Um, are you open to kids who can't commit to the trip to still participate in the club? Yes. And maybe it's not written here in the other stuff. If you just want to join the club and not do the trip, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. It's more the if you're doing the trip though, you got to be part of the club to to learn about. Exactly. Exactly. Wonderful. All right. So, um, the more you can do this stuff, like you said, multiple trips. I do trips and more like this in school. Completely changed the way I looked at everything. Uh so whatever you need for support, just let me know. But thank you. We're motioning today to approve um the field trip itself and the club or is it the club and then you work? Yeah. And quite honestly, I wouldn't be doing just the like they go hand in hand.
They leave all kinds of stuff on the buses. Then we have to pick it up. We pick up so many colds and viruses. Yeah, we stay home. We get sick. Do you not think Hillman's or First Student or Hulcom has the same problem? So, if that's one of the thoughts that were put in your head that oh well, Hillman is covering two twothirds of the town already. Might as well just sweep the other third out because they abuse sick time. They're always out. Blah blah blah. Well, think again. And one other thing is and I brought this to the attention of Dr. Smith and I brought this to the attention of I think our third transportation coordinator in a matter of what a year. I witnessed a Hillman's driver, the same one, hit an Esham bus in front of Vanzant School. I witnessed that same Hilman's driver hit my bus in front of Vanzant School.
And I'm open to at the end of the year what worked, what didn't, and making adjustments. And then as far as fundraisers go, I know school policies, depending on the type of fundraiser, it may or may not need additional approval from committees depending on what it is. It's in general. The ones I had the most success with as a as a class advisor tends to be the car washes, the calendar raffles. So I would it would still be the normal forms filled out in house. We're going to revisit this one more time multiple times. We have to do the official paperwork that says that will school committee have to sign off because it's a a trip that's taking us out of the country and out of the state. So there'll be official paperwork that school committee will be presenting to you later. Yeah, it's making its way.
Again, that same Hillman's driver drove up onto the sidewalk in front of Vanzan School at dismissal. Fortunately, there was nobody right there, but there was children and adults had to run out of the way. I brought it to the attention of the transportation coordinator. And that driver will never drive in EAM again. That driver is still driving in EAM. Okay. That's the kind of service you're going to get. Thank you. [Applause] Hi. Uh my name is Maniski. I am a teacher at Marlton Middle School. um and just had to get up and speak because I couldn't really shake the thought of everyone who I heard in front of me and at the mic tonight who just kept saying like, "But what about in two years? What about in five years? Is this a guarantee?" We all know there's no guarantees. All of you in front of me know there's no guarantees.
Yeah. All right. So can I have a motion please to approve the Tahanto Japan field trip and world explorers club? So yes. Second. Any other questions, discussion? All in favor? I might as well against Okay, motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Uh we have one last business item. Approval of donation from the Mark Fedrich Foundation for Unified Sports. Lisa. Uh yes. So, we received a donation um from the Mark Vidridge Foundation, which is an incredibly generous um donation to cover the $1600 stipend for um unified sports um train strength and training um program. There is a line item that is $1,600 for this coaching position and they want to see that continue. So they asked me, you know, what I needed and I said, I think it would be wonderful for you to donate the amount for the stipend. And that's what they did.
And maybe this is a band-aid, although I'm really coming to hate that phrase. But in all honesty, if you cut yourself with a knife in the kitchen, do you not take the band-aid and apply pressure until you get to the ER to get stitches? Like, we have to do this, right? We have to do this because it's what's best for the students here. I'm one of those middle-of the road teachers, okay? I've been here for 12 years, only 34, 34 years young, hopefully, most of us think. Um, and yeah, right. And I'm tier five. So like I still legitimately have almost 30 years to go. And I want to be teaching in a place where kids want to be. Teachers want to be that has resources that has teachers that want to be here. That has kids who have access to small class sizes, right?
All right. Uh, may I have a a motion, please, to approve the donation from Mark Foundation for Unified Sports? So move. All right. Second, any questions, discussion? Uh the only thing I want to make sure we have accepting financial donations. We've had some issues in the past. Everything's all set, all good, ready to go, recorded. This is what it's for, everything. And we'll and we'll send we we're starting the process sending thank you notes to people that donate things like this to us from the from the school committee as well. So we'll generate that through the myself. And I I um have per done a personal one from because they sent it to me. Um but that I think it would be much appreciated to have that. Thank you. We've studied the issues with financials. I'm not from this particular donor but just in general.
Books that they need, supplies that they need. I said at the last meeting that Esham truly was my dream job. A student taught in this district 13 years ago right across the street at Marlton Elementary School. I did 10 weeks in a fourth grade classroom and I did my other six weeks in one of our SPS classrooms. And the teachers here were so good. My dream was to come back and work in one of those SPS classrooms. Then Mr. Hoffman saw me and somehow knew that I was destined to be in the eighth grade, a place I never thought I would be. EAM saw my potential. I want to stay here and I want to be able to see the potential in the kids every day. If we don't take this opportunity to the fullest extent possible and Dr. Smith, thank you for presenting that tonight.
In general. Okay. Great. Uh all right. Questions, discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone? Yes. All right. I as well. So that motion passes. Uh that brings us up to our last two items on the agenda. Two different executive sessions. I'm going to cover the second one first if you don't mind. So executive session two was listed the Berlin Boon Regional School Committee is convening an executive session under purpose one to discuss an open meeting law complaint filed by Lindseay Tierney against the Berlin Boon Regional School Committee. Uh new information came in since this was out there. That complaint has been rescended. So there is no need to enter into that executive session. Um just we approved our consent agenda earlier tonight. Uh that included minutes from several meetings that have taken place over the past. Open meeting law does require us to approve minutes of a meeting and and to have minutes of a meeting.
Thank you. That will not be something we can do in the future. Please, please take advantage of the opportunity we have in front of us. We're not going to get it again. Thank you. [Applause] Seeing no other public comments, we will close that portion of the meeting. Moving to item 6.1, we need a motion to approve item 6.1, the additional expenditures and tax levy incentive aid. Do we have a motion? Motion by Mr. Thompson, seconded by Miss Bramitz.
Open meeting law does not necessarily require uh just a general posting of those minutes. Although we do post them on our website, it requires only that they be be made available when requested and that they do get approved in a timely manner. And the state regulations laws do define that as within the public body's next three consecutive meetings or 30 days, whichever is later. Uh the dates of minutes that we approved tonight, all fit within that. I believe when we do this on the consent agenda, they typically do fit within that. Uh and then that complaint was rescended over the weekend. So we won't be going into that. Executive session one and will not return to open session was for executive session pursuant to mass general laws chapter 38 section 21A purpose 3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining BBEA CVA if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body and the chair.
Any questions or comments from the board? Seeing Anish, can you clarify again what were exactly because you were talking about bucket one, two, and three. So, what am I voting for? Yeah. So, Mr. Yates and and Miss Gford, tell me if if we should do something different. I believe we should vote either yes or no. If you are voting yes, please indicate all or some. If the alls have it, we are done. If they if the sums have it, then we will have a followup line by line. Yeah. So, I think I think the best way to do it is um vote yes or no. Indicate if you're all or some. If the alls have it, we're done. If the alls do not have it, then I think we need an additional motion to direct Mr. creates to um build the budget with the additional money at an amount to be determined and then we can have that discussion.
So declares we added this one to the agenda because we thought we might have something to act upon. We do not have anything to act upon for the committee. So we do not need to go into that executive session either. Uh so our next upcoming meeting is May 13, 2025. May uh please have a reminder first of all to attend your town meeting and vote for budgets and everything else that's going on out there. Um that's been next week. Yeah. Next Oh yeah, next week we're going to meet on the 14th. 15th not Tuesday. Is that 15th or 14th? 15. 15th at 5:00 pm to do our interviews for our interimm candidates for super interm superintendent. Uh so that's all the point. Yeah. What's up? Um so we had discussed that maybe that we could update the agenda. So in lie of since minutes take time to approve that we could just put very quick little notes of what got passed or um Yeah.
That's probably the best way to do it. Mr. Yates, roll call, please. Roll call. Item six, application submission. Mr. Brown, yes all. Miss Moitz, yes. All Mr. Dearcy. Yes, some. Ms. Fox. Yes, some. Mrs. Null. Yes, some. Mr. Thompson. Yes. All. Mr. Peeleman. Yes. All. Mr. Bach. Yes. All, Mr. Conton. Yes. All the motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Yates. Any other questions or comments from the board? I have a comment and I'm going to apologize to everyone here because it doesn't really apply to you guys, but I just wanted to bring something up that happened after the last meeting and this one was a lot less acrimonious. But everyone on this board is on this board because we thought we could make things better and we wanted to make a difference. And I was extremely disheartened after the last meeting to see some of the comments online calling board members trash.
Yes. You you've got those notes yet? I do. Okay. Yeah, send them over to Lori and me and we'll get them. And also, it might be also a good idea if we in the future put like timestamps of like the time that we're doing it. So, if someone could go back to the meeting, you know what I mean? Like each part if we could start in the future. Yeah. Someone wants to relive it. But in the future, that might make it easier for someone to actually go back and watch the conversation. Just skip ahead. You got to watch the whole thing. Yeah. Two speed. You good with that? J in the future. I will do that. Yes. All right. I will hold it. All right. Sounds good. May I have a motion to adjurnn, please? Lori second. Lisa, anyone want to discuss or question? Sure.
um calling them god knows what because we have been here every year that I've been on the board in the same place and the people come out and they yell at us and this election we had two people on the ballot, one of them an incumbent. There was only one other person that sat through all of the budget talks last year and said, "You know what? I'm going to get up and make a difference." until we had two other writins. You need a board, whether you want us on it or someone else, someone needs to be up here. And when people are looking at what you're saying for people that are really in an impossible position, who in their right mind would come up and run for this? On a personal note, I cut a birthday trip at my daughter's college short to get back here for that last meeting.
I left Syracuse at 2:30, dropped my mom at home, and came straight here because I knew what an important meeting it was. I woke up the next day and I get to see Tracy Fox is disgusting. She is appalling for voting yes from some strange man on the internet. I'm not even going to touch the misogyny of the fact that four other male voters did not get those comments, but I have some weird guy talking about my body language while I sat here looking at every one of you that spoke and taking notes and going back to the administration and asking them for further clarification on things so I could vote knowing what was important to everyone. And I think while we're sitting here talking about what's best for children, we need to think about the example we're setting for them with our behavior. Thank you, Miss Fox.
Any other questions or comments from the board? Mr. Pelman, I just wanted to add one other thing in that this was an unusual board meeting in that we did most of our deliberations in public today, everything that we were allowed to do. And I just really appreciated that we were able to do it this way. Um I think it's helpful for the public to see how the board deliberates that everyone is fully invested in the conversations that we're having and trying to come up with answers and that everyone has questions about the process. So I just wanted to thank everyone for doing it this way. [Applause] Mr. Brock, um I just want to say I'm not one for talking a lot. I know that. Um, but I wanted to make it clear that the fight is not over. This is not a band-aid. This is an attempt to fix things.
It sucks. It's going to impact me. It's going to impact everybody. Not, you know, the ideal way to do this. But at the same time, we can't have the schools crumbling and expect, you know, things to get better when we know the state is not going to do it. However, it doesn't stop here. I I've asked for years that everybody continue to hound the state. Make it loud. Make it known. This is why we were in this situation. And I want to see, you know, my the one thing I said, you know, cuz I'm not running next year. Don't worry, you guys got me out. The um but I wanted to make, you know, my only legacy is that the next board after, you know, I'm gone doesn't have to worry about this. That there there's not a huge upheaval in, you know, the crowd and everything yelling at everybody to, you know, try and get stuff done.