001that uh good evening. The uh financing law subcommittee shall come to order. I'll start with roll call. Mrs. Shavs, >> present. >> Mr. Vieiraa, >> present. >> Chairman Dlo present. First item uh is special education expense uh services. See attached memo. Mrs. Monahan, welcome. >> Thank you, Dr. Dlo. Um we're beginning our new fiscal year for FY26. This one is for our special education and student services related matters. FY26, we've budgeted just like last year, $50,000 for these legal matters. For July 2025, we were um invoiced for $6,100, which brings our total balance for the rest of the fiscal year for $43,846.96. >> Wonderful. Wishes of the committee. Yes, Mr. Dear. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, is this in line with what we spent last year at this time? >> It I don't really
002I can't confirm that. I'm really not too too sure. I can get back to you. Um, but again, this was very minimal for for the summer month. >> Okay. I'd make a motion to uh receive in place on file. >> Second, but one quick >> second on discussion. Mrs. Did we exceed this? Cuz I know um towards the end of the year we were getting really close to exceeding it. >> So what happens is remember last year and again this year we have two um two legal. So we have legal for special ed legal for the employment and contracts and other legal matters. And so what we did is we did 50,000 on each. So last year yes towards the end one was higher than the other but overall we equal out. Yes. >> Okay.
003Thank you. Motion is made and seconded. All in favor? I >> opposed. Eyes have it. Thank you. Next up, we have coaching for change. See attached memo. Uh Mrs. Monahan, would that be you? >> Thank you. >> Again, these are as requested by the school committee. Each time that we are invoiced for coaching for change, we ask for services rendered a a brief description. So, behind the memo, you will see the description of what was happening in September. And this is just setting everything up. This year we are using um we're working with coaching for change in two schools where last year we did three. So again, this is a little bit less than last year's contract. And again, this is just the setup for the month. >> Wonderful. And the uh will be in
004the warrant uh for FY26. I forget what page it's on, but we'll see it on the warrant. >> Correct. >> Any uh comments? Uh >> yes, Mr. Shaves. We had discussed last year having some kind of standardized form for them filling out the information. >> Someone was supposed to >> I just noticed that. Yeah. Making a note that we didn't use the standardized form. >> I'd like to see that because I think it would be easier for us to go through like how many students they're accessing and >> so forth. >> We'll make sure that's >> okay. Thank you. >> Great. A motion uh was made and seconded. All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. Thank you. Uh next up we have bills payable. We'll start off with FY25 in the amount of $20,8418.
005Wish to the committee. >> Motion to approve in the amount stated for FI25. >> Seconded on discussion. >> Yes, Mrs. Shuffs. >> Just a quick question on the custom computer specialist. I know it's instructional hard uh hardware. >> Um was this something that wasn't build earlier? >> What hap it was build when we received it. Um, so again, since it's technology, it takes a little bit longer. These are for the Chromebook charging uh lockers that are in the middle school classrooms. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Sure. I just have one item uh on RS rental >> uh the 58450. I kind of have a feeling what it's for, but could you just >> This is the rental of the boom lift and a lift at Taton High School. >> So, um I I see a
006lot of these charges coming in. Would it be prudent to buy a boom lift for our school system? That would be I mean bureaus all over the district east you know east taunt at Martin Middle. >> We could look into it. I mean the the other thing we must remember too it's the liability the upkeep and making sure the maintenance of that as well. But I can look into seeing how much it would be versus what we are renting. >> Yeah. So I'm I'm sure that was >> again I think similar to that I think it' be interesting to see is this a recurring type of cost like I'd like to see like how much do we spend in the last year? It's usually we do this as mostly as when school is out again
007for maintenance and then of course for mural painting. It doesn't really happen that often. Um so I don't see it to be but I can bring that if you would like me to do so. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you. >> So just to be clear it's a casebyase basis. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> But but I mean I we've been very successful in you know in putting up banners, right? We know that. That's great. Uh the Martin Middle School and I'm sure we have other projects coming down. Uh, I mean, $5,000 is this for a month, two months, whatever it may be. I'm just doesn't hurt to inquire. >> Absolutely. >> You you bring up a good point because this is something that I mean, personally, this as long as I'm superintendent Taton that I'd
008like to continue uh seeing as an ongoing basis at all our schools. So, if it makes sense to purchase our own lift, then maybe that's something we should look into or maybe we could even look work with the building department or the DPW or park and cemeteries about cost sharing one >> if they need. Good idea. Abs. Okay, great. Motion was made and seconded. All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. And the next item up we have for FY26 bills payable in the amount of $860,526.35. Wishes of the committee. >> Motion to approve in the amount of $860,526.35. >> Seconded on discussion. >> Please, Mrs. Shves. >> This was a hefty one. So, of course, >> um my my first one was on page four. Um the air duct services for $4,575. I mean,
009yeah, $75. What school was that? It says equipment repairs. >> So, that's a excuse me, that is all of our schools and it's the cleaning of um the cleaning of our hood, kitchen hoods in in each of the cafeteria kitchens. >> Kitchen hoods. Mhm. >> The next one is on page six, Carolina Biological Supply Company. >> This one you'll see reoccurring throughout the year. This is usually your um high school um science supplies for the um science department at the high school. Again, >> that was what page, Mrs. Sh? >> Page six. >> Thank you. >> Number 1320. The next one I have is on page seven. Um the AP capstone summer training, what AP course was that for? >> It must be with an English one. It's um as I have the staff member
010that attended, so it's in English. Yes. >> Okay. And that's obviously at the high school. >> Correct. >> The next one I have is on page 15. Johnson Supply of Bridgewater. Um they have $2,844.92 in total. It says maintenance of buildings. What buildings was that? Sorry about that. I'm trying to find it. I'm part. What page is that again, please? >> Page 15. >> Invoice number 25642. Johnson Supply. >> I'd have to probably look to see which school it was for because right now what I see it as the total amount. It would be air filters that are for all of our schools. We work with the building department to tell us what is needed for the year for um changing all the air filters in our HVAC. >> So, all schools. Yes. Okay. Um
011page 19, um number two 5260, Milhench supply. They have a custodial supply in the middle. I mean, the total is 45,000, but in the middle there's a big one for $39,290.13. >> Yes. What we ended up doing is we purchased some district-wide cleaners, the machines to make it more efficient for our custodians to clean our schools. Districtwide cleaners. Is this for um clean floors? >> No. Um all in tile floors. >> Tiles. Okay. For the for the whole district. >> Yes. Multiple schools. >> And the last one I have is on page 22. Um the one goal for 30,000. It says instructional service contract SVC. >> Yes, that is um that is a program at the high school that is being used. I can't find here it is. Um, so it is a curriculum that
012is being used at the high school. I'm not sure what grade level, but I believe it's more towards um it's getting students ready to go on into into college or the workforce. >> So, is it in a particular department or is it is or is it >> it's in the business department? >> Is in the business department. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, exactly. I know the name. >> Thank you, Dr. Dlo. >> You're welcome. Uh, just on on that point though, the one goal. Yes. So, is that the program? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> You attended a year >> that I attended. Yeah. And I I know we were talking about reimagining that because the cost was high and we couldn't expand beyond a hundred students. There was something peculiar about that. >>
013No, there was if I my my memory serves me correctly, they were competing programs, >> okay, >> that the high school was was running. But this program has been so successful. >> Okay. >> Uh that we've continued to budget it. >> Okay. Which I'm totally in favor. I just I just remember that there was something that like you said the >> Is there a limit? Is there a limit to that >> to a number of students? Yes, >> there is a limit. >> Okay, that's what I thought. Okay. So, we're good with that and it's going to serve our needs for this academic year. Correct. >> Yeah, if you remember correctly, it it helps to re-engage students at the high school. Yep. >> And prepares them to be successful for junior college or college. >>
014Yep. It was I again I agree and I was there with a presentation. It was unbelievable uh you know the stories that I heard and of course uh it's well welld deserved. Uh Mr. Beer, anything from you? >> Yes, thank you Mr. Chairman. I have a question. Page 10, Ethos Evacuation Strategies LLC in the amount of $2,585. These are the evacuation chairs um that are needed for students and to to go in if they're on an uh second or third floor. It's for any type of evacuation. It's to help students get out out of the building safely. >> Okay. And then on page 14, Imagine Learning LLC 37,860 1 cent. Yes, that is um the high school and also um it's the high school math for the textbooks and the other two um our light
015it's software licenses. >> Wonderful. All my questions have been answered. Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. And I only have one uh question. Page 29 uh $717.50 Yonder Inc. those are considered. We needed to purchase additional lock boxes for this um for the high school to make it more efficient um in doing the um having the yonder pouches in the school. So, it's additional purchases for that. >> So, after spending $104,000, we still needed a couple more lock boxes. >> So, these so these are for students who come in. Let me make I saw them the other day and I had the same question. So these are almost like suitcases or cases for students who is it they forget their ya pouch. >> Yes. >> They forget their ya pouch but
016they bring the phone. So they turn over their phone at the security gate and the phone gets secured in the lock box until the end of the day. >> So So if my memory serves me correctly, the the process was supposed to be so that the student almost had to go to security. It was kind of an inconvenience for them because they forgot the pouch um to to to um help assist in implementing the pouches. >> Makes sense. >> Okay. All right. Motion was made and seconded. I'm going to make an amendment. I'm going to vote present on uh voucher number 25867 amount of $717.50. If the maker of the motion would kindly accept the friendly amendment. >> Yes. >> All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. And I believe that's all we have
017for the order of business. Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor? I opposed. We are adjourned. Thank you. >> Good evening. The first regular meeting of October for the time school commission will come to order. Please stand for the pledge and the invocation. >> I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, say can you see by the dawn early light what so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming who brought stripes and bright stars through the peril. last fight. Or the ramparts we watched were so gallently streaming and the rockets red. The bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
018Oh, say does that star spangled then wave or the land of the free and the home of the brave. [Music] >> Secretary Fagan. Lord, as we begin this session, let us acknowledge your goodness and mercy and ask your blessings on all our deliberations. We thank you for this opportunity to be of service to our community and to the young people entrusted to our care. >> Thank you. >> And on the roll call, I'll do that, too. >> Yes, Miss Secretary Fagan. >> Mr. Enus, >> present. >> Mrs. Shabs, >> present. >> Mr. Palowski, >> present. >> Uh, Mrs. Fagan is present. Miss Santos, >> present. >> Mr. Mr. Vieiraa >> present. >> Mr. Laura is absent and uh chairman Dr. Dil >> present. Thank you so much. Uh first order of business be approval of
019minutes of September 17, 2025. >> Motion to approve the minutes from the September 17th meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Eyes have it. Next up, we have a student advisory committee report. And with us tonight, we have Isaiah Wendell. Welcome. >> Thank you. As Dr. Mr. Dlo said, "My name is Isaiah Wendle and I am part of the Taton High School student advisory committee. First off, our girls, varsity, and JV soccer teams are off to a strong start this season. The teams have been putting in all the work, and it's great to see the support of students and families at the games. Our math team will once again be competing at WPI this year. It is always a big opportunity because winning teams can receive awards including scholarships. We wish our
020team the best of luck as they prepare to represent Ton High. Academically, the first progress report of the year will be closing this Friday, October 3rd. They will be available for review in the community portal the following Friday. I'd also like to recognize an impressive academic accomplishment. Out of 50,000 students nationwide who scored at the top level on the PSAT, two of them are right here at Ton High. Congratulations to Megan Sang and Rowan Kimber Kimmer who along with 34,000 other students received accommodations for their outstanding scores. Speaking of the PSATs, they will be administered again this year on October 18th. Again with the athletic side, congratulations to our field hockey team who won their first game of the season three to zero against Dery. Additionally, Taton High School will be hosting an annual sickle
021cell walk led by our African-American club. Everyone is invited to take part in this important event this weekend. And lastly, but certainly not least, I want to take a moment to recognize someone very special to Taton High School. As many of you know, Mrs. Lasser will be retiring at the end of this month after 27 years in Taon public schools. Mrs. Lasser has worked along countless administrators, staff and students for nearly for over three decar three decades. She has always been the type of person who goes above and beyond. Whether it is simply helping someone solve problems behind the scenes, supporting an initiative, or being a steady presence in the building. Her dedication has never gone unnoticed. She has made a lasting impression on the district and every person lucky enough to know her. On
022a personal note, Mrs. Lasser is also a family friend. So, I've been able not to only see her professional side, but also the kind of person she is outside of school. Her kindness, her work ethic, the way she treats people with genuine care are the few qualities that make her so respected and loved in this community. Although I half jokingly asked her to hold off retiring until I graduate. Uh, I truly mean it when I say she will be missed. On behalf of the students of Taton High School and behalf of myself, I wish her nothing but the best in her well-deserved retirement. Mrs. Lasser, thank you for everything you've given to this school and community. We appreciate you. >> Thank you. >> And that concludes my student advisory report. [Applause] >> Well done, Isaiah.
023Was that in the form of a motion to keep her on until you graduate? All in favor? I >> I opposed. Can't go anywhere, Miss Lasser. Please. >> I can be saved. >> There you go. Thank you so much, Isaiah. Very well done. Uh you represent the student body well. Very well. >> Uh next up, we have public input. And uh Secretary Fagan. >> Yes. In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 39, section 23C, we kindly request that individuals wishing to provide public input sign up in advance. A copy of the regulation and guidelines will be provided upon sign up and individuals will be asked to state their name and address for the record. The amount of time each registered individual will have to speak will be determined by the number of people who sign
024the register and will be announced prior to the start of the public input portion of the meeting. >> Thank you, Secretary Fagan. We only have two folks signed up, so you can take as long as you'd like. And first up, we have Audrey Reese uh topic. Thank you. >> Okay, first of all, I'm here mostly because of Dr. Dlo. When I called him to talk to him, the first thing he said to me was, "What's the problem now, Mrs. Reese?" And I said to him, "No, this is a call to thank you." I am a person that when somebody does something that I ask or attempt to do what I ask that I want to thank them for their time and their work that they put towards it. So, it was a little joke. Um,
025I want to thank the school committee for stepping up to the plate, excuse me, and um, working on the language that has been a real big difference to the people that I am associated with. And also too, this year, my son is finally in a classroom of his peers. He is no longer that person that everybody's supposed to model to. He had six years of that. And I want to read a little something to you about him. Just it will take me one second. I won't hold you up. He said this to me about his elementary school. Five days of a job you never applied for. Two-day weekend. What What's the big deal? And you don't even get paid. Half the things you learn you'll never use. Your only pay is homework and see you
026on Monday. and that was his definition of elementary school. But now his attitude is different. He enjoys it. He's having so much fun because he's with children that are at his level. He's enjoying the whole experience of being in middle school. And I want to thank you all for that because he is really enjoying it. And I just I also want to say thank you for the language because it really made a big difference to a lot of people I am associated with. So that's why I'm here tonight. Thank you. >> Thank Thank you so much, Mrs. Ree. I just want to be clear. I didn't exactly say what's the problem now. I said, usually when someone calls me, there's a problem. So I enjoy taking calls from every constituent. So no problem at all.
027>> Dr. Dlo, can we just get her address for the record? >> Uh it's on there already. Oh, I'm sorry. It's here. It's already on fire. I'll just leave it on. All right. Uh, but thank you so much for sharing that. Yes. And we did have a nice conversation. It's always nice to get the thank you call. So, thank you for coming in and sharing it with the entire committee. Really appreciate it. Next up, we have Annie St. Stamper uh talking about diversity. Welcome. >> Well, uh, thank you. Good evening. My name is uh Annie Stamper and I'm the parent of a 11year-old son in middle school. He's at the Freeman Middle School. My my only concern is that the diversity of the student body is not reflected in the classroom. Um I haven't been
028in all the schools in Taton, but I've been in three. Um, and I have not encountered one person of color. Not one. And not just racial and also gender. He has not had had a male teacher either. So I was just wondering, you know, what's your stance on diversity? I know it cannot be a lack of uh qualified participants. Uh so I'm just wondering, >> Miss I'm sorry, Miss Stampert, we don't actually respond to you right now, but if when you're done, we're going to refer it to administration. We'll get a motion to do that. So, please. >> Okay. Well, that was that was my main concern. I have I'm I have no problems with my son. He's a excellent student. He's doing quite well. But I think it would be nice if he could
029see at least one person that looks like him. >> Absolutely. >> That that was my my only concern. >> Sure. Thank you so much for coming before us tonight. Of course, like I just said, we don't engage directly, but a motion to refer to the administration would be in order. >> I'll make a motion we refer to um administration. >> Second. Uh, all in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. And, uh, the superintendent's office will follow up with you directly. >> Follow. >> Okay. The superintendent will follow up with you. Thank you. Next up, we have a presentation by one of my favorite uh, organizations uh, people uh, all the above. Uh, DECA Jesse McFale, DECA adviser. Please, thank you. Welcome. >> Thank you all very much for having us. We uh really appreciate the
030invite so that we can kind of share and showcase what we did last year as a recap and share uh what our goals are for this year. And with me, they're going to introduce themselves, but we have our stellar team here. But before I say that, I just want to take a quick aside. It won't be long, but um one thing, I'm just going to speak for myself and my experience in the classroom. The phone and yonder pouch thing has been amazing. Okay, it's bringing me back to my high school days where people are actually talking. I did have a student day one share with me says I don't want to tell my friends, but I think this is actually really good cuz people are talking to each other and things. So, I think the
031kids kind of wanted it but just couldn't do it themselves. So, I think kudos to you guys and thank you very much. The second thing I wanted to share is I'm very excited this year because Isaiah Wendell said he was going to join DECA. So, I'm just letting you know we're excited. We've been trying to chase him down for about five years now. So, all right. So, here he is. All right. So, without further further ado, um we are very excited. We're going to recap a little bit. We're going to talk about what we have planned for this year and the team is going to do that for you. Um but before we introduce that, I want to thank you all for your support throughout the years. This is my 16th year, believe it or
032not. Right. I know it's crazy, right? But, uh it's my 16th year here and um it's been a joy to be able to be an educator in the Taton public schools. Uh it's the only school system I've known to teach in, but it's the only one I'd ever want to teach in. and um I enjoy it for a multitude of factors, but it's offered a really good quality of life for me and my family and um given me the opportunity to be able to share what others have sh uh given me and provided. So, I get to pay it forward a little bit. I'm able to do that through DECA. Um but without you, without our ths staff, without our um community at large, we would not be the success that we are. So, again,
033thank you very much. At this point, I'm going to keep it short. I'm going to turn it over to my co-advisor, Miss Molly Sullivan, who has very exciting news. >> Hi everybody. Thank you for inviting us here today. I'm really excited to be working with this group of students this year. Um, one thing that we want to make sure that we share with everybody is that we're excited to have all three middle schools fully staffed with adviserss this year. So, we have a fully staffed um, middle school program. Um, so at middle school, Freiedman Middle School, we have Miss O'Shea. At Martin Middle School, we have Miss Tolley. And then at Parker Middle School, we have Miss Sansson and Miss Schwar um taking that on. So, we're excited to have them. Um and this is
034a really great thing because our middle schoolers get to experience DECA early. Um and you'll be able to see why that might have that might be a good thing to um have and have them start early a little bit. Um here we go. So, we host a competition every spring for our middle school students and our students come to Taton High School with an ice cream social. So they get to experience a little taste of what that might look like when they get to the high school level. They get to meet these kids and they get to look up to them as they get into our school. Um and then um that actually gives them something to connect to when they get there. So it's really exciting to have them bridge that gap between middle
035and high school. Um without further ado, I'd like to turn it over to Shelby German, our president for this year. [Applause] Hello everyone. Hi. Um, my name is Shelby. I am a 12th grader at Talon High School and I'm the president of DECA this year. Um, thank you so much for inviting us to come talk at the school committee meeting. I've never been to one before so I was very excited to come. Um, I want to quickly introduce all of my officers. I'll just have everyone stand so that you'll get to see their faces and then you'll get to hear a little bit more about what each of them do very shortly. So, first my vice president Amelia Levit. She is in 11th grade and she is my vice president. And then next we have
036Giovanni Magnan. Yay. Who is our VP of hospitality. Next we have Dylados who is our VP of finance. And then lastly we have Von Patel who is our VP of marketing. Oh and Velissa the VP of career development. Sorry my brain jumped. And she is in 12th grade. All right. Okay, first I'd like to do a little recap on what DECA looked like last year. So last year we had 155 district competitors. We had 45 state competitors and 13 ICDC competitors. And something that I want to highlight here beyond the numbers is how many students at Ta High got to have this opportunity, especially thanks to you guys and all the support you guys give us. Um, besides the numbers, it is just such an amazing thing that so many students got to go and
037have this experience because this is this is an experience that truly teaches you so much. You have to talk to an adult. You have to talk about real real world problems. And I think it's so awesome that we have had the opportunity to teach so many kids um about the business world and about the real world and getting them to go on these competitions and it's just a really fun time. So yeah. And then beyond our competition, we also get to do a lot of non-competitive events. The first one that we got to do, we got to go to Bentley University for Fall State, which was a leadership conference where all the students got to go into breakout rooms, network with kids from other schools, and get to learn a lot about leadership. Um, the
038next one, we got to go to the state house last year, and this was an especially awesome thing because we got to ride up with the late Carol Dohy, which was such an awesome experience to get to talk to her. And we noticed the previous year when we went to the state house that the Tata flag was really tattered and old. So we decided to get a new flag and we got to present that to Carol Dhy when we went to the state house last year. And on the right you'll see a picture of all of us there and it was just such a cool experience. And then next we have the induction ceremony. The induction ceremony we have it every year to induct all of our members into DECA. And this year we had
039something especially um cool where we had a bunch of alumni from Tottena who had gone through this program and are now in professional careers come back and give advice to kids now about um how their experience at Ton High DECA improved their professional careers. And then we did mock competitions where we had different adults in the community help judge all of our kids and help prepare them for our actual competitions which took place in January. And then lastly, we had Miles for MDA, which was a muscle walk where we got to raise money for muscular drophe association and we got to do partner with a bunch of local businesses and we just got to bring the whole community together for a fun event. And then I want to give a graduate recap. So our president
040last year, Sophie Almeida Sophie Sophie Almeida is going to UMass Boston for biology. Tommy Hoy is at Northeastern University for computer science and biology. Dan LC is at Bentley University for business management and Brady Syla is at Bryant University with a management and finance degree. And also I want to highlight Gia Landulfi who isn't written but is in our picture and I think that she was very important last year. Um and she is at Gordon College right now for finance. And something that I especially want to highlight here is that everyone at Ton High has this perception that when you're doing DECA you have to be interested in business. Like you have to pursue that in college. And I think that's so important to realize that DECA isn't just for people who want to do
041business in college. I don't want to do business in college. And the things that you're learning in DECA, talking to people, confidence, public speaking is something that you can apply to every career that you do. So I just wanted to highlight that not even our president wasn't going to college for business, but she is going to be using what she learned and taught in higha for the rest of her life. And then lastly, I have some fun photos for everyone. Um some photos I want to highlight in the top right. We went to the state house and that's a photo of everyone who attended. In the bottom right hand corner, we were at Disney Springs in Florida at our national competition last year. Um I have photos of me and Daniel Lec in the middle
042competing in schoolbased enterprise at nationals. I have photos of Dan Lec and Sophie Alita in the top left corner um winning at states for SBE schoolbased enterprise. And in the bottom left you'll see a lot of kids there. Those are all of our competitors who went to compete at the district competition last year, which was just such an amazing number. And I'm so happy that everyone there got to have that incredible opportunity. And yeah, and then the bottom middle photo is from our muscle walk, muscular that we're raising money for muscular destrophe association. So yeah, and then next I want to turn it over to our current vice president, Amelia Levit. [Music] [Applause] So, I want to start by thanking everybody for this opportunity. As Shelby said, my name is Emilia Levit. I'm the vice
043president this year, and I want to emphasize that our team met multiple times over the summer to make these goals to make sure that our club could run smoothly this year. So, starting off, we want to have at least 300 members or more this year. And so, that includes 260 general members, um 30 alumni, and 10 professional. So professional means like business uh sponsorships. And as you guys may or may not know, last year Taunt High DECA was the largest DECA chapter in Massachusetts. And we want to keep that momentum going this year. And secondly, we want to raise two $24,000 um through fundraising for musculardrophe and scholarship. So specifically 20,000 for musculardrophe, 3,000 for oh sorry 1,000 for scholarship and 3,000 for our club. And a few years ago Taton DECA had the honor
044of raising the most money for musculardrophe in the country internationally. And so we were recognized at Mercedes-Benz Stadium at our national competition. And furthermore, we want to have 10 competitors at um our nationals competition. We also want 80% member participation in non-competitive events. So what that means is that any fun events we have, any training events, we want to have at least 80% of our registered members at those events. Moreover, we want to have our social media views um up to 150%. So that's a 23% increase from what we saw last year, and we're already on our way to beating that with our wonderful marketing team. Um, we also want to build a strong community among students, which means making Taunt DECA a more inclusive um, club for everyone. We also, as Miss Selvin already
045touched upon, um, want middle school DECA in all three schools. Moreover, we also want four TCAM episodes um, starring different members of our club. Okay. And so far we've already restructured our officer team. So last year our team just um consisted of the president, the vice president, and then a leadership team. And the issue with that is that a lot of our work was um I'm sorry, I'm trying to find the right word for this. We had the president and the vice president doing a lot of the work and then the rest of the members weren't caring as much. But with this new structure, with our team structure, we have the work evenly distributed among our members. Moreover, we held our first fundraiser before the start of the school year. So, we had it at
046Summer Street School where we got the honor of going in and seeing all of the old furniture and selling it and we raised over $1,000 towards muscular distrophe. Moreover, we held a tailgate membership event and so we got sponsors from multiple businesses. So, we didn't have to spend a single penny on this event and we had free food and we had music and games and it was a good way to hype students up for the football game and for this deck a year. Moreover, we secured five business sponsorships within the first month and we also streamlined our online registration process. So in the past we have tried doing online registration and it got really messy when it came to to students paying and students registering but the way that this new system works is that
047in order to submit the form they have to pay first and I don't understand how we did that. Bon Vetel was able to find this cool nerdy system but I really appreciate that he did that. Okay so now I'm going to turn it over to our career development vice president Melissa Torino. Thank you. [Applause] >> Good evening. As my wonderful vice president just introduced me, my name is Melissa Torino. I'm the vice president of career development. And before I start, I would like to give you guys a brief overview on what the career development team is. Um, as she also just said, uh, the career development team was funded this year. This is the first time that we are doing this. Um, and the main goal of my team is to aid our members in
048preparing for competition and connect DECA to college and lifelong career skills. Um, I believe that they also mentioned that before. Some of those skills include being able to come here and speak with you guys. Um, I am myself an immigrant. I only moved here two years ago, so English is my second language. Uh, I am not entirely confident in it. But because of DECA, I got to uh go outside and in the real world, real world and get to experience how to properly talk to adults and how to properly form sentences in a way that is formal and business-like. So those are the kind of skills that when you are in high school is very hard to acquire and having a a club like DECA uh offers to our students an opportunity to develop those
049kind of skills. Uh moreover we are also provide spaces where our future leaders can develop compet competition knowledge essential life skills and gain the confidence to come up here and talk before I'm so sorry and talk before important people like yourselves. Um I also want to share some of my team goals this year. Um, even though we are entirely focus, we are extremely focused on our competitors, we also want to expand all of the knowledge that we have to offer to every single Ton High student even if they are not enrolled in our club. We know that not everyone is interested in competing and that's not an issue at all. But we want to make sure that every everyone knows that they can be supported by DECA. And that's why this year we are planning
050on starting a resume building workshop so that students uh have some guidance when they want to apply for a job, when they want to apply for college or for anything they might need a resume for. Another goal that we have for this year is to have competitors um compete in the virtual business challenges. And what those are, they are a simulation of a business. So you uh basically have a business of your own um entirely virtual, entirely um through Deca. It's actually a partnership between Deca and a company called Knowledge Matters. Knowledge Matters already has a lot of experience doing all kinds of virtual businesses. Uh they do these kinds of simulations for many other clubs and they also do it for college students. So that's a great great opportunity for any high school student
051that might want to have uh their own business in the future. That's the kind of experience that uh high school students don't usually get to have. So that's why this is one of our goals. Unfortunately, we haven't had students compete in it before, but this year we are um promoting the virtual business challenges and making sure that our students know about it. Um third our third goal this for this year is to host mock states. So currently we already offer mock districts. So our students already know what's going to happen before they're going to compete at the district level. However um after our students u compete there and they pass on to the state level. We don't we haven't done uh before the greatest job of making sure that of of holding the students accountable
052to study for states so that they can further go into the international level. So this year we want to implement the mock states to help our students um get a deeper knowledge of of DECA and get a better understanding of what a state competition looks like and how they can be better prepared for it. And last but certainly not least, we also want to implement the DECA dual program. Uh the DECAD dual program is meant to connect uh our younger students to our older students. So we want to have more experienced competitors being connected to our newcomers so that this way they know who they can reach out to and they have a presence with them along the way guiding them and helping them uh navigate the um competition process. And next I would like
053to pass the word to Von. No, I'm sorry, Giovani. Uh, he is the vice president of hospitality. [Applause] >> Uh, good afternoon everybody. Like Melissa said, my name is Yvani Magnen. I'm the vice president of hospitality at Then Deca. And Melissa forgot to mention this, but even though last year was her first year doing DECA, she was one of the only people we had move on to the international conference in Florida. So, if you could give her a round of applause. And like I said, I'm the vice president of the hospitality team. Uh, our main objective is to make sure that everybody who joins DECA is able to have a welcoming environment because I believe that the hardest part of joining DECA is not is all the information you obtain. It's a really daunting task
054joining and not really knowing what to do, not really feeling like you belong. So, our job is to make sure that everyone who joins is able to, you know, feel as if they have a space here. They're able to fit in with everyone else. Uh, here are all our goal for the year. As you guys heard before, we finally got uh advisers at all three middle schools, Freedman, Martin, and Barker. We will be working on having monthly meetings at each of the middle schools. We we're sending out volunteers from the high school DECA on to the middle school to make sure that everyone at the all the middle school students will be able to, you know, all the middle school students will be able to, you know, get a view of what DECA would be
055like when they go to the high school. As you guys heard from Miss Svin, they'll be able to bridge that gap when they move on and just have that one more step, you know, so that they feel they have that sense of accomplishment, they have that sense of belonging when they finally make it to the high school. Another goal of ours is non-competitive engagement. You have multiple ways to compete in DECA. You don't have to just go to states, go to district, go to ICDC. You can film videos, you can design t-shirts, you can design pins if you want to stay involved, but outside of that, students may not feel like they're doing enough. So, we're trying to focus on having fun events, fun team building meetings so that everyone can feel as if they
056have a role within the organization. Uh, pictured here, we have the tailgate event that we held uh just last month. We got donations from multiple different restaurants like Union Straw, Tom and Jimmy. They donated food. We had music games right before the football game. It was a great time for everybody. We It helped with our uh promotion, with our community engagement. It was just a great time for everyone. Uh we're also planning on having seasonal events. So for just like we said, we had that tailgate this month. We're planning on having a booth at the trunk or tree at downtown Taton and we'll be having a costume party for DECA just to make sure you know everyone else can see DECA as more than just a business club for you know nerds, you know what
057I mean? Um and we're also focusing on promoting to new students who wouldn't usually want to join DECA, right? like you know like people like the uh preconception is you know DECA is just if you want to do business you want to work in finance business management all that type of stuff so we just want to make sure that people are aware that DECA is you know open to all types of people who want to do all type of things and I'll be moving on to Dylan Medos the vice president of finance [Applause] >> hi as Jo said my name is Dylan I'm the VP VP of finance for Totten Hidea. The purpose of my team is to raise money for our chapter, our scholarship fund, and most importantly, the muscular distrophe association. We also
058help connect with local businesses across the community to try and raise money that way as well. All right. The goals of my finance team is to organize at least sorry is to organize at least one fundraiser per month build up build connections with 20 new businesses across the area area and as well as maintain those relationships going forward. When I got the position there was no way of like seeing what businesses we've connect to in the past which is pretty crucial to know who you can trust to go to in the future. So I want to develop a system to know and become like get reliable businesses you know and then I also want to raise a total of $24,000 as we said with 20 grand of that going to muscular destrophy association. With every
059fundraiser I plan I hope to also connect the community through charity. It's very important that fundraisers aren't just to raise money but to make us all work as a community for something really important. Um, if we all look to the right at the muscular for the miles for MDA fundraiser I have planned in November. Um, that fundraiser is super important. We get a bunch of donations from businesses to sell things or for raffle baskets. And we also let clubs across Ton High have a table at um the or at the event. That way they can sell things and get their name out there so that way more kids can join those clubs as well. And now I'll be passing it off to our last VP, Von. >> How are you today? Um my my name
060is Von Patell and I'm the vice president of marketing communications. So one thing that will help structure our uh team of course is the one phrase communication is key in DECA. Communication is key to our community and our students and marketing in a way for DECA is like selling a product and we want to sell our club to our students just like a product but cater it towards our students. From um the recent school ban, our team is able to curate more and more marketing strategies to our students so they're able to come to more of our events and kind of be able to recruit new members. And from that we were able to enhance our communication with the community and support our outreach system. So our two goals that me and my team talked
061talked about via research and insights from our last years is increase and diversify. By increasing our communication to our commu our community and our students, our students are able to learn more about DECA rather than seeing it from the perspective of the meetings and the events. they're able to see from the perspective of a student. So from this, we want to diversify our communication on different channels. Being able to use channels such as parent square or morning announcements, flyers, and just in school marketing, it's easier for students to be able to see what DECA is without having to always go and ask someone what they have it right for in different channels. Our tasks that her team has um created this year are count content outreach, being able to create content for our school and
062community to help advertise our events and programs, management and communication, managing our events with our other um vice presidents, and being able to make sure that communication goes through on all separate communication channels and organization and support. And being able to have support strategies from our social media helps our students be able to know that there there are different ways they're able to communicate with us and kind of get to know DECA more. And be with all these tasks and goals, we're able to know and help our students become the emergent leaders they are. And I want to turn this back to um Shelby German, our president. [Applause] Okay, thank you so much for listening to our presentation. Thank you for inviting us. I want to send a big thank you to our lovely, lovely
063adviserss who we wouldn't be able to do anything without them. So, give them a round of applause. Okay, we are happy to take any questions that you guys may have. >> Thank you so much for the amazing presentation. I'll open it up to the committee uh who would like to go first. Mrs. Shuffs, >> thank you so much. That was a fabulous presentation. Um, I like that you mentioned um, Carol Doy. I happened to have been with her at one of the events and she was incredibly impressed about the flag. She brought that up a number of times that you had seen that it needed to replace without anybody saying anything that you went and did it on your own and she couldn't talk highly more highly of you guys on doing that. So, I
064want to make sure that you knew how impressed she was with with you. She says students aren't normally like that. And so, she was highly impressed to be representing um Taton and that you were students from her area. So, thank you. And I'd like to thank uh Jesse and Miss Sullivan for all of their hard work because this is a lot of extra time outside of school. So, I we appreciate you um putting in all of that time with this incredible group of students. And uh so I I think Tottenhe is very very lucky to have a chapter like this. So nice job you guys. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you Mrs. Shavs. Anyone else? >> There's no other comments. I I just want to add a few uh comments myself. Uh first
065and foremost, I've been uh here for almost eight years and I'm on the chaperon list for the Disney trip. I still haven't been invited. So Mr. McFale, I'm still on the wait list as we call it. So please keep me in mind. Uh someone one of you mentioned about us being the important people. Absolutely not. You're the important people. All of you student body, the adviserss, Dr. Harrison, the principal, and everybody that supports you. Uh as we heard also, Mrs. Lasser, right, from Isaiah. Uh it it takes a team to make an excellent team. So you're the important people, not us. And I have one fun fact to share. So, I always usually judge the mock districts and I met my future wife as a mock district judge. So, thank you, Mr. McFale for the
066introduction. And you're all invited to the wedding. All 300 of you. Okay? She doesn't know that yet, but you're all invited. But all kidding aside, what the school committee would like to do right now is take a five-minute recess, invite you, madam president, the entire board to sit at our seats. We'll take a group picture since you haven't been here before. So, fivem minute recess would be in order. I'm sorry, >> Mr. Superintendent. >> Sorry, just real quick. So, one, um, super proud. That's the only thing that comes to mind. Super proud and it makes me feel good knowing that the Taton public schools in the city of Taton is in great hands because the future of our city looks very, very bright with the amazing young adults in front of us. Outstanding. >> Thank
067you. >> A motion for recess would be in order. >> Motion to recess for 5 minutes. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. We are in recess. Thank you. >> Come on over. Come on over. >> A motion to reconvene with the regular order of business will be in order. >> Motion to reconvene. >> Yes. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Eyes have it. >> Back on to the agenda. Item F, we have the superintendent report. >> Thank you. Sorry, Superintendent. Sorry. >> Thank you. Thank you, Chairman. If you don't mind, I'm going to go out of order uh because with the first item in my supers report, there's a video I'd like to share with the with the uh committee. So, I'm going to go out of order and share that
068and share that item last. So, the second item in my superintendent's report is that we had our first instructional leadership team meeting uh last Thursday where we focused on belonging. We took a deep look, a deep dive into our suspensions and our vocal data. So we began the year by reviewing suspension data attendance and our vocal results as part of a strategic objective number two which fall centers on school culture. We assessed our voca our vocal survey measures and vocal survey measures student engagement safety and belonging in the fourth, fifth, eighth and tth grade. We then conducted an exercise on on connection where we looked at belonging and higher attendance achievement and fewer behavior issues where we saw a correlation. From there we launched an awareness to action where we created Taton's roadmap to reduce
069suspensions and improve school climate. So in September last Thursday that was our kickoff meeting where we looked at all our baseline data from last year. In October, we're going to focus on setting goals with the instructional leadership team. For November, we're going to train staff in restorative practices. In December, leaders will share our case studies or their case studies. In January, our district leaders will present at their faculty meetings. And throughout February and April, there'll be a mid-year check and targeted coaching with our principles and administrators. In May and June, we're going to continue analyzing the data. We're going to identify grows and glows and that will allow us to report our findings at the all admin retreat which we'll prepare for beginning in July and will present at the all admin retreat in August.
070So our goal for the year will be to reduce suspensions, develop a stronger develop stronger relationships at the building level and provide a deeper sense of belonging. I'm also proud uh to share with the public as I shared with the school committee and you will be receiving a schedule soon uh for the honoring of Donald Clary and Joseph Martin on October 24th, 2025th. So the dedication of Joseph H. Martin school playground to former superintendent and city council Donald Clary will be held on October 24th. That'll be held in the morning at Martin School. Again, I will send you a time. Then shortly after our dedication at the Martin School, we will head over to the Taton High School presentation room where we will dedicate the presentation room in honor of longtime assistant superintendent and school
071committee member Joseph Martin. And that'll be followed by a lunchon for the family and all the guests in the Tiger Cafe. And then later that evening at our home football game against Attboro, we're going to present the families with renderings of the murals that will be hung at the at the playground and will be on display in the presentation room. So again, I'm I'm honored and I'm grateful to the committee for recognizing these two great gentlemen that have not only helped shape our community, our school system, but they've they've helped shape me as a leader and as an educator. And then last but not least, uh I just oh before I get to the accountability presentation, I just wanted to share u that we have October 21st through October 24th, the Taton public schools or
072Taton High School will be sending a team of eight, six educators and two students to Washington DC for an innovative schools learning excursion. I will be attending this trip as along with assistant principal Karen Leno, multilingual director Delila Mendoza, two multilingual teachers from the high school and one multilingual teacher from Tyan High School as well as two multilingual students from Tan High School who are seniors. So, we're going to visit a middle school and we're going to visit high schools that have strong multicultural learning instruction. And from there, we our goal will bring will be to bring back some of their best practices to be implemented at the high school and also to be implemented at the middle school. So, our focus will be personalized learning, real world skills and tech integration. This collaboration will
073also be done with several other districts in the state, Brockton, Chelsea, Worcester, Central Falls, Central Falls, Boston and Everett. And again, this work could not be done without the support of the Bar Foundation and the school committee in advancing the high school's redesign and multilingual success. Last but not least, I just want to again on Monday, the state released our MCAT scores from June and you can see that there have been some improvements and I believe a lot of that improvement can be attributed to the increase in our attendance rates and our decrease in chronic absenteeism. So, the district attendance rose from 92.3 to 92.5. We saw a great drop in chronic absenteeism by two percentage points from 23.3 to 21.3. I want to remind the community, remind the district that our decrease in our
074increases are outpacing the state and outpacing our peers, reinforcing that attendance in school matters. So being in school every day matters. Schools that are exceeding our lofty goal last year of 93.5% attendance were East Tart Elementary School, Martin Middle School, Bennett Elementary School, Gala Elementary School, Elizabeth Pole Elementary School, Freeman Middle School, and Parker Middle School. In schools meeting the chronic absenteeism target of less than 19.5% or lower were East Elementary, the Martin Middle School, Bennett Elementary School, Freeman Middle School, Chamberl Chamberlain Elementary School, Gallaghett Elementary School, Elizabeth Pole Elementary School, and Parker Middle School. I also want to note that Taton High School and Totten Alternative High School had the largest year-over-year improvements. I want to credit director of student services and transportation Stephanie Hoy and her attendance task force and the school-based teams,
075the personalized plans, the outreach and the creative incentives that they have all led to help see this dramatic improvement in our attendance. And last but not least, with the assistance of Mr. Jake, I'd like to share with you a video presentation that Mr. Jake along with director of student services Stephanie Hoy uh put together uh to kick off this year's attendance incentives. be a cowboy tonight. What if you missed these moments? What if you missed the moment you were meant to be? [Music] Every day at school is a chance to grow, connect, and be seen to be a part of something bigger. Attendance [Music] isn't just about being present. It's about being part of the story. [Music] education is the passport to the future and your attendance is the stamp that gets you there. [Music]
076Your future begins with your presence. Attend today and succeed tomorrow. [Music] Show up. Stand out. Great things happen when you are here. [Music] Your future starts today. Be here because you belong here. So again, special thanks to Mr. Jake in the broadcasting department. And I apologize. I forgot one item on my superintendent report. As you can see, this was a pretty hefty report as I had five items. Uh the final item is I just wanted to make the committee aware that we are going to be applying for a CBTE grant to expand our chapter 74 construction craft laborer program. Uh this grant is designed to improve school facilities. So we will be looking to do some facility enhancements to expand the hands-on learning opportunities for our students in the construction craft labor program. If we
077are awarded this grant, we'll be able to add an additional 40 seats. that I will bring our total to 130 in the construction craft labor program. If you happen to drive around the high school during the day, you may notice the students are building a shed for the gardening club. So, by having this program, we're able to do things in-house and be able to support the school system as well as support our clubs in addition to the work they're doing at Summer Street. So, they're very busy this time of year. And at the same time, I also want to mention that our co-directors are updating the district's admissions policy to meet the new state requirements set by the board of elementary and secondary education in May of 2025. So the revised policy will be reviewed
078by the school committee this fall and submitted to the department of elementary and secondary education by November 1st, 2025. So we will need to take a formal vote once the new admission policies have been uh created which will go before the rules committee and be brought before the board. So I'm very grateful to the cobbt directors Dala Hawkong and Michael Raposa for their leadership and dedication to providing students with high quality learning opportunities at our comprehensive Pontton High School. That concludes my report. >> Well done, Superintendent. Thank you so much. That was a nice presentation. Uh thank you, Mr. Jake. Also, uh it's uh it's amazing what we get done. So much gets done. Thanks to our school committee members for the support. Next up, we have administrative business. The first item on the agenda,
079we need a motion just to receive and place on file the superintendent report, please. >> Place on file. >> A motion to receive and place on file. >> All in order. All in order. All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. Thank you. Uh administrative business. Uh first item is staffing report. Superintendent. uh just uh we have the traditional staffing report that provides you with all the backup regarding new hires for our coaches, professional staff, uh custodians and then you also and you also have the backup for any positions in which there were retirements and there's one one official retirement and I've already sent that employee uh retirement letter. >> Wonderful. >> And card. >> Thank you. The committee on >> all in favor I opposed eyes have it. Next time we have a donation
080funded educational travel seeing closure superintendent. >> Still have the second second um >> I'm sorry what did we miss? >> Yeah the second staffing report with the percentages. >> Okay. >> Sorry I'll be quick. >> I don't have it in my packet. Five. >> I don't have it in my packet. >> Oh this one here. >> Yeah. Gotcha. Thank you. >> It's okay. So, I'm just proud to report that we have nine schools that are fully staffed and our attendance rate for the TEA classroom positions is at 98%. Uh, we still have eight remaining vacancies and you have the backup on the second page of that document. >> Okay. So, make the motion we do that >> received and placed on file. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Eyes have it. Now,
081we move on to the donation funded educational travel C memo. Superintendent. No, just want to make the committee aware that we received a donation from the 1A Foundation uh to assist and provide several staff members from the Tom Public Schools who will be traveling out of state for professional learning that will cover the conference, the food, the travel, and the hotel fair. The donation was made in the amount of $4,200. Just want to make the committee aware that three members will be traveling and the cost will to cover this trip is through a donation. And uh their duties are all covered while they're away. >> Correct. >> Okay, great. >> Is this part of the bar? >> Uh this one is not part of the bar 1A foundation foundation. >> No, that their actual travel.
082>> No, >> this is this is separate more science related at the middle school level. >> Okay. >> Motion to accept. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed. Eyes have it. Thank you. And now we have a first item is field trip requests. Uh item A, Ton High School abroad, Italy preliminary approval. And let me see. >> Yeah, this is just a field trip request requesting preliminary approval. This trip will be going overseas to Italy in June of 2027. Just to make the committee aware. >> Gotcha. Wish to the committee. >> Motion to receive place on file. >> Uh I think they're looking for approval to advertise. >> Is it approval? to advertise initial fundraising. Yeah. >> What he said, >> Mr. Mo. Second. I'd like to add to uh put in our
083little What do we usually do? Six month 90-day review. >> The check-ins. So, >> the motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Enus. Uh seconded by Mr. Vieira. I mean, Miss Santos. All in favor? >> I opposed. Eyes have it. And then we have the THS ESLDC trip. That's a trip that I just discussed in my superintendent's report. >> Okay, give me one second here. So, as you can see, uh it's listed from October 21st to the 24th. And it does say uh bar travel learning tour. So, I'm a little confused. Mrs. Shuffs, you asked that. Yes, >> the 18 Foundation. This is >> this is ESL English. Yeah. >> Okay. So, this is a different trip, >> correct? >> Okay. Gotcha. All right. So, are the dates the same? Oh, boy. Let me see. Doesn't matter.
084All right. What are the wishes of the committee? Everything >> final approval. >> Okay. >> Motion to approve. Final approval. >> Second. >> Uh on discussion. So just for clarity, I'm sorry. Bar Travel Learning Tour ESL, this was in your SUPAS report, correct? Okay. And the one that was the uh uh 188 foundation >> Was a donation. Okay. Two separate trips, separate parties. Correct. >> Correct. Because one's a donation. >> Does this one include students? >> That one that's the one that includes two ESL students from the high school. >> Okay. The other one doesn't. Just the three administrators. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Great. Okay, motion was made and second. All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. And the last item on administrative business, we have the South Coast Education Collaborative Quarterly Report. Information only.
085Yep. >> Just just a reminder to this to the school committee. I sit on the board. So, I just want to make sure you get the quarterly report. >> Received and placed on file. >> Second. >> All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. And next item, we have subcommittee reports. We'll start with uh Tesla collective bargaining chairman Shots. >> Thank you, Dr. Dillo. Um, Tessa Collective Bargaining Subcommittee met on September 22nd, 2025. This was our second meeting. Mrs. Fagan, Miss Santos, and I were present along with representatives from administration and the bargaining team. Um, negotiations remain ongoing. This concludes my report. >> Motion to accept the report. >> Okay. Second. >> All in favor? I opposed. Eyes have it. Next up, we have the TAA collective bargaining. I chair that committee along uh as
086a subcommittee members, Mrs. Shaves. Uh once again we met with the uh TAA collective bargaining team on their side and our administrators and negotiations continue to be ongoing. >> Same procedure >> seconded. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Eyes have it. And next item we have the finance law. I chair that subcommittee along with uh Mr. Vieier and Mrs. Shabs. Uh the first item of business was uh FY25. I'm sorry. Let me let me backtrack. First item was special education expense services. Uh Mrs. Monahan updated all of us with a a memorandum where we have budgeted $50,000 for July. We've expensed $6,1534 and the remaining balance budget at $43,846.96. Uh Mr. Vieier and Mrs. Shaz were both uh not concerned but questioned if that was uh a little bit high for the beginning
087of the school year and the answer was it's normal practice and if we have an overrun we have another legal services line item that we will take from that we're usually under budget. So we have 50,000 on one item and 50,000 on the other line item. So we were fine that motion was uh received and placed on file. The next uh was a coaching for change update. um that was reported out by Mrs. Monahan. Mrs. Shabs brought up the point that we wanted a standard template like we use for task and uh the superintendent showed us that uh that will be provided next time they set up a a bills payable for coaching for change. Again, once again, that was voted unanimously in favor to receive in place on file. And the last items were
088bills payable for FY25 in the amount of $20,84.18. A few questions were were raised and answered. Nothing out of the ordinary. Uh that was unanimously uh voted on to approve and pay the warrant in the amount of $20,000.8418 uh by all three members. And the last item was FY26 bills payable for 860,526.35. Again, uh, multiple questions for Mrs. Shaz and Mr. Vieiraa. I was asked to be recorded as voting present on, if I just pull up page number 29 so that the committee's aware. So, I was uh had the maker of the motion amend the motion to include me as voting present on voucher number 25867, the amount of $717.50. The motion was amended and voted unanimously in favor to pay the the warrant in the amount of 860,526.35. That concludes the report. >> Motion
089to accept the recommendations of the committee. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed eyes. Next item we have new business. Uh, superintendent, committee members, anything that's out there? Nothing. Okay, we'll move on. Oh, Mrs. Fagan, secretary. >> I was just following up the thing that had to be fixed out on the track. Is that all set? The cement padding. >> I will follow up with the with athletic director Dowy and director of facilities Mark Freighus. I believe it has been. I will confirm. >> Okay, wonderful. Uh, nothing else. Uh, we have next item, unfinished business, action items update. >> I can give you two quick updates. Um, so Mrs. Moahan and I met, actually, I give you three quick updates. Mrs. Moahan and I met earlier this week to discuss item dated 010423.
090So, we will be updating the capital improvement plan. Uh, it does say here to refer it to the long range planning committee. So is that still the wishes of the committee or would you like it to come before the full committee? >> I think that would be the proper >> long range >> process. Yes, the long range planning of school properties. >> So we will schedule that meeting with the long with the long range planning committee chair. So we should have that meeting sometime in October. So there'll be action on that shortly. I had a positive conversation uh with the director of Taton Girls Softball League and we may have found a donor uh regarding portable AED devices. And I also reached out to another entity to see if they would consider making a donation
091for a portable uh AED device. So, we may be taking that off the list shortly. And on the final item, um I think I've heard from three or four board members on the final item. If you could just confirm with me uh next Wednesday if the morning session or the afternoon session or the evening session works, that would be helpful. If anyone needs an individual tour because the schedules don't work, please reach out to my office and we will work with you to get you in the building with either myself or a person a member of my staff. If you don't wish to take a tour, just let us know and we will we will not purs pursue um requests to see if you're interested in a tour just so we can make sure those
092who want to get in the building get in the building. >> So that's the October 8th, next Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Okay, great. I've already signed up for 10 a.m. Uh, just quickly on the AED, uh, we have a status pending advice from legal. Whether it's a donation or not, do we still need a legal opinion on liability? >> No, because the donation of the AED devices would be made from the private entity, right, to the the league. >> Wonderful. Great. Thank you. Okay. Uh, anything else on unfinished business? Uh, do we have press in the audience? No, Mrs. Lasser. No press. >> Okay. and motion to adjurnn and be in order. So move >> second. >> All in favor? I opposed. We are adjourned. Thank you everyone. Have a good night.