Sometimes they turn it on before the meeting starts. Hello lady. I call this school committee meeting to order. Uh, and our first item of business is to vote to enter into executive session for purpose 8 to
consider or interview applicants for employment or appointment by a preliminary screening committee pupil personnel service director. I make a motion that we enter into executive session for purpose 8 to
consider applicants for employment or appointment by a preliminary screening committee for the PPS director position. >> All those in favor >> I >> I >> I >> and the chair votes I. That makes it
unanimous. Uh and therefore we are now headed to executive session. All right. Well, >> not too bad. How about you? I'm sorry. That was quick. >> This should only be about 10 15 minutes.
>> [laughter] >> You had more insider information. Okay, I'm going to obtain a motion to bring us back into session. I make a motion to enter back [clears throat] into public session. >> All those in favor, please indicate. I I
>> I. >> And the chair adds I for unanimous. Okay. Um so, uh first order of business is could you please join me in pledge of
allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
>> Thank you. >> There is no one in attendance, so I am going to assume there is no public comment. Uh and therefore we will move right to the action items. And the first one is about the Lincoln D. Lynch school roof
contract. And I believe that Mike will speak to us about that. >> I think this one works. So a little over a year ago, um Mr. Farley and I brought to you um a uh WPI construction for the low bid of
the LDL roof. um a year later uh after a number of um a long story. I'll try to keep it short, but we we had some questions after we
brought it to you whether the uh warranty program that they submitted was valid and responsive. Uh we deemed it nonresponsive. We brought it over to the town. uh they agreed they let they had
their lawyer not uh not the school committee lawyer uh took a look at it and said that we definitely had reason to find that that their bid was nonresponsive. [clears throat] So I brought it back to the committee to resend that. Uh lo and behold after the
they protested the AG listened to both uh sides and um actually awarded uh that um WPI's uh protest was upheld and that we were to use them as the uh if we were going
to do the project that we needed to use WPI. So, I updated the committee uh as to all that as that went on all year long, but what I failed to do uh is have you revote because you did resend. So, we
don't have a vote for this project. [clears throat and cough] So, I'm asking that uh the committee uh revote WPI construction uh at a cost of 427,500. Uh the the good news is when we did go
with the next uh responsive bidder, uh it was close to a h 100,000 more than the low bid. So we are now saving that. And uh Mr. Farley is a lot more confident. Um still has some questions, but he he's got a lot of answers to the
warranty program that they will be running over the 20 years. Uh so we are comfortable with it. We're looking at uh beginning the project on uh August 10th and hopefully finishing by the end of August uh while the Mass Soy students
are not in the building and they come back I want to say September 11th. So we have some time and it should only be a two or three week weather permitting and then um we should have a new roof. Anybody have any questions?
No, pretty straightforward. >> It really >> have any questions which >> just for anybody watching, um really our option is either to vote yay or not repair the roof, >> right? >> Correct.
>> Okay, then >> and the roof is in bad shape. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? All right. I accept a motion to approve uh the original contract with
>> WPI Construction out of Worcester. >> I make a motion that we approve the original bid with WPI Construction out of Worcester for the LDL roof project. >> You want to just state the amount? $427,500
>> for >> Say that one more time. Sorry. 427 >> 4275. [snorts] >> Any other comment? Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Now, any other comment? Uh, all those in favor, please say I.
>> I. I. >> And the chair adds I for unanimous. Seeing nothing on else on the agenda, I would accept a motion to adjurnn. >> We need to vote on the >> Oops. One more. Sorry. Um seeing one more item, an important item
>> um on our action items uh and that is for uh the appointment of the pupil personnel service director contract. >> Yes. So it's my pleasure to uh recommend to the committee uh Heather Giri uh for the position of pupil personnel services
director. Um and I'm asking the committee to vote to confirm that recommendation. Uh Heather possesses experience, technical knowledge and vision uh to really bring the PPS department forward. Uh she has extensive experience as director of special special education and student services
in Winchester, Randolph, Marorrow, Sus, and is currently at Codman Academy. Uh her other experience as an assistant director and compliance manager in Boston as well as assistant director in Bel Ricka in Brooklyn. Uh she began her career as a special education teacher
and an inclusion facilitator. Um, we are looking at a start date u of the 8 of the 17th of March. Uh, I'd like to um thank Melissa Deutschman for uh leading the uh the search. There was a screening committee uh that interviewed there were
14 applicants interviewed six of them uh and sent two finalists to me who I interviewed and Heather was uh the clear choice um to move forward for your approval. Just to clarify, August 17th, right?
>> August 17th. What did I say? September 17th. >> March. >> March. Jesus. >> Just so Just so nobody got worried. >> Yeah. No. No. August 17th. Thank you. >> Right. >> Uh any questions or comments?
I would like to make one and that is uh how pleased I am to see the uh depth of her resume. uh particularly um I'm pleased to see that she started as a special ed teacher. >> Yeah. >> Uh someone that goes through uh the different levels uh within an
organization really helps them to understand both the uh strengths and challenges that come along at those different levels and having someone like that in a director position and then having experience in a director position. I'm very pleased to see all of
that. So uh uh great work by the search team. >> Having said that uh I will entertain a motion to confirm uh the appointment of Heather
uh Giri. I make a motion to confirm the appointment of Heather Giri as the PPS director starting August 17, 2026. Is there a second?
>> Second. >> All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> And the chair adds for unanimous. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. Any other business?
If not, now I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. >> I make a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Second. All those in favor. >> I >> is unanimous. Thank you.
>> Thank you.