001[Music] Good evening and welcome to the April 17th, 2025 meeting of the Milford School Committee. This meeting is being broadcast or recorded by Milford TV and any copies can be obtained the request of this board or through central office. Looks like we're starting tonight with a little performance from the Milford High music department. And I believe we have um Sarah Roie here. Hi, I'm Sarah Roie. I teach here at the high school. I'm also at Memorial and Woodland this year. It's my 10th year in Milford Public School District. This is our chamber choir. Uh it's our most advanced coral ensemble out of the five coral ensembles we have here at Milford High. Um yeah, we're going to sing a song. It It might not make a lot of sense because we're singing Good Night, Sweetheart,
002and you're just starting your night. We're just kind of ending our night. just put my two kids in the car with my husband, so they're going to do their nighttime. Um, but we sang this as part of the arts extravaganza back in February. It was our second annual arts extravaganza, which is a really great event. Um, featuring all of the arts and practical arts and videography and photography and culinary arts, um, all the arts programs that we offer here at Milford High School. So, um, our rep is in kind of a funny spot as we get ready for our pops concert May 20th. So, I figured this would be a fun nice way to start, but also as we kind of exit, um, see what else was I supposed to say? Um, we're really lucky
003at Milford High School as the students come up through, we have a really fantastic music department across the district, especially at our K to2 level, um, where they start. So, these are the the best of the best. This is our most advanced ensemble, like I said. Um, but they've had such a rounded music education as they've come up through K to 12. Um, so when we get them, they're already wellversed in music education. So, they've worked really hard um at Milford High School and in chamber choir, but they've also done all of the work before then, and that's thanks to our incredible music department through all the greats. Um, yeah. So, without further ado, let's sing good night, sweetheart. [Music] Not that one. Good night, sweetheart. Well, it's time to go. Good night, sweetheart. Well,
004it's time to go. Good night sweetheart. Good night. Good night, sweetheart. Well, it's time to go. Good night, sweetheart. Well, it's time to go. I hate to leave you, but good night we are. Good night. Good night. We are well. It's time to go. Good night. We are well. It's time to go. I hate to leave you, but good night we are. Good night. Good night. We are good tonight. Good night. We are good night. comments. Awesome. Awesome. Amazing job. Thanks for having us. Great job harmonizing. That's awesome. It's not done overnight. That's great. Comment. Any seniors in the group? Oh, wow. All right. Excellent. Any seniors care to share their plans for next year? Um, I'm going to Boston University in the fall to major in education and history. Excellent. I'll go to Emanuel
005College in Boston and majoring in health sciences. I'm going to Nor Eastern in Boston to major in cyber security. Excellent. I'll be at Assumption studying nursing. Yep. I'll be at assumption um studying something in the field. I'll be at Manhattanville University studying musical theater. Wow. So, thank you everybody for sharing that and great performance and good luck to to everybody. Um, if you continue on in your singing, you certainly have a uh a bright future that's for sure. So, but thank you very much. Last time I heard that song was on Solid Gold with Sha. You guys probably don't know who Sha is. You know who Sha? Of course. You guys do such You guys did such a better job than Sha. There's no Bowser. I don't even know what he's talking about. He's a
006little B. Are you a little Bowser going? I I heard it. I heard it. I think Mario Bowser. Excellent. Homework. Thank you for coming. All right, that brings us on to announcements. I'll hold on for a second. It's going to get a little louder. All right, we'll move on to announcements, correspondence, and distribution. I have one thing, but I'll let everyone else go first. Anyone have anything? You have anything? Uh, no. So, the only thing that I will share is that um this is a follow-up of a of a previous discussion. The Massachusetts Department of Health was here at the high school to do an assessment based on the water damage that came from the roof leaks back in March, February, whenever the um the large incident happened. So, they were here. The report was
007released on 411 and just a couple points. Um they came did a visual inspection for water damage and uh microbial growth. And a couple notes that I thought were important to share with the community was that they did note that all building components are made out of non-porous materials such as concrete, cement, and tile which are not conductive to mold growth. So they did not find um any mold or any other visible um contaminants such as mold. And they found everything to be dry and there were no associated odors. Um, essentially what they had for us was recommendations of continuing plans to make the roof repairs, which are scheduled, I believe, to start next week, and also following through with um cleaning up and painting water stains, replacing ceiling tiles um as they become stained
008after leaks. And um this is a quote from the Master Mass Department of Public Health. They did recommend that we continue to use receptacles and trash bins and buckets to collect water as needed. Um, so I just found that interesting. I'm a little disappointed they let go of the cone taped to the handrail idea. I thought that was a good one. I was hoping that would stay, but they did they did not recommend that. But that was a physics project. I I want to write back and ask them if we can include that. So anyway, they were here. They were happy obviously with what they found and um they understand that the district's need for a new building and roof repairs and all that stuff. So um that's the uh if I can just comment
009on that as well or add to add to that. I wanna I want to thank our board of health um especially our director of public health Amanda and our chairman of the the board of health Paul Maza Kelly because they absolutely implemented this. They did it at no cost to to our town budget. We appropriated money that did not get spent. So they really went above and beyond to make sure that this got investigated, tested, and reported um very well. Yeah. Yeah. The turnaround was great. It was believe a week. So, it was it was uh very impressive and very helpful as well to I think put a lot of people at ease as as to what came from that leak. So, on we go. Just have one announcement or shout out to the staff
010and students at Woodland for the art show they had this week. Um it was a bit of an adventure with no electricity. It was in the uh in that windstorm. I can't remember what day it was now. Tuesday, I believe. They lost power for a while and of course as it was they sent a message out that said the art show was going to be cancelled a minute later. The electricity came back um and they were able to hold it. Um but it was very very well attended. Um I don't know that if there was any parking spots left. There was so many families and students there. So great show. Yeah. Thank I can't believe I forgot about actually being there. The place was packed. It was actually pretty impressive. and uh the art even
011from you know third, fourth and fifth graders is is fantastic. So thanks for bringing that up. All right, we'll go to invitation to speak and I do not believe we have anyone for that tonight. That brings us to agenda four which is the last day of school for um the district but also for Woodland as I believe a separate date. Yeah, I can talk I can talk that. Yeah, sure. Um, so the last day for grades uh K through two and six through 12, it's Tuesday, June 17, 2025. And for uh Woodland, it's Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. Um, and this is due, we had a district-wide snow day on February 6th. And uh, if you remember back in December, we had a water main break that impacted Woodland. We didn't have any water to Woodland,
012so we had to close Woodland only on that day. So, we have had this happen before. It's never ideal, but uh the Woodland students, I think, will enthusiastically be in school on Wednesday, June 18th, while the rest of the district is starting their summer vacation. So, we just need a vote to allow that. And both days are half days, correct? Correct. All right. I will motion to accept the days of last days of school based off of the recommendation of the superintendent. Excellent. Motion by Brandon. Okay. Second by John. Discussion. All in favor. Thank you very much. That is unanimous. Um on to item five, the school committee superintendent operating protocols. So this is not new to anybody here except for I would imagine Derek. So um this is essentially a statement that that the
013school committee and the superintendent make to take our roles very seriously. um in interacting and trying to do what's best for the district and the town and the community. Um I'll just read just the major bullets here which are that we we're essentially promising to demonstrate professional and collegial relations with one another, dedicate ourselves to establishing and maintaining effective communication and support the educational welfare and well-being being of all students. Um you guys have this to read in your packet as well. And there is um a hard copy over here if anybody would like to sign that after the meeting. So that is something we'll take care of um later on in terms of the signature. If you have any questions on that, obviously we can uh address that. Are there any comments or questions
014on that? Great. Uh we're going to pass over agenda item six for the discussion on high school campus aids. Um Dr. Bruntland could not be here tonight, but he is uh lined up for the May 1st meeting. So, we will address that one on May 1st, which brings me to the general chairperson update. So, I'll ask you guys to open up the subcommittee assignments document that we have attached here. Um I'll start by saying there are basically no changes to this other than um Derek has um has volunteered to slot into the two spots that Robin was filling last year. So he'll cover sick bank and he will step in on policy as well. Um there any questions or comments in terms of this? We can work that out now. And there are two changes
015that I'm proposing we do make. I'll start with the IT technology one. Um that subcommittee I believe was formed a ways back. Um, I know John could give us a history lesson if anybody really cared. But essentially, I believe it was before we had a dedicated um, leader of technology in this district. And now that we have one, Michael and I have been sitting on it, I believe, for the last four years. The inter the interaction was quite the grunt. The interaction was um, I would say we had a couple meetings, but it wasn't frequent. We haven't met in the last year. I don't believe it's necessary. I talked to Michael about it. He believes the same. So, my recommendation um would be to see if the committee would be in favor of dissolving that
016subcommittee as I don't see a need for it anymore. Um not sure if that needs a vote. No, I can just speak to that. Um not not disagreeing with anything you've said. I was on the original incarnation of that subcommittee. That's when we had a uh IT director that was split between townside and school side. Then we had a transition where we had a town side and a separate school side and that the individuals don't are not pertinent to the conversation but I do agree that it's not needed. We had a lot we've had a lot of upgrades in the 10 years since it was formed and I originally sat on it. But you guys are far more advanced into what's been going on lately. And I don't I I agree it's not it's it's
017probably not necessary at this point. And it was very necessary back then. I mean that that's back when we were trying to put Chromebooks out there. Now I mean that was our first uh one of the earlier um initiatives, right? So um but yeah, it's I think the timeline of that subcommittee has passed. Okay. So I agree with everything. I just wanted to provide a little bit of background. I move to dissolve the IT technology committee. Motion by Michael. Second. Second by Chris. All in favor? All right, we got six in favor and one extension. Sorry, five in favor and one abstension. Accounted me, she's not here. Um, I'm going to make this. She probably support it. She would. Yeah. I will make a a similar recommendation for marketing and communication. I talked about that
018one, too. I sat on that one last year. We had two meetings. But for the most part, our director of technology grants and communication, there it is. Handles a lot of that. even when it was Nancy Prior, it was really just reviewing what she was already doing. So, I didn't feel that there was a new value when I was there. I don't believe there's been even any meetings on it in the last year. So, um again, if there's no need to have these things, then why keep them? So, thoughts on that one? More thoughts? Um, so I was here again when that was established. Um, that predates both Tim now and Nancy previous. There was certainly some benefit to it over the years. Um, but I think that that time has passed as well, so
019I agree with it. Excellent. Is there a motion to dissolve the marketing and communication separation? Motion by Michael, second. Second by Brandon. All in favor? Five in favor, one abstension. Okay. Can I just make one other point of order? Um, we're talking about subcommittees, and we probably here at the table realize this. Some of these are recognized subcommittees by the state and in in the statutes. these other other subcommittees here that were dissolving were ad hoc so to speak. So I think it's a somewhat of a distinction to just point out to everybody involved that um these were never required. These were necessary at the time and we're just dissolving them today. Thank you. That I think that is important and the only ones we have um you know contract related are labor and management
020and sick bank and obviously there are some for policy and budget that I believe the state recognizes. So I'll read I'll read what we have remaining and obviously these will be posted on the website as well. So we will have policy uh which will be Michael, Brendan and Derek. Budget is going to be John, Megan and Michael. Facilities will be Chris, John and myself. And then we have Milford TV board representative which is going to be Jonathan Capis again. Um and then in terms of the MTA contract subcommittee's labor and management will be Megan and Chris and sick bank will be Derek. So, I will uh obviously work with Melissa to get this document updated and we can get that posted. One other comment I would make for policy, budget, and facilities. I'm going to
021make the suggestion that those groups get together and identify a chair of the subcommittee to work with administration, set the agenda, put the focus out there for what's going to happen for the next year. Um, last year, I think I tried to juggle a lot of that and that was maybe a little too much to try to do to keep everything organized. So I think the best way to go about this is have somebody focusing on those pieces and and juggling that. So when you guys meet that would be ideal to to identify that you can obviously just do a simple appointment in one way or another. John, just another comment. Um I'm full of him tonight apparently. Um uh while you know I' I've consulted with uh town council, former town council, special town
022counsel Jerry on this. Um, you don't have to appoint them, but I think it's very beneficial to appoint them. Like anybody can chair any individual subcommittee meeting, but it's it's it'll be much more productive to like as we've as we've done, we've loosely had you chair our facilities subcommittee and you've done so well. But it would I I do I agree it's more beneficial to just uh appoint a chair or vote a chair and and do it in that fashion. So, I'm just agreeing with you basically. Thank you. But I'm substantiating it. I'm trying to anyways. Any comments or questions on subcommittee? Um objections to where you have been placed? No. Okay. All right. Cool. We get t-shirts soon. Yeah. Yeah. Michael will make those, pay for them, all that fun stuff. There's Derek. There's
023no t-shirts. There's no t-shirts. T-shirts. Get home now. Yeah. You got to wait till he gets to the first meeting. All right. So the other you do get a name plate though and you already have it. So that's the end of that's the end of the handouts. Um the other item I had on here last meeting we talked about the roof and I believe that I brought probably too many pieces of information at the same time made it a little confusing. So the subcommittee kind of met today which I unfortunately cannot be a part of. I'm going to ask Chris to kind of summarize um the discussion, but this is around the article that we pulled specifically to repair the sections of the roof that were leaking. Pretend everything I said last about assessments didn't
024happen. Okay, go ahead. Chris, do you want to handle one or do you want Yeah. So, no. So, we had a we had a long facility subcommittee meeting today and the roof pieces part that we didn't talk about. We had about eight agenda items. I'm not joking. This is I mean, it's funny, but it's not funny. We had about eight items. We didn't call together all the information that you sent and all the information I asked for at the last meeting. Um, basically due to time constraints, I think Chris, unless you want to offer any other insight, we didn't pull that all together. We we do have five, six or seven more updates on our that we're going to hit later. Okay. Um, the roof wasn't one of them and there's a lot there to
025pull together and we didn't get it pulled together to today, I think. Well, yeah. Matt and I had a quick conversation because he wanted me to be up to speed on it since he didn't make that meeting. So, I guess Matt, do you want me to just go over the quick kind of overview from that where we're at, where we're going? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be So, you obviously there's two components there. There's the repair and then there's the further look at the overall roof assessment. So, we are going forward with the repairs over the entrance section and over the hallway. So those were the two areas where the uh there was significant leakage that happened. Um so that will go through the repair process. Um there is a daily rate and then there
026there is an a kind of an up to amount that we have there. I just don't know what those amounts are off the top of my head. So again it will will not exceed that amount. So once that daily rate hits that that ceiling then the work will in a sense stop. So just so we are aware of it and that vendor doesn't continue to move on and on and on. So we're just aware of the costs overall. Then the other component obviously is the the full roof assessment. So they've uh Carlos has gone through and has received um a couple quotes. So it'll be on and since Carlos to to work with his preferred vendor costwise and and relationship wise to do that full roof roof assessment. Um and that I can't remember what
027that amount is off the top of my head. That's like was between 16 and 18,000. Yeah. So not huge cost and all that if I recall is can be covered within our budget. So we don't have to go out and and ask for more money through town meeting. We can handle it in our in our maintenance and budget. And that and I think that's the important part to bring back around is is the article that we put forward has zero dollars on it. The recommendation by administration, by the finance director as well, was to to pass on that for now because we're covering initial repairs on our budget. Now, if things turn out to need more, we will get it set up for the fall town meeting. So, that's where we stand right now. The
028finance director did say if we needed money for the repairs and we had some sort of idea of a ballpark, we would need to get that sooner than later. And I don't know that we're going to have that information in time. So with that, obviously John and I never really touched upon it wi with that I don't think this is an update other than a re recap of what we talked about last week because we didn't call this all together, right? We we wanted to but we we we did a lot of other work. Okay. So that'll that'll be where we'll leave that for now. Anybody have any questions or thoughts on this? I'll leave it there for now. And uh that's it. I do believe well I'll leave the update. Actually, you don't have
029this because you guys talk about it. I do believe the work is planned to start on the repairs next week because the weather this week threw off their schedule. It's just been rainy the last couple weeks. So, I think they I think Carlos has got them set up for next week. Okay. All right. Would you want to adjust the agenda and continue talking about facilities or just keep it as a subcommittee update further down on the agenda? Now that we open that door, I'm okay either way. Why don't we keep with the agenda so that we don't have poor Carol sitting here listening to roof talk for the next hour and a half and then we'll come back around. Um, fair enough. So, let's uh let's move on to report of the superintendent of schools
030with the MSBA project update. Yes, mine's very brief. Um we submitted the final three documents for the eligibility period which is the design designation of the notice person and that's the person who's the key contact um enrollment certification and the feasibility study budget. So these are the last three pieces that we're responsible for for the eligibility study in terms of what we turn into the MSBA. Um we'll be receiving the feasibility study agreement from the MSBA later this month. Um then we'll have an opportunity to review it, have town council um take a look at it, and the MSBA board will vote on it at their June meeting. The next step in the process is the feasibility study, the schematic design, which will take place, you know, most of the 2526 school year and maybe
031a little beyond depending on the scope of work and kind of what we what we kind of finalize on. Um but, you know, this eligibility period went extremely well. I think a lot of people contributed to it. So, I want to thank all of them. And, you know, this is this is a milestone or it's close to a milestone, but it's the very first step in a multi-step process and a multi-year process. But, we're moving along the way we should be moving along, which is which is very pro positive news. Um, and the MSBA said, you know, the date of April 28th is kind of like a placeholder. So, if it comes back a couple days later, a couple days before, we'll get it. We'll have, you know, ample time to review it. um as
032a school system and as as a community and then we'll we'll move forward and it'll get voted in June. So, I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Well, pretty straightforward. All right, that works for me. Thank you. Thank you for that. Yep. All right, we'll move on in there to the report of the assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction and assessment. Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman. U like to invite Carol up. Um we've invited Carol here today to uh basically provide an overview for everybody in the room and if you have questions about um our literacy instruction K8, I think it's important that you you all have um the information that you need in case folks ask you questions about the warrant article that we have going up. Um I felt that uh Carol's
033way more qualified to talk about that than I am. Um, but that's why Carol's here today. Carol's, we've talked about um she's gonna have a nice 10-minute overview and try to get you the information that you need. And if you have questions, please ask her anything. Um, I think that uh you'll find that this is exactly the the way that we need to go with this warrant article. All right. Well, thanks for having me. Um, I appreciate tableabling the roof discussion to uh allow me to say my piece. Um, uh, I just wanted to say, you know, the goal of today is to give you an overview of the curriculum landscape in literacy and talk about how the Warren um, proposal for expeditionary learning for literary literacy curriculum um, fits into the the scope of
034literacy in Milford public schools. Um you can see on the slide here we have our district commitment to literacy with our literacy vision. Um that really highlights the the opportunity for all students every day to engage in these activities. Um and and as we all know it's it's critical for everything you do in school in life and beyond. It's the foundation of pretty much everything. Um the next slide is from Desi's Mass Literacy website. It provides guidance on the core components of the literacy block. This is specifically for K3. Um and then I'll talk about how the curriculums we have in place fit into this these core components and how um specifically where expeditionary learning will fit within this scope. So on the next slide we see the K2 district literacy framework. Essentially at K2
035there are two fundamental literacy blocks with about 60 minutes allocated to each. The first literacy block is dedicated to the foundational skills um which is outlined in that core components of DESI's literacy block. This is where um we currently have curriculum in place. We have Heggerty which is a funological awareness curriculum and funological awareness is um the ability to understand, manipulate, recognize sounds. It's a very critical precursor to early reading. Um Hegy provides explicit instruction in this. It's researchbased. We also have foundations which is a researchbased phonics program. Um and phonics is the ability to make connections between letters and sounds eventually leads to decoding um and spelling and reading whole words and connected text. So we've had curriculum in place for this block for several years now. Um the second literacy block is what
036I really want to speak to where ELEL fits in. So that is um if we think about the DESI core components frameworks, it's the complex text and writing. Um we currently don't have a cohesive curriculum in place. We have a lot of teacher created materials. Um and while the materials reflect tremendous efforts on behalf of our teachers, um it has been difficult to horizontally align. Um so that has been resulting in some lack of consistency in instruction, challenges for teachers who um like special educators or EL educators who may work across multiple classrooms. Um so this literacy block is where the expeditionary learning will fit in and that is geared towards literary text,formational text, um building vocabulary, making meaning, um inferences, all those things that go into the language comprehension part of literacy instruction. So
037if we think of the two like the the foundational skills block is learning to crack the code and the second block is even for kids who cannot crack the code yet, they are still getting exposure to rich contentdriven text that is going to expand their background knowledge, their vocabulary, um give them opportunities to speak about really complex ideas and develop their critical thinking. Um the next two slides are just outlining what foundations is, um where it fits, why it matters. Same thing with Hegerty. And then just again an an overview of where expeditionary learning will fit in K to 5. Um, in grades three to five, it's not necessarily broken out into two distinct blocks because the mass frameworks for foundational skills are really driven in K2. Um the foundational skills for grade three is
038more geared toward morphological analysis um G Greek and Latin roots and word study and less explicit phonics and funological awareness instruction. Um so at grades three and four the expeditionary learning will fit into the ELA block. At grade five it will fit into the reading block. Um again right now currently teachers are creating their own lessons and units. Um it's a huge lift for them to constantly be creating materials. Uh expeditionary learning is a research bra based program. Um, and the design of this program is a little different than the previous generations of reading comprehension programs that were very much skills driven like let's find the main idea, let's do the beginning, middle, and end of a story. It hits all those very important key standards, but it also systematically gives students exposure to like
039really rich content um while they are acquiring those literacy skills. Research shows that students, especially those who are economically disadvantaged, lack the same background knowledge as some of their peers. And background knowledge has a huge impact on reading comprehension. So, if I gave everyone here an article on um biochemistry, unless you have that background, it's going to be a struggle to access it, no matter what you've been taught about where to find the main idea and how to use context clues. So systematically spiraling um the knowledge from one grade to another will set the students up not only in literacy but for other content area learning in science in social studies in other domains. Um there's writing embedded throughout the curriculum. So it's not like a separate thing. students are going to be constantly learning
040to write about the texts and topics they're um reading about. And um moving forward to 68, we are in year one of implementation of amplify ELA. And while it's not necessarily completely vertically aligned, the pedigogy of the curriculum design is similar that it is contentheavy in providing background knowledge and spiraling um content from one grade level to another. This year um our grade seven students read about brain science in Phineas Gage and they had this great opportunity to zoom with the curator of the Harvard Med School Museum. So they're acquiring all this information about um accessing really denseformational texts but also making some real nice real world connections to beyond the classroom. Um so the the goal with this this initiative is really to ensure that we have a cohesive program. Right now we have
041our foundational skills already in place but that second component has been missing and that's what EL education is going to fulfill. Um, if we look to our goals for 2526, it's really next year is going to be prioritizing the implementation of EL education. Um, allowing our teachers to learn the curriculum. Um, of course, learning anything new is challenging. Taking away what you've done for years is difficult. So we intend to support our teachers and give them grace as they uh accomplish this huge undertaking. Um we will look at assessment data for the curriculum embedded assessments. Um we'll look at our I Ready data and our MCCAST data. It it's difficult to really hang your hat on that data in year one because we're still learning all the ins and outs of the curriculum. Um but
042it's not something we will you know just lay by the wayside. We'll continue to track that. In 2627 the goal is to continue um focusing on the implementation of expeditionary learning like looking at some tighter pacing um adding more um adjusting as needed based on what we learned in year one. um in refining and enhancing tier one instructional practices. So, as we continue to support EL, a new focus area can be um unpacking best practices and looking closer at that foundational skills block. So, we're not we have to keep focus on both things simultaneously. Um but it's that's a huge undertaking. So, we're never taking the gas off one area for the sake of the other. We have to keep full throttle on everything. Um, but just knowing where we're headed. Um, that's kind of
043where we're looking for 26 27. also looking at um with expeditionary learning, with Heggerty, with foundations um analyzing the schedule to see if there's any adjustments that need to be made for um an intervention block or how we're making sure we can meet the needs of all students, those who are at grade level, those who are above grade level, and those who are below grade level. Um making sure we're really promoting um acceleration across all domains. And then if we can think way out to 27 um 28, you know, just continued focus on providing all students with grade level core curriculum. Um, and then looking at making sure we are creating clear delineation between tier one instruction, which is for all students, and tier 2 instruction, which is for students who may be um needing
044extra atbats with grade level content or skills they have not mastered yet. Um, literacy is a huge puzzle that needs many things. There's the scar bros reading rope. I didn't bring my pipe cleaner reading rope to show you. Someday I will. If you want to see it, I'm happy to show you. Um, but it's it's a rope that's made of many strands and we have to keep weaving them together simultaneously. So, that's kind of that's that's the big picture of how this budgetary ask fits into the scope of literacy in the district. So, um, happy to answer any questions you may have. Yes, thank you. So, um I think we're all well, we I know we are. We're all supportive of literacy. Um and this is just another um it's great information to further that,
045right? The piece that I think is missing for me is that when we go to the town and saying, "Hey, we we need a lot of money from you." Um what's the metric to go back to the town saying, "This was successful." And in all here, I I just don't see any of that. And so, that's really important for us to know what does success look like in the next four to five years. I think we'll be able to look at our I Ready data um specifically in the domains offormational text and um literature like the overall comprehension and vocabulary. That's what this program is geared to target. Additionally, grade three MCCASTs um or our state assessment scores will give us a a litmance test for the um the writing component as well as the
046the reading. So, um sorry to push a little harder this that's okay for both of you. So, to to say I think it might be this that that's great, but I want to know what is it? What what is the goal that we're shooting for for that success? Is it a you know I scores to move up a certain percentage? Is it movement in these particular areas of of I already like what is the specific ask or what what are we you know trying to measure to make sure it's successful of sure if you don't have it tonight that's perfectly fine I just I don't I don't have an act like I don't have a quantifiable number but the the end goal is to have majority plus of our students reading on grade level as
047indicated by I read data. Okay. Um, is that broken down by the the three or four years that we're planning to go over like to see progress? I I can certainly break it down like what we expect to see in year 1, year two, year three. Um, with any implementation, it's it's going to take a couple years to yield. Super understandable. Like, so I'm thinking of it, you know, going back to the math, right? We had this, you know, nice nice uh spread out graph what to expect per year, right? And so to make sure that things are on track as school committee over the four, five years, whatever it is, say, "Hey, we expect this year one, we expect this year two, we expect this year three." So when these committees change, Yeah. we
048can go back to the committee saying, "Hey, well, this is normal, you know, and so I I I think that's the piece that I'd like to see next in this." So, Sure. Thank you. Mhm. So, um I think I think what Mike's asking is is difficult to project because it's based on performance and we can't just say you're you're going to get to this certain level based on these materials and this instruction, right? I mean, it's it's we might have a hope, but it's and we might have a goal, but it's I think it's a little unfair of a question with no jurisdiction. Yeah. looking for specific numbers, but like movement, right? Like we should see movement in skills. We want to trending upwards. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I just going to suggest bringing down
049to even like where are we at right now? Right. So you're asking Mike where where do you expect to be? But right now we're we're below level. So therefore, that's why we need this. So when we present at town meeting, it's it's our our our numbers are low. our our average averages are low with the expectation is to raise the get above those average numbers and based on research right this is the best program. Mhm. So I think right because quantifying numbers at town meeting is going to be tough to do but we can tell them where we are right now and where we hope to which O2 which will is great but yeah and so to your point I'm not looking specific like I rated numbers more more like how are we measuring movement
050if that makes sense right yeah we should see skills change or get better or something some something that shows us that it's successful so so after four or five years we're not surprised oh shoot we waited four years and then poof it didn't work Right. So, something to see. Except for the problem that the student body changes. If we have the same um 4,000 students, great. We can measure it. But when we when we lose a thousand, we gain a thousand. It's it's I don't think you can quantify that. I don't I think you're asking too much directions. Brenda Brenda's got one next. I'm going to change directions as a TDB here. I agree with that you're saying Michael like I would love to see the baseline data and then what we would expect obviously
051an upward trend is what we'd expect um focusing on where this is being implemented it seems like this actually going to be really positive effect for the students who entered into our school system during the pandemic they're you know kindergarten you know first second grade whatever this is actually going to impact them the most and we know from data across the nation that those students are actually pretty far behind compared to their predecessor or the previous sets of students at those times. So I guess could you talk a bit more about that component in any aspect? I think that's something that could be beneficial for taming as well. Sure. I mean if we think of those students who are now like in third and fourth grade um they're at that pivotal stage of where they're
052switching from learning to read to reading to learn. Um and if we think about student experiences during the pandemic and um the challenges of you know hybrid and remote learning um kids didn't have real books in their hands. This this program uses authentic diverse really rich literature andformational text. Um so kids will be engaging with real books every day about everything. Um I was just looking at the the the content of the the modules. Everything from um cgraphy in kindergarten to you know um the decisions we make about money in grade three. So these are these are not just skills that are applicable to you know the ELA classroom. they're, you know, applicable to um high school classes and outside of school. So, that's awesome. I'm glad glad to hear that because I think that's
053something that I worry about are those students who came into our school system at a disadvantage, right? Just because of the circumstances that you're not being able to see the teacher speaking because of the masks that are on or their peers that um that their masks are on. So, I'm happy to hear that they're going to get physical books. Yeah. put these laptops away, the Chromebooks away a little bit and actually get to uh, you know, dive deep in. So, thank you for that. Absolutely. Yes, sir. So, we're at town meeting and and the the the question is going to be well, the question is going to be literacyy's been around forever. I learned in basic literacy, why do we need to invest $350,000 in a new literacy program? Right? There's someone that's going to
054get up there to ask that. They're going to say, "I've learned to read 50 years ago and I'm fine." Right? I learned. So, you're at town meeting. You hear that question. How would I guess how would you answer that so that way we hear it and we can help? Sure. Offset that that question. I I think we need to just affirm that if we think about um what students need to constantly be challenged. They need to be presented with grade level complex text that they have to grapple with. And remember, we're at town meeting. Right. So you've already lost them. Right. Right. Because you know you know the the lingo inside and out. Yeah. Right. So, and and and I'm challenging you on this, right? Because you can jump in, Chris. Yeah. Speak to the
055So, one of the things we're gonna teaching crowd, one of the things we're going to do is we're going to provide accessible talking points for the committee to be able to answer specific questions for town meeting. That's one of the things we're going to do after this meeting. Okay. That we talked about today. No, that's great. Yeah. So, I I was going to jump in on that, too. do plan on he doesn't know it yet but I have a note in my calendar to have a meeting with with Craig about prepping for this to just anticipate and be ready to have some sort of right supportive statements and some information but you know I I the the importance of being able to speak to why we need this instead of just saying give us money
056and and expecting it to go through. Um, I understand that, but I also understand John's points of it's really hard. Um, it's really hard to put a number and I know we heard it with math. They basically said, don't even ask me if this is successful in the first three years because I don't know. Right. Yeah. And I would imagine this is the same thing. Um, and you know, just to your point of of the person saying, you know, I learned 50 years ago, I'm working through math with my fourth grader now, and I have absolutely no idea how they're teaching how to do this, but it's working, right? So whatever way they're being taught now is effective. Maybe. Yeah. But I think this is I think this is a really good exercise and it's
057you know it's not giving anybody a hard time but this is a good exercise. We are going to get ask these questions you know and the big is well if it's not broke then why are we trying to fix it right? And that's going to be like ah okay um I know why we know why but to to explain that to town meeting I think we'll be um we need like a sentence. Yeah, we we'll have we'll have we'll have bulleted talking points for everybody on the school committee. I'm going to put an earpiece in to Kevin and Craig. Can I ask if I could if I could just say one thing? If we think about how to explain it and we look at the graphics of the literacy blocks where we see expeditionary learning
058currently there is nothing. And I think that the materials there's no material there's no materials teachers. That was the first takeway to Brendan's question when you said, you know, we're it's no it's no electronics, it's physical books, which is great. That will be a big sell right there. Well, there's no there's no district cultivated materials. Teachers have been taking it upon themselves, right, to get materials. And to um Carol's earlier point, kids in this classroom aren't learning the same thing that kids in that classroom are learning, that kids in that classroom are learning, the kids in that classroom are learning. And when they come to if they're in third grade, they go to fourth grade, they've had fi five different experiences. Yeah. And to that, right, when you explain that to us and use the
059buzzwords, the horizontal and vertical alignment, I understand what you're talking about. It's if we use that to tell me simply is we're providing high quality instructional materials to support reading growth and learning at the elementary level. I think there's more than that. As soon as you say high quality instructional materials, my first thought is, well, don't they get that already? Right. Right. So, it's like, oh, now we're going down this rabbit hole of like saying, well, actually, we don't provide high quality. Why not? Yeah. So, anyways, these are really good things to think about. Um, yeah, really make it simple. As I just want to spotlight what you said about the rich and and diverse text like for kids, I just know that it's very easy to be bored about a certain subject and topics
060and and but if you have there's something that's something for everybody. So someone's going to read something and it's really going to catch them. It's going to engage them and we're looking for engagement. So I to me the imagination, the creativity sparks by having such a rich and diverse uh uh book to open and read. So to me that's like to Brendan's point to having something physical having something that is shared throughout these these age groups I think is only going to help. All right. Any other points of this you guys would like to uh I said discuss. Yeah. I mean I I do if I um Yes. We have to pass this through town meeting. I don't want to convince them because we're trying to sell them a used car. This is what we
061believe in, right? I mean that's what I believe in. And I may have sound objectionatory. That's more than a word, but I'll talk to Mike. Um I don't think we'll get you with the expedition. It's not it's not uh black and white numbers driven. It's it's it's what it's achieving. And and I do support this and I think we support this. And it's it it's it's just not a sales pitch at town meeting. It's it's a belief and and I I believe in it and I'm I'm going to support and I think everybody else here will but we get caught up sometimes in the politics or whatever else you want to call it, but we either believe in it or we don't. Like Well, yeah, but we have to explain it. Yeah, we have to
062explain it. But but those aren't the words I was hearing here. I was hearing sell it this that the other thing. So yeah, I'm I'm not What I want to hear is buy in. Yeah. Not sell it. Buy in there. All right. So, uh, far more spirited than I expected. Exactly. So, yeah, and going back administration, so the talking points because obviously, you know, um, I'm not sure who's town meeting members in the room, but I think if not all of us are. So, yeah, we talked about it to be able to to have those talking points and so you have meeting or not, but you have the high level with the the slides. Yeah. Next, we were gonna we were going to listen to questions and we were just going to give you the
063five points and no, I think that be able to go. I'd be extremely appreciative. That's why absolutely just got to um so I know we kind of moved from measurements and then town meeting which is great. Um but but I still do think there's some value of looking out you know four or five years and how do what does success look like? It's is it a number? Is it something else? Is it, you know, something, you know, just so we know, you know, there Mike's saying is he wants those talking points. Not forgiven. I'm okay with five years. We're good. Yeah. Like, you know, but I'm sure that there's a vision, right? Otherwise, right? So, yeah. I mean, one metric we've used this year as the implementation of um Amplify at Stacy is just classroom
064walkthroughs and ensuring in every classroom students have grade level material that's giving them opportunities for high quality questions and tasks. And it's not it's not a a test. It's it's observational data that we've collected using a a normed tool. So that's great, too. To me, it's not about IRA. It's about whatever you guys think is right to make sure we have success at some point. Y All right. Any other comments or questions? Thank you very much. Feel free to reach out and uh I'm happy to answer. Good luck with your race. All right. Thank you. That'll be easy. Yeah. Compared to this. Yeah. He's running a marathon in what, a week? Yeah. Have fun. Thank you. All right. This might be the last. Changing gears. Uh on to the report of the school business administrator.
065Quick one. Um there's no specific discussion today and just personnel update for your review. All right. Thank you for that. And that brings us to a lengthy consent agenda that I fear the longer I make it, the worse it gets. Now, this should be easy. Um, we have I have a lot to read, but in short, we have a whole bunch of minutes. Um, have a quick quick thought. And then a warrant. Yes. Derek, do you know what inconsent is? It's a bunch of like simple stuff that should go easy in one vote. Okay. It's happened one time in 12 months. Yes. We used to vote we used to vote each one separately. So omnibus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So to be very fair, John wasn't at one of those meetings. Yeah. So we
066used to vote on each one separate. Now we have set things that are like routines. But if you want to pull something out, you can. They're basically ministerial. So you you can I'm not legal advice. You can vote on them. You can abstain. It's it's we're lumping this all together to get it done. I think Yeah. The point at the state level is that it's nothing contentious or I'm missing the right word here. Administrative. Basically, it's the boring administrative stuff that nobody wants to hear about. All right. So, with that said, we have um four uh sorry, five sets of minutes that are approval andor approval and release and then there's some that were approved way back that are just ready to be released. Um, a note on the executive session minutes, those were all
067cleared by town council as being okay to release as well. So, we got the thumbs up there. So, before I start, are there any comments on section B with those five sets of minutes? Any need to pull them. All right. All right. So, the consent agenda tonight is going to include the following. The approval of warrants. There are 14 in the amount of 1,288,67.85. There is the approval of minutes from April 3rd, 2025 budget meeting. April 3rd, 2025 regularly scheduled school committee meeting. The April 3rd, 2025 executive session, these are approval only. The April 8th, 2025 budget meeting. And the April 8th, 2025 executive session, those are also approval only. The following list is um mostly has been approved and they are all for release as well. January 18th, May 2nd, June 6th, September 5th,
068September 11th, and September 19th of 2024, October 24th of 2024 is marked as needing approval and release. Then we have November 7th, November 21st, December 5th, and December 19th of 2024. Then January 9th, February 11th, and February 27th of 2025. Motion to approve the consent agenda. Motion to approve. Motion by Brendan. Second by Michael. All in favor. Look at that. First one of the year. I wanted that motion, by the way. Thanks, Brendan. Sorry. Sorry. Thank you very much. That was excellent. Subcommittee updates. I heard there might be something from the facilities, guys. Well, facilities were real productive. So, there there was a facility subcommittee meeting today. Um, our newly appointed chair, Chris, and I were there. Matt was unavailable. Um, but I'm going to do the report and Chris is going to chime in
069if that's okay with you. Much, yes, somehow, but he's going to report. So, it's good. I'm I'm reporting, right? It's just an update. So, um, we had a number of discussions. I don't know. I wasn't even aware until recently, but there were some damages to the concession stand at the turf field at the high school. It was not winterized properly. Um, we just found out about this even though this clearly happened months ago. Um, my understanding is that there were water pipes that burst coming into the place because it wasn't they weren't drained, they weren't blown out, they weren't whatever else. We don't all we have is a somewhat anecdotal report and that toilets were burst and replaced. Um we don't again we don't have a report. I think we should as a is is
070the I'm going to use this phrase. I'm probably going to use it 10 times tonight as the custodians of all these facilities. This school committee all of us all seven of us and the administration is probably aware or some members of the administration. We don't know what went wrong. It's okay. Mistakes happen. somebody, you know, something something went wrong, but I don't we don't know why we weren't told. We don't know why we have limited information. Um, and now apparently there were repairs made. We don't have any plumbing permits within the town of Milford for the repairs. Um, so we're going we're actually requesting more information on that. Some sort of report from either the director of facilities or the superintendent. Um, that was one agenda item. Um, going back to the Stacy school heating,
071we had reports back in December of the heat was not adequate. It was too hot, too cold, um, and a bunch of other complaints without getting too deep into it. Individually, I requested from our maintenance supervisor, director, whatever his title is, to tell our committee what it will take to get the system operational to the extent that it was in 1995, give or take a year, when it was put in. Um, I haven't got that, but it was an individual individual request. Um, so there there's no requirement for that to be fulfilled, but our subcommittee is now making that request official. Can somebody please tell us what it's going to take to get Stacy heating system or HVAC system back to the original design operations? Um, subset from that I guess is that there was,
072and this is what I did not have time to get to today after our subcommittee meeting, there was town meeting money appropriated to to to the best of my knowledge to update the HVAC controls at Stacy Middle School. Um, we don't know what was done. We'd like a report. We'd like a report on what was spent and what is left. And this is high level, not not really granular or down into the weeds, but we don't know. And in and and the town as a whole does not know. Um, and I don't expect any answers tonight. We know we're not going to get any tonight, but going on more more questions. I made a request. I I I I asked a question three or four weeks ago about um I heard a report from several
073people in town, several employees that we have bathrooms that are not operational within the district here at Milford High School and possibly at other schools. Um just today I got an answer that I I don't have the information at hand. I didn't think it was that difficult to request, but we have bathrooms that aren't working. I didn't ask why they weren't working. Um, but they're they're not working. It was three weeks. We finally got one today. So, now that we know what's not working, the the the subcommittee will see what the district needs for us to support them to get these bathrooms back functional. And this isn't a toilet or a sink. The request was which bathrooms are not working because we had these complaints. At least I did. I guess separately from that, there's
074been some reports or some reports back that there's been a lot of vandalism within these bathrooms. I think separate from them not being in service, but there's the ones that are in service have had vandalism. So, um, we would like to request that Principal Otland, at least at the high school, come in and speak to us about it. Like, what are the problems? What are the challenges? Um, I mean, we know they're being vandalized, but how do we how do we solve that from a facility standpoint or maybe maybe beyond? Um, that was number three. Number four, um, the Stacy elevator, right? Um, Chris in the past has already requested an inspection report. I don't think he's received it. He'll he's right here. He'll tell me yes or no, but I, as of earlier today,
075he hadn't. We want um a inspection report delivered to this full committee or our subcommittee, right? And we also at this point because we're suspect on what's happened, we would like um a a uh a copy of all the records or inspections for the last three years on this elevator. Um which the state does the inspections. is we believe the district has these reports. We want a copy and if we can't get a copy from our own district, we'll reach out to the the state and the elevator inspectors um to get that those copies from them because what we have so many things going wrong, we're trying to figure out why they went wrong and how to stop them from going wrong in the future and how to fix them today. Um, similarly, we would
076like a copy of the the facility subcommittee would like a copy of all the invoices that have been paid towards repair of the Stacy elevator. And Chris, tell me, is is it just Stacy or was it all the elevators? It was start on on Stacy, right? So, yeah. So, there's there's a lot here because I'm not even done. This is this is high level, I guess. I hope. Um then we get into the we got into the topic of the cleaning contract, right? Um as some of us know or all of us know, we have a vendor that does the that subcontracts the cleaning at some of the schools. It's um the vendor's name I think is Clean Co. They're on the state building list. Uh state I'm sorry, the um state bid list. This
077came up over the last three or four weeks and over the last three or four years in in in other avenues. But the question right now that we came out with today is do we have a signed contract with a cleaning contractor? And when was it signed? And if it hasn't been signed, our request is to hold off on signing a contract to review it. Because while it's legal uh in my mind and in talking with our finance director um and other people um sure we can sign a cleaning contract with somebody on the state bid list. We should have a clear scope of work. We haven't in the past and for whatever reason that is it's it is what it is, right? I hate that but it is what it is. But if we
078haven't signed it as of today, because when I made the request 3 weeks ago, I got an unsigned copy. I made a request for a signed copy. I didn't get one, so I assume it hasn't been signed today. Um, and that's okay. Nobody's doing anything wrong. But if we haven't signed one, we have two different vendors that have reached out to me that have Milford businesses and and reach out to other people, Milford businesses, um Milford residents working there that would like a chance to bid and we don't have to. The administration can certainly decide, nope, we're signing with this contract. Period. If they do that, they should have a scope of work, which I don't think is is very well defined. But if they haven't, I'd like to give these other residents, taxpayers, whatever
079else you want to call them, constituents, a chance to give us a bid and maybe get better services for for fewer dollars. Um, I told you this wasn't going to be short. I'm sorry. I don't think I'm going to talk this long. Um, number six, we had a question about we we're renting a space from Emerald Irrigation, which is again a Milford Milford business, but we really don't didn't have any substantiation on why we're renting it and what we're putting in there. And there was a there was a meeting there last Thursday or Friday that I was not able to attend that I intended to attend intended to attend. That's a mouthful. But what we would like for for the again for the full committee is an itemized list of equipment that we're storing there
080because it wasn't very clear and it's not a big dollar amount that we're spending on that but we'd like to know what we're putting there. Um we don't you know this may be a practice that carried over from many years ago. That's okay. But is it the best practice? We'll we'll talk about that at some future point and maybe it's not even our purview. But there were pictures of some equipment there. We just want a um complete list of what Milford, the town of Milford and Milford Public Schools owns that's being stored there. We already have the amount, the dollar amount, which is not a deal breaker, but this is a you know, as we all know, it's been mentioned many times, it's a terribly tight budget year um both last year and this year.
081Um, so we had some photos that show, you know, an air compressor, a toe behind air compressor, chairs, a floor jack, snow plows. Um, what is what is ours in that? What isn't ours in that? Could we look to better operations or different operations to maybe put it in a storage container someplace? Um and through that conversation came the questions of we have a shed at Woodland. We would like a list of the items that are stored in that woodland shed. And similarly with the Brookside container and the high school containers, what what do we have in there and why? And we're not saying we shouldn't have them. We just we just want more information. Um, and then as I guess this falls under the subcommittee update as a future agenda items, we want to
082have a report on as a facility subcommittee the condition of the Milford High School practice field conditions and the state of the irrigation functionality operations, whatever you want to call it. Does it work? Doesn't work. And if it doesn't, what's it need to be fixed? Or do we not even know what it needs to be fixed? Um, what we didn't get to today, it was it was here, it was talked about, but we didn't we didn't quantify it or or accumulate it, is the Milford High School roof assessment, which we kind of talked about pre previously or earlier tonight. So, I'll leave that alone for now because I think everybody knows what they're looking for or or what the next steps might be or should be. Um, and then something that's been asked for for
083a period of time, which is a district maintenance plan. We don't have one. We've asked I know there's one submitted to the the what do you call us, Chris? MSBA. And when I personally reviewed that, that was a perfectly well-written document for the MSBA. It's not a what I would call a maintenance plan. It was fluff to be honest. It was it was not a maintenance plan in my opinion individually. Um, leaving that alone, we needed a maintenance plan that's submitted to this committee or to the subcommittee for not even approval because we really can't do that, but for for our own insight. And if that's the one that's going to be submitted to us, it's it's just falling short. Um, and continuing, maybe it's the last, um, we have the Brookside edition which has
084final tasks that have been hanging and hanging and hanging and we've asked and asked and asked and nothing's been finalized is most all of us are well aware of. So that's my update. Um, thank you. Three things. one, um, I shared the future agenda items tracker that I put together last year on how we just keep track of what we want to talk about with everybody. Um, you have access to edit it, correct? Yeah, you have access to edit it in terms of the policy side. Um, so rather than me write down all of that, yeah, I'm put that in there please. Um the other two points um you mentioned vandalism concerns and you want to hear from Dr. Allen. He was supposed to be here tonight and the topic of campus aids is the
085official title. Um all the justification around campus aids that he has provided the last two years had to do with vandalism. So he will be speaking on that and that's next meeting. So we'll hear about that one. Okay. Brookside punch. There's one more thing that you called me on recently. Um the Brookside uh piece. The only thing I just wanted to show with the Brookside punch list piece, the final pieces are cracks in the floor, an outlet and a access on the far end of the addition. Correct. That's happening next week. That was scheduled. The school is not in session. That was scheduled already, right? So that we should get an update, I hope, to your point that this is finally done at the end of next week. And and with all due respect, man,
086you shouldn't be giving this. Somebody else should. Dr. McIntyre, Dr. Sigley, uh, Carlos Pñena, like the this is the closure we need. It's we don't get it. We don't get the documentation. We don't get the substantiation, justification, whatever else you want to say. Sure. All right. Do I ask if there's more for Pacific? No, I I want to just thank John for going through. He compiled the list today and and offered to uh to read it out. So obviously it's there's a lot a lot that we discussed. I think there's still a lot to to kind of hone in on and get answers and you know just again we're just looking to looking for the betterment of the entire school system overall. You know just we we know that some of our infrastructure is aging
087and just how can we assist with asking the right questions in order to to budget appropriately with this. So, but these are some of the some, you know, some of the areas that we see that we just need to really dive deeper into and uh get these answers be able to explain it to the rest of you so that way again we can we can help uh just facilitate um any sort of actions that that are required. I I think what I want to ask is does anybody in the administration want me to put this in writing in an email if in case this was all lost because I was rambling on um on what this subcommittee's request is because we don't want to come back in a month and say we don't have anything
088like I mean yeah John if I think if you can put I missed the first couple because I was using the restroom that's okay um but I think I've got most of them but if you send an email just to kind of as specific as possible it's pretty some of the I I I think Chris and I would agree this is all like 30-day answers because there's no deep diving into these questions, is there? I mean, there might be further diving, but we need an initial response on all the questions that we raised and and wanted to bring formally to this committee. Um, so I I'll put I'll gladly put it all in writing because it can't just get, oh, now it's September, it's gone. Thank you. Did you have something? I did. I I
089have the final update on the IT committee. Actually, I forgot to mentioned I met with Tim um yesterday. I'm sorry, that's resolved. Yeah. Um so we uh um I met with Tim about the office licenses. Um and so he's resolved that. So they've reduced license they're going to reduce license from like 550 down to less than 150. Awesome. Um and um and if we go over 150 uh those teachers are are going to get the free version which is a a web- based version. So we're making a big change on there. So that frees up like I think it was like 15 to 18 grand. So awesome. Awesome. So that's it. and labor and management met as well um this week and there wasn't there wasn't a significant number of issues but I've definitely shared
090them with the appropriate folks and I think you know some of them are pretty easy fixes some of them you know are more philosophical things and we kind of spend some time cool future agenda items facilities will take care of tack of their compared to list um Chris will Chris will Chris will yeah I nobody it'll take a long time would dial up for that to work. So, we're not going to get there. Um, anything else that anybody wants to address at this time? I see nothing that works for me. All right. So, that brings us to adjournment. Uh, we will be proceeding with ending our open portion of the meeting. We do have we do have two executive sessions scheduled for tonight. Uh, one is to discuss administrative and individual contracts and the other
091is for superintendent contract negotiations. We will not be returning to open session. Need a roll call for this? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm also a yes. Thank you very much. Good night.