I don't think he hear like he did mutter yeah Mr Irvin can you hear us you're on me okay Mr Murphy here miss L Mr
Okana Miss true here miss Okana here Mr sloski here Mr wood here yall please join us for the Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America na
indivisible andice all all right those attending tonight's meeting should be aware that the meeting is being audio and video recorded by W Tech any audience members who wish to record any part of the meeting must inform the chair who will announce the recording
this is to comply with the mass wire tap statute first item on the agenda is going to be public comment were there any written public comments submitted there were not okay first one uh is Elizabeth devony good evening SCH committee my
name is Elizabeth dein I'm a proud member of the L Regional Education Association and I also serve on our contract bargaining team as most of you are aware we recently started negotiations for a new contract for both Unit A and Unit B education workers at
wood and given that St Patrick's Day falls between tonight's meeting and our next negotiation session we thought we'd bring you all a little bit of Luck of the Irish and share with you just a few reasons why willor Tech is lucky to have us working with these students
with is lucky that I have the knowledge and experience to be able to craft an IP in the new format in under four hours per student wooder is lucky that I help Staff feel safe included in the department and the school Community wooder is lucky that I always put
student learning first whiter is lucky that I am taking students to the bell of the ball next Saturday whiter is lucky that I spend hundreds of dollars on books for my classroom students Whit is so lucky I spend my own money to feed my students during after
school activities W your Tech is lucky that I would come rather that I would rather come to work sick than call out because it's not worth the hassle Whittier is lucky that I help former students write college essays fill out forms and apply
to college thank you thank you uh Beverly stickles just a reminder if you're speak speaking just name and address for the record before hi I'm Beverly stickles I live at 163 Water Street in Newport and I teach
medical assisting here at Whittier um I'm a former physician turn teacher and I'm reading a few of my own and a few of my peers uh whiter is lucky that I give them pens and
pencils uh woodier is lucky that I have the opportunity to watch my students play sports my own is uh wer lucky that I administer and Proctor not Proctor administer the NH exam which my students
have been very successful over the last couple years and wooder is lucky that so many of the medical assisting students go on to nursing school thank thank you
Susanna Deora hello school committee W your's lucky oh excuse me I'm Susanna dearo 381 Asbury Line Road hail thank you wol I'm the ESL teacher English as a second language teacher here at woodier Tech uh we're lucky to
have you just want you to know thank you for your service and uh woodier is lucky uh for this teacher who says my nights and weekends are rarely free I go above and beyond a plan with other teachers outside of school
hours I help build social emotional and physical well-being of my fellow faculty with activities after school like snowshoeing pickleball and circuit training and uh myself I volun here to
coordinate the state seala by Literacy for many of our students here thank you thank you Kate Cashman good evening um Katherine Cashman and I live on 37 Marina Drive hail Massachusetts so I'm going to read
a few of my oh sorry I'm the design and Visual Communications instructor and this is my 16th year um I'm going to read a few colleagues and then I'll read my own I am committed to making the grade nine math teaching and learning the best in the state of
Massachusetts I am lucky I can continue to develop my teaching skills by taking classes and attending PD lucky that I am always happy to volunteer whiter Tech is lucky that I am flexible to changing the schedule then I
will read my own um wer Tech is lucky to have me for the countless after school hours that I spend on teacher prep work they're also lucky for the times that I volunteer to be on the Ed foundation and to work on design work for the Ed
Foundation um for all the design work and photography that I've done during after school activities um for going to events such as the school play and sports to support our students and then lastly for stepping up in a big way during covid
when my cooworker got ill and then died I had my I had my students his students and an elective and I managed to do all that thank you for listening thank you Cindy Yetman good evening school committee
thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you my name is Cindy Yetman I live at 6 Newton Road in Asbury you are so lucky to have this amazing School you are so lucky to have this amazing staff you were so lucky to have your amazing
students my cousin Patty L spoke so highly of her career here at woodier as your former special education director I felt compelled to take out an application to substitute teach here almost 10 years later I do not regret that decision I am consistently thanked
by your teachers your students your administrators go out of their way to show their appreciation of me I'm very lucky to be a small part of the Whittier family I hope all this good luck translates to gratitude and results in a
mutually agreeable contract settlement thank you for allowing me to be a small part of the wooda family I am so lucky thank you thank Youk you and Katie St hi good evening school committee um my
name is Katie Stanton I live at 520 lra Street West rockbury Massachusetts um I am an English teacher and I am the current uh president for the W um like everybody before me I have a couple of Lucky Charms from my colleagues and then I'm going to read my
own um donate to the wher tech Foundation yearly buying pencils to give to students donate food and clothing to drives during the school year I try to attend Wittier sporting events with my children to show support for our
students I offer additional extra extra help opportunities before and after school I participated in the student uh in the staff versus student basketball game and then this person wants to publicly be acknowledge that the staff
had won um for the third year in a row um buying books for my choice reading Library I advise skills USA competitions and then I also um Provide support as a chaperone on the overnight skills trips it's a weekend um in Malboro and then I
had the Fantastic opportunity to spend a week um in Atlanta with all of our gold medal winning students two years ago um thank you for your time and your attention tonight as you can see there's a lot more than just luck behind what makes Wittier Tech so great the examples
you heard tonight came from our members and show just how our Educators go above and beyond the requirements of the contract every day and in ways big and small as we continue with our contract negotiations we hope that you will consider what you heard tonight in the
spirit with which it was intended and work with us to achieve our goals of modern parental and family leave fear compensation for all including living wages for the educational support Professionals in Unit B and improving our working conditions which are our
students learning conditions and then as a side note um you guys are all welcome to my classroom on Monday March 17th I am I have a very successful um competitive Irish step dancing career I no I'm being dead serious um so you all
if you're around come to my classroom and I will be dancing in the afternoon thank you thank you thank you is there anyone else here for public comment that I missed anyone else once tce thank you all for
coming I agree we are lucky to have an amazing staff at Woody votch from top to bottom it's a great staff here that does amazing work for the kids in this building so thank you all thank you than you next item on the agenda is going to be approval of minutes February 12 2025
minutes of the regular school committee meeting is there a motion I'll make a motion motion by Mr Fitzgerald to approve is there a second second peted by Ron I mean c c any
discussion seeing none please call the roll Mr early yes M Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes Miss CER oops Miss Del yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr
Irving hi Mr Murphy yes Miss true I'm gonna abstain Miss Okana yes Mr Sosi yes
passes uh minutes of the February 26 2025 minutes of the budget Workshop is there a motion so moved Mr motion by Mr Connor seconded by miss stly any discussion on the February 26 minutes
seeing none please call the r Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Roy yes Miss CER yes Miss Del yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy
yes Miss true yes Miss Okana yes Mr sloski yes passes uh next item on the payments of bills Financial reports the treasurer's report is there a motion to approve theas report motion to approve motion by
Miss Tru second seconded by Mr Murphy is there any discussion see none please call the Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes Miss CER yes M yes Mr fitgerald yes Mr
Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss true yes Miss OK yes Mr sloski yes pass communication student representative report Kaye khabib Kaylee you're up good evening Mr chairman
superintendent Lynch and all other members of the school committee starting off with clubs the skills USA District exam is set for March 13th with 160 students participating also join them for a clean River Project fundraiser at Georgetown Flats on March 25th 5: to 900
p.m. to support efforts to clean up the marac river chess club continues to grow with new students attending they working possible tournaments with other schools but most of them require a minimum of students they will have their first ever in-house random partner tournament in the upcoming week
weeks the woodor tech drama club presents Disney's Little Mermaid this weekend shows are Friday and Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday at 2 p.m enjoy a magical underwater Adventure brought to life by talented students at the senior
basketball game members of interact Club held a successful Huck a duck fundraiser raising $9 both the club and the winner it was a fun halftime event they'll definitely bring back they're also running the concession stand on opening night of The Little Mermaid Ski Club
finished their season with their final trip to Pico Vermont for a full day of skiing traveling by coach bus there were 35 students and three woodier Tech advisers attended the trip they had a great season the yearbook Club is 98% complete
and will will be prepared electronically delivered by March 21st one week ahead of schedule ad sales topped $5,000 for the third year in a row cutting printing costs by about 30% a big shout out to the senior yearbook photography editor capturing
90% of the sports photos while balancing a co-op job the Multicultural Club showed their appreciation for our custodial staff with Valentine's Day cards and chocolates with messages in both Spanish and English club members also attended Miss Call's green birds
Black History Month presentation now they're gearing for the cultural night at woodor Tech Friday March 14th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. before the play poetry club's last meeting was a blast six students help prepared for the March Madness poetry Edition where poems
compete through sweet 16 Elite 8 and Final Four to Crown a winner the competition is fierce the Key Club handed out 200 Valentine's Day cards in February to Meals on Wheels at Salsbury and elderly
housing in Newberry Port cards for St Patrick's Day will soon start Easter cards with the art Club some of the students have been painting cement sculptures from masonry to be displayed during the NEOS visit on March 28th they also finished up helping out set up for
The Little Mermaid play they created a large Target on the gym floor to use for the hucka duck fundraiser as well the United Nations Club meets Tuesdays for debates and will attend the UMass L model un conference on March 27th to 29th students will represent Denmark
Saudi Arabia Hungary Argentina while debating topics like weaponized drones sustainable infrastructure and transatlantic relations Student Government held annual fa student faculty basketball games past Tuesday buses were provided to Spectators they
were excited to host this event hope everyone was there to cheer on classmates and the staff team GSA club is looking forward to celebrating the following upcoming events International trans day of visibility to celebr the conts of transgender people in glsen's
day of no silence which is celebrated in April to raise awareness for the harmful events of harassment and discrimination of the lgbtqia plus people in schools the environmental Club competed completed 10 tree identification signs for the nature
walk project with installation set for spring the envir log website is finalized and field surveys is planned to post placement students also set Tower garding harvesting fresh basil and lettuce for school's restaurant dis dishes a final thank you to CAD for the
finished designs P Pier Club had a meeting this past Tuesday to disc to discuss starting canned food drives in April for local pantries continuing on with sports the winter season has wrapped up and we're looking ahead to Spring sports starting March 17th here's a recap of the winter
season the woodyer tech girls basketball team had another great season finishing 14 as CAC champs for the 14th time Amber Christmas tournament state champs I mean Champs sorry State vocational semi-finalists M and MIAA State Attorney
participants they're looking forward to next year as they have a young team but experienced the boys basketball team finished up their season on February 14th they finished their season with a six and4 record the young group looks forward to next year where they will have a lot of players with Varsity
experience returning the boys hockey team finished the regular season ranked number 26 in the MIAA division two standings with a record of eight 10 and two as they went to defeat number seven Walpole and number 10 Boston Len before ending their
season with the loss in the elite eight against number seated two wer three standout players from woodier Tech were selected for the calal first team Allstars they the team looks forward to next season with the young but promising
group lastly the wring team finished their season this past weekend in Providence Rhode Island for the New England tournament the team finished with an overall record of 13 and S fourth in the division 2 North sexual tournament and 11th at the division 2 state tournament they had four boys and
two girls qualify for the all state tournament and one boy qualified for the New England Tournament Logan H 215 pounds was a sectional champ State finalist and all state semi-finalist thank you thank you Kaye great report as always wow busy busy that's a lot next
item on the agenda is going to be the pr principal assistant superintendent report Mr leus School happenings good evening Mr chair superintendent Lynch rest of the school committee members and uh once again I am lucky to stand up here and always knowing that we have a great school committee and a great
superintendent that puts kids first so have to say that even though I'm Greek the Luck of the Irish anyway uh principal's report uh lot of this uh Kaylee thank you for taking the Thunder because that's where it should be uh the sports are done as you heard and spring
is here if you could believe it our spring sports are starting up very soon uh the winter sports I just want to thank the student the student athletes the coaches for their dedication uh tomorrow uh March 13th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm we have our winter sports banquet
already uh and also thanks goes out to the booster club and a special shout out to the wrestling team as you heard uh all New England heavyweight I think it's the first time that we have had someone go all New England that far as well as the Whittier um Asbury hockey team I was
actually there uh with Coach Brads um yeah and it was an amazing in stonum just an amazing High School event Mia event uh packed house full of kids and our kids really represented uh from Amesbury Whittier uh I believe you know when I was watching our golender from uh
Whittier uh as well as there were three or four other kids that were playing that night from wiy Attack so it was kind of cool to see those kids but great event uh they an amazing rank 26 as you heard to get all the way to to the Elite 8 uh which is now in Boston in in the
garden the finals in the garden I believe Bill record made it to the end against Ken so that's the story congratulations to all all spring sports like I said they start March 17th St Patty's Day uh and then on Tuesday March
11th at 2 pm uh we had um you know we we had the the basketball game uh staff basketball game which is another amazing event that you heard and the staff won I do think that they're practicing here and there quietly and as a matter of fact I do know that they practice so the
kids are a little surprised um when when the uh the staff shows up and beats them skills USA on March 13th we have 164 students representing all uh vocational areas uh they'll be participating in The District 4 qualifying exam uh the
District online testing event will take place on site of whia Jane muskovitz who's like a guru in skills USA um you know she she's just does an amazing job getting this together so we're getting our skill skills kids ready for the
competitions uh the wooder chapter skills they'll be holding a fundraiser like Kaylee said March 25th at the American Flatbread in Georgetown and and the proceeds will go to wiot Tech skills USA um which is there's a little aside
to that um the money raised will be used to purchase a boom which is placed in the marac river through the great efforts of the clean River Project the clean River Project is a nonprofit organization with the mission of cleaning and preserving the 45 mile
stretch of the marac river Whittier chapter skills USA have been working with the clean River Project since the start of the school year students will be presenting their work at the Massachusetts skills USA State leadership ship conference so once again our kids in the Forefront of everything
um all week two freshmen started their shops today uh which is pretty exciting and then uh Saturday school I don't know if this is exciting but we're we're in the process of setting that up with uh Lisa uh for our kids to make up attendance uh starting very soon and
those Saturdays will go all the way through uh through graduation uh and then into a little June and then of course we have summer school that we have to look to open up as well as well so it gives kids to have the the recovery for their attendance um spring uh winter spring performances
this weekend so don't forget pencil in 7 o'clock Friday 7 o'clock Saturday and 2 o'clock on Sunday and Little Mermaid uh is our uh performance our spring performance title uh the Multicultural Club also right before Fridays they're
often 4:30 to 6:30 as Kaylee said and that's pretty cool too uh the diversity of the school is shown and it's an amazing evening um you know parents and and kids they set up booths and you know from the different uh countries that that a lot of our kids
are from so it's really neat the foods the the culture uh so it's fun to see if if you have you know you want to get there earlier you go into this the show on Friday night 4:30 to 6:30 the guidance team they wrapped up the they're wrapping up interviews night three class of decisions will be made uh
at the end of the month about our kids our new kids coming in and graduation activities uh it's out there already here we go uh our graduation information is posted on the the updates on our website principal updates uh the prom is that Tuesday May 27th and we're going to
have it at the beautiful blue ocean down in Salsbury which was an amazing event last year uh superintendent Lynch myself got and the whole team uh we it was just an amazing night beautiful night with the ocean uh so we're going back again
for the kids so I can't I can't wait for that event so the 27th and then the 29th is our graduation if you want to just put that in your calendars uh English mcast uh for sophomores takes place March 25th 26th we're going to do that reverse half day all that information
will be out uh in the website as well and then Friday uh April 11th report cards for term three so we are cruising in uh to the final stretch here in the springtime so thank you very much everyone thank you sir what time is that
banquet tomorrow night uh let's see banquet is at I believe 6:00 and let's see let me get it for you the exact time yeah 6 to 8 o' in the gym in the gymnasium y they're going to start maybe have a little bit of
cafeteria food and then everybody's going to filter off into the gymnasium then filter off like we did into the different areas the different rooms for the sports any other questions thank you thank you everyone
thank you uh business manager no report posted so the Lan Foria Tech and nor Community College uh Mr Reagan good evening school committee members superintendent Lynch um pleas to be with you again tonight to update everybody on the progress of the shared
campus building project with Northern ess6 Community College um there's been a lot of positive momentum since last time um I addressed you guys a month ago the municipal working group met February 25th and had a very encouraging meeting and discussion it was attended by mayor Tom
managers and City councilors from 10 of our communities and everyone who spoke and they all spoke voed strong interest and optimism on the proposed new high school and partnership and on the Northern Essex Community College campus most encouraging everyone at the meeting
agreed there will have to be a new Regional agreement and a new capital funding formula at some point outlined to your previously meetings um just real quick mainly that's that everyone one amend the agreed Regional agreement if and as required two continue working to
together to develop the new school proposal and three to agree that the district must pay for the mba's feasibility study which again has an estimated price tag of 2 to 2.5 million the next working group meeting is Friday March 21st at Neco the last one of
course you recall was here I also want to mention two other important items coming up the working group is working with superintendent lanch and NEC president Langan Glenn on a press release to explain the process so far and where we are headed we expect the release to release the release sometime
after the next working group meeting again not this Friday but the Friday after the main focus of the release will be to highlight our Communications plan and our current priority of obtaining the sign letters for msba from the chief executive of each of our district
communities at the last meeting um all the officials who were there those were the two things they really wanted us to focus on the communications plan and um they wanted us to explain and talk about the letter that they're soon going to be asked to sign the long awaited um on report and
recommendations is finally done and it will be post we will be posting it soon on both the Whittier Tech and Necco website the main recommendation of the nearly 100 page yearlong report is that Whittier Tech and Neco should pursue a collaborative shared campus model in
which the two schools shared space and services as a refresher the Don Hugh Institute is a public service research and economic development arm at the University of Massachusetts for more than a year they examined and identified potential new funding streams cost-saving ideas mixed campus models
and Bre best practices for partnering academic Career Training training and Workforce Development institutions the study included interviews with residents and Municipal officials in the wot Tech district and analyze data on the regional Workforce demographics and
labor market and um we you know it's done we expect to release it soon and we'll get copies along with the press release to the school key members as soon as we're able to so that's my update for this month um if anybody has any questions thank you Mr early yeah I was going to ask you that question about
updating the communities do you say you're going to send that to the community to give them an update um so we're going to send it out I believe um pretty quickly after the next so it's gon to happen soon yes right after the next working group meeting okay yeah it's all done we just
want to run it by the working group get their input do any amendments do any um you know modifications so it's so they have ownership of it with us can help us promote it and then we're going to get it out there what negative are improvements of the communities asking you about you know well you know um as
we all know everybody speaks uh you know at least everybody that I talked speaks very highly of w your Tech every everybody loves it they're very interested um you know and curious about the uh the Neco you know partnership the possibility of um you know having a joint new high school um on the campus
um obviously they have a lot of questions they want to know what the details are they want to know what the costs are um we're we're unfortunately we're we're quite a ways away at least months from from knowing those answers um the msba study which will you know answer a lot of that is isn't even going
to start um if we're lucky until Midsummer so you know we don't have a lot of the details we don't know much it's going to cost but you know we know you know the superintendent and and the college president have done a really good job keeping everybody focused on where we're at moving forward um you
know and sort of taking each you know challenge as it presents itself so you know I guess where we're staying the course is probably right now the best way to the 400 million plus that was anticipated at one time do they talk about that number of the agreeing with
it disagreeing with it right well um you know uh I think the one of the main you know sort of reasons that we're you know that we're looking at um going to Neco is there's a lot of cost savings potentially there you know shared space um we can tap into different you know money at the State Higher Education
money grants and things like that are out there going to open up potentially a whole new Avenue of of of funding um but the numbers um You probably any anyone who follows this kind of stuff have seen there have been some school building projects that have been you know 600 million 700 million so we know that it's getting more and more expensive to build
schools right now but the reason that we're looking at Neco or one of the big reasons in addition to that it's going to be a new and wonderful you know thing it's is it's it's it's for any cost savings and it's to try to come to the communities with a um a less expensive you know proposal than you know last
time but you know we don't know it you know cost of construction is only going up you know we don't know when this is you know you know when those estimates will come in but you know right now um you know that's the plan and that's sort of the uh the emphasis and everyone knows we need you know we need to come in with something hopefully you know
that will compare well against the uh the first proposal hypothetically you know we could be building a new one we still have on the table we have a a treatment plant that we have a make a decision on soon y y a lot of moving
Parts here yep that's for sure thank you so all right um is there a due date for those signed letters from the uh communities yep um July 1 July 1 thank you Mr do we on that
same ve do we actually have like a draft of the letter that we're going to be asking these um Community Municipal officials to sign off on or is that part of what you'll develop as part of yeah we're developing and I believe our attorney is working on it now um it may or may or may not be ready for the next
meeting but yeah we we we're it's it's going to pretty much much follow those three items that um you know the msba said we had to uh you know we have to get consensus on or or basically we have to get you know commitment to so I mean it'll be those three items you know with whatever the legal ease is and again I
think our attorney is working on it right now so we should have it pretty soon and we'll show that to you as well I hope any other questions one more question all the towns represented at these meetings uh 10 10 were the last one um so there still one miss yep yep
and we're still we're still talking to them we're still you know we everyone gets invited we're still hopeful that you know eventually we get everyone there but um we got 10 or 11 El thank you all right thank you good job thank you uh next item on the agenda reports
and recommendations of the superintendent uh first one's calendar events for the past month Madam superintendent good good evening Mr chairman members of the committee uh on Friday February 14th I attended a legislative breakfast at Northern asex community colge along with Lane Glenn um
we were both able to give a brief update about exactly what Sean just gave you um and they there's a lot of interest and people are really kind of excited about the possibilities of us working together on Thursday February 20th um I again met
with Lan Glenn president he and I have almost every other day meetings it seems sometimes on Tuesday February 25th I attended the Whittier Tech Northern Municipal group meeting that was held at Whittier um we were able to have lunch and um share you know what's been going
on and um again people were really excited I am happy to report that 10 of our cities and towns attended and all were in favor us working together and possibly amending the regional agreement on Wednesday February 26th I had a call with msba regarding our progress on
Thursday February 27th I attended the mass executive committee meeting in Malboro there is much concern about Federal funding um for schools and what may happen to many of our entitlement grants um this is something that uh Cara
and I are beginning to work on different scenarios if certain things were to happen how we have to manage that and take care of that on February 28th I attended the M leadership meeting uh we had a discussion about the board's meeting this week and the roll out of a new admissions policy on Thursday March
6th I along with Cara Murphy and Brett Brett M Cara Murphy you're married to Cara um Cara cosmus and Brett Murphy by phone uh Brett Murphy was by phone um to talk about the OPM uh for the wastewater treatment plant we are very anxious to
get started on that project on Friday March 7th I attended the Hall of Fame meeting here hosted at whiter our athletic Hall of Fame uh we will be doing our second round of inductions uh in the fall of next year on March 10th I went to desie headquarters in Everett uh
it's my first time at the new headquarters in Everett to hear the board discuss vocational CT admissions the draft was released Monday morning around 10:00 and uh we didn't have much time to review it before we went to the meeting desie is proposing a weighted
Lottery where discipline attendance will be reviewed um and I provided you a copy of the the um new regulations or possible uh regulations um so a little bit is and
I'll just share a weighted Lottery system for uh W uh Career Technical education or programs in which all St all students are entered um and they want this to begin in the admission cycle for next year uh for students in Ro enrolling for the fall of
2026 um all the lottery will be conducted in a public place they want it to be very transparent as we move forward um students and when I say weighted you get um extra points to you get an extra
point if you or an extra I guess your name gets put in a hat again if you don't have um more than 27 absences or a uh discipline of a 37 h and a half or 37 each which is a pretty significant discipline um concern so everyone gets
put in um and then what we have to decide is is how that works with allotment do we do we average do we just put all the names in so we're going to have some work to do um but I would um recommend um because we I did share the information I really it's import
important that the the board hears your your how you feel about this and what you think is the positives and the negatives and um you know and and what this would mean for woodier Tech so I know I plan on writing something um but you know I know that they would appreciate hearing your voice as well
because I think it's really important that you you are the school committee for this district and you should have some sort of a say um and how this is is rolled out so um that is all I have for you night all right we also have the recommended
budget for FY 26 for a vote um we went over at the last budget hearing so is there a we have multiple motions some moved um so let's see here too
early yeah we there's five different motions that we need five all right so we need a motion to accept function 23 23 teacher Aid budget in the amount of $347,500 which is the teacher Aid budget in the amount of 304 $4
7,058 believe this has to be separate out because someone has to abstain thank you Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes Miss cener yes Mr Deli yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr
Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes m true yes Miss OK yes Mr sloski abstain yes passes uh a motion to accept function 2700 guidance budget in the amount of
95,200 5,272 again this has to be separated out because someone needs to abstain any discussion on seeing none please call the roll Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy obain Miss caringer yes Mr
Deli yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss okon yes Mr sloski yes Mark me as yes as well
passes uh motion to accept function 5250 insurance for the retired School Employees in the amount of 1,325 185 there a motion so moved motion by Miss Del seconded
by uh miss caringer any discussion again I believe this has to be separated out of to obduction please call the RO Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossi yes Miss CER yes Mr Del yes
Mr Fitzgerald Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L abstained mror is not here miss true yes Miss so yes Mr sloski yes yes for me
passes motion to accept the remainder of the FY 26 recommended operating budget in the amount of 29 m848 is there a motion so moved motion by Mr Jerald second by Mr um any discussion on the budget could
you repeat that number please 29 m848 thank you any discussion on the budget to send to the public hearing seeing none please call the RO Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes Miss coper yes Miss delay yes Mr
Fitzgerald yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss Okana yes Mr sloski yes yes passes and then a motion to accept the FY 26 Capital assessment in the
amount of 695,000 motion to approve motion by Miss true second seconded by Miss Del any discussion on the capital assessment amount see none please call the roll Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes
M CER yes Mr yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss Okana yes Mr soski yes yes
passes all right next item on the agenda old business no old business posted new business school committee self- evaluation form I think you all should have a copy of the self evaluation form to fill out should be in your packets this week um next item under new business is
reestablishment of a finance subcommittee Miss Deli yes thank you Mr chair um I did ask uh that a memo that I drafted be included only because sometimes I express myself better in writing than I do uh verbally I think it summarizes um but just uh to give you
kind of a recap uh the the reason why I think that this is important is first of all it's a a best practice a common practice throughout the Commonwealth um more importantly it is it has a very sound and P purposeful basis in our
policy our policy references the finance subcommittee um in several places in our budget um policies um I also am a strong believer that we should all have the opportunity um and and you know have
access uh to be considered for inclusion on uh the finance subcommittee and for discussion deliberation on the budget um and I think that should be based on our interest versus necessarily on you know being um a chair of a subcommittee um so
I think uh like I said it's got a sound basis in policy uh I certainly don't have the authority to dictate what the role of the subcommittee would be but I took the time to pull out from our policies what they SP what they speak to
in terms of the role of the finance um subcommittee so I appreciate your consideration um for that requested action Mr ear I'm just trying to get this straight out in my head what's the difference
between this and the executive session I mean the executive board do we have the executive subcommittee um is not first I guess is not established in policy there's no reference in our policies to an executive subcommittee there is
reference to a finance uh subcommittee the executive subcommittee as it's been explained to me is comprised of the uh the chair the vice chair I'm not sure if any of the other officers and then the chairs of the subcommittees that's not
documented anywhere I understand that that's the practice that's not established anywhere in policy um and so if the executive subcommittee has determined that it is to serve the function of the fin Finance subcommittee then I think at the very least that
should be specified somewhere as should um you know the membership or who gets to be part of that executive subcommittee what I'm requesting is that we reestablish as the policy indicates a finance subcommittee there must have been one at some point because it's in the policy um and that subcommittee
would serve the role that the executive subcommittee is now serving Visa V the budget but also additional roles as um it as are spelled out in our policies the executive board already
does the stuff that the finance sub commmittee would be doing so would it make sense to just change verbiage or you know like committee titles so everything is
copesthetic um versus forming yet another subcommittee I that that's what makes sense to me yeah you know where the job is already being done but let's just correct our our words and policy you know the
difference for me is that the executive subcommittee is established has a membership it's not written anywhere but the membership is determined based on if you're a chair of a sub committee or if you are an executive officer whereas the finance
subcommittee would be EST established just like any other subcommittee policy subcommittee curriculum subcommittee it would be you express your interest in serving on the committee and the chair would determine who would serve on the committee and then the committee would
elect its chair annually as we do per policy for the other subcommittees well I understand how a subcommittee is put together I just to me it's um just duplicating efforts of something that's already being done we just need to
change the terminology gr I guess I don't that's I see it differently because the finance sub the executive subcommittee is not formed in the same way that the other subcommittees are formed not everybody has the ability or
is offered access or opportunity to serve on the executive subcommittee that's not appointed by the chair as the other committees are Mr Murphy um I think before voting on this that it probably should go
through the policy subcommittee um it doesn't require a change in policy this is already in our policy what's in our policy the existence of a finance subcommittee but you're
questioning how it was formed I'm asking that we establish an actual Finance subcommittee that is appointed in the same way that the other subcommittees are appointed I think it's a good idea you know when we talk about our
self-evaluation and board governance I think it's a good idea that if the committee has subcommittees that our policies or our operating rules specify which what those subcommittees are and what the role of
those subcomittees are we don't have any such language we have in policy the basis for two subcommittees policy and finance that's it so it's fine that you have an executive subcommittee but it's not there's no documentation as to how
it is formed who's on it there's a p past practice I understand but there's not actually well again maybe policy subcommittee should look at that as well any other discussion Mr early I've been here almost 25 years Mr Irving been
maybe a month before me we never had it before I don't believe we should have to go to a policy uh committee for it I don't believe we need this finance committee and I will not vote for it thank you
thank you anyone else Mr um so in terms of Finance I mean every month we get a lot of information and um if it were sent to a committee I don't know that I'd be comfortable with that because I like the fact that every month we get about a week to review all Financial
that we're given and we're given a lot you know it could be a variance or it could be um a Treasures report or it might be the um the audit that's coming you know that's a three booklet thing it's quite a lot but we're given time to review that all of us every month and
then we come here and the public is able to um hear us um discuss it and so it's predictable you it's so that's I'm not sure that I do see having a finance committee and an executive as being
redundant so maybe policy could look to look at our policy change you know make the change if if they thought that changing it to a finance committee as opposed to Executive but the other thing about executive committee that I was thinking about is um a lot of people on
the executive committee have been here for a really long time I've been here 10 years and I've never served on the executive I'm I'm brand new to it um I think I think Scott you're also new I've never served on it so um so I think one
of the advantages is that we've been through so many budget processes over the years I know I do my homework and um I talk with Cara quite a bit um during budget season um and then when we get together we're all very experienced you
know in terms of budget I certainly wasn't my first year I didn't know what was going on because I don't have a background in Municipal Finance but asking questions and getting the information from car was key and then you know listening and just
getting you know understanding what we're up against and how difficult it can be with 14 I mean 11 communities in 14 members um but um at the moment I just feel like the system is working but
if we need to rename something because our policies don't align with what we're doing then I think that should be looked at okay that's my that's my two cents if I understand correctly your your concern about how people are appointed
to the executive committee I think that we who are on the subcommittees who elect or appoint our chair for the subcommittee are aware of then of their job in the executive committee and what we're giving them permission to
do that's just my yeah and just a lie you done CER in in no ways this meant to you know be uh disrespectful of the executive subcommittee it just so happens that
these facts are true right we have a finance subcommittee and policy it's clear from the way that the policies read in in the policy subcommittee and the finance subcommittee that those subcommittees are appointed in a certain Manner and
everybody has the access and the opportunity to apply for a role on that subcommittee I understand with all due respect that in a sub committee you're appointing your chair um you know whether or not every single person who's appointing their chair to their subcommittee understands that that
person is now being delegated responsibility for reviewing budget and finance I don't know that that's the case hopefully now everybody does know um but that also doesn't necessarily mean that that person might be more qualified than somebody else who is not
serving in a subcommittee chair role but may have a lot to offer to the process and I understand that everybody's invited and and you know recognized and and such but there are and there are are always going to be some people who are
more or less experienced in budget it doesn't have anything to do with how long you've served on the committee certainly serving on the committee for a long period of time gives you an understanding of of how the budget's changed from year to year but I've
looked back at budgets going back 10 years I sent out to everybody some guidelines about what makes a best a budget of you know best practice budget our own policies state that we will use best
practices to develop our budget and so I think that should be the guidance that we use our policy in terms of how the budget is developed Community involvement in the budget process and I think the role of the finance subcommittee would be to ensure that
those policies what's establishing policy for how we develop the budget and how we review financial information that is the task and the sole task of the finance subcommittee and it's established in policy and its membership would be inclusive fully inclusive to
anyone who had interest or experience to serve in that role so I think it's different than just changing or designating that the subcommittee will somehow serve the function of the finance the executive sub
the the uh the role of the finance subit that's that's different than what's being proposed anyone else to me I I said this when I come up I my person and I have no idea how it happened 25 years ago or whatever I
wasn't here my guess is that the ex the executive committee has been acting obviously as as the finance subcommittee I think it's just really a title um per se issue I'm not sure the executive committee handles really anything besides Financial issues anyway
so it's basically the finance um subcommittee um with with a different name how that happened over the course of the years I I don't know if Mr early doesn't know or Mr Irving doesn't know they they're the
they've been here a while I'm not sure how that happened my guess is it's just really a a name type issue um because it seems like the um responsibilities of the subcommittee of the executive subcommittee are very similar to that of
what a finance subcommittee it seems as if they they act as that and they're just called um the executive um subcommittee um so how that happened I I don't know but that's my assumption of of of of things um I don't really have a
strong opinion that it has to be called the finance subcommittee or or whatever um it seems to me that it's playing the role of the finance subcommittee now whether or not it should be called that I really know but it it does seem I I
don't think other members would know better than me because I haven't served on the executive committee prior um to this year but it seems to me uh Mr Murphy I think you were on it for a while it seems to me basically that really it it's financially related at the executive subcommittee handles right
so it you know for all intents of purposes I think it is the finan subcommittee with a a different name how that happened I I literally have no clue but that's the way it seems to me do you want to make a motion on this to establish a finance
subcommittee and vote on do I want to make a motion no I don't I want to make I want to make a motion to establish a finance committee you have a second second so he's made a motion to establish Lish a finance subcommittee
yes um at some point someone would have to figure out if it did pass uh somebody would have to figure out the roles and responsibilities of whatever this subcommittee is
um Mr chair yep probably have to go to policy you're going to EST establish something new maybe the direction of the executive committee also I believe the executive committee basically is the offices of the
committee plus the chairs of the subit which would be an executive sub committee right no I I I think you're you're right that if we were going to establish it that it would have to go at some point to the policy subcommittee uh unless
this motion's voted down then it wouldn't have to then it wouldn't have to go to the policy subcommittee because everything would just stay the same we have a motion on the table now Mr the two points the executive
subcommittee is established in a very different way than any of the other subcommittees so to say that the executive subcommittee has been operating as the finance subcommittee I think is not ex exactly true secondly no
other subcommittee is referenced in policy other than policy and Finance so I would say if you're going to uh have the policy subcommittee tasked with creating roles and responsibilities of the finance subcommittee then they also will need to do so for all of your other
subcommittees because you have to treat them the same I would imagine well this is establishing something new we already have the others you don't there's nowhere in policy are any of these committees subcommittees established other than the policy and
the fin subcommittee those are the only two subcommittees that are established by policy in the Whittier Tech school committee manual Mr again I think I think we're
confusing the exec also here basically if if you wanted to have a committee to work on the finances with the administration and then bring it I still think it would have to go to the executive committee who is kind of the final operator of of U of voting
representing the various communities prior to sending a budget to those communities where is that established as being required well first of all the laws and byw so that we follow all comments go through the chair no back and forth between members okay we're going to follow robt rules of ERS you
have the floor no one else has the floor all comments go through the chair Mr chair go ahead Mr we have laws we have bylaws and we have policy policy can be changed by the the executive officer
which is the chair in his committee which is the executive committee that's how most organizations are established I think this one has run that way for the last 30 years I know of anyone else Mr Del Li I don't have
not seen any bylaw or operating rule or policy that references an executive subcommittee in the existence of it nor its role no law no law exists in the Commonwealth that requires that an executive subcommittee exist and that
they have the approval authority over the budget that's an organizational decision and those decisions are usually documented either as you say in a rule an order a bylaw that does not exist for this school committee so the only thing
that exists are law and policy on this matter and the only subcommittees that exist in policy are finance and policy Miss L I think your hands up yes thank you um I'm not sure because I know there's a
motion on the floor so I guess I will speak to that um that it does appear that Mr has raised that we do have the language that we H have a finance subcommittee um and we're arguing over
the language of who's doing that job but ultimately right now as she has pointed out the policy says we have that group and that people can join that group according you know that there just like
the other committees that we've formed that aren't named in our policies but this is one that is specific to our policies as a board so as a committee so I feel we do have to honor that or send it to to change it
if it's not something we want to honor I guess that I I'm I'm just looking at it very literally not necessarily based on who's been filling out the roles or doing whatever but if our policy states that we have this committee finance
committee then I believe we should either a have it or resend it policy to change it so I guess the on the floor is the motion to establish the policy the committee does a committee which is part of our
policies and if we want to you know to just do that for now and if people want to change the policy down the road they can but at this point if we do have that as a policy I don't know why we wouldn't have
that as a as a committee Mr Mr irin perhaps we should have at least to research the policy manual and bring up and send out a copy of what what the finance subcommittee is
and what what his byw is or it structure is so then we don't have a better understanding of voting for this I agree I don't feel comfortable voting on it tonight I'd like some more information before I do
that a motion to table takes precedence we'll call the rooll on the motion to table is there a date certain on the motion to table or is it just a motion to table no majority vote of the committee to take it off the table then it stays on the table
indefinitely so yes is to keep it off the table a yes puts it on the table it's table the discussion's over everything stays the same thank you so we need a motion for that it's already done yep so a yes vote keeps
puts this on the table to whenever and everything stays the same a no vote would mean no and then we'll take this back up and decide is it going to go to policy subcommittee is it going to go here or is it going to go there okay Mr Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes
Mr Rosy yes M caringer yes Mr no Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss oono yes Mr slavoski
yes motion is tabled until majority of the committee takes it off next item on the agenda is reports of the special committees executive Mr wood uh there's minutes from February 12 2025 is there a motion to approve those minutes
so mooved motion by Mr Murphy seconded by Mr Fitzgerald any discussion on the minutes seeing none please call the roll Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Roy yes Miss c m yes Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr
Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true um executive subcommittee I was absent so obain miss El yes Mr soski yes passes instructional Personnel committee
Miss True Looks like no meetings were scheduled no we had one in January and I don't know we're we're good for now okay all right plan operations Mr Murphy looks like you have the minutes here from February 4th yes I have the minutes and I also want to know if we need to
have a meeting scheduled we should probably have a meeting before our next school committee meeting okay the April meeting would that workd the April meeting at six o'clock yep that'd be fine I have a quick question where does it stand with
the OPM that we talked about has he been hired is he on board yes thank you uh motion to approve the minutes of February 4th motion by Mr Murphy seconded by second Mr solowski any
discussion seeing none please call what who did you hire uh w okay thank Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rosy yes M CER yes M yes Mr Fitzgerald
yes Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss oana yes Mr slas yes salary and negotiations Mr early yes we had a meeting yesterday and we have
some upcoming meetings soon other than that there's a lot of moving Parts all right thank you policy Mr Irvin yes Mr chairman I move the minutes in your back of February
26 motion by Mr Irvin approve the minutes of February 26 is there a second Miss CER seconded any discussion on the minutes seeing nothing please call the rooll Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rossy yes Miss CER yes M
Mr Fitzgerald Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss OK yes Mr sloski yes passes uh Mr Irving any your package this evening uh you'll find
policy I this talks about graduation requirements uh Jesse has been in contact with us as far as uh new requirements for graduation we have Dr KY Fay there to explain to us plus a couple of the administration uh folks
and uh basically she talked to us about electives of the junion senior year U everyone will have to take a financial literacy class and then hook it with another class it's a half a semester course or semester course rather than two and so this is the plan for the
school to go forward we need that in the student hand books and the program of studies Etc so uh we need to move that for this point tonight all right motion by Mr Irving is there a second second second by Mr TR any discussion on the first reading of The Graduate
requirements none please call the roll Mr early yes Miss Sullivan yes Mr Rosy m c m yes Mr Fitzgerald Mr Irving yes Mr Murphy yes Miss L yes Miss true yes Miss
OK yes Mr yes passes um thank you just a couple housekeeping items now that the um proposal for the uh admissions requirement I will put a uh subcommittee together now on that so you guys can meet to talk about that um
if people are interested in serving on that please let me know um and I will appoint a couple of members to do that and then um lastly I did send you all an email there's a student at Woody of otch getting a scholarship uh through an
organization I sent you um Woody of votek is now in second place with the highest scholarship so if you can spread that around trying to um get Woody of votek at at first place in that uh category where we've never been in second place actually it's the highest we've ever been so we're usually down at
four or five Local Schools just make it you can make a donation I I can give you the information um offline but it's a combination of great alwen vog Woody evoke um Lawrence havil Methuen and I think there's one more we're always down
at fourth or fifth place we've been between first and second the whole time how do we get up this High uh we' promoting it this time email that you sent us I did yes okay I know the one I kept it okay I so what is the deadline uh I believe
there's two weeks left in the in the competition um we've been in first place the whole time but Mr deolis just came in and put Lawrence in first place uh but we are we're right on their heels I think there's like a 15 $100 difference between Woody of otch and um and
Lawrence for first place so is there a motion to adjourn second second by Mr Murphy all in favor of adjournment I anybody opposed we areour