001Good evening everyone and welcome aboard. We're going to call this meeting of the school committee to order. The time is 6:05 p.m. on Monday, May 5th, 2025. Our next meeting will take place on Monday, June 9th at 6 PM here in the council chamber. So, tonight we will begin as we always do by pledging allegiance to our flag. We'll then have a moment of silence for our veterans. Our clerk to my right, to your left, will take attendance to ensure that we have a quorum sufficient to allow us to come together this evening. Then we'll get into this evening's agenda. It consists of the seven items. First is we're going to approve the minutes from April 7th, which was our last meeting. Then we were going to take public comment, but we thought when we
002saw that we had Claire Johnston and Hazel Queen here, we would move them up. They take precedent, and you'll see why when we hear about their amazing story. So, they will come before public comment. Uh then we'll have public comment and that's an opportunity for members to address the public. Then from there we're going to hear from our school superintendent who's going to continue to talk about uh the entry plan that he's been working on. Then after that item four, we're going to take up u a discussion from Miss Bataphor who's leading our negotiation subcommittee. Then item five, we have five motions and resolutions. Uh the first one is with Miss Betaphor as well that will be regarding our food services contract and then we will look at students enrollment of school department personnel and
003Miss Spataphor will lead that as well. The next three items will come from Mr. McCarthy in lie of uh Miss Roseberg who couldn't be with us this evening. Uh those three items are around the assignment of students to schools. Then from there, we're going to move to personal privilege. That's an opportunity for members of the school committee to let the public know what's happening across the city in our school district. And then from there, we'll entertain a motion to go into executive session for three reasons. Uh the first is just to approve our minutes from April 7th. The second reason is to discuss an open meeting law complaint dated April 2nd, 2025 filed by Bruce Freriedman against the Molden School Committee. And then finally, we're going to continue discussion with respect to collective bargaining with
004the Malden Education Association units A, B, and C. Then we'll come back out from executive session uh to adjourn. So are there any questions of the members? Um, if not, let's pledge allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And again, at this point, we ask everyone to please remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of all those who have fought for our country and continue to do so today. Thank you. We'll now have our clerk take attendance. Mayor Christensen here. Mr. Drum here. Mr. McCarthy here. Miss Bataphora here. Miss Mlin here. Miss Hardy here. Mr. Gray here. Mr. Bernard here. Mr. Rosyberg. Superintendent Sipple here.
005So we have a quorum sufficient to allow us to come together this evening. We'll now take a look at these minutes from April 7th, 2025. Any questions, queries, qualms, concerns? Motion by Mr. Drum, seconded by Mr. McCarthy. Now, because we have a member coming to us via Teams, we have to take a roll call on all the items we vote on this evening. Normally, we would just do a voice vote. Uh, so no remaining questions. Clerk will call the role. Mayor Christensen. Yes. Mr. Mr. Drum. Yes. Mr. McCarthy. Yes. Miss Bataphora. Yes. Miss Mlin. Yes. Miss Hordy. Yes. Mr. Gray. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Bernard. Yes. Mr. Rosenberg. That carries unanimously. Now, as I mentioned previously, we're going to uh take up an a few citations here uh because we believe this will be the
006highlight of our meeting. As a matter of fact, we might just adjourn after we do these citations. So, to help us with that, we're going to have our school superintendent lead the school committee. All right. Well, good evening, Mayor Christensen and members of the committee, members of the public, and uh want to thank all of you for being here tonight. And as Mayor Christensen said, we are delighted to begin tonight's meeting recognizing two of our students who have been recognized in uh regional uh competitions for their artistic uh ability and the work that they've done recently. And um I want to those two people are um Claire Johnston who is a student at Forestdale Elementary and um we also have Hazel Queen who's a student at Malden High School. And we're gonna start with uh
007Claire. And I'm gonna invite her teacher Chelsea Pal uh to come up and say a few words about the competition that she recently won and the honor that she's um very deserving of. Thank you, Miss Pal. Yes, thank you. Um I'm very excited to introduce this very talented fifth grader from Forestdale, Claire Johnston, um who recently won first place in a statewide art contest. Um, for this cont for this contest, Claire created a beautifully drawn poster for Arbor Day, which shows the positive impact that trees have on our community. Um, and I've had Claire in art class since she was in first grade, and she has always just been so creative, so hardwork. Um, So this award is so welld deserved and I'm so proud of Claire for this achievement. So congratulations. [Applause] Very good.
008And um maybe I'll just let Mr. Tanetta speak about our other winner and then we can have them come up one at a time with their families for a photo. So we have uh Gerard Tanetta who is our district director of social studies and also uh visual and performing arts and um he's going to share a little bit about the honor that Hazel won. Yes, thank you. Uh Hazel Queen is a ninth grader at Malden High School. uh and she recently submitted artwork for a congressional art competition sponsored by Katherine Clark's office and uh she was the winner uh in our Congress congressional district. Uh her artwork will be on display at the cap for one year and uh she also will be getting a trip to DC to be able to honor her art
009and see it at the capital. So we're really excited. She's only in ninth grade and uh we hope there are many more great pieces of art that we will have in Malden Eye from her. Great. Well, if the chair would please the chair, we could perhaps take a brief recess just to allow the families and representatives from the school to come up and take a picture with our um artists from Forestdale. And then we'll do the same for our um artist from Malden High. And um would appreciate that school committee will be at a brief recess. So um Claire, if you want to come up with your family and Mr. Wy if you want to facilitate. I don't know. There's got I bet there's like Don't be scared. One more. Say trees. [Applause] Wish [Music]
010Tell Oh yeah. My goodness. Okay, perfect. One, two, three. That looks great. Thank you. There we go. [Applause] Did you get help? Oops. Claire. Okay, we're now distributing the official citation. [Applause] All right, school committee is now back and let's go to our school superintendent. All right. Well, thank you again for that. It's a wonderful way to start start the meeting. Um so uh going to be just bringing to you a an update on our entry plan. Uh as I've shared throughout the year, the core values that are um really guiding our work are to include and collaborate, to make sure that uh people are included in the decisions that impact them and to make sure that all the voices that should be at the table are included so that we can make the best
011decisions possible. We want to embrace growth, meaning that we're not u it's not so much about where we are at this moment, but where we are um and the capacity that we have to build on um where from where we are both as students, but also as a district, uh how we're the path that we're on and not where we are at this today. And then lastly, to do right by all kids. um that we are very very uh fortunate in Malden to have so many parents and other um groups in the city who advocate for the for the for the welfare of our students and we have some students who at this time don't have anyone to advocate for them and so our our responsibility is to make sure that all of them are
012getting what they deserve. Um throughout the course of the year, as you will recall, since last summer, I spent the first uh three months immersing myself in the community, getting out in uh into various community events and meeting as many people as I could while schools were not in session. Then phases two and phase three were both concurrent where I spent a lot of time as you will recall uh with in town hall meetings with uh parents and caregivers but then also spending time in listening sessions with members of our staff at all of our buildings, all of our schools, and really hearing their what they thought the strengths of the district were, but also the areas they thought needed to grow. and then spending time in classrooms and in schools and at school events
013observing our students in action, observing our teachers in action throughout the year. And as you're aware, I've been in um well over 400 classrooms since the beginning of the year. And there's a lot of great things happening in Malder public schools. Since December, we've really been anal analyzing and beginning to share back some of the highlights of the of the findings from or initial emerging findings from my entry plan. And we've had a series of feedback sessions with parents and caregivers to really uh ensure that what we've heard uh resonates with them. Um, and now we're beginning to take those findings and begin to chart the future of Malden Public Schools, which is what I'll be sharing about tonight. So, we're going to be uh just uh again re-sharing what those areas for collective action
014are that I mentioned over the last two meetings that have been confirmed in our feedback sessions with our staff. We're going to be talking about a district academic priority that we've spent the last several months uh refining with our district-wide leadership team. We'll be talking about how those that academic priority along with other areas is going to be uh really framing the school improvement plans that you'll be hearing from our schools in June. and then a little bit about the strategy for district improvement and the FY26 budget that all of this will be leading to with the next steps for next year. So in uh the last two meetings, I've been sharing with you the the findings from our entry plan that have highlighted six areas for collective action that have really come up again
015and again and again from my meetings with town uh with uh caregivers and parents and also with staff um over throughout the year and as I've gone into those feedback sessions. Again, these areas for collective action have been confirmed as things that that we need to focus on. One is affirming high expectations for all of our students to make sure that every single one of our students has the opportunity to do whatever they would like to do when they finish high school. That uh we don't choose for them what their aspirations should be, but our job is to make sure that they're prepared to reach those aspirations, whatever they might be. And so for those students who want to go on to a four-year university and or go on to graduate school from there, go
016on to a doctorate or or want to start a a new company or whatever they want to do. We want to make sure that they have the preparation to be able to go off and do that. And if they choose not to, that's totally fine, but it should not be because they haven't been prepared to do whatever they want to do. So that's the high expectations for all. adapting instruction to meet diverse needs. Throughout all of my meetings and throughout our analysis of data, we have seen that our students with disabilities and our students who are learning English in particular are not achieving as we want them to. Um, we need to have high expectations for them, but we also need to adapt what we do in the classroom to make sure that those students
017are being supported to achieve what they are able to achieve. Um, and then another group in that in that category is students who are uh advanced learners and who are ready for more challenge and we don't want to make we want to make sure that they're not being held back in in um our because our expectations are too low. Ensuring fair access to opportunities. A lot of this uh this there's two dimensions to this. on one hand is making sure that in our K8 schools across all of the K8 schools they are uh students have access to the same kinds of opportunities regardless of which school they attend and then in the high school that students have access to a full schedule of classes that they have access to all of the extracurricular activities all
018of the uh advanced classes AP classes honors classes elective classes um that those and that the access to those classes is not limited to students who meet a certain profile. We want to make sure that they're accessible to all of our students. Partnering with our families effectively, as you know, we are in the process of rolling out a new communications platform. We have a new website coming soon. We have um a lot of of work that's been done to to streamline our communications and improve our communications with families. And then we're also really working to uh with our stakeholders, both our English learner parent advisory committee, our special education parent advisory committee, and helping all of our schools to strengthen their school councils as well, as well as working with our fabulous parents who are
019part of the parent teachers organizations um at all of our schools and and helping those just be stronger at at each building and coordinate our efforts across the district. We're nurturing a strong workforce, getting out and recruiting teachers um for vacancies that are confirmed for next year. We've already started to hire people for next year, which is exciting. Um and we are really working to also make sure that we're nurturing a collaborative space in each school building so teachers feel like they have a stake in what we're doing and they want to stay and work for Modern Public Schools. And lastly, building strength and stability for the district. And more than anything, um, we want to be very wise in way how we use our resources so that over the long term, we have a
020strong foundation financially, organizationally, and we can be sure that we're we have the the that we're solid and we can confront the challenges that are undoubtedly um going to face us in the future. So, I want to uh just quickly dig into this district academic priority. Um, starting back in January, our Malden leadership team has been collaboratively working together to uh really hone in on a priority for our district in terms of academics for next school year for 2526. And just so you know, every month, once a month, all of our principles, all of our assistant principles, all of the directors from across the district gather together and we go from building to building. This meeting was uh in the library at BB and we really work and look at our how our students what
021they're seeing in classroom observations. We look at our mid-year data to look um on on how students are showing their achievement on assessments and what to what degree they're growing in their assessments. And then lastly, uh trends from teacher coaching and professional learning. And those that mid-year data are some of the data that uh assistant superintendent Bassine presented at our last meeting. From that, what we've really established as a priority for next year is to ensure that our students are doing the heavy lifting in classrooms. That we have high expectations for all of them and that every classroom in every lesson students will be reading and writing. They'll be questioning and discussing with peers. They'll be considering and debating the ideas of others. And we really believe that if they're engaged in these ways, they'll
022actually enjoy their learning also. They'll be feel respected and they'll feel empowered and they'll be feel like they're really growing in their both their capacity to learn and also in their peers capacity to engage with one another. So to that end, we have school improvement plans and um these areas for collective action that I mentioned uh high expectations for all all the way through strength and stability. These are reflected and aligned with the various parts of the school improvement plan that you'll be seeing that'll be brought to uh school committee next next month. You'll have the academic priority and each school will be presenting how they're going to be working on that academic priority. We'll be talking about interventions and uh what steps there each school is taking to make sure that students who need
023more help are getting it within the school day. How the school schedule is being adjusted and intentionally designed to make sure that all students get what they need. How we're supporting positive school attendance and growth in attendance for students that need to uh be in school more regularly. what professional development is being planned to make sure that teachers have the capacity and all the resources and the knowledge and skills to be able to do right by their students and how resources are being allocated in order to make all of it happen. So these school improvement plans again will be um coming forward in June at the June meeting and our school leaders will be excited to share with you in each building how these things are playing out for their for their students and for
024their communities. And so that's what they're working on now. We just were was last Wednesday. I'm looking at Mr. Wai because he's sitting right there repres standing in for all of his colleagues. Uh all of our schools are finishing their last steps and finalizing those improvement plans throughout May and leaders uh will be incorporating feedback from students, staff, and school councils into the refining of those plans that they'll be presenting here in June. uh we'll be working with those plans, but overall we're working towards and those areas for collective action to develop and present a strategy for district improvement that's aligned with our fiscal 26 budget that I'll also be coming forward to you next month. Um and then we'll be working on developing a a comprehensive and revisiting our comprehensive strategic plan for next
025year. And so that's what I have for you tonight as far as the entry plan update and um thank you for listening and invite your questions. Questions of our superintendent. Any questions? Okay. Hearing none, I must uh I must apologize because uh I went out of order on the agenda and the vice chair caught me doing that. Hopefully this does not garner an open meeting law violation. So we were supposed to go to public comment and uh we will do so now. I apologize for that. Uh so now is an opportunity for members of the public to address the school committee. They only have to state their name and address for the record. And public comment will now be open for 12 minutes. You can speak up to three minutes. Anybody wishing to address the
026school committee can do so now. You can do that here or via teams. All right, seeing none. Okay. If we missed you on teams, just please reach out to us after the meeting. We're using a uh new system tonight. Uh but we're pretty confident that we would see something on the raised hand feature and we don't see it. So, all right. Uh we're going to close public comment now. Let's go to Miss Spaphora on negotiations. Find out how we're doing there. I'm going to turn the light on. Here we go. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um see how we're doing here. I think we're doing well actually. Um, negotiation subcommittee met on April 10th for our fifth session and I would say probably our most productive session thus far. Um, we provided economic responses to the
027MEA's um, financial proposals. So um, hopefully our next session on May 7th will probably have some some counters, I'm assuming. Um, we do have some tenative agreements in place thus far, which is really exciting. Um, including, um, some new start and end times to our K through8 schools. Um, we have a tenative agreement for 30 minutes of recess for our K through six students. um uh tenative on the elimination of the professional development half days that you see every month. It's usually ones coming up on Wednesday. Um the professional development will be built in um to the schedules. Um there's also a few days at the beginning of the school year where educators come in um before the start before students arrive. One of those days is professional development. Um, those looking to maybe travel
028a little bit earlier around Thanksgiving will note that the day before Thanksgiving is now going to be a no school day. Um, so we're chugging along. Our next session is this Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30 p.m. in the Malden High School Gallery. We're unfortunately unable to um secure this room. So, we will be, if you're familiar with the high school, it is open to the public. You can utilize the Prescott Street entrance um to access the gallery. Um, and we do have, I believe, one, two, three, four more sessions on the books. And I'm really hoping that we can move right into summer and not need any more sessions. Okay. Any questions of the chair? Okay. Thank you for that update. Uh, now let's I'm sorry. Did you have a question, Miss Hudie? Just a quick
029one. You mentioned that the day before Thanksgiving um the proposal was for a no school day. That's also a no professional development day. Just for clarification. So that'll be a complete uh no school for students or educators. Educators will also um have that that day off as well. Okay. Um and if I might The day before winter um break will be a half day and I believe it was good Friday would be and the last day of school half day. Tenative yeah proposals. No, these are all TAS that both sides have agreed. Um so tenative it's got to be ratified on their end. So but everybody's saying this sounds good. Awesome. Just wanted to clarify the differences there. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. So, oh no, I just going to add that I believe um
030madam vice chair we it's a K6 for sure is the ten of agreement on those and then I think we still have some anyway not we still have some other grade levels that haven't yet fully on the on the half days anyway we haven't K through six I'm sorry did I say okay that's okay my apologies no you're good okay very good now motions and resolutions Let's talk about this food services contract once again. Let's stay with Miss Better on this. So, um we entered into a three-year contract with Aramark back in 2022 and um they have been absolutely fantastic. Um so when this um there is a new process um within the state um usually in the past we would put out an RFP but now um DESIE is putting they're pretty much running
031the show um which isn't a bad thing necessarily takes a little bit off of our end. Um so when this RFP was put out um only one vendor actually did respond and that was Aramark whom we have had um we have really minimal to no complaints with um the services and um so this contract would be for Aramark to continue to provide our food services. Um, it is a it's a one-year con contract with an additional three-year three one-year rollovers into it. So, um, and I will say there's no financial um, number associated with it because we do qualify for free um, universal um, food services. So um financially there's no financial approval on this. This is would just be uh an approval to enter into contract with RMR. There you have it everyone. Motion
032motion. Is there a second for purposes of discussion? Uh Mr. DMY second. Any questions, queries, qualms, concerns? Miss Hoody. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to clarify because I know that this was brought up at public comment recently and I don't know that if this is an ermark thing or if this is a a Malden food service worker issue. Um, I believe during public comment, and I I've noticed this as well as someone who works in a different school system, that uh the serving size doesn't always coordinate with the age of the student for lack of a better term. I guess I can say age because we know obviously that some like fifth graders are bigger than others, that sort of thing. But I know that that was a concern that was brought up.
033It's a concern that I see all the time as well. Um I but I don't know that that's an Aramark concern and I don't know if anybody has any understanding if we should be having that discussion with them or if there's another place that we have that discussion. That's my only concern about Yes. Yeah. So um funny you say that. I was with the superintendent last week touring um Salemwood and at lunchtime we decided to pop in and I said hold on. We we stood next to the trash barrel for a moment and watched the kindergarteners that were just finishing up. And specifically, I was like, "There goes a chicken sandwich. There goes a chicken sandwich." And they had like tiny little bites out. So, it was clear that um our littlest learners are not
034finishing their lunches. Um and vice versa, our oldest students are growing and need more. Is this an Aramark issue? I Don't think so. Yeah, Miss Marta, because we've had this conversation. Do you mind if I put the spotlight on you for a moment? So, the serving sizes are from the federal government. It's not age based. It's from the federal government. They tell us what the serving sizes are for each of the students. U you done or I guess so. So, I'm going to jump to Just like the chocolate milk that I can't serve anymore. Let me go to uh not serve chocolate milk. Let's go to Miss Macklin one. I'm I'm just wondering um if anyone knows um are the students able to go back for second helpings if they go back for seconds. Yeah,
035they would have to pay for that portion. They would. Okay. Thank you. All right. Anybody else? So, we have a motion on the floor. Clerk will call the role. Just Mayor Christensen, yes. Mr. Drum, yes. Mr. McCarthy, yes. Miss Bataphora, yes. Miss Mlin, yes. Miss Hardy, yes. Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Bernard. Yes. M. Sorry, Mr. Rosberg. That carries unanimously. All right. Now, students enrollment of school department personnel. Mrs. Bapor. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, so just to remind the members that we have a policy that does allow for educators um or employees to be able to enroll uh students in the district if they live outside of Malden um barring that they meet um the qualifications, one being employed in the district for three plus years. Um they submit their request before May 15th. So,
036here we are on May 5th. Um, I'm trying to think what the other qualifications are. I think that might be permanent. Permanent employee. Um, so we have three requests before us. Um, and I say three requests, three requests. One is for two students for one employee. Two of these are more administrative requests um and one is a brand new request. So um for one and everybody should have received that email with the documentation. Uh we have an ELC student that is currently already attending the ELC would just like to stay at the ELC. We kind of handle ELC differently because it is tuitionbased um and this um educator does handle tuition. So they are just looking to keep their students at ELC for one more year. The next two, one is a Malden High School
037student and the other one is a Ferryway student. These were actually um approved under a hardship clause by the superintendent. Um and we would like to actually roll them off of a hardship clause and more fall under the general umbrella of the policy. Um where they probably should be. And then the final is uh a brand new request for a educator whose student um would be placed at the Forest Dale in sixth grade. This educator has been with us for I believe 12 years. Met the qualifications to submit in writing to the school committee and the superintendent by May 15th. And we do have space in the program. So I would recommend that we approve um this entire packet of requests and um at that point we would be completely um full at our max.
038All right. Questions before we entertain a motion hearing? None. Motion by Miss Baphora, seconded by Mr. Bernard. Any questions, queries, quams, concerns? hearing none. Oh, I'm sorry. I have you at the wrong light. There we go. Do I have it on? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a quick question. Um, you mentioned that there was a cap on this masora five. Five. And we had previously approved someone. Is that what I'm seeing from the some of the notes for this? So that previous approval um is just showcasing we have one already in the system that was approved back in 2019. Um other than that um we don't have any others. So do you have to reapply for this once this hap each year or was that just because one of those was a hard um
039so the ELC Oh thank you. So the ELC um they do apply because technically there it's tuition based and if they want to then move into the district um so we will approve ELC on a yearly the other two because they were approved under the hardship um and it was after we had received it after the date it was like September almost October. Oh yes I remember. So housekeeping wise, I think these two belong under the general um policy standard umbrella. Um and then the last one, like I said, was pretty straightforward. That's a brand new one. So, but once in, they don't have to reapply every year. Any any educator is they're in the district until they graduate or if they move out of the district. So, we would be at max for next
040year unless So, one of these will be graduating next year. Okay. So, that will then open up a spot. Gotcha. Okay. Um, and then if anybody was to move or educator no longer wants to work in Malden, I don't know why, but but that would open up a space unless this committee ever decided that we wanted to increase that number, change the policy, but Okay. Just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk will call the role. Mayor Christensen. Yes. Mr. Drumy, yes. Mr. McCarthy, yes. Miss Bataphora, yes. Miss Mlin, yes. Miss Hardy, yes. Mr. Gray, yes. Mr. Bernard, yes. Miss Rosenberg. Okay, that carries unanimously. Now, the next three items will be led by Mr. McCarthy. This is regarding the assignment of students to schools. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman, um on April
04128th, the policy and procedure um subcommittee met on two items. Um the first one is in regards to um a proposed policy change when it comes to JCA, assignment of students to schools. Um we had a lengthy discussion in the subcommittee um when it comes to this. Um this would essentially um changed for um you know attendance areas. The map that's in the packet um is clearly delineates where these specific areas are. Um and I'll just read the uh the portion of the proposed policy um so everyone can get an idea. Um attendance areas for the various schools of the city will be drawn by the superintendent and approved by the school committee. Um students will be assigned to the school within their attendance areas that it's on the map um and where they reside
042effective May 15, 2025. Um, all new students to to the Malden public schools when this policy goes into effect will not be allowed will be allowed to to remain in the presently assigned schools. So, students that are currently assigned at their schools now uh will not be affected by this. It's only for new students that are coming into Malden. Um, and this would go into effect um on May 15th if it's uh voted on and approved uh here tonight. Um it was voted out unanimously by the subcommittee 300 with one member absent. Um in attendance was the superintendent, assistant superintendent uh McDonald's and uh Joan Federico from uh the welcome center. So um so tonight I don't know if Mr. Bernard wants to add anything to this because he's on the subcommittee as well. I'll
043defer to him if he you have anything to add. Okay. Do you have anything you want to add, Mr. Cover it? Okay. If you can't answer a question, I can jump. All right. So, Mr. McCarthy, uh, item three, you want to take them separately, I presume. So, you're making that motion. Seconded by Mr. Bernard. Yeah, sure. I'll make a motion to um to approve the This is policy JCA. JCA Simon of students to schools. Okay. As presented. All right. Let's see what the members have to say about this. Any questions about it, everyone? It's been in your packet. Miss Betaphor. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just out of curiosity, why May 15th? I'll defer to the superintendent. One second. There we go. There is a a date for uh parents to apply for changes uh
044for voluntary transfers each year and that typically is May 15th. And so we just wanted to coincide. Um and since the committee was meeting on May 5th with May 15th just felt like a safe date. We do have uh students who have already applied for kindergarten next year who are waiting to hear what schools they'll be assigned to. And so we also just want to get them an answer earlier than later. And um also for our students at the ELC, we have uh planned uh in the works plans to have a welcome to your new school day. And um we're hoping to have staff, maybe principles from the um five K8 schools um converge on the ELC to to greet their students um at some point later this spring. So if somebody came to the
045district tomorrow brand new and registered technically this isn't in effect yet. So they would uh thank you for the question Mr. Chair or vice chair sorry Mr. Chair sorry Mr. Chair most refer to her then the the the the idea is that these uh all the assignments for next school year would be informed by this policy. Um and so but there no one would be informed of that school assignment until after May 15th. Okay. And then I think that's makes sense. Just in regards to the map, are there any district lines that split streets? So, if if I had a a friend of my child that lives across the street, are there chances that that student could go to another school from a friend? So, there's none that split streets because I know we split
046ward maps for the city superintendent McDonald. Um, I do have to give Steve Fa a shout out because he's helped us with this map. He has cleaned it up and it might be cleaner than the version you have. And it like um the big one was is it um Bane Banebridge? Yes. That one is is a long one that is basically a splitting um sections. Um and we have included both sides of the street in Forestdale for that. Most of the other ones were easier because like um 60 there's not a ton of residential where we split it. So Steve and I worked really hard to sort of look at those lines. Um there were other places that it was na 99 was a natural split. Um and so we mostly have the whole street
047in the section. 60 over here it is not but it's all commercial so it doesn't really make a difference. Okay. And currently just so you know currently you can look at the map um and oops we have students that you could have five houses across the street next to each other and they go to our five different schools. So, this is an attempt to get back to a neighborhood more of a neighborhood school like you're talking about. Sure. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Hearing none. Did you have one, Miss Horty? I'm sorry. Uh let's go to Miss Hoy, then we'll go to Miss Mlin. Sorry. I just want to clarify um because I had the same question that you did um Miss Spotora, especially because um this had come up in some constituent
048emails and things like that previously for for people that were concerned. Um and this does happen with the W line. My W five line half one side of the street is for me and another side is for Mr. Gray. So this big concern for us, right? Um that being said, if for some reason there it sounds like Mrs. McDonald that you guys worked to not have this issue. If this issue does come up, let's say in one of these areas that isn't super heavily populated, but maybe, you know, there's a a building there or something or a multif family where a family moves in. What would their process be? Would their process be different to, you know, let's say requests to go to the same school that their neighbors go at at? I know that
049this is a like I said this is a common issue because we've gotten emails before especially about um exactly what we want which is groups of kids of multi- aes walking to school together safely you know because we've included the streets together we're hoping that it'll change that like I've said um the beginning of the year um ever there was a lot of people who wanted BB for K and I had someone who was assigned to BB but her name her neighbor was assigned to Forestdale and she had little She emailed halfway through September saying, "I'd really rather be at Forestdale because my neighbors are going to Forestdale." So, this is attempt to eliminate that exact problem. Um, and so we tried really, really hard to keep neighborhoods together. Um, like I said, I worked
050with Steve Fma, who knows the city very well, and we tweaked some lines to make sure that neighborhoods were really kept together. Um, If they're not, what's the parents proceed? What's the procedure? There is, if you look, there is a superintendent appeal where they can appeal to ask to go to a different school. So, we do have that in Okay. in the policy to give us a little bit of of flexibility to meet families needs because I that's what this is an attempt to do to be more sort of meeting families where they are and what they need. Okay. Thank you. Over to Miss Mlin. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, excuse me. Uh, just the part where it says students currently enrolled in the Malden public schools when the policy goes into effect will be
051allowed to remain in their presently assigned schools. Will is will is that just for the current year or will that be throughout their time at Malden Public? I think yeah I think it'll be throughout. I mean if they if they would like a transfer we can look into that but we don't have any intention of uprooting families from the schools that they're at. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Just to just to address that because we did have a conversation about that. We're kind of we're trying to go and split the balance of letting let letting you go to school letting our kids go to school with their neighbors and people that they've grown up with and also not trying to go and split up kids that have gotten very used to going to BB or
052going to Forestdale or going to, you know, Ferryway and that's where all their friends are. You know, Malden is probably one of the biggest little cities that we've got. We've got a lot of people at a very small area. So, it's not unusual for people to go and have friends at the other end of town and but yeah, we'd like everyone from the same on the different sides of the street to be able to go and say, "Oh, hey, what do you got for English?" You know. All right. Very good. Motion was made, seconded. Clerk will call the role. Mr. SH just really quickly I just want to clarify this is this is strictly the policy. Yes. Um and then the second one. Yes. Yeah. Take it away. Mayor Christensen. Yes. Mr. Drum. Yes. Mr.
053McCarthy. Yes. Miss Bapora. Yes. Miss Mlin. Yes. Miss Hardy. Yes. Mr. Gray. Thumbs up. Miss Bernard. Yes. Miss Rosver. All right. That carries unanimously. Staying with Mr. McCarthy. Now, this is the proposed area map. Yeah, this is the attendance map that I um that I was talking about when it comes to the delineated lines and the um the different areas that's up on the screen right now. Um this is clearly you know breaks it down into into the different um areas um you know for Salem Wood, Lynon, Forestdale, etc. Okay. Um so this is what it would look like. Um and that would be um shown to people new families that are coming in and and just to kind of give them an idea as to where they would be um going to school. Um
054so I'll make a motion to to approve the map to approve the map as presented. Seconded by Mr. Bernard. Any questions, queries, qualms of the members? Hearing none, clerk will call the role. Miss Mayor Christensen? Yes. Mr. Dummy? Yes. Mr. McCarthy? Yes. Miss Bataphora? Yes. Miss Mlin? Yes. Miss Wordy? Yes. Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. Mr. Bernard. Yes, Mr. Rosberg. All right, that carries unanimously. And then the last motion is led by Mr. McCarthy. This is about the admission of non resident students. Tell us about that. Yep. So, this is the uh the second prop uh policy proposal that we discussed um on April 28th in policy and procedure. Um this is the proposed policy for JFAB, admission of non-resident students. Um this is strictly for 12th graders here in the district that you know unfortunately
055may have to move out of the city for some reason um out of their control. Um so this is this is what the policy um says. Um, currently enrolled 12th grade students at Malden High School who relocate from the city of Malden and wish to finish school year with MPS may request to do so in writing uh to the superintendent or designate for the remainder of the current academic year only. Students must inform the district of their new address within 5 days of their moving date. District administration may grant requests for the remainder of the school year only. If continued attend attendance is granted, transportation will not be provided by MPS. Um, and this obviously, like I said before, applies to the 12th graders here in the city. Um, and it doesn't apply to siblings
056that are non 12th graders. Um, so 11, 10 in, and nth grade. Okay. A very good motion. Uh yeah, I'll I'll make a motion to uh approve the proposed policy JFAB as presented. Seconded by Mr. Bernard. All right, questions of the team. Let's start with Miss Hoy. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Why are we doing this for 12th graders? Uh one second there. Uh can you press Hold on one second now. Press it again now and then. Okay, let me try yours. Okay, try it now. Oh, you should work there. Yeah, right. Yay. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry. Thank Thank you. No. Thank you, Vice Chair. Uh, why are we only doing this for 12th graders? Because when I'm looking at this, I'm saying absolutely the 12th grader 100% should finish. They've been in our
057district forever, but we're making that impossible if this person has younger siblings. Why isn't this just afforded to a family to finish the year? Okay, Mr. McCarthy, did that come up during your deliberation? Uh, yeah, it did. So, uh, we kind of, so actually to assistant superintendent McDonald's, um, we did talk about that a little bit and they did, um, make mention of, um, it actually is a lot more difficult for a 12th grader that that, um, moves out of the city and, um, you know, is having academic issues and actually to keep them here and give them the opportunity to be able to um, you know, in writing um, give them an opportunity to stay here and graduate. Um, so, uh, you know, ninth grader, 10th grader, 11th grader really doesn't, um, you know,
058they're trying to get used to to a new environment within a school. Um, a 12th grade had four years here. And um it's actually the percentage wise of them graduating in 12th grade, moving out of district, not staying in the place where they've been for four years is actually a lot higher than it would be for a ninth grade that's trying to figure everything out. Also sounds like you have to draw the line somewhere. 100%. All right, Miss Hoody, I politely disagree. I I agree 100% with the fact that seniors in high school should be allowed to finish the year here. period at the end. But I also think when we have in the policy that, you know, transportation is going to be provided, all that stuff that I agree with entirely, if I'm a
059parent, I have a sixth grader, a 10th grader, a 12th grader, let's say, I would like all of if if all if one of my children is going to finish the year, I would like all of my children to finish the c the school calendar year together. and then everybody aside from my senior who's moving on to to bigger and better things and then everyone starts fresh at the beginning of the year. I'm just wondering if that could be something that you know how much that was discussed. What was the vote of the subcommittee? Uh the vote was uh 300 with one absent. Okay. All right. Let's um take some other Are you done, Miss Hud? I want to take some other comments. I want to see what people think of what you had to
060say. So, Miss Beta Fora, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, so I'm going to go to my I was going to say I'm going to go to my question first and it was more or less relates to the wording of the policy is if they move in 12th grade. I'm just curious if a student moves in the summer leading up to 12th grade, does that do can they still stay if or is it like if they move after the first day of school? Mr. McCarthy. Uh yeah. So they they they are allowed to stay within the uh if they move um you know say during the summertime they can submit in writing that they have intent to stay here if they want to stay here um and finish out the uh you know the year. So
061yes. Okay. Okay. We may want to just put that wording in the policy because it says currently enrolled 12th grade students. So, I just don't know how we may want that to reflect students um so they know that they can not necessarily enroll in a new district, but they'd be okay here. Miss Horty, your question though has been brought up numerous times because we've had this issue come up where students are moving mid school year and the financial implication it is to the district for us to continuously pay for students that don't live here, aren't residents. I think I see your logic though when it comes to siblings. I feel like you're questioning if I have three kids and one is staying but the other two have to enroll. And I think really where we're
062looking at the standpoint is the student that has spent that like gearing up towards graduation and to be able to walk the field with their peers rather than with people that they're just getting to know. So I hear you. It's just I don't think it's financially feasible for us to say, okay, I have maybe three seniors that are, you know, that have moved, families had to move out of the city and they have each four siblings. I'm just saying this is a what if to now have 12 students that don't live in this city be able to get the education that I'm not getting reimbursed necessarily for and I say me all right other comments who hasn't spoken that wishes to anyone okay back to you Miss Horty so I understand what you're saying but
063I also know that that that desi cut off at the beginning of the year is October one and I think I don't know I you number crunchers in the in the you know the um administrative office can let us know how much of this actually happens before October 1. So that was that was a question that I had also like so are these students already on our books when we've already accounted for them one um but also I don't like to ever think negatively of anybody however I feel like we're setting up a situation that is it yes your senior can stay no your other kids can't I'm not going to tell them then meaning like I'm not going to tell the district again I'm not saying that people do that I'm not thinking poorly
064of anyone, but I'm saying that if we if we write this in such a way that people feel comfortable telling us the truth and don't feel like they need to maneuver something because of the rest of their family. I just I want this to be as um as seamless and as easy for people as possible in reading this as you know I'm not in that position. My children are in the same grade. I'm a very weird outlier, you know, but most people have children in different grades and that immediately pops to me and says what what are you going to do in that situation? You really we I feel like we put people's back up against the wall when we don't necessarily need to. I do agree with your financial implication. However, I'd love to
065know those numbers. Okay. Uh Miss Mlin and then over to Mr. Bernard. Thank you, Mr. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um just to say you know um I was actually not present for the last policy meeting. I was on vacation. However, the one prior to that we did discuss um the desi implicate the financial implication and we do realize that October 1st is the cutoff. However, in the district we get so many more students that we we don't get financial support for after October 1st um as well. So I think it kind of washes um in a sense um I had another point but I come back to me Mr. Bernard escape me. Yeah, just and uh not to dogpile, but we did have very uh thorough discussions on this and and uh you know,
066I empathize with any family out there that, you know, they have multiple kids and multiple grades. Um the chair said it, you know, like we do have to go and draw the line. there are financial implications and you know again because we are again I'm going to say this we're we're a big little city we have a lot of people that uh through no fault of their own might be transient and uh we have certainly had cases in the past where um people have already gone in and tried to kind of game the system and they're going to continue to try and game the system Um, that being said, I think this policy is kind of a it's one of those compromises that no one loves, but I think it's going to go and work
067out for us in the future. Um, simply by going and having something in writing like if we have a senior, they can stay, give it to us in writing. Again, we're sorry that your other kids, if you have 10 kids in the school, you're going to have to go and enroll them in the city that you have moved moved to. And we're going to be doing all the paperwork for them no matter what. But uh that being said, it's just it's to go and and be kind to that senior that has gone to the school for how many how many years and that they can go and they can walk down the aisle with with their classmates or they're, you know, they didn't get the the points to go and graduate and they can go
068and they can be at the gymnasium or the the u sorry at the uh auditorium and said I did the summer program and I was allowed to go and complete that and just to go and have that kind of feeling of um accomplishment. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Bernard. Back to Miss Mlin. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um I did remember I'm wondering if it was discussed in the last meeting um because uh Miss Horty brought it up what the consequence is. Is it an automatic denial if we're not notified within those five days? Mr. McCarthy, I believe we kind of did talk about that. I don't know. I'll defer to the superintendent. Superintendent. Thank you. Yes, Miss Mlin. The the current policy for students residing outside of Malden is that or our residency policy is that
069students u move out of the city. um they're to inform and they're to withdraw and and go to their new city, enroll in their new district of residence um within 5 days and if they do not inform and if it becomes to the attention of the district administration then they'll be withdrawn immediately. Um, and I just wanted to just mention that I know earlier in the year there was a circumstance with a student, I believe, who was an eighth grader where there was an appeal for um some um some forbearance with regard to residency policy and the committee um opted not to do that. But in that conversation, I believe that's when this idea this concern for seniors in high school came about. And I believe there was senior in high school about that same
070time that inquired about possibly staying on. But there the the the machinery of of the of the policy and and just the process that needed to be followed to do this in a thoughtful way. The committee um the subcommittee felt that it was better not to rush it and um to make sure that things were done properly and so that student ended up moving on to another another city. I um if I might the member Horty's question about the finances. Um so actually the way things work is the enrollment um is based on our our enrollment in on October 1st does inform the chapter 70 funding for the following fiscal year. So it isn't for that fiscal year um that the students enrolled but for the following year. So everything is always a year delayed.
071So I just wanted to clarify that. I think that was a question you had. Okay, Miss Mlin, you all set? Yes. Okay, Miss Horty, and then we'll try to wrap this up. I mean, to me then, all the more reason to do this. I'm just a little I I I'm sorry. I'm going to be a little like frank with you guys. I just don't like the way that this is making us look. This is making us look like we're out to get people. It's not making us look like we're kind. It's not making us look family centered. It's not It's not sitting right with me. I think just from the way that I've been commenting on this, you know, how I'm going to vote on it. Um, again, I know everybody gets their vote. That's
072why we're here, right? But I I think we're focusing on a tiny little sliver of a few like a little bit of money and a little bit of a situation that might turn off a much larger group of people and might make people have feelings about us and our policy writing in a way that I don't think what I don't think that's what we're going for. So, I don't think the policy aligns with our vision and our goals for the way we want to communicate with the community and the families in the district. And I just want to be of note saying that um because I think it is that important. And I'm sorry if I have an eighth grader who's gone to school here from K to 8. I I voted against that too
073if I remember correctly. That that broke my heart. this, you know, that that's a natural breakpoint in schools. I know we don't have middle schools, but we do have K to8s. That's a big deal. I'm not I I just don't understand everybody's I mean, I heard your rationale. My heart doesn't understand it. My brain understands it, but my heart doesn't understand it. Um, okay. Very good. Thank you for that. Um, if I might from the chair, from my perspective, all things being equal, we shouldn't be doing anything. The fact that we're taking this step makes us an outlier on districts around us. If you know, you look back to what happened mid year when someone was out of our city for months on end and we just happened to find out about it. That is
074not right. that's taken away from our district. So, the fact that we're doing this at all, I believe makes us more compassionate than other districts around us are. So, I think we from my vantage point, we take this step and then, Miss Horty, if what you're saying comes to fruition, we can always go back and amend the policy. But to try to perfect it at this moment, I I I I wouldn't support that. I think this is a baby step that addresses the most tenuous situation for someone on where they are in their educational career. I mean, if you start getting into other grades, where does it stop? You know, eighth grade, sixth grade, kindergarten, someone's going to first grade, you want them to leave with their kindergarten of friends. I mean, it just it's
075again, we shouldn't be doing anything, but the fact that we are, I think hopefully signifies that we are a compassionate committee and a compassionate district because I don't think you're going to find most districts doing what we might be doing here tonight. So, with that being said, um, you made the motion, you seconded it. Let's call the role. Mayor Christensen. Yes, Mr. Dummy. Yes, Mr. McCarthy. Yes, Miss Baphora. Yes, Miss Mlin. Yes, Miss Hordy. No, Mr. Gray. Okay, Mr. Bernard. Yes, Mr. Rosberg. Okay, so that one is 71. Okay, 71 in favor. All right, now everyone, let's go down to personal privilege. Uh this is a moment for members to let us know what's happening in their respective ws. We'll go uh left to right. My left, your right. Let's start with Mr. Drum. Thank
076you, Mr. Chairman. Uh first off, happy teacher appreciation week to all the teachers out there. You're doing a great job. Please keep it up. We're trying to help you. [Applause] That being said, the PTO at the Ferryway is doing a happy vibe uh or a good vibe. If you have a teacher that has gone over and above or something that the administration hasn't done, there's a link on the uh PTO Instagram and Facebook. Uh and there's also a uh there's an email that you could do it too. You can send a just a good vibe. It's a little gift saying, "Hey, we appreciate all you've done." The PTO's put together a bunch of uh different things. If you go on their website, you'll see a bunch of little bags. It's just a way of saying,
077"Hey, thank you for all you've done for us." So, give it a shot. If you have someone, like I said, you want to do it, go for it. Uh second of all, uh uh the superintendent was there last week. They had the Ferryway International Food Night. Uh I understand you couldn't make it, Mr. Mayor. That's okay. He took it. He took two pates home for you. So, you're all set. Uh they did a great job as usual. Uh it's good to have it back. It was away for a while and they've done a good job with it as as always. Uh coming up on Wednesday, May 7th, we're having the walk, bike, and roll to school uh which has been put on by the safe roots of safe roots to school. Uh they're meeting at
07872 Ashlin Street and Lincoln Commons at 7:40. And they'll have groups walking to the Ferry Way starting at 7:45. And I was told there might be someone along the way that they might be able to wave to, but I'm not going to give his name, but he's chairman of this committee. Uh, next on uh Thursday, May 8th, Malden CPAC is having their meeting at the Ferryway School Library. Uh, if you want to attend, find if online, you go to Malden CPAC, they have a excuse me, they have a link you can hook up to if you want to do it online if you can't make it there in person. uh PTO and the SSC meeting is also is on Tuesday the 15th uh via Google meets again. Go to the PTO Ferryway website to get
079the link in. Uh ice cream Fridays is back starting June 16, I'm sorry, May 16th and runs to June 6th at the Ferryway. $2 cash only. Uh and from what I said, they went through a lot of ice cream last year. So, hey, good luck to them. Field days are going to be uh June 6th and June I'm sorry, June 2nd and June 3rd. K through 4 will be June 2nd. 5 through 8 will be June 3rd. Last but not least, uh well, happy to sin, but that's okay. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. And the Mother's Day breakfast will be held this Sunday from 9:30 to 11:30 at Anony's. Uh, Councelor Crow from Ward One is putting it on as always. And if you want to bring your mother out for
080a Mother's Day breakfast, it doesn't cost you anything. Donations are accepted if you'd like, but uh, come on down and do it. And I had something about a fairway dance, but I lost it. So, I apologize for that. But I'm sure the PTO will have it on their website. So, happy Mother's Day. Happy Cinco de Mayo. Nobody brought tequila. Have a good night. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know I should have cut you off just 30 seconds ago. Uh, all right. Uh, anybody else? Mr. Bernard. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just some brief announcements from the Salem Wooden. Um, uh, to second what Mr. Drum said is that this week is staff appreciation week and uh, uh, Miss Van wanted to go and send a thank you to the PTO for all the delicious
081food and snacks of the week. Um and on behalf the uh the administration, they want to thank each and every one of the staff for everything that they go and they do. And I as well to to every teacher that we go and uh that goes and serves our kids. Uh you do a heck of a job. Uh and I hear nothing but good news from from uh parents that talk to me. Um on Wednesday, May 7th, uh there is a uh 11 11:00 a.m. dismissal. So, please make sure that parents, please pick your child up at 11:00 a.m. Uh, and the last day of school is Friday, June 13th at 11:00 a.m. Um, just a thing from me, uh, unfortunately due to uh uh my other jobs commitments. I'm not going to be able
082to go and attend the graduation this year. So, I'm just going to go and send out a hearty congratulations to our senior class. Um, I wish I could be there. It's a fun time and um honestly uh it makes me proud to go and watch you all walk in uh through the stadium and and you know seeing seeing people that I I've known now for years uh being able to go and pick up that piece of paper. So uh again a hearty congratulations to them. Very good Miss Mlin. Thank you Mr. Mr. Chair, um just a few announcements from the ELC and Principal Lawrence. Um again, this is teacher educator appreciation week. The ELC will honor all of the wonderful educators throughout the week, celebrating the hard work and dedication of our educators. Um the
083second announcement is the color fun event will take place on Saturday, June 7th at uh from 2 to 4. The cost per person is $5. The event will take place at the LLC parking lot, uh, which will be closed. This is a super messy but big fun event for all our students and their families. Um, Principal Lawrence did a Tatcha flyer, so it does look like a lot of fun. It says, "Wear a white t-shirt and be showered in colored uh powder, music, and fun." Um, again, that's uh Sunday, May 18th from 2 to 4. And finally, the ELC moving on ceremony will take place Wednesday, June 11th and Thursday, June 12th. Save the date flyers have been sent home. And that's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Miss Mlin. Over to Miss Woody. Thank
084you, Mr. Chair. Again, thank you to all of our teachers during appreciation week. I think that goes without saying we appreciate you not only this week, but all the time. Um, also a belated happy administrative assistance day to Miss Megan, who we all know is the glue in the Forestdale main office who holds it all together for everybody in that building. So, Miss Megan, you are loved and appreciated if you didn't already know. Um, the next PTO meeting is Wednesday, May 14th at 6 PM on Google Meets. Um, more information can be found on the PTO Facebook page. The PTO is sponsoring the K to2 spring fling on Friday, May 30th. More information to follow. Save the dates. The spring coral concert will be on Wednesday, June 4th at 1 and the spring instrumental concert
085will be on Thursday, June 5th at 1. The concerts will be recorded so family me families and community members can see after the fact if they weren't able to attend in person. The drama club is getting ready for their spring production of The Little Mermaid. I have seen some amazing props and costumes being put together already, so I cannot wait. It will be May 21st and May 22nd at 6 PM in the auditorium. Um, we look forward to seeing you all there. Very good. And Miss Betaphor. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I have announcements for Miss Rose Zyberg in her absence tonight. So, coming out of Lynen, um again, this week is teacher appreciation week and there will be an ice cream truck for teachers on Wednesday and lunch from Santa Fe on Friday. Wednesday
086is safe routes to school. The mayor will be at Hawkidge Delta at the corner of Beach and Lawrence Street. Teachers will be at Steve's Corner and be at those locations at 7:40 to step off at 7:45 for their walk to school. Congratulations to the Model UN at Lynen. 20 students competed and out of 12 awards given out, Lynden won four of the 12 middle school model UN awards, better than any other school attending. So congratulations to them. Art music STEM night is May 20th 4 to 6 and help will be needed to set up the displays prior to that date. So please reach out. Special Olympics is June 6th and Lynden Field Day is June 10th with a rain date of June 11th. Volunteers will be needed throughout the day and they are um I
087guess still seeing if they can do a tie dye shirt event for the field day shirt. So, watch for news about that. Kindergarten moving on ceremony is June 5th at 1:15 and these will be in the individual classrooms. And the eighth grade moving on ceremony is June 12th at 10:00 a.m. with a dance following that night from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. And then on BB, May 7th again is walk and bike to school day. I will be at city hall at 7:40 a.m. stepping off at 7:45. Councelor Lena Hand will lead a group from Ambridge Park, uh the corner of Savin and Highland A. Same time, stopping off at 7:45. We already got Malden CPAC. May 8th, uh Salemwood Food Festival at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18th at Salemwood School, 1 to 4 p.m. Bright
088Minds, Quiet Spaces. I am co-hosting this with the city of Malden as well as the Malden Police Department. Fire will be there. It's a sensory friendly celebration for our neurodeiverse youth and families which will include community resources, sensory playrooms, snacks, um, and much more. Friday, May 9th at 400 pm will be the dedication of the James Jimmy T baseball field at Kirststead Park um with a barbecue. And then Friday, May 9th, a fundraiser to benefit the Malden Baseball team. If you eat at Santa Fe between 2:30 and 9:30 p.m., tell them that it's for Malden Baseball. The team will earn 30% of sales. And a big congratulations on the baseball mom over here to Malden baseball team right now, which are pretty much um I see frack out there. We're like the best of the
089best right now. So, um congratulations. They still have games. They still have games, but they are they are they are killing it. I mean, the globe can't get enough to write about them. So, I just want to give them a big congrats. Happy Mother's Day and a special happy birthday to my amazing granddaughter who is two years old today. So, Cinco de Emerson May. Ah, that's great. All right, there you have it. So, now uh I think Mr. Gray is good, right? Oh, Mr. Gray, I'm sorry. I think because I feel like there could be a Maplewood Fest coming up and I don't think we can hear you. Try if you want to try your mic. Yeah. Uh, can everybody hear me? No, we can't hear you. For some reason, I city council this issue
090on Tuesday and they couldn't hear. Um, it's uh the Maplewood Festival will be held May 18th, 10 to 4. May 17. We got you covered, Joe. Okay, thumbs up. All right, everyone. Now, we'll entertain a motion to go into executive session. Motion. Motion by Miss Bataphor, seconded by Mr. Bernard. Let's call the RO. Mayor Christensen. Yes. Mr. Drum? Yes. Mr. McCarthy? Yes. Miss Baphora? Yes. Miss Mlin? Yes, Miss Horty. Yes, Mr. Gray. Yes, Mr. Bernard. Yes, Mr. Rosberg. All right, that carries unanimously. School committee will now be in executive session. All right. This Oh, school committee's hereby called to order or back in order or whatever it is. Do I have any motions? Motion to adjourn. Yes. Made by Miss Mlin, seconded by Mr. Bernard. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed?
091The eyes have it. School committee is hereby adjourned.