we have a quum yeah all righty let's going to be one of those good good evening everyone today is Tuesday February 11th we're at the Malboro public school committee meeting I would like to remind everyone
that we are recorded on wmctv live and streaming and so I call this meeting to order at 7:30 if we could all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please and thank you iedge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all thank you everyone we will kick off with the presentation from the mber high school
student advisory committee hello everyone oh hello that's green right all right hello everyone my name is Atul Mador and I'm going to be presenting for Patrick havlin hello everyone I am Patrick havin and the senior student advisory
committee member this evening I would like to talk to you all about our culinary program at malor high school and why it is important and why it should be offered at all to all high school students malor High's cooking classes offer students essential life skills that prepare them for adulthood in a
world where fast food and processed meals are common knowing how to cook nutritious meals is crucial for maintaining a healthy lifestyle by learning to prepare fresh homemade meals students develop an understanding of nutrition Porche control and meal planning which can help prevent health
issues such as obesity and diabetes these classes teach young people the values of balance eating habits setting the setting them up for long-term being Beyond nutrition our cooking classes promote independent and self-sufficiency many students eventually move out on
their own whether for work or for college and having some basic cooking skills allows them to take care of themselves without relying on expensive takeout or unhealthy processed foods cooking also helps students develop confidence in the kitchen making them more willing to experiment with new
foods and flavors this sense of Independence can can lead them to healthier choices and better financial management our culinary program also provides valuable lessons in teamwork and time management many recipes require collaboration whether it's dividing tasks among classmates or managing
cooking times effectively these skills translate well into the workforce where cooperation and efficiency are key additionally students learn to follow directions carefully measure ingredients accurately and pay attention to detail skills that are useful in many career Fields Beyond just
culinary arts furthermore our classes Foster creativity and cultural awareness students are often introduced to recipes from different Cuisines helping them appreciate divers cultures and traditions this exposure broadens their worldview and encourages them to try new
foods and cooking techniques cooking is an art and through it students can express themselves experiment with flavors and develop a passion for creativity not just the industry but in all areas of life ultimately the cooking classes at malbro high school are more than just about food they teach
responsibility practical life skills and encourage healthier Lifestyles by equipping students with abilities early on our school can help prepare them for successful life and independent future thank you
good hello everyone my name is Taylor cronis and I am the sophomore representative on sa welcome to 2025 this is the first time we are seeing each other since the start of the new year and I hope everyone Zer is off to a great start tonight I wanted to share with you and those who may be watching
from home the positive POS impacts of Mal's diverse community and how it is beneficial to not just students within malor Public Schools but to our malor community as a whole my inspiration for my presentation stemmed from the ice raides that are beginning in Massachusetts and considering that this
is going to affect our community I think it's important to highlight the diversity that is all around us as humans our first instinct when something bad happens is to focus on the negative this is just how our brains are wired a lot of the times when we experience fear we shut down I had a I had a
conversation with Miss bouier about a few aspects of my presentation and one of the things we talked about was the toll that the ice raids are taking on malo's community from what she's observed she's told me that a lot of the fear students and families are facing has come from being in different parts of the process
and not knowing when they are protected especially since immigration is such a complicated process with many moving Parts but tonight I want to give my presentation through a more positive lens now what do I mean by this how can this be positive at all Malboro is very
fortunate to have community members with all different types of cultural backgrounds at malor high the main three languages that are spoken other than English are Spanish Portuguese and Haitian gr one of the benefits this has on our students in Malboro is that our white English-speaking students are more
culturally educated and accepting of cultures that are different than them compared to other districts in November I attended maer's delegate assembly that is hosted here in malor at the Courtyard Marriott maer stands for Massachusetts Association of Representatives and was
created by a student representative just like us who wanted to see student reps from across the Commonwealth collaborate while I was there I met the wus representative and he told me about how one of the biggest issues wus is facing across the district is racism and discrimination among students mostly
white students directing racial slurs at Black and Latino students this is especially taking a toll in their middle schools we are lucky that this is not one of Mal's Main concerns as a district the work the m has done to promote Dei throughout the district is visible simply by just watching students
interact with each other not only does our diverse community help to lower cases of racism and discrimination it overall just helps our students become more productive members of society into our community as a whole and teachers our students to work with others who might be different from
them and to embrace other cultures and to learn more every day in talking with Miss bouier she said she hopes the diversity will push students to ask questions about things that are going on in other countries and to become better Global Citizens one of the most recent core lessons we had at the high school was
the difference between equity and equality and from what I heard and I saw in my own core class it went very well the work that we are doing with Dei in our schools plays a vital role in the development of a student and we need to continue to do it especially as Malboro is forever growing and
changing I would like to leave you leave you and those who may be watching at home with something to think about during this time it is important that you check on your neighbors check on your friends check on your employees and your co-workers and to check on our students and the members of our
community who might be afraid to leave their homes right now not every immigrant who comes to America comes here with ill intent to say this would be a stereotype they have families and they are hard workers let us come together as as a community to strengthen those that may feel that they are weak
during this time let us be one small contributor to Bridging the Gap and bringing Unity to our country because this is our home and we all deserve to feel safe here as malber we are proud of the community we have built thank you if you have any questions I'll take them
now sorry not a question but a comment your words ring very true um for me and I think very especially for this District um you know going out on a limb here I am going to say I'm exceptionally exceptionally proud of this district and
the stand that we have taken for years to work really hard to get behind diversity equity and inclusion and I say it that way because I truly believe it and I think the work that we've been doing as a district about um the abar
work massively important too um so to me your words are probably going to say to me the the highlight of ton tonight's meeting because we need to show kindness to everyone it shouldn't
matter um color of skin socioeconomic background shouldn't come into play be kind to each other so thank you for your words thank you thank you thank you good evening my name is Hadley Haw and
I'm the junior representative for the student advisory committee on January 24th maror families were informed that us immigrations and Customs Enforcement also known as ice will be able to enter marbor public schools with a warrant this not only includes the high school but the middle school and all elementary
schools no matter where you fall on the political Spectrum this intr is greatly distressing since the new policy was announced there has been misinformation circulating the internet and spread by Word of Mouth however the fears created by the situation is immense and emotions often outweighs the truth many of you
are aware of the general changes made to the Department of Homeland securi policy now allowing ice agents to enter churches and schools there's also been a visible increase of Agents around cities in stores and other heavily populated areas as of now agents have been focusing on undocumented immigrants that
have outstanding warrants for arrest however the label criminal has been Braden to include all of those undocumented a current White House spks person has also said that doesn't mean non-criminal immigrants are off the table currently 800 people a day Nationwide are being detained for
deportation this all sounds very scary but right now the majority of students at risk are safe at our schools for an ice agent to enter our schools they would have to hold a specific judicial warrant for a student's arrest since our district is not C immigration status they would need specific names in order
to take anyone into custody as well as this any student under 18 needs to have par parental permission to have information of any kind given to ice agents agents are not allowed to enter schools or be around school without warrants the high school and the school district have done an excellent job in
attempting to handle such an enigmatic and poignant situation across the school district superintendent Mary Murphy released a message to the community describing what Maro will be doing to address the new policies which was translated into every language spoken at students homes as well as this the high
school Advanced a program titled know your rights which discussed what to do in the event of encountering an ice agent and provided information about Constitutional Amendments this was well received at our school with 150 students attending the 90-minute presentation there's only so much we can do in this
awful situation however fear has been ever present in this time students are worried about coming to school fearing the documentation status will bring their about consequences for them and their families this fear is affecting our School attendance for example on January 30th a false message spread
across social media that ice agents would be in our school across the district the average of 20% of students in schools were absent that day in another example one student said that their mother didn't want them to go to extracurricular activities for fear of being stopped by ice on the way home students and adults alike are scared
that they have the possibility of getting racially profiled by Ice agents and asked for their documentation papers we must also considered the 33 Haitian Asylum seeking families in marbor who do not know what will happen to them if they are stopped by an agent no matter what we do there will always be an
underlying sense of fear fear for the lives these families have built fear that their lives will be uprooted fear for the LI lives that they have worked so hard to benefit their children even if you are not threatened by deportation there is at least one person that you know that is even if you don't realize
the fear affects all of us whether we realize it or not no one should have to go through this especially children in our school we must find ways to help our community's families we must continue to protect our community's children educating them about what to do when encountering with an ice agent and
providing them with opportunities of safety we cannot let our community members be taken from us especially if we can prevent it from happening thank you and have a wonderful evening okay next step
good evening my name is Jade onyango and I'm the sa representative of the class of 2028 tonight I'm going to be presenting on the topic of unified Bachi on the 26th of January maloro got to host the unified Bachi tournament this event was run through partnership with
Special Olympics we had both our student council and best buddies members working together combined to make multiple teams the honor of being able to host this event was particular particularly special to us because we had applied three times before being chosen to host
the 2025 and 2026 tournaments MHS student council first attended the event in the stands back in 2019 and we're so excited to be able to host this year and the next due to covid these plans were slightly set back having to compete
virtually but followed up the next year with two teams over the last few years they've built up the program incorporating familiar faces from Best Buddies all of this would not have been possible without the help of special Educators Miss bu and the Special Education team
chair Miss ionson since we are hosting the event again next year we have already discussed some changes and improvements other schools have hosted have had stations with a lot of grab and go items by this I mean fidgets beaded necklace necklaces and stickers and other
different items that players could use or wear around the event based on what I heard from students and players and attendance there are not too many changes to be made for next year besides a few changes to lunch options apparently no one likes Garden salad overall the event went and was run very
smoothly we had a lot of positive feedback from players from Malboro as well as from other schools in attendance there was a great energy in the gym and it was a great experience some people don't realize how important events like these are for the players it gives them a great and positive
competitive environment allowing them to participate in a team sport and make m memories speaking on behalf of student council and best buddies we cannot wait for next year's tournament and that concludes my presentation feel free to ask any questions thank you all for your time
and have a great rest of your evening thank you good we're all set thank you very much all righty think that concludes the presentation yes all righty thank you
everyone all righty moving on superintendent report thank you um mayor Christian on January 27th districtwide administrators and Lead teachers met to
focus on three roadmap topics feedback sense of urgency and student discourse the district leadership team collected feedback and we be using that feedback to identify upcoming areas of focus and
training the district led by the prek to 12 principles have detoured slightly and meaningful discourse will be an area of focus for the remainder of the year last month I updated the committee on our
professional development that introduced The Learning pit and a shift from passive to Active Learning meaningful discourse is considered active learning it engag engages students in the learning process by requiring them to
critically analyze information formulate their own opinions articulate their ideas clearly and engage with the perspective of others the next districtwide leadership meeting will
take place on Monday March 17th at 4:15 p.m. and you as usual and the would come comments with pizza to be served as well if you were a v aable I'm also inviting the school committee members to attend that final districtwide um training um
focus on student discourse as we plan for the remainder of the year and launch some plans um initial plans for next year um I also wanted just to bring up a topic because at the next meeting I'm
planning on bringing the um draft FY 26 District calendar and we've identified two conflicts in already in next year's calendar September 23rd um which is um
Russia Shana and November 11th which is a federal and state holiday and there is no school and both of those States fall on what would be a regularly scheduled by policy school committee meeting
either the 2 or the fourth um Tuesday of the month and the PO policy states that um the dates and times of the school committee meetings will be included in the final calendar so I just wanted um I don't know if people want to have a
discussion about that today or moving next meeting yes yeah I was going to um suggest well thinking that our first meeting after the summer if you will is probably going to be August 26th which
I'm guessing um with that then it would make sense then we would move to September 99th which would be our normal second Tuesday and since there's a fifth Tuesday I wonder if we could do the the second meeting in September for the 30th
if that would be possible um just throwing out that idea and then um relative to November um I'm wondering if that date we could actually look at November 18th
as being another option um just trying to fit in the dates Denise I understand some of us can make it so but it keeps us on a Tuesday so um that's what I'm thinking so we can try
and follow as long as best as possible and I would propose if I may um maybe Monday the 10th the 11th but if it needs to be the 18th just no I won't be here it's
fine what month November November 10 should we include either or I don't know when your joint conference is going to be in November 12 it's the 12th yeah so I would say on that maybe um if we
could do a doodle to look at everyone's availability because I can't speak to other people's availability on Monday nights I just so maybe that's something so I can set up a doodle poll and send it to all committee members and so we have that data before the next meeting
yeah that way it may help you on formulating that calendar and then another suggestion um I think um that Mrs Matthews had um asked me to kind of throw out since she was not able
to be here tonight was um the potential that maybe we would look at um adding another meeting in December you know maybe rejiggering some of the meetings in December and so that may be another option because I know we often have only one meeting in December but I think it
just depends upon how much could be going on if you need our attention on things or whatever so so so looking at that it because there you're running out of November dates so maybe the yeah first Tuesday in
as a third choice first second third something like that just trying to throw a couple out there and also looking at December there are five Tuesdays that month so if we if we only had our usual one meeting on the 9th we wouldn't have
another meeting for one two three four five weeks which is seems like a long time to go I'm not opposed to continuing with the second and the fourth and doing the 9th and the 23rd so the 9th and the 23rd or something like that oh like adding
the 23rd only because it just seems like such a long time so and maybe that's something we could put on Doodle too you know I think tentatively that's a school day as well it might be an early release day but it
is a school day on the 23rd yeah elton's telling me I'm correct so I trust him on that one okay so I'll send out a dual poll tomorrow yeah thank you yeah thanks you're welcome um and then finally the
only other thing that I had um included was that attached to my report is a midyear update to my fy2 goals thank you any questions regarding the superintendent's report
seeing none okay moving on to the assistant superintendent of student services the kindergarten registration Miss O'Brien thank you mayor Christian MPS is now accepting kindergarten registrations for Fallout 20125 registration is for uh for
children who reside in malor who turned 5 years old on or before August 31st 2025 the district highly encourages families to register their child for kindergarten by June 30th to be able to receive important notifications from their child school about upcoming
kindergarten events there are um events and notifications that go out during the summer um for some of the kind of get to know you um before the uh before the kindergarten screenings the district has tried a pop-up notification and a notification
Banner on the district's website to highlight and promote early registration within the first 3 weeks the registration Center Center has already received 30 registrations and the entire registration process is online and it opened on January 13th this year parents
can upload any required documents as part of their electronic application even though registration can be completed completely virtually the registration parent Outreach Center will have extended hours on March 20th April
29th and May 15th to provide in inperson support to families to complete the child's registration if needed these events with specific details have been added to the district calendar on the website an informational flyer is included in this packet and additional
information is also provided on our website all documents are translated and available on the district's website also this spring the district will be transitioning to online registration for new students enrolling in our Early Childhood Center currently
parents submit a complete paper enrollment packet that includes all of the required documentation to be considered for the lottery so they're going through the entire process and might not be registering so that's a lot of work to be putting forward um so what
we're going to do is um put together a one sheet application that'll be used for the lottery and then once uh families have been chosen for the lottery they'll be notified and then uh directed to the online registration portal to be able to uh complete that
enrollment and our thought is uh I'm meeting with uh Jill Reagan next week to go through this in detail and one thought we had was for those um families to say give them a specific date like you need to have all of your enrollment
documentation by June 30th or you lose your spot like just to so that we don't have proof of residencies and things like that dragging into the school year and potentially taking up um a slot for some for another student and that's all I have okay thank you
very much Miss nness I was just going to say I really think that's great to have that efficient process of only doing the one sheater up front it but I do think as you had mentioned to have that deadline or you forfeit your spot is
critical um because otherwise it's going to go Haywire so thank you okay moving on acceptance of minutes minutes of January 14th 2025 school committee meeting motion to accept to accept is on the table and seconded questions
comments concerns regarding the minutes from January 14th I do actually have a correction uh for the minutes of January 14th item number 11 uh Mrs Ryan congratulated the MHS students who marched in the Rose Parade
not the roast parade just for you know if we ever looked back yeah and actually I had already let Mrs Matthews know so she had made that correction and I was going to be
bringing that up tonight for or she was going to bring it forward so that's great we're all catching it so motion's on the table to accept the amended minutes okay any other further questions comments concerns CA all in favor of
accepting the amended minutes from January 14th it passes thank you minutes from the January 22nd 2025 school committee meeting motion to approve to approve on the table and
seconded questions comments concerns yes Miss um I had let Mrs Matthews know that um there was just one inconsistency I think it was on the second page where um my name in one place was like with two s's the other
one is with one has I think it just whatever she's making that change so that's it questions on the table to amend the minutes from January 22nd for representation of your last name
questions comments concerns seeing on all in favor thank you very much the January 22nd meeting minutes are approved minutes from January 28th 2025 school committee meeting motion to approve motion to approve is on the
table and seconded questions comments concerns no amendments to this one all right all in favor of the January 22nd meeting minutes all in favor motion carries thank you very much everyone my favorite portion of the program public
comment are there any public comment going once seeing none public comment any public comment going twice seeing none public comment any public comment going for a third and final
time seeing none all right we close the public comment action items and reports the mber high school program of studies so this is on the agenda so we can look it over and review it and we'll be voting on it next week or next school
committee meeting so I would need a table to vote on this for the February 25th meeting uh motion to table to the next school committee meeting thank you and that is second any questions comments or
concerns so I'm sure there'll be a nice discussion with that on February 25th all in favor of tabling favor motion carries so we're tabling the mour high school program of studies to February 25th thank you very much bus transportation award from
tabled at from the January 28th meeting is there any discussion regarding this Miss Hennessy um so I I guess I would say uh after a lot of thought a lot of discussion and a lot of
data Gathering I'm G to uh thank you Mr Wells for your due diligence on dealing with a lot of questions sorry problem um but well Heidi Matthews and I definitely asking a lot of questions um about about
the bids about our relationship about the consistency um around the bus companies um we did have two bids that um he had spoken about the last time we had our meeting um two bids
the biders were nrt and first student and first student and um the way that the bid structure is that it would be a low bid situation and I do not have the exact figure but it's
all in your packet yeah about $2.8 million between the two bids um so nrt is two $2.8 million lower over the 5year bid versus the first student bid so it's a considerable difference between the two and and I think it's it's just
really critical uh for our community to understand uh a number of different things around around this bid situation um we knew moving into um putting out the bid that would be a 5-year bid that um we were probably
looking at a larger jump if you will on our costs that we're going to be going out the door from an operational standpoint and we had had to have some conversations about actually making an amendment to our bid structure kind of
upfront uh we initially had and we are currently running a two tier system that have 33 buses um knowing that we were already probably going to you know looking at how things were that we were
going to be in um a financial struggle and knowing that we needed to make sure that we were prioritizing as much as possible um continuing with many of the services and the staff that we have in place um we had discussions about
altering that bid to reduce the number of buses to 25 and big picture what that is meaning is that we are going to have to have a big Community discussion about needing to change how we're getting to
school I don't have the answers to that yet but what that is is that we have to have a lot of communications and conversations about how we're going to do this and working together part of that is what we started to talk about is working with um the city and working
with uh DPW um making sure we're sitting with uh the police department around safety issues and the traffic Commission because we're going to need to do some kind of a pullback on making more of an
area for walking to get to school um we have been OV exceeding if you will on uh our bus service which is a great thing because we want to have everyone coming to school but we need to find alternative ways of making sure that
we're getting people to school safely and appropriately but also being fiscally prudent so that said we're looking at needing to move forward this bid um which is the lower bid situation for nrt and just to get a little bit of
a a Flav of the differences um if we had just kept with um 33 buses uh for moving forward it would have been excuse me
9511 151,000 which would have been a 2562 per jump over last year okay so by moving forward with nrt's current
contract next year our increase in current operations running at 25 buses though not 33 would be $298,800 that we're also articulating the concerns that we heard from our
community members especially last year nrt has made incredible strides of trying to improve their service and I really think we need to give a nod not only to Matt and your team but to the folks working at the Hub you know our
new Hub manager and the dispatcher on trying to make sure that they're improving the service that being the case we are hoping that we're going to continue on moving forward with them um good ways of holding each other accountable and making sure that we're working through
all of this together um we've spoken about some uh reports that basically Matt has had in place sometimes it's daily conversations or weekly conversations but we're looking at moving these into more of a monthly
communication that would be coming to school committee I think so that not only would the committee be more more aware of everything going on but our community has a little bit more insight to that too um so they're not just going
crazy on whatever the problem of the day is so we've really worked hard Matt's talked with them um we're looking to have lists that will be arriving on more of a regular basis around the assigned drivers for the district which would
also include our substitutes so that we really understand who nrt is hiring and that we understand who they are because they're not employees of Marboro per se they're employees of nrt um we would be looking at having a current Fleet list
so that keeps us surprised of the age and the mileage on these vehicles which also would work hand inand with us having more of a maintenance list and that way we can really understand what we're running into because if we're
having a certain bus that's having consistent issues then it's going to allow us for more immediate conversations on replacement or another solution to make sure that we're concerned about the safety and just like they are as well uh safety nod that we
want to make sure that we are seeing more of a consistency of reports back about safety incidents which would also potentially include incidents of student incidents on the bus so that we can be responsive from our standpoint of working with them and that can be tying
into our behavioral aspect andal that we're handling here in the schools and then last but not least is really talking about the on time and late arrival buses for both AM and PM and you might say PM well the PM matters because we need to make sure that our
elementary students especially are getting home in a reasonable time having that delay being massive is not going to be any better than a student arriving late to school and missing any of their foundational time and I really appreciate nrt understanding how
imperative this is for um us to be working hand inand for the future um and having that so for that $3 million difference and US needing to sit on the lower end I would recommend that our
committee would move forward with um moving forward the intent to go under contract with nrt and obviously would be relative to our budgeting practices and such so there you go any other comments questions
concerns um so just from my perspective this bus issue is a Statewide issue it's across the board um a lot of communities in the Commonwealth are um not busing their children anymore or doing a fee um
it's just incredible the governor's office as well aware of this we made it known that this is a huge issue with with this across the board um but it's our responsibility for this board is to make sure that nrt is actually doing their job so um not only this school
committee but also my office as well so those reports will be um needed and um will be given and so we we know what we need to do um based upon prior experiences so um so we'll make sure that that does happen happen so having
said that is there any further discussions questions my only comment or question would be to you if you can help us on navigating the appropriate time on being able to get the appropriate parties
together that I mentioned around the police the traffic commission and uh DPW because it really is going to be something that we're going to need to be sitting down sooner rather than later um and I think your help would be really
imperative on making that happen um because we've really got to get on that soon yep it's on my list of du to coordinate a meeting because it's extremely imperative to make sure that all parties are are playing great so thank you so much you're
welcome anything else no so I'd like to make a motion for approval of the nrt bid that came in in and Matt's going to do the amount of money that's not in my Camp
21 to for total contract buing they total of 41,100 as he said motions on the table a and seconded
any other further questions comments concerns seeing none all in favor any opposed I don't see motion carries thank you okay moving on to the updated fiscal
year 26 budget calendar this was tabled from November 12th which I would assume would be 2024 all right ready so we have a schedule before us again this was tabled from November 12th 2024 so the packet says 2025 I
provided an updated schedule at everyone's seat as well so in that packet we have March 18th March 25th and then the March 18th date is incorrect it's actually April 8th so April 18th is
moving to April 8th then April 29th can you repeat that March 18 I'm confused so what's in front of us is updated so March 18th is not happening no 18th March 25th okay April
8th April 29th okay oh I see the 18th was what in the package okay looking at home it says April 18th and that is in correct I see the correction correct question um would it be possible for us to potentially consider March 19 18 which is a
Wednesday we often have done some of the the workshops um on a Wednesday to give us some more latitude so I just am curious if that might be possible I don't know what other people's dates are so we would have to
reach out to all members so I was going to ask the same question because I have a prior commitment on the 18th that's same set for a while and I was going to say I know that um Mrs Matthews was able to make the 19th
happen I know that I was going to be able to make that happen and I believe from a planning standpoint Michelle Bowen hedger normally has earmarked for those Wednesdays for making the finance thing I would say as far as Mr Gary um
hopefully with us having this much lead time he would be able to make work Arrangements um but again I can't speak to that either way he would need to make it on the 18th too so I would entertain a motion to table so we can have further
discussion so make sure all members are available um want to speak for everyone could we table yet what I would say is in that doodle poll that that the superintendent was going to send out maybe it might be helpful if
um there could be another layer of that doodle pole so that we could um get that date settled sooner rather than later since that is coming up soon so the choice is the 18th or the 19th of March for the for that initial workshop for the workshop okay cuz that's usually a
couple hours at least usually stats earlier as well yeah like at 5 at 5 o' okay just need a motion to table motion to table okay motion to table the updated F year
26 budget calendar is on the table and seconded questions comments concerns regarding the table the vote seeing none all in favor motion carries okay moving on to policies for
approval Miss Hennessy okay thank you very much so I'd like to make a motion to approve the the social media policy policy ihb that you have before you we had the first reading
the last meeting and there are just a few minor changes so motion to approve with those changes as listed motion to approve policy ihbs on the table and seconded questions comments concerns
regarding policy ihb seeing none all in favor motion carries thank you very much um next up would be student extended field trip protocols policy I JB and uh
I'd like to make a motion to approve with the changes as noted motion on the table and seconded for policy igb J JB ijb questions comments concerns seeing
none all in favor motion carries and thank you very much so uh next up would be policy ilb which is the high school promotion graduation requirements um we were making some adaptations to
this policy initially started uh after the election had happened and there were changes relative to um the mcast uh and we we just adapted some of our
language to better align with our coursework that's being offered so it was down below where you'll see um in mathematics must include successful completion of Algebra 2 or equivalent coursework which you all would see that
within the program of studies but that was something that we have been doing um in the program of studies we just wanted to make sure that that was added to the language with within the policy as far as Science and Technology um that it is a lab based Science and Technology
again that's something that's been within the program of studies but we thought it best to make sure that it was consistent also in this policy language and very similar around the world and Classical Languages two years cumulative of the same language we again it was
just mo more making sure we had um consistent language with the program of studies and the graduation policy um um and we wanted to make sure up near the top where we were talking about the competency
determination which is another path that is available should that be necessary for graduation requirements um obviously because of the notation that we had in the policy allowing the building administrator um having the discretion
to approve alternative academic pathways through programs approved by the school committee that line was already in there but we felt that it might be helpful to um put in writing a little bit more around the CD
so that is it motion to approve thank you motion is on the table and seconded for policy ilb questions comments concerns seeing none all in
favor motion carries for Z okay moving on acceptance of donations in gifts we have the Mau Education Foundation for MPS so this was a correction from the
last meeting so the total amount is $835 53 motion to approve motion to approve is on the table and second in questions comments concerns seeing none all in favor motion
carries donor's Choice Richer School bartleson $1,287 33 motion to approve motion to approve is on the table and seconded questions comments concerns seeing none all in
favor motion carries thank you much Kane school PTO cane School $4,170 31 motion to approve to approve is on the table and seconded questions comments concerns seeing none all in
favor motion carries thank you very much that is all of them correct yes all righty moving on reports of school committee subcommittees oh yes go that's me right
mhm sub committees yes so um on behalf of the superintendent search committee we would like to report out that we did meet last week and we have five interviews scheduled for this week it's all you're
good that's great okay anyone else that's it okay oh policy we are going to have another meeting coming up sorry we've had a lot going on between superintendent search and some other
things so coming okay we'll look forward to that I know you will I will beta br my seat yeah members Forum yes Mrs Matthews has reviewed the warrant and I will be signing it on her
behalf I've reviewed it as well a tool I always enjoy your members for updates what do you got for us today almost won another tournament Saturday after the one we won we came in first place overalls
qualifications finals already qualified for state so it's more of a practice but I know the middle school have their St this weekend I believe okay soing them on hopefully the high school tournament isek
excellent all righty well we wish you all the luck thank you anyone else for members Forum seeing none okay everyone else's favorite part of the program motion to adjourn motion to
adjourn is on the table and seconded questions comments concerns about adjourning seeing none all in favor we are adjourned at 8:21 thank you everyone have a great night