I would like to call this meeting of the Narragansett Regional School District School Committee to order. If you would all please rise for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one
nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I apologize for the delay in our start time, everyone. We've had a few um personal conflicts um and had to wait for our fifth person to make quorum this evening. Um but we now have quorum and
we are ready uh to uh engage in our meeting content. Um as a reminder, this meeting is being live streamed and recorded and is available on YouTube um for viewing. Um so getting into our regular business,
I would first entertain a motion to approve the meeting minutes of February 26th, 2026 as written. >> So moved. Motion by Shawn. >> Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments on those minutes? Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed?
Abstained? And I say yes, so that is unanimous. I would further entertain a motion to approve the meeting minutes of March 19th, 2026 as written. >> So moved. Motion by Shawn. >> Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments on those minutes? No.
Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? And I say yes, so that is unanimous. And finally, I would entertain a motion to accept the bills and payroll warrants as presented. >> So moved. Motion by Shawn. Second.
Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments about the the bills and payroll? No. Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? And I say yes, so that is unanimous.
Um we're a bit um this is a the first Thursday of the month. We usually meet on the first third Thursday of the month, so tonight we do not have our student representative present. Um we have a couple folks from the public here, but I didn't hear any of them say they wanted to speak this evening. No?
No? All right. So we will pass through public input. Um and the NDEA is not here this evening um not represented this evening, so we will move on there as well. Um FY26 budget update.
Um it's tight. It's tight. Just after paying that health insurance bill, um the bottom line right now I'm at 150,000. So I'm hoping that like we can get through heating season like we leave for a house some leftover from that. Um
but we'll see when things are cold. Okay. So. Okay. Thank you for the update. Um and then we'll move into our FY27 budget update and I know that you two have some updated information to share with the committee. So I'm going to go way back I
think down here. So >> [clears throat] >> a couple weeks ago, town manager and I had a financial exercise and of course we presented here about what would it look like if we cut a million dollars. And so um we've talked about that. We've presented twice.
Um but as time went on, obviously, you know, folks are folks are looking for some sort of answers into how does this affect me, right? And so what we did
and because I know that there's a lot of important meetings that are absolutely coming up. I know that it's like what is the meeting coming up on Monday night in regards to potentially we might I know what the menu items are, but in terms of overrides, there's a question about that. So it started to generate a lot of
anxiety. So what happens is that, you know, the unknown is the is the scariest part. Um so what we decided to do, what I decided to do um was to today, as a matter of fact, I went around and I notified
the the staff members who would be affected if we had to cut a million dollars. Now, I I probably had and told probably 14 or 15 conversations, right? Individual conversations. And they all started with I do not know
what the end result is going to be. I I don't know that. I don't have We don't know what we're really, you know, budgeting to if we're budgeting to a number, but I think it's only fair to notify you that if we had to make this level of cuts, that you
would be you would be these the cut. And how would we do that? Because we don't see a scenario where we can wait until May 18th, say, or or, you know, until the towns actually get through votes. If
there in fact is going to be an override vote. But we don't know these things, but people have to kind of plan for their lives and it's only fair to let them know that if I had to make these type of cuts, that this is this is what it would look like. With the caveat that I don't know. We just don't know and so
that's kind of a that's kind of a hard conversation to have, but I had that about well, about 10 times, 11 times today um individually. So we're going to go through that exercise a little bit, but I'm actually going to show you we just talked about teachers, okay? We
our our positions, I should say. If you just go to the next slide. We've all seen the um the uh income sheet. This is the income sheet that we've presented um with, you know, a decrease of 1.3 million dollars. We did this
2 weeks ago. I think it was 2 weeks ago. I'm I'm losing track of time. Um and so that is that is fairly well known. If you go to the next slide, it looks a little different graphically, but ultimately this is what I have put
out. If we had to cut a million three-ish, it would mean that we'd have to cut, as you can see, right? Four paraprofessionals district-wide, four elementary teachers, five special teachers. One or two of them are not um
they're not actually filled. Individual contracts central office, five. We talked about health insurance being reduced to that percentage from the 19%. Reduced supply lines, no computers. Okay. So everyone saw this and understood it. But what that did is it
generated a lot of anxiety as to what would this mean. So what I'm going to show you, what I'm going to talk about right now is how we would configure if this were to and why we would configure it, right? Um if we had to go to this number. So
what If you go to the next means, okay. So what this would mean ultimately is that we have to take a lot of things into consideration again. One more time, this is not a definite, but this is what we need to have. We have to
look at the first grade and say, "Okay, there's only 17 children currently in kindergarten." It's the smallest group that we have, at least certainly in the elementary, but almost in the entire district. It was kind of an anomaly. We already know that pre-K
parking. We already know that next year's kindergarten is at 72 kids. Next year's kindergarten, which is exactly the number we had for the other grades when we had 90. So we're back on track, I guess, or however you want to look at it. Um so
what we would do is we would actually cut two first grade teachers, leaving just three. First grade teacher in the in the audience today, you know, the lot of gas is um is
recognized. Um the we'd cut one fourth pardon me, one second grade teacher. No? >> No. No? >> [clears throat] >> Third. One third, sorry. I skipped over the wrong one. Yeah, one third. Um
one fourth. Right. I'm going to leave it there for a second. Stay with the stay with the elementary for a second. So what that does with current numbers, current, is give or take 26 to 27 in a classroom.
Perfect. Yes, there are elementary classrooms in this area beyond that have 26, 27 children in them. Um not a lot. And is that a lot of kids? Yes. I'm going to say it because it has to be
said. The wild card is what happens when the apartments open up? Okay. Again, I refuse to assign a number. I'm not going to play that game where I, you know, say, "Oh, it's going to be elementary." I don't know what it's going to be.
And many of those kids that we already have in the in Templeton and been to the apartments, we've already had this this this discussion, but if they are new residents to to Templeton or new residents into Phillipston, quite frankly, we kind of,
you know, kind of we talked about the apartments, but we've seen quite a growth in top of those as well. Then those are some scary numbers and I don't have in the in but I've already made the comment, right? So I have to hit the number. Um again,
not not a number that we have the assignment, right? Say that again. The MVP Academy uh which is a it's an aspect by the MVP Academy teacher. We are very certain 80% certain that we're going to receive
um the grant that covers this teacher as it is the implementation grant that we had 2 years ago when we started the program, they give you vacation money. We spent that money year one on the on the on the teacher itself. We would do that again because
the folks are really pretty sure this is going to happen with the diploma program and will in fact be approved. It's a new program of you know, it So we put the aspect there to just be transparent that we we do feel confident that that money will be available for
that for that position. Um high school math teacher the high school Spanish teacher is not filled currently. We could we've we've posted I don't I could long term. We have a long term sub. We have posted that position. I don't know how many
times, quite a few. Um the thrive program in itself would would probably have to be dismantled. Um and you would lose your which is a special education teacher um would be reassigned in the district, but
but the program would have to be shut down. Um the central office registrar I keep but referring to the registrar of the central office employee. The registrar position is going to is is going to be cut from the central office. Um and the schools will have to pick up
the registrar or at least that's what the discussion is going to be at individual schools. That's a that could be problematic, but that's what we need to do. And district-wide for paraprofessionals. May some of these positions are already open.
We'll have to see how it all kind of um how it all shakes out by the end of the year in terms of paraprofessionals. They they they do tend to come and go. So we'll have to see. So that is that's important for because we were getting questions from parents.
What do you mean? Is it one person per grade? Is it one teacher per grade? So nothing is ever done in a vacuum. I want you to know that it wasn't just three or four of us sitting in central office, you know, without you know, speaking with with the folks. Of course
we talked to Marcy Ritzman who's the principal. She yes, she's actually the one that said, "Well, I don't want to do that because this grade needs the support toward this." You know, she I mean this is her job. She knows the uh elementary very very well. So she you
know, she put us on this on this track at this point because the numbers are low in the kindergarten before they move to next year. Um Uh so so I want and and of course when talking about high school, the middle school there was just nothing.
The middle school is done in terms of cuts. There's they have just as many teachers as they have kids that go through five, six, and seven. And so when the high school had a couple So I I want to make sure because we were we were getting was was starting to
create misinformation is what it was and and rumors about you know, they had a meeting down at the elementary today after school um just to kind of clear the well, make sure that everybody was on the same page and make sure that you know, some
everybody had the same information what they choose to do then of course they [snorts] anyway, but it's their story to tell for the folks. Yes, so I had two three four five six seven. I had nine conversations today to let them know that if it should happen that
they and that they would be they would be reduced reduced in force laid off and it's only fair that I give them as much as much time as possible to find other jobs. To wait until May would not would not be
good. Tim. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay, see you. All right. So um so That's it. jobs Yeah, I had something just so that they if they have to take care of themselves. They all have families, they have children, they they need to look
out for them you know, themselves. It's only fair to tell them as soon as possible. Very openly said that some of the best teachers I've lost in this district have been teachers that didn't need to be lost. Something has changed along the way. Something whatever it may be but they had already found jobs and we would have kept them anyway, but
that's the you know, that's the that's the chance we take when we enter into a a contract, you know, an agreement that they're going to work here. The least we can do is to make sure that when these things happen, we give them as much time as possible to take care of themselves because that is
the most important thing. So that's what I did today. Did I get to every single human being? No, I did not. I did not get to I did not get to a few of them just because the there was only so many hours in the day. I tried to do this all in
one one sitting because if you cut it in two days, it becomes problematic. I just it was some other things that it took that took place today, but I just couldn't get to some of the five folks, but I'll do that on Monday. Uh Mr. Young took care of a lot of it for me.
Um but I will meet with everybody individually as I do in any of these situations. Um So it again and I wanted to make sure I say this. mail drafted I'm not saying anything about an
override. I'm not saying what this is what you should do what we're not going to do. But it is a financial exercise. This is what would happen, right? We that would happen if we only received right I want to make sure I say this correctly in writing that we if a $2
million override was was voted uh the towns voted in the schools and that and this is what happened. What would happen with you a million dollars worth of cuts. I want to be very clear. This was part of the exercise and I discussed this
with folks I spoke with today. I spoke to them about the reality that there would be cuts and will probably cuts. They just don't know when or how many. So to play safe, that's that's what I did today. A million dollars would allow us
to cut the list that he had. So if you think about it, right? It was a lot to cut those. So um uh some of the reductions in the previous year would be reinstated.
You know, obviously we would we would try to um you know, fill back to you know, where you take the most obviously you need probably the most support with the elementary classroom teachers and seven of them with the thrive program.
Um which element we we're not getting into that. Some of it has you know, there's a lot that goes into for all kids the only that one teacher knows you that that has to really be thought out quite frankly, but um There's always changing dynamics for
the >> There's always changes and influence that affect that decision. Right. So it's not safe to say now No. what we need to know. So it is ambiguous and I will be very candid that's on purpose cuz I have you know, we got to we got to see what
you know, what takes or what is needed at that point in time. Um if you know, if we had to cut more, we've already I talked about this. We would have to cut from extracurricular activities which includes athletics.
Um that is the only way. That is the last That's it. Because once you cut those number of teachers that I just showed you, there are you can't Yeah, we can't now. Um So anyway,
um I mean I I that's what I did today over the last couple days. We presented this we we put it together and speaking with the NEA union uh teachers union anyway, [clears throat] they they wanted me to have this conversation to give their members as
much notice even if even if it doesn't come to fruition. It it was important to at least have that conversation sooner rather than later. So that's what I did today. It always seems to happen like this. The you saw best and highest reading achievement
that we've seen probably since I've been here um this year. And and so it from what I understand some of the you know, comments and some of the anger quite frankly was that we finally you know, and
I don't say we righted the ship, but it certainly you know, made the adjustments necessary um to get the kiddos where they need to be in all phases certainly at the elementary for sure. It's a real you know, it's a real kick you know, to see them there. That is
going to be affected. But there's don't make no mistake about it. I have very very good teachers. I'm not saying that cuz the one sitting here cuz she knows that. Um we have very very good teachers, but this will negatively affect the elementary school. Don't >> [clears throat] >> We don't do more with less. That's not
how this works. Uh quite frankly, we do a lot with we do a lot with what we have, but you're not going to take away four teachers and expect the same results. That's just not going to happen. Um now the expectation is that they do. If we're going to be realistic, you
know, you're talking about 26 kids per no matter what happens. That's with today's That's with today's schools. So, um >> [clears throat] >> So, there there we go. And I'll be answering your questions.
Sean, I um Um Thank you for taking the time to have those conversations today cuz I don't care how many times you've had to do it. It has to be difficult to have to sit in front of them, especially with the the unknown the unknown dealing with people and their families and their connection to the school.
Um I'm being my own kid up here on the I got to You got to pictures here and I You know, I I knew this was coming, but it's incredibly difficult uh for people who are not in education to sort of wrap their heads around what adding even just
a handful of kids to a classroom actually does. Um And I think what is up happening or what has happened over the years is that reductions of in staff um sort of go almost unfelt because
teachers step up because at the end of the day it really is about the kids. Um You can only ask teachers to step up so much. Um At some point they just can't do it anymore. And while I understand that,
you know, the reality of our world today is that we just can't afford the things that are happening. Chapter 70 money is not being adjusted accordingly and uh municipalities dealing with all these challenges, but we have to figure this
out because it is not okay to put this on the backs of our kids. You have to figure this out. There. I'm just leaving this for questions, but I'm not hearing anybody. I thought that Um well, this is an on you know, as we've sta- stated a few times now, this
is an ongoing conversation. We're sharing what we can when we can and then as the budget picture becomes clearer, then we we do fully expect to vote on a completely different number. Um but that's because the budget we certified
is for you know, uh you know, level service less $300,000 and we know we're going to need to cut more than that. The question is just how much. Um so, um you know, thank you to, you
know, towns to sit sitting at the table and collaborating with us and talking with us and seeking to understand because uh I will say school budgets I I cannot
emphasize enough how complicated school budgets are and how difficult school budgets are to understand. Uh I will tell you I didn't even start to understand it until I was about 3 years in. Um and even now I still run into things
where I go, "Every >> [laughter] >> Can you please explain this to me again?" Um because there's just so so much detail to it how how a school budget comes together. Um so, to those folks who are sitting at
the table and who are joining us at the table to understand those things. Um and then especially to our parents and our teachers who are doing their best to understand and also to make, you know, to make folks aware of what's happening
because we don't always have the attendance we would love to have at school committee meetings, though I have faith that people are online. Um you know, so we want to make sure that folks know what's happening in their towns and we want we want active
active voters coming out and you want democracy to work for those who who show up. So. All right. Moving through our agenda, uh Amarie, we have your business manager's report next. Um I would just say that we're very
spending down off the night. I've been working really hard to uh get the money for the grants spent by June 30th so we don't have to give it back. Um and I finally received the reimbursement from the state for the paving that we did to earmark
the jobs through quite a few hoops, but we actually received the cash. Yeah, I >> Yeah, I'm worried I'll never get money. I don't mean that. No items for curriculum and instruction this evening. We do have a few items for new business.
Um most specifically, so so this first item on the agenda here, the ban note borrowing for middle school high school roof project. Essentially, I'm going to go through a lot of different motions. We're going to go through them individually. All this does is say,
"Yes, school district, you can borrow the money for the roof project." Um so, it's very much administrative, but we have to do it and then I have to sign papers saying that we did it in order to trigger um borrowing the money and ultimately getting the money so that we
can do the project. Um so, that's what this is. You're going to hear a lot of I'm going to say "legalese" type language. Um so, just bear with me. Um and then if you have questions, Amarie and Dr. C and I will do our best. Okay. Once this all goes through, we
will have money in our account on the 9th. Yeah. So. This is very important, I might add, because we're generating bills, right? So, um Yeah, I have two of them sitting on my desk. She'd like to pay the bills. We'd like We'd like to pay the bills.
Okay. So, I would enter a motion that we hereby determine that in accordance with Mass. General Law Chapter 70 B, that the cost of the Narragansett High and Middle School roof projects
authorized by vote of the committee passed on November 6th, 2025 be financed with proceeds of a portion of the notes defined below, together with all other bonds and notes of the district previously issued to pay costs of this project does not exceed the portion of
the total cost of the project that is not being paid by the School Facilities Grant, and we hereby approve the issuance of notes and bonds to finance this project under Mass. General Law Chapter 70 B. So. Motion by Sean. Second. Seconded by
Heather. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor. I. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is unanimous. I would entertain a further motion to approve the sale of $5,060,000
4% general obligation bond anticipation notes, the notes of the district dated April 9th, 2026 and payable April 9th, 2027 to BNY Mellon Capital Markets LLC at par and accrued interest, if any,
plus a premium of $49,994.32. Motion by Sean. Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor. I. Opposed Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is
unanimous. Further motion that in connection with the marketing and sale of the notes, the preparation and distribution of a notice of sale and preliminary official statement dated March 12th, 2026 and a final official statement dated March
19th, 2026, each in such form as may be approved by the district treasurer, be and hereby are ratified, confirmed, approved, and adopted. Motion by Sean. Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments?
Seeing none, all in favor. I. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is unanimous. I would entertain a further motion that the district treasurer and the chair of the committee be and hereby are authorized to execute and deliver a
significant events disclosure undertaking in compliance with the SEC Rule 15c2-12 in such form as may be approved by bond counsel to the district, which undertaking shall be incorporated by reference in the notes for the benefit of the holders of the notes from time to
time. So. Motion by Sean. Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor. I. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is unanimous.
Further motion that we authorize and direct the district treasurer to establish post-issuance federal tax compliance procedures and continuing disclosure procedures in such forms as the district treasurer and bond counsel deem sufficient, or if
such procedures are currently in place to review and update such procedures in order to monitor and maintain the tax-exempt status of the notes and to comply with relevant securities laws. Motion by Sean. Second. Seconded by Heather. Any questions or comments?
Seeing none, all in favor. I. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is unanimous. Further motion that any certificates or documents relating to the notes, collectively the documents may be executed in several counterparts, each
of which shall be regarded as an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same document. Delivery of an executed counterpart of the signature page to a document by electronic mail in a PDF file or by other electronic transmission shall be
as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart signature page to the document. Electronic signatures on any documents shall be deemed original signatures for the purposes of the documents and all matters relating thereto having the same legal effect as original signatures.
Motion by Shawn, second second by Heather. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor. Opposed, abstained. And I say yes, so that is unanimous. Almost made it. And a further motion
that each member of the committee, the district secretary, and the district treasurer be and hereby are authorized to take any and all such actions and execute and deliver such certificates, receipts, or other documents as may be determined by them or any of them to be necessary or convenient to carry into
effect the provisions of the foregoing votes. Motion by Shawn, second second by Heather. Any questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is
unanimous. I think that's legally yes. Yes. Because I'm uncertain about this date. Um Which date? >> And I know we all voted unanimously. Um the section further motion that in connection with the marketing and sale
of notes, the preparation was the final and official statement date March 19th, but was it actually when we did it Monday night, March 30th? I I'm not sure about that. We here um
In the first paragraph? Right after the um dollar amounts, the next section where it has the date, the final official statement date March 19th, 2026. Each in such form as may be approved by
the district treasurer. Was that when we certified it March 19th or did we actually do it March 30th on Monday night? That is my uncertainty. Sure which one? It doesn't say the date. That's the date of the vote.
They were quick on the market, actually. So it's not to do with our vote, it's to do with their I believe yeah, it's when because they When we voted on the 19th >> Yes, they took their subsequent action to take a further action on March 30th.
I tried to get this meeting and have them be able to do this vote on the 19th, but they couldn't because they had only out for sale that day, so they if they couldn't process paperwork quick enough, that's why we had to have this special meeting to do this. So
those I don't think that didn't have anything to do with the And so the legal counsel was directly involved in writing the I just wanted to be sure. >> No, it's a good it's a good call out. >> Yeah, the bond's counsel put all of this together. Oh, okay. Thank you very much. I don't
write legal ease. >> [laughter] >> I read it badly, but I totally Okay, that was a good question. Thank you very much. Thank you for bringing that to me. Of course. All right. Um we do have a couple pieces of business just to keep the district
moving effectively. Um so we do have um the senior trip has been proposed. Um so anyone want to quickly talk about that or do you want me to do my best to follow through? The best I can yes. There are two trips
that you approved. They're both out of district or having out of state. They are uh the overnight is at the um Great Wolf Lodge. I'm sorry. Great Wolf Lodge, which is a water park. Which is a water park.
But in Connecticut, but in Connecticut, not Fitchburg. >> In Connecticut, not Fitchburg. The other day trip is that's the one I don't have in front of me. It's in state. It's Dave & Busters and Level 99 in Natick, Mass.
So those are there are some kiddos who just don't want to do the overnight, so there's two trips. Okay. One is out of district, that is at lodge in Connecticut. And the other is to
And Level 99. So one out of state, one in state. So um we'll get a motion on the table and then after my questions, we'll we'll get into those. I would entertain a motion to approve the senior class field trip day one to Great Wolf Lodge in Mashantucket, sorry, Connecticut on May
21st, 2026 and day two to Natick Mall, Dave & Busters, and Level 99 in Natick, Mass. On May 22nd, 2026, returning to Narragansett Regional High School the evening of May 2020 May 22nd, 2026. Motion by Shawn.
Second second by Heather. Any questions or comments? Yeah, I mean that doesn't really matter. There are there students going on both. Is that an option? No. I think it's just one or the one or the other. Independent events. Yes.
This must be >> It's all or they're being taken. You can go to, you know, if they've been told there's one for overnight. Yeah, but I think it's the same trip. So if you stay overnight, they automatically do both trips. Understood. Or if they don't stay overnight So they're stopping there and taking all of
that. It's confusing cuz it's on two forms. It's It's on We don't have some of this. Understood. So is the is the set as a follow-up question, is the 77 students on form two including the 35 on form one?
I think it is, but we can confirm that. I can confirm. I'm pretty sure it is. It has to be. 80 which share students. So um I would imagine that's absolutely the same. We got the forms and I was like
This must be their last week of school, right? The 21st week. I think that's All right, so we have a motion on the table. We have um a second. Um we asked if there were any questions, so all in favor. Opposed.
Abstained. And I say yes, so the senior trip is approved. I hate to be the family that goes to Great Wolf Lodge while these kids are at Let me tell you this. I don't see this very very much. I do. I do. I mean for any family that These kids go down to
the Great Wolf Lodge today. That's going to be It's going to be quite a show. It's going to be going to be signed up front. Warning. >> [laughter] >> They are there. Yes. Uh all right, so we have also a donation from the Lions Club.
How much, please? >> Sure. So the Lions Club have Um donated a flag to place during town meeting the winner of the Christy Merrick flag in the middle of Massachusetts State funding. And the Lions Club are in So they just asked for our permission. I attached the invoices that show the uh
the value of that. It's just a little thing I've got to do at the beginning of the year anyway. Okay. I entertain a motion to accept the donation from the Templeton Lions Club for replacement United States and Massachusetts State flags for the Sapka Auditorium at Narragansett Middle School. So moved.
Motion by Hank. Second. Second by Shawn. Any questions or comments? I just like to just like to say thank you. Yes. That's awesome. Thank you. And we extend our thanks. All in favor. Aye. Opposed. Abstained. And I say yes, so that is
unanimous. Dr. Shea, did you have anything to report? Go ahead. Very quick. Um so as part of the wellness advisory committee, work continues for our staff wellness. We were getting partnered with Fitness Concepts to offer a staff wellness challenge with 11 staff
members who are signed up. We will win again. I can guarantee that. Um that plaque is going nowhere. Can you see it? Can you see it? Um MCAS is in full swing. Um for those of you I know that who knows MCAS.
But if you'd like to see MCAS in its rarest primitive form, I would invite you to Sunday watch third graders take the MCAS, especially when they were three three essays. So it was a hard day, but they
but they did actually they did very very well. We're very proud of our third graders who get it for the first. We're proud of everyone, but when you take it for the first time, you know. And they did great. They were really they were champs. They really did a great job. I'm proud of them. Um we are planning our second annual
senior field day with the Templeton Senior Center, that's seniors, our seniors, and their seniors, their seniors. Thank you to Miss um Colette for planning and the dates will be coming soon. It's a big success. Um and just yes, two days ago, I was
informed, this has been kind of something that we've been working on, is that the Commissioner of Education is going to come out to there against. And it's going to be May 27th. Um, it's going to be in uh if you may have heard of him, Steve Adam.
He works here once. Um, he's a lot of important there. But he has done a fantastic job. They need a local and kind of central place to have um meeting with the commissioner with the uh the the regional association.
And so, it's going to be here. Right here. Now, um as is the commissioner of the new commissioner is absolutely student-focused. He'll let folks say what he says that, but he is. As a
matter of fact, his first 90 minutes uh will be meeting students and teachers. And there's itinerary that I just received today. They've given me um what needs to happen and how he'd like to um all kinds of folks. So, that'll be the
first order of business and then they'll break into this this regional meeting that'll happen probably here in the keep with with other regional partners. Um, we given that and given the number of people who may be here,
um you know, we'll we still don't forget these local Memorial Day around Memorial Day. So, we will be scheduled accordingly, but just um that just that just got solidified. I just got I talked to the uh commissioner's office just two days ago. So, and more to come on that. We're pretty excited, right?
So, the Commissioner of Education is going to be here and uh see a lot of greatness and we're going to have them make sure that we um receive That's exciting. It is exciting. Excellent. Are we allowed to attend that? Absolutely. Very good. Excellent.
I quickly looked at the suggested folks and in conversation like breakout groups, and he literally has a breakout group. For contingencies, so I just I have not been able to really uh we just received it like 4:30 today.
So, I'll I'll dive into it and see Dr. Hammond will be up on Tuesday, first thing lunch, and then we are going to sit down and and talk about how that and that all looks to going to work between the mayor's association. So, it's it's a really big deal. We're very happy to have him go to Pittsburgh.
Um, and he's going to go to uh uh big tech companies. Excuse me. Um There were no items not reasonably anticipated. Are there any sub-committee comments this evening? Seeing none, I will suspend
sub-committee reports until our next session is set for a more official session. Um uh they're uh these are Thursday, April 16th at 5:30 p.m. just before April vacation.
Um, and we have no need for executive session this evening. So, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. Motion by Shawn, second by Anne. All in favor. Aye. Thank you, everyone. And thank you, Danielle, and Hank for
helping.