Yeah. Michael, is there a design change in that in that plan that they uh provided? Huge, Joe. They went a completely different project. It went from multiple buildings to one building and the entrances and exits were changed. Right. So that I I understand. I just wanted to make sure that other people, you know, in the community were aware of that. So why can't we send a letter saying this is not the exact same project. This is totally different project. And I just don't understand. And I understand that Lisa, you know, is up on all these things, but you know, our hands are tied with respect to this. And and like you said, it's disingenuous, but at the same time, doesn't leave us much opportunity to uh fight for our town. And it was very frustrating for sure. um you do it it doesn't make sense and this was what I had what I had posed or kind of the argument that I had posed was that you know if part of the process is for mass housing to get an application submit it to the municipality for comment and then go ahead and make a decision.
As a family, we want to support you in doing that. Hopefully, it's not, you know, 20 times a year, but we realize that's definitely not the kids problem. How do we make it um as easy as possible to strengthen that kid's connection to the school while they're gone and um and when they come back? And so we're revamping the the short-term independent study agreement so that uh number one, the the the packet work reflects the essential skills that we as a bidwell staff want our students to be able to get more practice doing. So it's not just some arbitrary stuff, but it's legitimate stuff. Now, if they missed the waves of motion lab or the end of the math chapter test, they're still going to have to retake that. You know, that's fine. But coming back without work done takes care of all that other you know the little assignments the day-to-day things and it and it keeps more importantly I think it keeps the kids skin in the game.
He only took that off from his knee. Maybe you can offer base once. Oh, almost hit that lord. He would have died. He's dead here. Okay. What? No. Oh, it's cuz you use it so many every time you use a move, it gets weaker. Okay. But like only like if only if you use it over and over and over like every eight moves like it gets weaker between those eight. Like you use a move that eight different then use another move like the same move again it'll be the same. So you think up next is going to be the Rayu? Yes. No way they won't cuz the Ryu has been proven to be able to do it because there's no reason for them waste another player on this. Okay. Unless they cuz he only has one stock left. Maybe they might, but that's not what um Bluffton did.
You know, I think I if you get a new project, doesn't that require another round of comments as well? Like because the first round of comments are are basically null and void. They're inapplicable to again there's a lot of not due process happening in the country right now, but I think we're in Massachusetts and I think we should insist on due process and due process would be to follow the process that you just outlined. Yeah. So, I do think, you know, I do I do think we could send a letter. I mean, if you would like to send a letter, you know, from the board or on behalf of the board uh to Mass Housing, I'd be happy to draft something like that. But, um I just I don't I don't want to get We're all shaking our heads, Michael. So, yes, let's draft something.
Um one thing that we looked at when we were talking with students during our prime timemies and and talking to some parents is is that that that they're sick or they had to go out of town for a family emergency three four or five days kind of sacked up. So, we reached out to them and and asked if they would be interested in signing a preemptive short-term independent study agreement because the board policy code says you can sign a master agreement at any time in the school year. Not just, oh, hey, we're going out of town next week for 10 days. Can we get a a short-term, oh, we can't do that because we didn't give our teachers enough notice? Like, oh, okay, what do we do? We get the preemptive agreement going on. And that way, the kid knows, the parent knows they already have it.
They put Jaden in immediately, right, when they couldn't beat the pirate. They did not want to play that pyro. But they've gotten through the some good players on them. Okay, so then we're down to What are we at? Okay, it's the Roy. They're really going to say they're root for the end. They've had the same order every time, just switching up what they play. Okay, I'm pretty sure at least Kaza is even. Wait, no. Last time they had Roy, then Kasia, but it's been very similar. They just mixed up the middle. They started with Pyro both times. Well, what's super interesting about this match is because both of them stay away. Yeah, he has to kill himself twice, though. Yep. But the thing about this about like squads, like whenever you have to like kill yourself, is that the time moves even when you start killing yourself.
I would like it to go to the governor, to the Senate President, to the House, the House leader of the House, and to mass housing. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that. Like I said, I thought we had agreed. I thought we were going to ask Lisa to do something and I guess that wasn't quite as sternly um you know, I just feel like we we've got to fight back a little bit, you know, uh beyond even anything that can happen in in the with the zoning board of appeals. I think it's um it's it's we have to just not roll over all the time. Madam Chair, do we need to uh take a vote on that to authorize Michael to uh send that letter on our behalf? I mean, we can, but I do I mean, I don't Yeah, let's let's take a motion and that way we have some hard Yeah.
And when that kicks in, they can do that short-term work, bring it when they turn in, when they come back, they have some skin in the game, they have some hope, they have some connection, another reason to check in with people upon their return. And hopefully that can also clear some of those um those absesses. So, those are some of the strategies that we've been doing besides our, you know, our tier one attendance messaging videos and our messages in the Pioneer post um that we've been we've been messing kind of emptying the clip this year. We're really just getting started and it's been exciting. What's on the next slide? To see the response from from staff and and from students. People are talking about it and I think starting next year, especially with some of these added features that we can implement. It's going to we're going to we're going to continue to improve off of whatever we get this year, which hope if it's at least at 3%.
Okay. So, like if they were to really want to, they would like drag this out. Yeah. And then they would just I feel like that would be just as it's very it's like very I would say it's very frowned upon. 100%. That would be But like if you just time out normally, everyone hates it. It's already frowned upon. Everyone like like they're mad that people win from Well, yeah, because it feels like um default. Like the longest set that I win watched was a Pikachu and a Sonic. It was Shiny Mark and Sonic's. They played it was the grand final, so like they played twice cuz like the loser won. Mhm. So the entire match overall was I'm pretty sure it was like an hour and 20 minutes that one one set. Wow. Between two players. It was horrible cuz it timed out almost every game cuz I just ran away the entire game.
followup. So, I'd like to make a motion that we write have direct um the town manager to create a letter to Mass Housing, to the governor, to the Senate President, um to House regarding um the change in or the lack of process with the change of ownership u in the developer of 61 Waverly. I'll second that. Okay. So, Claudia has made the motion. Joe has seconded. Um because we have one person remote. Uh Manyani Manyani I Keegan Keegan I. Bennett I Ginsman I and Greavves I that passes 50. Michael if you could uh get that drafted and we can get you want me to send it before the next meeting or would you like to have it before the next meeting or be? Let's have it before the next meeting so we can review it and then just send it off. I don't expect many much input but if you could that'd be great.
I'll take 3% a year. That would that would be great. I mentioned the prime timemies already is is talking to students during our bonus period and we we're figuring out hey what why do you miss school? What's going on when you're missing school? And trying to tailor our our messaging and our interventions and our supports to meet the needs of those actual students. I love everything you had to say both of you actually. Um, and I definitely think we're having to do a lot of clean up postco and um, there were a lot of messages that that parents and families received and like you said, we gave them a hundred reasons why they needed to stay home and now we're telling them, you know, this we need to be back and um, I think probably what I would say the most important message is like you like you already said, it's not about the money.
Oh, okay. So, took a stock. Okay. Bluffton's at two. If they can get through this one, then pretty linear field into it. Looks like they're the Huskies. They're at one. San Jose. I can't see. I can't see. Yeah, I just noticed Jason Hu the huskys the tigers. Let's Let's see if the huskys can do it right here. I don't know. It's It's looking like whoever can take the stock is going to be up one right now. Now Bluffton's ahead, but this is their best player. And they I don't think is this their best player? Cuz I think for Bluffton, it is. Oh, yeah. For the Huskies, I think it's the Ryu. So it's if he can take the stock, then maybe pocket that. Use it. Pocket that one, too. Keep up. One forward air, one back air, one down there. Upy. Anything will kill really.
Okay. Anything else on Waverly Street? One thing that I thought was pretty interesting too at their presentation was the the whole uh storm water drainage thing, right? That they had it going into some kind of existing um drainage system that doesn't exist. Oh, and uh I didn't get the opportunity to watch that one. Yeah. So they they articulated in their plans, and I know the plans are very general at this point, but they articulated that the drainage would go into some kind of a storm drain um tie into it on Waverly Street that doesn't exist. Oh, interesting. Like a I think the neighbors referred to it as a manhole cover. Yeah. Yeah. Basically, it's already an issue. The drainage thing. Yeah, the drainage is really Okay. So hopefully that's then been identified by the ZBA and then they'll have to update it. Yeah. Was identified by Oh wow.
Um, we know that being in the classroom um is what's most important and that's what like that's where the success is and we see that with the grades. Um I mean we clearly the message during co was we can accomplish everything that we're doing in the classroom or close to it at home and now we're having to like reverse that message and saying no actually you need to be here um to accomplish the same result. So I think it's just going to be erating like the relationship between being in the classroom um less failures um and it's not about them. That would be my point and hopefully we can get that message out there because they received a different message a few years ago. So that's all I have to say. Okay. So thank you both for for coming to and and that's what we have for you.
Oh, double roll. He's very scared right here. Do not want to die. No, absolutely. That would be horrible cuz if you can like make a stop and do as many stops as possible, that's amazing cuz after this it's three. It has to be cuz they have no one else to play, right? So, if they can take this right here. Whoa. Okay, that was amazing. Back air. Nare. Forward air. Back air. No, forward air. Down throw forward air. Nare forward air. That was insane. I did not think that was going to kill. I thought he would have at least lived it, but I think he ate his jump anyways. I think he would have been dead. Okay, so we've only got one character left. One. It's the Ryu. And Jaden's somehow still in taking three people down now. I know somebody like that. I don't know him.
Okay. So So as we go through peer review on that, that would be like a priority. I would think that and traffic and how they have it aligned with the high school. Yeah. the the traffic on on on East Union is going to be atrocious because quite literally that's an entrance and exit point for for the development now. Yes. Yeah. Well, the other thing is that intersection there, right, is already kind of problematic when when we put the public safety building there and Joe might know better than I um the intersection or actually it was when we did the high school way back, right? um that that intersection we just kind of Mickey Mouse it a little bit because because it would cost a lot of money to do anything different and I think that intersection route 135 is the town's responsibility so the intersection at that time would have been our responsibility if we financially if we were chose to and then with the public safety building we added the permanent lights right okay we did have pot take a look at that on an engineering design aspect And uh I know Jen uh that was all part of the conversation where we're doing the the public safety building and it correlated with the intersection right at Fountain Street as well, Fountain and Union.
Um so is there any questions or anything before we move on? I just want to make a comment um that the overall the overall arching is the building of relationships and that's so important because when we were out with co and I was a teacher at that time you just needed to keep that connection with kids and yeah there were academics but we couldn't do everything we needed to do but we needed to keep that connection which was really difficult and so continuing to keep that connection and build those relationships And um we heard was that just yesterday you were here. Yeah. You know that every kid, this was the sign. How many of you have a relationship with a teacher that you feel like or or an adult on campus you feel like you can go and talk to about things that might be going on in your life?
I told them the story about the fool. It's a great story. It is some nerves kicking in right now for Jaden. I bet be horrible. I I feel nerves. And you're not You don't even understand this game. I do too. 3 2 1 go. Okay, so Jaden will be down to one stock and the huskys will have all three. Mhm. All right. Oh, he tried to take in the shocketsu. Another shocket coming out. Another one. It's not good when they take cuz that does a lot. It does more damage when he pockets it. Like if Isabelle uses their projectiles, it does more damage. Oh, really? Like that did like I think 20 like 30 or something. That will almost kill. That will kill. Okay. Okay. So, one stock. Let's see if he can take the other two. This is the last potential last game. Last two stocks for them.
Uh so it will be coordinated at best and if this is going to happen then this discussion needs to be extended uh with the with the new uh property owner and developer uh because again this is no different than 1060 Main Street and the projected uh issues that are going to cause a traffic issue um more than more than they uh can understand themselves. Yep. So, yeah. Absolutely. Great. Okay. Thanks for that discussion. Uh Michael, 10 to 60 main. Yeah. 10 to 60 main. So, um they continued with having a discussion about the traffic uh concerns that have been identified by both residents and our traffic engineer. Um and I know that the developer, they're also really starting to work on more of the civil aspects or the civil engineering aspects of uh the project. So, uh, my understanding is that our peer reviewers and, uh, the ZBA have asked for, uh, more information, uh, and more answers related to some questions that they had and they're still waiting for that.
Every single one of them. So um thank you for just continuing to build those relationships. That's number one. Kudo to staff, the proverbial all of you. Um, our people are working really, really hard to do what's right and best and nurturing and supporting for all of our kids. And if we don't remember that and continue to our We recognize you. We appreciate you. We know the impact you're having. Thank you. Um, shame on us. Yeah. I mean, success isn't possible without, you know, everyone pitching in. And, you know, it does take a village to raise a child. And I think that's what is really important. And I love seeing targeted case managers and more social workers. our resources because um we have some families that have lots of resources and we have other families that don't and it's really important to um you know to to acknowledge that and then also in response to um in in response to what happened during co you don't know what you don't know and this is you know you just have huddle along the best we can with best intentions and did everything go, you know, um, you know, hindsight's always 2020.