from um May 22nd to order at 8:00 PM starting a little bit late this evening to allow a few of our members to attend events at Coolage and Parker this evening. Um we'll walk through the agenda then jump right in. So, uh we'll start with any public comment for anybody here that has any points of
concern or information or positive shares um for anything not on the agenda. Um it's a two minutes, two to three minutes, your name and address and we go from there. We'll then move to the consent agenda um and uh then reports uh with our student uh superintendent,
director of finance and any lays on our subcommittee reports we have. Uh we'll then move to new business uh at which point we will discuss the Q3 financial update. Um and then move on to um kind of the the big point of this evening is the superintendent summitive review
process. Um when we get there, we'll talk a little bit about the timeline uh for that process and then have Dr. Machesky uh present some of the evidence this evening. Um from there we move into a heavy policy evening um including our
second reading of one of our policies. Um and then we'll move into multiple other policies. uh a first reading, four, you know, just update readings and then another first reading and we will uh complete the evening by adjouring to
executive session not to return to discuss strategy with with regards to prepar preparation for negotiations with central office and principles. So we will see how that goes. Okay. And here comes our sixth member. So we're good to go now. Um
we're good to go anyway because there are five of us but we have all six. 802. Um, so let's start with any public comment. Um, we have one member of the public here. Any comments? No comments. Okay. So, we will move on to the consent agenda. And we'll start with a motion
first. Motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Seconded by Sean. Any discussion, any concerns, any points of clarification? Seeing none. Okay. Just a quick uh No need to roll call because we're all here in person. All in favor? All opposed? and it passes six to zero.
Uh so we will move on to reports and we'll start with our friend over here. All right, perfect. So um not a lot on the list tonight, but we'll start with the writing boys track team and they actually entered a quote, so I will apologize for reading off the paper, but this is what they wanted us to read. Um
the writing boys track team had a fabulous meet on Saturday, winning the D3 state relays with 65 points. It was our second state real life victory since 2016 and it was a total team effort as we scored points in all but two events. The meet showcased our talent and depth. On the track, the distance team led the
way with a first place finish in the 4x800 and a second place finish in the four mile. Senior Chris Barbado led the led the way in each race. In the sprints, we scored a third place finish in the 4x400, a second place finish in the SMR, and a fourth place finish in the 4x100. Juniors Ryan Pulpy and Cam
Giggler and senior Klay Chase were key runners on those teams. In the field events, we got second place in the shot putt led by James Donahghue. And key third place finishes in both the LJ and TJ Reles. We also scored in the Javelin, HJ and Hurdles. And key performers were senior Timothy McGrath, Sophie Michael,
sen sophomore Michael Carco, junior Luke Roger, junior Carmani Murville, and senior Derek Silva. Then up next, Fleshman Freshman Fry Up Flyup Day will take place on June 2nd during the school day. Student rocket ambassadors, myself included, uh will
assist Miss Buckley and class adviserss Miss Keef and Miss Santa Maria in welcoming the class of 2029 to RMHS. Uh this week 160 seniors participated in the senior internship showcase in the fieldhouse during which they presented the key takeaways from their internship programs to include the durable
work-based learning skills that will carry that they will carry with them in the future as a result of their internship experience. And then as of right now senior events are in full swing and kicked off last night with senior awards night in which many seniors were recognized and or earned scholarships for all their performance during high
school. Congratulations to all of them. Some upcoming events tonight as we all know is senior prom. I know all the seniors will be having fun with that. Going to be parties throughout the next week. Um tomorrow evening is the second act play made possible possible by the reading coalition which will be shown to
grades 9 through 11 with a goal of raising awareness among students about the dangers of risk-taking behaviors at a young age. And I believe that'll be during flex block tomorrow. So I've heard uh May 30th graduation at 6 p.m. at either turf one or the fieldhouse if the weather permits. I hope it's good for all those that will be attending.
Um, future freshman night 2 is scheduled to take place on June 2nd starting at 6 p.m. on Main Street at RMHS. And this is just a chance to give incoming freshmen uh a way to check out RH clubs, activities, athletics, the school building before the school year starts in
September. And then two more things. We have dance team and cheerleading team tryyouts on June 4th, 6th, and 5th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Coolage. and also for the dance team 3:30 to 5. So those will just be for the um fall seasons.
And then lastly, the underassman awards ceremony will be on June 5th at 7:00 p.m. here at RHS. That's all. Thank you. Any questions? A lot going on. Yeah, the end of the school year, but looking forward to it
being over a few more weeks ahead of you. Yeah, I won't get ahead of myself, but I'm looking forward to it. All right. Um, Phil, do you want to have any report or just wait for the update? Well, I think my report comes in new business. So, okay. Other than that, I
don't have anything. Okay. Dr. Milchesky. Great. I would just like to give one thank you to the high school leadership team, particularly Katie Buckley, Megan Manos, and Brian Skington. They recently hosted a work-based learning collaboration day, which they brought in uh over 28 local school districts to come visit. uh over
50 participants uh and community partners such as WBLA u uh emblaze uh and a few others to get an idea of what's happening with our senior internship program under the umbrella of transforming the high school experience. Uh it was really exciting to see just
from a couple of years ago uh sort of none of the work being in place whether that's innovation pathways dual enrollment or senior internship and now that team really running with it and becoming a leader in the field. So the feedback from the 28 districts was very positive and I would just like to give a thank you to the to those leaders for their work and leaving uh in building
out great programming but also then in sharing that learning with local districts too. It was a great event for all. So thank you. Great. Thank you leading. I like to see that. Okay moving on to or any questions for Dr. Milichesky. Okay moving on to um
leazison on subcommittee. We'll start with Carla. So, I I concur with you of all the the senior activities going on this week and just seeing the staff out in front. Um I was um privileged enough to be able to at senior awards night
give um our school committee award to Tama Jones. It was just such a nice event. Um Tamia racked up a few. Um it was a really nice event. It's just it's a lot of work that's that you know the staff puts together. So that
was really nice. Prominade was another thing tonight that you know should have been outside. It's inside and it just you know they everybody does a really good job and obviously they're all at the prom right now. So um and the prom Easter as they're calling it now. Um so
um right uh on a good note Kllum passed at our Conway vote on May 13th. Um the designer told us that they had never seen um such a high percentage turnout for a positive
vote. So, um that was kudos and it just shows what what the community values and what they think of um and how they support our school systems and um and and what what type of dire need Kllum is
in. So, we are now um kind of working on negotiating our designer contract, our OPM contract. We're hoping to have a meeting um possibly on June 2nd to go over all of that stuff, a KSBC meeting.
Um and we'll be diving into all of that. So, it's um it's exciting. Tom, can I make a quick note? I just want to thank Carla, too, because I think that is yes, the 80% is a sign of the community support of the school, but also I think a testament to the work
that you led as on the Kilum school building committee. Huge thanks to Sarah and Deshawn for your leadership as well. I think few people see behind the scenes of how many hours that you poured into that project. Uh it was a ton whether those are community facing hours but also behind the scenes. So just thank you for your steady strong visionary
leadership through that process. Uh you went above and beyond in hundreds if not thousands of hours in that project. So a huge thank you to you and I want to make sure the community knows that you poured so much into that. So thank you. I I was at the fieldhouse for the um as the the votes were coming in and honestly people
were like, "Oh, are you so excited?" And I said, "Nope. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach right now just thinking about, okay, what's our next step?" So, it's um we have such a good team across the board and and we're just really excited to to to see what's going
to happen. But you're always thinking about what's next, right? Right. This is the next hurdle. Can I just pile on um you you gave credit to the community for the sort of overwhelming positive vote which you know certainly appreciate the community for showing up and voting but um I'll just pile on with what Tom said.
You know you you went out and talked to any organization that would have you about you know what the need for the project and what we were going to do there. Um so you deserve a ton of credit for the awareness that was built for the project and and um you know broad support for it across age brackets, political leanings, you know all that
sort of stuff. So um really appreciate your efforts. Thank you. Yeah. All right, let's move on. Laura, I have nothing to follow that. All right, Erin. Uh, no report. Sean, uh, so the audit committee of which I forget I'm a part until once or twice a
year when we have a meeting. Uh, we'll be meeting next week to review the RMLD um annual audit. And that is my report. Right before our meeting next week. Right before our meeting next week. Yep. Yeah. Sarah, no report and I have no report because Sean took the one thing
there, but he can provide the update tomorrow. I mean, next week, too, on what happens. Yeah, I'm sure. Be told it's a phenomenal audit. Like, yeah, I could probably give that report now. You could probably give it right now. Exactly. Okay. Um, so let's move forward and um, you know, Dr. Milesky, Phil, um,
you want to start with the FY25 Q3 financial update? Great. I'll pull it up. Are you starting or am I? All you. It's all mine. All right. Well, well, thank you. Uh, first I want to say that I'm very glad that I did survive my first town meeting vote. So, I thank everyone
for all their assistance in helping getting me through that. Um, in front of you, you've got the Q3 financial report. Looks just like we've used for the last two quarters. Just to remind folks again, this is our estimate of where we think we're going to end the year by u
at the end of Q3. So, the numbers will tend to change quarter over quarter, not by a whole lot. Um, as I said to the superintendent earlier this week, overall financially, we are in good shape for fiscal year 25. And I think we'll be able to well position ourselves for fiscal year 26 as well once we get
through this. So, a couple things to keep in mind. We look at the general fund. The general fund is showing some assumptions. One is that we will expend all of the non-personnel lines. It also shows the incumbrances of all the remaining salary expenses. Um, and the assistant business manager, Kate, has
gone through and pretty much tied those out. So, those look pretty solid for the rest of the year. Um, it also includes um expected expenditures of $350,000 for our year-end technology refresh, $300,000 for a transfer to the special
ed um stabilization fund, and about 1.2 million of special ed tuition prepays. So, based on all that, we're anticipating that we would end the year on the general fund with a surplus of about $75,000, which is down from my estimate at the end of Q2, which was around a
quarter of a million. Uh we had a couple of expenses come through that were unplanned. We had uh 50,000 for the investment in Edu educ software that we're utilizing to be able to pull all of our student data together into one application. Um we
also were hit say hit um our renewal for reticer which is the student information system. Apparently when we first bought it uh we actually had a three-year contract on it and that seemed to have gotten lost and so we did not budget anything for this year for that. So that's part of um an unplanned expense
for this year. And then finally, we have some unplanned expenses for our IT um issues that we've incurred this year. Uh but we do expect that under the insurance policy that we have that we should get reimbured for a good chunk of those expenses as well. So, putting that
all into the mix, you'll see again we're planning at this point to be about 75,000 left at the end of the year, being able to do all the things that I just mentioned, which is pretty much in line with what the district has done the last several years. Any questions on the general fund?
Um, since you bucketed it there, um, the 300,000 that we're we're earmarking, for lack of a better way to say it, right now, um, towards the reserve, not stabilization fund. There's a difference because stabilization requires town meeting vote. Reserve does not, right?
Reserve just requires select board and school committee approval. Um, where that would put us where it would put us at 700,000 600. have almost 700,000. Yep. With the with
the earnings for the year included, which is more than the 1% number that we've kept ourselves at. So, let's just look at that against our policy and make sure it's the right number. We can go above a little bit,
but let's just make sure we we do that. and probably I think we're going to schedule it for two weeks from now anyway to have that discussion. Um but let's make sure we align that with the policy appropriately and don't overdo it. And just for my own edification, so the reading school committee policy is
1% even though the law is 2%. Correct. Reading school committee policy is 1% even though the law is 2% um with some allowances for up and downs and flexibility obviously as it grows by itself and whatnot with the intent of making sure we don't the rest of the town budget as a result of it.
Right. So sort of the verbal agreement with town meeting as part of the launching of the reserve fund. The language is to maintain a balance of approximately 1% of annual net school spending and then 1.5 is sort of the ceiling where we commit to spending it down um if we're going to be above 1.5. Okay, we won't be above 1.5 based on
this number, but just let's just be cautious of it. 300,000 is still in in range. Um, but let's we'll have that conversation when the time comes. Our latest was 2% of net school spend would be a little over a million dollars. So, yeah, 1.2 million as of the last report, so it's going to be a little higher this
year, but this will be like one Well, again, I'll be back in two weeks with the Q4 preliminary, so we'll be we'll have that all lined up as well. Great. Yeah. Okay. All right. Um the next page is grants. Um not too many changes. We did
um add a few grants in the third quarter. We have the the Beco BBI which is the Boston Bridges initiative which is a outside um donation and that money has been used in is used for I believe the roller skating
outings. Um save and support of schools which I believe is the continuation of the uh program from last year. The financial education innovation or initiative 3200. That's a state state treasures um grant and that's going to be used to fund a program I believe in
this upcoming November um in conjunction with the reading um cooperative bank branch. And then finally, the I the uh IDA IEP, that's additional funding to continue the training for staff in the
use of the uh new IEP program that he has put out. Um there were a couple of mid-year adjustments. um the state goes through and on especially on the um entitlement grants around January they go through to find out which districts haven't u
claimed their money and if they haven't then they reallocate out reallocate out any funds that are left over as a result we got $439 more for title two and there was also an increase in the department of public health grant award amount that went up by 7900 again that's my
understanding they had money left and so they reallocated Tom or Phil, do you know what we remind us what the DPH money is used for within our district? Is it nursing? Is it something else? It it's the nurses grant. You know, uh yeah, the uh that's
actually the grant that let me see 98,000. That's for uh Tiana's role as well. Okay. So, for the the multilingual learner uh community liaison. Okay. And thank you to Mary for applying to that grant. Great. Other than that, just some adjustments
in terms of the projected um year- end balance. The biggest change would be in the IDEIDA 240 grant, which is special ed grant. Right now, projected we'll have a little we'll have about 100,000 more left over than we thought we were going to have. And that's primarily due to, you know, the turnover that we have with our
um yeah, not IAS, um the pair of professionals and how tough it's been just to fill the positions anyway throughout the course of the year. Any questions on the grants? Looks like you're good to go. All right. Uh, next we have the revolving accounts. Um, again, the revolving accounts are
pretty much tracking where they were in Q2. Uh, there was one change that was made and that was on the extended day program. We initially had that coming in at around 2.2 million for revenue and a little over um 2 million for expenses. uh having met with the uh having met
with the folks, we've scaled back both the expense and the revenue side down to 1.8 on both sides. Um they've reduced the amount of uh use of outside services for some of the programs and at this point it looks like the program is probably going to break even for the
year. Um they are making some changes for next year that um should get it back to where it will be generating a small surplus going forward. Other than that, um there really isn't much going on. Just, you know, updates how much we spent in terms of some of
the uh revolving accounts increase in the both the revenue and the expense sides. Any questions on that? Yeah. So, anybody else before I jump in? So, the extended day, you said there's been some changes or there will be some changes. Um you before your time, we had a bit of
a challenge with that program. So, have we stabiliz do we feel like we've stabilized now and we can be confident in in the carryover because it's a pretty light carryover versus the overall cost and expense of the program um 88,000 versus 1.8 million. So,
um I am at this point having sat down with both Chris and McKenzie um last week to go through detail as to where we are, what they were anticipating. Um, and then we talked quite a bit about what's going to happen for next year in terms of their expenses and they're going to rely even less on outside
vendors for next year. So that will reduce a lot of the contracted services expenses and they're doing some changes in terms of how they will be um charging for uh special I wouldn't say special programs but additional programs.
Okay. So that's a that's a yes. But they've also at least I'm interpreting that as a yes. Um but they've all but the they've used those outside programs in the past to manage capacity and bring in students. So as a result of removing those outside programs, are we reducing
capacity? Um I don't believe so because um there are very minor waiting lists at a couple of the schools. So one of the things I've asked them to do going forward is to send both to the superintendent, myself as well as um
um Dr. Hardy, if there are any students on weight list, there is one school that has a bubble and I have forgotten which school it is that has um probably 20 students that are on the wait list. All the other ones are single digits. So
overall, I think they've got it pretty close to being able to satisfy the demand that's out there. Not going to say it's perfect, but I don't think it's anywhere near what it was a couple years ago in terms of students or weight lists. Yeah, Tom, maybe just for a future
meeting, um we can get update from Sarah or somebody or Dr. Hardy or somebody. But it was about creating more capacity, but it was also about sort of creating more enriched programming, right? You know, so if we're pulling back on some of that, you know, that may very well be
viable and and the right decision, but um I'd like I'd be curious to hear more. Yeah, personally. Yeah, we can also invite Chris Nelson to come to an upcoming meeting too just to give an idea, you know, given that those numbers are tighter, an idea of just, you know, how we're making sure we're in a good position financially, but also
programmatically, what are we thinking for the future? We have had a lot of those conversations internally. So, it would be he'd be happy to have that conversation publicly. Yeah, it might be good good summer conversation as well as we talk through things in either July or August. Great. Because he explain he can explain it far better than I can at this
point. Okay. All right, Sean. Great point. Thank you for adding that. Thanks, Phil. Anything else? Um, the next one is the gift donation, and I we're calling it stabilization, but I guess I should be calling it a
reserve fund. Yes. So, we'll make that change. Um, just a um presentation change. we move the um reserve fund out of the revolving accounts onto this uh
report out of the revolving accounts. Um and again in terms of the gift donation, there isn't uh very much in terms of overall changes. It's fairly steady with um where it was for Q2. I think we're missing a couple of donation funds in here. The most recent
one for officer Shavio. That's that is Do we open that in Q3 or we did not officially open that till Q4? I'll have to check the date because I know it's open on the books, but I'll have to see when that we
officially opened it on. I was here and it wasn't in April. I wasn't here and it wasn't in May. So, it had to have been in March. So, it had to have been Q3. I don't have an answer for you that. So, let's just see if we can just double check that one. And I there's another
one that was the um the handover from um um the foreign world language program. That should be on here too. Tanya's. Yeah. Yeah. Talia's Da's. Yeah. D Money. Yep. Or it's not
hers, but she was managing she gave it back to us. Right. That one should be on Carla. Um, so the the Libby scholarship donation fund, there were quite a few scholarships and a pretty significant
amount in each, right? Um, is and I'm assuming this is the interest on this account. That's the that's the balance on that's the balance before we just donate before we approve those. scholarship
distributions are the scholarships um do they make up the interest or you happen to it's going to come down is unless I mean we don't see interest here but we should so the interest is missing on that 1.1 should have a lot more interest than zero but it was about so it's
$4,000 scholarship so 22 of them 88,000 should come off so we're not going to have 88,000 worth of interest in there most likely scholarship maybe I'm wrong actually I could be wrong what kind of fund That's the general fun where it's at. Managed by the town, but I don't have an answer. Yeah, I think that's
managed by the town. So, we'll have to work work through with them appropriately to get the numbers there. And I think Sharon may not reconcile or you know allocate the interest until the end of the year or something along those lines, but there should be some. It was impressive. Yeah, it's an impressive um
scholarship. Yeah, I think. Right. And that if you recall, I think we we voted to distribute it what March or April um as well. Sorry. Y after that lesson simply performance, can I move on to the next page? You're
not doing no. Don't don't worry about it, Phil. You're doing fine. Keep going. All right. And then finally, the last one is the student activity counts. Obviously, you'll see a lot of uh activity going through the high school student activity count because of the uh high school for the seniors graduation, the junior prom, various trips, a lot of
money in there for the cap and gown purchases as well as um all that stuff that's going on there. Um beyond that, again, very few changes uh quarter over quarter. So on this one, the other one or I'm not sure if this I think this does fall in
this bucket, but each of the class ofs should be on this list too. Class of the class ofves are a sub account under each of these under the student activities. Yes. So if you want that on there, then you're going to have a report that's going to be about this long.
Um, I think it's I don't I'll I'm curious what other people think, but especially we've had an we had an issue before where we weren't closing the classes after graduation. So, it would probably be good to see that at least the current and maybe the next year is reported. Um, maybe would be my my
thought. Maybe maybe we look them at look at them at year end. They don't I mean, you know, really need to be reviewed quarterly. That's a fair point. As long as we don't forget them. It's Yeah. Yeah. And if you go back and look, um, the last c the last few years have been all closed out within the time frame. I think it's three months or two
months. Great. Yeah. So, I know that 24 is closed out. So, obviously 25 is our next one to make sure that it gets taken off the books by the end of September. Yeah. To the president in some bank account somewhere. I'm sorry. It gets distributed to the class officers in a
bank account of their management and then they can use it for reunions and such. Um, so any other questions on the student activity counts? Thank you again. Again, you know, I I you know, I want to thank uh the the front office staff,
especially my staff. They uh do a whole lot of work and a great job and they've been putting up with me for the last nine months. You know, I'm like a two-year-old. Why? You know what? I'll say this. There's never a problem asking why. And just
because or this is how we've always done it is not a good enough nothing, right? Um so keep asking why and we'll keep finding things that need to be improved. That's that's the end of my report. Okay. It's not a good enough answer when you ask your when your kids ask that question either. It's really good
advice, Tom. If he if he asks it consecutively, then you can relate that to All right. Any other questions, Rachel? Nope. Okay. Thank you, sir. And as you said, permission, I'm going to loose. Have a great night. I think so. Thank
you. You don't you don't have fun with policies with us. So, stay dry. You know, you can stick around. I think I might stick around. Yeah. Riveting, isn't it? Yeah. Well, no. I I like listening on the processes, you know. It's interesting. All right, Dr.
Milicheski. Um, let's see. We're going to we're going to move to um Dr. Milchesky's um two-year review. So, I'm going to start with this is um I had every intention of putting a memo together to outline the timeline and then I had to travel to San Francisco
suddenly. So, I apologize that I did not do so. Um but here's where my head is and I want I'm happy to get feedback from the rest of the team here as we go through this as well. um we will be doing his review publicly
um on our meeting on June 5th. So everything I'm saying is working backwards from there. Um we will have his sumitive today. We will have a strategy update next Thursday. We will have the student
services update next Thursday. The strategy update will include most of the data that would normally align with a teaching and learning update as well. So everything we would need in addition to what we've already received from teaching and learning over the last
two years part of the review cycle. Um and then we'll have a teaching and learning update on the 5th that is not data related but just other things. Um so the intent here is that with what Dr. real Chesky presents tonight um
including the goals and the the factors the the focus indicators um as well as with the strategy update next Thursday and this student services update next Thursday we have and everything we've received over the last two years we have enough data and information to complete
the reviews now as most of the committee and Laura you're first this is a the first time we're doing a two-year review right and we two years ago because it was a two-year review agreed we were doing all of the focused indicators this
time. So, it's a lot to go through. Um, you'll hear from Dr. Milchesky shortly that he's tried to arrange the evidence in alignment with that to make it easier for us to do. Um, but that is something that we need to consider as we go through it. Many of us also already did
or five of us, but Laura can read through the packets from the past before did f did the formative um last year as part of our process. So by all means fall back on what you you did last year. Look at that as well as input because if you remember three of the four goals mostly were
met last year. Uh and the fourth is what's more or less pending. Um so we'll uh we can talk through that as well. So timelinewise what I'm thinking about is this. Um I would like you to get as much of your draft done over the next three
to five days. Um and have time with Tom with Dr. Milichesky Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of next week to review that, right? So, you have a chance to go back and forth with him and ask him, he can ask questions or you can provide clarifying or anything else like that
and then finalize it. I'm going to say by noon the following Sunday because what I'm going to do is after you finalize it by noon on the following Sunday, um I will only receive your final versions. Your final versions will also go to Olivia, right? So, you'll email Olivia, myself, and Tom your final
versions on or before noon on the Sunday, May 31st or something like that if I recall correct. May 30th, something like that. The Sunday is the 1st. The 1st, June 1st. Thank you. Um and then I will that afternoon evening review it,
find themes, pull it together to create create the sumitative so that I have that ready for the packet which goes out for the public and your review um for that Monday when Olivia is able to distribute it with the updated agenda
for the 5th. So again backing up next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday have your draft ready to review with Tom. finalize it after Thursday night's meeting when you have the final related pieces of information that might feed into it all the way through the weekend until Sunday
at noon and get me your draft um or give me your final version. I don't want your draft. Don't send me your draft. Please don't because I don't want it to inform anything I'm doing and I don't plan to read it anyway. Um give me your final version by noon on the following Sunday. That make sense? Any feedback,
questions, timeline concerns? Do you mind just dropping that to us in a note after this? Thank you. Okay, I will absolutely do that as well. Yes. And yours is optional, Laura. Okay. I don't know if that was explained to you. It was not, but so some people So,
typically it's a one-year cycle. So, some people upon being elected in April have um chosen to go ahead and and participate in it. Um, my first year, I think I I did notes, but I didn't feel like I could
wait, you know. So, everyone has handled a little differently, but given this is a two-year cycle, um, you know, don't feel that you have to do quite what we're all doing, but you can also do as much as you want to. It's a lot to learn. It's it's a great learning process for you to sort of just like go
through it and and reflect upon. Okay. Right. The schools. I will set some time with you probably this weekend or something to walk you through the superintendent review process and documentation so you can see it and then you can make a decision about how you want to proceed. Okay, perfect. Thank you. That way you you're brought up to
speed on at least the documentation and the process and everything else. Everybody else here has done it a few times so they're they're used to it. Um first time is always the most interesting. Um especially as you try to correlate you're like what are they trying to say there? So we'll go through that and figure it out together um and answer questions. Great. Thank Um I did
ask Chuck if he wanted to um provide feedback as well and uh he said I have no intention. He said you know what I think of Dr. Milletches he's the best ever. So it's like put that in bold print. So you might see that in some but that was the that was the essence of
Chuck's review. So um not surprising to anybody. So it's not any sort of public information that I just disclosed but um or non-public information I should say. Um, so with that said, that's the timeline plans so we can get this all done in the timeline we are. And I also want to thank the committee for um, for
like sake humoring us as we are working through the schedule for this last couple weeks. Uh, Aaron and Tom and I are like going back and forth. And yes, some of it is because I will be on vacation um, for my 25th anniversary. Uh, some of it's because Tom's going to be on vacation at the end of June. So we
ran into this confluence of three weeks of no meetings where we could have both the chair and this and the uh superintendent there. So we'll we'll finish up on the 5th and then commence again back in July basically. Okay.
Thank you. I was going to say something but it was unrelated to this topic. So we'll hold it for you did that like we'll hold it for the end. Hold it for the end. All right. So Dr. Dr. Milchesky, I think uh it's on to you and you have a presentation for us. I do, which we also should put in the packet
as an update after the fact. Perfect. I was going to say, will this get emailed to us? It will. So, a little bit about what's ahead. So, uh following me tonight, I'll share both the presentation and also a link to uh just a more detailed folder with evidence that will go a lot more detailed than what I'll share tonight. Tonight my
intent is just to share some very high level overview of my progress towards both the standards the four standards for administrative leadership and also the four goals for it was five last year we know that I graduated from this episode so that's you'll see it's four slash5 on there I'd like to share two
things just I jump into the presentation I first uh I al I really appreciate that many of the goals written in here are also goals that are shared whether that's explicitly or not uh with the committee with principles with teachers with community members of things that
people have wanted to see get done anyway. So, I love that many of my own individual goals are also goals that are shared by many. Uh, and then the obvious piece is the a lot of the progress that I shared tonight are things that are shared progress and you know involve
much collaboration and teamwork uh and the work of others behind the scenes. Hopefully, the school committee sees themselves reflected in some of the work that we'll talk about tonight. uh certainly our central office leadership team, our principles, our teachers, families, but I think that uh one of the things about this review is yes, it is
about me, but it's also I don't think there's anything in here I did singularly. So, just a huge thank you to everyone for some of the things that are encouraging in here that we'll share out that reflect the hard work of so many. So, as the committee knows and the community may know, uh the first there's
kind of two parts to the evaluation. One is progress towards four four or five goals that we've outlined and then there's a rubric where I am rated against standards in the rubric. I'm going to start by sharing an overview of the superintendent goals. Um you see that the fifth goal was in place at the
start of uh last year which was the first three years I was involved in the new superintendent induction program. That goal sort of fallen off given that I've now moved on from that program. So I'm going to go through again at a high level and speak to uh each of these goals. Uh and then there's more detailed information coming from the committee.
First goal was our improving uh uh evidence of student learning engagement and achievement. Three parts of this goal. One, meeting 80% of DESI's MCCAST achievement growth targets both at the school and district level. Two, increasing uh the plan participation in advanced coursework at RMHS by 10% and
for subgroups and then by 2425 also. and then data for next year. Increase enrollment innovation pathways to 150 students and then a target there for uh continued engagement talks about some key actions and some benchmarks. I'm going to get into uh sort of an analysis
of where I think I am towards this goal. First, I believe that as a district we met this goal and these is a goal that's also shared in our uh district strategic plan. There are 10 district targets that are outlined that DESIE has outlined for us. uh you'll see that six relate to uh
achievement and four relate to growth. There's achievement in ELA, achievement in math, achievement in science, and then there's also high school and non- high school is how Desi breaks it up also. And you see these spots where it talks about growth at an ELA and in math. Uh typical growth high means
between an SGP of 50 to 60. So uh you'll see that in uh we in we met our growth goals and being above 50 in SGP uh we met the target in two areas exceeded the target in two and then declined in two which mean that we met 80% of our
targets at the district level going a step further at the school level we also met 80% of our targets uh we made 32 of the 40 targets when you compile them all uh uh horizontally across the top you'll see ELA achievement then math
achievement uh then science achievement and then uh ELA growth and then math growth in all the schools vertically on the left and you can see in the chart there whether or not we either met the go met the target exceeded the target or uh declined or did not meet the target and
again and out of out of the 40 potential spots there we hit in 32 of them. So as you'll you know again as you'll look through this more later on but total that puts us right at 80% of targets feel very enthusiastic about what we're seeing around advanced
coursework participation for a few reasons. You see the trend uh has shifted up uh in 2023 from 694 to this year 700 to whoa what happened next year registration's 1,67. A couple of things happened. There's a couple things and a caveat. The caveat is these are still
course requests. So they will not be able to necessarily fulfill all of these, but I've put in italics a few things that are important for the community to know. This number spiked uh because we are now opening up more APs at the younger level at younger grades. Two, we've opened up some really
highinterest AP courses uh APsych, AP Econ, and then AP pre-calc and also now our new dual enrollment courses where we now offer nine courses. that sort of opened the top off for us with this number. For those who love the boston.com school rankings, this is one
of the numbers that is key, but it's a lagging indicator, so it'll take it a couple years to catch up, but that should give us a big boost there. Uh, and we're trying to get as close to that 1,067 students in there. We don't have that broken down by demographic subgroup data yet. We feel pretty confident given that significant jump that we'll be
where we need to be. innovation career pathways. We now have 195 students enrolled in ICP uh for 2526 school year including 51 incoming freshmen. And then we wanted an 80% uh retention in the program and uh we are right at about 86%
retention in the pathway programs. Those are just highlevel uh overview of some of the uh uh data that represents what we think is meeting our targets. But I'm happy to pause there if there's any questions. Sure. Not for the evaluation,
but just out of curiosity, when the 1067 gets scheduled, could we get an update on where the number lands in those breakdowns? Absolutely. Great. When I talked to the high school team, they feel confident that it will still be they said at least a 250 to 300 uh
increase from the previous number. Yeah, good point. The the breakdowns are interesting as well though, obviously. Which classes? Of course. Which classes? Classes and grades. Exactly. Courses, grades, dem I mean the demographics, all all of it, right?
Yeah. Like I'd love to know how many sophomores are enroll in AP next year, that sort of thing. And which AP courses are really like AP psych is a really popular one already. So we can get more detailed data. Great. Do we have data on the other end in terms of the outcomes
of the AP exams? We do and that's all public too. So if you go to Desessie's if you go to Desessie's website, you can see by uh which AP class and you can see how many students took it and sort of how many students passed. It's really interesting dive in there. We typically get an update on that in our um guidance
update which we do in the early spring usually um on the most recent. It's moved on us a few times. Yeah, it used to be December. It's moved out a little bit but I think we had it in March this year. Yeah, I will tell you those are numbers that our high school team is now monitoring very very closely.
Y um I would on this goal I would like to while I think we met it I would like to continue on with this goal in the years to come. I think our next iteration on this goal is we know that our third grade students were around the 95th percentile in ELA 98th in math. I would
like to see those trends continue sort of across the grade to boost our level of achievement. Secondly, subgroup data is really important to me. I think that we saw during the MCAST presentation, we still have some pretty persistent gaps in achievement for a variety of our demographic subgroups and that's a spot
that I think needs more attention and I think uh more clarity in my goal and district goals as well moving forward. Second goal uh was around secondary math pathways. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about that. I think we've talked about math pathways a lot. Uh I feel really good about the work that we've done in terms
of expanding math pathways. I think the next frontier for us in this goal area is one now monitoring setting some clear goals in terms of percent of students that we want taking advanced coursework when and then outcomes within those classes and seeing how students are doing. So I think we've laid the
groundwork for us now to be able to focus on outcomes in the future as well. Plus mapping out clear pathways for students who are on a more advanced course uh track than what we traditionally have outlined right now I think is something that we have to outline as well. So I think that's the next iteration of this goal for our
team. Just real quick on the next iteration on this as well. I think we should be looking at the line that we used to have those kids that were bring that we've added that might might have historically been below that line. How
are they doing? But also are the number of kids over time that meet that line increasing because of our investment in some of the math math curriculum over the last few years as well. Great point. I agree. So you can tell pretty quickly I'm going to start just to make the next
batch with and I think that's good feedback on that goal three around uh data. I think the this was the goal that was I thought the the most challenging for us. I think the one piece of the community to know uh a key component of this data was to develop a central location for storing key student level
data uh that enabled flow in from various sources and organized the data for easy access and analysis by district and school leaders. uh that had not been in place and you can see then that feeds into uh us being able to use data effectively, efficiently using uh
multiple sources of data. There's a piece around the early literacy screener and what that would mean. But number seven was the big challenge for us too is to begin a process developing a system to capture research and promising practice with a goal of institutionalizing district school and classroom level action plans, interventions, and supports. While I
think we met goal one and two, I don't think we're there yet in goal three. Whether we call that some progress, significant progress, we'll get into here. I think one thing we feel like we have made significant progress is the work that we've done with our early literacy screener. Uh we feel like now
we have a strong process um around our early literacy screener and intervention system. Uh we think that this we have a uh system very systematic process around our what our supports look like. Uh what our monitoring looks like, what family communication looks like. And we're
starting to see some encouraging results in our Dibbles data which you'll see in the information I share with you and also in the presentation at the end of the year. I would share the the big gap for us has been having that data that one place where we're able to store all of uh all of our various data forms. And
we're excited to share that we just partnered with Ed Climber uh which is a a platform or a warehouse that allows us to have all of our student achievement data, all of our behavioral data, all of our attendance data, demographic data, all in one space. One click of a button,
I can click, hey, how's Alex doing? and all of his on on every metric around academic achievement, attendance, behavior, uh also look at certain classes, uh certain uh demographic groups, uh and look at those over time. I think that will allow for a uh an ease
of analysis and also a uh timely access in a way that we haven't been able to do that. So while I feel encouraged by what Sarah will speak more about is an errand about our early literacy progress, I think we're still moving towards this goal, uh I think the next iteration of
this goal is going to have to include those uh that parts of building this, you know, having this data warehouse, yes, that we use consistently that facilitates effective data cycles at all levels of our organization and then feeds into I'll go back to this last piece, a process that really allows us
to capture what's working and to be able to make sure that that becomes ingrained in who we are and what we do uh despite any change across you know leaders schools things like that so I think there's some work encouraged but some work to be done and excited to get educ share you'll find that there's some
more information about educ climber and I'm also going to set up a time for a demo and hopefully a sandbox uh platform for you to be able to play around in a little bit as well goal four we've spoken about at length uh coaching developing and supporting principles I'll share one thing uh as I've shared
many a time in the recent walls foundation is not so recent anymore. It's 2023 study. It says there's sort of it's hard to envision an investment that have a larger invest uh you know uh uh uh what's the language that they use? What's that? Like an ROI ROI than
investing in uh school leadership. I think what we're seeing so therefore we're starting to see some promising uh growth and achievement in our community. I think it's hard to disconnect that from what we're doing and investing in principles. So I would like to I think
that we've continued really what we've been doing the last couple of years. You'll see some more evidence in the what I upload. Uh but I'd also like to flag that the next iteration from this goal is leveraging what we have with educ. Our principles in a click of a button our leaders are now going to be
have access to to data that they haven't yet had before in a way that should prepare them to be uh more effective instructional leadership leaders in their building. So I think uh while we've sort of done what we could with the resources we have, I think there's a lot of work ahead that should combine
goals three and four in the future and a huge work to our principles. I think the results that we're getting, I think our principles uh speak to a lot of the work that our our leaders are doing. So shifting from goals into standards. Uh if for those of you who may be watching or interested if
you just Google Massachusetts administrator rubric uh it is a m uh rubric that spans for uh all you know uh district level systems level leaders broken down into four standards with several sub indicators below. First standards around instructional
leadership. I'm going to quickly hit on just what I think are some of the big uh takeaways or some of the big outcomes or points of progress from my work, from our work, from our district's work in instructional leadership. One, we spoke about meeting 80% of DESI's district determined school achievement targets.
Two, over the last couple of years, eight of our nine schools have achieved school records since 2000 uh early 2000s uh in uh or the next generation MCCAST era in uh school accountability percentile records. Parker last year becoming a school of
recognition also outperforming Kulage in a couple of uh grade levels which we know uh sitting in this seats last year was a major point of uh focus for our community. Um two achieving recent district records in uh grades 3 through eight ELA and math achievement. We just
spoke about 95th percentile in achievement for ELA uh grades uh three through five and 90 or grades three and 98th percentile in math for grades three uh which we think is starting to set the stage for future achievement to be at a similar level. Recent work in our lead
program. Thank you everyone. Uh recognized by MGH as a program in the 95th percentile. talked a little bit about our work in innovation career pathways increasing enrollment to 195 but also securing funding of over 500,000 desi approval for five pathways
and being selected as the site for the announcement at the state level of the innovation career pathway grants moving to nine dual enrollment classes very excited to do that with UMass LOL and then if you also look at Desi's website two targets that we hit this past year one was for chronic absenteeism we were
fourth amongst traditional public school districts in the state in average daily attendance as well. And we also exceeded Desi targets for attaining English proficiency for our multilingual learners in 2024 in the end of year u teaching and learning update. You'll see some encouraging progress for our MLS
this past year too. Much more in what I share with you, but I think these are just some of the high level trends for us to say with confidence that we believe student achievement is moving in the right direction in our district. Any questions? Standard one. [Music]
Standard two, management and ops. Um, this could span a variety of different things. The first one, just like to thank the committee for your involvement in uh what has been 35 FTEES in the last three years. While eight of those are the last two years, I did want to put that caveat in just knowing that the
committee's played a key role the last several years in adding new positions that were critical in leading to what we see is these improvements in academic achievement, improvements in special education and SEAL needs. I also appreciate all the work of the committee to think creatively with school choice
with new revenue streams to be allow us to navigate that in what is a challenging budgetary time. Thank you again to the committee for all of our collaborative work in moving to universal uh tuitionfree kindergarten after being one of 24 districts in the state to charge. And kudos to our food
service team. When we look at our prepandemic levels, uh a 110 111,000 meal uh improvement in in meals served per year, that's a 41% increase. Hosted the state's meal more than a meal tour and was also then recognized as USDA's
turnup the beat award for excellence in summer meals. So food that's a good one, isn't it? Uh is the uh huge kudos to our food service department. appreciate all that the committee has done to support our updates in our METCO program, adding several new positions in the last couple
of years, a new MECO coordinator, a also a new METCO sack this year, and then also what Millie has described, MECO CEO, is us quickly becoming a leader and model for MECO districts and expanding opportunities for students around ops, a ton of facility stuff. Thank you to Joe Huggin and the team. One point of pride
here is around our the work around our fieldhouse renovation, which is now about to break ground after graduation. uh and which we think is going to be a huge win for our community and for our district. Um thank you again collaboration around all of the work with five union contract negotiations. It feels like forever ago, but that was
within this evaluation cycle all all before contracts expired and making us much more competitive in the region. And then something again that felt like a while ago is our shift to a new high school schedule. And that work that has been a process over the last several years. Starting with building a relationship with district management
group to look at research and best practice around schedules then going through many iterations of communication and feedback leading to what we now think is a much better schedule for students. Uh there is a ton that could fit in the bucket of management and operations but just wanted to share a few that I think would be interest to
the community. In standard three is all about family and community engagement. If you look closely at the uh at the indicators within standard 3, they sort of break off into two categories. One of them being what do you do when there's
problems and challenges like responding to concerns and to issues and then the other bucket is around proactive work as engaging the community. I'd like to say it may be harder to quantify or even qualify how you go about navigating conflict or how you go about managing
conf uh issues when they come to you. I think the committee knows my stance is always building relationships, listening, collaborating, doing that work up front is the best strategy to be able to uh avoid what can be uh the most challenging and catastrophic issues for
communities. With that said, a couple of things that have been particularly important for our community over the last couple of years. One, the Kilum school building project leading to 80% as Carla shared. Two, I'd like to hit on a couple of community partnerships that have led to tangible changes in uh in
our community. One, the coalition funding a point4 FTE middle school health position. The coalition adding additional counseling positions, including a public safety clinician that impacts our schools. The town investing 100K in the community priority for universal kindergarten. partners of the
Burbank YMCA uh Burbank Arena YMCA Reading Wreck uh for helping to commit 40K a year for unified adaptive programming. Our state legislators in the last couple of years over 100K in earmark funding. I think the list goes on and on of how our community partners those relationships are really leading
to improvements in or investments in our district. We recently talked about the launch of our children's cabinet again bringing folks together in service of our students. uh the new multilingual learner family liaison role trying to engage families who have historically not felt as connected or felt a sense of
belonging in our community that is changing uh through the work of Tayiana and Karen so huge thank you to them but getting that role in the budget through a grant was really really important um I think uh two other things important one is the committee knows our team prides
herself on uh meeting with anyone any time to try our best uh can't always find resolution but to work through concerns and issues as they arise is recently in the last couple of weeks met with the Birch Meadow PTO around our strategy for trying to uh improve and
increase inclusive practices at the school and just uh yesterday met with um parents of the LGBTQ plus community to talk about ways to better support their students and families in our district. And then something I think has been a a plus for us is the data we've received through a new survey that we release.
Every time a family leaves the district, we now give them a survey to say, "Hey, what could we have done better? What's your reason for leaving?" Uh we feel like that data is invaluable data for us to continue to think about sometimes some small shifts that we could make that could keep our families uh feeling satisfied and feeling supported in our
district as well. And standard four around professional culture. This standard is around what do you do to exemplify having a high bar and what's the way that you continue to uh build a community and a culture of excellence.
Uh personally a lot of things for for me on the last couple of years. one continue to serve on seam and the collaborative board. I have taken on an expanded role as this committee knows within the metco program. One being on the mechco being the superintendent rep on the uh mechco hiring committee. I've
been the superintendent speaker at the advoc recent advocacy day at the state level. I was a superintendent speaker at the regional advocacy day last year and then was the superintendent speaker along with our MECO team at Gillette Stadium uh this past fall around effective partnerships between MECO
directors and superintendents. Uh I've also started to expand uh outside the district a little bit. I was uh represented was one of the Massachusetts representatives at a national superintendent summit around uh building effective student supports and then also mentor as the community is starting to
learn many uh residents and fellows through the Harvard school graduate school of education. That partnership's been really important to be able to have now two uh full-time fellows at no cost to the district and systems level reader leaders who have really made an impact in Barbara and Ramsay who we know will
make a big impact this next year. And then I think the other pieces around professional culture are ones that the community sees. Plenty of opportunities to present publicly around town meeting. Um plenty of times to uh speak out in the community on a variety of different issues, challenges. And then you'll see
here a few other things that are just important for us to continue to message what's happening in our district, whether that's our community report, our program evaluations, or sort of updates annually on our district strategic plan. much more uh information much more many more resources piece of evidence will be
included what shared with the school committee but I wanted to share what we think are some of the outcomes that have been particularly important especially those that have been shared by many uh the work's been shared by many so I'll pause there and or end there if there's any questions from the
committee anybody Tom can you show just the the slide just prior to this one one more time Sure. Um, we see it. Um, but just one thing to call out, I think, or at least I would say I see it. One thing to call out as you're pulling evidence together is, um,
the first indicator in this one is commitment to high standards and it's about sort of like, you know, what do you do to build high standards throughout the district? Um, I it'd be helpful to sort of highlight some of that evidence. I know there's a lot of it. I just want to make sure it's on your on your radar because
it wasn't captured in these bullets. Great. And Sean makes a good point, too. If you see if there's things in here if indicators you feel like I haven't given enough evidence or you want more, please let me know. I think that's a good one. So, thank you, Sean. And if I can share on that one, too. Part of that one I feel while I can
give our advice to I think part of that the important things is also the things that may be harder to capture too part of that you know walking the walk building relationships you know outcomes but I do think there's some things I can put up there that are important but I also think some of those I I I hope the
committee can infer or can you know put into maybe that evidence may not be as clear on some of those as well. Some of those standards are tricky. Okay. Any other questions from anybody or points? Got a lot to say, but I'll say it in two weeks. So,
thanks. Thank you, sir. No problem. Thank you, everyone. Okay, we will now move on. Um, texting Michelle. It's time can join if she's ready. Um so we'll move on to old
business and we'll start with um policy GBGE or domestic leave policy and I will start to share the screen here shortly. Let's go for the full screen. Um, and I
know I'm going to have to zoom in, so give me a second to get to it. All right, here we go. And we should probably just pull that forward. Should have brought an umbrella. Do you want me to share from here? You
didn't umbrella in my truck. No. Oh, thank you, sir. I've got it. It's the little things in life that make you happy. I feel like I just got 20 years younger.
Yeah. So, um the only one up here wearing glasses. All right. So, um Michelle will join when she can. Uh this policy we reviewed in our in our meeting back on March 27th as our first reading. Um there was one takeaway from that policy uh discussion
which was the discussion about whether it is 30 business days or 30 calendar days and uh caught up with um Michelle and it is 30 calendar days. So we can update this to be from a clarity
perspective calendar days within 30 calendar days. Calendar days. Okay. Right. um was the intent and what what what what that number is. Otherwise, there were no follow-ups and there were no further points of
conversation. Um I don't want to go through all the Grammarly stuff with everybody else here and you guys don't want me either too, but I can without making any changes at a later point in time. Any substantive changes? Any other feedback, questions,
concerns, or comments? Okay. So, Erin, do you have a motion or do you want me to take it? Make it uh go ahead. Okay. So, I um move to approve amended policy GBGE, domestic violence leave at uh for adoption. Second.
Seconded by Aaron. Uh any further discussion? Um all right. So, no mel spotlight so we can see Michelle. All in favor? All opposed? And it passes. Uh, so GBGE
is finalized with calendar days. Thank you, Michelle, for the update. You're welcome. Okay. So, the next item on our agenda uh is uh the first reading of GBEDD,
online fundraising and solicitations. Don't laugh. Started. No, just wait. She doesn't have all the history. So, the good news is these aren't acronyms you need to remember. This is just an indexing. This is just indexing in the
policy manual. This there's it doesn't stand for anything. So, yeah, there is a national school road policy indexing and the Massachusetts Association of School Communities follows the same policy um indexing. That's what the the letters mean. But there's a history here where there was a meeting probably four years
ago during co where we had to approve a bunch of them and I had to say all of them in nobody could stop laughing. So that's why when you started laughing you started the whole thing up again. All right. Um this one online fundraising and solicitation crowdfunding is um a
brand new one. Um it was originally a mass created one. We have made many edits to the mass created one as you can see. Um this actually has gone through three meetings of of the policy
subcommittee. Uh one back in 2023 and two this year uh until we finally approved the version that's in front of you. Um and I'll pause there. Erin, am I missing anything that you remember? Michelle, is there anything that you want to add on on this one in
particular? So on this one, what we tried to do is we tried to reinforce school committee's oversight of fundraising activities in accordance with MDL. We prohibited the use of um direct solicitations, ensure that all monetary
donations comply with MDL chapter 44 section 53A. um specifically around governing public bond management and then we established clear protocols for handling excess and unfilled fulfilled donations um to prevent misuse. So we also clarify that
crowdfunding records are subject to public record laws for transparency and accountability. Okay. Any feedback, questions or concerns? This is a first reading. So we're just approving a first reading today, not the actual adoption. Sean, I have a couple couple questions
or observations. Um, some of the some of the clauses in here are written as if a particular fundraising event is like a timelimited as if as if everything's a time limited fundraising event. I'm thinking about like Amazon wish lists in
particular. You know, I know probably most of the school libraries their the librarians have Amazon wish list that they keep updated on a regular basis and books come off and books get added back on. Um, so I just want would want to be thoughtful about some of the requirements to, you know, notify the
superintendent and that things like that that that may be difficult operationally when you're talking about something that doesn't have a particular sort of start and end to it. Um and then my second question would be do we believe and is it our our intent that
um you know the policy itself doesn't apply to PTO's who may do fundraising for you know uh teacher appreciation week or things like that um but staff members often distribute material on behalf of
PTO's would that qualify as a solicitation um for the purposes of this policy and if so I don't think it matters that it's not the staff member who's you know sort
of receiving the the asked for um you know donations or what have you. So uh I just wanted to call that out too that that feels like another use case we see today that I'm not personally bothered by. In fact I think it's kind of critical um that may technically run
a foul of this policy. So I think the PTO side doesn't because the first part of the approval is activities by school district employees. Your caveat there of them forwarding something the PTO is
doing. Might want to look at the language just to be sure to your point. Um I'd be will love to hear from Michelle and Dr. Milesky as well. Um, I don't think it was the intent to do that. I think it is the specific intent
and you see in a lot of the cases here where we want to make sure we avoid any sort of perception that a a teacher is putting out a request for something and if a family does not participate, there is some consequence to a degree, right? Um, so if a PTO is
doing something, the employee is not even aware usually of who is donating or not donating or shouldn't be. Um, right. And it's it's employee use of crowdfunding for their classroom or
their needs as opposed to a PTO. So, I don't we can put an an explicit statement somewhere in here if we find the right place, but I don't think this is intended to imply any of that at all. Michelle, do you have any feedback or thoughts?
I think the major part for me is when we talk about the direct solicitations, it's really about that monetary direct solicitation. And so when we think about the Amazon wish list, um in a lot of those cases, teachers may be asking for safe issues, but they're not saying um
you know, these parents of my classroom, please send me x amount of dollars so that I can buy something, right? So really focusing on what the items are versus the the
monetary solicitation for it. Yeah. But I mean if you look through some of it as well, it's like employees may only use crowdfunding. It's not the employee using a crowdfunding thing if the PTO has created it and the employees distributing it from an information share perspective. So
we can look I mean I'm I'm Sean I'm open to feedback as we go into the next reading if you have anything that you think might help clarify. Yeah we can think about potentially to come back to to clarify it further. Erin, do you have anything? I was just going to I don't have a elementary school student anymore
but best I recall all the PTO stuff was under the weekly newsletter from the school from the principal had like the PTO section. So I don't think I was getting any PTO stuff just through a teacher. But you No, but that's a that's
a staff member doing a solicitation, right? And so that that's a good example. Like my question would be, right, is the princ the principal is a staff member. that the principal is a staff member who's then posting a solicitation that the solicitation itself may not be within and I get it
that the it's a different organization that's not subject to the policy that's doing the fundraising and collecting you know cash in that case but the solicitation is still by a staff member and so um I just want to be I just want to be thoughtful that we're not you know
inadvertently banning something that is common practice and not the intent of the policy Right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other thoughts or questions? I'm just going to put a note in real quick so I don't forget it. Um, as a next step, do you want us to,
you know, talk to legal about that? Did you want to talk to Do we want to try to come up with some different language? How do we want to handle that? When are we going to do the second reading? probably not going to have time next week. So, it might be the 5th or it might fall to
July. I'll have to figure out the timing. I mean, if I would say if we're engaging with legal and any other policy stuff, then maybe throw this one on the list. It probably doesn't merit a conversation that we have to pay a few hundred an hour for other in and of itself. And I
could I can just uh think about it a little bit more and see if I have any suggested language next time around. Okay. I just put a note for myself on that so we can follow up with it. All right. Anything else then?
John, thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Sure. Um, all right. So, uh, move to approve the first reading of policy GBD, online fundraising and solicitations, crowdfunding. Second. Seconded by is that Carla? Yes. Okay. Any further
discussion? Okay. All in favor? All opposed. And the first reading passes. Uh, thank you. Save a copy. post. All right. So that moves us to GBJ personnel records and this is a single
reading single approval um item. So GBJ personnel records uh mostly was updated in alignment with MASC. Um there were some additional uh changes um by Michelle as well. Um
but ultimately it is in alignment with MGL and other such things primarily which you can see the updates in the legal refs chapter 4 section 7 chapter 66 and chapter 93H about data breaches and whatnot. Um, so Michelle, anything
you want to add? So in this one, I adjusted to align with public record law. I clarified that most personal records are confidential. There is certain information that is subject to public disclosure for Massachusetts law such as job title, name, salaries. I
added reference to public records retention schedules to ensure proper compliance and disposal. And then I specified a legal references in regards to chapter 66 for furpa HIPPA to clarify when and how employee information can be
released to governmental agencies while protecting the home address. Um and then just replace all the gendered pronouns with gender neutral terms. Okay. Any discussion or thoughts on GBJ personnel records? No. And I will
um move to approve for adoption the amended policy GBJ personnel records. Second. Seconded by Aaron. Any further discussions? No. All in favor? All opposed? And it passes six to zero.
Thank you very much. We'll move this one to our final set as well. We'll move to GCA, professional staff positions. That's the current one. And I got to stop that from beeping. Of course, it's my wife and
son. uh GCA professional staff positions. Okay. So, this one again is updated to align with with um uh MASC uh with a few additional updates from Michelle um to clarify language and
whatnot. But Michelle, please add any other feedback you have on this one in particular. So in this one, I rewarded the policy to specify the school committee establishes positions upon recommendation from the superintendent that the school committee can form uh only school committee can
formally eliminate a position that has established. And then I revised the language to indicate that the superintendent develops and presents job descriptions for review and approval to the school committee rather than formal approval for each modification. in this
alignment of MESC um in I ensuring the policy acknowledges position changes must comply with collective bargaining agreements and adding that the superintendent will maintain a comprehensive set of job descriptions and sign and of course
ensure compliance with applicable state and and federal laws. Okay. Any other feedback or questions or any feedback and questions since there hasn't been any yet? We we've we've not been practicing this policy. We have not we've been doing this very I
won't say casually. I mean I think we have the conversation anytime there's a a new role. You know, you're probably having the conversation with each of us, but um we've not not been doing this in a formal way. So, it's good to it's good to revisit this one. Um, as we think about the procedure on this, maybe we
can think about it as a uh you know, a consent agenda item. That's a good idea. You know, I like in terms of new roles and adjustments. And I mean, it's appropriate as well as a result of last uh our last meeting, there's some adjustments potentially happening to some of our job postings as
well that would probably be good for us to review as part of consent agenda type stuff. I like that idea, Sean. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah. Okay. That's part of the reason why going through policies every so often is good to say, well, what are we doing, right? Doing
this. So, good. Okay. Um, any further discussion or points of clarification. Okay. Then I uh move to adopt the amended policy GCA, professional staff positions. Second. Seconded by Sean. Any further
discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? All opposed? And it passes six to zero. Thank you. Copy. All approved. Save. Okay. And that moves us on to
GCBA, professional staff salary schedules. GC down here. Okay. So, um again, this one was updated in alignment with MASC and then further clarified and updated by Michelle adding
in additional MGL references as well um and whatnot. So, Michelle, anything else you want to add to this? So, I added language to emphasize that teacher salary schedule is to incentivize retention uh ongoing professional development and leadership
opportunities. Um, we specified that principal and administrator salaries will be based on documented evidence such as performance evaluations, achievement of district goals, and regional market rates. Included the responsibility of the superintendent to present evidence supporting salary
increase recommendations, enhancing transparency, and clarifying that salary decisions for both teachers and administrators will be made in compliance with standard federal law, including the Massachusetts wages wage act. Okay. Any other any questions on this
one? Any clarifications or or notes? It's probably implied. So, I can take it or leave it maybe. But in that sentence where in the um paragraph that ends within regional market rates, this one. Yeah. Could could we what do
folks think about adding something like and regional market rates for comparable positions? That's fair for me. Michelle, do you have any feedback on that? I'm comfortable with that. Okay. Anything else? Any other any
objections to that amendment? No. No. Okay. Any other feedback or or notes? Okay. So then I will move Tom Jeffrey. Dr. Cororum. Yes. Jeffrey Cororum Ridge Road. Um I think I
remember we covered this in the U uh policy subcommittee meeting and I was suggesting um using the word shall and I think Grammarly didn't like using the word shall. Um and then I looked back at the last policy that you just approved
um on the professional staff positions where in fact the word shall does appear. And I I really want to reiterate my feeling that shall sort of implies a a a requirement on the committee for a policy. So that you know the the salary
schedule shall be reviewed. Um but that that's my only comment is that to review this again and put shall where you know the policy is instructing the committee to do something. So I think what we I remember that conversation as well. I mean shall
versus will um is obviously yes it does imply a forced mustd do as opposed to will. Will will is there still will and it's not really optional but it's shall is more forceful right.
um you know as it as it comes to teachers it's a it happens anyway any anyway as a result of any collective bargaining um as it comes to principles and administrators uh it has to happen as well because their contracts only go
so far so there really isn't any choice either way um I don't have an opposition necessarily myself to shall uh in this particular case because there's no choice either way um But I don't know if anybody else has any feedback. Uh Tom, you're looking No, I just think in all
the in all the contracts that we have uh each one each year. So it'll give one year the first year of the contract and the subsequent years it says based on performance and market conditions. So I don't think we have any contracts that I'm aware of for non-unit staff that
actually have beyond one year listed in terms of salary. So therefore, right now, as we know, we're about to go into executive session. We have to we have to do it. So I I agree. I like I I I'm I'm supportive of the word shall, but even if the words will there, I don't think there's a way around it if I even if I
didn't want to. Like it it it's inevitability that comes up that we have to give a number. This is the statement will be reviewed annually. So there's a couple places. It's in the first one will will be periodically reviewed. It's in the reading school committee will adopt a SC
a salary schedule and then it's the principles administrations will be reviewed annually. So it's three places at least I can probably word check. Is there a fourth one? Okay. The only the reason I like Jeffrey's language too is because I think the easy thing to do I say I don't
think I'm in compliance with this if I just we roll out a blanket percentage to everyone. And I don't think that's taking a deeper dive to look at what's he saying here. Equity fairness, which is and like market comparisons. That's like requires a different level of work than maybe just a rolling out of a a
blanket number. And I think that's what our team does. And I think this policy would require us to do that. But I um so I don't see any harm in Shell. Michelle, do you have any feedback on Shell?
I just went with what has already been shared. I is a non-negotiable. So I don't feel you know whether you use will or shall this is what we're doing this is what we're doing in practice. Um so I don't feel gravitating towards a particular word just because this is
this has to happen just from a consistency standpoint if we're using shell in some we can probably make sense to use shell in others. Yeah there will establishes I don't know that that one needs to change necessarily. Um, I don't know that it
matters really, but wait, sorry, where this last one I just said. The school committee with the advice of the superintendent shall or will establish compensation levels for each position based on the circumstances, dynamics, and requirements for each position. You've already done a shall be reviewed annually before June July 1st. So, I'm
not sure if it's a double shell is necessary or not, but we can leave it fine either way. It's fine either way or I can Yeah. Okay. So, everybody's okay with that amendment? Yes. Okay. Um, so then I uh
move to approve uh policy amended policy GCBA professional staff salary schedules for adoption. Second. Carla got in just barely first. Any further discussion? No. All
in favor? All oppose. It passes six to zero. Thank you for the feedback. Save copy. Approved. Save. And we move on to GCBB employment of principles which used to be known as employment of administrators and
directors. Um so uh this policy uh was amended as well in alignment with MASC um and then further adjusted um as Michelle went through it to add in some uh legal related stuff to it too. Um Michelle if you want to add any other
things and the policy did policy subcommittee did add in did discuss including assistant principles and declined um as there's specific rules in MGL uh with regards to principles that don't apply to assistant principles. Um so this is just principles themselves.
So Michelle anything else you want to add? So I clarified that the contract requires school committee approval for compensation and benefits for form school evaluation criteria. Revise the language to specify that compensation and benefits may only be exceeded with school committee
approval. Adjusted language regarding subsequent contract clarify that the superintendent follows school committee guidelines to reissue contracts based on previous terms. explicitly stated that principal contracts cannot exceed 5 years and specify that principles must
maintain lenture as required by thank you. So this is new that we would approve the contract. Thanks. We've never
um it's sort of been an unwritten thing that I know I know Chuck and I have had as chairs a chance to say yes or no to certain things. Um but not really as a committee although these meetings like we're going to have right now essentially provide the guiding
principles for that. So we have done it although not necessarily on a language line by line type perspective. So from that perspective, yeah, you would say this is new. Yeah. I don't feel like I don't recall ever being presented with a a full contract to review. Yeah.
So this would be new. Yep. Is could that slow down the hiring process? Like if you have to wait for an executive session, right? It would be executive session, right? It would be executive session because it's not so you'd have to wait for an executive session for the school committee to
approve the contract before you can because I feel like sometimes the hiring we'd have to vote it publicly too. It'd be one of those things that has to happen both in both forums because it's a public document anyway. It is a public document. Um you know most of them are pretty boilerplate. It's just putting a
person and then and a number um in it. There's not usually a lot of adjustments to the principal administrator ones. Um, not usually a lot of negotiation. Tom, keep me honest. No, that's fair. Um, so yes, we can do that and we should do that. The the only caveat or concern I
have, I guess, is really technically we're not the hiring authority, right? Um, so while this is updated in alignment with MASC, you know, we're not the hiring authority, but we have the financial
responsibility. So, it's it's saying we're approving your contract that we're not we're not approving the person per se that's being hired. We're approving the contract, which is an interesting thing if you think about it because it's the financial side that we have the responsibility for. Um, but the
superintendent has the authority to hire principles, not the school committee. That's technically true of every hire in the district. Y um so not not the director of finance. Fair. Nearly every hire in the district. Um, so I have two other two other questions
on this one while we're talking about it. Um, Michelle, the the first sentence, the school district shall employ principles under individual employment contracts, is that stipulated by state law or are we saying that's it is okay in alignment with NGL?
Okay. Um, and that's important that it says district as opposed to committee because it's the district that's doing the employeeing in this case, not the committee. Yeah. Okay. Um and then there's a there's a there's a sentence that starts with compensation and benefits may be exceeded only
um with the approval of school committee may be exceeded relative to what? This is where this gets a little fuzzy because this is in line with MGL and MASC and I think that some
of the terms in here in practice are not as um straightforward just as you mentioned with approving it before an offer goes out which would absolutely slow down the hiring process. I'm not even talking about logistics like
grammatically what does that sentence actually mean right it says compensation benefits may only be exceeded with the approval of school committee it has to be in reference to something additional yeah if so there that would say if there's an additional like if there's something in the scenario that is
atypical so say there's like a statement or or benefits is there something that we offer to wave as in is it something in regards to employment But but is this saying is that saying that we can never de we can never
deviate from the contract without approval of the school committee or relative to other principles or you know that that's what I'm trying to get at. I guess it I think what it is intending to say is we're going to review and approve a a contract with each principal and it's going to it's going to dictate what
their compensation and benefits are. you know, you or Tom can't um you know, without our approval go decide to provide a principal with a stipend or something like that. I think that's the intent. I'm not sure that's
Yes. Yes. Okay. I I'm not sure that that's clear necessarily in the way that it's worded because this makes it sound like it's part of the contract acceptance process versus a forwardlooking, you know, sort of a forward-looking statement. So here I'm going to say I'm going to add I'm going
to go back to the MSE and we might add the language back but the MSE one says and I can't zoom in here. Um the compensation benefit levels above referenced may be exceeded only with the approval of the school committee. So after it's been approved that above referenced is important because it's saying it's making it clear that this is
relative to what is agreed to in this contract that we've then approved. You could even say the above referenced compensation and benefits or or the compensation and benefits as as um articulated in the contract maybe you
know something like that THC compensation. Yeah. Not typically part of our contracts benefits. The above referenced compensation benefits. How about that? Yep.
I think you need a hyphen there. Yep. Okay, that makes it clear, Tom. Yes. I'm still uncomfortable playing this out how this could work. If I play out a scenario, say we're hiring a principal in July. Yeah. I would then when we're not meeting I have to then work to put
together the uh contract get it to the committee to approve before before approval before it goes to the principal. You approve it. I then go sit with the principal and try to present a draft contract. They say no. They say I actually wanted you know XYZ compensation. I then have to come back
to the school committee. Mhm. Get school committee approval on the new contract and go back and forth. I think it's what what am I what's my role then is then you're essentially negotiating and then also I just worry the timeline and a lot of these hires a lot of a lot of things
in in the way that could slow down what are in a lot of cases what I would anticipate as a really sometimes competitive processes too I I think it's the same way you do it with assistant superintendent or director of finance positions which is you're you're negotiating the contract and it's subject to school committee approval
right um and you're probably sidebarring with each of us individually to say here's what I think it's going to take to get this done and you know that kind of thing um and getting a sense for whether you're going to get school committee approval. I'm not saying I I think this is the right approach. I'm saying this is I think how it would work
in practice. Um I think it would work the same as those as those kinds of hires do. I generally agree. I ever since I've read this, it seems like we're getting into um operations. The whole thing seems like
that to me. If they budget, it's budget. Yeah. No. Said contract shall be submitted to the school committee for their approval of all terms including compensation benefits. Okay. Because that's related performance goals, evaluation criteria. That's
that's operations for the presentation, right? Right. But it but I feel like we're contracts don't usually have performance goals and evaluation criteria in them. It's operations to me. Well, what would be in like for I I guess will be in their benefits. So vacation time school
committee is going to decide vacation time. I mean that's not budget. How in regards to performance goals? There is a section that clarifies what their role is and what it's related to an MGL. Yeah. It's very use. It's not it's not
specific performance goals, but it's basically that they will uphold their duties as this particular administrator in Ottawa, right? Okay. So broad. Yes. It's very broad. Act in accordance with our policies, you know, all that. There's some generic boiler type stuff.
The way it's worded, Sean, what you're proposing would go against that because this is saying like we have to approve the contract before it's presented to the candidate. Here's what I'm going to suggest. Um there's a lot
of discussion here. I'm going to suggest that we table this for now. um that Michelle and Tom and I at least um absent a full subcommittee which would be Aaron and Aaron and I but which which I have to be careful with because we Erin and I meet with Tom anyway but not on policy topics um now that we're the
only two members of the subcommittee. That's an interesting problem. Um Michelle and Tom and I will look at this and see if we can come up with better language that that aligns to our process um as well as any vague vagueness in MGL and then bring it back.
Um it will not have been subcommittee approved obviously by that point but then the whole committee can have a review and approval at that point. Does that seem appropriate? Yeah. Can I can I say generally in this one just one opinion obviously we should be compliant with MGL. I'm not that concerned about
being too tied to the MASC model policy in this case. Right. Let's think let's think about that. We've done plenty to modify against the MASC standards. So, I'm not I have no problem with that myself either. Okay. Some of it we've we've Michelle has done yman's work in cleaning up a lot of the MSE MS work
stuff. So, all right. So, I'm going to move to table policy GBB employment of principles pending further review and discussion between the chair, the superintendent, and the director of HR. Second GCBB GCBB as amended by Aaron now. Is there a second? Second. Seconded
by Sean. Any further discussion prior to the tableling? Dr. Cororum. Just curious. Jeffrey Corm again. Uh what happened to the directors? Is that is there a new policy now that covers the directors that were taken out of this policy?
They're in the previous policy that we just reviewed essentially. Okay. All right. Um, any further questions or comments? No. All in favor of tableabling? And it is so tabled. So, I
have to create a new folder structure. Uh, thank you for the constructive conversation. And we now move I can find the right thing. Window GCBC. Yeah, thank you. Oh, here's what
happened is to it's over here. We move to uh the first reading of policy GCBC, professional staff supplementary pay plans. Um, and this is a new policy uh as well. And I skipped past the one I
wanted to do. Um, supplemental compensation for extra assignments is what we renamed it to or Michelle renamed it to. So, we'll have we'll use that name when we uh do the second reading um appropriately. Um, so
this one is brand new uh from uh MASC. It has been amended u by Michelle and I'll let Michelle take over from here. So the the edits it doesn't look as scary as the edits look for basically for this I prove the clarity consistency
and readability and I just updated the language for a modern tone. Looks like I made more edits but that that's really the the bulk of it. This was one of my lighter ones. John, one minor suggestion. Um, I wonder if we should just make a
reference to the principal policy, which we haven't yet adopted, but um, that says something to the effect of should a principal be appointed to one of these supplementary pay positions, belt and suspenders. Just say should a principal be appointed to one of these positions, it requires school committee approval,
which I think is what we're saying in that um, in the policy we just tabled. Does everybody follow what I'm getting at there? I'm just trying to see if we can if we can even keep ourselves easier than doing that. I know why you're
saying it and I it does align with the previous policy. And and the reason that it caught my eye is we genericize teachers to be employees in a bunch of cases. So it still applies to principles. This policy would, you know, would still apply to principles, I think. There is a clause in the principal
contract that says, and this is in the individual contracts that says that if there are any sort of supplemental pay extra assignments, they do have to be approved by the superintendent prior to moving forward. And the policy then says we have to
approve it as school committee as well. So is it already covered in the previous one? So if it's in the contract and school committee does approve the contract then I would think that would be covered within Michelle you're saying it's in the it's
in the basic contract language that we use today. Yes. So in the basic contract uh that we use for all administrator contracts there is after the salary line there is a section that specifically talks about
extra duties extra safe projects sip that are at the discretion and approval of the superintendent before they occur. So, so I Yeah. So, maybe what we add, Sean, I I always I always like to think about policies as, you know, things that we want to persist after the people
currently in their seats are no longer in their seats. And the language like that being in our boilerplate contract language is good. Um, but I think that should be reflective of it's a requirement from our policies, right? So, I I just I think it's belt and suspenders and doesn't really cost us
anything to just add it to a, you know, add it to a policy like this one to call that out explicitly. So, just so we think about where to put it, where would you would it be its own line here or would you do it in the previous policy? I think you could do it
at the end of the paragraph that you're on right now. Something like something like should a um should a principal be appointed to an extra assignment um that results in additional
compensation. School committee approval is required. Would it be helpful for me to read what is in the boiler contract? Yeah, we could probably just sync it up with that language.
Okay. So it says the superintendent may also provide to the administrator for any contractier of disagreement the special project statement for work above and beyond the expectations of this position named in this contract mentoring teaching course and
then it just goes into how it's needed. So this is just a first reading. Says the stipen will not be added to okay I mean this is just a first reading Tom. So, I don't feel strongly about how it honestly and we can let it go. I I don't
not going to lose sleep over this. I just thought it was sort of easy easy belt and suspenders if that's our intent to make sure it's referenced in this policy as well. I'm happy to take this if we want a table and I can try to rewrite it in
somewhere. It's first reading so we don't have to table. We can accept the first reading and make an amendment. I mean therein coming into the second. Um, again, you Tom and I can talk through it or you and I can talk through it and go from there. Um, I'll save this as it is right now and we can come back and and
see what we come back with. I'll also just add a note that this is a followup to confirm language or location. All right. So, um, move to approve the first reading of policy GCBC, professional staff supplementary pay
plans, aka supplemental compensation for extra assignments. Second. Seconded by Sean. Any further discussion? No. No. All in favor and all opposed and it passes six
to zero. Thank you. And now can I bring up a quick thing uh before we adjourn to the next thing? Yes. If you have something quick. Yes. Um can you we used to put the agenda at the um or the all the school committee meetings at the end. Can we go back to
doing that? We could. Sure. Yeah. We actually there used something at the I know who's asking myself. Um um there you know I think Olivia had it in the appendix at the end for most of the year and then we adjusted over the last
couple weeks. So right um we'll get it back in. We'll get it back in and I'm going to stop the share for a second. I just before we go to the next thing I just want to do a quick little rundown of the next couple of weeks for people so they know what what the plan is. Um
Michelle can go right. Michelle, you're you're welcome to drop if you would like to. Thank you. Thanks, Michelle. Thank you. Thank you. Good everyone. Tom, while you pull that up, the thing that I was going to ask about earlier, is there um is there an intent to
develop a tenative meeting schedule for say July through September in advance of reorg? Um I frankly hadn't thought about it yet. Okay. um definitely can try and we can do some quick uh like summer assessments for people especially for
vacations and try to work around them. I think that's helpful inclusive of um retreat planning and stuff like that. When is our retreat? The 8th. August 8th. Yeah. Do we have a date on it? August 8th. Yeah, we have August 8th. Okay. So, a couple of quick things for the just so everybody knows what's
coming in the next couple of meetings. The next meeting is the 29th. Um we will have um the ref grant annual uh celebration presentation. Um we will have Josh Weeden name removal request
submission uh first meeting first presentation. Um we will have the end of um we'll have the student services end of year update. We will have a uh the strategy update that I referenced earlier. Um the strategic plan update.
Apologies. Um, we may have an update with regards to director of finance or or not. We'll think about when that is either next week or the week after. Um, we will also have if time permits and if we look at
how long this presentations are going to last, we may have the second readings that we talked about today. Uh, if time does not permit, it might be the 5th or it might be in early July. Um on the 5th we will have prior to our meeting the
annual teaching and staff milestones awards and retirement celebration starting at 6. So if president holds our regular meeting might not start on time. We'll see what we can do to keep ourselves close to on time but that will be at 6:00 here if you want to come but the school committee meeting will not
start at that point in time. It'll start once that's concluded. We'll then um have the Josh Wheaten name removal deliberation and potential advisory committee formation. Um we'll have the CPAC end of
year update hopefully. This is on the 5th. This is on the 5th. Yep. Uh we'll have the teaching and learning update on the 5th. Uh we'll have the preQ4 financial update including the discussion around the special education reserve fund. We'll have Dr. Dr.
Milichesky's end of year personnel update. Um we'll have his sorry not his end of year personal update Michelle's end of year personal update Dr. Milesky's summit of review and then the compensation discussion for Dr. Milichesky on the 5th as well. And um as
of right now planning as well for the reorganization at the end of that meeting. It's a light meeting. Yeah. This is why I was like, we're going to need another meeting if you're looking at all this and it's like there's a lot un we no matter what it is, everything piles up at the end of the year. Just as
and that's all on the 5th. That's all on the 5th. Yeah. After Well, some of some of what I said was the 29th. So, I gave you the 29th and I gave you the 5th. So, um and I might not be here for that one either. Okay. You're not here on the 5th? I I we
have the tennis banquet scheduled for that and I'm a captain parent captain. Yep. Parent captain. Well, maybe you can be here toward the end of it. Who knows? Yeah, I Yeah, we'll see. I'm sure we'll still be going after the event. We might
be. We've had a few light meetings throughout the year, so we have a lot coming up in the heavy meetings the next couple weeks. So, that's the agenda on a go forward basis for the next two meetings. Um, and also but then not till July. Then not till July. Then you have three to four weeks off. Probably
probably four weeks off at that point in time until the second week of July would be my guess. Um, up to whoever whomever the chair is at that point in time. But John, to your point, I'll try to put a a brief schedule together. I mean, if it's if we're going to do reorg in early June instead of late June, it's less
critical. I was just more thinking in past years we've done it more like the end of June. So, Right. Yeah. So with that said, um I move to uh move to enter executive session uh to conduct strategy and preparation for
negotiation with non-UN personnel, dental office and principles to not return to open session. Second because we need to not have the conversation in public. Seconded by Sean. Any further discussion? It's a
roll call since we're going to executive session. So, Carla, yes. Laura, yes. Yes. Sean, yes. Sarah, yes. Tom, yes. And we are adjourned to executive session.