And I had some I want to call them unfortunate experiences since we did this podcast where I was like invited to speak and then I was cut off. Uh I was interrupted, then cut off, and then uh I was I just I couldn't believe it because we actually talked before last time about Baron versus Collina. And I know that they at their open meeting last training that they had and think it was in February. Like mid February, they talked about um that when there's a public comment and we can talk about that process too. Katie, you can talk about that. When there is a public comment the I the idea is to let the people speak instead of, you know, trying to shut them down. Do you want to talk about the process of public comment? Well, I think that we should do a better job of allowing it, saying when it's allowed, when it's not allowed and why.
I mean, we just drive around and randomly see stuff that go. Um, okay. So, we talked about that. Uh, there's more examples, but there's something else I want to talk about. All right. And it's related to what I just did. Uh, town manager select board goals and objectives. So, with uh I noticed an evaluation was coming up for the town management and I thought to myself, well, I've never seen >> any goals or objectives for anybody. Okay. So, I did a public record. No, I wrote the select board and I asked for it. Well, I was they said and I said, "Please don't turn this into a public records request because I don't feel like like every time you try to get anything, you got to go stand in the queue and it can be up to 15 days." Um, so I got an I got a a email back saying that they were going to turn it into a public records request even though I specifically said, "Please don't do that." And then I didn't [clears throat] get it.
>> Yes. >> Um and again think this is very clear. This is for investors not taxpayers not residents. >> Exactly. The whole purpose of the AAA bond profile is are you going to pay the investors back? It doesn't say anything about us, our quality of life or none of that. It's totally reduced to can you pay it back? Um and uh this uh segus into the next one. Well, it's related. questioning contradictory messages. So, and I think we talked about this a little bit last time. We have been hearing non-stop, we need new growth, we need new growth, we need new growth. Uh, you have been I it's on one of these papers. Um, we've been embracing slow growth or anti-growth, which I don't know how anyone can say that we're one of the most densest towns in Metro West. Um, so then we were told more recently, well, you need an override because there's been so much growth that they they needed for the services.
So, uh we've they've faced a couple of really good pitchers so far this year. Sarah Randall being one of them. She She's got a nice uh variety of pitches, but they they faced a They faced Norton. Uh Leanna Donahue is one of the best pitchers in the state. Um As Casadean grounds one to third, and that ball gets over to first base on the first pitch. A quick quick ground out by Casadean, 5-3, and we've got one out early here in the the second inning, which brings up uh one of the best golfers in the state of Massachusetts, Rebecca Kriegsman, who's here uh playing left field and batting eighth for the Clockers. Kriegsman shows bunt, takes strike one. Lash will make it through We'll get through the lineup here at the bottom of the second inning. Yeah, we're hoping to to turn it over to the top here for for Nico.
>> Just uh want to once again add that our defunds for schools has been a very positive addition. Uh we've been able to expand it out to do our laptop, senior laptop sales and and uh charger replacement fees and broken screen free fees and uh we meet on Wednesday of this week to start looking at our enrollment piece for the summer. So, uh meeting with their staff. So, it's it's been a very pleasant pleasant change. Um, we're getting ready for summer, gearing up for our summer cleanings and upgrades and all our all of our many projects. And then, uh, in the report, we've also got just information on what's going on in the buildings. And, uh, I'll kind of save the rest of my time for our technology ends report later in the meeting. Great. >> How many seniors took advantage of that purchased? >> Uh they've still got some time.
So um so that's what we're thinking right now and that's what we're proposing for our technology rotation is our teacher laptops that are new teachers coming in new teachers and faculty coming in the clear touch panels um to try to get up to speed where we have only a few left to do and then half of Lisa Crisis classroom for her um for her finance classes. So, >> so what are you going to do with the laptops that were placed with like in the last two years as people that are leaving with >> Yeah. So, what we all what we've done in the past um Kayla is we give them the opportunity to buy them. Okay. So, what happens with those laptops is we see what they go for on eBay. Is that right? And then we cut them a little bit of discount with that brand of computer so they have the opportunity to buy those computers if they want to buy them.
And you see the effect of that was immediately um scores of course reclassification rates went down by a lot and they've been slowly creeping back up um but nowhere near the rates that they were prior to that. So um yeah um one thing that I would like to share with you um as of today um the AD has accepted Cambium uh bid for our new um testing. So Pearson will no longer be providing Azela for us. Um it will now be Cambium. I don't have a roll out schedule for that. June 2nd I will have more information as far as what what that's going to look like for the state. But so Pearson is out and of course we know that that's going to affect our scores. As it always tells anytime you change the measure score things happen to scores. So we'll see what my talk this year next year looks like.
Uh what we have worked on is just the AI generative guidelines, and again, this is for all staff across the district. So, not just our teaching staff, but staff in all of our different departments. Um we have guidelines then for all of our K-4 students as well as our 5th through 12th grade. One thing we know is that AI is always evolving, and so we know that this is will be a living document that we'll continue to update and look at on a regular basis. A couple things about AI that we know of, and we want to just always promote to our our staff is that this is a professional tool. We want to continue to collaborate and work with others, and we know it's important that we stress the I guess the importance that it's they're using it ethically, they're transparent with it, and they're following all the district policy and guidelines that come along with this.
>> Anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? >> No. >> Can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. Doug and Vivian. >> Yes. >> Uh superintendent court, Mr. Gold. >> Not much to share tonight. Uh just giving you an update on our our summer office hours and uh eighth grade graduation information. If you I guess if you're not planning on coming, just let Melissa know. >> Okay. Um, but other than that, nothing else to report right now. Pretty quiet month for us. >> All right, >> moving on.
Strom. That that our Great. Um next item on the agenda >> None were turned in. >> Okay. Um So, 7.1 is public comment. None were turned in today. Um but, I would like to say any members of the public that have not yet turned in their public comment cards to the secretary of the board are asked to do so at this time if there's anybody that wishes to do so. >> We don't have much public left. >> Well, that I'm I'm I'm getting everybody's eyes, I think. So, all right. Um then we'll move on to 8.1, uh board committee reports. And Here's uh we had ELI and policy and legislative. I had to leave policy one early. >> What do we want to do first? >> We'll start with the ELI. >> So, we heard some previews of some of the information that we're going to hear tonight as well um regarding um our title one school wide plans um or our university's direct admit programs.
Parent. Um appreciate those kind words. And as I uh told you all, it uh superintendent can only accomplish things with a supportive board. So, I appreciate getting the chance to work with all of you. Um lots of excitement and fun this these last few weeks around our schools. Uh it's hard to believe that we're in the final uh weeks of the school year. Graduation is on May 29th. We'll be in a new venue uh at the state fairgrounds and uh Mr. Shockley stepped out, but uh he and his team, as you can imagine, put a lot of work into making sure that that is a welloiled machine graduation and to change venues is a lot of work on him and his team. And so, they're working hard to make sure that that uh that we are all set up. But I just appreciate our staff and um all the great things that are happening in our classrooms as we wrap up this school year.
And I just didn't know >> mean we have to talk about that the findings but that doesn't mean we can't talk about making improvements to a process. >> to make sure that it doesn't stop us from making improvements to the process. It does not, theoretically. Whatever policy we end up with. So, overall, I I'm feeling the need for whatever policy is developed I I want these delineations, if they matter to us to be clear about, you know, the those We've come up with three so far. There's the PTO kind of funding. There's the extracurricular accounts. And then there's our operating funds and referendum funds and education funds and federal grants. And I would ask that you keep PTO funding separate. We have no no contact on that. That's fine, but I think we should be clear that this policy doesn't doesn't deal with >> Policy is only for BCSE funds.
Okay. >> Thank you, >> Sonia. Madison Clayton. Thanks again, guys. Thank you to all the students that were on that advisory council. Um it is great to hear all of the the comments and um the ways they can be involved and really get that interaction with us. Um as they said maybe we don't see the perspective on things that they do. Uh so I think that's very nice. Uh we do have uh one more thing here. Uh the DCHS livestock judging team is white forward please. Too many. >> Never too many. >> Yeah. So to start off, we just like to thank you for allowing us to speak tonight. So to start off, all the way back in March of this year, we went to Blackhawk where we started off and we were 10th overall team. Then we traveled to Lakeland and we were ninth overall team, high team, fifth high team in sheep and goats, sixth high team in swine.
Um, we took administration as well as board members to, um, Bedford to visit some schools there. We also went to, um, Orleans to visit some schools there. Um, I know Roger and Lynn both, um, attended those. Do you want to share anything about what you saw from PSG and and, um, the other company that we looked at was Site Logic. So. I just felt that PSG was more in our realm as far as the types of schools that they look at. Um, the the gentleman who we would we would be working with one on one. He's a retired superintendent from schools very similar in size to us. Um and he's gone through renovation projects with those schools. And I just I don't know. I felt that they were more They were just more fitting for us. Uh the other company that whose work we saw, there were some things I didn't like about that work.
That's one of the components of the piece of legislation. Um this is a K through2 legislation item. Um when it was originally going through the general assembly it was initially some 6 through 12 discussion but now it is K through 12. Um, the prior and current approach to wireless devices, if you're not aware, is to allow a lot of teacher autonomy and discretion, allowing teachers in the classroom to make that judgment and that decision if there's educational value for some of the instructional activities they're doing. So, our default at Huntington North is when students enter a classroom to put them into um a pocket or out of the way um and a teacher can provide instruction if there's discretionary time or those types of things. But what we have found um is that consistency is hard, especially in a high school this size. So, to a degree, this legislation will help provide a lot of consistency not only for Huntington North and our school district, but around the state.
And if none of those happen on any any given day, then they're counted absent for that day. Now, I've developed a spreadsheet that allows me in in um connection with a report that I can get from Atmenum and I can go through this pretty quickly now and find out when they log in, when they log off, and the time in between. Um and also exactly what they did. So, it won't be too bad to track attendance. It'll be the first thing that I do every day. and I'll do it for the day prior. Actually, academic integrity is going to be huge because these kids are out there. Um, you know, we don't know how they're engaging with the with the work. We don't know how many of their resources they're actually tapping into, but I'm going to tell you that it takes a kid six hours to do a class and to do it right.
And they give you all kinds of information. I think it comes out every other week. It might be every week, but it's every other week. And it is I just kudos to them >> because it's fantastic. I I don't know what their budget is. >> Um Oh, do you want to mention this Framingham thing before we forget? because they they don't have town meeting anymore, but they have >> so on the ballot to a city government with counselors, but >> I definitely applaud them because there's a ballot question coming from the counselors, >> which would be like our citizens petition to have u more citizen involvement in the budget. And what they don't want to happen, which is typically what we see, is at the end we vote. Do we accept the budget or not? Yeah. But we don't have input going into the budget.
And I I think that they do need to take heart that Mass Supreme Court ruling that people do get to say. Now, I mean, I I think there has to be some measure of them. Like when I was on the planning board and there was basically zoom bombing that was just Yeah. terrible. Like do you do you allow racist and other things to occur? Generally, probably not, right? But what And so I think we can do a better job if there was a well-defined process, people would understand if there's limits where they're coming from, right? That we try not to have people saying, for instance, racist things. We would um This could be very simple if we wrote and discussed as a town a policy that we agreed to, right? And I think the public does understand every meeting can't have public comment, right? That that isn't what we're asking.
So, uh, I did a search. Did you do a search too on, uh, goals? >> I, um, no, I was looking for the communications plan and I didn't find it. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist again, but if I search on the website, I do have one thing to say, Julie, about the public records. And I feel like it's not a bad thing that they did turn it in because now that's public and someone else could see that request. It's >> so there there should be a policy, I think, but like and be consistent. We don't know. But I feel like that that might not be the worst thing. I mean, not getting the information and it should be something readily available, I agree with you. That's a separate issue. >> But that it was actually turned into public records request, I don't think is >> actually it wasn't because I said, >> you know, if I'm going to do a public records request, I'm going to do my own public records request.
Okay. You told us that we didn't have growth. Then you told us we needed growth for your budget. Now we're told you need an override because the growth is taxing the budget. Um did you want to say something before I read this? >> Well the a certain amount of residents have been for decades mentioning that that the try so >> services. Yeah. >> So the goal would be to increase commercial who does not use as much in services as residential. Yeah. >> And we've talked about this community. In fact, that was part of having an economic development um person. But I don't think we've been provided data to say does that work and have we done and I I don't know if we've had any are there any other ideas that we're missing about getting more commercial, right? like probably because um I haven't seen I don't know someone mentioned like a community had their own their own um fiber optic network that then they could charge other people to use.