001Thank you so much. >> We don't need the mics up anyway. Okay. The Situate School Committee is committed to providing an environment of respect during meetings. We ask all members to interact in a polite manner even when there is disagreement. We value the participation of our community and want all participants, including marginalized and minoritized communities, to feel welcomed and respected. We ask our committee members and all who participate to commit to these standards to support and respect our community. We'll call the August 25th, 2025 school committee meeting to order tonight at 6:16 p.m. Uh and we will start with a roll call vote. Linda here. Okay. >> Here. Gates. >> Yes. >> Hi. Randolini here. Okay, start with public comment. See nobody remote. Nobody remote. Okay, good. turn it over to Superintendent Burkehead for a
002leadership report tonight. >> Thank you, Mr. Brenley. Good evening everyone and happy new year. >> Um, today officially uh started the kickoff of our staff returning and our opening day convocation this morning at 8 a.m. So, um, two of our celebrations that we have traditionally there are welcoming our new staff and introducing them to the entire um, community. um principles come up and do that and directors and we had 20 new 27 new staff members uh celebrated this morning as well as um celebrating years of service for our veteran teachers that have committed time to the situ. We have in increments of five years. Um this year we had uh 10 staff members hit the 20 year mark. We had nine reach the 25 year mark and we had two at 30 years and we
003have multiple in between there as well. So quite an honor and quite the time in one place. So a really special time this morning to celebrate them. Um the theme this year we spoke on is our students our stories and the emphasis will be on the our highest priority on students their successes their challenges and their triumph over uh challenges and valuable lessons learned and we hope to do that in various ways throughout the year with our school community and invite you all to share your story as well about our kids. Also, in preparation for this year, we had a busy summer. And I want to thank our outstanding custodial team for great work they've done in making the places look brand new, safe, clean, and ready to go for our students on Wednesday and
004for our staffs today as the staff come back and get their classrooms ready. Continue to do that uh to create positive learning environments. Also, I want to thank the administrative assistants that worked over the summer as well as uh many of our teachers and staff that worked uh with students over the summer, any of our programming. And we also held our district annual district leadership retreat with principles, central office, directors, department chairs, uh and STA leadership also was welcome to that meeting as been tradition. Uh I think they were very productive and focused this year was on reviewing, assessing and revising uh with laser focus our student learning goals for the year. And uh just recently in the last couple weeks we worked and collaborated with our school committee on our annual retreat with school
005committee and also participated on professional development with that was led by the mass association of school committees. And finally, we continued our work which is ongoing on the new scoop building project and Dr. Rab will be presenting a little bit on that in more detail and I think in later meetings we'll talk about the work of a new subcommittee that or working group that was started um this summer on naming the school. So we'll that's interesting and exciting. We are ready to welcome our students back, grades 1 through 12 on Wednesday, August 27th, preK and K on September 2nd. And we look forward to seeing you all. That's my update for today. Thank you. >> Dr. R. >> Thank you, Mrs. Brandolini. Allow me one moment just to bring up the PowerPoint. So this is
006the same presentation that we showed the school building committee last week. And the great news is that we've been able to recommend a general contractor for the project. So the big next step in the project is procuring a general contractor. And we've been able to do that. Before I do that, I thought it might be appropriate at the beginning of the school year just to update the committee on where is the project at? Where are we at timeline? Are we on time? Are we on budget? Um, and we are very much on time and very much under budget. So, it's a wonderful news all the way around. Um, and I did I'm joined this evening by Allison Mahar from Vert.Ex, our OPM, as well as Donald Walter, the architectural firm from Dora Whittier, the architectural
007firm that is working with us on the project. So, if you have any really hard questions, we're going to refer them to them. Otherwise, I'll run through this this PowerPoint. So, again, we'll talk about the project schedule. um a little bit of information about the groundbreaking we've been able to to secure that date and about the general contractor and where we're at with the bids. Um the big vote this evening is on the general contractor. I'll incorporate that into the presentation and then after the presentation um if the committee is okay with it, then we can do a separate motion to vote and discuss the actual motion. So, as we look at the project schedule, um we're very much on time. So, the red line, we've been following that red line through. Um, we're in
008the middle of 2025 with an expected completion of the summer of 2027 and it's been a bit of a scramble in August. So, we filed our subcontractor bids. Our general contractor bids were due on August 7th and we're anticipating a notice to proceed on A28 in anticipation of the positive vote that we received from the school building committee last week and then a positive vote this evening. will be able to proceed with our general contractor. But everything is right on time and exactly where you want to be in a project like this. Typically schools take two years to build. That includes about a year and a half of actual building and then about six months of outfitting. So the expectation if you look on there building completion March and then between March 2027 and June
009July is when we buy all the furniture, put all the technology in and kind of get the building ready to go for occupancy in September of 2027. Um a lot of that scramble that summer is being able to demolish the existing Hathle building and then create a parking lot in its place. And so we'll talk a little bit about some of that later, but um a big part of the schedule is making sure all of that happens on time over that summer, but it's great news. The project is going right according to schedule and um we're still on track for 2027. In terms of some more specific calendaring, um we do meet with our school building committee on a regular basis. We met on August 20th. We'll meet again on September 24th. And again, the
010big news here is that we'll be able to hopefully award the contractor contract within the next couple of weeks. And I'll talk about kind of where that's going. Um, and then if you look toward October, the groundbreaking groundbreaking, excuse me, has been scheduled for October 6th. So, this is a big day, a big morning, an opportunity for the MSBA to come out and celebrate the project, for the town to come out, school committee, school building committee come out and celebrate the project. Um, we've talked to Mrs. machine perhaps about having some coral groups. We have combined coral from cushioning in a that's all very preliminary. Um but just to try to get some student participation, but it's a fun thing. If you've ever seen it, everybody gets a shovel, big pile of dirt. Um and
011it's a lot of fun and it really kicks off the project. So that is settled. We have commitment from the MSBA. We have commitment from anybody we need commitment from for that date. Now, so let's talk a little bit about um the bids. I don't know how to mute that bottom bar there. But so as we mentioned, I think in an earlier meeting, we had a we have to pre-qualify general contractors and there were actually four contractors that we pre-qualified. Um one didn't bid um for a number of reasons. They just chose not to bid. So we had three bids at the end of the day. Um Braay Brothers was the lowest bid at 78.2 million and that includes the alternate. The alternate was a turf field. So to to make the current field there
012a turf field we put as an alternate because we really weren't sure where the bids were going to come in and we wanted the freedom to not do that if it became too expensive. So total price with the alternate is 78.2 million. And you'll notice that the other two bidding companies weren't that far behind at 81.8 82.7. Um breakers right out of Marshfield is a local company. Um it's hard to say why they came in much cheaper than the others but I think one of the reasons is simply that they're close by. It doesn't take much for them to mobilize. They're 15 minutes away. They don't have to create They will have a trailer on site, but it's not an hour and a half ride every time they want to do something or communicate. Um,
013I had great experience with them. They were uh the builders that's at Center Elementary School in Hanover, and they did an excellent job about 10 years ago, and I worked with them personally. Um, so um, whatever that's worth, but they're they're fantastic. So, the recommendation tonight is to vote for Break Builders as our general contractor. Um, and they are hot to try. I was on the phone with John Lemieux this morning. They want to get going. They're ready to go. They want to start building construction fences and digging things and having fun. So, it's it's really going to start happening um very soon after this vote. We have had a little bit of a glitch in Oh, let me talk a little bit more about the money before we talk about glitches. So, one of
014the wonderful things is that we really are saving about $16 million from the original bid. So all along starting with the SD construction budget was what the town voted on which is a construction budget of $95.2 million. Now remember that's the construction budget. The total project budgets 120 million. The other difference is the architectural fees, the OPM fees and all the other soft costs of the project. But the construction budget which is what went out to bid was 95.2. All through the spring, starting in January and then again in March and in June, we have been seeing the estimates go down. And I think we reported in June that we were looking at a seven or eight million savings at that point. We received these bids two weeks ago and now we're looking at the
015better part of a $16.4 million reduction. So the good news is that's money the town won't have to borrow. That'll be a positive impact to the taxpayers. It will be money that's never borrowed and we won't have to use. The bad news is or the alternate news is is that the MSBA will adjust our project funding agreement accordingly. So, we don't get to keep the $16 million from the MSBA. So, they will adjust the project funding agreement. They've already sent Mr. Burkehead a nice three-page email explaining to him exactly how to do that and and what's going to happen and NROPM will handle that for us. But it's great news. It's great news for the project. And it really allows us all to kind of take a breath of sigh of relief in terms of
016moving forward. We know this project is on budget, actually way under budget and very much on time. So the appropriation that we had will well cover the project and in fact we won't be borrowing anywhere near what we time voted on which is awesome. So just a couple of things um that we're dealing with. One of the issues is with electrical contractors is the we had to pre-qualify several electrical contractors and the general contractor then gets to choose among those pre-qualified electrical contractors. Right now um the lowest bid is file is being contested by the second and third lowest bids and it's gone all the way to the attorney general's office. is a current case right now in the attorney general's office. And we asked the attorney general, we said, you know, not for nothing,
017but we really want to get the general contractor on board. Do we have to wait until this bid process plays out before we get the general contractor on board? Because, you know, they haven't even scheduled a hearing yet. It's likely going to be the end of September, beginning of October. It could be a couple of months before that's settled. So because it is very specific to a very specific part of how general file sub bids are done, the AG's office gave us permission to award the contract to the general contractor. So they're just going to have to be a little soft in terms of how they award an electrical contractor. Luckily, um there's a couple of issues and and Allison, feel free to jump in on this, but I'm going to I'm going to try
018and summarize it. If I do a real bad job, then feel free to to jump in. >> Okay? But but basically um you know there's the issue with electric is there are long lead times for electrical panels almost 52 weeks to order electrical panels and some of the bigger stuff that goes into the school. So because it's a year-long lead time brothers the new contractor wants to be able to order them sooner rather than later. And so it's a big risk for them if they were to to contract with an electrical contractor while it's under dispute. And so that's something they have to figure out. You know, what do they want to do? The biggest issue for electricity right away is powering the trailer and some of the things that aren't quite as as as
019big of a deal. And I think, you know, we can figure that out. But at the end of the day, um, we've been working very closely with town council to make sure that we are well represented. It was crystal clear in town council's response to the AG that there was no mistake on the part of the town or a part of the bidding process. This is just simply the three subcontractors going at it. And that's fine. It happens. Um, we just have to wait and let that kind of settle out. So, it doesn't impact our ability to award a general contractor and then once we do that, the general contractor gives contracts to all the the submit. So, we're not involved in that piece of it. Um, how much of a risk break ultimately wants
020to take or not take based on how this place goes is really up to them. >> So, that's a short version of what was how did I do, Alison? >> Great. Yeah, I think you covered it. So, can I ask a just a quick clarifying question? So, the overall amount of the rate brothers rate builder, sorry, um contract, we we settle on that amount and that's the final amount regardless of what happens next. >> Exactly. >> Okay. >> The only thing that would influence that would be change orders. So, there you there are always some change orders. Things change, things happen. Um but that is the bottom line of the contract. So, Braay Brothers when they did the bid, they incorporated the prices of all the filed sub bids as well as their own subcontractors.
021And so, that's the price they So, the vote this evening um is really simple to recommend that the town enter into contract with great brothers. We did put a um I don't know what you want to call it, but basically a cautisle in the vote that allows um anything to change because right now that 78.2 would change a little bit if the AG awarded the contract to the second or third lowest electrical subcontractor. Um if you look and it's not I mean it's a lot of money but it's not millions and millions. So, you know, if if in fact um they awarded to the second bid, it would be an extra 262,000. If they awarded to the third bid, it would be an extra 920,000. Significant amount of money, but well within what we appropriate.
022So, we can handle that. And that would be the only thing that would change that if the AG came back later and said, you know, you have to go with somebody other than the lowest collector contractor. Um, so it allow this vote allows for that to happen without another vote, if that makes any sense. You're not going to vote for it again. and then we'll come back to that. So, what I would recommend is let me finish this PowerPoint and then we can come back and vote or we can vote now. I' probably better just to finish back. >> So, a couple of things just as we begin um it's going to get very busy at Hadley very soon within the next two or three weeks >> and one of the things that we have
023to do immediately is a temporary playground um right in the front of the school. So there's a tempor the playground in the back that's going to be behind the construction fence. And then once that happens, we need to put a temporary playground in the front. The school building committee authorized that to happen, authorized us to build one. We've already audited it. Um the we're right in the business right now of getting the um contractor in place. So we've ordered the materials and then the contractor had to go out to a public bid. I'm not sure if that whole process is finished yet, but it's right on the tail end of being finished. Um and we have that playground. It's it's 19 or 20 stations right in the front of the building. It's a great temporary
024playground. Um and then two years from now when we don't need it, it'll be up to the town school committee school building to decide what to do with it, but it won't stay where it is. But it'll provide um the students a playground during construction. >> Can I ask another question? Sure. Sorry. At Hatherly, there are currently two playgrounds in the back of the school. So, I'm assuming that the one sort of if you're facing the building on the left will be inside the fence. Will the other one in the back still just be I think it's on this picture. >> No, it's not. It's whichever one is way in the back corner. That's the one that's being replaced >> so the on the left will be behind the trees. You can't the like big
025kid like the big behind the >> Alison, can you help me out with that? >> Yes. So, the one that's um dotted in red, that's the one um the existing playground right now that's being replaced, but we're going to work with the contractor to keep that online so the kids are never without a playground. So, as we build the new temporary playground in green, um we're we're going to work with them to make their construction fence where that yellow um line is so that um we're we're hoping to, you know, keep a playground online at all times. I have a question. >> Is is the um cost of this temporary playground where is that built into this project as well? >> It's built into the project budget. It's beyond the 78.2 million but we're using
026money available in the overall 120 million to do that. >> And this could be at a later date transferred to a different site. Right. >> It could. >> Yes. >> And this is going to be ADA accessible sort of stuff we need to be aware of. Right. >> Have important place rubber put on >> roughly. I'm just curious rough. I know playgrounds are expensive. Curious >> about 300,000. >> And we did get bids in and they did come in a little bit under. Um it's about 88,000 for the equipment and 166,000 was the low for the site work for it. So um a little bit >> here. >> Yeah. Lower. >> It's crazy how expensive playgrounds are >> they are. Yeah, I know. It's really bad. >> But it's great that it can be continue
027to be used for this purpose, >> right? That's a good investment over time. You know, >> it's definitely a good investment. I think one thing the school building committee was told and they were honest was that this is being procured as a temporary playground. It's got a two to five year shelf life. It doesn't have the 20 year shelf life of the playground we just put in at Jenkins, for example. You know, so >> while you know, you might think, oh, we just put another school, school playgrounds get a lot of use. So, it might be more appropriate with this in more of a town park or something like that. Be a little bit less. >> See how long it gets out of it. Right. Okay, >> Shannon, they did a really good job of
028knowing what students would be using it for and where it was going and what its purpose was and knowing what they had to work with and in the space that they had and getting the best quality they could find for the students that had >> Yeah, >> they got a lot. It It look It looks like a really nice >> It does look really nice. Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised it will I I have faith that it will last as long as they can get out. I'm surprised it >> we're doing. I'm sorry to interrupt. I >> Is it only going to last that long? Really? >> It's rated for two to five, but who knows? I mean, yeah, >> plenty of playgrounds that last long. >> Yeah, sure. >> Is it rated that long
029because of the way it's being installed? >> No, it's just there are different qualities of just the quality of it. the more expensive. You know, the point of Jenkins was over 400,000. So, it's just more expensive. >> And this is like, did you say technically 200 240 >> 80 + 166? >> Yeah. >> I learned a long time. Yeah. >> See what happens with this spot after we remove it later. this spot. Yeah, >> this will be like >> I'll show you. You can actually see it. >> It'll be the parking lot. All right. Well, I guess that'll be graded. >> It'll be parking and and a permanent playground too in the middle >> where the old >> Oh, yeah. >> It's not shown on this do on this drawing, but where the new Flannery
030Field is going, the playground's going right next to it. >> And so, it's actually going to be kind of nice. both places. >> So, the reason I showed this slide again is it's not so much to get into the details, but it's just to show that a lot's going to be happening. And so, the OPM has really committed to, you know, constant communication with the school, constant communication with Mrs. Sheen and Hatley to make sure that they know that there are blackout times during pickup and drop off when nobody can be on site, trucks can't be rolling and all of that. Um and they will have a separate separate construction entrance down where we currently store the vans. The vans are all going to move on site here at the high school. And so um
031you know they'll have their own construction entrance. Um but even so new electrical lines need to be put in to power new um some water, new sewer. Um I think at the end of the meeting Mrs. Sheen just said just give me a moat with a drawbridge and we'll be good for the rest of the time. But uh it's going to be a scramble. But I think you know really we're working with excellent OPM, excellent architect and now um wonderful GC who understand schools. I will tell you this I work with break they understand schools. We were in a situation in handover where he had to build a temporary hallway interior hallway just to kind of make sure the kids could safely get from one part of the building to another and he did it.
032I mean this is the kind of school-based person you're getting. Somebody who understands schools and understands what it means to have a school in session 18 feet from where the construction is. So, >> so we don't know. We won't know yet then until the contract is officially awarded like the times of construction because I expect that they'll be there early, much before drop off. >> Yes, they'll have to load in early. So, I'm not exactly sure what the town statutes are, but it's driven by town statute. >> I think it's 7 o'clock in the morning. I don't think they're allowed in earlier than that. >> Um, and there even on the other end there, it's all driven by town statute. and the planning board when they approve the project, we're very clear with with them
033that you know, whoever the contractor is, we have to adhere to those times. >> Yeah. >> But we have once this gets going, there are weekly trailer meetings on site and they give us all the updates. So, every week um representatives of the school administration um as well as the OPM architect and the GC meet. Usually, it's Tuesday mornings and it's an opportunity for us to get all that information so that Mrs. She has everything she needs to kind of tell everybody what's going on for the week. Gives her an opportunity too to talk to everybody and say, "Look, you know, there's something going on that you need to know. Maybe there's a special celebration. Can you move this? Can you do that?" You know, they work with us. So that so that's basically it
034terms of a project update. Like I said, you'll start to see things moving in handily probably within the next month or so. Um, and then certainly after the groundbreaking on October 6th, it'll really happen in earnest. So, if we could go back to the motion, which I do believe you have in your in your packets. Um, this is what we need. The school building committee voted unanimously to approve the ask for the school consideration. >> Good. Make a motion on it. >> Okay. Uh make a motion that the to recommend that the town enter into a contract with to rate right rate builders for their base bid and alternate number one and the combined amount of 78 million $235,410. Further, should the attorney general rule in favor of one of the other electrical filed subcontractors
035not included rates bid, then that recommendation will increase by the difference between the electrical low bid plus alternate and the successful protesters bid plus alternate. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Second by call vote. It is L. >> Yes. Yes. Gates, >> yes. >> And Brandolini, yes. Okay, passes unanimously. Great. Still on to you, Dr. Rab once again. >> Thank you very much. Give me one moment to bring up my budget closeout memo which you have in your packets. >> No problem. >> Thank you, everyone. >> Thank you, Alison and Don. >> Thanks, Don. So, I'll refer you to this memo. I don't know how to make that small, but actually it's readable. So, that's So, this is close out for FY25. This is our budget that just ended at the end of June. And the
036great news here is that not only did we end in the black, which I'm legally required to do, but we ended with $483.33, which is awesome, right? So, I'm sure the town will be very proud of our generous contribution to free cash. >> Look at us. >> But, uh, no, it's great. And really, um, these these I'm sorry about that. >> Good contributors. >> Yeah. >> So, one of the, you know, as we look toward this, you know, you see some negatives, you see some positives. I did provide some endotes at the end just to try to describe some of the some of the negatives and pop positives, but basically what they come down to is evaluation in June. So things typically run fine and then in May we look at where are we at
037with the teaching lines, where are we at with par professionals, have we able to save money through leaves, have we been able to save money through, you know, unfilled position or different things like that. And so you can see in the instruction line, you know, there was additional funding there and in student services, um, which is primarily transportation. There was some additional funding there. We did very well in transportation this year and that allowed us to buy some technology purchases. So the administration and technology line is negative only because they were given the permission to buy Chromebook hosts and some um stuff upfront in June. And then more importantly with custodial and maintenance um I'll talk a little bit about that when we talk about the capital projects, but we're in the middle of the
038Jenkins window project right now. And one of the things that wasn't part of that budget was replacing all the shades in the building, all the blinds in the building. It just wasn't we just couldn't include it in the 1.2 million. And because we had some availability in the instruction and student services lines in June, I was able to authorize a $50,000 payment to the Jenkins windows in June. Work that had been done. That allowed us then this year we'll be able to replace all the blinds and they're actually being installed today. So, so it's kind of neat. So, they're they're putting the blinds in temporarily. The windows won't be in until after September 6, but they will be in in September. We've done all the prep work over the summer. again long leave times. We
039had to wait on them. But it's an it's an it's an understanding of kind of why those things go negative. They don't go negative out of control. They go negative in a controlled way. And so it's just a matter of we could take the time to adjust the instruction line and the student services line and the custodial line so that they were all zeros. Um but there's actually no fiduciary responsibility to do that. So unless you felt really strongly about it. It's better to just leave it where it is. It doesn't have to be fixed. um as long as our bottom line is in the black and then um the incumbrances of that 165,000 on the bottom line there in the grand total. That's again pretty standard. We don't pay all of our bills at
040the end of June very often. We get bills in July and August that are part of the prior fiscal year and we need to make sure that we have funds available for those. Um so if you look at the endotes there, I won't read them all. Um if you look at endot six and seven, which I know is tiny and I apologize for that. Um, one of the neat things is we have locked in our electricity prices until 2029. Um, that is only one penny per kilowatt hour more than we're paying now. So, we're paying 12 cents per kilowatt hour now. We'll be paying 13 cents until 2029, which is fantastic if you have the volatility volatility currently in electricity. Um, and with natural gas, um, one of the reasons our custodial maintenance lines was
041over, was not so much because natural gas has gotten more expensive. We pay a flat rate. it was just a cold winter and so we just need to be aware of that as we're as we're doing things. Um, but we actually locked in our natural gas from 27 to 30 cheaper than we're paying now. >> So we work with a electrical and gas uh consortium and they get great rates for us and so it we really have budget certainty through 2030 for gas and electric which allows us to really plan ahead and know we're >> that's fantastic. >> Um, and then again, you know, you see the negative in custodial maintenance. Um, I talked about the June payment for the Jenkins windows. We had some work with the Jenkins elevator, which you're all very well
042aware of. Um, which cost a couple of bucks. Um, we did the, you know, high school flooring, some cleaning it halfily. We replaced the blackbox, painted black box theater floor, and we've done landscaping every year. Um, there was a little money left in out of district tuitions because there was sufficient funding in circuit breaker and IDA. Um, so I think we ended the year in great shape. Um, and we've started the year, we've made it clear to everybody who's asked that FY 26 is going to be a tight budget year this year we're in. And that, you know, we're being careful, watching every penny, just like we always do. Uh, but even more so. Um, and then we have financial forecast scheduled for Thursday morning. So, we'll get that. >> This doesn't require a vote.
043It's just information only, but I'm happy to take any questions you >> have. I have a question about the out of district tuition since we have that surplus. We have that account that we have in place we put in place a number of years back. Stabilization the stabilization fund is do you know how much is in that or >> I don't know exactly what's in that but we did have additional funds in circuit breaker that you know you have to spend the circuit breaker funds within two years and so there was $28,000 that would have been left that Mrs. Halt at the special town meeting in November is going to recommend being put into the special education zone. Okay. >> So we're keeping that money from that. I didn't patch this in time to to
044do that, but that was the idea. >> Um does um curious, Tom, does the rate um the natural gas in luxury area sounds awesome, but does it just because we're part of that consortium doesn't matter how much we use that's fixed because I'm just curious if closing a school and opening a new one will have any impact potentially on our agreement with this consortium. >> It shouldn't. It shouldn't. I haven't heard that it will. It doesn't matter how much we use. It's the rate for what we >> Okay. But we're only involved in that consortion because we're situate public schools >> and towns. It's it's public public entities. Okay. So towns and schools and it allows us to lock in the rates. Oftentimes the biggest issue is budgeting, right? So yeah. >> So we want
045to be able to lock the rate in. >> They have been able to not only provide budget certainty but reasonable rates as well. >> At one point we had talked about the new school doing some like green energy initiatives. I know some of that's required in the MSBA process. Were we able to do anything extra? >> Yeah, there's photo ups on the roof of the new building. >> Should also help, right? Yeah, >> exactly. >> We pay for what we use, so we don't >> Great. >> So hopefully it'll be a warm winter and um the new school will >> a couple years more usely than what we're doing now. That's right. I would expect while you >> I mean everything will be so much more efficient. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. >> And warmer. >>
046Yes. And warmer >> triple pane glass. It helps. I mean all the things in the new in the new building will help with with all efficiencies. >> Yeah. >> And then uh if I could take a moment if there's more questions on this I'll jump to the capital. >> Oh no actually that was going to be your questions. >> Okay. >> For me. Let me just take a quick moment and I'll jump to >> Dr. Any questions? I don't want to jump past. Okay. >> So, the capital um There we go. Okay. It's very familiar. So, the I talked about the Jenkins windows. The other big uh capital project that we're doing right now is the boys locker room at the high school. That's phase three of three for current projects. The reason I haven't
047done that whole presentation is those are still in progress. So, the windows haven't been installed yet. Um, you know, I want to have a nice presentation a month from now. Hopefully, when everything's finished, the boys locker room. Um, but for the air conditioning is completed. They just put the windows in last week. Um, so we did the the the athletes have been in there since the beginning of practices last week and all everything I've been told is that they love it. It's it's a great space. So >> they love it. >> So it's wonderful. And that completes that that project. So that was a three-phase project for the gym locker rooms, the girls locker room, and the boys locker room. And now the next phase of the high school is uh large gym renovation floors
048and breaches. So really we're hoping to do that uh next summer. So that's the next thing on the on the on the list right now. Um and that's been on the list. It's just been creeping up from year to year. The two new things are Wampuck relatable. So the we know right now we're doing ADA compliance at Watuck for the bathrooms. We just did the nurs's office. We're sketching out all the bathrooms. That'll be done next summer. We're going to paint it next summer. All that's already approved on the books ready to go. Um, the two things that we didn't consider and the funding source is is kind of irrelevant to this list, but the we talked about a playground. I think it came up in the school improvement plans. Um, Wampauck needs an accessible
049playground that wasn't part of the ADA compliance article that we did for the 650,000. Now, we could certainly float this as a regular article. We could also go to the CPC like Jenkins did. We could do a combined CPC and um, you know, their uh, their PTO. We haven't had any of those discussions yet. So, it would be very preliminary to just to to suggest anything. Um, I put $500,000 simply because Jenkins was $440,000 and I include a little bit of escalation. So, that was really where that number came from. We're just starting those conversations. Um, I have to get the application to the CPC, bring it to you short, you know, we're just beginning those conversations. Um, but I wanted to get it on the list because it wasn't on the list before. and
050and then similarly in the spring of 2027 when the preschool goes to the new school um we have a space now at Wampauck that will be used for classrooms right the expectation is those rooms be converted to classrooms they're currently preschool classrooms but preschool bathrooms and it's kind of a setup so it it's going to require a little bit of work more than just kind of you know our guys getting in there so I put it on the list um exactly what that's going to mean I'm not 100% sure we hired um a firm called Soetch. They're the firm that's doing the Jenkins windows. They're going to come in do some back the napkin sketches for us this year to get some sense of what we could do with that space. We have two years
051before we have to deal with it. Um but I wanted to get it on the list, get the money appropriated so that we could start that work in earnest. Um the rest of it is all stuff that's been there before. So I, you know, threw down the gauntlet on the high school air conditioning last year. It's still there. Um, I really appreciated all the students that did their civics projects around the air conditioning. >> It is hard and I get it. Um, so it's it's on the list. >> Yeah, >> kids had some great ideas, mini splits and some wonderful ideas. So, >> um, so it's there. It just it has to be prioritized with other things. And I just think since we've already done the three locker rooms, going into the gym is kind
052of the next iteration of of that. So, it just kind of keeps that whole kind of system going. Um, and then way down the line, um, Jenkins floors and Watuck roof. Again, Watuck roof was put on there a long time ago. I'm not aware of any issues currently with it, so other than just the fact that it's getting older and may need some help, but we have plenty of time to think about that. Um, Jenkins floors, again, I'm not 100% sure of all the details with that, but it's been on the list for a while. School's 25 years old. It probably does need some refurbishing. So, let's get the windows in. We got a roof on now. We get the windows in. work our way around for for checking. So, I'm excited about this. I
053I think we'll we'll receive some broad town support. Mr. Burkehead and I in September are presenting this to Nancy Holt and um the town administrator Jim Budro and then we'll go through the process for capital planning and so forth. Um but I would appreciate a vote on this if as is or with amendments this evening. Um just so that I can say that the school committee had a public discussion about it. Um before we vote, I just wanted to ask a question about the Blanc Accessible Playground. Um happy to see that. I think what I wonder about is having been on capital planning and that wasn't, you know, something that it just kind of came up in the spring, it just makes me wonder like are all the other playgrounds okay? I mean, the new
054one obviously will be. Um but I just kind of am thinking about the process by which we would identify the fact that we have inaccessible areas of schools, you know, pretty good shape because does have a new playground that's accessible. We don't have to necessarily consider >> I guess even just beyond playgrounds like it just made it just kind of made me wonder like if we've had this situation that's just sort of been sitting there and it wasn't you know part of our thinking. Yeah, accessibility in general. >> Well, I think that we the conversation about that particular playground has been happening. Okay. I've not been aware. >> Yeah. But I my question is we've been talking about it because the preschool correct is that that play is that the play in the back or
055like if you're looking at it to the left. >> I thought it was the one to the left but I could be wrong. >> Okay. I could be wrong. Is it the preschool one they want to replace? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, my question is, should we put that money to the one to the left versus the preschool one because the preschool is going to be moving up to the new school with a brand new playground. >> You know, >> I could be Let me check on it. Let me let me just be sure. >> Yeah, it would be good to look into that. >> Not that I mean, without saying that, but >> we're going to be a brand new >> is accessible. Yes, >> there is an accessible thing. So yes, >> this
056is a second one that's on site that's not as accessible and they want to create >> and there's one if you look like the one to the left but pick up that I think there's some equipment there that it's a lot of stuff. >> I thought that's the one that repl because I don't want to spend $500,000 on a playground >> for for the preschool that's not going to be there. I'm almost positive it's the one on the left. Let me just >> Okay. No, that would be >> okay. >> I really am. I I the idea of the preschool one it wouldn't knock down but it's >> Yeah. Okay. >> I just want to make sure we're >> 100% >> on top of this. >> Let me do a little bit of research too
057because the town also back in 2017 did the whole master plan and to some some of those things have been fixed along along the way. So let me do a little research and do a little bit of update just >> that's helpful. Yeah. just to make sure we're >> absolutely >> uh Oh, I just had a question on the um the gym renov >> that that may be an accessibility component as well. >> Yeah. >> I don't I don't know. I don't know what we can and can't include, but >> and mobility. >> It's true. >> Yeah. >> So, can I recommend we just increase it to a million even? >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I know it's it's it sounds, but it's important. >> Absolutely. Yeah. >> I think sounds always I
058mean, we'll use it what twice a year for that, but just in general, it's >> but voting is currently taking place in there. I think just >> even like basketball games stuff. It would be nice if when they announced games and stuff, it would be better to hear clearer. >> Sure. I think accessibility is a is an issue for the gymnasium. >> That would be my recommendation. Just let's go a million and change. >> Yeah, >> I think so. >> Yeah. >> And you can also use you can say, hey, it's just for the benefit of the whole community. It's not just >> want it to be sort of more of a community access space. >> Yeah. >> Right. and those components if we're in a capital >> and anything else that would that would
059make it a more comfortable environment for the thing. >> Absolutely. >> Comment about the want the renovation of the preschool space. You said like the bathrooms and stuff. I don't think they've been actually updated the bathroom >> in the preschool. I don't think so. >> I was going to say it was a kindergarten class. >> Oh, could be. Okay. >> I want to get >> Oh, there you go. I I think >> I use those sixy old. >> I think there's also >> six-year-old. Is that whole section? >> I don't know. I know they >> But that was that's only been a preschool for >> a year. Ever since this new school was built. Yeah. So, it's only been apprec It's probably the same. >> And we don't have a whole lot of We have
060some ideas right now, but nothing's been put on paper. The idea of this was to just get that conversation started because we need to >> It might not be as much as >> we think. Yeah. >> Oh, thank you. I think this is great. >> We can't push the air conditioning out, huh? We can try. I'm just trying to be respectful of how much capital free cash. I only contributed $400 to free cash. Soion, >> but that's >> No, I'm teasing. But that the idea is we can we can swap them. I mean, we could put air conditioning before >> the gym floor. That's a decision we can certainly make. This is a preference. It's not >> I think if we're going to be renovating the gym, like doing major renovations, I think the whatever
061we could do to for the PA. >> Yeah, that would be that. >> But the air conditioning wouldn't your air conditioning recognition is just second floor, so it wouldn't impact the gymnasium either way. >> Correct. But this does not include air conditioning the gym. the air conditioning were constrained by the current electrical system here. So, that's part of it, too. You know, there's some, you know, some things they can do, some things they can't do. My understanding when we looked into it last year, um the 1.4 million is for the second floor because that's where it's the worst. >> Yeah, it's very >> the 2028 date. >> No, they're actually just going to fix it. I can make a mo I can make a motion to accept with amendments the uh capital plan fiscal year
06227 through 30 as presented and amended roll call vote >> oh second I'll second by yes or Yes. >> Yes. >> Gates. >> Yes. Great. Looks like we are still going to continue with Dr. Rab here. >> So rather than presenting the memos electronically, you have them in front of you. So there are three requests for surplus which is typical this time of year. Um the the first one is social studies. So we just bought a new social studies curriculum. Um if you visited the Gates cafeteria last week, you would have seen four or five pallets of social studies textbooks all out there and kids labeling them, numbering them. They're all here. Um and um so at the end of the day, we do need to discard the books we have. So we will certainly
063recycle them. We'll discard them. We'll try to sell them to follow it. That's what we try to do. Um, but I talked to the social studies department chairperson last week and she said, you know, our social studies text end with, you know, oh, the internet might take off someday. So, you know, I don't know how much people are really going to want them. >> Um, but >> but and and in English as well. I mean, they're always updating the English curriculum. Um, there is some money for some some light updating for the English curriculum in this year's budget. So, um, both department chairpersons went through and they, um, identified folks that can be surplus. So, that would really help them out in terms of keeping things clean. Um, do you want to do separate votes
064for either one each, each each memo or do you want to vote at the end? It's up to you. [Music] >> I mean, they're written out separately. >> Okay, that works. >> We'll just keep it as well. I mean, the rate the gates. This is for the textbooks. Well, it's English books. I always feel bad >> English and social studies textbooks from getting rid of books. >> We'll try to sell them any local public schools if they want them. >> It's just they're old so people don't >> not just the textbooks but like the novels. >> Janice loves old. >> No, understood. >> I do like them. >> We will try to sell them. I'll be honest because we can make a little money on >> You want the books? >> I mean, I don't
065think we need 139 copies of seed books. >> They also wear out. It's not even so much that they're being replaced in the curriculum. It's more just a wear out. >> Well, I know. >> Do you want me to make the motion so you don't have to do it? >> What else can we tell? >> Um, I will move that we uh vote to approve the English and social studies surplus of textbooks. >> Second. Awesome. >> All right. >> Yes. >> Lyn Wong, >> yes. >> We have an email from Jim Thomas, the department chair of fine and performing arts. We just have a piano that's broken. Um, and he just needs to throw it out. It's not um any It's got a cracked soundboard, which basically destroys the piano. So, um, he doesn't need
066to replace it. He's not looking to replace it. Um, you know, every now and then people will donate pianos. It's It's not really hard to get into donating piano. >> I have one. >> Seeing there took me five seconds. >> So, um, but he does need to throw this one away and, um, we can get the custodial staff be okay to dispose of it with your vote. >> Okay. Take a motion on the piano recycling situation. All right. I move that we vote to approve the surplus of the non-working piano from the SHs performing. >> Second. >> Jan's got it. >> Okay. Gates, >> yes. >> Benwick, >> yes. Leblanc, >> yes. >> Randolini, yes. >> Okay. >> And similarly at Jenkins, you know, from the budget, we did have replacement grade by grade for
067tables and chairs in the budget. Um, so we do need to surplus the current ones. We ordered the new ones. Um they're in Portugui to surplus the um 120 student desks, 120 student chairs. They're original from 2001, which doesn't seem that long ago, but it is 25 years ago >> and 24 years ago. And um they're in tough shape. I mean, I did see some pictures of them. Um you know, they're the very traditional desks. Um so again, we will try to to sell them to anybody who might be interested. >> I love how you Janice and >> well like donating. I mean the organizations check them. >> We'll certainly look into it. Um sometimes they do we'll absolutely talk to the principles. >> Um we did I'll be honest with you, we did offer
068the staff if anybody wanted one they can have. So sometimes people like kids who play school. I don't know. >> Right. >> So anyway, that's it. All right. I will move that we approve the surplus of desks and chairs from Jenkins Elementary. >> We have a second on that. >> Second. >> Mr. Gates. >> Lind. >> Yes. >> Benmuk. >> Yes. >> Gates. >> Yes. >> Randolini. Yes. >> Excellent. All right. Thank you, Dr. All right. Um, next All right. So, uh, old business, just a quick update. We had our opening retreat and that was a nice opportunity for us to reconnect after summer break. started working on crafting our school committee goals for the year or what we hope to identify um few goals that will last more than a year to hopefully three
069years or so. um being on that and looking at our calendar talking about um SEAL in our district looking to deep dive into anti-bullying efforts and our policy there. Policy subcom is going to begin work on that. Anyone else want to talk a little bit more about our retreat or anything to add to that? >> Oh, go ahead, Maria. >> I was just going to say we do need to sharpen up our goals. Um, so we kind of came to a general thought, but um going to really just insist that we smart smarten them. >> Absolutely. >> Um, so that means we're going to need to include some, you know, time bound measured. I agree. I think we're like on the right path. Um but we need to figure out who and when and how
070we're going to take those next steps. Yeah, I was going to say the same and I was wondering if we should maybe I think what's worked in the past is if two of us have maybe you know taken that on in a pair and a little subcommittee as we can only do that work in a pair as that is we go to three we are breaking open meeting law in our five person committee. So, um, as always, looking for two volunteers to take that work on. Um, not sure what everyone's calendars are looking like or availability. I'm obviously happy to do it. >> I don't I mean I mean I don't mind helping either. I feel like Okay. >> A couple years. So, I would did want to I had two thoughts. one was based
071on the workshop we did today with Matt. I'm also wondering if we need to not only sharpen those goals, but just make sure these are the goals like that we're landing on because I I felt like some of the things that the facilitator shared were a little different than what we approached. So, I'm not I'm not suggesting we change, but I think it's worth a conversation to just make sure um and thinking about the district, you know, the strategic plan. Um the other thing >> Yeah. Yeah, the other thing I wanted to add and this is just a related but on the side I um on the media happens to be doing this really great several part series on um the education of boys in particular and what came up today was the importance of
072social emotional learning and relationships and they were saying for everybody and I thought it was it might be something we want to listen to individually just as we're thinking about social emotional learning in the district it was a very researchinformed armed. They've done some multi-year studies on this and it was really interesting to see some of the results and it was very related to the conversation we had at the retreat. So, I just thought it was very timely. >> Sure. Absolutely. Um, also wanted to thank Maria and Dr. Rab for getting our data binders up and running even though I didn't bring mine today. I'm asking for a um sick like a pink slip or something for today just for some kind of some kind of an excuse um for myself because I had a
073bad weekend. Um but um otherwise I promise to have my data binder and I much appreciate your efforts in putting that together for our committee. I think they're going to be really helpful in organization and just keeping us focused in our work on task going forward. But I can't believe I don't have mine with me today because I am supporter of the data binder and today >> Nicole I I also wanted to add one other thing. Um I also appreciated the committee's conversation and Ryan's contributions around the SIP process. Um I think folks who have been attending school committee meetings know it was a you know it was a challenging conversation that we had with principles and so I think just foreshadowing that we're looking forward to improving that process and making sure that we're
074able to support the principles and give and help them with what they need um when they think about those improvement plans. So I'm I'm excited about that work. So just for folks who are watching to sort of that's what's coming. And on that note, one of the things we learned today in our workshop was that we should be on school councils. So we'll need to figure out who is going to do which school and how >> are we going to get confirmation on that? >> I looked it up in MGL when we were sitting there. It says nothing about us not being on them. So I'm not sure where that came from. I mean I remember >> I know but >> it's not in master law that I >> it's not required. So, I don't
075know that we >> it's not required. So, I think we need to have a longer conversation about what that might look like just because I don't disagree like what the conversation was. It's helpful to have school committee members. And I totally agree with everybody who was saying it's a training ground of sorts for future school committee members because I, you know, I started PTO and then on school council. So, I don't disagree. I just want to make sure that because our councils are so small, I want to make sure that that many people have voices in the community and that I'm not taking a place on a seat where I already have a voice, which is in school committee. So, I just want to be really mindful of that piece um before I jump back
076on or attempt to jump back on, you know, a school council. So, that was just I'm not making any suggestions one way or the other. It was just something that came up for me was sort of like making sure that we have, you know, multiple voices represented in those spaces where where possible. So, just making room for other people at the the table and in the conversations. >> Yeah, to that point, I wasn't sure if Sean was suggesting that school committee members are voting or non- voting members of councils. I wasn't sure about that. So, that's something we should think about follow. And secondly, I think we can do more um to try to communicate with potentially interested parents about what school counsel is because I do think that's just still a thing that a
077lot of parents might not understand. Um and I think we can do a better job collectively at explaining what school councils are tasked with and making sure that school council members feel adequately supported to do their job, especially since we've been on them. >> Yeah, I totally agree. I just think like to your point about getting more voices, part of the reason I wonder if we're not getting more hands raised even at the outset is because there's still some uncertainty about what the goal is. >> Yeah, I 100% agree, Maria. I was even thinking like does it make sense to coordinate with the principal and whomever ends up being like a co-chair for us to visit, right? And and you know, I don't know, just talk about individually. I mean, we should come up with
078a message, obviously the five of us, but we don't go at the same time just to get to know the school council a little bit to like I don't know. And and of course, we'd want to talk to the central office to make sure that was okay. But just just another thought to build relationships with the school council, not just, you know, >> Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think we can consult with Sean and Costello and see. >> Yeah. I'd be curious how other people other districts do this. >> Yep. Um because I'm sure we're not the only one with that thought, Carrie. I think we all agree, you know, we wouldn't want to overly have a voice. Um but I think that certainly like in the interest of strengthening the process um for some
079of the stuff that school councils have to do >> like a guide. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I'm sure Sean can help us. >> Love to answer the voting or non- voting because that would impact the ratio. Um the ratio is that's what's prescribed in OGL is the ratio of educators to non-educators. Um one one to one and so that's what we wouldn't want to necessarily like throw off, right? You know, >> I wouldn't think I would think we would not go. >> Yeah. We can consult. >> Yeah. Let's see what I'm curious to know what other check on that. Yeah. So Okay. So goal setting for for our goals. >> Okay. >> So you're gonna sort of work on what we started with and see if we need to based on our workshop
080today sort of get back into our lane. I guess you could say make sure that we're in our lane and fine-tune some of those goals. >> I think we are in our lane. I think part of our lane what he was saying was you know helping come to the district goals. Yes. So that has to come before we can finalize our goals. So that's the process. >> So you're trying to think about the strategic plan. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I guess that's I I think it'd be good to have a conversation about this because like I feel like we what I was hearing from our facilitator was that our goals do not have to be the same as the superintendent's goals, but they have to align with the strategic plan. So when he
081used the example of communication, that was like a throwback for us, right? because that's what we used to do. And so I just want to make sure that we all feel comfortable with the goals that we're setting and they're and they're not, you know, Yeah. I I don't know what they should be. I mean, I like where we were going with them, but he threw he threw me sort of a curveball when I heard that communication goal, right? Because that seemed a little bit different than what we had talked about in our treat. >> Yeah. I mean, Bill, Superintendent Burket asked that question, too. Like you were saying your goal, you asked that question too about your goal, our goals, and then go into the district goal, >> right? >> Because the district goal has
082to come first. >> Goals first. That's what >> your goals and our goals are in the same >> layer. Exactly. >> Our goals, yours and ours don't have to be the same, but they both also have to go back to district, >> which is strategic plan, >> which is new to us, >> right? I felt like he was saying but but I felt like he was saying for the sake of argument like you don't have to have the same goals but they should >> but they both have to we won't have to have the same goals but both of our goals have to refer back to the district goals. >> Well he said if they align with the district goals that they will eventually like support each other is what he was saying >> right
083okay that makes sense. So ultimately they'll end up aligning in some ways. Yeah. >> But they don't have to be the same as what he was saying, right? Like because we have multiple goals in the district plan. So we may choose different for our own. >> Yes. >> Yep. Yeah. >> Except if we choose a goal that we're not directly in charge of overseeing then how would that get accomplished >> right? You know what I'm saying? Like if we go a different direction has multiple initiatives >> then we have to choose something that we have control over because we won't be able to accomplish it >> without right the rest of the team >> right if we choose a completely different initiative than the district is >> right so that wouldn't we could >> we're
084focusing on >> but it probably wouldn't be the best >> I'm not saying I'm not saying we choose something that we don't have purview over but I'm just saying I don't think I think there are lots of goals that we have purview over that it wouldn't necessarily align with the superintendent's goals. I mean, I can think of I mean, that's what we've done in the past and they all still line up to the district. So, um I'm just not sure that the goals we have now are I don't know. I just think we should look at them again based on >> Yeah, I think it would be helpful to talk to Sean again too and get more information from him. >> Yeah. >> So, we're talking school councils and the goals. >> Yes. Yeah. Perfect.
085>> Okay. Yeah, I agree. That's what he's there for. >> Sure. >> Okay. Um, anything else about our retreat or anything anybody wants to add? >> Thank you for connecting us with Sean. >> Yeah. Convenient to have him right next door. And we started our SCTV town updates again. Thank you to Seth this morning. Sure. Great. Yeah, we have a template. to um set us on track to have just a format for our updates every week so that that is an easy um format to plug into for our um I don't think I shared it yet, but I will. Sorry. I was in a car accident this weekend and I I'm just not I'm just totally not >> I don't know where I am, but I'm not right here. >> I'll be back soon though.
086But we do need to tell Seth soon what our um preferences are in terms of being part of that. So we do need you guys to let us know and I know >> uh Sure. Miss Bolini, you want to just email me whatever you have and we can uh discuss. >> Sure. >> Yeah. If you want to be in the rotation you guys Yeah. >> still say Mondays at 8:30 >> at 9:30. >> 9:30. So we can do our regular rotation or if you're not if you don't want to be in the rotation or >> Okay. >> Monday will be holidays. >> Oh yeah. >> But with the template it's just pretty easy. Okay. Sounds good. Great. Anything else? All right, we have uh some minutes from June 16th for approval. Questions? Not. We'll take
087a motion. I'll make a motion that the school committee vote to approve the June 16, 2025 minutes as presented. >> I'll secondw. >> Yes. Linguan, yes. Ben, yes. Mandelini, yes. Okay. Lawrence, >> no. >> Today, respondences there. Other business. >> Um, just I'll just quickly mention, um, we don't have our school committee reps here tonight. Uh I did meet with principal arranger and um Sam Lesniak to talk about kind of what the committee may be looking for in terms of our student reps going forward. So we expect them to they haven't been selected yet. >> Okay. >> Uh we expect um at one of our September meetings that they'll be here. >> Great. >> Just trying to increase their role. let them know that they actually are technically a part of or nonvoting part of
088our committee and to see if there's any students in our district that are really involved in civic action or whatever. So, we're hoping to find some uh members that might be able to participate in that manner. So, we'll see what happens. >> Great. >> Good. >> Any other thing is do um were we supposed to vote on meeting dates? >> Um yes, we will do that. Uh oh. Vote on meeting. >> Yeah, I think we're supposed to vote on them so that the I think so. >> Vote on vote on them. >> We have to post them. >> We have to post in the the dates of our meetings. >> Will we post um >> You mean like publish >> public like Yeah. They go on the website. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Right. they change.
089>> So like when's our next meeting? >> September 8th. >> But right now we are currently scheduled, >> right? That hasn't been moved yet. I think we're >> if we're going to move that, we should do it sooner than later. So it's calendar. >> Sarah had asked me today about the this calendar of presentations. I told her I would get back to her within the next day or two about it. So, we'll we can vote on if we are voting, we'll confirm that we have to vote the school year of >> Well, we vote summer ones. >> Yeah, we do. >> I think we usually vote the annual. >> All right. So, we we'll vote those um on >> Do we want to talk about changing the 22nd now? >> I think start. >> Yeah,
090it's on the 23rd and 24th. Okay. We had confirmed that Rashana was on the 22nd start at sundown on the 22nd. >> We had confirmed that that was a holiday and that we were not going to be that day. >> Okay. So, there was no need to myself. >> Well, we'll have to move it. I just had >> because I was in the car accident. >> So, we could just potentially with that one week, right? tell you that. >> Well, I think we probably maybe Bill and I can connect this week and figure out. >> Do you want to just vote on your next meeting at least? Yeah. And at that meeting, put on the agenda for >> the rest of the year. >> Series of Yeah, I think there were some >> I think
091that's usually what we do. >> Presentation lineup. We wanted to Well, that doesn't have to be worked out right now. The dates just the dates. >> Just the dates. It might have to be tweaked change, >> right? >> Yeah. I think moving would Sorry. >> Yeah, we can vote on the dates on September 8th. >> Okay. >> Our next meeting will be September 8th at which time we will vote on the remaining dates of the school committee calendar for 2526. Yeah. >> Yes. Just want to see. >> But we do publish. >> Yes. Well, yes, but I guess we're also waiting for the transition to the new >> Yeah, those are website and app last year. So, >> but we can do that. Yeah. We'll vote the rest of the future agenda item. Yeah. If
092we move the 22nd, I guess that probably bumps >> or it doesn't do a back to back, right? Just do a back to back. Sure, that might be a better way to do it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> So, is going to vote on the next meeting >> right now? Do we have to do it right now? >> No, no, no. Do we have to vote on having a meeting? >> No. Okay. We didn't vote on meeting tonight on meetings. >> We didn't vote on tonight's meeting. >> I thought we did last summer. >> Okay. >> Did we? >> I don't know. >> I think we just looked at the future the calendar >> for this whole school year, >> right? >> And I don't think we vote on it. We just kind of looked
093at it and we're like, >> we technically should. Oh, >> like, oh, the 22nd. Let's move it this one. Yeah, >> I don't think we can vote on it. We did look at it. Yeah, this one. Okay. We can vote. >> Yes. >> Next school committee meeting is September 8th. All right. Anything else? That's it. All right. Any other future agenda items? All right. Take a motion. >> Motion to return at 7:28. >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Gates. >> Yes. Randi, yes.