to uh to order the Westport school committee superintendent search subcommittee meeting it's today's March uh Monday March 31st 2025 on March 29th 2023 Governor Healey signed into law a supplemental budget bill which among other things further extends temporary
Provisions pertaining to the open meeting law to March 31st 2025 it has since been extended the temporary Provisions were first implemented by executive order on March in March 2020 and sub subsequently enacted by section 20 of chapter 20 of the act of 2021 and act Rel to amending certain covid-19
measures adopted during the state of emergency and as such we are uh going to be having a zoom meeting uh now I did want to make sure Lori is this being this is being recorded yes it is okay good deal because I know Sharon was not
able to be with us today um so uh just a couple of things to go over um first and foremost I do want to mention this is a public meeting so we're not going to discuss any of the candidates at this time uh so uh what we are going to uh we're
going to approve the minutes and just give a quick update on the uh on the the community survey uh that I've just put together and I I'd like to get everybody's input and see if there were any any other things they'd want to add
so I guess we'll go ahead and uh just very quickly everybody should have had a chance to take a look at the regular meeting minutes and I think Lori just sent this out again uh unless there are any changes I will ask if there's any corrections or additions and if not I
will entertain a motion to approve the minutes I'll make a motion to approve second [Music] I'm sorry folks I think I just lost my audio here give me one second I'm sorry Nikki could you say you
second okay can anybody hear me I don't know why all of a sudden I can't hear anybody so hold on one second see if I can so okay everybody give me one second I'll be right back e all right apologies can you all hear me
yes okay so finally I believe uh Mr made a motion was there second second all right thank you so much all those in favor and we'll do a roll call vote um Mr nuns hi Chris
no Miss Potter hi Nikki Potter Miss Aruda I Amy Ruda Miss Moro hi Carrie Morrow Miss shet hi Laura shet and I Christopher thrash all right the minutes are approved thank you so much now here's the uh just the the quick update
um so we are going to be adding members to the committee on uh at tomorrow's uh school committee meeting so we're not going to go through too much because we're just going to have to frankly go over it again on Thursday um so we're going to have a meeting on Thursday uh
as of right now uh Kristen has has scheduled four out of five of the interviews uh so we have one at 400 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Monday uh the 7th 1 at 4 and 5:00 p.m. and Monday on Wednesday the 9th um and we may have
to have uh the uh on Thursday the 10th as well uh but that's the last one we have not had that one scheduled as of yet so like I said we're not going to go into the details of The Advocates right now but I did want to mention that that there are meetings scheduled so the only thing that I really wanted to make sure
that we went over was uh the um it was just to make sure that we had a chance to uh look at the the survey uh the plan I guess the plan of action with the survey and just make sure everyone um
had felt comfortable with this so give me one second I'm gonna share my well Lori can you uh my apologies but could you turn on the uh the screen sharing right quick all right I think I just did you
sure did all right and okay so can everybody see the survey that I have yes I can see it yeah I got it so um um actually so the the idea that um I
think was was the best idea as far as getting responses out of everyone and not getting overwhelmed so much was to have qualities and and to have people uh be able to rank them and then just a place for them uh to add additional
comments um so I'm just going to go through these right quick I mean I just reading them if anybody has any that they would like to change or add to to um the mo the quality strong leadership and decision-making skills experience in public school administration transparent and effective
communication uh commitment to academic e Excellence experience with uh school budget management ability to engage with the community support for teachers and staff development focus on student well-being and safety understanding curriculum development and imple implementation strong problem solving
skills dedication to diversity equity and inclusion collaborative lead leadership style experience in and navigating state and federal education policies strong interpersonal and relationship building skills Innovative thinking and adaptability commitment to fiscal responsibility ability to build
Partnerships with local organizations and stakeholders vision for long-term School Improvement advocacy for Student Success and demonstrated experience in conflict resolution so those are the 20 that came up with I'd be curious if anybody has anything to either add or
delete please uh fire fire away Chris it's Laura sheret I don't necessarily have anything to add I think those are all um important qualities I'm just wondering instead of having um survey participants rank all 20 of them maybe we have them identify like their
top five and then that would provide a graph to show us which ones were chosen with the most frequency I just worry that somebody would see like oh I have to rank 20 and then not take the survey at all that's totally yeah I I I went back and forth on whether on that but I
I I'm certainly available to just doing it a tough making it a tough I'm an agreement with Laura on that one I I think that's a better way to go like n top five top seven at most okay excellent excellent um I did realize I I actually there there's one thing I missed in here and I think I'll just
switch out one of these um but I did want to mention something specifically with uh uh experience with uh with sped um and and also actually some I I did want to mention something specific about uh the Chapter 70 and the circuit
breakers so I might add that in here um but um was there anything did anybody else have anything I think I think that looks pretty good think it looks good yeah I agree good it looks good what I would ask um I'll make the quick change with
the uh making it a top five and I'll add in a SP thing um if I could just ask I guess would entertain a motion for the committee to uh approve the survey with any with changes the chair would make so I can give that to the to the uh full school
committee and we can get this up and out to the uh to the public I'll make the motion second it's been moved in second any further discussion at all okay hearing n we'll take a roll call vote again uh Miss Potter you're up
first hi Nikki Potter okay Mr NES hi Miss hi Chris NES Miss Moro hi Carrie Morrow Miss Aruda hi Amy Aruda Miss shet hi Laura sh and I
Christopher Thrasher so that is has passed so um I I appreciate everybody jumping into the meeting and unfortunately we had 10 minutes of difficulty in uh 10 minutes of difficulty in about uh what was 5 minutes of actual uh information but if
anybody has anything uh any questions or anything please feel free to uh to bring them up uh before before we adjourn oh what is when is the meeting on Thursday because I don't think we've been shared that yet it so I I have not uh we have not posted it yet we're going
to post it uh get L to post it tomorrow morning um we we're shooting for 4 o'clock again unless um is that would it be virtual um Mr Thrasher it would be virtual just because like I
said we're going to add the we had to have so many people fall off the committee that it's necessary to add um and the only and I should mention the only reason we're adding is just because we have not had any interviews I want to make it really clear we're not going back and rescreening any applicants we
we're this is just you know for moving forward from here for with the interviews so so for Thursday's meeting is the goal to discuss the questions that we're trying to develop and fine-tune those so the goal it's to full
just a go through the questions but but the other thing is I just want to give a give a uh I guess a quick update to those to the new committee members that are going to come on um and also tell uh be able to give be able to talk about
who is is uh in what time slot next week as well so that's the other thing I said didn't want to mention that today uh but uh it would be uh Thursday's meeting would be exclusively an executive session as well okay so we should all
leave with questions which questions which person is asking the candidates like that type of stuff we we'll all go out of Thursday's meeting with that information so Monday we're ready that is absolutely action yes ma'am yes ma'am so all right good de well thank you did
everybody get that document though everyone has access to the document that Laura shared right yes because I think right now there's like 12 questions on it so and oh Nikki I didn't embed your PDF
document in there yeah okay no I think that's probably better um but I don't know if like the new members might want to see that question bank that might be a thought um so after tomorrow's meeting I guess we can forward it to them as
well do make sure there was there was an email uh I I'm going to have it queued up to go right after the the uh committee meeting and just add in the names uh but uh So So the plan is for everybody to get that um get get an
email chain going and Nikki if you wanted to forward it again to the uh to the new members on that email chain that'll work sounds good all right excellent all right well thank you again everyone if there is
unless there is anything else which please feel free to offer if there is and if not I'll entertain a motion to a Jour I'll make the motion to adjourn second it's been moved in second do a roll call vote again miss
sheret you're up first on my screen hi Laura sherette Miss Nunes hi Chris Nunes Miss Potter i n Potter Miss Aruda I Amy and hi Carrie marrow hi Christopher
Thrasher thank you again everyone and I will uh look forward to seeing everybody on Thursday thank you have a great night everybody appr you bye bye