Phase two is more of a curriculum alignment. This is this is where we dive into what what courses and and what things we are teaching these students and if they align with what processes we want to move forward with. Phase three is when we wrap the whole piece together. Um, this is when we we we package it up. We make sure that everything is is going going great with with the system and it aligns with our strategic plan and pro projects and procedures that we want to move forward with. Um, Mr. Oafimi gets to tie a dollar amount to it which all ties in at the end and and we we move on for there for final approval where it will all be presented here at the board of education. Capital projects. We had a great year year with capital projects where we completed a roof replacement at Foxchase.
Um, both of whom voted against this bill, which you know, I personally um don't agree with. I don't think we should have politics in the schoolboard races. And I just want to thank them for that. Um, there are a number of other bills. This is going to be the next two weeks is going to be budget time. So, they're going to be talking a lot of property taxes right now. Everything that's gone up to this point is sort of like doesn't matter. We're just gonna whatever happens now, they're going to get their numbers as far as the projections for income and then they're going to make their decision. So, it's uh going to hear a lot in the next couple of weeks. And um if there are if there are any bills that you're concerned about um they are all either have to get through committee I think this week.
What's going to happen when that rent subsidy runs out? What's going to happen to those apartments? They're they're, you know, they're going to have mass evictions. And plus, what happens to the neighborhoods into which they're they're introduced? these folks, the schools, the hospitals, the traffic, the uh the economy of that of that area is is changing. And you know, it may be subtle, but when you have a school system and suddenly there are a whole bunch of kids dumped into the school system, then you have to hire a teacher or two or three and some interpreters and so on and some mental help for some of these kids. And guess who's paying for that? This the uh the town's property taxes are going to go up. Correct. Correct. There's the old thing about if you import the third world, you become the third world. Remember the first time I heard that?
Yeah. Yeah. It's great to meet you. I'm Kane. No idea who she is. We haven't even person like minority stuff for like Muslims in India at all or something. Really? Are you? Yes. Oh, I've read your work before. So, here's how it works. We stream the video from the glasses straight to Instagram and have a computer program monitor the stream. We use AI to detect when we're looking at someone's face. Then, we scour the internet to find more pictures of that person. Finally, we use data sources like online articles and voter registration databases to figure out their name, phone number, home address, and relative names. And it's all fed back to an app we wrote on our phone. Is your address for Valley Atlanta, Georgia is Oh my god. Yes. Also attended Yale's Young Global Scholar Summit. Really? Yeah. These are me in like middle school.
Mr. President members of the board, section B contains more substantial revisions and in section A due to a reorganization that aligns similar policy content and contains comprehensive information for effective board governance. The policy documents listed above have either been removed, added due to recodification, merged with policy documents containing similar topics or revised. See discussions below for specific information regarding each document. documents not listed in this comparison document from section B to clean copy document linked on the policy advisory communication provides to revise section B in its entirety. So you you guys share with me what um how you want to go about this. It's pretty lengthy. We we I believe we sent it to you um March 27th so we could have it in advance just to look through it. Um the summaries are pages four pages for page 11. Um if you want me I can go through the summaries not going through each advisory but just the summary.
Um I personally like AC/DC, but so I wouldn't have an issue with that. But if there was something that the district felt was in poor taste um to be affiliated with, is that something that we as a district could opt out of? Agreed. Um what I would offer for that is that in part of the frame framework of the IGA, there is a setup called a joint management advisory team that is basically dis director representatives from the district and the city. Okay, they're at that high level and they would meet to coordinate on some of those high level conflicts whether it's date conflicts, sponsorship conflicts and that also includes content of programming. Right. Okay. But at the end of the day, the the city will be charge of presenting, but of course they want to be good partners. So that's why there's that coordination there.
We we worked through our health life and safety for the junior highs and we completed two parking lots that were in dire need of replacement. Still moving through as projects that we started last year the continuation of the RTU replacement at Plank. We're wrapping that one up and should be hitting substantial completion with here in the next week or two. Um, I'm I'm proud and happy to provide uh Boulder Hill, uh, Lakewood Creek, and Homestead with new playgrounds this summer, which is going to be a great addition to those facilities that playgrounds are in dire need. um wrapping it up with an asphalt and concrete rehabilitation just to keep on track with the processes that we started uh beforehand and and want to keep that track moving because these concrete and and sidewalk areas are very important for us to get into the buildings and and there's a lot going on there.
Um, so if it's not out of committee by this week, then it fails and then it has to have second and third reading in the in that uh back to its house originating house. Um, I'm trying to think about the other education bills. Again, most of it of course is budgetary. So stop property tax. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Well, there there are three different bills, right? There's H 101, there's Senate Bill one, there's also Senate Bill 518, which involves a lot of other school issues. Um, and then there's the government governor's proposal and the Democrat proposal. All of them have a different way of how they want to spend those funds. And so we just you're going to see how they all work that out. So we uh we just have to kind of sit and wait. But please do contact your representatives and let them know that you support public schools because a lot of the money uh there's still a number of charter school initiatives that are out there and voucher initiatives.
I thought, well, no, we'll just take care of our own and we'll just keep living the way we're living and doing what we're doing. It's impossible. You have to accommodate these people and things gradually standards go down, uh, everything goes down and prices go up to accommodate everybody who's getting everything for free. Wow. Well, what you're going to see though is because none of the migrant hotels are in Boston because they purposely did that because they didn't want to affect tourism and they didn't want to, you know, take up a valuable hotel rooms, you know, during the tourist season. So, all of the migrant shelters are in the suburbs. And Mike, you've seen this, you know, out in the Metro West area. Uh, so now they're finding housing and they're going farther west because it's more affordable. So you're going to go west of Worcester to now start housing people.
Oh my god. What about John and Susan? Are they your parents? I mean, I'm not just sharing that to alarm you. Although I think find it alarming. They didn't find it. Oh, I think they were kind of they wrote that in an afternoon on code on their phone in an afternoon. So, our I think we're being becoming much more aware. We had our first pair of glasses about three weeks ago uh that we had to ask a young man to take off during class. um we're becoming much more aware and this again this is that um two-edged sword that you know I think we talked about last time in a world where technology is an essential part of our kids' lives and our lives and um there's a lot of power to be harnessed there. There are certainly a lot of abuses as we just saw available.
Uh quite a few of it is just deleted you need it. So Mr. President members of board can you just read this? Does that suffice or do you need something more than that? Um you guys you guys just read that. That's fine with me. I know. Yeah. I mean because I read it I read it myself in the list of number I can do that okay policy 862 good I finished just kidding policy advisory number 819 policy BA schoolboard operational goals advisory number 820 BAA evaluation of school board self evaluation Exhibit B AAE evaluation of school board self-evaluation. 8.21 BB school board legal status. 8.22 BBA board powers and responsibilities new exhibit BBAE board powers and responsibilities. 8.23 deleted. 8.24 BBA board member qualifications. 8.25 deleted. 8.26 deleted. 827 BBD board member removal from office. 8.28 28 deleted. A29 BCA board member ethics. A30 BCB board member conflict of interest.
Right. Okay. I I may add to that, Madam President, that throughout this whole process, um I think I've been and these guys can attest that um I've really emphasized that this is an educational facility and it will be an educational facility first. So, when it comes to booking the dates, uh the school district will calendar, DA will work with all of her people to calendar our events um for the things that we need in that theater. So, we will not be turning um students away from using their theater. Uh then we will allow the district or the city to once we have all our dates booked, they will have a choice that okay, here's here's the dates that are available. Um what would you like? They'll make their picks and then we will continue to rent that after their picks are made. We have a lot of renters as you know, dance companies, church, uh there's a a lot of renters that still go in there, but we've discussed that process um that the kids will get that venue first.
As we wrap up with Long Beach and the cooling towers replacement, we will begin our processes in uh the phase two of our assessment for the um master facility where we will know more what that track looks like for our for our master facilities long range plan. Our organizational chart is just a small depiction of what these people do. underneath me are 171 people and I think it's important for you to understand that this is a workforce inside encapsulated inside of an education system. These people worked hard day in and day at night to provide the things that we need as a as a a school district to health clean safe environments to keep you warm, keep you cool and and keep you guys all safe. That's it. [Applause] I I just want to start by saying I I had a chance to visit a school today and and it is April and to walk into a building and for it to be so uh pristine in April is truly impressive and a testament to the work of your team.
Um this year they're have a bill before them to have universal school vouchers and so a lot of that money goes to charters and vouchers first and we as public schools get what's left over and um we don't think that's fair and we think that um we should be supporting our public schools. So that's That's my soap box for today. All right. Thank you, Amy. Uh, can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? So, moved. Second. Second. All in favor?
So the impact in a big school system like a Marbor or a Worcester, you bring in 30 more kids. The impact isn't that huge because you've got the bandwidth to accept those. But as you go farther west and you have a school system that might have a couple hundred kids and all of a sudden you're bringing 30 new kids to the system, it's it's going to overwhelm school system. It's going to overwhelm, like you said, public safety, ambulances, fire, police. It's going to have a downstream effect on, you know, municipal budgets that people aren't seeing right now until it's too late. And to what end? And the reason obviously that Massachusetts gets the brunt of this or a big portion of it is because of the right to shelter law. John, we've been talking about this for for a long time. Being the only state in America that has the right to shelter indicates that when you come here, you have a roof over your head, you get fed EBT cards, you know, the whole thing.
I'm not as concerned about finding out details about other kids wearing glasses in the schools. As much as I am, the ability to easily look at a document, take pictures of it, you know, send that to my friend in the next period on the exam or um you know, just find all the information by looking at it with your AIA glasses. So I did add a component here that says uh includes but not limited to mobile phones, smartphones, AI powered glasses, tablets, PCs, laptops, cameras. Now the teacher still has the capacity to I think we you know have a responsibility to teach our our kids how to use this stuff uh for the value that it has too. And so there here comes the conundrum. You know, we're not just saying ban it entirely, but you know, we also shouldn't be wearing our AI glasses like into the bathroom the same way we shouldn't be taking our phone out the bathroom because you can take video on these things and you know, so it is really tricky.
I just want to say thank you for your presentation, too. Um I've been to the Vista several times. The last one was Jeff Foxworthy. Nice. So, I just want to say thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you again. Thank you everybody. It's my pleasure. All right. Next up we have item F2. Dr. Cordau. Thank you, Madam President. Uh tonight we also have a National School Lunch Program uh review summary. So Mary Del Spidel will be doing this. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, cabinet, and community. Tonight, we are going to review briefly our nutrition administrative audit that we've recently been undergoing um and the results of that. And so, overall tonight, just briefly go over the National School Lunch Program overview, just a reminder kind of what that entails. Um also the administrative the purpose of an administrative review, how often does that happen, what's the process over it, and then we will go over what the results of those audits were as well as our next steps on any corrective action necessary.
Um, it is not typical and I can't I can say with great confidence that I've experienced that many many many times over. Doesn't mean that we don't have bad days sometimes. It doesn't mean that. But I will say by and large you and you all should feel very proud and it's truly an impressive experience when I can walk in in April and not be thinking, "Oh, wow. Boy, we we can't wait till summer clean." Because we know what that feels like, right? And so for and it just builds on itself. So you really should feel very proud of your your team and I just want to just say that and and just to begin by saying thank you sir. Oh there's going to be questions. Hold on. This is where we shine. Mine mine's not a question um but a kind of reminder um to the community when we were talking about playgrounds.