from March 27th 2025 to order it is 700 p.m. and we are all here so I don't have to do a roll call though yay um let's just walk through the agenda and then we'll Dive Right In so we do have a few people from the public
here we do have public comment that starts us off so if anybody wants to do anything on public comment for not on the agenda we'll open up with that we'll then move to our focus on Excellence um which will be a special focus on Excellence this evening um we then go to our consent agenda um appropriately and
then move down to reports um starting with our students and Bastion and then moving through Administration and the committee uh new business wise we'll be going through our annual School Choice discussion we'll have an update on the student Opportunity Act uh the progress report we'll have an update as well on
FY 26 kindergarten enrollment which I'm just catching should have been old business but it is okay where it is um we'll then have old business related conversations which is the policy reviews um one of which was discussed a while ago and finally is ready for full
committee review is policy FF newly named naming of school facilities we then go through the second reading of policy gbgb which we started with two weeks ago U we'll finish that reading today going back to new business would be other policies so we have two
additional policies that are amended that we go through a single vote on and that's gbbc and gbi we'll then go through a first reading of a new policy gbg which is domestic violence leave and conclude the meeting with notification on other upcoming policies because we had another meeting on Tuesday morning
and moved five of them forward um so with that said I will we'll start by asking if anybody here in the public has a public comment or on the meeting because we do have an meeting attendee on the meeting as well Maria do you have
anything um hi I'm Maria Morgan I work at 26 Lee Street and I just wanted to highlight a CPAC meeting that happened recently um I thought it was really well done and the board is amazing and they um worked with Jen and Allison right to
bring um to have um sorry Phil littlehale I think I'm saying my name right present yeah okay um to present about the special life budget and it was so well done and it was so transparent and um you could tell that it wasn't just
like checking a box or like dialing it in like he he mentioned that he went to the cpath website which I thought was really neat and I'm one of the pjes I guess mentions that um parents often find it hard to find information um um to answer some of their questions he taught us how to find information he
taught us a website um that we could go to um and there was plenty of time for questions and answers and as always Jen and Allison were available and um transparent and um you know had slides prepared of questions that we had
submitted ahead of time and um I just thought it was like as always really well done but I just wanted to um you know give my thanks to the CPAP board and also Mr little Hill and Jen and Allison as always great Maria thank you for that feedback I'd heard similar feedback from
one of the board members as well so but thank you for bringing it out in the public you're welcome okay any other public comment Mr Haley thanks Tom Chris Haley 71 Tennison Road uh since only Jeff and Lara are
here tonight to see Char uh Chuck on his way uh Charles either way you think I know by now uh just thank you for 18 years Chuck um I think everyone up here would love to be able to hit that kind of Milestone um and I really appreciate it
and uh I know there's some other people that do as well and you know uh I think it's all good so thank you Chuck thank you okay with that said we will now move to our focus on excellence and our focus
on Excellence this evening is a focus on excellence in service and our focus on Excellence is focused on Mr Chuck Robinson um 18 years of service on the school committee n nine years of finance
committee service and we have a few people that are here to celebrate your time serving this community with us so we just wanted to thank you Chuck for your service we wanted to recognize you and appreciate your service and you know
you have a few s familiar faces here as well to um join us in our thanks for your time thank you thank you we also have a cake thank you it's it's what we do
right I mean it's it's part of when we're born uh we uh you know most of us look to do something to give something back and and uh you don't always do everything right but uh you always give
it 100% and try to do your best and and uh you know the kids of this community are are what it's all about and whether it be on the fields or in the club classrooms or anywhere it's just uh I'm not going
anywhere I really love this community and and love all the people that that I've served with so thank you I'm sure there's more I should say but you don't need to say anything more um I think we all know and they know that if they want
to they're welcome to say a minute or two themselves as well about the time they served with you or anything else um everybody's W anybody's welcome to up to the podium to say what they would like to say we do have a cake for you as well and Dr mileski has something he wants to give you as thanks as well so let's
start with Dr M and then we can go from there great uh well on behalf of the district we're pleased to share a a chair with the uh reading emblem on it as well and also Chuck's uh name on it showing uh thanking him for his dedication to our community and I'd just like to thank that it's a
rock I was hoping you wouldn't point that out so I'll let others make fun of you I'll I'll ride I'll rise above it uh but a couple things just want to thank you for first just thank you for your dedication I know you said that's just what you kind of people wake up and they do but 18 years of dedication uh of all
the nights you know Thursday nights every other week the dedication uh the impact in your you know sacrifice you make with your family and everything to serve the community uh is truly incredible and that doesn't even show all the time behind the scenes that I know from my time here you put in supporting you know going through things
visiting schools to go above and beyond um in addition to your dedication like to thank you for your impact for 18 years you have been a key member of this community in helping to you know keep reading public schools and make Reading Public Schools not only I think one of the pride of the community but also a
model uh School District in our area and whether you were the chair or on the committee uh your influence and your impact on that uh has been uh has been at the core of the success of the district um and then lastly I think and for me most importantly I just really and I know so many appreciate uh just
the way that you lead you lead by listening to others you lead by trying to find common ground on different perspectives you lead by uh working with people and you lead by walking with the walk uh I know I've learned a lot by watch watching you as a leader and learning from you and I know that there's so many in the room who feel the
same way uh couldn't have much more respect for someone and how you operate as a you know as a either a man or a leader and just appreciate uh all of your time since I've been here but even more importantly your 18 years uh so hope you enjoy the the rocking share and remember us uh and get to relax a little bit after all the time that you put in
in serving the community does anybody else in the committee want to say anything we sort of had our little goodbye a little while ago but it's not yet official until until our end adjournment tonight um Carla I I will um make sure you have a
supply of mints that we table um I have known you for a while you have been a mentor to me I feel like to the whole committee you have always been the
gentleman on the committee um your knowledge of what goes on in the schools and of the budget are just unsurpassed my daughter was on the school committee nine years ago and
still ask me how she's doing just even recently past few weeks ago when we had coffee how's Alex doing and that's the type of person you are you're you're a coach throughout and you it to this committee and show people
that it's the students that are what's important but you've always been the the first person to be the proponent and the the cheerleader for the for the staff as well so thank you thank you yeah I just want to say um you know
I don't think most of us knew the school committee was a thing the last time you weren't on this school committee so it's going to be very weird to come here uh in a few weeks and welcome you know a new colleague uh uh to the committee and so um I just want to thank you for your leadership um
your mentorship and especially your friendship really enjoyed working with you these past five years and uh um I think I said last time but you'll be one of the first people we call when we need a Community member to fill in so um hopefully you won't go far thank
you anybody yeah yeah go for it um so I feel like I'm sort of piggybacking on some others but I think there's a common theme here um you know the committee was so new when most of us joined with the exception of you and it was I mean there's not even
words to describe how helpful it was to to have your steady presence and your deep knowledge of operations and people um I think I am not the only one who felt like you were a mentor to me when I
was starting out 5 years ago um and then even more than that I just appreciate your your just measured approach to things I think you are a true collaborator and consensus Builder um you're a true team player um I'm going
to miss your sports euphemisms during our conversations um and yeah I'm just I'm going to miss your presence here but I'm so grateful to have gotten the 5 years to work together and I know I'll still see you around town so thank
you okay go for it so as somebody else who hates to be the center of the conversation about and make it about me I won't triple down on any of this and make you feel even worse but I just want to say I'm so appreciative of the example you've set to the community of what it means to step up and make participate and lead by example to make
the community what you would like to see and I think that's a really bright shining example for all the residents of ring so I'm so appreciative of that would anybody else like out there like to say anything go Elaine please
[Laughter] um I just want to say Chuck that I noticed it was a rocker you know mine is not a rocker but on the upside your kids are all still very young I'm hoping to be able to need a rocker in the next like
10 years so you know maybe we'll get maybe we'll start to get those grand kids cuz we're on that phase but I you all have said amazing things I want to say that also there was a word in vocabulary Natalie that I never new But
Chuck the conate professional and always and today of course Natalie dressed and if you don't know what that word is you guys can look it up but that just uh I could always count on Chuck to just be so professional so composed and I think what I really appreciate it is on the
committee and as a friend um and and outside the committee being able to talk through things and really be able to be a sounding board and know that you know you could really voice what you were thinking and what you really felt and be able to dialogue
with you and then get to a better solution for the community because Chuck always kept us focused on it's about the kids it's about the community and just for people those of us who served with him know how amazing he is but to the
broader Community Chuck has been a treasure for 27 years on finance committee he was amazing we were like we got to get Chuck on school committee because it's amazing on finance committee and we really need to bring that Financial background and budget
background um to the committee so I I uh I'm remiss and not connecting over the years but it's so wonderful to see everyone and um you know everyone you sered with for so long you have differences but you collaborate and you pull together for the kids and for the
community and Chuck is the ultimate leader of that and so thank you for all that you gave to our community to me just like others have said and now it's time to spend time with Beth on these evenings thank you any last words from anybody out
there oh yeah here we go so Dad just on behalf of mom Kendall Charlie and Dan you know I just wanted to say thank you you know you've done a lot for us and you know you sacrificed a lot coaching and doing this and I know you know all of us well
never forget you know you handing us our diplomas on the stage and just everything you've done for us so just thank you all right Chuck you are extremely and Incredibly modest right I would say there are very few people that when
they wake up or when they're whatever you wanted to say when you began it are ready to say I'm going to give 27 years of my life in a volunteer service to a town that I live in just look around there are nobody else in this town has
done that so you know if you step back and look at it and just you know I I know you have a ton of fond memories um when I first joined this committee 6 years ago um I rocked the boat a little bit with some of my
members out there and you helped keep me in line but also supported the overall goal of improvement so you found the way to balance that which wasn't easy at that time I can see the smiles out there and some people are hiding um which is
fine but you know you found a way right and you found a way to stitch it together you found a way to keep us together and as I've said through some of the debates the last couple of days we work well as a school committee there's a lot of different views and
opinions up here there always has been out there but you as part of the foundation of that have set the boundary for how we work as a team right and I think that's admirable um even when there were times I was mad at you and you know that there
were times you were mad at me and I'm sure there were times that others were mad at each other um we found a way to move past that to do as you said what's right for the kids what's right for the district um and that I think is for I can better say it's the crown
jewel of your achievement right and you've done a great job and I don't think you should minimize that in any way shape or form um don't discount what you gave to this community and I just want to thank you again for that and like you said you're not going far um
but you're taking a step back for now and uh until we see each other again over coffee or something else thank you very much sir thank you thank you so we do have a tradition for our focus on Excellence where we take a picture with
the school committee the school committees so we'd like you to come forward and family if necessary we will come down here and Joe or Andy or Chris if we can get a picture um as part of this we would appreciate it you're all addressed to the nines anyway you can be
the picture so come on down yeah he Justin R just got no he didn't yeah he did zo he just texted me so great he such a he's a rockar yeah that like warms my heart more than a lot
of how are you what you say she had a break everyone sorry me first sorry one two three thank [Music] you here
[Music] sah the last progress yeah I mean like she has a kid that she's to catch up pretty soon my we're going to mute the meeting for a few minutes and we'll be back in about 10 or 15 minutes
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e e e e Dr m thank you Karen late breaking news just what who got into where that such single child and nicest
he's awesome all right we will move on with the rest of our agenda now no pressure buddy okay so first hold on a second hold on Sebastian we'll get to you in a second um I need a motion on the consent agenda oh motion to approve the consent agenda we have a second
second by Chuck Chuck okay car any further discussions all right all in favor all opposed and it passes sck to zero all right now we'll move to reports and Sebastian we'll start with you so
first the um rmhs Jazz Ensemble made it to the Maj state finals they performed last Saturday at kley Middle School in Norwood if they earn a gold medal they will be performing at the hatch shell on the Boston Esplanade on Sunday May 4th also senior rhs aquatic Rockets excelled
in both the pool and the classroom this year by earning the honors academic all-americans from the national inter Scholastic swimming coaches association to qualify swimmers must maintain a GPA above 3.75 we are proud to share that our boy swim team has an impressive GPA
of 4.15 and seven of our seniors have earned nisa's prestigious academic All-American status those being Leo Diedrich David mccan Andrew McCarthy Dylan meta deep nandi Justin rmo and Rory O'Neal also the art depart the art
department is so happy and proud to report that brayen Callen grade 11 won a gold key in the regional Scholastic art competition for his painting called Echoes of humanity carved and Alive BR not only won a regional gold key for his painting the pieace was judged for the
national awards and won a silver medal this is an amazing accomplishment congratulations to bradden into his teachers the following students that that started rmhs investment Club yesterday went to present at Parker Middle School in an effort to build student interest in the club and also in
the world of finance and investment Dr story sent a note that they did an amazing job and we want to give them a shout out those students were will Merkel Ted Ravens Terry Bellow and Thomas stopulos and upcoming events so April 3rd is a junior prom from 7: to
10: p.m. at Andover Country Club April 4th is a early release for students April 7th through 9th is artsfest April 10th the internships begin for seniors for those doing internships and April 11th freshman progressive dinner fundraiser that's in Wakefield at 6 p.m.
May 2nd is a Winchester Hospital career panel careers in healthcare May 5th through May 16th RP exams May 21st is job shadowing for the junior class only May 21st is senior Awards night at 7:00 p.m. May 22nd is senior prominade and
Prom May 27th is senior movie night 7:00 p.m. May 29th is senior class Day May 30th is graduation at 600 p.m. at Turf 1 or the Fieldhouse if the weather is bad June 2nd will be move up day for incoming n9th grade students June 2nd
will be future freshman night number two at 6:00 p.m. and June 4th finally is the underclassman award ceremony at 6:30 oh it's a lot great lot going on there a lot going on yeah we'll talk a little bit about that at the end of the meeting because we have a lot going on
in May ourselves so okay thank you Sebastian any questions for him no okay so we will move to the next portion of our agenda which I believe Dr Hardy excellent well good evening everyone um I just want to share with
you an event that happened at one of our middle schools um a few weeks ago that was very exciting so um the the third week in March is always um National Civics education week um and there are a lot of different events that happen and
one of our social studies teachers our eighth grade social studies teacher at kage uh Carolyn Caffrey signed our students up for an event that was called Zoom with the judge and it was just like a chance to learn a little bit more about the judicial system well guess who
the judge was it was associate Supreme Court Judge associate Justice son s May that's awesome yeah so when I found out that was happening I certainly found myself in that room cuz I've never been on a live Zoom with a Supreme Court
Justice um and it was our eighth graders did a great job sitting for about 45 minutes um and listening and I just want to share two of the points she made to our young people because I think they were so important she said that in honor of civic's week you know our students should be thinking about how to be good
citizens and she said you might think it needs to be something big but it doesn't just finding a neighbor and your Community who maybe has trouble getting out of the house to run errands for them or sitting with them talking with them and spending time is a way you can be a good citizen um and then when asked you
know if kids should consider being a judge she said you really need to find out what your unique gift is and what you're good at she said I chose to be a judge because it matched my personality and my style and she said but each of you has a unique gift to give to your community so figure out what you're
passionate about um and go from there um to imp impact your community in a positive way so I think it was a really strong message for our young people and I was very excited to hear it as well great any questions great I'm going to build off
to something that Sebastian said um he named uh seven seniors who are uh swim academic all-americans I just want to give a thank you and a shout out to the boys swim program I have not heard of a team that has seven seniors who are academic all-americans all on one team
which is actually one of our smaller teams too with a team te GPA 4.15 uh wanted to give a thanks to coach jully a thank to coach sacko for clearly setting a really high bar not only athletically but also academically and just a congratulation to the seven students who are uh now uh all-americans
I just think that that's uh as that that type of program success is something that we really need to uplift and and celebrate so huge congratulations and shout outs to them individually and collectively great thank you and we'll go to committee leaz on reports so we'll
start here Sirah no eron no report Sean Carla I'll give a quick update um very good news yesterday at the msba um we had a meeting with the msba on um scope and budget and our
reimbursement Grant from them has been increased $1.5 million so we were really thrilled about that um so and and we will be we had a one sheet cheat sheet that we publicize and put everywhere now
we're going to change all those numbers and put it back out so um but the numbers are better numbers are better um our new reimbursement our msba reimbursement Grant is 44 million1 182,780
85,86 556 so that's the amount that the town will potentially take out a debt exclusion on um our reimbursement percentage um went up to
52.9% of eligible costs we will be having um a joint presentation of both major projects the recal and Kellum um to highlight both projects answer questions for anybody in the town or on town meeting um the first one will be
April 2nd at 700 p.m. in the pack in on person we're going to have the exact same meeting in zoom on the 16th April 16th at 7 for people who we want to maybe catch um who couldn't show up on um on the second so we encourage
everybody to come because our um Deb exclusion vote is May 13th great can I quick question um the I've seen the like posters for the two forums or the digital um but none of it
has like a a zoom link will that go out at some point for the people who want to join the one on April 16th okay yeah it it yes it will be um yes it'll be like posted as a meeting or it will be posted as a meeting all the major boards I think they're they started to post the
um April 2nd meeting I just don't think they've got to the 16th but yeah that'll be plastered great thank you thank you Chuck no report no report okay I have no report as
well um okay so we'll move on to new business and we'll start with our school choice discussion and Dr M chesy I'll pass it to you yep great uh good evening everyone nice to see you uh so we'll start with a discussion around school choice as the community uh may know each year the school committee has the
opportunity to opt out of school choice it is an opt out decision uh for the past 3 years the school committee has decided uh to you know bypass that and thus enroll or be a school choice District we are automatically a a
district that can send students students can go to any other District that they would let is a school choice District but three years ago we made a decision also to accept students from uh other District as well a little bit of information on the program as the community may know uh it is we also receive $5,000 per student plus uh
potential reimbursement of up to 100% of special any special education costs in the packet there's some more information on what that's looked like for us in Reading when we started the program in 2022 the 2023 school year we had nine students enroll um in 2023 2024 we had
an additional 16 students enroll and then this uh this year we had 26 new students enroll which gives us a total of 51 students who are now school choice students in our district uh you also see in the package there's information about what this has led to in Revenue uh it's about a total over the last 3 years of
about a little bit over $450,000 in Revenue uh so far we have received $315,000 over the last years and then also expect additional 139,000 this year and that does not include any special education increment is the word uh depending on what we uh you know kind of
how we um uh you know file the form for reimbursement so it is our Administration advocating to continue to move forward the program I believe for for two major reasons one being the uh Financial the addition Revenue stream is uh is is a huge benefit to our community
especially in the context that we're in right now we one we know that the it's a little bit more uncertain around the future of potentially of federal funding so having some additional Revenue stream is important also we know there are a lot of needs and wants uh in our own school district of things that we could
do to improve our student experience so having an additional Revenue stream to continue to invest in things that are important for our students uh this gives us a be a vehicle to be able to do that in addition to the the revenue piece uh also this is an opportunity for us to uh bring students in and especially for
staff members children about half of the students enrolled in the program are relatives of our staff we think not only is that a perk for our staff members but also that is a what we think is a retention strategy for our staff as well I'll give an example one of our assistant principles has uh recently enrolled both of her students in school
choice to the district and says that she plans to be here all the way through they move on through graduation so it's a way for us to also be able to keep some of our staff who want uh to be Allin with their families as well um if you look in the packet we outline the amount of available seats again these
are outlined by grade level not by specific school and we also outlined the process which would uh open up applications tomorrow give about 2 and A2 weeks with all the information here about the lottery in the middle of April by law we are required to have two uh
Lottery processes typically we've done one later in the school year towards the end of the year and then again at the end of the summer we feel like this year we want to get a little bit uh start a little bit earlier particularly some of our staff members have asked about trying to figure things out for their own children earlier so we thought it made sense to get this first Lottery up
and running and then we can also then move forward uh with our second Lottery sometime at the end of the school year into the summer so uh I will pause there for any questions or feedback um anybody I'm seeing no questions and no
feedback to Tom so you have the green light to go ahead and go what you need to do great is everyone okay I think we're all on the same page I think we all bought it in the program I think the extra revenue is huge um and it all just makes our district
even richer in multiple ways are we supposed to vote to opt out we have we have to vote to opt out not to opt in we're opting in yeah we're in through in action and and two questions that have come up in the past one being we not
required to do a hearing because we are already you know have you know have the program in place right now another question that that comes up sometimes the community is I we know that some districts have it written in their teacher contract it's a perk for employment where teachers can have their children come to uh school and district
one drawback of that of that model is first of all we do not receive the $5,000 per student secondly we are also uh as a district required to pay any uh Support Services any special education services that child they need including an our district placement and that would
fully be on the uh on our you know on our um expense so that's just something to keep in mind of a trade-off of of Str strategically of using school choice versus writing something in the contract as well so just want to be transparent around that rationale go ahead CH so you mentioned
we have 51 now uh and I forgive me if I saw it in the budget and do do we have a goal for what we will what we're expecting or what we want for next year yeah great question so uh 51 we uh only
anticipate losing one student due to graduation uh so we we do think that that you know that's 250 we know for next year in the budget we you see in the packet there's you know about 50 seats that we are opening up these are spots where we feel like there is available seats these are not spots
where we're going to overcrowd classrooms um we do not think we'll fill the full 50 there's certain grade levels that are more desirable than others I would say what do we think internally is somewhere around 15 or 20 is what we would expect uh you know through this first Lottery we could be surprised but
that's where we'll be we generally use the money that we receive this year for next year correct the money we'll receive next year for next year so just like the circuit breaker that rolls to the next year we're essentially sending money up for the fall correct correct although we do receive money it comes
monthly for school choice starting in October and then also the special reimbursement process starts in June but budget wise we haven't planned for any additional students outside of what we currently know will be here according to current students at this
point okay car go ahead does the money come straight from the state or does it come from the district comes uh it comes straight to the the district from from the state district from the state from the state from the state any further
questions nope nope okay thanks Tom we'll move on and it's the student Opportunity Act update and I believe Dr Hardy got that one you have the mic right you're going to I'm going to make just a couple of couple of points we uh we sent out a little bit of information today late that is in a revised packet
and just want to bring your attention to what's in the revised packet than what was uh sent out originally uh first you'll see that the SOA plan that was developed last year is a three-year plan you'll find a copy of that in the packet secondly which Sarah will be speaking about tonight is the progress report
which is our sort of one-year update on uh how things have been going what's ahead for us uh so that that is now included in the packet that is due to desie on April 1st it does not require school committee approval but we are just want to make sure the commit the committee understands exactly what was in uh there and why and then lastly we
put in two examples that desie provided U I put those in there to try to uh the community understand what des's expectations are around this progress report the desie ones uh were about four pages I think Sarah did an incredible job putting together probably went a little bit further than she needed to in
terms of the desie requirement and giving an update but I think overall uh gives her really a good picture on what's been happening in regards to the SOA so I appreciate your work and putting that together and uh definitely much more detailed than desie would have required and want to make sure the community is aware that uh aware of that as well so with that uh turn over to
Sarah is going to walk us through to say again get a high level overview today of just the uh progress report yeah I felt like I summarized as well for our report we got close to 20 pages so as um Dr mileski was indicating um this
progress report is just a checkpoint along the way in this three-year plan so it's an opportunity to look back at the commitments and the goals that we set as part of the SOA plan and to say how are we doing with implementing the evidence-based programs EPS that we um
selected for the SOA plan so tonight I'm going to just quickly give you an overview of what to expect when you look at that report I want to share out with you some of the highlights that we're particularly proud of and then just preview for you what's coming um so when you look at that report you're going to see three main sections first you're
going to see um a report out on our implementation of the EVPs and what we've done if you remember we selected four EVPs um enhanced and support foral and mental health inclusive curriculum adoption process supporting curriculum implementation and early literacy
screening and support none of those should come as surprise to you those are the topics that we present to you regularly those are part of our ongoing and day-to-day work the second part of the report is where we have the opportunity to make any updates or changes we are not making any changes to
our plan um and also um an opportunity to um share out any like early data that's coming out the third part is where we talk about how we've engaged parents Guardians and stakeholders as we've sought to implement the ebps um
and continue to gather their feedback on our work with students and so those things are outlined for you there are a lot of things that we're proud of in this plan um in particular as you read through the two
EVPs that focus on highquality curricul uh paired with professional development I think you start to see the fruits of our labor the fact that we are in years 1 2 3 and four of the implementation of high quality curriculum and that we're really able to dig in with our teachers
into those deeper levels of professional development we know that that tier one instruction is really foundational if we're going to meet the needs of our lowest performing students and I think that for us has always been the starting point to ensure that our tier one is very strong
the other thing that I'm particularly proud of that you'll see in our plan is some of the work that um we worked with Barbara best this year on um she is our Harvard fellow and one of the things we wanted to make sure is that we were elevating student voice as we were
considering how to implement the EVP around seal systems and mental health and so as you may have heard about already there's been work to meet with high school students close to 200 of our high school students have participated in focus groups and we've gathered some
really rich data from them as far as how they feel about connectedness to school things that they've identified as obstacles and the best part of it the things that they think we could do to leverage and and to improve um connectedness and they really have provided us with some great next steps
um and so the plan outlines some of those things um so those are examples of some of the things that we've been talking to about I want to just sort of high highlight um when you read through the plane you're also going to see there's a number of strategies that we share out
that relate specifically to our ml Learners that is one of the groups that sit sort of in our lowest performing student group um and I think that it um it helps to show that when we as a district put together tangible supports for students that we know are struggling
and we do it in an organized uh structured way that we are able to um to start to see gains for those students and so certainly the tier one is very important making sure that is in place but now we're starting to talk about layering those additional supports we
were here just the last school committee meeting asking you to approve the adoption of a new high quality curriculum so that's one one piece of work that has happened um under the direction of our ml director Karen Hall um in addition we have worked really hard around the communication
with our ml families and the support um this year um we continued to have our family Outreach coordinator um tyana tyana um Pereira and in addition to that tyana and Karen have been working to get
what's called an lpac up and running and ring it's similar to a CPAC um which is a special education parent advisory Council so the lpac is for um it's a Desi term so it's English Learners parents advisory Council and it follows
similar to CAC some of those procedural rules um and so as we start to move in that direction this year we didn't form an official lpac but we started to have regular parent meetings um in those forums giving the giving parents opportunity to voice what would be
helpful for their child's education what would be helpful um to the family so ensuring that that two-way communication is established um so that work this year has been very powerful in addition we've been trying to think out of the box talks at every turn and think about ways unique ways
that we can support our ml students through some grant funding we were able to sort of pilot this really cool tutoring through a company called ignite um little asteris we're also um supporting some of our Boston resident students in this program too through MC coof funding but that's a little side
note um the cool thing about this tutoring it's done virtually 15 minutes a day um foundational skills um instruction and the students are paired with a tutor who also speaks their primary language um although all the instruction happens in English it's a
way for that student to feel connected to the adult and when they're having some banter um and downtime um they can speak in in another language helping the student to connect so early weeks still in that um tutoring program but we really are excited to see if it's going
to make a difference um as just an early indicator of like what all of these things being put in place might be doing for our ml students we um we're tracking our chronic absenteeism and ml students last year uh at this point in the year had about a 30% chronic absenteeism rate
um if you remember that means that students are on track to be absent 10% of the school year or 18 days um and at this point in the year comparing to last year we've reduced that already by 10% which is pretty substantial um because
of the way the timing of the SOA um update Falls we aren't able to have our access scores yet which is unfortunate the April 1st date for this plan is actually very inconvenient for all of our assessments and of the air assessments mcast and access so I feel
like we'll always be a little behind in this report but we certainly will keep the committee and the community up to date as those assessment results come out um can I share something on I just want to build on that for a minute too uh we you know you'll hear time and time
again of districts trying to close achievement gaps for particular groups of students right and I think something that our team has been thoughtful about is to try to with particular groups of students who have not you know achieved the levels we have thought say well what's what are some of the core challenges and why then how do we build specific you know support programs
initiatives in response to those gaps and I think some of the challenges we had saw for MLL achievement was one we didn't have a strong curriculum in place uh and you know that we know for mlls two we did weren't fully leveraging our Partnerships with families and then three uh there were academic gaps that
we weren't closing as effectively could in creative ways and I think some of the strategies that Sarah outlined are just some like specific strategies targeted towards our MLL students that we think is uh you know hopefully going to move the needle um Al Just One of other things the another thing in the program for rml to
is uh additional counseling program so there's additional uh counseling uh available for a group of our students who feel like who may need that additional social emotional support in their home language uh over Zoom as well so that's something that we've been able to open up more doors and access for for
uh for accessible counseling as well and this really is the focus of the SOA plan it really is about looking at groups of students who might need different or um you know additional supports to ensure that we are closing those achievement gaps so then looking
ahead as far as how will we continue to implement this plan um continue to make gains and closing gaps one of the things that's come up for us as we've really have done the work of diing in and trying to examine um ways to support students is we decided that we needed another tool to
help us um make our data driven decisions um we have lots of data we have lots of great Assessments in place um but one of the next steps for us is that we're going to be bringing on board a data warehouse I'm sure you'll hear us talk about this um don't get too excited
Tom um and it really is an opportunity us years to bring all of the data we've been looking at sort of into one place and we'll be able to look at student data over time um and just look at the interaction of you know the different pieces of data we have much easily much
more easily and in particular you know pull out these subsets of students that we want to see how they're performing um so I think that's an important next step for us to really be able to track the progress of the work that we're doing um there are some upcoming community events
that are an important part of our plan the school committee is going to be hosting a screening of code switching document and so that is an event that we think is important for supporting um our Boston resident students similarly there are um some youth Town Hall events that are
sort of culminating events from some of the focus groups that have been happening with our high school students and opportunity for kids to come together and to discuss uh some of the themes that have been revealed and so those are just some upcoming things that we feel encouraged by and think will
support our work um going forward um to close I will just say say that this this report for us and this work is not just about compliance this to us really is the heart of our work making sure that each and every student who attends the ring public school has really great outcomes um enjoys their time in school
each day and um that we can feel proud about the progress they made happy to take any questions any questions no no there's a lot in here a lot today
just yeah let's talk about that data warehouse at some point that does get me excited even though you told me not to get excited you know I love excited okay um thank you Dr Hardy very much
appreciate um okay and you said a lot in a little bit of time so I don't know if anybody payen but there's a lot you just said in that period of time so thank you very much um moving on to the next agenda item which is the f 26 kindergarten enrollment update um Dr back to you yes there should be a brief
update we uh committed to coming back and sharing with the the committee updates throughout the spring and summer on our enrollment uh please to share we are now up to 300 uh I mean not to uh 290 uh our app kindergarten registrations and you can see it broken
down by School uh so far just like to flag for the community too that we know that we had uh allocated you know an additional 1.0 FTE kindergarten teacher as as of now we still have feel like that could be a need so we have not adjusted made any adjustments at this
point it is under projections this under projection at this point but we know that during the Spring during the summer there's you know always movein uh and things like that so we are hesitant to pull away that additional teacher at this point too so we will keep the community informed during the Spring during the summer uh with any changes
but at this point uh we wanted to make sure the community knew that we were at 290 uh and then the only other point is if there is a spot where there will be a give uh it is at barrows where we're trying to keep that number close to where it is right now not need that additional teacher cuz barrows is the space that is
uh extremely strapped for space so uh if the enrollments uh stay sort of in the range of where they are now uh with the additional school choice Meco movein uh then our goal will also be to try to bring that barrows uh number back down to three if we can and then be able to
fill all of our other spaces as well okay any questions no you guys got D okay tired from Chuck's cake there C suar sugar coma that was the plan the whole time sugar coma kicking in all
right so we're going to move on to um D1 which is f policy FF uh naming of school facilities uh I'm going to start the share um and then I will dive in with some background um on all this
so I'll just share the screen so it's easier keep going back and forth um okay so policy FF starting back in June of
2023 or may of 2023 um Chuck and I met with the at that point the new saac the student advisory Council in its first year and so for eji back in the room um back there where they raised um that the existing FF from
their perspective was a hard to understand b a little bit exclusive in terms of who you can name it C very hard to figure out if you could remove a name with anything or from any particular school facility or not um and so they wanted us to look at the policy and figure out if we could tighten it up
they brought in an example that was Winchester at the time I believe uh or one of the W's around us um Wilmington I think it was Wilmington um as something that was very short and they thought was succinct and easy to
understand um we discussed um pointed out reasons for why the policy was the way it was explained how you could do certain things uh and then I think as a team over on this group we had a discussion again a a little bit
later this fall we started [Music] rediscussed we've made the most progress of of all uh sub commmittee met on this over three meetings in the last 2 months um reviewing the masc aligned version
which is in the packet um which is ultimately what the subcommittee decided we did not want to do that we felt like as a subcommittee and Chuck and a and jump in where ever necessary there was still plenty of other stuff we liked in our policy um inclusive of basically the procedural stuff that's there but we
wanted to change it up we wanted to clarify um you know open up to a degree um some of the availability U but also at the same time make it very clear about how to do um naming unnam and
renaming one of the bigger conversation points that we had as a subcommittee inclusive of the administration was whether you could do an unnam and renaming as one step or two steps um and we ultimately coales to it should be two steps um because we felt like there
would be two different interest communities for lack of better way to say it when you went through such a process uh if you were ever to successfully uname the interest in doing a rename would be potentially a different group of people or just a different attention to it for lack of
better way to set um again Dr milesy Chuck Aon jump in if I misstate anything um so this went through multiple drafts uh and then finally um as of I want to say the 11th or something
like that um we finally uh approved it U we notified it in the last meeting and the version that is in the packet very much redlined um but I have it up in the deck now in clean form um is the version that we as a subcommittee approved um
structurally um we essentially established foundational covenants which provides the background of what we were trying to do um we provided then um you know name removal naming and renaming submission process and what has to
happen in those particular cases guidelines for consideration if a person's name is chosen and it doesn't always have to be a person's name that's chosen we know we have many schools in this District as well that are not named after people uh and then overall the
review and approval process um below that so much of the naming review and approval process hasn't changed other than to change the structure um and to clarify some of the previous conflicts in the policy between the the terminology of subcommittee and advisory
committee uh and other things like that to clean it up so as we know you cannot have a subcommittee where we have members that are not part of the existing group of the committee right so it's an advisory committee clearly named in the policy now as opposed to a
subcommittee um the constituents of the advisory committee have not changed um or anything else along those lines uh it's just that we've cleaned up the language to align with ex exactly what policy we're talking what type of committee we're talking about so I'll pause there Chuck and Aaron Dr M chesy
if anything I missed or if you want to add anything um no okay and then open up for the rest of the committee to uh see if there's any other discussion or concerns or points Sean um I have two column
grammatical suggestions in the early part of it and then I have kind of a question about the intent on One Piece um the uh that the first the very first sentence there under foundational covenants where it says naming including name removal and renaming just feels a
little bit clunky I would wonder if we could revise it to something like decisions regarding the naming of school facilities it would be you know comprehensive to include naming renaming unnam triple naming qur you know
whatever like just a suggestion and just the that that Clause of naming including removal you know it just feels a little bit clunky to me that's that's all so that was one um and then the second one uh is in the third paragraph where
it says a name associated with educational significance or inspiration should be recommended and chosen um I know most of that is from the original or from the current version of the policy um I think that
that I understand the sort of sentiment behind that I think it's a little bit um at odds with the notion that we could name and we have facilities named for geographical areas like I don't know that you know wood end is educationally significant or
inherently inspiring um I love the name of elementary school I'm not POS positioning to change it just to be clear um but uh you know we we have a we go into great detail about what you know what the considerations are in the characteristics are of an appropriate
name that particular sentence feels a little bit um at odds with the the possibility that or you know or the possibility that we would name something for a sponsor um right which we we leave open as a possibility here as well so um I I would just suggest striking that
sentence um I think it's extran it's probably you know unnecessary given all the other guidelines that are in here okay um so I think we left it in on purpose um because it was the focus of Education in particular but then we
added the the the line at the end about you know it's also appropriate to name it after physical locations which we felt left it open to you know exactly what it what they are right now um so it's almost as a preference I suppose as opposed to a requirement and if we
needed to adjust some of the language around that perspective we could if the rest of the committee felt like we should strike the sentence we could have that conversation as well um and then we can move forward so do you you want to make the motion officially and then see if it goes or do you want to just kind of get a feel from everybody before we
go forward I don't feel strongly one way or the other okay is there any I'll just look around the room and see if there's any thoughts on that particular paragraph I think Sean's asking to remove the first sentence um which as Sean mentioned was part of the old
policy um this is actually this particular paragraph is one um that I sort of Miss highlighting something that we did do in the policy um this particular paragraph for the most part was in the old policy um the the
second line or second sentence I believe came from the masc policy um the LA second to last line that says long-standing community members who have had a significantly positive impact on Youth and reading was added as part of
it to open up additional Avenues of people to potentially name it after um so there was some movement here but not all movement in this particular paragraph As We adjusted it we took out some bullet points too didn't we take out we took them out the
and so part of this was you know there was a bit of an inconsistency between this and kind of the procedural part of the old policy um where it almost seemed it was exclusive to naming of people um and that so by taking out that lower
section this this paragraph essentially it opens up the the the greater concept of how who can we name things after or what can we name things after um while still adhering to the greater construct of focusing on education in general but allowing
that there will be other other potential ways to do it so yeah sorry go ahead Chuck so we did talk quite a bit about that uh and I think that um I I I understand what what your concern
is I think that's why we added that sentence out where the Community member the the one lower down kind of it kind of gives back uh your ability
to uh name something after somebody that doesn't have you know it's doesn't have what's said in that sense is that do that is that how it was Comm trying to remember well I mean so we essentially
to yeah I mean yes and no right we didn't spend a lot of time focusing on this particular sentence because it was a carryover right um what we did do to your point is add the the long-standing community members who have significantly positive impact so if we decided to
strike this sentence right um which you know is what it is we should just have to also change remove the word also and just the S this then s this next portion of the of the paragraph should say the committee feels it's appropriate name a school facility for physical location Geographic areas distinguished local
state and national leaders whose names will dignity to the state stat of the school outstanding Educators associated with the school longstanding it it serves a very similar purpose so it is almost duplicative I know where Sean's going with it and I'm okay with it as long as we agree on on the other construct of removing the
also so the paragraph would just start with names and asso I actually don't feel like we're losing by taking out that first sentence Tom can you make that text a tiny bit bigger sure by taking that out I
think makes makes it broader as to what who you can name something right we we already say lower in the paragraph these are also accept and it's inclusive of I would argue names that are associated with educational significance or inspiration
so I I just I just think it's a little bit redundant and it's a little bit at odds with this other C these other categories of names that we would consider if the intent to your original Point Tom if the intent was to say you know something like preference you know
preference is given to names that are associated with educational significance or inspiration like let's say that instead that there and then we can have the also category at the bottom so that you know it doesn't it doesn't negate you know wood end being a viable name
for instance yeah I mean we could do that too so if we were to say reference is given to name associated with educational significance or inspiration um yeah just send the sentence there
period yeah then the rest of the paragraph holds and I think that's probably what I'm hearing is that's closer to the what you intended by leaving it in I'm going to say should be or something like that how about that or will be yeah I I wouldn't say
should yeah should and shall is always fun right will be that even could go at the end if I mean it almost seems like I don't think the first sentence right Fair agreed more down
here here we go again we do it all the time that's what we do right but I think that I mean this establishes the beginning of it in terms of goal vision mission and goals right um not restrict the use and then the committee I'll say this committee feels
that it's appropriate to name a school facility for a physical location blah blah blah and then at the end even though we feel all of that preference will be given to a name associated with an with educational significance or inspiration yeah that's better okay now Sean your other one was
was what just the F the very first um naming renaming removal yeah it was just a suggestion that we changed that to something like decisions regarding the naming of school facilities then you'd have to change some of the tents there like are important matters that deserve thoughtful attention
um just you know we're talking about three different sort of naming activities mhm I think we can simplify a little bit that's we could simplify it I think part of the problem and the concern that people were given and we sort of address it later but so let's just talk it through was that there
wasn't it wasn't clear that this covered name removal naming and renaming which is why the opening sentence tried to cover all three constructs um You could argue and it's a fair argument that the whole section covering name removal naming covers that
to make it clear um but that was part of the reason why it was starting off that way I don't like it as a starting point necessarily either so I'm open to different points of feedback on that and if we think that I mean I I would sort of posit that we're not really creating
a process for renaming here right um you know renaming to me means giving a name to something that hasn't that already has an existing name and we've actually broken it out and said you've got to remove the name first and then and then you name something so I'm not even sure
that you know raming really appes to the naming policy um no I know that there's a clause that says it keeps the name until a new name is accepted but you know de facto that building or that facility no longer has a name even if it's retaining it until we get a new one
so I just you know I I just think it's a little clunky and I'm sure you guys experiened the same thing were trying to phrase all these all these Clauses um but I think the you know the procedural stuff that follows sort of clarifies what the scope of the policy
is well enough how's that is that what you were trying to say yes deserve deserve yep I'm getting there decisions regarding the naming of school facilities are important that deserve
decisions happy I'm not going to argue about it either way I just I I agree that it's clunky but I think clarifying what we mean in the parenthetical phrase it's helpful in terms of renaming and so the
original naming seems very file to me in my brain like when I read that it's like we name something it's done I know we get into it later on but sorry I'm not going to argue had what if it were decisions regarding the names of school facilities
so it's not the act of naming it's yeah I could get it yep yeah yep permanent to me decisions regarding a stablishing the names of school facilities I think that leaves out removing names I think the
I like that suggestion Sean um I I told Tom this morning that I was going to suggest that we have give this one a little bit of time to breathe and not try and settle it tonight and then I decided that I there's like two more things I want to talk about if it's okay
and then we can just plow through um so sorry I don't Tom I don't have for no that's I I any objections to the language as written I I can live with that okay okay um one more thing in that paragraph sorry and
promise I'm almost um as I was reading the sentence in the middle of personal Prejudice or fa favoritism political pressure or temporary popularity shouldn't influence choosing name for school facility um again totally appreciate the sentiment and I agree with where we're going I
think inherently what we've what we've created here is a political process by virtue of you've got to have 50 community community members signing a ition you're you're you know trying to drive up support for you know for a decision um I think inherently there's
a call a political angle to that Pro process um what I would suggest and I I want to keep the word political in here but what I would suggest is we build it into that first clause and say something like personal or political Prejudice and favoritism temporary and and temporary
popularity should not influence choosing a name um I don't know what political pressure means in the context of something that inherently has the community coming and and asking us to do something if that makes sense sorry can
you repeat what you're proposing yeah um what I would propose would be to say to have the first Clause be or to have the sentence read personal or political Prejudice or favoritism and temporary po you know or
temporary popularity should not influence choosing a name for a school facility and you would strike you're taking out pressure but keeping political the because I I get the point here like what we don't want to do is you know whatever the committee gets a 4 to
lean in one political direction we don't want to necessarily name it for you know Michelle woo or Charlie Baker like whatever you know I think that's kind of the intent here um and I can get I can get behind that what I um what I'm concerned about
is again just that we've created an inherently political process by asking the community to bring you know to bring and ask to us so this is old language as well it was just pulled up from the other other portion which actually was near the bottom of the policy before um
pulled up this one actually is pulled up in alignment with masc near the top of of the policy um and I hear what you're [Music] saying I don't necessarily think that
a petition asking us to do something though is political pressure I think it's an interesting line to walk though Sean I think what you're I know what you're trying to to get to there um I think you'd have to be able to Define what political pressure looks
like and I don't I have no idea what it means in this context if I'm being honest I I would say that the majority of naming and unnam of buildings in the past three years have been because of political pressure and
if we're not recognizing that with this policy then why bother just the advocacy you get for something is that's political pressure yeah this this whole naming thing a lot of it is you know part I shouldn't say
um some some of this is because of political pressure and I think you can't negate that but but I would I would I would he would argue right I would say there's a difference between political pressure like and I know what you're saying Sean
it's hard to hard to Define versus you know a lot of people are advocating in a very positive way for you know naming of a facility renaming a facility or unnam a facility is going to be a very political thing naming a facility has not been a
very political thing um publicly publicly well even privately I don't know really I mean personally I don't I don't think it was in any of the cases we've talked about really that kind of political and nature um this is in my mind it's aimed at
trying to avoid like really hardly entrenched divides right um but I don't know if that's to your point do you want to Define political pressure political pressure is what anybody feels is political pressure yeah who gets to make
the decision whether somebody is com is asking us to do something for political reasons or because they believe it's misaligned with the community's values right like that is an impossible standard to Define and we're certainly not doing it here as it currently stands um you know I hear your point Carla and
I I don't think it's I don't think it's I don't disagree um you know I don't disagree but does that does that suggest that if there's any cohort on the side of not changing it then it's a politic you know it's it's a political debate like I don't or not naming a building in some way it's
it's a political debate I don't know what that looks like and when I read political pressure I was like you know or does this mean people are putting undue pressure on us and I I kind of dismissive of that because the reality is people can choose to vote or Advocate against our reelection or our election
you know for any reason they choose right including any decision we might make as individuals or as a group up here and so I I just I don't I don't know how you how you define this and I'm I don't think puts us in a good position having you know a chair or the group of
us collectively have to decide what qu what qualifies as political I think we should go through the process you know apply the policy as you know fairly and evenly as we can but I I
inherently I just feel really strongly about this inherently the community coming to us asking us to do something in the form of a petition has a political angle to it so I don't I just don't know what this means and you know what this actually looks like in practice so you're saying personal or
political no personal personal or political pre or favoritism or temporary popularity should not influence choosing a name for a school facility that fundamentally changes the definition of the whole
sentence I I think it needs to stay and I think there's an inherent difference from the group that's interested in making changes at Joshua Eaton versus the naming of um Hardy field it's it's
it's different but you're so you're you're predetermining whether or not the Joshua Eaton name suggestion should be addressed should be allowed under this policy I think heard I think that by not acknowledging that
some of these of people bringing certain issues does not involve political pressure I think you're fooling yourself I think a lot of the decisions that we make on this committee on so
many different things there is uh especially in the past few years there is a political pressure it's it's there it's part of life and the the balance of the board is part of life
and and how we advocate for it is part of life and to to to to you know to say it shouldn't exist or doesn't exist it does and I I think we're fooling ourselves to think it doesn't I I'm not I'm not saying it doesn't exist I'm I'm
saying I I think it's too broad of a term I think it's too broad of a term I I challenge anybody to define the line between you know making a decision because it's inconsistent with the community's values and making a decis decision because of political
pressure if anybody can Define that in a clear way then let's let's do it and let's build it into the policy can I so I think the word political is the challenge right so I think pressure is The Challenge from his perspective um is the word pressure or the word political because in my point of it's the word
outside pressure right so like it's our deter putting the word political on it is our own self like determination of whether it's political or not if it's if we want to maybe further like what we mean by outside pressure to do so and maybe focus on that versus is it
political oromic is that I think the lens of what's political is something we're each individually placing on that right so and a lot of policy read is a lens of how individuals read the policy right and that's that's
a reality you know there are times I've read policies to you all and you said I don't read it that way I said that's the way I see the words right and but that so that is what it is right and I'll just for clarity the current request that we that you've mentioned is under the existing
policy which has this language in it so it's not whatever we change here has nothing to do with the current request the current request has this language in it it's under the existing policy so that sort of thing will will fit in here um Michelle must have gotten text we're
almost on policy stuff so um so I think you know I I don't want to remove this because I do feel like there is a need to say we're not going to just do something because of
political pressure I don't feel like the naming related items that have happened so far were political pressure in terms of the ones we move forward we did them because of you know people who dedicated their lives to this town and did a ton
for our kids and sports and Athletics and whatnot and you look at Eno that wasn't political pressure that was because of what he did for the performing arts department Etc I mean that to me it's like you can know what political pressure is and what political pressure is not and those are two very
different things from my perspective now every individual on this committee and any future committee can Divine what they think political pressure is um I think it's pretty apparent um but if every I mean and I don't want to change this language I
don't want to change it to the Way It Was Written because or the way it was suggested it completely changes the intent of the sentence if that's the case I I don't I don't agree that it's apparent and I and I'd be surprised if anybody doesn't agree that there's a measure of
subjectivity to it and if that's the case I think it's problematic in a policy where the I think the process is that the the chair determines whether or not the you know whether or not not the a proposal is consistent with the policy and whether
it comes to the school committee to the full committee so I'll say you the way I've done things so far right and every whenever there's another chair the other chair will do what they do and I think Dr miles's been in the room right um in many cases and he in all the cases that
I've been involved in um I don't make this decision in the chair meeting this decision in my mind fits in the deliberation meeting it's not a onep person decision it's a committee decision it's
a committee decision which means it comes down to the vote of the deliberation meeting the first one being do we go to an advisory committee and the second one being do we accept the recommendation of the advisory committee I mean I guess I feel like
this whole process even though we haven't encountered something black a better word controversial um it's still very much a lobbying Pro I mean it's it political it right which it's people saying like
we're lobbying for this it's you know we get tons of emails and support um so I I do think we just haven't been up against like well this group wants this name and this group wants this name and now you
know but I think it I think it's all political in nature because it's it's it's designed to be lobbying it's you know getting signatures having people come yeah that's if if
uh you know Sean you didn't uh say you did you voted against Damon Hardy that you don't think people would remember that at the polls right so that means it's political right yep
so Dr Dr go ahead I was going to jump in I I actually I I like the word I like the phrase having political pressure there and how I see it in terms of even being in in my role and I would describe an example which isn't a naming example but maybe sheds light on how I'm
thinking about political pressure in this situation too going back to the conversation we'd have around around masks right when we had to make decisions around masks I I think the committee would hope that I wouldn't make them based off of my own personal Prejudice around what I
believe is necessarily right I hope that people would wouldn't want me to make a decision based off what's temporarily popular in that moment then get to the political pressure I'd get I got thousands of emails what I I would think the committee wanted me to do was look at
the merits of the arguments that are made in my direction and be listened to the merits of the arguments not be swayed by the names of the people who are writing them not be swayed by the amount of people that are writing them not be swayed by the tone or the anger
or the animosity with which people are writing them but instead on the merits of which the argument is so when I when I see this the the kind of the connection I make is I would hope that a Committee Member would be able to look at advocacy from the lens of the merits
of an argument and not advocacy by who's saying it how angrily they're saying it you know how they're trying to influence or put pressure on standing outside your door you know other things that may raise the heat which we know can happen I think there's
a I expect that a Committee Member can differentiate between what is the the the merits and the merits of advocacy and of an argument versus doing it in a way to purely just try to influence in a way of of raising heat R raising
pressure raising intensity which I think is different than a merits of an argument so I I just I yeah I agree if if if we are um you know if if we're saying
that I'm not sure this is articulated anywhere in the policy but if we're saying that it's not going to rest on the decision of one person whether a submission is political or not then I can get if if the intent is to say that it shouldn't influence
committee members votes right you know which I think Dr miches is sort of where you're going that that I get a lot more you know that I get a lot more comfortable with you know again in practice like we are in elected positions we all have constituencies that we listen to you know more maybe
more than others so in practice I don't this isn't enforceable in any meaningful way um but if that's the intent I can get comfortable with it again with the caveat that comes with the understanding what do you mean by one person you mean the chair what I what I don't what I'm I
don't think is a a good policy or what I don't think would be a good policy is one that allows the chair to determine whether a proposal backed by 50 signatures is political or not and then decide whether or not it comes to the school committee for for further
discussion Tom saying he doesn't think that's the case as when I was chair and I just me I mean to me it was just a formality it came to the chair because I was the chair yeah and and I have NE
would never think of killing it right there yeah you set you come to the committee to set up the sub committee and let let it have its way out if that's everybody's everybody's read of of how this goes and it's not about any individual as chair I mean I I think
everybody would you know would see see it the same way they don't want any one person to decide whether or not something gets can I can I jump in on that too because I think that's named later in the policy where it says naming and renaming reviewing approval process where it says upon receiving a name name
removal R name request the superintendent the school committee chair will meet with the individual or individual submitting the request provide the request is in good order the school committee and the superintendent chair will agree on a regularly scheduled school committee meeting like I to me that doesn't say anything about political pressure that says it's in
good order and I will say from the the the bar of that in my experience with Chuck and with Tom and with you Sean is that it is a they they put together an argument sit down with you when it is a organized argument whether you agree or disagree I think the political pressure to me I think that is separate than I
don't think to me I'm not seeing that as whether or not that gets on the school committee agenda because I think it's a pretty low bar to get something on the school committee agenda it seems like it's in good order I think what this is saying is in this whole process is the it it kind of puts the pressure on the school committee for lack of a better
term to say don't cave to the political pressure of this right this is a process that should be based on the merits of an argument so I I think that part about I don't think the chair is ruling things out or can rule things out with that cause of good
order if if in good order means only a meets the procedural requirements I agree if in good order means there's an opportunity for somebody to say this isn't consistent with the the requirements of the policy broadly then I'm not I'm not sure it
achieves I'm not sure it does that again I'm not I don't want to hold this up I you know I can sort of accept in good faith that everybody you know doesn't think it's appropriate for any one person to decide whether or not you know a properly
submitted 50 person petition ever makes its way to the full committee I can I can take that in good faith I just you know I'm just calling out what I see as the as the risk as the um as the policy written there isn't
there is another election among this group as well right the chair gets elected by a too so in that respect if if you have a rogue chair who decides they're going to push things aside there's an election process in that
respect too but I I mean I I I think I speak for this committee that we we P you know we we're making things as a body and and not knocking things out I agree and I I want to be clear like I don't I don't view this this currently
composed committee as as a concern but the you know the last version of this policy sat for 19 years right you know a lot can change in 19 years there are other boards in town which will go unnamed that you know you could see people playing fast and loose with like we've got control we've got control
we've got control we've got control um and uh you know I think policy should be designed to outlive the current makeup of the committee um and that's that's why I raise this kind of stuff not because I you know think Tom's going to pull a fast one
can I ask a clarifying question so almost what I'm hearing from that sentence is that you're worried about committee members making a judgment on that but I read it as where
the name suggestion is coming from no like so would would adding in something about it pertaining to the committee members I think what he I don't want to put words I think what Sean's saying is that we don't ever want
to see it never see the light of day cuz the chair doesn't want to move it forward because because the chair thinks it's disagrees politically or yeah right SE yeah I mean yeah I I exactly and again I mean if if that's everybody's intent and that's kind of how everybody
reads it I can I can get over it I Dr mil CH your your how you think about it was helpful to think about the senten as applying to the decisions that we make again I think it's a little bit idealistic to think the political pressure you know isn't a part of the
process just again we all you know we all have constituencies but um you know as much as we represent the whole town and and all students like just you know call a spade a spade here um but uh I I can I can get comfortable
with it as it stands I just I wanted to sort of talk through what everybody's thinking and intent about what the intent and impact of this was doct Jess he will be here in perpetuity until I get my rock chair right 27 years later oh God you're going
outlive all I hesitate to ask but you said you had two more so that means you have one more left uh yeah the last one was um this was more of an intent question there there's a lot of focus on um let me go to sorry let me go to the page
where where it sits so I can point to it um I think it's where the bullets start um the numbering yeah it's in the sort of guideline section so
um the the three the three bullet points under preference will be given to um extraordinarily effective and dedicated service to and on and or on behalf of the youth in the in Reading um get rid of the word the um consistent efforts to
be made Etc the um I was thinking about the example of like so take coolage and I I'll admit I don't know what like Arthur kage's committee assignments and stuff were but you know Arthur kulage was a prominent
political figure um I don't know specifically maybe I should but I don't know specifically that his Focus during his time in the legislature as lieutenant governor was was about education or youth you know um my understanding is that the school was named for him because he was a
lieutenant governor that was from this town and that's that's kind of a big deal um I don't know that that necessarily uh fits under any of these three criteria and again I'm not suggesting we make any change to coolage um what I'm suggesting though is I think extraordinarily
effective and dedicated service to you know or on behalf of the community of reading is maybe a um you know maybe a lean that we want to give to to one of these I totally you know again I
totally agree with the sentiment that if you've got one person who did a lot for education and reading and one person who just did a lot more generally maybe there's a a lean you know to to the other but um extraordinary service to the community of reading is is another way I
would look at this and and you know let's take the eaten example you know I think that was service on be you know on behalf of reading as the only person to die in the Revolutionary War from the this town like doesn't necessarily fit into any of the three sort of preferential criteria
we have captured here so I think the reason this overall section we changed to preference on purpose it's one of the changes we made as well right this used to be the first bullet we moved it under and gave it a preference as opposed to this is the
requirement this other bullet in terms of the first one extraordinary effective on uh for the Youth of reading was one that we use as part of our overall broad schools or a youth-based thing generally and it's a preference
that they have a youth-based focus it doesn't preclude anything else because this is a preference section if the only recommendation is somebody who has done great stuff in the legislature and came from reading and that's what
everybody gets behind this does not preclude that and does not stop it if there are two recommendations and one has been really focused on Youth and one has been you know served the Elders of the community for lack way to put it this is a school that is focused on
youth so the preference is youth is the reason why we put it the way we put it on purpose um so open to the discussion but we purposely changed it to preference we moved it down and we kept the focus generally here on youth
because schools serve the youth and we purposely also we're not dealing with grandfathering names and saying will this name fit into this policy or anything else we did not go through any Grand I just raise it as examples of you know people that I think we would
generally agree deserve it but may not have received preference if they were up head-to-head against somebody else under this policy so um yeah I mean I again I'll I can let it go I'm not that worked up about it you know let me give you one example
um oh no it's not a good example because she was a teacher never mind I'm going to let it go I was G to say Christ mccauliff right like there are 100 elementary schools named after Christ mccauliff but Chris mcff is AER a teacher not yeah not a good
example okay so I think we've addressed the open questions we made a couple of changes Dr Corum yes I haven't gone through grammarly yet necessarily if any wants me to go Jeffrey cor R out I do think just
looking here now at bullet two the um there's not not good parallelism between the three bullets there so if you took out should be made so extraordinarily extraordinary service and demonstrated understanding but consistent efforts to
sustain aged a quality public a education and then and to improve its programs and Services I guess I'm not what there is I mean there is for youth right or no it's for public education
system system I think yeah so it should be just its so these need and to improve its programs and services it's I can go through that if uh gramly would fix it if I needed to um and the other um thing I had noticed was
that sometimes advisory committee is capitalized and sometimes it is not in the process I think I tried to do it the first time but not every time thereafter okay I mean like school committee is always capitalized right but yeah because the
school committee is a official body an advisory committee could be any number of bodies I mean but but this is the specific advisory committee to to review the The Proposal so I thought it was a specific thing there's but it's not
there is not one advisory committee if you even just think over the last three times we had three different advisory committees okay so you're establishing an advisory committee and then from there The Advisory committees have to do XYZ okay thank you so it should be lower
case that's s you're saying that that's why I said the first one was an advisory committee and then everything after that is the advisory committees oh okay gotcha whether that's right or wrong that was my intent and that's what I understood is what should happen um but
that's I got not over there yeah so we can go through anything else uh I can also finish all any grammarly related cleanup at a later point in time as long as it doesn't change the intense do I have a motion Aon motion to approve policy FF as
amended second seconded by Sean any further discussion all right all in favor all opposed and it passes 6 to zero okay good so let me just just save this what's
that that one took a while that one took a lot of thought right a lot of pain and thought really that one was hard some of these are easier than others that one was not one of the easy ones so moving on to gbgb um and here we are um so this one
we reviewed at our last meeting um sometime so and it was there was an ask to go look to see whether employee assistance program needed to identify the confidentiality and in legal review
the short answer is confidentiality is covered under other policies and this fits into that so it doesn't need to have any specific confidentiality call out for EAP um was what the answer came back with um and so this is the the policy as
it is there were no other changes being recommended um we can move forward with this one unless there's anything else anybody else wants to add Jeff or before I go to you any other committee members want to add anything no Dr corm
yes just here again Jeffrey cor and for consistency you have the committee here whereas many of the other policies are at least school committee if not reading school committee it's fun when you try to do masc stuff that isn't consistent so yeah okay
that's a fair addition I like that you move closer to the podium saw that all right do I have do I have a motion um motion to approve policy gbgb
as amended second seconded by Sean any further discussion okay all in favor all opposed and it passes 6 to Z as well um Jeffrey has become an honorary member of this policy sub he
comes to our meetings at 7 7 a.m. okay so we are now moving um to policy gbbc as part of new business this is a single Amendment um and gifts to and
solicitations by staff um I've got the clean version up um this one was one that we had a little bit of fun with um Michelle do you have any quick updates on the summary of some
of the changes we had to make yeah so in this one what I did was I improved the reability clarity consistency in the definitions in the formatting I expanded the scope of the acceptable gift types and their situational appropriateness um clarified rules of
aggregating gift values and extion for specifically class gifts which comes up a lot um so that shows up as homemade gifts multiple gifts multiple smaller gifts for gifts and then it specified that the gift related activities may not play take place during school hours or
utilize resources and then I ensur an alignment with um the conflict of interest water as well okay any questions on this one from the sub from the
committee Sean go ahead don't apologize why we're here we're not perfect so couple things um I'd like to make clear just because it's I don't think it is the $50 limit um which I know is is tied to state law so I totally totally
support of that but it's it's like on a onetoone relationship you know a teacher could take 20 $40 gifts um and this this makes it seem like you know it's aggregate gifts within a calendar year and we struck some language that was like from a particular business interest
or something along those lines um um that made it clear that it was you know a gift from an individual person or organization or what have you um and I I I think you you know if I just read this as
exactly as written a teacher can't accept more than $50 in aggregated gifts during the year period it doesn't say it doesn't specify you know from an individual or from a family or from a potential vendor or you know
any organiz any you know body that would give it to that give that gift so Michelle anything if we were to add for example in the first sentence and then maybe in the value sentence there in the second paragraph no school district employee will accept a gift worth $50 or
more from any single individual or family and then the the value of gifts accepted it is aggregated over a calendar year per individual or family as the I mean we can come with the right language but as The Giver or something like that I mean Michelle corre me I'm wrong I
think the state law is is individual so theoretically you know two different individuals within the same family could give gifts without violating state law I I think we should probably seek to be consistent with that um so I would suggest individual and like or business entity something along those
lines yeah so it would be single Gap and then you'll see um so I think we dra the over the the $50 Below in regards to class gift but I don't think we specifi what your um sharing so I think we could
add that to Second parag so no school district employee will accept a single gift worth $50 or more you you could say you could leave it as a as a gift because later you clarify that that includes aggregate
amounts but say a gift worth $50 or more from any individual or business entity and then everything else holds I think yeah right oh yeah it's SL
Place yep except to get $50 or more from any individual I'll zoom in so everybody can see it a little better and then the value of gifts accepted is aggregated so because we've done it clearly up here do we need to change we don't need to change a right you don't need to but I mean for clarity
you could just drop in that same Clause the value of gifts accepted from any individual or business entity are aggregated or is aggregated since it's the value okay and then I I wanted to throw out one more just curious what the group's
think thinking is or Michelle maybe you know if you have particular guidance on this um you know we have class sizes up to mid-20s um 150 strikes me as kind of a a little bit of a low threshold you know I mean
families often give 1010 or $20 at the beginning of the year um you know for I think that was Jeff saying it was state law yeah state law right that is correct yes interesting anary
member have to send some emails to some pto's I think yeah yeah so typically my experience if it was1 150 to the teacher then the rest would be like gifts to the classroom with those funds so they buy some additional supplies or other Amazon gift card be used to buy homade
Target okay um okay so this is also and you know what we're not saying follow don't do anymore being a calendar year actually actually helps because from one class it's often at the holidays and then
again that year end you know the end of of the school year so um that's correct across the calendar year so across the school year you can get $300 because it's calendar all right all right that's helpful thanks Michelle okay all right any referen business
entity in the first in the that second paragraph We need to make any sort of reference to this conflict of interest law because if it is a gift from a business entity that might fall into conflict of interest do we have that covered do you want
to we even need to to specify individual just or business thing just just make it clear that $50 comes from comes from each does it have to drill down the business
on well I I think the the problem if you left it as just individual is theoretically a business with 20 employees could have their employees you know give have multiple employees give gifts and then yeah you could you could
have for example $50 per gift it's per but so I think we're I mean Sean maybe this is where you're going just thinking out loud right if we are going through a curriculum review and we have a provider say you
know hey teacher X that's on curriculum Rie policy I'm going to have 15 of our salespeople each give you $50 if you recommend our curriculum that's individuals but they're acting on behalf of the business entity so it's a violation I think that
explicit quid proquo is kind C elsewhere but you know but but to do it a little bit more subtly is the thing you're trying to address with this kind of policy right and I mean and there there is this kind of conflict of interest answer at the bottom Michelle so I think we're covered I don't think we need to
add anything specific up up top perfect or could you say individual or other source is there some are you trying to go broader than business entity well I was trying to get rid of it you know so I think that's what you were trying to
do right get rid of it business entity yeah no I I think I I suggest I suggested it I yeah yeah so I think we're good based upon the recommendation and I think we more or less are on the same page and Chuck I think now that you're clear on him I think you're on the same page too right all right so Aon
do we have a motion motion to accept policy gbbc as amended I have a second second seconded by Sean any further discussion all in favor all opposed and it passes
60 uh okay and now we move to gbi staff participation in political activities um which is appropriate at the time especially as we have Killin coming
up um Michelle any uh update on this one you want to walk through yes so I just want to make sure that we anchor on so this is if a staff member is running for political office um so that is the background on
this and so I expanded the Restriction restrictions on the use of school resources for political purposes clarified prohibiting campaigning during work hours providing concrete examples for guidance reinforce that public employees are barred from soliciting
funds for political campaigns and then they strengthen the language of student protections to ensure clear separation between political activities in the learning environment um and I believe that is it I the title is you you think they
would have in the title um person political activities yes it I mean it does also address supporting ballot initiatives yeah it's not just person yeah um I wonder so Michelle I appreciate
sort of the strengthening of the student protection piece at the bottom um but but that more explicitly addresses you know advocacy on behalf of any staff member should we expand that to include
ballot initiatives which this policy also seems to address otherwise I'm sorry SE can you repeat that yeah so so in the first paragraph it says you know these include the rights to campaign for elect the Public Public office or you know support ballot
initiatives Etc um so I would read that and we know that this is consistent with the law anyway but I would read that as meaning you know employees shouldn't use school system facilities etc etc not only for their own personal political campaigns but also you know ballot initiatives they may be supporting for
instance which again you know is consistent with with the law on this anyway on the bottom where we have the the Clause that you know kind of protect students from being pressured by staff to participate in a staff members political campaign we don't
address um we don't address you know staff members advocacy of ballot initiatives and I I mean I would think we would have the same expectation so I did not embark on that um I try to stay
within the current how the current policy was written and I try to keep that meaning and then so the intention of the original policy that is what I revised it not um bring in anything additional from what was
there originally so is it inappropriate for the ballot initiatives at the first paragraph to be have been put in there if that's not the intent of the policy it's been in there the whole time I mean they have the option they the
right to support ballot initiatives right um it's just just outside school it's just outside school hours essentially right and outside school facilities and outside school res resources using School resources not using their school so Sean's question
really is at the end is should they you know should we say under no circumstances shall students be pressured encouraged or required to participate in any political campaigning or advocacy on behalf of any staff member or Ballot initi or ballot initiative right essentially is what
Sean's asking yeah I I think it should appear in both paragraphs or NE I agree because we are implicitly we are implicitly saying that the three sort of bulleted restrictions there apply to ballot you know apply to ballot initiatives that a staff member
May support but then we don't apply the same protections to their activities with regard to students so if we I just I think we want to add it I I added it just now as we were walking through it I don't think there's any legal reason why we can't add it and I can take that as an action
to double check afterwards if we approve this and if we need to come back and reapproved we can come back and re-approve it um so I'll put myself as a note to ask legal real quick on that okay John but that's what your intent
was right it is yeah does anybody in the committee have an objection to that intent so just so I'm clear theoretically could a teacher say hey students do you want to hold signs with me before
school not you must hold signs with me but do you want to that's that's a I would count that as encouragement that is encouraged okay so they can't even have they can't engage in the conversation okay no
yeah it just needs to be clean that they it's not coming from the staff keep it out yep okay is that would all Sor that next sentence no school employee shall use their position that's using your position I would argue to get a student invol and to involve a student in the political activity
too yes Dr Corum um just as I'm reading this I'm wondering if there's any whether the school committee needs to have a policy that also prevents um staff members from being in uh pressured by say the supervisors the principal or the
superintendent to make to make take part in a campaign that might be a completely separate policy and a discussion different night but just putting that out there is not an existing policy it's an interesting topic to consider for the future
yeah we'll talk take that up with we aren't done with Personnel yet so we'll take that up and figure out where we can figure things out um okay motion for this one motion to accept policy gbi as
amended second second by Sean any further discussion all right all in favor all opposed and it passes 6 to Zer as well thank you and again for the thoughtful conversation and we move to the last one
which is a first reading GB G domestic violence leave this one needs a little bit of cleanup so I'll go through the cleanup that are before our next meeting um this is a brand new policy for the committee uh this is based upon an M
masc policy but I believe Michelle you did make some substantial changes to this one too if I recall correctly um so do you want to start yes so the prior way that this policy was written there was a lot of sections that were not with
um like sections so what I really did here is a re had a policy with since it is a longer policy with using headings to improve the clarity and consistency um worked on the structure of the readability I've improved the
organization um it was difficult to follow now related section are together and they're no longer disjointed which created confusion on the application of the policy um the re formatting also consolidates relevant information and then I clarify
specifically the PID status guidelines to distinguish between that paid and unpaid Provisions to eliminate ambigu um one edit I didn't catch earlier that I want to take out is we don't care about masc policies we care about reading policies so we'll put
reading public school policy guidelines instead would be sorry where is that and the last thing they go references very end this is really long yeah it's right last
page so I'm going to put wrting a school committee or something it's really mgl that defines it but I'm not sure why masc listed themselves in the in that so I can also follow up on that um go ahead consistent with jeffy's
feedback earlier should the first sentence be the reading school committee instead of the the school district yeah it's interesting sometimes how they go back and forth on that yeah so one of the things I've been
thinking about for a while and I need to get to it is essentially a procedure for the policy committee um to do some of this normalization so as we go through it this is the guidelines the things we want to check for to keep consistency also describing how I go
through this cuz I don't think anybody else has actually had to go through it yet to rip down our policies do the review all that kind ofun and stuff so that's what I it's on my list of things to do is to proceduralized what I'm doing um so any other feedback on this one
this is a first reading so we're not doing final approval we're just going to accept a first reading people can digest it a little bit more for the second reading if they want to uh or we also can take any other corrective and cleanup action here too a clarifying question so we say 15 days and I think
there was a reference to 30 days approval somewhere but I'm tired so I can't find it uh that calendar days business days do we need to clarify that anywhere it's leave days right so it's it's business days in the third I think there was a 30-day reference approval somewhere page
two the submit documentation within 30 days yes submit documentation with 30 days of the Le being taken so it could be retroactive and is that leave days is that business days or calendar days Michelle
that I don't believe it specifies but I can double check that so this I think would probably be more calendar days in my mind but let's let's put a note double check this yeah cuz that's a big difference
y i yeah I I think the vast majority of our HR policies are going to be oriented around calendar days unless they say otherwise specifically cuz business days is it like are they Bank business days are they School business days you know um that's maybe open to more debate um
Michelle I have a a question maybe just to chew on and maybe we can talk about it next time um in the confidentiality section so it says disclosure should only be permitted and it gives a variety of conditions um all of them are very
objective you know the employees written consent court order required by federal state law law enforcement or AG investigation and then the last one is or when necessary to ensure workplace safety um I guess you know I don't know that
that last one feels subjective and judgment based and you know I'd air on the side of protecting confidentiality in these kind of matters so just curious what your thoughts are on that one we don't have to discuss it now like I said this is just a first reading but I just wanted to flag that that's one thing
that caught my eye is there an immediate thought or answer so so I do think there's a portion of this that is Judgment based given the nature of believe um and if we have a situation where we deem that there could be a safety
risk we do need to be within our our meanss to take action on that um and when we say confidentiality um that would not be we are breaking confidentiality within the workplace but that that could
mean we have do maybe say call law enforcement okay that we capture if we deem that there is a res and unfortunately at times there is going to be judgment call that needs to be made yeah no that that's it's a thank you for that
clarification that's helpful um Can can should should confidentiality no way in any way be subjective it just has to be confidential period Well I to Michelle's
point I mean it is a there is a judgment call us to whether or not something that that you know Michelle May learn about through a a leave request whether or not it constitutes a a workplace safety issue and we can't handcuff them from being able to act in that case so I mean
Michelle maybe maybe the way to think about this is I'll think about this some more but you know I I don't know if it makes sense to think about do we just put a box around what disclosure would be appropriate when there's a workplace safety concern you know we can think about that
and we are going to do everything within our our me to keep this safe and the only time that we would you know if there was a work that saf for for our employees for the person in this situation
um we are going to do to uphold their confidenti as much as we can within making keeping everyone yeah okay anything else all right can I get a motion to approve the first reading motion to
approve the first reading of policy GB G second seconded by Sean any further discussion seeing none all in favor all opposed and it passes 62
Zer and that concludes Chuck's final meeting do I have oh yeah you're right sorry about that it doesn't conclude umor he doesn't pay attention sorry but
it doesn't doesn't bother you um this last Tuesday as Chuck's Last Action on the policy subcommittee um we approved a few more policies to bring forward to the full school
committee and those policies are uh gbj Personnel records GCA professional staff positions gcba professional staff salary schedules GCB employment of principles which is now named principles
it was changed um gbbd online fundraising and solicitations crowdfunding and GCB C supplemental compensation for extra assignments which is also renamed um will be first readings those last two will be
first readings the first four will be full amendments one reading approval the last two will be first readings at our next meeting so we will have a second reading at our next meeting two first readings and four uh Amendment
readings however with that said um our next meeting is April 10th we have code switching as the beginning of that meeting we're going to be um uh notified for attending that and I believe there's
a hope and discussion a hope that we participate in a discussion uh around that that viewing uh as a result uh unfortunately I will be on a plane to Colorado to take my son for his last college visit the following day so I
will not be able to attend that meeting so if I am still a school Committee Member this will probably be the meeting after that meeting that we have those conversations um the first meeting in May which will
be as of right now at Meco headquarters on May 12th so that meeting that we moved which was today we moved it to be not in metco because of code switching for the 410 meeting we then heard
feedback that they really would appreciate if we did come so we said okay we'll come it'll be May 12th um the rest of May and June is interesting in the rest of our calendar uh and I will be gathering feedback from well presuming I'm still here or Aaron will
be uh as potentially deao um Gathering feedback about May because we have um we will have at some point in May the first conversation around Josh beaten and the current time that the next meeting is is the 22nd which
conflicts directly with senior prom and the people bringing it want to be at senior prom so um I'm going to propose probably that May 19th which is again another Monday so we'd have back-to-back Mondays be that meeting I'm open to considering
May 29th I think that was another topic that we potentially could do um so we can look at those and finalize which one it's going to be and then we have June 5th as an agreed one June 12th um we had currently on our plan um
and with yearend reviews and things like that um we're going to try and figure out how we do things cuz June 12th I it may it's not just about me but I will be in Spain for my 25th anniversary um so we'll work through some of May and June
uh and figure out what best works for all of the committee as we look at the rest of the schedule um as we think through things for for May 19th um if Kellum passes on the 13th
we most likely we have a meeting till a meeting potentially meetings usually Mondays so we'll have to Carla you and me or you and Aon will have to figure out because the next the next Monday is
a Memorial Day right so we're working around a little bit in May with all the different activities and June with all the different activities to try and get the right schedule so we l we talked about June 19th that wouldn't work either for similar reasons June 23rd becomes the following Monday after but
school's Clos so there's a lot of things we're trying to navigate around and when we have the committee composition figured out in April we'll figure out what the next what the agenda is going to be and timelines for May June we have all of the stuff laid out that needs to be covered we just have to figure out
when we'll cover all of that anything I missed Dres nope last day is the 16th the last day as it stands I think is the 16th yep we'll vote on that on the 10 that at on the 10th the last what the last day of school is the 16th as it stands
presuming we have no snow days between now and April 10th we'll vote on that April 10 almost recommended to talk about tonight and then there was a scary thing on the forecast a couple we away so we say let's hold off to the 10 do it so sorry I shouldn't have asked now that I've said that any questions on any of
the future agenda items before we move on check motion motion to adjourn for Mr Robinson seconded by Carla she got in there quick I got it not debatable all in
favor all opposed and we are adjourned 6 to zero e