And certainly people when they are involved can probably start seeing how that's really really important, right? Citizens being participating. And so right, if you want to try to manage the public to such a way that you think it's efficient, it's really becomes I mean a turn-off anyway, if not undemocratic. You know, it's like are we bunch of cattle that need to be managed? I mean, it's it's just quite strange. And so I actually took the time and I watched Holliston's most recent because they have a new moderator, someone I'm acquainted with. And I really encourage people to watch our town meeting and watch any other town. And it was it just started out with welcome, glad you're here. And they had a pretty good crowd. If you listen to ours, it's don't do this and don't do that and if you do that and we can't do this and do and there's comments about bullying and it was sometime before COVID.
Thank you everyone. All right, I'm good. >> [laughter] [snorts] >> How stinking cute these are? >> [laughter] >> That's awesome. School choice policy after that. >> [laughter] >> Wouldn't be a meeting if we didn't have to do something really yucky after something really amazing. >> [laughter] >> I know. Yucky Yucky's a strong word. In fact, relatively speaking, exactly. I was trying to, you know, make this a light meeting, but clearly I couldn't help [clears throat] myself. So, we had to add a few things in here. Uh so, what I'm asking tonight is for approval of of of the school choice policy. Uh the the stuff in red that you would see uh is is the only thing that's been added. Nothing else has been deleted. You should have that in the folder as well. Um and in conversations with our attorney, uh Jen King, she she noted that our policy was not up-to-date with MGL and or DESE um uh guidance.
That juke is crazy. No, I can't get that. CHECK, CHECK, CHECK. BRING this on the [cheering] field. Come on, I got this. Oh, ref! Yeah! >> What do you got, ref? I'm good. Anyone else want to hear the call? Garrett, any punt? All right. Yeah, you're on camera. Put that for the court. He's got the ball. I mean, cuz we're not comfortable I don't know. I see flashing red. Oh, I'm going to give it All right, this is top Garrett. Check, check. Hey, Garrett, we need It's on now. Lou, get the ball! Garrett! Where's he going? Usually the crew has to hear what's going on if you want me to confirm. Actually, can I have a hearing? sports caster I'm setting on the microphone. blue means good That means it's transmitting. button on the side This is your mute button. Hit this. I can hear you.
Bahan going up. Covered by Nostrum. And now Sen. Bahan spin move there. Bahan Wow, nice try. Good save from Archie. Now O'Leary picks it up. O'Leary fires across the field pass. Look good. Now it goes to stick of Henry Fowler. Henry Henry thought Oh, Henry Demartin Montemayor and another giant save by Will Perella. Now Olsen. Man, the Raiders cannot buy one right now, but I think it's a matter of time. Perella can't save them all. Or can he? Stay tuned to find out. 40 seconds left to go in this quarter. Fowler shot blocked by the back of Oliver Gray. Now Olsen down. Charlie Oh, tries to find Montemayor right in front. Cavalero grabs it. 20 seconds now. Cavalero running past it. Harnett Harnett right up to Olsen. Olsen does a good job getting that. 10 seconds. Eight. Olsen's shot saved. Atwood right up to Olsen again.
Uh, but I can start with the high school for instance where we actually proposed two of two separate locations where we were able to uh for the front parking lot and the athletic field since the athletic field already had the power in the that um shed. I suppose uh we were able to eliminate a lot of the trenching cost in that. And if we if you were up for it, we could actually do two stations at the high school lot and still keep that under the $50,000 cap for the mass evip grant. Uh so still at a zero out-of- pocket cost for uh you the customer, the school district. Um we're looking at at least 14 ports throughout the whole district. It would be uh two ports at each location. We do again other than the high school which would have two ports in the front and two ports in the back.
Uh, but I can start with the high school for instance where we actually proposed two of two separate locations where we were able to uh for the front parking lot and the athletic field. Since the athletic field already had the power in the that um shed, I suppose uh we were able to eliminate a lot of the trenching cost in that. And if we if you were up for it, we could actually do two stations at the high school lot and still keep that under the $50,000 cap for the mass evip grant. Uh so still at a zero out-of- pocket cost for uh you the customer, the school district. Um we're looking at at least 14 ports throughout the whole district. It would be uh two ports at each location. We do, again, other than the high school, which would have two ports in the front and two ports in the back.
So that was number one. Number two, I really had to say publicly a huge thank you to Dr. Casemiro and M and you guys too for making the transportation funds happen this year for us. As a fourth grade teacher, we have a very ambitious program involving outdoor classroom formerly nature's classroom that is costly but worth every single penny. I spend innumerable hours fundraising to make this happen for our students and the busing costs every year are just so prohibitive. That's why we don't travel anymore to do it. That's why we stay local. But even the local trip over to spending a day at Terry Wild for one of our Nature on Wheels experiences, it's so expensive. So having the opportunity to have those buses covered this year just made it so that we could offer more opportunities to our students. So we were able to do things that we would not have been able to do if we hadn't had those funds covered.
Her dedication to the students has created a safe and supportive environment. Knowing that my child is not only uh cared for but genuinely engaged at school has been an incredible source of comfort. This teacher has given our kids exciting experiences through concerts, performances, and educational outings that build school spirit and independence. Teachers who build these programs and relationships should be valued and supported whenever possible. The Moral Middle School teachers passion and experience to this music program are invaluable and cannot be replaced. I only recently learned that she would be leaving. Like many parents, we assumed that she would return next year because of the program's success. under her leadership. I heard from my daughter that the teacher doesn't want to leave Morell, but that she just wants to teach music. Regardless of the circumstances, I want the board to know that our music teacher is deeply valued at at the Morell um parrot community, and we truly appreciate the dedication and positive impact that she's had on our students.
And as you leave this place today, may you go forward with confidence in your choices and pride in your journey. Let's give it up for the class of 2026. >> [applause and cheering] >> Let's go, Mario. Thank you, Superintendent Hubbard. At this time, we will hear from another one of our students, Koa Lu. I am excited for you to hear Koa's message as he shares how Village High School supported his journey as a student while providing him the flexibility to pursue his passion of being a competitive athlete. >> [applause] >> Good afternoon, Superintendent, members of the Board of Education, teachers, parents, family, friends, staff, and most importantly, Class of 2026. My name is Koa Lu. I was not the class president or the valedictorian. I'm simply a student athlete. But one thing is for certain, we're all here because we achieved the shared goal, graduating high school.
>> One long standing tradition of our chapter's induction ceremony is to announce next year's president. A president is chosen by the faculty council during the selection process. The council seeks out a president who is the most excellent model of the four pillars of scholarship, character, leadership, and service. Our chapter's next president was selected by the faculty council upon recognition of a strong commitment to a continued and meaningful service through both school activities and community organizations. The council was impressed by this person's steady steady growth in their involvement in in and leadership of many activities. They were also struck by a teacher's character recommendation, which emphasizes individuals' integrity and natural ability to lead by example. It is my honor and pleasure to announce next year's NHS president, and it is AMY NOW. >> [cheering] [applause] [cheering and applause] [applause] >> THIS CONCLUDES OUR NHS INDUCTION CEREMONY.
And please stop me if you have specific questions. I know some some of this the main area that we're going to have to pick up um savings for the district is position reduction. We're going to need to pick up about 1 point just short of 1.4 million to the extent possible. We tried to minimize the impact on existing employees. There's been a couple situations that that quite didn't quite work out, but the goal was to minimize impact of our existing employees. We still built all of our budgets on what you guys have approved as our student teacher ratios for all the classes. Um, and then uh we're looking at I'm going to give you an exception to this so that next year if something happens, you're not surprised by it. We say no exceeding of approved FTE. What that means if we have to pick up sixth so we have a teacher at the high school or the middle school that has a prep period.
And, uh, that was, uh, that was great to hear, um, from some of our staff and the people that, um, Mr. Beckett's kindness and simply showing up every day, how that made a difference in their life. So, uh, thank you. Uh, thank you, Mr. Packet. Uh, so we're going to take a little trip back to last Thursday morning. Um, Mr. Mitchell, who we're going to hear from later, has been bugging me for quite a while, to come to a school visit with MVA. Sweet. And it just we couldn't get the timing worked out. So, Dr. Lopeman and Mr. Mitchell got everything pulled together for me and I had a very tight time window and so we did a virtual MVA school tour. So, um, so real quick here, uh, I got to observe a 10th and 11th grade chemistry class, um, taught by Miss Chararma and they were talking about acids and bases.
So it's a really really fun um skill to build um public speaking, all those life essential skills that will help them as they persevere through um their career in school. some of our um community partnerships. Jeremy Lawer who was with Nightcrawler LLC and then we have our own Cara Fox from Little Golden Fox in downtown. They come in and they just share their expert expertise in being a entrepreneur. Uh they talk about what it takes, some of the things that they have to do. They provide feedback, you know, cost efficiency, all the fun things, and they help bring their Shark Tank ideas to life. So, it's a really fun activity. The students love it. They talk about it forever. So, And of course, we can't talk about celebrations unless we talk about our test scores. And so, I'm very proud that when we compare our school to other schools similar to us in the state of Indiana that we we performed very well.
And that's about, you know, um $224 maybe per on that $737,000 average home. >> Okay. >> And this this override adds um about $428 to >> Okay. So, if my if without the override, my usual increase would be to about $224 because of the 2 and a half%. You're saying that now I could see a $600 increase to my, you know, no one has, you know, the average amounts and stuff like that. >> Correct. >> Um Okay. Okay. >> Um what how did we get here? I mean, we've talked a little bit about the one-time funds and what discussions what what should we have been doing differently? because you keep saying you you are saying that even if we do this 2.75 million that moving forward we may have to use onetime funds again. >> Is there something and this is philosophical and if you're not sure then >> yeah that's not the plan right the plan is that this fixes it and Mr.
I felt like I had been bullied at town meeting. They They people up front were actually like I felt like I was the brunt of somebody's joke. So, I did and this is something important for town meeting because I think part part of this show podcast show um for me anyways is about people taking their own power back instead of just giving it away and then, you know, just obediently going along with these really bizarre tactics. So, there's something you can say called point of order. I don't know that a lot of people know that, but if there's something going on with the structure of the town meeting or you feel like you're being bullied or some crazy thing you don't feel is right, you stand up in your seat and you got to yell pretty loud, "Point of order." And then the moderator will say, "Come on down." And then you go to the mic and I've probably used it I don't know, four times.
So, this is what the red is. So, we're supposed to have two lotteries uh if there are more seats um requested seats applications for [music] what we have actually um allotted uh each year. So, that's what this does. It gives specific items as to when the drawings occur and what happens in terms of the process after November 1st. It It cuts off the date of accepting of school choice students even if if spots come available. So, it's just more clear specific guidance so so when families are looking at the policy and the application they know there's a deadline July 15th. They have to accept their seat if they're a part of the first lottery. If they don't accept it, then there's another lottery 2 weeks before school begins for those folks who didn't get in if if again if there are more seats available. So, that's what we're looking to do tonight is just to clean this up and you know from our perspective the number of students currently just so you get a flavor who this impact this year >> [clears throat] >> of all the seats that have been allocated approved [snorts] kindergarten had 10 seats as you know we approved 10 seats.
And it's down there so you can see it while you're on. There's two lights on the microphone. If it's blue, that means it's also transmitting. It's a solid little green. It has AI noise reduction. So, the green setting on this one is to help reject noise outside of the microphone. That's why I think this is a cool setting. When you're in green, it's still trying to cancel noise out. So, the solid light is always transmitting. It should be green. If you don't No one Sometimes you don't want anyone hearing you saying anything. That's when you mute. Quick and turns to red. And then there's a volume volume control There's up and down And then there's a gain setting on the microphone. If it's too low, you can lower it. If it's too high, you can lower it as well. Ah, I can't go that far.
Olsen's going to fire another one. Oh, another block. And at the end of one quarter, Raiders down by two right now. And Medway can really thank Will Perella, but they are playing good offensively as well. Really working the ball around in the Raiders end. We got ourselves a game. So, stay tuned for the second quarter. It will begin shortly. >> All right, second quarter about to start 12 on the clock. Ben Savarese going to take the draw against Jason Drake to start the second quarter. And nice little pass there by Savarese. He's a hockey player as you can see there. Here is Sen. Sen ripping down, dishes a pass to Olson. Olson ripped a Chuck Hartnett. Hartnett to the H train, Henry Fowler. Hollywood Henry rips one, big save from Pele Perella. Henry still got it, fires a pass to Olson and what a play there from the Raiders.
Um I know you guys are also using that lot. There's a lot of a lot of stuff going on whether it's um events and you have the the field in the back. So um that could be uh a viable position. Um and I know that Greenfield is already a very strong uh reputation around sustainability. So it's it this feels like it could be an extension to that for the infrastructure and future proofing for um your school district.
Um, I know you guys are also using that lot, there's a lot of a lot of stuff going on, whether it's um events and you have the the field in the back. So, um, that could be uh a viable position. Um, and I know that Greenfield is already a very strong uh reputation around sustainability. So, it's it this feels like it could be an extension to that for the infrastructure and future proofing for um your school district.