So even when you take your device home, we are still filtering that. Or if you're at a conference, you're out of state, you're at your Starbucks, whatever the case is, we want to keep filtering because if someone can take their product or one of our laptops off site and it becomes compromised, they bring it back, they continue to work, you know, the hackers are in. So that keeps us protected offsite as well. XDR advantage is the new piece that's going to be new for this renewal. This is the big one. Um, and James, real quick before you so explain a little bit with because we're going to talk about GoG Guardian that's also a content filter. So, can you just make quick difference of Yeah, I mean GoG Guardian is primarily used from the student aspect. It's loaded onto all of our Chromebooks and we are going to be talking about that in a couple slides.
We worked well together when we leave our outside agendas outside this room. Yes. And so I hope this board continues that. And just lastly, you know, I talk to my kids all the time about, you know, whatever you're doing in life, try to leave the place better than you found it. And I can walk away tonight think saying that I did. Significant. So, thank everyone for your support, giving me the opportunity. I'd like to begin last those pictures. I don't know who Thank you so much. All right, I'll cry later. All right, moving on with our agenda. You know, number side, superintendent to give it to you, right? Oh, number uh for number A, this was actually something Mr. Albert brought up uh a time ago. As we're getting ready to start thinking about, um, our great, uh, athletic facility that we're putting out there, a comment was made about renaming the the girls softball field.
Pelum family connections. To date, I've conducted nine PFC's. That's family connections with three more being scheduled before the end of the school year. And then I'm just going to say he said thank you to me, but I really supposed to say thank you to the fellow school committee and like he said he commits to submitting an end of year report. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um so I can just attach it to the minute. I'm just going to forward it. Yeah. I wonder if we could get this as a It's And it's here. It is. It's attached. It's on board. Somebody got it in there. Thank you. Thank you. Um I will add it to the PEL meeting as well. Um so I don't know that we have any other items. There's the tobacco emails. You There's those tobacco emails. Oh, that's the public. Those are public comment.
Any discussion on either item? All in favor? I unanimous. Uh the next thing is discuss future agenda items. External grease trap waiver 12 Oak Tree Lane. If both both the items are still pending uh uh again waiting from DPW on the on the grease tape ws and 12 oak tree lane is still pending with conservation you know once we have that we'll we'll bring them on board you know. All right so um anybody have any new business or anything? No. So our next meeting date is going to be June 3. Um and if that no one has anything I will look for a motion to adjurnn. Anybody? I so move and I will second it. All in favor? I Good night. Thank you everyone.
Is there any questions about that content book? Miss Hoffmire's here. She'll answer all those questions. She knows that book by heart. I I have a question, Courtney. Are we losing any um like specials or or anything like that for next year? Uh the only special that we're we are not going to have at the junior high next year that we had this year was theater tech. And the reason for that is that they're getting the same content in junior high that they're getting their freshman year. And so we just felt like that's, you know, we we are still though trying to fill uh we've got a Fab Lab first hour Fab Lab elective that we're still trying to we're still trying to shore that up, but that one's still listed in our but everything else is remaining. Awesome. Thank you. We have a motion to accept item 3.3, the the uh junior high course content book for 202526.
So as you're thinking in terms of questions or any feedback um we also would invite you to provide some feedback on um how the board feels about the IBN process and the team's work this year. This was a different year for our meet and confer team. There was a lot of growth in understanding what student outcomes focused governance was. Uh we appreciate President Curio's uh opportunity to come in and talk to the team as well as Mr. man coming into support and to really kind of help the group understand at a different level uh what the student outcome focused governance work means.
Um, we've been using GoG Guardian since 2016 was it? I think we established 2016 I believe. Yeah. Um, it first saw the challenge of students taking Chromebook devices home and us needing to continue filter them so kids weren't getting to anything inappropriate or unsafe. Uh, it's continued to serve us really well over the years, but it is a Chromebook focused product and more so a student oriented product for classroom management, uh, student well-being and student web filtering. It doesn't really serve the same cyber security needs like umbrella does for us. It can't monitor things like those HVAC uh air conditioner controllers that I was just talking about. So that's where umbrella helps us fill that gap. And it also acts as a backup behind uh GoG Guardian. Yeah. I mean double the protection is better than one. Right. So quick question. That was actually my my question.
And so, um, I'm going to let Mr. Albert talk a little bit about that, but I'm also going to share with the board, we do have a policy on that we have included in your your FYI to read. And again, uh, the person that we do select, there is a process for it. each uh individual from each of your districts, you would nominate one person to come and sit on a committee. We would look at the recommend criteria and then that committee we would bring it back to the board to then take a vote on. So, uh Mr. Albert, do you want to share anything on that before we finish? I'd like to recommend that we name the girls softball field after Sue Gantonio. Um she was longtime coach. Um she coached um for 5 530 wins. She was a coach for I think 32 years.
We don't have to. Okay. Yeah. I recommended that um that that was the best way to communicate because then it becomes part of the record and people can see it there. Um I did I have talked to the chair of the planning board about retail sales and town center and it is allowed. What I don't know is the distance from the school um that's required for nicotine nicotine sales but I will find that out. Um all right so uh future agenda planning I we will have one more meeting in June. Our our elections our well town meeting is Saturday. The town election is the following Tuesday. Um we will have a meeting in June. Whoever of us are going to be on that committee. Um uh and that will be a reorganization meeting at that time. Um the June meeting, pardon the June meeting. June meeting.
I'll move. I have a motion from Michael. I have second from Bridget. All in favor? That also looks to be unanimous. Okay. Item 3.4, recommendation to approve the Prop 301 pay. Uh Kimberly, you explained that a little bit. You want to just explain it again for the uh uh yes. Item on the agenda. Yeah, this is just um the agenda item to for you all to approve for us to be able to pay out the second portion of the Prop 301 and that will go out the end of May. The end of May. Mhm. Okay.
Um and then any any questions that you might have about the recommendations or the process. So I'll leave the conversation open. Thank you so much for that. Board members, do we have any questions, comments? Mr. Jones, uh, I just wanted to ask if if you could point to do you think the biggest hindrance was trying to be get in compliance with the SofG framework or were there other factors at play that might have delayed this? Um, thanks for the question. I think, uh, we did struggle a bit just because the goals are so specific and narrow. So, we felt like some of our recommendations didn't necessarily meet the goals themselves, but that's where we felt like the guardrails really stepped in to be able to um more address the recommendations that we were presenting. And we felt like because those are a little broader and encompass a bit more of what we were trying to get at um that we hopefully met what you were looking for.
So thanks for answering that on GoG Guardian. Is that that wouldn't be nec is it necessary because they take him home if they took him home? if they sorry if they left them at school, Umbrella would cover that. But you need it because you take it home. Um Umbrella does cover devices regardless of where they go with the roaming agent I just talked about called Cisco Secure Client. Um GoG Guardian can filter on-site and off-site as well, but it definitely tailor more towards the student aspect. Um while both can offer just, you know, simple web categorization, right, if it's an appropriate like or social media, right? We don't want kids going to Facebook. Both products can do that. The difference is that Umbrella will number one take a look at everything that's going around in the background of a web page. This is some of the more technical aspects of what it does, but uh hackers might compromise a web page and start putting their own malicious payloads in in the background, right?
Um and I've got a lot of accomplishments we can share with that that committee. But the the neat thing was she was a um Cremon High School grad. And so to graduate from here, go on and coach and be very successful for so many years. and she's continued on even after coaching being a big part of the boosters. I think it'd be a great honor and dedication to her and her service if we named the softball field after Sue. So, so we need you were I think there's an application that you're going to get me and I can finish that up and then Yes. Yes. So, we are creating that application for you to fill out. You've already given us a lot of the information. Board member can nominate somebody to have a then have a Zoom call to go over it and make a recommendation.
Mhm. Um and are there anything all are interested in hearing about the um mentoring? Yes, right. I will you have some assessment data for us by I'll have a lot to hear from me. So I'll have end of year data. I will also have um updates on our school improvement plan and our new school improvement plan. What are all the roles? Maybe Margaret you can also tell me this separately but what are all the roles that the committee take on for the restructuring? Um, president emperor queen queen say queen uh chair vice chair secretary and two representatives to the regional committee three the chair vice chair and secretary because I didn't understand those three people are on unit 26 automatically automatically correct so we don't push anyone on unit 26, but the three people who have those chairs are automatically the the three representatives from unit 26.
Any questions about that additional monies? If not, and we have a motion to accept item 3.4 as presented. I'll move motion from Michael, a second from Sylviana. All in favor? That also looks to be unanimous. Recommend uh item 3.5 recommendation to approve the hire of the following employees. Are any of those employees here that we'd like to recognize? Any of those individuals? We have a motion then to approve the uh list as uh presented to us in this item 3.5. I I have a one question. Okay. Um is is this for next school year? I mean, some of this is for next school year. Some of this is immediate. I'm assuming the teacher is for next school year. Harry's saying it's immediate. Uh I know for sure um for my department's transportation facilities that's immediate. Those jobs like are constantly opening. I don't know. I don't think so.
And so, that's why we wanted to ask for feedback too, like did we do what you wanted to do? We heard some of the board members say, "We don't want a research paper. You know, we don't need like a thesis statement on each of our justifications." But were those ration sufficient in in what you were looking for? Were they? Thank you, Miss Yeah, I think that's fine. Okay. Miss Marquez, did you have something? I I tried opening the document the the reduction recommended reduction in force guidelines. I wasn't able to I couldn't either to get that get access to that. Is that something can we pop it up or is uh I can change the permissions to have to log in and do that. Cool. Um and I do appreciate how you know you've got each sectioned off. SOFG alignment rationale. Um I thought it was clear.
Something that was one day safe, next day has been compromised. Umbrella has tools to detect that that GoG Guardian does not. And on the reverse side of that, GoG Guardian has feature sets in it that are tailored towards students. One example being we can choose which YouTube categories kids are allowed to access on their Chromebooks. So if we want to block the comedy category on YouTube videos, we're able to do so. And that's something that Umbrella is unable to do. And there's many other beneficial tools of GoG Guardian that John will dive into in a couple slides. Yeah, we'll both talk a little bit about uh moving on to the XDR advantage. Um, and see John's got to move the slide on for this. Um, this stands for extended detection and response. I don't know. I mean, I guess there's an X in there, but really it's EDR, right?
Correct. Correct. So, at our committee, the whole or our next uh regular board meeting and I'll kind of let you know which one. Think about somebody in your community that you serve that you would like to recommend to sit on this committee and then that has to be discussed in open session. And then from that point uh they would meet with me and the team and uh kind of review that criteria. So that would be next steps. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Our next item seven for the superintendent Bravo discussion on board meeting dates 2025 2026. I would like to postpone that to to our next committee as a whole meeting which is next week. I'd like our new board member to have an opportunity to look at this and review this. All right. All right. Moving on. Consend agenda approval. Okay, let me read that.
Do you want to know what unit 26 is? Um, my boss assuming unit 26 is it's three from Ammerst, three from Pelum and they are her boss for Ammerst District and Pelum District Elementary School. Got it. And there's more from the region as well. No, because that's just the all the region is her boss for the region. It's really can be confusing. It is confusing. I think I followed that. I think I got So you don't have to be on unit 26 to then be one of the two for the region. They're separate, right? But you can wear and you can stack at and we stacked them because there's only three of us, right? I think I I think I The more hats you wear, the more meetings you go to. Right. I got that. That was that felt clear. And that's the the end of there won't be a budget update at that point.
He's an electrician. That was pretty good. Do you want to answer that? Um, David Butler worked for us last year um when he returned from his mission. That is Kyla Butler's son. Okay. He was a sped aid with the sixth grade last year and then this year while he was filling some time between I think he's going to Mexico to teach in the fall. Um he he was on a Spanish speaking mission and so he learned Spanish and now he's going to go teach in Mexico in the fall. Um so this is just to finish out the school year. He was just filling a spot with Miss Dye um that we needed to go ahead and fill for this semester in her self-contained special needs class. And I believe he was also riding the bus for us which is great as a special needs aid.