001Cool. Um, we are now recording. And Joe, are you waiting? I see Ellie's on. That's awesome. Are you waiting for anybody else from Mr. Lock? No. No. And and I um I think Ellie Ellie is here really just in solidarity as opposed to we don't have an agenda item where anybody else needs to speak. Right. Hi Carrie. So it is six o'clock and we are all school committee members are here. So, I am going to call this meeting to order and kind of in celebration of our the recent um passing of the temporary provisions again for the remote meeting law. I'm going to start by saying this meeting will take place virtually pursuant to the law signed by Governor Healey Healey on March 28th, 2025, which extends the temporary provisions pertaining to the open meeting
002law. The language does not make any substantive changes to the open meeting law other than extending the expiration date of the temporary provisions regarding remote meetings from March 31st, 2025 to June 30th, 2027. Yes. Um I also will say that um in addition to those of us in the room, the meeting is being livereamed on willynet.org and uh broadcast live on Spectrum cable TV channel 1302 in Williamstown. and they will also be available on video as video on demand within 24 hours of after the meeting on our Mount Greylock YouTube channel. With all of that, um if we can do a roll call vote uh starting with Jose um no Christina um uh to announce our to open up the meeting. Henry I or here. Constantine here. Dolphin bine burr. Where are you? Curtis the
003arctic. Uh green here. Malloy here. Great. Thank you everybody. Um, Christina, can you read us the mission, please? Yes. At Mount Greylock Regional School District, our mission is to create a community of learners working together in a safe and challenging learning environment that encourages restorative based processes, respect, inclusive diversity, courtesy, integrity, and responsibility through high expectations and cooperation resulting in lifelong learning and personal growth. Thank you. Joe, next on our list is student update. Do you know if we have that today? We will not have a student here tonight, unfortunately. Okay. Um, and then next on our list is public comment. We haven't received any public comment signups, but is there anyone on who wants to give public comment? Okay, then I will look for a motion to approve the minutes for March 13, 2025.
004So moved. Thank you, Curtis. Second. Thank you, Priscilla. Any discussion about those minutes? Hearing none, we'll take a roll call vote. Starting with Christina Conry. I Constantine. I Alvin by an I. Green. I Malloy. I I and Bow and I. Thank you. That passes unanimously. Um next on our list or on our agenda is I wanted to share um uh some thoughts around the ad around the superintendent search. As you all know, Joe is in a um two-year interim role. Um we made that decision last summer to give ourselves some time to get some things in order with the district, especially given the amount of time it would be of the school committee to support the efforts that are happening around the equity imperative and curriculum work. Um but we do need to start planning
005for next year and our superintendent search process. um as the chair it feels like that um I would love to share that load and I have actually asked Carrie and Curtis to support a plan like an ad hoc search planning committee. Um so it's we would not be doing the search but we would be creating the process by which the search will be done. We will not enact that process until we bring it to the full committee. But the idea is rather than one person going off and coming back and saying here's how we should probably do the search or having all of us discuss in this space how we should do the search just to have a smaller committee step forward and help um put a straw man in front of the committee. So
006I just want to um share that and and are there any questions or um thoughts that others might have about that? Thank you for stepping up to uh do that extra work. And if you have what we have not met yet because we haven't formed this subcommittee yet. Um but if any of you do have any um particularly strong thoughts that you want us as when we first meet to start thinking about, please send them my way. But again, it won't be that's not the main source of input. Anything that we discuss will be brought back before the full uh committee. All right. Thank you. Um superintendent update over to you Joe. Yes, there are many wonderful things happening within the school district right now. Um but I am just pulling out four uh school
007committee level uh high level things for this meeting. Um, first off, this past Monday, just a few days ago, um, Julia, Christina, Curtis, and I were with the Lansboro Finance Committee and Select Boards. Um, we we we had a wonderful presentation of of the budget followed by plenty of really detailed questions. Um my sense was that both both of their committees were were largely in favor of of what we were presenting. Um albeit with reservations about just just how large the ask is in terms of percentage increases. Um so overall very positive. Um that milestone is done. Now, we're looking ahead to the Williamstown town meeting in May and then the Lanssboro Town meeting in June as our next big milestones associated with getting the school committee's budget across the finish line for this coming
008year. Any questions on that one? All right. Um, next up, another exciting Sorry, I had to unmute. Um, just from the school committee members who were present, were there any questions that we hadn't received before or anything that surprised you? I think so. Okay. Yeah, I don't think there was there were any surprises in the questions. There were some very detailed questions um just to try to get a better understanding of school systems and kind of how they work uh from some of the newer members on the two committees. Gotcha. Great. Thank you. Next up, another big and exciting thing. um the uh Massachusetts Green School Works program that um we have been working uh kind of in in concert with to attempt to put large solar installations on top of each of the two
009elementary schools and in assoc in association with that having new roofs um put on our 20s something year old buildings um is funded in 2025. So, in calendar year 2025, they're distributing, I believe it's $55 million. Um, and they announced the grant availability March 30th. The uh the applications are due April 30th, and we should know whether or not we are um admitted into the program by the end of June. If we are, that would mean that we would immediately go into planning mode with bids going out for the roofing work. Um, and hopefully that would mean construction next summer, 2026. Now, there is a big um caveat here in that um Green School Works put a qualifier on eligibility for the program in that um any school that applies needs to have served a
010student population that is at least 40% low-income in at least one of the last three school years, 2023, 2024, or 2025. Um, Lansboro Elementary School qualifies in two of the last three school years, which means that it's in. Um, I did ask the question of the Mass CEC folks who administer this program. We have two elementary schools within our district. Um, one Williamtown Elementary School is in an environmental justice zone, which is one of the other areas that Green School Works um talks about addressing. Um given that they said if you're using the same approach, same contractors, if you're if you're really trying to do this as one project, just go on ahead and submit them together and then we'll parse out whether we accept only Linds Elementary or if we accept both or it's
011possible that that that they accept none. Um it is a competitive program, so it's not as though just by meeting the requirements um you receive the funding. So exciting. Um, and uh, we'll see what happens. Gary, um, I have a question about how low-inccome is calculated in Williamstown. Do we know if the population factors into that and if the student population is um, broken out into low-income students? So, a few years ago, the um if we look back five, six years ago, low-income populations were were Sorry, I meant Williams College students. I was not clear. It it only has to do with the percentage of the students who are enrolled within the given school building, whether or not they have that. Okay. But the college students make the school wider. So it rave is the
012population from 5 to 7,000 right or 5 to 7 plus thousand. So are they doing it out of seven the percentages? I'm just never clear about that. Uh this is this is only around the um the stu the the will. Okay. So it has nothing to do with the town population. It is just this. Okay. Yeah. Sorry there. Yeah. So it's 430 students at at elementary. So, my other question is, are we still on track for the playground at Williamstown Elementary for this summer? Yes. Um, so there could be two construction projects at the school over the summer. Uh, the the roof and and solar installation would be happening in the summer of 2026. So, not this summer. 26. Okay. whereas the the playgrounds will be installed at Williamson Elementary School in July or early
013August of 2025. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions on that one? All right. The next one is uh is not as wonderful. Um, we've been working with Desi to address being three hours short of our 990 hour structured learning time requirement at Mount Greylock Regional School for this year, the 2024 2025 year. Uh, to remedy the problem, we are going to increase the two exam half days in June to full days. That is a plan that uh Jake Schutz and the administrative team at Mount Greylock um are are uh just completing the planning of right now. um and and he will um make sure uh you know staff are involved in the planning and and families will be notified um very soon if if not if not tonight. Um this is not an issue for
014next year's calendar for the 2526 calendar and it's also not an issue related to the the two elementary schools. Um, and we're working on ways to make sure that that this doesn't happen again. And I'll I'll involve the policy and governance subcommittee um when the time when the time is right. That's that item. I've got one more which I want to end on a high note. Um, the field and track. Uh we have hosted numerous large countywide meets um both uh both regular as well as unified track teams have been able to host um these meets. They have been such bucket filling events. I mean, seeing seeing one just the joy on the kids' faces being able to be out there and and and having this place as their own where where they can do
015all the things that they love with their friends right on campus. Huge. Seeing the way families walk around and enjoy the atmosphere. It's it truly is a carnival-like atmosphere at at uh Field and Track track and field meets. Um the the the thing that we have realized is that when you have roughly 800 people on campus, your parking lot does not it doesn't serve that need terribly well. Um so we've got a lot of overflow parking that's been happening. Um we are working on um reinstating ways to better utilize uh where the temporary administrative buildings have been up the hill. Um, so we've got a good problem to have, which is we've got we've we're bringing too many people um to campus. Um, and we're working on it. Um, but but outside of that, it's
016just been wonderful. Now, the the contractors, the the um the project team, they are working on um refining the field on the interior that will be open in the fall for uh starting with soccer. Um there were some electrical outlet issues during at least the first meet um that needed to get worked on. So, there are things like that. Um, but it's just a wonderful facility that the that the community is already enjoying and the people from all over the county are visiting. So, um, a lot of a lot of thanks to everybody who worked on it for the last 10 10 years. Absolutely. Um, Joe, since finance isn't on the agenda this meeting, do you want to mention also the chapter 71 funding? Sure. Um the uh the other update is that uh um
017the Massachusetts um uh state government uh just yesterday approved um a shift for FY25 for the current year um from an 84% uh transportation reimbursement to a full 100% transportation reimbursement, which is a a a real relief in a in a pretty challenging funding environment. So, a lot of thanks to all the advocates who um who are out trying to make sure that that happened. Um and and thanks to uh all of our representatives who who voted in favor because for U Mount Greylock Regional School District, I believe it's going to be an extra $175,000 thereabouts um that that we will be receiving as a part of as a part of this year. Um, and in a year where quite honestly we've seen plenty of cost overruns and and just situations that have cropped up
018and ways the costs have increased. Um, it's it's going to make it uh possible for us to well for me to sleep a little bit better better and for all of us to breathe a little bit easier. Um, so a lot of appreciation for that too. All right, that's all I had for the superintendent update. you want to roll right into the um incident response improvement project update. Yes. So, I included in your packet an update on the work that our uh advisory group um consisting of uh parent guardians, community uh community members, staff members um has been doing with the equity imperative. Um and uh our our first area of work was trying to look in a 360 degree way at um how the district manages responses to incidents incidents of all sorts whether
019they're bullying or bias or or title n sexual and harassment or discrimination um and so on. Um so incidents of all sorts. We um we first presented the equity imperative with a large body of background information. All of our policies, our procedures, we set them up with focus groups and stakeholder meetings. Um we met with them, our our group of 10 met with them um on a regular basis. And then the equity imperative came back. Um I summarized uh their um their findings and recommendations within the document that's in the packet. Um and and to to give a high level summary, it is um we need to do a better job of of educating people before anything ever happens as to here's what you should expect from us when something happens. Here's how to report
020it and here's here's what to um what to what to do next. Here here here are the documentation pieces that you should expect to receive so that accountability is there and so on. um that couples with um increased training for staff around how to respond when an incident happens, whether it's in a classroom or in a hallway. Um and so that's piece one. Piece two is getting the getting the end toend uh communication um management system where we receive the report, we instantly notify folks that that we've got it. um we know where we are within each step in the process in a way that is more systematic um more failsafe in terms of understanding exactly who did what and when um so that if there are concerns about follow-th through if there are concerns
021about where we are within a process or how long something takes um that we have accountability embedded there. Um it'll also make it so the staff are able to just manage um manage situations with uh with with more efficiency um and confidence. Um and so that is what is summarized here. Um the good news is that then when we took that first step um and and we acknowledged the ways that ways and areas that we could improve um the equity imperative said and guess what uh there is no perfect blueprint for this. um they they showed us um samples from other school districts of here's a great form or here's a great piece that's really clear about what bullying is or um here is a here's a piece that that that shows a flowchart of
022a a process um but none of them are within a single school district um none of them are are just readily copyable so what we are involved in right now is the work necessary to try to pick all of the best practices that we can find, incorporate those into a process for us into educational materials and and a full process for us. Um, and then be able to come out with something that that quite honestly I think should be a wonderful standard bearer for a thoroughly thought out, cohesive, um, very forwardlooking um, way to way to respond to incidents. Um, so that's a quick summary. I did include at the end of the document um the things that that I think in addition to um what I just stated we'll we'll want to discuss. Um
023we have policy updates, some some that are going through tonight that'll be approved tonight. Um related to um both uh uh sexual and sexbased discrimination and harassment um as well as um civil rights related um uh protection policies. We have more work to do potentially within our bullying policy. Um that's one where we just did an update last year. it is fully compliant with all the legal frameworks and requirements. But um we can go farther in terms of making offering clear language and clear um more clear language I should say and more clear links and um and avenues into then utilizing that. So so to make it more interconnected with what we do. Um that's part one. So that's the policy side. Um the um the working group I already mentioned that we're working on
024all of the different materials and the and the processes that we need in order to go live. Um and we are looking at various ways to within software um do a better job of managing the process end to end. Um currently we do we have we have some things that are within our final sitebased website. Um we use powers school for logging incidents. We use Google Sheets for managing some things, but figuring out how to how to better work those together or come up with something new. Um, that's an area where there is no perfect out of the box system. So, we're going to figure out how to uh how to glue something together um and make it work really well um for all of the things that we want it to. Um so, we're
025trying to finish all of this work by the end of the summer. Um so that implementation meaning education uh starting to use a process being able to talk readily about about it in depth um will happen in the fall of this year fall of 2025 um and uh and quite honestly it's been really uplifting work because as as painful as this topic is um and needing to respond to incidents um being able to delve into all of the details and trying to understand how we can better support our students and better support our staff and supporting our students um has has been really rewarding. So, I'm I'm really looking forward to to trying to get it across the finish line here over the next few months. Um that's my summary. I I don't know if
026any uh if anybody else wants to add who who's been involved in the work or or if we want to jump into discussion, but I'm here for that. Yeah, Joe, just just want to thank you um for helping lead the charge. It's been a real pleasure to work with members of your staff um as well as uh caregivers in our in our community and and Curtis. So, it's been uh really thoughtful work um you know, and and I'm excited to see where where it all go. Curtis looks wind blown, but yeah. I have a question when there's time. Yeah. Yep. Or is Curtis gonna say something? Curtis looks frozen. He does. Both virtually and and Yeah. Give him a second. But at least he was frozen with a smile on his face. That's a Yeah.
027Yeah. Um so my question is um whether there's a best practice or um a kind of training that happen regular bits in schools or you know you hope these incidents happen rarely but if they do happen rarely then we don't know what to do when they happen and we can talk about what should we be done and we can have it in a policy book but you don't want people to have to go to a piece of and think about, okay, how should I handle this? And I noticed there was a comment in the um document you shared that faculty often just don't know what to do or how to respond. Um which is fair. Uh and I know with title N training and um uh various other trainings, there's a you know there is
028and ethics trainings, right? you you have to go through there's a requirement to go through a computer training and get everything right before you can get some certification or something. So I don't know if those kinds of things exist or there are films that um companies or these consulting firms have made where you know it it it helps to helps folks to realize what is and what isn't you know this and you know I I just you know I worry that we do all this work of which you know it was all nec it is all necessary and I very much appreciate it But then and you say that we'll, you know, be training people and educating people in the fall, but what happens after that? What happens on a regular basis to make sure
029that our entire school community understands um what biases, what bias incidents are, and how we should all be responding to them. It's it's going to be a continuous process. um an annual process. And the the best first step that we can have is to have all of the materials ready that just very transparently, very clearly, and and and in a way that's very simple to digest, provides people with the the entryway into understanding it, and then and then all the depth that we can. Um, in terms of the training that follows, out of the box, um, because school districts each handle classification of incidents, um, the taring of incidents and and how to respond to them, how to respond to repeat incidents differently from first time. And so like there there's so many nuances there
030that it really will be a a very um local um body of work necessary to be able to give people a sense of of our specifics. Now in terms of understanding what is um what is a microaggression or what is a bias incident, what is a bullying incident, um those are things that in the past we have we have done a variety of different of different trainings um on within professional development environments. um figuring out the the cohesive package that that we want to really try to work with and then and then use with all staff and and use for all new staff as as part of the onboarding process and so on. Um that's going to be something that we need to that we need to work on pulling together. Um because like like
031I said from the start, it's it's both comforting and disturbing that there really is no place to just point to and say that's the path. You know, that's the body of educational resources. Um but there are lots of good examples in in in pieces. And so we're going to need to to pull those together. Thank you, Joe. Not seeing other questions. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Jose. Thank you, Curtis. Thank you to the entire um committee working on this. Uh we know how important this work is. Um and we look forward to hearing. Seems like there's still a lot ahead. So, we look forward to seeing um what you continue to bring forward. Um, next on the agenda is um a discussion around the interim superintendent evaluation process for which I have a proposal and
032I would love to get um any feedback or um thoughts on this. Uh so we're coming on the end of the year uh time to be evaluating our interim superintendent. Um, we know Joe gave us at the start of the year November goals for this year. Um, and in this pack shared with us kind of how that breaks out. It was in this pack, right? I can get confused quickly. Um, it in this pack shared with us um the kind of goals entered into the um superintendent rubric. Um what um I propose we do to for this evaluation uh Joe is going to write up a self-evaluation um and get that to us by ear by May by our by the time of our May meeting. Um, and then what I I liked the way
033Christina handled this last time um, where we each um, individually evaluated um, based on the self-evaluation and the and what we already know about uh, what we've seen in meetings and um, the documents we've seen, etc. um we each individually complete the superintendent rubric and then I can coalate them and I'm happy to hand that to somebody else if somebody else wants to do the coalating but I imagine I would coalate them u from everybody else and come to our June meeting with an evaluation um for Joe. So that's my proposal and I'm open to hearing any other suggestions or different ways to do it. Go ahead Steve. I I just wanted to make sure with all that's going on with budget season and everything that this is a good timeline for Joe or would
034he prefer us to move it back a month? There's always plenty of stuff happening so now is as good of a time as ever. Thank you for the consideration, Steve. Yeah, thank you though. So, are are we doing a midcycle evaluation process or we're just this is just a time to touch base on how to do the evaluation in the spring? Uh, this moment right now was meant to do how to how we would do the evaluation in the spring. We didn't do a midcycle in part because the goals come out in November and we're evaluating them in June. So yeah, I just wonder if um the goals might come out earlier next year and then we can do a midcycle check-in. Yeah. Yes. I I I will try to make sure that you have
035goals for next year no later than the August meeting, hopefully the July meeting so that you'll so we'll be able to do a true mid mid cycle. Thanks you. Any other questions? All right. Um then Jose, I'm going to hand it over to you for the policy and governance subcommittee report. Thanks Julia. Um we've got keeping track six action items before you. Um three revised policies, two that are new. Uh each of these we talked about at our last school committee meeting. Um each of these have been unanimously moved by our policy and governance subcommittee. Uh, and we'll go through each one and I'll ask if if anyone would like to second our motion to consider each of these um each of these policies, one of which is a motion to resend an existing policy.
036So, we'll we'll start off uh with policy AC, non-discrimination policy, including harassment and retaliation. Would anyone like to second the motion to adopt this policy by the policy and governance subcommittee? Second. Thanks, Carrie. Um any any discussion? Okay, we'll roll call vote. Um start wherever you want. Start wherever want. Go backwards. It gets confusing. Let's let's let's just try backwards. Does that mean Steve? All right. Yes, Stephen starts. So, Miller I Malloy. So, Julie is inv. We don't have Curtis. We don't have Curtis. Okay. Uh Constantine I. Henry I. Ow. And I. All right. The motion passes. Um up next is policy ACA. Uh revised policy non-discrimination on the basis of sex. Um, would anyone like to second the motion to adopt this policy? I'll second. Thank you, Ursula. Any discussion? I think we'll just
037keep up with our or keep keep with the theme here. So, uh, roll call vote reverse alphabetical order. We should do it by middle name. I Malloy I. Green I. Constantine I. Conry I. Ow. And I. All right. Motion passes. Um, up next is a new policy, policy ACA-R, non-discrimination on the basis of sex under Title 9, including sex-based harassment. Anyone like to to second our motion? Second. Thank you, Carrie. Uh, any discussion? Roll call vote. Similar theme. Stay the theme. I. Malloy. I I. Constantine. I Conry I. Ow. I. Motion passes. Um, policy ACAB, a revised policy on sex, uh, sexual and sexbased harassment and retaliation. Would anyone like to second our motion to adopt this policy? Second. Thanks, Carrie. Any discussion? All right, roll call vote. Miller I. Malloy I. Green eye. Constantine
038I. Henry I. Owen I. Motion passes. Um, next up, new policy AC-R non-discrimination policy including harassment and retaliation. Uh, would anyone like to second our motion? Carrie. Second. Thanks, Carrie. Uh, any discussion? just distracted by the the figure behind Stephen. But uh roll call. I'm in the library so I'm going by different posters. Miller I. Malloy I. Green eye. Constantine I. Henry I. Okay. Uh next up is a motion to resend existing policy ACAB-R which is um the con the uh much of all of which is is covered by the other policies that we've just uh passed. So this policy is sexual harassment policy for sexual harassment against employees. Would anyone like to second our motion to resend this policy? Second. I apologize. I'm going to assume it was you Carrie. I have my viewer
039off screen. Any discussion? Could I ask a question before we move this one? Um, are any of the speaking of rescending, are any of the rescendings of, you know, various federal policies um being discussed or the potential rescending of various policies being discussed in the policy subcommittee? Any any concerns that have arisen lately? Um, anything specific? I guess Joe is So, yeah. So, the these Title N updates that we've been working on for the last four months, they they changed midway through the process. Mhm. Um when the federal government uh repealed the 2024 Title 9 regulations and and sent us back to 2022. Um that said, the state of Massachusetts stepped in and said since you're in the state of Massachusetts, certain provisions that we require by law should still exist. So what we have
040here is the 2022 federal title N set. Um but uh protection around um gender identity is included um because of if we were in another state that might not be a part of title n because we're in Massachusetts it is. Um, so a lot of thanks to to our state for um maintaining higher and and more forward uh standards, but we do run the risk of running a foul of the federal government with or we protected. We are required by Massachusetts law to do what we are doing. So if the federal government the federal government would would be going after the state of Massachusetts as opposed to Mount Greylock Regional School District. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. Uh but yeah, I mean it's it's unfortunately it's a it's a topic for um both the policy and
041governance subcommittee. We've been spending time on it and we're certainly spending time on it with the work that we're doing with the equity imperative too. Thanks Gary. Any other questions or I'm anxious to see what Steve is who Steve is standing in front of. Oh, but you're on mute. Steve, you're you're mine. Good night. Oh, wonderful. This is This should be I'm hoping we can keep this up. Uh it's a big library. Uh roll call. I Miller I. Malloy I. Green eye. Constantine. I Henry I and I. All right, the motion passes. Um you'll all see in the agenda four policies um or four policy topics I should say that are there as information items that our subcommittee will um be considering and are planning to um have available as discussion items at a uh
042at our next full committee meeting. And I think that's it from us. So back to you, Julia. Excellent. Thank you. Um how about our um bis assistant superintendent for business um Joe Berseron? Why don't you take the next item? Sure. Uh we we have um a set of copy releases that need approval by the school committee because um they are agreements that are in excess of the three years that that the administration is allowed to do. Um they are five-year copier leases. So we do need a vote from you. Um these are really just updates to um all of the existing machines that are that are in place across uh three schools. Um this is only a subset of all of the of all of the copers and and printers that are that are leased.
043Um we're gradually trying to get them all into a single into a single cycle, but we're not quite there yet. Um there are some cost increases. They are all budgeted for um for moving forward and um and they are all within reason given the given the use that we've got. They are also all bound by state contracts. So it's not as though um we uh we bid them or um or uh have any real control over pricing here. And you need a vote um to approve this to approve the lease as presented. Yes, please. Okay. Do we have a motion for that? I'll move the approval of the lease as presented. Thank you, Carrie. And second. Thank you, Christina. Any discussion? Hearing none. Oh, it's just tempting. I thank you Steve Malloy I All right
044green I Henry I oh and I All right that is approved unanimously. Um Carrie how about the MASC division six report. Yeah. So, um, most of the MASC board representing all divisions went to Atlanta for the National School Boards Association conference because a former president of the MASC board from Holio was becoming president of the National School Boards Association. The National School Boards Association is in a bit of a pickle right now because um I think their their director who is no longer their director published something that was on the too liberal side uh for many of their members and many states pulled out last year. So they're in a kind of a regrouping. Um that said the conference was in the world congress center which is huge. Um and uh there were some good
045sessions. I I'm downloading I'm in the process of downloading um the materials from some of the sessions I went to and I can share those with Joe and Julia. I think they're relevant. But I'll just say the one session I went to that I found um most interesting was one on rural schools where the presenter was from Mississippi. And if we think we are rural, we should think again because she would be laughing at us. Um, and the issues that the rural schools face in the Midwest and West are quite significantly different from the ones that we face in the state of Massachusetts, even though we are considered rural. Um, so that said, the next MASC event is one that you are all invited to. It is Day on the Hill and it is Tuesday,
046May 6th. There is a form to sign up on the MASC website. Um, and I encourage folks to attend. I think it would be great if students attended. I did, you know, speak to student council a few years ago about this. Um, students, it's a it's a day for legislative advocacy and MESC has things that they are advocating for which is based on the things that we as school committees are advocating for. But students should go and advocate for what they want to advocate for. you know, you can make appointments to meet your legislators and um it's good to make appointments in advance. There's a lunch that um is provided which um you know is is provided by um I forget which of the schools it's a school that has a dining program. So, it's
047really quite extraordinary and I encourage members and and students to attend if you know if you're all at all interested. Um, but I will be attending that as well. That's it. Thank you. Did I mention the date day on the hill? Tuesday, May 6th. Um, yeah. Thank you, Carrie, for representing us for representing Massachusetts um at the national conference. And thank you um for bringing that finding those resources and bringing them back here. So, thank you for all of that. That's not um it's a lot of time. So, um we are now uh we have a um we will I'm looking for a motion to enter into executive session with the intent to return to open session pursuant to uh Mass General Law Chapter 3A section 21A1 to discuss the reputation, character, physical condition or
048mental health rather than professional competency of two individuals um regarding sick leave bank requests. So, if I could have a motion for that, we're going to go into roll call. Um, use a roll call to go into executive session and Joe will walk us through what we need to do. So, moved. Thank you, Carrie. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Christina. And I think what you should do is join the breakout room that Joe has invited you into. We have to roll call in. Oh, sorry. Okay. We have a motion and a second. So, wait. Um, I I will vote yes, but I'm not in a place where I can go I I can go to a place where I'm listening to it on the phone. I just can't speak. Okay, that's fine. Just
049you'll listen. I will just listen. I will not say anything. Thank you. Do you want to start the roll call? Milly eye. Green eye. I I Okay. Welcome back everybody. Um we have uh two votes to take. Uh can I get a motion on case A? So moved. Oh, we need we need the motion. And what happened to Jose was gonna make it. No. Maybe he's lose him. Maybe he clicked leave meeting. That's always tough. All right. I don't see him on the list of people right now. No, he's not here. Um, can somebody else make that motion in his absence? I'll make the mo um I'll make the motion. So, uh, the motion is to deny the request from case A. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. I Let's do a roll call
050vote starting with Conry. It's on case A. Jose. On case A. And the sorry the motion is to deny the request on case A. Thank you. Thank you Christina. Jose. Is he frozen or I think he froze. That or he's having the deepest reflection ever. Oh no. My back. My back. Apolog apologies. I'm having uh Zoom issues. Uh Constantine I. Elvin B I Green I. Malloy I. Miller I and Bow and I. Okay. On case B. Uh can I have a motion for case B? Move to approve case B. Sec. Please. I see a second from Curtis. I And let's do a roll call vote starting with Christina. Henry I. Constantine I. Elen by I. Green I. Malloy. I. Miller. I. And Bowen. I. Thank you. Those have been uh voted on and uh unanimously.
051Um upcoming meetings, policy subcommittee uh on April 17th at 5:00 p.m. We have our next school committee meeting at on May 8th at 6 p.m. The Williamstown annual town meeting is on May 22nd. Please encourage all who can to be there. Um I and then the Lansboro annual town meeting is June 10th. Are there I I have no other items that are for discussion that weren't reasonably anticipated. Um do you Joe? No. Okay. Um are there any agenda requests? Can it be spring daffodil? think it's spring. Mine thought it was spring. I I I second that. Uh I have nothing. No. Hearing none. Um can I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. And a second. Second. Thank you. We didn't vote last time, but let's swing through a vote just for kicks. Starting backwards
052with Steve. Oh no, you got to come off mute. I know. I'm trying to. It's still I want to keep it quiet as long as possible. Miller and curious George. I Malloy I green green eye. Belfin by an eye. Oh, sorry. No. Never do it backwards again. We did it all night. Curtis, Jose, did we get your vote? Constantine. I and Bow and I. Thank you everybody. Thanks guys. Have a good night. Good night. Yay. Sorry everybody.