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Uh so I'm I'm going to call the meeting to order. Uh we do not have to vote for remote participation because we are here together means that all our votes are like this till we enter executive

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session which stay roll call. I would acknowledge visitors who came tonight despite the um sideways rain for a little bit there, especially the ones had the joy of going up Route 128 like I did.

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So, welcome everybody. Okay. Uh we we received no free public comment. This is the public comment period since we are in person. Uh nobody signed up for public comment. So, we

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move on to the consent agenda. Now, I believe that there was was there a change in the minutes, Julia? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we're going to um uh listen to a possible uh change in the minutes, one change, and uh then we will uh assume

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that that's good and if it is, we'll do the whole consent agenda together. Otherwise, we'll take consent. Uh what is the change Julia? >> In the par on May on June 9th the paragraph where superintendent

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mentioned the um Lincoln zoning board. He clarified that. She also reported that the Lincoln zoning board of appeals confirmed that the um that clinic complies with the do amendment. This decision denies an appeal against development of clinic allowing the

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brothers to proceed. It's just clarifying exactly what that was. >> Okay. So that clarifies because it did not refer to which clinic it was uh talking about. We just clarified basically by putting the name. >> That is correct.

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>> Okay. Uh very well then. So I'd like a motion to accept the consent agenda. >> So moved. >> Seconded. moved and second. Any uh discussion? Yes. >> Your right and duty to do so.

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>> Any other comments? Very well. Then all in favor, please raise your hand. Uh so we have eight in favor, one extension. Any opposed? No, it's denying already. Okay,

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great. So for the good organization, I'm going to start with you, Sarah. you hadn't mentioned. >> Sure. Thank you. Um, so in mid June, um, as I often do, I was looking for some information and I went to the Minute Man website and noticed it had been updated

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and, um, the team did a wonderful job. So, I sent an email to Aaron Noren with a copy to Principal Diva and Superintendent Driscoll saying how wonderful it was. And between the storytelling and the mobile experience,

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it's really going to get prospects and parents excited. And then Superintendent Driscoll u sent me back and said note back and said um you know it was it was Drew O' Conors and Allison Barry that were intimately involved and well and

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it's the mobile experience is fantastic. So well done once again. >> Very good. I have one big item. Are there any others before I get to it? >> I do have one. Um I I would like to welcome um two new administrators. Um

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one of our administrators is is not here today. He's our assistant business manager. Vicki, is it day four? >> Day four. Uh lot to do. Um his name is Jordan Banis.

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um and he is joining us um now in our school district um as coming from a town role um and I want to say the process took a couple weeks. We had many candidates

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um and the final candidate who was selected um was Jordan. Do you want to share anything about his background? Um he's worked um at the town of Hudson, which coincidentally is the town I live in. No relation, but he worked for um

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the DPW in particular um with the utilities um sewer, water. Um so we're happy to welcome him and give him a little bit of background. He's really interested in learning about schools and we're happy to get him um you know, feet wet, get

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his feet wet and right into the the school department. So, we are happy to help. All right. And the other person I'd like to welcome is here with us tonight has a very big job as our director of operations. Um, Brian Hayes.

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So, I'll uh let him share a little bit about himself. >> How you doing? Nice to meet all of you. Um, yeah, I have uh 25 years building maintenance experience. So, um I think I can bring a lot here and uh it's a great team and um been very welcoming. I'm on

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day four myself. So, uh a lot to take in, but u it's great to be here. >> Um and something that I'd like to share about Ryan is, uh he was hands down um every member of the interview

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committee's um top choice. um really his motivation and excitement about being here uh matches minute view perfectly. So I want to welcome you. Don't feel like you have to stay for several hours. Um that's it. Thank you.

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>> And we look forward to uh reports from you regarding the the state of the building and what uh additional measures needed uh to maintain it, which is a major goal of the school committee to keep it up to date. uh let it slide like

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is often the case but thank you for >> yes. >> All right. Okay. So the chair has a which you already know a big good of the organization as you know that a few months ago de Ortner had resigned her

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position for her whatever reasons and uh the town and their wisdom decided to bring back an old face for us at least for um the remainder of the term. So Steve Leoo is joining us again for a

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couple years and so we'll break >> the quot Michael Michael Corleone and Godfather [laughter] every time I try to get out to pull me back. >> Uh he was not that unhappy to come back. [laughter] And I'll have a few more things to say

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about Steve when we get to item uh 4E. So I'm sure to all quote that. Uh and in related news on the other side of the coin, we have uh we know that Pam Norris has been going to be leaving us. Uh

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although the leaving date is a little up in the air because her town has not yet done what is necessary to replace it. And until they do so, she is still a member of the school. [laughter]

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So, let's see what I can do to get [laughter] that. And >> you've been in touch with Jo. >> Uh, well, you know, you know, you can do all sorts of fascinating things on the computer. Any rate, once again, now I said uh I would like to say goodbye to

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her formally uh in person. So I think that pretty much everybody on the school committee knows the contribution that Pam has made for this school or roles on um as an officer as chair

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as chair of some very uh challenging uh committees right at very challenging times. So, I know that I can um ask him to do the hardest jobs

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um hardest jobs uh uh politically and just getting to yes on some very challenging issues and then not worry about it. So, that's a a great uh a

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benefit to her community and a great plus for us. I think that a round of applause for Pam here. Sure. >> And I got to tell you, it's going to be um we're going to miss her a lot.

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>> Thank you very much. >> So, Pam, would you like comments? >> Yes. I actually wrote something because I thought I would get emotional and so [laughter] this way I can try and hold it together because leaving the minimum school

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committee is actually a very hard thing to do. We joke about it but you know Steve tried to leave and [laughter] um but it it has it it has been such an honor to serve on the school committee. I mean, I I truly love this school and I

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am so proud of what the Minute of Man team um accomplishes every single day and I hear about it often. And a little while ago, I was at a funeral and a minute and parents sought me out to tell

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me with great pride that their son was ending the year with honors and then went on to talk with, you know, such great feeling about what a positive impact Minute Man has had on their whole family and to play even a very small

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role in that is truly humbling. So, and you know, it it as I said, it's been an honor to be able to do that. I also want to say that um being on this committee really does rank up there as

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one of the best civic experiences that someone could have. I've learned so much from every person on this committee and I appreciate everyone's willingness to listen to each other, to learn from each other and to really be a better

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committee because of it. I mean you you have set you know the standard for how to do that and how to take on really really hard decisions and through it all we have never wavered in our commitment

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to Minute Man to the staff to the students and to each other. Heidi I also want to acknowledge you know what a joy it has been to work with you. You know, you bring such energy and commitment and direction. You

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know how to work with your teams. You develop relationships. You've quickly become a leader in the state. And we are just so lucky to have you. And I am really really going to miss not be not seeing closeand all of your wonderful

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accomplishments to come. So, Minute Man has been part of my life for over a decade now, and I'm really going to miss all of you. I knew I was going to get emotional. So, thank you for, you know, having me be a part of

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this. >> Cool. Committee members, you get the last word. Any comments that you'd like to say? Alice, >> we know where you live, but we will see you around. I'm moderator. I was going to add she wants some moral

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support for her first select meeting. >> I would go just sit there [laughter] and give a little >> I may I may call on you. Thank you. >> Um anything else? Yes. Pam, I would just say that you have um

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brought such a a knowledgeable background, you know, with your work with the federation and just everything as far as your history here that has been very um I've learned a lot from being on committees with you and I really appreciate that. >> Thank you.

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>> I have also learned a tremendous great way for a newbie to get more information. Yeah, I remember starting and um him explaining [clears throat] to me like pretty much how the whole process works like okay um yeah you just

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you've got a lot of experience and um a great attitude about helping people >> which is so wonderful. Thank you. Um, so I would like to add, if you don't know this, I think most of you do know this, Pam was the chair of the

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superintendent hiring committee. And I actually came into this room really not knowing exactly what I was in for. One of the most thorough but publicized uh interview processes I I think uh I've

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seen across the state. Um, and Pam um, just made it comfortable. Um, made me know that Minute Man was a place that I would want to be. Um, and no matter how many cameras and how many questions and

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um, she really just brought a sense of calm and and of importance and I I feel very lucky to have been able to work with her on so many projects. Um and it was an honor to be able to recognize her

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in front of her town um with mittens um this year at town meeting. It was very sad. Um but we are I'm happy that we'll be able to connect with you still on the select board. You uh and I'm not losing your number. I mean

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>> thank you. Thank you. >> How embarrassing. Yes. >> Thank you everyone. I really appreciate it >> and we are going to miss you very >> weighted voting chart. As you are aware most of our votes in this committee are

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done by weight on a formula related to multiple year enrollment. The waiting chart for the coming year is in your packets. Those are the percentages of weight by pound.

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Uh really there's nothing more to say about that. They change based upon historical that's way our uh documents company reads. Um right

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>> uh and then three uh uh kind of future things we need to talk about a little bit about today. Uh the looking forward now this is the start of the summer. we have to look forward to September, right? So, one of the things we do not in September but usually in October is we set a school committee goal

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[clears throat] and part of your homework from this meeting is to come up with what uh uh you believe are uh appropriate large school committee goals for the

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upcoming year and send that list to Julia. And eventually the um the officers are going to look at that list and come up with the suggestion usually September or October for the school community to vote on as their primary

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goals for the year. Uh I can say in advance that my guess uh I'm guessing on I'm going to guess now on three of the goals that are likely to be because we can see what's coming down the pike sometimes whether we like it or whether we don't. uh one is going to probably be

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uh uh um working to as we see in our agenda later on uh the vet clinic. Another one is going to be the graduation requirements by the state. And third is going to be uh the challenge of enrollment.

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uh and enrollment is largely getting uh the word out as to why this school is significantly a better choice for many students in the district and to ensure that everybody understands that and also to look at the membership of the district. I I I believe that those three

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things we're going to deal with uh and spend a fair amount of our time on in the coming smart guests could be other things too. So that's your opportunity to really send them in. We'll choose three or four goals as a school committee goals.

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So uh and then there's subcommittee assignments. Uh as you are aware the way that we operate is that uh most uh important tasks are given to a subcommittee to do the pick and shelf work. The goal of the subcommittee is to

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take uh uh an issue to work on it and uh to do the research and the thinking and the initial brainstorming and come up with recommendations for the full committee. So subcommittees don't make decisions but they do the hard work

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needed to bring it to us which is one of the reasons why we have so many unanimous votes because often the school committee will have discuss an issue. It goes to a subcommittee, comes back to the school committee, back to the subcommittee if necessary, it could be a few iterations. And when it finally

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comes up for vote, we usually discuss it multiple times from this um methodology. And I've had Julia add to your packet um a list of the committees that we

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have. It's in their description. It's in your packet. It's probably uh the language is going to change. Okay, this is mostly from previous years. I didn't make a lot of changes in it. I just updated a little

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bit. [clears throat] So, uh uh the way that the subcommittees work for the most part is that uh they're formed in um September and they exist until the next September.

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So what I would like the uh committee members to do as is always the case is to uh look at the various committees and uh determine which ones you can think you can be most effective on and

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to send it to Julia, you know, which committee and why. And what happens over the summer is that the chair looks at the needs of the school and judgment of work balance because some of these committees are going to be do a lot of

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work and others very little and makes a recommendation. So the chair doesn't decide on the membership of these committees but he makes a he or she makes a recommendation and our September meeting you will see the recommendation and you will have an

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opportunity to either accept it or change it or whatever you want. So that's generally how it works. So the other thing you have to do your other piece of homework is to send an email to Julia uh over the next couple weeks say by July 20th. That should give me enough

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time as to which committee you'd like to be on. And if you have any questions on any of these committees, you should direct your question to whoever the chair is at the end of this. >> Yeah. Question.

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>> I'm still having a legislative subcommittee. >> Oh, it's probably not on here because it was not on the list that I had, but yes, it could be a legislative subcommittee as well. >> [clears throat] >> I think that a lot of the issues that

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we're worried about are now beyond legislation unless the superintendent disagrees. >> So my recommendation would be that we need a legislative leazison um because we need somebody to vote at the November conference on behalf of our committee. I

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do not think you need an entire sub. Does >> that answer your question? >> Okay. Uh now I do I for example uh the fincom meets every two weeks. Um minimum faculty association we're not

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negotiating a contract this year. Uh the policy subcommittee has an infinite amount of work to do. A negotiation evaluations well there's certainly going to be an evaluation of the superintendent this year. Capital planning will have quite a bit of work to do. I expect that this year is going

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to be the year in which uh we actually develop the plan as to how much money we need and how we're going to get it to maintain the school building which is something we've been thinking about. I'm going to talk a little bit about that later. Um

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I do believe that the EMAC committee enrollment membership access and and capacity is going to have a lot of that is my guess. that is the general advisory board. I don't know if we're if it's going to be recommended at a

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strategic planning committee. Uh we'll decide that after the retreat, which I'll talk about for a minute. Are there any questions on subcommittees? Just get your wish list in. Yes. >> Um is it possible to have more than one leazison?

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>> I don't know. It's been asked. I'm going to look into Yeah. >> And just clarifying a question. If we want to remain on a certain committee we're on now, we let Julia know that too. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. Yes. >> Last question. Should we um rank order some of these or just say willing to do

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>> whatever you want to write. >> Okay. >> Whatever you want to write. So, one of the hardest things that the chair has to do is look at the committee, look at the membership, look at uh the amount of work looking forward that is likely to happen to try to balance all these things together. So, uh, when I do it,

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it takes me, uh, days and days of not all at once, but pondering and talking people. I want to do this and trying to look into the future to see how much work group is going to have. And I have a a reasonably good idea of how hard how

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much work each of these committees is going to be up the current year. [clears throat] Uh so although I said that we normally uh just do all this stuff in September, there's going to be an exception this evening and the exception is because

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Steve Leoo has joined our uh group again and uh we are uh one down on the fin and is also on the capital planning committee as a non voting member because he was not a school committee. So, I'm

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actually going to make a motion. Uh, I'm going to move that uh we that the committee appoints uh Steve Leoo to the finance subcommittee and also as a voting member of the capital 10. So, somebody like to second that.

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>> This is assuming that Steve is to do that. >> I said it felt like I'm never [laughter] >> any discussion on the motion. Very well then. All in favor, please raise your hands. One, two, three. >> Yes, that's up. Uh, since it was nine,

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there would be therefore no extensions and no names. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you, Steve. Putting it right to work. Yes. Right back. >> Okay. Uh finally uh as I mentioned at a previous meeting

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uh we are kind of at a transition now uh in the sense that we had a certain items on our agenda for the last three or four years mostly to do with the leadership of the um administration

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related issues and and starting the process of new graduation requirements what and that that task at least the um uh Heidi's been here for two years now. So, she's now established. It takes two years for a superintendent to really

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figure out what's going on in my experience. And we've just renewed her contract. So, that is complete. So, I think it's a really good time for us to have the school committee to have a retreat. And the main purpose of the retreat will

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probably be to look ahead uh kind of period of, you know, next three or five years and come up with a discussion of of where we should be going and what our our major long-term goals are. So, we've

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discussed this before. I'm just reminding you of it because over the summer we probably uh get your opinions as well on what we could do in a retreat and the retreat would be like you know one morning afternoon like a Saturday in

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person and uh hold one of these together to kind of think about the long-term agenda of the school based on the current environment and as we know the

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political education environment is um more liquid than mercury at this point and we have a lot of um uh a lot of things that the department of education the board of education would

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like to do and a lot of people in the state some of them who don't want them to do it. So the the the path set by uh the department of education may or may not come to fruition in a

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particular time frame but we have to stay ahead of the game. This is an example of one thing that we're going to be dealing with for a long time. So kind of you know kick those area those ideas around and work with the administration to come up with a plan of the things

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that are most important for the school. Uh that's basically what the retreat would be. It would be one day probably on Saturday late September to mid October something like that. But

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we'll be uh asking you for you know which date and what other things you think we should do keeping in mind it's only going to be one day a year a treat to like why. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, I considered it, but you know

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that's not going to happen. Okay. So, any comments on those issues? Either the school committee goals, the subcommittee assignments or the uh retreat. Very good. Thank you, sweet members. And uh let me just check my list here. I

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voted. We did that vote. Here we go. Very good. I believe that brings us up to the principles report. I think we have some interesting things coming up here. >> Yes. And thank you. Um I actually don't I am not presenting as Katie Buchard and

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uh Dancy Paladino will be presenting but I will be controlling the slides. So have some function for the principal community. [laughter] Um so I'd like to have Katie start off with our first item.

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>> Great. Uh thanks. So the first item is our um FFA. Um the FFA So the Minute Man FFA chapter is seeking approval to attend the 99th National FFA Convention in Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana. Uh the dates

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are Tuesday, October 10th uh to Friday, October 23rd. Um Sarah Art, our horiculture teacher, and Sasha Chapen, our animal science uh vet science instructor, will be chaperoning. Uh the Miniman FFA chapter is placed in agrocience career development uh event

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across five different categories, which are plant science, animal science, power systems, food systems, and social systems. Uh they actually got second place in employment skills, second place in FFA quiz bowl which was pretty impressive because it was a freshman only event. Um and one of our freshmen

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was actually placed second individually. Uh then we had the Agraare uh students have submitted their projects for national review. Uh so we anticipate that we'll have six students uh attending the convention. Uh four of them will be competing in the Aggra science fair and two of them are chapter

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officers that will be attending. Uh this is a great opportunity for our Minute Man chapter to meet with students from across the country who also have a passion for agricultural sciences. Um so we'd like to request a vote for the trip as presented. else. >> Um, I'll read this for the benefit of

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anyone who doesn't have a copy to approve the out ofstate travel for the Minute Man FFA chapter to attend the 199th FFA convention and exposition in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 20 to 23rd.

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>> Discussion school committee members, this is not a surprise we talked about that this was coming. >> Just a quick clarifying question. Thank you, Katie. for the benefit of the folks that are in the room and anyone listening, can you remind us what FFA, the acronym stands for? >> So, it used to stand for the future

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farmers of America, but in order to encompass even more students that are interested in agriculture sciences, vet science, uh it's now just FFA, and it doesn't stand for any acronym. Uh but it's just an all-encompassing group of kids who love aggra science, agriculture, vet science, animal

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science, um you know, any of those traditional fields. Thank you, Alice. >> I'd just like to say I'm really glad that man has an MFA chapter. Uh, local farmers mentioned how important FFA was to them. I'm really glad to see we're

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preserving that. >> Well, any further discussion or questions regarding the motion on the table? Very well. Then bring it to a vote. All in favor motion on the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. in favor. That would mean there'd be no extensions and no thanks.

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Okay, [clears throat] very good. Uh, Skills USA. >> So, we have Dr. Paladino here. She was the um adviser for Skills USA the past year and um she will give us an update

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on the nationals that they just went to. >> Good evening everyone. Um, first we'd like to thank the school committee for its continued and generous support of Skills USA Minute Man. This year the students went about two weeks early to

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the conference um due to the FIFA scheduling. Um, our conference got bumped up. There were some travel logistics that needed to be worked around and our students traveled beautifully. We had maybe 11 seniors

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that left the lower Veterans Auditorium, got on a van, and were driven into Logan Airport where they waited maybe 4 hours for their plane to Atlanta. Um, the rest of the contingent

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took a chartered plane out of Hansum Airfield. That was quite an experience. And then everyone came back on the 6th via the chartered uh plane to Hansum airfield. Minute Man was generous enough

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to allow the buses that would take the students onto the airfield to stage up at the um I'm going to forget the name of the building now, but up at the um >> old Tremont school.

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>> Thank you. Trimmont building. Um and that worked out beautifully. Um so we really appreciate all of that. So we took um 14 high school competitors and four chaperones. We had two voting delegates and you can see on the slide

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um Leah Schneer Vanzyle, the outgoing state president for Skills USA, was a voting delegate and Leia Zimmer um was selected through an application process to be a voting delegate. And those students are tasked

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with um they have a training and then they have two days of business meetings and then um they vote they also vote to elect national officers of the students that competed. We had

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two individual gold medalists. So Jonah Corso placed first in extemporaneous speech. Rishi de Francesco placed first in related technical math. We had a silver medalist Ethan Vearelli

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who got his silver earned his silver medal in the principles of engineering technology contest. And just a sidebar on Aananiel, he was we shipped his project. He did a

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project um showing simple machine operations and it was handmade and it had hardware and strings and pulleys and levers and all this. So he disassembled it, packaged almost all of it and took

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on the plane with him a like a 2x4 that was the base of his project. When we got to Atlanta and found the boxes, if we could use that term loosely, because they were no longer in the shape of a

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box, it was discovered that Aaniel's um hardware was gone and he could there was no way for him to put his project together and also there was um component of wood that he needed that was also

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that had also been lost. So, with the help of Mr. Primpus and Uber, there were a couple trips to Home Depot, uh, nice Home Depot associate was able to cut some of the wood to what Aaniel

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needed. They found all the hardware pieces that they needed. He threw that thing together Wednesday night, went to compete on Thursday, and Friday night, he was called to the stage to win his silver medal. So it was it was a long week for Nathaniel and we're very very

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proud of his diligence and stick tuitiveness to get where he was um on Friday. And then we had a team bronze medal in career pathways business management and technology and the team

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consisted of Evan Curley, David Manuel and Ian Kuna. Um the students did all of them did a great job. They traveled beautifully. They experienced things beautifully. They supported each other

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beautifully. And I feel it was a very successful trip. >> Comments or questions? Members? >> Alice? >> That story about the silver medalist was a totally Skills USA story. It's awesome. Great for them. Actually,

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it's going to be a memory for him forever. >> Yeah. Yeah, he he handled it very very well. Um considering, you know, all that he had put into it and we opened the box and it

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it was not what was put in and um so he regrouped and they made a plan and it came together really really nicely. Um he was cool as a cucumber once it was reassembled. He was cool as a cucumber.

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Um and I think very very happy um that he was able to present his project in such a manner that it was recognized with a national level medal. >> Hey,

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>> um I just want to make sure we recognize Nancy who if it's not clear did travel with these children to Atlanta to Georgia. Um and we had a team of chaperones who she worked with. Nancy, would you mind giving them a shout out? >> Sure. I'm sorry I forgot to do that. I

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have my list right here. It was Tristan O'Conor, um, Amanda Salaldi, uh, Dean Malone, and John Primpus. And I think with the exception of Tristan O'Conor, the other three chaperones had

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never been to a national conference for Skills USA. Um, so it was a it was a learning experience for a lot of people. I hadn't been in a handful of years and it it kind of was a process to get back into the swing of things. Um, MTI also

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sent two students from um, one of our welding programs to compete and even though they did not um, place very highly in, you know, they didn't win a medal or anything like that, they were so thankful for the opportunity and

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they made some great contacts, which is really all all you can ask for. um especially when they're going up against welders in this case who have been welding for four, five, six, seven years and their the um their degree of

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training was 15 weeks. Um they held their own. They did really well. They didn't melt under the pressure and they made some really good contact. So, um it it was all around a good trip and it wasn't um excessively warm. Um, and it

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was also very interesting to see how the city was preparing for FIFA. [snorts] That was everywhere. >> Thank you, Nancy. I'd also like to thank Katie Buchard, who absolutely, if you don't know, is involved in every aspect

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um of Skills USA with her teachers, with the students, um, and Principal Delea, Brian Tildley, and countless other people. Nancy mentioned this drop off with handsome. I want to let you know what all of Minute Man um really did to

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help the whole state of Massachusetts with our nationals. Hanscom, this was the first time we did a chartered flight um for Hansom for our uh competitor our national competitors and Hansom decided because of security

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reasons we could only bring one bus onto the base. So all of the schools across Massachusetts brought all of their buses on the day of graduation where we have our students meeting here to bus them to our graduation. Um meeting up near the

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Tmont building. If you don't know where that is, it's like in between our field back there. Um and they there was a hole set up there where every single school district um brought their students. They hopped onto one bus

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and got on to handsome no problem. Um, Skills USA themselves also did contribute to paying for our students um to go to nationals because our seniors, we had to change our graduation date. I

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know you remember this from the beginning and as Nancy said, our seniors had to take a different flight other than the chartered flight. and Skills USA um helped uh make that happen for us and you know in turn we helped them and I think we will likely be the um the

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jump off spot for National Schools USA in the future because it went very >> yeah it was really that that that made a huge difference if anyone has ever flown into Atlanta that airport is crazy regardless of

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what's happening and the fact that we could have have a couple buses roll up to our airplane and check in, get wanded, and board the plane and have a seat was amazing. And the same on the way home. There were two two charters

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each way. An early charter in the like 8 in the morning and then another charter at 1:00 in the afternoon. Um both um outbound and inbound. And it really really was a change maker. So, we really

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appreciated um the fact that Minute Man could kind of support this test really. It was a test of, you know, is this going to work? Can we do it? How will it work? And I think it went really really well. Um

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yeah, and it was it made a huge difference in a lot of ways. >> Any other final comments? I just think that um [clears throat] you know six out of our Fort Swing competitors came out with a with a medal which is pretty remarkable. And I just

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think uh the you know we didn't see any of these actual presentations but just knowing what these students are able to put together is just such a remarkable um representation of the work that's being done here because like these things are

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incredible. >> Yeah. What an opportunity for >> Yeah. If anyone's interested next year, I know that um Skills USA Massachusetts puts together an administrator package which is a shorter trip. Um it gets you

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in the day before the contests. It gets you um pass into the venue to see the contests and then I think you're out Friday morning. Um but if anyone [clears throat] h has the inclination to

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to attend this next year, um there is a a an abbreviated package for you. Um you know, it helps you get a room, helps you get the ticket, all of that sort of thing. Um it's really a thing to behold

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if you've never been. It really truly is. I've always been amazed at the courage of people to um go with the students do these things and be responsible for them on uh these these trips. So that's

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all that you're amazing. >> Yeah. >> Do that. >> They were great. They were great. >> Very good. >> Thank you so much. >> How much Ed Ryzen? >> Yes. So Katie is going to take it back over again and just give you an update

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on the national competition that Ed Rising went to recently. >> Yep. Uh so our Ed Rising students uh travel June 20th to the 24th. Uh we had five students attend. Matilda Trudeell um who's from Arlington who just graduated. Her competition was

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interactive bulletin board. Uh Jamie Donahghue who's from Lexington. Uh she's a rising 12th grader and her competition was teacher creative material. Liberty McCloskkey who's from Actton who just graduated. Her competition was Ed Rising Moment. Lindsay uh Ruth Hemingway who's

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from Marboro, she's a rising 12th grader. Her competition was uh Ed Rising Moment. And Frankie Connelly who's from Berkeley. Um she's a rising 11th grader and her competition was a lesson plan the junior varsity edition. Um I want to give a huge shout out to our two

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chaprons. Um Jamie Mcdana is our adviser who is wonderful. um at the last minute she wasn't able to go on the trip and Christy Primpus who is one of our uh CCA so one of our preschool teachers was able to jump in uh to make the trip still happen for our students which was great. Um she had approximately 4 days

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warning um and she was still able to pull it together which was unbelievable. Um Tristan Okconor, our engineering teacher, also went on that trip. Um unfortunately none of the girls placed third or higher. Um, but Matilda, Liberty, and Jamie all presented their own seminar at the competition, which

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was really cool. Um, which was about self-perception, highlighting their Skills USA project, um, to future teachers and emphasizing the importance of identity for both students and teachers in the classroom. Uh, Liberty also got the added appointment of being

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Ed Rising's national officer team, uh, which is a big deal. So, she's going to be serving as the vice president of communications. Um, and just the pictures that we included, we have the girls at the conference. Uh, three of them presenting their seminar. And then they also did some sightseeing because they're in Portland, Oregon, um, around

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places like the International Rose Garden. So, I just kind of wanted to highlight that. I also wanted to thank uh, Principal Deva, uh, Nikki Andred um, for helping us with all the logistics of the trip. Uh, a lot of people put a lot of time in it and of course uh, Superintendent Driscoll for also

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supporting the trip. >> Okay, questions or comments? school members. Very glad it was a successful trip for them. Yes, Alice. >> Really glad to see um the kids who are doing early education um getting some

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interesting things to do uh like this because um it is becoming obvious um in cities and towns around Massachusetts and elsewhere that early education is really a really important as a building block. Um, we've seen it with the crisis in the reading programs that they need

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to deal more effectively with young children. I'm really really glad to see men supporting that. >> Good. Any else? Does that end the principles report? That is the final. >> So, hold on. I do have a bonus call. I

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don't know if we have that last slide available. The dream build it slide. >> Oh, I didn't I didn't think I got that one. >> Oh, okay. No problem. We [clears throat] can do it next meeting. >> Oh, now I'm disappointed. >> Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me

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use this again. I think I know what you're talking about. >> Okay, >> I got it. [clears throat] >> Well, now we're not going to leave him in suspension anymore, but All right. >> Got to get this going. Yeah. Yep, there it is. >> Great. Um but just a a quick uh one

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because I thought it was a fun one to share. Um some of you might know that we were actually invited uh this project started over six months ago. We had a parent that connected us uh with at the time the vice president of like uh exhibits at the Boston Children's Museum

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and they were looking to update their construction exhibit which had been the same for about 30 years um in the museum and they reached out to us looking for some industry professionals uh that were students um from the program electrical, plumbing, carpentry um and metal fab and

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welding. Uh, the museum actually worked with three local youth organizations to highlight the excitement that youth brings to design and construction. They also worked with YouthBuild Boston in Artists for Humanities 3D Design Studio. Uh, the grand opening, uh, was on

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Wednesday, uh, June 24th at the Boston Children's Museum. Uh, so we had our electrical instructor, Al St. George, was able to attend. Uh, myself and Aaron Nor went. We also brought our sons with us. Um, and then we also had two of our students attend. um and they brought their families as well. Uh so you can

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see that is um Andrew Morris and his brother. They are both graduates um with Aaron and I in that picture. Uh and then down in the right hand corner is um Scarlett Paradise who was one of our welding instructor welding students. Um and that screen is actually where her video is. So that's a picture of Scarlet

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with Scarlet um in the museum which was really cool. Um so Paul, if it works, if you can click on the carpentry video, I think it would just be great to show them a quick little snippet. Here you go. If not, we can send them out. But it should work if you double click or maybe

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hold control and click on it. >> Yeah, it's just an audio. >> Okay, no worries. Then we can get it out to them. You can use your imagination. [laughter] >> They're really good. I promise. >> They are good. I viewed them as well. >> Weren't some of them on the Facebook

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page, too, or on Instagram? >> Yeah, I'm sure it was posted on social media as well. >> That's awesome. On social media. >> Okay, very good. On to the superintendence report. >> Thank you. So, I I do want to send an

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extra thanks to Katie who is on a vacation day today and is not vacationing right now. I just want to make that very clear that I appreciate her coming here very much. Um, so my first item is our MSBA recommissioning

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update. Um, if you're not familiar or don't remember our MSBA recommissioning, um, we are a part of a pilot program with the MSBA when they come in and they check every single thing about our building. Um, they check the HVAC systems, the plumbing systems, the

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building and you name it, they have checked it. Um, they've been working with facilities and with our former director of operations all year. Um, I assume Drew has been roped into that once or twice at least um with our VMS system or something like that. Um, this

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is free, completely free. And the report should have come to us in April. It did not come to us in April. It did not come to us in May. As of last week, they said we should be receiving it by the end of July.

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What is what will be wonderful about this report is this is a report on reality as opposed to our on-site insight that is projections about what should be. Um, so our new director of operations already has our on-site

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insight report and understands that one of his first big um tasks is going to be to guide us through um the connection between those two documents which is going to be great. Um questions about

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MSBA recommissioning. Yeah, just a quick one. Heidi, is that typical that that they this organization would say we're going to have the report on X month and then it kind of [snorts] gets delayed? the MSBA the government. Yes. [laughter] >> Yes.

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>> So especially especially because we are a part of a pilot program. So we are not paying a dime. >> No, I know that. So right >> they are if they they could tell us well pilot's over because so and so politician said so that's not where we

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are. Um, I think this is very good information for the state because what they are trying to do, I think, is look at common problems now that we have so many new buildings across the state. Maybe maybe they're looking for common vendors that have typical problems so

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they'll be able to advise um future building projects. >> That's exciting. They can connect to what the >> Yeah, absolutely. And I can tell you um so in Lexington they opened an elementary school if I'm not mistaken the same time we opened this building

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and Julie had comparing notes because obviously they shut down the building and we have very similar issues. Um so what our >> excuse me the superintendent is referring to the fact that a number of our systems have died prematurely. Now they died prematurely partly because

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they were not used to their full extent over several years. So they died prematurely and they're no longer underwriting. So we've had a number of systems that have caused us expenses that were unanticipated and premature.

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Uh not through neglect but through the fact of COVID the building shutting down uh not using it. So a lot of these systems like to be used and not just to sit there and do nothing. So this has been a constant problem. We see it on the finer

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all the time that a system failed prematurely. And uh what there superintendent is referring to is there's another school that opened at the same time and we're not a one-off. Another school that had the same issue of closing down uh after

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the building was built is having a similar series of unexpected fail. >> Absolutely. Um, so I think um I think we've been doing a good job handling it that I appreciate the capital planning committee tremendously with this and of

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course the finance committee. Um, heads up, we did have the elevator issue last year. Um remember there's a vegetable oil versus technical real oil that we >> learned so much about so many >> elevators and so uh what will be coming

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down the pike shortly is elevator number two um that we don't want to wait until it's completely out of commission but it is not at least about >> and just to u piggyback on that this is why I believe that we are going to be

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doing an unusual amount of work with the capital planning committee and the uh finance committee because now that we have both reports, we're going to be able to try to look at our present condition and our future condition, come

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up with a um the cost of maintaining the building in its current form and then we have to come up with a way to raise and store funds appropriately to do so. So that's why I think that that particular

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committee may have and fence finance committee may have an unusual amount of work this year coming up because they're going to have these reports sitting there in their lap and recommendations and try to make sense of it for us in the future. >> Any questions about that?

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>> Yeah. is um just out of curiosity and I should know this but is Lexington also doing the MSBA recommissioning report or >> No, they were not part of the >> So, but just because of the fact that Hastings came online at the same time as this, you guys are able to >> No, we were we were reached out to specifically to be a part of the pilot.

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I actually don't know the other districts, but it hasn't come up in our conversation, so I assume. >> But I'm saying like your ability to meet with Dr. Hackett to talk about like the same issues because those schools came up at the same time. >> I meet with Dr. packet because she and I worked together in Taton 100 years ago

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together and we have uh we just regularly support each other um >> in our roles in Lexon. >> I guess I was just more so because you had commented that they also Lexington also has a school that came online at the same time actually moving the kids

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in after February breaks and then closed down less than a month later >> were having the same issues >> similar issues. I think we I was we were commiser reading about probably each vat or something that you know >> something unpleasant.

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. Um the next item is discussion on the state graduation requirements. So since our last meeting, the state did come out with guidance for graduation requirements um and years to be implemented. Um I am

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not going to go into all of those right now. Um however, there is one thing that to be responsible we do need to address right now for our incoming freshmen. Um, one of the state graduation requirements

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is that algebra 2 is a um an end of course exam um course. So what that means is we do currently have some students who take algebra 1 a algebra algebra 1 b geometry a geometry

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b and end with algebra 2. We cannot um that cannot be a continued practice because we would never give an end of course exam the last month of your senior year. Um we need to make sure that we are giving all students an

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opportunity to earn whatever that is. Um so um Principal Deva um put together a small team to look at this. um the math lead, a math teacher and our guidance lead [clears throat] um and I am looking

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at their they met Monday um already to discuss some of these things. So when I put this on the agenda initially, Jeff said, Heidi, what exactly are we doing? What exactly is it? We never would want to like micromanage educators with what

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we need to do. But um what I can share with you today is that there are four tasks and it it isn't just a oneandone. They're working on this through the year. They will have a few program of studies revisions that I'm going to let

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you know about right now. They are updating items in Aspen to make sure that we have any outdated courses removed to make sure the course codes match. That's new um new things that we've been making sure to keep alignment

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with. Um they will be updating Atlas. If you don't know what that is, that is where we store all of our district curriculum. And if I am a teacher, that's where I go to find out what we all teach so that my algebra one looks like your algebra one and looks like your

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um and the fourth step is the development of a staff communication and notification plan. So that small team through the year, it is their job to un to communicate and work with the staff about the why because change is um scary

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and change is hard and unfortunately when it comes to regulations over the past five years or so, change is fast and sudden and aggressive. Um and we want to stay ahead of this so we're not waiting so things happen to us. We want

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to make sure we're we're in good shape. um long term. Um let's see. So, the what I would like all of you to have in mind um

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as you consider a vote, which I hope someone considers the vote, is that our progress to algebra 2 will be in algebra 1 with a companion

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algebra strategies for those students who need it. That's freshman year. Sophomore year, our students would have a geometry class and with a CD requirement. You take the end of uh year

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assessment and a geometry and algebra strategies to support that. our junior year select students would take algebra 2 and

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an algebra 2 strategies. So those students in CP2 which is our lower level math instead of breaking up these courses over two years will have a concise year of intensive support. They will have the end of course assessment

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um as we have in our policy right now. Um and their senior year if they have met those requirements they would be able to take business now. Um so that was provided to me by that team. Um but just those courses listed

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there there is more work to do. Um the doctor would finish cleaning that up. So I I want you to be aware of of that. moving forward. >> So, let me uh make sure that the committee understands it. Today, what we are going to vote on is the uh since we

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are um [clears throat] uh we vote along the program studies that couldn't change. It has to change to meet this requirement. The exact change that is required is not written down in paper yet at least for us. >> Right? Leave what I read to you right there. So what we're doing is we're

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giving them basically permission to continue to uh do this work and at some point in the future we will be voting on the actual change they made. That be fair to say? >> That would be fair to say. I I do want to put a caveat though. We will we do

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not have um an August meeting. >> No. >> And we will need to share um this information with incoming freshmen. >> Um so that's why I'm saying this out loud right now. there would not be changes outside of those that are just rent.

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>> So you you see the challenge for uh all schools especially for our school is that the change is coming at a pace that that uh is going to require from them a very extraordinary effort to come up

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with a plan that is not hurry that makes sense for the kids. And the exact details of how they're going to run it is not available right now, but it's going to require a uh I recall when they implemented MCCAST, how well they did

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that, how much effort that took. And this is probably the same level challenge to get um algebra 2 the curriculum as she says before the senior year. He says if it's a requirement and you only take the test the senior year, then you have no room left to uh improve

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or take it again. That's why one of the reasons they make some of these changes. So let's put the motion on the table then we'll discuss it. >> I'd like to move to authorize the administration make adjustments to our mathematics program of studies and align with state graduation requirement. [clears throat]

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>> Further discussion comments questions on this very challenging topic. Yes, >> I just noticed a couple people in the audience looking kind of quizzical and I realize that it's possible not everyone understands that the state is requiring state written, state administered, state

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graded end of course testing and these topics. So this is like a totally new set of testing that will happen for all students in Massachusetts and and how do you get ready for that?

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>> Correct. And just just to clarify, some districts are choosing to kick the can because who knows what's going to happen. Um right now we're required to do our own end of course assessments which um our teachers knocked it out of

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the park this year. Um great work with it. We have to continue doing that until the state assessments show up if they show up. But changing mathematics linear courses is not something you can

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do in one year. So this is happening with our incoming freshman so that if and when um we get to that here's the drop dead date from the state it's not new to us. Um other districts um there

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are other districts who um one of the requirements is that you take four years of mathematics because it aligns with math score. We already do that. It turns out there are some districts that do not even require four years of mathematics for their high school diploma. It's okay

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we've done that. Kids don't need asked for. So now that's a very expensive and new uh to add an entire year of a core course. So every district is in a different place. I feel like we are in a very good place. Um, and I appreciate

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that we have teachers and counselors and leads who understand uh the work that needs to be done on. >> I had a [clears throat] question. Is this two section of the day? One section of algebra one and one section of algebra strategies

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>> right now it would be two. Yes. So if I'm in if I'm in CP2, >> right, >> which means I really need extra supports, >> right? I will not only have my algebra 1, I will have a strateg strategies course. So, for example, if

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you've got a student who struggles with reading, I will have my English book, but I may also have a reading course, >> but not every student gets the reading. Does that make sense? >> So, when we have math, do we have everybody has one period of math a day?

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So right now we have math is broken up over course of two years algebra 1 A and algebra 1B. Right? So we are combining that entire algebra 1 >> into freshman year and because we are

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doubling up the timeline they will get a support. I mean maybe we'll find out in five years that's not necessary. Um but that's what we're doing. So you're going from one period of math a day u for CP2 students to two periods

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>> for for this new group. Yes. >> Yes. And that is not a ton of kids. >> Yeah. >> Um but >> I've taught one and one. >> So >> so that is the the 1 A and 1B is problematic state. Why? Because when do you give the end of course assessment?

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At the end of two years, you know. So we we have decided to um not tamp with that >> other comments or questions. Alice >> another clarification for the um me audience man being a vocational high

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school has a whole week of their trade or their shop or their major and then a week of academic sort of courses. So uh they are cramming all of the academics into every other week. That's why it's

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more complicated for us. >> And I can say as a uh as a teacher of mathematics for 23 years in the south, I have a really really good idea of how hard it is to change the curriculum and your staff is trying to change it. I'm

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greatly appreciated for that effort. I've been uh there many times and what you're trying to do is harder. But they said Ncast was very successful and I expect this to be too. So I have

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sole confidence in the staff administration teachers to make this short >> and this affects the freshman class incoming freshman coming freshman. So what happens to the other students? Have they already taken these courses? >> For the most part they have. Yes. So we

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uh there are small groups of students who this affects. But if I've already taken algebra 1 A and algebra 1B, we sorted that out this year for those for those students. >> And that's why we're taking this vote before they're 100% done because it

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impacts the freshman coming in. The state's timing is such that we have to do it in that time frame. That scramble and have a program and have it well thought out and not just a reaction because it impacts the students coming

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into this school in couple months. Just mind blown. Any other questions or comments? Very well. Then move it to a vote. All in favor of the motion on the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine in favor. That is

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union. Thank you very much. And uh uh I had many discussions with Heidi about this main content, what they're doing, and I'm very very impressed with her leadership in moving this forward to this conflict, which is becoming a model

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for other schools. But I think we're not done with yet. >> No, leave. Um so my last item is the proposed restructuring of the director of career and technical education position. to the position of assistant

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superintendent of college and career education. Um so as you know we had um an assistant superintendent of student services that position was restructured to be a director of special education which is

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specific to only special education. We are in the middle of the interview process um for that position. Um we currently have one more round one interview and then we'll be interviewing um whichever candidates rise to the top

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for round two. Um I hope um that we will have a director of special education by the end of the summer. Um just so you know it is very common that uh there are reposting of positions like this. Um

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they are difficult to fill. Um I think we have a wonderful um interview committee. Um actually principal delay is on um and um they are we're again we're moving forward with one additional interview. Um

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so the POS I want to talk about uh Katie Buchard. Um I do need a second set of eyes as superintendent.

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I need a person who is clearly um number two. I need a person who when I am about to write something to for a lawsuit or for something super high level and confidential with a student. Um I have

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someone who is the assistant superintendent who can read this, who can advise and I am not working in a silo. And although I do appreciate all of my fellow superintendent um who I can text at a moment's notice and are

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wonderful and wise, sometimes I can't share private information from our district outside of our district. And um I do think that's dangerous to work in a silo. Um, so, um, my recommendation,

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which I know we won't vote on tonight, we need a special meeting to have a conversation about, um, would be that we change the title of, um, career, director of career and technical education. Um, Katie would continue to

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be the director of career and technical education. She needs both licenses. um the vocational assistant superintendent and director of career and technical education. I shared this job description and title um with our union leadership

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probably Katie was like a month ago or so. Yeah, about a month ago um to ask them to provide feedback. Um we met in person. They did not. They understood the purpose. Um and um I I

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don't want to talk about any um details of a potential contract, but this would be um a restructuring of her current position. So we would not be adding an additional administrator. We would just be adding duties um to Katie Bush.

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>> Okay. So a little bit of background. Uh oh, we uh do not vote on most administrative positions. There are exceptions. business manager, um head of special education, nurse, uh and any assistant superintendent.

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So, since uh Katie's position is being changed to one of assistant superintendent while retaining all the current um workload we have to vote on. So, the way that we usually do this is we present the idea

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to you. They're going to be working on a contract. They will send us a copy of the contract for us to review. And then we're going to need to have a uh special Zoom meeting uh close future so that we can get uh

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Katie working on her position officially. So we'll get the contract. It'll be the contract at home. We'll have the Zoom meeting. In the zoom meeting, we'll have an executive session in which we can discuss it and then if we're happy with it, both in session and

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a vote uh because we are [snorts] responsible for a system contracts. Now, the one thing I'll say is that those of you who remember back for years or so may remember that Katie took over as a principal.

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>> Well, we really really really needed some uh with some skill sets take over as principal. And if you may recall the uh improvement in communications and reports

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uh and professionalism that occurred when she took over. Uh it has been my observation that that has been her um [clears throat] uh path as long as long for all the things that

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I've viewed her doing. So, personally, I think that it's a uh a very good choice, but that'll be up to the school committee at a meeting uh in the very near future. And we do have to do this in a rather quick time frame because we

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would like it to start. >> I would like it to start retroactively, July. >> Right. >> So, I'm talking about we're going to have this meeting in a week. >> Okay. Any questions or concerns or comments forward? May I add an

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additional comment? Um, some people may wonder, if you want an assistant superintendent, why wouldn't you post for an assistant superintendent? I do not want an assistant superintendent. I want Katie Bushard,

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who has already been serving as a trusted advisor. As you saw, she's boots on the ground when it comes to the building. she will absolutely complement the outward-facing job that I have to do. Um, and that is not something

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you recruit from outside and hope to fill. Um, it is uh if if it weren't for Katie, um, she would this this would not be a proposal. >> Question. Are you in charge of like um

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updating the contract or will we just receive an update? >> We're voting on the contract. >> We're voting. >> So there she's negotiating it. That's her job to negotiate the contract with Katie. Now we can say we don't like the contract you're negotiating, >> but I think it's going to look a lot like contracts we've already seen. Yes.

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My guess. >> Were you here? You were here for Nikki's contract. So it's the same process um that I have the same exact. So we're not in charge of negotiating this but if we [clears throat] find something object

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this not vote or make suggest change to that's our authority because they cannot have an assistance super intent without a voted school anything else Katie you like to say anything

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just thank you for the opportunity I appreciate All right, >> that is the end of my report and I do want to if it's uh All right, but everyone Katie please get back to your >> Thank you Katie. >> Happy to thank you all. Have a good

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night. [laughter] Okay, [clears throat] finance report season for finance. It's this month, right? Um so we meet for the benefit of folks in the room and those um listening in at home or virtually elsewhere. where

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the finance committee meets every two weeks and um we work really closely with all of our sending towns and there's a really incredibly healthy relationship um that representatives of the school

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committee and Nikki and the superintendent um have built with representatives of the finance committees of our sending towns. So there's a lot of really good collaboration that makes our budgeting process easier. It's not easy. It's it's

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challenging, but the the respect then the trust and the relationships go a long way. So there's two things we want to do tonight. We've got some um end of school year type U general fund budget transfers and um I'm going to let Nikki

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give us a little color commentary on that. It's going to be super quick and then we'll um we'll talk about the East Campus Vetinary Science. So, thank you everyone. Um as you know, I presented last month um

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some budget transfers. Um we have one additional transfer we'd like to make as we're closing up the year. Um and that is for our active retirey health insurance. um in January um is when our health insurance um increases for our

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retirees. That um increased um about 10% which is a little bit more than we budgeted. So um as we made our final June payment um we are requesting um a budget transfer as it's over $10,000 to cover the active retirey health

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insurance. Um and I have included the general fund report for you to show. Um we are just less than 1% as of year end of bully spent budget which which has been uh you know really great and strategic um

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from all of our part. So um we have brought this to the finance committee who's been recommending um this transfer to our school committee. >> The transfer is on page 22 of their packet. >> What? That's correct. What's page 22? It's got some purple blue on it for

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those of you that have a color exactly. >> Let's put the motion on the table, then we can discuss it and have it explained to us. >> So, the motion is um to recommend to the school committee to authorize the presented fiscal year 2026 general fund

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year end budget transfers at the next meeting on Tuesday, July 7th, which is today. So, that's what we're voting on. second. >> Any commentary? >> Um I think I kind of had just um summed

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it up, but again um as budget transfer is over $10,000 um we we um are required in our meetings to bring it to the finance committee and then the school. So um you know just as it was slightly over um budget

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um for the last month um because each month um since January has gone up about 10% um we are requiring this last budget. >> So Nikki this the it changed over in January of last year or like this year 2026 is when it increased.

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>> Correct. Yeah. Our retirees rates change on January 1st and all of our other rates change on July 1st. So, we were paying about 45,000 a month um for our retirees and that bumped up to closer to 52,000. So, um when you think about kind of like a

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$7,000 $78,000 swing um each month for six months, that's kind of how we got to where we are. So, this will just help wrap up the rest of our um budget um for the for year end. No other questions or comments.

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Bring it to a vote. All in favor? Motion on the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I believe that is you. >> Thank you. So, it's so easy for you Sarah this month compared to some recent ones. [laughter]

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>> So easy, you know, and happy to report to that, you know, our budget, you know, just less than 1% as of year end at this point. So, um you know, we did a really good job managing our budget overall for the for the full year as well. So, thank you for your support over the over the year um to um have a healthy uh fiscally

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responsible budget for our school and and >> I think we have a slightly more complicated topic. >> Yes. Um so the next um topic is the east campus

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veterinary science and life sciences education center proposal and I believe that u superintendent Chris wanted to say a few words that's what was well Nikki has shared um a memo with all

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>> and she ran um our RFP process um so I'm going to let her say a few words about running the process. And then all we are looking for today is to hear what that group's recommendation

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was. And if um the committee agrees, we hope that there would be a vote to authorize us to enter into contract negotiations. um so that way we can discuss um details

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of what may or may not happen. So this looks very similar to um remember with Leslie University we had key provisions and then after the key provisions you go to a contract um and if it works out

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wonderful if it does not um we have to protect ourselves I but and how long was the Leslie endeavor three four years >> long um so we are hoping um that this um will

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not be a process like that. Um we already have uh council um aside from our regular council that works specifically on um contract [clears throat] um they were helping us with Leslie and they would continue with

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this. So I'll hand it over to Nikita. >> Great. Um so for some of our longtime members um we have thought about this RFP or proposal for a long time. Um it was something that was posted um when Dr. Mcquillan was was here, but it's

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really our East Campus building, which is the Tremont building that Katie was mentioning before. Um is a building um on the east side of our campus. And the proposal was to essentially um get

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proposals on what to do with that space. Um we're looking for the development and operation of a vet science um in life education science center. So um we had a wonderful committee. So um big shout

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outs to um Miss Alice Duca um as well as principal Paul Deva, Katie Buchard, our vet science instructor Sasha and our um health assisting instructor Nicole Copaorn and Michelle Rosendez. So we've um met

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together. The process um started where we put out the proposal um on May 14th. We received one proposal back from Alli Vet um specialty center. Um so we met about a week later and we um read through the proposal and identified some

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areas that we wanted some clarification on. So we had then reached out um to the proposer Ally Vet um and we had a secondary interview to um get the clarification on some of the questions that we had. So um Ally Vet um and the

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legal counsel um went to the interview, answered our questions and put together another packet to kind of supplement um the proposal. So based on all of that um we've determined that they were um responsive and responsible and the most

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advantageous uh proposal for Medban. So we are making um we also called references and we did reference checks um for Ally Vet. So we are making the recommendation um to the superintendent and the school committee um to consider

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entering into uh negotiations with Alli Vet specialty center. Um we did have a list of priority considerations that the school committee could um look at and assess um during the executive session um and consider for part of the

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>> do you mind sharing um you don't have to name names but the the reference checks that you did what types of individuals were they families of the patients you just give a little color on that. Yeah. So, um she is a vet. Um so one um of the

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references was someone that she had worked with um a colleague and someone that had helped her or you know kind of oversaw her um in the vet um science area running team meetings um kind of

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interacting um with not only um other colleagues but um kind of training um others as well which is really great to hear um especially because This is a proposal to work with our um high school students. Um another reference was for

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um someone that had um oversaw the lease lease space at Blue Pearl. So someone that she both currently worked with in Massachusetts um in Waltham and that worked with um sort of like a landlord um for that space. So, I thought that

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was a good um kind of on both ends uh cuz that will be something that we would really want to see um that not only um would be great with our um students but also would be a good tenant. >> T Why don't you put the motion on the

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table and then continue our really really excited about this. There's a tremendous need for vettees. There's a shortage of vettees nationally. There's a shortage of veterinarians nationally. So this is this is an area where we can really demonstrate that we can meet a need in

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the demand. So I would like to uh a motion to uh authorization to enter contract negotiations with Ally Veterinary Specialty Center LLC for the East Campus Veterinary Science and Life Science Education Center proposed.

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Sorry. Yeah. >> I have one comment. [clears throat] Uh the comment is as follows. This is not accepting them as our partner, right? This only allows us to enter into negotiations. A lot of the

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negotiations are going to be under executive session. So 99% of the questions you have in your mind, we can't talk about an open session. Now, we're not committing to anything today except for to open a negotiations. If

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the negotiations fails, then we're done. If the negotiation succeeds, then we have a very useful independent partnership. This is not going to take as long as the as the Leslie proposal because we have people who are eager to

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determine if we can have a relationship on both sides. But, uh, the reason we're taking this vote now, even [clears throat] though you don't have as much information as you want to to make a decision, is that we can't even discuss that stuff

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until we take this vote. We're not allowed to open it as a negotiation topic. So, that's why we're having this vote in open session, which we need to do. And today in executive session, we're going to begin

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uh discussing the things that we need to discuss. Now, how far are we going to get today? We're not going to get that far today, but we're going to see this um in a lot of meetings, I hope, till we hopefully get to yes. So you're not don't have to be nervous that with

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insufficient information you're committing to anything because you're not committing to anything with this vote except to say let's explore the relationship and negotiations by creating a contract that we come up with. That's the purpose of this vote not

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ourselves yet. >> Is that accurate? >> Very accurate. >> Is that accurate Alice? Great. Thank you. So now having said that, any other questions or comments on this motion which is to just as it says uh to enter

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contract negotiations based on a successful RFP process. >> Can I ask one question? >> You can ask question if you want. >> Okay. So it says for the East Campus Veterinary Science and Life Science Education Center and you mentioned that Nicole Copath was involved. So is the idea that this will be like both for the

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vet science and for the health assisting something will happen over there? So right now um we have Alli Vet Clinic on Mil Street. It's a tiny little operation. >> They renovated this entire um outdated

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property at zero cost per minute in also as they were paying us rent every single month. Our students from Vette right now can go into there to do some clinical hours, but it's a you know it's a tiny

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little space. Um right now they have oncology and I think cardiology right now at least they have at least twoies. Okay. The the um the goal previously I don't how many years ago

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when we first opened Vet Science was to have an animal hospital on campus. Boston Animal Hospital if I'm not mistaken. they were in the part in a in the negotiation stage and it fell apart.

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That initial RFP was to have a science and uh life science education center where we do actually have the vocational programs full classroom programs out in that area in a fully operating um

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veterinary hospital. Um this proposal is different than what was previous because uh previously it was an emergency room if you will. Um this is very different. This is specialty um veterinary service

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um which would be very advantageous if our students got to have their classrooms in there. Not just our vette students but our our health assistant students as well. Um and I think it's they're looking for literally every

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specialty service to be um in this space and um that is what we will figure out through the process. Um but some of the elements of the RFP that are public are we did um want space for classrooms. Um

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we wanted that to be articulated um in how the space um would be used. Um so if you think of Brigamin Women's how it's a teaching hospital um that is what we would have here at Minute Man. Um

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right now we have a tiny tiny version. Um and the good news is our kids are transported less um to do their clinical hours because if you don't have somewhere on campus, we have to drive them all over the place to get their clinical hours. um that would look very

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different if we had a full um full experience. So I know that was a long answer but you can start. >> Thank you. >> More to be discussed later tonight if we vote yes on the site. >> I have one item before we close out finance and Nikki that's to

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>> see. [clears throat] Any other questions or comments? [snorts] >> That's the building that used to be like the daycare right? >> Yes. months ago. >> Right now, that's the building that used to be a daycare that was flooded out that we are not using that we had to

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replace things on. >> Just wanted to make sure I had the right. >> Exactly. >> All in favor of the motion of the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Passes. Very good. Add one more item.

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>> One more quick item. Nikki, we need to add proceed to the upcoming finance meeting on Monday, July 13th, which I was using the same email. >> Oh yes, we can turn his email. >> Perfect. >> Sure. >> Never used it before.

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>> Um, I will send you the agenda. >> Just for nice and easy. >> Welcome back. We miss you. Is that the end of the finance report? >> Yes, it is. >> Very good. >> Look at this interesting item coming up.

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Under subcommittee reports, [snorts] we have the superintendent evaluation subcommittee. Pam, do you have anything interesting presses? >> I have a lot of interesting things. >> I'll I'll try and talk. Um, you all

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should have a copy um at your next to you of a print out of the um compilation of school committee members um ratings and comments. Wait, am I seeing a No,

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it's not there. No, this is my >> You should all have this at your station was at the bottom. >> Do you want to look on with me? There was one in front of me. Don't worry, you're going to get a chance to read. >> Okay. Do you want to take a reading

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break? >> Yeah. >> So, uh >> to read all 15 pages. >> Uh the way that this is going to Okay. So, um uh the reason that you're uh going to be we're going to be spending meeting time reading this live is

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because of timing. The timing of doing the evaluation and the amount of time we had was very tight. You may recall that one of the things that had to happen was that Julie would have to be working in a day that normally maybe she wouldn't be working to compile all this stuff and

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the committee had to meet and we had to give it to Heidi to review before we were able appropriate for us to see the whole thing. So that's why uh it's come to you for the first time during this meeting. So, what we're going to do is we're going to give you 10 minutes to read the whole thing through. If you

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need a little bit more time, we'll have a little bit more time. Now, we don't actually vote on this. What you're reading is the compilation evaluation of all of the school committee members. So, what we're going to do is we're going to read this. Kim is going to have some

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comments for us. Heidi will be able to respond if she wants to. I think that that ends the process. Is that correct? That's correct. I'm wondering though whether I should do my overview first if

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that might help. >> Do your overview first. Yeah. >> Focus it a little bit and then folks can read through the comments. Um so doing the evaluation it's one of the important

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you know annual um roles of the school committee and I you know as the chair of the committee I do want to apologize for the tight timing but as Jeff said it was because of the contract negotiations. I really appreciate everyone

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um responding very quickly and within the time frame that we set to get your comments back. It was extremely helpful the packet that um Heidi put together with the video and all of the

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documentation to give examples and evidence of progress that has been u made towards the goals. So with that um as Jeff said you know Julia helped compile all the information. The

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committee met right before this meeting with Heidi to review it. Um, and what I'd like to do is just to give an overall um, summary of the evaluation if it's

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[clears throat] okay with everyone and then if we make time for people to read and if people have specific comments or or you know questions on it that can happen. So um overall you know the ratings and comments you

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know to no surprise are extremely positive and are you know a major recognition of many of the important very important many achievements of the superintendent and her team during a b

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very busy year and the committee you know expressed a lot of recognition and gratitude for our superintendent's dedication, creativity, organization,

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and leadership. And I think that comes through throughout the entire um evaluation. So, I just want to go through goal by goal, give a summary of the ratings, and then I just picked out

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a few comments to give a little flavor of what was set. So, I'll try and do this fairly quickly. Um, goal one was implementing the state regulations. And there were eight committee members

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that filled this out because we were in between Dean and Steve at that point. Um 25% of the ratings were met expectations and 75% were exceeded expectations.

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Now, in our conversation with Heidi, and I think Heidi can talk more about this, you know, talked a lot about, well, this is something that's really ongoing. So, you know, she was surprised it wasn't um more ratings on significant progress.

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But I think what was clear is a lot of people were um commenting on the um level of activity and the the effort that went into u meeting these um implementing the changes in state

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regulations. So remarks included, Superintendent Driscoll has proactively planned and implemented strategies to meet this goal. Superintendent Driscoll gets out in front of potential changes. She has become a go-to person for other

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superintendent across the state. So goal two was maximizing capacity and in this one 62.5% of the ratings were that we had made significant progress. 12.5%

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were that we met expectations and 25% were that we exceeded expectations. And comments under this goal recognized the innovations that were made to improve the admissions policy, the

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superintendent's outreach to sending districts and confidence in her ability to maximize capacity and minimize enrollment gaps. Goal three was keeping the district moving forward

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and 25% of the ratings fell in the significant progress category. 37.5% were met expectations and 37.5% were exceeded expectations and comments included among other things

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the superintendent's work with MA and Desi leadership as exemplary. One member described the superintendent's ability to set high standards and explained them to stakeholders and um you know called that

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as a real superpower. Other comments recognized her ability to make hard decisions after careful analysis, her relationship with the professional teaching staff, um as evidenced by the um expedited process to

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settle the collective bargaining agreement with the Minute Man Faculty Association. Goal four is participation in the new superintendent induction program and 50% of the ratings were in the met category

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50% were exceeded expectations and you know one as one member said superintendent still's outstanding commitment to utilizing all of the resources available for learning and the nomination to be selected as a MAVA

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officer for a six-year term speaks volumes. on how superintendent Driscoll's peers recognize her contributions in the leadership. So in addition to the goals, you know, it's our responsibility also to be uh to

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be um evaluating our superintendent on the DESIE superintendent rubric standards. And there are four of these standards and superintendent Trriscoll received

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proficient and exemplary on all four standards. Standard one is instructional leadership 37.5% said um we're in the proficient category 62.5% were exemplary.

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Standard two, management and operations, 37.5% proficient, 62.5% were exemplary. Family and community engagement was divided 50/50 between proficient and exemplary.

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And the last standard is professional culture and 25% of the ratings were proficient and 75% of the ratings were exemplary. And on the overall ratings, 25% were in the proficient category and

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75% were in the exemplary category. And overall, again, um many many positive comments. Um I will kind of end the summary with one that Superintendent

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Driscoll is raising the bar for her school administrative peers across the state. She continues to approach all challenges and opportunities with curiosity, patience, and a willingness to learn to understand before she shares

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her point of view and approach. So, I want to congratulate you on a very successful year and you know, we're Minute Man is very lucky to have you as our superintendent. Would the school committee like some

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time to read this in place or is the summary sufficient for now and you can take it home? It's up to you guys. I'm good either way. >> Can I ask a couple technical questions? >> Read it later, folks. For the most part. >> Technical.

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>> Well, just Pam, I just noticed that there's only seven people on the overall reading. I wasn't sure if there's an eight on that one. >> I'm literally counting that right now. I don't >> Yeah, I was gonna say overall rating. >> Oh,

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I think so. You didn't give her an overall rating? >> I did, though. H Where's the overall rating? >> Who's in charge of this report? >> I left myself out. >> So, there to the last page.

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>> Oh, um I should be in that. Okay. So that gives um two in the proficient and six in the exemplary. >> Thank you Sharon. >> Well eagle eye. >> Sorry. And then my other question is

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what's with the asterisk? Um first yes I that's me [laughter] and I think I put it there. I thought I had it in writing somewhere and I couldn't find it tech but basically because the state graduation requirements were still not clearly defined. I didn't feel that we had

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exceeded the goal to kind of um set a structure around that. That's the only I met where the safe restrict relative to that goal. >> Um but I don't see that express >> it wasn't written out. >> Sorry. Okay. I don't know if I

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>> on your form. >> Okay. Thank you. It just had the asterisk and we figured >> you would explain and we explain. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Just one other thing I want to add. We

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and and Heidi may of course have things to add after school committee comments. We did talk about um the process and of course, you know, recognizing it was late this year, but did recognize that

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the process of providing the um um video description in the packet was one that we would recogn that we would um recommend using going forward that it was very helpful in terms of filling it out. We could go back and, you know,

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revisit things on the video. So we would recommend that moving forward and that also perhaps for next year that the committee provide maybe a little discussion of the ratings because we all interpret the ratings differently and it

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might be helpful if we talked about it before we all you know set about um putting them in place. So, I do have a comment and I would probably kick myself for this. However,

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um when we're using the Desi um rubric and guidance, um my overall rating um is only allowed to be um my lowest rating on standards one and two. So if I look

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at each member um and look at their lowest rating for me on one and two, I think there are two people who it says the overall rating is exemplary. It actually should be proficient. Um and

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Pam Norse would be added to the exemplary. So would be Montigue, Hestone profession and herb cabal and duka except

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>> well you'll remind us of that next year. It's a stupid rule but I just want >> I'm saying that right away it's a person who's come up with many rubrics and many that's ridicul I missed I thought I had reviewed that whole desi rating thing but sorry if I

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missed that. Well, I I debated over that for a long time because I didn't have you in exemplary for every for all four of those categories, but I felt that overall you were and I only put you in proficient because of like it being an ongoing

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thing, but I felt like you deserved to be an exemplary overall. So, >> I think you're wonderful so I just want to make sure I say out loud what the Desi guidance says. It's honestly you didn't want to we don't have to fulfill this full guidance. I think that's

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>> it is totally up to you. >> Yeah. So exemplary maximum of us stand. >> Anything else you'd like to say for all this? >> Um I'm just incredibly um grateful to be part of this community and uh I don't

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know this job is not easy. Um there are lots of difficult conversations and decisions and um things to navigate to say the least. Um and I'm I'm thrilled to do it with our

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teachers, with our staff, with um all of you and with our communities. Um and I hope to continue to serve uh these communities and this committee in our district um for a long time to come.

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So, [snorts] so I know you'll appreciate this, but I was actually with a friend of mine when I was watching your video and she sat there and listened to the entire 45 minutes and afterwards she goes, "I got a question. Does that woman sleep?"

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She said, "Wow, that is quite the impressive." She said, "I just learned so much by listening to her presentation and that that woman is very um it's clear that she's very accomplished and you guys are lucky to have her." So that was from an outsider who's not even in this state who I was visiting. >> Well, you are so kind. I I do want to

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say most of the things that I have list in here are not my accomplishments. It's the accomplishments of our students, our teachers, the staff. Um I I'm just lucky enough to help bring those. >> Well, you you do have to admit you are involved in many things and many committees and it is quite exemplary

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that you're able to do all of that. And that's where she said, "Does the woman sleep?" >> I'll I'll point out something that is most definitely you. And it has to be is one of the uh advantages of being a superintendent of

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a school like this is that you really can have an educational leadership position more so than uh the superintendent of a traditional district. It's one school with um uh one

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you know uh idea that you pursue. And uh one of the possibilities, it doesn't have to be, one of the possibilities of being the superintendent of this district is the possible opportunity of being a leader from the state,

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right, on certain areas of um uh education, not just CT education, but also ideas for other kinds of education. Very short period of time, we've made uh a lot of connections and can gain a lot of respect at the

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state level. And what that does is it uh the environment that we work in is defined by the state. And sometimes that environment is helpful and sometimes it is not helpful. By having uh a superintendent who is capable of joining

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that discussion at a high level uh is good for the state and it's it's uh allows possible better outcomes better environment for us to be successful and that's

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you you've done that in two years. >> I hope that you are able to keep that up because the the state needs a lot of help. [laughter] Anything else before we move on? >> Very good. Yes, Alice. I wish we could

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give feedback to the state um to give them some information about how to encourage multi-year goals because if you have a multi-year goal which you know that's that's multiple year right during a single year you can't achieve

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it and so you could make excessive progress extreme progress towards that goal and >> and to have not met it seems to me ridiculous. I think that if someone has made tremendous progress on a multi goal

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that is an ex an exceeded that is my way of thinking about it but I don't think it is um clearly articulated by the state and I think they should fix that >> and the best we can do is to modify it by our comments which >> no that's not the best we can do we

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cannot we can do something about it >> get the state to change how they do things yeah >> or teachers to >> I Same thing for teach. Yes, >> teachers. The same thing. They're uh administrators are afraid to give sometimes teachers anything but perfect marks because it may reflect badly on

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them because the way that the evaluation is set up and for that [clears throat] reason the evaluation does not really accomplish its its purpose. You should be able to give somebody a non-perfect mark in the category that does not uh greatly impact them because nobody's perfect at everything. Everybody

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hopefully gets better and the system is not set up for teachers uh in a a really positive way either. >> So it needs to be fixed and you should tell them. >> Okay, we'll tell them. I'm sure it'll be fixed by next week. [laughter]

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>> You don't think? >> Well, I hope that she does because uh I hope that she would be uh I don't know elected to whatever board it is that makes these decisions these days because >> I'm too old. >> Yeah. Right. No, you're not. Not by not by my

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standards, she [clears throat] >> Okay. So, does that complete the uh superintendent evaluation for this year? >> Yes. >> Very good. And thank you, Pam. I know it was very hard to do it in the short time frame we had for you and your and who's

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on your team? >> Charlene and Linda. Linda. >> Linda. Alice. >> And Linda. and Alice was on the um the contract part of the um time. >> Yes.

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>> Okay. So, thank you for doing it in um under extreme time constraints. Such a professional. Greatly appreciated. Which brings us now to item B, policy subcommittee. Allison.

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>> Okay. So, um we have three policies that we'd like to consider. Um the first one I want to um amend the language because Jeff pointed out that we messed up [clears throat] and um in the third paragraph of IHBCTE which is off-campus

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work projects um we said the school district expects that the above person shall apply as all staff at the shelf but we didn't have any above persons because at some point or another we edited out the list of people so um I'm sorry for the audience

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that you don't have a copy of this but um that's I apologize we have to apologize so IHBCT we uh amended the name to IHBC to indicate that this is a minim specific

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thing the MAC policies don't tend to include a lot of ones that apply to vocation local high schools so what we want to do is change the third paragraph to the school district expects that all faculty/staff

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shall comply with chapter 6 268A of the Massachusetts general law regarding the conduct of public officials and employees. So it's actually simplifying the sentence. Um, so if you all accept that, um, I would take a motion to, uh,

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adopt IH-CT off campus work projects as amended. >> Jeff, you did bring that up like the last meeting. >> Totally missed it. And even though we have Sharon who is

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>> eagleizing well we didn't meet since we last so it was on my notes but >> jeez would have just yeah >> so just based on the conversation that we had earlier tonight we have director of career and technical education

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>> that still stands >> that still stands that still stand that position is a role in desi security Okay. Okay. I move anything else.

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>> Uh the motion has been made and second. There's no further discussion. Bring it to broad motion table four five six seven eight n passes unanimously. >> Okay. The next one is um JFB school of choice. Um, as everybody knows, school

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choice um is part of the state law and you have to vote by June 1st to take school choice students where you automatically take school choice students and you get tuition payment of $5,000 per student because it has not

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been changed by the state since 1993. So, Minute Man does not accept school choice students because we can't afford to um with that kind of tuition. Um so, this one we have voted on before and um it is back the same as it was before to

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have a second vote at a motion to >> move >> whatever uh second adopt for second reading. I see no comments or questions. Move to vote. All in favor motion the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

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eight. Passes. >> Thank you. And I just want to point out that the fact that Jeff noticed that he made a mistake on the earlier one that you had voted IHB and that came back and corrected it is why we had two readings.

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>> Okay. KEC public complaints about the curriculum or instructional materials. This is um um adjusted because MASC in a summer meeting a few years ago noted that we should um say that if someone want to complain about school materials,

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they needed to be somehow associated with our district. Couldn't come from some other state and come into town and tell us how to run our school. So that has that language is all in here. Um and that is what we're voting on for second meeting tonight.

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We need a motion for that one. So >> questions, comments, discussion very well then come to the vote. All in favor motion the table. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Passes you. So that's all for for us and I want to thank Stephanie Alberness and

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Sharon again for their amazing uh focus on this type of language and whether or not it actually matters you know meets Americanization meeting in which we choose the officers for the coming year. The way that this

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meeting works is that uh the chair gives the gavl to the superintendent. Uh we vote to allow the superintendent to preside temporarily. She asks for nominations for chair. Nominations come up. Uh you can ask of the nominated people any questions you want. If you're

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interested, then we take a vote and then we move then the chair, whoever is that chair takes the gabble back. the same process for vice chair and for secretary. That's what the process is. So as uh I am chair now I give the

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gavvel formally over to the superintendent and she will open the reorganization >> vote to allow her. >> Yes we do. So I would like a motion to allow the superintendent to preside temporarily. >> Some moved.

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>> Second. Any discussion, questions? Very well. Then, uh, all in favor of the motion on the table, uh, I count, nine votes, it is unanimous. Okay. Um, thank you to the committee. I'd like to now open the floor for nom nominations for

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the chair for the 2026 2027 school year. Chance >> I vote that Jeff stool and remain chair for one more year or I move sorry nominate whatever. >> Are there any other nominations? Jeff, are you willing to take it one

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more year? >> I will be willing to do it for one more year. >> That that was on my list. That was one of my few GS. Sorry. It's okay. It's so you accept. >> I would accept it if I voted one. >> Okay. We're closing nominations for

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chair. Um I'd like to ask for a vote for um Jeff to serve as chair. >> What's your names? And I have a few comments at the um organization.

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Very welcome. I would like to open it for uh nomination for vice chair. >> Alice, >> I'd like to nominate Charlene Cabrell. >> Would Charlene Cabral serve as vice chair if so elected?

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>> No one else is interested. [laughter] So once they get on, >> are there any other nominations for vice chair? Yes. >> Welcome back, Steve. [laughter] I'd like to nominate Steve since he's got such a well

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>> because Charlie very I know you're doing a good job. >> Steve, would you uh stand as vice chair? >> It's a little awkward just being my first meeting, but I don't, you know, I don't want to compete with showing.

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Would you cry if Steve was tears? >> I would not cry. Steve would be willing to serve. >> Okay. As long as you cry. >> Would you not cry so much that you would withdraw from your nomination? >> I would even withdraw from my nomination. Thank you very much.

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>> Good. Uh any other nominations? >> Very good. In closing the nominations, uh bring it to a vote. All in favor of Steve Lu as vice chair. being nine hands up. It is unanimous. Uh I'm I'm uh uh grateful that you're

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willing to serve in that position after it just comes back and having beyond beyond two committ. It's greatly appreciated. >> Very well then. I would like to know nomination for secretary.

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>> Yes, Karen. I was going to nominate the same person. >> Any other nominations for secretary? >> Well, then I'm closing. Uh, nominations if you're willing to do the job.

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>> So, I just want to add a caveat that yes, I would be very willing to do the job. Um, but just for full disclosure, I have not yet been reappointed. In fact, many of our visitors are here because they are also interested in potentially having the position from Lexington. So if I am reappointed by the select board,

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I would very happily serve another year as secretary. If I am not, then you will need to revote if that is the case. But I just want to let you know that I am very willing to do so. >> Does that change anybody's mind about another nomination for secretary? No. So

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the thing is that we cannot predict the future. So, uh, yes, things may happen, but as far as I'm concerned, the nomination stands, but thank you for the count. Uh, so I close nominations for

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secretary. Uh, bring to the vote. All in favor of Sharon as secretary passes unanimously. And um I just want to say that you've done an outstanding job of helping Julie with the with the minutes and um the eagle

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eye on the policies and it is appreciated. Secretary uh actually in an easy year easy year takes up more time than the vice chair. So the vice chair comes into play primarily when the chair is not able to do something but the

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secretary is working on the minutes and other things that come up all the time. So it's a very significant amount of time. So uh I'm very very happy that you're going to do so. Uh I declare that um the organization's complete and uh

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the only comment I have is really going back to the idea of what [clears throat] I expect to be some of our goals for the coming year. Uh working with the state on graduation requirements is going to be very challenging. You heard Heidi's

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discussion of what we have to do with math at this school. That is going to be very challenging. the changes they make the teachers implementing the policy getting the students through it uh is going to be very challenging

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working on the vet clinic negotiations is going to be very very challenging then we have the multi-year goal of enrollment uh I think that that this is the year that that also is going to be very challenging and I should mention a

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fourth one is going to be the work of the um [clears throat] capital committee along with the Fencom to uh come up with a plan uh to have the funding available

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to keep the building in shape and to figure out how to how to pay for it in a responsible way. So actually at least [clears throat] four goals that I can see that are going to be uh very

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challenging and timeconuming this year. So um uh that's what I expect and of course others you'll think of other things and other things will come back down the pike that we have had no idea as they all see. So I'm I'm glad we have this group

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together. You've proven to be very effective both the last uh few years. I uh expect that to continue future. [clears throat] Thank you for taking on all the assignments that you take on especially after I come up with the suggestions for

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subbes. >> Take an Alison and a half of a policy. Right. >> It's ignoring basic [laughter] >> now. Um what I'm going to do, we're going to move into executive session that I'm going to call a brief recess

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because we have a few uh very important items in our executive session. uh it's an important things that we need to discuss. Now for the um members of the audience, you cannot join us during the executive session. Now we may revert to open session. So if you want to stick

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around for an indeterminate amount of time, then come back for what might be a few really quick votes. You're free to do so, but during the executive session just going to be school and whoever else we ask to to join us. So after we enter

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into executive session and do all the work we need to do so for that I will call a 10-minute recess because I think >> nobody is dising so uh for Heidi we need just you and Julia

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for the executive sessions. Yes. >> Yes. Okay. >> So I would like a motion in fact I'll make this motion. I move that we enter executive session and uh return to open session in including the school committee Heidi

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and Julia for the following reasons. A approval to appoint an acting director of special education. B to approve the draft executive session minutes of May 12th to June 2nd and June

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9th. Who doesn't like to do more minutes? Let's see. Pursuant to MGL chapter 38 section 2182 for the purpose of discussing strategy as it relates to contract negotiations with non-union personnel the director of career and technical education director of

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technology and data systems and D to consider the purchase exchange the lease or value of real property the chair declares an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the negotiation position of the public body.

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Somebody like to second. >> Yes. Now that we are moving into an executive session, we must go back to roll call votes. So again, order by pound. I hope to remember what order is there. [laughter] >> Pam.

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>> Pam. Yes. Sarah Mosscu Arlington. Yes. >> Bolton. Yes. >> Conquer. Yes. >> March dominant. Yes. >> Jeffing. Yes, >> great. So, uh visitors, thank you very

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much. >> Uh make sure that all technology is off >> and 10 minute recess and we'll come back to our sanct. So you um uh want a motion

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to let's see here [clears throat] >> Tracy to appoint Tracy Carney as the acting director of special education. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> Any further discussion of the motion on the table? Um, I'd like to make a to

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re-emphasize again as I did during open session earlier, um, that this is a perdm differential. This is not a contract um, for a year, for a certain amount of months. That is not what this is. It is because no district can go

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without a director of special education. Um, so we need that right now. So that I >> that does not have to be part of the motion. I don't believe. No, I just wanted to make >> that's divided for the record. Any further discussion on the motion on the table? Very well. Then all in favor

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of motion on the table. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 passes unanimously. Now, uh I'm going to ask for a motion to adjourn our meeting. And my final comment for the evening is that if anybody were to see how we ran this

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meeting today, it would be a standard, I believe, for how organizations like this should work. It was a long meeting. I apologize for it being so long. We accomplished an astonishing amount during this meeting. It was cooperative.

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Uh nobody was afraid to ask questions. you move the agenda of the school forward in and okay. [clears throat] So I would like a motion to move second. >> All in favor motion on the table passes

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unanimously. We are. Thank you.