001Okay, a whole host of technical difficulties this week. Sorry about that. But we're back in action. Uh, good evening and welcome to the April 2nd, 2025 meeting of the Cohasset School Committee. With all members who are present, please indicate so in roll call. Mr. Carr, present. Mr. Dial, present. Mrs. Hannah will not be present tonight. Neither will Mrs. Leleski, but the chair is present, giving us a quorum of three members. And I will formally call the meeting to order at this time. Would all who are able please stand for the recitation of the of our nations pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Well, welcome again everyone. A reminder
002that our meeting is being broadcast on Cohazard 143 TV. It's being livereamed on Facebook. One can participate virtually uh by logging onto Zoom using the link that appears at the top of our agenda. And if you'd like to comment at any time during the meeting, we'll be monitoring the Q&A feature. We'll move right into the first agenda item, which is public comment. This is the section of the agenda that is reserved for members of our community to make comment or raise concerns or ask questions about issues or topics that are not already on tonight's agenda. If you have a question or concern related to something that's on the agenda, just please wait until we arrive at that point in the meeting and we'd be happy to hear your perspectives. Uh as public comment is not
003are not related to uh issues that are on the agenda, um we will usually have very little uh response or deliberation on uh any issues raised um but could perhaps put those issues on a future agenda for further discussion. So with that said, I will provide everyone who's at home uh on Zoom a few moments to generate some questions if they have any on the Q&A feature and I will simultaneously turn to our audience to see if there's anyone that is here to make public comment. I know we have some invited guests for uh from from um Mal UN and M Congress, but is there anyone here wants to make public comment? Seeing none and seeing I will start a question on the agenda tonight. Are we discussing the change that's being made to the
004increase or the change back to the the cost of full day for kindergarten? I know it was discussed last week but I wasn't here. Sure. Um could you do us a favor and just because the meeting's recorded um and we have to take minutes could you just state your full name and state your address as well? Colin Smith 171 Square Street. Thank you so much. Um we are not that is not on the agenda. We had a special meeting um on Monday to make a decision on those costs. We also had a series of meetings leading up to that to discuss that and and invite community perspective. Uh however, you're welcome to make any sort of comments that you'd like at this point in time just knowing that the decision has been made. Yeah. No,
005I I I guess I more have some concerns questions more than anything else. Um Sure. So, I was at the town hall meeting. I think it was three years ago um when we, you know, unanimously voted to accept the grants um that covered the cost of the pool. Um and that required, you know, the entire town to vote on it, right? Um, and this past Monday, the seven of you uh voted to um kind of roll that back and impose the the cost um back on to certain members of the town asset. I have two 5-year-olds, right? Uh and actually know a lot of other people in town who are in a similar situation. Actually, it's a a really unique situation where um that specific class has five sets of twins um in the grade.
006And so there are five families that are going to have to cover 11% of that total deficit, which is crazy, right? You know, for for the town to put that on on, you know, a small number of families, it doesn't seem right. And so I have concerns about you know where did the come funds come from originally right? Did they come from the state or from the federal government? And you know what what happens if they find out those funds were misallocated because they were you know those funds were provided to cover the cost of full day kindergarten right so um I think it'd be really frustrating if you came to make a comment you can't get any response going to give you a fairly brief response just because we've dedicated hours and hours to
007this topic already and it it may not have been something that you were personally aware of. We advertised it and I mean we've been talking about this for months and months. And that's fine. I'm not arguing with you that you didn't know about it. I'm just saying that it is an objective fact that we've been discussing this for months and uh and we just had a special meeting um on Monday to make a decision about that where uh numerous people were sharing their perspective on the on the kindergarten. Um, I think that there's a general misconception that what we're trying to do here is we've decided that in order to cover this year's shortfall, we're going to have next year's kindergarten families uh take a take on a disproportionate share of that shortfall. That's not
008the case. Um, that tuition is going to be that tuition is going to be dedicated to next year's kindergarten program. What happened was is we you're right at town meeting that was discussed we have been endeavoring for years to offer free kindergarten uh free full day kindergarten in cohazit. It it with the exception of the last two years has always been a family subsidized uh program and uh we've just recently made that a reality. Unfortunately, the anticipated amount of state funding that that decision was predicated upon did not materialize. So it wasn't as though the town was giving us the the full amount necessary to fund that programming. It was we were using that programming in conjunction or in tandem with uh money that we anticipated receiving from the state. That money did not meet
009the levels that we needed. And so this year the cost of the free kindergarten was a material contributor to the shortfall. So in an effort to ensure we don't find ourselves in that situation in the coming year, we needed to make a decision on how we were going to address that. There are two pathways. There are cutting costs and there are increased there's there's finding path path increased revenue. We have reduced costs. So people are losing their jobs. They're going to lose their jobs for next year. And in order to mitigate that terrible uh and sad consequence, we it was incumbent upon us to consider additional revenue sources. And it has become clear that free kindergarten is just not something the district can currently afford. So we're making a fiscally prudent decision to do that
010and reinstate it. It's not a permanent decision. It is obviously extremely burdensome on your family and it's not something that we're happy about and it's extremely frustrating and we'll continue to prioritize it and ensure that if it ever becomes feasible again in the near future we will return that service to Cohassid. But right now it's not something that is affordable. And so that is why we made the decision. Um, I don't really want to dedicate too much more time to that because and I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but it's just it's not on the agenda. So, we have to have limited response to these public comments, if any. Frankly, we're not really required to respond at all. But, I think I want to encourage participation and I think it'd be really frustrating if I
011was you and I came here to express myself and we just said thank you for your thoughts and sent you on your way. Um that said, there's been a great deal of debate and discussion and uh consideration of expenditures in the budget in making this decision and it was a difficult one to make and we are sorry that we have to make it but it is something that a majority of the committee felt was fiscally prudent to do so for next year. Sure. Yeah. Um I listen I've had to lay people off many times throughout my career. I don't like doing it. Um I know none of you like doing it. It's not fun, right? like it it it sucks. It there's no other way to put it. Um I do think that there's something
012very it it it feels wrong where there's a situation where the entire town is required to vote um for us to get pre kindergarten. But the folks at this table can vote amongst yourselves to decide to charge a small number of families within the town to cover that burden. Um, you know, it it it feels unethical, right? Sure. Why don't you respond to that and then we're going to move on. So there there's there's there's a couple misconceptions and I'll answer this one because I was there. I was the chair when we asked for the funding to cover our gap to get through kindergarten. So just to make a couple points. One, there was never any grant. There's no grant funding that was given. The reason the town voted is because it was approving our
013budget and our budget was free kindergarten. And in order to do that, we needed two things. We needed to approve the budget and we needed to get an allocation from the town for $200,000. That $200,000 was going to cover the first year of free kindergarten so that then we would hopefully have a ch allocation of funds under chapter 70 which is the how the state allocates funds to schools that would actually make this whole thing self-fulfilling. So the anticipation was at the time that if we could get one year of free kindergarten, these all these new numbers would count toward our chapter 70 funding and our chapter 70 funding would then fully fund free kindergarten. So it had to require no additional money from the staff, from the town. That did not happen. So the
014chapter 7 funding came in woefully short, well below expectations. In fact, when we go back to only half day kindergarten, uh, we lose the chapter 7 funding and the estimated loss of chapter 7 funding for next year will be $1,400. So, it was well off of what our expectations were. So, we tried to absorb those costs which previously were paid by parents into our school budget, but there's nothing there. So, that's that's where we are. That's how we got here. there wasn't an allocation of funds there. There is there frankly there's another opportunity to vote for the whole town has to vote to approve the budget. So there will be a town meeting and the school committee but the school budget will be on there and the whole town will once again vote on the
015school budget just like they did uh a couple years ago. So that's that's kind of where the where the story is. I totally understand and you know I was that was a no vote but um the the fiscal considerations are really real and really dire and there were no good options. All right well thank you for taking the time to come here for the response. All right. Well, we'll move on from public comment into one more comment. I believe it. Sure. Style just answered it. Yes, I think that Mr. Dial did just answer it. That the town will be voting on the entirety of the school budget. Um, which would include uh the kindergarten tuition. So, feel free to show up to town meeting. Um, historically like 5% of the town does that. So, um,
016I think we'll probably expect to hear a lot more people in the That's great. That's good. That's that's how the town is running. We we've gotten many emails about it and we know that it's it's impactful. It's an impactful issue for for families, especially people with multiple, you know, rising kindergarteners. And, uh, you know, it's it's not easy. And it wasn't an easy decision to make, but it's one that we think is is is necessary to balance the budget in the coming year so we don't find ourselves in the similar situation as we are this year. All right. Um so we'll move right into our invited guests. And our first invited guest is uh Natalie Hefner from our uh superintendent student advisory council to give us a report from a student's perspective. Hi Natalie. Hi.
017Thanks for having me. Sure. Um yeah, so just like kind of like a summary of what we're doing. Um I think something that's interesting about superintendent advisory committee is we got a lot of voices in there. We have middle schoolers which I really like. Um I'm a junior. Um we have a couple middle schoolers actually, boys and girls, and then we have um a couple freshman uh juniors. Amanda, you're also in it. Um and seniors as well. And we meet the Wednesday, third Wednesday of the month normally. Um, and it's just a lot of really good conversation, a lot of conversation. It's shocking how many things the students agree on like and it's interesting from like 14y olds and 18year-olds and a lot of us are like bringing in the same things. Um, but it's
018like a wide range. So like physical things in the school like we've had kids bring up like the sinks um and actually get those fixed and then things like needing rubrics from teachers on all assignments. It's it's it's a it's a range but we're actually getting things done which I really like. Also the surveys we brought in yeah a couple weeks ago. Um we brought in a couple surveys that we marked up and looked looked at and I think those will be great. But yeah, a lot of really fluid conversation that's actually doing things like as opposed to just meeting up um saying we're getting things done. I think we really are and it's great. And I think the amount of um kids who want to do it, we're not really getting it's not like
019a credit thing. Um it's not like service hours or anything. We actually want to do it and build a relationship with our superintendent and assistant superintendent. I think it's great. So yeah, a lot of actual um good fluid conversation. Yeah. Great. Thanks for that update. Natalie, are there any questions for Natalie? We just fired Will. Thanks for coming. But um we like trying to fix things. Is there anything that's not going well? Yeah. You don't you don't have to think of anything, but if you do have something on your mind, sure. I don't think anything will make me um there's always like always progress, but I mean like me and all my friend, I'm not even just saying this, like we're really grateful to go to the school. We know how good of a public
020school we go to is. Um I think we all recognize that. So obviously there's like some little things, but overall I think everyone's doing a really good job and I wouldn't just say that. So yeah, we'll have to have you to more meetings. Uh Mr. D, anything? Um you mentioned you've been doing some good things. Any specific things that come to mind that that you can share with us? You mentioned something about the sinks, but uh yeah. Um one those surveys I think those were really good. Um I mean you can talk a little bit. Yeah. So we um the students one of the things we decided that they had brought up that they would wanted to work on this year was being able to have some say in what's going on within their classes.
021And as part of the curriculum review processes that Dr. Scholins and Mr. Roberts are running, talking about how we get student voice into those processes. And so the teachers and Mr. Roberts and Dr. Stones have been working on creating surveys and we brought the surveys to the student advisory council and they gave us some really really good feedback. It was unbelievable actually the amount of really strong feedback that the students were able to provide for us. And so they've had an impact on what the surveys will look like and those surveys will go out to all students and the feedback the data will be incorporated into the um curriculum review process. So the the depth of the feedback um and the quality of the feedback that students gave us was really impressive. Well, thank you
022for your uh thank you for your work uh and the global report. Good job. Always feel free like you also make some good decisions and love to just hear. So there's no problem [Music] answer like that. So like we love to hear this stuff. So it's you can be part of the change you want to make. So we welcome you guys. Anything else? That's it. All right. Thanks, Natalie. Appreciate you taking the time to do that and for your service on the SSAC. Thank you. You're welcome. Your call. So, our spotlight on learning tonight is from Mr. Levis uh and the model United Nations and Model Congress. So, Mr. Lucy, why don't everyone come on up and uh we can take Natalie's name tag down there and uh and I'll just turn it over to
023you to open up whenever you want or how can do you want me to share this the photos? Yeah, that'd be great. I think put those together for sure everybody. Okay. You want to sit here? I know. Curious to see which I daddy. Norway. Welcome. Thanks for having us. So, um I'll go and you have model UN pictures up there. Sure. So, why don't we start with that? We'll work backwards chronologically to model congress. So, we did our uh model UN this year at the the the big one um which we've done in the past in New York City, the National High School Model UN, and we brought the most kids we've ever brought. We usually bring a a lot of kids. this year was 48 students. Um myself, um Mr. Sears, um Mrs. Sears
024as well, uh and Mr. Turner were the faculty. Uh on the trip, we did something different this year. Um we extended the trip uh a day to do some sightseeing because we've been doing trips to New York, but it's just the model UN schedule is so like busy that there's not a lot of extra time. So building in that extra day allowed us to go to the Museum of Natural History, allowed us to go to Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, um, and do some additional sightseeing, which was just great and I think it really added to the experience of the trip. Um, we had our guest speaker this year on the screen. Uh, President Joe Biden was the guest speaker, which was a really great experience. And, um, getting to hear him in person and
025for students to hear um, you know, a former president talk to them directly at Mother UN about the importance of international um, you know, politics and of alliances such as NATO, which he spent a sizable portion of his speech on was just a really, you know, memorable thing. I think we'll all remember that experience. Um, and the the students had a great time. I'll let them speak for themselves. I hope they had a great time. Um, but I I know this is my last model UN. I hope to come back to it in future years. But, um, I'm going to be switching my focus over to Model Congress in the in the future years, but it's it's in great hands with Mr. Sears and Mr. Turner um and and the returning juniors that have a
026lot of experience. So, um, I'll hand it off to Mr. Sears and and the students that did. So, we have some model UN students here and we have some model Congress students. So, we'll let the model UN students speak to this. Yeah, it was my first model UN. Um, so seeing the kids in these uh committees was a a great thing. And uh I saw them actually acting and getting up and speaking. So, that was good. It's really busy uh when they're there. So, that extra day was uh I think was really nice. And uh we're thinking about what we'll do next year so that the juniors that are coming back won't be seeing the same thing again. So that I'll leave it to these guys to give us a little description of what you
027like about it. One thing I really enjoyed about uh model UN was meeting different people of such diverse backgrounds and just forming those connections. every year you meet like a different group of people in your community and just um like getting people of different backgrounds is really interesting and also just being able to research a country and learn about different global issues and different perspectives is really just eye opening I think and it's just a good skill to have in life and this year we were uh Ireland and Lebanon we were so large that we needed two delegations so we had Ireland I live in Lebanon which is just an interesting range. Um yeah, so last year when we were sophomores we did the Boston University um one awesome. Yeah. Um and I think it
028was like really good. We started out it was like a bit smaller um more like intimate conference and then moving to the one in New York like it really showed us like I don't know about you guys but I felt like professional like it's very um it's a lot of content. It was it's a lot of conference like I think we had like eight hours worth of conference one day but um it really like get kind of getting like thrown into it like it really gives you like an appreciation for um like that type of world and everyone who does model UN like at our school at every school like um I think like we're all dedicated and um like care about not only academics but like like state of our world and I think
029um everyone just left with like a greater appreciation for it and like again like I'm not even just saying that like really we felt like that. Um so I I think it was great and especially like the fact that so many kids did it. Um I think we'll have probably even more next year. Um especially with Joe Biden like that was amazing. So it's just it's like such a great opportunity and I'm really happy our school offers this. Um, going off of what Amanda said, I think it was really, really interesting to like kind of experience like the mixture of so many different cultures. Um, personally in my committee, I met people from like places like Italy to Mexico, um, all around the world and just like hearing people have conversations in their like native
030dialect and um, like kind of like hearing their experiences from like traveling to the conference and like how they kind of go through like school and their like own culture. That was super um interesting to me and probably my biggest takeaway called friends. Yeah, I think it was great that kids uh also had to experience being in the subway. The subway was that was a fun experience too kids on the subway. I know one of the big things was the food thing. They didn't mention it but uh right the food was it was it was I'll let you guys figure it too. Mr. Sears, credit to Mr. Sears by coming on and doing some research and found some really cool like eclectic food markets like the the one that I think it was Chelsea food
031market which I had never been to which was just you couldn't go wrong. There were like 40 little restaurants for kids to pick from. So just um yeah was we we I think we enjoyed the food scene as much as you guys. I think there's a little financial literacy built into it because my son went on a trip as well and one of the things I heard was the food was great but boy is New York City expensive. Well, that's a good thing to learn. Yes. And and um there are and just so kids know too like you obviously go out and go to restaurants, spend money, but there's grocery store that's kind of close by and there's ways to hem it in a bit, but it's it's New York City. There's no real getting
032around the the expensive at all. And then we have Olivia here who was um a standout star in our model congress that she went to in February this year. Um this was the first year running model congress and we got 18 students to go in year one which was pretty good I think for year one. Um and a fair amount of them happened to be my students because I think I kept telling you guys like it'll be great. Uh but we got enough kids to go and um they had positions ranging from representatives which I can give you were too right from Florida South Carolina. Sorry. So students were signed a lot of them were for new first year schools. They kind of give you like a few things that they are pushing you towards
033which were US House of Representatives uh overwhelmingly. And so we had a lot of kids that had different US House positions but they were real uh US House members of Congress um and they had to take on their politics. So even if it's, you know, just like model UN country, it's like, okay, I don't like this country's politics, but the point is that we're acting it out. It's it's that's part of the experience. And so seeing the kids take on those roles. I had I had uh Christian's unable to make it because he has tennis, but Christian got a minimum wage bill passed as a Republican, but he did his research and he was a Republican in a in a swing district in New York, and he thought he should support it because he's going
034to appeal to a broader range of voters. So it was just some really cool experiences. Um and as a chaperone just learning um the the the conference was was fun. Uh very similar to model UN just very obviously like focused on on our domestic side but um I'll let Olivia speak to it your experience maybe who your person was and just um you know the whole Yeah. So I was the South Carolina Republican representative. Um, and everyone kind of had like a different role, whether it was a Democrat or a Republican. And there was a few people representing each district of the states. And it was really cool to work on passing bills with other people of all different parties because we had to make sure they were bipartisan. So, everyone kind of agreed on
035what the major goal was of the bill. I was in the House oversight, so we talked about border control and education, like school testing, like SATs, and just test of the sorts. And I think it was really cool. My group got some bills passed and then they were pretty small gatherings I would say of about like 50 people and a lot of people were very passionate about it. Everyone was like fighting for a chance to speak and then when we got to the bigger groups we were able to kind of share our opinions more and then we got to pass fails. It was pretty fun. Um a lot of the experience is just putting yourself out there like in a like Yes. it's about a politician or a country in a but it's really the
036name of the game is just chatting up some people that you don't know like ice breakers and and putting yourself out there. Um and I think it's just such a great experience for our kids and preparing them for college too and life about just like being comfortable in an uncomfortable space and learning how to navigate that. And that's why I want to really Olivia I gave her the nickname queen of the unmodderated caucus cuz whenever and Grace too whenever like there's that okay just like it's it's like less organized time. It's just time for you to kind of like make relationships with kids or not. Some kids just aren't really seizing the moment. And it's just so nice to see our kids just what's your name? Where are you from? And and and like what
037even just like their lives and understanding that the that when you can get to know a person even in a space like model, model congress, they feel heard and they want to work with you and they want to solve the problem, whatever that problem is, even if it's not important to them, it's important to you and you build that relationship. So, it was just nice to see our students develop those skills, too. Yeah. I would say it was also very inclusive. No one was like leaving anyone out of the groups. Yeah. And like Amanda and Charlotte were saying, this also was very like diverse. I wasn't expecting to meet people from other countries, but still I saw people from like Germany, just a wide range. And then people just from states all across the United
038States. Thank you. Yeah. Are there any Mr. car you had questions for Mr. Levis or he has students or serious what did you guys so Lebanon and Ireland yeah we both in the news like what did you guys talk about so everyone has a committee so um you get assigned go down I was commissioned and I was um yeah I was world health assembly and I was Lebanon and I was C34 I was also and the women issue was it Irish or I worked on the I worked in Northern Ireland when I was younger and just fascinated by what's the topic of the day. Just an example of like in my committee um we were kind of like a special committee on peacekeeping relations. So we wor we worked on like finding solution to um
039peacekeeping in South Sudan. Um and that was like obviously very relevant to like today and um like the spirit of the world. Um, but yeah, there was really good debate over that. That's cool. D, any questions? Uh, thank you to the staff for doing this. These are the sorts of experiential learning things that are that are priceless. I'm sure you all have memories that you'll keep for the rest of your lives on on what you've done here and and building these uh the financial literacy about New York. And then also, you know, learning the social skills of how to work in groups, how to work in unstructured groups. I mean, these are these are skills that you use and you develop even as you become a grown-up. So, it's a it's a great thing. Um
040there's not a adult version of modeling, is there? There is a a real one. I think ours functions better respons. I think it's called the UN. Yeah. I don't but I don't want I don't want to have the real responsibility. And on that note, we um just in transparency and we're never guaranteed to go to the UN. So they they try and unfortunately this year we couldn't get to the actual model UN because they were conducting business and when that happens it's just like we get like an email um and and it's just the break. So hopefully next year we'll be able to go to the actual UN because that's where we do we've done closing ceremonies in the past or sitting at the real UN headquarters which is a really great experience. So for
041the juniors coming back I'll be hopefully next year get get that experience. One thing just um how that I'm not exactly sure how this works. I'm stepping away from model Mr. Sears is continuing it. My understanding in the years I did this with Mr. Welch is that we request now school committee approval for next year. Is that is there a particular want us right into the next event here. Okay. Yeah. Yep. So that's that's that's that's fine because I all I want to do is do exactly what Mr. D. Thank you for that. It's a hu hugely um valuable experience. I think all you and it sticks with you guys remember those experiences forever. It's a great experience. Exactly the type of project based learning that we're trying to um encourage here. So thank you
042both for for doing that. And it's and it and it can be and look everyone has to understand that it can be uh uh somewhat terrifying for our faculty moderators to have to be in charge of a big group big group of students on the subway in New York all that. So it's it was honestly like it's f it was with this group both model and model congress it like no major you know problems. The kids were well behaved. They were where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be there. uh it's great to get to know them a little bit better, not in that, you know, structured classroom setting where you can just kind of chitchat while you're waiting for the train or or walk in someplace. So, it's a great
043experience from a from a teacher's perspective, too. And um and I think it's in great hands, Mr. Sears. Mr. Chair, I was amazed at how many students there were. Was it 5,000? Uh both. It's 2500 at each conference. There's two, so it's a total of 5,000 kids. Yeah. Model one. just navigating the hotel was want to talk about the elevator, but that adds the experience, right? That's the breath of the experience. It's great. But and I know you're diminishing it and you love it, but it is something that the community needs to realize how much you're taking on so that you're delivering kids. So, thank you both so much and thank you guys for putting yourselves out there. That is a huge part of it and doing this and having the courage to do that.
044Uh we hope you got a lot out of it. So, uh yes, let's roll right into the next strip so we can approve that. You want me to show it? I can um I just bring it. I assume I have it. I can pull it up. Yep. As long as we don't lose kids. We can probably start to describe it verbally, right? didn't know the exact dates for next year. It's not posted yet, but it's essentially the same week. Um I can't actually see that. So yeah, it's a 20. So same hotel, right? They filled in at Midtown. Yeah, Essentially, you know, the plan is the same uh as this year. We'll see who's signing up. We had 48 this year which filled the bus, right? Yeah. It's a that's the only concern with like
045it's a 55 passenger bus also. I believe that they cap you at 50 as a school. I could be wrong. So that 48 was right right up there. So I I hope we can maintain a good number but it is limited in how many that's why we have it to grades 11 and 12 to make sure that if we open it up to the whole school we would be able to maybe bring all the kids attend and as I was saying earlier if we did anything different uh it would be uh the day that we had gone to uh Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty so it wasn't a repeat for the juniors who will be seniors uh will pick out uh some other things One thing that was amazing was our bus driver. I
046keep that was one of the most amazing things on the trip is he he drove places I wouldn't drive with my car. Not dangerous places but like small streets and he just says I I'll be here for a couple hours park bus for hours. Uh so we got really good service. Um I might even ask him what some places are to go because he really knows the city. But the some of the ideas I had for next year was uh the tenement museum of course Central Park. We thought maybe a Broadway show uh because we walked right by it was close to the hotel and I think there was the great gap which aligns with the reading. So it's like if we could plan that better that'd be so great to take the kids to
047see that because it's in the I don't know is it Jude's junior year but there's you know experiential learning there. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, thank you for this. Any questions, Mr. Carr? No, this is great, Mr. D. Um, no, I mean, you guys have done this before, so I assume you've got all the safety measures in place. You know, the hotel, you know, the you know the thing. So, uh, we're just bringing down what we've done before. I've stayed at that hotel, but it's a very nice hotel. Um, so I've got I've got no questions, concerns. Thank you for being willing to do it. Uh, so it looks like what it looks like one adult to maybe eight kids if we were going on the numbers from last year. 12 this year. This year we
048had a 12 to1 ratio which worked out great when we went places. We had our little cards that you made us with our group our subgroup of 12 which was great. But I'm not uh doing next year. So next year be three to however many kids. So maximum it would be like 16 to1 if that if the numbers hold. All right. And we we're feeling comfortable with that. It seems like a lot. Another chaperone. Parent volunteer. Would want another Yeah. chaper. Yeah. Probably want to keep the same numbers. Uh and and the hotel, how are we managing that at night? Like we're making sure everyone's stay in their rooms. Is there is it like We had a We had a midnight check. We do bed checks, which sounds really late, but I find the kids
049are turning their homework in at 3:00 a.m. And Sure. But uh the committees go till 11. So yes. Yeah. So we we do Yes, we do uh together as a group of chaperones. So we have multiple faculty eyes um in one place. Um and we have Mrs. Sears with us. So we had, you know, make sure we have male and female chaperone and knock on the door outside. Is everybody, you know, in good standing? Is everybody okay? Is everybody ready for bed? And we know the rules and be ready tomorrow and X time and and and pretty smooth. Okay. And we know that there's no like on sometimes the rooms will be joining. window. There's not like boys and girls in those rooms where we can access boys and girls having hotel rooms that abut
050one another. Yeah. Like not like with the door that you can, you know, if you're both in agreement, you can open the door now you have a suite thing like add it to the list. I didn't just thought I I don't know. I don't know what that hotel a lot of hotels do, but you know like you know teenagers. So um and no disrespect to any of you guys. I'm sure you're all rule followers. Uh but just a thought, you know, we're sending our kids out of district, you know, we just want to make sure that we're doing everything possible to anticipate any sort of issues. Yeah. So, thank you both for doing this. Uh I guess uh is there a motion on the um floor to approve the uh next year's Molly United Nations
051trip as presented here by our faculty moderators? I'd like to make that motion we approve the trip. Motion's been made by Mr. Carr. Is there a second? I'll second it. Second by Mr. Dial. All in favor? I opposed. extensions. Motion carries by a vote of three members. Just like you, right? Thank you all and thank you. I think it's your second. I am. Yes. Well, I live in town, too, so thanks. Thanks, guys. Great job going to that. Thanks for sharing. Appreciate it. Right. Moving right along for a give a fairly brief superintendent update. Superintendent Shannon. Yes. Excellent. Thank you so much. Um, so just to keep everybody informed as to where we are with our strategic planning process, we had our fourth strategic planning meeting yesterday. Um, went really well. We continue to do
052really good work so far. We've drafted our revised mission, vision, core values, and compass points. And we're excited to meet again on April 15th to develop our strategic initiatives. Um, and the other update I would share tonight is just a reminder and an invitation to anybody who's interested. Um, tomorrow night here at the auditorium at the middle high school at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Elizabeth Englander from Bridgewwater State. She'll be here to present on screen savvy strategies for smart and safe tech use. Um this is a a endeavor through the middle school and the middle school PSO to continue the conversation in the community around the book the anxious generation. Um the presentation will be for parents and cover youth technology use in cohasset. It's for parents at any age level. Um not the parents the
053kids. Um, and it's about managing screen time, cyber bullying, helping to build connections offline, and more. Dr. Elizabeth Englander is the director, the executive director of MARK, which is the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewwater State. She's a professor of psychology, founding member social emotional research consortium. She's an award-winning author speaker. She is somebody that I have worked with in schools since cell phones became something that were in every child's pocket. She is remarkable. She is an expert. She is somebody that if you have a child with a cell phone, she's somebody you should come listen to. Um, and we are really grateful to the middle school PSO because not only are they helping to support her visit and her speaking, but they are also helping to provide some child care for any children who
054are in the fifth through 8th grade. Um, they're hosting a mystery in the learning commons from 6:15 to 8:15. They're providing pizza and dessert. Students will come and they will become detectives for the night, solving mysteries and figuring out what's in the locked box. There is a cost for attendance. It's $25 per student. They get the pizza, they get the dessert, and the proceeds go to supporting the middle high school library. So, all of that is happening tomorrow. Great. Is that your update, Superintendent, Shannon? It is. Okay. Thank you so much. Uh, we'll move right into teaching and learning and turn the meeting over to our director of student services, Mr. Michael Ston. Thank you. I just have a few updates tonight. The first is my data sharing, which I do each meeting that I'm
055here. March was a very busy month for the office of student services for special education. At the elementary level, we had eight annual review meetings. We had six re-evaluations. Five of those students were found eligible again for special education. One was found not eligible, which is a success. Um for initial evaluations, there were seven initial evaluations. Uh all seven of those came from family requests um during the month of March or you know requested prior to March that were held in March. Um, one of those students was found eligible and then six were found not eligible as not requiring special education services or presenting as having educational disabilities. Um, there was one class of resident evaluation. At the secondary level, there were 12 annual review meetings. There were six reevaluation meetings. Uh, five students were
056found eligible. Again, one student was found not eligible. There were three initial evaluations. And then at the secondary level for um those three initial evaluations, two came from MTSS. One student was eligible, one student was not eligible. And then for the family requested valuation, that student was not eligible. Um I held two out of district meetings uh totaling 44 total meetings in the month of March, which was a lot of meetings for the office. So busy month. So kudos to the staff for that. I also wanted to present um two topics tonight. Integrated focus monitoring and extended school year. Two separate topics but important ones moving forward. Um so during next school year the office of student services will undergo integrated uh focus monitoring or integrated monitoring review um with the state um with through
057Jesse and um what that will look like is you know in a sense an audit of the department looking at functional outcomes and educational results um to make sure that we're fully aligned with the office of special education programs. Um so that comes in a few phases. The first phase will start this year with a self- assessment which I'll be completing and then next year um and I'll talk a little bit about what that phase approach looks like. Um but it will really be a focus on existing policies, procedures and practices within the department, a review of records and documentation um which could will include interviews of staff, family members um and other stakeholders and then an on-site observation um through this process. um coast is in group A and our focus um through this
058monitoring cycle will really be on IEP development, identification of students with disabilities and then current programming and support services that are offered. I broke down the integrated monitoring timeline, you know, as set out by the state. Um so like I said, you know, we're looking at um gathering data during this phase here of discovery or we'll be entering the phase of discovery. of gathering data and information um to start formulating a review plan. The um the state will look at statistical data and with a focus on equity um we'll be promoting um and really look at specific indicators indicator 11 12 and 13 which I'll talk about a little bit more on the next slide. Um the self assessment will be completed you know this year um prior to June and then the discovery phase
059will happen next year around March um where they'll be you know on-site visits from the state um you know we'll work together um to make sure and I'll be working with you know Dr. phones and different personnel to make sure that we submit all the relevant information prior to those on-site visits. And then those on-site visits will also include or on-site visit will also include um a record review um of different files within the department. And then a report will be issued and if there needs to be there'll be a corrective action plan based on the different standards and the different indicators that will be explored through the state. The indicators that they're really looking on are child find. So that's, you know, defined as a percentage of initial evaluations for special education completed within
06030 days of receiving parent consent and then making sure that those are wrapped up within 45 days of that signed consent. Indicator 12 is the second indicator that we'll be focused on looking at referred students referred by early intervention which was my last presentation when I was here really identifying what that process is and how we partner with early intervention. Um so that's the second kind of standard that will be looked at as well as indicator 13 which is really we're looking at transition skills for students age 14 and above. Um making sure that you know IEPs that we develop for students include appropriate measurable um you know goals, objectives, outcomes and then how we support students as they transition on from Kassa public schools whether that be to college to work or different opportunities.
061So that's just you know a brief overview of the process of integrated focus monitoring. Um, you know, it really starts now, like I said, with the self assessment and then that ongoing data collection next year with those on resulting in the on-site visit and then recommendations from the state. Second topic that I wanted to present on tonight is extended school year. Um so class of public schools extended school year is our special education program for students who present with significant regression of skills and require that extended school year programming to prevent that significant regression or for students who require longer to recoup skills following breaks. This year our program will run from um that's actually let's update the dates there. It's Monday July 7th through u Monday August 7th between 8:30 and 11:30. the ESY
062site um will be at the Joseph Oska school for the elementary level and at the secondary level will be at the middle high school. This year our extended school year coordinator is Samantha Le Pan, one of our middle school special education teachers. Um she's currently working with me right now on the scheduling for that. Um and you know similar to last year individual ESY schedules be sent out to families by that Friday of April vacation, you know, by April 25th of 2025. um to help the summer planning and coordinating. Um like I said when I provided like a quick overview of the program really looking at eligibility for this type of programming um centers on regression. So the loss of performance levels that there were before breaks um children who are eligible you know may
063learn at a limited rate um which lengthens the amount of time that they take to recoup skills and then the time for children to accomplish such recruitment is greater than a typical time period. So, you know, ESY is recommended through the IP process and those recommendations really have happened so far this year just so families can prepare for if their child was recommended for ESY. Um, and things that we always consider through that process is, you know, what is the degree of a student's impairment? Has a student met their IEP goals and objectives. Is there evidence that a student will uh who will lose learn skills after breakin services? And then does the student limit uh limited learning rate, length and amount of time required to then repeat those skills and make progress towards IE
064goals and benchmarks. Um so information will be coming on ESY 2025. Um and again those individual schedules be sent to families in April. Um and then there'll be some dialogue back and forth if changes need to be made to schedules and then again just some more um just description of the program. Um ESY, you know, is not based on just an overarching disability. Um it's not mandated for all students with disabilities. Um and so this just kind of helps tease out the description of the program. So those are my updates for tonight. Okay. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. St. our fearless chair is uh has stepped away for a moment. So I'll I'll kind of take the reigns a little bit. Mr. Carr, any questions for Mr. David? This is a great great job. And
065I see Miss Davis in the audience. You want to have any um I know customary we've invited you to come up and give us any CPAC comments or Yeah. Um, no questions. That was great. Um, we had an excellent presentation um that Michael gave with Can Yeah. Caitlyn Stroberg, our high school school psychologist. It was great. And people really I had people asking me um, you know, for the copy of it and I think some adults really like the executive functioning information they learned, myself included. Um so it was a really good presentation and um we went CPAC we were at the health fair so we met some families when we were there so that was nice um and we have our next meeting coming up actually you were talking about goals and modifications and
066accommodations in your slides and that's what our next presentation is on. We have um a local parent actually Erin Dlo. She's going to do a presentation. and she's a parent teacher and she's also an advocate um for Southshore Education Advocate Advocacy and she's going to be doing a presentation for us um next Thursday at 11 o'clock at workstation going talking about modifications and the difference between modifications. So it's our next meeting and then we have one more left that and that topic will be on like preventing regression not necessarily tied to ESY but just like strategies for families over the summer to prevent regression of skills. the summer slide I think is how we defined it. Um and I'll have a special education teacher or teachers still working that out um be with me just
067to help share resources too and just allow CPAC an opportunity to hear from teachers in different setting and just you know parent conferences or I meetings. So stay tuned for that. So that's that. Great. Well, thank you both. I have no uh comments or questions and um thank you both. Thank you. Uh with that, I think we will turn it over to our budget resources and governance section for our approval of the FY26 budget. Uh given we're we're short one person. Um we can't vote just yet, but we can go through the facts. I think a lot of the stuff has been um met in prior meetings, so I don't think uh Chairman Pal will be missing anything while he's while he's otherwise disposed. Yes, I think he's seen this. obviously seen this in other
068formats. So, this is really a and actually this is this is stuff that's been in our committee packet. Correct. So, this is actually some of this is just updated because we weren't able to update um until after Monday night. Yep. And so, there's some new updated information here. Okay. So, I will share. Let's proceed. And I'm gonna um actually start with a little bit of an overview of FY25 um because I think that's important as it's part of the conversation. And so as everybody knows, we are at running at a deficit currently. Uh our current deficit is approximately $953,000. But one of the things that Miss Owen and I have been working on, and I'm grateful to Miss Owen for her assistance and work on this, um, is identifying how we can bring that deficit
069number down by the end of this current school year. So, by June 30th. And so, what you'll see here is a list of um ways that we can start to bring the deficit down. It is a conservative list. So, we do think we will be able to bring it down potentially even more. But a lot of this is something that happens routinely at the end of the year is that we look to see if there's any additional circuit breaker money. We look to see what costs can be offset by some of our revolving accounts. Um, and we look to see where else we have taken in any additional revenue. And so we think that um by the end of June we will be able to draw down that deficit from $953,000 to $569,000. Um and
070hopefully we can even do better than that. We have shared this information with the town manager. he is aware um and he is prepared to be able to support us this current school year um by covering the deficit that we will have left. Um so that is this year's update. Um going in and looking at FY26, um one of the things that we've been talking about is what it would cost if we were to level service with no changes um to program and personnel for FY26 to do that. It would cost the district a little over $26 million, but we know that our FY25 budget was just under $24 million and that the town allocation for FY26 to the schools is $921,182, which means as a district we will only have $24,830,589. that left us
071with a a gap of just under $1.4 million that we had to close. Um that highlighted yellow number will be the budget number that we are asking you to vote on tonight. Um you can see that um this is Miss Owen's workbook. I'll make it a little bit bigger so people can see. um some people that we we went for a two-pronged approach with this because some people like this budget workbook um version and then there's another version that will help people see how we got to a balanced budget for this coming school year. And so we knew that in order to have a balanced budget, there were a few line items where we actually had to increase our allocated monies. Um, we know that utilities is going to continue to go up and we
072we all we have historically for the last couple of years overspent in utilities. Same with custodial supplies and materials, athletics, transportation, and special education. Um, and we also know that for class size reasons, we are looking to increase a grade four teacher. um that though we are looking at reconfiguring some staffing and so that is costneutral. So in order to and that $591,000 is included in the numbers I just shared with you for this year. And so in order to close that 1.39 thous93 the 1,393,977 gap. These are the moves that we are making. Um we are making a series of reductions. We are significantly reducing supplies, materials and professional development. We are moving the bus parking. Um, we are moving it away from where it is where it costs us over $40,000 a year
073and we are moving it back to the high school. We are in conversation with some entities in town that will hopefully be able to host the buses during the school day. Um, and so we'll keep people posted on that. We have $50,000 in retirement savings. We are reducing actual positions as Chair Mlullen referred to earlier. um the director of data evaluation and curriculum which is a central office position, some custodial positions, a bus driver, um an educational support professional. We have a retirement at Deer Hill which we are not replacing, but we are still I want to be clear, children at Deer Hill will still be getting their health curriculum. Um it's it's being provided um by a certified teacher and um just in a different way, a lunch and recess aid, an office aid,
074and a point for math ESP at Deer Hill. We are also reducing the library aid at the middle school high school. And our middle school French teacher um has decided to retire. And I want to just publicly thank Miss Kathy Santos. She's an amazing teacher. She has touched many lives in her years here. Um, and we wish her well in her retirement. I hear she has some pretty amazing plans. Um, but what that has allowed us to do is we have two teachers at the high school who can teach French. One of those teachers will move to the middle school. Class sizes at the um high school with regard to world language will grow a little bit, but there is room for that growth. So that allows us to save the full salary. And then
075thanks to um the committee for Monday night uh because with the um addition of some fees, we are able to continue to offset that deficit that we were looking to close. So through reductions, we close $774,000 of the gap. Um, and then we think we will take in approximately $70,000 additional in athletic fees, $20,000 in student parking, an additional 40,000 in transportation, an additional 4,000 in building rental, approximately 300,000 in kindergarten fees. We are again thankful for the collaboration and the support of the capital planning board who are funding um the entire school bus leases through capital um which allows us to bring back $60,000 in our operating budget. And we are grateful for the support of the town for a $150,000 onetime special education allocation cost, which brings us to about $24,000 more than
076that um 1.3 million almost 1.4 million gap. Um, so we are presenting you this evening with a balanced FY26 budget that we can support and that meets the needs of the district um as best it can. Okay, thank you for that, Superintendent Shannon. Um, any thoughts uh from the committee that board? Mr. are um it's very nice to hear that the city is very cooperative with us. I think it is in our best interest to continue to be very aggressive between now and the end of the year to lower that number for the city. I think that will be very well received. So I think we need to just continue to think about how we sharpen our pencil around here before the end of the the year. Um, so anyway, that's sort of broadly my
077thoughts, but I think this is a great budget. It's clear some a great deal of thing thinking has to go on about public education in this town after I'm no longer here, but it will be important because it is a band-aid on April. Yeah, I think we need to just continue to figure out how to do this, you know, differently, better. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Dial. Um, first of all, superintendent chairman Dr. Solins going tremendous work here. I mean, this has been a incredible intro to the to the position. No doubt. One way to learn. It's uh you you have really really tackled a huge huge problem and we have a a solution and while as we know that solution may not make everybody happy, there's no way you can find $1.4 million and make
078everybody happy unless you literally find it. Um which is not usually how schools are funded. So I first want to thank you for all your work on this. Uh, and I also want to thank you for coming up with a solution to an intractable problem that is in the best interests of the district and therefore in the best interests of the community. So, thank you for that. I fully support uh what we've done here uh and what you put forward. So, um I will close by saying that building on Mr. Carr's comment that despite all this work, the work here we've done is is to solve a symptom. it doesn't solve the problem. And I do think we should take the energies, at least some of the energies that we spent trying to solve this
079gap for this year and think about more permanent solutions, what our funding needs should look like and be prepared to propose to the town uh town citizens at a town meeting a more structural solution to our education funding. Otherwise, I think I fear we'll find ourselves in this situation uh again sooner than we expect. So, thank you for this, but let's not let's not declare victory. Thank you, Mr. D. Um I too am very grateful for all the work that our central office staff put into this. Actually, not just central office. I think there's a collaboration uh districtwide on how to do this and um some folks are uh are being burdened with more of a sacrifice than others. And uh it's just it's it's just it's no small thing to to tell someone that
080you they're not going to be returning to work with us next year. And uh it's it's really um it's really discouraging that we were in that position. Um Superintendent Shannon, I'll just ask you, I mean these numbers that you're presenting, are you confident that um and obviously you cannot give us an answer to a 100% degree of confidence? You don't press a ball, but I mean you've been immersed in this for months now. I mean are you confident that uh we are at least setting ourselves up to in the in the best possible way to ensure that we won't find ourselves in a scenario where we have a everinccreasing shortfall next year because this is exactly what we're trying to avoid. These are the this difficult decisions I just talked about in in in addition
081to difficult decision like reinstating kindergarten tuition. Um we want to make sure that it's all for good reason. um and that it's enough and if it's not we have to be candid about that. Do we feel that do you feel confident that we're we're going to be in a fiscally stable environment pending some really unforeseen circumstance. I I think um I feel confident with where we are and I think Miss Owen and I have gone over these numbers many many times and um asked for a lot of input and so I do feel comfortable with this. Okay. And um as far as I I I mean I have to also address the red elephant in the room which is this this number that just keeping gets bigger and bigger every month and I I I
082you and I have spoken about it offline but I just want to discuss it and and highlight it a little bit more in the meeting here. I mean, we feel that we have somewhat of a handle on this shortfall and that, you know, the numbers as you presented them are going to allow us to manage it through the end of the year, the fiscal year. Yeah. And I would say we also um we spoke to all of the central office and principles today and said if there is any anticipated costs that you have between now and June 30th, you need to let us know today. Some of those may be approved, some of them do not because there are like gradu some graduation costs have to approve. Um they're taking into account paper needs between
083now and the end of the school year. Um all of those things. And so we our goal is to know by the end of next week exactly what that number will be. All right. Well, um, as as everyone noted, thank you and thank you to, uh, our building principles, our staff, our CTA, uh, everyone who collaborated on this. It was a very difficult situation and I think that we're, uh, at least putting ourselves in a position to effectively address it. Uh, is there a motion on the floor to approve the FY2026 Cohasset public schools budget as presented tonight? by our superintendent of schools. So moved. The motion has been made by Mr. Dial. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Mr. Carr. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion carries by a majority vote of
084three members. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on. Uh we have uh community relations communication section of the agenda which is reserved for reports from subcommittee positions, leaison positions. Any reports uh from anyone uh in the category of um the working group that looks at budgetary items we have um going to go through an exercise about the current status of the electric bus in its contract and we'll report back to you. We're going to have a call with the vendor. you recall the vendor is no longer in Massachusetts. It's been a challenge to manage. So I'm going to work with Sue and others to have a conversation and we'll report back to the board for board next steps about the um our test with the electric school bus. What's the what's the current status
085and decision point in the house? What's the impact of moving the bus park? So we are entitled, they will pay to move the charger. We can move it at no additional cost to us. The contract has been hard to manage from a distance. So when we took on this project, if you recall, there was a third party company involved. That company at their discretion shut down their Massachusetts and New England based operations for a period of time. He moved it back to where their parent corporation is in the country of Italy. Then they moved it to another location. They have been a challenge to deal with from a perspective of maintenance and care of the bus. The bus is safe. The bus works. We need a partner that also works as part of our scenario
086for this. So this has been a learning experience for everybody. We're going to have a frank conversation with them and see what to do what to do next about the about the bus. It has been a challenge to uh deal with this. Uh the good news is we have not been build significantly. We have been re reimbursed promis to be reimbursed for cost out of pocket for the most part is my understanding. So they have been good in that way. I think they also may want to do something differently with us. So they have asked to have a conversation with us and we're gonna uh do that. But I'm gonna come in and see Sue and just sort of figure out what do we want out of that like well basically it's a and I
087think this is very appropriate to have check-in call with periodically and so we're going to we're going to do that and sort of come back and give some advice about what to do next if that is acceptable to everybody we will proceed. Thank you for that. Uh it's a great report Mr. Carr. Thank you. So continue to update us on that. Mr. Dow, do you have any reports to share? I have no reports to share. I guess the only report I'll share is not necessarily a summary of anything that happened at a subcommittee meeting, but just a reminder that um super superintendent eval perspective, I will be sending out the summit of document to the committee members um in the coming weeks. Mr. Cari, you'll be included on that as a 25 uh 20 24
08825 um academic year committee member. So, we need to um obviously one of our priority pri primary roles as school committee members is to evaluate the performance of our superintendent and superintendent Shannon has asked that we complete that task a bit earlier than we had in the past, which was over the summer. Um and it's it's it's a bear to get everyone to respond to this. Um so, uh please be attentive. I'll remind everyone a few few meetings coming up. So, it's just on everyone's radar. We'll be sending it out for a few weeks. Um, with that, I think we'll move right into approval of meeting minutes. However, uh, the only set of meeting minutes that we have to approve is from, uh, the public hearing on the budget. And one of the we only
089have three members to create a quorum tonight. And one of those members that's present tonight was not present at the meeting. I cannot vote. I could I should but I won't. I'llain but I understand you still have a majority of those voting. Uh we wouldn't have a majority to approve or reject the minutes. So what I'm going to ask is for a motion to table that item until the approval of those minutes until the next regular school committee meeting. Is there a motion to that effect? Motion made by Mr. Der second. Second second by Mr. Car. All in favor? I I I have one opposed. I I am committed to making sure before I depart your beautiful company here that we will be completely up to date on minutes before I leave. So I want
090to continue to thank especially Jennifer and Kathy Bach who have been wonderful uh to work with on this. So we're going to review the list, see what's posted, make sure we have everything. even if we may be missing one or two somewhere in our rears we will find it and we will make sure before the end of this school year that we are completely up to date but the good news is that we are in a very very good position on this that is great news Mr. secretary and thank you. It's a thankless role except when you're explicitly thanked uh in open meetings. So, thank you for everything you've done and for keeping that uh keeping us on track there because that was not always the case. So, we're uh we're very grateful for that.
091Um but Superintendent Shannon, we'll just keep that in our materials for next time. And we'll move into executive session. There is a reason to move into executive session. Mass General Law Chapter 30 capital A section 21 small A number three to discuss collective bargaining strategy litigation strategy uh and um contracts of non-UN personnel. Is there a motion to move into executive session for that reason stated and not reconvene back open session? So moved. Motion's been made by Mr. Dial. Uh, is there a second? Second. Seconded by Mr. Carr. We must a roll call vote for this. Mr. Carr, I. Mr. Dial, I I Craig Mlen. Motion carries by a vote of three members. We are moving into executive session. I will end the regular session. We will not be reconvening. Thank you everyone who uh
092participated and or viewed this meeting tonight. Have one to believe.