001Good evening and welcome to the Shasheen Valley School Committee meeting of May 26, 2026. Um, all members are here except Miss Dora from Bedford who is excused. Everyone, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Mr. Fury, would you lead us? 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. >> Thank you. >> All right, the public comments we have nobody signed up for it. Okay, moving on. Um, our student representative is back here. We missed her dearly. McKenzie uh Miller, would you call? >> So, hello everyone. Evening, afternoon, morning, whatever kind of day it is. Evening. Here we go. So, I have a couple things. So, first we have the Skills USA state
002conference. Um I attended we won four gold, seven silver, and five bronze for the school that are going to be hopefully displayed in the glass case up front. And then we have on May 5th the student led effort where students collected nearly 40 bags of trash from around Shasheen. That was a day that we actually returned from states and we got to watch them. They were clean up a little bit while we're putting everything back, but it was amazing. There were a bunch of kids just in little little sweatshirts. It was so cold out and just collecting as much trash as they can from the back over by the field. And it was just amazing to see how all these students got together um with the help of Miss O'Brien I believe just to clean
003up their community. And then um >> was it part of the beautify bill project clean up green up clean up day? It might have been. >> Yes, I believe so if I'm um I also have um May 15th that was our junior prom. Nearly 250 students came to the Wuburn Crown Plaza for this year's junior prom. We have prom king queen as Hubert Cornang and prom queen was Karina Renoso if I'm pronouncing that right. And I think that was an amazing it was amazing event. It was beautiful to see everyone dressed up. Everyone looks so handsome, so beautiful. And just to see everyone complimenting each other. It was just so much different than a school atmosphere where everyone's, you know, sweatpants, slip sandals, flip flops. >> Everybody cleaned up well. >> Yes. >> That's great.
004And then um May 29th is the last day for eligible seniors. So they are working I saw them outside working on their parking spots and little chalk drawings and decorating their cars for their last week of school. And then the 11th of June is actually their graduation ceremony and as well as you guys probably know you'll be there. And then um five days ago the student staff and school committee members honored the vets with their new designated parking spot out front of the school. And that's all I have for you guys. >> Thank you. Any questions? Anybody? Good. Thank you for your report. >> Okay. And um continuing on when uh and and bringing up uh members of the administration team, students, and different programs. Tonight, we're going to hear from our ELLL teacher. We're
005going to do an ELLL presentation. So, at this time, I'd like to introduce to the committee Anastasia Camp. We met we've been here four years already. I didn't realize that. I met her last year before. So, um Anastasia, welcome. >> Hi. >> Thank you guys. >> I'll get out of >> I've uh I think I've known most of you guys or I've seen uh many of you in the past. It's Anastasia Campbell and I'm the AL coordinator, so the multilingual coordinator um for the building and I'm going to give you guys some background on kind of what that entails. I'm going to ask uh Mr. Macintosh to be my person to um whenever I give you the look. Okay. All right. So, um before we go on, one of our students, multilingual students, um we
006had a contest within our community. We have 133 uh students that are actively enrolled in our um L fell and uh ever L population and they've designed this in DVC. So I just wanted to share that and that's the one that won. Okay, Mr. Macintosh. All right. So, um, when this transferred over onto Tony's computer, it had it it kind of all came out similar, but I just want to give you guys some demographics here. Um, and just kind of some well, some data. So, in Could you put that off? Tell me or >> Mr. Hley, is there a way we can get rid of that dialogue box? >> Should be able. >> Oh, thank you. Well, um, the the highest this is our dropout rates. Oh, thank you. Thank you. >> Oh, I could
007have done that. All right. If you could go back, tell me. This is the dropout rates across the country. Um, multilingual learners have the highest dropout rates in the United States with an average of 64% graduation rate. Okay. In Massachusetts, we are a little bit uh we're below the national average with a graduation rate of 61.4%. vocational schools. Overall, we have an 84 87% success rate across the United States, 84% Massachusetts. We here we go have a 100% success rate so far. And when I first came here, people said, "Anastasia, this is Shasheen and this is a vocational school. These these students don't drop out of vocational schools." And I said, "That's because you haven't had this population." Um, and there's reasons why they drop out. And so when I came here, part of that
008is to build something that Shasheen is going to maintain that 100%. And this is how we did it. Um, I did it with uh I came in with Tony and I'm going to give the administration here a lot of accolades. Thank goodness Tony came from a very diverse background and he was very proactive in his thinking meeting the needs of the all the towns and he knew that this population was growing and because of where he came from we worked really hard to get together and I'm going to what we did to ensure that we do and maintain this 100%. So, I'm going to share with you guys today uh part of that background, but you'll you'll know here this is the most recent data that we can pull off of Desessie at this time.
009Um and that's our that's our dropout rate. Very very high. However, not at Shasheen. If you want to go to the next slide, I'm going to give you a little background because I'm not sure you guys understand what an L is versus what a fell is, what an a forever, you know, always an L. Okay. So um what we do is in Massachusetts we have an exit rating of a 4.2. This is on a six-point scale for the access test which we test in January because of MCCAST. So we test for a year's growth in half a year's amount of time with we have regression in the summer. We have to think about that. So these kids come in and we release a student at a 4.2 too because everybody in Massachusetts is SEI endorsed.
010We're the lowest state in the United States. Um Colorado, many states, actually, many towns, um many of our community members, you know, other communities release a student at a five. And I'll tell you why. That's the language level. A six meaning that you are born and raised and that's your first language. Um language is an asset. Okay? having multiple languages as the world gets smaller every day. We're going to see more and more of that if we look at now we've got 103 of these kids in this building. So what do we do? They come into us. We have an L snapshot. I create this L snapshot. Uh we have a tremendous amount of paperwork that goes on just for an L. It's actually triple the amount of an IEP. If a student does not
011make adequate yearly progress, that's one level of growth. So, let's say they come in at a 3.2 and they don't make a 4.2 or their 3.1, they don't make one year's worth of growth within that time period, we have to put them on what's called a student success plan. All of this is statemandated um because the dropout rate is so high. So, what did they do? And actually this is part of our look at uh Governor Baker was was incredible with this population and in 2017 he said okay if they don't make that adequate yearly progress it's not just on the L teacher community the multilingual teachers everybody's responsible for helping these students grow in their language they don't learn language from me they learn language from the outside population you learn language from immersion
012they learn syntax They learn grammar. They learn culture from the English language development program. Okay. So then we have to meet um with an administrator, the L teacher, um the shop teacher, uh usually a history teacher and um the counselor and a liaison. Three times a year we develop a goal and we have to prove that that everybody's working on the goal and that's our student success plan. When a student gets at when a student exit EL then they are monitored for four years. Um they're actually monitored throughout their whole time. You're going to notice uh DESIE just changed this year adding more document more data for the L's. So what we have to do is we have to put in here every single time they uh do all their grades. So we um add
013in here if they get to a D or an F, we I have to monitor their grades. A foul within that four-year time period takes just as much if not more work than an active L in the sense that we have to monitor their grades really like every two weeks. And if they start, they can't have a D or an F on a report card. If they have a D or an F on a report card, we then we have to meet with the teacher. We have to look at do we put them back into English language development. The reason is is because these kids are coming back and forth into two different language cultures, two different communities. They go home, they're speaking Turkish, they're um Islamic. Or they go home and they're speaking Spanish
014and their parents don't speak English. Well, their natural thing is they're going to speak Spanish and there's such a cultural identity with language. Um, if you go home, we have one of our students has the seal of literacy this year with distinction in Russian. You go home and you are living in that community and language is very much tied to your identity. For example, chair would be masculine in uh Spanish and Portuguese, but very feminine in Russian. So, it's just a different form of thinking. So, these kids are constantly navigating, which means that it could take 10 to 14 years to become fluent if you're going back and forth. Okay, next slide, please. So, there's a lot of paperwork, there's a lot of work to keep these kids in school. Um the first thing we
015did is we had to do a cultural shift. And as I said, we were very very fortunate here at Shashing to have um an administrative team and to have Tony who I worked one-on-one with um to uh well thanks to the community, we had to do an SEI training. We did had several teachers did not have their endorsement. So we did an in-house SEI. I um didn't come from I came from an alternative education program in Colorado and then as you guys know I worked internationally and then um came into Hudson and then here and so I worked one-on-one with Tony to really build what this SEI program should look like following the guidelines from the state and the federal government but also what does that look like to a vocational teacher. So very fortunate
016uh Tony came in and uh we built a program we built a lesson and built that curriculum following the curriculum from the state and we really had a shift. That was our first cultural shift. And you guys can read the quotes learning about their experiences and background have made me a better teacher and a better person. And then we had somebody say it doesn't matter what their political beliefs are. They're really understanding these kids aren't burdens. They're assets in our community. A really changing perspective from a very linear perspective into wait a minute, the world's getting bigger. Okay. So, uh we did we taught a course if you want to go to the next one. Uh the graphics came in. They actually started they built a program. I mean they built a little just a
017little tablet thing that the kids designed on their own. Can you go back one, Tony? And you can see they actually had the kids write. And the shop teacher said, "You know what? This is the first time we've ever seen we've ever had them write." And they were like, "Wow, we're really recognizing who can write and who can't." And it wasn't just language learners, right? So, they were really starting to see that um they can really use this for an asset. And this is just this is the uh thing that they designed. And I've had several shop teachers ask them for that as well. Okay, first that cultural shift. All right, we can go to the next one. Um, and the kids designed their own. And then the next one, first thing we did. Second
018thing we did is we added schoolwide flags. Uh, now we've got 36 flags. These are first b these are kids born in different countries and first generation. Most of these kids were born in these countries. We have, I think, seven uh first generations on there. So, you can tell by the diversity, this isn't just a Spanish or Portuguese speaking population. We have students from all over the world. I mean, if you look at the towns where you're come coming from, right, the world is changing and uh shashing is meeting those needs. So, first thing uh next thing part of our cultural shift really getting that identity and uh Tony said, "No, you know what? We're going to have a shop make all those flags." So, everything is done inhouse. I was trying to get them
019to buy the flags. He's like, "Oh, no, no, no, no. We're uh we're putting those up and we're doing them ourselves." So, now we have 36 as of these are all of them that you guys will see up there today. And another next slide, please. This was actually this morning. I got this in and I changed this picture for us. This was celebrating the first five students. These five kids right here um really met with uh Mr. Macintosh and met with Miss Cook to really start to build that multicultural student association. We are not a club. We don't get sponsor money. We're an association to um help with our with our program with DESIE to ensure that we be able to keep that happening during a school day. All right. Meeting these kids' needs. What
020did we design? A multicultural student association. We do grade monitoring. So each incoming freshman gets a mentor. Um hopefully from the same continent. That's how we do it. Hopefully from the same country if we can. um same language family. A ninth grader will get a 11th or 12th grader mentor. 10th graders are learning how to be mentors. Okay, we have an average of 60 to 65 students attend every Wednesday in this auditorium. It's pretty incredible. So, uh we do teacher communication. We talk about cultural implications. There's quite a bit about naming conventions. We have several new students coming in from Uganda. They all have different last names. You choose your last name in Luganda. The whole name. It's just everybody has different naming conventions. So, we're always that's pretty cool. Time and space perspective. Um,
021as I was working internationally, I ran into this a lot, but time is very different. Um, in the United States, we are very pro, you know, we're very time sensitive, time oriented. Uh, a lot of the world isn't. And so, a lot of these countries and places and students, they get very offended if you say, "Oh, you meet your friend for lunch." And say, "Okay, I have an appointment at two." And you leave. They're like, "That's very offensive." or um that you have a scheduled thing. Um when when I was doing a professional development in like Colombia for let's say I would have lunch and they would be and I would say okay we've got 40 minutes and they're like what two hours later they're starting to come back. is just a very different sense
022of culture and time. And so we have to teach these kids about when in Rome, right? We've got expectations and and they have to meet these expectations. This is something that we struggle with every day with um students with, you know, if it's a snow day, they're going to be out. A lot of them are going to be out shoveling sidewalks making money. So it's that hey, school is the priority. Um, and homework. Let's say homework in like I had a Brazilian parent that say home work means work. You're working at home. That's homework. Very different perspective. They're like, "No, you're doing the cooking, the cleaning, you're working on the card. You're doing that is homework." To get these families to realize that we have that outside of the school day is literally almost unheard
023of in Central and South America. So, it's we work on that. We work on eye contact. Eye contact is very different in every culture. It's offensive or it's you're hitting on somebody. It's so we teach what that is. We have we work on handshaking. Um which is very Americana and very western ideals. We do different things. Um today we were celebrating them. Uh we do the trunk or treat. Would you another one? We do a marshmallow challenge. Oh, and uh to be a mentor. So, you do mentor and training. To be a mentor, we have them sign a contract and they have to attend a certain number of hour events that we do. And the must attend event is a mandatory is a um they have to do it the culture fair. Okay, that's mandatory.
024And um then they also have to get three recommendations from teachers and say why they want to be a mentor in our program. So we do a spaghetti marshmallow challenge. We did um the next one and egg drop challenge. And the next one, oh, and uh so the the multicultural student association is not it's it's about having these kids have somebody in the building that they can relate to because um I don't know if you guys have lived in other countries or if you guys have spent time even in other parts of the United States um it's very different and you can feel very foreign and very so just having that person to go you um that's your peer is really important. But here's the most one of the most key things about it. It's
025this is how we keep these kids in this building. This is how we have them coming in every day. This is how we can communicate with their parents. This is how we build community and we make sure we don't have that dropout rate that the rest of the state has. Um what else we do? We had at the beginning when I first got here, we had a student say, "What's the big deal about Massachusetts?" Like, why what's the big deal? So, we realized, wait, we've got to get them to buy in not only into Americana, but into why Massachusetts is number one, why it's the best, right? Um, we have the Freedom Trail. So, every year we take the kid uh the kids on the freedom trail. Valentina, she's from El Salvador. She said, "The
026first week I felt like I didn't belong here. I told my mom I wanted to go somewhere else. Then you came and got me." And she realized, "Oh, wait. There are other people like me in the building." Um, and that was her ninth grade year and she's graduating this year. Um, and she has a full ride. So, I'm very excited about her. So, we take them to the Freedom Trail so they understand what that's about. because of our population, we get into the um Paul Rivere house for a dollar. They're very good to us. One more. I want to hit that slide. And here we are this year on the freedom trail. Okay, keep going. Tila bi literacy. This is another cultural shift. Um really looking at language as an asset. Not only do you
027have less chance of getting Alzheimer's, use uh creates more synapsises in your brain. Um it's the world is getting smaller, right? Like when you go out into the workforce, you are more than likely going to run into people from different parts of the of the globe. Now, so it's really important that we uh it's an asset and we can all learn from each other. And so that's really built here. We have this year we're going to have nine students are going to graduate with the seal of literacy. Four, I believe, have distinction. We have Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, uh, Moroccan Arabic. We have, um, several languages. And, and in the state of Massachusetts, you get 15 to $20,000 in scholarship. Uh, according to credit, 12 to 15 credit hours. It waves your language requirements in high
028school and it waves your college requirements uh for a language and you get that full semester of I mean you go to college for three and a half years versus four. It's a big deal and this is happening across the uh the United States. Okay. And we have the culture fair. This was another part of our schoolwide shift and as I said I was very very fortunate to work with Tony who really supported me on this. Um I I had to push back on on the food thing. We finally negotiated that as long as everything is individually wrapped, he uh let us do desserts. So uh we do the culture fair every year and um many of you guys come and if you could just do the next one. It's very very active event. We
029celebrate We can just keep going. We celebrate different countries and um de lots of the shops support us in this. Every student gets a passport as they come in. They fill out the passport. They go to each country. You can do the next slide. They fill out the geographical and demographics of every country and then they get a stamp from each country and then they take this into their social studies department and they get extra credit in social studies. So last, we don't have the exact numbers coming in uh because we have to wait for the school districts to get our uh folders. I can tell you what I do know is we have a lot of Portuguese speaking kids coming in. So DESIE gives us um I can do a PR600 on the Desi
030and I can see where the kids their language that they speak at home. And uh so far we've got Arabic, we have Creole Portuguese, we have Swahili, we have Lugandan, we have Erdo, we have Spanish, we have three Indo-Uropean languages that Desi doesn't have a code for. Um we have Swedish and Turkish again this year. So there we have it. That's your new population coming in. >> Thank you. >> Questions for Miss Campbell? >> Any questions? Your mouth is open, Brian. Are you talking? >> NO. LIKE UH >> um have you found when have you found with all of the public discussions about uh kids attending school and being in school with uh from different uh or points of origin, have you had any additional discussion among the kids this year or leaning on each
031other? Um whether they be TPS situations or anything like that? Yes, we have um yeah, this is trying whether it politics aside, this is a trying time for this population and we have to remember that these are just kids and we have to kid teach who's in front of us. Um and they had no choice. They came here when they were, you know, in middle school or elementary school or just recently and their parents brought them and here they are and um so yes, they are leaning on each other quite heavily. We've had um several deportations as you guys know and the families or you may or may not know the families are we're really relying on each other and this the the the students have really really gone grown close with each other and
032uh we're learning a lot about different cultures. But I have to tell you this the Shashian population is incredible. the teachers, the community, everybody here has been so supportive and um really going above and beyond and people really set their personal feelings aside and understand who's in front of them and I would not want this group of kids in front of a different group of people that truly an incredible group of people we have here. >> Thank you for what you're doing. >> Yeah. Any more questions? >> Anybody else? >> We'll take you on the stage for what you're doing for >> Oh, yeah. Thank you. >> for our ELLL learners and continued success. >> Yeah. Maybe we can have learn some swaying. >> Yes. Uh we'd love to maybe in the future we could
033have some students in >> Oh, yeah. Well, um Karina is going to be speaking, right? She's from uh she is our president of the senior class. She's doing um the she's from El Salvador. >> Awesome. That's awesome. >> So, okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> And I will definitely see you guys at the culture fair next year. >> Definitely. >> Okay. Our next item up for this evening is our consent agenda which includes a treasures report. Everyone in your packets payroll and vendor warrants approved. Approve legal bills only. There only one here from Mr. Greenspan. I believe so. And the minutes of April 28th and May 14th, is any discussion on this? Hearing none. >> One question on the we had said is it going to be for next year
034like we're going to separate it like a treasur report like talk agenda. >> So you're talking about having the treasur here indeed. >> Yeah, we had talked about doing it quarterly. Okay. Um I mean again I I could have him be here for the June meeting but >> yeah it' be good >> maybe to wrap things up again in September accounts treasures report is basically just the >> the account more formal like like basically like trust accounts provide >> you'll be looking so you what >> I will I will talk to Mr. whims of being here on for the June meeting. >> Maybe it'd be good to talk to other schools like what they do for their treasury like what they do for their treasur report from the board. >> So I'll put a report
035from the treasur. >> Um we have a motion to accept a consent agenda. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? >> None. Unanimous 90. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, Miss Cook was unable to uh join us this evening. Unfortunately, she uh is ill and was not here today, but she did ask me um so next piece on the agenda here is a chronic absenteeism rate update. So um last week we got a we got a notification from um the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. I'll just read this to you. Dear Anthony Macintosh, congratulation on your school's work on reducing chronic absenteeism. We recently released chronic absenteeism data through March 1st, 2026. And your district was one of 55 districts that decreased chronic absenteeism by
036at least 5 percentage points or more over the March 2025 chronic absenteeism rate. Thank you for your attention to this important subject, which is the foundation of student success. I would appreciate it if you would use this survey to share with us the strategies and practices that your district put into place that led to this improvement. In the meantime, I hope you will share your district's accomplishments with the school committee, and I hope your school community takes pride in all that you've achieved. Um, so again, um, I know when Miss Cook and I had discussed this, uh, she wanted to, um, share with the committee her appreciation for the support for the changes to the attendance policy. Um, I know there was a little there was some questions in the fall about how that was
037going to be implemented and some of the implications that it may have for students and families. Um but again it shows that um those changes have made some significant impacts on our chronic absenteeism rate. Um and again I know she has filled out the form and she had submitted all of the different changes that we had made and I know um there was some conversations about you know whether whether she or or some members of the administrative team would end up presenting that um for for the department of ed at some point in time. So they may use some of our strategies as um as a model for other schools. So >> who's that? That was Helen Bettton Court. >> Okay. Which I believe works in that in the in the commissioner's office. >> It's
038signed by the commissioner. >> So that's that's quite a feather in that cap. It >> is. Yes. So that's again I know congratulations. I know there was a lot of upheaval uh when we first did that and I'm sure Miss if Miss Cook was here, she could provide you with way more um specifics on on the program, but I know um you know the makeup sessions and and the ability for students to to come in on Saturdays or or to do some after school sessions to reduce the number of abs absences. Um I know she has told me that there have been uh in that policy there's a one-time exception. So if a family had a had a vacation plan or there was something that they could do. So once out of the four years
039that the student is here um basically she can wave um those requirements at the request of the family. So it seems like things are are working well and and everything is uh >> according to plan. >> It's great. I think we are >> well kids are coming to school. >> It's a good thing and >> especially the technical a little hard to duplicate. >> Oh yeah. for the most part. >> Some of the technical program stuff >> attendance rates are good absences down. >> Okay. Superintendent Macintosh, you have the floor. >> All right. Uh class of 2030. Um again, we've had we've got a little bit of turnover. We as of uh yesterday, as of today, actually, excuse me, we're at 327 and our goal is the 3:30. We have three three open spots um
040which we again we will fill. Uh we still have 105 kids on our wait list. Um so we will be at the 3:30 for the start of the school year. Um as you can see uh there's a couple of open Bedford seats. There's a couple open door seats. Um and we will I'm sure we will backfill those as we go. Um again, Mr. Pigeon is on this. Miss Uston who works in his office as well are following up and they're making sure that we are um communicating those families. We also are discussing a plan to potentially backfill um this year's ninth grade class. Um we've only to date we've only lost six kids. So we won't have a lot of spots that we will be opening up. But um we will look at we will
041look at the programs that have some capacity for next year and u maybe bring in you know bring in six to 10 students to to kind of uh fill out if you will the 10th grade class. And then again um we don't typically bring in juniors or seniors. Those would only be students that were transferring from another vocational school. So, gets a little bit more difficult to backfill spots for juniors and seniors. Um, enrollment numbers are down a little bit. We're down two students versus where they were in April, 1265 when I pulled the numbers uh the end of last week. I think I pulled these. Again, trending pretty consistently with what we've seen um throughout most of the school year. Uh last co-op update for the class of 2026. um over a 100,000 hours
042worked. Um 67% of the class were up to 200 students and they made just over $1.6 million in gross earnings over the course of uh their time here and on co-op for Shashene Tech. So again, um go back to our mission of of supporting uh our local industry, our local small businesses, um and making sure that we are, you know, providing students that are trained and competent. Um I think we've done a very good job with the class of 2026. Um again breakdown um kind of follows a lot of our enrollment trends with four go with 79 Burlington with 17 to 48 and Wilmington with 52 students. our first class of 2027 update. Um 852 hours uh about 15% I'm sorry that should say juniors not seniors. I'm sorry that's a typo on that slide
043but we have 43 students currently out and they made a little over $14,000. Again uh we're only a few weeks into this and I'm sure these numbers will just continue to increase and we'll probably see a pretty significant jump here by the June meeting. Um, similar trends here. We had four Bedford students, 18 Bill Drea, four from Burlington, 13 from Tukesbury, and four from Wilmington. Um, again, this slide I've had this slide on here. Um, we have one outstanding item to do for our MSBA submission. Um after everybody vote voted for the minutes from the uh May 14th meeting, um Muberty will sign them and those have to be submitted to MSBA as a record of the vote that the committee took to fund the feasibility study out of the capital stabilization fund. um based
044on my communication from her with her on last on last Friday. Uh that is the one outstanding item that we have and we should have everything submitted um and we should be um on track for them to potentially move us to uh the board meeting in June. I don't have that date yet. >> It's the 24th of June. >> The 24th of June. Thank you, Mr. Fiori. Um Skills USA, I'm gonna I'm going to contradict McKenzie a little bit. We actually have five students representing us. Um we have one student um that um has been asked to step in. Um we we discussed moving graduation last year. I had talked about how I did not want to be the person that was asking a student to choose between going to Skills USA Nationals and attending
045graduation. Uh not every school followed our lead. Um, so, uh, we do have a student that has, um, been offered a chance to go and represent Massachusetts because another student, um, had said that they they chose to go to their prom and graduation instead of Skills USA Nationals. So, um, Spencer Talbot, Maria Kafaro joined us in Bill Ricka for the town meeting. They were introduced um to start. Uh, Spencer will be um, representing Massachusetts in the graphic communications uh, contest. Uh Maria will be industrial motor control which is a a subset if you will of the electrical program. Uh Jason Favven from uh Tukesberry is power equipment technology. Um I think most people know that more as small gas engines but um same same kind of approach. Um Will Track from Wilmington. This is this
046is Will's second year representing Shashene Tech at nationals for masonry. And then uh Juliana Vitali from Wilmington um for medical terminology. So, our student, they'll leave uh next Monday. They'll be back the following Saturday. We wish them all the all the all the all the luck that they can have and we hope that they bring back a couple of national medals for us. So, um little smaller group going this year, but um we're hopeful that they will be just as successful as the other teams have been in the past. Uh social media update. Again, I I've just been including this. Um this is information from Allen Hill. Um again, there's some eb and flow here. We've seen some some months where it's gone way up. We've seen some months where it's gone way down. This
047is just kind of the report. Um if you look, it it does look like we were down in April versus some of the March numbers. Um some of that could be around sports, it could be around school activities, it could be around a lot of different things on those social media platforms. Uh Desi, I just read the uh chronic absenteeism piece. Um I had thrown that in my report. I I had forgotten that it was on the agenda and Miss Cook was going to address it, but um again, we get some accolades for that and and the state recognized our efforts. Um after our budget subcommittee earlier there was a little conversation um about sibly preference um we received notification from the commissioner's office I think about a week or 10 days ago saying that
048um we could apply for an exception to the um the lottery admissions uh solely related to sibling admissions um but it had to be a sibling that was currently enrolled in the school here. Um Mr. The pigeon is currently researching that to see how many students that that could potentially impact and how many students we're talking about in the class of 2030. Um it does not guarantee the sibling admission but it does put them at the top of the weight list. So again there are some ramifications to this that we want to explore further. Um this is something that um I I would intend on bringing back to the committee um possibly for the June meeting. Again, I think this is this is a decision that the committee should be making and not necessarily myself
049or the admissions department here. Um, there's some pros and cons. I mean, yes, it gets siblings in, but then it also is potentially bumping other students that were a little higher on the weight list down further. Um, we are not required to do this. This is just something that was put out as an option. Um my sense is that as the commissioner has gone around and visited different schools, I think he's heard about um you know in um in charter schools and in some other settings there's a sibling preference. So I think this was kind of a compromise. Um, I've also heard that the legislature has taken up a lot of this and they're going to do a a study committee or whatever you want to call it. Um, I believe over the summer and
050into the fall to look at vocational school admissions and and I believe this is also going to be one of the topics that that comes up. >> So, if you have twins applying, it doesn't this doesn't matter. It's only you have an upper classman. If you if you had a let's say you had a junior or senior that was already enrolled here and you had a ninth grader that was applying, it wouldn't mean automatic admission for the ninth grader. It would just put the ninth grader at the top of the weight list. >> It mean it does apply even if it's a senior. >> That's my understand from reading it. That's my understanding. As long as they're currently enrolled. No, I I understand it does seem a little bit in keeping with Desi's approach to
051making this difficult because if the I can I just don't understand that part of it. Um and I I've you have already heard a little bit about the concern about bumping kids further down the weight list. Um particularly since a lot of us have had discussions with families and said the rules are the rules. We're not going to make changes, you know, etc., etc. But at least he heard something. But if the idea is to keep families together, that obviously does not apply to a case where one of the kids is leaving the school system, the school. >> So make sure I understand. So if we accept the sibling preference, you're saying that like for next year, so they have the lottery and if the sibling didn't get in, they would be at the top
052of the waiting list. >> No, that would apply to this year's weight list. So the class of 2030, the kids that are coming in September, this would retroactively apply to them and anybody that had a sibling here would be moved to the top of the weight list. >> But that's I'm assuming that's for continuing years as well. >> This is this is just for this year. >> Just for this year is the way that it was put out. You can apply for an ex an exemption for this year. >> Yeah. Now again, whether they implement that moving forward, I'm not even going to reasoning for just for this year, but we'll never know that. >> Maybe they're going to get rid of this whole system. Go back the way it was. >> I'm sure there's
053politics involved in everything, >> I think. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Uh hiring update. Um we we've really kind of closed the gap on this uh support services pair professional, uh admin assisted for academic programs, and advanced manufacturing instructor. the only three open positions we currently have left. Um, I have the advanced manufacturing candidate on my calendar tomorrow or the next I forget which day it is, but sometime this week. um field positions. Uh director support services Amy Peralt, business manager Ian Goslin, HVACR instructor Austin Porer, school psychologist Sydney Manard, dental assisting instructor Colleen Kelly, automotive tech instructor Nicholas Chikarelli, >> I'm going to guess carpentry instructor Nicholas Lee, science instructor Julie Grillin. uh advanced manufacturing with we have two advanced manufacturing positions so it's not a it's not a typo uh Debbie Debbie
054Benton Court um metal fabrication Michael Penta and then admin assistant for the co-op office is going to be Robin Chisum so we're making progress on those >> Rosemary's yeah Miss U Miss Brewster's retired Yep at the end of the year >> what was the other position for >> academic programs so Miss Miss Chisum was Danica's assistant. >> Yeah. >> And wants a school year position, not a year round position. So, >> put in for Rosemary's position. >> So, now there's an opening. >> We got a little we >> um FY27 budget update. Uh three amended votes. Uh Bill Rick, Burlington, and Tukbury all voted an amended number. Um I I think I've said this to people here that does that does mean that um that's a no vote. they they do not have they can't
055actually they can't even raise it either. It's it's what the committee assesses to them. Um there's a need to revise and resubmit. I know Mr. Fusco is going to talk a little bit about the budget subcommittee meeting here in a minute. I'll leave that to him. Um MSBA feasibility study I talked about with the timeline. We are on track. We should have everything in. Um we just need to get those signed minutes in tomorrow and I believe that cleans up everything that we have left to do. And again, I'm sure Mr. will comment on this as well, but um we did have the END certification reertified. Um there was an error that was brought to our attention. Uh Department of Revenue did not give us a choice. They said that it must be reertified because
056the error was on their part. Um I actually got a nice um email from them stating that it was a it was a data entry issue that had caused the um the discrepancy. I'll use the polite term for it. um that did impact the amount that we have to return to our ascending communities. Uh so that did increase to that that $558,4355. Um and like I said, I know Mr. Fusco is going to comment on that a little bit more with the budget subcommittee update. Um again, just these revision the budget revision updates and I shared these I think verbally at the last meeting. I don't think I have I don't think I actually did a a report um for our special meeting. Um the four requested pieces that we received in writing the feedback
057that we received were clear budget document um that's being redeveloped to reflect feedback and provide alignment of numbers to hire permanent business manager. Uh the contract is is on the uh agenda for tonight to be approved. So hopefully that will be finalized. Establish accounting and control standard operating procedures. TMS is working on that. Um Paul has a lot of resources. I've just kind of been pushing him to uh coales them into a a usable um kind of format and then uh plan to reconcile past accounting. Um I had reached out I'd reached out to um to to the town town administrator in Burlington. I also spoke with the town accountant in Bill Ricka. Uh both pushed me towards Clifton Larson Allen. Um I did have a preliminary conversation earlier today with um one of the
058representatives from Clifton and Larsson Allen and they're working on some stuff for us. So I should have some more information about that as we move forward. So again based on the feedback that we got um I think we are making some progress on this and I think we'll have some positive things to report back out uh once the documents redeveloped and ready to roll. >> Any questions for Tony? >> Just one quick 558,000 going back to the towns. Yep. >> That's per town or that's divided between all five town council. >> That's divided between all five. Um and again there's we'll have to look at um you know do we want to base it on on a capital reimbursement? Do we want to base So we'll have to look at what each town was assessed.
059We also have to look at the enrollment because that's from FY25. So we have to use the FY25 enrollment numbers to make all those calculations. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> McKenzie. I just wanted to excuse myself and I apologize for my early dismissal, but I wanted to say good night and good night has a good >> Thank you. See you next time. >> See you next month. I will definitely be >> if you put it in our planner. >> It's in my calendar. I have to >> good. Okay. On to subcommittees, folks. Um the curriculum subcommittee met recently and uh when we'll get the report. >> Okay. So hopefully you've all had a chance to review the agenda, well the packet that sent out. Uh we met uh on the 19th I believe
060and um Jess probably would have been speaking to this tonight but so I want to get to a high level but this is uh regarding the recent legislation that was passed at the state well with the commonwealth regarding policies related to restricting students cell phone use during the school day. Um the student council had already been actively discussing this and we do have an existing cell phone policy. Um so they had already kind of put together um you know what they were going to propose and the changes and you'll see that if you look past um you'll see that's on the next few pages. You can see what's highlighted in red and what was added. Um when we met on the 19th, we obviously spoke to Jess at length about everything and we recommended um
061unanimously to you know move this on to the full school committee meeting which is tonight. Um you know there is a if you read the paper the next two pages you can see what the changes were. I don't know if anyone has any questions, but we as a cir as the subcommittee, we reviewed it with her and we decided to um move this on to make a to vote on it for tonight. >> Um >> we've had we've had um you've had a policy here, Tony, since you've been here, right? Uh >> uh it wasn't here when I started, but the last couple years we've had >> we've had something SL cell phones become obviously they're a part of our lives. Um, so and the state is just about I know it's gone to the
062House and Senate. Am I correct on that? >> And it'll probably reach the governor's desk that they'll sign something uh to have a statewide cell phone policy. >> Yeah. And just >> the final language is still pending though and you know we but we just felt as a school committee that we should have this policy in our manual. We also want to make sure that we get it out to the kids and the families before the start of next year's school year and that's why we are moving it forward to tonight. Just to give provide a little bit more context, I know I know Miss Cook and the school council have been working on this for a while and this is something that I I believe our co-op employers and and our parents had all
063supported. >> Um I will say that the one hole that we found so our current policy is kids can use them before school, at lunch and after school. um unfortunately at lunch has kind of a loose determination and it's really hard to stop a kid in the hallway you know anywhere from like 10:40 to you know quarter one because that's that's lunch and you know so anyways there was there was some ambiguity there and and I think that this will help clean that up um there was also a lot of discussion and I know principal Cook had done a lot of research on this there's schools that are using those yonder pouches and some other things like that um that is a huge commitment of time and resources every day uh to have people stationed
064at the doors and to make sure the kids put them in the bags and then to you know to un uncip or release or whatever the bags at the end of the day. Um a lot of our shops have already gone to or have been collecting them. Um so again we didn't want to burden um academic classes with collecting a you know spending five or 10 minutes at the beginning of class collecting phones, spend five or 10 minutes at the end of an academic period handing out phones. So, um I know this is kind of where Principal Cook had landed with this. Um and I know she's been advocating for this for a while. Um and is had expressed, you know, her her confidence in her um her feeling that this would be um the
065most appropriate way for us to implement this here at Shaw. So, >> and the um other if you read on page the actual policy page, it does say what the offenses will be. Um we did talk about that at length, too. Uh but this is what the student council recommended. There is a a first offense and a second offense with sub with each subsequent offense. Um but it's basically that you know it's detention. So >> um >> and you know to speak to Tony's point about you know other options like taking their phones and being in class it was just not an option. um the student council and everyone that um was part of decision- making on this felt that it would be too um it would just interrupt the class that the class is
066too much. So, and because the state's doing this, we've decided to adopt it and that's what we're hoping to get approved tonight. >> Are the students aware that this change is coming? >> Not yet. They are now. Well, if they're watching, parents might be watching, >> but I mean, we'll make sure that it's um distributed as soon as this gets approved and um Jess plans to have it in all the communications going out to the next next year's class. >> So, does it go into effect immediately or does it go into effect? >> No, it'll go into effect in the fall. >> It'll be for the fall. >> Okay. Thank you. >> She's gonna talk to the shop. Y. So >> anyway, we have >> it's recommended that the committee vote to approve the updated
067cell phone policy as presented. The proposed motion is I make well I don't know if somebody wants to do that. You can do it. >> I can't. I make a motion to approve the updated cell phone policy as presented. >> Second by Bob. Motion made by Gwen. Second by any discussion hearing none. All those in favor? >> Oppos? Unanimous. >> Thank you. Okay. And then the second part of what we discussed on the 19th was the professional development plan. You'll also see that's included. There was some changes that were made. Um, basically I mean my understanding with what Jess communicated to us was it was designed to I mean you can read the the statement here but designed to align educator learning with emerging state requirements including I know she added some classes and I'll
068let Tony maybe speak to the uh you know exactly which were changed but it was to help um meet the requirements that the for the state correct. >> Yes. Yes. So, I don't know exactly. Actually, they're they're labeled on this last >> I think she put them >> um we typically partner with uh the TEC collaborative and they're self-paced so a teacher can take them, you know, if they want to do them over the summer, they want to do them during the school year and it's 15 hours, 15 PDPs and then we end up offering them one salary credit to complete those. And again, based on what Jess had shared at the meeting, uh some of those courses are falling off like Tech is no longer supporting some of those classes, but they brought on
069additional classes um with with kind of a similar u similar focus or similar lens to them. So, um I think that's just part of their natural progression to update their offerings as well. So, we reviewed it as the subcommittee meeting and we um basically approved what she presented and we wanted to move it to you guys for a vote. So, >> um I make a motion to approve. Well, are there any questions? >> Any questions, comments? We're good. >> Pretty straightforward. >> I make a motion to approve the 2026 2027 professional development plan as presented. >> Second by. We'll give it to Kent because I heard him first motion made by Gwen, second by Kent. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? I none unanimous. >> Thank you, Gwen. Job well done. All right.
070The um next item is the budget subcommittee. We met tonight. Um I find my notes here. Here we go. We had a joint meeting of the budget subcommittee and the facilities capital planning. Um so on the agenda was the FY27 budget. Um it was a discussion among the committee members. We decided as a comm as as subcommittee to make revisions to the budget and return for a future meeting. >> Is that Mr. McIntosh agreed to? >> Yep. >> And so that's that item here. I'm not going to have a vote, I believe. >> And a second B bullet point was amounts to be returned to the towns and subcommittee members we discussed um the amount of um END to be returned to each community. Superintendent Macintosh has been instructed to come back with a plan
071for this distribution. Did I say that? >> Yeah. >> And so that is the report. Hey Tony, can you just comment? I know in END like with the new business manager coming in is gonna be a big thing. I mean this is like when yearover-year we're consistently returning money to the towns. This is over half a million dollars. So that leads to questions about at some point well not already if people are watching about what is the budget actual process. I know that was brought up. So I mean like I think we need like more information. EMD is its own specific I mean you presented what was the ask about what the plan was but I think we need to have a plan specifically for END >> right as >> well I think you answered
072that question already we have to be more accurate with our budget to actual numbers and until that happens um I mean that's that's that needs to be fixed and that's that's >> we all know that >> exactly >> have we started fixing it with interim have we been able to we're doing our cost. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Hopefully. But yes, I agree with the new business managers coming in, having that up to-date and and accurate tracking will will better inform what we're doing and how we're doing. >> I appreciate the plan you showed, but just one comment on that where you said the the CLA doing the which I think is good. I think that will help with like you said a couple towns weighing in, which is good. But I mean I'm going
073to have one discrepancy here which argument is where you mentioned about the consultant doing we talked about having like Collins or I think we really need to look at somebody else to come in and assist with that because I think you know I think that so I I met with the woman from Collins and her recommendation was to bring in I mean she didn't she didn't mention CLA but she mentioned bringing in a third party and having them do the reconciliation. No, I mean I got the reconciliation piece, but I'm talking more like SOPs and like separate from current roster, >> like separate. >> So again, TMS's work, I I do not have a final version of that, but Paul has told me that he's been working. No, but I'm saying is it possible to
074look at having somebody else come in and do a separate review of those policies and procedures because, you know, not to give that guy credit in our town, but I mean, you know, he did say it's been 10 months and we're still talking about it. So, I mean, you got CLA to do the historical, but I think we need to look at somebody else to come in and do take that over. >> I don't know that you're going to find anybody. I mean, the only people you're gonna have to come in to do that is TMS, and they already have them anyways. >> I don't know that there's a lot of companies. Again, the CLA is is more of an audit. >> Yeah. >> Reconilia. I mean, you can you can find accounting firms. >>
075I don't know that you're going to find somebody to come in and do a review of standard operating procedures. >> Okay. But my only counterargument is we've had almost a year and we're still talking about Groundhog Day. So it's like I mean at what point >> CLA will handle the forensic piece of it, this reconciliation, but it doesn't give me much comfort >> with the other side of the fence, which is the SOP. >> Again, I I'm doing my best to get that finalized and and out and it's um I mean I besides telling you it's a work in progress, I don't really have any other response at this point in time. Um it's it's being worked on. It's one of the things I discuss on a regular basis. Um, I don't have a product
076to to present. >> Will what Mr. Boone is looking at include some of those items? No. Who would that be? >> Um, I mean, again, the other thing too is we're also bringing in a business manager that has a dozen years of experience in another district. So, I think he's also going to bring a perspective that like, hey, this is the way that things should be set up and this is the way I think they should be organized. So, I might get it and and I'm sure we're going to get some push back from as heading communities about what that looks like. Uh, but I I don't I don't know where else to go with that or who else to reach out to. Um, everybody that I've talked to said, I mean, there's there's nobody
077out there that's doing that. Thank you, Kent. We're getting slowly but truly um under old business um I just put down here the audit. Oh, how we doing on that? >> I I I apologize. I was actually going to put that on my um update and I forgot. >> Still can't stand that. >> How we doing with the audit? >> So, I got the and I can't remember I I'm sorry. I don't remember exactly what it's called, but I got the acknowledgement form for the student activity fund audit on Friday. So, that was signed today. That was returned to CBiz. I believe they have either three or four business days to now issue the report. That is done. Um, there are some recommendations in there. There's some things that there's some things that we absolutely
078were doing right. There's some things in there that we absolutely need to update and make some changes on. Um, when I had reached out to to Mr. Jazawitz about that. Um he did share with me that um they are still working on the FY251 and that there was some um how can I put this delicately that some of the information they were looking for uh wasn't shared with them as timely as they would have liked it. Um, so again, that was a conversation that I had gone back and had a conversation with Paul about that, you know, that that stuff needs to be in. It needs to be it needs to be put back on their plate. Um, he is still based on the last communication that I had with him, he's still optimistic about
079presenting it at the June meeting. Um, >> This is CBS. Okay. Um, but it it sounds like it's not all on CBiz. It sounds like that there's also some um disconnect between some of the stuff that they've asked for and when it's been provided to them. >> That goes back to my 10 to 12 months ago. >> I I understand. >> I did talk to Julia Petro about the external >> the one that went out to. >> Yeah. Like if we don't get we could potentially is outside of 30 weeks. You essentially still could talk to somebody another you want to target. We definitely can. >> Um, >> go ahead. Like when Sorry. >> Um, for our retreat thing, do we have the MASC person lined up or >> she may have a conflict. I
080asked her twice and she just got back to me today saying she still didn't know. that as soon as she was where her schedule, she would let me know. >> Okay. >> What was the date of the retreat again? >> I don't think it aligned with this the retreat. >> A separate date, I think. >> Yeah, it was in October. >> So, what was the date that was picked? >> Um, that Saturday in October. >> October 17th. >> She couldn't make July. >> She couldn't make the July retreat date. >> October was Saturday, October 17th. >> What's the July retreat date? >> 13th. Monday the 13th. A call. Is that right? >> Okay. Monday the 13th. Put in your calendars. I think we was a general consensus. We're going to have our retreat here 9
081to 2 o'clock. Come up with a uh it's early, but we'll come up with suggestions. I have some ideas what I want to do. Might take a little tour again, see you with some things and um it's a good working session, good good talk session. And u hopefully uh we'll have a clearer focus of what's happening. >> Indeed. >> Yeah. >> Hopefully Kent will have a clearer focus of what's happening by July 13th. Come October 17th, we're hosting a section 8 meeting and we will have our uh NASC hopefully. We're waiting to hear if she's going to come in and talk to us. We're trying we're trying on that. So that's it. But that's going to if you can make that date uh Saturday uh the 17th of October, I believe we'll uh invited all
082six and eight schools to come in and we'll talk more about the agenda when we get closer to it. Uh >> yeah, I think Mr. Ellis when Tech has been on the Ram Center. We're going to have refreshments and uh it's a good day to talk with other colleagues anyway. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Um under new business folks, any other old business before we move on? Okay, good. um new business. There was a um item that was picked up in our minutes that we um a clerical error we missed and the purpose of the agenda item was to vote on the amending minutes for the June 26, 2025 meeting. The district was notified of a typographical error in that June 25th, 2025 meeting minutes. While the committee voted to appropriate 213,788 to eliminate
083the appropriation deficit from fiscal 24, the minutes correctly indicated the amount of 213,755. To ensure the accuracy of the district's official record, is it recommended that the committee amend the June 25th, 2025 minutes to reflect the correct appropriation amounts? Okay. >> Make a motion. >> Stacy, you read it. I make a motion to amend the minutes of June 25th, 2025 meeting to correct the typographical error by replacing the recorded amount of $213,755 with the correct amount of 213778 and the motion to appropriate funds to eliminate the FY24 budget deficit. Is there >> a second? Second. Second. All those in favor unanimous. Thank you. And the amendments are now amended. Thank you so much. Um, we have next item. Out of state field trips, there's an attached memo as the amount again. >> No, 788. So
084if you if you go back to if you go back to the u go back to the the backup documentation Patty. So up in the middle in the body here it said vote to appropriate but then when the motion was made it was it was recorded as 213755. >> No I understand that. But when we just made the motion the motion says 213778 not 788. >> Oh you are absolutely correct. >> Thank you. Sorry. >> Nice catch. >> Thank you. $33 must be accounted for >> again. All right, stay. So, we have to hold on. Let's just fix our stuff here. should be 7 >> 55. >> So, down the motion, it was just the motion was wrong. You want to reread the motion with the correct >> dollar? Go ahead. >> All right. I
085make a motion to amend the minutes of the June 25th, 2025 meeting to correct a typographical error by replacing the recorded amount of 20 213,778 with the correct amount of 213,755. >> No, >> I reversed them. >> You did. >> Let's get this right. Third times a >> reverse number on the background. So it's not to eliminate 778. >> No, that 7 the 778 should be 788. >> 788. That's >> that's where the problem is. Sorry. >> Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead, Stace. >> All right. So 788 will be right. Right. And 755. >> Yes. Okay. Sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. >> I make the motion to amend the minutes of the June 25th, 2025 meeting to correct a typographical error of by replacing the recorded amount of 213,780 with the correct amount.
086>> Sty. >> Okay, >> Stace. Come on one more time. >> So before I read it, so it's just I am sorry. So this is right and then this is the only difference is the 88. Got it. I switched them. I got it. Okay. All right. One more time. I make a motion to amend the minutes of June of the June 25th, 2025 meeting to correct typographical error by replacing the recorded amount of $213,755 with the correct amount of $213,788 in the motion to appropriate funds to eliminate the FY24 budget deficit. Second. >> Second. >> But wait. >> Okay. Oh, no discussion. All those in favor? >> I 90. You got it right. Okay, Stace. Sorry about that. It's it's I know it's it's awkward and wordy. Out of state field trips. We have in
087front of you um a list of out of state field trips. They are to Cany Lake. They are the Johnson and Wales University Island. Traveling Rams are going to Italy. Mr. Bagy is on the road again. Who loves Italy? Right, Mr. Bey? Uh, wrestling tournament. Um, Coach Pratt has requested uh permission to go to Salem, New Hampshire for the Salem Blue Devils tournament to Sanford, Maine for the Sanford wrestling tournament. and the um these are very prestigious tournaments allows exposure to our wrestlers and of course a New England wrestling tournament in Provin Island and then um the annual National High School Coach Association wrestling tournament in April of 27. Okay, so that is where we're at. Um is there a motion to accept? >> Motion second. Um all those in favor. >> Okay. Um, Tony,
088I was thinking this form here. I'm just curious. >> This form has been around >> Yeah. >> since the dawn of time. I've seen since I got here. >> I saw this here in 1988 when I started and I did that because I took various field trips. I'm thinking, can we make this electronic online? >> What do you think? PDF? I don't know. Just thinking, am I on the box here? I mean, I'm just thinking, you know, people can >> No, it's We've talked about it. type online there. >> Yeah, we talk about it. >> I mean, we're filling out these fill out this forms. I thought John judge. I was just laughing about it. Anyway, well, um second, >> it's all good. Thank you. Well, John, good luck in Italy. Okay, cool. Okay, we
089have an item ahead of us. Um the U Mascial and alternate delegate. Last year I believe it was I don't know you're willing to step up. >> Yeah, she went it very quick last year. One year was very long. Last year was very quick. >> Are you uh >> I can do it again. >> Will to do it? >> Yeah. Firstly, since we're not going to the Cape, we're just going to >> beauty. I expect all of you to come with me >> to be the alternate. Any takers? Patty, do I nominate you? >> I will. Jolly will be the alternate. >> Okay. This is at the MASC um delegate convention. >> Please remind me of that date. >> I believe >> November 4th. >> Thank you. >> November 4th to the 7th. >> I
090make a motion to designate Taran Gillis as the official delegate of the 2026 MASCASS conference. I also make a motion to designate Charlie Fior Fiori as the alternative delegate at the 2026 MASC MASS conference. >> Second by Tom. All those in favor. Okay. Thank you so much. >> Um okay, that's going to be in Danvas this year and it is obviously u hopefully you'll be put well you have been scheduled into your schedule. schedu go for a day even if they can't go for three. >> Um we had here uh >> we can push that off. >> We're not going to deal with that pretend. We're going to it's not we're not going to discuss that. >> So the June meeting for the regular June meeting is June 16. >> June 16th. >> All right.
091So um we have that week the June 9th is the time. June 11th is graduation this year. June 16th is our meeting comes up pretty quickly >> and the reason >> is >> that just because the end of the school year >> it's a quick turnaround from this meeting to the next meeting >> if we didn't have excuse me if we didn't have snow days >> I think the school this the normal school committee me meeting would have fallen after school >> okay right >> or maybe it was the last day of school something >> it was when the dates were proposed >> so last day of school here is the 24th of June um and we read in um The Skills USA is later because Atlanta is hosting the World Cup. >> Yep. >>
092And so they're are having a skills competition of next week. Next week >> and uh we'll go the 11th. Uh anyway, so that's and so um while I'm speaking of this items that could not be reasonably anticipated, I will speak to the fact that um on graduation, we'll do the same thing that we've done in the past where the alphabet, the students, the shops, can I say that? Yes. The shops will be divided up among us and we'll be um handing out the diplomas. if you have any special requests. So, get them to Tony. >> Please email me. >> Email Tony ASAP. Uh otherwise, we'll just divide the list out. Um everybody will if you can if if you know, let us know ahead of time. June 11th, if you can't make it, let us
093know ahead of time. If you have a last minute emergency, let us know. We've done that. We I've seen everything happen in the past. We decided years ago, I think Patty, when you were the chair, it was a good idea because normally the chair would sit there and shake 300 hands. We said, "Let's get everybody involved. You know, this is this is a committee. This is a team and everybody I think it's a good idea. Get up here and it's a good exposure for us." So, we'll do that again. Um, and uh hopefully it'll go off as soon as it's gone in the past. just passed when you're you know who's you're in the program you know what name you're looking for and it's toss it from one person to another it's worked out really
094>> just as a reminder um scholarship night too >> correct >> Taran had mentioned she wasn't sure that all the committee >> yeah May 27th I'll be there doing the Elk stuff is at Tukbury Wington Elks >> at 6 o'clock >> did we I'm sorry did we are we keeping the 16th >> correct correct the 16th is is in the calendar Okay. >> Okay. Stay. Are we good to that? Okay. Um there's also the SCA retirement party for the retiring teachers and um I just want to uh have a special thank you to Mr. Bagy generous enough to to pay for our tickets. So thank you Mr. Bagby. >> And he wants Yeah. Please make every effort to be there. And I understand people have different commitments and that's at the establishment in Shelston. So
095We have a um we have quite a group come uh what's 88 six to eight six people nine retired >> narrative >> uh future agenda items we talked about um having Mr. Talson come in in June talking about what's going on with the senior class if there's anything else. >> I already mentioned that to him. Yeah, >> I think that's a good kind of conclusion to the year. I don't know. Should we have do a sports conclusion? >> All right, let's let's just do that. Everybody okay with that? >> Mr. Cost, >> just kind of concluding wrap up the sports here. >> See what's going on and then Mr. Carlson will talk about what's happening with the senior >> plans and what's going on senior class and what's happening just >> just uh since you
096mentioned the the upcoming retirement gathering I did want to put in just a special mention um Miss Brace did I think her last musical last week and I it's always one of the amazing things that's accomplished at this school with a ridiculous number of hours invested in it. I I I guess they have a succession plan. If not, somebody should bring her back. But apparently they do have some succession planned, but uh I know they were fil they filled up the the place on the first night and they may have done the same the second night. So um it's like a whole different world of Shasheen students and families and it's good really good. Joanne, she's done an incredible job down there. >> Does anybody else have any thoughts on future agenda items? Go ahead.
097So, you know, last week or whenever we had that Thursday meeting and we were here till after 10 o'clock at night, I I started thinking about, you know, the length of our meetings and, you know, other I know other towns, our sending towns, some of them do do two meetings a month. And I know la that was an unusual situation, but you know, I just want to maybe put it out there that we start thinking about if if the meetings are going to be this heavy with all the all the stuff that we have to cover that maybe we consider meeting twice a month versus once a month. Not that I want to add another day. No, I know that I really don't. >> I know. I really don't. But >> yeah, there's been some
098exceptions. I know what you're saying. And it is a lot. And you know, I work nights. I understand. I understand. >> Most of my work is at night, so it's hard for me. Um, but you know, again, I know none of us want to add another full committee meeting, but maybe if we got in a habit of it, the meetings would be an hour. Maybe we'd be in and out in an hour. I don't know. It's just something I started thinking about. And I know at MASC when we go to the annual conference, they talk a lot about, you know, organizing your meetings. you know, how do you make them so that they're productive and quick and you're not spending hours there? And you know, I don't know if there's more stuff we can be
099doing as a committee, but maybe those are other things we could think about. Maybe we could talk about it at the retreat or something, but just think about it and bring your thoughts maybe. >> Yeah, I know. We've never I I know it's always been one meeting a month. I found that to be interesting. I know. And some of these agendas are quite long and some of these discussions >> well sometimes you're exhaust you don't but some of it does require more conversation and I feel like maybe you know sometimes we're rushing through it because we also want to get out of here but >> I think that operating protocol that you brought up is good. Yeah, the operating protocol. They talked about stuff like that too, I think, in that. >> So, I'm sure
100when we get her in here, she'll review that with us and it might speed up our meetings. Maybe it would help, but we won't know till we get her in here. And that looks like that's going to be October 17th. So, anyway, that was all >> Well, okay. Thank you. But, um, we'll put that off for discussion. Um, >> I would just add to that, you know, I wouldn't think that we'd have to say we're going to be twice a month for 10 months of the year. We could, you know, adjust it to, you know, budget heavy season. we make more quieter se, you know, it's a season that's, you know, month that we know isn't going to be that busy because we, you know, historically, >> well, we have the dates, we have the
101monthly dates set in the calendar now, >> but we can certainly if need be, schedule another meeting if if that's fine. I understand because some of this stuff is so that's a good point. Um, I'd be hoping to Yeah, I hope I do to dialogue on that. Okay. Fantastic. Um, thank you. Anybody else? We're good. Okay. At this po point here, um, we're going to enter executive session for purpose two, master of laws, section 3A, section 21 A2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-UN personnel and to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non union personnel. which open session detrimental >> which will if held in open session would be detrimental. Uh it requires a roll call vote sty >> I'm sorry. I need a motion to enter executive session.
102>> Is there a motion? >> Second. >> Stacy. >> Yes. Ch. Yes. Okay. We are in executive session at 8:24 p.m. Fix the camera. It's looking at the top of Ron's head. >> There's a camera at the church. It looks the back of my head. All right. Excellent. Again, start over. Mr. Let's go. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Back after technical difficulties. >> We're back. Thank you for uh crack tech check cracker jack. It's been a long night, folks. Oh, we're out of executive session. Um we're returning to vote on the non-union contacts. So, Miss Huberty, would you read the motion? >> Yes. I'm going to make a motion to accept contracts for the following positions. business manager, director of support services, business office staff, executive assistants, daycare workers, directors, administrators, and superintendent
103director. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I post unanimous. Thank you. N zero. >> Okay. I'll entertain a motion. Do what you >> second. >> Miss made it. Taran, you win the you win the emotion. The motion. She's >> good at motions. >> All those in favor. >> None. Thanks, folks. Uh 9:15. Thank you for your >> We'll see you graduation next. >> See you at graduation. >> See you soon. Thank you. Have a good night. >> You can give your envelope back if you want. time. He allowed him to do it well.