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first and last name, your Medford Street address, your question or comment. Member Rouso, if you could call the role, please. >> Certainly. Member Brley >> here. >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. I know you can't see me.
>> Sorry. Member Grant >> here. Member Antapa >> here. >> Member Olady presently absent. Member Reinfeld absent. Member Rouso is present. Mayor Langok >> present. Five present. Two oh please
note member Reinfeld. Um present. So six present one absent. For now we um are going to rise and salute the flag please. 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. >> Um, we have executive session upon a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to MGL 30A section 21A.
um executive session of the Medford School Committee to conduct a strategy session on the basis that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining positions of the Medford School Committee. Specifically, the Medford School Committee will be discussing contracts with the Medford Power Professional Association,
Massachusetts Nurses Association, the MNA, and the SEIU Local 888 Cafeteria Workers. The Memphis School Committee will will reconvene in public session after the executive session. Motion for executive session by
>> so moved >> member seconded by >> oh second I can unmute >> I think that was member Rinfeld roll call please >> member Branley >> yes >> thank you member Graham >> yes
>> member >> yes >> memberat is still absent member Yes. >> Member Rouso. Yes. Mayor Loker. >> Yes. Six in the affirmative, one absent. We're going to um join the breakout room, go into executive session. Thank
you. Hi everyone, we're back. We're recording. Um, okay. So, our um we've just returned from executive session. We have two items left on our agenda. Um, the first is um uh a motion to approve uh our pair
of professionals contract. Um and uh we just took this vote in executive session and we'll take it again here. So is there a motion to approve ratification of the pair professionals contract? >> Motion to approve ratification approve
>> by member Rinfeld seconded by member. >> Anybody? >> Member Russo. Can you call the role? remember? So, you're on mute in case you didn't know that. >> I'm on mute and I don't have my camera on. I have no idea. I think it's when I
left I left the room. It must do that by default. Anyways, um do we we don't have anybody who wants to speak. I see. So, um, member Brley, >> actually, um, before you call the role, um, just in case, um, anybody catches
this recording later, um, I just wanted to thank the members of the PAR professional union, um, for a really collaborative conversation. Um, this contract, there's actually two contracts, a one-year deal and a three-year deal. Um, and, um, it
includes, um, the extension of the school day, which we've been talking so much about. And so with this contract, the pair of professionals will be ready and with us as we step off in the new year, which we're really excited about. Um, we are trying to fix some of the like problems of practice that we see
with our pair professionals um around when they're being asked to cover for different obligations during the school day that are outside of their job. Um, and the thing that we're I'm truly the most excited about is the creation of some like some flexible time from our
pair professionals to help us do the things that don't get done so consistently in the district today. And um, you know, I think we all heard from members of the community um, a couple of months back about the need for bus monitors. So this contract
will allow us some flexibility to deploy pair professionals among other kinds of duties, after school events, after school, you know, parent nights, those kinds of things. But also to be able to support our students on the bus while
they're in transit when we have like hotspots or flash points in the year. Um, not all bus rides are created equal and we want to make sure that they're all like safe and welcoming spaces for students. So, I'm really excited about all of that. Um, in addition to, um, you
know, increases that reflect this committee's work, um, to make sure that, um, our our staff all are paid a wage that is livable. Um, we've made huge strides there over the last like six years and this contract continues to do
that. So, thank you to the committee, thank you to the PAR professionals union. I'm really excited about this and I think the people who are the most excited about this are the payroll office because they will be able to process this without having to do retroactive pay um before the year
starts. So um everyone's h everyone wins. So thank you to everyone and um member called roll >> certainly. Uh, member Branley, >> yes. >> Member Graham, >> yes. >> Member Intapa, >> yes.
>> Member Olady, >> yes. >> Member Rinfeld, >> yes. >> Member so yes. And Mayor Lingo Kern is absent. >> Six in the affirmative, one absent. The motion is approved and the contract is ratified. So we will let the pair
professionals unit know. And um congratulations to everyone. Um, we have one more agenda item this evening. Um, Dr. Galooi, I'm going to turn it over to you for agenda item number five, after school side
coordinator positions. Um, take it away. >> Thank you. I am going to try here to first just share my screen. I know that you all received I shared this with you. Can you see my screen right now?
Not yet. Okay, hold on one second, please. Okay. So, we have been as uh this body knows, we have been really looking at trying to
increase our capacity here um for our afterchool programs. to date uh we have removed 53 students from the weight list um since last school year. So we also just as a reminder for people that are
maybe just joining this meeting now um we are engaging in a consultation with basic we are going to one of the very first school committee meetings um present what that might look like um and ask for a vote for that to engage in
that consultancy. So, we don't want to be um doing too much to our staffing ahead of being able to have that gathered data, but as we're bringing on a new track, which is an early pickup time at 400 p.m., that new track has
allowed us to be continuing to clear space off of the wait list because when uh families elect for a 4 p.m. up time. In some cases, it has opened up a 6:00 p.m. slot that we can then fill. In
order to keep forward momentum going without um going too far ahead as we're engaging engaging in a consultancy, we are here to ask to for the possibility of adding which would be well increasing two site
coordinator positions um from the part-time that they are now to full-time. So really what the request is is just um what it would look like in the in the budget which I will talk about which is a revolving account. It
would just double what we're doing now. So what the positions would consist of there's four site coordinators one for each building. This would be for two site coordinators um only that would partner with all four schools um to just
help out with some of the logistics. >> Their year would be um there's a breakdown here so you could see it would be 220 days which consists of the 180 days of school. We're hoping to add some um school vacation programming to this
um time for the before and the end end of school summer programming as well as professional development. They would be working eight hour days. Um at $36.93 an hour. Um some of the roles that it
would be another happy piece is that our partnership with Cityear is expanding. um a bit and they also are um getting into the afterchool game and we are getting some we are getting five city year employees that are separate
from our core members that will be working in our McGllin and our Msatuck schools and so those additional so we are getting 15 core members between the Matuck the McGllin middle and the McGlin elementary those core members also work
in the afterchool at the end of the day. In addition to those core members, we are also getting five additional staff members for afterchool care um coverage at the Misatuck and the McGlin. So to kind of just help with a
lot of these logistics um in trying to increase capacity, working with our partner uh Cityear um and just assisting with some of the operational day-to-day pieces. it would be helpful to be able to elevate two of
those positions right now to full-time um which is in keeping with the model that BASIC does use. Uh so at the end of the day uh I'll just kind of highlight here right now site coordinators are
currently budgeted to earn $41,270 uh $47.90 and if these two positions um are created there'd be an additional cost to the budget of 47,54. So, as I previously mentioned, the
afterchool is a revolving account. Um, the budget can handle this increase and so we are here to uh ask if that would be a possibility and I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Member Rankinfeld,
>> uh, does this change benefits eligibility for anyone? What does this do? No. Okay. I'm sure I have more questions, but I will >> member in Tapa. >> Thank you. Are these positions the so
the two site coordinators that are being brought to this role? Are they already inhabited roles and are these folks getting promotions or are these positions that need to be reposted and reapplied? >> That's a great question. We're not looking to create a new position. So,
right now we have four site coordinators that work the duration of the school year and they work part-time. And so, what this would do would be creating two of those positions, ideally one at uh one of the title one buildings and one
at one of the non-title one buildings. Um, and that would just mean that they are now working full-time instead of part-time. >> Cool. And then so are these jobs going to be posted and then those four folks are going to apply or is it going to be that
um they're posted but then they're post the job is posted to the public with preference to the the four folks that are already employed. >> Uh ideally it would be an internal posting where out of the four >> Okay. Okay. Thank you.
Any other questions from the committee? >> Um, is there a Oh, member Einfeld. >> Yeah, just a little bit of clarification. It's a little bit on the side here on the city year. So, previously we you said we're getting
more city year people. >> Are those more people being paid for? As I recall, we were splitting the city year. We were paying for city year partly out of after school but not entirely. >> Correct. That's still the same.
>> So, but these new folks that are coming in is exclusively on the after school or are we >> No. So, no. Correct. No, it's not exclusively on the afterchool. It's still the same split. >> Okay. So, so our city year line item did
go up. No, no. We we maintained the same uh price as we did last year, >> but with for more more people. >> Yes, they have more people that they are. So, we I believe uh don't quote me,
but I believe that we had about 11 core members last year and now we're going to have 15 core members. >> Okay. And >> for the same price. >> For the same price. >> Oh, I wish everything worked that way. But they're still being paid a reason.
This was one of our concerns a year ago was that >> yes compensation was >> they're able to live in or near Medford or Boston. >> Yes, we did not go up in price. It's the same exact um cost as it was last year.
Um, but I would say that uh I think that is a a benefit to Metro Public Schools because we are getting it at a slightly discounted rate than what maybe other districts are typically charged for city year. >> Yeah. Great. And then are we confident
we will be able to offer vacation week programming for this? cuz I see those days in there and not that we don't have plenty of work that people can do for 8 days. But uh it is a goal of ours. So I think what
we probably would not start with the December break. I think that's the one where we have a lot >> Yeah. There's a lot of families that have um vacation times and things coming up. I think our goal would be to target the February and April break. >> Right. That's what I That's how I was
reading the eight days. >> Yes. Yes. >> But I just want to make sure that that's >> And I'm very sorry. There's an an excessive amount of emergency vehicles that are reporting to the high school right now. So, I'm a little distracted and I might
>> Do you Do you know why? >> No, I don't. >> I'm hoping it's not the woods again. >> Yeah. >> I I apologize. You can go check that. Do you want us to do a motion? Is there a question?
>> Is there um member Le? >> Well, see, I had a question, but now I'm worried that the superintendent may have to attend to that. So, my question can be asked. It's just >> No, no, that's okay. Go. That's okay. I can multitask right now. >> Okay. So, it's just a quick question. This is why I have it in my brain. So, for the the two new positions being
incorporated for the site coordinator responsibilities in the budget, uh the additional $47,500, have we kind of considered a little bit about how that'll be sustained in future budgets if the external funding changes at all? I know that obviously you listed
a little bit earlier that last year's uh annual calendar listed 200,000 in like in net. So, have you just kind of thought about that a little bit? I'm sure we have. I just want to have a >> No, that's a great question. So I'm going to answer that in two twofold. One would be um we also are bringing in more
revenue. I mean we've taken 53 people off of the the weight list. So we've also increased how much money is coming into that revolving account. And then I would say that I have been I did have a conversation with Andrew Mumford of Basic um just to gauge not that I'm
jumping ahead but just to gauge you know in his in his estimation what is a prioritized position to be full-time and his top two are the site coordinator position and then the curriculum developer like the teacher
that's really working on the enrichment activities for students. and I really don't want to jump ahead. We're just engaging in this um consultation with him. Um but just to try to keep pace for what we really do believe our Medford
families deserve um in continuing to increase the capacity and making sure we have the programming and the coverage. Um having additional time for people to just work on staffing um and hiring and some of those logistics is real and would be helpful.
Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> And does this take things off of me of our director's plate? >> It it provides assistance for sure. It gives her an additional layer of partnership when it comes to just the
basic supply needs of the schools, the ordering, the hiring, um this this the maintaining of staff and keeping communications with um city air. >> Thank you. No, thank you. >> There a motion to approve.
>> Motion to approve. Motion approved by member Leady, seconded by >> member Branley. Uh, member Rouso, can you call the role? >> Yes. And it turns out I am unmuted. Uh, member Branley, >> yes. >> Member Graham, >> yes.
>> Member Antapa, >> yes. >> Member, >> yes. >> Member Rinfeld, >> yes. >> Member Russo, yes. And Mayor Lingo Kern is absent. >> Six in the affirmative, one absent. Motion passes. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> To adjourn
>> by member Rinfeld, seconded by member Branley. Member So, can you call the role? >> I can. Member Brley, >> yes. >> Member Graham, >> yes. >> Member,
>> yes. >> Member Olat, >> yes. >> Member Reinfeld. >> Yes. >> Member. So, yes. Mayor Lok is absent. Six in the affirmative, one absent. Uh the meeting is adjourned.