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Part 1 (Video ID: -VluzYBfECA):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order and Mission Statement Reading
- 00:00:32: School Committee Reorganization and Chairperson Nomination
- 00:01:19: Chairperson Nomination Discussion and Madora's Nomination
- 00:03:34: Chairperson Vote, Burch's Introduction, Vice Chair Nomination
- 00:05:14: Secretary, KP Representative and Liaison Nomination & Responsibilities
- 00:06:57: Recording Secretary Nomination and Subcommittee Overview
- 00:08:50: Committee Members Volunteer for Budget, Policy, Building Committees
- 00:10:08: Building Committee Time Commitment and Virtual Meeting Discussion
- 00:12:32: Committee Assignments Finalized and Vote for Appointments
- 00:13:33: Payroll Warrant Signatures and School Partner Liaison Setup
- 00:14:54: School Partner Liaison Appointments and Move to Public Comment
- 00:16:18: Welcome Burch and Lauren, Accept Donation for Stipends
- 00:17:24: Chair Report: PTO, Budget, Staffing, Celebrations
- 00:20:04: Budget Adjustments: Kindergarten and Special Education
- 00:21:43: Kindergarten and Team Chair Position Rationale
- 00:24:09: Motion for Budget Adjustment: Special Education Position
- 00:26:21: Staffing and Resource Allocation Changes Discussion
- 00:27:43: BICO Collaborative Membership and Board Appointment
- 00:29:21: Director of Special Education Contract Review and Approval
- 00:31:13: School Nurses Appointment, Contracts and Compensation Discussion
- 00:32:26: School Physician Appointment and Contract Approval
- 00:34:15: Early Release Day Approval due to World Cup Events
- 00:36:58: Proposed School Committee Meeting Schedule for Next Year
- 00:38:10: Liaison Updates: CPAC, PTO and New Items
- 00:39:30: Approve School Committee Meeting Minutes and Confirm Next Meeting
- 00:40:51: Discussion of MASK Legislative Priorities and Advocacy
- 00:43:57: Motion to Adjourn and Meeting Conclusion


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All right. Great. All right. So, I'm going to call the school committee meeting to to order for Tuesday, May 19th. Um, as we always begin, I'll begin with reading the mission statement. The Norfolk Public Schools offer a safe, joyful, and challenging learn learning environment that meets the needs of our

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diverse students. Through school, family, and community partnerships, we provide an education that inspires lifelong learners and cultivates caring and productive citizens of our everchanging world. Start with the roll call. Peter Schwab, >> Lauren Vivas, Burch Dugginworth, Madora

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Champagne, Lisa Sheldon, great anger to learn. All right. So, every May we start the school committee with the reorganization. Um, that's per the Norfol policy. So, the first thing I will be looking for is a motion to elect

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a new chair person for the Norfolk School Committee. And then once we elect the new chairperson, I'll turn the meeting over to that location on the remaining um new organization. So is there a motion to um elect a new school

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committee chair or to nominate? >> I'll nominate Lisa Sheldon. I'll motion to elect. >> I'll second. >> Any further? >> All right. >> Do you want to remain

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a call? Do you accept that nomination? >> I I appreciate the the votes and I'm happy to do it again. I do know there was discussion on people wanting to rotate the role. So if that is the case, I wouldn't be offended at all. So don't

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don't think that if people are interested. Um if not, I am happy to do it. >> Yeah, I I mean I I did nominate you, Lisa, and I recall now that we had discussed rotation. I'm I thought about it myself, but really my goal for this

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year, I'd like to um put in for the KP school committee. Um I think in terms of like additional bandwidth and what I can support personally for this coming school year. So um graciously would pass it to another person if there's somebody

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else that wants to um you know do the uh school committee role, chair role. One day I might take it on. I just still have a lot with the little kids and >> a lot on my plate. So if you want to

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take a stab at it or if anybody wants to I would be happy to do it again. I I think that I just want to make clear that I don't see the role as above others or I see the chair role as

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facilitating the meetings and first line of contact for the superintendent because you have enough on your plate. You can't call us all the time. Um, but that's basically it when it comes to the ter and like media comes in and it's a timely response obviously, but I want everyone to feel empowered to come with

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ideas, um, come with initiatives, feel like they can speak or lead on things. So, that would be my goal. If I did it again, if everyone's good with that, I'm happy to take it on for I think this should be probably the

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last time and then it should be handed. Um, but I leave it up to you all. >> I think any further discussion? >> I don't think so.

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>> Not for me. All in favor of uh electing Lisa Sheldon to another final year as the chair as uh put forward tonight. Um I will take the vote. So all in favor? >> I I >> I opposed. No extensions.

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>> All right, Lucy, get the g back. I'll let you do the rest of the committee. If it would be okay for the committee, I uh I just want to jump down to my section and just welcome Birch if that's okay with everyone. Welcome. We're glad

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to have you here. We know you because you regularly attend our school committee meetings and we appreciate it. But if you wanted to formally introduce yourself. >> Yeah, I'm just very excited to be here. I've been watching for the past couple years and it's nice to be on this side of the table and looking forward to

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working with all of you. So, Well, welcome. >> Okay, going back up. Looking for a motion to nominate a vice chair. >> I do want to be vice chair. I

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I was last year. I didn't I don't feel like it I didn't drive a certain role. So, if anybody wants >> the role is to run the meetings and >> Yeah. in your place, but you were always there. So, >> I mean I if you want a name next to it, I'm h I'm happy to do it, but I I don't

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anticipate it being a heavy lift. This being your third year as chair, but if somebody else wants to do it, that's also fine. >> No, I will nominate Madora. >> Okay, go out with a bangless. Anyone want a second? >> Second. Any further discussion? All

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those in favor? >> I >> I >> Great. Next would be to nominate a secretary, KP representative and legislative liaison. So those are different roles kind of melded into one. The CP representative attends our KP

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school committee meetings. They meet twice a month typically on Mondays and the legislative leaison just keeps the committee updated on what is happening in government, what is happening with mask. Um so it's kind of rolled into one. So looking for a motion to nominate

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a secretary KB representative and legislative liaison. >> Is this is the secretary different or is that like secretary/kb representative? >> It's kind of like in cuz we have a recording >> single position. Yeah. >> Yeah. I did I did express interest in

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that. I don't know if you can nominate yourself or not. >> I will nominate Peter for that. >> Thanks. >> Unless anybody wants to jump in a second. I I can second I just were clear that that's two additional meetings every month.

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>> Yeah. Two Mondays on top of the Tuesday. >> So you'd have your standard school committee meeting and then two additional meetings each month. I just because I know everybody's time is like >> Y. Okay. >> I'd also be interested in it um just because I have a daughter that's going

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into KP next year. Um but at the same time it is a big time commitment. So um I'm not going to fight anyone but um I I am interested in it if not this year then in the future. Okay. So all those in favor of for Peter

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becoming the secretary KP representative and legislative leaison. >> I make sure >> to nominate a recording secretary will be gone >> if she is willing. Adrien has been our faithful recording secretary for many

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years now. So looking for a motion to nominate Adrien as a recording secretary. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Further discussion. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Okay. Now we need to fill the remaining

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subcommittees and they are as follows. We have the budget that typically starts up in November. >> Yeah. Late October, early November. Um the budget subcommittee meets at least once a month, but often more than once a

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month as we get close into the deep depth of the budget season. So January, February, probably a couple of meetings a month. Um and as we prepare to go into the public hearing, um generally the budget committee is done after the town meeting vote in May. Um there's a you

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know, so it sort of frontloads. Um we also have policy subcommittee. policy subcommittee usually meets once a month and is responsible for adjusting or making any changes to district policies um making sure that our policies are compliant that happen at the state level

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or federal level. Um and again we typically meet once a month and then per the town bylaws um because we are um required to form a building committee uh in order to participate with MSBA, town bylaws require two members of the board

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that is oversees um the department the building is for. So we have to have at minimum of two appointed members on the building subcommittee. We will not need negotiations of committees hopefully next year. um we are hoping to conclude the second contract before the end of

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this school year. So those are the three that we would fill now. If we don't, then we may need to um consider adding negotiations of committee members if we aren't complete. >> Okay. >> Well, I know you and Madora took on a

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whole lot this past year, so feel free to throw anything at me. >> I'll do budget again. and I've been on it for 3 years. >> I I would like to stay on budget in light of the year we had in the year I foresee coming which feels a little bit

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like taking medicine but >> sometimes I find it's easier just like year to year to continue with it cuz you're knowledgeable about like what happened the pre this year. Yeah. So I'm I'm happy with that. Um I'm happy with building committee. I know Madora was on that as well.

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>> I will not have the time to continue doing that um after 8 years. Um some new perspective from the committee. I think >> I would love it with the chair commitment and the past two years if I

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could stay on policy. That would be great for me. >> I'd also be interested in the policy committee and um and willing to take on the the building. I know it's helpful to have that consistently. So, it's I have

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three years potential that I could serve on it. So I'm happy to take that role >> just for again time commitment I think expectations and Ingred you can jump in if you think I'm misspeaking but based upon first two rounds of feasibility we

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went through this this first phase in this first year >> would be feasibility associated with the MSBA approved project that is it's not no time commitment but it is a more limited time commitment in my recollection than um as you get into the

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actual kind of like design phases of the building. So the first year I think would be >> feasibility. I would expect that um it'll be as you said a lighter lift in year one while we're doing feasibility. You're overseeing the reports coming in and the demographic studies. But once you move into the design phase, the meetings are more frequent and and even

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more so once you hit construction um because the building committee is responsible for approving any change orders. So you're tightly managing a construction project. So you're >> that would be like four years from now though. So >> again, just so everybody would not at least another monthly meeting, but um

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not as time intensive as it gets as the further we get into the project. >> Okay. Do you recall if um the building committee like allowed kind of Zoom calls or or virtual um >> I mean I don't remember that we did that

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but I know that other >> than in person um but we haven't had a building committee since the governor's orders have changed. So, um I don't know if that'll be permissible. >> Gotcha. Okay. >> I know I I mean I will say just based upon what I hear coming up from my

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basement from time to time, the fire station building committee has met via Zoom. Okay. >> On occasion. So, I don't know that it is, you know, >> I feel like my time commitment ability expands if I can do it at home rather than relying on >> and that I mean that committee will have

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it won't just be it's not it's a role from the school committee. we have to send representatives but it is a much broader committee so having a quorum actually becomes a little bit easier. >> Yes. So the building committee will uh uh the chair of the select board the

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town um administrator the finance director the facilities director the building principal um myself um three community members. We're still looking for an additional two. So up to five and then to appointed school committee members. >> Okay. >> So it's like 10 to 12.

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>> That's a lot of people. Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. Good. >> It's a lot. >> I'm happy with both of those. That's fine on my part. >> Okay. And Bur, did you say policy would be I'm interested? >> Okay. I didn't make that up. Okay. >> So, right now I have

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Dora and I finishing out negotiations this year. Budget Madora and Lauren. Policy Lisa and Burch. Building Burge and Lauren. >> Okay. So just to make sure we comply with the MSBA requirements, we would

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need a vote to appoint. So we listed it as a vote. >> But is that everyone in agreement with that? Is any concerns? >> Okay. Then I would be looking for a motion to appoint Laura Lauren and Madora to our budget committee. Myself

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and Bur to our policy committee and Lauren and Bur to the building committee. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> No. All those in favor I >> I nice work. All right.

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>> Um you also typically designate uh or vote to approve all of the um it's usually the school committee chair uh vice chair as um payroll and warrant signatures and everybody else's default. >> So do you have that next on your list? I wasn't sure. >> What's that? >> Do you have that next on your list?

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>> I don't have that as the vote, but >> Right. You don't need to. that everyone's okay with the signing of the war. >> Well, so I get an email from Ally maybe once or who works in our business office maybe once or twice. No, twice a month,

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maybe three times and it's basically the warrant of all the bills that need to be paid and it's a just a PDF form and you just review it and sign it. I the default signer, but if I'm unable to sign it for some reason, all the other school committee members are listed on there as well. So,

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>> yeah. Good. And then finally, we do school partner liaison just to try and foster a sense of community, support our PTO, support the NCL, support the alliance, and all the organizations in our town that do such a great job supporting our

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students. So, be looking to set those up again. And those are the PTO, the CPAC, Lions NCL KP Music, NCTV.

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How many is that? 1 2 3 4 5 six. Am I missing any? Does anyone >> have one that I didn't list? >> Did you say the Lions? >> Yes. Does anyone have any interest in any of those organizations? I basically I did the CPAC this year. I set up a once a

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month Zoom call with them just let them know that what we were getting ready to discuss and they let us know the things they were working on and then I gave an update to the committee and it was just nice to have that conversation with them to keep everyone collaborating.

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>> Oh, sorry. I was going to say I'd happily stick with the PTO just so that I can stay in my routine who I'm communicating with. I would be happy to stay with the um Lions. >> Okay. >> I can stay with NCL. Done it a couple

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years. >> I'd like to take the KP Music Association. >> Cool. >> And I can do CPAC again. Happy to stick with that >> and happy to do NCTV as well.

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Perfect. All right. And we are done with the reorganization. Oh, moving on to public comment. I see none tonight and we have also received no correspondence. Moving on to the chair report. Again, welcome to our new

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school committee member Burch and welcome back Lauren. And moving on, we have some gifts to vote on tonight. Two are from the Northfor PTO. one in the amount of $400 and that's going to teacher stipens for the active kids

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session too. That's the before school program at Freeman Kennedy and another gift from the Northfor PTO of $800 for the chorus stipens. And then a gift from the Karma Environmental Services for $500 and that's a donation for the

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Unified Champion Schools. So I'd be looking for a donation to accept the gifts as listed. >> So moved. >> Second. Second. >> Any further discussion? >> I was just out of curiosity. Chorus stipens is that to cover like equipment and

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um >> are to pay the power professional staff that support the chorus. >> Oh, got it. Yeah. The support staff for um misial. Okay. >> Well, thank you very much to the Northfor PTO and Karma. All those in favor? >> I I

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All right. Great. So, just a few highlights uh from the past month. So, um first I just wanted to say a big shout out to the Norfol PTO. Um last week they put in a lot of time and effort into um planning special celebrations for teacher appreciation

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week. Um from having uh coffee and munchkins one morning to um Rita's ice uh homemade sweet treats another day um handmade flowers for teachers from students um with a lunch on Friday. So it was really really thoughtfully planned. a lot of time and effort went

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into it and I think our staff really appreciated um all of all that the PTO did to make it a special week. Um so thank you to the Norfolk PTO. Um on Wednesday last week we had Springtown meeting and I'm happy to report that uh

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the Norfolk School budget passed unanimously. Um we did have a couple of questions but they were small um sort of information questions on the budget and uh overall it it went very smoothly. Um, so that was a positive thing. We are

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currently in the process of interviewing uh candidates for to replace Miam Goodman as a business consultant to the district office. Um, we've interviewed five candidates. We are reference checking. I hope to have a um we did extend an offer to one um but

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unfortunately it didn't work out. Um so we hope to have a finalist to bring to the school committee at the next uh school committee meeting in June as Miriam is retiring at the end of June. So, we hope to have someone on boarded for all the summer hiring season. Um, both schools uh have Memorial Day

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assemblies coming up at HLO day. They will be celebrating Memorial Day tomorrow and on Friday at the Freeman Kennedy School. We also had uh PTO run book fairs. HRD is happening this week. Um Freeman Kennedy will be the week of June 1st. At Holve Day, they had a special

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celebration for Earth Day with an assembly in the Kundday Forest, which is behind the school um for all of their students. Uh they also had their traditional U Mark Rothstein jump rope for heart um presentation as part of the wellness program in the gym. And at this

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point, we are beginning all of the uh actually we're pretty well into all of the end of the year celebrations. So, we've had author's day, we've had poetry parties, we had um student showcases, we have a lot of field trips happening. We have Borndale coming up for our Freeman Kennedy students. Um so, all kinds of

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activities going on across the grade levels. So, um lots to share and you probably see pictures and um things coming home in the school newsletters and district newsletters coming out this month of those celebrations. So, lots happening.

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Um, next on the agenda tonight, and not atypical for this time of year, um, I would like to recommend, uh, a couple of budget adjustments. So, we developed the budget early in the school year. Um, as the year changes, uh, sometimes we have to make adjustments to the budget plan.

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When we developed the budget, we were looking at a kindergarten enrollment of 135 students. That has continued to increase. Typically a month after kindergarten enrollment opens we are pretty well we have a pretty good projection and then we do pick up some students over the summer. Um this year

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the enrollment continued to dribble in. So we are at 145 students already. The max we can accommodate with a maximum size com um class size policy at kindergarten is 147. Um we traditionally get far more than two students that enroll between now and the first day of

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school over the summer. Um so I am recommending that we move forward with adding the eth session of kindergarten now to bring our class sizes down closer to 18/19 which has been the traditional um class size. The benefits of that we did put a budget freeze in place early this year. We put a budget freeze and

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hiring freeze in place in February because we weren't sure what the town revenue projector was going to look like and what we what budget cuts we might be asked to make as a result of that budget freeze. We did save enough revenue this year to pay the second half or second payment of the math curriculum adoption

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this year out of endear funds. That um 100,000 will free up the funding and revenue to add the teaching position without increasing the budget for next year. Um the benefits of approving and adding that early is that we have a better recruitment possibilities for bringing in a new teacher for that

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kindergarten program. It also allows the um the building to plan which spaces to designate as classrooms and to make those moves during the summer when we are uh when we have the custodial team cleaning and moving classroom furniture. So I'm recommending we add the eth session of kindergarten. And in

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addition, I'm recommending that we increase the team chair special ed team chair position from a.7 to a full-time position. That position we have been pretty historically understaffed in the special education offices. The team chair supports running team meetings,

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whether they're initial evaluations for students um to determine eligibility for special education or three-year re-evaluations. Um, additionally, the special ed director helps run many of those meetings as well as all of our out of district placements annual meetings.

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Um, we have just recently hired a brand new special education chair, uh, special education director. So come somebody coming into that department significantly underst staffed in their s first year I don't think sets them or the district up for success as you know

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special education obligations are very timeline driven and compliance driven um so I don't think it's wise to start the year understaffed we also are losing the special education executive secretary who's been here for oh I don't know probably 18 years and so that historical

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knowledge we're also losing and so we'll have a brand new full team in that um in that office. That said, the director that we hired was prior uh previously a 7 team chair and a.3 district BCBA. So, she worked full-time for the district in

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two capacities. We are not going to backfill the.3 district BCBA. We think we can cover the services that that position would require with the one full-time person we have as a district BCBA. So, again, this will be budget neutral. We're just reallocating that.3

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BCBA to a team chair to make it a full-time position. That would allow the team chair also to take over. In many districts, it's team chair out of district coordinator. So, they manage. We only have a handful of students that are outplaced, but the team chair in most districts um will serve as the out

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of district coordinator, go to the out of district meeting, support the special education director. Um I think it's really important that we again set um our new director up for success. um and that that office is appropriately staffed and I think we have the revenue to do it by not filling that um BCA

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position. So um I'm looking for a motion or uh happy to discuss any questions you might have but um looking for the school committee to vote to add the eighth kindergarten session and to increase the special ed team chair position to from a 7 to a full-time. >> So moved.

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>> Second. Further discussion. Are there any other classrooms at this time that um you're unsure if you were going to need another section or is everything >> No, that's we're in good shape everywhere else. So, this would be the one that we were and we knew it when we developed the budget. We were watching it closely. Um so, this was the one we

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were concerned about. Um but no, elsewhere we are in in good shape. >> Okay. >> So, historically, is this a pretty large kindergarten class or we've >> So, we had a we have had eight kindergarten sessions in the past. We actually had a year where we had nine.

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Last year, our enrollment came in under what we were expecting. Um, so we ended up moving a kindergarten position to a different grade level. Um, so this will bring us back up to where we were anticipating um, we would be. >> And do you have a dollar amount for what that

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>> So we typically budget for when we as a placeholder. depends on who we hire, but we usually budget for somebody to come in with a master's degree because most people now when you get your license, you have five years to complete a master's. So, most of our candidates

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will have their master's degree. Um, and then we budget for someone that's got at least 5 years experience. Sometimes we hire someone that comes in under, sometimes it's over, but we budget M5 and that's around I think it's around 68,000. Um and then a paraprofessional position that would accompany that is is

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probably close to 30,000. >> So total around 100,000. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> So looking for a motion to approve the addition of an eighth kindergarten classroom and to increase the special

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education team chair position from 7 to one FT. So didn't we did we moved >> we did all right we were discussing but yeah >> I sorry >> um just and this does not require a vote but another uh position that we are

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looking at we had budgeted for an additional special education teacher in the budget we expected that we would need to assign that position to a global developmental delay program at the hol of day we have had some changes in enrollment in there um we have a student that is moving out of district and we

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have a family that I think is going to delay start. Um, so we are likely going to reallocate some of that position to our resource room. We have a part-time resource room and their case loads have gotten significantly higher. So, we'll probably shift it's still a special ed teacher position, but we'll probably shift the location of service to the

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resource room for that. Um, and we are that's only a part of that position. It would be like a point4. And we're also looking at our lower school um social emotional therapeutic program. Um may need some additional uh counseling support for there. Um we do have at the

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Freeman County our therapeutic program has a.5 psychologist affiliated with program that provides counseling and oversight. We don't have that our at our lower at our lower program. Although some of our students are coming in with far more complicated needs. So we may need to look at that. Um, but those

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positions would be per the teachers contract and teaching positions. So, they wouldn't require a vote. It's just a reallocation of of where we would place those positions. Okay. All right. Next, um, this is an annual thing that we do. Um, we are members of

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the BICO collaborative. The BICO collaborative serves 17 member districts. And through the BICO collaborative, they provide specialized services for students with low incident special educational um disabilities or needs. Um rather than going to a partial

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day or an out of district placement, we receive a tuition discount by placing students in the BICO collaborative. um the BICO collaborative, all of those programs are all also actually almost all of those programs are housed in public day schools so that students have a chance to integrate and experience

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inclusion and transition back to their home schools. Um the BICO collaborative is managed by a board of directors and the board of directors have to be appointed annually. Um currently it is the superintendent of the 17 member

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district that make up the board. Um, but you can also appoint a school committee member if somebody would like to serve on the BICO board. Um, I'm happy to continue. The meetings are generally Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. Um, which is often during other people's work days. So, um, happy to ser continue to serve.

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I've been the chair of the board for for several years in the past. Um, it's a great collaborative. We do have uh several kids placed with Michael. Happy to serve if you want me to or if somebody else wants to jump in. I think Peter is so excited by the possibility

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of being on that board. >> I was absolutely. >> Yeah. >> So, do I need to nominate you? Okay. Yes. I will nominate Dr. for the board. >> Second. >> Further discussion? >> All those in favor? Hi.

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>> Hi. >> Um, next we at the last meeting you voted to appoint Cara Mirhead to the new position as the director of special education. Um, I need the committee to review and approve her contract. The terms of the contract are very standard.

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Um, for administrators, we uh most um our assistant principles are 205 days. Most of our other um central office staff are 260 or year round employees. Um it's 260day contact contract uh with a base salary of 135,000 for her first

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year. Um that was within the range of what we budgeted for the position on the lower end of the range because she's coming in um without significant back experience as a director. She's in a new position. Um although certainly well qualified. All the rest of the terms of

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her contract are pretty standard. Um uh same holidays per the the guidelines of the town. Um, I don't think there's really anything that stands out that's not a typical um, contract provision. Religious days, jury duty, all those

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things are are pretty standard. Um, as well as tuition reimbur reimbursement, which is standard in most administrative contracts. So, um, happy to answer any questions you might have. Um, but we need a vote to approve the contract and then uh the contract gets

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signed by the chair of the school committee because that's a position the school committee appoints. >> I move to approve the contract for Miss Kumarhead as laid out in exhibit 4. Second. Any

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questions or further discussions? All those in favor? >> I I >> All right. The school committee also appoints the school nurses annually. Um uh again per statute. Uh we have two fabulous school nurses. They do an

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excellent job. Um uh Miss Julia Lavoy has been the nurse at the Freeman and Kennedy. This uh for four years now. Um both of our nurses came with significant clinical experience pri uh prior to being hired. Both came from hospital settings. Um Julia's worked for Mass General as well as Boston Children's,

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Brickman Women's, Beth Israel, and Falner. She's been a great addition to the FK staff um and would be thrilled to have her continue. And then also Kathy Stack, who started as a halftime nurse when Miss Hurley was transitioning out of the district. Um she's been employed as a school nurse for the past three

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years. Um and again, she came with strong clinical background uh working at Newton Welsley for 12 years. Um and has been a great member of our team working with our youngest students. Um I would recommend a 3% cost of living adjustment for those two um members. They are on an

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individual contract unlike other positions that have a step increase. Um and I think that keeps them consistent with the salaries in this region for school nurses. Um uh the one other provision that we am recommending that we add is that when we have difficulty

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filling a sub because they're very few licensed nursing subs, they sometimes have to cover both buildings which means that during their lunch they have to run over and administer medications at the other building and they're responsible for any emergencies at both. Um I think it's only fair uh if they are covering

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two buildings that there be some compensation tied to that. Um, so we're proposing an additional $75 a day. It happens very rarely. Our nurses are almost never out. Uh, but in that situation, it's certainly stressful and they give up their prep and their any kind of well, they don't have a prep, but they give up their lunch and and any

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kind of break to run between the two buildings. Um, so looking for a motion to appoint Miss Lavoy and Miss Stack to the positions of school nurses at Freeman Kennedy and HL day respectively, um, consistent with the terms outlined in the contracts attached.

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So moved. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? I >> I great. >> Another appointment. You also appoint the school physician annually. Um we've worked with Dr. Hen Henry D'Angelo for

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many many years now. Um he is a great resource. Our nurses find him responsive when they have to call or have him review a healthcare plan um or ask for direction or advice. um he he has not raised his rates for quite a while now. Um >> in my time on the board.

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>> Yeah. And it's a very fair contract rate for the services provided. Um so I am recommending we appoint Dr. D'Angelo again for uh as the school physician, which we are required by law to have. Um uh with a $2,000 stipend and the the job

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description is on the back with the qualifications. >> So moved. Second. Any questions? All those in favor? >> I I >> All right. We previewed this uh at our last school committee meeting, so it

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shouldn't come as a big shock, but um since our last meeting, I did have a conversation, further conversation with the police department um and with the King Phillip Regional Schools. Uh at this point the public safety officials from Walpole, Foxboro, Planeville, Rethm, and Norfolk are all in agreement

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that we should be looking at a half-day early release on June 16th because of the World Cup events. They're concerned about traffic and safety. Um uh the other districts actually I think we're the last to vote, but I think all the other districts have voted to approve that as a half day early release. Um, I

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would also recommend to the committee that we um vote to allow our educators to leave at 1:30 once all of the students have left. Um, and we know the buses are in and everybody's accounted for um because of those. We do have many staff members that um also travel and

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commute from um distances. Uh so we would want them to get home safely as well. Awesome. >> Is there a reason? So, school would end at noon. >> Yep. >> And then is there any reason they can't leave?

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>> Well, we have it would end at noon, but then we have to get kids on buses. So, we clo school day ends at noon. We don't get kids off site until at least 12:30. Um, I would worry about letting people leave right at 12:30 if we have a student that doesn't get off the bus and we're trying to track that that student

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get on the bus. So, um, as soon as I think everybody's accounted for, we would release staff. Um, it is a day that is scheduled to be a full work day per their contract. So, I'm asking the committee to approve reducing the hours um and and allowing them to leave once

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the >> once everybody's accounted for and is safe to do so. Okay. >> I move to adopt the change to make June 18th right? >> 16th. >> 16th. Sorry, I was looking at the wrong

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calendar. 16th a um half day second. >> Are there discussion or thoughts on this? No. >> I have lots of thoughts on the roll. >> And allowing staff to leave once students are safely home and accounted

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for. >> Of course. >> Lisa, did I miss a Did we vote for both nurse contracts or just one? >> We voted We voted them in one motion. >> In one motion. Okay. Just because they were separate. I just wanted to make sure. Okay. >> All those in favor? >> I I

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>> All right. And then the next thing in your um >> go back to that really quick. >> Is there um an email going to go out tomorrow just letting the parents? >> Yeah. >> Yep. We'll send and we're going to send the revised calendar out with our uh Wednesday's words. >> Perfect. >> Uh last thing in your packet is a

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proposed schedule meeting schedule for next year for the school committee. Um we typically meet the second Tuesday of every month with the exception of August. We meet a little later so that we can give you the opening of school report. Um and we generally have most of our positions filled then. And then in

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May we also go with the third week because typically the second week is town meeting. So we kept it the same but we can change the day. We can change we just put it out for discussion. um people want to keep the same meeting day um or discuss a change, we can make

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those adjustments and bring it back to you for a vote at the next meeting. >> I like Tuesdays. I mean, I don't know. >> It's been working well. >> Predictable. >> Yeah. And it typically we try to avoid like the Mondays because KP um has meetings on Mondays. Um so it's it seems

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to have worked. >> That good. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That's all I have for tonight. Okay. Policy. We haven't met since we last an update. So, nothing there. >> Yeah. We typically don't have committees

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because we just have brand new committees tonight. So, >> new budget nothing. Um, okay. Moving on to liaison. did speak with Mike and there's going to be a new co-chair with him for the CPAC. Her name is Alexis and her

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last name is evading me right now so I will bring it next time. And um I we spoke a lot about the unified botchi tournament which took place last month. I went to that. That was a lot of fun. And the CPAC is excited for next year.

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They're pretty much done with their events this year and are talking about the trunk or treat, which seems very far away, but I'm sure we'll come before we know it, which is one of our favorite events. So, looking forward to continuing on with them next year. >> I'm glad they found somebody. I knew they were. >> Yeah, me too.

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>> That's really awesome. >> PTO. >> No. >> I'm sure that they were very busy with appreciation PTO update. So, yeah, shout out to the PTO. Any

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other leis updates? >> No, I don't have anything going on. Okay, for new items, the school committee minutes from April 13th are in your packet to be

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on you and then for since you weren't on, you can feel free to stand. >> I move to accept the school committee uh meeting minutes in exhibit 9. I'll second. Further discussion. All those in favor.

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>> Beautiful. >> One. >> Then our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th. All right. Which is my birthday. So if we could potentially commitment. >> If not, it's fine if we could

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potentially do Wednesday. >> We have a meeting the night before that hang. Yeah. I would prefer Wednesday just so >> could we do Wednesday June time? Yeah, that's better for me. Actually, you should be fine. >> My kids are all done with school by that time. >> Oh, wow. Really? Let's do it.

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>> All right. As long as there's no district sometime. >> Is that okay? >> Yeah, that's fine. We do typically um are anticipate we'll have the principles coming to do their final update on the their school improvement plans. They'll be proposing their new plans um in either August or September, but they'll

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give you an update of of their final progress. Awesome. Okay, >> thank you. And then one more thing under new items. It's not on the agenda because I received it too late. So, I got an email from MASK, the

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Massachusetts Association of School Committees. Verge, if you're not on their distribution list yet, you probably will be soon, especially when you do that required all day training. Um, so the Senate Ways and Means

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Committee's fullear 27 budget is going to be debated by the full Senate this week. There are a lot of good things in there like increasing the minimum aid per pupil from 75 to 160. Um, the Senate will be debating additional amendments

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that were put forth, some of which are very good. There is let me just pull it up needs to be updated. There is one that's put forward to um when we advocated and and spoke at the hearings we were recommending minimum

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aid go to 200 per student. Um so there is an amendment looking to bring chapter 78 increase up to 200. Um there is uh an amendment that's looking to uh increase funding for circuit breaker reimbursement for high expense students. Did Did you >> find it?

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>> Oh, you can. >> No. Um so that's one of the ones that we were looking at. Um there's some other uh uh I can't recall. There's some something about re regional transportation. >> There's one on inflation. >> Yes. Oh, so chapter 70 there's time

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chapter 70 is capped. So it can only go up a certain percentage and if inflation goes up higher than that the chapter 70 formula doesn't accommodate. So it it would allow chapter 70 to respond to increases inflation. Um so those are those are things that are being deliberated on. I have I'm sending a

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letter advocating support for those initiatives. Um I I think you did as well. >> I did. I sent um a letter to Senator Roush and Mass put together a template saying um listing out all the amendments they're in support of. I picked my top

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three and I wrote Senator Rous saying I'm writing in my individual capacity. These are the three I'm in support of. They put together a template we can use and then you can revise it and adjust it to your own voice and highlight the things that you are important. So, I can send everyone as an FYI the email so you

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have it and I can forward along what I wrote. Just don't respond cuz we can't be deliberating on it, but I'll send it to you as an FYI. And the ones I highlighted were increasing the minimum per pupil aid to $200, strengthening the special education circuit breaker

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program, and the chapter 70 inflation adjustment. There were some other really neat ones like promoting financial literacy in schools which I thought sounded great but just focusing on the main three that I think would really impact the town. So I will for those to you all. I did not write it obviously

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because we couldn't vote from the committee. I just wrote it in my personal capacity. So they are debating this week. If anyone is interested in writing a letter of their own, I can send that to you. Does anyone have anything else?

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I'm looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. Further discussion. All those in favor? >> I touch. Great.