Minuteman School Committee 051325

001All right. So, I call this meeting of uh the May meeting of the the regular May regular meeting of the Minutemen Regional School Committee to order and I would like a motion to adopt remote participation as written in the agenda, please. So moved. Second. Second. Very well. Then roll call vote. Pam Pam Noractin. Yes. Sarah's not here right now, so we go to Linda. Linda, you're on mute. Okay. Um, Linda Herbertson, Bolton. Yes. Steve Leoo conquered. Yes. Maggie Shandover. Yes. Charlene, you're on mute. Was it? Can you hear me? Yep. Okay. Charlene Cabraw Lancaster. Yes. Sharon must Lexington. Yes. Jeff Sulan. Yes. Alice Lucas. Yes. Very good. All right. Um I have not received from Julia. She usually sends this to me prior to the meeting. I know she's not here right now. Any notifications

002of public comments? I I'm assuming for now that there are have been none that have been submitted ahead of time. I can confirm that there were none. Very good. I would like uh uh I'm gonna actually have a question about the consent agenda, but I would like a motion to adopt the consent agenda as written in the minutes. So moved. Second. Okay. So my only question was I asked the administration this. I wonder if anybody is here to respond. The exact meaning of the grants and donations because the wordage was a little bit mysterious in the um uh the packet. I'm here to answer your question. I was wondering what line in particular you had a question on. That's a hard question. Let me tell you. I will find it. Let's see. We had two

003scholarships and then a grant. Okay. What is studentr run services for 65 and over award? What is that for? So, we did just get a grant. Um there will be more details to follow, but um they wrote it competitively and got this grant. And essentially any um senior who's over 65 will be able to come to Minute Man and mostly for cosmetology or auto they would have any services that they um you know whether they got you know got went to the salon or got their car done um they would have like a credit on their account so they wouldn't have to pay for the services at Minute Man. So free services for senior citizens. Correct. That sounds like a pretty good grant to me. Yes. have a question from Charlene. It's actually not a

004question, it's a a comment. This is a specific to uh Lexington residents and it's a specific uh grant from Lexington uh from someone in Lexington. Very good. And on the uh donations, let's see. Uh DCU is the digital credit union, the bank. They provide scholarships every year. Okay. So, these are just general scholarships, not specific scholarships that the school decides who to give them to or do they each one have its own criteria. Uh the DCU scholarships are more general. Uh the other scholarship is more specific. Great. Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Any other questions on anything on the consent calendar before we Very well then bring it to a vote. All in favor starting with Pam. Pam nurse acting. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. People do conquered. Yes. Maggie Sharon. Yes. Charlene

005Lancaster. Yes. Sharon MTO. Lexington. Yes. Jeff Dan. Yes. Alistister Lucasto. Yes. Very good. And thank you for that uh explanation. Nikki. Now the chair's reporter. Any specific comments for the good of the organization that have happened in this last month? We have one from Steve. Yeah. Um I just wanted to let everybody know I think I think most people um know that uh conquered kind of has a u um an informal um agreement that uh appointees serve two terms and then they're off. So um given the fact that I'll be finishing my second term on the school committee, uh the select board has appointed D. Ortner to uh represent conquered uh as of July 1. D has been on a lot of uh conquered uh town committees and is and she is now getting off

006the finance committee and u she's a big fan of Minute Man. So uh I think you guys will enjoy uh working with her. And this is a this uh she has finance experience. So two thumbs up on that. Right. Can we keep both of you? I'm gonna have some fun, buddy. Okay, thank you, Steve. I wouldn't put that really for the good of the organization. Uh, Alice, I was just going to say thank you, Steve. Big shoes to fill for your next person. Thank you. I've never looked at her feet though, so I don't know. Any other questions or comments for the good of the organization? I have Pam. I would like to thank um Heidi and Amy for coming and attending um a very very very long act in town meeting and Heidi doing

007an excellent presentation. And I'm sure she's always glad to hear that. Very good. Graduation. Oh, there was one. Alice, I'll say the same for Nikki on uh Saturday in Stostown meeting. Great job, Nikki. Thank you. No questions were asked. Very well. We have graduation coming up. I wonder if the administration has a few comments in that. My comment is that most graduations I dread going to because they're long and too drawn out and they're too far away from having anything to do with the students. The Minute Man graduation is very different. It is short. It is concise. It is really focused on the student and school committee members who attend get the fun of passing out some diplomas. So, school committee members uh the ones who have been around know this. It's a lot of

008fun. And I would uh uh suggest that if you have the ability to be there during that date, you attend. So uh does the superintendent have any other comments on the upcoming graduation? I am super excited yet also traumatized because this is my child's high school graduation. So everything we're doing for our seniors at Minute Man is particularly um uh getting me this year. Uh, we had our signing day this morning, our Skills USA signing day, and I was almost in tears at work. Um, quite a thing. Um, so I hope they're having Katie saw it was embarrassing for me, but um, I hope they're having a great night at uh, I see Riley walking around at at movie night. Um, and I'm very excited. I hope as many of us can attend as possible.

009Um Diane Dempsey works very hard in making a beautiful consistent event and I can say it is a beautiful consistent event. The only graduation that I like to go to even though my kid is not graduating. Okay. A scheduling note. The chair will be away the first half of June. Alice will be acting chair during that time for a good reason. I'm going on a trip. Uh, another note, July is an in-person meeting. It is our reorganizational meeting. What I'm going to do is I'm going to have Julia send uh to the membership a reminder of the policies that govern reorganization. And if you have any questions on how reorganization works, uh bring them in for the June meeting and you can get answers from uh uh Alice at that or anybody else PM anybody

010who's been here and done it at that at the at the um June meeting and the reorganization will be in July. It is again in person. Um I got one more here. Uh, so this meeting is not it's probably not going to be short because two of the most important things we do are budget related stuff and superintendent hiring and evaluation. And we're going to be talking quite a bit about both at this meeting. And for those of you who love finance stuff, we got you covered. So, um, yeah, we might be here for a bit. Very good. principal's leadership report. I believe that we have a principal who has evacuated the building to a to a fire alarm. So Heidi, if if that is indeed the case, will you be given this report? And

011will you be starting with the students who I've inked in as prior to a on this item? Yes, we will be starting with the student reports if they can give them because I see Riley is in motion. Um Riley, Matilda, who would like to go first? Oh, we're good. Okay, we'll we'll start with Riley. Hi, good evening. Sorry it's a little [Music] loud. Um, so for my report, um, I'm doing senior activities. Um, as you know, we have less than two weeks left of school. Um, and then a little under four until graduation. Um, so this week we have a spirit week. Um, yesterday we did country versus country club. Um, we did class colors today. Um, we're also having prom on Thursday. Um, and then um, next Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, that was uh

012Mr. Die. He's on his way. Um, next Monday we have beach day and we're also having a Kona ice truck come. Uh, all the seniors get one for free. Um, all the students are able to get one as well. Um, but I believe um it's like $5 or less. Um, we also have um senior sunset um plus a sendoff uh next Thursday uh May 22nd. Um, we're also doing yearbook distribution that day as well. Um, but we're also having an ice cream truck come for the seniors free of charge. Um, and then of course senior signup is May 23rd. Um, and so that'll be our last day. Why you're smiling so much when you say that will be our last day. She will miss us. All right, Matella, of course. Hi. So, I was going

013to present and kind of just dive a little bit deeper into prom. I know it hasn't happened yet, but we're all very looking forward to it. So, our prom is a junior senior combined prom. It's going to happen this Thursday at the Danfersport Yacht Club, which is super exciting. The theme for this year is enchanted forest. So, we have a lot of fun fairy lights and lot of like greenery and the prom decorating committee has worked very very hard on pulling it all together. There's going to be a catered dinner, a photo booth, um a DJ, pro professional photography, and it's turning out to be to look like it's going to be a really really fun night. And I know a lot of juniors and seniors and maybe some underassmen are looking forward to it.

014So, okay. Is is this your last meeting with us? Riley, are you both or I think it's I think it's our last meeting for this year and it's definitely Riley's last meeting. So, yeah, I I believe so. I'm not sure if we're doing the one in June. Um, we might be, but that'll be up to Mr. Diva. Yeah, we'll check. Yeah, you can poke your head in even O'Reilly after you've graduated. That would be fine. And in the meantime, if that is not the case, thank you both for your reports. On behalf of the full school committee, thank you on your reports throughout the year. It's always great to hear directly from the students as to what's going on, even if they're so happy to leave the school. Riley, uh, which is pretty natural for

015seeing. I got Nikki. Just wanted to give Matilda a shout out. Um, she's been great this whole year, but she also was at the Arlington Town meeting last night doing a bake sale for their ad rising. Um, and she was with the kids this morning before I even got to work and she's at the school committee meeting. So, very impressive. Um, all the things you do for the school and and how you're showing up. So, thank you those student reps. Thank you all very much. Now, you can get back to fun if you want to. All right. Uh, the next item, just September, I swear it was just our September meeting and here we are, I guess, in May. Anyway, okay, I'm done. Uh, superintendent admissions update. Um, currently we are about to accept our

016first round of outofd district students. Um, we are finishing up the interviews right now. Um, and we have accepted every single in district student who has applied so far. Um, it says upcoming AP exams. We're actually in the middle of AP exams right now. Um, I think if I'm not mistaken, um, Monday was calculus. Um, they're coming fast and furious and those last um, this month. Um, we have lots of students participating. Some of them are participating through an AP course at our school and some of them are taking an AP exam based on outside studies that they've done. Um, which is pretty wonderful. And I see Principal Delea. Welcome back. I'm glad everything's okay. And, um, I will hand it over to him um to talk about the C, outofstate travel. Yeah. Uh, thank

017you, Superintendent Driscoll, for covering for me. I appreciate it. Uh just a report everybody's safe, everybody's fine. Um so that's a good thing to come back to tell you about. Um I will skip down to the out ofstate travel slide that I have here. Um I do actually have a couple people that are involved in case there's any questions, but we're looking for approval from the school committee. Each one of these groups have done a proposal for me uh regarding of of doing um these outofstate trips. One is actually out of the country as well. Uh the ones that are on a timely basis is approval for our skills national conference. As you know, you had an emergency um you had a meeting just recently for the state competition. We now have 19 students that

018have qualified to go to the national competition um in Atlanta, Georgia during uh June 23rd through the 27th, which is obviously in the summertime of school hours. Um so the idea is that there would be five chaperones present and then uh 19 students that would be competing. The other thing that has happened this year, and I know that u Matilda has mentioned it to you in one of her reports, is our Ed Rising team for our early childhood uh qualified for nationals as well. Uh this is their actually first time competing and they've made this uh accomplishment of of being able to go to nationals. So again, we have six students that would be uh wanting to attend Orlando, Florida from June 25th to June 29th. uh six students will be competing and one chaper

019will be present. And we'd also like to make sure that we can fund raise to make sure that costs are covered as well. So that would be the uh next piece of asking for a vote. And then finally, not this summer, but next summer, um we're having a proposal of a uh our students in the agricultural, environmental, and life science pathways um to attend agriculture in in Ireland. We'd be touring with a um going through a company that does out of uh country tours. So, this again would be during the summertime as well. um for every the plan is for every six students there'd be one chaperone and I know that that touring company covers that chaperone for every six students that we have and we'd be asking for fundraising request as well for this

020uh trip as well. So um I can answer any questions that you may have or however you guys I'm not sure how you want to vote but I we are asking for a vote uh today during this meeting. Okay. The chair will put each of the votes. Um we'll ask for a motion for each of the votes and then as we bring one up questions can come. So who would like to make a motion for item uh 6C on our agenda, the out ofstate travel for Skills USA? So move to approve out of state travel for the Midman Skills USA team to attend the Skills USA national conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 23 through June 29th. 27th 27th. Is there a second? Second discussion or questions? Uh my own question is that 19 seems like

021um a pretty good number. Is that a greater number than we've had in the last few years or about the same or how does that like fit in? If I'm not mistaken, it's more than we have ever had. Yeah. When I first came here, there was a little bit less of a number. Um, right as I transitioned, they were already going to skills. So, um, this is a greater number. So, 19 Minute Man students going to Skills National. Is that correct? That is correct. It's quite a uh um adventure and opportunity for these students. Any other questions or comments on the item of the agenda? Very well. Then move to the vote. Pam. Pam Nurosin. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Steve Leoo conquered yes. Maggie Sharon Dover yes. Charlene Cabrell Lancaster yes. Sharon MTO Lexington

022yes. Jeff Stanen yes. Alistister Lucas Joe. Yes. Great. Who would like to move item D under here? I move to approve the fundraising and outofstate travel for students to attend the Ed Rising National Competition in Orlando, Florida, June 25th through the 29th. Second. I have a note here saying the correction. There will be two chaperones on this. Okay. Uh now is this a a is this a a program for which we have not sent students in the past or Yes, this we have not we've not sent any students. This would be their first time doing their national rising national competition. Okay. Any other questions or comments on Ed Rising? We have talked about this before. Very well. Then bring it to a vote. Pam. Pam Nurosin. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Deep Loo Conquered. Yes.

023Maggie Sharon Dover. Yes. Charlie Lancaster. Yes. Sharon Mosto Lexington. Yes. Jeff Stan. Yes. Alice Lucas. Yes. Okay. And finally, do I have uh can I have a motion for item E, fundraising and out of country travel for next year? Yes. Somebody like to move that item. I would like to move to approve the fundraising and outofcountry travel for agriculture students to Ireland June 25th to July 4th, 2026. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Now, this is a new one for us. Approving something for the next year. So could you could the principal perhaps explain why we are doing this for the next year? Right. So when we have an outofcountry trip and the way that this goes, we wouldn't want to start fundraising or do anything without the approval of the school committee a

024year prior because you're going out of the country. Um so once we have that approval we can start our process of working with uh EF tours to have our meetings to have our fundraising to see who's participating because it's open to those um everyone in that pathway. It doesn't mean that everyone may want to go but they have the ability to go. So uh we want to make sure we get all everything in order before we start doing anything. Maggie, um I I'm running on the assumption that the answer to these questions is yes, but I just wanted to just clarify. Do we have a faculty member who is um Did you have the Is your smoke alarm going off again? No. My I apparently have not been sitting in my office and the motion

025detector shut the lights. So, okay. Sorry. I'm not having a good meeting. I apologize. It's okay. The the sunlight is still lighting up. Very lovely. Um do we have a faculty member or department that is sort of spearheading or is interested in chaperoning this? Um and I asked mostly to know is there like a person who would be the point person with EF tours and then do we feel like there's enough support and interest from the faculty that you would be able to get enough chaperones for all the students that you're opening this up to? Yes, that's an excellent question. So um Miss Sasha Chapen is the one that had done the proposal to me initially. Um Miss Mashard and I met with her as well and um we feel that there will be enough

026chaperones but again what we need to see is how many students are willing to participate so we can gauge how many adults we need for that trip. So like I said initially from six to one is what the um the ranges that EF tours is proposing but it could be more and therefore we would be able to facilitate it but uh uh Rebecca Maynard who is on this call as well was present during that um that call is that proposal meeting as well. So but Sasha Chapen our vet science teacher was the was the main point person at this time. Well, I mean from my point I support I mean I I am a big proponent of travel anytime we can get students out of the building and and you know in this situation even

027out of the country you know you guys have had a really good track record in terms of being able to support student travel in a responsible way and even though you know in my experience with this school I haven't we h I haven't come across a lot of international travel I do feel pretty confident that given the administration that we have in place right now and the faculty members. Um it makes me feel really good that there is that much faculty interest um willing to take their time in what is their summer vacation to take kids on a trip like this. It's really exciting. Um, and I know from professional experience and also my own children that EF is generally has got such a good reputation um, in terms of student travel and such deep

028experience that I feel pretty confident that anything that they would sponsor would be a high quality tour. So, we really appreciate that. I also want to call out that I do see Sasha now on here as well and she's waving. So, um, she can also direct. Uh, I had people come just in case there was any really direct questions that needed to be a asked or answered. Okay, Sharon. Yeah, I would just um sort of echo what Maggie said is that um, professionally I have experience with EF tours and they're phenomenal and I think I don't think that there will be a problem finding faculty to go. I think there will be a problem limiting which faculty will go because faculty are paid for. The only thing they pay for is if they want a

029single room. Um, and it's just like a little bit more, but they the tours that the school that I work at have been on have been absolutely trips of a lifetime. So, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for our students. Yes. And school committee members, you cannot be chaperone. So, Linda, um, I think this is a fabulous idea. I'm just curious, will kids pay for part of it themselves? Will this all be fundraised? I think it's a combination of both. Um, you know, again, once we get the approval, then we can start planning, you know, how we're going to collect that. I know EF Tours is the one that does a lot of the heavy lifting on that end of it, uh, per se. And I know there'll be like payment plans and things

030like that, uh, from the proposal that I had seen. But again, we don't want to promise the world because we won't know until we know how many people are actually going to attend. Any more questions? Did Sasha want to make actually a comment on this or is uh is is she all set with how we've progressed so far before we take the vote? Any comments? Sasha, go ahead if you Oh, hi everybody. Um thank you for taking the time to uh hear our proposal. I'm really excited. This trip also, it's not just a traditional EFT tour trip. It includes where students will go and practice some of their agricultural based skills in the real world. So, they'll go to different farms and practice sustainable agriculture. They'll get to experience shell fishing with local fishermen. So,

031there's all sorts of benefits, not just for the sake of travel, which I love, but also for something that they can apply. They also can get college credit for it if they pay a little extra money. Uh they get a college credit through SNHU for doing this program. Very good. Any other questions or comments as we go to a vote? I noticed that uh Sarah I believe is here now. So the you know get get the order correct here. Uh bring it to a vote. Pam Pam Nurackton. Yes. Sarah Monty Arlington. Yes. Linda Herbson Bolton. Yes. Evil Doo Conquered. Yes. Maggie Sharon Dover. Yes. Charlene Gabbral Line Faster. Yes. Sur Lexington. Yes. Jeff Stulan need. Yes. Oh, yes. Okay. That I think that's the most trips we've ever approved in one meeting before and certainly

032not uh including an overseas one. And we appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. So, thank you. And I believe that ends the principal's report. Is that correct? I just have one observation or just comment if I may. Apologize for being late. Work gets in the way. I just wanted to say it was a delight meeting Matilda in real life last night um at Arlington Town Hall. Oh, and if I could make one point, too. Um and she's watching the movie right now that I'm sure she presented, but today is actually Riley's last meeting as a student rep. and I wanted to make sure I publicly recognize her for her service uh that she did this year. Um both Matilda and Riley have been wonderful on top of it when we're meeting when we're talking about you

033know events and things that we're going to present to you as a school committee. They've really been on top of it and it's really been a pleasure to have them along for the journey of being part of school committee. So um I know she's not here right now but I do want to thank her for her service. Very well. All true. Thinks about seniors as they leave. You know, superintendent's leadership report. Heidi Driscoll, college and career readiness spotlight. Well, it's like an exciting item. It is. It is. Uh, last but not least for this year, um, Al St. George, who has the best background I've seen in a while. I should have changed mine. I like that. um he is going to share with you our trades and transportation um pathway presentation and I am

034going to share that for you right now. Okay, take it away, Al. Hello everybody. Um, again, my name is Al St. George. I'm the lead for the trades and transportation program. Uh, trades and transportation programs are automotive, electrical, wiring, plumbing, and carpentry. Oops. Sorry about that. That's okay. uh some of the so so we're very big on on co-op excuse me in these four programs as well as the rest of the school but some of the organizations that that we currently have people with are listed here for automotive carpentry uh if you notice there's a lot of them in Lexington Stow Arlington things like that so a lot of the surrounding towns do a lot with the students u these are the electrical um co-op students that that are out now. Most of them will

035be graduating shortly with the seniors. So, we're bringing up the juniors as we move along. This is for electrical and plumbing. uh some of the some of the municipalities and corporations that currently employ our our co-op students and and graduates uh listed here, automotive, electrical, plumbing, and carpentry. Um you know, it's they're they have a big impact on the students after graduation. So, what our hope is that when they when they're on co-op, they stay with that that uh business or or entity. Uh the tra transportation students receive the fallen certifications, OSHA 10, heart works. Uh there's a few automotive ones in here also. These are all sustainable when they leave here and go into the into the field. U it's good to be pre-certified in these things. Um uh some of the automotive programs

036uh sorry uh the automotive program um does fundraisers and things like that for for an organization called Second Chance Cars. In this in this picture you're looking at now, this is three different products uh vehicles that we were put out to second chance cars this year. And these are some of the recipients of that. Uh this is the electrical program. Uh this would be our students working in the north building. And the first picture Oh, go ahead. That's okay. Um they're working in a north building, interior, out exterior. And they really enjoy that. It's it's you know it's a it's a realistic work that they'll be doing in the field. So they take pride in that. Uh these are the plumbing students. Uh we do an annual trip to uh the youth remodeling career day

037in Bol at the Bolton Fairgrounds and they do all type different types of work uh from framing things. Uh the plumbers were working on some type of uh frame here in this picture. And then the the next uh border down is is a couple of females from from Lancaster that are uh doing some septic type piping. And this this is a picture of the whole plumbing shop. And they're their pipe work is going to tie into the rest of the pipe work that some other students have done eventually. Uh this is the carpenter program. The carpenter sophomores uh worked with an organization uh called mulch for military. Uh they made some fiberglass stands uh to receive the headstones in in one of the graveyards in I believe was Lancaster that that these were in. um

038was pretty good if your kids, you know, took a lot of pride in doing that for the for the military people and it was quite a thing. And then the last one is the carpentry program that built the set for the for the uh the drama club, you know. Excuse me, one second. All right. Any students taking a late bus, please make your way to the back of the building. Again, any students taking the late bus, please make your way to the back of the building. Thank you. Hopefully, you're not taking the bus. If you are, it's in the back of the building. Um, and so they built this set for for the drama club and and one of the scenes there was a gentleman that they hung off the door. So they had to

039build it, you know, fairly strong so it would would hold the gentleman up as they were hanging them off the doorway. It's part of the show for some reason. Um the next these are uh the grades and transportation instructors. The top two, John Primpus and Don Manson are from automotive. Myself and my co-teer uh Andy Riley are in electrical. The plumbing teachers are uh Mr. Bruno, Chuck Bruno, Romano. Carpenter teachers are Pat Savage and Frank Larosa. And we have an aid down here that would be lost without him, a gentleman named Jeff Brainard. Well, and I I'd like to recognize um Mr. St. George also. I mentioned signing day today. Um, if I'm not mistaken, correct me if I'm wrong, um, most of the students signing on um, for their careers today were from um,

040Mr. St. George's program. He just kept going up over and over. Um, completely impressive. And, um, as far as recruitment goes, his shop itself, it is the, uh, biggest recruiter out of all programs. Um, so we're very lucky to have him as our pathway lead. Um, just wanted to give you that shout out. I know you wouldn't toot your own horn, Al, but I wanted to make sure I did that. Well, thank you. Yeah, it was good. They they did very well at signing today. Some quite a few going in the union and and just in industry itself. So, I'm pr I'm proud of them. They did well. Tara, I'm just really impressed with the level of projects that the students get to work on across the board in in your part of of the

041school and and the way that you talk about it, the sense of pride. I mean, these are really meaningful projects that are going to have an impact on these students. And um it's not just, you know, we're going to we're going to make a table or we're going to fabricate a a bathroom. We're but um so re really impressive. Yeah. The students work hard at it. They you know they take a lot of pride in it when it's finished and especially when they're working in their own their town. They're ascending towns and they can you know they see it on the off-site jobs that we we do for some habitat humanity and things like that. They really take pride in their work. Cool community members. Any other questions or comments? I'm going to kind of

042emphasize what Sarah said as a person who's taught in the, you know, uh, Newton South for for 23 years. Uh, one of the advantages that a place like Minute Man has is the students are working on projects that touch the real world. Uh, projects that people are actually going to use in real life. And that's a different kind of pride than getting an A in AP calculus. Um it is the pride of working in the u in the adult world on projects that have meaning to actual people who are going to live in them. Whether it's a new car or a building you're going to work in or the holders for the gravestones or any of that kind of stuff. And that is um uh a type of pride that um would be beneficial to

043a to a lot of students in um the traditional schools that to touch the real world in a meaningful way when you're a high school student. It's quite um quite a fabulous opportunity for these kids. Any other questions and comments? Well, thank you for your presentation, Al. And uh we we very much uh enjoyed all these presentations from all the uh various career pathways from the school that we've had this year and we hope to continue those as time goes on. Can't get enough of it. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you all. Take care. Okay. Juicy item. State regulation update. I think Alice, are you gonna be doing this one or is Heidi gonna be doing this one? Um, so I wanted to update everyone on the meeting last night that

044didn't take place. Um, the state canled the meeting to discuss public comment and I do want I I have a couple people here that will speak on my next item. So, I might want to do a couple things out of order. Um, but Alice does have one um update about Mars if I'm not mistaken. Yep, that's right. So I um attended the remote meeting both of the board of education on April 29th and the May 9th Mars meeting which is mass association of regional schools and they were talking about the proposed revisions to the regional school district regulations I attended because as you know the regulations on regional vocational schools the the proposed changes have kind of been like the changing of the wheels on the moving bus thing people talk about it. It has

045been like that. So I learned at both meetings that what Desessie called their customary collaborative and transparent process with the field when developing regulations is not what they're doing now. Um at the Bessie meeting, that's the board meeting, they said they had misunderstood that they were not to put the regulations out prior to the board meeting. And then the secretary said that that was not a misunderstanding. He said that the presentation showed a clear embracing of stakeholder input, but they are not permitted to circulate the regulations ahead of a formal formal commitment here. Uh many members of the board were uncomfortable and one of them described it as a broken process. They were also upset about the limiting of public comment to 21 days, which is the state minimum, and they voted to increase that

046to 60 days, which is their customary time frame. If you want to see what the board said, you can go to their tape of the April 29th meeting from three hours and 16 minutes to three hours and 34 minutes. Um, at the Mars meeting, the situation was reiterated and when I questioned where the document was required them to share the proposed rigs only with the executive office and the governor's office, which is what they said prior to the board meeting, I was directed to view the tape of the board meeting, which I did. I already had seen it anyway. And so they referred at the board meeting to the administrative procedure act as so that was supposed to be the reason which seemed to be title 3 chapter 3A but is not relevant except for

047section three which requires 21 days of notice prior to proposed action. It does not say they cannot um interact with the field when creating draft regulations and the only requirement is that they give notice. So I I really urge you to watch the board of ed meeting uh April 29th starting at 3 hours and 16 minutes in because they really uh they have a problem. The department has a problem. That that's all I have to say. Yeah, I guess I do have a comment on that. I think that the board of education also has a problem if they are not working appropriately in in with the department of education. that seems that that relationship is not working well at all and certainly not in the best interests of developing regulations and by getting uh appropriate

048input. I think I saw Pam's hand up. I'm I just needed clarification um because that's one of the few board meetings I have missed. Um so in terms of where the proposed um changes in the regulations stand, are they now out for public comment? I I didn't quite This is about the regional schools regulations. They are now out for public comment, but they're out until June 28th, not June 6th, which is what the department proposed because that was a 21-day minimum. So they are out for public comment. Um but they they didn't collaborate with the field beforehand and then they don't seem to plan to do that. Yep. It's not it's not the board. It's the department that doesn't want to collaborate. The board was really upset about the process and the meeting on the

049um proposed regulations for admissions. that meeting was cancelled. They were going to discuss the public input and now on May is it 20th? Yes. They're just going to like publish them a day in advance or something and then immediately take a vote. It's it is a mystery. That is a mystery. But I will be there um wherever it is. They um it might be in um Mthuan or some other area. It won't be in Everett, I think. Um but I will be there. Um so whatever happens with that and the competency determination requirements which they're also voting on um we will be there um first to know and the if there is any um smaller group um meetings we will share information and attend as long as they don't cancel them. I'm hoping that with

050the new commission they're voting on the CD the competency determination or have they released regs on they did they did that has been um I presented on that last time I think it's it's the same um regulations that they've had they added history it's different year by year and it's been the same time frame for public comment as vocational admissions um I think vocational admissions has actually gotten more attention Um, and those two things are happening next Tuesday. I'm just wondering if the possibility the reason they canceled the meeting is that they didn't want to hear anybody. They didn't want people to hear what the comments were. I'm just wondering if that's the case, but that's speculation. Any other questions and comments about all this um political kurfuffle going on that impacts us quite a

051bit actually. Yeah. Okay. I won't make any other comments on it. Superintendent goals update. Okay. Um, so what I you have all received um from Julia Traveling the World um my packet with my goals update. I'm going to share um the overall um I guess evaluation elements um that you'll be reading. And what I plan to do today is to talk about the additional information um that we have. I tried my very best to be additive and not repetitive. So, if you have heard me speak about something at every single school committee meeting um since I arrived, I did not add those things. I I trust that um you have your own um views and um I guess ideas about how the year has gone. I would like to jump to goal two first because

052I have two people here. Um, is it goal two here? Maybe it is my goal three. Um, because I have two Yes. All right. I have two people here um who will be commenting on this goal. Um, so goal three is my new superintendent induction program, um, which addresses all of the elements of being a superintendent. And I have, um, a dual mission here. It's to work not only with my NISP coach, but also my MAVA coach, which is not an official program yet. Um but I wanted um each of them to share um their experiences with me as a firstear superintendent. Um I rely on both of them greatly. Um so I'm going to stop my share um and I will start with Karen. She's at an event. Thank you Karen for um taking

053the time to step out. And Karen is a MAVA officer and she's the superintendent of Tri County Regional. Yes. Hi. Um, thank you. Can you hear me? Okay. It's It's quite loud here. The student performance group is exiting, so I'm not Give me the thumbs up if you can hear me, Heidi. Okay, good. Yes. Okay. So, as Heidi said, I am the superintendent at Tri County and Franklin. And the um most important piece I think of the work that that Heidi and I have done together this year is that you said being a part of the MAVA group, the Mass Association of Vocational Administrators group. It's important for us in that group to play a role in the development of superintendent who are in our career tech schools or the superintendent or the people who

054are considering possibly entering the role of superintendent. So, it's been my pleasure actually to work with Heidi not only this year but last year as she was preparing for this role. um my my own mentor actually was partners in the organization that you hired to search for superintendent and uh he I stayed in contact with him over the last four years and when he approached me and said hey do you have an idea of who might be a good person to lead Minute Man uh the first person who came to mind for me was was Heidi Driscoll at the time she was the assistant superintendent in Situit but she's always managed to keep her um presence in the career and tech vocational community. And I think that that's very important. Um but our work this

055year together, our work is focused on her um needs to align vocational programs with the current industry standards of course that are in the area of the Minute Man District and ensuring that all students graduate graduate career ready. and her work also to forge stronger partnerships with local businesses and community organizations including your legislature uh and those opportunities for for uh experience for herself and for the staff at Minne. uh I know it's important for her to um focus on leadership and empowering her staff by encouraging uh innovative and uh fostering collaborative work among the at minimum and um I I will say that I've seen in in in really experienced with her her excitement and growth as a leader this year and I do witness her constantly bringing the feed feedback from our our

056work together which which we frequently but um bringing that work back and then coming back and and sort of processing through that and I think that's a very very important piece of someone who's in a leadership role such as such as the one that she's in. So and I look forward to continuing that next year. Any comments or questions? School committee members. Thank you Karen. Um, and just so you know, my goal was to meet monthly with my um each of my mentors, and I I definitely think especially with Karen, it's at least weekly, if not more. So, Karen, thank you for all of your time. Um, my coach from NISP is Cindy Tamour. Um, who you've all met before. Um, and, um, I think you met her at our when I presented my goals

057initially. um and uh I wanted to bring her in to share about her experience with me this year. Thank you, Heidi. Uh nice to see everyone again. We did meet last uh fall um when I introduced myself to you. Um the Nissa program is about to enter its 16th year. It's a joint program between MASS and the department. It's well structured. Um it's funded from grants from both uh the state and the bar foundation and it has a very specific content curriculum um divided into five strands that we work the um new supers through. Um, it's also pretty demanding on time and God knows with Heidi's schedule between me, Marva, the state committees, uh, teaching at Bridgewater and three kids how she has been so such a good participant. Um, she is required to meet

058with me six hours a month and attend 10 meetings a year. My meetings are a little bit different than Karen's because they can range from one-on- ons to attending her um admin meetings to doing classroom walkthroughs to going through documents. So um it's a wide ranging um menu of ways to see what her work is. uh again as I said it's a very structured and this year as you all well know the primary um responsibility was to do that entry plan the entry findings which I was present at when she presented and I think you all saw how thorough they were and how how thoughtful um and then to build a strategy for teaching and learning that's different than a strategic plan for the district it's focused on how do you improve teaching and learning

059so that you raise outcomes for all your students. A good part of this is uh fostering um a strong collaborative culture in your buildings and building uh capacity among her leadership team and I will tell you she has done an outstanding job. I don't think I have to remind anybody on the minute man board on the challenges you've had the past couple of years and I will tell you that when I go to those meetings or I um in that building the building just vibrates with positivity. Um she has set you up for great success. There is work to be done and she will outline that. She's already outlined the challenges. She's outlined the strengths and the challenges in her entry findings and her next step will be to outline plans on how to how

060to address those challenges. Um I will tell you um my experience with uh Vogue Tech was as a superintendent whose district was northeast. So and I used to love to go over there. Um, but I the bird's view that Heidi has given me for the intricacies and the challenges of running Vogue Tech have been so enjoyable and informative at the same time that for next year cohort 16 I asked to take on another VTEC whether I'll get it or not but I just love coming to see your kids and what they're doing. So kudos to all of you for a good choice in hiring her and I know that this is just the beginning of a long successful partnership. So thank you again for giving me the opportunity to talk. Very good. Thank you. School

061community members. Any comments or questions? Pretty straightforward. Maggie. Um I guess this is um could go to either I don't know if we still have Karen. Um my screen keeps moving around. Um, but as we move forward into the next year, um, I think we've all observed many of the same things that were mentioned in these reports. What in your experience is the best way that we as a school committee can um move forward in the next year to support Heidi's growth given all the challenges that you just outlined which we well I anyway definitely agree exist in this you know type of superintendency. I think uh Maggie um as you know change can be trying, difficult, emotional um and um and and I think for the school committee the best way you can support

062her is to keep an open mind to what she's suggesting and explore the wise. Um, one of the things that we're finding in the field that is ch that is the environment is changing so rapidly, you know this yourself, I mean just think what AI is doing to vote tech um that um people have to be willing to say okay what is working, what needs to be adjusted and what needs to be changed outright. And I think having that um thought partner will be very helpful to Heidi as she moves forward. Thank you. Very well. So again, thank you very much for your work with Heidi this year and for your comments both at the beginning of the time again it seems like yesterday and and and today which is the book end of the

063year. So thank you very much. Thank you so much Cindy. Okay. Now, I'd love to jump into my um overall packet that I shared with you, jump back to the top. Um so, how I um how I organize this is by goal. And if you looked at your paper packet um I have uh particular items or artifacts marked um so you could quickly reference them as you are looking at each of the goals um and connecting them to the standards. Um so my first goal was effective entry and direction setting. Um my benchmarks were as Cindy said um an entry plan, entry findings and moving forward with strategies. So my items one and two are my entry plan and entry findings. Um actually entry plan um and the PowerPoint that summarizes it and my item

064three is the entry findings. I know all of you had that electronically but now you have a hard copy too. Um the next item I have is our EMAC meetings because that does connect to the strategy we have um or will have in the future to expanding access. Um and there's lots of details in our EMAC um minutes and our next meeting in EMAC will be in June. And my item four is something that Julia put together and it's a sky view of just very important meetings that have happened um from July until now. So, and as as I was looking at this, like Jeff said, I feel like it's flown by um the amount of one-on-one meetings that I had with teachers, counselors, parents, par profofessionals, students um over the summer and into the

065fall. Um, I've gone to um many different trainings to make sure that I'm staying a breast of current issues for uh our district. And if you want to glance through those, that is a sky view of my calendar. Um because everything is um every day is packed with new adventure. Um so I do feel like I have I've met that goal. Um, and I know Pim is going to go over how to fill out this form. Um, but it's also written on here. Um, on the actual form, you can either do it on the electronic copy on the or on the hard copy. Um, you write your last name, um, with the rating that you'd like. Um, and you can add your comments there either, um, in the document in Word, um, or by hand.

066Um, let's see. My next goal was maintaining momentum during the transition. Um so this is very interesting because I assumed that um this is just a continuation of doing evaluations which should not be anything um different but um we had lots of surprises uh this fall when it came to our um our data systems and RM that's Rosemary Rosemary who is Paul's assistant Um it it turns out that she was handed um our entire evaluation system to manage. Um very long story short, we needed to eliminate data entry. Um there's lots of um automated ways that we needed to do to um improve our evaluation system to use it as an actual system of tracking the recording of everybody's evaluations. Um we did have particular groups in this vector system but not everyone. Um so

067um what in again this is a very long story short uh we put every single employed person into vector. Um we did not have uh appropriate rubrics for school level administrators or district administrators. Um and those were created and added um so that took us a little bit of time. I think our goal was October 15th. We were literally creating the forms and establishing systems at that point. Um, but those are now all updated and they're in there. Um, we also separately um had um our mandatory trainings shifted to an online tracking system um to avoid paper. Um, as you know, we had to we had a couple uh legal issues that uh were very uh immediate once uh I started and we had to look up who was trained in what and so on

068and so forth. And um so this was a an urgent need to make sure we have um appropriate tracking of our annual trainings. Um so Michelle Rendes and Drew really spearheaded that and got that done. Um and uh 100% um of our staff members uh completed their annual trainings which um you know I was going to look at that and I was like oh I hope we're at least in the '9s because that's a very difficult thing to do in a school system. Um and I'm totally impressed that our administrators um did what they needed to do to get everybody in. Um, in the fall I did have one-to-one meetings um with all of the administrators with some of our key goals, student learning, communications and culture, admissions, and increasing access to our Minute Man

069Technical Institute. Um, and that's every administrator who reports to me. Um, we documented in Vector, used the new system. Um, in December, um, I had meetings with, uh, all of our different groups of non, um, licensed staff. So, over the summer, it was brought to my attention, um, that we didn't have a consistent rubric to evaluate um, people who are outside of teaching um, or guidance um, outside of our CBA essentially. So people were doing the best they could. Um and they were some were handwritten, some were in word documents, some were making it into personnel files, some were not. Um so it was very easy once we got everybody into Vector um to use um a rubric that uh was actually created with all of our um non-eing unions in Situit. Um, I decided

070to share it with our paraprofessional group, our custodians, our secretaries, our admin assistants, um, each group, um, to see if this was something they would like to use. And we went over every single item on the rubric and it was it was a a non-issue. I expected more feedback or let's change things, but they um they really were just, I feel like, felt comfortable saying, "Hey, we get it. These are all things we do and we expect. So these are the things that are in the new rubric that exist for everyone um in Vector and this is the first year we'll all be using this and they're just very reasonable standards for everyone who works with uh and around students. Um so you can read that there at your leisure. Um, something else that I

071did with evaluation is I established bi-weekly or monthly check-ins with um, all administrators to make sure that I stay informed of what's going on. Um, I didn't realize how lonely and separate being a superintendent is because so much of the job is outside of the building. Um, it is uh, a lot more than I realized. So these really were very very important and um I I feel like um that's something we'll definitely continue in the future and I'm on track um I am on track to complete um all required evaluations and we'll be looking at um how we're documenting so that we are not pushing paper for the whole district and everything will be appropriately documented electronically. Um, does anyone have any questions um about my goal too? Okay, I don't have a question. I

072just have an observation. Um, just thank you for sharing and being so candid with your last comment in terms of realizing how lonely it is in terms of it being so much externally focused. Um, I just wanted to acknowledge that. Thanks. Yep. Okay. And my goal three was, as you already saw, my professional practice goal. My benchmarks were to um attend my meeting with the coaches um and engage in NISUP. Um, and I I want to say today there was an in-person meeting at NISSUP that I was unable to attend um because we had student signing day and we have the coaches have been so wonderful to make sure that we get everything that we need to get while allowing us to do our jobs appropriately and making sure we're there when we're needed. Um,

073so that that has been wonderful. Um, and this year, as far as MAVA goes, um, I am the only, um, new vocational superintendent. Um, this year, not only in Nissa, but literally I'm the only one. Um, next year, I think there'll be four. So, hopefully there'll be a little group. Maybe Cindy will have all four. Um, but, uh, next year there'll be a little bit more. and uh like I've been active in um and I'll continue to stay active um in making sure that we um bring in our new superintendent. Um and this is an area that um this isn't actually a goal, but there's just additional activities or accomplishments that I don't know if you all know about because we don't have time to um talk about every single thing that happens. And this

074is still by far not every single thing that has that happens. Um, we updated contracts. We're hiring um a director of HR and compliance. We're um we're in um that's posted right now. Um we've uh worked with operations to ensure that our vacation carryover is calibrated for all staff with vacation time. We're trying to maintain our unfunded um debt uh our oped. Um, my item five and six, I I don't know if I mentioned this, but uh, uh, Hansum Air Force Base reached out to me and I'm working with um, Lieutenant Colonel Trent Bolt. Um, and I until 2027 and and an honorary Air Force commander. So, you see the letter um, they I have actually have a biometric ID that they made. Things escalated very quickly. um and they came in and judged some

075senior projects and you'll see a picture of me with my friends as item six. Um so um they're very interested in making sure that we our kids have connections to continued um training and jobs. Um and they're so close. They've been a a wonderful partner. Um we have an updated emergency operations plan. Um that's something that every month um we've continued to have safety team meetings, different um groups um that include facilities, custodians, um principal, assistant principal um to make sure that we are building common practices. Something that came up in our um in my entry findings is that um when we moved to the new building and all of a sudden it was COVID, some of those very basic um how we do a fire drill, things like that never really got brought back

076uh the same way because um there was a just upheaval for those few years. Um, I added as item seven, um, my actual notes from my public comment that I made in, um, the fall in November to the board of education. And now, in retrospect, I cannot believe as a new superintendent, I went and spoke in front of the board of education in November. That's that was kind of crazy. Um, but but there there it was. Um, and I have uh every handout that I gave them about Minuteman. Um, but I'm glad I did. Um, my next item, I none of you really, we don't really talk about this, but a part of what keeps me a teacher is I teach um a graduate course at uh Bridgewwater. It's called teaching and learning in the

077middle and high schools. It's a combination of the undergraduate intro to teaching and learning and motivation. And I included the first page of my syllabus. Um uh as item 8. Um I wanted you to see uh that I teach online and Minute Man is my priority and my welcome is also my diversity statement and I think it's important when you read that. Um it I think it explains me as an educator, how I work with students, how I work with staff members. Um I do really believe experience is everything and I consider myself a constructivist which means um the more information we get the more the more we build. We can't pre-plan data has to drive what we do even if we end up building the um ship while we're sailing in it. And um

078my item nine oh did I skip oh that was item eight. Item nine is a text that I got last week that brought me to tears. Um, and it it was just from a graduate student and I had already given her the grade. So, it wasn't even um it wasn't even to, you know, make sure she gets an A and it was just uh a comment about um my commitment to um students. A part of that BSU connection has been super helpful because they are a part of why we got that um uh SEI endorsement course completely customized for Minute Man. We got it here so quickly. um they regularly send us resources and um it's uh it's a very good connection for Minute Man. Um item 10 um just shows a conference that I

079presented at. Uh I did uh a training in unpacking graduation requirements. It was attended by um many superintendent across the state as well as uh different types of leaders and aspiring leaders. Um uh I worked with the union this year at length. Um, if you would like to reach out um to any of our um Jeff probably not everybody, please don't um you know storm the the deck or anything, but if you'd like to reach out and have a conversation with um with uh any of the union leadership, uh I am very confident um that they will be able to talk about a different year that they've had this year. Um and the next one we we have as you know our assessments have been approved as of last night. Um it was Arlington and

080I think the last one we have is uh conquered which will be in June. Um Arlington um was last night. It was a crowded and passionate crowd. Uh that's that's what I can say. I don't know Sarah if you want to add anything about that. I will I will just add that they are known for asking a lot of questions and this is well this is the town meeting representatives and this is well after the various incendry questions we get from the finance committee and I would say that last night we had fewer questions and um when people approached Heidi either before she and Nikki were up to present or afterwards when we were in the hallway um during the break um there was a break a cookie break they gave everybody so um they

081could eat the culinary treats um she was really um very present in answering people's questions so and and I want to acknowledge and I I it's hard at the end of a very busy day to to deal with a town like Arlington and um and you and Nikki did a fabulous job. Thank you very much. Um and that was the first meeting where someone on the microphone actually said vote no. Uh that was new first time, right? And and and I I will say this, the sound system in the town hall is very poor. So the moderator, we could hear the moderator much better than we could when people went up to individual microphones. that gentleman was also referencing something about not students not having access to the tools that they need that came from

082somewhere else. So, I feel like his vote was misinformed based on something he read somewhere that had nothing to do with Minute Man whatsoever. And Heidi was very gracious. I think everyone in the room was very gracious because they realized that it wasn't necessarily connected. Um, but we're we're always not everybody is our happy camper. So, we we we learn to deal with different situations and I think you did very well. And I was very pleased with the vote. I think we only had four no votes and 200 something. Um, yes. It was wonderful. So, thank you. Yeah. Um, and I want to acknowledge Nikki has been to um most of if I think all but one maybe um evening meeting with me. Um so Nikki has been on the Massachusetts tour as well. So

083I I just want to give her a shout out. She is so clear with her information. um she is can get into um the details when necessary and um she's been an absolute godsend um when it comes to getting used to these um meetings. Um so I just want to give her a shout out for that. Um we um the next item I have is the budget process. Um something that um we uh went through this year is I had people um as they were making their requests essential, nice to have or luxury is how I had them um mark things so it would be easier for us to reduce um or to get down um our budget. And then at the end of the year, if we do could get some things that are

084nice to have or um you know, uh spectacular for Minute Man, um we would be able to do that. Um, I appreciate the um the finance committee was very concerned about our supplies and already before these tariffs were even as serious as they are right now um they wanted to pay particular attention to tariffs and our supply funds. Um which we did. Um the um the next item I have in the packet is uh uh a mass partnership for youth um agenda. Um we have a wonderful partnership with Mass Partnerships for Youth. Um we had Secretary Tutweiler here. We had um the acting commissioner here this spring. Um and it has been um it was a broken partnership and it was wonderful um to uh have Margie Daniels in invite um me back to um

085to work with them and to welcome guests. Uh the next item I have is I'm not sure if you know but I was uh the chair of the department of education's accountability and assistance advisory council which means all things accountability which means beyond MCCAST. It means all of the elements that give us our ratings. Um I served my full length of service as a member and then as a chair. So I have um I just have two letters from the commissioner of education. One is thanking me and one was appointing me as chair. Um we have continued I've maintained momentum with um our procurement process and legal issues both potential and actual. Um I just put a couple general bullets there. Um this is something I don't think we shared um at all yet. Uh

086we this year um submitted MCCAST appeals uh prior to the deadline to ensure that all of our seniors met CD requirements and we would not need to change our policy. Um those were submitted on uh December 13th. Um we submitted for anyone eligible which included seniors and juniors. Um, six were granted, one had no determination, and from 2005 to 2018, Minute Man had six appeals granted. So, I just want to repeat that from 2005 to 2018, Minute Man had six appeals granted, 18 were denied or no determination. Um but I think this may have been an underused tool to um get students um the competency determination um without overesting them. Um so this is a big statistic that we had six granted in December when there had not been uh there had only been six

087granted in um over 10 years. um the data systems audit. Uh again, this is too much to go into, but we have a lot of cleaning up to do when it comes to our data systems. I want to give a shout out to Drew and our um uh data analyst or our data specialist, Da Miranda. um they have been working closely with guidance and with Paul to make sure that we are the example that I gave to all of you over and over was our co-op course codes um and it is uh deeply beyond that um uh so we need to make sure and we are um re-evaluating all of our systems um both security access-wise and accuracy. Um the next item is item 14. uh our town administrators breakfast will continue this yearly and

088will continue um to expand more opportunities for our communities to join us at Minute Man. Um the town administrators breakfast um I I think about half of the town administrators came. However, um town managers, town administrators, um chief financial officers, um many of them asked for um individual meetings anyway, which of course Nikki and I um obliged. Um this is uh the next uh the next item is uh my own um high school that I attended in March um sent uh me a beautiful letter saying they are giving me an alumni career achievement award. I'm hoping that some of you might want to join in August. It's very nice um very nice of them. Strangely they're having it at the same location that one of our proms was. So that will be bizarre, but um

089that's that's happening. Um and they wrote in the letter um they gave a shout out for the work that I've done with MAVA this year, which has been um uh just I feel like very fulfilling. Um let's see, uh with Charlene, you know, I attended that joint conference. Um there's lots of connections um that I've continued to maintain. I think an important connection is Ed Lampbert um who's one of the featured speakers um and we do have a scheduled time to meet at Minute Man um hopefully before the school year starts. Um something else uh that I do is I'm a member of the statewide lensure panel. um which means I meet quarterly to review educator applicants for alternative lensure pathways which is very beneficial for us because we will not have lenture problems uh

090at our school district because I'm very familiar with the changing regulations and the expectations and um so you'll see uh item 17 is um the appointment letter uh but again we I do that four times a year um I go to any um law, employment, labor law updates um put on by uh Murphy, Hessie, Tumi, and La Hane. Um this was the most useful one. I I feel like I put the agenda in there for you to see. Um very um timely issues for Minute Man. Um recently uh I think it was last week actually um I was a panelist and presented at the uh the BSU educational leadership annual conference. Um this is the first time I've done so as a superintendent. Um so that was very exciting and um it was great to

091see um lots of former um undergraduate students, graduate students, teachers from other districts um uh working to be um administrators. Um so that's item 19. And um item 20 uh this is something that I think you know about because it happened the day you were deliberating to whether to hire me or not. Um but it was one of the most wonderful um honors that I have had in my career. Um, so I I wanted to um talk about it because when I was at the state house and um the Massachusetts State University's Council of Presidents um recognized me as uh the uh award winner from Bridgewwater. That was the very first event that I was announced as superintendent elective minute man. And it was um it it was just so wonderful. Um and this opportunity

092has helped me make lots of connections across the state and at the state house. Um and uh item 20 is my initial letter and uh I did get um some citations. Um, and I think that's my last piece and I really even though um this is very long. I cannot um do the I cannot It's like sipping water from a fire hose. I think you've heard me say that before. Um this has been an absolutely wonderful year and I I hope I hope that um I have given Minute Man everything that it deserves. Um, and that is the end of my presentation. Heidi, could you scroll up to item seven? Yes. And show us that for a second again. Yes. Item seven. Item seven. Yes. Just using this as an example. How many hours do

093you think you spent on um this issue? If you were to guess, I would say 5 to 20 hours per week. This has been a heavy heavy and if you added all those weeks up, 100 hours minimally. Yeah. Okay. So, I just want to uh I don't know uh exactly all the work you did for all the items you're involved in here, but I have a pretty good idea of the work that you did in this one. And I would be surprised if you spent less than 100 hours. So, you see how many few words you used to describe it. I just want to say that many of these items will probably have a uh a similar commitment. Some are smaller, some are bigger, but many of them few words, but the amount of time

094required to implement them. So I'm very glad that you did this other because we can't possibly evaluate you on everything that a superintendent does in a meaningful manner. So the formal evaluation historically at least the last few years have consisted of uh three goals that you suggest and that we approve of. But I'm very glad that you listed the fire hose here so so that we can all see and I just want to put in context one item so that people will know what was involved in in doing it. and and the parts of that that I saw were um very competently done by Heidi with um a lot more leadership than I've seen by either uh the board or by Desi. So, I just wanted to point that out. Any other comments or questions,

095school committee members? And we're going to talk about how to fill this up a little bit later in our meeting. They're all paying attention here, Heidi. They're not like sleepy from what you did. I think some of them are a little bit flabbergasted. Let's go with Pam. We'll go to Sharon. I think Cindy had um referenced how thorough you are and I think the the presentation and um packet that you sent us, you know, certainly show that. Um Jeff, I just wanted to ask while we have this up, do you want to move to um the evaluation committee report to go over? I I was thinking that you might ask that. So since it is related, it's actually uh physically the last item in our agenda is the superintendent evaluation subcommittee report which we're going

096to find out the process that we have to follow. So, if there's no objection, I'm going to call um I'm going to uh call unanimous consent and move that item next so we can finish up with this uh idea of superintendent evaluation al together. Hearing no objection, I call it a unanimous consent. But just before we do that, Sharon had her hand up. Yeah. I know. I was just basically going to say what Pam said, like I just think the thoroughess of this is amazing. Like there's no need to go looking for additional information or think, geez, I didn't get a much stuff because you really are incredibly thorough and have included so many things that we might not have thought of. So, thank you very much for doing that. My pleasure. And then let's

097move on to item 9B, superintendent evaluation subcommittee. Pam, what do we do next? Okay, so if it is it okay if I share my screen and pull the document back up just to walk through it? Is that okay? Okay. So, we wanted to talk about the process for how we're filling out this form and we want to make sure that all school committee members have a clear understanding of um what needs to be done over the next, you know, we're going to give you about two weeks to fill out this form. So, we'll go through the form, how it's to be filled out. We'll talk about the timeline and then next steps if that is okay with everyone. Okay. So um so you know from Heidi going through this that this form is divided into

098a um couple of different parts. you know, at the top of it, it starts with um the goals. And for every goal, we have um goal one and the description of what the goal is doing. Right under that, you'll see what's called the superintendent rubric evaluation. And the rubric consists of four standards with a variety of indicators under every standard. And you know these are the um uh the standards and indicators of the work of the superintendent. This is developed by the state. What Heidi has done is to go go through and check um which of the indicators apply to each of the goals so that you know we have an idea of you know which of the indicators are applicable to the goal. So on goal one you can see um her entry and

099direction setting plan. It involved she you know it's an overall plan. It involved all the indicators. So Heidi has um outlined her key action and benchmarks. she has given additional evidence that goes to her work towards that goal and you know and has indicated where to find more information in the packet. Um so we have this format for every single goal under under this information that Heidi has presented you'll see for each goal evaluated evaluator rating the school committee members are the evaluators. So what we're asking you to do is you know based on your knowledge based on the evidence that is um presented to make a rating and the ratings here are you know unsatisfactory some progress significant progress met and exceeded. So what we want you to do is to type your last

100name um in the box where you know you feel is the appropriate um rating. So if on on goal number one, if I felt it was met, I would type my last name here. And every school committee member will do that for, you know, whatever rating. Just type your last name in the box for what you think is the appropriate rating. There's then a section for comments and you're not required to comment on every single part. You know, you write in comments that you feel like you have something to add. You have you feel like you have something to add to the evaluation. And you will see that you have a good part of a page here. This doesn't mean you have to write a page for every single goal. you know, what we're looking

101for are your comments on um you know, the you know, the evidence um that has been presented, you know, for each goal and we want everyone to go through that. So that's goal number one. Goal number two, same thing. You find the goal, you find which indicators are applicable to that goal. You'll, you know, see key actions. um the the evidence um the guide to additional information that's in your packet. And then the same thing, you go to the rating, you type your last name in where you know, ever and you know, spell it right, spell it wrong. Um and again then you add evaluator comments here and you'll see a good part of the page you know you can write what you want to write in there um you know we will be sharing

102comments. So um and you know the comments will be part of the public record that we present. So again it goes on to goal three. Exact same thing. Heidi indicated which of the indicators are applicable. Um you know key actions, benchmarks, um additional information. Um you know filling out the Whoa. Oh did I skip goal three? Oh, so you know, type in your comments here. You know, it is a or write them in. Um, you have this both hard copy as well as electronic. You know, write in, you know, you can expand the space, write in what you um want, you know, what you think is relevant to write. Um, we then have the additional activities and comments and at the very end we have a a space where we're asking you to make an

103evaluation on each of the four standards. Now again, Heidi has indicated under each goal which standard and indicators are applicable. And you'll notice that there's a different rating system. The rating systems you know do are part of the state evaluation. Um so you need to again for each standard write in you know your last name you know wherever you think it it should be for each standard. And then again um you can add in more comments here. So I did not think I raised my hand but my hand is raised. So, so we're asking every school committee member, you know, to really, you know, take the time that you need with this, but take time within two weeks. And what we would like everyone to do is to return the return your evaluation to Julia

104by two weeks from today, which is May. I thought I would remember this. Hold on. I'm pulling up my calendar. May 27th. So, return these by May 27th. Maggie for the committee will be compiling all of the results and then the committee is going to be meeting on June 3 to put together the evaluation which we will be presenting at our June meeting. you know, so we have a tight timeline. So, please pay attention to that May 27th deadline and make sure that you return your evaluation to Julia by then. You know, we'll start reminding you, you know, um if we haven't, you know, several days before if we haven't received yours, but again, you know, please do pay attention to that deadline. So, any questions about the process? Um, Jeff, do you want to

105call on people or do you want me to Maggie? Maggie is on mute. That's all right. Sorry. Um, the only thing that I would add is is well, two things. Everybody got this in hard copy. So if for some reason you are not a person who's able to write in the documents or like you know make a copy and send it or like you know those you could do this on paper and then get it to Julia physically and I'm happy to work from a hard copy document if that is easier for you. Um, number one, and number two, if you're typing in the documents, it would be super helpful if after your comments, you could put your at least your last name so that as we compile the comments into a a one document,

106it would be way easier for me than to go back and have to figure as like you're cutting and pasting. Um, and the only like your words will verbatim go into the evaluation. If there's anything that for some reason, you know, I I will certainly make like grammatical spelling. I I'll fix and clean up any kind of like clerical thing, but I'm not going to touch the content of people's words. if there's some reason why it would be like like really out of order like I would speak to individual people but not in a larger scope because that would be outside of our you know open meeting. So if that's okay with you Jeeoff sounds good to me. Okay, Sarah, I noticed um that the the words in the evaluation scale, if you will, differ

107from goal one, two, and three to the overall evaluation. So for example the goals have the range of satisfactory some progress significant progress met and exceeded and then the overall sorry had printed out a bunch of papers and the overall evaluation looks at standard unsatisfactory needs improvement proficient and exemplary. So the I'm just wondering why is that? So those are those are the scales that the state gives us to use. So they have a different scale to use for the um standards versus the goals. Excellent. Thank you. Sarah, I can um it we didn't put it into the packet just because this packet from Heidi is like all of her evidence, but if you would like a deeper dive into like those the like the ones at the end the um you know proficient exceeds

108and all that, those all tie back to a very specific rubric that like for like each standard instructional leadership curriculum indicator, there's like text under that and there's actual definitions of what um needs improvement, proficient and exceeds um represent and I'm happy to pull that up as a PDF and have Julia send it out to folks if if it would be helpful in your doing that last thing to actually be able to tie back to like what does the state mean for curriculum instructional leadership when they say proficient for example like I would tend to um want to be like exceeds s for everything. And if you tie it to the actual state rubric, the only difference in almost every single set of rubric language between proficient and exceeds is the phrase and is actively

109teaching this or modeling this for others. So, you know, that's like a nuance that like my gut of always being like A+ to everyone. Well, yes. And there's no human being that could be doing everything with complete proficiency and also teaching everything to someone else simultaneously. If that makes sense, right? You should send those PDFs out. They should have a And by the way, in case you haven't noticed, not everything the state does makes 100% sense. Like as a teacher, I had to deal with the difference between those two last items. You mean so proficient means this but if I want to go exceptional I have to have be given the opportunity to teach this to other people right so uh not everything the state does that makes sense you'll you'll get it and you

110can always nuance your comments your uh your uh evaluation with a comment remember that that's why the comments are so important and I'll give you one more example of that which comes to mind on um uh we've always liked our superintendents at Minute Man to have ambitious goals. Ambitious goals could mean a goal that cannot be accomplished in a year. So when you're in goal one, two, or three in general in these evaluations, I'm not picking on this one in particular. You may say, well, I think that she's done a absolutely fabulous job on this, but she hasn't met the goal yet or exceeded it because, you know, it's going to take a few years to do that. So what you do is you said uh uh major progress which is correct and then you

111have a comment. Your comment can be I just cannot believe how much progress she made on it over the period of this year. So there's the EV you fill in the evaluation according to whatever it what you believe it is keeping in mind that you don't always go all the way over to the right even if you're really um impressed because it may not match what the meaning of that thing is often because the superintendent has chosen a very ambitious goal and you explain it with your comment. That's why the comments are important. She hasn't uh exceeded expectations here. She hasn't met the goal yet. But I cannot believe how much progress a person has made on this in one year. A goal that could take two or three or four years to go. So

112look at what the state says. And if you're like Maggie who wants to give the A+ but can't because the state says it means something else, you put in your comment which is really the most important part of this in in my view. Is that useful? Is that accurate? Pam, would you say? Absolutely. Thank you, Alice at the end. I've always found this process very frustrating because um you know whenever you're dealing with people um you know you get a plan like they they give you a plan from the department of education and you add people and so everything you say is about another person in these in these public evaluation tools. I find them extremely extremely frustrating to work with. Um and I'm not afraid to say it. I also um in past years

113it's been easier to do sometimes than others because if you're if someone is building a rectangular building that has you know four welding torches in it or something you can say this building is done. They met the goal. It's a lot harder to do when you're talking about something more complex and that involves so many people and so many organizations and stuff. I just uh I agree with Jeff. The comments are super important and the the scale is very weird to me. Thank you. Comments or questions at this time? Heidi? I do have one comment. um the goals um whether it's not met some progress significant progress or exceeds that is uh I I want to make sure you all know um I will not you know go to sleep crying if you say I

114have some progress please be honest and I I do trust your comments um I want to make sure you know that I I have thick skin um the standards are professional standards ards. So if I receive a needs improvement in one of those professional standards, that is a very big deal. Um, as somebody who's been an administrator and I would take that very seriously and if there is a needs improvement, I would assume that would be something that would have to be my priority goal professionally immediately. Um, so the standards for professional practice are very different from the goals. So I would hope um that my administrators would be proficient um on um in professional practice and goals. Uh I I agree. Um I think goals should be very lofty and you should always be

115working towards a goal and if your goal was met in October, that wasn't a great goal. Heidi gets to respond to the um evaluation in writing and in person when the evaluation is given. So she does have a opportunity if she wants to respond to anything that is said and that also is public. Everything here is is as Pam has mentioned completely transparent public process. If only some of our state leaders followed the same. Well, well, I'm not going to get that. I was talking about an evaluation. Any other questions and comments? And Jeff? Yes. Pam, just as a reminder, um, no later than May 27th, um, please send your completed document to Julia. And thank you, Pam. and uh and who else is on this team, the superintendent evaluation team? It's Pam and Maggie.

116Aaron and Maggie and um uh Charlene. Charlene. Okay. So, thank you very very much on taking this on and when you after you compile together, you'll see why I thanked you so much for taking this on. Uh and I think your explanation was I hope very very clear. And most of these uh members have not done one of these before. I don't believe we did one for the last year of um Kevin. So maybe the first time for many of the people in the school committee to do one of these and and everything that Alice said about the frustration of the process is true, but I'll tell you it's a a lot better than it was like six years ago because we have morphed it as best as we can to make it meaningful instead

117of how we actually started when the state came out with the regulations on this. it was totally untenable and now it's uh frustrating but doable. I would say that that is um how we've progressed and yes Sharon and I believe we've already said this before but I just want to just remind everybody too that Heidi participated with this committee to make sure that this was an evaluation um format that worked well for both sides. those, you know, Heidi being evaluated and us doing the evaluations. So, that was something we had agreed upon with her um when we hired her that we would have her be a part of this and that we definitely I think that was really helpful. I mean, Heidi, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was great for the

118committee and you to work together to make sure we had a evaluation format that was going to be meaningful for everybody involved. I completely agree. Right. We did promise that she was a little bit worried about how that process would work. We promised collaboration and I and um we fulfilled our promise and it worked out very well so far. Great. Well, that took quite a while and as promised, you know, evaluation budget, we move on to the finance report. Lot of items under it. Steve Leoo. Steve is on mute. Good thing I was because you don't know what I just said. Um anyway, uh the finance committee met on May 6th and basically everything we discussed is under the under the action items here. Um uh as as Heidi indicated in her in her in

119her report, uh uh every every town has passed a budget except conquered hasn't met yet. So we have a budget since it's a twothirds vote of all the member communities which will make my town meeting I think wicked easy which is good. Um but given that um we had our uh excess and deficiency or END uh certified and we are in excess of the 5%. So, we're going to be asking the school committee to uh devote some of that ex uh vote the excess to reduce the assessments for FY26. Um uh we also reviewed uh the uh uh uh policy of DJ which we'll we'll talk about in a little bit. But, uh, I guess without further ado, we'll ask, uh, Nikki to, uh, walk through, uh, not only the END's, uh, items, but the,

120uh, uh, general fund reports and budget transfers as well. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Steve. I'm going to share my screen. That's a tough act to follow, Heidi, but I'm going to try to do my presentation in a quicker amount of time. All right. Um, so thank you everyone. I know the finance reports are the most riveting topic on the agenda. So I will try to keep these as exciting as possible. And as Steve mentioned, we have um gone over in depth with the finance committee um the END and I have talked to a majority of the school committee members as we've gone to town meetings and we've updated the town managers. But just to give everyone a quick um summary of what END is or excess and deficiency, it's essentially um any extra money

121you have within your budget. So if you think about you're a business and you have revenue and expenses, it's your net profit. Um some people call it fund balance or free cash in the town world. Um but we're not a for-profit, right? We want to spend our money on the students. So, there's only a certain amount of funding that you can keep um or have in your fund balance before you have to give money back to the town. So, um when we certified our END this year, we were over our 5% um and there's two options and that would be reducing the current year assessments or reducing the upcoming year fiscal um 26 assessments, which is what we decided to do. So overall in our budget, we plan every year to um give back 650,000.

122What we um determined when it was certified was we had $935,372. The difference was $285,372. So what did that mean for our budget? It reduced our member town assessments um from an increase of 2.79 to 1.68%. Um so the member assessment total reduced from the 26,46 in 736 to 21,121364. And then this is how it impacted all of our member towns. So I have personally reached out phone calls, emails all the town managers. We have updated these numbers um in advance of town meeting or made motions on the floor to adjust them at town meetings. Um as Steve mentioned, all of the towns um except Conquered whose u meeting is on June 2nd have approved our budget. So we do have an approved budget and they have been notified um of this reduction in their

123assessment um to make sure that at town meeting it was applied um appropriately. Um, and this is a slide that you've seen in our presentations to all of our towns. Again, just showing um the 1.68% um increase year-to-year and that the preliminary assessment updated that 26,121,364. So in a little bit of why this happened um you know we do a preliminary END estimate um which we um you know presented last year. One of the main things that happened um was the estimate of our regional transportation reimbursement. Um we estimated it in the budget it was 87,000. Um but when we actually received the funding which was after our fiscal year um FY24 we received it in 25 on July 2nd 2024 um we received a significant amount of more money 1,169,893 and we received a

124small amount of homeless reimbursement as well. Um so what I have talked to the finance committee about is a regional transportation reimbursement fund. Um, I actually did some research and some digging because we were I was going to recommend that we approve um and utilize a fund like this um where it's something the money can go into and out of um similar to our capital fees and our out of district tuition. Um but we actually had already voted this as a school committee in May of 2020. So we will be um utilizing this fund to its ability. Um, so our excess revenue from regional transportation won't flow into our END. Um, and that should help with the calculations going forward. So our recommended vote um and our required vote um is you know reducing as

125we had mentioned the town um the member town assessments from 2.79% to 1.6 68%. Um we are in the finance committee had recommended um the two votes on this slide and that are in your agenda to approve the revised preliminary assessments um as well as authorizing the full amount of END. This is a required vote. It's something that the state um looks at and when we certify our number, they ask for the minute. So, we have to do it in the full amount even though we had a preliminary vote of 650,000 back in January. This is the certified number and now it's come through and we have to do the full amount um not just the increase because of the certification. Um so, I will pass this back over to um the committee. Um I'm

126happy to answer any questions um and would, you know, recommend a vote for these two items. Uh, Mr. Chair, if there aren't any other questions, uh, I'd like to make a motion. I'm looking forward to it. Okay. Um, can I combine the two votes or should we do two? I think you can combine them because I think that they they work together. Yeah, I believe so, too. Okay. I I move to approve the FY2026 revised preliminary assessments of 26,121,364 and to further authorize 9 $935,372 from certified excess and deficiency fund to reduce member town assessments for the FY 2026 budget. Second. Second. Great. Any comments or questions on this? This is something we have seen on the finance committee many many times. I think you've seen at least once before a preliminary version of this

127as on the full school committee. Very well then bring it to a vote. Pam Pam no actin. Yes. Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Leoo conquered. Yes. Maggie Sharon do yes. Last year, yes. Sharon must Lexington. Yes. Jeff Stan. Yes. Alice Lucas. Yes. Don't worry, we got lots more finance to come. Right. Let's move on. What do we got now? All right. Um, so it's that time of year where we're looking at the general fund, um, our third quarter report, which is March 31st. Um, so this general fund report and I'll try to increase it a little bit more. Um, included in your packet includes all of the function codes or the categories in our budget in this row or column here. This is how you vote the budget by function code. And

128this is how we recommend budget transfer. So if there's anything over $10,000 or more that is needs to be moved between function codes, we bring that to the school committee. So just a quick, you know, summary of this report. This is our our total budget um that was voted originally um and any budget adjustments that we've come through. And again, we bring $10,000 um dollars or more budget transfers to the committees each quarter. We have our adjusted budget. to our budget with the budget adjustments as well as any year-to-ate expenses. So that's, you know, we've cut the check um and they have been paid as well as incumbrances. And incumbrances means we plan on spending that money. So we've either created a purchase order for that item or we have, you know, planned um expenses

129to pay those teachers out through the end of the school year and then our ending balance. So, um, what I'd like to highlight here is some of the deficits and what, um, budget transfers that we'd be recommending. Overall, um, we have just about 3.4% of our budget left or just over a million dollars. Um, so as far as that goes, we're in good standing as far as where we're at um, through the third quarter. Um, the first budget transfer I am recommending um, has to do with our substitutes, our long-term sublines. Um we've had a number of um leaves or um unexpected leaves from from some of our um senior teachers and we've had to have some long-term sums come in. Um so I will be um recommending in our budget memo a transfer to

130cover that those funds and that transfer would be from mostly the excess um funding in our teacher or paraprofessional line to help cover those. Um our second budget transfer here um is our classroom technology and that line is over. Unfortunately, um when we got a quote for laptops for the um incoming freshmen, um we have been seeing that there have been tariffs placed. Um so unfortunately we've we've because of the tariffs um we'll be over, you know, just shy of $17,000. So we'll be recommending a transfer to cover um that extra money for the freshman laptops. Um lastly we have here our security line um and our school security line. So that line um had typically been covered a lot by um the maintenance category um in our facilities category. We've reallocated those funds um

131since you know Michelle Rosendez came on board. Um we've also experienced some significant um as you know items that have come across the building. So her budget is is tight um as far as what she can allocate. So um the majority of the funding here is to cover the um shooter detection system which is approximately $15,000 and other monitoring services um that's required for to keep the school safe. Um so those are our three big budget transfers that we see on this general fund report um that would cover some deficits and then I will recommend three other budget transfers um in the budget transfer memo as well as we analyze um and I talk through our preliminary END for the future upcoming year um what that's going to look like. So, I'd be happy to

132answer any questions on this report in general. Um, and then we can move forward to the budget transfer memo. No questions. So, let's see the the one we might question the budget transfers that we're about to vote for. Wonderful. So as I had um recommended on the first page, this is our recommended transfer to cover the longterm substitute line. Um the excess funding is in our pair professional line um in some of our classroom teacher lines. Um we do have some um shift in movements um within that or we hire additional teachers um as needed to cover. Um again we have the transfer for our laptops due to the tariffs the extra increase and the shooter detection system which will uh in those monitoring services. Our other uh recommended transfers have to do with the

133um the traveling for the students that were um voted on today. Um, we've talked about this uh a number of times, but we have typically underfunded our Skills USA um travel. In order for all 19 students, which is the highest they ever had, um, to go to nationals, it will cost an additional $40,000. Um, so we do a breakout. They do get $10,000 in Perkins funding to help cover this. and they um fund raise approximately $25,000 which helps cover districts and states but in order for them to go to nationals they have requested um this additional funding. This is something we have brought to the school committee the last two years. We actually in the FY26 budget have reallocated funds to this and we should not be coming back to the school committee um again

134for another big transfer because it's already built into the FY26 budget. And lastly, the new trip, which we hadn't budgeted for because it hadn't been one they they've gone to, but advising the new uh nationals trip for the uh early education would be $12,500. Lastly, um and this this budget transfer kind of makes sense once I talk about the preliminary END um is a recommended transfer to our OPED trust fund. Um so, I would like to talk through our OPED um my recommendation with the preliminary END but essentially um what we're looking at is um you know because we're at that 5% threshold trying to you know spend down or reallocate our funding. So, we have here some additional um funding in some of our payroll lines based on hiring um you know either new

135administrators at a lower rate or and we've also the biggest chunk of it is our insurance. So, our health insurance as you know um in our FY25 budget we did vote an increase. However, the trust fund that we're part of, the Mass Bay Community Health Trust Fund, um voted a 0% increase. So, we did know that we had planned um excess in that fund. So, it makes sense to reallocate any of the payroll and benefits associated with with to our OPED fund. Um we're currently 8% funded. um we have a $22 million liability and we have approximately 1,700,000 in that trust fund. So, you know, our plan this year was to or for the FY26 budget was to increase that contribution 300,000, but it's always good to kind of reallocate those funds um to this

136this liability um each year as we um as we assess and if we have any additional funding available. So, um I don't know if it makes sense for me to walk through the preliminary END as well or if we want to go right into the vote. Um Stephen and Jeeoff, I'll I'll defer to you. I'll defer to Steve, but I do have one question for you. Not a question, a comment. Um what we're doing here with respect to that OPED uh transfer is we are taking advantage of the fact that we had a little bit extra money in these categories. We're at the 5%. So, we can't, you know, keep it. So, we're putting it to OPE to catch up with um our liability there a little faster than was scheduled to just take advantage

137of the finances this year. And obviously, this thing uh is un is not necessarily likely to happen again next year because next year, for example, our uh savings and insurance might be zero. Uh, so this is a one-time thing that we're making taking advantage of the finances of this year to slightly reduce the OPED OPED liability. Is that correct? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Okay, great. Thanks. And you'll you'll see that in the pre uh the preliminary END report which I'll be going over, but um our insurance Yes, this year they voted a 5% and a 7% increase. So, it is within our budget, but we will not see um or have the ability to transfer um this amount of funding into our OPED trust fund in the future. This is a one-time thing because sometimes, you

138know, the finances of one year have nothing to do necessarily with the finances of the next year. So, this year we have some extra cash for this next year. Uh who knows? And uh Steve, take it away, please. Yeah. Exa Exactly. Uh I used to uh have a member of a finance committee when I was working that said every every budget year is a snowflake. So you never know. Every snowflake's different. Um so I I guess I I I'm comfortable with voting uh these transfers before we we talk about the END unless other committee members have um have objection to that. Um uh so I would move to approve the FY2025 general funds 30 third quarter budget transfers as presented. Second. Somebody second. Good. Somebody won the honor of seconding the budget transfers. Any other

139comments or questions? Yes, Sharon. So finances is not my thing, which is why I'm not on the finance committee. But I just have a silly question that I'm hoping somebody could explain for me. Like is there a re It looks like we're transferring a total of $80,000 from the paraprofessional instructional assistance fund. Is that correct, Nikki? It would be $40,000. This top line right here. Yeah, but then it Oh, yes. Okay. So that's 40,000. And so is that in excess because we did not end up hiring additional pair of professionals and assistants this year or that we did not have a need for what we budgeted for because I know that's typically a question of people saying do we have enough instructional assistance and things? So I'm just curious as to um why we have

140the excess in that available and I'm not sure if anybody who the right person is to to ask that and I guess my I'm happy to answer that question. Um, we actually had a teacher go out on a leave and we had the paraprofessional that was kind of in that pathway step up. She's interested in being a teacher. She's going to apply for the teacher position next year. Um, so the excess was because she was no longer being paid in her paraprofessional line and she got paid in the long-term subline. So it's kind of a reallocation um of funding just based on the activity that happened um in the school year. And there's so many different um you know scenarios and little things like that. Um but for reporting back out to the state um

141we do have to code them in the long-term subline and that's why it's allocated that way. Perfect. My next question is can you just explain what the like it looks like the academy support directors also had a lot of money that got transferred from that. So what does that typically cover? Um we had a placeholder this year for some curriculum funding. Um as you saw in Heidi's report there were a number of things that she did. Um but you know to put in place a curriculum you know plan um does take a bit more time um to assess and and Heidi certainly can um jump in if you'd like but that wasn't something that they were able to do within this year. So um there was some reallocation of those funds to be able to

142cover some of the deficits. Excellent. Thanks for explaining. I appreciate it. Alice, was your hand up? Yes, it was. Um, I just wanted to point out to the newer people on the school committee that this is part of a continuing improvement of the minute school district. We did not always have quarterly budget reports and um we do now and now we have quarterly budget transfers and it's just this continual trajectory of better and better that I wanted to highlight. And Sarah, I will second the better and better. And I will say that transparency in the budget process is essential regardless of what kind of an organization you are. And while it may seem like two functional areas, two functional areas seem very similar, um I appreciate the care that Nikki takes in allocating the transfers

143and having the clarity and the explanation as to why. Um, I couldn't be as someone in the commercial end of things, I could not be more pleased to see how thorough she is. And admittedly, this type of financing is drastically different than it is in the commercial sector, but at the end of the day, I appreciate that things add up and things have their proper home and there's good thought involved in how this money is spent and allocated. Thank you. All very true. And um one day I may share with you we have a shorter meeting how far we've come in our uh transparency and of of finances and quality of financial reporting. But it is quite astonishing how far we've come from. Well, I won't even try to describe it. We have a motion

144at the table. Any other comments or questions? Very well. Then bring it to a vote. Pam Amler. Yes. Montigue Arlington. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton yes. Evil do conquered yes. Maggie Sharon do yes. Gab Lancaster. Yes. Sharon MTO Lexington yes. Jeff Stan yes. Alice Lucas Joe yes. And before we move on I just want to mention Sarah it's very hard to hear you. We can hear you, but it's your microphone is very soft. Okay, great. Uh, we're not done with finances. More to come. Cruising along. Everyone's favorite topic. We're now all experts in excess and deficiency or END. So, I bet this is going to go real quick. So um as we talked about last year's END and what what our plan w with it is and why we had to give back money um it

145brings us to the point of we are actually our 5% um threshold. So anything you know if you think about um any additional revenue or any unspent budget of this year is going to throw us back into that we're over 5%. Um, so what we try to do is assess where we'll be at and make recommendations. And that was part of our um, OPED transfer was kind of assessing and looking at this. So I just want to um, take you step by step as to how I assess our um, END and why I'm making the recommendations that we are. Um, so this is our END balance that was certified and this is the money that we gave back and that we just voted for the FY26 budget. Um, I am recommending because of the excess

146revenue and excess um or the unspent expenses that we um propose a budget amendment or a budget um transfer to fully fund our capital stabilization fund. Um so there is a um threshold of how much you can um contribute to the capital stabilization fund and it's 5% of the prior year member assessments. So as we go through this slide um it'll kind of highlight as to why um we did budget 850,000. What I would be recommending is that we fully fund our capital stabilization fund and add an additional $424,095 to decrease um what we have available in END. And so part of the reason behind that um is is our assessment of our revenue. Right? So if you think about END um anything that is above that 5% is any excess revenue or any unspent

147expenses. So when we come in here um you know we look at and we see that there was some additional chapter 70 money um just shy uh 50,000 um you know we do see that we have regional transportation reimbursement um as well for 136,000 um we will be able to use that revolving fund um so that doesn't flow into our END but we also have a significant amount of interest income so when you add all that up um we did have $375,000 of excess revenue that was unplanned for or unbudgeted. Um so that is part of the reason why I'd be recommending that capital stabilization transfer. In addition to that um we also have um expenses or unspent expenses. So when I recommended that OPED transfer, that was part of the reason we had some

148of that extra funding in either a payroll line or the um insurance benefits line. We really looked to see for salary what we have left. So we had approximately 100,000 left. for non-s salary 550,000. So total unspent of our budget um 657,000 of that I'm recommending 425,000 go to OPEM. So what will that do? That'll bring our projected balance um to 1 million just shy of 1.7 million. um are allowable um 5% is you know just shy of 1.6 million. So we still will have a little bit to go. I think removing the revolving um regional transportation will help with that but even with the transfer to OPED and the capital stabilization transfer we will still be at 5%. Um, so that's something to keep in mind that as we continue to kind of be

149at this 5% any excess or unspent funds are always going to kind of trigger us um to be over that. Um, so something we kind of have to strategically think about and reallocating funds to our stabilization and our OPED trust fund um is something we've done in the past and seems to be um a good benefit to Minuteman. So, I put together a letter, but essentially this um PowerPoint summarizes it as well. It provides the date that our END was certified in the amount. Um we're able to act on that through June 30th and um we are recommending the school committee approve a transfer of $424,95 to the capital stabilization fund. Um, you know, the important part to note, this will result in an amendment to our budget, but will not change the assessments to

150member towns. We're essentially just using our END to fund um to fund that capital stabilization. So, these will the two votes we'll be recommending. Um, after this, we will be sending letters to our member towns. any change to Oh gosh, sorry, my computer is dying. Um, one second. Oh gosh, sorry. Um any change to your budget uh in relation to capital has to go to our member towns. Um they'll have 45 days to assess it and if we don't hear back from our member towns it is um you know no is a yes for us. So um if you know if we don't get a response um that means we we can move forward. So, we will have to vote this today and we'll have to get this to the towns quickly because we'll we'll

151be within that 45day um deadline. So, I think that that is that PowerPoint is a summary of this form that I went in depth with the finance committee on and it summarizes this letter um that has the votes on it. So, I'm happy to answer any questions on this item. And again, Nikki, if if I can just reiterate, it doesn't change the town's assessment. Correct. But the the vote is required and we are required to communicate to the towns. Correct. Because it's a reallocation of to a c a capital um item in particular, capital stabilization. So um this w this was something that had been done um in you know before I became the business manager um and it was something that um if you don't notify the member towns um you will not be

152approved and they will take that money back and they will take it out of your stabilization fund. So this is the proper way to notify your towns and do it um legally. Let's put the motions on the table and then we'll continue our discussion. Steve, would you like to put these motions on the table, please? You can do them together, I think. Absolutely. Um, I move uh that the school committee amend the FY2025 budget by $424,95 from 31 thou 31,517,219 to 31,941 uh 31 million 314. Excuse me, I'm I'm losing. go to the PowerPoint with the votes and to authorize $424,95 from excess and deficiency funds to reduce member town assessments for the FY25 budget. Second further discussion, but I see a hand up. Uh Sharon, was your hand up? It was because I'm just

153again not the finance person. Um, so we're saying that it's reducing the membertown assessments, but then we said that we're not giving them money back. We're just giving We're not reducing their uh Yes. Uh, we're not changing their assessments with this vote. Okay. I guess I don't understand. I'll clarify a little bit. When you amend a budget, right, if you increase the budget, you would think, oh, okay, we're voting to amend or we're voting to increase the budget. You would assume that the, you know, how would we pay for that then? You would assume maybe the membertown assessments would change. We're saying no, they're not going to change. How we're going to fund that is using our excess and deficiency fund. So there'll be no change to member town assessments. Thank you. I get that

154now. Yeah, I appreciate you explaining these things. I just want to make of course. Now when it Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, there isn't anything where you would expect any um push back from any of the towns about not getting money back or anything. Correct. I do not expect push back. Okay. Thank you. But you can never tell 100%. And by the way, Sharon, we had to hear this many times on the finance committee. We spent a lot of time talking about this before it was clear. So, and to be clear, I did read all of this before the meeting. I was just trying to wrap my brain around it. It is It is very uh confusing. Oh, come on. Finance is fun. I don't say it wasn't fun. I said it was confusing. Those are

155two different things alto together. And I do appreciate that finance isn't everyone's language. And I do try to cater my presentation. I have gone into a a load of detail with the finance committee. Um I try to keep it more big picture but certainly um if there are any questions I'm happy to dive into more details. Right. I think you Nikki your your judgment in the prof the presentations you give is extremely good. I think that everybody on the finance committee appreciates that and I do appreciate how you modify it to the audience that you have in front of you as I've seen many times. Any other comments and questions on this item? Seeing none come to the vote. Pam Hamner Sackton. Yes. Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Doo conquered. Yes. Maggie

156Sharon Dover. Yes. Lancaster. Yes. Sharon MTO Lexington. Yes. Jeff Stan. Yes. Lucas Joe. Yes. And we have more finance, but not a lot more. And no more votes. We should fly through these. All right. We have our revolving fund report. Um these are our balances through March 31st. Again, we're going through our third quarter reports. Um you know, some of the items I'd like to highlight. Um you know, everyone's always interested in the facility revolving fund. Um you know, as um we've done before, we've broken out the athletic field. So, we do anticipate the amount of money um within this um account, which is conservative at this point, to be able to cover our facility um debt, which we promised to our member towns that we'll pay, as well as an athletic field reserve account.

157Um $237,600 each year. So, we'll continue to build that up and in the future if the field needs um you know, additional funding or changing of the turf um we we'll have some funds there um that we're able to allocate and we won't have to go back to our member towns. Um all of our trades um accounts are in good standing. Um we are recommending a new account which is our DVC program or our design and visual communications. Um, and I may have Katie jump in here if she's interested, but there was a change in the frameworks which um will have DVC making um more products. Um, so they'd like an account so they can sell different kinds of personalized um items. Yeah, they're doing um a lot more where they're creating it. They're actually

158doing something really cool this year. Instead of outsourcing all the swag that we give to our incoming freshmen, we're actually able to produce a lot of that stuff in house, uh we're able to now print on mugs. Uh we're able to 3D print almost anything you can think of. Fidget spinners, uh magnets they were just making the other day, keychains. Uh so it's really cool. We have an embroidery machine now, so we can do some customized things as well. Um, so as you can imagine, the DVC, so the design and visual communications frameworks also merge with graphics, um, as Nikki was saying. So we do need some bigger equipment items, specifically some printers. Um, so we've been looking at that through different funding sources. Thank you, Katie, for the information. Um, you know, so certainly

159all of our revolving count accounts remain in good standing. happy to answer any detailed questions but um we'll try to keep it a brief overview um you know in the essence of time no comments or questions on this report can I just add one footnote on that DVC uh nuance it's really interesting I think when I learned about this because in a way Minuteman has its own in-house agency that they can design and produce these things is another notch on the belt, if you will. That's it. I hear they're going to 3D print another building for us so we can, you know, expand the school. They just got to get a slightly bigger 3D printer. That's what I heard. I don't know if it's true or not. We will see. We will see. Um if

160we are good with this, we'll move on to the student activity report. We're great with this. Great. Um this student activity report is something we are recommended to present um quarterly as well with our reports by the auditors. Um this gives transparency in any of our student activity funds or the funds that our students fund raise. Um this is the students money. Um we just hold the funds for them. There are additional procedures um surrounding these funds that require the students to have additional signoffs, the principal, the adviser, and the business manager. So, this report is sent to our adviserss after it's presented to the school committee for transparency reasons, but it shows the beginning balance, any revenues or projected revenues. So, this is again a third quarter report through March 31st. anything expensed and

161encumbered, so planned to be spent. Um, you see the most of the activity is in our senior and junior classes um and as well as our sophomores and and freshmen um as they fund raise and do different activities. We also have our Skills USA account um which they fundra for and our yearbook um has a good chunk of money as well. So, these are all in great standing and happy to answer any questions specifically on any of these accounts. I just want to emphasize something Nikki said. This is an example of where your auditor uh comes in handy. This is a report we were not getting a number of years ago. One that the auditor said you really do need to have it. And here it is presented in a very simple, clear form, transparent,

162easy to read, easy to understand. And so this sort of sign of clear reportage is is golden for us and golden for the our credibility in terms of the towns of our district. Thank you. Yes, there is a specific audit um or agreed upon procedures done on these accounts that we have done by the auditor. So it is something um you know that we do take very seriously. Uh we will recommend in the future um adding two um new accounts um one for early education for the ed rising. So they'll be fundraising now that it's approved for the trip and it makes sense that if they're going to continue to do that every year we'd want to add an account. Um there was also an environ club that has been approved so that we'll put

163that in the works to get some more details on that. Um, and it may be something that we bring to you a um, as we do approve have the school committee approve all of the student activity accounts. One question, Sharon. All right. Will we be creating one for that agricultural group that wants to take the trip to Ireland that will be fundraising for it? I think that would make sense. um trying to see unless one, you know, it would make sense to allocate the funds somewhere. But yeah, that would make sense as well now that we have the fundraising uh approved for them. So um we will keep you updated maybe in the next report um with some of the new accounts in in a vote. Thank you. Okay, very good. Great. Next item is

164our bank balances and our bank reconciliation. Uh again, quarterly we report back. Um this is the preferred report of our finance committee and our school committee. It shows the balances on all of our accounts. Um and the business office um reconciles with our treasurer who's independent um who does all of our bank transfers for segregation of duties. So we reconcile the accounts with our treasurer and we are balanced um through the third quarter March 31st. Happy to answer any questions. I see Alice. Just an annoying historical note once again. This is so much better than not knowing what bank accounts the school district has, which was true at one time. Thank you, Nikki. You're welcome. And we had used to have a lot more that were not really necessary and we've cut down on those

165as well. Correct. We do have a number of scholarship accounts per our policy. If there was a scholarship that's over $10,000 that's originally started. Um we do create a separate bank account for them. So that's the reason why there there may be some scholarships um or it looked like a number of scholarships in the um MMDT or the the Mass Municipal Depository Trust accounts. Um that's because that's what's required uh through our policies. We're done with this report. Great. And I think that just brings us to our town meeting or budget update, which is Steve stole the show is that we have a FY26 budget. So exciting. Um we've had twothirds more than twothirds of our member towns vote. Um we will have one last harrah in conquered on June 2nd. But thank you so

166much for everybody um you know for coming to the town meetings um working with me through the presentations. Um appreciate all of your help um and uh camaraderie around the budget in your towns. Um, we certainly have enjoyed going to all the meetings and if you need anything, um, please feel free to reach out. No comments or questions. So, believe that is finally the end. Jeeoff, I think Alice Alice raised her hand. Alice's hands up. Okay, there you go. Alice Alice is on mute. I get to be the person who was on mute and didn't know. Um it was a remarkably pleasant um town meeting season. Everything went just great. The packet was great. Everything was terrific. Thank you very much. Thank you. Right. Um uh since I won't since I won't be here next

167month to say it, I'm going to say it now. First I want to thank uh uh Nikki very very much for the quality of the reportage. Now it is true that this was an easy year. We had mostly good news from our member town for our member town. So that made it easy. That does not take away from the benefit you get from having clear reportage which gives you credibility. Clear reported to clear presentations by Nikki and Heidi uh to the Fincom to the school committee to the member towns is very important especially when we go to years in which the budget is not so friendly. The credibility that you are uh creating is going to be very important when things are not quite as happy and I appreciate it and it's going to be

168very hard for people to look at the stuff coming out of Minute Man and and and shaking their heads about its quality because it's very it might be very high quality. I also want to thank Sarah for her work on the finance committee this year. I think we had more than the usual amount of work on that committee um u because of certain complicated things in the budget such as the END. And I especially want to thank Steve for doing such a fabulous job of being the chair of of the committee. I won't be able to say this next month, so I'm saying it now. Thank you so much, Steve. It was been uh a delight to work with you on the committee and uh made me very very very confident moving forward and you're

169going to be greatly missed. Thank you. Indeed. For sure. Right. Thank you. And Sarah, did you have a comment as well? I I collectively I will just say when it comes to the working with the towns and the budgeting process, all of these improvements and all of the care in building relationships with these towns makes it easier for us in those years when we may have to say we're going to have to increase X and here's why. So like anything else in life, it's about relationship and consistency. And one of the things that I promised um the select board at Arlington was that um they like it when I show up in person. So I reach out to them and I say, "I'd like to show up in person. We've hit these milestones. You know,

170what would you like me to come and share with you?" Um and so in this digital age, they still like it when a human being shows up in person. So to the extent that we can understand what our towns need from us in terms of how and when we communicate that will support all of the individuals at Minute Man that work so hard um figuring out all of these budgets. So that's just my my piece there. And Arlington is is tricky. They are not easy. Alistister Luca gets the last word this meeting. Alistister Luca policy subcommittee report. Well, start out by I'll start out by saying thank you to Heidi and Nikki and Amy and Sharon for their extensive work on the DJ policies which are tedious and the extreme. Um, you got in your

171second mailing you got DJA purchasing authority. You saw it before so you all know about it. And this is the second reading of the same thing. So I think we need a motion to what does it say here? Uh vote to approve purchasing authority school committee policy DJA for second reading as presented. So this is easy one. Um so could we get a motion for that? So moved. Can we get a second? Second. Okay. So now we can have a discussion about DJA. Does anybody have any comments about DJA? Seeing none, we can take a vote. Right, Jeff? Happy to do so. Okay. Okay. Pam Noctton, yes. Sarah Montigue, Arlington, yes. Linda Herbison, Bolton, yes. Conquered, yes. Maggie Sharon Dover, yes. Cab Lancaster, yes. Sharon MTO, Lexington, yes. Jeff, yes. Alistister Lucastowe. Yes. So that

172we did in record time with yet another unanimous vote by the minute man school committee which we get criticized for from time to time. So the next one is DJ and you've got multiple copies. So you have the current policy. It says current policy at the top. You have um the red line copy which has all the scribble scrabble. And then you have number three which is the one we want you to adopt. So, if you want to take a look at number three, you've probably already looked at the others, one and two. If you look at number three, that is the one we want to vote on. And um I want to continue my thank which is what my grandson calls it with Steve Leoo and Jeff and um Sarah from the finance committee

173who also reviewed this policy. So um actually I would like a motion to do something. Wait a minute. Motion to approve procurement requirements school committee policy DJ for first reading as presented so we can have a discussion. Is there a second? Yes. Okay. So we are not going to vote yet. We're going to have a discussion. So the question is if Mr. Loo would like to um comment on finance committee's findings. Uh we're we're in support of this. I there was one item that Jeff raised a question on that I can't find right now. So Jeff, could you maybe talk to talk to that? Yeah, I I don't recall. I thought that the item was uh fixed. Was it fixed? Okay. Yeah. I I I don't see it anymore. I think it was fixed. Well,

174in that case, um we uh we as the finance committee u support this uh um policy. Was it was it fixed after you met? Well, I I think um whatever it was, I think Nikki was going to correspond with you guys. Um Oh, Nikki will raise my hand. his comment was about um it saying um position slashtitle. So, in the one, two, three, fourth sentence, the last line, um, Jeff had a comment that it appears that from reading it, and Jeff, correct me if I'm wrong, that we may have um wanted to have put a position or title in here, and someone may read it incorrectly, so he didn't know if we should write um employee or individual um instead of the have the slash. Yeah, because if you say position stats title, it looks

175like you just didn't fill in the position of the title. Oh, that's the language of the rules. Go ahead, Sharon. Well, yeah, that's what I was just going to say. That was the language of the um where did we get that from? From the the state where didn't they say that in order to get the MCPPO design, like you had to give the designation to a specific position or title. And so that's why we put that in there because that was their specific language saying we had to include either the position or title. Just concerned that somebody reading that will say did they leave out the position title from here? Okay. Um should we say to the specific position or title with a Massachusetts certified public purchasing official? Like it was it was weird because

176we we got stuck up and we spent a lot of time on this particular line. Um because we were trying to make sure that we didn't say a specific pos we wanted to make sure that we didn't get stuck with say Nikki leaves and the new person comes in with a different title then we have to back to the state. Right. Absolutely. That's where we got stuck. So, you're saying the position or title with a Massachusetts blah blah blah. I think Heidi has her hand up. Heidi. Oh, I would recommend that since this is only a first reading that anybody who has suggestions um share them with um you know after this meeting share them with Alice Sharon um with the policy committee so they can consider them and come back for a second reading.

177Um because I think at 9:20 all of us are not at our peak editing skills. Okay. Does that sound good with everybody? You're all happy with that? Okay. Yes. My peak editing doesn't come till 9:45. So, you're right. But you can still vote on the first reading. So, people are drooping. So, um the um the important thing for you all to know is that Nikki is registered with the at uh inspector general's office as the chief procurement officer of the district. Um so, that that is actually a very important piece of news for you to know. Um, so there any other comments? Do you finance committee? Do you have any? Just make sure the finance committee had no substantive comments on this. Okay, great. Happy with where where it went. And I think it's also

178important to note that Nikki, you also filed those designations, correct, with the IG's office. So that we are two people that you could potentially designate or delegate that authority to are already listed with the IG's office. Correct. Um there was a revocation because Kevin Mahoney was still listed as our assistant superintendent and we have delegated to um our assistant business manager who holds an MCPPO license, Sonia Vatrono, as well as Michelle Rosendez, our director of operations who also holds an MCPPO um designation. Um and I just wanted to add on the big or the main change here is in accordance with the law that the regional um school districts have a change in the threshold um that you have to go out to bid. It was changed from 50,000 to 100,000. So the main point

179of um updating this policy was just to be in compliance with the the new update. Yep. And I think one other thing I would just bring everybody's attention to is that there was also some inconsistency with various parts within it like within even though we changed it from 50,000 to 100,000. There was inconsistencies in that some said more than 100,000 and then the next one said up to a h 100,000 like it was there was the $100,000 mark fit into multiple categories. So we were very careful about making sure that we basically got up to 100,000 100,000 200 like we we made sure that we covered every number fit in a nice spot instead of in multiple. That is true. So does anyone else from our team have any comments? Well, working together we get

180the job done. So um let's put it to a vote. Hamner. Yes. Sarah Montigue Arlington. Yes. Wind Herbid Bolton. Yes. Conquered. Yes. Maggie Sharandover. Yes. Ball Lancaster. Yes. Sharon Mto Lexington. Yes. Dulan Nem. Yes. Alistister Lucasto. Yes. Another unanimous vote by the Minute Man School Committee. Is that the end of the policy report? because if so, I think we're coming to another unanimous vote. Okay, I believe that we finished our work for the evening. And just before I call for a motion to adjourn, I want to thank the school committee. I promised it would be a long meeting and I think I've kept my promise. I like keeping my promises. Thank you all for your work this evening. We covered a lot of material. I bet Heidi is really tired tonight. I bet Nikki is

181really tired tonight, guaranteed. Uh so on that note I would like a motion to adjurnn please. So move second. Second. Very good. Um Pam last time this evening. A nurse actton. Yes. Sarah Mont Arlington. Yes. Linda Herbison Bolton. Yes. Conquered. Yes. Maggie Sharon Dory. Yes. Yes. Darren Mosto. Lexington. Yes. Jeffen. Yes. Hello to Lucas. Yes. Thank you, Julia. Thank you, Heidi. Thank you, staff members, administrators, and any uh people who are just watching. Uh good night, school committee members and everybody, and I will see you in the not too distant future. Thank you all. Thank you everybody. Thank you all.