001Uh, I would like a motion to adopt. >> It feels like I'm the only one now as like well the only >> uh Lexington taxpayer. Yes, you're you need to be on mute. Uh, I'd like a uh a motion to adopt remote participation as written in the agenda, please. >> Very good. Roll call vote. Pam. >> Pam second. Yes. >> Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Dior conquered. Yes. >> Marculi Dover. Yes. >> Sharon Mto Lexington. Yes. >> Jeff Stull and Nem. Yes. >> Good. Yes. >> Very good. We had pre-received no public comments. Is that correct, Julia? >> That is correct. T. >> Very good. We move on to the consent agenda today. The consent agenda contains only two items. Approval of donations, a list that you have received, and
002the draft minutes. Could I have a motion to accept the uh consent agenda as written, please? >> So moved. Second. >> Okay. Any discussion on any uh uh questions or comments on the items in the consent agenda? >> Very good. >> Yes. I have I have a question. Um since I wasn't at the last meeting, I plan to abstain. That is >> from the approval of the draft minutes. >> That is fine. You may abstain. But as a technical note, as a technical note, you are actually allowed to vote on the minutes even though you were not there, which is actually necessary. Sometime there are times in which we have to revise minutes that were written many years ago and under those circumstances no member of the people who were there at the time are
003available. So, we actually are able to I also abstain usually when I'm not there at the minutes, but uh we are actually able to do so just as as a technical note. So, uh uh no, >> thank you for that information. >> Thank you. Roll call vote. Pam. >> Pam Nurse Actton. Yes. >> Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Gordner conquered abstain. >> Thank you. Marily Dover. Yes. >> Chair and Mustin Lexington. Yes. >> Jeff Sulan Nean. Yes. >> Lucasto. Yes. >> Very good. Chair's report for the good of the organization. Heidi I know has a few items. School committee members may have to, but I have just one really important good of the organization. I got a lot of calls after the last meeting, people saying, "Gee, Mr. Chairman, we
004don't have nearly enough finance stuff at our meeting." So, don't worry. I put a lot of finance stuff in our meeting today so you can all relax all of you who are you know upset about that. Uh we also have policy stuff and in an executive session and this is just my way of telling you that we may be here for a while. Okay. Uh uh but for real good of the organization Heidi Driscoll. >> Okay. So the first thing that I wanted to share is that on February 2nd um Dr. Martin West who is a board of education member. So that means he is to the commissioner as a school committee is to the superintendent. He visited Minute Man and he's been a longtime member um of the board of education and we were
005the very first vocational school he's ever visited. Um so this is very important because I'm going to read you a little bit of his background. Martin West is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He's a faculty research fellow at the National Board of Economic Research and editor and chief of Education Next. It's a journal of opinion and research on education policy. He's previously worked as a senior adviser to the ranking members of the Senate Committees on Health, Education, Labor, Pensions. Um he is a PhD in government and social policy from Harvard University. And he lives in Newton with his wife and two sons who attend public schools. Um, so we literally went to every single CTE program. Um, he did not sit down for the entire of the visit. And
006I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who really showed him um, what vocational education is and what it isn't. It was really important that we talked to him about the difference between pathways programs and what we do at Minute Man. Um and I think um it was a wonderful visit. Um and I have thanked him and I hope to have additional members of the board of education who have never visit a a vocational school who actually are um in charge of making decisions about us. Um I hope they will join us in the future. Questions about that? Uh okay. Um, we do have a car donation from Mass Bay Community College ASAP program. So, what they do is they donate a vehicle to the automotive program for instructional use, but then they take
007back the old car. So, it's not a donation forever. Um, so I'm just bringing this up as a part of the good of the organization. Um, the ownership of the vehicle remains with General Motors through the whole training period. Um, and then it's returned. Um, but we're super grateful for the community college, their generosity, um, and they recognize the value of, um, hands-on training at Minute Man. Um, another shout out that I have is for Patrick Savage, who is a carpentry instructor. Um, this is something that I had never heard of until he connected us to this. Um we are receiving um donated surplus lumber um from the sawmill program from the department of cons uh conservation and rec recreation management forestry program. Um and these boards are mil from logs removed from a local
008DCR state forest and parks and they are being donated to our carpentry program. Um it does say woodworking program in the letter. I would like to make sure it's clear that we have carpentry, not woodworking. Um, but that was from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and that's just an example of our teachers um going over and above to support their kids um and Minute Man at South. Um, and the last but not least item for the good of the organization is I met with a group of absolutely wonderful students today who were motivated um and positive um about making a statement um for our community and for our country. I was very impressed with them. um they want to make sure that we as a district do everything in our power to protect
009all students, their privacy, and their safety both physically and emotionally. And I know that that's something that um the school committee is committed to, all of our teachers are committed to. Um and I wanted to give a shout out to those students, and I look forward to working with them on programming in the future. Um and that is where I have for the good of the organization ending today. It it helps if I if I turn the mute off, right? Uh thank you uh Superintendent Driscoll. That's quite a list. And the other school committee members with a good of the organization shout out for this meeting before we get to the fun stuff. Very good. We move on. Uh, principal's leadership report. >> Mr. Principal. >> Hello everyone. I'm just going to share my screen.
010>> Let's try it again. There we go. Thumbs up. Everybody can see my screen. Perfect. Thank you. So, we have our two student uh representatives that are here tonight, Jamie O'Donnell and Matilda to give their student reports and then we'll continue on from there. So, uh Jamie, I think I have you going first. So, if you'd like to talk about your upcoming fundraiser. >> Hi, I'm Jamie Donahghue, the junior class. um officer for one of the fundraisers we're planning pretty soon is the crispy cream fundraiser. Um the senior class actually held it last year where they raised almost $8,000 I believe. Um how it works is each student's pretty much given like a code that they can give to family and friends. They can all buy under that code and then whoever sells whoever buys
011the most donuts from the crispy cream will can win two for first place it would be two free prom tickets. For second place it would be one free prom ticket and then for third place it would be 50% off the um one ticket. Um and then these are just some pictures from last year. Um yeah, I think that's all I have. Does anybody have any questions for Jamie before we move on to Matilda? >> Okay, great. Matilda, why don't you start up on your um events that you have coming up? >> Yeah, we are going to do two more events this year for the seniors that are coming up sooner rather than later. We're doing a Rally Up fundraiser, which is a general donation fundraiser, as well as a senior merch fundraiser. We're doing it
012through the Rally Up like app on your phone, which is the same one that we used for Crispy Cream last year and that Jamie's class will do again this year. It is pretty much we can set up our own pop-up store. We'll have a logo that we're designing that we can apply to any um apparel from Sarian, which is a local brand. They will also um similar to last year will have a general donation link. So if you want to purchase something you may, but you can also just donate general money to support the class and all the future things we're doing. So that's kind of the fundraiser part of it. And then for a more fun event, we're gonna do something um at Apex Entertainment, similar to our snow tubing night, which ended up
013um going super well and many people participated and it had a great turnout and many people enjoyed it and we got great feedback. We're going to do something similar to that where at an evening after school, um we'll have a bunch of seniors head over to Apex Entertainment. we're able to get a group package where we'll be able to kind of just pay them directly. It'll be um we get like certain deals. We'll have bumper cars. We'll be able to go bowling. Um there might be like a laser tag situation. There's going to be like just some extra food. So, it seems like it'll be a really fun night. We're in the process of figuring out the logistics and setting a date for that. But overall, it seems like it's going to go really well
014and we're getting some other stuff sorted for the end of the year. So, it should be a fun rest of senior year. >> Questions and comments. School committee members. Matilda, where is Apex Entertainment and what sort of things do they have other than the ones that you just briefly mentioned? >> Um, I need to confirm the location. It's not too far away. I want to say it is in >> Marboro. Okay. Yeah, Marboro. Um, and they have it's pretty much just a like they have um I know they have like I think a movie theater inside. I think they have just it's pretty much like an arcade kind of thing. They have an arcade where you can play games. They have bumper cars. They have um it's pretty much just a catchall for all activities.
015>> Alice Duca has a hand up and after Alice D. So, first, >> it looks to me like they're all going to be very popular events. Congratulations on organizing those. I know it's not easy to do that. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> And D, >> I'm just wondering how um how will everyone get over to this place? >> Um similar to um the tubing, we will um it'll be a driveyou yourself kind of situation. However, we will u most likely put out a poll and if anybody has interest and simply is unable to get there, then we'd be more than happy to um find a way to provide some um transportation. >> Good. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Uh and just a question on the on the um crispy cream fundraiser. Uh how
016many of those donuts are consumed by students? What percentage do you uh are you able to uh prevent yourself from um participating in the eating part of this or is that a important thing among the uh uh fundraising class? Um, >> I believe it's about 12 donuts and then I think like 70% of the funds we get but >> yeah no many many donuts are consumed. >> Yes. And not just by students, right? >> No, we make sure it gets to families as well >> and staff and staff. I've been part of it last year as well. >> Yes, we we we do our best not to uh hoard all the donuts at the door. >> Okay. Just want to make Oh, boy. That that got a lot of comments there, Mark. >> Oh, I
017No, I think it's a great fundraiser and um your classmates are lucky to have you planning all this stuff. And I got I got to say, if the donuts are there, you got to support the cause. >> There you go, Alice. >> I just noticed that the donuts and the tubes are the same shape. >> Is there anything to that? I'm just kidding. It's >> okay. a coincidental observation by uh Miss Duca. >> Okay. Thank So, thank you to once again for the student report. It is always fun to get a little bit of connection to what is really going on from the student uh perspective in the school. >> Good luck and enjoy it. >> Okay. Y >> before I continue to, I just want to say that this senior class uh really is
018go-getters of getting um group events together. Um the snow tubing, while I couldn't participate, I know I had another event at that time. Um the feedback I got from student kids from snow tubing was just nothing but amazing. And that's really all the students, they meet with Miss Morola, they they plan things out, they check in with me. So, I just wanted to quickly uh give them the credit that they deserve because the senior crafts really does like to come together and do events because we want to make sure that you know school just doesn't end at 2:30. >> Um, so moving on, I I have before I get into my admissions part, I did want to talk a little bit about engagement. our PE uh classes. Our staff participated in a training for archery
019and it's something that we're looking to implement uh within our semester 2 uh time. So, in order to get trained, um we hosted the archery PD here. Uh some other staff members from other schools came as well to get their certifications. It's been sort of an ongoing uh wellness activity that's been going on throughout Massachusetts and now Minute Man is now part of it. So, we're working on planning uh when those lessons can be implemented uh during semester 2. But uh big shout out to Miss Papa Christos is Miss Plater uh for really implementing and trying to get archery as part of a unit for our PE students. And then we go into admissions like we always do. just to quickly review. So, um here is our updated projected numbers as of um February 8th.
020And if you noticed and you remember all the charts that we've been doing, we've uh steadily increased our applications throughout the year. And as of right now, you're looking at um our in district, which is in blue, and our out of district apps, which are in orange. So right now you're looking at uh 277 total that's listed there. So if you look over um to the left you have um the minus 225 from comparative to last year but this year we're up 14 for out of district. And then there's some things regarding enrollment summary and projectives. And I was going to ask if the superintendent could just intervene a little bit because she has some insight regarding >> that piece of event. >> Thank you. I'm happy to share. Um so if um we are
021looking at trends across the state of Massachusetts, there are literally fewer um school age children. It's um affecting our comprehensive districts, our sending districts. It's affecting schools across the state. Um so it's important to have an awareness um that as we are projecting out how many students attend Minuteman and attend our sending districts, there are literally fewer students born. I want to say it lasts over like the next seven years or so. Um, and our last enrollment projection summaries that will be explored with our EMAC committee is that last year we had about 7% of the combined enrollment of the eighth graders from all of our sending towns, which was 178 students, um, begin at Minute Man in the fall. And if we did get that same percentage for the next 10 years, our enrollment
022would actually drop to 536. So right now we're at about 65 uh 657. And if we continue taking 7% about 7% of those students from our sending districts, um our projected enrollment does decrease. Now what is interesting about I mean where we are at this uh vocational school district is we provide education for the students who apply. Um so it isn't we get 7% of the enrollment period. It is we provide the education to the students who want this particular type of education. Um, so it's important that we share what we do, communicate more with families, um, especially in our middle schools. And, um, you'll be seeing in the future some upcoming programming that works directly with our middle school students to make sure they understand what we're about here. >> Thank you. She's been
023crunching numbers, so that really helps out with my report. I appreciated it. >> Oh, and I would like to add one more thing. As of today, um if we were to do our acceptances today, we would be accepting all um member students. Um we would not need to run a lottery for our member districts. Um we are uh our applications are open till the 15th because we had to delay because that winter fair got pushed out. Um and we will have some solid numbers for you next month. >> Sharon, I saw your hand up. >> Yes. This is totally stupid and trivial, but is it 72 or 75 out of district applicants at this point? Because there's one number on the right and one number on the >> Oh, that is wonderful. So, I it
024is 75 as of Monday. >> Monday. Yeah. >> Great. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Thank you for catching that. And as we speak, we are scheduling trying to schedule uh an EMAC meeting and what we will do in the EMAC committee. We're going to look at um enrollment because that's uh what a lot of what the EMAC committee is about. We will be talking about this issue when we talk about long-term stuff including the uh demographics which is uh a driving force that um that has brought to our attention. >> So I did want to mention our next steps. Um as like we said we've been talking about engagement and ownership all year and and admissions is our main focus this year. Um, while before I do that, I did want to talk about our
025Winterfest because we do have uh Katie Buchard here who was a big part of making sure everything was in place and, you know, making sure all our staff had what they needed. So, I want to turn it over to Katie for a little bit just to give an overview of winter fair this past and literally it was the winter fair as we did get snow. So, it was really a u wintry day, but um I think a successful day because as I sat at the front there too, we just had steady families coming in uh to see what we were about. So, Katie, if you're on happy to uh let you talk a little bit about the winter fair. >> Great. Thanks, Paul. Uh so, yeah, we held our winter fair uh last Saturday. Um
026so, it was from 9 to 12. Uh it was interesting because we had planned it for that huge snowstorm originally postponed it to the next coming snowstorm. Uh so we did still have it um but it was definitely a little bit hard to get in uh at times just with the weather but we were happy to see that it didn't uh have the huge impact on our attendance. We did have 65 plus families um attend uh which was great to see. Uh we had over 25 staff members and again a huge shout out to our staff who were so willing to do whatever they needed to do to make it happen. Um, a lot of them had already previously committed to the prior event and they were willing to um, come back for the rescheduled
027makeup date, which was great to have them. Um, we had over 40 students that were either paid positions or volunteers that came. Uh, we had over 15 programs represented. Uh, we had our cookies, our hot chocolate, our popcorn. Um, we had a mini film festival um, out of the theater which was great for folks to attend. Uh, we had tours going all day long uh, led by some of our student ambassadors. Uh we had a CPAC table which is our um specialed parent advisory council. We had an FFA table, a Skills USA table. Um so exposing our visitors to also some of our clubs uh which was great. Um and then we also had of course on the spot applications. Uh so we had some stations where you could register right there uh to become
028students of ours for next year. Um we had about 14 students um apply on the spot or um use that application link um over that weekend time. So, that was great. Um, and it was really a great time that we had with the kids, the staff. Um, it went over really well. Um, we'd love to do it again next year. Um, probably on a day with less snow, but we'll we'll work it out for next year. Maybe we'll do it a little bit earlier, a little bit later. >> Katie, about how many families attended from what you could tell? >> Uh, we had over 65. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. I will comment that if you remember if you applied uh you got a beanie >> that day and I will say um being in
029the front I was able to notice if a student didn't have a beanie that I knew that hadn't applied yet I was able to uh identify that student and actually meet with their family and have a conversation about them applying um and get them a beanie afterwards. So it all kind of worked out. So Katie's idea of him getting a beanie if you apply really, you know, hit the mark with getting some applications in for us on that event. So we were really happy about that. >> All right. So my final um part that I need uh actually a vote for is our FFA has its overnight state competition field trip uh that they do every year uh or they get to do every year. And this will lead them, if you look over at
030the right, that's the picture of the national convention. So the uh results of this trip gives them the opportunity to go to the national. It is the 96th FFA convention that they hold. It's in Framingham. Um the hotel and conference center. It's the one off of Route uh 90. If it looks like a castle, sure you might have seen that if you've ever been passing. We have about 27 students that are in our life science pathways that will participate in this event. um from aggra science fair project to demonstrations and employment and skills. So um asking the school committee for an approval for this overnight convention for our students and uh if anybody >> could you briefly mention for those uh members who may not understand it exactly what FFA is, what they do and
031how long Minutemen has been participating in the FFA conferences. >> Sure. Um FFA is the future farmers of America. Uh it is a club. It's I would say it's almost equivalent to our skills USA club and Minute Man has been participating and I've only been here for two years. So um I from what I have understood Minute Man's been participating in this for many multiple years prior to me being here as well. Um and they do very very well and I think uh same with our skills USA group FFA is right there with them. Any questions, school committee members, before we move to a vote? Um, >> Mark, >> I was just wondering if they're staying in a hotel for a few nights, how are funds supported so that all kids have the opportunity? So
032they they do fundraising of their own as well um to oversee it and they also have um within our student activities fund um they have their own line item line item as well where they're keeping track of what they have for what they need from there. So um before this vote's been out, people been looking to make sure everything costs have been covered uh prior to uh the vote. >> Perfect. Thank you. Would a school committee member like to make the motion? Alice, would you like to make the motion? >> Yep. Move approval of the overnight field trip of the FFA chapter students to attend the 96 Massachusetts FFA State Convention in Frammingham, Massachusetts on March 31st, April 2, 2026. >> Second. >> Okay. Uh here's my question. Uh how many grown-ups will be with
033them? Um, from what I understand, there's uh three. I don't have the official count on that, but I can get that information to you if you're looking for that. >> Oh, >> very good. >> I I can jump in. Um, 10 to one is typically what we would do. Yeah. >> Okay. 10 to one. Brave brave teachers. Alice, >> this can be a really important social event. I knew a foster family who just by accident ran into one of their former foster children at the FFA and they got back together and it was really exciting for them all. And there all kinds of neat things happen at these big meetings. >> Any other questions or comments before we move to a vote? Roll call vote. Pam >> Pam Norton. Yes. >> Sarah Matigu Arlington. Yes.
034>> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Deortner conquered. Yes. And I fully support this activity. >> Marky Dover, yes. >> Sharon Mau, Lexington, yes. >> Jeff Stan, yes. >> Alison Lucas, yes. >> Very good. Unanimous. Does that complete the principal's report for this meeting? >> That it does. Thank you very much. >> And thank you very much. All good stuff. And we have exciting news from Heidi Driscoll in her report, superintendent's leadership report. Heidi Driscoll, thank you. Um, so I received an update from Al St. George on the north building. I took a tour. It was awesome. Um he my favorite thing that I saw on the tour was him explaining to me how the kids went through the manholes and um it was just it's such a wonderful experience to have our kids be able to
035do this for their own practice and learning. Um as of January um temperature controls, devices, programming, certification and connections were made to the main school building. um the end of January, the fire alarm final connections were happening. Actually, I think that was happening while we were there um with the board of education member. Um the next things to be done are our Lincoln Town inspections for electrical, plumbing, and building. Um after approval is received from the building department, then we can begin to move the metal fab equipment into place. And and that sounds like a small task. This is a monster of a project. These are um if you've walked through um it's gigantic equipment that needs to be moved. Um and once that is moved um installed and wired, then we have final inspections
036um that can be done for the completed electrical and then we would get our building occupancy certificate. Once we receive the occupancy certificate, then our students and instructors can begin um actually doing their vocational work and not working on um the north building. Um so we're looking at the end of February and I will um hopefully be inviting you for um a tour once it's open. And I see Al here. you're you're welcome to jump in if you want to add anything or Katie. Um, but I think that covers everything that was shared with me questions or >> uh my only comment is I think that uh when the weather is a little bit warmer after the building has been approved, I think it would be worthwhile for us to have prior to our school
037committee meeting a tour as you mentioned of the north building and perhaps a a detailed presentation on how the students contributed to its construction. I would very much like to see that. Uh, I know I've heard little bits and pieces of it over time. I'd like to see a more detailed presentation >> as we tore the finished building. This is a big deal for us. >> Julia, can can you mute uh mute? Uh oh, never mind. He got it. >> Yep. I believe that the school committee members would be also interested in in that as well. I see a lot of >> Absolutely. >> Okay. So, uh, when the weather gets better, when it's been approved, that's when we'll do it, not in a hurry. >> Our pleasure. Um, the next item that I have
038is the proposed school calendar. Um, Julia, would you mind sharing that? Oh, or Paul. Oh, okay. Thank you. Um, so this year is unique um because of when Labor Day falls. Um, so we really had two different options. Um, which would be to start the school year around the same date we did last year. Um, which would be the week of the 24th and 25th. But that shifts um our year to um and uh end August a little earlier. We would end up with four, excuse me, three short weeks instead of two. Um so currently the recommended calendar um it was recommended by the MFA and um put together both options were put together by administration. Um we are recommending the 91 start which means the 31st is the day all teachers would come in
039and then we would start with students on the 1st. It does put us out a little bit later at the end of the year. Um but it is not um it's not a it's not like we're ending in almost July. Um the anticipated 185th day, which I hope we don't get to, would be June 23rd, but that is the maximum that we would be allowed to go to with snow days or cancellations or anything like that. And if you see some of the double weeks, um those are predicted for um when we would have MCAST testing. Okay, let's uh have a school committee member uh move and second this proposed calendar and then we can have a discussion if necessary. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Great. Uh questions or comments on the proposed calendar.
040So this is one that you you came to a uh a discussion with your administration and with the MFA and this is the one that uh all the those groups believe is the most appropriate one to move forward with. Would that be correct? >> Uh overall the administrators we work year round. So whether we start a week earlier or a week later it's it's inconsequential. Um we shared both options with the MFA leadership. Um, and they recommended that we go with the 91 start. So, that is what we're recommending here. >> Very good. School committee members, any questions or comments? >> Very well. Then, roll call vote. Pam, >> I think Sharon had a question. >> No, I was just going to say that it seem it's it seems to be the trend that most
041schools are going with. It makes sense because if you start back in in the August 24th, 25th, you're like losing two weeks of summer that before Labor Day. So, I I support this decision by the MFA and the administration. >> Linda, >> um what happens if you have more than five's notice? >> Um we we can't um we that's it. We have to end working um on that very last day. If school districts have more, that's when Desi comes in and you see terrible things happening like a day during February or something like that. But um I I don't want to jinx us, but I am very confident um we should be fine with this >> because I was teaching there. The ice storm hit Fitchburg so badly and we went to June 30th and
042we part of April vacation. >> No, we are I feel very confident. Um hopefully it continues how we've had for the next few years, but I can't predict the weather. >> Okay. The other questions or comments? Roll call vote. Pam >> Pam >> Noractton. Yes. >> Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Dorder Conquered. Yes. >> Archily Doer. Yes. >> Sharon Mosto Lexington. Yes. >> Jeff Stulan. Yes. >> Lucas Joe. Yes. >> You guys. Hello. Charlene Cabraw Lancaster. Yes. >> Oh, Charlene. Welcome. >> Okay. Thanks. >> It's okay. You're here for the finance report and what's more fun than that? >> Oh, I know. I came for the good stuff. >> Does that conclude the superintendence report? >> Yes, it does. >> Very good. Then now my favorite part of every meeting,
043the finance report. Uh Sarah Montigue. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, um, we meet twice a month to review warrants and, um, items that come up either on an annual or quarterly basis. So, um, tonight we've got a couple things for you and I'm going to turn it over to Nikki to take you through the detail, but we want to look at the, um, capital fee review. We're going to ask for a couple of votes and, um, share the revolving fund report, the student activity fund report, and the, uh, quarterly bank balances report. So Nikki if you want to take the group through the detail. >> Great. >> Thank you Sarah. All right. The first is a letter we prepare. Um as you know we are one of the only schools um that
044DESIE has approved to um charge a capital fee to any of our outofd district students. So, this is forformational purposes only for the school committee. It's not um something that we will ask you to take a vote on, but just for you to be aware um of the process that we've completed um the capital fee memo. This will be sent to the commissioner um after our our meeting tonight um after we presented it to the school committee. Um here is where we um propose and request from the state to approve um a type A fee and a type B um community fee. Um type A would be 8,8961. Uh type B 6,6729. And if you're curious as to um how that is calculated, there's a calculation worksheet um that is based on um what the
045state has provided us. It includes our annual debt service. So what that means it's any payments that we have for the the school building um and then divided by our membertown students and any type A or type B non-resident students. So, type A student means u municipalities do not offer or provide at least five chapter 74 programs. Type B means they do provide at least five or they belong to a regional vocational or um those programs are within their high school. So those um type B municipalities are charged a 75 um% increment. So how that breaks out is um the amounts that we have provided here. So this is the breakout of the members um for in district and whether it's type A or type B for out of district. And this is the letter
046that we received from um the state that allows us to charge that capital fee and gives us guidance on how to put that together. Um so again this is forformational purposes um and happy to answer any questions on it. We have to provide this to the state by um March 1st and then we usually get the final approval back from the state uh by the end of March or March 31st. Does anyone have any questions on the capital fee? One question that I have is um you get all of your information from the state on how to prepare your documents or >> Yeah. So when they approved it, they provided a formula that we'd have to follow. So that is what we follow and what we provide to them. They have a month to review
047it and um the school finance director along with the commissioner will recom make a recommendation um and approve if we're able to charge a capital fee to our outofd district students. >> Okay, good. Thank you. >> The the fees that we collect from the outofd district students um directly offset the member town assessments >> for the capital portion. So it's a benefit to our member districts. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Yep. Any other questions on the capital fee? All right. I think we'll move on to the special education incremental fee. Um, so this is a a spreadsheet that we put together um that explains how we calculated the increment fee. Um what we do is we actually take the special education costs um based on the end of the year report. That's a
048report that I put together and we submit to the state on an annual basis as required. Um so this provides salaries um with a subtotal of salaries in uh benefits and then as well as out of district expenses that's divided by any of um the students that are receiving services to get a per pupil cost. So, this year for the special education fee, uh we would be recommending um $8,755 and that would require a vote of the school committee and happy to answer any questions on this report. >> This fee was is recommended to the full school committee by the finance subcommittee. So the finance subcommittee voted this. Uh this is a uh the procedure that they must follow to determine it. >> Uh we don't make it we don't make this up. >> Alistuca,
049>> can I make a motion >> please >> to approve the FY 2027 special education increment fee as presented? >> Second. >> Any other questions or comments? Alice Duca question and then Linda question. >> Not a question. It's actually just a comment on both the capital fee and the special education fee. It took number of years to get these things in place to make it fair for member towns that were paying for the building and paying for their own special needs students and so on to u to get agreement amongst the many towns that they uh would pay the bills. Um, having the outer district students pay these fees made a big difference and it took a lot of work in several years to get it done. >> Linda, I believe that you had your
050hand up. >> Alice just answered my question. I wondered if it was just out of district students that paid this. Good. >> Only out of district students pay these fees. That is correct. >> That's correct. And I just wanted to um note that any of the fees that we receive again these are directly from our out of district um students that pay these fees um this fee along with the tuition that's set by DESIE directly offsets the operating um portion of our budget and offsets the member town assessment. So this is a benefit um to our member districts as um that is something we offset in the budget. >> Okay. Um, I believe that the motion was made. Is that correct? And seconded. Okay. Roll call vote. Pam. >> Pam Nurosin. Yes. >> Sarah Montigue
051Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Dorder Conquered. Yes. >> Marquee Dover. Yes. >> Charlene Cabraw Lancaster. Yes. >> Sharon MTO. Lexington. Yes. >> Jeff Stulan. Yes. >> Lucas, yes. >> Excellent. Very good. onward. >> All right. Um this report is our general fund report. Again, this is the report of the budget that the school committee approves. Um it is presented by function code over here to the left, the state function code. Um that is how um the business office is required to report out to the state on any end of year reports. So how I present this report to our school committee and I'll make it a little bit bigger. um just to show the the different function codes and then the original budget that was approved by the school committee and then
052here is the sum of any adjustments. So per the school committee policy any um budget transfers over $10,000 are presented to the school committee on a quarterly basis and voted upon. So that will be part of the budget transfer memo that follows this report. And then when those two things are added up, um, anything less than $10,000, um, is at the superintendent's discretion. So you'll get the original budget plus the sum of any adjustments will equal the the budget in our general ledger. This next column is year-to date or any expenses that we have had so far, we've actually paid out so far. And incumbrances means expected expenses that haven't been paid out so far. for example, um the salaries um of the remaining um employees through the rest of the school year. And then
053the ending result is our ending balance of what we have left um for available balance within our general fund budget. So at this point it's at 7%. Um which appears reasonable being um halfway through the year. So um how I look at this report is if anything um is in a deficit or in a negative um we we figure out why. Um and for this reason um we will be recommending budget transfer number one. This function code is long-term substitutes. Um we will be recommending a budget transfer. So I will um go into our budget transfer memo. Um due to um the need for long-term substitutes, we will be transferring or recommending transferring um the available funds from the teacher line to cover the need for long-term subs. Um the second budget transfer we are
054recommending at this point is for extraordinary maintenance. We um are proposing to transfer to cover boiler heat exchanger and replace a blower motor. So the boiler um we have been operating with only two of the three boilers. Um this the boiler is under warranty but the funds will be for the labor and installation. Um, and I believe I don't know if Michelle Rosendez is on here if she wants to add in anything additional. Um, but these are the recommendations that we will um be asking. They were presented to the finance committee and we're recommending to the school committee. >> So, I'm happy to take any questions on the budget transfers and or the first um the second quarter general fund report. And once again, the uh the finance committee did vote uh uh to recommend
055to you this budget transfer. Alice Duca, >> can I put a motion on the table to approve the second quarter general fund budget transfers as presented? >> Second. >> Very good. Questions or comments from the membership? Uh let me just say that if any school committee member uh would like a um explanation a detailed explanation of any of these reports, >> they should contact the superintendent and I'm sure the superintendent can set up a meeting between you and uh Nikki or one of the other finance people if you feel uncomfortable with any of the reports. Although I will say that the format of these reports is exceptionally clear. Nevertheless, uh some of them can be confusing. So if you would like that, then we can make that available to you. I'm sure >> uh in
056the meantime, uh roll call vote. >> Pam, >> could I ask a question first? I think my hand isn't showing well. >> A little teeny box over here, >> right? Um, you know, it I in terms of these two transfers, you know, makes so much sense trans, you know, I understand the classroom teachers to the substitute, how that transfer really makes sense. I'm curious about the relationship between curriculum and maintenance. >> Oh, I'm I'm happy to address that. Um, we did not do a curriculum revision this year, which is something that Minute Man historically plans for. I think the last one that was done was for mathematics, which was half paid for by the district and half paid for by grants. Um, in light of we don't know where the um requirements are going for
057the state, we did not do a curriculum revision. So, um, we moved that out of see it's it's not curriculum itself. um it's in the supplies and materials which would have been used to purchase new curriculum or new books or something to that effect. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Any further questions or comments on the motion on the table? >> And again, if I if I don't hear if I don't see you, it's because you're in a little teeny box and sometimes I can't see your hand. So, uh don't be shy. >> Uh Pam >> Pam Nurosin. Yes. Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Gay Ortner Conquered. Yes. >> Marily Dover. Yes. >> Cabraw Lancaster. Yes. >> Darren Mustel Lexington. Yes. >> Jeff Stulan. Yes. >> Lucas do. Yes.
058>> Okay. Next report. >> This is our revolving report. Um I know you're all familiar with it, but again um the reason why it's called revolving report is that um when you go through the year the balance that you end with revolves and it becomes your beginning balance the next year. So um it's something where the funds continue to revolve. So just you know to show um how that looks, we have our FY26 beginning u balances which were the FY25 ending balances. um any revenue that we've received through December 31st and then projected revenue as well as a column for expenditures through December 31st and incumbrance incumbrances or expected um expenses and then our ending or expected projected ending fund balance. So um overall this report um highlights uh very well again no deficit accounts
059um we have our community ed or our summer school which they're looking and gearing into um starting up again um and getting registrations for next year. So you'll likely see some activity once um students and and parents start signing up for classes. We have our MTI program um which is based on the number of students and the projected revenue and expenses. So that's showing positively. Our facility rental is always our um our hottest topic or the one that gets the most questions asked. Um the projections are conservative um for any of our um whether it's a facility rental, a gym rental, they're based on um actual signed contracts. So we have conservative projective uh projected revenue um as well as expenses. We are able to cover um what we continually continuously promise our athletic field
060reserve and our facility debt um which is seen in our FY27 budget. Um so these are all trending um in a really great direction and able to uh fulfill the obligations um that we have. All of our trades accounts are in great standing. And then as we scroll down, um our capital fee again we've talked about offsets our member our member town um assessments that um is directly um voted within our FY27 budget as well as the out of district tuition and our regional transportation. So, that's all stuff you're very familiar with listening to our budget presentation. And our our general food service um projected about a 22,000 um dollar increase. So, again, these are all very healthy accounts. Um nothing in in a deficit. Um and happy to answer any questions, further questions or
061details that um the school committee has on these accounts. Okay. I have one question about the um uh the 22,000 increase >> in the budget >> for food. >> Yep. >> And I'm wondering what um that's for the year. Is that for half a year? is that >> that's what's promised in our contract. Um as um I'm trying to remember I'm not sure if you were part of the committee when we actually did our RFP um food for food service um pricing wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing um when we were deciding who we were going to go with for a food service contractor was quality of food um and you know the impression that they'd have on the students um engagement. So, you know, while the revolving fund is showing um
062a slight um increase, that's not necessarily why we picked that vendor. We really picked that vendor based on the the quality um of food and the impression that the the company made on us. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Being no other comments or questions, so don't worry, we have more reports to go through. more numbers coming up. >> All right, I think we'll move on to the student activity report. So again, this report is something recommended by our auditors to provide for transparency. We'll include this um to we'll include this in an email to all of our adviserss. Um this is broken out by our student activity names um advisors and again just similar to our revolving funds um you know the ending balance from the year previous um comes up and becomes
063our beginning balance. So this is money that the students um fund raise and Minute Man is just the the financial custodian of so to say. Um, so these funds in order to be spent require three student signatures, an adviser, a principal, and the business office. They go through our regular warrant process and are approved by our finance committee um prior to being released. Any of the revenue that goes through um the system here is signed off by the advisor. So, you know, it's really important um especially with these funds that um there's there's very clear transparency um and we really want to make sure that um all of the balances um are in good standing which they are. Here you can see um some of the biggest um activity is within all of the class
064ofves um you know senior through freshman account um and you know as you'll see here um you know FFA was on here there is there is a balance in that account which they're able to to utilize to help offset the costs um of any upcoming trips. So again, happy to answer any questions on this report. Um but again, really for transparency to ensure that um what the business office has, the adviser has, the students have um everyone's really on the same page. So these funds do get audited um or you know reviewed with agreed upon procedures. So the the um audit company will um present a report to the school committee as well um on an annual basis. Sharon. >> Um, so Nikki, would it be a fair assessment to say that these um the
065funds that have like their fiscal year 2026 beginning fund balance and the end balance with like nothing, no encumbrances or revenues in the middle that they're just kind of a either a like a quiet fund at the moment or is it just that they they're not like up and running for clubs or like what would explain that those are just sitting there at the same amount year after year? Yeah. So, it depends on the needs. Um, you know, for most of the more athletic um ones, it's either maybe sweatshirts or um you know, food, if they make a championship tournament or state tournament. Um through the audit process, they actually review the accounts and if an account is dormant or there's no revenue or expense for 3 years, they'll flag it and ask, is this
066still an active account? um should it, you know, continue, you know, continue to be on this account. Um if it's not, they recommend we bring it to the school committee. Um and then there would be a vote to kind of move the inactive funds to a general student activity um account, which is overseen by our principal. The purpose of those funds would have to be to benefit the entirety uh of the student body. Um it couldn't just specify specify one group. So, you know, it really it really depends on the group. Maybe one group has a trip or maybe they don't do a trip every year. Um, you know, you'll likely see most of the activities for the the seniors and the juniors towards the end of the year with prom. Um, so, you know,
067just something to know that we do, um, actively look at that and we wouldn't be able to take any of those um, accounts away without um, it being looked at and approved by the school committee. And again, just as a reminder to everyone, if there was a new student activity account, um, that would be brought to the the school committee as well for approval. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Any other questions or comments on this report? Very good. Think we have one more. Last but not least, this is our bank balances um account. So, this provides bank balances and interest earned in a majority or all of our accounts. Um you know, that starts with our depository account. Um our payroll and accounts payable. We have specific accounts for our student activities and our
068oped. Um this is a preferred um format for the school committee to look at and review balances. Um and this is the way that um we report out that the bank balances and the bank reconciliations as of uh December 31st um are reconciled in our system. Happy to answer any questions on these accounts, the balances um or anything ba um from the finance committee report. >> See no hands up. Uh is that the last report? That is the last report. Thank you all for your attention. I know I have been stealing the spotlight in these school committee meetings. So, I appreciate you bearing with me and hopefully next month we'll won't be as uh filled with finance activities. >> We we appreciate your hard work, Nikki. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Nikki, I appreciate
069how clear you make all of these reports so that they're very easy for us to digest and understand. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. Appreciate that. >> And I will second both of those comments. uh uh the clarity of the reports are very important both uh for others to see how we do our business and for us to do our oversight responsibility um as school committee members and uh believe you me this is a completely different universe to when I started at this school committee um u and having these reports that allow us to make decisions or ask precise questions is uh a great confidence building exercise and Nikki does a a superlative job and she she poor thing had to go through this exact same presentation twice once for the fin and
070now once for you. So uh again thank you Sarah thank you Nikki thank you um uh all the people in the business office who contributed to creating these reports for us. >> I second that. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. appreciate your attention to the the fine details of our school. >> We are not done with subcommittee reports. Uh we have not had a really juicy uh policy subcommittee report for a while, but we have one tonight. So Alice Duca >> policy subcommittee, >> it's it's a room clearing kind of discussion. So really just bear with me. This is um section I, which we've been promising you since it first came to our attention in 2023. Um, as you probably know, MASC periodically just sends out a whole bunch of policies that they feel we
071need to review. Not all of them are appropriate for a minute man high school, a vocational high school. Some of them are for K through 12 schools. Your policy subcommittee consists of Sharon MTO who is a dynamite detail person and myself and your support from the administration is Stephanie Alberaz also a really star detail person and your superintendent Heidi Driscoll. So it is a very um detail oriented group of people who will go to the mat over a period or a comma. the discussions can be really exciting. Um, but what we really are interested in is the policy disc discussions because that is one of the three most important jobs of the school committee. And this section of policies is not terribly interesting, but we do need to update a few in to start out.
072This is just to start out with section I. So, if you look on page 33, I don't know if anybody can put page 33 up on the thing so that the public can see it. Um, what we're doing, what we're talking about, that would be helpful. I I don't know if there's anyone who can do that. >> Julia. >> Yep. Julia, will you be able to pull that up? >> Yep. Give me one sec to >> Thank you so much. I was just realizing that a lot of people and if we're just talking about something nobody can see, that's really annoying. So, um anyway, when we get page 33 up there, um what we're going to be talking about first is policy. It's a little bit complicated. Um MASC uses a a letter code system
073which comes from the National School Board Association. These not these letter code systems are not made up by us. We use the same one as everyone else in the state. Makes it more easy to compare policies from one school district to another, even though the second letter means different things in each letter of the alphabet. And it is very annoying that they're not consistent, but we just follow their code system. So, we're going to be looking at a which used to be ICA ICB for reasons unknown to us. This is a school year school calendar. The last time this was reviewed was in 2010. So on page 33, you're going to see um it says March 10th vote to remove existing policy. And for today, we're trying to uh we're recommending that we accept for
074first reading a um a school year school calendar policy that is updated to the current environment in schools. This is not um anything very exciting. It's just saying how the school calendar is is done and um that it's going to be made available to parents and so on. Policy of the school district that people there will be transparency with respect to the calendar. So um we can't vote to both remove one and approve one on the same day because we're voting twice. And so what we're going to do is not vote uh to remove the existing one until March. And today we're going to recommend that you accept vote to accept for first reading the A policy that is at the bottom of this page. So see where it says in green vote to accept
075first reading the language right below there school calendar school year school calendar. >> I'm sorry to interrupt Alice. Julia, would you mind zooming in so those of us with readers on can um Oh, all it did was get blurry for me. There's a little like magnifying glass in the bottom right. Maybe. might be there's a tiny little magnifying glass on the bottom right that you can sometimes click on make it get bigger. >> It's a it's a plus in the middle of it. And Julia, if uh if you want to send that to me, I'm happy to share it myself. Not um give me one second. >> Sure. You have to stop the share. >> Is that where we're having our retreat? That picture. Sorry, we didn't have any advanced notice that we were going
076to be sharing this, but it occurs to me that people might want to read it. Julia, if I have permission to share, I can pull it up. >> You do? I just >> I think she just sent it to you, Heidi. Sharon, why don't you share? I don't have that in my email yet. I just have the hard copy. Thank you, Sharon. Okay, >> perfect. at the top of the page, the red section, that is the old one from 2010. That one we're going to vote to recommend that you vote to remove it on March 10th. The green heading here, we're recommending that we have a first reading of that today, which means we we accept it for first reading and then adopt it in March, same day that we delete the other one. So,
077we won't have two ex two conflicting policies in force at the same time. So if we can get a motion to accept for first reading um the policy a school year school calendar. >> So moved. >> Second. Do we >> Okay. Is there a discussion? Don't see any. I can't see the whole uh screen. So um yell if if I'm missing you. Seeing none. Let's take it to a vote. Hammer Sackton, yes. >> Sarah Montigue, Arlington, yes. >> Lind Herbison, Bolton, yes. >> Dorter, conquered, yes. >> Marquee Dover, yes. >> Charlene Cabrell Lancaster, yes. >> Sharon Ma, Lexington, yes. >> Jeff Stulan, yes. >> Alistister Luca Stow, yes. Thank you very much. We're moving on to the next one. This is um voting to accept for first reading the policy ID school day. Uh we
078did not have this one before. So this is new. It really just says that the uh length of the school day is in the collective bargaining agreement and the opening time uh closing times of school will be detailed in the student handbook. That is the that would be then the school committee's policy. So um can I and I I want to point out these little legal references here. The policy subcommittee does actually read every single one of those and um some of them are quite funny. Um, so if if we could get a motion to approve school day, school committee policy ID for first reading as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh, is there any discussion on this one? >> I'd like to add something about discussion, uh, if you don't mind. Um,
079because a new policy when we're trying to pair things down so they're manageable, um, might be something that's very interesting to lots of people. Um, the mask policy that you reviewed was really made for a K12 district if I'm not mistaken. That's what we looked at. Um, many school districts have a school day policy where the closing and opening times change because they have tiers of different bus routes and things like that. Our policy is that those do not change. Um, our policy is that our collective bargaining agreement with the school union dictates our length of the school day and we will communicate the opening and closing times that align with that um in the school handbook um so parents are aware. Um, is that a fair super short synopsis of what you looked at?
080>> Yep. >> Okay. Any questions about this one? Uh, seeing none, we should take a vote. >> Aar Son, yes. >> Sarah Montigue, Arlington, yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton, yes. >> Dort conquered, yes. >> Marily Dover, yes. >> Charlene Cabrell Lancaster, yes. >> Most Lexington, yes. >> Jeff Stulan, Neen, yes. >> Alistister Lucas, yes. Thank you very much. >> Next one is um to approve amendments to our existing policy IG. IGD was originally called curriculum adoption and review. Um it is being renamed to curriculum development and review. Um and if you can scroll down a little bit um you'll see there were some edits made to the existing policy um that we that Minute Man had. So if you um these are where you might have some questions. Um this is about new programs and
081how they're how they're done. Um and that how the the population at large will be informed in the program of studies. Um and we can get additional um reports on the program of studies if we request them. Um and these are the references. We added an extra reference to 712 which I believe dealt with um history curriculum and so on. So, um maybe we could get a motion on the table to approve um wait a minute. Approve um curriculum development and review policy IGD for first reading as presented. As amended, excuse me, as amended. >> So, moved. >> Second. Alice, were we saying that we were reading that we were looking for this one? I thought we were just voting to approve this one because it was an amendment and didn't need a second reading.
082>> Right. We're going to do a second reading um in in March. >> Okay. Sorry. >> We're approving it for first reading as amended in the agenda. It says as presented, but it should say as amended. >> Okay. >> Any other questions relating to this one? Um, I would just like to point out something that you adjusted if you don't mind scrolling down a little bit. Thank you. Um, our former policy said that the school committee needed to approve um, programming, which means they would approve courses, so on and so forth. Um, our policy dictates that our educators and our professionals develop our curriculum and courses. we present it to the school committee and they accept um our report. Um but as you know curriculum itself isn't um something that is under the school committee's
083purview and I'm sharing that because we have many guests who who may be interested in um the difference in this policy. I >> just add on to that that is we have not the school committee has not uh approved uh the curriculum forever. So, this is just also not only doing it properly, but bringing it up to date with what we actually do. >> Right. >> Exactly. >> Thank you for clarifying that. >> That's also an example of how when Alice said that our committee looks at every word, we literally look at every word. >> Yep, we we did. Um, any further questions about that one? We could take it to a vote. Pam Nurosactton, yes. >> Sarah Montigu, Arlington, yes. >> Linda Herbson Bolton, yes. Dort conquered, yes. >> Marquili Dover, yes. >> Charlie
084Cabraw Lancaster, yes. >> Most Lexington, yes. >> Jeff Lan, yes. >> His Lucasto, yes. If you could scroll down to uh the middle of page 35. Oh, sorry. Oops, I lost it. Hold on. Okay. So, um this one is not going to be updated right now, but just giving you the heads up. This is what was called physical education in 2010 or even earlier. So, NZDC was the consultant that we used in in revising this the uh policy manual in 2010. Um, so this one is going to be removed when a wellness policy has been presented. The superintendent will have a committee that does uh the work on this and then it will come through the policy subcommittee and to you, but we're not going to be doing anything with it today. Uh, the next
085one is >> May I may I just jump in on that? Um, so a wellness policy isn't an idea of something that would just be good to have. Um, we are actually required as a school district to have a wellness committee and a wellness policy. Um, so that is something that we need to do and do well. Um, and this physical education um stipulation about kids don't have to take um physical education if they are excused is the law. Um, so we don't need a specific um policy for that. Um, if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer. >> Okay. Uh, the next one is um we're going to ask to approve policy IHM as amended. Um, health education is the name of it. Um, and this one, uh, has in it notice that has
086to be given to people so that they can decide whether or not they're going to allow their student to participate in certain curriculum um, items. Um, there's a correction in the title of the person in the school district who's um, responsible, I guess, for this. And um, these are amendments to an existing policy that we're recommending in red. So if you if does anyone want to make a motion to approve uh health education school committee policy IHAM for first reading as amended? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. U anyone want to discuss it? We'll be hearing more about these things as the year progresses. Uh, seeing no comments, we will proceed to the vote. >> Hamner, yes. >> Sarah Montigue, Arlington, yes. >> Linda Herbison, Bolton, yes. >> Dorter, conquered, yes. >> Marily Dover,
087yes. >> Charlene Cabraw, Lancaster, yes. >> Aaron Mto, Lexington, yes. >> Jeff Stulan, yes. >> Alice Ducto, yes. Thank you very much. That is the end of the policy subcommittee report. >> Great. All right, but don't worry, we have more committee meeting left, but we are going to move to an executive session. I do believe that we're going to remain on this link. Is that correct, Julia? >> That that is correct. >> So, after we take the vote, we are going to ask for everybody uh not involved in the executive session to leave. But I will make the initial motion. Um, I move that the school committee enter into executive session not to return to open session, but to include Heidi and Julia for the following reasons. Reason A, approval of the draft minutes of
088December 9th and December 16th, 2025. B pursuant to MGL chapter 3A section 21 A2 for the purpose of discussing strategy as it relates to contract negotiations with non-UN personnel the superintendent director. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Very well. Roll call vote. Pam >> Pam Nosactton. Yes. >> Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. >> Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. >> Dort conquered. Yes. >> Marquili Dover. Yes, >> Charlene Cabell Lancaster. Yes, >> Mosto Lexington. Yes, >> Jeff Stolen. Yes, >> Austin. Yes. >> Very good. Thank you all the guests who have attended. If you're not a member of the school committee or Julie and Heidi, it is time to uh go on to your evening activities. And I uh the chair declares a threem minute recess. In the meantime,