001First agenda item is open public hearing which we just did. The second is any invitation to speak. There's nobody here. Um the third agenda is to vote on the budget. But before we do that, I'd like for Craig to you talk about the the the the process, >> the the whole process. Yeah, just quickly like what we're voting on. >> Okay. Um well, the process started uh in November. Um we we met together and and came up with some goals that we we I'm saying we as a committee um when created all the documents that she needed to create and sent them out to principles. the principles and directors um worked with all of their different departments and schools. Uh they came up with their budget proposals. Um we came in uh we we met
002with each of the individual uh schools and departments. um met with them to understand what their their needs were and understand all their different um initiatives. Uh we put it all together and created um uh base budget >> and then we had uh just different um >> proposals. We had a a I can't remember what it was called now. um stage one, I guess it wasn't that, but it was something else. Um that had all the different um budget asks that we thought we needed to do legally. Um and then there was a second one that had just different initiatives uh to move the district forward. And then there was a third that had other initiatives in there that we didn't think that we thought we could hold off on and then um we could
003move them forward in in uh subsequent years. Um when we proposed our initial budget, I believe it was uh about an 8 to 9% increase. Um we then working with the town in the finance department, we understood that that was definitely not going to uh work out. Uh so then we had to work with our our different schools to find that the number that um they were looking us to looking that Zach and the finance committee were looking for us to get to was roughly 2 and a4% increase uh year-over-year. Um we had to get to that number. That number involved a number of existing staff cuts. uh certainly initiative cuts um and it represented I can't roughly um a two a 2.27% increase um is almost $3 million increase uh from last year. Um
004it wasn't easy to get there. We've had we had to make some very difficult decisions. We think that uh the budget that we proposed um was the best case scenario for us under the circumstances that allows us to keep uh a lot of the programs moving forward but then also um allows for some innovation as well. Um I think that um one thing that we considered certainly was our enrollment decrease. Um and because we had an enrollment decrease, it allowed us to look at um staffing in a different kind of way and uh reduce uh in areas where um because of the the decrease just the the staff was redundant at that point. Um we also looked at um staff members that um weren't directly student facing either. Um and looked at those kinds of
005positions too. So um I'll speak more about that a little later in my in the meeting but um certainly difficult decisions uh and it's been a difficult and challenging time but um I think under the circumstances um the budget that we're proposing at this point um again allows us to move all of our most of our programming forward and um some innovation too. Thank you. >> Do I have a motion to approve the budget for 81,413,472? >> Motion by Matt. Second by Derek. Discussion. Do we have any questions for the superintendent? >> Just say thanks for all the work because I know it took a lot of effort to get us to this place. >> Great. All in favor? Unanimous. Motion passes. Uh, do I have a motion to close the public hearing and to
006adjurnn? >> Motion by Chris. >> Motion to close a public hearing. >> Second by John. All in favor? Approve. Do we have to approve to do a motion to adjurnn as well? A second. Well, we might as well. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Brendan. Second by >> Sure. >> Chris. All in favor? All right. Welcome to school committee. Uh the meeting is adjourned at 7 p.m. And the first item on the agenda is invitation to speak. We have nobody. Second agenda item is announcements, correspondence, and distributions. Everyone, Chris, uh just want to thank the uh MHS athletic boosters and all the athletes. Athletic the athletic boosters set up a cleanup for around our athletic facilities last Saturday. uh wasn't the greatest of weather, but uh a good showing from our athletic departments and uh
007basically just kind of cleaning up in and around our athletic facilities. So, thank you very much to them. >> Thanks, Chris. Craig, >> I have several. Uh first, I got this uh I have uh an email from a teacher. Um yesterday Katie Delaney, who's a student uh at Milford High School, uh did an absolute incredible job hosting her STEM powered girls showcase. Over the past 12 weeks, the girls have immersed themselves in a variety of STEM projects, including robot programming, which led to a robot dance party, charm design, where students created designs that will be 3D printed into charms for bracelets. game designs and the girls developed original games featuring 3D printed pieces of boards that to proudly display at the showcase. What made this experience so special was not only the impressive projects themselves,
008but the confidence, excitement, and sense of belonging that these young ladies developed along the way. Watching girls in STEM empower other girls in STEM was truly inspiring, and it was impossible not to feel hopeful about the future we see in their creativity, enthusiasm on display. So, um just a little bit of background is as Katie came to me and um was looking for a way to um offer a program for students at Woodland. Um and she got some funding. Uh she went out and um got a grant uh and created this great program for um Woodland Girls. So, it came out great. So, I just wanted to share that with us with the committee. Um, last night, uh, our new deputy assistant superintendent gave birth to a baby boy. Um, everybody's healthy. Um, Carrie wanted
009to be here tonight, but I told her to take the night off. Um, Wen is currently at her graduation for Influence 100. Uh, so she's doing that tonight. Uh, she also wanted to be here, but uh, I thought that was more important, too. So, uh, unfortunately neither one of them are here, but for very good reasons. >> That's it. Thank you. Anybody else? All right. We're going to do this a little differently. Approval of minutes. Um, does we don't need a vote. We just need it by consent, which means that I'm going to ask if there's any additions or edits you want to make to the minutes. If not, we're going to just move on. All right. It's fine. We >> I just sent an edit to Melissa on the April 16th. >> So there's
010an edit. >> Okay. Any other edits? >> Any other? >> That's fine. >> Uh it was just >> for April 16th. >> Name reference. We just >> Okay. >> Yes, please. >> Okay. And then what about April 23rd? Any edits or changes? If there's none, the minutes are approved. That's it. We're moving on. Right. General person, general chairperson update. Uh, subcommittee appointments. Um, Melissa printed out the appointments. They're they're um in your packets, right, Melissa? >> Nope. >> No. Okay. I'll just read them. Uh, for policy, Derek, Matt, myself. Uh, budget is uh Megan. Uh, John and Brendan. Facilities, Chris, John, and Matt. Labor, Brendan, and Megan. Sick bank Derek. Um, can >> you say those again? >> Did I? >> No, I just I started writing them down. I lost track. >> Oh, I'm
011sorry. Policy Derek, Matt, myself. Budget, Megan, John, Brendan. Facilities, Chris, John, Matt. Labor, Brendan, Megan, Sick Bank, Derek. And thank you for all your feedback in in those in all right. Um Oh, the operating protocols is this. We pass this around, right? Yeah, I'll pass this around. Just share it. I'll pass these around. These are the protocols that we sign every year agreeing to be cordial to each other and other items of interest. And then we also need to vote on the school committee dates. Yes, sir. >> Mr. Chair, quick question on the school committee dates. And >> do the first meeting obviously isn't after the start of school years until September 10th. Do we need something or would we like something before that just as either from a res readiness standpoint to get an
012update from our superintendent and staff? um or just a a quick review of here's how we did in that first week. Um not sure if pushing in that first week in September, I know it's that Thursday night before, so I probably wouldn't suggest that or going into that last Thursday in August. So just a might be more of a dotted line style of of do we want it or not? >> Whatever the committee >> want 27th maybe. >> Yeah, I was I was going to question the 27th as well about putting one there. I know we talked about potentially starting school improvement plan discussions at the beginning of the school year. So, if we were planning on doing that, I would prefer to see a meeting start at the end of August so we could
013maybe get one in with an update and then move forward from there. Any other >> I just have one well on that topic. I don't have any comments on different topic. >> Okay. Yeah. So, do we want to add a meeting for the 27th of August? Is anybody against that. >> I feel like it's easier to add and take away, >> right? Let's let's add So, let's let's add a meeting >> about that. >> I'd agree with that. >> I have it. >> Yeah. Okay. Any other dates or adjustments we want to make? >> One comment to the calendar. The the legend at the bottom does not have like what the green boxes are for. I know we know that, but it just says shaded gray early dismissal, but there's no shaded greens. >> Okay.
014Thank you. >> So, do I have a motion to approve the dates as proposed and the addition of August 27th. >> Motion by Meg, second by second Matt. >> All in favor? Yes. >> Unanimous. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I ask one clarifying question? I'm sorry, Michael. >> I'm comfortable with as it is. Can I just ask a question? Is the intention that we would do the 27th and 28th of January as the budget meetings and the other two enrollment school committee meetings or potentially we'd be layering on budget to the 7th or the 21st. I don't know if you thought that's >> I think uh 27th 28th would be uh just budget. >> Okay, thanks. That makes sense. Just wanted to check. Thank you. >> Thanks, Michael. Yeah. >> All right. This is a
015fun one. MSBA update. I'm not going to talk a lot about this Chris's, but I do want to say that I sent an email out to everybody. Um it's a presentation from last night. I would highly recommend you go through it because the the architects presented to us um footprints. So, why don't you take it from there? >> Excellent. I'm sorry. >> I did not. >> No worries. Yeah. Obviously, like I've said to everybody in the past, you know, certainly watching the meetings after uh or even live or after is definitely going to be beneficial. Again, we we met last night. The architectural team presented us with six seven six to seven. No, six seven, sorry. >> Six seven. Yes. Uh >> uh everything. Yeah. >> And F and F1. >> Yeah. Exactly. everything from
016um from really just upgrading the current structure, which would require bringing everything up to code, uh to a a brand new facility out on the athletic field, um which was pretty much shot down just based off a lot of logistics. It would you would you would think for as much room as is out there, it would actually have to be shoehorned in. And then you also have the Godfrey Brook that would create parking on this side of the brook. So, it' be a very long uh way of of walking pathways to this school. So, ultimately, I think what you're going to see different pathways of of kind of a build renovation where they will build a new section, knock down sections. What that will entail, really not sure yet. So, again, they're they're just they
017look for feedback from us as we they presented last night. Um and a lot of feedback was given to them. So, again, we'll just continue on. Um the the important dates coming up again are in mid June and that's when we will meet again with the MSBA and we'll have some proposals with them. Uh we're also at a point where we're looking for our construct construction manager. So that proposal has gone out and over the next few weeks that process will begin and we'll start interviewing construction management companies. >> Um go through the presentation. It's important. Uh it's there's remember the the outline you'll see of where is is just a footprint of the first floor. Um it there's no design, there's no schematics, there's no levels, it's literally just a footprint and that's it.
018So it's just kind of concepts that we went through. So and also there's no vote last night or no formal vote um on any one of these. The architect has to go through all of these iterations. Um, so this is just part of their process, but it was super interesting to go through of of where they're thinking of how things will work. If you guys have any questions on what things mean, just give Chris Ry a call. We spent two and a half hours last night asking lots of questions. So, >> thanks. Any other questions about the MS the MSBA update? Me, >> did the group talk, Michael, at all? I'm impressed maybe and surprised that they include sort of durations of the build on here already. is how does that factor into the conversation?
019>> They prefaced saying don't focus on the number. It's like >> okay >> this length a little longer and a little longer but they put the date so of course you you throw >> hard not >> it's hard not to um so that's what I got out of it. >> Okay and I think the dates the dates are a little bit you know gray area because if we do move eighth grade in we would build everything and that date is really when eighth grade would move in. If you do an add rena, you're adding space, moving students over, renovating other spaces. So, >> happening much sooner than the date on your specific. >> You're technically you're always part of the building. It's not like you're you're building this brand new building and we have to
020shuffle everything over. Okay. >> By a specific date. So again with that add rena style it's kind of a constant moving in that date that you see is really that >> the the the last paint brush is is done and and the eighth grade is really moving in. >> That's super helpful. Thank you. >> There's a slide later on if you can read it. It actually has little arrows that talk about when like they would first move in versus >> um but don't take the dates. It's more of a general idea. If we did it this way it's going to take potentially this number of months. >> Great. Thank you. So, >> okay, cool. >> Any other questions? It's pretty exciting. >> All right, moving on. State state of the community use program, Chris, you
021have five seats to choose from. >> That's plenty. >> There's only one correct choice. Is >> this it? >> It is. It Hello everybody. >> Pickers. Hi, floor is yours. >> Um, well, thank you for having me. Um, I've supplied you uh all with some in some some the summer camp schedule that we have. Um, so far um the new handbook that we're going to provide to our employees. This took a little bit of time. Much along the school improvement plan that you guys have for schools. The community use employee Hamburg is something that I've excuse me wanted to do since I've gotten the position. Uh I think it just shows the employees of the community use what needs to be done and how to go about um working for community use. There was never
022really anything like this before. Um, so I think this establishes some sort of procedural and expectations for all the employees that we have. Um, the employees that we the majority of the employees that we have working for us are extended day employees. Um, they're pretty much from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year. after school. The before school staff is usually usually consists of teachers or adults that work at the school in the morning and they just go right to their job at that school. All the uh employees that we have are high school employees at the after school after school program and the summer program that we have usually has high school employees as well as college students for the summer camp. Um just to give you a
023few ideas or not ideas of just what we've been doing. Um I just want to provide you with some numbers this year for our extended day program that we've had. Um at Brookside we have just break it down quickly. In the morning we have 24 students at Brookside that report. It opens at 7. Uh and then they are once the school starts they are all in the cafeteria at all the schools and they will just um they get brought up to their individual classrooms. the afternoon we have 43. Uh, Memorial is 20 in the morning, 37 in the afternoon. Memorial school from where it's located has always been the lower of the um, kids that attend. Woodland is always the most, 46 in the morning, 57 in the afternoon. Um, the prices that we establish
024for community use is on the school calendar. We take the cost per year and divide it by 180 school days. Um, for example, the morning rate per month for an individual to go in the morning is $215. So if you divide that by $180 days, it's $11.94 a day for the morning. Uh, and that's they can get dropped off anytime after 7:00 at all the schools. afternoon rate per month is $410 and that divided by 180 that's 2277 per day which the max that they can be there is around 3 hours. So let's say 3 to 6 6:00 is the last pickup. So it's very reasonable in my opinion $22 a day. You're not really going to be able to find that at other locations um or a private babysitter or anything like that. We
025have noticed that the numbers have gone down since COVID. I think that that is from a lot of people obviously working from home now and not having to worry about after school or before school. So that has steadily declined um for the past few years. The amm rate we do have that as well. we provide him with a discount which is 575 per month and that would be 31.94 a day for morning and afternoon. So it's still a very good very good bargain as far as as far as I think we do have to from time to time raise the rates um yearly because we do need to cover the cost of the people that work for us with their new contractual rate every single year. So what was established before I started as a
026director was the individuals that work, the teachers, the BAS, they get their contracted rate, whatever they are paid during their day. So if a if a BA is working for me in the afternoon, she makes $22 an hour, that's what we would pay for that person to work that. So we do have to adjust costs yearly to cover those increases as well. So, it's one of our most popular programs. Does anybody have any questions on extended day or anything? >> Yeah, quick question. Yeah, >> perfect segue. So, the employee compensation, you talked about that. Obviously, you have number of of students that are helping out. Are you adjusting their compensation rates from a year to year? >> No. So, we do. So, what um I have established for students is if you're a first year
027student in extended day, regardless of the year of your your school year, you start off at $15 an hour. So, let's say you as a freshman come in, you're at $15 per hour. You decide you want to do it again as a sophomore year at $1,515. Junior, 1525, senior 1550. So, the max that they do per year is 1550. and they just go up depending on what >> same for your summer camp counselors. >> Same for summer camp too. Yes, summer camp is a little bit more in I don't want to say involved but budgetary on that as well too. So I got to make sure that we stay within as you know community use being self- sustained we we can't spend more than we take in. >> Sure. >> Right. So I have to
028make sure that we have enough money to cover everything with all the expenses and the most expenses that we have by far is is salaries. >> Sure. And you're still staying cash positive. You feel like >> correctments even though enrollments are down. >> Correct. The balance that I currently have I checked before we came in today and the my revolving account was $227,425. >> But that could fluctuate depending on the time of year. >> Correct. It's roughly, >> it has never gone below since I've been here 100,000. So, >> and you can't go negative on a revolve, right? >> Can't. Right. Exactly. Period. Right. >> So, the revenue so far this year is over a million. It's a,100 a million $10,448 >> with almost three4ers of that being um not extended day. Sure. Other other
029things. Yeah. So, >> yeah. And the same going back to like compensation, lifeguards, kind of curious on that too. I'm assuming lifeguards are harder and harder to come by compensation and how you're able to fill those positions. >> What we've done for the lifeguards is we have a certification class here and a reertification class here. >> If you're a new lifeguard for and you want to work for us, we do not charge you the cost to take the lifeguard class. We absorb that cost with the caveat that you're going to work for us for either the summer or the winter. A lot of kids like the lifeguarding because you can do it. We have programs in the morning at the pool. We have programs at night at the pool. So, they can go to school,
030come back and work. And even if you're an athlete or you're playing sports or theater or any other kind of thing, you can still have the opportunity to lifeguard at night or in the morning. So, we have probably, I would say, nine or 10 lifeguards on staff currently. >> Thanks. and and the pool manager, Dave Chaplan, uh recruits some lifeguards, too. >> So, >> perfect. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> There's a couple more things I can go over if you'd like. >> Um I have a question. >> Sure. >> With the extended day, um how do we market that? So, we send out a what we call a constant contact explaining to people that registration will be open. A lot of it is word of mouth to be honest with you. Um, kids,
031you see the same kids going from kindergarten and following it all the way up until fifth grade. We tried um a couple years ago to get it started at Stacy, but there was no interest in that as well. Um, but it's always through, >> you know, >> how do we get word of mouth? >> How do we get those emails into constant contact? >> They would when they sign up for a program or they have the opportunity to go on to our website and put their email address in and they'll get everything that we send out to them. >> Yeah. So, they have to find us first and then we get their email and then we can market to them >> to a point. Yes. >> Yeah. So, so um, >> uh, talking points. Yes,
032>> we talked about this pretty briefly. Has there really any movement because it sounds like there's a good opportunity to >> we just started using talking points, right? >> As a parent, my guess is that the extended day would actually have higher numbers if we got the information out to all the parents because it is so cheap. So, I'm just, you know, curious if that makes a change if we're marketing directly to the kids. >> I can definitely look into ways to try to figure out how to get Yeah, absolutely. I mean the the talking points that we use is direct contact basically with the parents not as a mass one like an announcement would come out for after school project or something like that right >> so we I just use it right now
033just to contact parents on a individual basis. >> Oh interesting >> I believe Mr. Kernan also includes community use activities though in his update though goes to all families so I do think we capture >> masses that way Michael I would just add that. >> Sure Matt. Yeah, he he I think he does. And I I believe also I know at least at Brookside I've seen the principles during orientation everything bring up before and after school and I think it's in their handbooks too. I want to say there's somewhere in there there's stuff about before and after school. So I know it's I feel like it's pretty well communicated in most I don't know about it which is good. >> Yeah. on that, you know, certainly I've seen a lot of social media posts between
034you and your staff and the actual community use page on that kind of where where we advertise. Um, do we have any type of information during like prek registration or or kindergarten registration? >> There is, as far as I know, yes, like Matt like Matt said, the principles are aware of that. >> Yeah. But in in front of so right now, right, the the parents the incoming parents or incoming students may not necessarily be on the distribution or aren't aren't on the distribution. So yeah, how do we would we connect to those parents >> at kindergarten registration or at prek registration and how we do that? So just asking a question on that. >> Yeah. No, I agree. That's something that we could we could definitely >> figure out a way to to connect with
035those parents and I and there is information on extended day at the F FRC. >> Perfect. >> Any other questions? >> You got more you >> I just wanted to go over >> Yeah. I just wanted to go over a few of our programs regarding summer camp. >> Um >> like I said, I gave you guys a summer camp calendar. Melissa had shared that with you. That's basically what we have scheduled so far. It's eight weeks. We're going to start on June the 24th, which is literally the day after school ends. Um 3-day camp that week and then we're going to run all the way um until August, the second week in August. >> Is that later than usual, Chris? >> It is. That's awesome. >> It is. Yeah. We've had um some requests from
036parents last year in a couple of previous years to try to extend it another week, a week or two weeks and we were trying to figure out a way to do it and we had to ask the staff that we have because a lot of the staff leaves because they're college kids and they have to go and and or sports starts or here at the high school or something like that. So we this year we were able to get enough staff to go another week. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. We usually average anywhere between $85 to 100. Um last year's rate was $300 for the week, which is about $60 a day, obviously. This year we went down >> um to $250 per week. >> Great >> to try to get more kids. Um you can
037come at a day at a time as well. That's $75 per day just to to come for that day. And then on days that we have field trips, um those are that is priced at $100. We found last year when the field trips came, parents were just registering the kids for the >> for the field trip day like to the Worcester Red Sox was one of the ones and all of a sudden we had to purchase another 30 tickets which sometimes might not be available. But >> yeah, so we have a lot of field trips this year. Worcester Red Sox, Kimell Farm. There's um we do a bus tour around the town. I don't know if any of you guys have >> seen that, but one of Milford's bus drivers, Matt Holmes, who's great. Can't
038thank him enough. He takes the kids around Milford on a bus, dresses up like a conductor from the uh Polar Express, and drives them around town and they stop at various locations. If you want, we can stop at your place if you guys want. I know John has probably seen it at the town hall. That's awesome. >> Um, yeah. So, just a few more things I just want to cover just so you know where we where we are. We have um the pool is a huge success for us. Um, we have a lot of programs that go on in there. Current program at Splash Hit and Lap Swim, they rotate between the mornings and the nights weekly. Splash Hit is a exercise program that you do in the pool. It's like a jazz Jazz or
039size or something along those lines. Uh lap swim is self-explanatory. Um we have the stingrays swim team. It's a club swim team that has over last year in Milford there was over 140 kids registered for Milford and out of town for that particular program. Um we've started a club softball program called the Scarlet Storm. The first year we only had one team. It was 16 U which is the uh age group. We had fall triyouts and we established one team this past that was the very first summer. The past this past fall we had 14 16 and 18 teams that we established. We had over 25 we had over 70 girls try out for three teams. So it's a very good program. Um kids like it. We're currently running in town registration for Milford youth
040softball as well. So, we do the registration for them and then they take on um the responsibility of everything else. And I don't know, um just to give you guys an update as well, Community Use is doing the permitting for the fields on Milford Public School property here in Woodland, not Town Park. Correct. That's still under the direction of parks department. So, yeah, we're we're having fun at community use. I have very good employees, Lori and Julie. Gianna Provichek is great. She's our leader of the programming in the packs in the uh programs that we run. Um I also shared with you, I don't know if you saw the newspaper club that we're running up at Woodland. Uh that's been a huge success. We've had a wait list for the p this past one. Um
041every week they interview somebody on the um newspaper that was provided to you. It was my interview. >> Um, they interview somebody every week. They've interviewed Carla Tuttle, >> a sergeant in the police force. And last week, they were able to get Rich Gotham, who was the president of the Boston Celtics. He zoomed in and they were able to interview him. So, it's been pretty successful. >> I guess I'm boring. >> We can get you next. >> Well, you missed the email. >> We can get you next. Yeah. So, that's that's been a a great program. We had the um >> what's the the shop here called? >> Building and trades. >> Uh yeah, >> trades. Building trades. >> Building and trades. They built a newspaper old school newspaper stand for us and it's up
042at um Woodland. So you can go in and grab >> anybody can go in and grab a copy of that, too. >> So we print that out every that meets every two weeks at Woodland. So >> I heard your ski program is great, too. >> Huge success. We had a great ski program this year. We did. It was the first time that we've had it in probably >> I would say four or five years. >> Yeah. >> And we had How many people do you think, Michael? 30. >> Um, we had 26. >> 26 people. >> Michael was the chapron. >> 26 people every Sunday. They went up at What' you leave here around 1:30, 2:00? >> Yeah. >> And then they were back by >> 9. Uh, yeah. Uh, 8:30. >> 8:30. Yeah. So,
043pick up here, drop off here. Was good. Kids love it. I think it's going to be successful going forward, too. >> Yeah. >> Chris, >> so obviously the the newspaper that's that's new this year. Yes. You resurrected the ski program. >> Any other programs? I know that that's that's always something you said that you're always looking to grow community use in more offerings. Are there any other new offerings or resurrected offerings? We have established a ASL class, American Sign Language. That's gone on pro that's been three classes now. We probably get I think each class is 10 people. Um that's been great. Um we established um kids night out. I don't know if you've heard of that. I have >> we've we haven't had one since January because it was February vacation camp. There was
044April vacation camp and now we're going to start redoing that. That's great. parents love that. Um, they come here, hang out, watch a movie, go in the pool, and the parents just go away for like three or four hours, and it's I think maybe $35 to $50 at the most. >> Yeah. So, there's new programs all the time. It's just I I can provide you guys with a list of the new programs that we had. Just curious from a general standpoint that you do >> that you are having the ability based being cash positive to have these other offerings and if it if it doesn't work out then it's not a strain on your budget. >> Right. There are times where there there will be programs that we have that do not meet the requirements
045in order for us to run the program. Um they're few and far between. But there are a couple of programs. For example, this past year we had uh the biddy basketball program for girls. I think we had maybe 15 girls sign up from ages kindergarten to 8 for bitty basketball for girls. >> So what we decided to do is there's a company that we use called Fast Athletics that runs other programs >> and we just provided the people that signed up for that the that program um and they ran the program for them so that they still had something you know, so it was good. It was good. >> Great. Yeah. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Did you have one? >> I just had a comment that um I think uh Chris is I've
046been very pleased with the programming that Chris is running. Um he does a great job of the staff. I think the other thing that um I I hope that the what you got out of this was um Chris is very willing to listen to what community members um want and he's also willing if if people are willing to um run a program, he's willing to set it up for him and um you can have a program um set up for the community. So, I think um I I the the bargain that you can get through community use is second to none. Um and I think that's a very valuable resource for all of our community members. So, we just want to thank Chris for doing a great job. >> Thank you. We do have like
047like Craig said, we do have we do take in um suggestions from the community and that's clearly stated on our website, too. So, if you guys know of anybody or anybody that wants to run a program, feel free to reach out to us. Our address is right on the right on the website. >> I mean, Western Day who >> that place that's going to be all sold out, I bet. >> What's that? >> The Western Day, >> right? >> I think the deputy superintendent's going to be all that. >> Yeah. Thank you, Chris. Uh, when I wanted to do the ski program, I just called Chris and said, "You want to try this out?" He's like, "Let's do it." So, anybody who wants to do it, it's great. >> Y, >> thank you for your
048time, Chris. Any other questions before we Meg? >> Chris, I was just curious. Are you generally able to use our busing when you need transportation? Is that >> um Yes. So, for the ski program, one of the one of the restrictions that we ran into previously was the cost of getting either the transportation company that we use now. >> Sure. or another bus company to come >> and >> to bring the kids up there to have them sit there. It was just it's it's not feasible. Okay. >> With the amount of money that they were charging. >> So I approached the transportation director and asked her if this is something that we could do. Got it. >> So what we ended up doing was we would use >> our buses and I would pay the
049driver's rate out of my budget. Okay. >> While he was up there. >> Awesome. Is that what you do in the summer if they do a field trip? Generally correct. That's great. It's great to see it's being used and and ideally that's how we would like to do the field trips in the summer is by use of of our vehicles, but sometimes that doesn't work. >> Okay. >> And if that doesn't work, then >> we obviously have to come up with something else and and pay for that. >> Okay. >> But at all at all times I would our preference is to use Y >> our public school buses. Yeah. >> Okay. Awesome. >> And it has worked out well. >> Yeah. That's excellent. I was going to say thank you for I think for
050the culture you create. I mean, my fourth grader does newspaper club and like goes till 5:30 when I tell you he jumps out of bed on Wednesdays because it's newspaper club and whenever came home and said he was interviewing the president of Celtics like I think you got that wrong. I WAS LIKE OH NO I'M sorry I was wrong. So it really has been like so fun for them. So >> he did go to Milford High School. >> Yeah I Yeah, who knew? Great. Yeah. So cool. Keep it up. And the art club also then has been another huge hit. So a lot of activity that students have enjoyed. So thanks >> Chris. One more thing. Yeah. Again thank you very much. just in my notes, you know, the handbook obviously that's really good to
051see like you said, you know, it it establishes the expectations. So, I really think that's really good. This board from all different angles have been looking for that type of of literature to be and documentation to be created. You know, we we been pushing on the superintendent for different like job descriptions. So again, um, for you and your department to create that handbook just shows that what we're asking for Craig is kind of it's bleeding down into the people that are reporting it to him. So I appreciate that. Um, and then support from your board. I'm assuming that you know your your board, you guys are still meeting every other month. Yep. Support there. Good. Excellent. And then >> just quickly, Mr. Chair, is is are you keeping Chris the community use director here for
052the policy? >> Yes. >> Aspect. We're going to roll right into that. Excellent. >> As soon as you stop asking questions, >> I'm done. Thanks. >> Um, does anybody else have any other questions >> for Chris? Not >> now. >> Oh, we're gonna continue talking about it. >> Um, again, thank you Chris for that update. >> You're welcome. >> Um, so one of the John Eric and I years ago started on this fusion use project and it's morphed into what we we see today as far as the organization. Um, one of the questions we we had for Chris Burns was you their handbook and in our policies at policy communities had all these deep policies with like prices and fields and rules and whatnot. And we said, hey, you know, let's let's take all that
053out of the school policies, put it into a handbook just like the schools do and have a similar rotation. You know, when the schools come in to approve their handbooks, let's have community use. So, tonight's the first time we're doing that. So, um, we're very excited that Chris has e executed this idea and the idea is to to to to give him the authority to actually go operate without having to come back to us to ask all these questions. So, um, we're going to roll into some um, voting. So, um, we have file KF, community use of school facilities programming policy. Uh this policy is um we discussed it a policy today. Um and uh the intent is to to to give Chris the uh authority to actually just go operate and and and do
054programming. Um so the policy approved it. Does anybody else want to talk about Brendan or Derek or Chris? >> Well, not about your policy meeting, but I wanted to just add a few thoughts and comments here. So yeah, I mean keep in mind this is the Milford community school use um and that was voted on in the 70s at town meeting so that the entire community can um utilize the benefits of the school whether it's whether it's the pool or um cooking classes, carpentry classes back in the day when we had the shops. Um but it's it's we never really had any firm policies. It was really just you know a little maybe unorganized or un not any official things. So this is I'm glad that we've gotten to this point now and I think
055this is what we need and again it's for the entire community to benefit from the use of these buildings. So that that's the genesis. It seems like overwhelmingly of course it's sort of studententoriented now with all the added programs and that's how it's it's grown and developed. But just that little bit of perception perspective for anybody hearing about this for the first time not here of course. >> Thanks Chris. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for the policy subcommittee for developing this. Um I guess you know kind of in conjunction we're going to get rid of the KF1 and KF2 and KF1 also included the pools, gymnasium, auditorium and fields. I just want I just want to make sure that all of that so what we're even though we're removing these that new KF kind of
056encompasses all of those different facilities. I don't quite wasn't quite sure if it it it captured that and I was a little bit concerned with that. So again, if you kind of read through the different sections of it, right, of of KF1, it does hit upon those different components. And does this new KF capture all of the again the the pool, the gym, and the auditorium and the fields that community use now overseas? Were you over are you not overseeing like the auditorium and the gym? Well, >> that's what I'm wor that's what I'm trying to figure out. >> Well, I I would think and I I don't I'll let you answer in a minute, but we now have, you know, we have a community use director and we're we're allowing the community to use
057all the school facilities. So, it really does need to be under his umbrella. But to your point, >> how how detailed of a policy should we have? Do we need and are we missing anything tonight at first? >> Yep. >> You know, the first read now that >> we only do first reads. Uh really the um the intent is to empower Chris to um create a fee schedule and do all those sorts of things um outside of the policy so that he doesn't have to keep coming back >> um right >> in updating all those things. Sure. I I think that what you should expect though is an annual >> kind of update on those sorts of things. >> Okay. um maybe it's embedded within the handbook or maybe it's a separate document but um
058>> I think those the right >> the point of the the policy as I understand it is to pull out any of the procedural things u >> so that there's a different document that covers all those that can be updated on his own >> okay yeah and you don't want to write a policy that boxes yourself into a form >> yeah so so Chris answer your question from doing this on policy for a bit especially with >> communities was to broaden the authority of Chris to be clear what he's responsible >> without getting specific >> and the intent would be this handbook will have that information in it >> okay >> that you know we should see at some point >> y >> um to do that right and so we felt that having getting
059specific turf stuff in a school community policy was too operational and too detailed Yeah. >> Um like what if he wants to change a rule mid-season? >> Let's go do it. So yeah, so the intent was to move these things off, put them into an operational policy. And in talking to Chris over the past two years, >> it wasn't very clear what he was supposed to do, right? And this with programming and this this clears that up. >> Okay. Yeah. Like I said, just want to make sure it captures. Um and then in particular on KF2, page three of four. Um, so within it, you know, there was there was a lot of a lot of rules that were in here as far as, you know, uh, sorry, like conditions of use, right? And what's
060allowed and not allowed, you know, whereas, you know, for example, you know, softball and baseball use is prohibited >> at Milford High School Turf Field, you know, so something like that, you know, to the following are not permitted on the surfaces. cleat, skateboards, bicycles. So >> if we get rid of this policy, where are now where are the rules captured? >> I mean that and I think it covers what we we have if we need to add something for >> specifically that. But if you look through the >> I can't remember what page that that is on. >> Chris, I'm sorry. What document are you looking at? >> Sorry. KF-2. Oh, sorry. Sorry. >> Is that the one that you burned? >> Is that the one that was retired? >> Yeah. >> Retired, right? >>
061Yeah. Where you looking at? >> I'm looking at the one that the new one, >> the policy itself. >> Yes. >> Do we have that? That's what I >> So, we have our agenda and the confusion is we we see a community use employee handbook mix up rental procedures, right? >> Come summer summer camp uh calendar and March newspaper. So the question is what are you looking at? >> It's the one at the top that says Milford public schools/ community use. >> We don't have >> Oh, we do. It's uh it's it's actually labeled exceptal procedures. >> Yeah. >> Sorry. It's where it's this is the start of of >> Thank you. Sorry. I apologize. >> That's right. >> Thank you. >> So the intent is this is the start of the handbook. >> Great.
062Thank you. >> Correct. So what we have here we was the intent to present just present tonight or present and vote on tonight. >> Um sorry we were going to vote on file KF. >> Okay. >> Tonight >> and but not the the committee use uh what do we call it? >> That's the procedure for for the for the KF. >> I don't think we're ready to vote on this yet. >> Right. Okay. >> That was Yes. This is just >> so Yep. So yeah, I'm good with KF. The concerns that I have are the elimination of KF1 and and being inclusive for all the the facilities which John made note of that it should just include everything there. Then the other thing is with KF2 >> Mhm. again all of the conditions of use
063which are very extensive and I mean some to all to us are there make sense you know no golfing no javelining no metal spikes right no tailgating no alcohol like they make sense >> it's not going to go away it's being moved into the >> that's why and it's not there yet that's why so I'm concerned with eliminating a policy before I see it in another place So that way this isn't just this all this doesn't get lost because as soon as we retire it it's gone but it hasn't transitioned over yet. >> Right. I can I can I can add that to this. >> And I don't think everything needs to extensively be there. We can still go through it but I think it there needs to be consideration for what's in here for
064rules and regulations to bring over to your literature. >> I mean I I I understand what you're saying. I can take a look at. So at the at the back there's the Milford Public Schools community use. So there's a lot of what you want to say rules or whatnot in there if that's something that I can add to that >> one that there's 21 of them. >> Right. >> Yep. >> Um so I can add whatever is miss whatever is on that other KF file into there. But there's I think >> there's a lot in there that covers what you're looking for I think. >> Okay. So, so Chris Burns, why don't we you you take a day to think about it, come back to us and let us know when you can come back
065with a kind of a draft or revision of what the handbook looks like. >> Okay. >> With, you know, just make sure that we have everything in there. >> This is a great exercise. So, >> yep. it if Matt >> um stop me if I'm missing something in file KF and and the idea of the way it's set up procedures and handbook to the site and the guidance I guess high level for Chris here is good what I think though we we need to potentially add to this is some sentence that points people to the community use handbook for those kind of things because if I am a community member I'm going to read this and there is nothing in here about what Chris was just talking about which there shouldn't But there should be
066some statement in the policy that says for details on proper use of facilities. >> It's the last bullet under permit requirements. >> Where are we? >> Page two. The third bullet under permit requirements says for specific instructions please reference the milford community use program I believe. >> But I don't disagree that we could highlight around. >> I didn't see that there. So that's that's good. Thank you. That's specifically why I just want something in here so people don't say, "Well, I read the policy. There's no data there is there." So, >> I hope people are not reading this first and I hope they, you know, find the handbook first. >> Personally, >> I would imagine or I should say from the experience I've had, most people look for the policy when they when they think
067about this >> really. They Yes, they do. >> Because they they think about what what is guiding the control of it. Um, but that is right there. So, as long as they read the whole thing >> and above maybe highlighted, bold italics, >> permit, permit, rental process, >> and that's probably the one that people would actually look at, right? >> Yeah. And and I'm thinking more along the lines of like I know the you sports groups get it, but for example, Chris and I have had discussions about soccer and how the nets are are not town property or soccer property and who's using them around town and um just different, I guess, discussions. Some groups know what they should and shouldn't do, others may not. And I just want to make sure that they're aware
068of >> where to get that information or who to talk to to get the right guidance. >> Chris, maybe I can connect with you because I I >> regarding the wording or whatnot because I I just >> with the with the ones that the 21 of those things that or the rules, let's say. >> Yes. Maybe we can just put it in there to cover what you're looking to do. >> You might you might even want to separate some things. I mean, you might want to have a a you know, an agreement that they signed to rent the turf, which that would have nothing to do with renting the gymnasium or the auditorium, right? Or anything else. You might want to make it, you know, sight specific. >> I do have a separate one for
069the use of the turf and grass fields and one for the pool. So, I could put one there for the to cover the space in here as well. >> Yeah. I mean, just if I'm renting the pool, just tell me what I need to know. I don't need to know that I can't, you know, hit a baseball in the tarp. >> Right. Okay. >> Yeah. All right. So, um I think the what we're hearing out of it, we'll move forward with the file KF, but when you start to build this out, just bring it back to the committee every swap and email it out. Here's what I'm doing. Um, just so we know that we feel comfortable that moving the these rules out of the policy into handbooks, you know, and they don't have to
070be verbatim as like like John said, do what you feel is right. But I think the sense is we want to make sure there's a structure and there's rules and procedures. So >> understood. >> Do we have a motion to approve file KF as presented? >> So moved. >> Motion by Chris, second by Brendan. All in favor? It's unanimous. Motion passes. Um, do I have a motion to retire KF1 use of school facilities? Motion by Brendan. Second by Matt. >> I think I'm I'm I'm Brendon apparently. >> Oh, sorry Derek. >> Well done. >> Motion by Matt. The shirt. >> The same. They have the same shirt on. I get >> all in favor. >> It's unanimous. Motion passes. >> You guys got to stop moving seats. >> Confusing every week. two years in this.
071>> Uh, do I have a motion to retire file KF-2 Turf field complex usage? Motion by Matt, second by Meg. All in favor? It's unanimous. Motion passes. Thank you. And Chris, thank you for coming today and doing all the work. Mr. Chair, I guess one thing. Is it okay? Can we go back to that rental property um documentation? Do we want to talk about that now or just have Chris because I've got some questions but I can go to Chris on the side as this is a developing documentation. Anyways, >> I think it makes sense for you based on the discussion. You side by with Chris and express your your thoughts and I think you took some of my thoughts already and >> perfect do on that. >> Not to believe it tonight. >> Yeah,
072exactly. That's why why I wanted to put it that way. As long as with approval I can sidebar with them. >> Yeah, perfect. >> All right. Uh moving on. Um, next item is elementary custo custodial cleaning services contract. >> Thanks Chris. I mean you can stay. >> I have to go get ice cream. >> Okay. >> Anybody want one? >> Yes. >> So I just want to update the um committee on the cleaning service contract. Um we conducted a formal RFP for elementary school after school summer school uh and summer cleaning services when uh Carlos all element the three elementary principles and I closely involved in walkthroughs and proposal evaluations based on evaluation results of both non-pric and price proposals. The lowest responsive and responsible bidder is Dynamic Janitorial Cleaning Incorporated, which is a Milford
073based company serving school districts including Hollist, Hopedale, Shrewsbury, and Lincoln Sudbury. Uh reference checks reported satisfying cleaning quality and communication overall with Hollist noting quick response times as a local vendor alongside some staff turnover that reinforces the need for strong uh SOPs and regular performance meetings which is specifically required in our RFP. Um while we're mindful of transitioning from Cleanco after many years of service, um Dynamics proposal is approximately $36,000 lower than Clean Co's resulting in about n a $9,000 um savings in the FY27. Um they also offer level pricing for years two and three uh compared to Clinko's historical annual increases. Um to balance cost, quality, and risk, we awarded a one-year contract to dynamic janitorial cleaning beginning July 2026 with uh two optional one-year extensions uh with transition summer cleaning planning to fall
074upon the contract execution. So, um, we're really excited to begin working with Dynamic, uh, and we thank Clean Co for the many years of service, uh, to Milford Public Schools. >> Any questions, Meg? >> Craig, about how many people do we employ via this service? Do you have any sense? >> Um, >> or do we contract, I should say, not employ, but >> uh, roughly 12 to 15. >> Okay. Just curious. Thanks. Excellent. Great outcome. Any other questions? >> No, just a comment. I'm glad that we we finally put this out to bid. I mean, Clean Co., you know, they we follow procurement because they're on the state bid list and we're allowed to hire them all these years. Um, I know I expressed concerns over the past few years. When Craig came on board
075around this time last year, it was really too late to do anything with this school year's contract. Um, so, you know, I'm glad he and Wen and everyone else followed through with putting this out to bid and getting a, you know, qualified bid. Um, that's going to save the district money. And the fact that it's a local company is just, I think, a little bit of a, you know, a bonus. Local company, local workers. >> Thank you. >> Um, if we're keeping score at home, it's the third contract we did this year. We did the teachers contract, the uh this one and the bus contract. >> Gold star. >> Yeah. With a couple more to go. >> Keep it going. >> All right. Any other questions? >> Great. Next agenda item is report of superintendent
076of schools. >> All right. Um it's teacher appreciation week. Uh I've just I prepared something that um I just want to read. Um, this has been one of the most difficult years in recent memory for uh Mil Public Schools. Our staff is absorbing the change of new administration, navigating the uncertainty with looming budget cuts, and still showing up every single day with their students at the center of everything they do. Teacher Appreciation Week uh comes at a different time this year, and I think that matters. I've watched our nearly 400 teachers, counselors, deans, e coordinators, OT's, PTs, and team chairs, not to mention all the BAS, TAS, uh administrators that we employ, custodians, lunch, um cafeteria staff, um bus drivers, everyone put students first in ways that honestly humble me. tired nights, stressful days, and
077in in more cases than I'd like to admit, personal sacrifices that most people in this room will never see. These are people who stay long hours long after the bell rings, who spend their own evenings thinking through how how to reach a struggling student, and who have put the needs of the school community ahead of their own health and their own families more times than I can count. They don't do it for recognition. They do it because they care deeply about every kid in front of them. Um, and to every staff me, every member of our staff, I see you. I appreciate you, and I'm grateful every day that you choose to do this work in Milford. So, thank you. Um, so I just wanted to say that to all of our our staff members
078um in Milford that it's important to recognize them, especially during this week um during teacher appreciation week. And again, When I think of teacher appreciation week, I think of all the staff members that um service our kids. Um the next item I have is just a quick update um kindergarten update. So we're about where we typically are um year-over-year. Um, we currently are about 285 students, kindergarten students. Uh, I think if you remember, we were looking at census data that could potentially have put us at 395 kids. Um, but right now we have 285 students um that are assigned to schools. Um, 78 of those students are have already been identified as EL students. Um, we have 49 students whose first language is not English that still have to be screened. Um, so potentially that's
079about 130 kids uh that could potentially be English learners. Um, roughly 45%. This year, just to put that in perspective, this year um at Brookside and Memorial, we were over 50% English learner um at those schools. So, we're roughly about where we where we would expect to be about this time. Um, a typical year in any given class is usually around 310 to 3:25. Um, some years in the past, we've been up over 350. Um, but I anticipate that we will probably be in the 300 range, 315 range. So, um, it's something we we're always keeping an eye on and, uh, I think that, uh, we're in pretty good shape at this point. Nothing that we're really too concerned with. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Um, and I think the other thing that you have
080in front of you, hold on, I lost my agenda, is a personnel update. Let me find my agenda. Too many tabs open. Um, this is this does not require a vote. It's um just showing you all of our our hires. It's a lot of it is um summer school ESY. And that's it. >> Any questions for our superintendent? >> Great to move on. Consent agenda. So tonight we have a warrant um of 1,12,59.64. Any questions about the warrant? So have a motion to approve the warrant as presented. Motion by Meg, second by Matt. All in favor? It's unanimous. Motion passes. >> Sorry, I thought we were doing consent agenda doing both at the same time. >> You know what? You're right. Sorry, this was going through. It's >> okay. >> Anyways, uh and then we
081have a um professional development for $22. Do have a motion to approve that as presented. Motion by Chris, second by John. All in favor? Unanimous. Motion passes. I'll just rolling through line by line. All right. Subcommittee updates. Uh labor and management. Any update? We met last week, Michael. Um I would say sort of standard updates um from the group. Most items had either already been addressed or in the process of being addressed. So um nothing out of the ordinary there. Craig, my only suggestion for that meeting was going to be I think it'd be good to like implement an agenda. So we do a little bit more than just the building rotation every week basically on the contract meeting. It felt like there might be a couple other items we want to layer in. So
082maybe we could talk about that. >> Yes. >> Facilities update. >> Absolutely. Chris. >> So yeah, we met this afternoon. uh happy to announce that the uh Brookside project is complete. >> I forgot it was obviously there was a few lingering items that from like you'd call a punch list side of it that needed to be addressed and those have since been addressed. So this complete complete uh Stacy HVAC assessment um that reports being created which should be in next week and that's basically will help set the pathway of how we will um go forward with the HVAC updates from there. uh MHF's roof. It's been stable. So, obviously, we didn't have any sort of I know we weren't supposed to talk about it, but it's on the agenda, so >> not supposed to speak.
083>> So, yeah, that's why I knocked on the wood. Uh so, we things been good. The uh the gutter system that that Carlos created was uh you know, I mean, for his we all kind of laugh, but boy, it worked pretty well. So, it wasn't tested too severely, which is the other good part. Um, so discuss the also HVAC assessments at Memorial and Brookside. So that same company that did the original and original assessment at Stacy, they've they are also interested in the HVAC assessments at Brookside and Memorial. So we um implored the administration to go ahead and do those assessments and it's within the budget. So there's no extra monies that that we would have to do on that side of it. um memorial roof assessment. That's something else that's uh the reports coming
084to us and we'll look at that and there'll be more discussion as we kind of bring all of that information together as you know here's the assessment where are we at in the warranty and what are our options. So basically just kind of creating a capital plan for that was also discussed and then a continued discussion regarding just the uh the ticketing and project tracking just how we will look towards that in the future. That's it in a nutshell. Thank you. Um policy. >> Sorry. Can I ask a question? Is everything resolved, Chris, do we know with the woodland elevators? I know it was good. That's good. It's working. >> Right now it is. >> Great. >> So, nobody's still trapped. >> Trapped. Thanks. >> Wasn't on our agenda. >> I didn't know if it
085came up, but it was it may have been mentioned that it's it's something that they >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Do we have a policy update? Derek, do you want to give an update? update is I'm chair unexpectedly. >> Congratulations. Well, >> thank you, Mr. K off the policy committee. >> Yeah. Huh. >> And you kicked me off. Yeah. >> Yeah. Um, so we we we met uh today and we were with Chris Burns and talking about community use. Um, that's pretty much took most of our time. I'm not sure if there's anything else. That's it. >> All right. Do I have a motion to move into executive session? Roll call. >> Oh, future agenda. You're not going to skip me again. >> Oh, it's actually not. >> You're not going to do it.
086>> It's not on the agenda. Ready to go. >> It's not on the agenda, but >> future agenda items. >> Uh, yeah. >> 12th right there. >> Oh, it is. I Sorry. >> It's okay. I was I was ready to go this time. >> Big time. What are they? So, no. Two things. Um, one to the policy subcommittee. Uh, the fundraising policy. Don't >> look at me. Oh, sorry. You were looking at me. So, yeah. Uh, policy fundraising. uh and just really I know it's it's a continued discussion and just really >> how can this board you know help streamline the process and and what is our best avenues and and getting when involved and um I certainly have some ideas too uh so we can we can offer those up also just looking at
087what some other schools are doing um I think would be beneficial of that so not necessarily just creating our own policy but seeing what's working with other school departments from from streamline streamlining their fundraising efforts. Uh and then the other one is, you know, whether or not we'd like a policy to, you know, to discuss and consider uh reviewing and approving stipens before they are com they are certified. So again, that gives us a little bit more awareness of it allows it would that policy would be created to say that the administration would propose to us. Here are all the stipens that we that we're going forward with and we would approve them. So again, that gives us the the more visibility to them. So again, something to consider. I'm not sure if it would
088goes anywhere or not, but just wanted to bring those up. I think those are both worth discussing further. >> Thank you, Chris. Sorry about that. I didn't Yeah. Anyways, any other long-term agenda items, Matt? >> This is for you, too. >> Oh, gosh. >> This is fun. >> Yeah, let's do it. >> Um, I would like to revisit a policy we had in the past that we got rid of about a first second read related to policies. Um, it may not be the exact same thing, but I I would feel like the discussion should get restarted on on how we can review this stuff and have time to sit with it >> before voting rather than again I think we we tend to land where we landed tonight where people see it, they read it
089in the last couple of days, they haven't had really a lot of time to settle into it and then um I feel like we keep getting into a spot over and over again where we're saying yes, we'll approve this policy, but we are expecting these pieces too. Um, so we can discuss that, I think, as a a subcommittee to see maybe if there's a procedure or something in there. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Any other long-term agenda items? >> All right. Have a motion to move into executive session, which is a roll call vote. >> Motion by Brendan, second by Matt. Matt, >> yes. >> Derek, yes. Meg, >> yes. Brendan, yes. Chris, >> yes. John, >> yes. >> Everybody's Yes.