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Any questions or comments? >> Question basically state devices that we just correct. >> Yeah, this is state law dictating to us what we need to get into our policy. >> Thank you. >> And as with other policies, we move on from ISB. >> That's correct. Any other questions? All right. No further questions or comments. Move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Vote carries 4. Thank you, Mr. Item 5.02 resolution number 874 2.5 million transfer from day to education Mr. Thank you Mr. President members of the board tonight we bring before you resolution 874 which is a $2.5 million transfer from the rainy day fund to the education fund as presented to you last month as part of our financial recovery plan. This two and a half million will go to offset the reductions that were made during this calendar year for this I should say for next school year as you're aware those reductions only impact really July through December through December therefore that differenceion does that next month we'll be bringing to you an additional appropriation for the $2.5 million in the education fund first we need to approval to transfer that $2.5 million to establish that money available for that addition.
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I would say So, I just wanted to make that which Please reach out cuz we've got, you know, bylaws >> Oh, we've been [clears throat] we've been working with Beyond Plastics. I I basically am straight-up stealing inspired We've we've been inspired by by uh Recycling But, I've I've connected with, you know, Newton and and Wellesley and other local towns that have have done similar things. And so, we've got, you know, similar wording and um a strategy that's worked so We wrote a bylaw that basically just copied the Newton one except we had to take out the black plastic and the styrofoam stuff because um Great. Okay. >> [applause] >> Thank you very much for this. A little bit more time if you guys want to walk around still if you haven't walked around. Take a look and take some samples or Yeah, make sure you get the detergent sample for sure.
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Again, this is all clean treated water. It's it it'll it it's um We can get into the details exactly how it's being treated, but this will be treated and clean water coming out of that frac tank um that'll be being discharged. Um That's that's kind of the high-level view. We've got the team here if you want to get into any details on the soil management plan. We we're happy to go through that point by point. Um and uh All right. Sounds like you have a lot of questions, so we can So, you're all set, Chris? I I think that summarizes unless you want me to Okay. That's good. I have a couple of questions. I you know, that I have a million questions, but I don't want to um I don't want to ask them all this evening. Um a couple of things I want to clarify and then a comment I want to make and you can uh respond to it uh however you wish.
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And you're going to sit here and take our, you know, uh, central office staff and very possibly, you know, our administrators throughout the district and the schools to, uh, start compiling recompiling information probably a different way than we do it right now so that they can regurgitate figures and come out with exactly the same thing that we have type of deal. Um, you know, our administrators, our central office staff, you know, I've said it before, you know, they work eight days a week and 40 hours a day to because of, you know, what they need to do type of deal. And I'm not looking to put a lot more on them type of deal. Yes, they're probably going to send us a checklist of information that they're going to want and then they're going to tick and tack it and say, "You know what? You're absolutely right.
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And >> And just to go off what member Webb said, the reason the child is going to Brattleboro is not because a family says we don't want to be in Greenfield, it's because we do not >> program. It's for a special program that we do not offer in Greenfield. And we do offer some programming in Greenfield. We have the SEATS program at Newton. We have um Transitions at Federal Street and we have the ACES program at Four Corners. And we do meet a lot of our elementary needs at that level, but sometimes we have students that we are just unable to make accommodations for. Another transportation thing could be we have a child who is in DCF custody, who or a homeless family that is displaced, for example. Um and we need to transport that child still into our school district because we have made that commitment to that family and that child, and it's really important to keep um a continuity, is that the word I want to use?
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Not every child with dyslexia requires accommodations or an IEP. And so that's where many of the difficult conversations lay in those gray areas. And it goes back to that high quality journal. Teaching them Okay. All right. Well, Biatas, thank you so much. We appreciate you coming in. Uh we'll look forward to seeing you across the street um Thursday. Do Are we voting on Thursday? Yeah. Do we want to make a motion to recommend this to the >> Yeah. Okay. Make a Do I hear a recommendation? I make a motion to recommend to the full board to appoint Biatas appoint Biatas to the supervisor of special education. to the supervisor of special ed. elementary Second it. Any more discussion? No. All in favor? Thank you. I'll [laughter] be back on Thursday. Thank you. It's great to see you all again. I think Thanks again, Biatas. Bye.
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Um and for next year, we have three sections of the honors physics and two of the standard physics. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for mentioning it's juniors and seniors. That's what I'm assuming the same applies to the AP year. That might just be seniors. Uh the AP is juniors and seniors as well. Um so I'm not sure if this question for you, it might be for Arlene, I'm not sure. Uh so I think what I'm seeing here at like a relatively low cost because it's online, so that's great, but that also I just feel we should balance that with the age appropriateness of being online. So kindergarteners, as far as I'm concerned, minimize it as much as possible. We're talking juniors and seniors in high school. I'm just wondering if you could speak to that a little bit about like a balancing act because I think a senior in high school really should be online, you know, quite a bit cuz that's the real world that they're entering, whereas a kindergartener, it's different.
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It's not in their contract. Um that's going to be after tonight's meeting. That'll be the further discussions. Uh we have a restructuring idea going on there as well. So, what you see right now is just a placeholder. There's nobody supervising us uh at the board office. It just says probably central office office or district. Um we try to stay with some of the same language that was there just to avoid some confusion, but all that will be cleaned up um as we move forward. Um And supervisors, you know, you take the entire administrative team, and you take the non-tenured um staff, which now will be a little less, and you take the tenured staff, and you multiply how many observations um and evaluations we have to do, regardless of the other work that supervisors and administrators have to do or principals. You know, we have We have members of the administrative team that are doing 80 evaluations.
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>> Okay, >> Amy, for right now I'm just putting that you and I will make sure to have the presentation done by the 15th. So I'm sending you an invite now. >> Um Okay, that sounds good. >> And then Hilda, you said like 6:30 about >> um maybe or later, but I mean if you want to play it safe and just put 6:30. >> Okay. >> I think there's a lot on the agenda for that night. I know that there are several guardrail presentations that are under the consent agenda, but it just depends of whether or not they pull them. I believe also believe there's like a progress monitoring update. So, um I don't know what else is on the docket yet, but I do think that's a pretty heavy one like the last meeting was as well. >> Yeah, it's go it's going to be a heavy one.
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Why does it matter? It matters because we believe that every single child that comes through our doors is capable of achieving at high levels with the right amount of support and with high-quality instruction. We are fortunate because we have amazing teachers here in District 62. Many of them are here tonight. Um and we um we also have a responsibility to make sure they're supported as well. So, that is an important part of our job in our department to make sure that our teachers have the resources, the tools, the supports, and the professional knowledge they need to do their job and to be effective. Um and of course, we do need to be in compliance with federal and state laws, rules, and regulation, and all of that. So, that is instructional services in a nutshell. And with that, I want to turn it over to my colleague, Dr.
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Um, so, we are trying to make sure that all of our communications, um, are strong for students to get involved. Um, so, we're always looking to grow in that area, um, but out of the 218 students who reported multiple versions. I think there's 555 reasons up there for the 270 kids. Um, but uh we do hope that um we see more growth in that area. One that I'm personally proud of is the language barrier has dropped in half this year. Um, so uh last year when I was up here, it was over 20 weren't participating cuz the language barrier. Um, so this year we pushed into our EL resource classes um activities and athletics did in order to talk to the students about um ways that they can participate. And so that's been really good. We've also seen an uptick with our EL students in our career pathway classes.
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>> Any questions, comments, discussion? Roll call, please. >> Abbott? >> Yes. >> Warren? >> Yes. >> Sullivan? >> Yes. >> Gorman? Hurst? >> Yes. >> Rebecca? >> Yes. >> Watson? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Uh Mr. President, I'm recommending that we pull the recommended changes for the '26 '27 student parent guardian handbook. Um there's a few minor additions we want to make uh that we'll make next month and also I'd like for us to have a wide group [clears throat] of presenters that were involved in the changes. So, next month we'll be doing it as about 95% to 98% exactly what you're seeing. You might see a few small adjustments in it that are added um to it uh based upon some recommendations that came from the administrative team. So, this will be coming back to you in in uh June. Thank you. So, we'll go ahead and move with that in we will table that for now.
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I just want to make sure that we we give them every opportunity to have something useful here. Thank you. Parent who's not very tech-savvy, tell me more about what I'll see Wednesday when I get that link and if there'll be instructions. Yes, so we will send out information via Parent Square on what to expect. Um, the Custodio will send you a email kind of tying your account with your student. But if you have an elementary student, you're not going to see anything over the summer because they're not bringing it home. Um, and then if you for whatever reason don't have or can't find the email or got lost in spam, then we work with the company to send that with you. Another added bonus with that is that they allow you to add another device as well as a parent for free, so you can add a student cell phone example and have kind of full management of two devices, um, with this.
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We had a lot of things planned. We had the donuts for grownups, donuts for grownups, two sessions. We had so many and then like the comments. We had two sessions of that. We had our successful lunch on the lawn. We had to use the rain date for that. But we had a beautiful day for that and that that worked out really really well. We have a couple projects, big projects going on this um this summer. We've got a new intercom system being put in. You know, the old one's been there 20 years and it's ready ready to be replaced. And then we have we're putting carpet throughout the entire building. We're going to do that in two phases, but we're going to do the full building this summer. So it's we have a lot going on. And then we got summer school, three weeks of summer school going on as well.
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So, he's really happy. A couple things on Jason's resignation. I feel like we need to bring that up. First of all, I want to thank Jason for his work on the Apple School Board. I It's a thankless job and I appreciate it, even in just my 6 months here. 6 months here it's already been quite a lot of work, so I appreciate that. And Jason, you don't have to listen to any of this cuz it don't matter, but everybody else does. So, I'm going to just go right from support policy. Jason said his resignation as we we received and passed on to the board. You all knew that. Within 72 hours then you need to meet to decide the process to address the vacancy. And you have 30 days to address the vacancy from we count from tomorrow, I think. Did we did we not?
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With this transfer, it'll bring our projected rainy day balance at the end of the year down to 5.3 million, which is about 5% of our expenditures for our operating funds in 2026. So with that, we're recommending approval resolution 874 million transfer from the rainy day fund to the education fund. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. Board members, you heard a recommendation administration for approval of resolution number 874 for 2.5 million transfer from the rain day fund to the education fund and a walot. So moved by Mr. Angel, second by Miss Bas or comments there being no questions or comments move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Nay. Vote carries. Thank you, Mr. Ree. Uh, we'll move on to item six, uh, 6.01, superintendent discussion groups. Um and then here uh item 6.02, Director Elementary Education, Dr. Kina. >> Thank you, Mr.
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But uh this ju- Some of the things that we're talking about here, particularly TCE and PCE, are carcinogens, correct? I'm sorry, the carcinogens. Yes. I would consider they would be considered carcinogens I don't want to judge I don't want to juggle the terminology. I'll let George I'll let George answer that. Um And you I'm not an epidemiologist, so um but I believe they're at least suspected carcinogens. >> Well, I'm not one either and I know that they are. Okay. So that's the important issue here is that we're dealing with dangerous stuff. This is you know, we've been down this road before at previous hearings. This is dangerous stuff that has a legacy in this town and so we need to be careful with it. And that's the only point that I want to make is that we're not dealing with oil and we're not dealing with antifreeze, we're dealing with dangerous things.
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You are 325th, whatever that number is in per pupil spending. You were right. No kidding. You know that type of deal. Number one. Number two, irregardless of what the cost is going to be. I don't want this. Number one, I don't want the school department paying for it. Number two, if the town has to pay for it, that's a with all due respect a waste of money because we've got tight financial issues throughout the town. and that I mean look what we're doing to try and scramble for money for our budget. So whether it's, you know, $10,000 or $30,000, that's money that could be used someplace in a budget for someone, whether it's ours or, you know, the police department bought the DPW, you know, harbor mass or whatever the case and point may be. That's where that money can can be used for. Uh, you know, it's there has to be some trust.
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