would like to call this meeting of the Narroans Regional School District School Committee to order would everyone 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 liberty and justice as a reminder this meeting is being livereamed and recorded to YouTube and to Facebook um and will be available
from the meeting as well we'll get started with approval of the meeting minutes of March 20th 2025 so I entertain a motion to approve the meetings for that date so moved motion by Sean second second by Heather any
questions or comments about those minutes seeing none all in favor opposed abstain and I say yes so that is unanimous we also have bills in payroll this evening and I would recommend a motion
to accept those bills and payroll warrants as presented so move motion by Sean second second by Heather any questions or comments seeing none all in favor abstained i say yes so that is unanimous
and we have our student rep here tonight coming fresh off of the uh high school middle school musical um so we can't wait to hear what you have to share with us um so I made a sliding presentation because we had a lot of pictures from um
some of the events that we had this month um to start we had the Little Mermaid musical and it was our spring production which was a huge success um the performances were outstanding and the production above many dedicated
students the audience response was overwhelming and very positive and we're incredibly incredibly proud of who we had and made like the show possible um on the next slide we have the math state
uh the math competition at Pitchfork State um it was last Friday and nearly 40 students from grades 10 through 12 went to Fitchburg State University to compete in the math competition which happens annually um the event like
competition lasted an hour and a half uh and it included some very challenging math problems from geometry algebra 1 and algebra 2 um this opportunity was organized by the Math Honor Society and
Miss Richard and we're so proud of all the students that uh decided to take on the challenge there was also the uh art and band concert that happened I think it was
either Monday or last week um the both of the events were wellreceived and the showcase and showcased the amazing talent and creativity of our students and congratulations to everyone who participated in that we also yesterday
had a college signing ceremony which was so amazing i experienced it and also Colin Smith we decided to commit to Nicholls College and I will be playing field hockey and Colin will go to Dean
College and play football um we also were interviewed by the Gardener News and we are so grateful for the school for putting together this memorable event um I also got to go to Student
Government Day at the state house um LA April 4th yeah and I was driven to Boston by Mr supple and Mrs miss Rmalard um I'm so thankful that they were able
to drive me out there on such short notice um and during the event I got to sit through a mock Senate debate and we debated the upcoming bill that's being presented on whether or not schools
should allow phones in school um the students obviously decided to keep phones but that's just I feel like a given as students we want our phones but there was some very good discussions going on
and we got to sit in the senator's chairs and stuff and every time a senator would walk in he'd all have to stand up and um applaud them uh we I also got to sit through a bill hearing in the House of Representatives um and we like all got
assigned a position for the hearing so like I was Senator Durant and I got to sit up front and be a Senate member and uh one of the pictures on the slideshow shows the um where I was sitting i know it's not a
very good picture but I was so surprised how close I was and I thought I was going to have to go up and speak and I was like "Oh gosh no." Because they they were calling random witnesses to like give accounts on how they felt about
phone use in school and they told us that they would take all of the stuff that we brought up into consideration when they decided on like whether or not the bill should be passed also for underassmen we had a
record amount of students sign up for stu uh class elections um this year class elections saw a significant increase um in student interest with 30 kids running for at least one office position
while that number might seem small it actually is a big step forward toward um compared to our previous years where we had to run elections in the fall because we didn't have any positions covered um for the first time in a while every
position received at least one candidate running um and it is really great to see the students getting involved and stepping up as leaders in our community and that's all I have for this that's all
april's very busy no this is this is fantastic i mean and congratulations on your octopus role oh yeah um in the show i mean you know I was I was an option in the chorus in the musicals when I was um a long time ago I
guess um and the chorus really can you know it it makes the energy and it brings a lot of the it really brings in the audience too I think um and my daughter loved when you all came down the aisles i think that was one of her favorite parts
so you know congratulations to you and everyone who is part of the play and thank you so much for standing up and representing our district in so many different ways and I mean you're going to be amazing at Nichols i just know it thank you there's no doubt
all right um there is no public here this evening so we will move along from public input and NDEA is absent this evening as well um and we will just recognize all of them that they made it to April vacation
they are officially on vacation as of this evening as are the students um so welldeserved break to all of them and many thanks for all the work they're doing to keep everything going budget updates so hey Marie I'll hand this over to you and if you want to
roll together FY25 and FY26 any updates you we still have a budget for you we'll have that to the end of the year um everybody's been respectful of it if there's something they really need they reach out they've got good explanation
the income that we had this year has come up short on Medicaid um we've been coming up short for the past few years so I've been trying on our income statement to like gradually like lower it um couple of things the person who we
had doing it was sort of the expert she left last year so we're training new staff in the special ed department for that um another one of those just resigned so now we are posting for that i'm trying to fill in the pieces of that
but it's it's not my wheelhouse and I just don't know IEPs and that's really where it stems from um so we're we're working will be short um so that means my expense side needs to make up for
that loss of income so I'm not expecting an END like we have normally had um so that's that's really the big FY25 piece there um FY26 they just released was it
the um House House um those numbers like transportation is up a little bit higher some of our expenses for school choice kids going out of district and chart school they are anticipating those are higher as well so we'll see what happens
when it all plays out in July when we get our real numbers and stuff so just a couple of things a universal free lunch is funded at 190 million just a full year funding that's that's the proposal
from the house ways and uh rule aid which is really very beneficial to us and a lot of our districts around us it looks like it'll be funded at the same amount as last year and as Amarie just said regional transportation they're splitting it um between the regular line
item and FY25 so we're trying to get clar clarity on that so we don't know exactly what that means in terms of they're planning to use a piece of FY25 supplemental so we don't know if that supplemental will
be rolled over to fund FY26 or if we'll see any benefits of that in FY25 but again we won't know that until we get our payment the end of June beginning of July all right anything additional from the
business manager report um no we're just working on sending down grants getting most of them finished by June 30th a couple of them are allowed to be rolled over um like the title one and special ed one they typically roll over each
year a little bit to get us started in the summer of the next year um I'm just going to pause if there are any questions on anything budget related see what All right board dogs so I feel like we talked about this last time oh we did
um so here's here's what has come to pass in between our March 20th meeting and now so on our just as a reminder in our March 20th meeting we all looked at diligence proposed price which is around
$7,700 um discussed that yes it was higher um than we necessarily were looking for but we needed the time that it would give us um you know to move it and then to figure out what we wanted to do in the
long term um however um when we went back to diligent to say okay all systems go it was approved they sent us an email that essentially said oopsie they gave you the wrong
quote um actually what you need costs $11,262 which is one of your attachments here and we said no that's Um so we did at first try to say you
need to honor the price that you gave us it was a it was listed on a contract um and they came back and I'm not sure of the context of this but basically said that it would be illegal for them to honor their original quote i don't know
what that means i've not seen that in the service area before and so we further went back to them to say this is over $10,000 and anything over $10,000 we have to go to bid because of the way that we received an incorrect quote
followed by a correct quote this has not given us enough time now we then also simultaneously reached out to other districts and we were not the only ones to undergo this particular success and so what we further did what they did
offer in the end is that they are now going to extend support for boards and therefore have offered us a one-year renewal for boards um so we can remain where we are at the same price of
$5,400 for the next year our intention is to then use the district operations subcommittee meeting to figure out what do we want to do long term do we want to go out to bid is there other options available to us and so this
this extension to maintain works will give us that necessary time to be able to really dig into this the way that we need to and to look into any you know support we're going to need as we transition from what we use today being
board docks to anything we might use in the future um so there is no way I am proposing or signing off on $11,000 um plus um however I do think I
am happy would be the wrong word but I I feel it's the right thing to move to keep board docs for a year such that you know Susan etc are not dropping everything um to make a
transition happen within too short a period of time which then creates opportunities for mistakes and other things um so any questions or comments about that seeing none we do need to revote because of the language of the last
motion of the motion in March 20th so I would entertain a motion to suspend migration to diligent and extend the board docs agreement for one year at a cost of $5,400 noting that board docs is now
supplied by Diligent so moved second motion by Heather second by Sean one last chance for questions or comments seeing none all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes so that is unanimous and thank you so much
everyone i know that that was a little bit of a Miss Superchi it is your time to shine i will let you go through your agenda items um as you wish um so first is just a quick um update we
had some programming brought in um this past week for our grade four through 12 students um we brought in a presenter his name is Greg Koulick from the Kulwick group and he um he is a retired teach not retired he's a
previous teacher and um district technology coordinator and he now is a consultant who speaks to teachers and students about appropriate use of technology not just in schools but in their personal lives and so he came in and did presentations for middle and
high school students in an assembly format and then with our fourth graders classroom based a little bit more intimate um talking about how do you become a responsible citizen in digital spaces and how do you help support
creating a sense of belonging for other students or people in those settings and um really well received by students we have a lot of positive buzz from high school students was the day after he was here he had planned on doing um evening events for families parents and families
um we held the parent family night for middle high school unfortunately we had zero parents show up so we made a little bit of a midcourse correction and he is going to be over April break recording a session for us for families that models and echoes some of the messaging that he sent to students so that then we can
push that out and have hopefully be able to reach more parents with those messages so that will be forthcoming to parents uh following April vacation um update on our wellness advisory committee uh we have two major goals this year as a committee one of
those goals has been to increase opportunities for our staff health and wellness gosh this is a lot brighter and more colorful what it's projected than it was in my office um and so in that along that goal we had put out a survey to staff earlier this um this year about
you know what they're interested in when it comes to their own health and wellness and how the committee can help support some efforts around that and so coming back from winter break we had put on a nutrition challenge we partnered up with um 696 and fitness concepts and
gardener public schools and we had a the duel of the districts we had a competition a friendly competition i'll be at a competition um between Gardner and and our staff here we had quite a few staff members um enroll in that and it was I don't want
to say it's not a weight loss challenge but it was a nutrition challenge we focused holistically on healthy patterns we had a lot of fun um and of course we brought home the trophy as you can see pictured here and probably saw Dr cassman's video um so that was that was a lot of
fun um additionally we are going to be offering um some pop up classes uh brief to our staff in May or June um with trainers from um CrossFit 696 and fitness concepts so they'll be sending trainers here to run some just fun and
active classes after school for some of our staff um additionally we have our um food service department providing a thank you breakfast to staff during the month uh during a week in early May so we'll be putting that on in all three
buildings and then um lastly but certainly not least we've partnered with Growing Places which is a nonprofit organization that helps bring um food to places like us that are sort of a food desert but don't have uh accessibility to grocery stores and they accept um you
know um Snap Wick and a whole bunch of additional um systems of support for folks that need that as well and so we will be bringing in a mobile farmers market here we're going to be a host site for Mobile's farmers market that will be open to both the community and
our staff um and so in in preparation for that we wanted to build some excitement with our staff around that so we brought in in the last two half day eats um we did one for the elementary one combined for the middle high we did what they call a fresh box
event and so they have a grant that provides large boxes of fresh fruits vegetables and other from farms within 150 mile radius and so the grant pays the farmers for their products so that they can put together these boxes and
distribute them in communities so our staff were treated to a lot of uh very interesting and exciting new vegetables and fried popcorn kernels and beans and and so forth in the last few weeks so it was a lot of really good buzz from our staff a lot of positivity around that as
well um and our second goal with our wellness advisory committee this year is to increase opportunities for community health and wellness and so we'll be bringing in this mobile market um we're going to do it as a pop-up event at the end of this year likely the end of May
or early June and then our goal is to get on a monthly cycle with them next year so that it will be a monthly event for our staff and our community um and we'll be reaching out to some local folks to come and hopefully build that into a larger event as well um and then
in addition we partnered with the senior center here in Templeton and we are putting on a senior citizen fun field day um so our seniors are putting on a field day event for seniors citizens um that will be on Wednesday April 30th and we're really looking forward to that
we're going to do that here in our high school um and our a few of our senior students will be putting on the events we've partnered um with a couple folks over there to make sure the uh activities that we're putting on are appropriate um and of high interest and fun as well so really looking forward to
that event as well um and then through that connection we also are planning next year to um continue that partnership with them and have some of our students work doing either volunteer hours or internships at the senior and community center um our equity committee has been
doing work digging into uh what's called our vocal survey and so the vocal survey is um of course like everything in education another acronym um and it stands for views of climate and learning and it's a survey that students have an opportunity to take grades four five
eight and 10 that Desi puts out um and it really asks questions in these three big buckets that ask questions about their engagement in school their safety and how they feel about their environment and through that work um our students have reported out a couple of
big wins that include um that teachers care and support for them that was clear across all four grades that we analyzed and looked at um there were a lot of really positive um data points around that and we are far above the state's average in that area as well um and then
in addition to that um a lot of strong data showing our students feel safe here at school when we think about our next steps um our committee really leaned into um the fact that we did have in pockets a couple of grades where we were below the state with students seeing
themselves reflected in their class workbooks and materials particularly this was the case at the middle and high school um and so our equity team is doing some work digging into um thinking about what resources we can put together to support curriculum review cycles uh as well as just sort of practice in
classroom so we've been spending our efforts there um and in addition to that we have just recently received a grant and this grant is for next school year and the grant is called the Democratic Knowledge Project Grant it's put out by an
organization called the 18 Foundation the 18 Foundation also funds project lead the way and some additional projectbased curriculums and so what this is is an opportunity for us to have some really intense and intentional
professional development and resource support around our eighth grade civics curriculum and so if you recall I I'm sure you do because I've talked about this a few times but we brought in investigating history in our middle school this is essentially an extension of that specific to eighth grade civics
and as you can see up here um goal is for students to become authentic informed um and skilled change makers um and really understand how they can be active in a dem in a democracy uh and so what you'll see up here this triangle is
a framework that's used over the course of the year with students uh where those purples purple boxes in the middle uh we talk to kids quite a bit about their personal values and what they what they believe what their knowledge base and their skills are coming into the class
in terms of civics and and democracy um and then the blue at the bottom is the shared civics val civic values and how we can support um both ourselves and our community operating um with a healthy democracy and so those are the foundational pieces that students will
kind of circle back to as they go through different units of study around civics and civic engagement it also is tied to the civic engagement project that we do at the end of eighth grade which is a state requirement for all eighth grade students in the state of Massachusetts um what's really
interesting is this is not necessarily a new curriculum for us because our teacher has our eighth grade civics teacher has been utilizing quite a few of the resources in this curriculum already because it is free and open source so it is available
for anyone to view or dig into um but what this does is it helps us get her some really intense training um and also a cohort of people who teach the same thing she teaches because she's a singleton here she's the only one who teaches eighth grade civics and she actually approached us and asked about
this at the same time the grant came out when we were talking about it um and Mr young Miss Remlard who's our eighth grade civics teacher and myself went on Monday to our initial grant kickoff meeting um and we all left just really excited about what this is going to do
to help us really create a more robust uh program for our eighth grade civics and so she's piloting some of the materials um this year for the civic project so that she'll have a chance to reflect on those as we do a full roll out with the grant support next
year any questions about any of that before I jump into the program of studies it's a lot lots of good things happening i mean this is really this is great to hear about and see and um you know celebrate
um because there's lots of amazing things that happen in this district and it's nice to remember that and recognize them and and you know dig in to see all the goodness and all the great work that's happening across the district thank you thank you um attached to your packet sorry I don't have a slide for
this but um attached to your packet is our draft program of studies for next school year um and so just as a reminder we are um the school committee is required to vote and approve the program of studies annually for our high school um you'll see the you'll see anything
that's removed as a strike in this copy and anything that is an edit or add in print um we I did add a page at the front with some of the major changes um and I do just want to sort of open up the floor if anyone has specific questions i'm I'm happy to go through
these if folks would like me to or you've already had a chance to review it and you have just specific questions i'm happy to answer any of those as well before we get into any specific questions are there any updates that you would want to call out for the public since they'll have access to this
document following this meeting yes so first and foremost our MCCAST and graduation requirements section is up is uh essentially completely revamped um and that is to match the new school committee policy and regulations around competency determination and graduation
requirements um to align with our school committee policy that we updated in I believe it was January so there are some changes there um we've updated language in our dual enrollment and early college program to create more clarity and around the difference between those two
programs um we some of the things that you'll see like adding resource level one that has happened in practice we just didn't have it in the chart so while it's represented in classes level levels of classes throughout the program study we just didn't have it on that initial chart on the front page so we've
added that we updated our uh non-discrimination policy we have added early college courses that are now being offered and I have to say this is a moving target sometimes because sometimes our early college partners Mount Wusid or Fitsburg State will make
changes to us midyear for the next semester and say "Hey instead of offering you know speech we're going to offer you know another class a writing class." So sometimes those are changes so there's a little disclaimer in there but as far as we know we have classes for the beginning of the year that we've
updated um we have added what what looks like an addition is actually not an addition so you'll see in red we've added an AP uh calculus BC course through virtual high school this has been something that we have offered in the past few years but we haven't had it
in our program of studies we don't offer it very often but every once in a while we will have a student who excels beyond what we offer um so essentially they'll be beyond AP calculus and so we have access to virtual high school to provide some additional enrichment math courses
one specifically and so we just realized you know what we should really have this in our program of studies because we've been offering it so that is not an addition but it's just an update to our to our POS to make sure that's included um we've added and updated the course descriptions for our in-house courses
for the MVP Academy students um as we rolled that program out in its inaugural year this year we realized we really wanted to tighten up um the language around what their courses were um and we originally had a skills uh excuse me an academic coaching course but that really
has morphed into um more of a a career preparations course um with the additional academic support so you'll see a new description for that course um and lastly we have um just done a little bit of updates with some of our science classes as we have really shifted to
more of a um hands-on lab-based science in a couple places where the descriptions just hadn't been updated to reflect that um so you'll see a few science courses with some some updates to reflect that u that more hands-on project based lab based
approach i think that is the summary right now i would open up to any questions or comments on the table okay seeing none I would entertain a
motion to approve the 2025 to 2026 program of studies as presented motion by Danielle second by Sean one last chance for any questions or comments seeing none all in favor
opposed abstained and I say yes so that is unanimous thank you all right we do not have any surplus items this evening but we do have several out of state trips coming
up um is anyone wanting to speak to those uh Madam Chair I'll just take a stab um it is that time of year so we have a Canopy Lake uh Lake Park trip which has been a fairly consistent
um destination um for the believe it's the sixth grade right yep and Miss Parker um has put that request in under something that they do here um do you want me to go through all of them or do
you want me to just go one by one you can go through all of them okay and so then there's So there's that and then Miss Donnelly has put in there's a a Keen State College Fair and tour in Keen New Hampshire and it's the it's it's
part of the the program that we offer for the juniors and sophomores but for the college search process um we've actually done a couple of these um but mostly instate this would be honestly so I'll wait for the horatio or do you want me to just go right to the horatio alpha
one as well let's wait on that one just because it's a separate No it's not quite it's not really a field trip right okay um as such we'll do these one at a time and we'll see if anyone has questions about either of those as part of the
motion so I'd entertain a motion to approve the out ofstate field trip for the sixth grade on June 12 2025 to Canopy Lake Park in Salem New Hampshire motion by Sean second by Heather any questions or comments about that field trip
seeing none all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes so that is unanimous and then next on the docket I would entertain a motion to approve the out ofstate field trip for the Did you say junior and sophomore class junior junior class just the junior class on
May 20th 2025 to Keem State College Fair and Tour in Key New Hampshire motion by Sean second by Heather any questions or comments about that opportunity good for them yeah it's great um seeing no further questions or
comments all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes so that is also unanimous and now we will move to the ratio algger Washington DC thank you madam chair so uh last meeting um Sarvis
Kane before the school committee in great depth talked about his experience not only as a a student back when um with this program but also now as someone who is is part of the
program and you know goes down at least once a year to help mentor um you know and and to be part of this this larger picture for the um American Enterprise Summit so
before last when we spoke last um we we were giving everyone in general a heads up you know because it um it came to be that they were going to this is a new venture um to include more schools and
given his connections and familiarity with the program um they asked Corey if if if we would like to be part of it so we embarked on just the planning of it last time we spoke we had yet to have um
staff identified um we did not have of course students identified we really had didn't have frankly um so since we've met last month all of those items and I think the best probably the best
document to look at is the field trip request because it really kind of goes in order um and it gives you the information that I I believe that you would want and need but in essence
there'll be 10 students and two staff members the two staff members are Eric Sel um and Garrett Flunt they have volunteered to be part of that um as the as the chaperons there is absolutely zero cost period um to uh any student or
staff member for that matter um and that includes transportation to the airport quite frankly so um we we've identified the students we actually have a list of
more than 10 in case southern folks can't make it etc um we have not we have not informed them of course um given the fact that we don't know that we have permission to go quite yet
um so given all of that I'll I'll just pause for a moment because you you heard the uh the presentation last month here is the data um or the uh I guess the important information that you'd obviously want to consider um for my two
cents I think this is something outstanding i you know I um I don't know who the students are quite frankly um but to have this opportunity to be part of this would be um just just a fantastic opportunity and
we've got some we've got our own folks of course going down there to uh to shop our own so two staff and 10 kids is is a very good ratio so we'll get a motion on the table and we'll open it up for questions or comments i would entertain a motion to
approve the Horatio Alger Washington DC field trip for June 20 for June 22nd to 25th 2025 as presented motion by Sean and second by Heather now I'll open for questions or comments sean I just put I liability
still the same on this field trip as it would be any other field trip yes i think of course as the district carry that responsibility um and of course um you know pragmatic piece of just the you know insurance yep no that I'm only asking because you know
put people on a plane so absolutely it's a fair question but I also think it's a great opportunity to be clear any other questions or comments all right see none all in favor i opposed abstain and I say yes so
enthusiastic guesses for that very exciting very much would like an update on that as folks are selected because I think this is going to be just [Music] really if I'm understand they have a PR
arm of this and I'm sure that there there will be a lot of that so caps collaborative this is standard um is the updated of the caps collaborative agreement um in general every year uh the the
agreement you know is presented um before each and every school committee um and there are no major changes to the agreement that you have you've seen before um in essence they uh require a
signature of course we'll elect a person at some point to be the um voting member of Caps Laborative i should hope I can't wait to see who that might be um to attend the meetings um but in general um this was
supposed to be presented last month but we had our budget hearing and um it just wasn't a good time it just didn't fit so I I let CAPS know that we'd be doing it this month last month but for you is the is the agreement which is not and a
reminder of what CAPS for those very much caps collaborative is one of the two collaborives that the um that we are a part of they offer variety of services generally for special needs
students whether it be behavioral vision um uh hearing uh you know they they are our collaborative arm and we need specialized instructional um options
they they are part of our you know our um our bailey wick of um services that we like to offer so or we we can offer to our kids so they are they are generally um housed out of Westminster um Massachusetts but they
they have satellite classrooms um and programs throughout really central Mass um mostly in um in school districts member school districts um that have the space and we do we have uh boy
probably seven or eight students I think that are involved with CAPS collab in some capacity whether it be folks coming out here to do some consultant work or they are involved keep it up all right i would enter a motion to
approve the updated CAPS collaborative agreement as presented and effective July 1st 2025 motion by Sean second second by Heather any questions or comments about that agreement or about CAPS collaborative in general seeing none all in
favor opposed abstained and I say yes so that is unanimous now we have several donations this evening susan can you talk through those i can yes so we recently got a donation from the Tennessee Lions Club a $2 million uh
donation to the new high school program do you want me to go through and look both at the Secondly we got a uh donation from it's two-part actually so the total is
$750 it's a donation to the ND Special Olympics team um it was given by Vashard she does a fundraiser each year in Gardner comedy show it's a great success and um 1,500 was from the show and then
another 250 was from the Gardener Police Relief Association so that was total 1750 great thank you so I would entertain a motion to accept the $200 donation from the Templeton Lions Club to be given to the
high school music program motion by Sean second second by Heather any questions or comments about that donation seeing none all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes and I would also enter entertain a
motion to accept the $1,750 donation to the NRSD Special Olympics team given in part by Don Bashard in the amount of $1,500 and the Gardener Police Relief Association in the amount of $250 so
moved motion by Sean second second by Heather any questions or comments about that motion or that yes donation seeing none all in favor opposed abstain and I say yes so that is
unanimous and please do um extend our thanks um to all of those folks who've donated um donations really help to support some of the programs that we have here we truly appreciate um those gestures of support
policy we have in front of us a proposed update to policy ADDA background checks policy and if you scroll to the end you'll have seen that there's just two more categories added um regarding collecting information from the Sori
which stands for the sex registration information also from the Department of Children and Families otherwise known as DC and just to add some additional background um these are changes to the policy that were recently adopted by I
want to say Westminster did I get is my memory helping us today okay um and so they had and um this has been in the news a little bit locally um and so of course this was something we were very interested in because it's another opportunity to ensure that we can keep
our kids safe and keep that keep kids feeling safe in our district as evidenced by um the interview so we wanted to make sure that this these were resources that we also were accessing in that effort
just as an aside people have often said "Well what do you mean you haven't done this before." Usually if someone is arrested um or is charged or is done as action come to jail prison they'll come up on the court okay so if any of these
things were to have taken place and they were charged formally and go through the process that would obviously come up what doesn't always come up are 51A um either substantiated or not now I'll be
very clear a 51A when it someone calls in a 51A um that doesn't necessarily mean that automatically something is is wrong you know or something has happened or you know that is the process in which
we take um schools file many 51A we are mandated orders many many of them get screened out meaning that there was no no issue but there is no mechanism in general that you would know if
someone had a substantiated 51A for abuse and or neglecting um it it they don't all feed into one system so to speak so this will close the loop on that but I just want to assure folks who
are listening committee is that if there was of course it would have picked it picks up everything or anything that someone was arrested for or charged with okay so there it's not that as if no one has ever not known when that has happened the Corey would have picked
that up but this is just another layer um that we'll be able to access to make a you know to make the best decision we can on um folks who are going to hold their kids so I would entertain a motion to accept ADDA background checks policy for first
reading as presented motion by Sean second by Heather any questions or comments about the changes to ADDA seeing none all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes so that
is unanimous and then finally under new business um Dr c's favorite time of year the evaluation cycle is coming right up um so really what we just wanted to do in
this meeting was first of all to remind everyone that it is that time of year um but secondly there was a small update requested uh in to create better alignment between the creation of updated district goals
um such that it to give us the to give the district the time to get those goals updated and then make sure that Dr c's new goals for the next two-year cycle can be in alignment with those district goals they asked "Hey can we just push back this presentation until May?" um we
said you know I said I said I have no problem with that so it's just to make all of you aware and to prepare you that um we will be doing a summit of evaluation um for the period of July 1st 2023 to June 30th 2025 during the month
of June um so we'll we'll prep everyone for that over the coming over the coming meetings did I miss anything on that update no both things will happen in May yep just to make them more aligned your fault
all right Dr c um it's your turn oh my gosh okay so uh you know one of I have a lot of favorite times but you know when I get to go down to the W County Super Association Scholar Lunch and it's is up
it's up there in the top two or three it's just it's a great time to not only see just you know where our future is going with some of the best and brightest um not all the best just some the best that Central Mass has i just
love that's what was making me smile well we're trying to make her laugh and we were very successful so um so as I've said before you know I get a great opportunity um I'm not sure that they see this as a great opportunity but I have them trapped in my car with Mr
young with us but I get to talk to them for an hour and they can't escape and so um I love it they love it less but that's okay um because um it really is a great time um
just to kind of hang out and it's a great you know get to hear all the wonderful things that they do and of course um every time you've been down there with um whoever the student may be um they they really do uh make us very
very proud um you know I I will share that um lots of times when you hear the accolades from again there's probably over 50 60 students who are recognized some of the accolades are just they've done open heart surgery at
age nine they've done So that was so and everyone has of course this thing and and so what I'm always proud of is that um when our kiddos you know our kiddos they're they're young adults like you but um when they read off all the uh the
accolades that they have done you know are I always I always appreciate that because we generally have folks who speak about what not only what they've what they've accomplished um but what they've done during the same time and really what I'm talking about
is working a lot of our students work and they do wonderful things and so I I and that's not lost on the superintendent who I you know why I sit around when someone says like you know not only did I do all these great things they don't say this way but I also save
enough money working 35 hours a week when you hear something like that um because that's that's what life is right working hard and doing great things at the same time and almost inevitably every year one of our
students has that as a reflection and I'm always very very proud i'm proud of them anyway of course but I'm always proud that that folks here that you know our kids are doing such great things and by the way they're almost holding full-time job at the same time so um so
yes it was Katherine and I had a wonderful time i'm sure she would tell you the same we really did have a great a great conversation swear um so that was fantastic um so we've been chasing this award you know not really yes I am
i'm I'm into awards because they they actually promote the wonderful things that this district does so um and but in the end sometimes you know I'm really looking for brass tax like what are we doing in real life this one this one I
this one I want i did i did because the very first day I stepped on this campus you know back in 16 it was obvious that the commitment um that this these our member towns in this in this school district has towards veterans and and the military and just
walked into our lobby and you come to the Memorial Day there's no Memorial Day um exercise anywhere better than I'm going to tell you that it is people have said I brag a lot as you know but people have said that to me who are from other
places and who have seen we we really embrace um our veterans and so this opportunity came up a couple years ago last year yeah last year and we just didn't have enough time to to you know to really make it happen and
Representative Zotnik called us and said "Boy this would I think this is right up your alley." And we just didn't have time we just didn't have enough time this year had plenty of time and honestly Molly and her and her group really Mr young and the high school
attack this quite frankly and um it was it was daunting um we had to prove a lot of things we had to show what we what we do and what our capacities are and and so we did that and we did that in flying colors um and we found out yesterday
that um we in fact are identified as a Purple Star school um which is fantastic we're only one of seven in the entire state i I called Representative Salotnik immediately and he was just like "Oh my god this is great." Um but really you
know in essence what it is is that we have supports in place to recognize um our students who may be part of military families and there's there's you know a lot goes into that you know you have parents who are maybe unemployment
um for long periods of time and and because of the way the military is maybe they've done a lot of moves etc and so we have someone who was identified just to really kind of be a a touch point to you know to those folks and this is a like I said this was this was great
because it really honestly represents what the community feels about our military folks here we have we had 55 how many students do we have is it 55 i believe it's around that i don't exactly we have we have 55 students in this district are considered military you
know families from coming from military families that's a lot you know in such a small community so um yay us um and um we'll be able to put I believe we'll be able to identify ourselves on our website now and we actually we already have um and our military connected
liaison are listed on our website there Stanholm and Tom Salvador um and in addition to that um Eric Supple who's not serving as liaison was instrumental um in supporting us um gathering data and creating resources to support
military affected families to receive this designation so we want to make sure to do a shout out to those three as well as Mr this is really great so okay next um I'm not going to I I certainly won't
repeat all the wonderful things um Sony has you know has just listed it has been a busy month a lot of great things it seems like it all gets compressed into one three to four week period the play was
absolutely amazing uh it it really was um I have to say the costumes um in this set were outst if we do not win a Tanny for those i I don't then I don't know i just don't know what
they're looking for if you looked at the picture which we don't need to put it back up but they have all the the cast members in their you tell me who has a better costume right that was just dressed for herself that was just dressed right so is an amazing fantastic fantastic fantastic so I just want to
make sure I Yeah so I mean look at that give me a break it's fantastic so um so yeah we have of course spring sports are in full swing um and we're trying to dodge the rain and the snow etc so um off we go with that and that'll trust me
it'll go like this it'll be graduation here very very soon um so I'm going to go right to student enrollment uh just a couple things about student enrollment um we're this is an in this is a different trend for us we've I I believe
that we have over the past three months we've seen a reduction about 15 or 16 students um over the last couple months and that's different for us we don't generally see that kind of um you know we don't see that kind of
movement um this kind of late so look at that to see you know well who are they and if we know what that if there's any trend possible but but in essence but really our our population or our student enrollment has stayed roughly the same
as the sheet I think that you have in front of you shows us that we've we dropped five students four from Templeton one school choice um so we're 1454 and you know from March to April um but yeah what we're going to kind of take a look at to see if there's you
know if there's any something that we should know in terms of trend um let's see okay do them in whichever order okay how about if I just get if I if you don't
mind so generally every year you know it's April um that the school committee considers whether or not it's going to you know accept school uh choice students into the district um just as a
general um rule just as a reminder for folks who might be listening you can't stop for kids you can't vote uh for kids not to leave the district in school choice but it's up to the school choice whether or not just generally they they are going to be a school choice
accepting district and we have to notify the uh the department of ed so that they can they they know this they put on the website but generally what we do is that once you make that decision um we whatever the next meeting might be
we we talk numbers right we talk about like okay how many seats do we have open where and what I did uh I believe it was during our last operations meeting what I'm asking tonight is if if the committee would consider doing that all
in one meeting and I haven't I had the information of course to present um and the reason because we miss this variant to go solely with not only having me but that
was certainly the main driver of any type of of issue but the number of of of folks who are calling about school choice as I don't know quadr you know and we're we'll be there we'll be there we'll you know next month we're trying they're just they're calling they're
calling so in order honestly it all folks aside what we'd like to do is identify tonight exactly and I've talked to all the building principles we've met you know yesterday and a couple days before to see where we would uh where we
have the ability to take students across the district um so I'd like to do that in you know in one meeting i don't know Madam Chair if you want just to vote to see if you're even going to consider school choice in first and then do that or consider the whole the whole ball of
defer to the committee um to see what their thoughts are i mean do we are we are we confident enough that okay with school choice that we want to just move to examine the numbers or do we want to vote on whether or not we accept school choice at all and Sean I see your hand
yeah don't we have a line item in our budget that suggests that we need the money from school choice yes very good right so I know again I didn't want to be just just you know throwing that fun fact out there so I could just start madam chair if you want and we can discuss yeah i mean so I I give one last chance speaker forever hold your piece
if anyone would want to make a case for school choice or not i see no one so I'd say we're going to move ahead and we'll vote on the numbers so normally well the past five years um and we have not considered any students at the elementary level i I've said on a few
occasions mostly during the budget hearings that we're going to have to consider that across the district because in general our middle and high schools are are you know they're they're foolish and we where we have some opportunity is at the elementary school
and as I talk about the differential a lot in terms of what we have coming out of school choice revolving in terms of our educators it was important to do what we could without of course jeopardizing too much you know in terms of class sizes or or etc so what I've
done is I in sitting with Marcy down at tees and I I'll go again i'll just kind of go in order um but we're not we are not confident k kindergarten is very
it's fluid and so to say today like right now enrollment is a little is a little behind what it was last year but we never know that could that could you know quadruple by the end of the you know the end of the school year or in or
in the middle of the summer so we're not making any recommendations at this point in time to put any students in K um whatsoever so it means zero right for K the first okay so when I say rising I'm going to call them out by the
class right so you know so if I say the current first grade with the rising second it's really the class of 2026 it'll be next year's second grade um we looking at those looking at that group we we can comfortably fit 11 school
choice students among the five did you want to do first grade rising first oh sorry uh Kate That's rising sorry k yeah k kindergarten rising kindergarten on sorry k to one it was another zero so
rising one rising first grade zero sorry thank you thank you the rising second grade 11 the rising third four the rising fourth 10
that's a grand total of 25 students for the elementary just to just to put it into perspective in terms of the middle school uh rising fifth nine rising six
four rising seven zero uh which is a grand total of Yes I did my correctly 13 for the high school um always always a number in flux right rising ninth so I just want to just just
think here for a second so you have these are eighth graders now going to be eth rising eth is a uh seven sorry rising eth is seven rising
ninth that's a number in flux because of monington um so we have 23 students who've been accepted into my tech probably double that on the wait
list but 23 accepted 10 of those are school choice so if you remember just again for the committee and anyone who's listening at home we have school choice students who are early 8th grade they apply to Montytown they're from towns all around us if they are selected
they're not spending the money tax assessment not us but they might there might be a student from narans somewhere in a neighboring district school choice whom got accepted into money of course we did okay so so I just say that because that factors into the numbers
grand the grand total of how many student school choice students that we are add but just just to kind of give you that so uh but to the brass tax the rising 9th grade nine the rising 10th grade five and the
rising 11th grade five zero for the rising seniors or 12th grade for a grand total of 19 for the high school so when you add that you know you you look at a number is it 16 school including eighth grade
49 49 um I have 19 hold on make sure I added the eighth grade seven 8th grade n 16 yeah you're right y No no I still do the uh 16 26 26 sorry because eighth grade in my head is still
a little sir it's just not been that way for five years that's okay i'm here for you well thank you i'm going to need all helping so um so given that you know when we look at
the total number um of of students and I'll have to just recalculate that but we know a couple of things one we generally will not fill every seat uh that we have available um two we're going to lose
more kids this you know our school choice kids are going eighth grade is such a flux is kiddos who are going from eighth and nth grade go a lot of different places not just Monty Tech they either go maybe private maybe they go back to their home own home district if there's no choice
there's a lot of those things so so we don't know you know exactly how that'll be we what we do know is that we'll lose if if all these uh kiddos go to Monty debt I'm talking about 10 school choice students which we would fully expect
them to to do that um we'll lose 35 school choice students next year um 10 and roughly 25 choice out of the senior class okay and that's why we try to try
to uh um if if nothing else we'll try to cover those losses right try to keep keep up with that with all that said um the numbers of the class sizes are
you know were were talked about with the building principles they f they gave me these numbers i did not we did not give them these numbers i didn't say we needed to hit a certain number or anything to that effect um this is the numbers that they felt comfortable with and the staff are actually very
knowledgeable that that we're that we're doing this because they've been watching of course our meetings and so um I'll I'll just pause because I don't know I'm sure that there's questions I I have a couple um the first
one is I just you kind of already answered a lot of them my number one concern as a committee member is what are these class sizes going to be mhm um and it sounds like that was taken into consideration because I'm all for school choice however I'm not all for large if
the elementary you'll average 22 yeah okay with with with those those students and then my second question is which was not answered yet um what's the comparison of school choice from last year to this year given that we open up
all those seats to all those numbers in terms of comparison like how many in and out no no in terms of how many did we let in last year versus how many are we trying to let next year um is that pretty equal because it's all about that number right we're playing that that game
yeah we'd have to I I have to say I'm going to I'm going to say we only probably accepted 13 probably maybe only 13 students school choice give or take we only accepted a few in the high school because middle school was full so the only grades we were the only thing I
can control we'd have to in this moment is that it was only high school we had far more seats yes outside yeah we had far more seats available we did not fill them so ultimately I believe it was about 13 students that we took in i'd
have to double check this but it was certainly well under you know the number of seats that we had available um will that change this year i don't I don't I don't know could very well be the same because we're we're please
somebody correct me if I'm wrong we're trying to accept a certain number of students too in order to meet that we're trying to increase that that differential correct and by opening it up to the elementary school essentially we give more opportunity to create that differential that we're trying to on that magical line graph that you present
all right exactly exactly we're trying to get around 90 to 100 you know in that area in terms of the differential but granted we anywhere between 70 and the differential you know is is where we want to be where we're going to need
quite frankly and it was never it was never an effort to do that before because we would just take them it was pretty much wide open we have not done we're doing it more strategically now we can't do it on the back of Mil High School because that's where some of our
large numbers are the number of kids that we're adding to the elementary um still only keeps it at 22 we do not foresee I think I've said this a couple times already in the budget presentations but we do not see there's no indication that we're going to see a
a surge uh you know of 36 or 56 students across the district coming in we just don't we don't see that um again we don't we don't always know but you know the indicators such as the the housing that's being you know being built you know they're they're about a
year or two years away that would be something we would have to definitely consider at that time but that that's not ready to you know that's not even close to being you know completed um and you know some of the although we know that there's there are about as many
building permits that were pulled for you know for for this FY as it was last year we don't we we're not we're not aware of of a tremendous amount of building actual building but you know again regardless we've offered it enough that if we do get a
surge of kids somewhere at the elementary fine um and at the at the middle and high school with the exception of seventh grade the the rising seventh grade pardon me that is our last class you know we haven't that
that would have to be a resident for to be you know to be in the seventh grade at this moment thank you moving to vote without having that number so I'm going So I would entertain a
motion to approve 64 school choice openings as outlined including 11 for rising grade 2 four for rising grade three 10 for rising grade four nine for
rising grade five four for rising grade six Seven for rising grade 8 nine for rising grade 9 five for rising grade 10 and five for rising grade 11 all other
grades that I did not list have zero openings so moved motion by Heather second by Sean any remaining questions or comments and we'll certainly follow up on the high school number yes Sean yeah I think my only question is if the classes that are in flux are we going to have to vote
on them after or are we Look I'm good with all of this i just reason that's a great question and I think we and we have done it um but only uh I think we've only done it a couple times mostly with kindergarten uh be meaning uh the incoming kindergarten
because we just don't know by the time we do know around August let's just say that most people have made their have made their um their decision i know that what Susan has done in the past is said
exactly that we don't know about kindergarten we don't know um if you'd like to add if you want to put you know put your information in but there's no for you know we've done those type of things but we've done it both ways in the year that we did consider it late we
didn't get any takers uh quite frankly so I don't I think that once we once we go through this I I don't know that they'll it's closed unless we decide to reopen it because we would have to as a committee decide to I did happen to find
Thank you Google um in Google Drive per the May 1st 2024 meeting we voted to open up 17 seats um and those were spread across grade seven and grade nine um there were
not any other seats that we opened up in the end so that was the total pretty significant if I could just just because we have those open I'm trying to get a hold it's not necessarily accepted but if they have
Yeah so I'm gonna say we only accept the email okay yeah it gives us the freedom to Yeah exactly have opportunities to accept students different Exactly just any other questions or comments thank
you seeing none all in favor i opposed abstained and I say yes so that is unanimous and then we just have um union negotiations letter from so the in the
way of explaining before I read we received a an information request Mr bennett in regards to 603 CMR 41.04 um and that is the uh part of the
regulation that is municipal representative and regional school district collected bargain so I want to so the the request was to um to of course send or provide Mr bennett with
um every or any letter that has been sent to the the district member towns in regards to inviting them to be part of in one capacity the other the collective bargaining um with our our
union bargaining groups so this I it'd be easier for me just to res uh read my response so uh thank you for your inquiry um Susan for your FOIA request regarding 603 CMR4104 municipal representative and
regional school district collective bargaining specifically the notification letter or email from the district to Templeton's town administrator and or board chair regarding collective bargaining negotiations attached to the only correspondence sent to Templeton Phillips or Philipsson's town
administrative ward chair we have on file and they are just for reference um bargaining notification sent in 2011 and bargain notification sent in 2013 in the interest of full transparency I want to acknowledge that when I became the superintendent in 2016 I inherited an
active negotiation between the district and the NDA but did not include representation from either of the member towns unaware of the regulatory requirement number 603 CMR41.04 um at the time I continued the practice of not inviting municipal
officials to participate in collective bargaining negotiations practice was not intended to exclude but rather stem from a lack of awareness of the regulation on my part now that we are fully informed of the 19603
CMR41-04 the district is committed to complying with the regulation for further negotiations um you know it's it's it's interesting because I we I did not know that this was in the
regulation um I make no excuse there's there really you know when you take when you take this position on you are in fact supposed to been expected to know everything um this was lowhanging fruit i had never read this part of the regulation i've been through that
regulation i don't know it's it's the regulation that in general um outlines regional school districts never been part of it and so again it it certainly falls on the superintendent to do that i have no idea if it's it was done prior
to 11 we don't we just do not have emails or letters that go past 2011 um 2011 we have no idea if that folks even accepted the invitation um and
looking through the few minutes that we could find there was no there was no indication that they were part of the part of the negotiation in any capacity but in any respect um that that was my response i know that it was a
discussion at the very end of the select board meeting couple weeks ago the last select board meeting awaiting this information that is the information and I thought it'd be best that first off I just you know I just of course inform the school committee but do so in open
session so that folks understand that this is what has taken place um I know that uh I think I know that um madam chair was we've all called our repres our individual agencies in regards to this because this has never been brought
up um on my end of things through um ours which is regional association and you know yeah I could share I I called MASC and specifically to speak to a rep that worked in regional school districts
um and she um you know just stated you know hey can you give me some more context on this and she um you know did state you know I said I've never seen any training on this and she did confirm that even though I've been to many
regional district um trainings in um the MASC meetings this hasn't been part of those trainings and you know um you know the the general feeling was that we were elected to serve as the
representatives of the town and so um she also had not u spent a lot of time in this regulation so you know that doesn't mean that now that we're aware of it absolutely we're going to follow it to the letter um and not knowing
again not an excuse but um did want to be transparent both with the public and with the school committee um so any questions about that seeing none okay we had no unanticipated items but I would open for school comments
sure um back to the Purple Star award congratulations first of all second of all just a thought it might be a good place to eliminate students who are intending to serve after they graduate also for a period of time i don't I don't know we probably are to do that in
places just might be another place to um where are we at on the regional agreement ah that's something that I Yes so um after you after the vote by the school committee to accept what was the amendment made on the floor of the uh
town meeting held in Templeton in 232 pardon me um I after that vote I sent um the regional agreement with the amendment to the uh Philipston select
board and the now new town administrator i did receive a notification back that it was received and I would say that well I'm being very candid and thankful that I received that communication back um
because I and sometimes I you know I don't know so that was that where they're at can know that they weren't was was closed um you know before we were able to you know take a vote and do
that so again um they now have another email from me and a revoted draft agreement to consider um at their next meeting
thank you any other comments i just wanted to take a moment to recognize our school committee member Miss Heather Nerup because she was a huge part of the costumes for that production and I certainly do not want to leave anyone out there were a bunch
of volunteers but I wanted to recognize that in addition to all the time she spends here with us in school committee she also spends a lot of time sewing not only um sewing uh beautiful costumes but also complicated ones because I
can't even name the number of costumes that had electrical wiring or other features in them um and so just wanted to take a moment to really thank her because I know that there were a lot of sleepless nights um not only there were
again not excluding anyone but did want to take a special moment because um it is a doing school committee is a lot of work but doing school committee and yet another set of volunteer positions is is huge and so many thanks to you and as
well as all of the parents and volunteers that helped to support that production yeah there was a great crew that came out to help um even all those uh fish scale costumes we all came together on a Saturday it was our first Saturday we were all supposed to be off kids didn't have a super Saturday but um
the parents came in and help us when we made those costumes to make it work so they did a great job they came on the lights worked i was told that over 700 and I hope I have this right and the van was here I believe I'm quoting because I don't know
how long but it was close to 700 tickets were sold by that and it was full Saturday and the last night well last night last afternoon the the show had to be held which if you talk to a director they do not hold their show he had to hold it for half an hour to clear the
lobby because it took three of us Mrs alliance at the computer another parent volunteer myself to certain people who didn't buy their tickets in advance i did that early just to play we had to we had to process them
and get them so next year folks uh should there be a wonderful production make sure you buy your tickets in advance please a reminder but Mr dixon was very gracious and held the show for half an hour which is unheard of so thank you it
really I mean I just can't say enough how impressive that show was it was It was just so much fun and my kids really enjoyed it all right um on to subcommittee i'm holding up my notes because I I have
gone uh I have gone brain blind I guess you could say i am I am trying to remember so we discuss please update short yes um
a lot of winter to spring transitional activities were underway oh piece of good news the trash services bid is 12% lower than our current rate that'll be a $30,000 savings over the next three years um still a lot of movement around the
roof project and um some confusion we're working to working through at the moment um with some the the the bidder or the designer designer thank you the designer treating
schools separately even though OPM said they would treat them as one and so there's just some confusion being worked out um Amory already gave you updates on F20 FY25 and FY26 so I will skip
those did also I know that there was a lot of discussion around federal grants and we have received news that title one monies for FY26 are safe and secured is what we're hearing at this time um just since there's been some buzz around
federal monies and what's happening questions about what's happening there um oh the other update we had um just to make um the full committee aware is I had a a conversation with the chair of the Winen School Committee around
regionalization of services not schools i want to be clear there's no discussion around regionalization of schools because in order to do that we would have to have an active and regional agreement however you can still regionalize services um and they are
interested in entering that discussion in order to make that discussion productive we'd have to define what services we wish to potentially regionalize and so um my suggestion would be that that be something we assign to the finance and facilities
um subcommittee as a project um for the upcoming meetings um to determine where there might be some opportunity there and then of course um we also expect uh potentially some input to come out of the working group that we
know exists to we have heard that that working group is extended to Philip though not received any specific confirmation of that um so no promises just exploration and exploration of the potential cost savings is always a good
thing so that's finance and facilities um district operations outside of the ADBA policy any other things we should share um I think the only thing would just be the um congratulate you on the amount of work you've been doing on I'll
throw it back at you on the handbook um it's now down to um Jeff and I need to read through and add the the latest update that Jen's made to it so hopefully we can get this out in time the full committee for um some
interesting election results yeah so yeah hoping to have that available to folks um who make it through this election cycle such that we have a handbook for new members that offers some guiding points and also makes it clear what training they need to complete etc um so other districts found
this and so we're looking forward to having this as well um labor management committee we we did meet with WEC recently um I would I you know we can't go into specifics but um
what I can share is that you know again relationship continues to be going very positively there um you know lots of good good open discussion about what needs are and um what's happening within the district um and so you know I think
those WC meetings have gone a long way towards not just some of the positive momentum that was created in the last um union negotiation with that group um but that we've then continued that very positive momentum through those meetings by you know keeping in touch with one
another and and you know making sure that we're resolving the small stuff in the in between um stuff that isn't related to contracts uh CPC any updates proceed done okay pto that was on me to reach out and
I frankly forgot but I will make sure that that gets done next month um student advisory council Sean no okay and legislative representative i have a few um federal one funding is the most
likely will be level funded next year but uh on the first the Trump administration terminated $16 million in K through2 educational funding for Massachusetts it did not affect Narite Regional School District but it did impact some of the schools around us so Fitchburg and Levenster and Wister
schools are feeling that cut as well most of those monies were um being used to support the post-pandemic needs um and so that's that is definitely going to be felt in those school districts um there's some new legislation being
proposed um one of them is pretty interesting especially for us as a regional school district and um experiencing some significant increases in our transportation pricing uh in the last week there was a bill introduced to eliminating predatory transportation
pricing to school districts i'll keep an eye on that see if that goes anywhere um and then just a couple of interesting ones there's the another bill that was presented um to establish an LGBTQIA parent advisory council in the
Commonwealth in school districts which is um sort of looks kind of like our CPACS but it would be for LGBTQIA families um and then there is another one with regard to school safety um and it was to establish a fund to be able to
um fund school resource officers in districts that would like to have a school resource resource officer but don't have the funds to do so lots of lots going on we have no correspondence this
evening um our next meeting is Thursday May 8th at 5:30 p.m and I did just want to note that the meeting after that is May 22nd 2025 um and as Dr c um himself has a senior this year um who has an
event that evening um Miss Superchi will actually lead that meeting in his place um or you know support me in leading that meeting um and so I just wanted to make folks aware of that and that would be our first meeting following the election as well so there is important
business soon um so we look forward uh to Miss Super Chief sitting up at the table with us that evening you cannot sit back there we do need executive session tonight um and we will not return to open session following um so I would
entertain a motion to enter into executive session as per Mass General Law Chapter 3A section 21A for reason number three to discuss strategy with respect to litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares
the meeting will not return into open session immediately following so second motion by Heather and second by Sean yeah roll call vote sean hi Chrissy hi Danielle hi Heather hi and I say yes so
that is unanimous and again we will not return to open session thank you so much