001all right I apologize didn't mean to do that uh notice is hereby given that the Salem school committee is holding a regular school committee meeting of March 17th 2025 at 700 p.m. in person at 29 Highland Avenue room 227 you can also join via Zoom the link is in the meeting agenda uh first item of business is approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve the agenda so moved seconded motion made by member Cornell second by member Campbell all in favor any opposed seeing none the matter carries all right public comment the Salem school committee would like to hear from the public on issues that affect the school district and are within the scope of the committee's responsibilities Spanish interpretation is available for anyone who needs it the members of the school committee
002would like to remind the public that Salem public school students regularly attend school committee meetings we encourage all meeting participants to model respectful and productive public discourse for our Young Learners is there any public comment in the room hi everybody I'm Ben cherto um the coordinator of music for Salem um happy music in our schools month amongst other things going on I know every month seems to have something but March is music in our schools month um and if you've seen our calendar you would know that March is extremely busy for us um we are our high school groups have been out and about competing all over the state um we were in Salem New Hampshire this past weekend um very proud to report our percussion Ensemble is doing phenomenal they were actually just promoted
003um into a new class and are um very very competitive in their new class um right now they're in second place um in their division which is fantastic um our Junior Color Guard which is made of um made up of fourth through seventh graders across the district um is continuing to grow they received a silver medal this past weekend um and our senior Color Guard uh which is actually grades um 7 through 12 seventh grades a little bit of a transition year um is currently in first place in their division prepping for their championships on March 29th um actually right here at Salem High School we're very fortunate that um we get to host several facilities and they get several home shows so if you're around on the 29th um please come out and join
004us I believe they're on um the juniors are on at like 11:30 something in the morning 38 yeah there were very specific intervals and they they yell at us to get out of there once we're done so uh 11:38 for the juniors and I believe 3:30 for the senior Color Guard um we hope you'll come out and support um this week is Tech week um actually Miss Tucker and I were just downstairs wrapping up a rehearsal for Frozen Jr um that's this weekend Thursday Friday at 700 and Saturday at 2 um and then uh next week uh is something new for us we've moved our All City concerts um out of sort of the mcast May Mayhem uh we've moved them back into march to celebrate music in our schools month so we're going to
005try that out this year um next Wednesday night at the high school at 6:30 is our All City concert grades 4 through 12 um and then at 7:30 um is a new addition we have a small Ensemble and Jazz evening uh featuring the jazz bands at Colin salt and stall and the high school along with the brass Ensemble and the flute Ensemble and then the next evening is our um band and Orchestra um hoopla in the Fieldhouse at 6:30 for the band and 7:30 in the auditorium for the orchestra um and then um April 1st we sleep so and I will sign in so I hope you're able to come out and support us um the kids have been working hard um certainly want to shout out all of the music teachers and staff that
006have um been guiding the students um and hope you'll hope to see you around can I just ask Ben a question am I typically do uh public comment is not a dialogue with it's a date question a clarification of a date I could have said something wrong I'm going to ask my question which is uh did you email that to us about the 29th I know you emailed us a couple things I think the 29th is on that list of big dates that are on there so thank you all right thank you very much and if it's not I'll email you when I get home just said any other comment I had a question but here we go I just want to thank Ben shto for his did I lose something here mic came apart
007okay I somewhere here all right I just want to thank Ben for his leadership and the work he's done uh with the group this year he's done a fabulous job so I just want to commend uh Ben it's it's been a pleasure seeing the growth and continued evolution of our music programs under his leadership so thank you is there any is there any comment online nope all right seeing none we have approval of the consent agenda these are the minutes of the regular school committee meeting of March 3rd the special school committee meeting on March 11th approval of a field trip to brewer main for the high school music department um move to approve and approval of the warrants of March 6th and March 13th move move to approve the consent agenda seconded motion made
008by member Cruz seconded by member Campbell I I don't have it open in front of me here yet um where where is the field trip in main where are they going it's not the music it's not the music program it's the volleyball team but what where did you say they go two brewer main oh okay thank you yeah and this it I'll note in the consent agenda it says the high school music department but it is the volleyball program that's why Angie's here that's why Angie's here that makes sense now we know motion is made any further discussion not all in favor of approval any opposed seeing none the matter carries student representative's report good evening everyone um unfortunately I was not able to meet last week due to illness I was sick but thank
009goodness I've recovered now but um today we met and we talked about announcing like Monday crew meetings on the announcements and we also talked about and having on the TVs around the school we would have we would post what was on the announcements that were announced today that way people who might have missed announcements are coming late can still still see the announcements in the school because there is a large amount of TVs and they have been they have been being used but um in the group today we are just talking about things that we could do to help with people who might just be tardy and miss something so that's what all we talked about than any questions forar no all right we'll move on to superintendent report all right thanks uh mayor um
010just a couple of quick announcements um and then um get into the meat of the agenda um I just want to share that the Collins musical is this week uh Thursday March 20th Friday March 21st uh both at 7 o'clock and then Saturday mat at 2 o'clock it is um Frozen Jr looking forward to it a lot of talent amongst our students and um we we've been sharing on social media and different places where you can buy tickets uh $8 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens I do want to share the good news that Salem public schools has uh been two uh efforts around teacher diversification we did receive the teacher divers diversification Grant from the Department of Ed again this year um we I think we got maybe three quarters of
011what our asks were specifically around incentives for tuition reimbursement for um additional tuition reimbursement and um uh and also um relocation um uh funds as well and then we also got accepted into the registered teacher apprenticeship grant that the state has for looking at the um uh creating an apprenticeship model which uh you know it's we're in the exploratory phase with Salem State of what that would look like but those are two um two areas that we've just received notification around so that's exciting um and you'll see from my goals tonight that one of my goals is to try to organize um our district better around our recruitment pipelines into the um into uh the district so you'll see that in my goals later tonight I also want to share that uh very exciting that
012we have a new video remote interpretation um uh opportunity that started this week through a grant we are able to purchase devices uh iPads to provide live video interpretation through our line Bridge vendor at each of the schools and departments so that they can uh not only have you beyond just the phone they can use iPads to have um live conversations with uh interpreters and in predominantly in languages that we don't offer translation and uh uh sorry translation um I also want to note that um next week is the walkthrough for the Bentley dual language program with the school committee it's on March 25th from 800 to 9:30 if you have an RSVP and you would like to attend Bentley would love to see you there I know we have a number of members who
013are able to attend um and we will also and I think Margaret will speak to this we also want to um have site visits to other um high schools for the school committee to visit so that'll be the next iteration iteration of visits we want you to see other high schools uh get a mental model what they could look like and so we will be organizing through Shirley opportunities for school committee members to visit as well um so with that uh we can go into the agenda for the evening um so the big update um I'm gonna do my goals at the end what's that Campell sorry I just you're segwaying somewhere else did you say that we were accepted into the registered teacher awesome that's yes we were yes um that's my understanding Laura
014right I'm correct on that yes thank you um I don't want to be giving false information out there and just telling making up stories but I I believe that we were accepted um so the um the the main topic for today is uh the school building authority update um we promised that we' cut last meeting that we were going to come back to uh share some revisions to the education plan the space summary uh and then we also have um some new MSB items which is our ongoing um acceleration repair of buildings which we'll get to after but if we could uh we have Margaret Wood who's our project manager here we have Kim Carter who works on her team are we waiting for somebody else Margaret or okay um and and we also have
015Glenn Burns here as well um since our last meeting a lot of work has been done uh around the education plan and the space summary you have copies in front of you and Margaret I guess I'll let you Orient folks to what they have in front of them so if you want to come up to the mic okay so um Dr Z how much time do you want to take for for this for my share of this CU I want to not overextend my time as you say there's a lot 10 15 minutes and then give them an opportunity to ask questions and then great all right so for context sort of taking you back to when I first met you all in um October I think so we did make on time the submission
016of What's called the preliminary design program to the msba it's the first step in meeting their funding requirements I call the submission the due diligence submission it's um over 4,000 pages long um we're going to get it uh Chris and I were just talking about how we're going to sort of get it posted because I consider it a public document but the part of it that is the school committee part of it is the is the educational program and as it relates to that the space summary so um you have a bunch of documents before you um I'm just going to talk about a couple of them and then ask questions about a couple of them so um I believe Shirley gave you all a copy of the um table of contents so that you
017can sort of see like the this is again a this is a piece of the due diligence um we're not going to talk about that tonight unless you have questions um you have you should have a copy of the educational program which had was in pretty good shape when we came a couple of weeks ago we kind of tweaked it and spend some time aligning it to make sure that what was in the space summary if it was in the space summary it was in the Ed program and vice versa added some additional language I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about that um you should also have a copy of a different version of this gigantic pages and Pages document that you need um a magnifying glass to read um I'm
018also not going to really talk on about this what I do want to talk about a little bit are two things so one is the variance document which I think is useful it's a requirement of the submission it's a couple of pages of material do you have the variance document nope that's in your packet that was in your packet the variance document and so wasn't the table contents yeah okay so um so what's useful about the variance document is that it's just a couple of pages it's in 12o script um type and it goes through piece by piece the places in which we differed from the msba template um I think sometimes folks come to this process thinking that the template is the model for this no the template is the model for Equity across
019the state that the msba uses they recognize that every district is different but they use it as a way of establishing standards for what they will reimburse on so in this case you know we think um best uh best guess right now um the city will get approximately 50% maybe a little less than 50% reimbursement on every square foot of space that is within the template and so it's important for you all to understand that some things are outside the template so in some cases and the big categories that are outside the template are special educ ation which the msba understands is really unique to each district and they don't attempt to template it not least of all because the more High needs your District the more the more you need the reimbursement um the
020second area is um CTE career and Technology education and that's because these programs are actually I would say changing pretty quickly and evolving and they have not yet come up with the template so you have big chunks of space that are excluded in both of those categories so um if you all does do folks have the it sounds like you all don't have a hard copy of the variance document it's it's in there it's in in the electronically in their packet I'm not going to go through this um piece by piece not least of all because I don't have a hard copy up in front of me either but I will sort of Hit the highlights so um I'm just just going to go category by category so on their core academic space you're a
021little bit over we have recommended to the district that they do a utilization study um because we think the msba will come back and ask that question but you're very close on that art and music um you are over the msba template is 6700 Square ft and we are at 14 now that's driven by parts of what you just heard from Ben so Salem has a very robust music um and uh performing arts program so they're pieces of that um where we've got more classrooms than the msp's limited amount uh let's see health and PE the msba reimburses on 21800 we have 13860 I think on that one um we don't know yet whether it's going to be new construction or renovation we're looking at options that would preserve the field house but we did
022decide that um even if we built a new building this program needs a gem of an equivalent size so the current Fieldhouse accommodates three side by-side basketball courts a new gym if if that option is selected by the school commit by the building committee would be approximately the same size so that's a big chunk of that because the msba I'm not going to say I don't I want to use the word stingy because that sounds negative has a negative connotation but their reimbursement the area that they Define as reimbursable is kind of smaller than most high schools would want of the size uh the media center is very close to the MSB templet Auditorium and drama we talked about a little bit last time um where we landed we did a lot of uh talking
023to various folks various staff at the school as well as other consultant and um we landed with in this what the building committee Rec voted on we landed on an auditorium that is pretty much at the msba standard which seats uh it's I'm going to show you a couple pictures of of similar spaces your current Auditorium seats on Rise are 635 people the one that we are proposing with seat 690 but it would not have the flat area that you all are familiar with that's between the stage and the seating the kinds the comments that we heard about this were first of all um several people spoke up in favor of focusing on as long as the as the auditorium wasn't smaller than the proposed focusing on making an auditorium that was ideal for educational
024purposes and therefore the idea was to make a make an auditorium that seated at least as many folks as you have brought the stage forward allowed it to be a really sort of functional stage and Auditorium in the way it's not and then to provide other spaces for other kinds of activities so we have kept in at least for the moment a blackbox uh space which would give a lot of flexibility for both music and drama as well as other activities in the school and then there are also spaces for Cor specific spaces for chorus and other types of music so that area is over um it's about it's not quite double but it's the msba template would give us 9500 Square ft and we're at 167 dining and Food Service sorry there's a question
025here Mary yeah when you talked about um several people spoke up and said that as long as the space wasn't smaller than than six I forget exactly how you put it but something above it I maybe I missed you might have said at the beginning where were where were these um several people coming from CU I didn't hear anybody here say that no so where so we have there's a couple different places so we this is from um we have a design working group which has four members of the building committee on on it um Rick Jones Paul V Betsy richer Elli and Matt for Mah so we've been meeting with them in particular I would say um Paul V professionally um is someone who has worked on a lot of schools and specifically on
026aour auditoriums and Performing Art spaces and he I think his voice was the strongest in saying you should really be thinking of the space in terms of it's being a primary educational use and making it work for that um we also talked to Folks at the school including the principal and um Ben was part definitely a big part of that discussion as well so I think that was it does that answer your question sure okay um admin and guidance we have a little bit of additional space but I'm going to talk a little bit about the ways we're going to configure it to make it different than the kind of spaces we have now we're over on C stodal and maintenance but the msba template is very limited and then we have some additional spaces
027that are outside of the program that you have already including the school store The Clothing Connection the J roty spaces and Northshore health so we understood from our meetings with folks that those are things that you have and those are things that you need to continue so that's kind of the big picture of where we landed any other questions about that okay so um the last thing and this is probably the most entertaining is this hand out mar mar do do you just want to can I just interrupt do you want to say I mean we still have work to do still on the CTE spaces I don't know if you yeah we're going to get into that um because we we do our CT spaces seem to be larger than what comparable schools might
028have so we need to do some due diligence around those spaces um and we do have a lot of classroom spaces um in our proposal that and Glenn and I did work on trimming that down um based on the number of kids projected we are still probably over on classroom spaces so we have to look um we have to continue to look at what's absolutely needed we we obviously want to air a little bit on the side of having some flexibility because obviously we we we want to we believe that the numbers of kids will go up and we don't want to be stuck with a crowded school but we also have to be judicious in looking at those spaces so there's still work to be to be done um and that's you know Glenn
029and I were looking or Glenn was really looking at the schedule trying to figure out how many classes for example how many science classes at during one period of time would be necessary so that we're you know you you as much as right now we we're operating in a much larger building than what we need and so people are used to having a lot of space because you have a building that was close was was intended to fit close to 2,000 kids uh and so there's a we all have to adjust a little bit and we're struggling to adjust to the fact that the reality is we we have few fewer students anyway you slice it than when Salem High was built and so and we don't have unlimited funds to build this you know
030monstrosity of a building with just extra space so that's the kind of work that still needs to be done we've gotten closer to it I think it's fair to say all the way there we took about uh 35,000 square ft out of the program since the last time you we saw you and it was a very collegial collaborative effort of like just moving pieces around making sure that anything could that could be reimbursed was in the reimbursable category so but there there is more work to do there and I think um the square footage of the building drives the cost of the building it's the single biggest driver so if you shrink the footage you shrink the cost to the taxpayers and I think that's really important because at the end of the day you
031want to have people come out and support the project the other thing that you shrink when you shrink the building is the operating cost because you're shrinking the amount of energy that you need to operate the building the number of people you need to maintain the building all of those things Cruz I just had a question on the line of the the CTE programs so I understand that we're we're wanting to do more due diligence uh Dr re um there's not a lot of comprehensive high schools that offer CTE programs the vision for a lot of those programs is really narrow so is your thinking that we would go and look at some of the regional V techs to see what they're offering for programming um I think as we know cbte um has really
032um in the regional voke text they've really got a lot of innovative programs that are tied to direct labor needs and they're building their builds out based on future Workforce so I just want to make sure that we have like an expansive view as we think about uh CBT and what we offer because it is um uh the kids are voting with their feet with respect to engaging in those programs uh and our regional vetech neighbors and competitors are definitely um they're at The Cutting Edge of those types of facilities so I just want to make sure that that's the thinking is that we would go out and learn from those models um rather than just like the few comprehensive high schools that still have like uh the CVT cvte offerings yeah I mean I
033think we we I the good news is you know because of Mario's leadership and Glenn's leadership there has been a lot of discussion about you know we've expanded uh already some of the shops that we offer you know in it we got approved for that we're limited by what we can expand to because if the Regional Vocational has certain programs we can't offer dup duplicative programs um and unless they unless unless they would they unless they agree to it but I think we so I we've added the graphics design we've added um carpentry we've welding and Metal Fab is in there yeah as well welding Metal Fab is the new one that we're projecting um that will support many of our other programs that we currently have yeah thank you I I would just name
034that the the current number of seats that we're offering uh with our regional V Tech very limited compared to the number of students that are taking those courses at Salem High and it seems like there's been some openness with the relationship with Essex Tech on things like duplication so um I get that's where I'm coming from is uh I would rather know that hundreds of students have access here in Salem than um just a portion of the student body that are going there yeah I'm not sure we would be approved for anything more than what we already have because we are projecting almost three4 of the student population to be in CTE programs so I'm not you know I think we've expanded to the extent that we possibly can unless our enrollment goes way up
035we have no waiting lists in our programs there aren't kids you know we're fortunate that we've been able to I mean we've really done the expansion over the last three or four years and so heading into the new building I'm not sure we can reasonably could request more than what we already have um in terms of spaces I think the question is like some of the spaces are significant ific L bigger than even some of the Voca the um Regional Vocational spaces are and that does add to the total costal and so like it was helpful for Paul who's a Salem resident is on the building committee to walk the space with Margaret and I and say you know do you really need like triple the amount of space that you have right now and
036it was helpful to get that perspective I mean he's done this work so it's not about you know we don't want to um we're not looking to compromise or sort change the spaces I think we need to right size just a little bit um yeah I would say the process that we need to go through right now is to actually lay out the spaces so you know there's the msba has a template at size for a standard classroom and it's between 850 and 900 square feet and if you're teaching in a core academic space you know you're going to have somewhere between 25 and 28 kids in the room and that that's that works just fine these are different because every the activity that's going on every room is different and you literally have to
037lay out the space for the technical use to figure out what size it is we have not done that work yet okay so that it's not we're not trying to shrink them we're trying to understand where the numbers the guestmas that were put in here for areas are the right estimates and I think we have to more have more conversations with the teachers themselves in the spaces it was very helpful to talk to the electrical teacher the day that we were there to talk to the carpent uh the um construction cluster teacher teacher I mean that's the kind of we need to do more of that yeah um so we understand uh better how to how to utilize and design those spaces to be effective the other thing I just want to sorry to interrupt
038I just want to add so Perkinson will who's the design lead actually has a kind of national reputation for these kinds of spaces so we're looking by having them on the team and they will be the plan is to bring in have sort of a half day thing event where we have meet with the teachers for these areas independently do layouts of the spaces have experts and say have you tried this have you tried that so we want to bring in the perspective of what folks are doing in other schools but it's definitely not about you know shrinking the spaces it's about right sizing them yeah that understood on my part and thank you for that uh I guess my last question on this Dr Dr is you mentioned that there's no weit list for
039the programs at Salem High School uh would you just be able to as a followup uh for the committee give us a sense of what the weit list is for SX tech for all Salem students um that apply not just those that are um in our public system but even in some of those competitive um competitor districts that are within Salem and then uh and just the total weight list at essextech I'd just like to have a sense of that as we continue to yep move forward absolutely thanks they remaining yeah um when you say that the current square footage that the uh state looks at is for a regular classroom um 900 to 850 to 900 MH is there a different size for the Middle School yes it's smaller I couldn't tell you what
040it is off the top of head it's definitely sized it's about the body size yep cuz because at the time I didn't know if it was 7:50 just because it's a middle school or because I'm guessing at 750 to 800 but the time yeah but that the the old rooms here are 900 and the addition is 750 and we found at the high school the rooms are either 7:15 or 8:50 and that tells you that the High School classrooms now are undersized which is one of the very first things that made my ears perk up in the public meetings was the teacher came and said you our classrooms are too small yeah yeah thank you I had one other question so back to the auditorium um so can you just tell me like what the
041next step is on that because um you you and I don't mean you personally but the presentation was for a 690 or whatever mhm then we raised some concerns from a more more of a broader City perspective I think so then now you've come back and said like um the design team and in particular and I forget the gentleman's last name but Paul oh Paul theica yeah who I you know have no doubt I don't know him but I have no reason to think he's doesn't know what he's talking about um and that the high school wanted the you know was talking about the I guess it everyone's that I've talking about so far that I've mentioned just now is looking at it from just the school perspective and I get that because when I'm
042was doing that at my school I was looking at from the school perspective absolutely you know and I would you know um um surprisingly or not be quite vicious in going after folks who wanted to take something away um but I guess I'm I'm curious about what the what the step is for this because the topic that I'm concerned about and I think some of us were concerned about wasn't just the school topic it's the city's only Gathering Place yep so my concern is that issue's been raised now does the Fullers design team who special in designing schools mhm where where where does the decision come from now because they looking at it from a totally different perspective I think than some of us are so so I let me say so we presented this
043to the building committee and they have they have voted on it um we have we we went around and asked various folks um about how whether there were ever events that filled up both the the flat seating and the and the Riser seating we didn't hear that that's a common Occurrence at all and I think it might have been Rick who said to me today that you don't design an auditorium for you know a once a year use I mean that that's why the msba pushes on this to sort of keep it smaller because they have the msba has a situation where a lot of communities um build want to build an auditorium for their town meeting right I mean imagine Framingham when Framingham was a city wanting to build an auditorium for town meeting
044so they want it to be for educational purposes and it was helpful to me when we I was listening to all these discussions to hear that I want to just let's take a look at this briefly because I don't want to overstay my time here and I'm gonna kind of go backwards through this because I I put together um well Perkins and will put together um at Dr zk's request a 100 aspirational photographs of spaces which I've asked Shirley to share with you um and I could not print uh in today 100 full full full bleed pages so I took I pulled out um images around that were of the issues that particularly came up in the uh Ed programming discussion so if we just sort of start I'm I'm not going to talk to
045each of these but I'm going to just say that every page here represents a discussion that was part of the Ed program in the space summary so the first page is small learning environments which are something that you don't have now but which are built into this program so it's the ability to take a couple of kids or a small group of kids outside but adjacent to a classroom and do work um the next page shows four Images um they're kind of side by side just showing um what we heard a lot about flexibility so this is the same space opened up this is the same space opened up so that kind of thinking about how you could go from having a smaller room to a bigger room was something we got a lot of
046feedback on the next page is kind of the same it's allowing indoor space to open up to outdoor space and using Corridor space as as uh teaching and learning space the next page is a series of pictures of the kinds of maker spaces that we heard that the community that the school Community was interested in then there is a page of um shared kind of what the sort of current word is Commons like a shared Commons for uh teaching and learning or collaboration the next page shows some smaller spaces for teaching teacher collaboration and team projects again we you know put these together as aspirational photographs of things we heard about there are a few spaces of recreation but I think the one I want to point you to then there's a page on Performing
047Arts so couple of pictures of a black box if if folks have not seen one um picture of a performing art space that's about the square footage of the one that we've included but on this page almost at the end where the big purple photograph these two images on the right are images of two um Auditorium that are the same can you so you go almost sand look for the purple one down in the corner okay everybody there these two pictures are I want to say this the one on the top is Belmont and the one on the bottom is stonum I believe I think I've got that right so these are two Auditorium of the size that we are talking about they are both they were both designed to the msba template they would
048both seat they both seat 690 students and we do have the ability to go see them so back to what the superintendent was mentioning at the beginning I think it would be great for folks to go see it uh the last page here then shows some visual art spaces so again I I asked Shirley to send the link um with all of the images because it's a huge file if you want to see these up close but Mary back to your point this is the recommendation that we made to the building committee and they voted on that on the 13th no it was the week before my brain is going soggy anyway the building committee has voted to recommend this is the space summary so what is in here is based on the 690 student
049seating but we've also included the black box thank you just had I mean I think there had been some healthy discussion too about the black box versus you know at one point it was out but there was interest in the part of the principal and uh the music program to have have it um I I think it would be difficult to do both right in terms of space yeah you would have to you could make a much bigger Auditorium but you'd lose have you'd end up having to lose the black box right which I I I you know I think it's a compelling feature to have in a school um and it allows for more flexibility um yeah at the school level but there there was a lot of healthy back and forth about this
050including with the staff at the school level about this I think from the purposes of the school we don't I mean the conversation was we didn't need a bigger audit you know a bigger Auditorium the conversation about the city you know that's a that's not for the schools to decide if the city want wanted to have a bigger space that's for the city to decide but I think from the purpose of the school they'd rather have the small well I it's not a smaller Auditorium but a the the regular size Auditorium and have a blackbox that allows for some pretty unique experiences for kids so yeah and again I I couldn't find anyone that could tell me that there's ever been a situation where the 635 seats have all been filled for an event so
051that helps me think about it as well we're we're at a number now that works for the current School we're increasing it a bit and that is in recognition of the fact that we expect the high school enrollment is going to continue to increase in the near term so did that answer your question good okay um I apologize because I wasn't at the um the building committee meeting last time but just looking at these I just have this is like a very specific question but it just struck me is it um is it less expensive to have glass interior walls is that why there are so many in the design no I just have I'm just wondering if the teachers noted it at all because I have taught in a Perkinsville designed fancy new building
052and teaching in a fishbowl is not always easy because even I get very distracted as I'm teaching so I'm just curious if anybody has mentioned that because it's not my favorite as a teacher yeah so I just want to like throw that out there so I think um nobody's commented on that issue but I believe they will yeah first of all and I agree with you um I think where the transparency issue has come up is that people were pretty enthusiastic about these huddle spaces as long as there was transparency between you know a teacher takes a subset of kids and has said go over there and do this they want some transparency there but the level of transparent I mean you know they obviously you take pictures of the glass right it doesn't all
053necessarily look like that but I hear you thanks I I do have another question on on the third page of photos in the flexible spaces y because I I I'm I think you know enough that I'm you know I'm going to be like very obvious or or you know I'm not hiding how I feel about some of this stuff and when I was looking at some of the photos before at the forums and I was looking I'm thinking like there's all these big spaces in these places you're showing us and and I'm picturing like heating the Salem High Library are having car races in the corridors that the city has like you know dealt with since the 70s yeah and I'm looking at the Belmont or wherever you were showing and again there were these
054big spaces and I'm still seeing them so I'm looking on like like like on flexible spaces you're talking about this page that has the sort of indoor outdoor room yeah like well in the square footage it's just the building right it's not the grounds I mean this that's true yeah so so I well I think let me just say where I think this one is applicable is that the reason I thought this image was a good one for this discussion tonight we know um that there are uh a number of CTE spaces that have to be located on the ground floor because they want to be able to go in and out to open up a door or a space and be able to sort of move either move things in and out or take
055an activity outside so this space I does not look like that to me because I think it sort of looks like a standard classroom but I I think it's a good stand in for this notion that a certain specific group and I want to say there are about four of these programs so welding carpentry electrical these are all spaces that would benefit from the ability to open up a a big door and and go outside and do work to move an activity outside well I just I just want to also say too and and um from a communication standpoint um Chris odonnell and the superintendent and I met recently about how we need to sort of double down a little bit about communicating out better to both this body and to the community so like
056it's it's and I only know this from sitting on the committee like there are entire groups on the committee because committee is big how many people are on it over like I mean there's 25 people yeah there's about 25 so in addition to like the um Perkinson will told us that they've never seen a community that had this many like qualified people sitting on their on their um building committies so me me either yeah so folks know what they're doing but what so it's like you have got a whole subset of people whose um professional specialty is you know efficiency and and environmental responsibility in addition The Firm has an entire team of people who also do that so it's like we're getting because we're not on the the design committee we're getting the overview
057from here but it's like I would just urge my colleagues on the committee to trust the process because every single one of these things that we all care deeply about is addressed every single meeting whether it's Transportation or sustainability uh we talk a lot about the impact on the city because that that building is a huge drain and how we're going to you know that the point is to become Net Zero which is a term I did not know before I was on this committee so it's hard to say to everybody who's you know we represent the whole city but like we do have to trust the process this stuff is there's a lot of very um well-qualified people who are constantly asking these questions so by the time it gets to us on school
058committee it's been answered six times already like we have to trust that folks are are you know exercising their their you know professional due diligence because they are I would just point out that I think our due diligence is to make sure that we're factchecking the process I I I understand there are qualified people on the building committee I've been on building committees but I also understand that that can take on a life of its own and some of us who have worked in schools and what know what school needs for a long time then we would be wrong not to ask questions to just trust that the process has taken place I don't think would be the I don't think is what we should do unless as you say we get start getting more
059communication from the building committee but to just say trust the process because these people know what they do the only things I'm seeing from them are the pictures of the Belmonts and the whatever that have the big Open Spaces like some of these are still showing and been on the other side of the fence I know people in the schools are going to say yeah we want that we need that that that's good and I get it and you know and it's most of that stuff is good but I still think our job is to make sure that you know I mean it's it's the school committee and then ultimately the city the people in the city paying this percentage of the bill that the msba isn't going to pay so if we're not fact
060check Che checking and questioning things and looking at at at uh and you know to just say relax and Trust I can't do that on something like this I I also just want to push back a little bit and and remind you that I'm sorry mayor can I Cornell thank you uh the mayor and the superintendent and I are all on this committee but when we're talking about the taxpayers who are paying the bill that is who was on this committee so we've got teachers 22 of them we've got teachers we've got a lot of community members we have students so um I'm not saying don't ask questions like that would be crazy none of us should none of us should just sit back and and never ask a question but I do think there
061there are some things that like the mayor put this committee together with the superintendent I think that we have to trust our neighbors and our and our teachers who are on that committee and me and the mayor and the superintendent that we're doing our jobs um so that was the only point I think I think it's fine to ask obviously we should ask whatever we want but um you know I'm on the committee I I just have one last comment I just want one answer I know that but I think it was it was quite a while ago that I requested that a report from the building committee be put on our agenda every meeting and the the reports that we're getting are when Margaret shows up when uh uh folks from um I don't
062know whatever the name is Perkinson well yeah um are here to bring all this stuff and the the regular ongoing which might be reassuring reports from the committee is not the same and that and we're not we're not seeing those so Margaret's here out was and here's my chance to ask questions yet every every time there's a meeting that item is on the agenda so I want to trust the committee but I don't know what I don't I don't hear much from the committee it is also recorded every single time we have a meeting so I just have to continue to say that it's available on satv to all community members every single one is available so I just want to reiterate that not for you personally but for everyone that we're there's a we
063can all keep up with what's happening at every single meeting yeah but you are representative and I don't want to look at the whole meeting on TV I want my school committee representative to bring me up to date on what's going on at these meetings member Cruz I'm just going to jump in on decorum we're a a deliberate body we have a member request for just regular updates on the agenda I think that's a petition coming from a member so if we could just include that uh and then I think we can defer to the superintendent to make sure that we're getting reports that are uh both I think what's happening here today which Margaret we always appreciate when you come to the meetings but some sampling of just written stuff I know folks process
064uh in different ways on the committee so um that that's in line with other processes that we've had in the district in the past with you know these concurrent processes that roll up to the school committee so you know that that's just how I would say we should follow up just to make sure that folks are at a place of comfort moving forward with just um you know what's coming out of U these types of reports so that way we can do some more work on the back ends I would just I mean I think one of the things that's important for for all of us committee myself is to do some visits to to schools because I do think that is an opportunity with the designer to give feedback like I for me I'm
065just going to speak for myself it's hard to look at pictures and look at P these I mean I'm kind of sick of looking at all these numbers on this big thing but I do think it's an Mary to I think it's important that we whoever is interested that we go see some schools and we can give feedback to the designers about the kinds of things we want to see and don't want to see I think that that's an for the school committee to have their handprints on this project and that's a that's something that's only afforded to members of the committee me members of Glenn staff will do their own visits but I think I haven't been to one of these schools yet it hasn't been afforded to us and they've already passing votes
066on things that are decisions I'll let Margaret speak to that and we have not been on one visit I have never said I wouldn't go on a visit to a school I'm waiting to go but I that's the stage we're in right now but well we're not I'm not thrilled to go look at other auditoriums if they've already voted or not what's the point why go look at auditoriums take me to something they haven't voted on maybe but seems a little behind the eightball to be going to look at auditoriums now when a committee of Salem citizens on the on this building committee and wils and whatever wills and some I can't remember that name have made their decision on what the auditorium is going to be like all right okay so I'm couple things
067so first of all I hate listening to meting recordings too but we are taking really good meeting minutes that include images of all the stuff that's being shown and you all should we will I will make a point making sure that when we are circulating the meeting minutes to the building committee for their vote that you get a chance to see them too I mean I think if we do that for those of you that it's easier to scroll through something than listen to a two-hour meeting which is what these meetings are that is dead easy and we're going to be meeting at least every month and probably in the next few months almost every two weeks so um that will be an opportunity to do that I think um I would definitely call the
068auditorium decision made in terms of square footage but these Auditorium that are available for you to see are significantly different in in other aspects of what they're connected to what they're adjacent to how they fit in the building and the question of the black box is still on the table we have kept it in the program we are definitely interested in feedback so um we it is a the perfect time to go and look at schools because I think this is an opportunity now that we've done this due diligence part to get feedback on what that means what that looks like and the space summary is subject to change but I think it would have to be something where everybody would come together and say well we really want to change this so we do
069want to get the visits done soon other questions member Campbell I was just going to flag though for um I appreciate you offering to send them around the minutes are posted on the website though I've it's been really helpful for me personally to review them because I also don't want to watch every single committee meeting we have a lot of them but um I know you guys are doing a tremendous amount of work to organize that site and put them up there um and so they are there to be reviewed whoever is doing that somebody thank you um and I do also appreciate the updates that we get pretty regularly from ba so I think the degree to which you want to be involved is available but I think the circulation of the would be
070helpful so we're not digging thank you any other comments or questions around the space summary or presentation uh I just had a couple of questions about items in the space summary that y might prompt some questions under the uh chapter 74 programs the daycare which is existing at 4500 square ft and does not appear under the new construction section so do you want to talk about that well we were going to keep one classroom in uh for the day we're not we weren't going to build the building for a full daycare I mean we're not we weren't going to put the space in for a full daycare we were going to have just one classroom for the CTE program to utilize uh if we wanted to look at um a full I mean we we're
071fortunate now to have the space to accommodate a larger scale but we didn't want to use all our square footage on building for um preschool students if a new building option is chosen yeah if a new build thank you for clarifying that um and we also have um options for preschool classrooms at horse man that is that is on the same campus which affords our students the opportunity to to walk literally out the door just across the way to access those programs if they want to you know participate in internships and so forth so that's why the we wanted to maintain at least one classroom space but not have a full uh preschool in the high school building so my other question is related to The District storage space I know we've talked about that
072before but that's another yeah so for those of you that uh we we use the high school building right now for a lot of District storage and so that has come up in multiple conversations but what we're going to do with uh we have all our um our outdoor equipment for our grounds crew there we have a lot of our food distribution is out of there we have a lot of our custodial supplies out of there so I think Margaret is safe to say we're looking at different options um to uh and there's some discussion about do we keep the automotive center as a storage facility of some kind uh there um and so I think that Perkinson will are looking at the possibilities of that I don't know if you want to say more
073because we're just concerned about making sure we have enough space across the district for the supplies for the storage that we currently utilize at Salem High so I mean this is the msba you know back to the you know how they use the um space template to establish Equity um they they reimburse on a pittance of what most schools need elementary middle or high school this is a situation where the high school existing high school has a lot of space so there is a huge gap and I'm talking about 9,000 foot difference between what Z uses and needs and what the msba template would reimburse on so it was a late breaking idea in the process that we might keep the CNO Center and actually I will say it was Z's idea initially um but
074we all looked at it and thought it was a great idea keep the CNO Center so if you look at the options uh if like Amanda you were looking at the minutes from the last meeting you would not see the CNO Center on the site plans yet because it came up so late but that's as they as the design team moves forward in the next phase they're going to be looking at that because then we don't have to build that space for them we get to build the CTE space that we need and the CNO Center becomes something else so as a Le breaking item are you looking to bring the automotive programs that are based in the CNO center right now into the new building yes yeah and that's where back to my question
075about the rollup doors that was why I put that example in was you will have spaces in this building like Automotive I think like welding probably like carpentry where you're going to want to be able to roll up a door and be able to operate inside outside any other comments or questions I just want to um note that the principal's office is going from 510 ft to 375 so it's right size that's what the msba wasted space in that there's too much Buffalo Bill stuff in that office oh God yes okay thank you Al set thanks Margaret um so sticking on Ms msba there are two uh aspects of the msba program that we participate in one is the core project which we're very fortunate to have this large core project which is the uh
076Salem High high school project but there's also the opportunity to take advantage of accelerated repairs uh which uh nothing precludes a district from participating in both and we're going to take full advantage of the opportunity to participate in both to upgrade our other facilities and so uh there's an item on here we do need a vote for hopefully a vote from the school committee to support an application for two accelerated repair projects which Lisa golden is going to share or Elizabeth maybe you were supposed to do that introduction so did it perfectly okay uh so thank you Lisa okay thank you uh so last year we had the opportunity to go into the 2024 statement of Interest period for the accelerated repair program and um we came last year with a statement of interest for
077baits for the roof that has moved on and is now this year gone into the feasibility study most recently this year they recently just opened um the statement of Interest consideration period for 20125 and so working with the city and working um on the school end uh we are submitting statements of interest and it's in your packet the um drafts of the statement of interest uh for Carlton and for Horus man and this would be the opportunity for the roof and the HVAC systems for both schools so that's what you're going to see um in your packet uh both schools um the descriptions are in there for you uh basically the roofs are in both schools are over 23 years old and way past uh the time that they should have been replaced by now
078and um the HVAC systems need to be also updated um and in our effort uh as the city to decarbonize a new word for me since taking over coming into these lots of words about boilers HVAC rooftop systems um so that's all outlined and basically the SOI submission which basically is saying the superintendent has permission from this body to submit the statements of interest on behalf of Horseman and Carlton is that it city council already worked on it last week approved it last week they did their part last week any questions we looking for a motion to uh yeah we'll take we'll do it under motion vo langu okay I'm sorry and this uh this does have a deadline right yes it does the deadline which is why we're here tonight is everything has to
079be submitted on Friday March 21st all right questions thank you thank [Applause] you yes uh I don't know what happened what happened to your microphone my microphone Sor yeah Shirley I'm G need some I'm not I'm not BL bluring you shley but together Shirley we're GNA fix this microphone Shirley fixes it all all right so uh my goals um for this upcoming school year um were not in your packet but I provided them to you um by email and then you have a hard copy um I just want to quickly run through them so you have them and I um I would like um I would like to put this on the table we don't need to vote on it tonight but so it gives you a chance to look at it and give me
080your feedback I feel very strongly that my first goal around student learning for this upcoming year should be around um developing an explicit early literacy strategy for k to3 um that supports evidence-based um culturally and linguistically sustaining practices um to improve rates of literacy proficiency as you know we've invested a lot in our uh preschool programs we have access to the cppi grant a lot of work has gone into strengthening our uh preschool and uh pre kindergarten programs I do think we have a lot of work still to do as a system in grades K to2 um our students are coming more and more prepared to kindergarten and we are seeing some stagnation and flatlining um of performance um and achievement and that is through no fault of anyone's other than I think we need
081to be more explicit about what our strategy is the supports we provide the coaching we we recently were awarded the prism uh Grant which is the partnership for reading Success Through the Department of Education um and we want to make sure that we we I think we've focused quite a bit on the mcast grades and not necessarily provided enough support in K to2 and so that's the work that I want to be held accountable for in the upcoming year we as a team our academics team um led by Dr Talbot this is an area that we're all keying in on in the you know for the upcoming school year and I would like to make sure that uh not only are we strengthening the tier one instruction there but the systems of support the multi-tiered
082systems of support for kada 2 the the re the research across the state or the data across the state is not strong for post-pandemic Recovery especially in literacy and in the state of Massachusetts Massachusetts does lag behind a lot of other districts and I want to make sure Salem is able to accelerate outcomes for kids and that we're making sure that more and more kids are reading uh and writing proficiently by grade three that is also obviously inclusive of our dual language program um and and and certainly uh looking at outcomes for students who are learning um who are developing literacy in both English and Spanish in the Salem public schools so that's my first um uh goal student learning goal um the second goal professional growth is as I mentioned before I we have
083a lot happening in um around Recruitment and Retention of a diverse Workforce except it is very scattered right now and it is a part of the Strategic plan that I think needs to be strengthened it's not for the lack of people's hard work we have a lot of things going on but it's not as coordinated and as organized as it needs to be in order for us to um promote what we offer uh advertise what we offer help our staff understand that if I'm a student who wants to be an educator if I'm a non bachelor's if I if I don't have my bachelor but I want to be a teacher here's the options for me if I have my bachelor's and I want to be a teacher here are the options that for for
084me I I think um while we've made a lot of gains in the diversification ation of our staff we could be accelerating that work if we were able to get uh more organized around the different Pathways you know we are part partnering with the Salem teachers union partnering with the Dominican Republic we're we're doing a lot of stuff but it's nowhere in a place that people can understand and comprehend uh clearly and especially the people who we intend to impact which are you know our own staff residents of Salem who want to come work in in our schools so I I that's something I want to commit to to getting uh clearer uh more explicit um and making sure that we're we're clear as an organization who owns you know obviously we we had a
085recruiter uh that was going to be their work that job went away when we with with Esser funds um it never really materialized but we have to organize ourselves in a way that make sure this work moves forward because 20% teachers of color is not not enough uh for a district that has you know 65% students of color additionally our administrative staff still is also not reflective of our student population that's our school leadership team chairs assistant principles principles and then our executive team and department heads still needs to look more like the students that we serve so this is a comprehensive effort you'll see my actions related to that work finally the last goal really doesn't change the district goal is is really about implementing progress towards our strategic priorities our strategic plan goes
086into year three so the expectation or you should expect from me that we continue to move forward around our the outcomes and the priorities laid out in the Strategic plan we do need to start thinking about the next iteration of the plan um that will happen sometime next school year as we plan for what's next it was a three-year plan it ends at the end of the 25 26 school year and so um again I want to be held accountable for the outcomes that are in that plan which I have you know tried to report on or which I have reported on every year and now we have a public dashboard that reports out on how we're doing relative to those goals right so those are the three goals that I would like to you
087to hold me accountable for I'm obviously open to any feedback that you might have around aspects of this but I think these represent real core buckets of work for us as a system as we get you know more um you know F you know we become more focused on aspects now I'm starting to get more focused on aspects of the Strategic plan that I think are lagging behind um other parts of it and so that's why early literacy uh work our early literacy strategy our Recruitment and Retention of our staff of color and finally um you know the overall implementation of the plan are my goals for the upcoming school year so that's on the table mayor and I would hope that we can take a vote on that at the next school committee meeting
088yeah I'll just um mention that it's listed on the agenda for a vote tonight but we are going to wait till the next meeting so folks have time to review this and talk to the superintendent um directly if you'd like member Campbell um just one suggestion if you're interested um I love that you talked a lot about both English and Spanish literacy and I love that it's language agnostic my recommendation would be perhaps to put both into the goals so that it's even more clear um because I I'm I'm very excited to hear you talk about it think it's so important for recognition of the fact that we have programs that are developing both um and so explicitly calling it out I think really helps make sure that it does in fact get measured and
089evaluated on so that's exactly the kind of feedback I would want to receive so thank you and I will make sure I make those edits and bring it back to the next meeting Cruz thank you uh mayor and uh thank you Dr Z for putting these uh together the the basis for the plan and certainly happy to get you some more feedback I think on bucket number two yep uh just with respect to the goals around diversification opportunities I think in large part thanks to the work that you and I have done on the state we did pass the educator uh diversity act and so I think as you talk about a clear plan the legislation calls for a threeyear strategic plan on recruiting a diverse educator Workforce um so I think as part of
090your evidence uh it would be the submission okay of that particular plan and then the the other component of that uh bill as you'll recall is that um we're required to set up some type of uh diversity advisory Council but it's a divers it's an educator diversity advisory Council to the superintendent and the school committee that's made up of uh folks within the in the district and those are the folks that are actually charged with developing the plan so I would just name those two facets of the new state law um I know that certain pieces haven't got into effect yet but it may just be worth engaging with Folks at Desi just to get a sense of um what they think the parameters for those two things will look like um and then to
091think about those in in bucket number two and how that aligns to um the goals that you've laid out as part of the plan yeah there's there's nothing wrong with us being on the Leading Edge of that Manny before we're required to do it I think we we are on the Leading Edge so that's that's the benefit of being here in Salem and we're ahead of the state by the way when it comes to educator diversification by almost uh almost double so I think your your goal here of getting to above 20% for our teachers uh is pretty significant given you know the minimal gains that we see across the state so thank you thanks any other comments questions feedback if not that uh that closes my well we have finance and operations report uh
092just to note to say that we are not bringing budget transfers this evening for fy20 we are still working to finalize the budget transfers that will allow us to finish the year in Balance so those are coming um but we are still working on those and I do not have them tonight all right that closes my comments mayor thank you any subcommittee reports M man yeah I I don't actually have specifics I just wanted to take a minute to explain a little bit different process this year cuz um you know I think everyone's aware it's budget budget development season and you know folks throughout the city are aware and normally um the past few years we had set up a system where the finance subcommittee asked each one of the principles and directors to come
093in and and um talk to us about you know what their Hope was for the for the coming budget season or and you know to um be able to share any particular information they thought we should know we could ask questions we didn't do that this year we um I think that Dr Z and and uh Kate and Elizabeth were were wise in asking maybe that we set it up a little bit differently and you know those folks talk to folks to the people in the schools which they would have done ahead of us anyway but um it didn't it there was really we weren't in a situation where anybody really should be asking anybody else what they'd like to get or at or whatever you know that just wasn't a way to go and
094it didn't make sense this year so rather than be mean and raise false raise false hopes and waste people's time etc etc um we instead um we've heard from U the folks in central office who have done the work with the principles and directors um and um we each met um with people to discuss those and we've had the opportunity for example I I'm meeting Wednesday with um Kate Elizabeth and one of the directors because I had some concerns about specific items in that budget so we're doing it this way this year so it hasn't been in the same as other years where there have been meetings to report on but I didn't want people to think that um there was nothing happening from the school committee side because the three of us have been
095involved it just been a different process this year so I just thought it was maybe time to explain that any other committees all right under motions and resolutions postponing superintendent goals the next meeting uh our first item is a approval of a three-year contract for July 1 2024 to June 30th 2027 with Deputy superintendent Kate Carboni make a motion to approve the three-year contract uh for Deputy superintendent Kate Carboni uh for uh bot through July 1st 2024 through June second motion made by member Cruz second by member Manning under discussion mayor Cruz um so just uh I think similar to the process that we went through uh with uh assistant superintendent pulie um we've been at the negotiating table with the deputy superintendent around contract so I think as folks will see um it's a
096three-year contract which is the the standard uh and then in terms of um things like compensation you know it's all tied to the uh the rubrics and the formulas that come out of Desi uh so you know following a superintendent uh evaluation you know that would determine uh any annual raises to the base salary and then uh I would just note for members of the public that might be watching at home um that this does include a a 4% increase um in the deputy superintendent salary um and uh I I did want to say a few things about Kate because Kate you have been uh a tremendous partner for us here in the district many of the achievements that we've been able to see um in terms of what our students have learning how they've
097recovered from the pandemic U the great work that we were able to do in collaboration with our our Union Partners um you're at the center of a lot of that work and I know Steve often will give you your flowers but I'll just say for my part as a Committee Member uh I've gotten to work with you over the last eight years and it's been a tremendous privilege um you always Center the kids and um you really do uplift our teams and you set high expectations for both the adults and the students um that we have in our classrooms and I think that your years of experience have been a tremendous benefit for the children and families of Salem so um I'm planning on voting in favor of this contract but first and foremost I
098just wanted to thank you for continuing to choose Salem um we're lucky to have you thank you very much no further comments or questions I I do have to say like everything he said except I was going to say something something similar but I wasn't going to say the uplifting part but now that he mentions that I think you're very uplifting so I'm GL he FW that in good job I'll vote for uplifting all right no further questions or comments all in favor all opposed seeing none the matter carries thank you thank you Kate thank you uh hey back to work uh the next item is a a motion to uh acknowledge that this committee has received the educational plan at space summary for the Salem High School project this is not a vote to
099approve that plan this is an acknowledgement that the msba requires that uh to demonstrate that the committee has received it and is reviewing it so is there such a motion so moved seconded motion made by member Cruz and seconded by member Campbell under discussion seeing none all in favor any opposed the matter carries we'll do these two uh separately this is authorizing the superintendent to submit a statement of Interest form to the massachusett school building authority for the Carlton Innovation School ATT 10 scary Street in Salem I I move to authorize the superintendent to submit to the msba the statement of interest for the Carlton Innovation School located at 10 scary Street Salem Mass as submitted do we have to read the full resolution I'm pretty sure we do yeah oh my God okay what
100we always have to read the full resolution on an msba yeah submission because they might be watching better we getting in on time yeah I know I know we don't have time it's too Friday all right everyone that read chair resolved having convened an open meeting of March 17th 2025 prior to the SOI submission closing date the school committee of saleman accordance with its Charter of bylaws and ordinances is voted to authorize the superintendent to submit to the Massachusetts school building authority the statement of Interest form dated March 21st 20125 for the Carlton Innovation School located at 10 scary Street Salem Massachusetts 01970 we which describes and explains the following deficiencies and the priority categories for which an application may be submitted to the Massachusetts school building authority in the future replacement renovation or modernization
101of school facility systems such as roofs Windows boilers heaters Heating and ventilation systems to increase energy conservation and decrease energy related costs in a school facility priority 5 the HVAC system at the Carlton Innovation School consists of two gas fired boilers one Chiller six rooftop units and multiple unit V unit ventilators throughout the building these units are all beyond their useful life are failing and in need of replacement the roof is over 23 years old in poor condition with multiple holes and failing patches causing leaks into the building and is overdue for replacement and hereby further specifically acknowledges that by submitting the statement of Interest form the Massachusetts school billing Authority in no way guarantees the acceptance or the approval of an application the awarding of a grant or any other funding commitment from the
102Massachusetts school building authority or commits the City of Salem to filing an application for funding with the massachusett School building authority all in favor we have a sec second oh second that was the second I have to ReRe it do I just to be safe should is this a roll call Vote Yes yes isn't it fun to have a round invited you out of here okay I kind of make the roll call vote member Manning yes member Cruz yes member Miranda yes member Cornell yes yes remember Campbell yes myself yes the matter carries now what do I have to do it again make another motion right for the other one yeah hold on hold on I'm going to it for yeah there he goes I'm want to just tea it up I was going to
103joke that I don't make those loss but I do so I got all night this one's longer who wrote this there emot to authorize the super yes remember Cruz I I move to authorize a superintendent to submit the massach to the massachusett school building authority the statement of Interest form for The Horseman Lab School located at 79 Wilson Street Salem Mass second motion made by member Cruz second by member Miranda I'll time you see how fast you can go this is the micro machine man resolved having convenient an open meeting on March 17th 2025 prior to the SOI submission closing date the school committee of Salem in accordance with this Charter bylaws and ordinances has voted to authorize the superintendent to submit to the massachusett school building authority the statement of Interest form dated March
10421st 2025 for the horsemen laboratory School 79 Wilson Street Sal Massachusetts 01970 which describes and explains the following deficiencies and the priority categories for which an application may be submitted to the massachusett school building authority in the future replacement renovation or modernization of school facility systems such as roofs Windows boilers Heating and ventilation systems to increase energy conservation and decrease energy related costs in school facility priority 5 the HVAC system at The Horseman laboratory School includes two gas fired boilers one Chiller 11 rooftop units and multiple unit ventilators throughout the building both boilers have had extensive repairs in all rooftop digital display screens are obsolete McKay rooftop units the roof at The Horseman laboratory school is over 23 years old and is in very poor condition there are multiple areas of wet insulation which is
105noticeably spongy and soft when walking on the roof replacement of the highest priority due to numerous roof leaks and hereby further specifically acknowledges that by submitting the statement of Interest form the Massachusetts school building authority in no way guarantees the acceptance or the approval of an application the awarding of a grant or any other funding commitment from the Massachusetts school building authority or commits the City of Salem to filing an application for funding with the Massachusetts school building authority roll call roll call vote member Manning yes member Cruz yes member Miranda yes member Cornell yes member Campbell yes myself yes matter carries uh we have third reading of policy 52151 directory of student information uh directory of information on students motion or approve for a third reading second motion made by member Cornell seconded by
106member Campbell all in favor discussion under discussion seeing none all in favor any opposed none opposed the matter carries announcements M Chris uh I just wanted to note that on uh I believe it is March 28th uh the City of Salem will be hosting its women uh women's History Month celebration and recognition ceremony at 401 Bridge Street Salem Massachusetts at the community life Center uh from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. I know the mayor will be presiding over the event there's a lot of great folks from around the city that have been nominated for recognition and just wanted to uh let the public know about it here any other announcements for members seeing none is there another motion move to adjourn I'll second motion made by member Campbell second by member Miranda under discussion seeing
107none all in favor any opposed we are adjourned thank you everyone