grade advisor, the eighth grade students that stout with these
seniors and convers with them and kind of helps bridge a generation gap. I think but >> every everybody had a a very good time from from from my perspective and uh I can't wait to when I can reach the age to be
uh on the on the receiving end instead of the sorting end. I'm looking forward to that. >> As thank you for the kind words as always. Um perhaps it fits under number 72 if you could just reshare. I believe
we're hosting a chapter 70. >> We are on November 19th. Yeah. Here at the high school in the auditorium and I believe the start time is 4:30. >> Okay. >> I'll double check that while while you're voting. >> Yeah. And that's open to the public. >> That's open to the public. >> Great.
>> Just three uh quick announcements. We just like to remind the public uh to visit our new community bulletin board located under parents and community on the Freight site. We often get flyers from local uh community groups and and
that's a good place to post them. So, we're encouraging people trying to drive some traffic there to see the local events. Uh for example, the FLBC reached out to us today about their youth basketball offerings and that was posted today. So, that's a good spot uh for families to go to connect with some of
the the great community events that are happening. Uh the community bulletsport again under parents and community at Free Lake. We'd like to acknowledge Veterans Day. Veterans Day was celebrated in different ways across the district. Uh two areas of note. Asawwamsa Elementaryo held an assembly
which culminated with a a flag laying in front of the school and then FLMS hosted its first inaugural uh Veterans Day assembly. And we had a really nice turnout of veterans who came and were honored by our eighth grade students who
interviewed them. Uh, and it was just a wonderful morning. And I'd like to recognize the principles in both of those buildings for organizing those events, all of the staff members who were involved, and certainly our veterans who came uh to allow us to honor them in their service. >> Great. Well said. Thank you. And and I
had received some feedback on on the work that you did at the schools, and it was very, very positive. So, thank you for taking the time to recognize veterans. >> Great. And the last thing we'd like to acknowledge tonight is our Girl Scout Troop 77318 who finally installed and when I say
finally, it was on us, not on them, uh waiting for us to vote to approve uh their bird uh sorry, butterfly houses. So, we'd like to thank the Girl Scout troop uh for installing butterfly houses at each of the schools. >> Perfect. Thank you. All right, moving on
to action items. Um these are all majority votes. Um first up like to entertain a motion on a vote to accept the resignation of of a school committee member Crystal Ing. >> So moved. >> Second.
>> Hearing a second. Um all those in favor say I. Oh. Any discussion on that? I just uh would like to thank Crystal for her time here and serving as a school committee member and uh for advocating
for the children and trying to do the right thing. >> Thank you. >> Great. Moving on to a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Action item B. Entertain a motion to
approve DECA overnight out ofstate field trip. >> So move second. >> Second. >> Hearing a second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. No.
>> That motion passes. Item C, entertain a motion to accept a guitar and some golf clubs donated to ARHS music and PE programs. So moved. >> So second hearing a second. Any
discussion? >> I'd like him to be able to vote >> only if it's titleist. >> Thank you for your comments. >> Um all those in favor say I. >> I oppose. No.
>> That motion also passes. Item D, a vote to entertain a motion to accept two gallons of paint donated to FLRSD facilities. >> Second >> hearing a second. Any discussion?
>> Is that the paint Jack will be using? >> Yes. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. No. Eyes have it. That motion also passes. Entertain a motion to approve updated 2025 2026 school
handbooks. >> So move >> second. >> Second. >> Hearing a discussion and hearing a second. Any discussion? >> No discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? No.
>> Eyes have it. Motion also passes. Item F, entertain a motion to adopt the FLRSC competency determination policy, IKF. >> So moved. >> Second.
>> Hearing a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> No. Motion passes. Item G, entertain a motion to adopt the LRSC
graduation policy, IKF. >> Second. >> Second. >> Hearing a second. Any discussion? >> No discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. No. Motion carries. H. Entertain a motion to
approve payroll vendor warrants from 102925. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Hearing a second. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. No. >> Motion carries.
>> Finally, item I entertain a motion to approve regular session minutes from 10:22. >> All moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? I abstain what was in here. >> One abstension. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I.
>> I. >> Oppose. No. >> Motion carries. Item nine. Would like to entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn at 7:30. >> 7:30 on the dock. >> Second.
>> Thank you for the expeditious means. >> Anytime. Motion carries. We are adjourned. Thank you everyone. Oh, thank you.