Hello, everybody. Oh, oh, oh. We don't have a policy. There was no policy. Welcome to the November 3rd meeting of the Westfield School Committee. Mr. O'Connor, can you do me a favor and take the role? Yes. Dr. Gunther. Here. Mr. Terrell. Here. Ms. Hillman? Here. Mr. Sullivan. Here. Mrs. Sullivan. Mr. O'Connor? Here. Chairman K Here. All rise for Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge Allegiance to the flag, the United States of America and the Republic for Richard stands One Nation under God. Justice, We're gonna enter into our public participation portion.
Uh, it'd be 15 minutes in duration. Anybody who would like to address the committee on a topic, if your choosing, you're more than welcome to. Uh, all that we would ask is that you state your name and address before the committee and you have up to three minutes to participate. Are there anybody for public participate? Sure. Come on up. Hi, my name is Catherine York. I live at 19 Lock House Road here in Westfield. I can I just read what I, um, of course you can. Okay. Thank you. My son Clinton York is a 16-year-old junior in high school, currently attending his second out of district placement at Curtis Blake Day School.
He is a double deficit dyslexic, who also has a DHD autism, an IQ of 105. Yet his current reading and math level is that of a third grader. He was diagnosed with his disabilities at age five. So how did we get here? Why? Despite an extensive IEP from the age of three when he started at Fort Meadow. Hundreds of meetings, more evaluations than any human being should need. Thousands of dollars spent on educational advocates. Is my son at a reading level that prevents him from even filling out a job application.
It's because my son has not been given consistent and appropriate instruction by properly trained or in Gillingham or Linda Mood, be teachers. Westfield has sadly failed my son. I would not blink an eye in graduating him, not even being able to read a menu or a contract. We have very few properly trained or in Gillingham or Linde Mood Bell instructors in this district. Westfield has not invested properly in our dyslexic students, and my son is proof of that. The far reaching effects of this educational trauma for students like my son who have failed despite proper diagnosis, evaluations
and parent involvement include anxiety, depression, bullying, low self-esteem, dropping out addiction. And worse, the burden of proof should be on the school district to not only prove our children are learning, but that they are doing everything in their power to empower our teachers, to teach children of all abilities, especially dyslexia. The burden of proof should not be on parents to prove our children have been failed. And my child, Clinton York, has been and continues to be failed by Westfield, by Desi, by every school he has attended public in
and out of district, and by all the teachers who have said nothing, knowing my son is not progressing, but in fact was drowning his homework in second grade as a student at Munger Hill. While an essential life skills classroom was sentence scrambles, he was at a pre-primer level. It is long overdue for Westfield to invest in having more than two or three properly trained or in Gillingham or Linda Mood Bell Instructors in this district, especially when statistically speaking, one in five children have dyslexia. Parents shouldn't have to shell out thousands of dollars for tutors when they're entitled to vape free,
appropriate public education. It shouldn't be a part-time job fighting for your child to learn the basics of reading, writing, and math. You want to see depression and anxiety rates go down among our students. Please start giving 'em the proper tools they need to succeed in five in life. Thank you. Can you do me a favor? Can you tell me what the diagnosis is? I, you kept dropping out. I couldn't hear What his, oh, sorry. That's okay. His diagnose diagnosis is double deficit dyslexia, A DHD and autism. Okay. And you, you kept mentioning something about an instructor that had, but I
Couldn't. Um, so there's two, um, modes of teaching a dyslexic child. Um, Orton Gillingham, which is a multisensory approach. That's the one, yep. Okay. And, uh, Linda Mood be okay is the other one. Thank you very much. Thank you. We have Anybody else saying none. We'll close public participation and we'll move on to the Munger Hill Elementary School presentation. Good evening everyone. For those of you who don't know me or at home, my name is Stacy Burgess and I'm the principal of Munger Hill. And tonight we're here to talk about St. Math.
St Math is a visual instructional program that uses game-based puzzles to teach math concepts by developing students' spatial and temporal reasoning. It starts with visual and language free puzzles and gradually connects them to traditional math symbols and language. The program emphasizes conceptual understanding and problem solving skills through interactive challenges With informative feedback. I'm very proud to say that Munger Hill has exceeded its October goal of 18%,
and, and we are at 22% with being the first day of November in ST. Math. I would like to introduce to you, Mrs. Jennifer Kubick. She is our STEM lead and also our St Math first grade amazing teacher and also Gigi. And if you've had a student in elementary school, you've heard about Gigi. This is Gigi. I'm Jen Ubic. Um, the man in there is listed up there, but if there's children watching, then,
so, like Stacey said, ST Math is a visual game-based math program. Um, it challenges students to not have rote memorization. They need to know the scale, they need to work on the puzzle. They need to work through it. Um, it's, it's aligned with math state standards. So as they work through the puzzles, they get more challenging. Um, there's no, there's sound to it, but there's no one talking to them or at them. Um, just when they get something right or get something wrong, there's like a little chime to it. Um, they must reason test and adjust their strategy.
If they get it wrong, they're provided with immediate feedback. So it kind of shows them what to do to get it right for the next time. And then we as teachers receive real time data, um, and it helps us monitor their progress. And then it can lead us to, um, help support small group in the classroom. So, um, it builds perseverance and critical thinking. It reinforces numbered sense and conceptual understanding and core math. Um, Gigi crossed the screen. The kids love watching Gigi cross the screen. They know one Gigi crosses the screen. They got it right.
Um, it's a visual approach, so it helps students of all learning abilities, um, their skill level and special needs and language. So students who are multilingual learners don't have to have anything to read. They can just see the puzzle in front of them and solve it. So our goal by the end of the year is 80% progress. Uh, we have a race to 30% challenge. It's districtwide. Um, every Friday, Lindsay post this thi for 30 challenge. Munger Hill and South Hampton Road are currently tied,
but, um, Gigi told me that we are now at 22%. So we're in the lead. Um, so we continue to use data to drive instruction and we celebrate growth, um, with school-wide visits from Gigi. So here, this is in the foyer of Munger Hill. Um, and then this is down a hallway just kind of cheering kids on to do their best and to get to their next percentage. This is the tracker for classrooms. So Tom tracks classroom percentages as well as school-wide statistics.
This is Gigi visiting us in a classroom. Fourth grade is doing amazing things. They have, um, st math journals and they have it in. And then, um, they take their percentages for the week and they go in and they write it in themselves. So it kind of holds them accountable. And this is just a whole class tracking. It looks a little different at each grade. So these are the Pokemon cards. They are awesome. The kids love collecting them. There's the, um, like how many hour, how many minutes they log. They can get a certain amount of ca, uh, cards
or how many puzzles they hit. They can get a certain amount of cards. This is fourth grade still. This is first grade tracking. So there's a hundred Gigi's on here. And for every percentage they go up, they get to stamp the Gigi. And then this is the classroom tracker that the tech academy printed for us. And Lindsay handed out to all the teachers. And this is a kindergarten tracking. And this is Blake. And she said, I can't wait to bring Gigi home. And we have an update on pla um, Blake. She was able to bring Gigi home. She was very excited. So I took the picture a couple weeks ago, and then as of this weekend,
she was able to bring Gigi home. So Gigi also comes in like a little plastic bag. And in kindergarten, once they hit a certain percentage, they get to bring it home. Um, I'm also doing it in my classroom. Once they hit 20%, they get to bring Gigi home. Emerson said, I like how it challenges me. Tatum says he likes the tools it gives him to solve the problem. So when you're doing some problems, it will give you little manipulatives that you can use to solve the problem. I like being able to solve puzzles. Scarlet, third grade, I like how it gives me feedback. And back to the feedback, it gives it automatically so the students can know what to do next time.
And if we get to 80% by the end of this year, it'll be our fourth year in a row getting to 80%. Any questions? It's cool that you use it as a puzzle. We just got our security, uh, update all the employees, got a little security update and it's a game. Play the game with the interactive computer. Great. So you have to get it wrong to figure out how to get it right. Question. We good? Mr. So you may have said it. I was trying to read and listen at the same time. And those are two things. So I I can't do that all. Sorry. But, Um, it's mostly individual. Um, but are there group,
Are there group options be? So today I had a student who was struggling. So when I go in and look and I can see who is struggling, we'll have little dots next to them. I usually pair them up with a student who has gone past that level. So I do buddy work. Um, you can also do puzzle talks. So with the whole group, if all the kids are struggling on one particular puzzle, or if you want to start to introduce a different puzzle at a time, you can do a whole class puzzle talk. Um, I usually pair students up so it's not groups of kids, but if one student is doing better or knows how to figure out that puzzle, I pair them up
with a student who's struggling. Great. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you very much. Thank you. Nice to meet you Gigi. You know, in Spanish it's, he, he just want it out there. Help going out. That way we can talk the penguin right? It is right. I'm sitting here. Goingi. Okay. Just joking. Jean's gonna stand. You wanna go? You wanna go ahead? I think Jean's getting a little hot. I don't, she didn't turn on her fan. Take care. Thank you. Thank you. Westville High School. Come on up, Westville. Hi.
You can see it. Hello, my name is Colin White. Good evening. My name is Sharon Gara and we're back. So excited to tell you about everything we've done and everything we will be doing. Starting off on October 28th, we held our college financial aid night, a great way to learn about financial aid. And we brought in speaker Richard O'Connor Jr. Who's the director of Financial Aid at Elms College. Going back a little bit, on October 24th, we held our senior masquerade with record breaking post COVID attendance, showing a turning point for the event and attempts to revive it. And as well, just a day
after that, the class of 2026 held a golf tournament fundraiser, raising a lot of money for our class On October 20. Uh, first we had our fir our 17th annual college fair with 90 Colleges in attendance. We had seniors and juniors from Westwood High School, the tech, and even Southwick High School attend. It was a great fair. I got to see a lot of colleges and my personal fair West Point, I mean the Naval Academy. But yeah, military academy, same thing. And, um, on October 19th, we had our,
we had both the Westfield High School Band and Chorus, uh, uh, sorry. Key Club, uh, represent our school in, uh, Ray of Hope Walk, playing music and walking wrong this year. Thankfully it wasn't as cold, but it was hot for some reason. I don't know why, but hotter than usual, Though, to mention our chorus and our band the day before we played at the Pumpkin Fest. And on the topic of our chorus, they also had their 22nd annual fall fest on October 16th with the theme Marvel versus DC Songs of the Multiverse.
Now finally, for things that have happened on the sports side of things, as we wrap up our fall season, we wanna give a huge shout out to our Westwood High School gymnastics team becoming Western mass Champs. Woo. Actually done, Um, November will be a very busy month for, uh, Westfield High School. Our bomber design, um, design Your own swag contest, uh, contest ends November 5th to keep an, um, so keep an eye. So keep an eye out to see our, uh, winning design and, um, and our, um, the, the junior, the juniors, um, um,
farmer Swag competition, uh, fundraiser sale. Now, not to be outdone, we also have to ask you keep out an eye out for our band on November 11th, who will be walking again in the Veteran's Day parade and performing at the ceremony. And, um, recently our, the, the softball fields have been almost finally complete. Um, except for the dugouts. It's been almost totally, uh, finished. It looks amazing. I I took a peek gander. It looks beautiful. But yeah, everything's coming to, uh, coming along together. The football field looks amazing too.
I I can slowly see it day by day every morning coming together and it looks great. Finally, what I know, most WHS students are looking forward to the Thanksgiving weekend, right before Thanksgiving break, we'll be having our spirit week. And then on the 24th we'll have our annual junior versus seniors flag football game and hall Wars, which we got Win the junior, Which we will win. And then finally on the 25th, we'll be holding our Mama Mia themed homecoming, as well as our pep rally bringing exciting clothes for November.
Big ab a fan. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion for the approval of the October, 2020 5, 20 25 school committee meeting. Minutes Second, second. Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion? Say no. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Homeschool, I'd like to make an appro, uh, a motion for the approval of homeschool applications. Numbers 1 52 to 1 61 for the 20 25, 20 26 school year. Second Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion?
I'm gonna be totally honest with you. I don't think I understand the chart, but I don't like it. I'm trying to figure it out. Okay. What's the, what's the number We're gonna go to 161. 1 61? Yes. And what is the number? The new and the returning side mean? It's their, Just can't figure out the correlation. New Applicants who were not homeschooling last year and the returning are other ones coming back that our return from last year continuing to homeschool What's a K Can? So that's their grade level. So each row is an individual. Good. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye.
Opposed? Motion carried. Number seven. Um, I think that's me. Um, on October 20th, the subcommittee, um, met, um, with Susan and Christine Bo and Tim. Um, and we talked about four different policies. The first one that I wanna have for first reading is JF School admissions. So I'd like to make a motion to approve the first reading by title only of policy file school admissions. And the, the, um, committee voted three to zero to agree to this policy.
Second motion I made. And second, any further discussion? Can you just clarify the, the, what is new about this policy? I can, let me just grab my paperwork here. Oh, sorry. Actually this one I had a different question. No, it's the second one you wanna go to. That's the, I have a different question about that one. This one, the, The question I had is just whether there was any conversation around whether, um, the fact that we are now bringing in pre-K students but not universally changes anything about the, like we know advanced registration
for prospective kindergarten students begins in the spring. Do we need to say anything about pre-K? Do we need to do anything to like define school age children? Or is that defined elsewhere? I just, I just wondered if the fact that we now have a more comprehensive pre-K program that's not universal but is more expansive required doing anything different with the school admissions policy? We have not done anything with that at all. We just adopted the new policy here. Um, and there was a discussion about including Westfield
before the school committee and to do the, um, lemme just see if, um, let's see. Um, and there were a lot of references underneath there that we needed to look at. So we're still working on a lot of the references to update them because we haven't updated them in a while. But we just wanted to make sure we pass this whole one and then we're gonna go back in and look at all those cross references. 'cause there are big changes there. So we will be doing that in the near future. You wanna follow up Doctor? Uh, I guess I, I maybe,
are you guys talking about this again in committee? Yes. Then I, I guess my request to be Can we like, think of, look at the language and just confirm with administration of whether we need to change any language here. Okay. Due to pre-K. Perfect. Yes, we will. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Okay, the next one was file JLCA physical examination and screening of students. Um, there was no policy in place in Westfield.
And now we have, we have looked at this policy, the recommendation of MASC. The policy was reviewed by, um, FAS St. Pierre and Greg Voss, the athletic director, and then sent to the policy committee. Um, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Ocon and myself, we looked over the policy and we tweaked many parts of this policy to fit Westfield standards. So I'd like to make a motion, um, for a first reading by title only of policy file JLCA physical examination
and screening of students Second. Motion done, made and seconded by Mr. Sutherland. Is there any further discussion? I just want to note I appreciate the, uh, committee's work here 'cause I can see what's been done in behind the scenes. So thank you very much for that. Seeing no further discussion. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Mr. Chair? Yes sir. Can I just go back to, um, Dr. Gunther's question. So under the jf Yeah, under jf. So the physical examination screening of students. So, oh, that's, you're asking, you're asking if the
That's the, so they're, they're mistitled or they're like mislabeled in the packet? Backwards. Yeah, they're backwards on that. So He Was asking, I was asking about in school admissions. Jf. Jf Okay, Got It. About whether it references what we do for kindergartners and just whether Pre-teaching that solves that. Okay. And that one was huge 'cause you had to read all these other ones. And we don't agree with some of the MASC and we need to upgrade some of those policies. So that will be on the docket four next time.
Super good. Moving on. Want do field trips? Sure. I Can make a motion for the approval of a field trip from West for Westfield High School to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Jackson, New Jersey. Second May 14th through the 17th. I second. He's still, second motion is been seconded twice by Mr. Ll. Uh, thank you for your enthusiasm. Uh, is there any further questions on this trip saying I, I have a question. Um, I hope this isn't during MCAS period. Is it during MCAS
Is the one? I don't think so. I think, I think that we screen that with Mr. Kennedy. I can I'll check in in the, in the meantime with The dates. Okay. Will you get back to us please? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Item eight B, You like to make a motion for the approval of field trip from Westfield High School to Peru. Peru, anywhere in Peru. Just Peru. April 17th, 2027 through April 25th, 2027. Second motion been made and seconded.
Let's have some discussion. Turn. Do you, do you need us to talk about it? Um, yeah, hold on just a sec. Okay. So I, I read this, um, most of these kind of pass through fairly easily. Um, 'cause they're most are domestic. I, I certainly understand that this one is international. Um, and when I saw the destination, I pulled it up at the, uh, United States Secretary of State. And, um, I had some concerns and I shared those concerns with, um, uh, vice Chair O'Connor.
But it wasn't really for me to share it broadly because then I'd be in violation of both meeting law. So, uh, I didn't wanna do that either. Um, and my concern was that the, um, one of the destination cities specifically, um, where are we? Sco? Um, may or may not be the, the be I, I don't know. We've never been to parole. Right? Um, may or may not be the best place to, um, to go. It could be. I, I, I don't know, but I wanted to have that discussion on the floor and, uh, me, I assume me, come on.
Sure. I, I, I just don't think that, uh, I'm not gonna be, I don't think ready, I I'm only one to say yes or no right now. Um, fortunately the trip is in April of 27. Yeah. And just so you know, as a background, I've traveled internationally as a chaperone for West Hill High School. So that's not the issue. The issue is I'm just a little nervous about sending our kids maybe to, to someplace that State Department is kind of iffy on. Go ahead. Well, SCO is really the heart of the Inca Empire. And at Westfield High School, what we're trying
to do is we're trying to create global citizens, right? So bringing them to a place like Peru, um, is going to be beneficial for them in all kinds of ways. Um, just this summer, uh, I went with a group of students to Panama actually. Um, and one of our students happened to be from Westfield High School. And, uh, she was completely blown away, already knows what she wants to do for a career. So, uh, these kinds of trips, international trips, um, are really just gonna be so eye-opening for the students.
Um, as far as, um, your concerns with, um, the State Department, I haven't seen anything to that effect. Um, but I can certainly look into it and talk to the representatives at EF about that. Um, because this company is, you know, states its reputation on making sure that wherever they're bringing their students, that it is a safe place for them to travel. So they're not gonna endanger any of the students. So if they see or they come across, um, any kind of news that suggests
to them that this is not a place to travel, they will let us know immediately. Can I, Dr. Gunther, I, I, so I was taking a look here too. It looks like right now that the like broader region of Cusco is under this travel ban. The city itself is not, I want, like, for myself personally, like, I think, I don't know how deeply you all have worked out your itinerary in terms of what you're doing. I wonder if that would be helpful. I also don't know if we have precedent for approving these contingent on, um, such
that we would say go ahead, but should be an area of travel, hit the level, you know, using the State Department website that they'd have to cancel it essentially. Um, because I imagine it's gonna be a dynamic situation that's hard for us to, I understand the need to ask to get the approval for this logistically this far out. Yep. And also know that this is probably gonna be something that is, that changes over time. So let me tell you, I'm, I'm just wanna be
as transparent as I possibly can. Tim, do you want me? Yeah, just, just to weigh in a little bit, I, the mayor shared with me the pro travel advisory, um, first read through. It's, um, a little scary when you, when you read it the first time you, you read through. Mm-hmm. Um, I think they try very hard to Not, uh, try to keep tourism away, um, from, from the areas that they considered to be safe. Um, but maybe I'm, I'm sure this isn't the first time anybody in, in the travel area is gonna have
to answer questions about the safety of the country and, and the particular parts of the country that are problematic. Um, so maybe that's something that we could have brought back to us. Um, our, you know, is there any additional information from, you know, the travel agencies and others that are involved in setting this up? I'm sure they've had answer it before. Okay. Sure. I can definitely reach out to the representative that I'm working with and I'm sure she'd be happy to. Yeah. And, and they just so this group knows, and you're, you're, you know, um,
certainly can share with, with everyone. They do talk about the city of SCO in, in a couple different ways. One, it does, it looks like the, the primary area where the tourists, you know, are, are, are not an affected area. But then they, then they say some areas within the regions of Cusco, um, are, are, there's a travel advisory due to crime and threats of terrorism. So it's, it's, it's not, it's, it's all around a little bit. Mm-hmm. So any, any clarity we could get on that, at least for me would be, would be better. Okay.
Yeah. It's a, it's a company we use to, to go with our Spain trips every year, every other year. Um, so You're gonna hate me when I say this to you. You're gonna have to identify yourself for the folks at home. Oh, sorry. Amy Sikowski. I'm at, um, Westwood High as well. Um, yeah, it's the same company we use every other year with our Spain trips. Um, so we're very familiar with their policies, so we can definitely look into it and see what they say. Obviously it's a trip that they lead every year, um, through the company. So, um, we're happy to see how this year's trip is planned planning out for the schools
that are going and, you know, for us for next year possibly. Yeah. If we could just get that, uh, kind of differentiated. I'm gonna read to you what I'm reading. Um, the city of SCO and popular tourist sites nearby, like the Sacred Valley, the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu are not affected by the air, by these, by this issue. But then further down, it talks about, I thought, I'm not even gonna try. I I speak Spanish, but I'm not even gonna try on this one. I asked who, Huka and combo usage. Um, there's like a, a a, a River Valley, I guess it's associated with Cusco. That seems to be problematic
'cause it's a border kind of thing. So if you could just kind of flesh that out for us, that'd be a little bit more comfortable. Mr. Re, Um, in the event that there was a travel ban, uh, obviously this is a, this is not your standard field trip to, you know, the Air and Space Museum, right? It's pretty expensive for families. It's a big undertaking. Yeah. What, what are the policies, uh, in terms of folks being able to get their, their money back If there is a, a travel ban and, and folks aren't able to make the trip? So EF does provide a insurance, um, with,
um, when they sign up, it's, it's automatic. It's an automatic insurance that if for whatever reason they have to cancel or, um, they have to get away from the place, the location that they're actually at, these families are already covered. Um, when COVID hit, they had a really massive fallout with a lot of people because they didn't quite have, um, a robust insurance. And so now they've really have stepped it up, um, and have created that for the families and students who are traveling with them. Now,
Is that an additional cost? Uh, it's, it's, it's kind of rolled into the payment. So that's included in the 43? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Ms. Shey, I, I would like to, uh, if, if possible, I would like to withdraw this motion just on the grounds of getting more information, and then we bring it up again when you guys come back in front of us. Okay? Okay. Okay. So plan on, uh, the 17th. That'd be okay. On the 17th, and we'll, we'll bring it back up again, thank you very much for your understanding. We're, we're, we're trying to work with you, but you gotta be comfortable with it, right? Yep. Thank you, Mr.
Re uh, let's seal public schools for hold. We gotta vote out on the floor, right? Well, To withdraw the motion. Well, I wonder if we, I wonder if we just Not a vote. I mean, it, it, it, it's still a motion to, to accept the field, the field check right now. Okay. But I'm gonna go to you, Mr. Parliamentary, and if you've withdraw the motion that we have to vote on the initial motion. I, I think you vote on the withdrawal of motion. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a second for Make motion? Make a motion. Sullivan's withdrawal. I gotcha. Second.
All is in favor A. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you, Tim. I do have that information for Mrs. Coleman about the case. There's a following week, so start on the 19th. So start the 19th. Okay. Thank You. Thank you very much. Mr. Jay, I'd like to make a No, go ahead. Make a motion, uh, to accept Westfield Public School's financial statements as presented. Second Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion on the Westfield Public School's financial statement? I bet there is Ms. Barry. Good evening everyone. Shannon Barry, director of finance.
Um, I just wanted to start on the expense side tonight. If you look at pages three and four, um, what we had budgeted for both the, um, natural gas and for the electricity. I received monthly reports from the G and e. We're still within range for both of those, so we are looking good in terms of both of those for this. She, um, same page, page four, just at the top. I wanted to point out that our internet is at a slight deficit. Um, we are having a lot of issues with the cable, um, up at
the, uh, transition program. And so we finally have fiber up there. So there was a, there was a cost to have that installed, so that's where that came from. Page five, the out district vocational tuitions. So what you're looking at there is just the tuitions for the LP VE being entered. Um, we did not have a signed contract in place with vocational yet. That has since gone through. We actually are down on the number of students that are attending LP, vec and, um, Smith Vocational from what we had anticipated when we were budgeting. Um, so right now, and I don't wanna keep this as a hard number
because kids end up for whatever reason going out all year to these programs, but right now we're looking at about a hundred thousand dollars in that line. Um, and just further down on page five, there's $75,000 of which none we have encumbered. That is the legal settlements line. We do have quite a few, um, three rather significant cases going on right now. So that's why that funding is budgeted there. On page 25, if we skip over there, the building Maintenance and improvement, the capital project, you'll see a line towards the bottom that's in a deficit,
$53,500. Those are the architectural and engineering services for the bathrooms at the Westfield Technical Academy. Um, so this is the first part of the project. We've hired our on-call architect and engineer to create the bid document to go out to bid for the two bathrooms on the upper level campus and the two right outside Tigers Pride. They will actually create the bid document for us. We will go out to bid and that's when we will determine how much this whole project would cost to undertake. We would be looking at a timeline of around next summer
because we can't shut down the bathrooms, obviously, during the school year. So the goal would be to get the bid out on the streets within the next couple of weeks so that we have enough time to get together the money, get the contract together, get everything together so the stars align, so that everything can start as soon as the, um, the kids leave the school. Thank you for doing that. Mm-hmm. On page 26, at the bottom two maintenance slides, you'll see that there's one that has a pretty significant number in it and one that isn't a deficit.
Those just need to be, um, there'll be a transfer coming up on the agenda. The maintenance department needed to purchase a new mower. They had one from a while ago that the city had given to them, but it's reached end of life. So it was time to purchase a, a new used one. And then finally getting into special education on page 29, stepping Stones is the contract services line. That's the more significant line. Um, the original budget was almost $1.9 million. It appears right now we have a balance of $469,000. Um, that is also not accurate.
Um, as you know, stepping Stones is who we use when we can't find internal candidates to hire. Um, the s LPAs, the OTs psychologist, so, um, Susan gy, um, Greg, our SPED director and I sat down just a couple weeks ago and went back through and saw what positions we still needed to fill. And we did a contract amendment with Stepping Stones. So you'll be seeing as the next financial statements probably go through, you'll see that contract amendment reflected in that, that balance gone. And then again, special education on page 30 at the top.
Tuitions in state, um, there is a to, there's a transfer on the agenda, um, for those two top lines. It's another contract services, um, contract services line. There was money budgeted in the tuitions and state that was actually more appropriate to be budgeted in the contract services line. So you'll see that transfer on the agenda. I do wanna point out that there's a pretty significant balance in the tuitions in state line because at the very end of the fiscal year as people started closing out purchase orders, I was able
to prepay some tuitions, which left us a balance there, which in turn is going to help us when we get to the personnel section when we're talking about positions that were restored. And then one last comment, just from, um, transportation. Right now we're not using as many buses as we are contracted for, which is great. 'cause it's obviously a financial savings. Um, so hopefully it'll stay that way. Regular buses, we're using 27 outta 29 buses, special education buses, 18 out of 22. Um, up until November we were using three out of five. And then starting this month
we'll be using four out of five. So any questions on expenses? Mr. Sullivan? I got, I got one. You were talking about the um, uh, the bathrooms at the tech academy. Do we have a guesstimate on what that's gonna be? Um, so I was told that 500,000 would be a very low end estimate. Mm-hmm. Probably double that. I wouldn't go far as double it, but because I wanted a true, like, realistic number Right. I'm expecting more like the six to $700,000 range And it was 300 last year or the year before.
Yeah. Although I don't think though. Yeah, it hadn't gone out to bid. Right. Getting quotes and going out to bid are two completely different animals. Oh yeah. Yeah. Mr. O, so you're talking about the in-state and out-of-state tuition. Mm-hmm. Um, how are we running, how are we running when compared to years and past, and is there any indicators of, um, where those numbers might ultimately land? I mean, I wouldn't say there's not less students that we're sending outta district. So the, you know, the money that we do have left in that line is students that we are definitely expecting
to be going out of, of district this year. And I haven't seen a huge fluctuation in the number of students. I will say we have had a few extremely expensive students in the past years, um, age out of programs. Um, you know, we had someone that was almost $350,000 a year age out a year ago. So it's the fluxes, it's hard to tell 'cause it's so student by student and some schools are so much more expensive than others. Right. Okay. Thanks. I I missed the headline on the Stepping Stones. That balance of 478 K or the balance
or, so that's not yet encumbered was was your headline? We are now going to need to encumber that or that is We are going to need to encumber it. So yes. So we met and went through and saw the positions that we still need in the district to meet services for students and Stepping Stones is going to be able to provide those services. So yes, a contract amendment is already underway. Okay. The second question I had is, I know one of the areas where we ran over or where we felt some pressure last year is on the athletics. Mm-hmm. Is that, like right now it looks like we're like one third spent one third encumbered, one third available
ish here For the athletics department. Yeah. Is that, and I know they also have revolving account, so it's complex, but is this about, This is about where we are and then I mean, they have the revolving money that comes in all the time also. Yeah, I mean they ended the year, you know, there was concern last year where they were in terms of how much they were spending on the revolving and then how much they had left on the general fund side. Yeah. And they ended up with money on the general fund. Oh, okay. Okay. So, So it ended up not being As much pain point. I'm not what Pain concerned. Okay. Can I
go into the personnel? Okay. So I'm gonna go through these kind of quickly because a lot of this is just the restored positions, but I just want to point out the positions that we did restore. Um, and those, those transfers will be coming up on the next agenda item. So on personnel on page one, that top page, we restored the tech supervisor position at the bottom of that page, the literacy coach and the math coach. I'm sorry, I missing page one of personnel. Yep. Page one of personnel. Yep. Okay. I just go. Okay, Got it. On the very top of page four, um,
we reinstated the Title one supervisor, page four, again, that line right. Belie beneath it. Um, the data and assessment specialist. So the technology supervisor, when we reinstated that, we actually transformed it from a data position that was in this current line on page four. So there are funds that are gonna be transferred from this page four data and assessment line to page one to cover some of that salary. Can I, can I, middle of page six, the system health professional, that was the float nurse that was restored. Chad, Can you hold on a sec, Mike? Yeah. Did you have
A question? I did. Oh, um, sorry. The tech supervisor. So refresh my my memory if you would. Yeah, we originally got rid of the data position and we downgraded the supervisor position to, to like a manager Position. We completely eliminated the tech supervisor position and, and we kept the data and assessment position and then in the end decided that we wanted to restore the unit B tech supervisor position and eliminate the data assessment Position. Understood. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And then back to, uh, Mr. O'Connor Shannon, um, on keeping, staying on page four, um, yep.
When do you become comfortable moving some substitute monies around at, at what particular point are you able to do that if moving 'em from, from the subline? If, if, if you do it all? I mean, Yeah. I, I've never felt comfortable. We tend to spend, we tend to spend most of our subline. I mean I've, I've more moved money into the sublines when I've had a teacher go on a long term disability and they're not getting paid. It's more been that way than the other way. I don't want to jinx it, but just so it looked like there was some funds there and I didn't know if you moved those.
Okay. So good. Good. Uh, just a couple more I wanna point out, um, page eight. These are, so coming up are the library paras that we restored. So page, it's library para at Highland. Uh, page 11 is library para at Munger Hill. Page 14 is library para at paper Mill. Page 17 is the library para at SRS. And then just so everyone remembers what happened with WS in the middle school, 'cause these are both the same. WS is on 21
and then 25 is the middle school. So the plan had originally had been for them to share one librarian and a para. Um, we decided to go back to having one librarian at each school. They don't have a para. Westfield River originally had a librarian. They now don't have a full-time librarian. They have a paraprofessional and they're covered by the librarians at the, um, intermediate and middle school. So that that para at the river school kind of works under those two librarians. Just, sorry, A question on that.
And that meets the, because that one had a requirement around from the MSBA. Right. And so That I checked 10 times over to make sure before I did this. Okay. I think so. And I have in writing. So that was all I had. That is helpful. That's it. Any questions? 'cause I, I have, I do have one Mr. Ll um, Just around the library Paris. So it was my understanding that we had already reinstated them. So is that this is just making it formal like because Yes. So like At the end of the budget cycle we had This Just moving the money around Okay. To have them officially reinstated so their lines are running at a deficit.
Got it. Okay. Got it. Um, I'm sure that you and Sue and Greg are tracking, but will you have some sense in a future presentation, uh, and be able to articulate specifically how much money is being added to the school department budget beyond what was allocated for the school department budget and FY 26 so that when we move into the FY 27 budget process, that everybody's very excited and looking forward to, um, that we have a number
and that we can kind of articulate that number so that everybody has a really a good grasp of Sure. The, what we're trying to get to. Yep. Okay. Okay. Alright. Great. And that'll be in the January update, right? Or doing five? Uh, yeah. Every other, no, every other meeting. Every other meeting. Yeah. So we'll catch you in December. December, June. Thank you. Any other questions Mrs. Hillman? I don't have any. No, I think he's calling the roll. Oh, yes. Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther?
Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McKay? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Id to make a motion for the approval of a budget transfer in the amount of $75,000 from account 5 0 0 3 0 2 3 0 5 3 0 data specialist full-time school professional to account 5 0 0 0 4 2 1 3 dash 5 3 0. Educational technology. Full-time school professional. Thank Ben made second. Ms. Barry, would you care to I've explained all of these. I
don't know if anyone has any further questions on all of any of them. I tried to do, it went through. I Don't have any question from top to bottom. I'm okay with these. Same. Gotta do You gotta call roll? Yeah, we gonna do the call on all of them or we gonna do? Yeah, you gotta do 'em separate. You gotta do 'em separately. You gotta do them Separately. Alright. When I get to The last time I do this. Okay. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for the approval of budget transfer the amount of $26,945 from account
5 6 5 2 3 9 1 0 5 3 2 1. Tuition in state to account. 5 0 0 0 4 2 1 3 dash 503. Education technology, full-time school professional. Second. Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion with Mr. O'Connor? Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Tillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe Motion carries Yes. Like to make a motion for any, uh, budget transfer the amount of $35,000 from account 5 5 4 8 2 4 2 2 5. Maintenance of buildings, purchase of services to account.
5 5 4 8 2 4 2 1 5. Maintenance of ground supplies Second Has been made. And second, is there any further discussion? Saying none. Mr. O'Connor? Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Tillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe? Yes. Mr. Chairman Permission to say this account once because there is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 transfers from this single account. Say it from the account and I'll give you the account it's going into. Absolutely. You want to do that as a cumulative total or, uh,
Well Item by item by Item. I got. They're going into different accounts. They're going into different accounts so I better do 'em. Alright. Uh, I'd like to make a motion for the, uh, budget transfer the amount of $93,847 from account 5 6 5 2 3 9 5 3 2. State to account. 5 0 0 1 2 2 5 2 5 3 0. Literacy coach, full-time school professional. Second Motion has been made. And second. Any further discussion? Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr.
Rell? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman mcc? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for the, uh, budget transfer the amount of $89,847 from the tuition and state account to account 5 0 0 1 3 2 5 2 dash 501 3 0 0. Math coach, full-time school professional. Second. Motion been made. And second. Any further discussion? Mr. O'Connell? Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman Mcca? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer in the amount of $118,531 from the tuition and state account to account.
5 0 0 3 0 2 1 5 3. Director 21st century learning full-time school professional. Second. Motion been made. The second is right. Further discussion. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer the amount of $83,186 from the tuition and state account to account 5 0 0 8 5 3 2 5. System help professional full-time salary. Employees. Second. Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion saying none. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. S? Yes.
Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Jim McKay? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transferring the amount of $21,580 from the tuition and state account to account 5 2 2 1 4 3 4 5. Library, other salary, Highland, full-time hourly employee. Second. Motion been made. And second, is there any further discussion Seeing that Mr. O'Connor? Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hill? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman Mcca? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for, uh, budget transfer in the amount of $31,874 from the tuitions
and state account to account. 5 2 5 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 1 0 0. Uh, Munger Hill Library aid full-time hourly employee second Was been made. And second is any further Discussion. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Rell? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman. Okay. Yes. We can take These two together. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer the amount of $31,874 from the tuition in state account to account 5 2 6 1 4 2 3 4 dash 501 0.
Uh, who? Library aid full-time hourly employee. Second. That would be paper mill. Sorry, That was member made. And second. And any further discussion? Seeing now, Mr. Oconnor. Ms. Hill? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Mr. O'Connor. That's Chairman. MCC McKay? Yep. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer in the amount of $31,874 from tuition and state account to account. 5 2 7 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 1 0 0 South Hampton Road Library. Other full-time hourly employees. Second. Motion been made.
Second. Any further discussion? Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McKay? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transferring the amount of $29,621 from the tuition and state account to account. 5 2 9 1 4 2 3 4 dash 501 300 0 Westfield Middle School library professional, full-time school professional. Second. Been made second. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor?
Yes. Chairman the case? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer in the amount of $31,871 from the tuition and state account to account. 5 2 8 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 3 0 WI library, professional, full-time. Uh, school professional. Second. Motion been made to second. Any further discussion? Same. None. Mr. O'Connor? Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hill? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget. Transferring the amount of $23,792 from account. 5 5 6 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 3 0.
Uh, Westfield River Elementary School Library. Full-time school professional to account. 5 5 6 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 1 0. Westfield River Elementary School library. Paraprofessional, full-time hourly employees. Second. Northman made. And second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hill? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer in the amount of $10,847 from account. 5 2 9 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 1 0 0 Westfield middle school
library professional, full-time hourly employees to account. 5 2 9 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 103 0 Westfield Middle School library professional, full-time school professionals. Second. Motion been made and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, Mr. O'Connor. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Tillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McKay? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer in the amount of $10,847 from account 5 2 8 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 1 0 0 Wist library professional,
full-time hourly employees to account 5 2 8 1 4 2 3 4 dash 5 1 1 3 0 0 W library professional full-time school professionals. Second. Motion made and second. Is there any further discussion? See none. Mr. O Ms. S? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCade? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer the amount of $53,500 from account 5 6 5 2 3 9 1 5 3 2 0 1 tuition in state to account 5 4 0 8 2 7 2 5 8 0.
Building maintenance improvement capital project second. Motion made second. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none? No. Nope. Go. Sorry. Oh good. I'm sorry. Kathy, Where is that capital project money going to? It says capital project but it's not specific. Is that the bathrooms? That's the bathrooms, yep. Okay. I just wanna make sure. Thank you. Yep. Sorry Kathy, I'm multitasking here. Mm-hmm. Well, you're good. Aren't we all Dr. Gunther? Yes. You're amazing. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Rell? Yes. Mr. S? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe? Yes. I'd like to make a motion for a budget transfer amount of $200,000 from account
5 6 5 2 3 9 1 0 5 3 2 0 1 wishes in state to account. 5 6 5 2 3 2 4 4 5 3 1 teaching other expenditures, contractual services Second. Motion has been made. And second, is there any further discussion? Team? None. Wait, wait, Wait. Stepping stones, is that what, 200,000? That's No, it's moving it to the other contractual services line in special education. Okay. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. Terrell? Yes. Ms. Tillman? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCabe?
Yes. Thank you. Can I, Can I ask a quick question, Shannon, before you leave Mr. Chair? Sure. Um, of course pretty much where my question was headed earlier. Just for my own edification. So the, and I don't want to interrupt Mr. Sullivan 'cause he was on a roll. God Wasn't, I was afraid I might get run over. No, but, um, the, for this positions that were reinstated Yes. They were reinstated before we voted on the budget. Were they not? They were, no, there was no funding to reinstate them before the budget. We had talked about the $250,000. Right.
But we have still not received that funding. Okay. So that's why we have to do budget transfer because I was under the impression that when that Yeah. Budget Was, when the budget went into effect on July 1st mm-hmm. That, that those things were already in place. I, so I I guess it was just clarification. I don't mind doing the transfers. I was just Yeah. More of a procedural thing I guess. Okay. You Did a great job with the transfers. Yeah. You, he doesn't mind him. I don't mind him. Bo did a great job. Weekly warrants October 17th, 2020 5, 24 batches, totaling $758,314 and 9 cents.
And October 24th, 2025 19 batches totaling 733,000, uh, $84 and 74 cents. Well Done. And I'm done. You Are. You gotta be exhausted. God bless you. I'd like to make a motion to accept the following gifts, donations that have been made to the Westfield Public Schools donated to Westfield High School from Chrissy G'S Bakery, Westfield, various items, boxes, trays, packing materials, and other valued at 300, between 350 and $400 be used in the hospitality program at Westfield High School and donated Westfield Technical Academy from
Christian Val East Falmouth, mass in the amount of $251 and 12 cents to be used for the educational purposes. Westfield Technical Academy Aviation gift account. That's funny. Motion has been made in second. Any further discussion? Saying none. Mr. Rell? Yes. Dr. Gunther? Yes. Ms. Hillman? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Yes. Mr. O'Connor? Yes. Chairman McCade? Yes. Next item. That'd be you. Wow. Uh, we have an election tomorrow. That's it.
My only update. Good luck to all the candidates and move on. I could say that I'm not a candidate. Go vote. Go vote. Excellent. Go. Committee update Ms. Helman. Um, I just wanna say that I was in Paper Mill school with Lindsay Ayers. I was invited by her to observe students using, um, the Science and Energy project and it was very enjoyable. And I just wanna commend Lindsay for doing such a great job.
Uh, coordinating STEM Week. She did a fantastic job. I also would like to thank a small portion of the band who participated in the Glow Walk, um, last weekend. Thank the lot. Excellent. Anything else? Moving on. Items for referral to subcommittees? I guess I've gotta do this. Go. Um, tonight the curriculum subcommittee met, um, on policy IKFE, competency and determin and determination and file IKF graduation requirement.
Um, they are discussing that and it will be sent to the policy committee. Super. Anything else? Same. None whole Business subcommittee reports. I Guess that's my tip. Uh, on the 20th of October, we reviewed, uh, four policies. Two tonight were the first readings and two will be coming up soon. Yeah. Can can I follow up on that a second? Sure. Um, I know that we've asked in the past and I'm not so sure that, um, we're caught up on it.
Can we make sure that when we make a policy change we have the old and the new, or at least on the new, we CanAct the old so that we don't run into the same kind of questioning that we, that we have. I know that, uh, you know, sometimes it's not easy to get there, but like if, if somehow they could be highlighted in the reading so we're not flipping back and forth trying to figure out what policy was which, that's All. Well, some of 'em were new, so That's understood. That's the hard part. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Anything else, Ms. Mr. Terrell? Uh, So the Facilities
and Capital Planning subcommittee is listed under reports, but I think it was meant to be listed under minutes. Oh, okay. So I'd like to make a motion to accept the minutes of the facilities and Capital Planning subcommittee meeting of October 20th, 2025. Motion's been made. Second. Is there a second? Ms. Hillman is the second. This time. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. I guess I needed to do that too. Yeah. Thanks for, for reminding me. Um, I'd like to make a motion to accept the, um, minutes of October 20th of the Human Resources and Policy sub Subcommittee
Motion been made. And second at this time by Mr. Sullivan. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Can We, I think I was similarly confused about the curriculum instruction assessment subcommittee. I can give a report now from the meeting that we just had fired Up, which I think we Should do. Um, so we met earlier today. Um, as Ms. Hillman named, we talked mostly about, um, graduation policy. We are going to come to this committee next meeting with, uh, some proposal from the administration on adjusting the
graduation requirements going forward to make sure that we're aligned on PE requirements that we're aligned with the state requirements. And also to have a discussion about, um, moving in the direction of mass court requirements. And so, uh, we want to lump that together with the competency determination, which needs to be done before the end of the calendar year. Because as a part of that, we also need to submit our graduation requirements. It would be great if we could have a conversation and update those at the same time
so we're not making two updates in a short order. Thank you. Is there anything else Mr. Solo? Go ahead. No, you go. I was gonna say, is that a meeting to have the curriculum committee as a whole so we can answer all those questions? Is that what, is that what he doesn't want to, you don't want to do two separate meetings? Is that what No, no, no. Did I misunderstand? No, I'm saying the, we had a, we had a conversation in the curriculum subcommittee. Right. And the next step is going to be
to bring to policy's going to look on the 17th at a policy subcommittee meeting. Okay. A first read of the policy during our general meeting or our, or whole group meeting on the 17th. They will present changes, proposed changes. We'll decide if we can take them both at the same time and remain on track. Okay. For the policy adjustments we have to do at the, by the end of the calendar year. Alright. I misunderstood. Sorry. Yeah, and just, um, when we talk about subcommittees and we talk about meeting, um, different numbers
of the school committees sit on different subcommittees, but, um, representatives from Colt play a big part in, in many of the subcommittees, particularly policy and other areas. So just like to thank them for all the time that they spend, uh, with us to help us navigate through some of that stuff. So, um, it's unbelievable that you would say that because that was gonna be my commentary before we got to the end of, uh, the next meeting. I just want everybody to know how much I appreciate all the work that you guys are doing specifically behind the scenes that make all this work. And, and I just, everybody should appreciate it.
I'm sure they do. So the next regular school committee meeting is November the 17th. At, on the year of our Lord in 2025. It will be at seven o'clock right here in this very chamber. Is there a motion? Motion to adjourn? Second. Motion been made in second. And all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? We adjourned at eight. Oh.