001have a sudden beyond. We're recording. I don't know that we are. >> Okay, we're recording. All right. >> So, we are now recording. Um, just for the record, uh, we did start the meeting a little bit late at 5:40 p.m. We are having a number of technical issues. We went through regular business. The meeting minutes of February 5th were approved. The meeting minutes of February 12th were approved and the bills and payroll also approved. Um, motions will be reported in the official minutes. And so our next order of business is our update from our student representatives. >> At the elementary school, the school has had an exciting celebratory few weeks. They recently held their growth awards ceremony, recognizing students across grade levels who demonstrated measurable academic growth from the beginning of the year star test
002to the middle of your year star test. It was wonderful to celebrate not only achievement but perseverance, effort, and progress. In addition, they are hosting an academic achievement breakfast to honor the top five achieving students in each grade level. Their families will be being helping to recognize their students hard work and dedication to their learning goals. For the middle of your star data, the the students at TEES showed consistent growth across all grade levels in both reading and math. Multiple grades saw double digit gains in proficiency and strong majority of students are meeting or exceeding growth expectations. In the spirit of serving the community, TEES and their student council also organized a blanket drive to support any ADS collecting donations to help provide comfort and care through their service dog programs and they collected almost
003100 blankets. At the middle school, they've been the seventh grade enjoyed a game a volleyball game against the staff and I was just informed that Dr. Kazaman's team and central office team did win unfortunately and the star recruitment raffle was held at the same time. Grade 5 attended a no and Juliet movie prior to Valentine's Day and break and grade seven enjoyed an ice cream Sunday party to celebrate having the highest attendance rate for quarter 2. At the high school term three is halfway over tomorrow which means progress reports will be shown. There's an upcoming health fair for grades 9 to 12 next Tuesday in the gym. This will focus on ways to improve physical and mental health and exper during a different block. Next week is international week. International will be putting on a
004week dedicated to five different countries around the world. And on March 20th, bicycle stuntman Chris Polus will be speaking to the middle and high school about core values anti-bullying and bicycle safety. Thank you. Any questions this evening? We always appreciate your report. Thank you very much. >> All right. Uh there is no one from the public present this evening and MDA is um taking care of other matters. Um FY26 budget update. >> Um there will be any updates. I just want to remind on one of our next upcoming agendas and meetings, we need to talk about END and moving to some money to cover part of that health insurance bill. Yes. >> For mass strategic. >> Okay. >> Um we can make sure that gets on to the next agenda. So >> Okay, >> perfect.
005Thank you. Um FY27. Um, so just for transparency, we had planned to have some conversation tonight around FY27 budget and what that might what different scenarios would look like and what as a school committee we could um what what would align with our goals and objectives for the school, what would not um in terms of shifts to how budget plans work. However, there's some ongoing discussions with the towns um where Dr. Cassand and I caught up earlier today and thought that rather than introducing swirl and information that could change literally in the next few days that it would be better to postpone that discussion to the preliminary budget hearing next week. Um so, um please tolerate with us. We do have a chair's meeting on meth, we expect to get more clarity so that we
006are fully prepared for the preliminary budget hearing next Thursday. Um, also just as an update for my fellow school committee members, I unfortunately cannot be present for that preliminary budget hearing. Um, there is a large meeting in my new position that um, requires me to travel and so I will be in New York. I did make every effort to try to say that was not a night I could do, but when they're scheduling something with 20 people, my schedule did not rise to the top of the considerations. So, um Danielle will be leading that meeting. Um so, apologies for my absence. Um I wanted to be here, but um other things have to take priority. Business manager report. Other thing that I want to point out is if you look at the grains, I know
007you haven't looked at them prior because I literally only just got them voted at 5:15. Um, the state department of ed is changing systems on how they have like their financials. So, we have not been able to request any payments for like 3 weeks. It's supposed to be up and running by March 1st. So, that's why you see their balances are all in the red. >> Okay. Okay. Um, middle of benchmark assessment data. We can share. >> Do you want to sit? I thought they were. Well, I'm really excited to share um our middle of the year benchmark data with you because it's great. I'll just start there. It's great. Um excuse me. We use two benchmark assessment systems. I know I review this often, but I just want to make sure everyone's aware. Um
008in our K3 classrooms, we use an early literacy screener um called Dibbles. Um and then we for grades K to 12 for reading and math we use Renaissance star. Um Dibbles assesses a series of early literacy skills um including phmic awareness. So students abilities to understand sounds and how sounds combine to form eventually how sounds combine to form words, sentences and so forth. Um phonics and the connection between sounds and letters. Um, and then reading fluency, being able to put those sounds together to fluently read words and phrases and sentences and eventually connected text. So, this assessment, um, like I said, is given to all students in grades K to three. Um, what you're looking at here is a breakdown of each grade from the beginning of the year and then, um, on the right
009hand side, the middle of the year. Um the scores are broken into four achievement categories and essentially the numbers or the percents that you see in green and blue indicate students that have met or exceeded the benchmark. Um the yellow are students who need a little bit of intervention or support to get towards reaching the benchmark. And the red is considered um coded urgent intervention. It's essentially students who are going to need some additional supports to um hit the benchmark. So looking at the all of these grades, these four grades, um we went from at the beginning of the year across the school, 44% of students were meeting um the benchmark in these early literacy screening assessments and in the middle of the year we're at 51%. So we've had a 7% increase. In addition
010to that 7% increase of students meeting or exceeding, we also saw those red bars shrink. So at the beginning of the year we had 34% of students across all of those grades that were considered in that fourth or lowest tier. We now have 26%. So while we had a 7% increase in students getting seating, we've also brought the bottom up and we saw an 8% decrease in the percent of students in that category. So that's pretty significant growth. Um and our additional assessments show the same pattern for tees. So this is one tool. And then we also assess students um with Renaissance Star, which is a screening tool to assess, as you can see on the screen, a variety of different subcategories for reading um and for math. Um and then students who are in
011kindergarten, first grade additionally get tested on some additional um early literacy skills on this assessment as well. Um, so what's nice is when we look at the data for this, what you're going to see are similar patterns across both assessments, which really helps us to start to triangulate our data points um, and show what we're doing is really working. So when we look at our STAR reading assessments, we're going to look at two sets of data. One, we're going to look at our achievement level data. So how are students doing in relation to the benchmark? And then we're also going to be looking at growth data and how students are growing in relation to their growth goals. Um and so big picture getting up on the balcony to start um across the whole district all
012grades for reading we had 71.4% of our students meet or exceed the benchmark in the middle of the year. Um and we had just under 70% of them meet their growth rate. So this is this is really great data for us when we look historically. when you think of what does that look like now when I drill down and look at grade levels what you're looking at right now um the light green or the first column for each grade is the the percent of students that were meeting exceeding benchmark at the beginning of the year and the darker green or the second column for each grade the percent of students that are meeting exceeding benchmark right now at the middle of the year. So, first and foremost, as we look at our um elementary grades,
013K to 4, what you're going to see is that every grade level has shown growth from the percent of students meeting or exceeding. Um we've had a little bit of variation in our middle school um but not not significant declines in the grades that didn't show decline. And what's interesting is even if you see a decline, it doesn't necessarily mean the students score went down. But what it means is that the scooped student, while they might have been benchmarked at the beginning of the year, they may have still grown, but their growth was not at a rate to stay at the new benchmark at the middle of the year. Um, and then a pattern, interesting pattern that we haven't seen uh much of before at our high school is in our senior class, which we
014see a pattern with our seniors making growth um both in reading and math. So, that is pretty exciting for us to see. When we look at how that compares numberwise, um I show you this. You heard our our student rep say that TEES made significant growth with many double digits. What they meant by is that in um almost every grade for reading, we had more than 10% increase in the percent of students meeting or exceeding which is which is I would say really significant for us. Um and we had some great growth, you know, in other areas as well. When we look at our math data, um we are in a similar trend, but we we've always seen our our literacy data and our math data slightly um slightly different. We've been putting a lot
015of energy into literacy as a district. Um and so we're really excited to both see some high scores. We had a quite a few cohorts above 75% of students meeting exceeding, which is great. Um and then when we look at our math data, we have a slightly less uh slightly lower proficiency rate, but still pushing close to 70%. Um and similar with our growth percentile as well. Um when we look across grades again we see a very similar trend. Um every grade at tees has has grown in the percent of students meeting or exceeding. Um one thing I definitely want to point out here for our middle school is our sixth grade cohort. So while you see this was our lowest cohort and remains our lowest cohort, they have made a lot of gains. Um
016and so we are really excited to see the growth in that cohort right now. um because they've been working hard as well. And you can see in our high school um we've seen again our our 12th grade cohort which is really uh unusual for us to see for data patterns and we're really excited to see that as well. Um so looking again at those growth rates um you anything in green you can see growth in that cohort. Um and we've had three cohorts who have had double digit growth um in that sense as well. So I share that to say you know we are really excited. Um some of the things that we're doing um the a lot of our schools are holding recognition and celebrations and so this is an example. These are our
017first grade kiddos at TEES um who have earned a growth award. Um as you heard our student rep mention there's a breakfast for high achieving students that'll be held like tomorrow morning. Um our middle school has also done the star students and recognize students who have made significant growth and our high school recognizes students who have made growth as well. Um so we've been our administrative team, our teacher leaders have been digging in to um really unpack data more specifically at the strand and standard level. One of the things we're going to be doing as a full system in the next week or so is really now taking a look that this is our data for all students. We're now going to start pulling our subgroup data for students with disabilities because that's a big
018focus for us this year as I know you've seen in our district strategic plan and our S SOA plan and every other plan that's come your way. Um so we've been we've been setting up systems to be able to disagregate our data by that um particular subgroup so that we can track our progress towards our goals um for inclusive practices and supporting all students with a specific light shown on that population because our data shows they've been underserved um in the past. Um so that's where we sit. Um we're we're really celebrating this data right now internally because we we really um are proud of it and I hope that you see the the growth that we've um we've been celebrating and sharing our excitement with the data. Of course we have some cohorts where
019we're digging in a little bit and looking at resources but for the most part we're really happy with this. >> Just just so I because I think I heard it I think I understood it correctly. I just want to make sure I'm clear. um the benchmark moves as well. So it's not just it's not like you know we test on A, we test on A again and see if we've improved. The benchmark actually moves. So we're testing on A and then we're testing on B. >> Correct. Yep. Yeah. So it uses a scale um uses a scale score and they are nationally normed um reference tests. So um the norms are reset nationally. They were actually reormed back in 20 I believe it's 2024. we had a new set of norms um that it impacted
020the literacy normed data more than the math norm data. So we don't go back and we don't we kind of drew a line and we can look at our data prior to that and we look at our data moving forward from that time. Um but yes the benchmark for every grade and subject that scale score benchmark number means depending on the grade level and the point of the year. >> Thank you. >> Y thank you. Yeah, it's coming. >> Hold it back for my hesitation. >> Thank you very much. It is always great to check in and especially to see the progress and you know please absolutely pass our recognition on to the teachers and the staff and the parents that are all involved in helping to you know move move this needle because I
021mean we have seen such great progress over the last few years. I mean there was a point at which we were talking about how tees was you know is the state even going to step in blah blah blah you know and I recognize that was just after co right but still I think just year after year we just continue to see these strong positive movements in the right direction I know the principles just spoke um last last meeting or so about their plans um but one of the things we're starting to do at tees right now is We had a multi-year plan to focus on um reading instruction and now writing instruction and we are starting to transition now from writing instruction to math and focusing refocusing some tier one practices in math instruction. So,
022our goal is that you'll see that sh we're seeing that shift strongly in literacy and we're seeing some great growth in math, but our goal is that we'll start to see that. And then the middle school, as um Miss Landry presented, is really u focusing on individual student goal setting um and inclusive practices across the board. middle school. Um, and our high school has been focusing on assessment, but they've taken a shift a little bit to focus really looking at our core curriculum maps because we we have an absence of those in a lot of places. Um, and so our high school uh leadership team has really been doing a nice job leading that work and getting our teacher leaders some additional time to really um unpack standards and frameworks and focus on their instructional
023calendars and their maps, which we have known has been a need. But our NES um review has shined a really bright light there as well. So we've been um building carving out time so people have more time to focus on that. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. It doesn't look like we have any quest items evening. So Dr. C, I will pass you on to you for your superintendent reporting. >> Thank you for getting that out. be free to calm the storm on there. Um, thank you, M. So, yeah, we we went through February vacation, which was awesome, and then we came back to 20 plus inches of snow. Um, that should come as no surprise, but it's it uh there's a lot of snow out there and we're having difficulties finding places
024to put it. um a a a complete I I cannot stress to you how thankful we are for Keith Parker and his people. There's only three or four of them depending on moving snow and and there was a lot of snow. So, we really want to thank them. They have really kept up with it and it's been it's very very long. because of the snow. I I want to go into because I'm sure some elementary parents have heard and we've I'm sure they it's think it definitely demands at least a brief conversation. There was quite a smell um emanating somewhere from somewhere but in elementary and it was it was bad. Um, so we initially thought it was propane and so we of course called the fire department who came in and said there is
025no there's no gas. So Amry and I went down about 4:00 on Tuesday to really try to help Marcy figure out it was so bad that we couldn't hold gym class. The smell was so bad. So it and again I don't want to go into what it smelled much but it's bad. So we we were just functioned. And so what happens lots of times are dry drains, you know, um and when that happens or sewer gases come off and we thought we had found the place we thought we found the bathroom that was, you know, a problem area and it wasn't. So we called out the gas company to double check for a gas leak with the tank because it just had this it could have been a couple of different things in terms of
026stuff. They came out and shout out to those those folks. They came out, they dug out the giant tank, did a test on it. There was no leak. So, but we were confident that it we had fixed it. We found it because the smells seemed to dissipate while we were there. The next morning, I went in about 6:00 in the morning um just to kind of see what the smell was about. Custodians, of course, were already on duty and I could smell it. It wasn't horrible, but it was, you could tell as the day went on, he got even worse. So, Keith and company, including Marcy, um on the roof trying to find maybe that there was some type of blockage, you know, in terms of the the vents. There were there were some vents
027um in a very long It's really It's a long story. It's already been too long. But ultimately what it was, it was the grease trap >> then. >> But the interesting piece to this is that >> the restaurant owner. >> The vents themselves are not on the plants. The grease trap is not. So they found there was basically two things. There was a vent on the roof, two vents that were blocked. So we took care of that. but also went round it actually it's a ground event uh for the grease traps. Long story short is that that was empty. So they've taken care of um a couple concerning things obviously just to be candid plans weren't correct. Some of them were smart. Um the grease track was kind of not surprised but like really we
028didn't quite know where that was to the south. But thanks to everybody they really did. So um the oils king were very they're very he would not leave here until he found he found them and he would not leave cuz it became really kind of a thing. So, I just want to thank everybody involved as the the gas company was going through what you can imagine uh the day after a big storm. They came out. They were fantastic. Of course, Keith fire department fantastic. They checked the entire building. Um Royal Steam really put their, you know, they he wouldn't leave figured out. So, I just want to make sure I told everybody. I'm sure kids at home said it can't be in the J cuz it smells like something. So, one more short. Um, so
029we know what it was. We do. We do. Um, it wasn't anything, you know, dangerous, of course, and we we double checked that. So, I just want to thank everybody cuz it really was neat to see all these folks not give up on it because it was it was it was really disrup disruptive in terms of the um uh the smell. The other thing is we are seeing some leaks. Um, we've had some ice stamps, not even in this building yet, but yes, we might implement two, but actually in the the new school, uh, GDS, so we're we're working our way through that. Again, a lot of snow, flat roofs, when those drains, they get clogged. Um, flat roofs are a problem to keep those drains open constantly. And so that was that's what we're
030working towards. Um, so thank you to everybody. the I I don't know that this requires a vote, but I want to talk about it so we could we could count it for whenever not knowing literally anything about the budgets or how many students that we may or may not um add to the to the district when the departments come online. Um, one of the things that we talked about with the administrative team is opening the school choice list weight lists. Okay? So, and I'll I'll explain why. We may not we don't know anything about the budget, right? that might just take care of itself, so to speak. But we will not know what we won't know what we need because remember we have to think about bringing in some school choice agent. We have to
031think this way just given that differential but we'll but we'll never know. We never know to when it's too late, right? Because by the time we finish our budget, by the time we know where there's some areas, we go, "Oh, maybe it's the third grade or should we even say rates?" Whatever it doesn't matter. >> We have received we continue to receive Susan how many calls a week I I don't know. >> Can I ask a clarify question? Are you talking about students who want to come in right now or for >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted I just for next year where's workflow for this year >> and then because it just as a point of clarification I think every year what we vote on is the number of spaces we're opening up
032for. >> We don't vote on letting you start to collect names. So, if you're saying that you're are receiving phone calls and you'd like to know if you can collect names and of of people who are interested and they can start to add themselves to a list, then that is not something we vote on. You can go ahead and do that. We do at some point we will have to have a vote on exactly how many seats we're opening. Um, so as long as folks know that like we can take your name down and add you to a wait list for next year, but that does not guarantee that we're even opening up for school choice for next year, then then that's fine. So I just wanted to thank you. I was like I think
033this is an easy answer. >> The only reason why is reflect we're creating a list without even voting. If you're even going to take uh take in school choice students at all next year, that's transparent about the fact that this does not guarantee that we are opening any school choice spaces for next year. If it if it just logistically makes things easier so you're not telling people, well, you'll have to call back on this date. It says fine, but we don't know that date or that time. >> And they're calling back to check in like 3 weeks later. Yeah. to focus on other things. I mean the speak up I don't think we need to vote but if anyone objects to that let me know but >> I don't but then the other side of
034that is I think it'll be really interesting when we do go to make that number of seats but you'd also be able to say >> either way here's the level of interest and that may help prioritize and strategize >> and honestly it will cut down the and I know that this sounds trivial but it really is not by the number of phone calls we receive on that it really does occupy >> no and I mean you know you you you're a lean staffed >> office, so anything we can do to make things a little bit easier. >> 10 less calls would be great, for example. Be awesome. >> Um I I think she might, you know, our basketball team, you're in full swing in the playoffs. The uh Lady Warriors um are in Carver, Mass.
035And the boys will travel down to Manchester by the Sea. They won their playoff game last night which was a unbelievable game. Um so congrats to them and you know we'll we'll just keep going uh see how we do the um you see we talked about this before but I've but I want to make sure that I uh just be very transparent given the topic. So Winston public schools and I and never the answer but usually it's me have have conversations about like you know how about the play next year um we'd like to talk about um all kinds of things right how about a chorus how about this and that. So the fact is that the two superintendents board knows you don't want two superintendents talking to each other um at any point in
036time but we do have those conversations and what I do know is that those conversations generally start with parents um that you know then take on it takes on a you know a life of its own. We are in conversations about very small low like low energy type of collaborations just in general which we do by the way with a lot of districts that surround us. A lot of things just doesn't it just doesn't hold water cuz it just doesn't make sense. Maybe there's transportation issues those type of things. But I I wanted to just in public session say, "Yep, we have we've had very, you know, quick, you know, conversations about what was what would work maybe next year." We did send some folks up to a play to their play. We were, you
037know, I forgot two or three. I don't remember exactly how many, you know, we want we did that next year. That kind of situation. So those are the conversations that are actually taking place. want everyone to know that own decisions have been made. Of course, we'll, you know, we'll certainly message out and talk to those, but it just makes sense to say that for the folks who are watching tonight that if you do hear it automatically goes to regionalization. I'm going to say the word always talk about visualization doesn't come from us. And so, I want to make sure that because that also then somehow gets tagged added on to these these conversations. I'm trying to remember. I believe that if it's an extracurricular activity that that is that under school committee per it'll be
038an egg because of his years of experience here. But I don't I can't I don't believe extracurriculars are under the purview of school committee when it comes to relationships with other districts >> and that that's really so re versus regionalization. So I'm trying to make >> they're not the same. That's what we're trying to say to people. So a regionalization conversation involves budgets, monies, um you know, >> right? >> Extracurriculars are run differently and are not under school committee. So >> okay, >> thank you for nodding at me, Hank, to verify this. >> Again, we have a lot of those conversations um don't come to fruition for a whole host of reasons. logistics logistics become complicated but I'm just saying this public session that no one's talking about recent section at all these are just
039extra curriculars good >> cuz one thing I text you to mention >> well let me check my text please pardon me your glasses >> thank you yes cuz I had it written down and I forgot to place Oh man, he was a color. >> Yeah, >> one for one for D. >> But then he was appointed this afternoon Massachusetts. >> Oh, I did know that part. That's the one thing I did not have. Okay. So, Ty Sling um the uh our our skier um who is in I think it's with Lunberg they co-op with >> co-op. >> Yeah. >> And as you I knew the fifth and sixth place in terms of the small competitor >> competitor Hardy and this is a big deal. He was then into the uh the high school or the
040Massachusetts team. He got out to the best team. >> He was appointed to the Massachusetts. >> That's amazing. That's a >> that's a big deal. That's that's a step above the all show. Bless you, >> Lord. Um >> surprised me too. I'm so >> want to congratulate K for that. Um, and uh, that's a that's a that's that's a really big thing. And again, I didn't know about Tina Massachusetts, so fantastic to have. So, >> it's amazing. That's absolutely amazing. Thank you for reminding us of that shout out or reminding Dr. C of that shout out. >> Oh, I had the fifth and six. I did not know about that. >> No, that just came in this. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> So, it was part of >> So, that's with that new That's all
041I have. >> Unless Susan has something to texture. >> We don't have any other items. Not in reasonably anticipated. Um, we do have um I placed this under school committee comments. Um, I wasn't sure where to put it, but um, I did want to let folks know that Peter Stanley did resign from school committee effective immediately as of February 11th. Um, he very much enjoyed his time on committee, but um, as most folks here know, he is an actively enrolled college student full. he needed to focus on those studies and just found that getting back up here to Templeton to be here for meetings um was not uh in alignment with his schedule. So um he hopes to come back someday but um not right now is not the right time. Um so Susan did
042post for that the other day. So if you saw that that's we were a little out of schedule in the communicate my communication and I this is my flaw in communication. I will absolutely take ownership of that. Um, but that was posted. I know that we had one interested phone call, but I don't see that person here this evening. So, um, fingers crossed they come back and this they just happened to vote for that. >> Any other school committee comments? >> I prepared a letter for you. No, this was this was actually tough and Jen had a heads up. Um, deep breath. Dear members of the New York Regional School Committee and members of our community, I want to take a few moments to share something that has been both difficult and deeply reflective for
043me. After much consideration, I've decided that I will not be seeking re-election against regional school committee. Serving on this committee for the past four years has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. It has allowed me to grow as a community member, as an advocate for public education, as a and as an educational leader. Sitting at this table gave me a perspective that many educators and administrators never have an opportunity to experience. I gained a deeper understanding of governance, fiscal stewardship, community responsibility, and the profound impact global decisions have on students academic and social emotional development. And this decision was not made lightly. In my current professional role in another school district, I've taken on responsibilities that require significant time beyond traditional working hours, including attending multiple full school committee meetings as
044well as subcommittee meetings from the administrative side of the table. Those meetings are in addition to the full and subcommittee meetings that I attend here for New York. And now those commitments have expanded, I have come to recognize that I cannot continue to serve this district at the level of preparation and focus and full presence that our students, staff, and community deserve. I believe strongly that school committee service requires full engagement. The work is complex and consequential is quite literally the part is quite literally part of the fabric of the community. Our students deserve committee members who can give this role the time, thoughtfulness, and energy it requires. What makes this decision especially hard is the people. I have had the privilege of serving alongside colleagues who are thoughtful, dedicated, and unwavering in their commitment
045to public education. I have built relationships with staff and families who are not not only partners in this work, but also fellow parents and trusted friends, and I am deeply grateful for that. I also want to say this clearly, if you've ever considered running for school committee, I encourage you to do so. The word matters. Your voice matters. And you will be supported. This committee has been exceptional in welcoming, mentoring, and supporting new members. You will not walk alone. You will not walk into this role alone. You will be guided by people who care deeply about students and about doing the work well. While I will not continue in this elected role, my commitment to public education and to the students and families of this community remains strong. I will continue to advocate for strong
046schools, equitable opportunities, and environments where every student is known, valued, and supported. It's been an honor to serve on this committee, and thank you for the trust that you placed in me. >> Thank you. I'm going to miss you, but we do have you. So, I'm going to focus on the positive right now. >> Just when I can, I might just come with my dad of popcorn. >> Feel free to be present for the public input. We look forward to seeing you on the other side of the table. >> We miss all of you. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Well, thank you both to Peter and to Danielle for their their service. This is I think a lot of folks come in not knowing what the work is and I hope leave with
047a deeper appreciation for the work. um even if it's not something that they choose to continue over a short period of time or over a longer period of time. And so, um, yes, these, you know, this, you know, especially folks from Philip, nudge nudge, folk poke, um, we'd love to have you here at the table, uh, because we want to make sure both of our towns are represented and we we truly deeply appreciate the service of everyone who sits here at the table with us. On that note, any other comments, no more resignations? just UFCW negotiations. >> Well, I was going to mention that under the subcommittee, they never got back to me. I just want to I I'll run into it. Um finance and facilities, we did um cancel that meeting this month because
048we had just had the multi-board meeting which contains all of the finance and facilities members. Um so it would have been very duplicative to the content we had just covered. Um so our next one will be in March district operations. We have a meeting coming up meeting coming up next week. Okay. Um labor management committee. Um so the UFCW did reach out to uh start negotiations. We're just working on finalizing a date and time. Um we have a tentative date thrown out as for March 4th. Um but the time proposed did not work for school committee members. Uh so we are just waiting to hear back on that. >> I mad chair I I did receive an email back but he simply said I told him March 4th was good. The date works but the
049time did not and we could not till 5:30. He said understood. So I'm I will >> I don't know what that means. So I'm going to say so you know I I will clarify but I personally he understands that it has to be 5:30. They did talk to two of the union stewards who are like >> we told you know that we knew that that would not be able to be earlier than that just because they know in general the schedule. So >> no we appreciate that. So looking forward to having that broken up but um Hank and Daniel I know you both sit on that committee with me. So if we could if you could pencil that among your calendars I would appreciate it. Um but looking forward to getting that started because that's
050important work uh to get done this year. Um CPAC, >> No updates. PTO, >> no updates. >> Okay. Um we do not currently have someone for student advisory council. Um I'm not going to put anyone on the spot this week. Um and you get a reprieve next week because I won't add that to Danielle's plate. Um but if folks could be thinking about how we want to move forward with that, um I would appreciate it. Um we do need to figure out something there. Um because it is it is a legal obligation that we are not currently fulfilling and I know that um Peter was uh struggling to get that off the ground. So I want to make sure that that does not get um lost in the work that we need to do. All
051right. legislation. >> Okay. >> I can think of lots of things. I was I'm struggling. I can't think of anything. >> Any legislative updates that you can think of as super cheap. I see the brain turning. >> Um, no. >> No. All right. No, it is. We will move along then. >> Super stuff. >> Yeah. So, our next meeting is next Thursday, March 5th at 5:30. Um, we will have the preliminary budget hearing. Um, so lots more to come there. We do not need executive session this evening. And so, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So, move. >> Uh, I'll give a motion to Hank. Second. >> Second by Sean. All in favor? >> Thanks, everyone.