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done really I we go start again uh welcome to the swans Scot school committee regular session of Thursday August 22nd 6 o'cl we are live at swk high school so call to order if we could stand if you so desire to pledge
allegiance to the flag pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right welcome back everybody hope
everyone is enjoying the remainder of your summer as we get very excited for starting the new school year um and we are back so we will start with anything for the love of learning today not tonight I hope to kick it back off in
September excellent look forward to that uh committee comments Miss Marshall I mean nothing formal just really super excited to see the new school and to you know I'm sure other people have more to say but I haven't gotten a chance to really see it so I'm looking forward to convocation I'm looking forward to
seeing it I'm glad to hear that everybody is so excited and uh yeah I can't wait excellent M right um along those lines Miss Marshall there's going to be um a public dedication of the building on um
September 15th it's a Sunday morning not convenient for everyone but apparently it's also football start of NFL so it's in the morning um it's going to be at 10: and um we're going to do a ribbon cutting in front of the building and then have some refreshments inside in
the cafeteria and offer some guided tours of the public spaces amazing so so that'll be an opportunity for um more public to see it because there's been lots of parents and students in and all the teachers and Elementary School
teachers at least have been in so great awesome awesome thank you Mr jantis yeah thanks Glen um similar to Karen I'm looking forward to seeing the the school as well I haven't seen it since um since we took a tour public six months ago
right and uh so like the same building yeah looking forward to that and uh just what I've heard just from you know not a lot of parents but you know parents who have kids in the elementary they're really looking forward to it and um not sure about their kids but I know the
parents are very excited um so again looking forward to this the ceremony in the 15th great um really just for me to ducktail um I was lucky enough that superintendent gave me a tour on Monday and I was blown away
I really I I didn't know what to expect I did not expect that um again it been a long time since we had been in the building um and I am just so super excited not only for the staff but for the the kids to go in and and just see the brightness and you know there's
places you look out and all you see is greenery and it it's it is just going to be an amazing amazing place and I'm excited for you know the entire District so um it's going to be great it really is all
right um reports and discussions okay I'll jump right into my superintendent report beginning with a field trip request um Mr razat is here with Mr kalishman to talk about uh the sixth grade um field trip coming up October
9th through 11th so I will turn it over to both of you um appreciate you being here all right so if you remember we came to you last year because we brought back Nature's Classroom yes so Nature's Classroom I mean it was great and the
kids had a great time and it just was we had to do a different location so it was in Massachusetts but it was significantly further away than previously um then we had a a pretty significant cost as well
the ride home on the Friday was a little bit of a disaster but you know welcome to DC life I mean that happens every year you can't make it home without a bus issue and so we started looking at other options because the price was cost prohibitive to a lot of people as well
um so we looked at what was formerly known as Ferry Beach some of your kids may have gone to Ferry Beach back in the day it's now called the collegey school it's in sacko main it's cheaper it's closer and it looks incredible so we're back you know in front of you
today asking for permission to take the kids the sixth grade this year's sixth grade to ecology School in sacko main similar curriculum on similar yes okay yep and you did attach the standard yes like all the stuff like the kids really do all the stuff that's on that or they
just pick and choose from the different standards and activities because I was just like oh my God how are they gonna fit all this in it's it's just cool yeah they have um the they have a set schedule I we're busy like 7:00 a.m. to probably 8 or 9
p.m. that's great with night activi it's very similar to H's classroom um it just it looks awesome like I just didn't know if like that was just a sampling of activities or that really is like all the activity as I was just like do you think it's is it run is it
called something different or is it run by different people it's the same people it's just called the Colley school now they have a brand new site um in sa main it's a whole new campus um fully like their food production is sustainable they're growing their own
um cool composting the whole thing it's it's really cool their stuff yeah it's great i' like to go back to Middle School to attend these I love I mean I did I did this when I was in sixth grade it was like it was like the best week of school we did the Washington Trip that was the big deal in eth grade but um so
any other questions or comments from the committee how many I'm sorry I just have how many students do you anticipate going and the students who decide not to attend what are what's the curriculum for them so we already have the people the teachers who last year stayed back with the how many what was it 25 20 20
25 kids last year have they going to tackle a lot the same field trips they did okay last year this year um and the I would say I don't know we had a we did a survey last spring and it was a
significant amount of the kids wanted to go so I think they're kind of chomping at the bit to go so I don't know what the was it 130 something high it was something like 130 kids out of 140 say approxim 12 and then 12 chaperons is approximate and obviously that will change according to the numbers and both
things happen every time we have a field trip like this both things happen some kids get cold feet and bail and some kids as it gets closer the family say we want to do it um I do think it's important to not to sort of let everybody know though the the teachers have already in the spring started fundraising efforts having meetings about that reaching out to different um
you know reaching out to the Jon foundation for support because I mean the buses have just skyrocketed right um so we're trying to make it manageable it's just like DC the whole thing is you know we want to make it so if if people want to go they can go right it's just
we're already starting that process so uh the only thing I will say just for your benefit the field trip usually it's six weeks out that we give you all the information we just are getting sort of the field trips for the kids who State back now so that's going to be tight um
but the teachers have been off and and the date changed so it's going to be a little bit tighter than the weeks probably well because it's a different time it's a different time yeah yeah that's fine right um anyone else have any questions sounds great all right love it okay want to go can someone make
a motion to accept the application for field trip is that what we do accept do that's what we do right we have to approve it you do because out of state yeah should we do it during actions votes or just um I think so they don't have to stick around we could do it now
I mean it's not on there in actions we can just do it now I guess all right I'll make a motion to approve the field trip to um the ecology school I'll second okay um all in favor say I I I all opposed there is none it is so approved sounds great
you um I will piggyback on committee comment for the next item I didn't do a formal anything in writing because there's been so much going on that it would be jumbled I think in just a bunch of bullet points uh I just wanted to talk a little bit about the elementary transition and all that's been going on
um an enormous enormous shout out to principal Sanborn uh assistant principal Jay NES and dean of students Mary powers in addition to those three uh the three administrative assistants Kate Curtis
Jamie mcy and Jenna Moore have since they you know boots on the ground outside the building once they got in the building they are flying um Miss s borne has I went to the community neighborhood meeting a week ago Tuesday
here um and a lot of questions about pickup and drop off and I met with Miss sorn the next day and she has the level of detail for pickup and drop off down to a science you know I'm not going to uh promote that or disseminate that
information until she does but um the kids will be going right in the building um the busing who's going to be meeting there I didn't know at the construction meeting why that gate was being put in there now I know it's for the buses I must have missed that piece but even down to at the end of the day where the
groups are meeting where the Walkers were going where the extended day kids are going where that where they're all going to be housed is so the level of detail is absolutely incredible because there were a few young parents at the community meeting that were asking like will my child be met at the bus and will
my child go inside well they know what to do um they have the level of detail absolutely down to a science I I'm so impressed and I I hope tomorrow to get a copy of that because um at your suggestion Mrs Raymond we need to get that in the handbook because that's
where people are going to be looking um in addition you mentioned that the we did open the building for teachers last year and last year last Saturday feels like last year I know and and I woke up well I actually went to bed Friday night thinking I've got to get over there with them make
sure they're okay make sure they don't need anything make sure they're feeling comfortable and I went over Saturday morning and spent some time with them and they could they like giddy is the word that came to mind and the amount of storage they were all like then the
comment a couple people made is like I don't like my old bins they're dirty I can smell the old school I need to go out and get new Bins um so they were just the the neighborhoods the flex space they were like where's your office going to be why don't you come in our Flex space and have an office here the
excitement was just absolutely um palpable um and today miss sanborne her communication is so proactive with her staff a communication went out about um you know it's not perfect next week you know there's of course of thousands of
thousands of items on a punch list and we have a process set up so that the teachers send it to Kate Kate checks the punch list that already exists so that we're not duplicating efforts but that they need to know that there still will be workers in the building for the first
couple of months anyway finishing things up so I think Miss sorn's natural ability to uh be proactive with communication has really kept everybody settled um can I just jump in for one second I know you're saying there's workers in the building I just want everyone to understand that there's
workers there's anyone in the building is being Cory checked and um the only workers that are going to be in the building during the school day are our construction supervisor is going to be there to answer questions and the electricity person will be there for the
first week of school to make sure there's no electrical kind of issues but the work people will not be in the school during the school day they're going to be working second shift um and there will be extended day at that point but they're all Corey checked and they all have to have their name on a list of people who were approved to come in so
just so people understand that thank you I appreciate that's just something that we've taken care of great thank the Safety and Security obviously is that could be misunderstood to mean that there's going to be workers in and out and Miss sandor made it clear that you know it won't be disruptive it's there
to answer questions and that you know there'll may be workers after school but everybody as um Mrs Wright said will be cored and um that's important I think today it got rescheduled there was a dry run with the buses um they were
absolutely I told them oh you did okay I told these guys okay so um I took a vacation day today so I wasn't able to attend but there was going to be a dyun with buses and one of the things that another takeaway from the community and neighborhood meeting last week is really the commitment from the police
department to work very diligently with us for as long as it takes to um make sure parents are adhering and families are adhering to the rules and the drop off rules there was concern from people that they want to be able to walk their child in we explained that we've been
doing this drop in roll since we opened blay and Hadley that it's really you know if you're going to park out in the neighborhood there's a ton of um resident sck of parking only have we talked about the temple or is that like
to park and walk from the temple um one of the PTO parents was be heading that so I'm not sure where that right I'm not sure where that is but more importantly um Britney Jones Max Casper's Administrative Assistant has done a visual map and it's going to be handed
out to all of the staff in case there's events over there and Miss Sor is going to be reviewing it with her staff during the uh faculty meeting so that it's very clear those signs were supposed to be going up I think they did last week with um green bags or this week with green bags over them so there it is very
clearly going to be very clearly marked where uh it's resident sticker parking only and um we or the police are going to help us enforce that good so um I think that's about it I think I've hit I oh I will say that this week yesterday
and today there were family tours with students and um to Mr janis's Point uh my phone was blowing up a little bit earlier that some of our own teachers went in with their kids and the kids anxiety settled way down now they can't wait to go to school um I want to thank
the PTO at um the elementary school because they've spearheaded the tours so that Miss Sor and her team could continue to work and so they were doing the tours Miss sorn gave these PTO volunteers a tour those PTO volunteers are giving the family tours and there were lots of smiles when I was over
there um yesterday so um I got to tell you last night I saw some teachers out and one of the teachers showed me a picture of her son in one of the new bathrooms literally hugging I saw that pile wall former Hadley a former had bo real
B yes yes well can you imagine being you know someone I just was laughing so hard like who's been at Hadley for a couple years and now they to that gymm yeah and it's going to be kind of shocking how about the CAF lime and lemon cafeteria how about the saloon doors on the
bathroom in the third floor yes saloon doors so um Classics Mr duette was telling me when he came in tonight like he's just blown away blown away so uh it's all exciting it's very exciting to be able to have that convocation there um on Monday morning and um we're really
looking forward to it uh so next item on my agenda is the bullying PR uh prevention plan and this came up last year we need to come before you every year um thanks to assistant superintendent Mrs Raymond she spearheads this and um she's here to
share her thoughts and the updates on this for the school committee so minimal updates I had aop of it from June and so the only real changes were more administrative in that um we have the new school so we wanted to make sure
it's the swamp Scott Elementary School just some staffing changes so we have the right people reporting to the right areas um and also always trying to make it so that um it's a little more Universal and not so overly specific that um like one little changes that
make you have to come back and update the whole plan so we we just keep looking at looking at it to update it and make it um just more user friendly so this will go out to as required um by Desy regulations will go out to all the families and all the staff there is a
mandatory training actually I don't know if Lisa is coming to talk about it I actually did do the new mandator training through the new company um it has it's much better than what we had previously but all the so all the staff are trained on um what bowling is and then at the faculty meetings the
principles review the bowling prevention plan with them um and then this will go out to all the families um ways for reporting remain the same there'll be a Google link on um each of the um school websites but you don't have to use that
form you can call you could email you can talk just talk um you know it doesn't there's no requirement for how it's reported um data collection will look similar we'll have the spreadsheets and that really does help for us to look at Trends to see if there's any repeated issues
happening um and then different eyes can look at it too so if someone sees something that might alert us um to take another step so it's really minimal changes anybody have any questions this is the same one that goes on the school school website
right so it it's distributed it's not there minimal update okay a lot of work was done and one of the things we didn't bring before you tonight I delayed till the September 12th meeting is the handbook because Martha and her team also worked on the handbook in a
similar way really putting a lot of links in there so that it doesn't have to be changed yes and um it's down to 12 Pages it was5 I know it only 11 years together suan excellent I can't believe you didn't have me help you do it I'm actually like probably one of the
proudest things I am of like this past year was can I just get that done one quick thing um I was I was looking at um policies now that um I have the time to and there's we have there's a a bullying
harassment kind of there's an update we need to make with language and I think like you should look at it too to make sure the language is the same yep that's in I I just think like right is good me the Title Nine harassment that did update just August first first so that
that is different than this plan um but does it is it it is updated or does it does it mesh is it's not there's nothing contrary or no no I mean the title n the title 9 updates just are more inclusive of different protected classes and I've
already updated that as well and that is on our school district website um and also they've made it a little the the definitions of harassment did not change right more people protected great um and they loosened a little bit of some of the regulatory requirements
it was very very prescribed almost tied your hands a little bit so they've kind of loosened a few things up um but that we have that already updated as okay I just I just was reading through it and noticing that there one there's one we really have to completely change or
adapt for sure to look more like the MC one and then and then um there's one we don't have for protected groups yeah the groups are the groups wied yeah and I think also also we have we just have things in different places like we we we talk about sexual harassment but it's
not like in bullying or they're not they're not all it is is different so title Title Nine and bullying are different right but there's so many overlaps with how they talk about them now and it's just like I just want to be sure that like all it is it yes I agree
the the investigation I mean title 9 is far more prescribed like it's very prescribed about what you're going going to do right um regarding sexual harassment um and that definition stay the same it's just the increase is like we're going to protect um students who
transgender um students um who are are pregnant like they they they increase the number of protected classes that we would include in sexual harass start updating our policies to include those classes last year I mean when we when we were doing some of the updates we did
update some of the policies for I don't think it change changes the district practice I think this is something we've been doing for years but it's really nice to have a uniform policy that now you know everyone aderes to so it's appreciated yeah no I just that's awesome I'm there's a lot of trainings
that we can go on them too but it it is um it's pretty prescribed The Bullying piece is really just to make sure um that we're identifying it that people feel comfortable coming to report it and that safety plans I guess if that was one thing you're going to take away you
can Implement a safety plan regardless of whether there was bullying found or harassment found you can do that immediately and that's why reporting is so critical because we can come in and step in and help um make kids feel safe immediately even without an investigation right can't discipline
right but you can do safety right away and so that to me is um really important yeah good that's a really good point so this isn't so much a vote it's it's a review and adopt is just making you aware so that we have
um I don't think it needs to be put okay to vote um and the final item on my agenda is first of maybe a few that will be coming um your way and this is Surplus
textbook Surplus um as you can imagine beginning last um gosh last year middle of the year uh they started looking at attic spaces in programs that um are no longer in use and so if you start this picture and
chapter books there are um so you have your title whether it's a trade book or textbook or a manual um how many copies and um where that the location was so if you scan through this you know a lot of this was cleaning out the annex at
Hadley the Clark attic um dates are 1980 um 2017 I think there's one that is a little bit um young um but then if you 1965 on the second page 19 97 1934
Journeys through North America I missed that one 1934 at the bottom yeah so um this was our way to document what we were um obviously moving on and declaring Surplus and so again and Susan I apologize we're supposed to be
following this new format that um that should have been down under vote so if you want to wait we can vote on that I'm not no we we we worked but we worked hard on changing the agenda so um oh can we vote now then yes okay so um could we
have a motion to approve the list of um textbook Surplus soone make a motion please I'll make the motion someone second second all in favor of accepting the textbook Surplus list say I I anyone who's opposed no it motion carries
unanimously thank you and we will all miss the journeys through North America cira 1934 y I think that is the oldest one thank you so much you um anything else superintendent does anyone but Dr bacon look at these books
yes she had a few people um like wondering like does someone does someone get to look at them and say oh my God my daughter has a you know teaches kindergarten somewhere let me get her give her all these books or I think these were Beyond passing out they've been sitting in a box and they're not
right musty you had been up to the Clark attic even in the last since I left anything in the Clark attic I wouldn't I saw saw the Clark at yeah me too um so anyway that's concludes my report it's pretty brief tonight I anticipate September 12th will be much more
mey exactly I would think so too all right thank you very much um do you want to publicly just talk about um the football thing oh yes um we are super excited um Miss wolf actually
shared with our office I don't know maybe six weeks ago that there was a potential well we were invited to play our Thanksgiving Day football game at Fenway Park and then she and the Marble Head athletic director actually had a phone call meeting with the people at
Fenway and she was super excited because you know we were all excited to go to Gillette but the fact that they have Point people for the cheerleaders for the band for the um coaches for The you know teams so she said it seems like a
very very tight ship run really well at the time she knew it was going to be the Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving there were four slots she wasn't sure which time what time our game would be and last night she announced and sent out the formal invitation that we are
Wednesday at 6:30 and I'm sure her department will be sending out all of the details spot we are just super excited and I you know she's talking about box seats or something and I said well I want one she's like uh you'll be on the field again I'm like oh yes forget it I'll be on the field
so how how super exciting is that I'm so excited for our players and our coaches who work really hard um I'm excited for the Marvel head team and I didn't really pay attention to the other three games that are being played there but so we're 6:30 the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving I don't know what she is
going to do for Thanksgiving dinner because I think she's worked for 30 years during on Thanksgiving right I know right so um very very exciting we're all very excited about that so congratulations um I think it's a great honor and they reached out to Kelly so yeah I don't know how we're we're
selected seled yeah but that's wonderful all right cool fantastic um again there'll be I think on my perspective it'll be more meaty as we get after the building opens but just a few things um we do have the school committee
protocols and um I read through this earlier it really is the same as we we did we had a we had a minor change in 23 24 uh just about communication but just so the public knows um this is really what governs how we operate as a as a
committee thank you John and um it's really the rules that we we live by um it's you know how how we govern really at the end of the day the the five of us um we can't investigate anything we any
problem we turn over to the superintendent and your staff um we we make sure we don't breach open meeting and I'm just paraphrasing here uh a big section is really is how we treat each other and you know we we've all have
known each other for a very long time it's we can agree to disagree we we agree to have open meetings um treat everyone with respect and the dignity not only us up here but anyone who's in attendance um we try really to learn
anything from ourselves and the people who present in front of us um communication really the biggest thing we have just agreed on for a number of years is there's never any surprises we we make sure that everybody knows what we're going to talk about prior to
talking about it um requests um go through for information will either come through the chair or the superintendent and then um we always strive to improve if we have a challenge we talk about it uh the other part on
here is really the limits thanking to our Authority and as a superintendent we all kind of joke we actually don't have a whole lot of authority um we our job is to guide the ship make sure we fight for the
budget money that the leaders of the district need to make sure that every student every student is educated to the best possible uh thing that we can do and then there's Parts in here when things go wrong um how do we deal with that and
that's that's really it there really nothing to vote on we do have to sign this miss my understanding um uh m o Conor is is away but we'll sign it and then when can we just talk about something first absolutely please I was going to open it up but go ahead oh sorry can finish what you're doing then I didn't mean to interrupt no please
always so I just I just want to acknowledge that we did a really horrible job of this last year and there's six protocols that I know were were completely ignored and I feel like um as the chair um part of it's on me
not to have maybe sort of run a tight enough ship to sort of write some of these wrongs so I I take responsible for some take responsibility for some of them but I'm I'm sort of sad we didn't have our summer meeting where we go through them and we sort of we we usually go through them all and everyone
says did we do it or did we not do it and then we discuss the ones we didn't do and I think I think that I I I agree these are great protocols but they're only great protocols if we abide by them and um there was there was six that were
just completely disregarded I mean I just need to say that there's a member you know one of colleagues who created their own agenda and posted a meeting on their own without without the chair or vice chairs doing it which is one of our protocols um we made a decision as a
group and then um we're supposed to stick with our decision even if we don't agree with it um and I know that there was lot of issue over the budget and I know personally people didn't agree with it but this committee can't stand up and in a public meeting and say um I'm on
the school committee and not say the school committee voted yes but I stand as a public servant to tell you why I think it should be no no one said that and and that's sort of should have happened and I wish that um the no surprises I didn't know what the I
didn't know what the motion was ahead of town meeting so that was a surprise because I think that if I had actually known the words of the motion I think that I think that Looking Back Now I definitely would have reiterated I know I talk to everyone individually or almost everyone individually but I would
have reiterated that that's what you need to say at the town meeting instead of saying you guys can say whatever you want you are totally welcome to say it just say it as Citizens and I didn't say you should say the school committee voted yes but I'm speaking as a private citizen and I vote no and and we didn't do that and and and that's on me to not
sort of like stress that and sort of allow that to happen so I I was obsessed that we did that like the like the surprise of it and then to to you know do that and and I'm not I just I I think it's important we talk about it and the other thing was you
know one of the protocols here is that we were collaborative with the town and and I know that not everyone believed that we were working collaboratively with the town and we had come to some agreements but but uh the superintendent the business administrator and myself and TR chairs really did try to
collaborate and and Tred to um work with the town as our protocols say and I think that um whatever you guys you hear you hear what I'm saying but I'm just I'm just I just wanted to say this because I think that we need to do better because I
think we sort of I I think I think this is such an emotional job because like we all want to fight for money for the teachers and we all want to fight for money for the schools and we all and we're all working towards the same exact agenda like all the time and so it's so
emotional and you get like mixed up with stuff but I think that's why we need to pull back and make sure we follow these protocols because I think it's really easy to let let emotions take us away a little bit and um I just I just wanted to to just go and say that these
Protocols are great if we use them and and I and I'm imploring you to help us stick to him this year yes um thank you for the comments I don't dis agree um anyone else on the protocols no
I mean I don't disagree either and I think we do take the protocols to heart and we've all been working under them for so long and I think when we hear when someone says you didn't follow the protocol I mean
normally we're like you know I mean we hang our head because we know and we agree to them and we're typically really good at it 100% agree uh and and I'll and I will agree with you that frustration and passion
like you know went astray there and I think everybody did it for the right reason but you're 100% right that just you it didn't it didn't yeah it didn't work and maybe you know Workshop would have been great but we would have just said what we just said no I know but I
mean I just wanted people to understand know I got vilified a little bit and I I and it's not it's not because I don't support everything you guys support or whatever I was doing I was doing my chair job right so I just I just wanted to say
this and I didn't need to say it publicly public but I think H know ourselves a little bit right it would have been strange to have this item on the agenda and not say what said right it wouldn't have made sense so we need to call ourselves right cuz if if we
can't call ourselves out on something right I mean we we all know each other really well and and I think we we do sometimes have to call ourselves we don't have to agree on everything but I think it's a good reminder Suzanne and so I really appreciate you bringing it up thank you thank you thanks for you're welc
listening to me of course John so I'm not going to disagree with anything that I've heard here um you know I guess just a couple thoughts good um I guess as far as the protocols you know I
think things were happening kind of outside the purview of the committee during that whole Tom meeting budget um issue that you know like Karen said it was it was something that you know members of the committee felt very
strongly about yes there are protocols but you know circumstances I think were unique enough where you know taking a taking a position was warranted under the circumstances and again not disagreeing with anything I've heard
here um and you know I think also and Glenn this is more probably for your benefit at this point but I think looking back just if if we're doing post-mortems looking back I think you know communication probably could have
been better leading up to that you know from the chair um just as far as what's happening so you know we're not operating in a vacuum wish the chair had known that that motion was happening and what the motion was that's that's sort of well I think kind of predating that
just you know what what kind of the circumstances that led up to that so you know again I think just overall just more transparency more more communication to everybody when when the chair knows it and just so you know we
we can make informed decisions going forward and we don't right you know have situations like this where you know there's you know I don't think there's ill will but just you know just kind of you know some post-mortems that you know we wish we didn't have to do so I I wish
we didn't think that it's okay to operate outside of protocols because it's not even if even if you're heated in everything um there's still protocols there still there could have still been protocol that were followed I mean you more than you were more than all of you
are are are allowed to get up a town me meeting and talk and and say what you want to say consquences for violating the electronics policy consequences may include verbal warning confiscation parental involvement consequences are
determined at each School level just scrolling down I think that was it so that that is the first read um any comments Suzanne I think that I think that um I was the one that
was advocating for having the consequences at the school not not in the policy because I wasn't I mean I think I think they should be at the school I think that we can't really write them in here because I think each principal has different
ideas consequences might be especially knowing specific students or something so that's why I was trying to make a sentence there that sort of you know look to your handbook section of your handbook or whatever I agree for years we debated policy versus procedure and
really that's procedure within the building so it would be it would be that way I I would there are cell phone policies that delineate this that that are on the we I mean on different schools websites that's why I think it was initially added to this okay but
also I think that it's really important that um Mr Kish and Mr cohat specifically I'm not sure if the elementary school it's as important but um look at it see if if this is true that smart Marchers can be watched worn
if they're not you know oh okay so they still have to wait in well I I I'm just saying how would you know right I actually um had this conversation or an exchange with Mr cohat on Tuesday of this week when I started my days back here and they would he would definitely
need to look at this because I think right smart watches are are out too so um it's just hard I mean yeah how would you look to your point how you know so that's I think M Raymond is chopping up the bit something I would remove is
about special education office assist oh yeah we didn't know that's why it's I would probably maybe put I don't even think you need to put this in but that um the IEP team and the IEP drives what students use that supersedes all so it's yeah so it so we can have whatever
policy we want but if we end up if a team decides that a student needs whatever system take device it may it won't it will over the how about you look at this and tell us the sentence that can be in there might just be IEPs
distribute this students who require s of tech devices you know from a 504 planner IEP are not impacted by this PO so we'll have um I'll have Nancy make sure Martha Jason and um Dennis get this tomorrow and then we'll bring it back on
12 I mean Lori too if there's I'm sorry no it Elementary no that makes sense I know okay great thank thank you guys very much any other questions about first read okay
great um that's all we have for subcommittees um I know there's a lot of people here to do public comment so if we could just have one at a time um if any public comment if you could uh is there anyone out in uh internet land I
can't see over there John is there anyone in is there anyone in attendance there there are some attendees but no one's put their hand up so if if someone wants to comment for public comment put your hand up if someone is out there and you'd like to raise your hand we'd love to chat with
you while you're thinking about that um I'm assuming there's no one in the audience that has any public comment um okay John is there anyone rais their hands no one's rais their hand well again we we love public comment feel free to reach out at any time um all
right actions and votes uh Transportation policy all right so can someone make a motion to accept the transportation policy as dis previously discussed I'll make motion someone second second all right all in favor all
opposed it carries unanimously all right uh we do have a couple donations all right the first one sorry do you I don't do not know how to I don't either okay so uh I am going to
apologize in advance gasparian family yes I would say garan gasparian family thank you of of swamp Scott is making a donation of uh $300 the donation was for summer school
program at the middle school scholarship for a student to attend the middle school at excuse me the summer program at um the swans Middle School uh on behalf of the committee and the superintendant um we very much
appreciate this donation um I'm sure if it I'm sure it was used to put to good good purpose to help anyone who needed to attend that summer program to attend so thank you very much uh
secondarily um hold on donations from the Danvers Public School District uh in Danver Mass and this came through the director of Technology
Innovation and libraries uh Miss Mackie NES and the cost estimate was approximately $2,000 but the cost for a new screen is is $6,000 so that's nice uh it was donated the screen was donated in use but in very good condition um it's an
auditory an excuse me auditorium screen for our little theater since the screen there has been reached its end of life and the motor no longer works can I assume that's at the middle school yes Little Theater y great the Middle School Little Theater um uh on behalf again of
the committee in the entire District uh thank you very much and kudos to the to Danver Public School and thank you for Miss Mackie noes for following up on this as usual doggedly doing looking for looking for deal good things and Deals so thank you
very much to that and she's probably watching this meeting right now why she still at the elementary school doing stuff because she didn't think she was going to leave there till before she's completely off the topic the technology at the elementary school blew me away too wow that was really cool all right
sorry we going to take on the donations one more time are we going to take votes on the donation uh yes I'm sorry it's okay um Can Can we combine them is that okay yeah I think so so we're going to combine C and the two donations can someone make a motion to accept the donations I'll make a motion to accept
um the donation for the um tuition and the screen great can someone second second all in favor raise your hand I all opposed again thank you to both folks all right uh consent to agenda the
concept agenda is designed to expedite the handling of routine and miscellaneous business of the district school committee May adopt the entire consent agenda in one motion at the request of any commit Committee Member any item or items may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the
regular agenda regular agenda for discussion pardon me um there's only one thing that's the regular session minutes of June 27th 2024 can someone make a motion to accept those minutes make a motion thank you second second
all in favor all opposed it passes unanimously lastly we will actually can I indulge the chair for a second you absolutely so just going back to the cell phone thing um I don't remember if we mentioned timing just for the
feedback I think our goal was to try to get this in front of the next school committee meeting if possible so just if that helps if that helps with um yeah we'll get this out tomorrow and the intent would be the I just like I said I could remember on the timing part so I just wanted to make sure that was there
yeah we don't want to delay no okay great okay thank you John um it's that time can someone make a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion second please second all in favor all opposed we are for