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I'd like to call school committee meeting to order. Uh, and the first item of business is I would like to make a motion that we move to executive session. Probably not talking. It's okay. Um, under purpose three to conduct strategy with respect to collective

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bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigation position of the public body and the chair so declares uh we will be looking at three MOAs the ESP contract health insurance

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longevity and a contract litigation. So >> second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> That's unanimous. And so we will not break We have adjourned our executive session

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and I would like to move that we return to uh public session. So move. >> So moved. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I >> Thank you. Uh those that are able, could

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you please join me in rising to the pledge of allegiance to the flag to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands nation and justice for all.

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Well, we have lots of very positive things on our agenda this evening. Uh, celebrations, recognizing people, introducing people, and so I'd like to start with our student spotlight. So, with the students from the Mary Kay Good

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fifth grade music fully art, please come up. Hi there. >> How are you? >> Good. >> Good. Thank you so much for being here with us. Can you tell us your names? >> I'm Ben. And I'm Cora. >> Great. And what are you going to share

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with us today? >> Our foli art projects and how we make them. >> Great. Um, when you speak, would you do me a favor and pull the mic a little bit closer to you? >> Go ahead, Ben. >> Good evening. I'm Ben >> and I'm Laura and thank you for having

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us here tonight. We are some of Miss Fantasia's fifth grade music students from the Mary Kay Good Elementary School and we are excited to share our Fully Art projects with you. Fully art is the creation of sound effects in movies and TV to bring stories to life. For this project, we explored different sounds

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around the room to go along with the 30 second film clip of our choosing. Miss Fmentasia gave us time in our groups to explore, create, and practice the sounds that we found. >> After a few music classes, we began After a few music classes, we began the

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recording process. We were able to record our sounds in different takes, and Miss Fantasia did very little editing after. It was our job to make sure that the sounds were created lined up with their clips. Throughout this project, we combined music to

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storytelling, teamwork, and technology. Many of us mentioned that we will think differently about how sound is used and added in movies. We are proud to share our two video clips with you tonight. >> Well, that's exciting. It's on. It's on your

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>> We're getting a little technical assistance here. We should have you come over and probably help us. >> Movie clip one. H Huh? Hey. Hey. Get back here. What are you doing?

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Come back here. And now for movie clip two. What was the most fun part of your project? >> Um, I think the most fun part part of the project was the filming. >> The film making itself. >> How about you? I think the most fun part

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about this is working together and what's the word, >> experimenting with each other? >> Experimenting with each other. So, bouncing ideas off each other and then coming up with new ones. >> Yes.

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>> Yeah, that is exciting. Come up with something even better than what either one of you had thought of individually. That that's great. Uh, and uh, be able to have your final project product like that that you can show other people is

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really fun for us. Anyone else? >> Well, thank you so much for sharing that with us. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you guys. And now if the two students Middleboro High School students who won the two New

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England Student Production Awards, Unfortunately, our two students couldn't be here tonight. They had a last minute commitment pop up. One is rehearsing for that's entertainment right now. But I'm happy to present these crystal pillars on their behalf. And before I start, just this is like the perfect segue with

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our Foley artists and I can see some future filmmakers maybe at Middle High School. So congratulations you guys. That was awesome. Super inspiring because um the students that made these films would definitely benefit from some Foley artists. So that's really cool.

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Um, just to introduce myself, my name is Adam Puliter and I've been the television production teacher at Middlear High School for the last 21 years. And before that, I was a student at Middlear High School and I took television production. So, um, this career is definitely close to my heart

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and it's definitely really important for me to give the best I can for the students because that was what I got when I was a student here. So, it was my favorite class by far. But anyway, um uh the two crystal pillars here are from the New England Student Production

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Awards, um which are is a video contest, a New Englandwide contest where members of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the same board that gives Emmy awards to paid professionals in the same industry. They vote on high school and college uh awards. So, we are

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fortunate enough this year to be awarded with two New England student production awards. And I want to congratulate uh Aaron Davis, a sophomore at Middlebar High School for winning a student production award in the photographer category, which is essentially best um

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camera work. And he did a really amazing highlight on the Sichum football team, and that's where he got his honor for it. And um he's been working filming uh the baseball journey all the way through the tournament. So I'm so excited to see what what that film becomes. But this is

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actually his second consecutive New England student production award he won in the actually in the audio category for best sound uh in New England uh last year. So I want to congratulate Aaron. And um secondly, the second crystal pillar here is for a category Middle

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in and it's long form non-fiction. And we had an outstanding uh student uh we have an outstanding student Danny Tawa who took us behind the scenes of the fall show Hades Town Teen Edition that was performed by Speech and Theater Workshop in the fall. And she geez she

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recorded hours dozens of hours of footage of raw footage throughout the rehearsal process with interviews gives everyone the behind-the-scenes perspective of what it's like to be the performer, be part of the crew, be the director. um in only a way that she

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could because um she was very much involved with the whole process. So I want to give a shout out to our junior Danny Tower for that. And we also had three other nominations who students who received an honorable mention. Uh our newscast ME News which is our flagship news show earned honorable mention for

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best newscast and that's run by our studio production students. Uh, and then we also had uh P best PSA honorable mention for best PSA in New England. And what's great about that is they were just uh video production one students,

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the level one course. So these students only had a few months of experience and they were produced one of the top PSAs in New England. And the uh last one was in the editing category for outgoing senior Josh Horseman who was nominated for honorable mention for editing the

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2025 senior walk which is always a really popular video to make. And what's really special about that is it's we call it an SDE, a same day edit. So they record the hours of footage. U it's like six hours of footage from an hour from six different cameras and it's compiled

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overnight. He stayed up all night editing and was able to have the video ready for the seniors that morning of their graduation in 2025. So, we're super proud of all our students and it's our actually our 17th new uh New England student production

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award that Middle High School has achieved in the last 10 years that we've been aware of the contest. And we've actually also won two national student production awards. In 2022, we had Dorothy Fino win for best director in the entire country. And that was live

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streamed from LA across the whole country. And she was a real treat as she was in college at the time when it was announced. And she was in her film class. She said, "Excuse me, can we watch this for a second to her professor and then she had showed her winning and playing her pre-recorded acceptance speech for best director in the whole

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country." So, I think that's a really cool head start that these students are getting in in college and doing film making in the future. and one last our first national award was in 2018 for best music video in the entire country. So truly amazing things happening here and I couldn't be more proud if you

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can't tell of everything that's going on and um with the new high school uh in the past five years and um everything else. It's just been so great for our program. So I'm more energized than ever to continue this trend and hopefully come back with more crystal pillars.

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>> Thank you for bringing them forward. uh and the only the few years that I've been a on the school committee and seen as coming forward all of these different awards is such a tribute to the individual students but also such a tribute to the program that you created

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Adam um that it's consistent. It's not just one stellar student, but that we're starting them with students that are doing the fully art um back there and then really getting students involved. Uh the other thing that I really appreciate is the synergy between what's

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going on with the work in your department and the work in other departments. And so it's really bringing the uh high school community together in a way uh that without it, you know, you can have outside people come in and and do all that filming and all of that, but

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um I think of Hades Town um that that was it sounds like that that was such a special production and to have someone embedded in that that had the talent that she has to uh create what she created um is is really very special. So thank you very much.

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>> Thank you very much. Anyone else? >> Thank you, Adam. >> Thank you. >> More fun things. I wish all our school committee meetings were like this. Um, so I know that we all are all mourning

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the loss of um our student reps from this past year, but I didn't want you to feel like there was going to be a big gap. And so I ask that uh that we have the two new representatives join us tonight uh so that we get to know them and get started. So would you like to

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introduce yourselves? >> Hi, I'm Grace Lynch. I'm a rising senior at Monroar High School. Um I have been in student council for all my years. I

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play sports all year round and I love it at the high school and I love every day just getting to be at middlear high school and having so many different experiences every day. >> That's great. Before you move on, what

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interests you in being a student rep on the student on the school committee? >> What interests me was um I've always wondered like how things went on truly like the foundation um of the decisions that are made every

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day. Like it didn't just come from anywhere. It came from here and I was just really um interested in that process. >> Thank you. >> Hello, I'm Ian Pina Dohy. I'm the 2025

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2026 to 2027 student council president and I'm acting as a school committee rep. Um, I've been in student council all four years of high school and I just like I love the atmosphere of student council, getting to interact with the student body and that's why I became

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president this past year and I'm interested in the school committee meetings because I love to see how the student body of MHS can affect uh like our town and how we can play a part in the school committee and the whole town as a whole.

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>> Thank you. anything that's going to be coming up this weekend you want to share? I know we didn't make you make a list maybe, but anything that you want to highlight that's going to be happening in the schools. >> So, for the district, spring sports awards night will be held on June 17th starting at 6 p.m. to celebrate and

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congratulate all the hard work our student athletes put in these last few weeks. There's no school on Friday, June 19th across the district to celebrate Junth. Students are looking forward to their field days this week, while second and fourth graders will be headed to Middleboro Public Library to find some

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books. The fifth graders across the districts are experiencing a career fair at HPB this week. And then the last day of school will be Friday, June 26th, which is an early release day for students >> at the Met. Kindergarters are taking a field trip to Balmy Acres this week,

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where they'll be where they will get to ride horses and go on a hay ride. This Monday, the Middleboro Fire Department brought a fire truck for the students to learn about the importance of fire safety. And the MET is looking forward to the annual stepup ceremony where kindergarters will celebrate the parade

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to first grade. >> At the HB, D. Jude Miller, a children's book author, is going to visit third and fourth graders the 17th and the 18th. Grade two is going to the Heritage Museum and Gardens down the Cape to learn about the history on Cape Cod on

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June 18th. June 25th is HBV's fifth grade moving up ceremony which will celebrate their promotion to Nichols Middle School. At NMS, we want to congratulate the eighth graders as they move on to their high school careers with the eighth grade promotion night at NMS on June

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24th with a later celebration with the eighth graders breakfast June 26th. Seventh and eighth graders are looking forward to their whale watching field trips next week. A huge congratulations to the NMS performing arts on their spring concert performance. You all did a great job and we can't wait to see you next year. Also, the performing arts

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went up to perform at the Great East Festival, where the band, chorus, and orchestra all received silver status. At the MKG, second graders are looking forward to their field trips at the Southwick Zoo, where they'll be learning about all different types of animals from around the world. The fifth graders

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will be partaking in a science fair on June 17th and 18th, where they'll be showing off their experiments they've worked on the past couple weeks. and MKG grade 5 promotion ceremony will be June 26th at 9:30 in the HPB auditorium. And lastly, the grade one had a great time

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at the MHS that's entertainment childhood books that they performed for them this week. >> Lastly, at MHS, we want to congratulate the class of 2026 for an outstanding journey at MHS and a great job to all speakers at graduation. Congratulations to the freshman class for competing in

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the biology MCAST this week. Be only you did well. That's Entertainment 47 will be at the high school the 12th and the 13th as we extend our good luck to them for their performance. That's Entertainment is a play that the MHSW is putting on. A huge congrats to the

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baseball team for winning their game on Tuesday against Weston and a good luck on Saturday facing a ponquit for the championship. >> That's all. and we're gonna we're going to travel all the way to Worcester to watch us play Lakeville. Thank you very much. Um

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Mason and Jackson really set a bar this year. Um and I think also started to get us involved more directly with um your student advoc advocacy group. Um, and something that we really want to continue to build on, not only having you come here and do reports, but have

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more communication between and so that student voice is really heard as we're thinking about the different decisions that need to be made um for the good of all. So, I really do appreciate your willingness to step up and represent the student body here with us at this uh

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school committee. Thanks very much. >> Thank you. and you're welcome to stay as long as you wish, but if you need to be off to get ready for tomorrow, we understand that also. >> Okay. Continuing on in our celebration of uh

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of what's going on in our district, I'd like to ask if Officer Brian Wixton, and of course he doesn't come without Millie, um would come to the front. But it didn't seem right for me not to get up. Um, I asked that Brian come here

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uh for us today. Sarah, why don't we do this? I'm going to come here and you stand here um to celebrate Brian. Uh Brian, if you don't know, received an honor from the Massachusetts Juvenile Officers

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Association at their 20th uh annual conference and it was for uh uh being so good in service. Uh the name of the award was this the greatness excellence in service award. um and they they spoke

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that he was really a an example of what the SRO's should be in our school system and we know just recently from our parent um surveys of how important um safety is in our schools and having the SRO's there as part of our safety but

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also in building relationship with our students is just so important that I thought that we really wanted to bring him here to recognize. Uh, so I did make a couple calls. Um, and I wanted to get a little more of the so what's this about? I mean, I know I go into the school and I and I see

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Brian and I see Millie. Um, but why is it that he received this reward? And what I was told was that it's because of your presence. Um, that you are always there for the students. Um, maybe the best decision that you ever made was

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>> absolutely >> to get Billy. Um, and that you find ways to make yourself very accessible to students. Uh, people told me about some interesting costumes. >> Uh, yep. I've worn a couple of costumes, whether I was Dorothy or whether we're

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dressing up for prom. Um, we try and get as involved as we can, especially her. She's got a uniform for this weekend for the baseball game. So, >> and I did happen to see her in a cap and gown at a graduation. >> She was. The kids asked for that. Um, and I couldn't turn it down. Um they also said that you always find ways to

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go to all different events and talk to all different kinds of students and could strike up conversations. Um to the point that uh in the high school they talked about how that students are asked to find a trusted adult and that you are

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so many students trusted adults. Someone that they can confide in that sometimes you're a mentor, sometimes you're a sounding board and sometimes you're the guy that says, "Hey, you know what? maybe this isn't what you should be doing, but that they really accept it from you and that in your offices

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decorated with all kinds of things that students have made for you to thank you for what it is that you've done. And um it's that kind of presence that I know that we have in many people in our staff. Um, but the fact that you've been

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recognized by the uh association uh as really standing out in New England, I thought it was really important that we bring you here and recognize you here. So, I just want to personally thank you, as we all do, for what it is that you do with our students. >> I appreciate it very much. Thank you.

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Uh, I do have to thank the district attorney's office and Tim Cruz for bringing Millie into my life, into all of our lives. Um she has turned herself into a staple and a mascot of not just the high school but the district. Um and I do have to thank uh Chief Rare for allowing me to be in this position as

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well. Uh and then the staff and the kids for accepting me into their community. I know it's not always easy finding someone new or reaching out to someone that maybe dressed a little differently every day, but they've accepted me and uh I I love all of them as if they were

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my own kids. and those staff members. I mean, they they mean the world to me as well. I love the relationship that I've gathered with them. >> That's wonderful. And thank you. >> She's very happy to be here. >> Thank you very much.

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>> All right. Thank you. Okay. And that brings us to uh we'll be moving toward public comment. I do before we move into public comment. Uh we do need to as you know that we have um in in the

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last few months moved that we extend public comment that if uh people want to speak beyond three minutes uh that is something we need to vote at every meeting. So I make a motion that we uh continue that extension until we get the policy committee together and we look at

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what we want to do permanently with it. >> So moved. >> I have a second. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I >> I >> Okay, I open it up for public comment. If you can be sure and state your name

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and address. Hello. Oh, uh, Bridget Karns, I want to thank all of you for taking the time to interview four candidates, which was more than, um, was anticipated and you guys did that in a collaborative effort

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to kind of, um, make sure you were making the best decision for the community. I know that this is a big task and undertaking, and that was a long night for you guys. Uh, and you put in a lot of effort and it showed. I think the community can feel that. Um, I

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need to stand back. I don't know. It's really loud. Um, and I think we have been very sensitive to the hiring process of the superintendent and I and I feel that this committee has recognized that, is responding to it and

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is doing something differently to meet the needs of the community. And I hope that this next coming year um really gives you an opportunity to not only um get to know the superintendent, but also

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figure out how we need to um connect with the community and how the community is responding to the superintendent, how the staff is responding to the superintendent, how everybody feels about how their superintendent is doing in that role because I think that really will propel this district forward. So I

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do want to thank you all for taking that extra effort. I think a little bit of effort now will um pay off in the long run. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry I'm shorter. I just kind of want to echo what Bridget just said.

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>> Sorry. Can I interrupt a second? Can you say your name? Sorry, Chanette Barrett. Um, I wasn't able to attend the meeting, but I did watch it and I just wanted to thank you for taking the time, your questions to do the extra candidate, the

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real due diligence I feel like you guys put forth for moving us forward. And I just wanted to say thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other public comment? Okay, hearing none, we will move along

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uh into the discussion items uh and we will begin with a superintendent report. The acting super. >> So I have a final budget uh update uh now that we've gone through town meeting and have a balanced budget.

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So um just briefly and I have a few slides. Um the original all funds budget request was 50 million57,431. We're using offsets and alternative funding sources of 5,333,532.

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That has changed a little bit if you know. Um we were at 5.222. Uh I was able to use uh a little more funding from uh facilities rental

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uh because we were able to journalize or will journalize some of expenses that we put there back into the general fund. And so the general fund new general fund request is 44,836

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$262. So that is a level service fund. That's what we need is the 44,836262. Uh we received from the town an allocation of 42,850,000 and that is a 2.5% increase. That

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changed uh went up a little bit. We were at 2.3 uh right before town meeting. We were given another 100,000. Um so that helped. And so the shortfall uh was $1,986,262.

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If you recall at the beginning of the budget cycle in uh December, January, we were looking at 2.4 million. So as time went on, the numbers got a little bit better. Uh that didn't mean we didn't have that shortfall and didn't have to

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make cuts. Uh so the reduction of positions uh you look at the historical from 212 39 430 and then tonight uh June 11th uh the positions total positions being

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reduced went from 29.5 on March 9th we were able to get down to 24.5 and then on uh April 30th um with some more help uh with different um from the

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town and from uh some revenue we were able to pick up. We moved down to 21.5 and then tonight uh we're final uh and this will be the final number. Uh we're at 18.5

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uh total positions. Uh there's 11 teachers, one counselor, one parah professional, two administrators, a support staff for one and a half uh and

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then maintenance one position. So uh while that is not the best and not what we wanted, it certainly was better than what we started with. So our total salaries for 27 is

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36,286871 and our total expenses are 11,89661 and our total uh funds request is 48 48,183 uh 532. If I carry that forward and then we take the offsets that uh I mentioned of

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5,333,532 and you subtract that we balance to the town number that was voted at town meeting on June 1 uh for 42,850,000. So that's where we ended and I just wanted to give that final update. we

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will go into July one with that budget and I will take any questions. I I do want to say that we had um of those cuts there were six true uh reduction in force positions.

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Three of them already transferred into open positions. One we had uh a position for the person chose not to go into the position. Uh so Uh in the end we had two Rift positions

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total that are uh and we're still working with them to try to get positions for them. So it's not the great, like I said, the greatest news, but it ended up a lot better than what we first originally started with.

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>> Thank you. Um, I'd like to reiterate a little bit um what we just heard because I think it's really important. Um, and and in doing so, I want to thank Mike for the work

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that he's done with this budget. uh he really sometimes I think underscells the work that he does uh that brought that uh number down in terms of the the size of the deficit that allowed us to bring

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down the number that were uh positions that we needed to eliminate and then the work that was done so that we were significantly able to bring down the number of people that actually lost their jobs. And if I understand

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correctly, um, the number of teaching positions were you speaking of specifically? >> Not specifically. That was kind of in general. I didn't have the breakdown of which, um, I believe >> the number of people that actually we had to

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>> I believe they were teaching. There was the the one uh there was a PAR position that the person was offered another uh ESP position and did not accept it. And then there were two people that believe there were two teachers that we were we

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had to separate ways with. But when you think about where we started when we were thinking that we were going to um be in a place where we were going to lose 29 people um along with positions uh that the work that was done and and

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I'm sure that you as I uh have been particularly um watching other towns and what's happening and one of the things that I think has made us end up in a better place than a lot of other places that we

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I have been watching is that Mike began right from the get-go when he knew that there was that deficit. He began working right then of how it is that we were going to resolve it and how we were going to do the least amount of harm during that time. And it has got us down

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to that there were only two people that have lost their jobs. when you really listen to many of the other communities that the um that number is significantly higher and to be doing that while also carrying the responsibilities of acting superintendent

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um he has done a yman's work for us and really deserves so much of our appreciation and I wanted the opportunity to be able to say that tonight. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Any other questions about the budget or thoughts? Can I just piggyback on what

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you said? >> Certainly. >> Um, so all across the state, especially Middle, this has not been a great budget cycle. I do want to commend Mike for minimizing the damage, acknowledging

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what was coming. I think one of the important things that this cycle we did um was preparing for the future as well um where a lot of districts have continuously kind of have been shortsighted. think this is a time that

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Middleboro has really looked forward and um I just want to give Mike the the kudos he deserves to kind of stop that we're just looking at next year and really be fiscally responsible for the

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future of the town going forward. So, thank you very much. It wasn't easy. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I'd like to say the same thing, Mike. Thank you very much for the time and effort you put in. I've only known you a short period of time being on this committee, but in that short period of time, I've seen what you the time and

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effort you put in and really that reduction from with uh the teachers that were said we're going to lay off at the beginning to where we ended up. I mean, it's a lot of hard work and obviously with the additional uh work you had to put in as the

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superintendent, acting superintendent, uh it's not easy. um you know financial issues which go on all every day in every workplace is are not easy to deal with. Um so I do commend you too for burden uh well taking on the burden of

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the acting superintendent and actually working through this just not easy thing. So I do appreciate your efforts. >> Thank you. >> Just want to say thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> My pleasure.

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most of the time. Um, okay. Anything else from the superintendent? >> No, I have nothing else. >> Okay. Speaking of superintendent, next um is uh an update of where we are in

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the interim superintendent search. Uh and so as was alluded to uh during public comment as um folks know that u as a result of the interview process that we did uh select David Thompson as

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the person that we would like to serve as our interim superintendent for the next year. Uh I have been in conversations with him based on some initial uh discussions that we had in terms of salary range and other kinds of

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benefits. Um and during uh the executive session, I presented a draft um contract. Uh, and I would like to make a motion that um we uh approve

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uh my ability to go back to Dave uh with that draft contract. uh and that uh we offer that to him and that if there are any other minor changes that need to be u made as a result of those

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conversations that uh I will work with uh Sean Moler and Leam Mashado uh to make those changes. If it's something significant we bring it back to the full committee.

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I make a motion that we pres allow Sue to go to um David Thompson with the draft contract um to negotiate on behalf of the committee. And if there's any

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small negotiations that need to be discussed, Sean and Leah and Sue can do that. And if there's anything else, um it'll come back to the committee. Do I hear a second? >> Second.

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>> Any discussion? >> I believe this requires a roll call vote. I'm going to do it just in case. Kim >> I. >> Chris >> I. >> Sean >> I. >> Leah >> I. >> Kristen >> I.

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>> And the chair says I to make it unanimous. Next, our uh consent agenda. Um I move that we approve the minutes of April 9th and May 14th, unless you want

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to do them separately. Do I have a second? Did you raise your hand, Kristen? I don't have my glasses on. >> No, >> you just skipped Oh, >> did I miss something? >> School committee retreat. >> Oh, this is actually a big one. School

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committee retreat. Thank you. Um, so I sent something out uh to to you all that I think I may have confused you. Um, but uh we want to really nail down when we want to have a school uh

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the retreat the school committee retreat and I also realized afterwards that without any context uh you know maybe Chris and I understand what the school committee retreat is. Uh in the two years I've served, I don't know if it's been different other years, Chris, but it's just been a time that we have

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gotten together to for two or three hours. Um uh and been given the ability to uh discuss very certain items in in depth. Um sometimes the the last two

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times we also had someone from Mass come and help us with a self-evaluation. Um they also um uh gave kind of a presentation to the group on roles and responsibilities of school committee members during that time. Uh I was

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thinking that where four of you just went to the conf the charting the course and maybe that wasn't the best use of our time in a retreat. Um I did uh so I talked with Sean Costello and he is not

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available until August. So that's why I was saying it depends on what we want to accomplish, what our priority is of what we want to accomplish to first think about what month. Um

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what one item that we've talked about is we really want to get going on subcommittees. And to do that, we really need to talk about what our priorities are because it's not just determining um what subcommittee you want to be on, but it's also charging that subcommittee with what the work is that we want them

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to do during that time. And it might also mean creating a new subcommittee based on what our priorities are. So priorities in subcommittee um I'm going to say is definitely going to be one of the items that we need to talk about. Uh

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the question is whether you know 2 to three hours is that enough for this time when we get together. Um we can in the fall have Shawn come back on another topic if we wish or if you wish we can

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have him come to the the um come to the this one and present on something. So, what I was trying to lay out in that email, which I have a sense I didn't do a great job with, is um we could try to do something between now and the end of

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June because July starts you start getting into vacation time and there might be hard time finding something. Uh if we go if we wait for July, we will have participation of um Dave Thompson,

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assuming this all goes well. um which typically the superintendent does participate in the retreat so that you're moving together forward. Um so we could do that and do sometime in July. Um or we can wait for Shan Costello

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until August. So I'm going to try to break this up into three kind of decisions. One would be knowing knowing the pros and cons of what you might do in each month. Start with a month

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then talk about day and time of day. Um and uh and then if there are topics that you wish to that we address, we can talk about that or we can talk about having that again um a later date in the fall.

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Did that make sense? >> Good. So let's start with month thoughts. >> I would prefer not June. >> I'm the same. I would like to wait till July when Dave starts. That's just me.

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>> Other thoughts? >> Yeah, I'd agree. Uh it makes sense to have the superintendent there. That's typically the way it happens, then that makes the most sense. >> Okay. So, I think that what we want to do is

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find a threehour period of time. And the first way I think I'm going to look at this is whether you would there's two choices with that. You can either do it a week like start late in the in the day into the evening

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or evening or a Saturday. Thoughts on that? >> Okay. >> I know for me it's um it would probably if it's a weekday it' have to be after work sometime. Um, so probably as early as 4:30, 5:00 for me

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>> during the week. 4:35. >> Yeah. And I don't mind the weekends either. It's whatever everybody wants. >> Yeah. I think I same would be the same hours. >> Chris, I need to hear from you.

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>> So, this is when I kind of transition into an administrative role. Um, July and August. I unless it's the second and fourth Thursday is going to be extremely difficult for me.

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>> Well, that's a thought. We could turn one of our designated Thursdays. I mean, typically the school committee, at least since I've been on, has only met once a month uh in July and August, but we could take

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one of the Tuesdays, I mean Thursdays, and repurpose it for a retreat. Would that work, Chris? >> So, again, I'm only one of seven, so I don't want my schedule, but conceivably, I think that would really be the only

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possible time I would be able to make it happen. >> Yep. But I'm one of seven. The six of you are more than capable. So I don't want to make it about one committee member. But that's just my schedule.

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>> Understood. That's what I'm asking. People's individual schedules. >> I'm fine with that. >> Yeah. And I think if there isn't much to talk about in July and just having one meeting that might have a, you know, decent agenda for that one meeting and

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then using the next meeting for the retreat. I think that sounds pretty pretty good to me. >> Yeah, I think it's important um that all the members are there. So, however we have to accommodate everybody's schedule, I'm willing to do it, you know,

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>> day, time, whatever, uh we'll make it work. But I think as a committee, I think our voices each need to be heard and to make sure we're following along together. Uh so yeah, make the accommodations. >> Um would we be able to start a little

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ear, you know, like we did tonight earlier? Um because if we're going to do three hours, uh that would be rough. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I think if we if we can map it out on those days, >> Yep. It's a lot easier to work with than

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in the middle of the day or I mean weekends are tough too. So, >> right. So, what it sounds like the consensus we're coming to is one of the meeting times in July. Um we might start earlier. Um we will have Dave join us.

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Uh agenda being we need to do a self-evaluation. that's um by law or statute or some whatever it's called. Uh we need to do that. Uh set priorities and subcommittees. Is that enough for

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that or do we want to tackle a topic? >> Having gone through it before, how long does doing that take? >> I didn't hear you. I'm sorry. >> You've been through the retreat before. So just doing that part, how long is that? A three-hour process? >> I believe so.

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>> Okay. So >> I think with the the number of new folks we have, I think hammering out subcommittees and defining them and our evaluation. I think that's probably plenty for this year, especially getting

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a good handle on what the subcommittees are, what they do, how often they should meet. There's a whole lot there. Yeah. I mean, we're veterans and I still think there's more we can take out of it. So, I would focus on the subcommittees

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as and the self-evaluation as the primary focus of the meeting. >> All right. Sounds like we have a consensus. Mhm. >> And then I we should think about if there's something in the fall that and maybe that'll come out of the meeting

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that we would like Shawn to come back and you know we really need to understand this better. Um that might come out of the meeting. >> Great. >> And Mike said he really wants to come. >> Would love you to come.

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>> I don't remember that. >> Okay. Okay. Now, and thank you for pointing me back there. Uh, now for the consent agenda. Uh, the school committee meeting minutes April 9th and May 14th.

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>> I make a motion that we approve the school committee meeting minutes of April 9th and May 14th. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> oppose. It's unanimous. Um, approve the donation to Middleboro

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High School from Ohio Pile. >> I make a motion that we accept the donation to Middlebar High School from Ohio pile. Do I hear a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor?

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>> I I >> oppose. It's unanimous. um other action items um which come out of also our executive session uh and that is uh I'll make what came from the

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um session is that we will make a motion to approve the ESP contract MOA. So I hear a second >> second. All those in favor >> I >> oppose

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unimus. Uh same for the teacher ESP cafeteria health insurance MOA. >> I make a motion to approve the teacher ESP and cafeteria health insurance MOA.

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>> Second. >> All those Oh, any discussion? >> All those in favor? I >> I >> oppose. It's unanimous. And now for the teacher longevity MOA. >> I make a motion that we accept the

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teacher or approve the teacher longevity MOA. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I >> oppose. Again, unanimous.

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Uh, more information. The class of 2029's junior prom is having a fundraiser. I don't know what the fund does anybody know what the fundraiser is. >> They do um pass along the information. Any chance you guys know?

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>> I think it might be like They're working with the >> Yeah, they're working with the track coach to do like a running around the high school kind of um >> like a runathon >> fundraiser. Yeah. >> Great. And that's just for um

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information purposes. That goes through the uh principal and it comes through the superintendent to us. >> Um and so um that's just for your information. Anything else?

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I will entertain a motion to adjourn. >> I make a motion to adjourn the school committee meeting. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> It's unanimous. Thank you all.