001are the largest overages based on a percentage but are absolute actually rather small dollars. Comparatively those are not identified as being associated with a specific department. They all have the generic supplies uh label. Is there a reason for that? Are those last one? Yeah, there's one, right? Those could be department specific like student activities could be in there. But I can I can pull these if you want. As I say, the three just so happens the three that are particularly off or over um generic titles. Yeah. Three. Yeah, they are. The 448% and the 361 and the 237 are all the 448 is actually $847, right? I recognize Yeah. get it. So the percentages skew things sometimes. Yeah. And I can put I can find those departments and I'll email everybody and just let them
002know what departments that's related to. But to Ron's point like for example like when you did you go do your quarterly review and see this like 26,000 that's if we had like to your point you guys would but now you're at a point where you can report that out next year and have like the regular member check in with the review that would be something that would be noted as part of athletics and then you'd be like what the hell's going on? And a lot of these descriptions, that's why we're putting that timeline together. Yeah. A lot of these descriptions need to be changed. These are original to to the system. So I can slowly start changing. Anything that's generic, I can put the department in there. So now going forward, we'll know exactly what
003it is. That works. That's a summer. Um, just on a different topic, Jenna and D and audit. Do we have enough paper? So, I emailed Did everyone see the email about the audit? Yes. Okay. So, not only are we doing our regular audit, but now they're auditing our federal funds. So, they're asking for more stuff. Even today, I was giving them more items. So, they're still requesting information. We're responding to them as fast as we can within our department. So, that is still work in progress. and I can't I have one more section of E and D that I need to fix according to the department of revenue, but the auditor has to look at it. She did not know there was something with our in our cash that wasn't jing with what the department
004of revenue thinks it should be and she said, "You need to have your auditor looked at." So, I'm at that point waiting for the auditor to give me an update, but everything else is submitted except this one treasures cash END sheet. She wants to make sure it's accurate and they want the auditor to double check it. So, that is where that at. You have no idea. When END is done, you will hear me celebrating from wherever you are. I'll be very excited. And when I get this audit, I will feel the same way too because I know everything seems to take a lot of time, but we're also relying on outside vendors to give us information and they are waiting for me too to submit the next steps. And so it's just a little catch
00522. What about takeaways from 23? Is that all been like the last time we met back in February? Is that all like um Yes. And I can give you an update on it. I actually met with Mary who's the controller and Heather Dalton who's the assistant treasurer and we went through those updates. So we did move one one of the funds that they recommended I think it was compensated his absences is now separate in its own fund but I can give you an update on that the next meeting. Yes, we we actually just met last week to see what else we could do prior to yeah prior to FY26 like the audit like was good. So if you had like I had that and I actually updated it in our meeting while we were going
006through it. So I have it good to go. I can email it. Be good to just see that stuff closed out for the whole committee just to see because that was kind of the transition break between that. So I'll email out the audit update from I just want everyone to know we could get the some of the same recommendations this year just because of how late our audit was. 26 hopefully it will be all squared away. just to confirm on timing like what's the I know there's been kind of a misnomer over the years of what the actual target is for is you're a year behind is it basically like are we targeting March or is this year still partially delayed because of the break from last year like next year we'll be back to
007March like what's the So I started this audit in January usually it's October but we were working on FY25 and um CIZ said end of April we should have it today is the end of this is the end of April tomorrow, the end of April. Um, so I don't have it yet, but I'm in contact with them. At least one person on that CBIS team a day, if not 10. So, is that the new target going forward that we're going to get every target going forward should be March? It's supposed to be done by March 31. We're supposed to have it filed with credit bureaus and the federal uh financial aid people and everybody by March 31st. That that would be our target whether we can actually get there with CBIS or not. So this
008year is just the extra month because of the break. If you remember, I don't think they reported out till maybe it was in November. It was a November December meeting last year. So it did kind of bump up against some of the stuff. One month is still and they did give us the unodudited financials which Moody accepts. The bank accepts that till we get the final audit because it's an official document from CBZ from the company. So they all have that and that's fine for now until the audit's complete. But I do have that and I think I emailed everyone the unodudited financials but that is the document I give right now in place of the audit if I'm if it's requested by anyone but just survey the target in the target. Yep. 100%. Yep.
009Yeah. Because in past years it was like June or May. So I don't think I think we target for a while but I'm trying. That's all you can do. Any other questions for Jenna? All right. Thank you very much. Superintendent report. Okay. Again, just following the uh kind of the the sequence that we've had here through the budget process. Um Saturday will be Wilmington's town meeting. Uh May 3rd we'll kick off kind of the next round here. Um, next Monday will be Tukberry and it's Tuesday I believe we're on for the first night in Bora. Uh, unless something's changed. And then the following Monday the 12th would be Burlington which will be our last town meeting for this year. Um, it's going to be an interesting 10 days or so, but that's okay. I know
010we we throw program advisory in the middle of that just because uh we want another night out, but that's okay. Um, so again, just to keep people updated, these are the dates that we currently have. Both Jen and I are planning on being at all of the meetings. Um I I I don't anticipate us getting a lot of push back. Um from what I've heard from town managers and people that have reached out to me, um I think things are in a good spot. Um so we'll we'll see how that see how that plays out. You never know. You never know. Again, positive so far. Yeah. Uh enrollment update. We are down a little bit. Um we've had three students transfer out since last month. So, we currently stand at 1267. Uh, I believe there
011was one freshman and the others who I believe were juniors. Um, which again I I don't know why um students in their junior year would would transfer out, but for some reason, you know, maybe students plans change. Maybe they want to go, you know, maybe they decided they want to go on and pursue something different after high school. But, um, we're we're holding steady. I I would like to see that number a little higher. We've talked about that. Um, again, grade 10 and grade 11 are still, you know, that's that's well below where I'd like to see those numbers. Grade 10 should be somewhere around 340, 350, and grade 11 should probably be 3 330, 340, somewhere in that range. Um, but again, we're headed in the right direction and hopefully those numbers, we we
012start to see that that increase over the next few years here. Tony, were you able to do exit interviews with those three students? Um, I don't do them out of my office. I can I can check with with Jim Carlson and see if um I know a lot of times what happens is the kids will go home on a Friday and just not come on Monday and just say, "Hey, I know it's hard. I know it's a challenge." I can ask him and see what I know they've been trying to prioritize that as much as they can. I just don't know how successful uh they've been with with kids that are leaving the grade 11 one. Were they in the same shop or different jobs? Um I don't know. I will find out. Um, co-op
013update, class of 2025. Again, these are our seniors. Um, 84,636 hours. This is off a little. I actually had Brian pull these numbers um before vacation. just I I wasn't here last week, so I kind of So, this is maybe a little bit outdated, but um we're up to 209 students, uh which is about 65% of our senior classes out, which I think is great. Uh supporting 183 local employers and um as of the date that he pulled this information, it was $1,49,535. So, we're in good shape there. Again, breakdown by community. Bedford is five, brick is 74, Burlington's 15, Tukberry's 50, Wilmington is 69. Like I said, 200 213 out of 320 students participating. Um, next meeting we should have um numbers for the class of 2026. They actually started it might have started
014the week before vacation. Um, I know Mr. Smith was was working through I think his count was uh somewhere around 80 kids that were in the pipeline that they were actively working to get out um and get started on co-op and I'm sure that number will just continue to increase because um juniors juniors want to get out as well and they want to get out and work and they want to start making some money. So, um Sarah, some of the shops the juniors aren't eligible to go out on co-op. So the the junior numbers will never be quite as high as receive and the um the requirements to qualify for junior co-op are a little bit more string if we're on attendance and grades and stuff is a little bit more stringent. So we do
015we do set a higher bar for our juniors to go out but um again we're trying to we're trying to encourage kids to to step up and and and make that step forward. Um admissions update. So um if you take a look at this chart, this was as of yesterday. Um number of seats allocated is the first column. Um the number of completed applications, the number of students we accepted, the number of students we weight listed, number of students that have declined as of that date. Um so you can see um we've had 75 kids that have been offered a spot and again that's spread out over various communities uh that have said change my mind it's not not the right fit for me I'm going to stay we just lost open journey back up.
016Sorry about that. Perfect. Thank you. Um I know there's been a lot of questions around this. Um you know, we we started with a very significant weight list. Um you can see it was almost 100 students and then it it's it's been whittleled down as as students decline we go to the next student on the wait list. As of April 15th we did switch to a combined list. So up until that 18 18 April 15th deadline um we allocate seats by community. So up until that deadline, pretty much any Bedford student that was interested would have kind of automatically been put into the pipeline. Once we hit the April 15th deadline, it becomes a ranked order list. Um, and so the first five kids could be from Orica, the first five kids could be from
017Wilmington, and it's just rank order score. So we are still continuing to work through that. So the order it's rank order and scored. So, it's based on um that combined rate and it doesn't it's not broken down by town. It's like after April 15th it becomes one unified list. Okay. Yeah. And I know there was there was some questions um and again just just to just to clarify u back in 2021 um when the state did their first round of vocational school admissions updates um there are only five categories you can consider. Yeah. So, um I know there was some questions around, you know, does does is there weight for siblings or there wait for, you know, other other family members that have attended. Um the state completely did away with that. Um and they
018were very regimented and so we can, you know, again, we can account for attendance, we can account a teacher or counselor recommendation, we can do an interview, uh we can do discipline, and we can do grades. Um but that is it. And those are the only things that we can factor into that formula. Um, and it's been that way four or five years now, something like that. So, um, again, I anecdotally, I've met with 15 or 20 parents probably that have appealed admissions. Um, the vast majority of them are attendance issues. And I I think it it's very important for middle school parents to understand um that unexcused absences count in that formula currently in that formula. Um and most of the parents that I sit down with are like, "Well, my kid was homesick.
019I didn't bother taking them. I didn't I didn't document it. I just kept them out of school, which is every parent's right, but we have to have some criteria for how we measure that." Um, the other thing that I would say that trips um, trips some people up is the recommendation. And again, I, you know, when students and when parents are thinking about who they're going to ask for recommendation, it really should be a a teacher or a counselor that knows that student well. Um, because, you know, I've I've seen some rather poorly written recommendations that, you know, unfortunately that that has also impacted some student scores. Um but we are we are still trying to work our way through the weight list. Um we'll continue to maintain that through the summer. Um I know
020I think the general thing I've been hearing from parents, the ones that have reached out to me is that you know they understand the the um admissions like the criteria, the point system, but you know what happens when they go on the weight list? I feel like the ones I've been hearing from are are worried or not worried but they're not understanding what happens after you're weight listed and how you get moved up and and then like you just said April 15th you can buy the list. So I mean that was something I didn't know either. So um you know I think for the ones I've heard from they they're kind of curious like how that process works once your weight list we we continue to monitor that weight list right through. So again, over
021the summer, we'll probably have us spitball and save 15 or 20 kids. Um that again, we'll change their mind. We'll we'll make a sports team. We'll whatever what just to have a life choice that they make to go in a different direction. Um Andy Pigeon, uh Britney Ferguson in his office, um Britney reviews that list almost constantly. She's the one that answers the phone, responds to parent emails. Um so again, as the summer goes on, we will continue to pull kids off that list. Um, we have plans um coming up at the end of this school year to target to back fill potentially back fill some shops that don't have high enrollment numbers for the 10th grade as well. So that weight list is maintained through ninth grade and then even at the end of
022ninth grade we'll reach out to parents and say here's four shops, here's six shops that we're going to have capacity in next year. Does your student want to come in as a 10th grader? So we we we try to backfill and and meet those needs as much as we can. Um and unfortunately sometimes we don't get all the way through that. Two questions. One of So you said that some of the um recommendations have impacted the students. Um I'm just curious and you may not be able to answer this. Is it that the recommendation is I don't recommend this child or is the recommendation give you the impression that the the adult doesn't really know the child that the kid I like my daughter for example barely knew her guidance counselor so if she had
023been told to get a recommendation from the guidance counselor he would have been basing that recommendation on her records not on her. So do you get that impression that that's the problem? So students are allowed to select any any adult that they you know so it could be a seventh grade teacher, it could be a guidance counselor, it could be a coach, it could be anything like that. Um what we intentionally did this year is we so the the system we that go to CTE platform sends an email to the teacher directly and what we did this year is we made sure that the scoring rubric and the instructions were embedded in the top of the email so that when they opened it they had to read this is how the student is scored. these
024are the expectations, this is what we're asking you to do. And then when they went down, there was a text box. Um I don't know that every person that was asked to write those letters took it as seriously as they should. Okay. Um and I will just It wasn't necessarily a negative recommendation. It was just sort of a a not thorough recommendation. And there's two parts to it. So they're asked to rate the student on I think there's five different criteria. Um and they get a score from I think a one to a three. I mean, sometimes we'll see, you know, sometimes somebody will give a kid a one or two. Um, but I think the ones that I saw that were probably the most impactful was, you know, they're asked to respond to a
025prompt about the student and and why, you know, why this would be a good um a good fit to them. Some of them look like texts that somebody would send you. Nice kid. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, kids spelled KZ. Oh, yeah. you know, I mean, just yeah, some some of them were really really poorly done. So, um, unfortunately, I think that's So, maybe the recommendation is that be careful who you who you pick who you pick for your recommendation. Y and then how does disciplinary issues come into play with the application process? So, disciplines and all or nothing. Um, so there's the only way that we can withhold discipline points is if it's a 37 age, 37 age and a half, 37 age of three, which is assault on staff, possession of a weapon,
026possession of controlled substance, um, being accused of a felony, um, or some other type of long-term more than 10day suspension. So, those are the only things we can consider. Okay? So, most kids get full points. Um, there's there's only a handful of students that didn't get the full full points for that. Okay, sure. I just had a question about the kids that are on the wait list. So, do the families end up getting information from the school about how they actually could make their way into the admission for the following year? Do they to Gwen's question or or question about do parents know the process? We keep contacting them through that. So, that platform allows the admission staff to batch email if you will. Yeah. So, as things, you know, as things change, as things
027get updated, we'll send something out saying, you know, you're still on the wait list, you know, please, you know, please indicate if you've changed your mind, you want to be removed. So, we do stay in constant contact with them. Um, I mean, there's, you know, again, I've had people come in in the field. Um my my most common recommendation to people is if if the absence report isn't accurate, you need to go back to your sending district and val you know if you're telling me that your kid wasn't absent for all those days, go back to them, have them update the report. When we get the updated report, we rescore the student. They may potentially move up on the list. They may stay right where they are. And there's been a lot of that over
028the last month and a half or so. And that's that's been the majority of conversations that I've had with parents that have come in to meet with me. So, one other question. If a eighth grader decides now they wish they had applied, so they're applying now. Obviously, the it's full so they're not are they just going to be scored like everybody else was originally scored and fit in? Yeah. Depending on what their number is. Okay. Thank you. Let's try this out. um with that's essentially a gap of 23 spots. Is that correct? Between if if 75 declined and you had actually we listed that. Yeah. So there's Well, we had 522 applications. We accepted. You know what? I I'd have to sit down and do I I don't know off the top of my head.
029Well, I I was just going ask in effect asking should one infer from that data that the gap is closing that there's 23 spots or so. Uh the wait list is definitely longer than that. The weight list I I believe that the wait list may be 98 as of April 28th. I think these are April 28th numbers. So as of April 28, there's 98 kids on the wait list. 75 students have already declined. So the initial weight list was probably 173. Yeah. Yeah. Because we had again if we had 522 for 350 spots that number that number makes sense. Okay. So therefore if the normal historical attrition rates take place in the next four months most likely there still will be kids waiting. Um, and just to clarify any relationship or notion that there's any
030relationship between this chart and the chart we were looking at before on attendance. The fact that that the grades 10, 11, and 12 uh may be or next year's 10, 11, and 12 may be running a little bit lower than we would like really does not open up any additional spots based on the fact that these are right classes, freshman classes. If you look at workstations per grade level, um, and I mean, you can do that, but you're also boxing yourself into a corner. So if you overfill a class now two or three years from now you're going to have to take less kids. So that may mean the class of 2031 or 32 is only 300 students or 290. Right? So again I we're headed in the right direction. I think we're we're right
031sizing um based on recruitment efforts and and the career trees and all these changes that we've brought in place. We just have to move that 10th and 11th grade class, current 10th and 11th grade class through the system. And I think you'll see the corrections follow that through through the grade levels. And is there any history or there's any opportunity for a student or his or her family to take themselves off the weight list? Yep. During again, as as as Miss Ferguson reaches out, if if a family indicates, hey, you know what? We changed our mind. this isn't the direction we want to go in and she will she will take them off the wait list. Yep. Okay. Just one quick question. So, class of 2029, there's 350 spots. Yep. Class of 2030 is going
032to be the same. Yeah. We we initially accepted 350 and we do that intentionally because we're not sure if we're going to have any nth grade repeaters. Um our capacity is about 360 for the freshman class. Um, and again, you know, if if we get to the end of this year and every ninth grader is passing for the year, we'll pull 10 more kids off that weight list. But our our goal is to have as close to 360 in the ninth grade class for the start of the school year in the fall. I think we started last year with either 356 or 357. Um, shot placement. We tal I we talked a little prelude on this the last time we were here. Uh we had 349 we had 349 freshmen. Um out of that 282
033of those students were placed in their first choice which is um just under 81% of the freshman class got their first choice shop. Uh we had 26 students that end up placed in their second place shop which is about 7.4%. We had 25 in their third choice which is 7.2. We had 15 students that ended up in their fourth choice, which is 4.3% of that class. And we had one student that ended up in their fifth choice, um, which is 3%. Um, interestingly, um, I was having a conversation with Mr. Carlson this afternoon, um, about some information that's going to be presented on Thursday night's um, welcome night for the class of 2029. These numbers are almost identical to our placement last year. they within half a percentage point of where we were and last
034year we only had a class of about 310 students. Um so I don't I don't know if that's indicative of just the the nature of what we do and how things shake out um or if it's just pure luck that those numbers kind of land. Tony, do you know what the number one shop was respect? Uh number one I believe was carpentry. Uh it was it was close. Carpentry, plumbing, and electrical were kind of in a dead heat. And I it was I want to say it was like one student one way or the other that made the difference between the three of them. Yeah. Do the do the kids that get their fifth choice, do they stay with that or do they drop out of the school or So any student that get didn't
035get their first choice, we put on a wait list for programs, too. And again, just like our our admissions weight list, if a family moves, um if a student decides to withdraw and go back to their sending school, we maintain that list. And then, you know, again, if a kid's initially placed in um HVAC but wanted uh metal fab and a spot opens up in Metalfab, we do the same thing. We'll move them in there. Um we try to kind of cut that off like partway through, you know, like usually the midpoint of sophomore year is is the cut off. um because again we don't want kids to miss a big chunk of that content and then have to try to play catchup. Um and and the way that this works so um last year
036we went to this is now automated. Uh in the past they literally had piles of paper and they putting kids names in piles and sorting them that way. It's all done through Aspen. Um an email is sent um or notification is sent to the family saying you know your student's going to log in and do this. Here's the process. here's the things to be aware of. Uh there was a a presentation that was put together by our two nth grade guidance counselors that went out with it. Um the portal opened I believe on a Thursday night. Families had families and students had till midnight on Sunday to go in and select their shop choices. Uh we came in on Monday. I think we had seven or eight kids that hadn't completed the survey. So, right
037out of the gate, first thing in the morning, the guidance counselors went and tracked down those students and said, you know, hey, what's going on? You know, we need these responses. Um, by 9:30, 10:00, we knew um, you know, that that all about 16 kids had been placed in one of their top three choices. And then from there, what ended up happening was the two freshman guidance counselors went around and met individually with those 16 kids and said, you know, we're sorry. um you know the your top three choices have filled up. Here's what your options are. Let us know where it is that you want to go. Um and then unfortunately we had one student who obviously wanted a choice that had already filled again. Um so I ended up with that kind of
038that fifth place choice. And just one thing to go back to the admissions issue and then clarify for anybody. Um admissions is strictly and takes into account not at all does not at all take into account um what shops kids are projecting that they go to. Yep. And so it doesn't matter that a student may say well I really want to go to a shop that I know is undersubscribed or not as heavily in demand. It really doesn't matter at that point. The assumption is everybody is sort of a blank slate. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Again, when the kids come in, I mean, we ask them to kind of rank their choices, but when they come in, um, you know, that that kind of goes out that has that doesn't track with the student at all.
039And then this process is again, um, letting them, you know, pick there. So, there has been some conversation about potentially changing this and asking kids to pick four or maybe five shot, you know, pick your your top four or five so that we maybe potentially don't have to do some of the followup. Um, personally I think we should wait another year and see, you know, is again, is this typical or is this just us kind of learning the system and getting into how this works and how this functions. So, um, I'll keep you updated as we move forward with that. Um, again, 88.3% of the students got either their first or second choice. Uh, and 95.4 of the students ended up in one of their top three. Um, again, I know that I I'm sure
040there's disappointment out there. I'm sure there's kids that really wanted a particular program and and didn't get in. Um, but still, I mean, when you when we look at uh you we're asking kids to pick three of 20 programs and, you know, over 95% of them got one of their top three choices. Um, just an update. Uh, I I don't remember if we talked about this last year or not. We had scheduled um Massachusetts pre-apprentichip and vocational school training program is a partnership between the laborers union and the department of transportation. This program's been in existence I want to say at least 10 years maybe longer now. Uh it's gone through a couple of different reiterations. They used to have construction career days where they would bust all these kids into a central location and
041they'd have different contractors there and kids could use equipment and do different things. Um, and then it went to they were transporting stuff out to vocational schools. Um, they would they would truck in a whole bunch of material. They'd spend the week working with the kids. Then they truck the material back to to Hopington. Um, the latest version of this is they come to the school, they do four days on site here, and then they transport the students to Hopington um to see their training facility down there. If you've never been to um the laborers training facility in Hopington, it rivals a private college campus. Um the dorms, the food service, it is a top-notch facility. Um so they've partnered with vocational schools, like I said, at least 10 years, maybe longer than that now.
042We had um made arrangements with them last year was going to be our first year to welcome them here to Shasheen. Uh unfortunately their their lead instructor um got really sick um and we had to cancel last year. Uh they were in I think it was the last week in March I believe. So what we did again our inaugural run here we had the seniors that weren't out on co-op from metal fab. We had the seniors that weren't out on co-op for masonry um was our pilot group. Um as we move into next year we'll see you know how we recruit those kids. Um, but essentially they come in, the kids get CPR and first aid trained. Uh, they do a whole thing about u traffic control and how to manage, you know, traffic flow
043around work sites. Um, the kids were out here on the lawn. They they bring in transits and they teach the kids how to treat how to shoot elevations and calculate differences in heights. They were out on the front lawn uh doing that. The kids went down on that Wednesday. Um, two of our instructors, Mr. Gonna and Mr. Garino went down with them. Um so it was it was a good it was wellreceived. Um Mr. G was very excited about the opportunities and again the conversation has been around um finding different pathways for students. Some kids get to senior year and and they realize you know what I don't want to be a licensed plumber. I don't want to be a licensed electrician but I enjoy working in the construction industry. Here's another avenue um for
044them to potentially pursue. So, we've already started talking about um they had proposed to us to come back and do both a junior and a senior session next year um and and try to get some more um interest, some more um traction with students and see if this is something that they want to pursue. When we went to the convention, didn't we go to a session? Yeah. So, there's also there's a chapter 74 program that's kind of designed around this. Um, for whatever reason, it really hasn't taken off in schools. The only one that I know that's been this there's two that have been fairly successful. One is Essex Tech and one was in Medford. Um, yeah, they talked about the Tri County had one that they opened and closed. Um, Whittier Whittier has one
045that they've opened and closed and there was another one somewhere else I opened and closed. Um, it's a tough cell. Um, even for this week-long training, when you tell parents that their kids's gonna be a laborer, um, it's not, and I've had many conversations with the two gentlemen that run this program, and I keep telling them they need to change their name. They need to be craft support professionals or come up with something. Um, because again, you know, most parents when you say that to them, that's the last thing that they envision for their kids. I mean, ultimately, you know, those are those are six figure jobs, um, with pensions, you know, with a ton of benefits, with great health insurance. Um, so, you know, we're hoping that over time we can we can kind
046of help some kids find some placements that that may be a better fit for them. So, um, class of 2025 commencement. Uh, I did get some questions about this. Um, I I got questions about who was handing out diplomas. I know in the past it was a conversation about having teachers involved with this. Uh, Principal Cook and I had a conversation about that. Both of us are of the same mindset that that is just way too chaotic um to have teachers, different teachers up there and and who's handing it out to this kid and if we do it by shop, which shop teacher gets to hand it out? Um, so the recommendation from both of us is to either have the chair do all of them. Um, or again, I know I think the past
047two years, maybe it's past three years, people have taken turns and handed them out. I'm I'm open to either. Um, but after some some um in-depth conversations about um having the staff more involved with it, I think um nobody wants to be there for a 4-hour graduation. Um, so I think I think we need to stay away from that and I think it would just really complicate the process. Um, the other thing, um, and I this is a request for me because I did drop the ball on a few of the special requests last year. If there's a particular student or a particular program you want to present to, if you could just shoot me a quick email and just let me know. Um, because then I, you know, then I can make sure I'm
048organized and make sure I don't I don't miss anybody's request. Sorry, Patty. Um, and again, if if there aren't any special requests, if there's nobody in particular that people want to especially present to, I'll do the same thing I did before, which will just take some of the pages out of the out of the program, and, you know, each person could have a page or page and a half or however it breaks down. Work really well. I like being involved personally. Okay. Yeah. Again, I I thought it was good. Um, but I just think um too many moving parts if we try to do something. No, someone's not coming. Just Yep. We just fill it. Somebody goes twice or we'll let the chair go twice. No, I think they should tell us they're not coming
049and then we divide it by the amount of people showing up. Oh, that's that. Yeah, we've all made it last couple years. We all made it. That can be that can be part of the the special request thing if you know if you know you're not going to be able to be there. Just again, shoot me a little note and say, "Hey, you know what? I have a I have a conflict. My my nephew's graduating. my whatever my child's graduating from college. I have to be somewhere else on their day. And then just uh there's quite a few photos in here, but I wanted I wanted to share some updates. This is the floor in the uh masonry expansion. Um this was back right after the last school committee meeting. Um it was either later
050that week or early the next week. Um, and these are kind of a chronological kind of portrait of what was going on out there. So, foundation was in, forms were stripped, floor was poured. Um, they started, that's actually the first piece of steel that went up for the new building. I took that picture probably about 7:30 in the morning. Um, that was about 9:00. That was lunchtime. Um, so the frame the frame went up pretty quickly. Um, again, they uh there's a crew that came in. They're out of New Hampshire. This is this is all they do. They just go, you know, they go around New England. They put up these buildings. Uh, in this particular picture, you can see um we had agreed when um we designed this project that our masonry students would
051do the brick facade. You can see most of it's done in the front. You can see a little bit it's done on that left hand side there. Um, what we didn't realize when we agreed to that is that actually has to be done before they can come in and do all the final grade and do all the paving around it. So, there was a little bit of a mad scramble. So, we have our masonry instructors and students out there working on that. Um, we put it on pause when they were erecting the building. We didn't we didn't want the kids out there with them moving steel around. Um, but I believe either tomorrow or the next day, um, they will be cleared out of there and the students will be able to go back and
052start working on that. So, I talked to uh to Tony who is the the project manager out there today. Um he's looking at over the next couple of weeks having everything done, having the asphalt um patched back in, them cleaning up their stuff. Um and he hopes to be out of here uh miday and and have the project complete. Uh another picture of the building going up. Um just a series of photos as it as different pieces. This was um as of this morning. Um so the uh the paneling's up, the roof is on. Uh the hole is the whole structure is enclosed. All the the flashing and expansion joints and everything. Um those two windows um I was told will be here um probably midweek next week. Um they actually waited till the building
053was built. They came out and they measured them. They'll make they'll actually make the windows to fit the openings. Um, you can kind of see the skylight a little bit on the lefth hand side there on the top. There are two, I believe they're either 3x six or 4 by8 skylights. Um, that'll also light up that space. So, we're trying to get some natural light in there so that um, it's not it's not it's not a cave. We have the students in there working. Um, they've installed the pass door at this point. Um the overhead door uh has been ordered, but I was told today that there's some interior work that they have to finish um before they can they can finalize that. And um they are missing two pieces of paneling. If you look
054in the corner there where it meets the the old building, um they came up two pieces short when they put everything up. So, um he did tell me that that was supposed to be here this week and then that will allow them to um finish closing that in and then put the the last piece of trim on the roof. Uh they were out there insulating today. So, um the the the frame, the shell of this thing is all done. Um all the walls are insulated, the ceiling is insulated. they come back in um they put like a a plastic barrier over it and then um they'll put for the first I think it's either five or six feet up they'll put like a corrugated metal panel um to kind of protect the hole inside of
055the structure. So um ton of progress out there um they've made a lot of headway. Uh this thing is coming to fruition quickly. Um I will and I I had this conversation with the masonry teachers the other day. Uh we still have to put um smoke detectors and fire alarms in there. We still have to put lights in there. We still have to bring power out there. Um the sprinkler has to be installed. So it'll be a little while before they can be out there and living in that space. Um but I know they're getting excited because they're watching it out the window every day as they're they're getting closer and closer to completion. So um hopefully that happens in the next month or so. Um here's just an update over April vacation. Um, we
056had the first phase of the ventilation upgrade done in metal fab. So the picture on the left was the old initial look at the the far end of the shop when we started this project. Um, that hood had been here for many many years. I believe it was made by some of our staff members probably 25 years ago. Um, and we have we had all those oxy acetylene welding stations underneath it. Um, the picture on the right is the new installation. Um, each station, each welding station will have its own vent pickup. Those are spring-loaded, so you can pull them down. You can position them exactly where you're working. Um, we are currently working on the wiring and the power so that um, we can switch from doing gas welding um, to actually having the
057kids do electric arc welding right out of the gate when they come in for exploratory. So that that's our goal for next fall. Um and that's just another step in in in the process towards making that happen. And then that's that's all I have. You have any update on the um lottery system for admissions? So um yes and no. Um public comment closed the Friday before April vacation. Um, based on what I read today, I forget the exact date. I want to say May 14th. Um, I I may be off on that date. There's supposed to be a special meeting of the board of education to review all of the all of the written feedback and comments they have. Um, the last thing I heard is that this is potentially going to go to a
058vote with them in June. Um, but there's a couple other developments. So, there's there's two legislators, Frank Moran and I forget who the other gentleman was. Gordon, I don't I don't it might have been Gordon. Um, I don't I don't think it I don't think it was Ken. I think it was somebody else. I read his name and something. Um, so they they have actually filed legislation. Um, and there's a there's a there's a a House bill that's pending that would establish a um legislative review committee. Um and as part of this pending legislation, they are saying that none of the none of this stuff will be implemented until um at least the fall of 26 and potenti potentially longer than that depending on how long it takes them. But they want to pull together
059like their own independent commission. They want to validate all the data that they're looking at. They want to do all of these things that um probably should have been done um through the process that the that the board of ed was was following. and there's been a lot of questions around. So, that's one development. Um, and we were we were talking in the curriculum subcommittee meeting before before this meeting started tonight. Uh, this afternoon, um, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell um sent out a written recommendation um to pretty much remove all of the criteria that they included in in this and essentially establish a blind lottery. Um, so again, that is a powerful voice. Um, and I'm sure that's going to carry a lot of weight with the board of education and the people that
060are there. So, um, a lot of it's still pending. Um, but I don't know, from what I've heard, they've gotten thousands and thousands of responses. Um, which is a good thing. They've heard from a lot of people. Um, does that mean that all those people came out in support of not moving forward with the lottery or do they come out in support of the lottery? Uh, how much weight is on the attorney general's letter going to carry in those conversations? Um, and the other thing that was announced last week is they've hired a new commissioner of education um, I believe from Chicago, Chicago public schools. Um, I think his name is Pedro. Pedro Martinez, which was kind of funny. 2020. I saw the three names. I go I said to myself, that'd be kind of
061crazy if they named Pedro. Well, they gave the job to Pedro. Um, so again, I I haven't heard or seen anything on where he falls on this issue, but I'm sure, you know, I'm sure his voice will will be given some some credence and whatever's going to happen with us. So, um, unfortunately, we're kind of it's kind of wait and see at this point in time. The board of ed actually met today but this was not on the this is not on the agenda agenda at all and some of you may know from things you've gotten from MASC next Monday is the annual uh day on the hill so I think there'll be a lot of usually there's fair number of vocational schools that are represented there I'm sure there'll be some interaction with some
062of the department I mean the uh committee chairs um and as you referenced um bed Bedford's rep is one of the education committee chairs. It also looked like something something I referred to was also a proposal to make this uh outside panel that would evaluate it and sort of take priority over anything Desi does to make it an outside section to the budget. I think the potential problem if that go if that is done even if it was supported by the the legislature who knows um is that it would be subject to a line item veto. Um so but at least there's a possibility of of that happening but um yeah so it sounds like the attorney general doesn't know the whole story. I mean because I mean to me one of the big things
063is we're a regional school. If there's no categories at all, one year Wilmington, you know, all a 100 kids from Wilmington get in and the next year 30 kids from Wilmington get in. Good luck to the poor Wilmington budget. The finance committed. Exactly. And and that's we're not the only school that that's going to impact. I think the last set of recommendations so you can never tell. Dusties was good on that particular issue. the attorney general community community allocations but I mean if you look at this the governor's come out in support of this and she said that this is an equity issue in her office thinks that there should be a blind wire uh the lieutenant governor has come out even though even though both of our kids attended Essex Tech she's come out
064and said that she's in support of this attorney general's wrote written the letter um Totteeer who is now both the commissioner and the secretary of education has come out and publicly supported this since the first public meeting that the public discussion they had on this. I mean the the top of the current administration it's kind of it's it's kind of a stack deck. Yeah. That's not looking good. Again, we'll see. So all the Sunning towns will hit all their regional schools and there will be able to do better. I just hope they get to a point they go, "Yeah, never mind." I know. It's like I know right stay tuned. I think of two subcommittee reports. Um should I chair both of them? You are. It was done by a lottery system and you won
065both. All right. The negotiation subcommittee met three weeks ago. I didn't put the date two weeks ago and the superintendent was talking about was it April 15th is now two weeks ago. Uh we discussed negotiations with the clerks and but it really hadn't gone anywhere. He had met with their um representative who was not prepared. So discuss ground rules. Yeah, he wanted to discuss ground rules and we're thinking we're coming in to just say okay this is what we want, you know, and so it actually is sitting back with the superintendent to get a little more information. We have had one meeting after that. So there's been some initial proposals shared. Um, the other one that's still pending is cafeteria. And I believe the first meeting with that group is Thursday, I think, of this
066week. Okay. And that's all there is. We didn't have any votes or anything. It was just a discussion that lasted about 35 minutes. All right. And this evening, curriculum subcommittee met to discuss the program of studies. and student handbook. Student handbook student handbook. Sorry, student handbook. And we actually voted um we actually voted to approve the student handbook with all the changes for the GPA scales and student attendance guidelines, but we have that in new business. So, we have to vote it in new business because it's really it doesn't say because it's the whole student handbook though that we want to vote in because they're part part of it. we would take the vote during during the um okay that item but if you want to use this time to talk about the nature or
067the trend of what the major issues were well I I don't we had talked about the GPA scales before right you know and that was so everyone would at least get a four roll and you know so I believe everything was in your um packet on what they did with that And and then the other major one of course was student attendance guidelines because that has something to do with the state because our guidelines allowed students to actually have more than 18 days um yeah unexcused or well it didn't matter excused or un unexcused right yeah the state looks at 1820 that's how they look at So again, within your um packet, there was if you had read all of the attendance guidelines, we actually tightened them up because ours were very loose. We allowed
068kids to take way too much time off, you know, so we agreed to it. And if you have any questions, we'll all try to answer what we heard tonight. I mean, did everybody, you know, see it in the packet, go through it? It's probably worth mentioning that this apparently was has been pretty heavily vetted by the student council over the last two years. Last two years. Yeah. Not the student council, the school. The school council. And do they they so they're supporting this unanimous recommendation? And they voted unanimously. Finally. This was their recommendation. that you want to include the schedule on that I know we didn't act on that but yeah and I don't think they have that do they I don't no everybody so that wasn't that was something yeah next month yes it'll
069be next well it has to be voted and it has to be looked at anyway we just told them we would allow them to go forward with it and this was you know changing the schedule I don't Mo most of you remember we had a lot of backlash when it came to our committee before. Yes. And because they hadn't heard from the administration at all some of the teachers and they weren't happy. So they did re meet with the teachers and they have a couple proposals and they are meeting again that the teachers are teachers present next week. Yep. Right. And so then we'll hear at the next meeting how how that method goes. And just maybe worth a reminder in case anybody starts hearing panic from anybody, it is for the 2026 2027 school
070year is the implementation, not this objective. Not even though after we heard it, we would have said it's done today. That's the schedule. The attendance and the GPA stuff is for the 2016. Yes. Yes. And as soon as if we approve it and as soon as we approve it, it will go out to the um parents right away because it is a big change. So, right. And we talked about starting a message it as soon as it goes through and say it early and often. Yeah. Yes. Could you just confirm what the exact changes that you approved to the attendants were? Just so I'm clear. That's exactly what you have. Exactly. Exactly. We didn't change it. Just went over. We did not change. Oh, I mean it really needed to be tightened up and kids
071finding ways to get around it. Yeah. I mean, they're allowed so many days. They would take so many days. Let's just say the spot of what's new in the system. Use of driver ed scheduling. They got to figure it out. Yeah, they talked about and the GPA is just a little we look at just a little bit. So, we're good. All right. Any that's it from the curriculum committee. We will vote on the those ratifying those changes or not to ratify those changes in the next category which is new business. The first item is uh due to one there only being one snow day. Um June 20th is now being recommended as the last day of school. It's still kind of afterp. So, do we have a motion motion to accept the last day of
072school is June 20th? Second. All in favor of June 20th. That's the last day of school. Please just say I. I. Any opposed? You You will be answering something. What day of the week is June 20th? to Friday because Thursday is no school. They have no Thursday, but Thursday, but it's what it is. So, we have no extensions. Tenno in favor of June 20th is the last day. Uh the next two items are annual items that uh the first of which is to allow borrowing if needed. Um first, we'll entertain a a motion in a second. motion. The motion just to basically follow the uh the language that appears in the authorization to borrow the authorization to borrow. Second it. Um any discussions, questions? Just one quick question. Have we utilized this motion anytime in
073the last two to three years? Have we used this authorization? I don't think so. No, but what we do is encumber items which falls under that category because it could be funds that we encumber in July that we need in August. Right. Okay. All right. Hearing no further questions. All in favor of allowing the authorization to borrow, please say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. And with borrowing come spending. So make a motion to um follow the spending as written in the me the authorization to spend as written in the memo. Second. Um any questions or comments? And I would just ask the same question the last couple years. Have we actually utilized that and to what degree? Just want to make sure I answer it correctly. Um that's following our budget. So we
074will do that just starting July one, not go over. In my experience, I haven't really done it under these terms, but we do spend FY25 items could carry over into FY26. Yep. And that happened last year. For example, the masonry project, we had to take those FY24 funds and uncover them for FY25 to finish the project. Thank you. You're also allowed to buy things during the summer with the 2026. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. All in favor of the authorization to spend, please indicate. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? 10 zero. All right. Um, an update on NF NFBA. I think we had two folks. and Patty. Um, and I Yeah, Pat and I uh travel to the fair city of Atlanta and we uh we we have What does NSP stand for? National School Board
075Association. Yeah. So, those who want to go in the future, they're worth it. I've gone to three. It's awesome to speak. The people you meet around the country are amazing. We tell them about vocational ed. They're like, "Wow, that's a great idea." So I just be, you know, enjoying the conversations with people around the country. Uh Tony, there was a uh the superintendent down in New Jersey in a suit jacket that said superintendent. I'm still going to get you that. You went to one seminar, Karen, I was thinking of you went to one seminar. They brought the superintendent, the chairman of the school, they brought the executive assistant. And I said, so anyway, this woman was they were just talking about how great they were together. So I went to after the meeting and I
076I think from Michig or Wisconsin. I said um uh our our executive assistant is retiring. Would you consider coming to Massachusetts? That's right. I have a friend in Massachusetts. I said we paid pretty well. So she said, "No, I'm happy where I am." So they're talking about Wisconsin like in one uh how many superintendents go one field. Nobody wants to be a superintendent out there. It was pretty good. But uh we went to a bunch really lot of good talk. Um and uh grabbed a um Pat and I would talk. We went to a thing about um artificial intelligence which is a hot topic and I think in uh in the summertime we need to talk about what kind of policies need to be and uh implemented because um yeah it's out there and it's
077good education but we got to worry about where we're going with it. So uh but um yeah NSBA is alive and well uh hanging in there right? I got one up on you. Go ahead. Because I went to two 7:30 in the morning sessions, which had to do and um and I actually pulled up a policy and gave it to the superintendent because North Pocono's of all the people who would have one already done was North Pocono's school district. And so I pulled up their policy for AI. Yeah. For AI. Yeah. And so the only crazy thing that happened, we get to Atlanta and I told Tony this, we pull up at the hotel and I get out and H goes, "I'm not at this hotel." I said, "Are you kidding me already?" And it
078was like, "I call Cara." Carrie goes, "I I booked you in the same hotel." I said, "All right, we'll make it work." We had a lot of fun. What happened? We just were five. When I go on the site, I go into one hotel. I booked two rooms. I don't know how they got two separate. It was weird, but we made it through. I don't any idea how that we were five blocks apart. We we made it work. We kind of figured out how to do the blueber and take my class. We figured it out. We figured it out. But it was a good time. And uh next year is in San Antonio, those who are interested. So um that's what's going on. You know, and you go to classes just like you do down
079in like the Cape Cod. Down in Cape Cod. Well, we talked that's what just clicked my mind. We went to the uh Devin Sheen is the incoming president of the NSBA from all Massachusetts. got invited to his party. Uh because that's gonna all these these people all take care of themselves. So we went to that party Tony got to met the MAS Jason I forget his last name and I said you got to help us folk. He goes I said we got to he says we're there for you the fight the good fight. So he promised and he talked about legislations blah blah blah this and that. He was he was saw that talked at the he was mentioned as on that committee. So uh Brian you piggybacked before about the uh next year. this
080coming November is the last conference on the Cape, right? Talked to a woman from Marorrow and I was who seemed to who was involved in MASC and I said to her, Michelle was her name. I said, "Do you know why?" She goes, "The building's being sold." So the whole the hotel is being sold to turn into a school. So they are in the process of searching high and dry for 27 someplace to go. So that's it. So if you don't go to the Cape 26 25, you never go again. Thank you. It's the first roughly the first to second weekend in November. It's the second week of November now. They moved it and because they want to stay away from their elections or something. It's weird. Anyway, it's really cool. Oh, and I did get
081some information in the mail today or yesterday about explore the trades. So, I have all these cool posters, some in Spanish and some in English. Remember that? We did. Cody claimed that we put his name down in. Funny, whenever Pat and Ron go to one of these things, I get a pile of emails. I think I think they giving out my name and we let the vendors were better last year. Uh but um we we get all the free samples even went down to Cape. I got an email today that was like for like football jerseys or something. They'll get you. Oh, I get the email. Well, I'm sure um those that are interested in the NFBA, she said it's usually it's always in the um the spring, but I think uh Karen, you usually
082get the April registration 10th to 12th next year, right? But the registration comes when in October. Opens in October. So if people are interested, whoever sends it to you will not be Karen. Karen yet? Not yet. Have we replaced Diane? Ask Tony. Tony can tell you exactly how many days and how many hours. I'm going to look it up. You Tony knows exactly how long it took. It just happens to be nine years less than my retirement. Close to her brand replacement. I assume Patty will miss the the conference down the Cape because the location smells like Fenway. So no, the new hotel. I feel like it's Red Sox. The place we stayed last year was I liked Oh no, not the no not the hotel, the actual venue. Anyway, moving on to business. Um,
083so we now have the vote uh to make implement the changes to the both GPA scales and the student attendance guidelines that need to be um introduced into or added into the student handbook. Okay. Do we have a motion there in support thereof? Motion. All right. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Do we have any discussion more additional questions? We have any particular questions on it? No. Yeah, I we already had a chance. And but we do also want to we probably should echo um Jess's uh Jess Cook's point that the people particularly um Andy Pigeon and Scott and Danica have worked extremely hard, a lot of extra hours to get what we we all know was probably the most controversial thing going on at the school in the first few months of
084this school year seemingly to a much better place. And um that's a good thing. All right. Uh do we have a we have a motion? We have a second. Do we have questions? Oh, okay. All in favor of adopting those changes? I Any opposed? Any abstensions? All right. It's approved unanimously. All right. Any uh future agenda items that people have requests for? Okay, Kent. So, we keep our superintendent sane with the MSBA. I was just want to echo his request from the last meeting about what is going to be the discussion about like for help as far as like you know a plan for whether or not we have like a we have to create a committee I mean hasn't the clock started no clock doesn't start till August we're actually trying to get ahead
085of that stuff before it starts yeah we had a a brief discussion we were talking about the agenda that I think Tony's He's even though our clock doesn't quote quote start until August, his goal is to head into the summer with some outline of what we might want to do for building committee and also a separate that issue of do, you know, do we want a extra stipen that goes to somebody? Do we want to hire somebody? How to do that? I anticipate that may be part of the May either the May or the June meeting. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess be your time, Jenna. Yeah, there's a lot of it's going to impact a lot of people. Yes, I think that's I think it's a bigger discussion. Seems like based on what I've seen
086in my town, it seems like any other future agenda items or requests. We can have our summer retreat at Yes. July. Usually that's been in July and we have usually the week after the fourth. We'll figure that out. I think we we made a request to maybe get a student activities overview either in May or June from Kevin or someone else to do over. Yeah, I think we had talked about pushing that back for this meeting because of the reorgan are we going to do a presentation about summer? We did that when we came back last year and then Kevin was able to record on the number of students and Oh, okay. That makes more sense. That's what we did the last time because now it's just going to be well this is what we
087got planned. We should all have seen that. So, okay, that's good. All right. Now, we move on to uh school committee reorganization in light of the uh overwhelming victory that Gwen had in Wilmington this past Saturday. Um we are now all of our towns have voted and they're all stuck with us for the next year at least. So it is time to reorganize. We have as many of you know um I think there are now four people sitting here who have been chairpersons of the committee at some point. We have developed an informal policy doesn't mean it you know and I've certainly supported it um that we've been trying to rotate different people different towns however you know we need people we need somebody who wants to do it. So um in light of that
088we will oh actually this is the point at which I supposed to turn it over to uh to um I superintendent I will become chairperson prom um through this process which is always one of one of the highlights of my calendar year. Um so as this pro so the way this pro um as in past years um I will open it up to the floor for nominations. Obviously that individual that would be nominated has the uh the right and the ability to either accept or deny said nomination. Um once there is a vote, once there has uh been some nominations, we have a vote, um I will then turn the meeting back over to whoever our new chair is and they will work through the same process for our vice chair, our secretary and our
089treasurer for the upcoming years. Mr. Fusco, I should nominate this Pat M. Second. Miss M, do you accept said nomination? Okay. Any other nominations from the floor? Going once, going twice. Um, does this have to be roll call vote or can we just Okay. So, with a roll call vote, I will go around um and ask for again motion has been made and seconded um to elect Patricia Muse as the chairperson for the upcoming school year. Um, member O'Donnell. Yes. Was Mr. F? Yeah. Mr. Moffett, yes. Yes. M. Door. Yes. Mr. Fiory, yes. Mr. Fusco, yes. Mr. Hutchkins, yes. Miss Gillis, yes. Um, are you going to abstain or you going to vote for yourself? Okay. Um, and Miss Huy, yes. Okay. Um, congratulations, Patty. Congratulations. And um I will now turn it over to
090you. Um conduct the rest of the elections. All right. We have to go into executive session. No, we have to vice just leave it. Sorry. All right. Vice chair. I need a nomination. Who's this? Who's my cheering at me? You are really hard, guys. Really, really hard. I'll eliminate him. Give us confidence. You remember that? I remember that. So, church never had to do anything because Brian never missed a meeting. Tell me I'm missing any meetings. Mrs. M. No. Okay. Probably have missed five and 30th. If I miss that many I'll renominate Taran for vice chair. All right, we'll renominate Taran Gillis. I accept vice chair. Is there a second? Were you seconding? So I have it right. I'm sorry. Thank you, Karen. Charlie made it. I second it. I accepted it. She accepted. She
091accepted. We have to vote. Take a vote. Yep. The voice. All righty. Okay, we have a voice vote or we all have to do this. I think this one can be voice. I just think the president have to be able. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? It is a unanimous. All right. We need a treasurer. Treasurer does have to sign things, right? I'd like to nominate Mr. Bob Hutchkins as second. Bob in his experience in his in his day job signs a lot of paperwork. too much. It's not a bad job. I'll take it. All right. Second that. Second. Any other nominations? All those in favor? Any opposed? All right. Congratulations, Bob. Congratulations. You got one more. All right. Stacey. What is the second? I'll nominate Stacy Huberty as secretary. Check it. What
092do you do? What does a secretary do here? Exactly. Secretary, we might make you take the minutes, but no, not yet. Wait, can I can I go? I'm not taking the important when we did our MSB updates for beach, I got introduced as Shasheen school committee member. She was Shasheen school commander and secretary. All righty then. Okay. All those in favor? I folks. All right. Now, can we now do it? All right. Now, I need a vote for executive session. Turn just to adjourn. I would say yes. Right. We're not going to vot right on the contract. Possibly on that. Yeah. Oh, there might be there might be I'm making motion. Wait, Ron, two seconds before you go in executive session on the uh we got to reorganize the committees chair uh subcommittees which will
093do. Yeah, I will do that. What do we do? So send me your emails what you want. So by Okay. Yes. Yes. Tell me what you want. If you want to be on any of these, tell me what you want. And if you want to be if you want to stage here, tell me you want to stay here. If you want to meet you. Okay. Go ahead. I make a motion we go into executive session to res to come back into public session to close the meeting and maybe vote. All right. And it's for non-un contracts superintendent director potential litigation. Okay. You're kidding. Okay. All right. So, we had discussion and decided on one year extension 3.75. All right. Can I have a motion regular session for this? Make a motion to approve. Second. the
094contract. Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? I was. I know you were unanimous. Looks like you're staying too long. All right, we can get a motion to adjourn. Second. All those in favor?