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Okay. Good. Good evening and welcome to the Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Longmeadow School Committee with this being a a reorganization meeting of the School Committee as we welcome new members to

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the committee. This is the one time annually where I have the pleasure to call the meeting to order. So, uh mass general laws allows for remote participation at public meetings until June 30th, 2027. All votes while there is remote participation must be made by roll call

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vote. This meeting is being recorded and will be aired on LCTV. Before I call the roll, I just want to welcome our two newest members of the Longmeadow School Committee, Matt Kessel and Bisrat Abebe. Uh welcome. We're happy to have you joining us on the Longmeadow SCHOOL COMMITTEE. SO,

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THANK YOU, COMMITTEE MEMBERS. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, uh if you could say here for the record, uh Mr. Abebe. >> Here. >> Ms. Bean. >> Here. >> Mr. Kessel. >> Here. >> Ms. Lanier. >> Here. >> Ms. Hanson. >> Here. >> Mr. Hench. >> Here. >> Mr. Hayden. >> Here.

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>> All right. Time for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> 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.

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>> My tenure for presiding over the meeting will be short-lived and this is an opportunity to reorganize the School Committee under policy BDA and policies BDB which were in your meeting packet.

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And so, at this point, I would entertain motions for the position of chair of the Longmeadow School Committee. >> Um I would like to move for uh Nicole Schouler to be the new chair.

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>> All right, we have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second. We have a second by Ms. Hanson. Motion requires a roll call vote. Ms. Bean? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hench? >> Yes. >> Ms. Schouler? >> Abstain. >> Ms. Hanson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bryden?

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>> Yes. >> Ms. Gazaille? >> Yes. >> Mr. Abebe? All right, we have a a new chair for the Longmeadow School Committee for the 2016-2017 school year. So, thank you and >> Thank you very much. Congratulations. >> You're in the virtual gavel. >> All right. Um that brings us to vice

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chair. I will entertain motions for the position of vice chair. >> I move that the School Committee appoint Emily Hanson as the chair the vice chair of the School Committee for the 2026-2027 school year. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second.

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>> Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to a vote. Ms. Rowe? >> Yes. >> Matt? >> Yes. >> Zack? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Abstain. >> Jamie? >> Yes. >> Kate? >> Yes. >> And a yes from me as well. All right, we have a vice chair. There we go. Um I will next um accept a nomination

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for someone for the position of clerk. Is there anyone who would like to nominate or be nominated for the position of clerk? >> I will continue to be interested in the clerk. >> Can you

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>> Uh I move that uh the committee um nominates uh Kate Bean for clerk for the School Committee. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to a vote. Ms. Rowe? >> Yes. >> Matt?

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>> Yes. >> Zack? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Yes. >> Kate? >> Abstain. >> And yes for me as well. All right, that brings us to sub-committee motion sub-committee appointments. So, we've a few sub-committees that meet more of an ad

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hoc basis, but we do have four that are pretty regularly run throughout the course of the school year, and also sometimes there are things that come up for those sub-committees during the summer as well. So, it's good to start out the new uh academic

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ish year um with some appointments. So, there is curriculum sub-committee, evaluation sub-committee, policy sub-committee, and finance sub-committee. Um we have, I think in your packet, a document that tells you who each of the committee members have been

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along the way, possibly. Possibly not. No? Okay. >> [laughter] >> Um so, ideally we'll get at least two people for each thing. Um starting out with curriculum, I think that at the moment I'm the only current member of the curriculum sub-committee.

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You are on curriculum sub-committee. I'm sorry. I thought it was just me and you. >> check that. I was like, I think that was me, too. >> Yes, that's great. >> Um would you like to continue on curriculum sub-committee? >> Yes. >> Is there anyone who would like to be a third on curriculum sub-committee? It's a great one to learn more about the

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different curriculum things going on in the district. We have some exciting programs coming up. >> What should I also >> Sure. All right. Perfect. All right, so Nicole, Emily, and And the owl is awake.

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>> [laughter] >> The owl approves. Fantastic. Um evaluation sub-committee, I have been on that. Jamie, you were on that? >> I yep. >> Yep. Um I'm fine with continuing on that. Would you like to continue on that? And or is there someone else who

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would like to jump in on to the e-blast sub? That one will not meet over the summer. Just during the school year. Meets three times roughly. >> I'm more than happy to be on it or off it. It's up to you. >> Um Nicole, Jamie, and anyone interested

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in being a third? >> Yeah. >> Matt? All right, perfect. Fantastic. All right, that brings us to policy. >> You were on policy, Emily? >> I was on policy. >> Policy. >> You were on policy, Kate. Who else was on policy? Is anybody else who's here now? No. All right, it's our other members.

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Oh, that's right, it was Adam and Michaela. Perfect. Do you want to continue on policy? All right, and we need one or two other people for policy. Who would be interested in that one? >> I would like to join policy. >> Fantastic. Anyone else?

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Two is fine for now. We'll see if we find a third later. That will work. >> I'm happy to if we need a third. >> Okay. And we'll add Zach to that. Fantastic. Okay, Matt and Zach, and that brings us to finance sub committee, which right now has been Jamie, myself, and Emily. I'm fine if there's somebody

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else who would love to jump in, then I'm okay with that. I would be happy to step back from it if someone else would like to tackle it, and otherwise fine to continue. Do you feel the same way? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Is anybody comfortable with it to jump in? All right, otherwise we'll stay

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with what we've got. Um Jamie, Emily, and Nicole. All right. Fantastic. Thank you all. Uh next up we have some boards to appoint folks to. We have um

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Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative has two positions, both in the board of directors and the board of governors. You've been board of directors, and you've been board of governors. The other way around. Okay. [laughter] >> No, I think I'm directors. And you're governors. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah, but I only know [laughter] that

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because of the the agenda was directors, but that's okay. Usually ours are switched when we do this. >> Board of Directors meeting. >> They've also called mine Board of Directors meeting. >> Yep. >> You both want to stay in the one that you >> Sure. >> [laughter] >> We'll let you sort out which one.

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Whichever one they're both >> No, no, no. It's a little bit different. It's hers only meets quarterly and ours meets >> monthly. How much longer? >> Yeah. >> I might switch at some point. >> Yeah. >> All right, perfect. Um we do not have a current representative for um the

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Special Education Alliance of Longmeadow or SEAL. Um Michaela was doing that. Is there someone who would like to do that? Zach? That would be wonderful. Thank you. And Energy and Sustainability has been Emily. >> Yeah. >> And Does anybody >> Did you want to take my

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>> Yeah, I can take that. >> That would make Andrea very happy if you stayed. >> I've I've served on that committee for a little over a year, so. >> That's good then. >> I'll I'll do it from this seat now. >> All right, that sounds wonderful. Thank you. All right, look at y'all. Subcommittees and appointments are also Oh, wait,

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didn't we have another appointment for Finance? Oh, Building Committee we are unless you need to leave. I don't think we have to reappoint for Building Committee each year. We We haven't traditionally done that, but don't we have a Budget Task Force? >> Budget Task >> Yes. >> All right. >> Is that coming up later? >> It's low on your agenda, but if you want

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to reorder that and take that now, uh you certainly can do that. Uh Town Manager has established a uh a Budget Task Force to sort of look at some of the pressures uh facing the town budget and what some potential uh practices could be to to create

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financial sustainability for the town. So, um the committee the task force has a slot for a member of the Longmeadow School Committee. Um prior to this meeting I talked to Mr. Hedge about serving in that role given his

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connection to the long connection to the finance subcommittee, but it's obviously open to the full committee for an appointment to that task force. >> Is there anyone who would like that? >> I'm I'm fine with doing it if I as long as someone just shoots me a >> [laughter]

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>> Tom, you can turn your mic on. >> for you. >> Perfect. >> This isn't our normal meeting time. [laughter] I apologize. >> All right, perfect. Sounds good then. All right, so I think we are good with subcommittees for the moment and we're ready to >> We need to know one more appointment

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that we'll need to make, but >> Yeah, we usually appoint somebody to sign the warrants for >> Oh, yeah, you're right. >> Is that not on here? >> I didn't see it on the agenda. >> not either. All right, sign warrants and payroll, correct? >> Yeah, both warrants. >> Don't we have to do both? >> Payroll and accounts payable. >> And they each have their own sort of

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separate language if I recall correctly. Sort of like this, but I'd appoint someone to sign >> Yeah, accounts payable warrants and then would be the payroll warrants. >> Okay. So, we need someone to make a motion to appoint someone. Jamie, you've kind of done that for the

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last several years. Would you like to continue doing it? >> Yeah, I have no problem. It fits my schedule as I drive down to school, so >> All right, so then we need someone to appoint or to make a motion to appoint >> to >> sign

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>> Yeah, sign the payroll warrants on behalf of the school committee and >> We'll do that one and accounts payable warrants. Okay, we'll do them separately. Because if I recall correctly, they're usually separate. I'll make a motion to appoint Jamie Hedge to sign >> the payroll warrants.

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>> payroll warrants >> accounts payable payroll warrants >> Need a one. >> Okay, accounts payable warrants. Sorry, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? We'll move to a vote. Is that right? >> Yes. >> Matt? >> Yes. >> Zack? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Abstain. >> Kate? >> Yes.

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>> And yes for as well. And second, that was accounts payable. >> Next is >> I make a motion to appoint Jamie Hinch to be our signatory for >> Payroll >> Payroll warrants. >> All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? If none,

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we'll move to a vote. Matt? >> Yes. >> Zach? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Abstain. >> Kate? >> Yes. >> And yes for me as well. All right, perfect. Did we get all of them? Yes. All right. Then we are ready to move into correspondence. We have two notes

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of correspondence from this week. Do you want to talk about them? >> Thanks. Um correspondence, we have two emails from Eileen Robin dated June 12th, 2026. >> Thank you. All right, that moves us to approval of minutes. We have a possible motion for our May 26th meeting minutes.

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>> May 20 Yep, 26. >> I move that the School Committee approve the May 26th, 2026 minutes as presented. >> Thank you. We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? If none, we'll move to a vote. Susan? >> Yes. >> Matt?

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>> Abstain. >> Zach? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Yes. >> Kate? >> Yes. >> Well, public speak. We do not have anyone in the room and as far as I can see, we still do not have anyone online. We do not have any School Committee announcements and recognitions and that

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brings us to business with guests. So, we'll turn it over to Dr. O'Shea to welcome our new Longmeadow Middle School principal, Dr. Peter Gillen. >> Uh very very pleased, very excited to introduce uh to the committee and to the community Dr. Peter Gillen, who is uh will go down in history as the first

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principal of the new Longmeadow Middle School. Um and uh we're really excited to have you join us. We shared his resume in your in your packet so you had an opportunity to get to know him a little bit professionally, but tonight could be an opportunity to uh get to know him beyond

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that resume. Uh Peter to us uh with a a successful experience as the principal of the West Springfield Middle School and it's a it's a large complex very successful middle school just across the

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river and we're excited to have Pete join us. This is a position that is really unlike any other traditional position that I've had an opportunity to hire for. It is a position that will really be involved in

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creating a new identity for a brand new middle school and with that new identity becomes you know, potentially new curriculum, new programming, new schedules, new identity, new mascot, new school colors, new and on and on and on. So there'll be

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certainly plenty to keep Dr. Gillan busy over the next couple of years. Meanwhile, Dr. Gillan will also be our liaison our school-based liaison to the construction project which is what will be going on just feet away from the

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current Williams Middle School. So pleased to introduce Dr. Peter Gillan. Peter will want to share a couple of thoughts with you and then he's open to any conversation or questions that you might have. So thank you, Peter. >> Thank you, Dr. Shea for the kind introduction. Thank you everyone for the warm welcome and I mean that

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sincerely and wholeheartedly. I'm thrilled to be here. My name is Pete Gillan as Dr. Shea mentioned for the last 17 years I've been an administrator at West Springfield Middle School 11 as the principal, six as the assistant principal prior to that.

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Prior to that I was a an English teacher at West Springfield High School and and did a very brief stint at Forest Park Middle School a long long time ago bringing me to my 23rd year in education. I am elated to be a part of this

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community, a part of this project that takes two of the the gold standard of middle schools and merges them into one in what really will be the blink of an eye and joining you and what I know will be a very successful construction project.

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The opportunity to build the best middle school that the region the region has and the region has seen is really the reason for my interest in this position and I am grateful and excited and also appreciative. I cannot

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tell you how kind and warm the welcome has been from the Long Meadow community and admittedly I was a touch nervous in taking on the process of interviewing and going through all of the steps that it took to get here. But at every step of the way

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there's been warm smiles and kind words and I'm very grateful not just to all of you folks who have gotten to know me a little bit through that process but really to the greater community for as I mentioned such a kind welcome. So thank you for for having me tonight. I know that you have some copies of my

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resume which which notes some neat things that I've done. My connection with the New England League of Middle Schools, the Massachusetts School Administrators Association and so I'm I'm very pleased to be here and and happy to answer questions or have conversation

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as we begin our begin our journey together. So thank you for having me tonight. >> And I want to note that Peter Zardy's connected with our our current principals Nicole Allen and Nicole Forries who will remain as members of the administrative team and

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who will be really the primary site leaders, the primary site managers at both Williams and Glenbrook. So that collaboration is already started and we're we're off and running. So Thank you Peter for joining us.

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>> Thank you. >> Thank you. Anyone have any questions? Mark and Helen? Have a moment. Welcome aboard. We'll see you at Middle School Building Committee meetings as well. >> Thank you so much. >> And Glad to have you here. >> Thank you. Have a pleasant evening. Thank you for the welcome. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. That brings us to administrative reports. I do not have a chair report. Although if are you already planning to mention a particular honor that was received by one of our administrators after

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I'll leave that to you then. Yes, yes. Then I'll turn over to superintendent report. >> I I shared with the school committee and the administrative team that Dr. Nilda Irisari who is a director of student and family support was selected for

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a Latino Shine Award. It's a it's a select award given just to a a small handful of educators across the state. It's really for their you know trailblazing work around creating inclusive school communities. And so we're really proud of Dr. Irisari and

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and congratulations to her and and thankful that representative Ash and his team had nominated Dr. Irisari for that award. So it's it's quite an honor, quite a distinction. She received that award at a ceremony

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in Boston today and I think there'll be a press release attached to this that we'll be sure to share with the with the media and the wider community. So thanks for that that cue. >> She's doing very impressive work. >> Great stuff. Yeah. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. I just have a couple of items.

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The the town manager's budget task force met last night. If you're interested in the work of the task force, the town manager has set up a page on the town website that has the documents that that committee reviewed

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last night and then also sort of the marching orders of that committee is articulated on that page as well. So I appreciate Mr. Hench joining us on that task force. I think the idea is to really understand some of the fiscal pressures that the town is facing and

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then have some collaborative conversations about how we can create some sustainable financial practices both on the town side and the school side. So, I think it's wise that the town manager has put this together. I've seen

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communities scramble when they hit a fiscal crisis and so doing the legwork in advance of, you know, potential fiscal challenges is a really great idea. So, thankful that we've been included in that. Mr. Mazza

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and I will be regular attendees at those meetings. Shared with the committee, we have some exciting professional development work underway. Nicole Paris Grow, our director of special education, is working with Bay Path University on a paraprofessional to

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teacher pathway. And so, in collaboration with Bay Path, we think that we'll be able to offer an opportunity to some of our paraprofessionals to secure a teaching license as part of their professional practice. And it's you know, a small way of

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supporting the professionalism of our paraprofessionals and hopefully opening up some some professional opportunities to them. So, we'll start small, but it could be something that we could grow in the future. Our August professional development plan

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is in place. Dr. Nelson has created a program that is sort of for teachers by teachers. So, our educators and full staff will have an opportunity to select from an array of professional development sessions

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at our professional development days in August. So, that's been well received in the past. We have a lot of talent here in the district and so it's good to tap into that. Um also share with the committee the statewide graduation framework that

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was recently released by by the Healey administration that is it's not sort of fully baked and finalized yet but we think that it's probably about 95% in its final form so we'll sort of start

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to unpack that probably put together curriculum sub to start to look at what that means for Long Meadow Public Schools. So I think it's actually an exciting direction. I don't always say that for

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the direction that the state is going with public education but I think they're on the right path. I just hope that we have enough flexibility here locally to make it work for for this community. I think that's a bit of an unknown but the general

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direction of that framework I think really makes sense for for our students and and kids across the state so I'm excited to to dive into that. Uh and that's it. We're we're you know in the middle of the hiring season. We I'd say we have a fewer than typical

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vacancies which is a good thing. You know um our our principals are filling some some final vacancies but we'll be we'll be fully staffed and ready to go come August. We have a a new staff orientation day um just before all

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teachers return in August so that's an opportunity to orient new staff new educators to district practices and meet some key district leaders and and get their network credentials and that kind of thing so we're excited to kind of get that in

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place for at the end of the summer so. But happy to answer if you have any questions or comments on any of those things happy to happy to talk. >> Kindergarten numbers still projecting on course? >> Yeah, we think we'll you know, we're we're keeping an eye on it. In fact, thank you Tammy for recently taking a

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look at our current enrollment relative to the census data that we have. We have three sections slated for each of the elementary schools at the kindergarten level. We think that we'll be able to our enrollment numbers won't push the limits

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of that at least as far as we know right now, but summer can bring surprises and we'll we'll keep our eyes on that. >> All right. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions and/or comments? >> Two quick questions. When had the new curriculum that's been introduced when

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is it going to be implemented? >> There's the the state framework will it will gradually phase in. There's some requirements that will be in place as early as for our current eighth graders and then there's some requirements that will be phased in for

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our current seventh graders. Um I don't have that information specifically in front of me tonight, but it will give us enough of a runway I think to get the get things in place here in Longmeadow.

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>> It is posted on the website for DESE and the state as well. It's a pretty decently sized packet, but it also has some fairly good like quick hits towards the beginning that let you know like what are some of the changes and the overall view of it. When we do curriculum review in the

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summertime we can dive into it a little more too >> Yeah. >> see what might already be up and running. >> I think the emphasis on um career awareness, financial literacy, uh AI fluency. There's some important directions in there that we can you know

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that makes sense for us I think. >> All right, any other questions? And/or comments? Okay, seeing none. We do not have any sub committee reports. We're into other reports and the question has been answered. Board of Directors, Kate, any reports?

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>> Yes. [laughter] So, uh we had a meeting on June 17th. Um there was a discussion that we're still short of bus drivers. Longmeadow less than others.

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Um and they're doing an all-out um campaign to try to hire. Um the collaborative is currently working at a surplus.

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Um and um they hired a um cosmetology and inclusive teacher. They plan to hire over the summer.

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Um they're preparing for an early retirement in October 26. Uh we discussed cost of living adjustment for non-union staff. And um there is a possibility of

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there's a discussion about um a career tech vision conference in New Orleans for the board to attend. >> Thanks. >> All right. Um and Board of Governors, >> Um so, the we also met June 20th.

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Um and so, it's a new year. We've elected new officers and I'm now the VP or yeah, the vice president of our board. Um >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Uh they gave us an update that they are actually looking to purchase some

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additional property. They're looking at buying this very large warehouse that they can expand some of the curriculum. This will specifically start out being for special education so they have more space for their special education. The building's in West Springfield

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eventually there will be other programs there and they'll have some office space there as well. It's a very large building. And they're trying to do that I think within the next year or so. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> They've been talking about it for a while. >> Yeah.

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On the actual LPBE C Brush Hill campus right now they're actually adding all the small extensions so they can offer HVAC plumbing and electrical programs. They got a 3.7 million dollar grant to build that extension. They have to have the electrical program up and running by

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August 2028. So they're expanding a lot of their curriculum and they're looking at expanding their property as well. So a lot of growth. And we won't meet again till November but possibly once once before. But yeah, probably not until November. >> Okay. Great. Thank you.

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We do not have a report from SEAL tonight and energy and sustainability. >> Yes, we met on the June 11th. They're going to have a booth at Longmeadow Pride on September 13th and they'll have some more information on the specialized opt-in code which is

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that energy efficient standard for new buildings. They're trying to get that on the fall warrant for a vote. So this is additional information about what that is. No cost to anybody. It just affects new buildings. But they want people to understand what it is to hopefully vote yes on this. It unlocks additional funding and grants

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for our community and helps us become it's related to us being a green community. We were joined by Zach Holt who's the manager of energy and sustainability at Big Y. So he told us about a number of the things that they're doing with their stores. We talked about

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you know the plastic bags that they're using. We talked about food waste diversion. They are installing solar on roofs for a lot of their stores and they're doing one in East Longmeadow Um, will generate 25% of the electricity needed for the store.

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Um, and then we also talked about they're looking to transition some of their fleet to electric vehicles and to add electric charging stations. We pitched ourselves in Longmont to get an EV charging station installed at our store and

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that would happen in maybe 2027 or 2028. Um, we don't have a meeting in July. The next one will be in August. >> All right, great. And then you can put on that one. All right, fantastic. Um, >> Can I ask one question? So, I've been to a bunch of high schools all out in Boston probably over the last

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two or three weeks. And the question to that group is if we missed the boat where we could put up solar across all of the parking. Every single one of the schools has their entire parking engaged in solar. >> Yeah. >> And it's every high school. Like, why

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haven't we done that? Do you know? Like, you could you ask the group. I just find it very odd that we haven't done it. Like, it's you could get a full array panels across our entire parking lot. That would pay the electricity. And we our electricity bill was our problem last year.

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Right? You know, if you're not going to mitigate some or put it on the roof or whatever we're going to do. I don't know why we haven't done that as a town cuz everybody in Boston seems to So, if you go to any like local businesses a big wire or what not they have it's it's almost they do it at UMass, too. It's over the parking

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basically an overhead. It's like an overhead somewhat of a roof I would call it, but it's just an array of solar panels. >> raised and you park underneath it. >> Yeah. >> So, we actually asked the Big Y guy about that for our stores. And they I think they have done that at some

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stores, but they don't want to continue doing that at the stores because water drips down between where the panels are and creates ice and there's a slipping hazard because we did specifically ask if even Big Y was thinking about putting solar there since there's a huge parking lot. Um there is um a guy who is on the

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energy and sustainability committee with us who is the town energy manager. >> I think that's yeah. >> that's it, Amir. He would be somebody we could ask. He's uh >> I just wanted to know. It was just really interesting and it was beautiful It was one of the more affluent towns and I'm sitting there going, "Wow, like

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why haven't we even thought about doing this or did we miss the boat and didn't get Is the funding gone away?" >> We may have missed the larger tax federal tax credits, but there's still >> It's still going to be >> likely state and utility incentives. >> Well, so the new building The new building is going to

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>> It will be solar ready. >> Really solar >> So with the with the specialized opt-in code, um so all new buildings would have to uh be super energy efficient. There'll be standards that we adopt and if that passes, then um that's another thing

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that we get to put forward to get additional grant money for other kinds of green projects. So possibly we could get some funding for a solar project. >> whether schools get actually There's some other grant money that these schools are getting or whether it's just >> probably is. So like Amir would be a

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good person to talk to on the committee um because he's the one that's helping to push for this. He understands kind of the grants that are available um and so he's been putting together like here are all the steps we have to take to start being eligible for additional grants um and so that that would be a good question for him. You know, does this

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unlock funding for us to do like a solar project somewhere or is that something else that we would have to look at independently, but that would be a good question. >> So I just found it interesting thinking about it. >> Thank you. Great question. >> Yeah. >> All right, that brings us to new business. Our school committee meeting

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schedule um the 2027 school year meeting schedule is included um in your packet and you can see um dates on the school calendar. Um so if you look at the um school calendar, then that

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includes our meeting dates. >> Typically for the school year. >> I'm not seeing them. Did I just miss them? >> I did not add them to the calendar yet. >> Oh, okay. Okay, I apologize. I will >> The document that's projected here is

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exactly so is there something in your list of meeting dates? >> Yes, so let's tackle summer meetings first and then we'll head into subcommittees and then regular school year ones. So summer meeting schedule right now we have meetings sort of scheduled for every other week. We don't typically

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need to meet quite as often in the summer. It's a little bit quieter around here. So tentatively barring anything changing, I would propose we have our next meeting on July 28th and then in August we'll return to two meetings on the 11th and

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on the 25th. Does everyone have calendars available so just so we make sure that we're going to have a quorum if we do put those on the calendar or otherwise we can What's that? >> I won't be here on the 25th. >> here on the 25th of August, correct? Okay.

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>> I can do both August. I'm in Chicago for a work trip on July 28th. >> Okay. Zack? >> I think I'm in town for all of them. >> You're in town for all of them? >> I'm in town for all of them. We've got at least four for each of them at the moment. >> I'll be remote for August 11th but I can

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make those three. >> Okay. Jamie? >> I should >> Should be fine on your end. Kate? >> I think I'm good. >> Okay. So then we'll we'll make that work. We have a quorum then for each of those and then that brings us to 2027.

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So school year calendar will have at our next meeting. I'm going to guess that our first one would be the 8th tentatively. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. And and typically roughly every other week at that point but we'll have more

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official calendar with the dates for that. >> This one This one This one lines up. On the left are all the um school committee meeting dates, and on the right is when >> Oh, perfect. Okay. >> potentially you'd add on a >> That makes sense then. Oh, all right. Perfect. So, this is All right. I had

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not noticed that crossover happen. I know we talked about that, but you cannot >> So, it maintains the >> Got you. >> second, fourth Tuesday cadence with the exception of >> Got you. >> joint meetings of select board, and then when we enter the town time meeting or something like that.

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>> So, one of the things we were talking about towards the end of last school year is um planning tentative dates for subcommittee meetings just to give everyone an idea of sort of roughly when a meeting would be scheduled. These are not locked in. Um if we find that like,

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"Oh, we're going to have a finance sub on October 13th, and that does not work for two of the meeting or two of the subcommittee things, then we would just have a discussion amongst ourselves and figure out the date that works best." Um Tammy would usually kick out an email and check in with everyone in advance and say, "Currently, there's a finance

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sub scheduled for October 13th. Does that work for everyone?" And if it does, great. And if not, here's some other possible dates that we can make work. Um but in the interest of kind of plotting out the year a little bit, and also making sure that we have like regularly scheduled times

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these so that we don't find ourselves uh scurrying to throw too many things into a meeting cuz we realize it's been a few months since the last one. Um we put together kind of a tentative schedule on this. Um so, starting out the year with policy sub at the beginning of September.

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Um the following meeting would be started by eval sub, and then upon from there. Um so, with the intention being that ideally those meetings could happen before the school committee meeting at 6:30. Again, the different subcommittee groups make

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their own sort of meeting schedule based on what times work best for them, but the frequency at least would then be sort of locked in here. That we would plan curriculum or realistically we need at some point over the summer because we have the new state graduation guidelines to look at. And then if not before then,

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by the end of October. And then again in February, and then again in April. Um and then of course if other meetings need to be added, we would add them as we go. Does that make sense to everyone? All right, perfect. So school committee meetings are also listed on this side and you can get kind of a feel for that

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and add those into your calendar. Um and then the sub committee ones we'll tackle as they come up one at a time. All righty. Um that takes us through calendar things. Does anyone have any questions and or comments related to calendars? That brings us to Oh, yep.

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>> Nicole, so as a standard when we look to have the subcommittees, we had visited the idea of having them as a you know, norm but flexible before the school committee meetings. >> So I would say we need to post them two days in advance. So maybe a week to two weeks before, send an email to each

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subcommittee member and say currently there's a curriculum sub scheduled for um October 27th. Is that a date that works for folks? Do we need to schedule a different time? Different time or date? And then we can once everybody's in the same tech uh

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email chain, we can decide together if that still works. >> Perfect. Perhaps the week before would work better that month. That's fine. >> Okay. That would work with everyone. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Uh that brings us to building use. Uh we have a consent agenda. Mr. Mazza, do you want to tackle that?

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>> Sure. Good evening. There are three requests for building use. Um two of them are from the Lameda Park and Rec Department for soccer camps during the summer. These This particular camp used to be housed at the Williams

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Middle School, but with the field no longer being available, it is moving here to the high they are requesting for use of the high school back gym in case it rains. The activities would normally be going

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on outside on the field, but in case of inclement weather, they request access to the building. So, the first is for the dates from June 29th through July 2nd from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45

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a.m. at the high school, approximately 100 participants. And the second request from Park and Rec is from July 6th through July 7th, 9:00 a.m. again to 11:45 a.m. And again,

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approximately 100 participants. And this would be over at the Blueberry Hill Elementary School for use of their gym. The third request is from the Rays of Hope organization

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for use of the Blueberry parking lot. We uh for the Ray of Hope walk on October 18th from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. where they would use it for parking and bussing

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participants to Forest Park for participation in the walk. So, these are recurring annual requests that we receive each year. >> All right, great. Um I'll note before we head into approving these um that these are being

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put together as a consent agenda. So, there is no discussion of items on [clears throat] a consent agenda. If a committee member would like one or more of the items on the consent agenda to be discussed, the committee has to vote to remove the item from the consent agenda. So, just like a town meeting, um is there anything on this consent agenda

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that anyone would like to see removed from it? Okay, then I will entertain a motion. >> I move that the School Committee approve the consent agenda for the June 23rd, 2026 School Committee meeting as presented. We have a motion, do we have a second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion?

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Seeing none, we'll move to a vote. Please vote. >> Yes. >> Matt? >> Yes. >> Zach? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Yes. >> Kate? >> Yes. >> And yes for me as well. All right. So we have already discussed the Town Manager Budget Task Force and that brings us to executive session. Quick

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reminder that we do not need to reconvene into open session, so I'll entertain a motion for executive session. >> I move that the School Committee meet in executive session pursuant to Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 30A, Section 21A, Purpose three, to discuss strategy with respect to collective

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bargaining and an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the of the public body, specifically regarding a memorandum of understanding MOU. Seven, consideration of release of executive session minutes of previous meetings to not reconvene into open session. >> Do we have a motion, do we have a

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second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to a vote. Please vote. >> Yes. >> Matt? >> Yes. >> Zach? >> Yes. >> Emily? >> Yes. >> Jamie? >> Yes. >> Kate? >> Yes. >> And a yes for me as well. That brings our public meeting to an end for this

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evening. Thank you very much and we look forward to seeing you all in July.