Concord Carlisle Joint School Committee Meeting May 6, 2026

001Good evening. I get the pleasure once a year to call the meeting to order. So, I'm doing that. The first order of business is to seat the new conquered school committee since the um town meeting concluded last week and to make other necessary appointments. After the call to order of the committee is made, I will request that a conquered school committee member move the motion. And actually, I think tonight I'm going to throw that to Andrew to talk on sort of timing and where we are for the rest of you to discuss. Great. >> So, we're going to jump to number letter A, which is the seating, and then you all take over. So, a motion needs to be made by a conquered school committee member to recognize Andrew Herchek, Drew Magleiozi, Tracy Morano, Sandy

002Piseri, sorry. >> Michael Williams as members of the conquered school committee. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Great. So the conquered school committee me has been seated. I'm gonna turn it over to you. >> Yeah. So this is awkward. every year when the um conquered town meeting and the car town meeting are far apart. So right now the carwhile um town meeting hasn't occurred. So technically we don't know if you both will be returning. So we have the option tonight of going ahead and electing chairs for the CPS. Um I I think historically and you might know better than me, we generally wait and seat and select chairs at um once Carle has been seated which we can do tonight or we can not do that and go ahead

003and elect new chairs which as outgoing chair I'm happy with that option too. So I I just wanted to put that out there. Uh last year it wasn't as a big deal because the conquer town meeting was much closer to Carile Town meeting. That's not the case this year. So, um I don't know if you have any historic >> So, historically, the last time that this happened was 2024. Um and I made a motion to delay the election of chairs until we seat the region and we do both. So, that's what happened in 2024. In my five years on the committee, it's been different every year. Sometimes the town meetings coincide and they're the same day. Some like, you know, I think during COVID, we had like the same day town meeting a little bit

004easier. and the elections are also in there. >> So, um, and I don't know if anyone looked back further than 2020, but this is typically how we've done it. >> Okay. So, there's a policy that was enacted in September of 2024 >> that I thought spells things out. Policy BDA. So BDA um so no one that is on this committee currently reviewed was on the policy subcommittee to review those. So I went back to the meeting minutes from 2024 and we were supposed to look at it in 2025 and it didn't get reviewed. So the committee over the summer I don't know if they reviewed that because it was said that we were going to change it in our policy. I consulted with MASC and it is allowable to delay it with a vote of

005the committee. So, it's really up to the committee to decide. >> Andrew, do you have any uh reservations about that? >> Delaying is fine. Fine by me. >> It's basically the next CCRSD meeting anyway. So, >> meeting. >> Yeah. So, um I guess just to make this easier, I am going to make a motion to delay the election of chair and vice chair to the next regional school committee which is on June >> 3rd. >> Oh, a month from now. >> Yep. >> Is there any reason not to do it right now or >> No, there's no reason not to do it right now, but I made a motion. So, it either has to be seconded or not. And then we can discuss it. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. So, now we can discuss

006it. Sorry. It's really awkward when there's not really a chair. There's kind of a chair, but not really a chair. >> Got it. >> Uh, yeah. So, I guess I guess I being on the committee when you have a chair and a vice chair and a chair and a vice chair to know who's coming over from Carl to really have the full picture. That's why I would like to delay it until Carl is seated because we don't currently know if Brian and Lynette are going to be with us. >> I guess >> and who our options for chair would be for the region. I guess that's where I'm at. >> If somebody like somebody as chair for the conquered comm they would not be >> it would not you have to chair the region. So,

007I guess I'm curious about the if this this was approved, I guess, in September of 2024, not used in 2025, but would pertain now. Um, it's curious what what prompted All of you were seated then. What prompted the thoughts in 2024 to to uh approve this policy then? >> So Alicia recommended that we put it into our policy review and it it just got missed. It didn't get put into the policy review. That's my understanding from the minutes. >> But it got it did get the policy was so it got approved in September 24th and Sorry. >> I'm trying to figure what what would cause caused it to be uh approved then, >> but it doesn't apply now. >> Oh, I think it all the policy definitely applies now. So, that's the reason that you

008need a motion to delay it. So, we had this exact same policy when it happened in 2024. And when we consulted with MASC on that, they said you can delay it if you want to if the committee wants because this is a vote of the committee. It it doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter either way. It's whatever the committee decides is best for the committee. So in 2024, it was exactly the same thing. We had that policy and Alicia recommended that we update it. I don't know what happened in the summer work and the policy work. Yes, I was on the committee. You on the committee? You were on the committee. >> I mean, I was there. it just didn't track to the the policy subcommittee that went through the the changes. So, we

009just missed whatever edit needed to be made >> and it was, you know, shout out to the policy subcommittee because it was a full review of the entire binder of policies. >> We can certainly put it on the list now. >> Totally. >> Out of curiosity, when we do elect the chairs, is there an order of operations? Does CPS go first and then the district if you do it in the same meeting whether it's >> um I would ask that the audience maybe not comment on that. Um yes CPS gets first. >> Okay. >> But we would know who our >> but yes so conquered will still get elected first. >> I see. >> Because when it goes on the agenda like that we put both of them on. >> Okay. Yeah. Curious. I'm obviously

010new to this. So, >> totally if we're ready for >> We have a motion. We have a motion. >> I guess I got the motion. Yeah. Well, the motion is is what? Just so we're all >> to delay. So, I need a motion to delay the election of chairs until the June 3rd meeting. >> And it was seconded. >> All right. You've had your discussion or are you having >> You can ask if there's any >> any other discussion. All right. All in favor of delaying the seating of the conquered chair. >> Yeah. I >> seating or election >> the election of the chair. >> The delay of the election of the >> being very specific. Yes, that matters. >> I >> The election of the chair and the vice chair. >> I do mind

011if I abstain. I don't know. >> Totally fine. >> We your vote on this. >> So, three eyes. Drew abstains. >> I'll abstain too. >> Okay. Okay. That might be the hardest thing to do. >> That was the hardest thing we do all night. It's >> going to get to the >> the policy because this is awkward. >> It's totally awkward every single time. >> It's awkward for me to sit. >> And I know this is still conquered, but Carl has a much better process doing this, >> right? >> Well, I don't know if it's completely codifying it. >> They appoint people. >> It's not. So >> yeah, >> the challenge on the Carile side is we have to make sure we seat ourselves be. >> So in Carlile the night of the election once

012the results are in you are in office the next day. There's none of that and town meetings already happened before. >> So what's going to happen June 2nd is our election when and I are running um and we're we are running unopposed but never going to assume anything. Um, assuming that, you know, we are elected on June 3rd because we have a meeting that night. She and I have to go get sworn in. We're going to have a 1:00 Carlile meeting to seat everybody and figure out who's coming to the region and then we'll come whoever that is will come to the region um that night. So, >> I think the issue is just that we're a month apart this time. I feel like our election is later than it normally is and our town

013meeting was earlier than so like next year our town meeting I think is on May 18th. So it may be a non-issue next year depending on when the car election and the car town is. >> Yeah. So >> because the conquered election is always in March. >> Yes. We just like to keep you in suspense. And so I guess that I would move that Andrew Herek continue to be chair of the conquered public school committee until June 3rd. >> Do we even do we have to do that? >> I don't know. Do we have to do it? >> I don't think so. >> So he just remains >> do. So thanks for that. >> Oh, thanks. So now you can do the So now that you are the chair, you can do the next nomination.

014>> Okay. Um Oh, I don't have >> It's right here. >> Thank you. All right. Um, >> sex. So, next we will appoint of the school committee recording secretary. >> So, I move to appoint Aaron Higgins as recording secretary. >> Second. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I thanks Erin. That all she does behind the scenes. >> That's complicated. Okay. So, the conquered committee has been seated and now we're on to recognitions. So, this is the best part of our meeting and we're going to start with our state athletic champions. And tonight we have with us we have the girls swimming t dive team who are state champs for the second year in a row. >> Third year in a row. Come on up. I think we have Sarah and Mana and Rosie. So,

015why don't we have you guys come up first and we'll do them all separate. Is that okay? >> Whatever you want. Okay. Do I see? Let's see. We have the three of you. Do we have Theo with us? Is Theo with us? >> Okay. Theo Remington. I'm just >> Is he on? Oh, he's on his way. So, we're going to do it when he's here. >> Do we have our fencing state champ? Oh, perfect. Let's do him separate. All right, girls. >> So, the SW can you tell us a little bit about um your season this year? >> Yeah. Um it was a really exciting year obviously coming back. We had a little bit of experience knowing what it's like to come back defending the state title. Um, but even to do that again, it

016gets even harder. And this year, we really faced that. The state championship was our hardest meet this year. Um, they did a realignment and so we competed against Amherst who really made us fight. We weren't winning halfway through the meet and it came down to like the final two races um, and getting those diving points in. Shout out to our divers who really like won the meet for us. They got so many points and I think it just made this year a lot more special knowing we fought that much harder for it. >> Anyone else? >> Um I think we also had a lot of people swimming new events this year or events they hadn't qualified last year. So it was definitely a lot of growth from the team from a lot of different individuals.

017Um and we had a lot of freshmen competing at the state meet as well and the divers um really helped us a lot there too. Yeah. >> Excellent. Rosie, >> I mean, I feel like overall this year we had a lot of growth. I could definitely see that. Um, our freshman class was very big this year, so they definitely helped us out a ton. Um, and yeah, like Mana said, I mean, our diver and Sarah, our divers really were like our final um, like way to win at the very end of states. So, >> well, congratulations again. And I think that did the police escort you into town again this year? It's always like the best part when you see like the sirens come through conquered center. So congratulations again and we're I think we'll

018take a picture with everybody in the school. >> Going to do it. I'll take a bunch. We'll keep going. >> I got them. Do you want to bring the others and we'll >> you in charge? >> Yes, I'll bring the others. So let's bring up fencing. So if you guys can sit at the table here and we'll bring up fencing over here. >> And I'm really excited to hear about fencing because I don't think we've had the fencers yet. I don't think >> What are your weapons? >> So, um I'm the EPA team captain as well as the um cumulative men's team captain. >> Okay. >> And I'm the saber team captain. >> I was foiled. >> Oh, >> okay. I'm glad we have a fencer among us because I I don't understand that world.

019>> Different different areas touch different different you know uh foil and uh epe are simply pointing weapons. The saber is a slashing. >> Okay. So can you tell us a little bit about the fencing team and what brought you to the state championship? >> Yeah, so I became captain um two so this is my second year as captain. Remember um a lot of the mistakes that I made in the first year um just perhaps at states and just in in leadership in general um gave me a lot of um ideas about what I could do with my second year. Um, it allowed us to, um, train better. I think it allowed us to have much better morale. Um, I think that it made it so that, uh, we could really steal the win from these

020schools and many of these schools recruit for fencing. Um, and and, uh, K Cara High School isn't one of those. Um, so it was very impressive what we were able to do this year. Um, >> and also, uh, it was in no small part due to our Saber team, which, um, really carried its weight and got us to, um, the win. I'll let Leo talk about that. >> Yeah, I think that the real story of the fencing team this year is growth. You know, I think almost everyone on our team, they only first started fencing when they uh, joined the team in high school, which is very unusual for fencers. Normally they start very very young, but this year, you know, uh like James, it's my second year being captain. Uh so I've been able

021to watch uh the underassman kind of grow over these last two years. And you know, it's just it's very it makes me very proud uh to be able to see them win a state championship. >> And is it a men's and women's team combined or do you compete? Well, um, at at states, uh, the men go against the men, um, and the women go against the women. So, uh, no, they're not really the same team. >> Is it a combined score between the two teams or >> No, it is not. We compete separately, but because it's a fairly small team, we train together. So, it's a very it's it's kind of like a larger team, but we compete separately. >> That's great. Um, anyone on the committee have any questions or comments for our fencers?

022>> How's the pipeline looking for soccer. Say that again. >> How's how are underassman um and and I guess the the future of the team looking? >> Well, I'd say it's looking pretty bright. Um so, uh I bring a lot of my uh my leadership experience from also teaching at the same facility like privately. Um so I teach kids from about seven to to 14. Um, and a lot of those kids that I've been teaching since I was in eighth or ninth grade also came into the fencing team already having some fencing expertise as well. So, we're set up with a whole group of kids who have been taught by me and also by Leo um, and who've also um, are experienced in how the competition works. So I' I wouldn't be surprised if the

023next year or in a couple years you'll see somebody one of my students or Leo's students up here giving the same talk. >> Wow. >> And I would say very similar to the swim and dive team like we have this amazing facility at Bey and I know that some of you are part of swim clubs in conquered so you've been swimming your entire life and we've got a fencing facility in town too. So really fortunate that we have those things. >> Well congratulations to both teams. I don't see Theo yet, right? Theo's not here yet. >> No, >> when he comes, we will recognize him when he comes. We'll recognize him separately. >> He said 627 ETA. >> Okay. >> 627. Well, we're >> I just think it's really cool in these winter sports that

024they're team sports, but you compete individually. So, to hear you talk about leadership and training and um cheering on, you know, for different events is really, really cool when it all comes together. So, really, really good job. And I really appreciate the Blazers, by the way. >> Thank you so much. >> So, um, so with that, maybe we'll can you guys wait around for maybe like 10 more minutes till Theo gets here and we'll continue on with our high school update and then we'll bring you guys back in and do a picture with everyone with Theo's here. Does that sound good? Okay. >> Theo was here last year, too, right? >> He was here last year, too. >> The recurring >> He's a recurring state champ. But it's But again, another individual sport. So, all

025you guys have individual sports. I know swim. You have relays too that you know it's much more team but really individual competitors. So congratulations to all of you. If you can just wait for maybe 10 minutes for Theo and then we'll do a picture with everybody. >> You don't. >> I don't mind it. >> Thank you so much. Congratulations. >> I want >> Oh, okay. >> Have to ask. >> Okay. All right. Our other recognition tonight um is the CCHS green team and our faculty advisor Rebecca Meeks I think is with us and so we're going to turn it to Zoom for a minute. >> Hi. Yes. And I think a couple of our students should >> is also with us. >> Becky, are there other people I need to promote? >> Yeah. So Priscilla

026Gy Oh, it's not on the screen. Oh, hang on. There she is. >> Oh, Clara is raising her hand. Thank you. >> And it's um >> the two students. Uh Henry Yates, is he on? >> Oh, yeah. There's Clara Frank. >> Hi. >> Clara. And then is um >> Henry there as well. >> Who are you looking for? >> Henry Yates. I don't see Henry. Oh, yeah. I don't see Henry unless he's here for another name. >> Okay. Well, we can start here. I'm going to show share my screen and Clara is going to talk a little bit about what we do in our group. >> Great. >> Yeah. >> She says confidently. Let us know if you have any trouble screen sharing. >> Shouldn't I think of closing things? Okay, let's see. >> Is

027it letting you share >> it? I think it is. My computer's not sorry. Let me try one more. Click here. >> I'm sorry to hold you all up. >> Or you can share with me and I'll share it. Becky. >> Okay, let me try one more time. Share Chrome. Yeah, it's not letting me share here. Let me share I'll just share the presentation with you. >> While we're waiting and having technical difficulty, I did see um our head swim coach, Matt Goldberg, join us. So, when we bring the team up, you can come up with them for a picture at the end. >> Okay, Laura, you should have it now. >> Okay. Yes. Unfortunately, I can't go into presentation mode for some sort of technical reason, but I've got it. All right. Um, okay. So,

028hi everybody. My name is Clara and I'm a part of the green team club at CCHS. Um, we promote sustainability here at CC and around the community all four seasons of the year. Um, one of our initiatives is to plant native pollinator plants in gardens around the community to help at risk insects including golden bees and monarch butterflies. We have plan planted these gardens at CMS, Alcott, the Gleon Public Library. And we have even taught Alcott first and third graders how native plants help our ecosystem and we help them plant their own. Yeah. And then we can go to the next slide. >> Next slide. >> Yeah. Um so going green at CC. Um we also have been encouraging composting at many school events and in the cafeteria daily. We have volunteered at kicks for

029cancer, the Thanksgiving lunchion, the multicultural festival, and more in the future. And those are just a few images of us at each of those events. Um, and then this is about helping CC transportation go green. Um, we have researched and filled out the application for three public access charging stations that would go right in front of the gym for electric cars. Um, we also ho host a bike and walk to school day that's going to be on Friday, May 8th. Um, and we're even including Boston students where they will walk from Emerson playground up to the school. Um, and that's a really fun event where there will be prizes and just encourages people to lower their carbon emissions. Um, and then these are just a few of the other events that we do. Um, every

030November we annually host the great pumpkin smash at Codman Farm. Um, this is when we bring everybody brings pumpkins and then they feed them to the cows and pigs um to compost and it's just beneficial for everybody. We also celebrated Earth Day this year on May 1st and we had a fun Friday in the cafeteria where there was cornhole about our carbon emissions in and out and we also had rocks that people could paint and people could make their pledges to go green. Uh yeah. Um and we just wanted to thank everybody in the school committee for inviting us to present today. Um we yeah we just wanted to encourage everybody to be sustainable. Um and the final thing is in March a few green team students attended the preview of the PBS documentary on

031throw at CC. Um and they shared their impressions with the film directors which was really cool. >> Oh you Clara. >> Thank you. >> You guys have done great work at the high school. I know that you've been really active in composting and even all the high school events. It's made a really big difference like the multicultural food fair using all the compostable products. I think that that's definitely and and all parents know that if they host anything that must be compostable. So I think you've done a really good job um you know spreading your message. >> Thank you. Yeah, >> I have to say >> thank you so much. and and Clara is a freshman. We have a lot of students freshman through senior year, but unfortunately they were all really busy. So, we're

032so pleased Clara could help us tonight. >> Agree. >> Question. >> I was just No, just a comment. Um, the pollinator garden caught my eye because we're here because we've talked about it at Carile Public. So, I would definitely be interested in speaking with the green team further about that. >> That'd be great. >> Yeah. I just want to thank you because your work over in the elementary schools is really growing and it's so fun to see the cross school connections and all of you mentoring the younger kids. So, um, keep that up. I think that's been a really big step forward this year that there's some real me momentum building. >> Yeah. >> And to give some credit to the elementary school teachers at Alcott, I think the students were just as educated as

033I am in green, which is really fun when we went to plant with them. There you go. That's great. It's really cute. >> Well, thank you so much for all that you do at the high school and all the other schools and I think a partnership with Carl's probably in your future. So, >> keep up the good work. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, saw Theo come into the room. We're going to switch back to our state champions. So, Theo, come on up. Nothing like coming in hot. >> Sorry about that. I I wrote down the wrong time in my phone. I had old information, I think. No problem. No problem at all. >> So, now we welcome state champion Theo Remington who is What are you the state champion of? Can you >>

034uh >> I know it's skiing related. >> Yeah, it's uh slalom. There's two main events, giant slalom and slalom. And I won the slalom both this year and last year. >> Good for you. >> Former neighbor. >> Um do you want to talk a little bit about what this means to the team or what it means to you? >> Um yeah, it's Uh obviously a huge accomplishment for myself. It's always something I kind of uh strove for when I was much younger. Um for the team it was great. We've won uh we were runner-ups uh the past two years and I think I tried uh to contribute. All the guys have done a really good job. It's been a lot of improvement over the years. The team's really grown the past over the four years

035since I've been there and it's it's been a great environment this year as well. >> That's great. And are you planning on skiing in your future? Um, I'm going to Mbury College. I'm unfortunately not gonna have the opportunity to ski competitively there, but I'll definitely be doing a lot of skiing. >> That's a lot of skiing in Vermont. So, I think you'll still be skiing on some level, right? >> There's a lot of skiing locally and a bunch of really nice mountains within an hour or so. So, I'll definitely continue skiing recreationally. >> I think you get like a ski pass. I think Bird gives you >> Yeah, they have discounted passes for college students. >> It's always great. It's a great discount. >> Yeah. >> Well, congratulations again. Two years in a row. We

036have the fencers that this is your first state championship and the girls swim and dive team. It's your third year in a row. So, we're going to ask you all to come up and get a picture with all of us. We haven't done a picture of the entire school with our state champs for a while, have we? >> No. >> So, we'll bring you all up over here and I'll ask the school committee to come behind. >> Bob's on picture duty. >> Sorry. >> First, it is their first. >> Oh, they need a banner. That's right. Sorry. >> Oh, lacrosse. Oh, cool. Wow. >> All busy seniors. So, congratulations. How about if we put the champions in front of the school >> and coach is also good. >> So, swim team's fun over here. Swim

037team. >> All right. There we go. Swim team. We've got Goldberg with us. Here we are. Are we in? Okay. >> We're look at Bob first. vertical for squeeze in a little bit more. >> Ready? One, two, three. Let me take one more. >> Got it. Okay. >> All right. All right. >> Thank you all for coming. >> Thank you so much for coming. >> Thanks, dear. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming. >> Congratulations. >> All right. All right. So, we'll move on to >> Oh, reports are next. >> All right, I will. Thank you, sir. >> We still have time. We still have time. >> Good. >> All right. Well, thank you. I only have a few highlights tonight of some of the ongoing activities at the high school. I know the students

038are going to follow me. Usually they're ahead of me so I can ride their >> Well, this is coattails. >> This is what Mark said and it seems to be a little different every meeting. I think we missed it with our lengthy agenda. So, we apologize. >> So, I'm purposely not highlighting what I expect they're going to. Um, we are very busy with our uh accreditation work. So, this week the high school just yesterday saw drafts of the standards they need to report on. Um, so that's been all worked through, drafted by a number of staff who then have to share it with the rest of the staff. And I I would love to give you those drafts so you can see the comprehensiveness of it. It covers every pillar of what a high functioning

039school needs to have in place and they had to self-relect reflect, identify areas of strength, areas of growth and start to put themselves out in front of the accreditation teams. Um, what I know I mentioned this one other time, just as a reminder, this happens over a two-year process. So, in October, there will be a first visiting team to come in and they're now calling it, Brian's online, he's going to tell me I don't remember totally, a collaborative process where they come and do a first site visit after reviewing the standards to talk through what we named and what we saw and do some work on their own to give us feedback on things they might see. and then they come back two years later to actually do the f the full accreditation report. So

040it's become a much more cyclical process meant to be like let's name what we want to work on and collaborate with the association for a growth process. So I'm excited by that. I've not been participated in a an accreditation since these changes happened. >> On top of that is the vision of a graduate work which also has to be complete. So, I know next week there's a dayong design team meeting where we're still honing things in. We knew this that process was going to go into the next school year and that's given us a this gift of time where we got all the feedback and the design team will make their way through where that is at the moment and then there'll be some next steps coming for the for the fall of next year.

041So, um kudos to the high school. This is a a lot a lot of work and we're right on track and you can tell the meaningfulness of it just in the conversations and documents that are being produced. Uh we last night hosted in collaboration with the conquered police department a substance program. We first brought in a speaker for the juniors and seniors. I was there for a good amount of it. Very engaging firsthand story of um someone who got addicted young. He did such a great job of saying even if you're not in that trajectory, single use can be devastating, too. So I they were students were very engaged. It was a pretty powerful hour. Um and then he stayed and did a parent session last night and the police were there to talk about

042social hosts. You saw the letter the chief and I wrote together naming we think we have a problem here. Um, the parental piece is really important to us to talk about the seriousness of the either hosting or permission to drink and of course we're trying to reach the students to help them navigate. I thought he did a great job. Like you need a toolkit of what you're going to do when situations arise, not just us looking at them saying don't drink. Um, so I think it was a good start to that conversation. Um we are very grateful that town approved um half of the cost of this was paid for through the town opioid money. Um which I think just means everybody's getting in the same boat here to message how worried we are and

043how serious we think this is. Um and then finally just a really big shout out. We um had 60 plus students and a good number of chaperons in Nai o uh over the break and right till we returned last week. really successful trip. Um all the pictures and videos. It's really fun to see. They not only sight saw but they were immersed in the ni the nana schools as is the gift of our partnership and exchanges. And if you got to see any of the photos or the recordings of the concerts where the Japanese and conquered students are all conquered Carlile students are all together. It's pretty pretty special. So, um, we're excited that that just happened and looking forward to the next steps. Um, there's an NAI visit coming in October as usual. So,

044I think, uh, we just kept that momentum going. I feel like it's been a it's been a road since COVID to get back on track. So, this is our first time having students in the nice sense and um, >> boy, it went really well. That's a big trip, by the way, as those of you who approve it. a little little thing with the earthquake that happened offshore a ways, but we we just talked our way through that and it was fine. Um, so but really successful trip. That's great. >> Yeah. >> Quick question about the substance program you mentioned. >> Yeah, >> I from what you said it doesn't sound like it's one-off thing. What what's the kind of plan to >> Yeah, I think we we wanted to definitely hit prom season. So that

045was the timing right now. We've met a good amount with the health teachers because they're the ones who really carry the the bigger lift in the more formal environment. I think our goal now as we get feedback from yesterday is the level of impact it had and what was successful, what could we tweak, we we hear a lot from students that the playbook model where kids are in smaller groups is actually a little more valuable unless you get the right speaker. So, we're trying to bounce back and forth between formats um and messaging. So, we're going to keep having that discussion. I think we have to keep this front and center. It feels really important. >> Community outreach. >> Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, that was part of last night was really trying to bring the

046community into the room. Um you know, it's hard in person. There about 25 30 people there. Um but from what I hear, it was a really robust dialogue with those folks and we're hoping they become ambassadors out to the rest. and then we keep strategizing how to bring more people into the conversation. >> Right. Okay. Um, thank you. I don't see Aisha online and I know Michelle can't come. Um, I'm just going to give a brief update of we had our coffee at Meco, not at Meccco, but in Boston at Self Panera. It was great. Um, Aisha Michelle and I were there and we had two parents join us. We just did some really great conversations. So, um, you know, the coffees I always find interesting because there's a lot of like parentto parent. It's

047not really, you know, school committee. It's definitely more parentto parent information, but it was really great and I think it was great for us to be in the city. Um, I had talked to someone about, you know, does the school committee go into Boston? I'm like, if we go for a meeting, you know, there's the back to school meeting, there's um our school committee meeting, and then there are meetings throughout the year that happen in Boston. So, the coffee was definitely well worth it. Um >> that concludes the copies, right? >> Well, we're going to hear about the Carl coffee later because theirs was today, >> right? >> So, and that will conclude the coffees for this year. >> Any specific topics that you went over the medical coffee? No, we talked about well we

048talked about um you know types of food and places we like to go whether it's in conquered or in Boston and which piece of place is everybody's favorite. There was a lot of that but there weren't really any um specific topics that came up. It was just more of a a discussion. So um and I can when Michelle and I should come if they have any other comments they can certainly pass those along. Um, just for the chair's updated, just a few things and I'll try and be really brief. Just our town mini update. Um, I know that we were all there and all of our school articles passed which I was really proud of. So, just really many thanks to Lori and Bob and the administrators for all the work that goes into the

049budgeting process because we realize and value what you do. Um and I also would say the collaboration between the school committee, the select board and the fincom was definitely um apparent this year and it made the process go really smoothly. So I think what we did this year like we're we're getting better every year, right? And I think that we should continue on the same cadence of meetings and things like that leading up to town meeting. So that first meeting will probably be in August. Um technology >> can I say one thing? I sat next to Bob during town meeting and he was basically following every word that Lori was saying up up on the podium. So I just think an incredible amount of dedication from both of you and um >> you know both

050of you got in your cars and started driving home and then you drove back to conquered later that night to deal with the fire. So incredibly long day, incredibly well done. I think it was a really good delivery, good process, good end result with the budget and I I really appreciate it. >> Thank you. Um, and the one other thing about town meetings, the amenities building is moving forward. So, with the town approved the CPC funding, so now we're going to Carile town meeting on May 18th. >> Yes. >> And then that will be another building project that will start as soon as the bids go out. Correct. Yes. So, um, technology, we are very aware that parents have some concerns regarding technology use in our schools. And I want to say that we hear

051that as a committee, we want to start by asking the superintendent and assistant superintendent for a comprehensive presentation on technology in the district. Much like we would like a math presentation, a reading presentation, now is the time for technology. So I think a first step with that would be to do that in the fall. So, um I just want to just make sure that the community hears that we are listening and we hear the comments, we hear the feedback, and we're looking forward to um you know, this work. >> Um >> Tracy, on that one, >> yep. >> Are we going to get an opportunity to discuss what we'd like them these guys to present to us come fall? Because I think what the frame is might be helpful uh so they pull together the

052type of presentation that would be most informative. >> Yeah, totally. And what we've done in the past like when we've asked for reports, we've asked like the school committee to give your feedback to the administration on what things you're looking for. So I think like individually be thinking about that and I think we can compile that and pass that along to you. Okay. >> I think that'd be helpful. >> Would we send that feedback to you too? >> I I would send it just to Lori actually. >> Yeah, >> sure. You can send that to me. >> Okay. >> I would send that just to Lori directly. Yeah. >> Can we also have re outreach from our community because I know we heard quite a bit when we had our coffee and we had quite

053an amount of uh uh public comment two weeks ago uh just to have community outreach as well to >> Yeah. Well, and I think >> folks what the conversation is going to be. >> Yep. And I think that, you know, we take all public comment, you know, like even from that meeting, like I think we heard all that meeting and we can kind of put it all together and get what we're all looking for. >> Does that make sense? >> Okay. >> Um, >> when do you want that feedback? >> I mean, if you want to if you want to send it before, you know, as school closes, that'll give us the summer to work through if that's possible. >> Like a month. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. I think I think by the time

054school closes and then you will have it because it's like one thing once they start down a road and someone's like, "Oh, I forgot to ask you about this." Yeah. And they can certainly come up, but I think it would be helpful to have >> and then there's always things that we realize we need to share with you that you might not ask, too. So, it's a mix of all of that. >> Totally. Okay. Um, and then the last update I just Well, actually, I have two I'll just do one more because then I'll I'll move the next one to the Maze O'Donald Center. Um so Lori and I have been asked to participate in the mass MASC conference in November. So we have a proposal. The theme of the conf conference is navigating complex

055times centering on students. So the Bedford superintendent and school committee chair asked us to participate on a panel. So, that is right now has been submitted. Documents been submitted and hopefully it'll be accepted and we'll update you on that should we get accepted. And I think that's all I have. Tracy, I one last thing on the tech thing from me because I'm not a 100% sure what to ask or to send to Lori, >> and I wonder if it we might be served by a 10-minute discussion at some point before the break just to get our ducks in a row because I know we can't do it other than at the meeting. >> And I'm not 100% sure what to ask. I know we've heard from the community, but I think we've heard like five

056separate things from the community and I wonder which strands to pull on and and because I don't want to overwhelm these guys with too much >> and I wonder if we can sort of get our ducks in a row to make it easier for them. Is that >> Yeah, possible. >> I think that's definitely possible for June. I think, you know, I don't think we all have the same common language around technology. Like I can tell you I have no idea what's happening K through 8 or even 9 through 12 in terms of you know what they're using for technology. You know I'm a high school senior. I can kind of see what she's doing. But I think we all need to know what's actually happening like we need a baseline and kind of you

057know common vocabulary whatever programs we're using that would like to me that's going to be my ask. >> I appreciate that. That's wonderful. Um, so maybe so maybe we can have like a five five to 10 >> and I'm going to say from this vantage AI is our biggest discussion right now and what that >> what that we've started the discussion but there's so much to figure out then I'm going to >> anyone tells you they have the answers they're >> fair. So maybe if we can get the feedback before the June meeting. Perfect. >> And then on the June meeting we have like a quick 5 to 10 to really make sure >> you're you've captured everything like you've had an opportunity to see it. >> Yeah. >> Um before the meeting. So maybe

058like the >> June first to you then you can organize it. Should we send it right to throw it in to help so you can >> I think send it directly to Lori. She can organize it but do it by June 1st. So then by our June 3rd meeting if you have any questions for us or we have any questions or want to try and make sure we're in the right page, we'll go from there. Does that make sense? >> That makes perfect sense to me. Thank you for you will. >> All right. So, that's all I I have for an update. So, I would invite Mark up. Thank you for being patient. And I think Maddiey's online >> and Evelyn is also online. >> Evelyn, >> she said she saw her. >> Oh, maybe

059she left. >> Make it. She has a rehearsal. >> Okay. >> I think she left. She was here and she did leave. >> All right. So, I will turn it over to Mark and Maddie. And Maddie, is this going to be your last meeting or do you think you're gonna come on June 3? I know you'll you will have graduated. >> Um, I think it'll depend on It's a busy time. >> It's a busy time. >> It's your last meeting. >> This is your last meeting. Okay, let's >> Well, this is Maddiey's last meeting. Yeah. >> Will you be joining us for June? >> June 3rd, >> I'm sure. >> Okay. So, Mark's joining us on June 3rd. I have a little something for you and Evelyn, but I'll drop it at your house. >>

060Um, okay. Let me get started. >> Um, do you have the slideshow? Do you think >> Oh, sorry. >> For some reason, my laptop doesn't work here. >> It's the common theme. Doesn't work here. >> Can we add that as part of the technology discussion? >> Yes, definitely. How do we get it into presentation mode on Mark? Who sent it to me? Do you know? Um, >> and we always have the same writing one. >> Yeah, >> I know you get a lot. >> So, do you keep your presentation like throughout the year? >> They're all like in one the date on top. >> Yeah, >> there we go. >> Just see. >> Yep. Perfect. Because I don't need a new link. It still works. They're too small. We still haven't figured out why we

061can't go into slideshow on the screens. So, >> just zoom in. >> Mark, do you want to look at my screen so you can see it all? >> Or is that work? Is that enough? >> It was. >> That's kind of the best I'm getting. >> Um, yeah. >> That's too big. >> Perfect. >> Oh, I can see it. >> Okay. So, Maya Fon and I um just got elected by the entire school of this as for the state student advisory council, which is kind of I was on it last year, which is like the greater Boston region. Yeah. I'm super excited. So, um I invited you all to the bullying harassment work group does and we had that >> um discussion. That was great. Um I'm not sure what I'll do next year. I

062might do um as far as workg groups, we have like a nutrition one and it's kind of looking at data at different schools and different districts and seeing what they're doing on like those different topics. We spent most of our time looking at like the bias in the form which like a lot of the districts had but weren't sure what to make of it. So I think we were doing the best job and we gave a lot of helpful um feedback. So I'm super excited to do that with Maya Paloney who's a sophomore um the Muslim Student Union or Association I think it is. There's a photo right above that pink one. They just started their club. Um I don't know if you want to talk about that, Maddie, because you're on set. Guess not.

063>> Oh yeah. Um they came to present to us I think maybe um a few months ago and we were just really excited. I think it's something that um or it's a group of students that aren't really represented in our school in all the affinity groups we have so far. So we're really excited to see them come present and I've heard that their meetings have been going really well so far. Yeah, it's super recent because I remember we had one of the we've been having affinity group meetings with all uh club affinity groups um in the high school. So, they weren't even like an official club when they were for other meeting. So, they must have just got approved recently. >> Um yeah, the presentation from the speaker, I was there. I don't know if

064Maddie was there. She might have but u it was juniors and seniors. I think it was really a lot of people were saying that it was like very like front and center >> but I think that it's also like dependent on the person who needs to hear the message. So some people respond well to that some people don't but I mean I enjoyed the message. It was definitely engaging. I think everybody was listening. There was not >> anyone that wasn't listening but it was how message was perceived. Um, I would also say like I don't know if you guys do this, but like after we have assemblies, maybe like having a Google form sent out like if you have >> Oh, great idea. >> I'll get that done by the end of the week. Mark,

065>> that sounds good. Just because like I do hear like some people did really a lot of people really did feel like it was front and center and they got the message and I think that's the most important part when you have an assembly is that people were listening. >> Yeah. Um, but it's just like who the speaker is and how it resonates with the students. >> Really good idea. >> Um, >> what questions would you recommend asking out of curiosity? >> See, there was a Q&A after, but I mean like people were rushing to class, so I don't know that like people that really really had the strong hands probably went down and asked um questions I would ask. I don't know. I responded well to the message, >> but I think I don't

066know. I think other people might have felt some type of way with how he phrased certain things. >> He was a great speaker. >> Thank you. >> Um do you want to talk about Unifi Track? >> Yeah. Um Unified Track, they had a meet at Emerson on Monday against Westward Academy. Um seems really fun. I have a few friends who do it and they love it. Um and there's some photos if you can see them on the right side of our slide that I think Jonas got and posted on the Instagram. It was finally a beautiful day for a meet. They've had really cold weather. >> Okay, so um class serment had their first spike ball tournament. Um my co- met with Bula. You can see middle bottom photo. Those are two winners. That's um

067Charlie Derisarian and Sor B were our winners. They received their little gift cards. But um yeah, that was a really fun event. Um, it was it was tricky to pull off, but we ended up having like 11 teams and like >> yeah, a bunch of people playing, but it was super fun. I remember I had moved it inside like at the at the end of the day cuz I thought it was going to rain and the clouds were it was like cloudy and then as soon as the bell rings >> clouds open up like the sun is out and like I had them like go over the intercom and they're like it's back outside and >> move everything. Good for you. >> Yeah, it was great. Um >> um and I believe it was last

068week for National Honor Society, we inducted um the class of 2027 members. So um we had this night in on Tuesday in the auditorium and um all of the NHS leaders for my class which is me um Sierra Fonte, Evan Wang, Elise McMaro, Celeste Pinto, and Brook Hosford. We all went and we would speak about the NHS pillars and we announced all the names of the new inductees. It's a really special night. Everyone gets um a paper with their name on it and the NHS logo and everything and they get to hear from Miss Lokam and also the principles and then we elected a faculty to um faculty member to speak and it was um Miss Brooks and it was special because she's retiring this year too. So it was a really great night. Um,

069and then another thing we had last week was the WIQH um, event on National Radio Day. I think it was on Wednesday and they set up their um, radio setup in the um, learning commons outside the library and they were broadcasting throughout the day and different um, people in the club would go or different people in WIH would go and they could um, play some music or talk on the radio. So, it seemed really cool. Um and then another event last week was South Asian Student Union had a holy event at Alcott was outside. I saw all the um paint seemed really colorful and fun. Um and that seemed like a great event as well. Currently um it's teacher and staff appreciation week at CCHS. Um there's so many cool events that the um parents

070association is putting on like the retreats. I think there's um some um artisan coffee happening at some point. Um a lot of cool things that seems really great. Yeah, >> I don't know if you want to talk about >> talk a little bit about I'm not doing this for short. I don't think Maddie is either, but I've been trying to go to all my friends games. I remember I went to a game in Long Meadow, which I've never heard that time. Yeah, >> that's far. >> So, yeah. Um I was like, why not? So, I went with >> I don't even have time for it. >> I know. It was on a Saturday. So, yeah. Um it was great. They won, of course. Girls lacrosse. >> Girls lacrosse. >> Yeah. >> Former state champion. maybe

071this year. >> Undefeated this year. >> Just a plug for them. >> Uh, as far as AP exams, I just had my first one. I was a little bit nervous for it. It ended up being really chill. I don't know what I was worried about, but um, >> yeah, I just had my first one. I took AP Micro and then I um, self-studied for that one. I'm excited for a lot of the APs coming to school. That way you don't have to like self study for them. >> Yeah. uh and the procrastination that comes with that because I said like two days before but uh yeah. Do you want to talk about your AP exams coming up? >> Yeah, I had AP physics today in the afternoon. I was super nervous. I had studied a

072ton. Um and it was actually fine. I think a lot of the students thought that we were all really well prepared and um it didn't seem as bad as it could have been. So that was really nice. I think there there's been a lot of science in the past couple days. is there's um chem, bio, physics, um I've heard about Latin, and then there's going to be more math and some humanities next week. So, it's a it's a really busy kind of stressful two weeks, but after that, I feel like it's kind of smooth sailing, especially for the seniors, although everyone else juniors have the finals. >> Can I ask Can I ask a dumb question? Do you get results right away? >> No. So, I'm going to say the nerve-wracking part is I think

073it's July. >> Yeah. >> Summer. I mean that I don't know my score and then I I probably will forget about it over the summer, but um >> yeah, I'll find out in the middle of summer. >> And SATs, they're not instant either. >> No, it's like weird. It's all digitized and it's all multiple choice. So I think like but you know >> there's no more essay on the SAT, right? No more digital >> but it takes like three weeks. >> Yeah, maybe. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I was doing application. I was like waiting for it to come in because they wanted um see my SAT score. Yeah, I have um two more exams coming up. So, >> good luck. >> Yeah, thank you. Um we have a new club pause and and purpose.

074Um I can talk a little bit about actually so my um one of my best friends little sister, she's one of the people that started the club. So, she was just telling me about it and saying that um they donate to local shelters. They're like doing drives um and instead of like going to the big corporations, they're doing like local shelters. Um, they meet every Thursday. I know that they have little posts there and they have like bagels and breakfast and they just like kind of talk about I don't know if they can bring the pets into school. I thought that's what it was, but I they're definitely probably looking towards that. I think so. >> I'm pretty sure they're >> We'll be getting some of your policies out to talk that through. >> Um,

075we can talk about CC here. >> Yeah. Um, Um CC theater has their um three performances of 9 to5. I believe it's three. It might be four, but um yeah, I think there's four. There's starting on Thursday and then they have one Thursday, one Friday and I think two on Saturday actually. So um I'm planning to go with some of my friends um to see some of my friends who are in it and it's really fun. It's Dolly Parton obviously. Um so that should be really good and I've been seeing a lot on their Instagram just posts, people behind the scenes and everything and it's really funny. So, I'm really looking forward to going. Um, another thing that's upcoming, um, MCCAST for the sophomores. I think it's their second round. Um, I think it's next

076week or the week after 18th and 19th. I something around then. Um, I'm not sure if it's might be um, English or math. I >> think we're in math season now in May. >> It's math. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, I'm trying to remember if I can like remember the MCAST from sophomore year. Um but I mean >> you probably remember the science one because it's really late in June right on your >> near Yeah, I remember that one. >> Yeah. >> Um another thing that'll be that week I believe is um students senate. We're going to do a spirit week. Um we've already planned out all the days and then we're going to release information about it hopefully at the end of the week and we're coordinating maybe with the CCHSPA. Um we're just

077hoping to do one last big thing for student senate besides our elections. Um, so it'll be probably pajama day, some color themes. Um, there were a few ideas we had that we decided not to do, like dress up like a teacher. But yeah, it'll be really great and I think hopefully we'll have a lot of good participation hopefully from the seniors too because it's going to be our last actual week of school before senior week. So yeah, and then if you want to talk about elections, Mark. >> Yes. So um, student government and student senate are having their elections. Um, I believe it's going to be like the second week in May. I have to check on that. But basically just turn in a packet and like have people sign it and then do your

078like campaign thing. So I'll probably be running this year. We'll see. I hope so. See my class president. We'll see. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> Um, yeah. So, we try to coordinate between Senate and government because they're two different student bodies, but it makes it a little bit easier if everything's happening at once and kids can choose what they want to do. Um, just because it's a little confusing, especially I'd say for um newer students about figuring out what's the difference like what do we want to run for? Um, so we've been working on that in our meetings. >> Can I ask at a high level, what is the difference? What is different? >> Um, so I was thinking funny enough like I feel like um spirit week is almost Senate always does spirit

079weeks but it almost seems like a gov event but we kind of do like the government does like the fun events where we do like the tournaments and like the pickle ball and then like um the prom planning. We also do a lot of the graduation stuff I think when like the class president talks. I don't know if the senators talk any of them, but kind of >> I think the president of the Senate also talks. I think it's Am I right, Maddie? Are you president of the Senate or No, who's president of the Senate? >> No, I'm not um present. That's um Lily White. She is. And then my um moderator. >> Oh, okay. >> Um Oh, yeah. Sorry. Layy will speak at graduation. >> So, yeah, it's like the Senate and the Gov

080Leader. Um and yeah, Senate, we do um the blood drive. We do um some spirit week and spirit assembly things. Um we we're moving a little bit to more towards um working with admin on um seeing anything that we want to work on in the school itself. Um like taking info from the class and talking to um the administration about it and seeing what we can do about suggestions or improvements. Um it's kind of a long journey and we're working now on kind of transitioning into that newer role for Senate in general. Um and it's a little bit tough when leadership changes every year, but we're working on, you know, having the new freshmen come in and understand like this is our goal as the student senate. Um but we also do stuff with the

081students. >> She does. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Um and we've been doing um club proposals. That's one of our main things that we do. We have clubs come to present. We review them and approve or ask them to um maybe work on something. Yeah, >> it's so much more than you would think. I feel like there's hundreds of clubs. >> Um, it gets complicated when someone has a great club idea, but we think it's really similar to this other club, and we have to think about, oh, do we want to ask them to merge or is there room because sometimes it feels like there's almost an overflow of clubs. Um, and we'd love to have as many as possible, but um, we also sometimes try to consolidate. So, yeah, it's a lot of work. Um,

082yeah. Okay. And then another thing that's coming up, prom. Um, that's I think the 16th, so Saturday, not this coming Saturday, but the next. That's a really big thing. Um, and there's been stuff about tickets. Miss Meeks, who was talking about green team earlier, she's um spearheading that project, sending out reminders about buying tickets. I think um might have been deadline a week ago. Um, and then also she's been sending out events or signups for the senior week events. So there's Six Flags. um Six Flags, Kimbles, there's a big senior banquet, there's a lot of graduation rehearsals and um what else? Oh, there's a field day. Um and there's a awards night. So, it's a lot of big things and I think everyone's really excited and kind of talking about, oh, we're signing up for

083this like where are we going? What are we going to do? Um yeah, so >> senior class also does a day of service. They do Priy Day of Service, which I always mention that Fridays want to see the 20th or something. before Memorial Day weekend, I think. Yeah. >> So, that's I think signups for that are opening in pretty soon. So, you sign up for a service job. Um there are some people I think Miss Bruno is organizing some of that and you can sign up to be a leader of a project or you can sign up just for whatever you want or you can suggest a project if there's some sort of um volunteer work you've been doing. You think it'd be a good option for Priy. >> I have twoish things that aren't

084on here. Um, so you say signups. I just signed up. Um, they're having now like eighth grade tours, so where the eighth graders come up to the high school and get to see everything. Um, that's coming up. So that's super exciting. And also Meenthy and I, the Mecca director, we were on a Zoom call with um, incoming conquered was it most mostly through K through eight. Yeah. But it was like incoming parents. >> So we're just kind of telling them about like the program and conquered. >> Yeah. Yeah, funny enough, I knew one of the parents, so I talked to >> um and also we had a Zoom call about Mechco parents and vision of the graduate work. So that >> excellent for me. >> Yeah, that was great. >> Yeah. >> Well, thank you

085as always for a super informative update. Um Maddie, I'm gonna assume this is your last meeting, so thank you so much for being with us. you've been really a great leader and role model for all of us, Mark. We'll continue on next year, we hope, right, with maybe two other people. Um, but we wish you the best of luck next year and you know, stay in touch. >> Thank you. It's been so great. Um, and Evelyn sends her regards. She had um a really big ballet rehearsal today, so she was hoping she could make it, but um I can ask her. She might be able to come. We'll try to come for the June 3rd. It's just tricky when we're graduated and there's a lot going on and there's um trips and things, but it's

086been really great. So, thank you. >> It's okay if you don't come. >> So, happy graduation. We'll see you at graduation. >> Yes. And I think that there will be um newly elected Senate representatives. So, maybe I'll just pass the torch to them at that point. >> Right. Perfect. Great. >> Thanks, Manny. Thanks, Mark. >> Always informative. Okay, public comment. Um, I'm not going to read my usual spiel, but I'll just give the brief a bridged version. Public comment is 20 minutes. Um, we're going to start in the room and then go online. Fill out a blue form if you have public comment. And you are limited to three minutes and Mr. Herschek is going to time that. So, up first we have Wilson Kurt. >> Should I start? >> Sure. And the microphones are

087all working. So, >> roll around. Hi, Wilson Kurt 20 Damon Street. Um, the chairs mentioned this, but I just wanted to comment on what happened at Town Meeting. Town Meeting in the past for three or four years had been extremely contentious. Um the work done by this school committee behind the scenes building relationships, building trust, um allowed us to have a town meeting where you said, "Oh, you know, the articles passed." That is not a small thing. It reflects hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours by this school committee and by our administration. Um and I just wanted that to be recognized. I was thinking about a couple things. um and and one was the actual numbers that were hit. Um the town guideline was 2.5, CPS was a little above that. And yet we

088came in at 1.9% in totality and that's because of the big reduction at the high school. Some of that driven by um certainly enrollment shifts. We know that. Um but I also think a hats off should be given to Lori about four or five years ago. she started talking about taking out of placement inhouse and how that could be huge savings and I think I don't know the exact numbers were bearing uh some fruit for that but it's also worth recognizing that the schools do zerobased budgeting and I didn't I've always heard it but I didn't quite understand what it meant and I looked it up just sitting here in the room and it literally means you build the budget and then at the end of the period you should be at zero. you justify

089every single dime that you're asking for from the community. The other approach is just to take the numbers from last year, bump them up a little bit, and see where you go. And that's budgeting also. It's it's an art budgeting. Um, zerobased budgeting is incredibly hard. It's incredibly difficult. Um, and I want to commend Bob uh because this is where the rubber meets the road for the work that he does. He's so quiet. Um, he's so understated and this is his job and he does it incredibly well. And our entire town came in at 1 point 1.9% in total. Inflation this year is at 3.3% expected to hit 4%. So we are at a budget that is half of inflation. We are down two points to hold it steady. So I don't I just want

090to recognize that and to say as a member of the public I recognize it. Um, and I don't know where I am on time, but I wanted to end with one thing. You mentioned the fire. I drove home that Monday night. It went late as usual, way over the 9:30. Everyone was tired, exhausted. The budget had passed. Lori did a, I thought, an excellent job at presenting it. And I happened to take Central Street instead of Main Street back to my house. And I saw the fire trucks, literally. And there was nine fire trucks. There was multiple towns involved because when a school alarm goes out, everyone comes. and I got close enough where I could just see what was happening. My daughter's in third grade at Thorough. Um, and knowing what had happened before

091and the expense we've been through, I saw the ladders. I could just see the fire trucks and then a door opened and all the firemen started coming out in their gear, their Scott packs, and then sort of through the mist, another person came out of the building. >> Very dramatic. You need to finish up because you're in time. You're in time. >> That's Bob. >> Yeah. Lori was driving from North Burough. >> Bob got up there first because he hadn't left Conquered yet, so he got to go right on. >> Anyway, you guys go above and beyond. And what you did at town meeting is no small thing and I just want to make sure it's recognized and hats off to Bob and the work that he does. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> All right,

092we're going to go online and I think you need to promote Sushi. >> Yep. >> I apologize if I mispronounce your name. Okay. >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> All right. Um, my name is Shi Sharma. I'm from 236 Hayward Mill Road. Um, and I just wanted to take a moment to recognize um, uh, their elementary school staff this past week, which you know the which they just got recognized for. And I wanted to shout out the same uh, u, you know, uh, message here. You know what could have been a major disruption for students and families was turned into a remarkable example of coordination and care. And I want to highlight that it was just one day that you know they they we had off for the kids and I am

093a thorough mom and they were able to relocate eight classrooms and uh logistics were reworked and the school reopened seamlessly and that doesn't happen by chance. It takes leadership, teamwork, and deep commitment. And I just thought I'll come here recognize our thorough staff and u uh custodians and everybody who helped the kids to get back on track in a day. >> Thank you so much. >> We will pass that along. >> Please pass that along. Um and this is why I love these meetings are recorded. Um, okay. Anyone else in the room? >> Sure. Can you pass? >> Oh, of course. Yeah. >> I guess right to any of the chairs. I don't like the short chairs. We'll fix that one. >> We are fixing. >> That's just not on wheel. >> I won't be

094here long. >> Um, I am Ashley Healey from 77 Eden Drive. Um, I just I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to say. Um, but I wanted to thank you, Tracy, for your comments and to the school committee for um, listening to the concerns that have been coming up around tech. So, I'm not going to go through it all because I heard you say you've heard. Um, I did want to again thank you for the the request for the report presentation. I think it's a great idea. Um, and I just wanted to make a suggestion that one of the things that might want to be asked for would be um, just some sort of data around the type and amount of the adtech used in schools and I would say probably at different

095levels um, would be really helpful. Um, I just wanted to give a quick anecdote, which is that a two weeks ago, my fifth grader came home and was telling me about a video he had watched in his class and it was really funny because the monkey had a coconut in his ear and someone was drinking from the coconut and it was so funny. And I was like, "Well, what what was that for? What was the video for?" He said, "It was in Spanish class." I said, "Oh, which Spanish words were you learning?" And he's like, "I don't know." And I'm like, "Okay, great story." Um, you know, I think every teacher in classroom uses that tech in different ways. Um, he didn't know what it was for. That doesn't mean that the other kids didn't

096learn anything. He's one kid. Um, but the point is I don't know as a parent what it was and I think parents do want to know. It' be great to have that information so we can kind of have some maybe uniformity or um recommendations from you all. So that's what I wanted to say. Um, I did also just want to again uh echo the thoughts about town meeting. Um, and in the spirit of teacher appreciation week, I wanted to, this is my third thing I hope to make. The third comment is that um, we just have incredible people in our schools. Um, I had the privilege yesterday of going on a field trip with 30 first graders um, to the butterfly place in Westford. Um, Drew was there, too. And um these kiddos are so

097lucky and they're just they're so happy and they're having a blast and their teachers are incredible and the bus ride is crazy and loud. They're all they're all like just so happy and they're learning a ton and we're just very lucky. So thank you for all you do to make that possible and thank you. >> All right, anyone else online or in the room? >> Brit had raised her hand. It's down. >> Okay. >> All right. So, >> do you have a comment, Brett? >> Okay. So, with that, I will close public comment and we will move on to the consent agenda. All right. Um, and preemptively, we're going to remove item F. Is that correct? >> Okay. So, I would enter a motion to approve the consent agenda um items A through L with

098the exception of item F. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Tracy, can I make a request actually? >> Yep. >> I I I'm super eager to vote on all these things, but I I'm reluctant to vote on meeting minutes that I was not technically present for. I think I was actually probably present back there for most >> totally. But um is there a way for me to split my vote or should I just abstain al together? >> Um we could do the meeting minutes separately if you want to abstain and you want to vote on the other things. It is allowable to vote but it's up to you. >> I prefer to if you don't mind >> want to split them >> if you don't mind if it's not ownorous process.

099>> So will you withdraw your motion? >> I withdraw my motion. >> Thank you. >> All right. So let's start with the consent agenda. So, I would entertain a motion to approve items A, B, C, D, E. >> So, NG. >> Uh, well, we're just going to do the minutes first. >> Okay. You're going to do the minutes first. >> The minutes first. >> Okay. And E. Someone move. >> So, second. >> Thank you. Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I >> one abstain. >> Thank you. All right. So now I entertain a motion to approve items G, H, I, J, K, and L. >> So move. >> Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I. Okay. And item F and I will turn this over to Michael and I

100will share my screen hopefully. >> Should we move to amend? Should we move to >> So look, I would I would entertain a motion to accept the minutes from April 15, 2026. >> Move to amend. >> Okay. >> Wait, somebody has second. Second. >> I'll second it. >> He's going to second it. Michael's moving to amend. Okay, so we have an amendment. >> Sorry to make it very confusing. This is conquered only, right? >> Um, so this is conquered only. and Drew. Um, so here's the tricky thing. When we mo vote together, so Lynette and Brian typically say I for region >> and you just say you could say I for both if it's for both. >> I see. >> Um, but this is now just conquered. >> Got it. >> Okay. So only conquered

101members will vote on this. These are minutes. You can choose to abstain or notain. >> Okay. All right. Let me see if I can just share this. Can I see my screen? Okay. So I will scroll down. There was just one section, right? >> Yes. Page four, section five. >> Okay. >> So, you can see the proposed amendment in red. And uh the only points I would add is that during the conversation on that first time of the streets have been discussed that was clear that the school was going to be the facility and management and that we heard that they'll be coming back several times. That was just adding those two sentence for that. >> Okay. Any questions or discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? I >> Okay, great. >> Send that to >>

102anyone in post. Yes, I will send this to Aaron. >> So, this April agenda looks overwhelming, but you know, we're through the consent agenda. It's just very lengthy. Um correspondence. We had um a few pieces of correspondence from the media that was handled. I did have one that came in over break and I had my vacation responder on. So, Um, that was it on that and then we had one piece of correspondence on technology. So, I think everyone should receive that. >> Um, and then we'll move on to discussion. So, up first we have the thorough fire update. So, with that, I'll turn it to the board. >> Yeah. And I didn't realize I was going to get such lovely leadins to the update. Um so as you heard uh last Monday night after town

103meeting thankfully after town meeting and when no children were present even more importantly um and I'm going to tell it a little thoroughly because I want to make sure you all know what we're managing here because we're going to be going forward with some capital shifting here. So, the 1994 wing, which is the one parallel to the roadway, um is open attic space essentially. And Bob, you should chime in at any point. Open attic space over the classrooms. The middle hallway is actually ceiling, roof high. Um, in that open attic space, we learned five years ago that there is not anything other than open space and a fire sprinkler system that is being heated by the space heaters. We learned it five years ago because one of the space heaters caught fire and that was

104our it was a major fire. Same same as this. um actually a little bigger, more extensive damage. Um we spent that whole next number of months, many months um getting that all the roof had to be um replaced. All the classrooms pretty much were down to studs, walls, ceilings, all of it. Highly supported by the insurance company um as is the case now. Uh, so then you fast forward another two years, we get it all built back in. Um, and turns out the heaters aren't enough when it's -10 outside and one of the pipes bursts over one of the same classrooms. So, we repair half the wing, I'd say, that time. Yes. >> Yes. Yes. You hear the theme. Yeah. >> Uh and then last week, uh same problem, different heater again, catches fire. It's

105closer to the sprinkler, so the sprinkler puts the fire out a little faster. But you know, those of you who haven't done a fire with me, which sadly I'm on the third major fire in nine years, which is statistically impossible, um the water is the damage. uh 15 minutes of a sprinkler, one sprinkler head running has been running million, you know, a million dollars worth of damage. Um so this time the water ran primarily over there's eight rooms in that wing. It's primarily over the second two in from the end of the hallway, but the water bleeds all through the walls, all through the ceilings. So we got a diagram earlier this week um outlining the water damage. We expect four rooms to go back down to the studs. The other four are going to

106have some level of replacement walls and etc. Um I can't say enough that Monday night and I said to Andrew I'm like it's a little sad when the superintendent's got service master in her phone and can hit the button at 11:00 and he's out there and I'm so grateful they were out there all night last week. got the water up really quickly and the fat we know the faster it starts to dry the better the um alarm fire alarm company also has to come out because at that point the power is off in that wing still off um and it will be till we get back online with now temp power um so it it was an all night endeavor Bob and I stayed till 11 decided to go home and get a few hours

107sleep stayed all night with service master and the alarm company um I was then back there at 6:30, met Justin Sparks there, who of course was on the phone through all of this, and we started to make a plan. Well, 11 11:00 p.m. I'm standing in an inch of water. I'm like, there's no school at the road. So, that was that was where we left it. Um, the next morning, I can't say enough. Justin and I and I, Bob, Angel, Cara, you know, lots of us over there, Shel and the other principles keeping the rest of the district running, um, mapped out an idea of where we could relocate people. It's tight. It's really like those of you who weren't on the committee a five years ago, we ended up with eight modular classrooms in

108the field. It's tight. Um, but it's 35 days left of school and so we needed an answer quickly. We didn't want to lose another day. Neither did the staff. So, you know, we opened with a staff meeting. Justin shared a proposed plan. Those amazing teachers and I'm not going to say it was easy. the trauma and the stress of having done this so many times already was really present and we got through that in about the first hour of like okay really hard and we're all traumatized and then it became about kids in a way that was so extraordinary. So um they worked with us on what you know it was like bartering a room because they're like I don't want to do that could we do this and then I'll go there and you'll

109go there. was phenomenal. And um I didn't have permission for them to be in the fire wing until noon because it was too wet. Service master's like, "Lori, someone is going to fall over here." Um but at noon, we had divided up the rest of the staff who was all in that day. And every teacher that needed to move, and remember, it's not just the eight rooms. There's dominoes because we put someone into the we put two into the library. Actually, we put one into the music room. So Domino's. probably moving 12 13 classrooms. Um but each of them had a small army of employees to boy did they I don't know they just took charge and started delegating and when we gave them the green light there was just this stream of I don't

110even know where they found all these things carts everything suddenly is on wheels >> the music and art are now on wheels >> yeah so the end end product was we have relocated um I'll start with the people on traveling Spanish is on a cart pushing into the classrooms. Art is on a cart pushing into the classrooms. Library is on a cart pushing into the classrooms or trying to be creative. The impact of that is the teachers prep times. The kids are in the room. >> So, everyone's impacted in some way or another. So, that gets too cozy at times because they're trying to do the work they're supposed to be doing and the kids are still there. Um, four of the rooms were our um, pathways program with our highest needs kids in the

111building. >> I got to say they those teachers like we got it. I mean, all of them were like, we're going to make it so familiar. They're they're going to be fine. And I'll tell you that attitude went so far, but it meant they were in the weeds like of what they were putting together. Um, so and then two two kindergartens and uh, second grade. So, we're up and running. It's really tight. If it was longer than another five weeks, it would be a whole another store, I'd be looking for space to spread out. Um, we have six pods out back for storage. >> About six because all the furniture has to get out of the rooms have to be empty. Um, again, especially to go down to studs and all of that. So, the

112rooms are all being emptied. Things are drying for sure. It doesn't smell great in there still. Um, and we did bring in two tents back to, as if the fire is not triggering, the COVID feeling is triggering. Uh, so we brought two tents out back so they can spread out more. I think some classes they'll get out more. Teachers will have a space outside at least if they want to go eat out there, even if it's damn. Um, so we're just in that mode. Bob's been working with insurance company. um service master will stay in very engaged and then we've got a project manager on the rebuild. So I don't know if you want to talk on sure where we are there. >> Um so we we had there's an investigation that happens especially with

113this is the second time with this thing. So that's >> the thing that we we're going to push on the most. But we did talk to service master today. They're confident assuming that we can kind of get the investigation going that um they can do a lot of the work without that because it's up in the attic. they can work on the the board, you know, taking doing the demo of the walls, um, floor, things like that. Um, but going back to the rooms themselves, they were full with water and stuff and and then if you saw I wish we had pictures of it. I don't know if we do, but if you saw what they looked like at 11 o'clock um, in the morning and then you saw the classrooms at the end of

114the day that teachers were in, it was it was amazing how much they got done. And the spaces that they created were like I mean, they're not in a normal place. like there's two classrooms in the library, but but they're very welcoming for the kids and um it was kind of just affirming to watch that process. I don't know that a lot of schools would have had staff that were able to do that. Um so the teachers led it and they had instructional assistants um helping. We had food service staff was in that day helping the maintenance team, the um the building service team. So um just kudos to them. Um timelinewise so far we're we're hearing good things in terms of we're really just so focused on we don't want the staff to be

115um impacted by the start of school. We want to get them back to their own spaces. So that's our our big focus financially. Um there's um they'll cover most of the cost. There may be a co-ay but um that will probably be applied next year if if we have to um they're covering some of the staff costs to to move. You know, we had staff that day that's going to end up working an extra day. The tutors and food service staff >> support the educational support professionals, which is our way of talking about them that they've we're going to pick up an extra day there. So, >> yeah, >> I could talk calendar just a little bit because that's been another moving piece. I mean, definitely then need to talk capital project. Um, >> calendar.

116I I looked at the staff Tuesday morning and I said, "This is your end of year professional day. I can't have them roll into the week of the 22nd because we're right up against the Juneenth long long weekend. So, we're gonna swap that for their professional day. So, the 17th will be just like everybody else, a half day. The 18th, Thorough will have children and no one else will. >> Um, but they'll get their days in and go home with everybody else, which was quite well received. Um, I think the biggest news to the conquered committee and I stood there Tuesday and said this is what we're going to have to do. We need we're not putting this system back the way it was. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We all

117agree with that. >> Yeah. >> I'm like I think the definition of sanity is doing the same thing over and over. Um it's going to the insurance company will only replace in kind. So, I'm on the spot announced to Bob and um Justin, we're going to give up the parking lot at the row, leave it the way it is, funnel the money over to whatever we're plan we're going to make, which we're working on, and then we're going to have to come back and ask for the parking lot money. Um that'll allow the nature space to continue. That's CPC money over there. Like, we'll still keep the pro the improvements we're looking for except for the parking lot. So, we we're doing some research there. We actually called in SMMA who built the middle school

118and actually did the renovation at Alcott on the road 20 years ago. So they graciously I just wanted some other people to talk to that weren't insurance connected. So SMMA sent some folks out. They were up >> Friday of last week. Um started took the lay of the land and are due to get us some options. Um, it looks like the options include a dry suppression system, um, spray foam, or lowering the sprinklers into the classrooms. Those are the three we've got so far. We have a lot of homework to do on all of them. Um, so we can't speak to what the best option is yet. >> I have my mind, but I won't say it out loud. >> All right. We We each have a favorite, but we don't actually have all the

119information. >> I'm not a technical expert. It just seems like it we just need to find out what will work, >> what the cost is um and then hear what the recommendations are. We we don't want to you know >> this is unique at throw right and the other alcat don't have this system. >> Yeah. I I don't know why I was >> I keep pushing on all the professionals. I'm like do you see this system and they all go Yeah. >> So when when you and I chatted we we you didn't know if it was the unit they replaced one for one or the same vintage right on the other side. >> The unit that had caught fire. >> Yeah. I think it was a different one that caught fire. >> One of the

120other old ones. So they replaced the one that caught fire years ago, but the other ones that are 20 years old are still there. >> I just there's no re recall on these. There's no apparent. >> No, they they did a study and apparently they didn't find it was a common widespread issue, but this is twice in one j one school. So >> maybe not. I think they might have a different approach this time, >> but they won't I don't even know if they'll tell us like that's between the insurance company and the manufacturer now. Um, we're here to support like they need access to do their investigation. Um, but I don't even know if they'll find out what they >> So, I don't I'm not but like the if the insurance company finds these

121to be faulty and there's something they they would take care of that separately and our money from insurance is independent of that, >> I think. Yeah, >> they'll pay to repair to the same condition. The part that will be a little bit of discussion is if they were >> um I mean the heaters are already there. I don't think that's substantial portion of the cost to repair it. Most of it's going to be doing the walls, the floor. >> Yeah. >> So, um you know, if we have some type of different solution, they would view that as incremental and not pay for it. >> And and you had mentioned that you might be getting a down payment from insurance, so we're not out any school money in the interest. So, they've already fronted um fronted

122us a decent amount of money to work with for incidentals. Um I can't say enough and shout out to Mayo that you know a school fire. They're on the phone with me the next morning, the upper people saying we're going to take care of this. Our insurance adjuster who we work so collaboratively with was out Tuesday noon time. You know, sadly they have all the specs for everything. The cabinets are all custom of course. They're like, "Well, we could just take care of that." That's a um we feel very well supported. It's it's a a really great environment to work through all of this, which has always been the case regardless of what version of pipe bursting or fire or whatever. So, um and we want to demonstrate to the insurance company that we don't

123want to do this again because we also don't want them to drop us. Um which they have never said. I think they're here to support us, but it does seem we got we we have to do something different. >> You change our premier exposure. >> Uh sure. Yes. And of course, this is CPS, so this will be the town of conquered. And um we've had ongoing discussions with them when things like this happen and try to be collaborative about that. Right now, we're talking about the deductible and trying to work together on that. Yeah, we ironically have a safety committee starting that's specifically focused on property losses for the region, but it's the same people like it's going to be me, the facilities manager. And so we'll probably >> um just make it a both

124district committee. >> Um >> and um I should also mention too the the responsiveness of the inspectors in the town, the fire department. Yes, >> we have like a cell phone number of wiring inspector. Inspectors are notorious for not, you know, not necessarily being easy to get a hold of, but they were like, "Call, call us right away if you have." So, >> they're just dropping by see if they can help make sure they're part of the progress and not slowing anything down. So, we we are so grateful to see conquered fire, conquered police helped me manage the press that was on site Tuesday morning in addition to the folks you have all supported us with. um the town leaders, insurance, service master, the staff, PTG had bagels and coffee and lunch on site. I

125don't know how they did it that fast, but boom, then none of that was there. I mean, we couldn't have asked for any more support. So, and most importantly, as you heard, um the kids didn't lose a beat. They lost one day and back. I mean, teachers jumped right back in. They were >> teaching Wednesday morning. >> My son is in one of the classes that's in the the library now. And I I can attest feels right at home. Um >> the the learning part hasn't skipped. So it's great of uh what >> we heard some kids were disappointed their rooms didn't move like you know. >> It's great. >> Yeah. So >> we we may need um like if we if we do get a design we can certainly share it. Um but we're

126>> your last scheduled committee meeting in June. We may need if we have if we get a design and can go out to bid, we might actually need you to >> vote meeting. >> Yeah. >> The last time this happened, was there any party found at fault? Because the insurance company is always looking for somebody. No manufacturer, no. >> And they didn't try to pin it on the construction company either. Okay. >> No. >> So, we're really just grateful everyone did what they do best here and just appreciative. >> It seems like things are really moving along and I feel I feel weird saying like I was like, "Oh, it's just another fire." You know, like it just things just kind of get fixed very quickly around here. And thank you to Lynette and Brian

127for entertaining this discussion because we realize this top regional, but it is actually helpful when you hear other people's things sometimes. >> Yeah. I mean, >> we're way too experienced at this. Um, that's part of why we're coming because we know how to do it, unfortunately. >> Yeah. Well, we appreciate the clearly the extra time and effort that's gone into this. >> It was a long week last I'm not going to sugar coat it too much. It was a really long week for everyone last week in that building and us up here. So, yeah. >> Right. And the fact that both of you went home were on your >> No, Bob didn't get home. >> Bob didn't get home, but Lori got home and turned around. >> I got home. I'm d literally in the

128driveway. The phone lights up and I run in. I change my shoes because I know how wet that building's going to be. And I look at my husband going back to conquered. He's like, "What? The building's on fire again. Oh, >> literally >> he confuses it with the high school fire and I Anyway, but >> goes back to the other building. >> We did what we needed to do and that's >> Well, we're certainly appreciative of that and um you know because it was a long week and these are things that you know people don't see. They just they happen seamlessly. Your kids go back to school seamlessly, but there are a lot of people behind making that happen. >> Yeah. I mean, I think Wilson did a nice job of describing because I there

129were still nine trucks there was we were there and like the scene itself makes you realize it's just a big deal and >> it's a big deal. Yeah, >> it's super important we get it right. Keep kids safe. >> That's right. >> All right. Thank you for the update. >> Thank you. >> All right. We're good. All right. So, with that, I'm going to give a super brief update on the Maisy O'Donnell Dive Center. Um today I was at a meeting with um the general contractor for that project and with town staff. So it was Jess Porter, Lee Jackson, the director of the beauty center. I'm going to get people's names wrong. The facilities director, building inspector, and town and planning. So they're at the phase of um schematic design. So they have a schematic

130design of what they're looking to do. And the design is going to go into the parking spaces which we discussed at our last meeting. So the spaces need to be relocated someplace on the campus. So there's a certain number of spaces and this is a very high level overview. Um and I'm you know I'm not going to get the number right because they didn't even have the number right today. So it was like say it's it's way more than 200 spaces and Ron was there too. Um if we get rid of five, we have to replace five anywhere on the campus and it's between the district and bey um who determines where they get relo well that we will determine where they get relocated but who uses the space. So we're going to need to

131have some further discussion on this um once they have a plan. But they listen to all of the concerns of anyone that was in that meeting. You know, we talked about safety. Um, there was a discussion about relocating to the Walton Street entrance and I said that the school committee because at our last meeting we talked about that was not something that we were interested in doing. So, the design team is going back to figure out some potential spaces where they can relocate these spaces to. >> Okay. Um, so it's definitely a very collaborative project. We're all very much in support of the project. Um, the town is in support of it. I said the school committee is in support of it. Um, and we're just going to really work together to make it happen

132as efficiently as possible and that's it. Any questions about that? >> So the beauty center staff do they don't because they lease the land from the schools. >> So we have an agreement between the town of So all the agreements are online. >> So we own the whole campus and we have an agreement with BD center and they use it. >> Okay. So we will determine the parking spots and they will not vote on it themselves. >> No. No. We determine any changes to the campus. Okay. So no matter what the design has to get approved by us because it's a change and an alteration to the campus >> in terms of areas that they're looking that they just places that they're looking at to move this park into what any other >> Yep. So

133some of the discussion was so we um I'm going to get the impervious surface thing wrong. Um so we have a certain amount of imperous surface at the high school. So any addition we would have to file an appeal for or or someone would file the appeal for that. If you just wanted to add six more spaces and you I asked about like if we had gravel, do we need to do that? Yes, you do. Because gravel or um asphalt or whatever surface they use, >> we would have to get special permission. and it would be an appeal process. So, they're also going to investigate that. They're going to investigate doing that or relocating spots. Now, if you were to remove any of the surface, you can put that much surface back in. So, there

134was a little bit of discussion and you know, this is this is not set in stone, so to speak. I don't want to say the word stone, but like if you remove say 200 feet of stone, >> um you could put 200 feet of >> asphalt down. So, that was part of the discussion today. So they're investigating all the options. >> Okay. >> And so there's more to come on that. So we will definitely have to approve the design once they get to that phase, but the design team has more work to do >> and they're going to study it and figure out some options to bring to us. >> Has it affected the timeline any? >> Um if we need to go through an appeal, it might affect the timeline, but they're not at

135a point that the design's finished yet either. So, we're all cognizant of timeline, but you know, if everything aligned and everything went perfectly because I asked that question like what is the actual timeline, you know, maybe opening like next spring or summer, but but without a design, we can't even say that. >> It's a building project that will move a little bit faster because it is a public private partnership. So, >> any Okay. Um, and up next we have our CPAC presentation. So, CPAC President Ashley Healey is with us. I think Lori's going to share her screen. Feel free to use um the higher chair. It It's like a pet peeve that I have. >> I don't like to sit in the short chair. >> I learned my last. >> It's just fun. >> Yeah.

136Hey, welcome. This one's working. >> PowerPoint works. Google Slides doesn't. So, >> yeah, you're in power. >> All right. So, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. And >> we're happy to have you. Take it away. All right. Hi, everybody. Um, so I'm Ashley. I'm the president of the special education parent advisory council of CPAC for conquered and conquer carile. Um I just have a brief slides just sort of explaining what we are. We are a parent group. Um we're all volunteers. We advise the school committee in the administration on matters pertaining to education um and safety of children ages 3 to 22 in the district who are on IEPs or 504s. And again, we're conquered public schools and conquered Carile uh regional school district. Um so what we do um generally our purpose

137in the community is we're offering support and connections to families. Um we do this with coffees um sort of informal just gatherings. We call them coffee. So we usually are drinking coffee. It could be anything. Um private meetings and office hours. Um the private meetings are more just if people want to just connect outside like we usually have somebody that can meet with them. Um especially if they have a specific question um you know they say my child has you know this sort of support. Do you have anyone else in the organization like oh you can talk to so and so we sort of will let connect people that way. Um this this is a really big um priority for us because for me I like to make sure people have a face to put

138um with the organization. Um we have an email address that people can email with questions but you don't it's conferenc.com it's like you don't know who's reading that necessarily or who like if it's private you know whatever and sometimes these things can be um you know pretty personal. So this is our way of sort of being visible um and connecting with people. Next slide. Um so we also are responsible for providing information, education and resources to families um and also the greater community um on all kinds of things related to special education. Um we do this with all kinds of things, speakers, workshops, community events, um social media and um we also are working to foster greater acceptance, understanding, inclusion and awareness of our special ed communication community. Um we have a very diverse group

139of learners in the district and so we are trying to um bring that to light and make sure folks are aware and um can be inclusive because sometimes people don't know what they don't know. Um, we meet regularly with um with Lori and Angel and Frank Wolf um and other members of this committee and administration um to have dialogue and keep each other apprised of issues that um we're hearing or they're hearing and um just sort of keep each other in the loop. Um and we advise the school committee and the administration on those issues um when they come up. So the next slide is just showing our board um from this past year. We had 10 board members this year and five of them were first-time board members. So that was a really great

140um thing because we always want new people coming in and we need new perspectives. Um and we have some people with younger kids, some people with kids in at all levels of the schools. So it's really great to have that. Um and it's been a really great year with with this group. Um so just going to go over some of the goals we have for this year. Um some of them are similar or the same as last year but we were kind of building upon last year. So we really wanted to um be more visible and active in conquered and carile communities at large. Um we're trying to really provide as I said those opportunities for parents to connect with each other and to feel supported and resourced here in conquered and in Carile. Um

141and then uh the Sorry, >> I'm going on mine and um we wanted to also increase our communications with membership. So what we were doing last year was really building our own distribution list. Um for obvious reasons of confidentiality, we cannot have a list of all parents info who have kids on IEPs and 504s in the district. So it's really an opt-in type of system. So when we see people at a coffee and or just honestly sometimes just talking to somebody at a sporting event and you know um and I if they ask can get your emails we have our list. So last year we did a lot of building of that list and this year um we were increasing those communications um with the folks that opted in. Um we're also trying to again

142maximize um CPAC members use of and access to existing resources in our community and in our state. Um not trying to you know redouble efforts that have already been done. There's a lot of great work going on um all over the state and with other CPACs too. So really trying to maximize um people just need to know about these things. Um and then again just building upon relationships um with the administration because it's important like I said to have the dialogue um so this is a way we can offer help um and collaboration where it's needed um and sort of bring up issues and topics um and also talk about what are the things the parents need to know about or want to know about when we're talking about education and resources. Um so some

143of the ways we did this was um we continued this year to hold office hours at public library. Um we started this last year. Last year I was going every Tuesday. Um this year I went once a month. As much as I love the library, um it we don't always see people coming to these. I've had people sort of drop by because they see me sitting there with my sign, which is always great because again the visibility I think is very important. Um I've told people I'm having office hours come by, but then sometimes they are the same like the day after we had a coffee and the person comes to the coffee and they don't come to office hours. So I love doing this and everyone I talk to has great feedback and says,

144"I'm so glad you do this. What a great idea." because people can just drop in with a question. But I think I'll only have like two people this whole year. >> Um I'm going next Tuesday, so maybe I'll have more. I don't know. But because those two people get a lot out of their meeting with >> I hope so. And and it was a similar thing where I was able to connect them with somebody else. I said, "This is who you should email, you know, and >> hopefully, you know, I don't I don't always follow up because it's not always my business, right? I think I think it's good to have it. So, I'm glad we did it. I don't We're going to figure out if we're going to keep doing it. Um, we also

145had seven coffees. We're having one more um in May. And um again, those I think have been the most successful thing we did this year. They were we had more attendance than we've ever had before. Um so that was awesome. Um, and again with the communications, we reinstituted, we used to do a a monthly newsletter, and we hadn't done it since I've been on the board, which is my fifth year. So, this year we're doing it. Um, it's just once a month, it's just an email to that list that I mentioned, and it just says here's the dates of what we have this month. Here's the day of office hours. Here's the coffee, any other events that are going on. And once in a while um with point4 that um an event or a webinar

146that's happening um from FCSN other CPACS um FCSN is the federation for children with special needs um and we have a membership with them through the district um and it's really amazing resource. So we're really trying to boost that. Um and then again hosting events designed to help um folks access the local and state resources for children with disabilities and um special needs and learning. Um and then the next few slides are just our events. We did quite a bit this year. Um we had our opening coffee at Ride Out. We have always done them outside until last year and that was a co thing and then we've realized well we can only have maybe like two in the fall. So we like having the first one at Ride Outs. feels nice and it's still

147nice out. Um, and then we did for the first time the seatback playd date. Um, you can see we did it by the different age levels. Um, I definitely like to do that again. Um, we want to add a preschool slot. >> I don't know why we didn't do that. We we like I think the day before like Lauren Judge is the preschool person and she sent a thing being like come at 10 or whatever for the K and one, but that was my mistake. So, but it was great. It's just nice sometimes at the beginning of the school year, people just want to meet other people and I think especially for the younger kiddos, um it's a really good idea. So, my alarm's going off soon. Um October we had um we had a

148a FCSN workshop that we really kind of promoted out to our members about about bullying. Um and it's specific to children with special needs. Um parents as partners presentation that Angel does every year. um because parents are a part of the IEP team and so folks who might be new to the district or new to the special education process um get an opportunity to um hear about what that looks like and how how do we collaborate um and sort of meet some of the people in the district that are doing this work. Um we had two coffees at Saltbox in October and November. Um December 1st we had a summer camp information night at the main library that was in person which is tough. We were like December 1st is getting there. We're like almost

149in the too busy season. Um it was I think a Monday so we didn't have a huge turnout but we had it recorded and it was really amazing. So we had I think four or five different camps in the area. they had representatives who talked about what they do um to have accessible programming in summer camp or adaptive programming um and the people that were there loved it. So I definitely we're definitely going to do that again and hopefully even build out the roster and the picture you see is sort of we decided to have a little bit of a tableling part of it before the presentation and I think that was really great for people. um smart coffees. We the FCSN does basic rights workshops every year. Um and we're required as part of

150our membership to put those on. So this year we were just like, "All right, here's when they are. Please come." Um you'll see for February 2nd, the coffee changed to the new Starbucks on Elm Street. >> That was because it was a Monday and we didn't realize that Salt Box is closed. >> Um so we pivoted and it actually turned out to be the best possible space. And it kind of stings because we wanted to support the local business, but actually >> we've had like 12, 13 people coming to the ones at the Starbucks because there's that huge table in the middle. >> Um, so we did the rest of them for the year there. So, we're going to have to talk about that because there's pros and cons. >> Um, another basic rights, understanding

151the IEP. And then in March, we moved our coffee to the evening. Um, we've had sort of evening things in the past that have not been well attended. This had a dozen people. So, we're like, "Okay, great." So, we're just we've decided we're gonna just alternate them, I think, and have like every other month be a daytime one and every other be one because not everybody can do one and not everybody can do. So, try to mix it up. Um, again, sort of create those touch points for people, give them more opportunities. Um, and then, um, last month, it's May At the end of March, um, Angel organized this really incredible parent information night, um, that was about the agencies in Massachusetts and what they can offer students with disabilities. Um, she had representatives from

152the department of developmental services, the department of mental health. Um, and it was really incredible and she it was great because it was a long I think it was two hour two hour web not webinar it was a it was a zoom um but she had it blocked out so people could choose what time to log on if there was a specific agency they wanted to hear from which I thought was really helpful because um we try to really respect people's time as as all of you know very well um it was really wonderful and um a lot of great information um with that >> and then just morning coffee I wanted to Just quickly brag on this slide because um our we did not have a specified events chair this year. Um our publicity

153chair um Chris was incredible with creating these beautiful graphics and she did them. She updated them like by season for each coffee and they're really lovely. So I really wanted to show that. Um she did a great job and that was again a morning coffee. Um and then this is what's ongoing or upcoming. So we have um appreciation awards are going on now. Um if you want to know about the history of the CPAC appreciation awards, you can ask Tracy. She is the inventor of them. Um so basically what this is is through the month of April, we ask parents and caregivers in the district to use our Google form and nominate anyone. and it can be anyone in the district who um has made a difference to your child who's on IP or at

154504. So we this year we had about 150ish nominations for I think 97 discreet people. So a lot of people got multiple nominations. Um is really hard getting people to it's really hard to get people to fill out the form. I think on the Monday before they were due, I had 47 that had been submitted and the last like 47 came in in the last hour. I was like watching the >> and that's okay. Um we're just excited that we can honor these folks. So, what we're doing this year, um, just like last year, instead of a ceremony, we are handing out, um, there's a certificate that they get and then we print out the comments that people left in their nomination forms and give them to the people. Um, and this year we got

155these beautiful bags that conquered Possibilities designs >> and printed for us. Um, and each person that got a nomination gets one with their thing in it and like a little name on it. And I have one for everybody who's here. >> She looks very we appreciate all of you. >> Thank you. Thanks, Ashley. >> Ash, it was so amazing when the possibilities piece came into this discussion because >> I needed I was like I have to because these are so beautiful. >> Thank you so much. Like you also have an individualized. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. >> You don't get something every meeting. >> We are so happy possibilities in the things. >> This is so amazing. >> Um we're never doing anything ever again besides getting the gifts from there. It

156just makes all the sense. It's so awesome. Um Rodka was amazing. She said the kids were excited because it's like it's their teachers, too. Yeah. >> Um, so anyway, we're really excited. Um, we're delivering. We're still delivering. I have boxes in the car. It's fine. They'll be done. They'll be done by Friday because then I'm leaving. >> I love the delivery. And you know what? The ceremony was a very coy thing. Like, we're just looking to do something. So, I think what you've done with it has been amazing. >> Yeah. >> I think the ceremony is great. We're just It's too much at this point. >> We have a hard time adding one more thing in May for people to do in the evening. It's just it feels overwhelming, >> right? And I think the

157teachers too appreciate this so much more because sometimes they really want to be there, but they might be like going home to get their kid off the bus. So, it really I think this is really the way to go. >> Yeah. And the the front offices are super awesome and helpful, too. I just want to shout them out because I basically show up with this box and I'm like, "Here you go." And I'm like, I however they want to do it. Um, I know at Willard they were like, "We're going to they asked for a list of the people and they're like, "We're just going to email them and just say like come to the office and get your thing, right?" And someone might put them in mailboxes. >> I don't need to dictate what

158they do. They they people get the rewards and we're very happy. Um, >> anyway, and then yeah, we have one more coffee coming up, evening coffee. Um, and I think that's it. So, in what's next, um, I did want to just say, you know, we had, like I said, five new board members this year. Um, we will have a different looking board next year. I'm going to be stepping off as president. Um, but hopefully staying on the board in another capacity. Um, I like being involved. I don't have the capacity to do all these things. Um, you know, to the level that I think they need to be done. Um, but we have other folks that are are willing and ready to step up. Um, we have some people shuffling their positions. So, it's going

159to look a little different. We'll be talking. Um we're having just kind of a meet together to talk about the slate for next year and um we're in the process of scheduling that and just also the responsibilities I'm as my last free lawyer uh work for for this town for now. Um I'm like reddrafting our bylaws because they're very outdated and they needed updating and the rules are not totally clear. So we're getting that done. Um and then um we just heard at our board meeting last week um Angel gave a great overview. I know it was town night so it was a tough one. um she gave a great overview of sort of the updated DESI um guidance that's come out around seclusion and timeouts and we have several board members that are very

160interested in the topic and so you know we're we're willing um wanting to advise and um collaborate on that in the new school year as those are implemented um as needed. So I would say that's what's next. our contacts up here. I think everyone knows that. But just good to have and if there's any questions, I'm happy to answer. >> Go ahead. >> The the for for a volunteer organization, the the breadth of programming that you it's very impressive. But the question is how can we support you better? I mean, I think we always have um a school committee representative at our meetings and so if there's things that are specific to that, I think I would like to see I would like to see more board participation at these meetings. That's been very challenging

161in the past. Um we've talked about having like a liaison to the school committee who either attends online or comes in person um to make public comment. I think we can be a little bit um more proactive in letting you all know what we're working on and I think we we're going to talk about some ways to do that. But I appreciate the offer and I mean we've we've felt very supported even if we're not always sort of out there asking for things. So thank you for asking that. It's it's um it strikes me as you know we we work a lot on the budget here and write a budget and and putting Lor's vision of insourcing a lot of the services but you don't think of like the growth from your perspective and the

162parent involvement and the events and all that other stuff. So it's it's really cool to see. >> I mean I think the energy that you have brought as being the president of CPAC has absolutely been amazing. And you know, Ashley also, she doesn't tell you this, but she comes to the PTG meetings every month. And just having a seat at the table with CPAC, I think is hugely important. Um, and just the awareness that you brought for that community, I mean, when I was part of CPAC, it was we couldn't get people to join the board. So, the fact that you have 10 board members on there is really amazing. And I do think that you are visible and you are very much seen now. So, I really appreciate your leadership. we're gonna miss you

163in that role, but I know you're not going anywhere. >> Um, and and and you know, and your monthly meetings like Lynette spend some and the outreach with Carile has been great. And I think you know to do more things together between Carl and Conquer would be wonderful. >> Yeah, we'll shout out Adrian too who is the other half of the team. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That's actually what I wanted to ask and I think I asked this question last year as well is just what has the collaboration been with the Carile CPAC and the conference carpac. Um, so last year, last year I felt like we had gotten off to more of a start because there were some new folks who had just taken over sort of the Carile Cy track and they were

164really new and they wanted to sort of talk about I mean how can we collaborate but also just what should we be doing, right? And I and I've seen Carile this year really um doing a lot more with the social media and and um working some of those channels as we had discussed. We did not we at the conquered CPAC did not do a ton of big community events this year like we did last year. So we were not necessarily um doing the collaboration like we had talked about like can we get together and like host a speaker. we just were not able to pull that together this year. Um, but we are in communication. Um, Lynette and I were able to meet early in the year and just sort of have that conversation. Um,

165and we are in contact, but I would like it to be more active again. Um, it sort of if I wouldn't say it fell off, it just lost a little momentum when we this year I think really tried to just focus on doing much more parent like parent centered work. Um, but I it's, you know, it kind of goes up and down each year. It's a little different. I have this vision, and I shouldn't even say this since it's not my board anymore next year. I'm like, I have vision for I know I'm still president. Um, my vision would really be that now that we have really built, we have really built up the membership this year. We have we have people who are really actively coming to things and engaging with us. I would

166like to do more of those events again. So sort of we took this >> dip right and now we have members and we can really talk to the members and the people who are active and coming to us and what do you want to see like what speaker would you like to hear from right and um and then collaborate that way. So I think I think there's a lot of space for that in the coming year. and Carile CPAC, I mean, Brian, you loosely know this, had a some challenges with the chairs and so that was also our our ball dropped as well. Um, but I do I did want to say thank you for extending all of the events that you did to the families in Carile, even the prek through eight families and

167allowing us to share that and kind of piggyback on what you're doing because we are a small population parents who have children with special needs. And it's very uh it's nice to connect and connect that like earlier than later. >> I don't see any reason why that K through eight needs to be separate. Like I I know it is separate. It's a different CPAC, but in terms of >> they're all going to be in high school together, these kiddos. So, there's no reason not to build those connections now. And it is a it is a community. It is a unified community. Um, >> so yeah, I would love to see that. And like I said, I I believe I understand those challenges. And >> we do not have 10 board members. >> I know. And

168you know, I mean, that's a huge that's a huge lift for for one person, even for two people. So I, you know, hats off and like I said, I'm always available. >> No, you've been wonderful. That was I was going to say thank you. You've been wonderful sharing information with me and I've been able to through this avenue kind of connect with you and share that back with Carile and that's been really great for all of the families. >> We're a small little number and it feels nice to have a few more friends over in conquered >> and should Lynette come over to the region perhaps she will be the liaison. Just a strong suggestion for that. If I still on the school committee and I'm tough campaign a naive question. What is like the

169legal entity? Are you a standalone like 501c3? >> It's not a 501c3. So there's a statutory um authority for in Massachusetts for each district to have a CPAC. >> So you're sort of a subsidiary of the committee or the town of >> you're under the purview of the school committee technically as a under the statute, but the statute is very vague as to what we're actually supposed to do, which is why we have bylaws to chapter sources of funding and the needs for funding for an organization who manage is pretty, >> you know, bootstrapped, but >> well, so there are some CPACs that are 501c3s. Um, we have chosen again and again to not do that. Um, there's many reasons why that's a very difficult thing to do. Um, and you do, you know, I've

170been on 51c3 boards before and and it's there's a lot of legal things. There's tax things. Um, so we cannot fund raise and we don't fund raise. We the funds that we do get we get from the district. Um, >> we have funds for like the appreciation award gifts. Um, which I think also by doing it through conquered possibilities, there's a lot more room for opportunity there because there's different pots and they're all kind of going to the same thing. So, we love that too because that program is so incredible and those kids do such an amazing job. >> Kids, they're students. They're they're awesome. Um, and then you know we have a slight we have a small budget for like reimbursement if we do the coffees. But the thing is now that we've brought

171the coffees into establishments, there's no cost associated with them at all because everyone just gets their own stuff and sits down. Yeah. Like when we did that at Ride Out, we were buying like box of Joe and getting asking for reimbursement, but there's no reason to do that. And actually people are more comfortable, >> right? >> Just get what you want and just sit and hang out. you know, people some people get food like it's whatever you want to do. >> Um, you know, and then you're not like worried about like food allergies. It's just nice to just kind of have it. So, we do not really have expenses associated with what we're doing. Um, >> you know, sometimes there's like things with speakers and that's something we we get school committee approval for. Um,

172and again, that's another reason to do it with another district. Sometimes that's very helpful. We've seen a lot of CPACs in Massachusetts doing these bigger events where they're collaborating um >> town. >> Yeah. With a few or like a few towns like a region. >> Um it just depends on what it is. Some of the speakers are very um desirable and there's like a lot of towns that would want to do it. >> Then it becomes the tricky question of like, well, where are we doing it? Are we doing it at CCHS or are we doing it online? So that more accessible. That's always a tricky thing too. Um, you know, in person's more engaging as we all know, but you know, Zoom makes it easier and we're doing all our board meetings on Zoom

173still and probably continue for the foreseeable future. Um, all of us on the board are parents of kids with special needs, so you're not usually get a little glimpse of one of the kids as they're all running around getting ready for bed >> where the captains frequently cat. Well, thank you so much for being with us. We look forward to all the time. >> All right. >> Um, so in the interest of time, I'm going to ask Lori to be extremely brief because >> I agree. >> Uh, and I'm going to ask Bob the same thing. Um, >> yep. >> Because we have Lori her goals are all we have her goals. Every week we get evidence through her weekly update according to Strand. So I'm gonna ask her to run through her goals. >>

174Yes, I will be brief because I feel like this is more for the public facing because all of you get so much information. So it's consolidating that. >> I did go back through the goals and highlight with our, >> you know, original red, yellow, green plan. >> Um, and I just want to pop a few of them out. I left that one yellow there with intervention services and I think >> it a little bigger on this one. >> Yeah. >> Um >> the reason I couldn't go farther not because we're not talking about it and strategizing it but because we are missing some key personnel especially math intervention right now. >> So given that the budget didn't support that yet I just felt like yellow was a good message to all of us that we

175have to keep talking about that. Um, >> I did not move forward with the new rubric with the evaluation. I had conversations with the CTA and CCTA. We mutually agreed to not do it this moment. Okay. >> So, it'll stay on the list and roll forward. I gave it a green because I had conversations and we came to an agreement of what to do. We just didn't decide to move that forward. >> Um, I think the rest of it has been covered in many other places. So I I'll just highlight then um I did have just because it's fun to play with to some extent. I wanted to get a more consolidated version to share and in giving you what just happened to my share screen option. I don't know, but something really weird happened

176when you >> Yeah, I can't share now. >> Special like little special effect. >> I was gonna show you my nice little uh Notebook LM summary, but now I can't screen share. >> Really? >> I think that's a Zoom situation. That looked very Zoom like >> Yeah, I can. There's no screen share left on Zoom. >> Oh, there I got it. Never mind. >> Something strange happened, but we're back. Andrew, that's >> what was interesting to me. And I used Notebook LM. I took all of my weekly updates to you and put it in and said, "Give me a I think it calls it a executive summary." >> It was really interesting to see just what it pulled. >> Yeah. >> Um I thought it was I really didn't edit this. Uh it was really

177just interesting because obviously it has to pick things that are mentioned multiple times and gives progress updates and it was kind of a validation. I'm like, "Oh, it named Eel. It named anti-semitism. It named vision of a graduate. Some of the things we spent a lot of time about. So I I did this I think as more community facing. >> Yeah. >> Um maybe than for you folks, but it it's a nice overview of the work that's gone on in the district. >> It it'd be interesting if you give it the the goals and ask it to kind of >> it would it would >> I'm going to keep you can go down a big black hole >> with the AI. it would maybe that's next year's thing is to try to get it to

178map what I give you with the goals. >> So hopefully this is helpful to the community to see what we've really focused on this year and it obviously aligns with improvement plans and you'll see those in June and the strategic plan. >> This was great. There was one uh I guess comment >> communication plan. >> Yes. The family engagement plan that looks more like you know from you to family. Yeah, one big communication. So I I know the the emails you've sent it, you know, in terms of votes. So maybe a little bit of feedback. >> That's a great point. Yep. Great point. >> Great. >> All right. Any other >> I'm only curious what you jumped out as your as the biggest win. >> Oh, there's a few this year. I think you or

179the team. Yeah. Anything. >> I'm going to name anti-semitism. We are a much better district for our Jewish families than we were a year ago. It was a hard way to get there, but we are. Um, I think the EL roll out has been overall successful. Hard, but successful. >> And I I think the other big one, I'm going to just shout out the high school. The vision of a graduate. >> Yeah. >> We didn't have the vision of how this played out at the beginning of last year. It evolved as the design committee work happened and we get inspired to get more feedback and then it's like you know oh we want everybody to give feedback and suddenly Brian and Katie are on the road to all the schools in Carlile and >> so

180I think to me those are the top three >> beautiful >> and we got to guideline on the budget >> we get six months of our lives to work on all these other things if we're not >> iterating the budget from December till town meeting. So, >> that's the other positive. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. You're welcome. Thanks for asking. >> Okay, great. We're good. All right, Bob, I'm gonna ask you to be super brief because this is just a standard budget transfer. We have the information. >> I'm giving you a strong be really brief, Bob. >> He's not brief. >> Super brief from from you and Carrie Rankings was uh double time. something different. >> Um so, uh most of the most of these drivers in the transfers and adjustment column, it's the

181third uh it's the fourth column over is is essentially what you need to approve tonight. We're requesting approval for most of these are not changed significantly from what you've seen earlier in the year. Um so I'll only comment on a couple. Um the fixed charges, our benefits are are driving that. Um, included in what we have left to pay there is our op contribution of 375,000. So, it looks like there's a big balance of 803, but we don't encumber our premiums for benefits because of the way they processed. And then we have to pay 375 for OPED. So, all of that will be spent um and um on the um on the last line, the out of district tuition. I would also say the um the maintenance um the heating costs were a little bit

182more because of a cold winter. Um we're still monitoring that. There's some possibility that we have to increase that slightly, but um so that's what's driving maintenance and out of district tuitions. We're slightly um above budget overall, but part of this is we're we're receiving more circuit breaker funds to offset. We're actually up over a little bit more. Um but the additional circuit breaker funds that we're receiving beyond what we had anticipated are helping to to cover some of those costs. Um and um that's it. I mean the rest of the items are fairly similar to what you've seen earlier in the year. >> Oh, go ahead. Thank you. >> No, I was going to make a motion. So if you have a >> I only have one question which is are we really the

183original budget to the adjusted budget is like on the nose like >> So tell me how that sausage gets made because it seems almost impossible. >> We we we trans we're not allowed to um increase or decrease the budget overall. So, we're taking money in. So, if you see um I'll just pick one as an example. Um district leadership and administration, we're spending 18,000 more. I see. And it all has to balance in this. >> You have to take the puts and takes. >> Yes. It has to net to zero. >> Oh boy. So, it's very different than private sector. You get >> and we have to and we have to vote to to transfer to >> transfer. Got it. Okay. Fascinating. We can do line item transfers within a category, but if we move

184if we need to reallocate between categories, that has to come. >> That's what we're voting. >> Yeah. >> Perfect. >> Fascinating. >> All right. I move that we approve the FY26 budget transfers that were presented tonight. >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor? Mrs. Region? >> I >> All right. Um, okay. Knox Trail electric bus update. I know it's complicated, Bob, but I know you can do it really quickly. >> Sorry, it's me. It's me. >> No pressure. There's there's two parts to this. And the second part, actually, I have less of an update because I still need information. >> Um, there's there's two things going on in the campus. The um we have a grant that's um paying to install a um a new birectional charger that allow us charge vehicle

185to grid. It's also faster. It'll help us charge our buses faster. That's in process. We had a um a licensed site professional, which is somebody who's an expert on the environment and soil conditions. Um working with CMLP. We need to get approval before we can um do work there. They also have to test the soil. The soil is clean. So, if we do move soil around, we can leave it on site. We don't have to haul it off site. so far. Um I think there's one last test they have to do, but um the plan is to start uh work to dig the conduit space for the conduit um next week, right? >> And um and then there's additional work to you know install the chargers, but like these are oneweek time frames for the

186elements of work. So we're hoping that by the end of May we'll be up and running. Um, >> and is any of that money is that from town meeting of 2017 or 19? >> Two pieces to it. Some of it's from old town meeting money. That's for the work that CMLP is doing. Okay. >> To install the transformer and the conduit up to the charger. Okay. >> From the charger charger installation itself. Um, and any software they put on it is being paid for by the grant. >> The grant. Okay. >> Great. >> So, we're not expending any money ourselves on this. Well, the town money that was previously appropriated >> previously appropriated. Yeah. >> Um and the second part is Highland has approached us with with something but we um still need to do

187some vetting of this. Um they have um responded to some of my questions whether I wanted options to bring the pricing down. Um they've shared those. Um I need to sit down with Dr. Hunter and we need to go through a little bit more and also the transportation director who's been out. I'm want to loop him in a little bit more. Um, so that will be something I'll bring to the next meeting. >> Okay. >> Um, it's fairly complicated. Um, there's also a nuance to it, which is I think it's it's a 10-year contract. We may have to do this out of the region. Uh, because we have the authority to do it in the region with your vote. Um, we have the authority to do five years in conquered public schools um, but not

188contracts longer than five years without going to town meeting. So, um, my thought initially was we'd do it out of conquered, but, um, I think we need to do it out of the region. >> Maybe we balance that because the next time we get a bus, we'd we'd get it out of the other district and try to balance it between the two. Um, so we'll I'm hoping to have something to bring to you for um, approval at the next meeting. I do need some additional pieces of information from the from the vendor, Highland. um we'd like to find a way to make it work, but we also want to share with you what the costs are what a diesel would cost compared to this and um we can make a decision. Um I I think

189it's going to be potentially a little bit more expensive than a um the diesel bus, but you know, this community's talked about wanting to be sustainable, so it'll be um I think it's my my goal is to try to get it close enough so it's not a a huge concern. And so that's what we're working on. >> Okay, that's >> so the Highland situation we will talk about our next meeting. This is infrastructure. >> Yeah. >> Any questions? >> Even with the high participation, I think diesel will still come out cheaper than electric. >> It looks like it. Yeah. Interesting. >> Yeah. That the there's some I think I need to talk through a little bit more because the amount of funding they're getting is also one of the questions to to make an attractive

190deal to us. So, we need to work through that with them. But, um, diesel um looks like it'll be a little bit less expensive. They're they sharpen their pencil, so um it's um it's closer. It's also there's fuels. They built in electricity their price. They built in maintenance and repairs into their price. And so, um I can estimate what the fuel is electricity versus fuel. Um the the repairs costs are harder. Like you could have zero. you could just be doing preventative maintenance or you could have a repair that you have to pay for. So, right, >> we're trying to come up with what we think is, you know, an adequate what's the annual repair we'd have to do on this. >> Um, but they'll also reimburse us if we need to do repairs ourself.

191Um, they'll reimburse us for repairs. So, their price includes all that. Um, so it's it's not an apples apples comparison, which is partly why I'm struggling a little bit with that. And that's why I was thinking just the down parts diesel bus and fuel >> with fuel being up so much. That's the other word we have. So this might be good timing. >> And I think when we had an extensive conversation about this like two years ago and we talked about the total cost of ownership, right? >> And it's really I mean everything's a moving target right now. >> Of course. >> Um especially with fuel dams. >> All right. So more to come on that. >> More to come. Yeah. Great. All right. Um, school committee coffees. I already talked Boston coffee, so I'll

192give it to Lynette and Brian. Talk about Carl. >> Um, >> really briefly, >> we had um I had a coffee ice cream for because >> and we did have one member of the community um attend um so unfortunately not great uh but great to catch up with this person. Um, I would say topics that we talked about the transition from Carlile to conquered Carile and really thinking about the uh identity and belonging. Um, and what I would say is this person shared that um she's not noticed improvements just from one child over the other in terms of transitioning, but just making sure that that continues to be focus. and we were sharing a bit just in terms of how our PTO has started to get more involved and making sure we're making connections as

193eighth grade parents are are moving up >> and the Carell PTO also comes to the superintendent meeting monthly because again we feel as though we have this partnership between Conquer and Caral so it's important that we're all together. >> Yep. Um al I'm just taking a look um those questions just in terms of grant funding um talked a little bit about the work that the district's been doing in terms of anti-semitism and Lynette am I forgetting anything? >> No, I think so. Yeah, we talked a we we did spend a lot of time talking about the transition from >> Carlile to CCHS and her kids went one year apart and so she did see improvement between there but she was happy to hear that you know Brian and I were paying attention to that as

194well and wanted to find more ways to engage like connecting with the CPAC and I know we've had our bands coming up which they've loved going to the high school and seeing that which is very cool. Um so just creating more of those opportunities I think will be good. That's great. Um, so I guess I'll just put it out to the group just food for thought. Um, did any community members that weren't parents come to any of the coffees that that anyone hosted or were they all parents? >> Talking about like act parents with kids actively in the school? >> Yes, >> we had the only one that was Cynthia who does not have >> actually. Were there any? >> Yeah. >> Where? >> Yeah. Oh, not in conquered public schools, but I think there

195were a couple people with kids, but they didn't go to conquer public schools. >> And there's one with >> So, yes. >> Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, what we what we've done in in the past just just to give a little historical is we went to PG meetings at each school site once a year just to kind of give an update. So, that's just food for thought for next year. Um, >> we should think about it next year because I don't think it sounds like your coffee had >> yours was very well. >> I mean, every other coffee had one or two people, you know, look at the other >> maybe just Carrie. >> Michael and Carrie, they were at the dream together. >> Well, and maybe Ashley's point like they she was going to the

196library every Tuesday. Like perhaps if we set like two dates where we're going to do coffees and that's it. And then you know there can be a group of us like conquered and carile represented and then maybe just setting certain times would increase the volume that's resolved. >> I do think also if we can go to >> piggy back on something that's already happening. >> Yeah definitely value there. >> But I also plan to start them earlier and have them >> over the course of the year. So you have a template to build on next year. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Yep. >> Okay. So that's more to come on coffees. >> Great. >> All right. >> Four fraps. Ice cream. >> We might have a coffee. >> Pizza. I don't know. >> An hour outside

197eating ice cream or drinking ice cream was not a bad way to start. >> It wasn't terrible. Honestly, >> that was like your pre- dinner. >> Our lunch. Okay. Lunch. Ice cream. I'll take that. >> Great eating. >> All right. Bison hat in sip working group. Sunny. >> I'll be I'll be good for you. Um, so we have >> No pressure. Sorry. at the home stretch of the uh the last couple of meetings we've spent uh time on what what this looks like. Uh I spent like >> one of the meetings I marked up a dashboard of what the website looks like and this is what the output would look like you know what we capture what the flowchart looks like in and how an incident would be handled. Um then we spoke about what

198the intake looks like uh you know the questions that be captured what are the the the ways that we capture all of that. So um the the the tension uh if if I was to put it that way is what what all do we sign up to do knowing that maybe there's only a limited amount of funding that the town are looking to. So that's um I don't think it's resolved yet. We'll have to keep, you know, working on what we think the appropriate uh line is and what we recommend. Um the the outbreak is due to the select board on June. >> Okay. So that's been pushed out too. >> How much long how many more meetings will there be? >> There's at least three scheduled. >> At least three >> between now and

199June 8th. >> Wow. There's I think one on his birthday if you want to come to that party. >> Yeah, know it's my birthday. >> Question, Sandy. Carlos Hoy did the uh DEI debate this year and I got to catch up with him afterwards. He had an interesting take um where he gave an example of a school where he consulted where they not only did sort of like incident reporting that are negative but also positive sort of like he called them thriving and striving reports. Has that come up? >> So he actually came yes to to the work group. He had a lot of positive a lot of thoughts what we could and couldn't do >> the the appears to be our charges against >> I see. >> So that's a recommendation. >> I I

200see. >> But but >> and that's the committee. That's the town. >> In theory, we could do something different in the schools if we chose to. >> Okay. Interesting. Is it it seemed like a a unfortunate that we weren't surfacing the good that was happening. um we were only focused on the the sort of areas and challenges where we need to improve. >> You're exactly right. But it's kind of the theme with life in general, right? >> This is true. >> We we don't do enough acknowledgement of all the good that's >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But but yeah, it's a great idea. It's maybe something we can think about incorporating into that. >> Okay. And again, I I'd again bring up to for us as a body to think about what we do when

201the working group finishes its tenure. I would again point out that we should still keep our eyes on this as we go forward and then the next in the next committee. So think about maintaining this and changing the focus as before. >> Notice hallelujah. >> Okay. Um all right. our first read of policies. They are attached to the agenda JICK, AC, and ACR. Do you want to um give an overview of that, Lori? >> I do. So, and I'll just put them up really quickly. Uh these are coming to you at the direction of the agreement with the Department of Justice. It was one of the three buckets that they had was that these policies get looked at. I Paige Tobin, our district council has made the edits in red to make sure we're aligned

202with the agreement. I think what's interesting and I've talked to a couple of you since you've seen them. I think we're all seeing places we want to do more or different and for tonight we have to do this um because the DOJ needs to I need to send them to them that you've approved them with these changes. We can come back in the fall and say we want to do something additional. We have to keep legal close because these are very >> ligious um ones. But for tonight, it's about complying with the DOJ requirement. >> So this is the addition to the harassment. It calls out um certain anti-semitist um actions that could happen. the non-discrimination policy just names anti-semitism now and the ACR which is the one that sits next to the non-discrimination policy

203um you can read it just says we're going to take corrective action regard harassment which would include a safety or support plan for the victim and public statements applicable with FURPA and other laws if effective. So we're doing that already. It's just naming what we're doing. So, I think they're pretty straightforward. Again, that and it names the same three Jewish um offenses. This we left it as a first reading because that's what we usually do. And then you could vote it in June if you're >> just just food for thought. Uh both on uh JICK and HCR um they both use the term victim and just is less stigmatizing. I don't know if there's any wiggle room to victim target. >> My recommendation, the Department of Justice saw the policies as they exist now, which

204is what's in black, >> right? >> They told us then to add what's in red. I wouldn't I would not recommend too much word smithing right now because they're looking for what they saw to just be modified to what they asked if that makes sense. >> But we certainly could take this up again in the fall. >> I think once we submitted them >> and submit them and then I think that maybe in the fall the committee could take it up again >> with the condition that I can't I don't think you can undo anything the DOJ has done which I'm not saying but um Yeah. >> So I hear you, Michael. I'm just not sure we can do it right. Talk about it right this minute. >> So there's in some of these policies

205a couple of typos. The number three appears twice. All of those we're going to fix or >> honestly whether I like this answer or not. I wouldn't touch anything the DOJ saw. We can clean up >> like that numbering the two threes. I saw them right there. Can you can that be a housekeeping because it's like number three then the next one is number three. Like we just changed the numbering like we would on a contract for >> I would hope so. >> Yeah. >> You mean the one in red here? >> The one in red. >> Oh, so that that I can change because Paige >> Yeah, she just didn't. Yeah, she didn't enumerate all the rest. >> So that should Thank you for one of the other ones. There's some missing or I

206guess some extra characters in there which I don't think are supposed to be in there. But I I I do have to make a statement on this. Um some of this personal uh what what's named in these policies lands very differently for members of my community uh including some of our students in ways that are layered and complex. Um I recognize that this language was prepared carefully under specific requirements but I encourage the committee which we spoken about a little bit to uh revisit these provisions at later time with with broader human voice. Um, I'm happy to support this imperfect language today because it's necessary. Um, but I trust we can do more. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Um, thank you for saying that. >> I do have a I just had a question and

207I was looking at these earlier today with member of Carile's DACK. We're on the phone with a different topic. She's also part of the anti-mitism coalition that you put together. Yes. Um and her question was just um because she thought in both and I agreed with her because I was the one who said what what are your thoughts here in both JICK and HCR >> the fact that we're specifically calling out drawing swastikas using Jew as a derogatory term making Nazi salutes we both and again I'm not questioning it for right now but >> is there a why behind it? Was there anything >> we were told to >> it was >> I the first look I had it I'm like what about all the other isms >> right that we should if we're going

208to do that we should be doing it for a lot more groups >> it just feels odd disagree this is what we were asked to do right now >> so I think we submit it they say thank you for complying and then I think we bring Paige to the table because that's a much easier efficient way to have this conversation and >> think more about it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Can we >> go ahead, Michael? >> Can we group that second discussion to sort of put it as a placeholder sometime? >> Yeah. >> After this is >> Yeah. >> Because I think it's a necessary discussion. >> I would go so far as to say like doing it when the school year starts is too late. I mean, I'm not advocating to work over

209the summer, but >> the trick is I'm going to need the DOJ to take it and accept it. >> Do this for sure. But the additional stuff, >> the next conversation seems like it should be ready for >> I just want to tell you the way the timing of the DOJ has been working. >> No, I agree with you, Lori. This we we >> we're never sure when they're going to get back to us. >> We ratify these changes. They are the right next step. And then but I I worry about any additional steps that you're bringing up, Michael, you're bringing up, you're bringing up >> that to not do them till October might be a mistake. But but but the optics of DOJ like something as and us changing it immediately is also not

210great. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> It's fair. >> It's it's something we need to track and you know >> I would just want it to be ready for day one of school if we can. >> Right. local. >> So, um, you don't need >> we don't. So, we've reviewed most our policies, but >> yes, >> what I'm going to bring at the June meeting is we have additional policies from MASC that will have a first read. >> Okay. >> And then we're going to go on a summer break. >> Yes. >> Kind of a break. We'll have a summer meeting at some point. So, the second read will have to be then. Maybe we'll have more information by then, but I think we should track and even what happened tonight with BDA like that got lost.

211So, I'm going to put it in my year-long schedule because I have a policy thing at the very end of it so that whoever the chairs are next year will have that as a starting point with policies that we're going to commit to look at again. We've done a a pretty extensive policy review. That committee did it >> um it was less than two years ago less than two years ago. We hadn't looked at some policies in like 10 or 15 years prior to that. So, and Alicia doesn't recommend that we like do a whole overhaul. I think, you know, we have to get in a rhythm of it. And it feels very much like summer work. Um, it should be. >> So, I think it's kind of a we know it's going to happen.

212We're not sure when, but I think we're all at this table very much in agreement that we want to look at it again. >> Yes. Okay. >> By consensus. Correct. Totally. >> All right. So, that was our first reading. Um we will have a second reading at the June meeting because these are regional policies. So uh that will and we'll vote on it at the June 3 meeting. Tonight we have a second reading of policies uh BCAB K1. I can't read this. See I can't even see it. I literally can't see it. >> So you see them. >> Thank you for the help there. I needed to phone a friend. So, we saw these at our last meeting and uh with that we any other discussion regarding these before we vote? >> I move that

213we approve policies ECAB, KI, and EFBA. >> I did have one note just second. Okay, Drew, >> I just wanted to note I I appreciated these in my sort of like campaigning. I did note that some people had brought up to me, I think the COA, forget event, the cost of doing events after hours at schools felt prohibitive to them. That was just a concern that was raised. I don't have a position on it myself, but that was an issue that was raised to me. Um, and I was curious, there's a note at the the K the visitors to schools, the note about undocumented individuals at the bottom, which I I wasn't sure what that >> part was referring to and whether that was part of the policy. >> You want to pull it up,

214Lori? Um, so the I'll start with the facilities. The school committee sets the facilities fees for the schools. >> Yes. And I think Lori, the superintendent specifically, right? >> No, we set those. The school committee does. >> Oh, it does. Okay. >> Yeah. So, we set the fees. We had an extensive discussion about this three years ago and all the K policies are really for the community. So we want our buildings open to the community. We want people to use it >> but there are fees associated with it and some of those are custodial fees. >> Yes. Police officer is required for some events. >> For some events. Yeah. And and the person renting the school has to pay for that. Like if CPAC has an event, they don't pay for that because they are

215part of our parent population. PTGs don't pay for it, but >> we have renters. So we looked extensively at that is not under K and the visitors. It's under a different policy. So if you look at through the K policies, you'll find it. >> Yeah. The visitors to schools was the undocumented individuals at the bottom. The other one was access to buildings and grounds, which was mentioned briefly. Yeah. And I just wanted to raise that we don't need to discuss it any further. I just heard it in the community as an issue. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> So my take on that is MASC is trying to ensure that you don't put in restrictions that are so limiting that certain people. >> We do not do that. >> I wasn't sure if that note was

216part of the policy or not. It's because it seems like a >> Yeah, I think that's a change from MASC. >> Okay. >> So that's their recommended change. That's part of the recommended change. So, our current policy, this is the version they're recommending. >> Okay. >> As the model policy. So, if we were to go back and pull up our policy, >> um I don't believe it has that note on it. >> I feel like the note is about implementation usually when they do that. Like, don't box yourself in, right? >> Kind of. Okay. >> Warnings. >> Appreciate it. I wasn't sure. >> Yeah. It's a good question. >> Yep. And and you know how to search the policy manual online, too? Yes. So, we have that online and that's always helpful >> to look

217at. >> Okay. >> All right. So, I think we're ready for a vote. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Um, okay. Next up, Attorney General's guidelines on minutes and amendments. And I'm going to turn this over to Mike. We need to move here and just pull up the uh additional that you put into our pack the bulleted memo that you sent to us April 2nd. >> The the email that I sent. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um >> that's going to take me a minute to find. I wasn't aware of that. >> I'll just I'll be >> Do you want to just do you want to start speaking to it? Um, so we have roughly two meetings a month. Since November 2025, we've had five sets of meeting minutes

218with concerns about accuracy >> and also issues getting the corrections minutes approved. >> The mailing that you were going to put up uh all those things. Um, >> going through that. Yeah. Going through that, I still had questions and so I reached out to the attorney general's office. uh division for open government with two questions. One, how does one avoid recurring errors and faithfully transcribing minutes? And two, how are edits to draft minutes managed in the process of getting them reviewed and reprove and approved? I spoke with uh Miss Natalie Reyes out of the division for open government. Uh in answering question one, Miss Reyes is the minutes taker for her offic's uh reporting system. She described her process uh reviewing minutes, reviewing the video of the meeting, transcribing the draft, proof reading the draft

219for content and typographical errors, then submitting the draft to the body for review and approval. Now, this is something that I didn't know that I didn't know at the time. She noted that faithful transcription is key. Approving minutes that are not reflective of the discussion that takes place. If if a citizen can see in a video something that's not uh faithfully reported in the minutes, that in and of itself is a violation of open meeting law. Uh for question two, uh she noted that the the original transcription of minutes is considered the draft minutes. Any edit beyond typographical errors is considered an opinion. So it can't be distributed. uh doing that would be a violation of open meeting law. So we come to draft manage should always be edited in open meeting with our membership

220aware of both context and the questions at hand. Uh so given what I've learned, I' I'd agree with the process that you laid out. I just put a slight modification on the front end and I propose that we agree that transcription of draft nibs should include a careful review of video documentation, proof reading for content and typo typographical errors with subsequent description and subsequent distribution for approval. When errors that are substantive occur, prompt timely submission to the leadership to allow distribution display in the meeting so that in a prompt time frame we can have deliberation, correction, and final approval. That's all I have. >> Okay. So, we're going to continue the process like we did tonight. So, that's our process. So any any an edit that's more than just a typo, we're going to do

221the same process that we have tonight. If there's a typo like Sundep found a couple of typos that he sent to me that we can correct. We agree that typos are different from substantive corrections. I but I think probably more important takeaway is that it's important that the >> some of the errors we've seen we have bias incident reporting work group but not a biohazard safety group >> and we're not sending you stuff with that kind of error anymore. We're working on it hard. So we're we're committing to get that better. >> Yeah. And I think what just so you know everyone hears what happens in the process. So Barbara is sitting at home. >> Barbara's online listening to you talk about this. >> Yes, she's listen talk about this and she does a fantastic

222job on minutes and I have to say thank you so much for what you do because they're very extensive. I mean I think you and I had a conversation about like how extensive they are and a lot of minutes aren't this inclusive. So I appreciate the level of depth that Barbara puts into it. So after that um Erin also looks at the minutes. Andrew and I also look at the minutes. Lori looks at the minutes. >> And so, you know, we're really doing our best to make sure they look their best when they get to the committee, but sometimes when you read the same when you read the minutes over and over again, things slip through obviously. So, but that is our process. The chairs always see the minutes first um and and then we

223make minutes. So, all right. So, we're agreed on the process. We're good. >> Okay. Perfect. All right. Thank you for that. >> Yeah. Thanks, Michael. >> Yep. And I appreciate the followup. And then, you know, we have the email. So, now we're we're all working together on this, which is great. All right. Last up is the school committee schedule, um, which Erin has drafted. And I, Lori, we Brian and I had a little conversation about that first meeting. So, I guess what I think I would like to do is maybe just um pull the school committee to see when they're available in >> Oh, this is totally a working draft. working. >> I added these to my calendar. Was that premature? >> Erin will send calendar invites, too. So, >> she does. So, you'll get

224that for the whole year. >> I swear that together. >> So, I think my only question is that August 19th meeting. So, if people can look at their schedules, maybe I'll just send a few August dates. >> Appreciate. Or we could use it as a draft and see who's available and if we have a quorum or wait for the chairs the next set of chairs. >> Yeah. The trick and I nudged a little on this. Normally we do this after the committee's all seated and we know who's coming from Carlilele but we've been getting up against dates in the fall on my on our end. >> So we if if nothing else if you could give us August, September, October with what you think you're going to do would be really helpful. >> So I

225think as long as um Brian I don't know if you've looked at it for the Carlo meetings yet. has Carlo that far yet. >> Okay, we're in first. No, I'm just kidding. >> We will use this to inform the meeting. So, >> okay. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I'm comfortable with the school year meetings. I didn't see any issues. Did anyone see any issues with the school year? >> I'll just name a few things. We proofed so you don't >> undo them. Um, we looked at all the Jewish holidays, fall and spring. >> We knew we have an issue the first early January. We had a concert that couldn't get moved and it was a conflict. So, we've avoided that in January. >> Um, >> Lunar New Year. Did we avoid that in >> I

226don't know. We can't look for all holidays or you're going to struggle to meet. Okay. Um, we went to one meeting in June. That's up for discussion. >> That's what I think we're landing on this year and the past year too probably. >> So, >> and they're always Wednesday. >> Always Wednesday. >> They have the Wednesday cadence. I'm just going to say thank you to this committee's willingness to try Wednesdays. Gamechanging for our cycles. Um it feels really different to focus on Wednesday night instead of Tuesday. >> Yeah. Yeah. After the weekend and when you post the agendas even after a vacation like think about coming back from I mean I was still flying on Tuesday. So I think the Wednesday works for the professionals too and now >> it's really working for us if

227it's working >> and Carlo's on Wednesday. We are on Wednesday and so we like it because we don't end up with double headers. >> Correct. >> I see. >> So, um I'm really comfortable with the draft. I think the August one is maybe the question. So, >> I would Yeah, that would be the only one unless there's urgent work that has to happen that soon. >> I would just suggest maybe considering the 26th. >> Do you want us to vote on this at the next meeting? So, you just have >> Yes, please. >> We're already working around what's on here. hoping it >> okay. So, I'm going to send an email like a doodle email which for scheduling um I'm going to send it to all of you and check your availability for August. >>

228Okay. >> And and the final draft will have all all the holidays on the second page like a link to them. >> We don't usually do it on this calendar. We do it on the calendar. >> We already have that. This is just >> but we can we're trying to get better at mapping this against that. >> Yeah. for what other emergencies and >> so um we >> hopefully we don't >> I hopefully we don't if there's if there's if there's maybe negotiations we have to talk about if we need an executive session >> um whoever the chair is would send out a doodle to the committee to see when they're available you know if there's something like that Zoom would be a really good option over the summer when people are traveling I I

229know Lynette zoomed in for her first meeting from Ireland. From Ireland. So, I think that, you know, it's still at 48 hours notice, all of that. Um, I don't envision that we have summer work this summer to do in July, which is but that would be up to the next chair. >> Typically July is if approvals come up that we have timeliness, too. Otherwise, we we want to not bring you back till August. >> Yeah. July is usually off. >> What are all the liaison assignments? >> So um the new chairs will will um actually I preemptively asked this committee um if you can look at all the committees we lay liers with and think about things that you're interested in but the chairs appoint the liaison and whoever the chairs are it will depend

230on they may just appoint you to something >> or they might ask for feedback. >> Look at the list >> in the drive. The list is in the drive. I'll send it to you though. Thanks. >> All of us. >> I'll send it to everyone just to see what we have. I think Lynette might want to volunteer for CPAC, but >> I do. >> She's getting volunteered. >> I know. Volunteer seems like a perfect connection. >> All right. Um, so we'll vote on that at our next meeting. And with that, um, this brings us to executive session. I'm going to turn to Brian on that. Yes, sure do. I move that the conquered school committee and conquer Carlo Regional School Committee will enter into executive session under purpose two of open meeting law to discuss

231strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non personnel and purpose three to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the K to2 administrative assistance and maintenance and under purpose seven to comply with or act under authority of any general or special law or federal granted aid requirements specifically NGL chapter 38 section 22 ANF with regard the review and approval of executive session minutes from February 4th, 2026, March 2nd, 2026, March 18th, 2026, April 1st, 2026, and under purpose 3, under which the February 4th, 2026, March 2nd, 2026, March 18th, 2026, and April 1st, 2026 executive sessions were held, and under purpose 7 under which the February 4th, 2026 executive session was held. The conquered Carile Regional School Committee will then adjourn and the conquered school committee will remain in executive session under purpose three

232to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the CTA ESP and not return to open session. >> Second to >> Okay, thank you Brian. And when we go into an exact session, it requires roll call of the committee. So this is going to be really tricky. Drew is an M. So you will go after Andrew and before me. So, I'll ask for a roll call. >> K. >> Okay. So, think about your alphabetical order. So, roll call. >> Let's try it. >> Um, her check. >> I >> Yes. I >> feels like I did it. Thank you. >> Take five minutes to get >> We're going to take five minutes before we go into the exact session.