Um so I recommend that we move forward in the purchasing of that social and emotional learning to use for our students um and our counselors at Wilson Elementary School and Central Plains Elementary School. We've been using that for a while. We just piloted a few others this year and that's the one that we've been working on since Christmas break. Is that the one we had right after Christmas break? I move to approve the purchase of the character strong curriculum as the social emotional learning for the duration of 2025 school year and the 2025 2026 school year. So motion by Allison second and a second by Josh. Any further questions, comments. I just say that the SEO curriculum I mean it's I think it's very important and important that we do have the standardized curriculum to work off of. I think this is great. So we'll go ahead and vote.
This is something that we get that we really got to look at and we're not. This is the work I still need to do all the time. So yes, I'm trying to get this all in place. We need it. We need a strategic plan, right? All of this needs to get in place. So yes, I'm hoping that that I have it all in place. So next superintendent will come in and say we're good. We got these things in place and we memorialize them as well, too. So I am working hard to get it all done because that's what he charged me to do as the interim superintendent, not to just keep the ship afloat to get these things in place. So when you're out posting that job for the next superintendent and they're going to come back and say we're ready. The one goal I want to have for next year is the same thing that took place when I left campaign where the superintendent got up there during the summer meeting and said I want to thank superintendent G for leaving me a district.
That's all, Mr. Kylie? Yeah. No, thank you. I I you know we've we have talked about that in the past and it is tricky because our camp does run 9 to 12 and and um you know is is partially overlapping with all of our summer programs. So it definitely eliminate you know limits the opportunity for kids um to participate and we attempt you know we're starting early um very early this year uh you know right after um school gets done we'll be starting up the camp the following week. So, um, but we'll certainly take that into consideration and we do our best to make it accessible for folks. Any other comments, discussion, questions? Nope. I would say make a motion that we approve the uh summer sports camp as presented. Second. Motion by Mr. Nunes, second by Miss Beckwith. Uh, all in favor? Hi. Hi.
All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes 70. Item number 17, a beef donation. Okay, so we received a beef donation to be used at the Central Plains Elementary and Middle School High School of Central Plains. Uh the donor would like to remain anonymous. I move to approve the anonymous beef donation to be used at Central Plains Elementary and Central Plains Junior Senior High School. Motion by Alison. Second, second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion passes. 70. Item number 18, our capital outlay item. Okay. So, I want to give you guys a little bit of heads up where we're at budget-wise. Talked a little bit earlier, about $400,000 less this year than we spent last year. At this time out of capital outlay, I unencumbered budget budget balance. That's a mouthful. Um, is a little over $1.1 million.
That's my goal. That's my only goal besides all of this for next year to make sure that I have this district in place that superintendent can come and say this is the place I want to be. This is the place I want to work. So, I'm putting the time into it now because hopefully it will pay play down the road and I'm putting it in so it's more relaxed and so we'll have these things in place. I'm digging into the data. We're looking at our enrollment projections. We're looking at the roles and clarity of of principles and administrators. We have professional learning. We're going to be reading another book which I have for all school committee next year is is this book. It's a phenomenal phenomenal book. I have one for each one of you. Spirit work, right? It talks about collaboration and we've talked about that and that's one thing I haven't done this year with you guys is have a book study which I promise you but I purchased all these books so we have them and the best way to get transparency which everyone seems to be asking us for is collaboration and communication equals transparency.
Hi. Thank you. And next up, Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School um discussion of Dr. Cynthia Marland, whose term is coming to an end and wishes to um continue to serve. So, do we need to vote on that? Is that us? Yes. So, um if you don't mind, man. Yeah, please. Uh so, we received correspondence, uh dated March 17th from Superintendent Schools, Michael Watson of New Bedford Voke. Um essentially, we have two members uh that represent the town of Dartmouth on the New Bedford Vocational School Committee. Those members are appointed uh jointly I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Nunes. We have three members. No, no. Um we have two. Yeah. No, it's it is it's the school committee, the technically it's the chairman of the school committee, the board of selectmen, and the town moderator that vote. So, it's a it's a joint vote, but historically in the time that I've been here, this committee essentially it's a collaborative thing.
So feel really comfortable at this point where we're at this year being able to attack some of these items that um we need to get done. So the first one I wanted to talk about was uh the ACS um at Wilson. Uh Brian from Rubies is here to to visit with us a little bit today too and add some insight to this. So we did go pick up one of the portable AC units um from Salina about it's probably about 3 weeks ago. Um, we were going to bring it down here to set up, but we're using it in one of our classrooms for our our kids that are in the afterchool program. So, when I talked to Karen today, I didn't want to go take that from their classroom because they are using it. I would have felt really really bad. Um, so this is a band-aid is all it is, and it's not not a very good band-aid at that.
So a great way for us to start as as a district. So if I get these things in place we'll be ready for the next superintendent to come in here and be president. That's my goal. All right. Thank you very much. That was our final question. Can I get a closing? You want Do you have a closing? I do. That's okay. This has been one of the most um rewarding jobs I've had um in seven and a half, eight months. But it's also probably one of the hardest jobs I ever had. But I enjoyed it tremendously and my work will continue to get it ready for the next superintendent come forward. I I thank you for the opportunity to work with you. This school has been been wonderful, right? They've been supportive. They have been working with me. I've been very very fortunate and I can honestly say that and I'm saying that publicly and I've worked with quite a few schools.
we vote and then notify um the select board and town moderator that the school committee supports uh Dr. Cindy uh Dr. Cindy Milin um as our representative and then it's in them it's in their uh hands to decide you know where to go where to go from there. Um but as you can see she has uh out of 49 meetings she has attended 49 school committee meetings. Um and pretty good they typically her and Mr. Shay is our other representative and uh they typically uh you know at any time they'll uh they certainly will come to our meetings um to present on um you know things that are going on at VO in which I I would actually love to see them here uh because of the uh the lottery. I have lots of questions around the lottery that just took place today um there but that's for another day.
So, you know, without having to do any major modifications to the windows, it does have a hose that shoots up through the drop down ceiling where one of the tiles goes out and it does circulate the hot air from the machine up in the the drop ceiling. Um, reached out to some electricians, some some AC guys. I was just really worried about if there's any moisture in that, which they say there's not, coming off the fans, and the moisture goes in the bottom. It's pretty loud as well. um we could get quite a few of those units on there um to put in classrooms at $14,000. I would like to go a different route. Um I did reach out with uh some help um to um Oh my goodness, I just lost his name. Ryan Ryan Harrison. He spent two days up at Wilson going through the electrical circuits and pulling panels off the walls.
I've been very thankful. Got a great staff. We got great admin. We got great students. We want to be able to get this ready for the next superintendent to come on board. My job is to create a culture and and I know it falls a lot of me. You know, difficult conversations happen. Last Monday was probably a difficult conversation. I think a lot of you are on board on that conversation that took place in Boston. I understand that. But that's part of my job. But one thing I I do need to apologize for is during that conversation some questions arose about people that were high in the central office. Appreciate Mike that you you stood up and said something about that. We talk about climate and culture. That was a tough culture and climate if you didn't walk in on Tuesday morning, right? The staff that works there.
Yeah. I'd like to make a motion that we um we we vote to uh reappoint uh Dr. Cindy Martin to the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School school committee. Second motion by Miss Emerald, second by Miss Beckwith. All in favor? I. Um and then I have a question if it's the chair like who do I report to? Um the super the superintendent will notify central office will notify the board of selectmen. Okay. And they'll if they need to have a meeting then they will get in touch. Okay. Terrific. And now I'd like to turn this over to the superintendent Dr. Saba Maguire for joyous news. I'm sure of course always is. This is always the best part, right? Um so talking about teach starting with talking about teaching and learning. Um, but before I even jump into that, I just want to say that that when I think about teaching and learning and connect it to school improvement plans that I hope that you can see, and I I can see that you do, how closely connected our district strategic plan is to our school improvement plans.
Okay. He found enough electricity without having to pull electricity from places to get us the electricity we need in that building to run split units almost everywhere we need to. So without running a second line without running a second line. I've had a lot of communication with Ryan about I'm just really nervous because these other people that have came in told us we're going to have to pull new lines in and do this and this and this and he is confident that we have enough power in that building to run these units. Okay. So on the board meeting documents, if you click on the line, right, the capital outlay items and you click on the one that says we'll WES split units, it does have a picture there of everything that we would be able to get done um with these split units. So on the diagram of the school, you can see the two daycare rooms that the Kurmers already are taking care of.
Every single person in this district, their job is to provide a high quality education, whether it be parents, finance, payroll, teachers, students, school, everyone in this room. Our job is to make sure that we're providing a high quality education, retaining that as well too. But it's all of us that need to be doing this, right? Climbing the culture falls on me as a superintendent. But I would say it falls on all of us because it's all of our jobs. I go back to the autobiography of John F. Kennedy that you've probably heard me say this story before. He's walking through NASA. He sees someone pushing a room. He says, "What is your job here?" And the gentleman chairman says, "My number one job is get a man." every single person that works either at central office, as an administrator, as a teacher, as a parent, as school committee, as select boards fin capital.
And so, I'm reporting out that we held third of four professional development sessions with CKLA today. um or I shouldn't say today, but recently to train our elementary educators on our new literacy program. And you've been hearing about that really since last year, how we did two pilots this year, made our I mean between last year and this year, made a selection, and now we can see how that's translating into the professional learning and the support for our teachers that they're going to need in order to be able to successfully implement a resource. and and we're thinking very carefully about how we're going to be able to do that effectively. And you heard tonight even um m you heard through the Potter School improvement plan how they're thinking about professional learning systems and structures even down to what a win what I need now block can look like and how we'll best be able to support our students as we um implement a new initiative.
You have the nine pink rooms and the bids to the top left corner of what those would cost with a heating component in the Mits Mitsubishi, right? Split unit and what it would be without the heat in the Mitsubishi split units. Okay. The orange room would be this bedroom. And then that green didn't really come out very well because it looks like the yellow to me. My color blindness is getting to me. But that's the kitchen, the preschool, and the office, the main office area in the library. And what it would be total included with electrical and without heat and with heat. Okay. So that gets us almost everywhere in that school except the cafeteria and the title room. I think the conversation has been to look at moving that towards one of the pink rooms that are on there. And then um also the virtual education department.
Our number one job is provide a high quality education for our kids. But we all need to do it together. I know I'm the face of the district and I I'll take that all day long, but I also need us to work together to this because that's all of our jobs right now. So, thank you for the opportunity. I I hope I answered all your questions. Thank you. All right, Tracy, I know you got to walk Mr. Gam out, but do you have anything to advise us before we start deliberating or um I mean I can pop him I can walk him right out and pop right back in. Um I mean there's a couple of different processes that you can make. Um one that I think I would recommend is that each of you name your top candidates take a minute to look through your stuff first.
And so we're also working with our elementary administrators and that collaboration's so important on the program features because we want our school leaders to be able to understand how important scheduling is to the successful implementation of a resource and what the classroom look fors are so that they're able to effectively support our teachers in the implementation of this resource. Um, the other thing that I have to say is going really well by all accounts is that MCCAST is in full swing and we have had new a new technology platform that we're using and Mr. Galashaw and the folks out there supporting our teachers and our students with this new uh technology have reported that overall it's gone it's gone pretty well. Mr. Oliver, I'm sure you can attest to that as well. Um, so and that can be a big deal shifting from a platform that we've used for years and years to a brand new one.
What about the art and the music room? So the art and the music room are not included on this one either. And Brokish's room. Uh Brokish's room is just an office. He's only using that for an office. I didn't think we would want to spend the money on just that office space. Yeah. So, so it doesn't get us the cafeteria. It doesn't get us the virtual um offices. Doesn't get us the music room and the art room that are there as well. Um, so our total in all-in cost with electrical with the heat component in those split units is $123,91423. If we went without heat, it'd be $111,36623. When I talked to Ryan about when he would be able to fit this into his schedule to do the electrical component, he thought he'd be able to get it done in June. Anything I'm missing ordering wise?
Um more even heat than just someone make a motion. Um, also of course you are deliberating in public is always good thing to remember being recorded so you Thank you. I don't know. All right. Thanks, J. We'll go through our notes and we'll be back. Sure. Yeah. Take your seat. Thank you everybody. Enjoy getting Turtle All right. Um, Tracy suggested that maybe we would go around and just if we have a top candidate in mind, uh, we narrow it down that way. So, I have a list here. I'm going to go around the table. Um, no particular order other than uh I think uh experience or longevity on the school committee is how I listed names. So we'll start with Lori. So I it's it's a really hard decision because they're all very qualified and they all bring different gifts to the table. Um my first pick would be Mr.