Good evening everybody. Uh we'll call to order the school committee Milton school committee meeting for this evening, December 17th, 2025. And we'll start with pledge of allegiance. Ice flag of the United States of America to
the stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So, um, Chair Serio is unable to be here this evening, so I'm just stepping in, um, to help run the meeting, and the
first thing is to approve the agenda for this evening. Does anyone have any changes to the agenda? The only thing I noticed was uh, possibly postponing the approval of minutes um, to our next meeting. Anything else
that we want to change or postpone? Okay. >> Um, we did have a school building committee meeting. >> Maybe we can >> we need to wait till the next meeting. >> Yeah. Um,
I'll make a note of that and we can add that when we talk about next meeting agenda items. >> All right. So the first item uh will be our public comment. The portion of our meeting we set aside to hear from members of the community who would like to share their
perspective with us. For our policy, we set aside up to 15 minutes to hear from members of the community for up to three minutes at a time and people can join us either in person or by Zoom. I think we have a couple student representatives
here who will be introduced momentarily. Uh, I don't see anyone else in person for public comment. Are either of you hoping to speak to public comment? We'll hear from your report shortly. Okay. Is there anyone online? If you're online and would like to speak, uh, can
you raise your hand, please? >> Okay. Going once. going twice. Okay. Don't see any hands raised online, so we can move right into our superintendent report. Mr. Balen, thanks. >> Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Um,
the first order of business tonight is to recognize our student representatives. Uh, so I'd like to introduce Adam Cheers and Elias Caros to the table. Uh, while they're approaching the table, I'd like to let you know that Adam Cheers is a junior serving his third term as a representative to the
school committee at Milton High. Besides this role, he is involved in debate, writes for the school newspaper, and plays tennis in the spring. Hold on to Adam. And Elias is a senior who is serving his fourth term as a student representative to the school committee for Milton High School. And he is in the
class of 2026. In addition to his role, he is involved in the tri music honor society, plays violin as a concert master of the school orchestra, and is an officer of the Latin club. So gentlemen, welcome. So
first I would like to discuss our recent events in our music department. Um recently we've had um two concerts. um one with our big ensembles, you know,
our big um orchestra, our uh concert band and jazz band and our chorus. And then we also had the extracurricular concert um the week before and those
events saw turnout we could have never um imagined. the community is so enthusiastic about um the arts and music especially around the time of the holidays and it was so
wonderful to perform there you know as I'm involved with um the orchestra and um to see the joy on everyone's faces um everyone were just so delighted with you
know um our music um And that was um so great to see. And then um in addition um we have this week and going on into
early next week uh for these final last few days we have at school um ensembles are performing in the foyer of Hilton High School um in the lobby of the auditorium. Um we did um the chamber um
orchestra which I'm also a part of um did it this morning um and and that of course um spreads all a lot of holiday cheer um to the members of our community and and our high school and our district. um everyone,
you know, were standing there um sort of um watching us um in appreciating um all of our hard work. Um it brought a smile to all their faces and um I think it's a such a great
reminder of, you know, the community that the arts um particularly in our district creates. Um, and I think it's such a special thing and I'm so grateful that we have it. >> Thank you, Elias. Um, in addition to
that, the student government has been hosting events to promote a positive school spirit. Um, this included our spirit week at the end of November and the pep rally that uh welcomed in the Thanksgiving break. Shout out to Elizabeth May, our senior class
president, and the football captain, John Glly, for mcing the event. Um, students enjoyed the pep rally, which had events like tug of war and a relay race. Um, and also on Thanksgiving Day, Milton won its 105year-old tra uh
tradition of playing Brainree uh 31 to zero. So, go Milton Wildcats. Um, some things uh on the radar. The student government is hosting a sweetheart dance in February that will bring together all four of our grades. This is the first
time we're doing something like this and it will be a gigantic fundraising opportunity um as we look forward to the spring. >> Wonderful. And then um just last Friday um we had a great conversation um in our
monthly meetings as um school committee reps along with um principal um superintendent Failen um and member Ba. Um it was we discussed you know the graduation requirements. Um
there is now a question about you know the world language. Um should that be a requirement or not? The um the state legislature um you know of course then passed the bill about the cell phone
policy. Um so um we are now back to discussing and researching um the solutions um to the problem that other districts have implemented and um we are
looking forward to getting some student um feedback from our own peers and from staff and from um parents and um we are very excited to report back and to make some positive change. Good. Very good. >> Awesome.
>> And finally, in this uh season of gift giving, I wanted to share with you the latest edition of The Elephant in the Room, which is our student newspaper. Um, so this will make its way around the table, and I think this shows some of the uh the ambition uh the diverse
talents of the Milton High School uh uh student body. So, we hope you enjoy that and we'd welcome any questions you have or anything you'd like to put on our radar to share back with the uh larger student government.
>> Thank you both so much. >> I just had a question on the like process for the cell phone bill. You said passed the Senate, it's going to the House. looks like it will pass the house is the current estimation and I think they're looking for implementation for next
school year. Just wondering like what time based upon that timeline like I think it would be great for us this body to have feedback from students and from high school staff
as well on what could this look like getting some running room but we might that might run out pretty soon and everybody gets very busy as we approach the end of the year. So anyway, just generally wondering if y'all had a sense of um timeline for kind of discussing or
I think y'all did a survey last year and was there other kind of that type of engagement that y'all are looking at doing? >> Yeah, we have um sort of creative um schedule for our own monthly meetings um for the spring um and for second
semester. And um we will continue our conversations. We will continue our research and um hopefully as soon as possible we will um begin talking to our peers and we will um discuss the you
know the feedback and um the results we um obtain and we will report back soon. >> Yeah and um thank you for the question. I think as you know student elected representatives we hope to prioritize the student perspective and deliver that
as best as we can. Um and we know that the you know cell phone ban conversation is like particularly challenging for students. Um uh so ideally we're going to look at a way to make it fair and um also responsible.
>> Yeah. I guess my my feedback on just any I think previously we've asked them like if they would like a ban or not. I think it's been a little more open. I think at this point seems like the hand for Milton is going to be forced by the state legislature. So I think even just the framing of the conversation of it's
going to be a ban like what what are the options I guess within that kind of range of what the limited range of possibilities um and what to your point of like fairness what feels fair or not within that type of kind of bellto bell ban of cell phones and what are the
allowable exceptions I'm not obviously I'm not sure what the legislation allows for in those scenarios but just that that framing and feedback would be would be great so I appreciate you taking >> Thank you. We will look into that. >> Those are great suggestions and we'll definitely talk about that in our
schools. We also talked about um how we want to make sure that we first see the law what what actually gets passed because it might not be very important whatever the legislation is to help the roll out uh talk about what is important to students what's
important to families and be the leazison to that conversation about how how it could be implemented in a way that's fair and clear for folks and get some student voice there. Um, and the other item we talked a little bit about was uh the new graduation requirements
and having the group come to uh discuss that when we get into our um curriculum review uh group to discuss the next program of studies. So, we'll be inviting this team to that as well to get some student voice in that meeting as well.
>> Thank you very much. Thank you for the music. Good morning. It creates a great way to start our day when we hear you guys playing in the morning. >> Happy holiday. >> Thank you. >> Bye. >> So, I want to continue with the superintendent's update. A few things that I would just like to announce and
uh to the viewing public and to the school committee. First of all, we did not meet on December 3rd. uh we moved the meeting uh to here tonight at December 17th. So we really have welcomed folks back from Thanksgiving. Uh and we are in the holiday season after meeting with several of our
guidance folks. I just want to say out loud that the community uh of families in the community of uh of our staff and faculty do an incredible job raising money uh to support families uh of the students of our school. Uh we have uh
private donations that we receive. Uh we have gift cards that were raised um from certain student clubs. Every single school is generating uh dollars and gift cards and presents for families that are in need. We've identified certain families interacted with them. Um, and
I'd say somewhere we have uh we're giving out over $5,000 worth of gift cards, gifts, and also uh potentially making a donation to the um grade 8 trip to DC in order to support families who may not have enough money to do that.
So, uh I can't thank the community enough. These funds come to us anonymously from folks who may have a get together and pass a hat and come in and we received $3,500 uh in that way from a from a family who had a get together. So I can't thank the community
enough and also I want to thank our faculty and staff because they're also chipping in in uh contributing to that as well. Um so thank you to the community. Um getting into buildings has been a big part of our work and I want to thank Kakosa since Thanksgiving we've
been into the Tucker the Glover the Cunningham and just today we were at the middle school uh walking through classroom seeing good education happening teaching and learning happening following the criteria of what we're looking for related to our five priorities um and I can only say and
continue to say that we're seeing excellent things related to tier one instruction people using data to inform their decisions related to teaching and learning uh rigor uh supporting students. Uh we've been in a lot of very very well-run uh classrooms over the last few
weeks since our last meeting. So excited to to continue that work this year. Um we also want to ensure families uh around safety. There's been a couple of safety issues related uh to the Brown University and what happened in
Australia. Um, want to make sure the community knows that we've already had all of our stay put drills this fall. We've already had our fire drills this fall. We will continue with our safety meetings with the police and fire departments. We'll resume that in January. Um, and I just want to remind
our families and our staff that we do work on those drills. We do have conversations about safety. Uh, we usually don't celebrate it and put it out in front of everybody. We do these drills and we have these conversations uh in order to be prepared. Um, but this being in the news every night, uh, I
want to assure our community that we do have those meetings and we'll continue to lean on our safety and first responders in the town who have been incredible partners, uh, with the Milton public schools. Um, on January 16th, we'll have that safety
and security meeting um, with the police and the fire department. Um, I have recently completed all of my community coffee hours with the community. We had four sessions uh morning, afternoon, and at night. I've also had coffee hours at every single building. That was my round
two of meeting with our staff. Uh and for the viewing public and our staff, I will do that round of coffee hours again after February break. And that will be my third round after February vacation. Uh in January, please look for uh and mark your calendars for January 8, which
is our preschool information night for all of our preschool families. That is a virtual meeting. I think it supports the families with young children at home to be able to do it virtually. Our kindergarten information night will be done virtually as well and that will be on January 15 and these will be all on the website. And our grade one
information night which will be in person at Milton High School will be March 12th. Um and lastly, I would like to say thank you very much this holiday season. Uh and I hope everybody has a wonderful uh next few weeks as we prepare to end the calendar year. So
thank you very much. Thank you very much. Um, next item looks like the 2425 annual report which we've previously reviewed, but we will now be taking a vote to approve it.
I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 annual report. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. All in favor? Um and so the last item under the superintendent's report this evening will be the
discussion of the draft um calendar for next year. >> Thank you uh very much uh chair Carol. Um so with the policy um voted last year by the school committee uh the calendar
the holidays that repres that are represented on the school calendar rotate each year. Um so this year we uh recognize Good Friday and Yongor and the next school year in the 26 27 calendar
for the per the policy we will be recognizing um Luna New Year and Eid. Um the reason why we wanted to get this information out to our families now as we begin this conversation about what
the full calendar impact will be in terms of when the professional days will be the first and last day of school etc. is that this is the first year of the of the shift and we just wanted to make sure that we were proactively communicating with our community that the holidays that we had traditionally
uh had days off from school will shift uh next school year. um the days that we will uh one of the Saturday. Um so we would want to uh reach out uh bow to maybe someone in the community that could give us guidance on
if it's a Saturday, do we have the Friday off or do we celebrate the holiday on the calendar whether it has a day off from school or not. So we don't have to answer that question tonight, but we really want to be respectful of the community of folks who uh represent that event in that time. Um and the
second holiday is on March 9 and that's recognizing Eid. Um so those will be the two holidays which means we will not be recognizing any other holidays with days off just those holidays that are federal holidays. So Luna New Year is usually celebrated
on New Year's Eve which is similar to Christmas Eve which means Christmas the day itself is the celebration day but the dinner is happen the night before right so the 24th and the 25th are the
two days that you usually get together and it's a a nighttime celebration. Um on the newest day we usually do some kind of um worshiing of the ancestors or gods of Buddha or Buddha Sappa and
depends on dowism or Buddhism. So yeah that that's why when I look at this calendar Luna New is on a Saturday. So if it's not actually making any impact if you
give Luna off on that on the next school year. >> So I did have it I just have it bolded but that's why I was I wanted to check with you first before designating either the 5th Friday the 5th or Monday the 8th. I just wanted to
make sure that we were doing it appropriately. So >> it should be the fifth. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'll make that change. because the only other option there would be to just >> swap it with Diwali if Diwali doesn't fall on the weekend. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, that's how I was thinking too.
>> Um because those the guidance around one year to the next is not set in stone. I think we were just that was attempting to sort of provide a road map that would let us imagine how in the
course of a fiveyear period each holiday we could recognize two times I guess um and so if that becomes something that makes more sense that that is not I don't believe that's
like codified into the policy like okay >> which to be next year or the year after that Um if it makes sense to do that swap, I think that would >> How long is the valley celebrated?
>> So we have also as part of the calendar uh we've been continuing to contribute to a full list of all holidays that we want to make sure that every community member in school community member is aware of which will go on the back of the calendar. That's great. and be connected to the uh online uh school
calendar as well. Uh our goal is to make sure that if your your religious holiday is not being represented by a day off that you always have the right to go into school and say I will be out of school celebrating or recognizing uh my religious holiday and therefore our
staff will be able to accommodate the workload around that >> absence. So we will be checking with the um different sources we have in order to make a list that you have in your packet that is pretty extensive uh to make sure that we represent any one of those and that will be given to staff and to
families. It's really helpful for the staff to have it so when a child comes up and says I won't be here on Thursday they can you know make sure that they're recognizing that holiday and respecting that that wish as well. The the other part of this uh connected
to holidays which we can talk about as we get through the uh the next month or so when we certified is that uh our families should note that Labor Day is late next year. It's the latest it can be. So we are starting school late but in the same way which is students would
arrive to school on the Wednesday and Thursday prior to Labor Day uh with no school on the Friday and then uh school would resume on the Tuesday after Labor Day with that late start results with a late finish which means that the last
day of school without any snow days would be June 23rd and we would actually uh add the five days per DESIE policy to the end of that. So which means with the snow days potentially being had, so we have to connect that to our calendar holiday calendar schedule that the last
day of school with snow days would be June 30th. And I don't think we've ever really gone that late uh in a long time. So that is a function of when Labor Day falls. Um, we will be also talking to, uh, if the holidays remain the same, uh,
given the conversations we have, uh, we will be talking to our, uh, looking at through our contracts to make sure we're aligned with any contractual language for all of our working, um, staff to make sure that we are in alignment with their contract and the calendar prior to
exposure. So, we'll continue to look at revision drafts of the calendar over the next coming weeks. And >> I think this should be on the agenda every week, every meeting for the next few meetings so we can certify it.
>> I just have for 2030 and 2031 just highlighted just so we have five, >> you know, as we just kind of Thank you, Anna, for creating this. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, the thoughts on the calendar.
>> Um, I just I do um appreciate the election day in November being the PD date. I know we had received feedback from the community about um specifically the Tucker community about concerns regarding
voting on um school days and various implications. So I think that that makes sense especially on a um you know there will be more things on the ballot next November than
there were this November for example. So, makes sense that that's a good plan. >> Yeah, it's a safety issue. And we also will run the other days by our leadership team like the principles and the and our leadership team would like to to not revisit but make sure that they review the early release days and
make sure that they're lined up in a way that makes sense for the uh teaching and learning sequencing that we won't put in place. So, uh we that there may be some changes around that as well. Uh we are checking that is the that is November 3rd is the voting day.
>> Charlie was checking on that. Thank you. >> November is very choppy next year because there's no four weeks of class, >> right? It's tricky with Veterans Day and um Thanksgiving.
Um, so it might actually be fine to just leave here because then you're adding another tail to November when in November. Yeah, I think that actually I think that's why we had originally not
slotted it in for next year was recognizing that that would be a lot. When we had that conversation last year, we discussed, you know, wanting to stay focused on the student learning experience. um making the decisions one year to the
next. So, thank you for >> your work on that so far. >> Thank you. Thanks, Charlene Roach for all that work. >> Okay, so on the next portion of the agenda is the chair's report and um I
want to begin with a really um exciting update on the superintendent's contract. So last week on December 10th, the school committee met in an executive session and then voted in an open session to extend interim superintendent Valen's contract through June 30th of
2027. And I think uh we discussed then, but it's worth reiterating that we're very grateful for to you, Mr. Failen, um for being willing to stay for one additional year. We are grateful for the stability
that this will provide for our district. and you've already made a really positive impact um in many ways over the first half of this year since you joined us. Um we look forward to that continuing through next year. So, thank you for being willing to see us
continuing through this um transition time for for Milton Public Schools. Um, as announced in the email that went out last week to both staff and um the community of Milton Public Schools, the school committee will be launching a full search for Milton's next
superintendent next fall of 2026. And we will be keeping both the community and staff informed about that process and um seeking input from all stakeholders in the district. Um and in the meantime, we're thankful to be in
your capable hands. So, thanks again. >> Well, thank you. Um starting in May and June and and meeting with Assistant Superintendent Katie Blake and partnering with her over the summer, uh really felt like a good match to be back in Milton. So, I'm thankful for her partnership and thankful for all the
work of the leaders in the district. uh and then uh being able to have uh Kakosa join us at in the cabinet as well. The the team of educators and leaders in the district and the teachers and faculty, the families and the students uh have been a joy to work with. So, this is a
great place to be and I think that any uh search that we have next year will yield a great result. It's a great district to be in. Thank you. Um the next topic that we have um on the agenda here is community engagement discussion. And
um I believe Amanda added this to the agenda just this being one of our school committee goals for this year and recognizing that you know the benefit of returning to it um sort of
every so often to just check in. Um this as we discussed with our goals, it's something we want to think creatively about this year and just continue um doing our best to um engage the community in conversations about and information about what we're
doing here. Um one of the ideas that Amanda had wanted to open discussion on tonight um was the idea of school committee members um attending PTO meetings. um to stay connected with what's
happening, the work our uh parent volunteers are doing in our schools. Um just as a way to be informed and then to be able to share that knowledge back to the school committee and to the community that way. Um we do have six schools and six school
committee members. So I think there was um the idea of you know potentially dividing up among us the schools. Um I certainly I think if anyone has ideas
about that uh we could discuss it now. Um we won't make an actual solidify a plan until at least our next meeting u when Amanda is back. But um just want to open that up for prelim preliminary discussion if anyone has any thoughts.
I I was at the MFE meeting this Monday with John and when I was sitting there I was thinking about this MF that mutton Foundation for Education is like the district PTO group right it would be nice if there's one parent volunteer who
attend who are PTO members at their individual school to join that meeting and be able to bring back what they have discussed so that it's not always fall on the six of you know because we do have other subcommittee meetings to attend as well.
So if they the the parent parent volunteers for the individual classroom some of them are also PTO members they attend the PTO meetings and they will know what's exactly going on in that PTO meeting and they can bring back to the MF group which is a districtwide PTO
group and me and John are also there as well. So we we also can hear from them what is happening in different schools. So I feel like that if that kind of hierarchy is established then we don't have to always diluting the school
committee members energy. It's just a suggestion but not sure how it will work. >> So just my um Wendy New who is the president of the MF does attend the PTO president's meetings. So I host
quarterly meetings with the PTO presidents and when he comes and that's that's where we get that connection between MF and the PTO presidents which we just had I think last week or this this Monday. Um and to your point it is a very good exchange of ideas and making
sure that their both groups are aligned in how they do their fundraising and how they serve our constituencies and schools. So that there's been a very good conversation between the MF and the PTO presidents uh through that mechanism. So we have we have a quarterly meeting and uh we have some
work that we do in between meetings to ensure that we're communicating well around grants and what's happening at the school level versus what's happening at the the MF level for our staff. So um there is a little bit of that already happening just as an FYI. >> Okay.
>> So do you feel do everyone feel like we need a school committee member at each PTO meeting? How often do PTO's meet? >> Once a month. I think they meet monthly. And I mean um it's also the kind of thing that we
could sort of try out. You know, we don't have to do like an all or nothing thing. Um it might not need to be that school committee members attend every PTO meeting for a given school, but maybe you know try to go a
few times a year or something like that. I really hear your I mean it's true like school committee members already attend a lot of meetings. So that's definitely um that's a real aspect of it. But
>> I think I think one of the thoughts was if every if each school committee member was a liaison to a school PTO >> that you didn't have to go to every meeting, but if they had a question they could call their school committee liaison or if they had an important meeting that they would like to have a
school committee member representative at. You might end up only going to one meeting across the course of the year, but you would be their contact and sometimes the school committee might be distributed. Maybe I I have a high schooler, I have a Glover student, I have a you might already have that kind of assignment by the fact that your
children are already in that school. Uh but just so they they have they may enjoy and I haven't talked about this with the PTOs, but they may enjoy knowing that they can always call our liaison is Lizzy. You know, Tucker calls Lizzy or the high school calls Anna or
the middle school calls um just so they know they have a contact and a and a direct connection. And it may not require people to go to every meeting or maybe even not any, but just to be connected to a school as a communication channel. >> It's a good way to think about it.
>> Makes sense. >> Um, well, we can keep discussing this at the next meeting. Um, so we're not deciding anything right now, but just want to sort of put the idea out there. Um, >> should we take ourselves while Amanda's
not here and then we can Um well let me add one more thing is that other than the PTO group meeting there's also DIB meetings. >> So like how do we choose and pick right and that's why I I I really like that John
is you're already doing um meetings with the PTO presidents so that you know what's going on with different schools. So when we are meeting with MF or um right here you you are the person who knows all the information >> and maybe that would be you know maybe
that's a reason to make it a little bit it's a totally you know that they can contact you or they can flag for you if there's if something has come up that they could really use support around or I mean I think the goal was to just create a
little bit more connection um between the schools >> and like the conversations that are happening here. Um >> so I think that makes sense. I mean, I already am part of the Pierce DIB
committee, so um yeah, and we meet like once a month, so I'm not sure how often their PTO meets, but um but yeah, like that totally makes sense because some of the members overlap, but you know, it's always different people and different
kind of visions. But it's also kind of a good way to be part of both of those committees because at some point it's good like there are efforts made here but then there's a disconnect different efforts but it would be nice to have that kind of conversation and look at it
holistically. So yeah >> makes sense of the idea. I think it's a good one. I think um it could be um you know each of us are connected to different schools by virtue of the fact
that our kids have gone there. I think it could be useful to to be a liaison to a school you don't know as well. >> Yeah. >> Um might actually make the role of your being a school committee member liaison easier.
um versus like if I'm at if I'm the liaison to colle that that feels complicated actually >> right your parent >> yeah um >> same thing >> and then the other you know I just recall the last time we talked about this um we talked about also using
community engagement this year as a way to um accelerate or g get some early thinking on the superintendent search for next year um which could also bring um a little bit more purpose to these as
well. Well, I'm I mean every time you meet with the PTO that you're assigned to, you have to talk about this topic, but if if there could be um if we if we had a chance like if we each had a couple of conversations with each of the PTO's we were assigned to,
that would be, you know, 12 conversations with seven people over the course of the next few months, which would be really informative as we hit August next year and start launching that search. um where it will include a big community engagement
piece but we will have already done quite a bit of homework just through engaging PTO's which are important constituents for that pretty much agree >> so we can keep talking about this next time um move toward maybe finding a plan
that feels comfortable for everybody um the only other topic under the community engagement discussion that um I just wanted to sort of acknowledge. Um I think we're still ironing out the process for
creating the updates of the school committee meetings to be included in the um school and district emails. Um so that is something that we had agreed to do before and then we we've done it um
in some different ways. um working Stephanie O'Keefe as we all know is great and so helpful. Um but I was talking with Amanda about I think we we're still like refining the actual process of like who's doing what by
when, you know, to make sure that those summaries are are being generated and that we all feel comfortable with what they include. Um, so I just wanted to, you know, name that because I think
we're making good effort and good progress on it and it's um something that hopefully we can lock in a little bit more as a routine in January. Um, does anyone have any other thoughts on the topic of community engagement
that you want to put out there now? Again, we'll be coming back to it. Um but I think these are you know good ideas and actionable things that we can keep working on.
So if we're ready to move on to the next topic it would be the finance subcommittee report a short one. Um really uh all right FY27 budget is the first thing we talked about that today um we got some
additional information which I sent out to members uh from the town administrator on the town's financial um expense and revenue forecasts. We've not had the opportunity as a committee to talk with the town administrator since
October when uh we had the initial meeting. Uh so this information is kind of new provides um some more concerning is the right word but some more modest revenue uh forecast increases which could have implications for the school department budget. So we
haven't shared kind of the level service budget with some of the school department's reallocation ideas uh to keep us to kind of within the level service number of 5.2%. Uh they did talk about this at select board last night. Um
and so there appears to be some additional work that the town administrator is doing to kind of finalize some revenue forecasts, finalize some expense forecast, specifically also health insurance, uh and then some stuff we need to do to just understand more what those forecasts are and what the implications
are for our budget. So we have not moved, you know, if you look at the FY27 budget timeline that was shared previously, we were right now at the place of around to budget. We do not have that because we just don't have enough information. Um we town
administrators expressed kind of being open and working to schedule a meeting the first week back in January either that sixth or the 7th. So share that out once that's finalized. I hope to get some more information there. And then the finance committee is meeting again on the 14th where hopefully we can take
some of that information. Katie, John, the team can um bring back then on the 14th some um adjustments to the school budget, FY27 school budget that is the town administrator's updated forecasts
are are looking like kind of drivers outside of the school department's control, which is how we uh coordinate with the town even though we are still one budget. Um, other notes Katie or John like to add to that?
>> I I would like to thank Katie for providing the overview at um back in November uh creating the budget uh at the high level at the 5.2% and going through it uh cost center by cost center um with the original direction from town
hall. Um so thank you Katie for preparing that in advance and now whatever shifts that we need to make moving forward. We already have a foundational document that we can move on from uh moving forward and we look forward to partnering with uh Nick Milano and Amy Texture uh Katie and I will be meeting with them on Monday to
uh take another look at the numbers and we'll be reporting back to the school committee on that as well. >> Yes, always thank goes without saying should be said. Um, any questions members have on FY27 budget?
>> I think there's even after I watched the select board meeting today, I still just I question. So, there's there's more information we need and really um can't get that till we talk to the town administrator a little bit more. And it seems like again there's still work he is doing that department. So, more to
come. Um, >> uh, FY26 budget realignment. So, at two finance meetings ago, I think it was, um, we, this was a discussion, uh, school department brought up wanting to do some additional budget realignment work similar to what they brought to us
in October, October, September, um, about just adjusting some things to um, save some funding and um, not feel positions to provide them some flexibility. Kind of in a similar vein, um, identified some other places where
they wanted to realign budget. One of those being some of the requests that we heard at the last school committee me meeting around some Tucker uh initiatives. Uh another piece being around um trying to expand time that Carla can provide the district given the important work she's doing within
teaching and learning. Uh and having her five days a week would be um fantastic. Not kind of a standard expectation for most districts and unfortunately we haven't had that. Um and so that was discussed at the finance committee. Uh
generally we the school department asked for us to vote to just kind of give general agreement that this was direction we approved which we did voted for unanimously. It says vote on here. So is that the we're not right now at the quarter two place where so in
quarter two Katie will present an updated kind of budget that shows these realignments and we will vote on them formally during the quarter two process. But right now is the idea kind of to share that same direction. Did we share out the actual
information because I didn't see the materials today just on >> I don't remember if I forward it after we voted on >> No, the the uh the total cost uh is roughly $37,000 uh $600 for adding a siphon for the uh a
music educator who will be taking the lead on uh the fine and performing arts department which lost its director due to uh going to another district and we did not fill that position. We let some time go by to find out, you know, what service delivery pieces are essential
that need to happen for those staff and those students that do music and art. And um and after watching and assessing and meeting with the uh staff or targeted members of the staff, we realized that we just needed someone to lead that work. And so that that's a very small statement that would do the work for the remainder of the year. And
it quite frankly could be a pilot for if in fact next year we would want to continue with a lead teacher versus having a full administrator. So that has a dual purpose. Um the that $37,000 also includes funds for assistance superintendent Kakosa to go from 3 days
a week to 5 days a week. And to Mark's point, um this is our work. This position is the workhorse of the of the teaching and learning side of the uh school department. So, we thought it was essential to have that be filled and for the public to know when they say, "Well, where are they getting that money? How
does that work?" We did work really hard in August to not fill certain positions that we felt we could go one year without in order to create flexibility for the year and meet the needs of the district um in different areas if we needed to. And so these are two examples
of us assessing what the needs are um and using some of the funds that we saved in August during fiscal 26 and expending them in a different way to support the district. Um and maybe one more lead teacher like position that we might come back to the group for. We've been doing the same assessment for our
educational technology role. Uh AJ Millansen was in that role for about five years. uh did a lot of good work for all of our teacher and student facing technology work and also um all the AI work and we had a tech committee that was contributing to that. Um we're
really discovering as the year goes by that there's service delivery pieces of that work that needs to be uh monitored, supervised and led. Uh some of the work is just being distributed naturally across the teachers and the folks that do that but we need someone to be in charge of a certain part of that work.
So, we we have already had a couple of meetings and we're trying to figure out what that targeted work would look like. Uh, but it would similarly be a lead teacher role that could be uh roughly $5,000 for the remainder of the year. It's more about uh respect for the work
being done by folks who are taking on extra work more so than the actual dollars. $5,000 is not that much money, but the amount of work that whoever takes that role on would put in. So, um, so that would be one that would be maybe coming down the road. We're still doing the assessment. Uh, but what we
presented to you was about $37,000 for finding performing arts lead in five days a week for our assistant superintendent and that will be in the Q2 and voted in the Q2 and the second quarter closes on December 31st.
>> Questions members have about that direction? Uh if not, I don't have this language in motion, so I'll try it here. Uh I'll make a motion to um for the school committee to support the direction of the school department and realigning
budget uh to address the priorities as discussed here tonight. Is there a second? Thank you. Any further discussion? All in favor? Thank you
for your work for >> us. Um uh item C is community schools summer program fees. This is also something we discussed at a the last school comm uh finance meeting
trying to school department is trying to get this information out a little bit earlier than other fees given kind of the registration for the school the summer program happens sooner than kind of the rest of the fees for next school year. Um
this the are there materials within the former? Yes. Um so they uploaded a copy of kind of the presentation that the director of the community schools program kind of walked us through highlighting some of
the financial gaps within the program from last year with the um expansion of Camp Tucker and um some other things. And essentially the goal here is to adjust the fees in order to have them align with uh expenses. So it is a
self-run program. Um you know at this point it has been but it has pulled from the kind of reserves in the community schools more than we would have liked it to um based on the operations last summer. And so raising the fees helps stress that and ensures that it's not
something that will continue into the future. And then there is information uh that nice enough to provide on just comparison of costs for built-in uh community schools programs versus other
summer camp programs. and you know how we how we rank within there and how the fee proposal still has us in mind very competitive >> further you like to share that
>> I I I I don't want to share the the finance side of it I could leave that to Katie if she would like to comment on the fee increase but uh Ma Sandival is a true professional she runs the middle community schools at a very very high level. Uh I'm very impressed with her
attention to detail care for the students and the staff and the programming and the quality of the programming that she provides. Uh she has worked closely with Katie to really go through the exercise of making sure that the fees that we're charging are are not only um as low as we can do for
our families, but high enough to make the programs work. So, uh, this past year, the summer of 2025 was the first year of our Tucker Community School programming, which is an expansion from the traditional Cunningham Collott site that has been operating for years. Um,
and they got the word out a little late. So her request to get the fee increased in December in order to get the word out to the Tucker community uh starting already through January uh she believes even with a slight increase in the fee but the advanced notice for folks to be
able to choose uh the program and sign up early and secure a spot will increase the enrollment uh between the enrollment increase and the slight fee increase. We think it will come back to a more reasonable cash flow perspective uh for community schools to offer programming
over the summer at both Cunningham and at Tucker. So uh again thank you for Katie for supporting Martha and Martha does a terrific job for the after schools in the summer programming. >> Just a couple things and I know sorry I missed the finance committee meeting where this was discussed.
Um are are do fee increases typically happen every year or is it sort of does it happen as as needed? >> I think it's been um from my
understanding it's been a combination of both. I think because of the balance in the accounts, there were periods of time where the fees were increased. Um, and then there
were also years where we did increase the needs moderately even though we did have a surplus and that account. So, I think it's kind of been a combination of um where we were and what we felt was
appropriate in that year. That's just based off of the history that I've learned from them. >> Got it. Okay. >> I think it would be um some experience running summer camps.
Um, and I know that big fee increases um can often drive down enrollment. Um, and so even if you're increasing your fees to to try to break even, it's not even quite breaking even. Um, it can
actually impact the number of families who end up enrolling because there's sticker shock. And so I think moving to thinking about just an annual increase every year of whatever it is something that can be smoothed out because some years your costs might not go up very
much and some years they might go up 6%. Um so you know a 3% increase or 4% increase every year is something that families can absorb um and are less likely to drive down enrollment. So just maybe something for for you and Martha
to consider. Um and then um does the do the camps have a have an obligation to run at break even or they can run at a loss? they can run it, they can operate at a loss um and that's what
they've done in previous years, but it's just been offset by um because there was a balance in the account because we were operating at a surplus throughout the school year program and so that would offset the loss that we were incurring
during the summer. But because of um over the course of the last several years, we increased the um salary rates pretty significantly and we worked really hard to try to in increase the
capacity of the program by hiring more staff. The balance in that account has really been depleted to the point where we really felt like it was necessary to increase the fees so that each aspect of
the program is self- sustaining because we don't this is the intent of this program. The structure of the program is that it's a self- sustaining program and that it's not funded by the operating budget in any way. And so we just want
to ensure that that continues to be the case. Um a piece of what we looked at although it is a 10% increase which seems significant is also doing um some analysis and I say we it's Martha.
Martha does a tremendous job um researching and doing the work at looking at the other summer camps and other programs. And we are still um even with a 10% increase, we're still
comparable to some of the other programs, if not lower um based off of some of the programs that are around us. Um, and so that's why we the enrollment is really strong at Cunningham. We truly
feel like the enrollment will will be strong at Tucker. We just wanted to our our f we wanted to give our families enough time to be able to prepare for the summer. So, we figured it was better to get this in front of you all now and
then Martha can move forward with posting this and then we'll come back um in January or February and talk about the fee structure for the rest of the program. >> Thank you. Um just to your question last time I
think based upon the fee schedule that we updated the summer camp was FY24 increased by $10 $20 something $10. Yeah, but the fee schedule
I just want to highlight something that uh Katie mentioned that we will be coming back right now. We're targeting the school year program schools. Uh again, to Katie's point, um the we treat the community schools
almost like a nonprofit. They need to have at least so many months of payroll expenses in hand in order to make sure that they're solvent throughout the year. And right now, we're not working at that level. So, these fee increases will be needed in order to make sure that
there's always at least a three-month balance in the accounts for payroll, etc. Uh, there have been years where we've had more than that in there and there's years that we've had less than that in there. Right now, we're on the less than side. So, for all the reasons that Katie pointed out, a few increase.
Any other questions? members. Uh so this does require a vote of the school committee. Um so I'll make a motion to approve the increase in fees to the community school summer program. Is there a second?
Any further discussion? All in favor? Uh last piece is the approval of the vendor warrants. I have signed this number is not right in the motions. So I need to figure out
share. I can do 22 as well. We have uh vendor 23 and 24 that I just signed tonight. Give me a second. I'm sorry. I don't we don't need y'all to um vote for them anymore, but I do need to just share the numbers.
We already did 22 last time, but apologies. Uh, all right. Um, I signed vendor warrant 24 dated 1218 2025 in the amount of $73,547. That was shared out with everybody.
I signed vendor warrant 23 and uh dated 1211 2025 in the amount of $423,24.36 that was shared with everybody just to be safe. Um, vendor warrant 22
dated 124 2025 in the amount of $472,231 that was also shared. That one we might have missed because of the last committee meeting. >> Thank you, Mark. >> Of course.
Next we have policy subcommittee Anna. Okay. Um so policy did not is not meeting for December. So we will have our next meeting in January. Unfortunately we just had some scheduling conflicts. Uh but you do have
a um the draft version and the final version of policy I am AMD which is the wellness policy in your folders. The draft version shows just the u um red line version um towards the bottom of
the policy. Um also just a few minor weight wording changes before we submit this. Um so um and obviously it's a second reading and a final and a vote for tonight. So final policy is also in your
folder. Everyone's good. I can go ahead and make a motion to approve second reading of policy IH AMD of all this policy. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> Awesome. >> Thank you, Anna. We will um facilities advisory committee. >> All right. So facilities um advisory met yesterday. It was a very short meeting. Uh unfortunately Tom
could not be part of it. He's a big part of our meetings. Um so we did uh and a couple of members could not be there as well. So we did have a quorum. So we decided to meet um and uh we basically went approved a couple of minutes from
September and October past meetings um as well as um we did have the Tucker playground update on our agenda. So we did I did take them through the presentation that was shared by the Tucker PTO a couple weeks ago. So, which
was very exciting and they were you know just kind of um to kind of bring them up to speed on what's been done and what the steps are and kind of where we are right now and you know what's kind of our goal and uh I think we would like to do is for the facilities committee to
get kind of work hand inand with all the different schools as these types of projects come about and how we can partner with them and help them out. So, um, that was kind of our meeting yesterday. >> Question. This is not necessarily
related to what you shared, but, uh, have you all heard any update on the construction uh, Cunningham? Couple things came up just because again, my daughter happens to be in those classes. I guess, sorry. So um the
meetings for the summer of 27 work are starting to take place remotely uh with the uh owner project manager. Um we have been asked uh by the owner project manager as part of the project to clear out the attic of the cuttingham which
will be the new library. Uh so uh Katie and I and others uh Tom McCathi Mayheu um and um any Milton public school uh coordinator or person who has items in that library have we went up about a
month and a half ago to identify tag um items to either be thrown out or stored uh or in preparation stored to come back to the school in September when we reopen the library or stored permanently offsite because we have records and payroll records that need to be kept for
a longer period of time. Um, with that said, the library will be empty, the attic will be emptied in order to do some preliminary work over winter break uh for just a few days. Um, then there will be some work done in the February break for a few days and then there'll
be some work done over April break. Um these uh these work sessions will allow the company to set themselves up for success. So when the summer starts, they can really have a couple uh maybe, you know, eight to nine days of work already
uh completed and hit the ground running because we have a short summer to complete a good amount of work in the summer of 27, summer of 26. Um, we have a lot of confidence in the contractor who came in on budget uh and on time for the first phase and uh we're working
with them. I want to thank John Redden for going to every single meeting on uh now they're happening on every other Wednesday. Uh Tom McCarthy and Bob Mayhew and John Mir who's a custodial senior custodian at the at the county collot. Um so we uh we will be in the
schools over those three breaks getting work done. They will be in the schools over those breaks. The only folks in the building at that time will be our community schools folks. We have two days of community schools over the winter recess because it's the way the holiday falls. It's not that it's the Friday and the Monday and Tuesday. So,
there's three days of community schools. Um, and there'll be community schools uh in the building on uh the February and April break. But just like we did last summer, we will coordinate off, create drop off pickup space and uh coordinate between Milton Community Schools and the construction folks for the work being
done in a safe and orderly manner. >> Yeah, the head of the Cunningham Community School said it went great for the summer. >> Yeah. So that was great. >> Uh question I had was actually more on the the punch list for the work that happened last summer. It seemed like the
lights, right, the construction lights were are still in not the permanent lights that they don't have cubbies or lights, but they're cooked bags or even temporary places for those things. So, just like what is that? >> So, uh we've had two sets of cubbies arrive at the Cunningham school and two
sets of cubbies sent back from the Cunningham school back to the vendors. Uh the third, uh versions of the cubbies arrived today. All nine sets will go uh uh and be um installed uh probably in the next two weeks. Uh the students and
the staff have waited a long time for those to be put in place. Uh Principal Redden again has been very very uh you know very much the advocate of making sure that's been done in an orderly way. The first two were not not um not appropriate cubbies. I don't know what's
an appropriate cubby and what's not an appropriate cubby but uh we did not get what we had ordered. So, we wanted to make sure we we got what we had paid for. So, uh the lights are supposed to be remedied and I don't have a timeline for that. Uh for folks who don't know, they do feel like a construction light
because they are hanging down in a way that they're not recessed into the ceiling in the way that we would want them in a classroom. Um it's certainly okay for a limited amount of time. Uh but when you have, you know, young students at the elementary level with something hanging over them, it becomes a little distracting and potentially
something that we would uh prefer to be temporary and moved into the permanent lighting situation. I don't have a timeline on that, but I can get one of you. >> The last update that I had received was that the um the materials were in and the electrician was planning on
completing the work this past weekend. And so we just need to confirm that that work was completed. But it hopefully it's it's complete by now. >> Is there any other beyond the cubbies and lights is the only time I'm aware of any other punch list? >> No other.
>> Thank you. You're welcome. and and just uh in the thank you department, uh Nick Milano, Katie, uh Tom McCathy, Bob Mayhew, John Mureer, all those folks in the facility side of the work and the business side of the work have really worked hard and um they've been very helpful with also with
furniture and different things that were needed as we began to see what the the spaces needed in order to operate effectively and all those things were secured and put in place. So, with these last two things being tied up, that floor will be done. It'll be really exciting to see the library in place uh
after December 26. >> Okay, thank you. So, next we have um MF you sort of spoke to this a little bit. Is there anything else to share from the Foundation for Education? >> Yes, MF celebrating their 30th anniversary. So, you should have
received an email from them um about the $30 for 30 years campaign. Of course, you're welcome to donate more than 30 bucks, but we will hope to have a lot of people contribute. Um and you should also receive that information in the uh
in the principles with the emails as well. Um there's a little section in the email about the the campaign and um obviously they just closed uh a very successful year of Monster Dash and they are looking forward to host the end
of the year derby race um that is going to be celebrating the teacher of the year on May 2nd 5 to 7 p.m. at the Blue Hill Country Club. So uh you're welcome to attend as well and they would love to
have your attendance. Um they they continue to looking for more volunteer to join their team as members but especially as a treacher. So if you have anyone listening or watching uh who have financial experience please consider um
they are also busy in January. Um uh the the the application for grants is closing on December 30th or 31st. Um currently they have received 22 applications but um and from all six
schools. However, they haven't received any application from Tuck and Glover. So we like to shout out to um to the teachers at these two schools and try to put your applications in before the deadline. Um,
and that's pretty much all we discussed about. John, do you have anything to add? >> Yeah, the grants we uh after that meeting, I sent an email to all the principles with all the grant uh application information uh that they turned around and sent to their staff.
Um, so we're hoping to increase the amount of grants across all six schools, but make sure all schools are represented. And uh it's very um impressive that the MF can continue to support the classroom and school buildings through their grant process. Uh teachers get really exciting things
and we're like we're working with the PTO and the MF jointly. Uh what what we really want to do or what I'm what I'm proposing that the school department needs to do is really take a look at what they're funding and make sure that whatever their funding that should be
purchased within our budget that we take that on and do so because the MFV is should be enhancing uh the program uh in building public schools and each individual PTO should be enhancing what's going on in those schools not
supplanting but things like textbooks and things that should be taken out of our budget. I think that they are relieved to hear that because they're really struggling to make sure that they do the things that would be nice to do and not wanting to expend those dollars and things that maybe the budget should take care of. So, uh Katie and I will be
working over the next several years to bring back some of those things into the budget so they can then have money freed up to uh to provide the exciting things and enhancing things. So, to Bob's point earlier, the MF is like the district's PTO. they are looking for ideas, wanting
to support teachers from the classroom and our PTO's are doing the same things in the building. So, it's been great to work with both parties to line the work up for them so we're working in concert with each other and not, you know, uh unknowingly maybe crossing lines a
little bit. and the MF continues to be um I think I've been involved in the Milton schools for 28 of the 30 years that they have been in existence and being a high functioning group for 30 years is amazing and it's all volunteer work uh and going to the meetings like
we do such an impressive group of people and they're dedicated so we can't thank them enough and they're going to be doing the appeal so absolutely the 30 for30 it could be $30 it could be $300 it could be $30,000 don't limit yourself to 30. It could be 30 and more. So, uh,
all that money goes directly back to the classroom. So, if you get that mailing, uh, at home and you're a community member, please, uh, donate generously. They all those dollars go right back into your public schools. >> Um, the next topic on the agenda is the capital improvement planning committee.
So, I can give a quick report on this. Um, we have had a couple of meetings. We met on December 4th and December 11th. Um, I would like to thank Amy Dexter for all her work coordinating our committee. Um,
we're chaired again this year by Richard Wells. Um, on December 4th, we had Tom McCarthy, um, director of consolidated facilities for the town, come and present his priorities for the town side. um
departments. And so the way that this committee is set up starting around early December, uh we start to have meetings where different department heads come and share their capital um requests. Um and he kicked off by
sharing some of the top priorities for the town. Um that included learning about um the windows at town hall needing to be replaced, for example. There was some discussion of the Athetherton fire station uh need for renovations of the bathroom
there. However, um that will be impacted potentially by the timeline of the full renovation of that fire station which I know is under discussion. So, uh that was something that was discussed and also the need for some upgrades at the library. Um so as we all know um Tom in
addition to managing the capital request for the town um also manages the requests for the schools and uh he will be sort of separately going in depth presenting the schools facilities requests at a future meeting. Um the
next meeting on December 11th, we had uh Department of Public Works Director Marina Fernandez came in um along with the civil engineer Sky Bar and they presented the priorities uh for capital requests for DPW.
Um that included need uh needed equipment, road and sidewalk construction and maintenance like they do every year. um she ex gave a really in-depth explanation of um sort of where we are in relation to state aid
specifically for uh that item. Um but also sort of the need to catch up as a town around being proactive with our uh maintenance because the more you defer it, the more expensive and um disruptive
it becomes to maintain the roads. So that was a good conversation. Also tree planting. Um and then presented separate requests pertaining to storm water. So that was that conversation. Um we're still as you mentioned under finance,
you know, waiting for more clarity from um Nick Milano and just in general um to understand what the FY27 budget is looking like. That impacts the discussion about capital requests as well. Traditionally,
uh, we've been using about a million dollars of free cash each year to support, um, capital requests, and that's, as of our last conversation, that was sort of still an expectation that was put forward for FY27, but obviously
things are fluid. Um, so we'll continue to learn more about that. um the capital improvement plan committee will keep meeting with different departments um learning more about their requests and that just helps us make informed decisions ultimately to prioritize the highest needs for the
town. Um and just to flag at this early stage, you know, we already have discussed and we know um that there will once again be a lot of important needs on the capital side that we'll have to defer um to future years. that's um just
based on what we can see about the general financial picture and um that's challenging, but it's also our opportunity to make sure we're careful and diligent in identifying the most important needs to fund um for next
year. So, um at this point, we were supposed to meet tomorrow, uh but we're no longer meeting. We will, I think, resume the meetings in January, and I'll just keep you posted. Um I don't know exactly when Tom is coming to present the schools. Um
sometimes um the superintendent will attend that meeting as well to answer questions. Um so I'll definitely let you know if I learn anything more about that. Uh any questions?
Great. Um, so the final committee update we have is the student advisory committee. Is there anything more beyond what the students shared at the top of the meeting? That was a great update from them. And I just would like to say I'm really appreciating the consistency of
having the student representatives attend to share those updates from their perspectives. It's really a nice way to begin the meetings. Uh, was there anything else that you wanted to share? Um I think there's one extra thing other than the cell phone policy, the graduation requirement
discussion is um we talk about the curriculum subcommittee and we talk about how we will have the um the students input and the teachers input as well but we haven't have any schedule meeting. >> So um perhaps we should start looking
into scheduling those meetings in January and sooner the better. >> Yeah, absolutely. So, I' I've met with Karen Cahill, principal of the high school. We will meet with her internally first to find out what she's looking to do, review it internally, and then we'll
post the first meeting of the the curriculum review committee. We'll invite the students as well. And it'll probably usually it takes one or two meetings of the curriculum review to kind of ask questions and have Karen or team go back and um review, add anything, change anything, and bring it
back to the group. So, that is January work. We were hoping to do our internal work before the winter recess, but we were unable to meet. So, we will do that in the the targeted area right now is the graduation requirements. >> And when we do schedule those, we keep crossost that.
>> Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. >> Absolutely. All subcommittees should be cross. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Great. Thank you. Um so that just brings us to uh next meeting draft agenda items. So
from this discussion we have under chair's report we'll continue engagement conversation um committee reports we will have school building committee um we we will have finance
>> we will have finance and we will have uh an update on school calendar as well. Okay. >> And uh just so the committee just to remind the committee, this is a shared doc that I add all the different topics for the year and we make sure people are
aware I do share it. Uh it's in your drive. Um I act that we just change this every week and add things like tonight I'll add different pieces that we want to put on. Uh some of the upcoming items that we want to just foreshadow a little bit. Uh Dr. Cafe Shavers uh received a
grant from Desessie connected to uh diversifying our our staff. Um and so she's been working with Katie to uh get the financial pieces in order to uh support our work to diversify our workforce. So I would like to have her come present on that. Uh we're thinking
about having uh Danielle Wetmore, our director of student service services come present on what she's working on and also her interactions with CPAC as well. Um and we will have later in the month of January, February, uh a literacy update from uh Katar Ro as well
as a data update, a second big data drop, uh is in late January. So we'll have Brian Selig and uh Katar Ro coming the first meeting in February. Uh so they'll give you a presentation of the data. Uh and we are also working uh on
our presentations that we'll be asking individual principles to have and come to the table as well. So that's all after the first of the year coming forward. >> Great. Well, that's a lot to look forward to. In the meantime, I hope everyone enjoys a welldeserved break,
especially three of you. Um, and all of our teachers and staff throughout the district. Um and yeah, just wish everyone happy holidays time and thank you very much for your
support. We appreciate it very much. Thank you Katie and >> to Okay, thank you Mark. Is there a second? Oh, okay. All in favor. >> Thanks everyone. Have a good night. Thanks.