All right, it is now 7:04 on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Thank you for bearing with us, everyone. This is the meeting uh the regular meeting of the Westport School Committee. Ask everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the stands one
nationisible for all. Thank you very much. At this time I will ask do we have any comments and t statements from the public hearing? None. We'll move on to theformational agenda. We'll begin with our student uh reports. Mr.
Keith. All right. Good evening to Superintendent Aubin and all school committee members in attendance this evening. I have a little bit of news to share with you about our middle school. First off, for some academic news, this Friday, May 16th, will be the halfway point for term
4. Progress reports will be on the portal by Wednesday, May 21st. There will be no school on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day. The middle school has been very busy with MCCAST this week. On May 12th and 13th, grades seven and eight took the math portion of
MCCAST. And today and tomorrow, grades five and eight will take the science MCCAST. MCCAST testing in the middle school will wrap up with grade 8 civics on May 29th. On Thursday, May 22nd, our Junior National Honor Society induction ceremony will take place in the
auditorium at 5:30 p.m. Congratulations to all the inductees. Now, for some other topics, the middle school spring band and chorus concerts are next week. The band concert is on May uh Monday, May 19th at 6:30 p.m. The chorus concert for seventh and eighth grade is on
Tuesday, May 20th at 6:30 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. for fifth and sixth grade. The eighth grade dinner dance will be held on Friday, May 30th from 9 to 30 to from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. at Whites of Westport. It will be a fun night with dinner,
dancing, a photo booth, and more. Our field day will be held on Monday, June 2nd. Our eighth graders will be leaving for our Washington DC trip on Tuesday, June 10th, and will return on Friday, June 13th. We wish them safe travels and hope they have an incredible time.
Middle school student council news. Uh we have the collected books and they made bookmarks to create summer reading book bags for the first graders at the Westport Elementary School. The student council will be delivering them on Thursday, May 22nd, and they will spend time reading the books with the first
graders. Now, for some sports information, the athletics awards night will take place on Tuesday, May 27th in the auditorium. Our middle school teams will be recognized at 5:00 p.m. And lastly, boys middle school baseball and girls eighth grade softball are in the
midst of their season and will finish their season on May 28th. Go Wildcats. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, Mr. Good evening, school committee and all in attendance this evening. I have a very long list of dates to start off
tonight. This Friday, May 16th, will mark the halfway point for term four. Progress reports will be on the community portal by Wednesday, May 21st. MCCAST testing continues and grade 10 will take their math portion of the MCCAST on Tuesday, May 20th and Wednesday, May 21st. 9th grade will be
tested for biology on MCCAST and that will be on June 4th and June 5th. AP testing will be finished this week and so far AP students have taken exams in biology, chemistry, English literature and composition, English language and composition, statistics, US history,
world history, pre-calculus, and calculus. AP exams will wrap up on Friday with the AP psychology exam. The Westport Middle High School will be having an art show on Thursday, May 22nd at 6 p.m. in the upstairs art classrooms. Please come and see the
amazing work created by our talented students. National College Decision Day was May 1st and congratulations to all of our seniors who committed to either a college or university, a technical school, a trade, the military, or other career pathways. You've all worked so
hard and we wish you all the success in your future endeavors. The senior class enjoyed a soggy but fun class trip to Six Flags last Friday. Thank you to the PTO for helping with the cost of our buses. And thank you to all the shop owns who joined us for this wet adventure. The junior and senior prom is
this Saturday, May 17th, at 6 p.m. at the Fall River Country Club. We look forward to a fun and memorable night. More senior class news. Senior final exams will start next Tuesday, May 20th. Blocks A and B exams, those will be Tuesday. Blocks C and D exams, those
will be on Wednesday. And blocks E and F will take place on Thursday. Friday, May 23rd will be a makeup day for exams and the last day of school for seniors. Academic awards and scholarship night will be held on Thursday, May 29th at 6 p.m. Juniors and seniors should be
recognized for all their hard work. On Friday, May 30th, there will be a senior breakfast and mandatory graduation rehearsal. Seniors will also participate in the annual M uh Mumbumber and Westport Elementary School walkthrough. And perhaps the most important date for
seniors is Saturday, May 31st, which is graduation. This will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the auditorium. The event will also be live stream on the town of Westport Community Westport Community TV and uh their YouTube channel. Congratulations to all the seniors as we
prepare for this exciting event that marks an enormous chapter in our lives. Now for athletics, our varsity boys baseball team has had a terrific season so far and they currently stand at a record of 11 and four. They're currently ranked 12th in the MIA power rankings for
division five. The softball team is holding strong and they currently have a record of eight and seven. They're currently ranked 28th in the MIA power rankings for division 5. The boys lacrosse team is determined to keep fighting through their season and they currently have a record of 2 and 13. Girls varsity tennis currently has a
record of 0 and 10, but they're not giving up and should be very proud of their efforts. The boys varsity tennis team also continues to persevere and have a record of 1 and nine. They should also be proud of their grit and determination. The Westport Athletics Award night will be held on Tuesday, May 27th. Freshman, JV, and varsity teams
will all be recognized at 6 PM in the auditorium. Lastly, uh since this is my last meeting, as I finish my last report for the high school news, I would like to thank Mrs. Sheret, Superintendent Aubin, President, and past school committee members for this wonderful
opportunity of being your high school student representative for the last three plus years. I'm grateful and honored to have had all uh the responsibility of sharing student events and high school news with all of you. I hope Ryan has the opportunity to take over my role as I move on. Thank you
again to all of you and I wish you all the best. Go Wildcats. Thank you, Jack. If I may, before uh our student representative leaves his last school committee meeting, um I just wanted to say thank you. Uh um I've been on the
committee for two years now and served a year as chair and I think it's really important the service that you provide to the district. We're not in the building every day, but we make decisions that impact the district from the budget to policy decisions and it's really important to hear updates on
what's going on in the building from you and you're the direct voice of the district. I think you've done a fantastic job of representing uh the district. So I want to thank you for for uh giving updates to the committee. Thank you. you stole my thunder a little bit if I if I had thought ahead and realized this
was your last meeting. I uh I would have would have said more than just this. But seriously, thank you. It has been a pleasure. Uh always appreciate the thorough thorough reports and uh good luck. Congratulations on on your next step and uh best of luck at Hammer. I think we can make another one for like
next week or something just to have Jack. Yeah, just have you come back. Sounds like you're eager to, you know, and a nice nod to your your brother there having him take over. Indeed. Thank you, Jack. Thanks for everything. Yeah, you did an awesome job. Thank you. Thank you so much. And good luck. And also, thank you for hanging out a little
later tonight than than usual. So, it took a little longer to get started. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, we will uh move on to the uh we will skip the
superintendent report this evening as Mr. Aubin is not with us. But I could give you um just an update on the phones. Absolutely. Oh, that's um so we our phone system has gone down two Fridays in a row and Monday morning
this week. Um we have the company the vendor sending out a new controller for the system which has like these hard drives in the back of it that we feel is what has failed and what it's doing is we don't know why it's failing at certain time in the morning and a
certain time at night. Um, we've been having two of the tech people come in at 6:00 am every day so that they can assure that we have phones operating every morning and also staying later at night to make sure they are still operating at night. But we had the
vendor out this afternoon for a meeting and they are shipping out tomorrow a new controller um that will be in installed by us. They they had to program it today then they'll ship it out. We'll get it at some point tomorrow to make sure it's operating and then tech will be still on
hand all next week just to confirm that it's staying up and running each day. Thank you. And just to confirm uh the the IT director and and the vendor are are in constant communication making
sure constant we have been on them this I constantly it's it has happened several times. It's certainly unacceptable, but it's also uh I appreciate the steps that have been taken to make sure uh the vendor is held accountable. Yes. So, it's good to hear,
especially that they will be on site ready for Yes. Yes. They were on site today. So, that was helpful. And they have been between Mel, the actual company um that the phones are from, and then our vendor has been diligently working with our IT staff to stay on
this. So, we appreciate everybody being on that. Thank you very much for mentioning that. Uh so with that uh I will say first of all the next next meeting we'll certainly put it on the agenda for uh
just to make sure that uh things are going well as far as those those troubleshooting efforts. Uh so next we'll go to the uh committee liaison reports. this, if I may first, just as a general note on this item, the select board at their last meeting this past Monday did
approve the committee's appointments to the town committees. Um, not sure if uh communication was sent yet from the select board, but uh because that vote has taken place. We should be able to go and get sworn into the respective committees.
Those have been um I can't confirm they have been transferred to the town as well. So, I believe everybody should have So, do we have any I guess you just got someone in Mr. Mr. Chico? Uh, nothing new since
our last meeting. Um, yeah. Uh, nothing from cable committee and obviously the uh superintendent search committees dissolved since then. So, I have nothing new from my uh from my other committees. Nothing to report. All right.
I can report that there will be a meeting of the long-term building committee sometime in the next couple weeks. Still have not figured out exactly what date. Uh but uh looking forward to the next next round of public meeting with the uh the
architects and that will be at the old high school. So I'll keep everybody posted as far as when that is scheduled. Uh moving on now to staff and student attendance reports. Um I did have a question. So it is It is my
understanding that at previous meetings we did say that we were going to do this quarterly or by was monthly. I think one month. Okay, gotcha. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. So, I just wanted to make sure that we were on that schedule. I appreciate again the
effort that goes into uh taking care of this this report. I know it's a lot, but uh um I just at first glance did not notice anything glaring jumping out except for perhaps one um a couple of numbers a little
concerning on the teacher the MAC teacher assistance actually. Um, so I'm just curious, is it anything I'll ask uh Daniel, is there anything out of out of the ordinary that's been going on or is it just uh it's the first time I've seen
something dip below 80% in a long time? So, I just wanted to clarify and see if there's an issue with staffing level or anything. The third page is a little bit and if they have children in the they'll
be stopping to do field trips too over the next month or so. I didn't think there were any partic issues, but I just wanted to, you know, noted a little change there. So, okay. Uh, anybody from the committee have anything further on the, uh, tenants
reports? Hearing none, we'll move on to, uh, the bill warrants. Uh first of all, we have one for uh the 2nd of May for $3,874.96
and on the dated May 16th for 270,43327. So any questions on the bill warrants from any members of the committee? Hearing none, I will move on to the next item which is the fiscal
year uh 2026 budget update. Uh we did have a town meeting the previous week. Uh Mr. Ginger, would you like to take this item? Sure. Um, so the FY26 budget approved at town meeting came in at 23,734,943 and that was after an
amendment uh from the finance committee after we had had some discussions um with them to support an amendment uh to add an additional $80,000 of unallocated free cash to the school department's budget, which they had supported um and
made the motion uh when that budget item came up in the warrant. So that is the final figure. I will also note that um as long as nothing changes uh between now and the end of the fiscal year, this would or or in the middle of next fiscal year, this would fully fund our
operating expenses. Um and we should be able to avoid cuts going into FY26. Um I'll also note that uh at town meeting uh although it's separate from the operating budget of the district there was uh see important investments
made um from capital improvement money to safety and security of the district particularly at the mumber there was some generators as well that are supported through that funding um and an additional $175,000 was added into the special education stabilization fund
which was established last year uh to sort of offset uh mid-year expenses that may come up to the district. So, uh I feel that we're in a good place with this budget. I also want to thank the select board, the town administrator, and the finance committee for um their
collaboration on this budget. Uh we had a number of productive conversations, and I appreciate their willingness to work together on this, and I think that we had a good result with where we ended up given the resource constraints of of the town.
Thank you, Mr. Gro. And I would just like to uh give give my thanks to your efforts on behalf of Westport schools. Uh it's been I would also like to thank of course our business department, Michelle
Reposa, Melissa Soua, um the superintendent, uh the building department, uh leaders that the building leaders that we met with throughout the budget process. We started this back in I believe October um with individual meetings with each and building leader to get their priorities to help inform
our proposed budget. Um, and we came a long way since then and it was all important to the process. So, I want to thank and recognize their efforts as well. Absolutely. I'll reiterate that. This certainly was a collaborative effort. I say again, I'm I'm very thankful of Mr.
efforts diplomacy being well received and I think that uh we have at least uh maintained a level service budget here without without having to look into any cuts and and that uh that is certainly a plus and just want to again thank
everyone involved with the budgeting process uh as it is certainly never a fun aspect of uh of our of our duties here. So uh anything any of the other committee members at this
time hearing none. We'll move right along. Uh the next item is a uh to announce the a memorandum of agreement with ask me local uh 2667. Uh this is a
uh this is a memorandum concerning a uh cook position. And Miss Mosa, would you like to just briefly Sure. summarize what we had uh spoken with the ABSME president
and we've been working together with all of the food service managers to try to come up with a way to make meals consistent across the district. Um this level here, the middle school high school was where our main focus was
because we're serving probably about 600 700 meals a day. Um, meals are being free, but one of the things that we find is that for consistency, when you have seven different cooks in the kitchen rotating, you're not the meal is not
always going to be the same if you have a different cook making something the next time. So, they're all trained. Um, but we felt that it was best to have a cook that would be more consistent, more efficient, um, for the quality of the food as well. that somebody that would
actually focus on what they're making because it's very difficult when you're making you know six 700 meals a day and you're making chain for that many people you're not always chain is not always the same. Everybody has their although they're you know looking at a recipe it
does not always come the same. So we felt having one person that was going to cook they're all trained to cook. So if that person is ever out that person, there would be other people that are all trained to do the same. But we wanted to have the opportunity that if we felt we needed to hire a cook, we have the
capability to do that. And there is a different rate. It's $2 more an hour than the regular food service staff, but it also comes out of the revolving account. So it does not impact the general budget as well. Thank you, Mr. Rosa. So uh again, this uh this memorandum of agreement has been
approved. Uh thank you for the efforts to uh make this make this happen. Uh and I believe at this time um don't believe there's any further action we need to take just simply announce that the uh memorandum has been
signed and agreed to. Um so with that if there any other questions from other committee members hearing none um the next item on the agenda is a light speeded update from Mr. Toma Mr.
Tom is not here uh today and I know do you I I know that there was uh because of the phone correct situation the uh I uh was this happened after the agenda was posted uh that
the efforts of Mr. needed to be directed towards towards that. Uh so at this time I I with the indulgence of the committee I'll pass over this this agenda item uh and we'll revisit as we have been uh in in meetings just to keep track of the the
project. Um I'll revisit that at the next meeting. Uh so moving on agenda item I would be the proposed DESIE career technical education admission regulation. Uh I will actually Mr. Gindro, would you like to kick us off a
little bit and explain the reason putting this on? So, although Westport is not a vocational school that would be subject per se to the specific uh the regulatory framework that Desi is outlining. There are there have been
some concerns or or unintended consequences or impacts that have been noted to or potential uh impacts noted to comprehensive uh high schools as well. Um whether that's um spots that are allocated to to districts and that
being reflected in um in state aid as a result of that if additional spots or spots change. Essentially, this framework would require vocational admissions process to change by implementing an attendance and disciplinebased admissions that then
goes into a sort of a lottery system based on on those uh criteria. Um, and so that would be a change to the process from what's currently in place, but there have been notes of uh concern to other to to districts outside of just
the vocational realm because of the the change in the structure. Um, and obviously we send students to vocational schools which impacts our enrollment numbers. So, u I just felt it should be on the committee's radar just as a general note. Um, but the comment deadline to Desi was uh April 18th.
Those comments can be viewed that are submitted to the docket. Those can be viewed on the DESIE website. There's an anticipated vote of the board of education that will take place on May 20th uh to approve or amend or reject the the uh regulation as it as it's
proposed. Um, so I just thought it was important to bring this conversation up and keep it on our radar, particularly as there's conversations about, you know, and I think it's important the work that this committee and the district have done to expand personalized programming here in the
district um to retain students and offer uh a more personalized approach and have a career pathway in uh I think part of the designation that we're receiving will help with those uh with retention rates here in the district. So, but I
just thought even though it's not a direct impact that it's important that we sort of keep it on the radar. And Mr. Ginger, I will note that other school districts have been uh noting uh through resolutions their
uh mostly disapproval of the proposed regulations. I will say that I have significant concerns uh of w with with with this lottery system as as they I mean simplifying it to say it's a lottery system but uh when you get down to it it it just changes the the
approach uh pretty dramatically I would say as to how vocational schools uh would uh would receive their students. Um I I've had ongoing concerns about the state of vocational education in in the Commonwealth for quite some time. Uh
one does not have to look too far at a at budget number comparisons to see uh that that some some vocational schools tend to have uh a lot more resources to work with and and I think that there's a real concern that uh not only are
you with these proposed regulations, not only could there be an argument that deserving and and uh students students who could be really benefited by vocational education uh would may possibly be passed over. But I
think it's also um if you if you implement this system in my estimation, you're basically almost removing the purpose of the vocational school being there in the first place. And and it does have an effect on uh does have an effect on on district
enrollment numbers and and therefore the dollars that are attached to those those enrollment numbers. I would recommend uh that of course the comment period having passed um would certainly be non-binding but I would
very much like to entertain a motion uh motion for a resolution to oppose these these regulatory changes that are being uh voted on I believe at the next meeting of the department of elementary
and secondary education in this month or in June. The the board meeting the board May 20th. May 20th. Okay. So, next week. Next week. Um but uh I will just
ask if any other committee members have any comments or questions about this about this topic. I'll make a motion. I don't I don't know. I was just going to say I don't know if because we don't have a resolution a
draft resolution in front of us. I don't know if without language it would be hard to I agree. Um I I think it's I just think it's something for the committee to watch but would u so your your intentions on putting
this on on the agenda are just purelyformational information. Excellent. Well because we don't have the uh resolution drafted. I think perhaps I'll move on from Mr. That's agreeable. Yeah, I'll throw my but I but
I will say uh it's something that we really should pay attention to because I think there has been uh there's been a lot of dissent about these regulations across across the Commonwealth from many different uh many different voices. And I think that it's
it's something that we need to keep on our radar and uh I I will be hoping that these regulations do not get. Is there anything from any committee members at this time? We'll move right along and the
next item is a update of the superintendent contract negotiations. Uh a contract uh a potential contract was uh has been discussed at this time and and provided to our superintendent candidate, a finalist candidate uh at
this don't have any update other than to say it is is in the process. So move on to uh the next item which is a discussion of the special education
job descriptions. Uh and I would like to if I could ask Mosa could you give us just a brief overview uh shock of of the situation that the
district is in currently with regard to the structure of our special education uh administration and how we would like to or how it is being proposed that we proceed. So a few years back we had a special education director and we had a
facilitator and through different committees and whatnot we thought that it would be a good idea to split up that role and have two special ed coordinators where one would be handling the elementary school um special ed like
facilitating all the meetings and the other one handling the middle school and high school students. I think there was different efforts that that was put in play was either a way to kind of help um navigate through the special ed process,
being able to have special education directors or coordinators spending a little bit more time looking and participating in all the meetings. Um the problem that we started to see was that neither of the coordinators,
not through any fault of theirs, didn't have time to meet when it came to budgeting, when it came to discussing anything to do with Medicare, with circuit breaker, with just being able to meet because they're a huge part of the budget. So there would be many times that unfortunately we they didn't have
the time because they were in meetings constantly to be able to sit and discuss upcoming budgets, staffing, staffing evaluations. So during this year, we kind of have gone back and forth and decided that we needed to get back to that model of having one facilitator and
or an assistant special ed director and a special and a regular special ed director. So we feel that's going back to the model we used to have. Again, the amount of special ed students that we currently have, I believe it was 2020, we were at about
250ish students. We're up to about 360 almost special ed students. Again, that's putting one per one of the job descriptions is for an assistance bed director who would be the one that would facilitate all of the meetings and the other one would be going back to a
special ed director. Um that would basically be handling, you know, all of the attorney cases, handling all of the large um the possible out of district students, any of the big student um IEP cases that we have. um doing evaluations in the classroom, spending time meeting
with principles, with other special ed um teachers. So, we're going back to that model. Um and that's what both of these job descriptions were brought before the committee to do is to go back to that model that we used to have.
Thank you, Mr. President. So at this time uh the committee members have seen uh draft uh job descriptions and have uh have discussed it uh thoroughly. I I do believe that it is an order. Um I I would entertain a motion to approve the
job description that was provided. Uh this is actually on our agenda as as item A uh on the action agenda, but I would entertain a motion to approve the job description at this time. So move Second move and second. All those Any
further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? I I and that I didn't hear any opposed. So I believe that that carries and we will move on to uh the next item is is uh the special education director contract.
So, interestingly enough, uh according to uh Massachusetts law, the uh the two contracts that the school committee approves are the contracts of the superintendent and of the uh special education director as well and the
excuse me, the three contracts including the business the business manager. So, thank you. So, uh the the business manager, the sp director who hopefully we wouldn't have Hopefully, we don't have to approve a business manager contract in the next,
you know, three months, right? Oh, no. Okay. Thank you. Good. We're not going to let you go in. But so, um, so at this time, I just wanted to mention uh a a contract has been discussed. Uh, we have no executed contract to to act on at this time. So, we're going to pass over
this agenda item. But, I did want to mention uh again the the uh that that those are the three contracts that the school committee does approve. So, uh, with that being said, we'll move on to the next item on the action agenda,
which is a review, uh, and act on school committee minutes from Tuesday, April 15, 2025, uh, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Uh, and the, uh, the budget work session. I'm
actually going to ask at this time that we pass over uh approving the minutes for the April 30th special meeting. Um would like to that that that's when we did the the interviews. Uh I'd like
to pass over that for right now and put that on the next uh agenda. So, at this time, uh, we're going to be acting to approve, uh, I'm actually going to go way back to the the March 31st. You will
note these are minutes of the superintendent search committee. Uh, this was a uh a regular meeting, not an executive session of the superintendent search committee. uh with that committee being dissolved at the conclusion of uh giving of presenting a report to the
full school committee uh it now falls on the school committee to uh the full school committee to approve these minutes. Uh so at this time I'd like to take uh just entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the superintendent search committee from
March 31st 2025 alone. motion. Excuse me. Motion moved and and I'll second it. Uh ask all those in favor. All those opposed hearing. No opposition. The minutes are approved.
And now we'll move to uh entertain a joint motion to approve the school committee budget meeting minutes from April 30th, 2025 and the school committee regular minutes. Uh the regular meeting minutes from April 15,
2025. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Passes. We'll now move to the next item. And again, just we're going to pass over
the Thank you very much. So, the next item on the agenda is the uh review and acting on the last day of school for the the West for the Westport Elementary School. Um, so just a little bit of
background, we had a situation as as many of you will remember where um we did have to cancel school due to a uh a water uh water leak uh on Sunday afternoon and now it has gone back and
forth with Jesse trying to to figure out if if we uh if the district was going to be granted a waiver. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Uh so we we will need to have a change in the last day of school for uh for the uh for the west uh
to Monday, June 23rd, 2025. Um, I will note that there will be an incurred expense for this uh for this.
Um, and I intend to interface with the business office as to exactly how we'll make sure we we get that covered. Uh, but unfortunately it will be a significant expense to open up the the building in in the to have the last day
of school on the 23rd. But, uh, we've not been a this by the uh by the decision of of uh Desi. So um I believe this would require a uh a motion to
change the uh the last day of school for the US. Again, there would be no um I I believe there would it would be actually Mr. Posa on Friday, June 20th. Uh is there a change in that langage as
well? the early release day the la so June 20th will be the last day for the MCumber school and the middle school high school and staff early release day for students that would be for they the early release day is also going to be for the elementary school students that
day for busing for busing purposes if not we would incur another expense if they date so that day basically for all students will be a half day on that Friday June 20th and just to confirm this is not a change from the current schedule. Is that correct? Okay. The
only addition is now the elementary school students and staff will have to return on Monday, June 23rd, and they will be here for an early release day as well. So that will be a half day for all elementary school students, only
elementary school, not Mac, only elementary school students that day. Um, and it will be a half day for students and staff that day. Thank you. So, I will entertain a motion to approve changing the last day of of uh school for Westport Elementary School students
and staff uh and and making this an early release day for Monday, June 23rd, 2025. So, moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Just just wanted to know it's my understanding that the uh financial
impact was communicated in the in the when when the district sought an exemption, right? Correct. when the superintendent sent in and he sent in probably three different times um the the financial impact that it would have which is probably about approximately up to
$10,000 just for half a day of school and that is for transporting our special ed students and also our regular ed students hearing no further discussion I'll take a vote all those in favor I I opposed motion carries and The last
day of school for the west will be June 23rd, 2025. That is Monday. It will be an early release day. Uh that is for both students and staff. And we will now move on to the uh the next item in our agenda is the
acknowledgement of a Westport Education Grant, Westport Education Foundation grant in the amount of $1500 or $1,500. Uh, also acknowledgement of a Mass Cultural Council grant of $5,000 for the art
show. With thanks, I will entertain a motion to accept both of these grants. So moved. Second. Move and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed? The motion carries. Appreciative of those grants.
At this time, uh, we will move on to routine matters, correspondence, and notices. I have none. uh topics the chair could not reasonably anticipate 48 hours in advance of the meeting. I have none either and so at this time I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Move and second. All those in
favor I I I And we are journed at 7:44.