001With that, I'd like to lead us into the routine matter pledge of allegiance. [Music] I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nationy andice for all. With that, we'll move into fire department regulations, notice proper exits. >> Chair, we have two exits located over here. In case of an emergency, we can exit through that and follow the emergency exit signs to the exterior exits. If those are blocked, we can exit through that door over there. And again, follow the emergency exit signs. Thank you. Approval of minutes, regular meeting minutes, September 2nd, 2025. So move. >> Second. >> Have a motion, a second. Any discussions? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I >> oppose. Motion carries. >> I got
002an abstension. >> Two absentions. D. Approval of warrants. They are going around. Please be sure to sign them so we can pay our bills. And I will entertain a motion to approve. >> So move. >> Second. Motion and second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I >> oppose. Carries. E. Budget review year-to- date expenditure report through September 2025 >> through the chair. Attach is an expenditure report showing expenses and incumbrances through September 30, 2025. The business office will be proposing a series of transfers to balance the accounts as a separate item. If you or the school committee have any questions, we have business manager school. Any questions for the budget or year-to- date expenses? Okay. Thank you. Correspondence. Tonight, I have nothing listed. Nothing. Thank you. Student advisory
003committee. Tonight, we have a new student advisory committee that was selected just recently, and I will let Mr. Brener introduce. >> Sure. To the chair. Um, we held interviews for a representative for the student advisory and I can say that it was probably the toughest decision to date. The candidates are all outstanding. But I am proud to welcome David Batten, a senior in drafting here this evening and I invite David to tell us a little bit about it. Thank you, Mr. Bren. I APPRECIATE SO, good evening. My name is David Bener. I'm honored to serve as the student representative here for JPAT Regional Vocational Technical High School. So, I'm currently a senior in the drafting shop as well as president of our student council and many others. Uh I see this role personally as a
004fantastic opportunity to give voice to the student perspective and to ensure our perspectives as a community are all heard and that they're all accounted for as part of all of our observations in regarding the school and its decision-m. So this year I am very heavily interested in supporting strong communication between our students and administration and celebrating the positive work here done in our communities. So, I'm grateful really for this opportunity and I look forward to representing our students to the best of my ability. Uh, please please feel free to speak with me or contact me after this as I'm always open. Thank you very much. [Applause] >> Just to introduce a little bit of ourselves. We're going to look forward to seeing any discussions you bring to the table, any items that are of note
005for the board to know about, things that are happening around the school, recognitions you'd like to make. Please feel free when it's your turn to speak. As we go through the meeting at the end of the night, I'll give you another chance to actually voice a couple questions or Okay. All right. All right. Beautiful. Thank you. U tonight there is no old business citizen participation. I see some people in the audience. >> Good evening. I am here today to speak as the newly elected president of the BPTA. Representative W members sitting here today as well as the hundred other members who will be watching and sharing this tomorrow and in the days to come. I have with me today a petition signed by 116 members of Bayath unit A and unit C staff who stand
006together to demand that Superintendent Brener and the school committee abide by section 253 of the BPTA contract and pay Lisa Peters, Jeff G, Heidi Stlo, Matthew Trina and Christine Wade the pay they are due for taking on extra teaching duties caused by the long-term absences or vacancies. In the shop and academic classes, we have made copies for all the school committee members that will be passed around with the petition. We have included two letters the union used to be able to write to the superintendent. Letters thanking Mr. Lash for his collaboration, cooperation, and collegiate attitude. Unfortunately, these are no longer the type of letters that the union is able to write. The extraordinary increase in tax and staff turnover during Superintendent Bunner's tenure is one contributing factor to the number of staff shortages VAT has
007experienced in recent years. This is not a new issue, but the ETA has letters documented as far back as 2018 in which we sought to address the problem with superintendent in the flesh. This long-standing and frequently increasingly frequent issue was the motivated factor in negotiating section 1253 for the current contract. If teaching staff were going to continue to be asked to take on extra classes of missing colleagues, we needed an assistant and fair rate of pay to take on that extra work. This was not to compensate for these teachers time between the 725 and 238 contracting time, but rather to act as compensation for the even more hours of extra work after contract time that these teachers will take on by agreeing to teach more classes and more students with even less prep time. For
008those of you who are not classroom teachers, it might not be obvious that a teacher's workday is not simply the time spent delivering instruction in front of the classroom. For every class period taught, there are hours of administrative work that go into lesson planning, grading, creation of materials, photocopying and answering parent emails, attending guidance, 504 IP meetings, collaborating with colleagues, cleaning up classrooms, setting up projects, setting up labs. The list goes on and on. It is one reason why the entire American education system is predicated on its teachers doing hours of unpaid work. It is such a fundamental part of how schools run that one of the most radical actions a teachers union can take right to work is the radical notion that teachers will only work their contractually paid time. Not a minute more,
009not a minute less. The idea that teachers would only work the time they are paid for is so radical. It brings school systems to a grinding halt. We cannot physically do all the work we need to do in each school day in our one minimally guaranteed duty-free 45minut. For shop teachers like Lisa and Jeff, that's all they get. For academic teachers, the one guaranteed duty-free prep is a minimum. I for example have 158 students this year. I'm teaching four different classes across three different levels. If any of you can provide quality education in all those subjects to all those students with all of their diverse needs with only 45 minutes of administrative time a day, come join the faculty with many spots open and probably more to come. In the meantime, section 1253 of the
010contract is bargained and settled. And yet, Superintendent Rer continues to violate this with denial of pay. He denied this to Lisa and Jeff despite they're covering both the shop and related sides of their classes because they could not physically be in two places at once. The union followed the prescribed grievance process to challenge this denial. And not surprisingly, Mr. Rener did not override himself. But that's what the school committee is here for. You are the oversight committee. You are ultimately the ones responsible for ensuring the superintendent abides by the contract. When you denied hearing Lisa and Jeff's grievance at level three, you force the union to push forward to arbitration, costing time, money, and sending a clear message to Jeff, Lisa, and the rest of our vocational staff that they will not be valued and
011they will not be heard. This fall, it was the academic teacher's turn. A member of our science department is out on extended leave. And when the district did not procure a long-term sub, Mr. Packard reached out to three other teachers and asked if they would be willing to give up their prep time to teach the extra classes. The teachers all responded that they would do so only if paid according to the contract. Mr. packet read the contract, wrote out a side letter, furnished it, dated and signed to these teachers promising the 1/8 per period outlined in section 125. There were many comments of what a relief we won't have to fight this time and then Mr. Brener went in. In the weeks of meetings that followed, Mr. Brener repeatedly repudiated the contract, his own principal,
012and the district's core values. Own it. Mr. Mr. Brener refuses to own the contract he negotiated and refuses to acknowledge the impact his constant violations have on the teaching staff. Strive for excellence. Mr. Brener sends a clear message that he does not appreciate the time and effort it takes our teaching staff to prep and deliver the high quality of education expected here at have an attitude of gratitude. Instead of thanking these teachers for stepping up and filling vacancies across the classes and shops, he insults them repeatedly by attempting to exploit their dedication to the students in the school. Act with integrity. Mr. Brener's words and actions have not once aligned on this issue. He negotiated a contract then. He waxes poetics about our teachers in public and then berates and intimidates them behind closed doors.
013Be kind. It's not kindness to devalue, demoralize, and demotivate your teaching staff. It's not kind to accuse the union of wasting district time and resources when the district is so willing to pay multiple lawyers $245 an hour to fight paying teachers some $60 to $100 a day to take on extra classes and all their extra work. If you want to look at clear messaging, look at that. audit the amount of taxpayer money Mr. Brener has wasted on arbitrations of ULPS for his constant violations and labor rights in the contract motions that the union has and will continue to win. In one meeting regarding the science coverages, Mr. Bren admonished me for standing by our contract by demanding I remember who I'm talking to. As I said in that meeting and as I say here today
014to the committee, I remember who I'm talking to. The superintendent needs to remember that the union is not his subordinate. The contract is not a suggestion. We are equal partners in creating a successful school. A school that is not just students and parents and guardians, but includes the educators who show up day in and day out to serve our community. Our time and our labor is why Bay Path is the school it is. The school committee needs to remember that you have been elected by the people of our 10 counts as the oversight of the school. You need to ask to audit the district's legal expenses over the last 5 years and consider where the greatest of resources comes from. You need to stand by the contract that you signed, grant a hearing on the
015level three grievance that will be furnished on the science teachers behalf and direct superintendent to pay the teachers according to 1253. And you have to show us, those of us who are here today and the 100 plus more that signed this petition, that this is a school that values the input, contributions, and talents of all of its educators, not just a superintendent that seeks to bully and intimidate us behind closed doors. You want evidence of that behavior? Look at the lines of staff who sign professional status instead of their name. Why? Over and over, this is what we've heard over the last two weeks. I want to sign, but I'm too close to retirement. I can't lose this job. I want to sign, but I don't want him to close my shop. I want to
016sign, but I don't want him to reject my request for grad classes. I want to sign, but I don't want him to come after me next. That's the atmosphere that Mr. Rder has fostered over the last 5 years, and enough is enough. Thank you for your time, your consideration, and your action to protect your teachers and the contract. It is long overdue. Thank you. We typically give 15 minutes for citizen participation and I mean that was a about 15 minutes right there. So, I am going to move on at this point. With that, I'm going to move into new business 4A recognitions. Sure, with the chair, we have two recognitions. On September 16th, the boys cross country had a new school record broken at their tri meet held that day. Wesley Law broke the school
017record on a 2.8 mile course with a time of 15 minutes 29 seconds. previous record was held by Jonel VZ with a time of 1544 in 2024. So congratulations to President and the other is our golf team competed in their first ever CMAC East League championship tournament today at Blissville Meadows. The league is made up of Bayath Auburn Oxbridge Douglas and Sutton High. The players had a great time and competed like champions earning a few ribbons along the way. Congratulations to our boys and co and coach White for a terrific season so far with a record of 123 on the season and the MIA state playoffs coming down the way. >> Excellent. That screen is very fast and that is a great time. >> Wow. Um moving on to presentations B1 helps project updates. >>
018I don't have to chair another presentation like Dr. Mcuong here. There is a pretty extensive memo in your packet there. Two pages on the house project. FY25 house project. We're making progress there. Cabinets are going in under cabinet lighting. Um plumbing took the cabinet as well. So that's last year's house project. Again, just finishing that up. And then FY26 exterior walls were up. Trust went up last week. Crane was up on site. And this week, Mr. Kas is uh putting the roof on the building. Uh making good progress. Everyone's doing an excellent job and we're very proud of them. um if possible through the superintendent I will share photos of the projects um with you all. So like to do that within the next week or so. >> Excellent. Any questions in regards to the
019house building project and the updates comments this year? >> Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Accountability data presentation to the chair. I'm Dr. our director of Franklin to give a MCAST accountability update. >> Standing away from the light in my eyeball. Good evening everybody. Um so we're going to talk a little bit about how MCCAST went. Um that was our first test after question two. So a lot of us were very I don't know excited, nervous, whatever. Um it's kind of interesting. So at the state level um you know we saw some statistically significant um drops. So in English across the state we lost 60 points in math we lost three and in science we lost three. At Bayath however um we lost less than one point in each subject. So about
020a half a point for English and math, a little over a half for science. So much less of a drop than at the state level for sure. Um the state I put in quotation marks impact from question two because the state said they believe that drop is attributed purely to um MCCAST not no longer being a graduation requirement. We even have some points of pride because while our data didn't go up, you know, overall, um, we did see some gains in our highest needs, um, disabilities and Hispanic categories, um, especially for ELA. And we also think that our students took it very seriously and we are very proud of the work they did. We saw on the days of MCCAST testing that they took their time. they really did try their best knowing that it
021was no longer a graduation requirement. Uh and that is due to co efforts of everybody here because I went around to every single class talked to all the students who are going to take MCCAST and talk to them about the importance of MCCAST for accountability. Um and teachers reiterated that message over and over again. So therefore, students knew it was important and they still did what they needed to do, which was amazing. Um, so to talk about our accountability, because that's tied to MCCAST, I'm going to have us just look at this for a second. Every year, our accountability is tied to many things. Um, some of which are not on these screens tonight, like graduation rates, um, advanced course, uh, how many students take advanced courses, things like that. The state essentially sets targets
022and goals for us every year and while they don't necessarily look st you know significant sometimes the target for instance um for all students was to go from 502.8 8 average on English MCCast of 504.9 that is still significant um statistically speaking and um with the state dropping six points it's I'm not really shocked to see that we didn't meet all of these goals but it's worth noting that for English this is English mathematics and for science um obviously they want us to get better every year and um we did not meet all of our goals Okay, set by the state. We had no change in some areas, some increases and even a little bit of decline here or there in different categories. I mentioned that because our accountability rating this year, which is a
023combination of um our performance data from the 24 school year and last year is 49% which is moderate um progress towards targets. And we of course want to be at least in the significant progress towards um targets, but that's not how it the cookie crumbled. Um so we didn't meet all the uh the aggressive I would call them um targets for accelerated growth, but moving forward we still have a plan for continuous improvement. So I'll speak to that for a second. Um, first and foremost in looking in doing a deep dive in our curriculum mapping and um what we're doing in the classroom, we have a lot of really robust productive conversations within different departments about what's going on. And I'm noticing um as well as other people like the instructional coaches and um individuals
024who are observing one another that sometimes and this is just human nature. This is true across the nation. Um we fall into uh remediation more than acceleration. And this is a topic that's been studied quite a bit before CO 19 and immensely since CO 19 because students obviously fell behind um with the pandemic. Um so it's something we're going to talk more about. How do you embed um not remediation but you know how do you work with skill gaps? How do you do that when you're still trying to teach grade level standards and grade level texts and things like that? It's not easy. It's a major challenge for anybody. Um, but I believe we can do it. And you know, we have great instructional coaches. We have fantastic teachers. So, I think that's a direction
025that we're going to move into is having these conversations. Um and additionally it's worth noting that we moved we had new frameworks from the state um prior to the pandemic and then we moved in 2019 to a new MCCAST. So it's just a year before the pandemic when they moved to the um next generation MCCast from legacy and so I think it's time to really look at what is the test requiring in the different subjects. I think one thing that they all have in common is that they want students to be able to think about um you know these skills and be able to use these equations and um all of that their communication in order to uh deal with real life problems which requires a lot of thinking and problem solving and thinking is
026um our other focus this year. We want to continue to um hone in on using thinking classroom strategies. The thinking classrooms has actually 14 principles that you can follow um to get students to be at the center of the learning doing all the cognitive work and we're going to be working towards that in all areas. And I think that'll help a little bit when it comes to the test because what I see sometimes is that students get to a very difficult question. Some of these MCAST questions now are literally an entire page long to get to the question. You have data and different aspects of context and by the time you get to the end, you have to be resilient to figure out what they're actually asking and work through all the steps. And so
027um we have to build that resiliency in the classroom and um so that they don't just give up because sometimes students they just see a long question many steps and they just simply give up. So we want to obviously build resilient um young adults and you will. Lastly, I also want to mention that Desi was um opening up a family portal for MCCAST so that parents had access directly to log in and see their students MCCAST scores over time, their growth um and be able to print it and look at it whenever they want. They were supposed to open that portal on October 1st and they decided to push that off um last minute. It was a couple days before they were supposed to open it. They decided not to. they said for the safety
028security of the information. So um once they've worked out all those details, families will have better access to their information. So once they have opened it, we will of course communicate that with our community, our stakeholders and make sure everybody has access to that information. And that is it. >> Quick try to do quick. >> Excellent presentation. >> Question. Thank you. Yes. Any questions for Dr. Moore? >> Thank you. I have one comment. I did watch on the news. I think it said 18 schools was it that actually in the entire state, 351 towns, not I don't know how many districts that is, but only 18 schools had a positive growth across the board. >> I mean, that's a statewide problem. That has, you know, that's not a pay problem. That's not one of our
02910 pound problems. Um, I mean, I I think a lot of it is attributed to the uh non-graduation requirement that just passed because, you know, parents are, I'm sure, telling their kids, "Don't worry." And and you're seeing it, you know, so hopefully that gets corrected and we have some other form to hold both students, everybody accountable that are stakeholders in making these kids good adults. >> I really appreciate you putting that together. Again, with no other questions, we will move on. But >> thank you. Thank you. >> C. Approval of budget transfers through the chair. The superintendent, director, and school business manager recommend that school committee vote to authorize the proposed transfers for balance accounts through September 30th, 2025. and we'll transfer a motion. So move >> second and a motion and second. Any discussion?
030>> Being none, I call for the vote. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. D. Approval of option for increase in chapter 70 funding. through the chair, the superintendent, director, and the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to approve option one of the presented ways in which regional school districts may include the additional aid amount in FY26 budget. >> So second a motion and a second accepting this money is read option one. >> Yes. Option one, the regional school committee could propose by a twothirds vote the full committee an amendment to increase its FY26 budget by the additional minimum aid amount. Through such an amendment, though such an amendment would not increase the assessments to the members, it would increase the budget. Therefore, the treasurer must within seven days of the
031regional school committee vote provide the amendment to the members for approval by the local appropriating authorities. The local appropriating authority shall then have 45 days from the date of the RSC vote to meet and consider the amendment to increase the budget. This amendment would require approval by twothirds of the local operating authorities of the members. However, since no member would experience an increase in its assessment in this scenario, should the local appropriating authorities of a member not meet on the amended budget within the 45 days, the amendment would be considered approved by that member. Thank you. So what we do, we do need a twothirds vote of the entire committee for this to pass for this auction. So I will call for a vote at this point. Have a motion in a second. >> So
032move. >> All those in favor. >> I >> oppose. We don't need to do a roll call if we can. If there's no oppose, then it would be a unanimous vote at that point. Oppose being none, I'll call that a unanimous vote, which meets the 2/3 requirement. Thank you. E, approval of surplus equipment. We have a couple sections here. We'll take them by shop. Information technology E1 through the chair. Mr. TJ Karen technology director and his staff completed an inventory audit. As a result, he has requested to place the following items on surplus equipment list. 342 computers, desktop last laptops. The superintendent directed the director of technology and the school business recommend the school committee vote to place 342 desktop laptops all of no value on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of according
033to the school committee surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method available. So motion motion and a second. Any discussion being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. E2 beam. Mr. James Trepious vocational director received the request from Miss Peters being instructed to place the following items on surplus equipment. One, fellows power shred shredder. Condition value broken. Zero. Superintendent Director, the vocational director, and the school business to recommend the school committee vote to place one fellow's power shred shredder valued at zero dollars on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of according to the school committee surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method available. >> So moved. >> Second motion and a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? >>
034Opposed? Motion carries. Three, building property maintenance >> through the chair. This is James Trip location director received request from Ross Dominique DM instructed to place the following items on the surface equipment list. One sheet metal brake value working $1,000 hydraulic sheet working value $2,000. John D utility vehicle tea HPX 4x4 used trade in value $9,250. The superintendent director, the vocational director, and the school business manager recommending the school committee vote to place one sheet metal brake valued at 1,00 one hydraulic sheet valued at 2,000, one year utility vehicle valued at 1,250 on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method available. >> So move second. >> Motion and a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion
035carries. E4 dental assisting. >> Mr. Terren tripational director received the request from Christina Genitasio. Dental assisting instructed to place following items on the surface supporting desk. One redwing lathe handler condition for value $0. Superintendent, director, vocational director and school business manager recommend the school committee vote to place one red wing lambler of little to no value on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of according to school surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method available. >> So move second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion being none I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. B E5 automotive technology. >> Mr. James Trip, location vocational director, received your request from Joe Westwell, automotive technology. Need instruction to place the following items on the surplus equipment list. One, diagnostic
036smoke machine, poor condition, zero value. Carile 3.5 ton floor jack, poor condition, zero value. And 100 wheel balancer, poor condition, $50 value. Superintendent Director, Vocational Director, and the school business manager direct recommend the school team. Vote to place one diagnostic smoke machine, one Carile 3.5 ton floorjack, and one Hunter wheel balancer. All of little to no value on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of according to the school community surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate means. Miss a motion and a second. Any discussion? None. I call for the vote. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carries. E6 HVAC through the chair. Mr. James Trip, location vocational director, received a request from Jeffrey Cool. Hback instructed to place the following items on the surplus equipment. One flow hood unrepable, zero value. Two
037pumps, unrepable, zero value. And one recovery machine unrepable, zero value. Superintendent director, location director, and school business manager recommend school vote to place one floor, two vacuum pumps, and one recovery machine. All of no values on the surplus equipment as to be disposed of according to the school surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method. >> So move second a motion and a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Motion carries. 4 F approval of policy manual. >> Policy manual to the chair policy subcommittee and the superintendent director recommend the school committee vote to adopt the full policy manual as presented. So moved. >> Second. I have a motion and a second. before we go to a vote. There will be some discussion, but seeing how much the
038policy subcommittee and Pete that was what you uh chaired was a lot of work, a lot of nights before we go dissecting through this. We've seen some questions come around from some members of the committee. I just want to tell you that was great work. Much long overdue. At first, I wasn't even for it because I remember when we did it the last time, but seeing some of the changes, what you guys did, I I really want to thank you for the amount of work you guys put in there. And that's every one of the members that was on that committee. Um, with that, I will open it up for any questions or comments for the policy manual. I'd like to add that Tracy Novak who coordinated the policy uh updating with us did a
039tremendous job and uh worked with the policy subcommittee uh very diligently and want to thank her for her input. >> Excellent. Excellent. Any other comments or questions? >> Thank you. Um, yeah, that was a lot of work and and I think a couple years ago it was discussed about doing it and uh it just never materialized and and the committee did a great job doing that and I think it's important that we look at that really close even though they looked at it close to so that we understand the policy manual because we're the ones that are supposed to come up with policies and so forth. So, um, you know, there are a couple things that I was concerned about. Um, and and I'm sure I could probably get some answers why. Um, and I
040think I I was the one that had sent Mr. Brener a couple questions. He answered them and I appreciate the responses that he gave, but I did I was looking through more of it last night watching the game and there's a couple other questions that I had. Um, one concerned the field trips um out of state field trips. We've talked about this before. Um, and the reason I question it is because we can send a busload of kids up to Lawrence and not with school committee approval, but we can't send a busload of students to a field trip in like Woodstock, Connecticut. Um, I'm not sure what the reason is for that behind why that has to be that way, but I'd like to hear what is I mean the policy was set. So we
041just went through the existing policy on it. I don't know the history of the policies on that, you know, but traveling out of state, you know, I think just carries different different state rules, you know, I'm not sure. >> Could be insurance purposes. >> Insurance purposes >> is is what I mean with the different regulations >> because the busing equipment has to meet federal DOT requirements which differ from state requirements. Say that one more time. I apologize. >> Federal DOT, >> right, >> has certain um criteria on the buses or the equipment that's going to be transporting the students. >> Yeah. >> Is a little higher than the instate ones. >> So when it goes interstate lines, you're saying >> Yeah. It's basically another sticker. >> Yeah. >> But do we do that though? >>
042Exactly. >> So it's the stickers. >> But do we have that? I mean, if we send kids out of state with our approval, do we go and get a sticker for that vehicle to to do that? >> We should. So, a lot of what he's if I understand because I deal with that in in the business that I do now. It's when you cross state lines, you have to pay an uh interstate fuels tax. So, I'm sure our bus companies have that. If we're transporting by our buses, we may be exempt from it when they're I I don't know the regulations there, but that's a lot of what it is when you're crossing those uh invisible lines that are determined to be states. So >> in a lot of as Jeff said the uh >>
043insurance >> we can definitely check into that. I mean it's been >> I just it doesn't make a lot of sense as to why we have as a committee we have to approve the trip that's 10 minutes over the line but we don't have to approve the trip two hours up the road >> 45 minutes away. Y understood. We can follow back with that. >> And I thought we had talked about that prior to this policy review. So I was hoping that maybe was come up with discussion with Tracy and and come up with a reason why >> and again not being in those meetings on Tracy may have said that this is very similar policy to other districts that they have on their policy manual or not. I again wasn't at the meetings that
044would be a question for them. So it's definitely something we can circle back on. We'll make a note. >> Yeah. to the chair to having, you know, um a field rep at the advice of all other policies in the state of Massachusetts as they oversee and recommend policies to the school committees from Mass Association of School Committees. We can look at our insurance carrier um because we just went out to bid on on that as well. Uh but there's a lot of insurance, you know, requirements and the riders, you know, that were covered under the mask for the insurance policies, but no one outside the state and New Hampshire and Connecticut have different, you know, different aspects to our liability on that. And I would cover it outside. So I'm sure no, I don't know
045of any special inspection stickers from New Hampshire or whatever, Connecticut buses on that. I think it would have more to do with our insurance writers in the protection. >> The chair also it's pretty standard um that any state I work in Connecticut and Massachusetts that you have to get per school if you go out of state. But I can talk we can talk with um cabbage our insurance carrier as well as for students and to make sure that we're in line with everybody with the other schools. But that is pretty standard operating procedures for that to happen. >> Okay. >> Additional questions. >> Another question. Yeah. Um I was concerned about this one. Um it and again it's if you know no member of a school committee in any town should be eligible for a
046position of a teacher or superintendent of our school. So in other words, I'll use an example. I think Mr. Scoy was a um school committee rep in Auburn. And so that meant we couldn't hire him if this policy was in fact to be the masonry instructor if he was the school committee member before he came to Baytown. Now, what happens if he is a masonry instructor and then he goes out and gets on the school committee from Auburn? So, again, I'm not It must be a policy somewhere, but it was red lines in this one. So, it came from someplace um outside of the original policy. >> What's the policy? The one I don't have. What's the policy number? >> Yeah. What's the policy? What section? >> Uh section B. What? >> I don't know.
047I really don't know. >> I don't have those sections memorized. I got the book almost policy almost. >> You must listen to plays the last game. That's why >> through the chair while while we're looking up that policy, >> I actually don't recall us discussing that. It may have been the one meeting that I missed, but I don't recall because I do recall >> a similar conversation where we covered the number of years you have to be off of this particular school committee before you can come work for the district. I had argued for a shorter amount of time just because of the difficulty in finding instructors um both academic and vocational nowadays. I thought that it was silly that we had I think it was a fiveyear um span of three years. >> Three
048years down to one year. >> I thought it should have been a little bit shorter. It's not like we're coming getting on this committee so that we can be hired as a as an instructor just the >> I think George that falls under the state ethics uh requirements. It's a state statute. uh similar being on the select board uh getting a position with a municipality and even the municipality that you're coming from be Auburn or town of Rutland uh or any other municipality uh there's a restriction under the state I think it's a cooling statute >> share that that's quite possible but worth worth looking into get to get the exact um number >> but I still don't think that that carries over for the piece that we're talking Right. I'm waiting for you and
049and again through the chair. All of these items could be noted, could be researched and we could we could certainly put these on the agenda for >> absolutely policy meetings. >> I'm trying to get this one answered here and then we'll get further along and see what we can get for any highlevel questions. if there's anything that we can adopt as a whole and then go back to others, I think that would be the prudent thing to do because again to take all the hard work that policy subcommittee did and in reading a lot of them it was more of just I don't want to call them simple updates but housekeeping general updates getting with the times things that had gone by the wayside and should have been checked sooner than what they were. So
050again, for the few that we may question, there are a lot there in that that we should be able to get adopted tonight. Um, >> so if that >> Yeah, I was just looking at a lot of the reds, you know, the new red. That's how I reviewed. >> That's um not what was crossed off the new stuff. And >> so while he's looking up that um >> so all these changes like the dress code and all the other things are they going to be update the student handbook and the and the faculty manual and everything else will those get updated with the same criteria with the same >> the next review will be to see that everything aligns with the policy. policy is the governing factor and then everything that falls off of that
051will be updated. >> Yeah. So basically the housekeeping starts here and then just continues to flow to the others. >> There it is. >> Oh >> yeah. I was just trying to >> any other questions while Kyle's looking that may not be >> such >> super specific that we can't find quickly >> any Okay, Don, do you have any other after that? >> Okay, >> the chair just just one question. Um how do we proceed from here? Are we looking to um take a vote on the entire policy package? >> My preference go back. >> Yeah, my preference again the motion is to approve the policy manual as a whole. That is the motion in front of us right now. If there is something that needs to be adjusted from there, we can accept an
052amendment to that motion and then vote accordingly. If not, the vote that will be asked for unless that happens is in of the revised policy manual as a whole. So the chair y >> I'd like to make a motion to accept it subject to those two items being invested before it's finalized and brought back to the school committee for a final vote. >> So you're looking to make an amendment >> amendment. Yeah. >> Okay. Did I make I think I made the I can't remember. >> Yeah. Yeah. You made a motion. So I'll accept so one more time. uh was looking to make the amendment to approve the policy manual as you folks have presented. It's subject to further investigation on those two items uh being uh held until such time we get clarification and
053then we can bring it back and vote on it and move forward with the appropriate adjustments as needed uh based on state law or other uh regulatory requirements that are out there. So basically it would be just that we would accept the policy menu as a whole with the exception of an answer for this question here and the >> state of state >> I accept that as a friendly amendment. So movement >> okay >> through the chair just for clarification. So to go back through the policy committee again maybe start a little earlier at the next meeting and then to the full committee. >> I think that would be the wisest way I would present it as well. Yeah, just if if we're going to meet at 7:00, you guys meet at 6. And again,
054I think that's the the wisest thing to do. And for then, we will have all the clarifications we should meet on those two items. Any other questions? We do have a revised amendment on the floor to accept the policy manual as a whole with the exception of out of state travel and a clarification on the >> hiring. Yeah. Thank you. >> We're cooling off period. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. If that is the case, I can call for a vote. All those in favor of accepting the policy manual as amended. >> Opposed? Carries. Okay. Thank you. So with that, if you can follow up with that, we'll schedule a policy meeting for next month at 6 or 6:30. We'll push Mr. Sure that will go very well. Moving on for G acceptance of superintendent
055director's FY26 goals through the chair answer. I just want to preface it that it's a different format this year. We asked our staff and we asked our administrative team to use smart goals. So this year's goals are follow talk to talk. So all four goals are snark goal format. So they're specific, they're measurable, they're achievable, they're relevant, and they're time bound on that. So there to answer any questions on the for >> and as we talk on your evaluation form, they'll be >> they will be identified. So on the form that you use to rate me and evaluate me, they'll be identified in the uh standards with the respective focus indicators on that. But these are just the goals. So the format we received is the same format that seems to be moving and gaining
056traction everywhere else especially in the school. So I think that was a very we talked about it quickly Tyler and I during the um this past month about making it so that it was a streamlined approach. If he's reviewing um goals in that manner here, it's almost wise that he produces his goals in the same way for that very reason. So it will have to adjust to the state form that we use for evaluations but again from a streamline standpoint it just made the most sense. >> Yeah. So they'll directly align with the standards again the state evaluation system for operations management for student learning goals for uh school improvement and for school culture. >> And I know we got these a little later today. Are there any questions that there may be with them?
057Sorry, I didn't get them. Um, and so I really I feel that it's ne uh and they did come out late and I'm not sure how many of us really read them for tonight before the meeting. So I'm going to probably recommend that we put it off until next month. But I hate to do that because we're putting it off another month, but I really want to read the goals and I and I think all of us should look at them and and like I said, >> I it came late and >> that's a motion. I'll second that. >> Okay. Can I make that into a motion? Thank you. >> Absolutely. Motion. >> Okay. I'd like to um hold off on the review of Mr. Bren's goals until next month's meeting. >> And I have
058a second, George, you said. >> Okay. Any discussion with holding them off? And again, it basically be a table. We'll view it as old business at that point. It'll go under next month's agenda. Um, if there is no other discussion, I'll call for a vote on that. All those in favor of tableabling the goals. I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. C information and proposals report from the superintendent director. >> Sure. So, I submitted a written report. I'm prepared to answer any questions on that. Okay, we'll get to that with comments. U subcommittee reports audit subcommittee hasn't met yet. I know I've read you have something to say in the audit. No, >> what >> anything to say in the audit? >> U audits were here last week. We've been working with them. Uh it's
059continuing work right now. So, um so far so good. So, we'll be sure. >> Thank you. Budget subcommittee has not met yet. Okay. Building and ground subcommittee. Nothing to meet with yet. Negotiation subcommittee. Mr. Grant. >> Uh our next meeting with the pair of professionals is October 22nd and we're looking to put together uh two more meetings uh for total three. >> Thank you. Policy sub. uh want to I want to thank the uh entire subcommittee for all their work and attendance uh by putting this long overdue policy update and addition of whatever was needed. Uh other than that uh thank the school committee for voting which uh policies they've approved. >> Thank you again. really thank you for the amount of work everyone on that subcommittee did. Again, >> as a member of the
060sub subcommittee, it's a living document. >> Y >> so tomorrow we could get a letter from Department of Education and we're changing policies. >> Absolutely. >> Yep. >> For the chair or we could get something from Mr. [Laughter] >> All our hard work. That was quick. >> Warrant subcommittee. Warrants are available for signatures by all school committee members at monthly meetings and during the school day. Please call if you do intend to come in and sign to make sure someone is in the office. Um, very important so we can get those bills paid. Future business meeting date. There's a regular meeting here 700 p.m. Monday, November 3rd in this room. topics for future agenda. Reach out to Leah, Mr. Brener, or myself and we will do our best to accommodate and get it on the
061next meeting. With that, I'll move to remarks from the superintendent director. >> Sure. To the chair. First, I want to welcome David to the school committee. I look forward to his input. David is clearly a leader of the school. Thank you, David. Thank you. >> Um, I also want to say that Emerald Ford is donating $1,000 to the Bay Path Educational Foundation from the proceeds generate generated at their sixth annual antique and muscle car show that was held a few few weeks ago. Um, so we thank for that. That money will go to good use. The Model A Club will be visiting Bay Path on Friday, Octo October 10th. 10 classic cars will be on display. I want to thank former school committee member um >> Joe Becker Joe Becker for organizing that for us
062and in line with model A and driving uh Mr. has done a great job. We solicited a couple proposals to host a driving school for our students that is part of the strategic plan as well as the input from our students in the survey that we offer a driving school here. Our 10 towns come here. It's convenient that they can just get into the classroom here as well as get in the cars on that. So, uh out of the two proposals, the best proposal was CMSC. Uh so we'll be moving forward with that and solidifying an MLOU with that to get that started as soon as possible. So thank you Mr. Bracket for all the work on that. >> Excellent. And lastly I just want to thank the policy subcommittee. We did a lot of
063hard work. There's many pages and many policies to go through and I think we did that in expeditious time and uh thank you all. >> Thank you. >> Comments from the committee open this week. Wow. >> Wow. >> I'll skip you. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Hey, welcome David. >> Thank you. >> Um I just wanted to acknowledge um Miss Mcmmer's um remarks. I was just I just wanted to say that I'm kind of disappointed well pretty disappointed to hear about the continued um grievances from the teachers. um my very first meeting as the student rep, I experienced a similar meeting um and of a hostile work environment and I wish I wasn't back two years later hearing similar remarks. >> Thank you, Mr. Panos. >> I'll sit in. Thank you. >> Thank
064you, Mr. Clark. >> Welcome, David. Thank you, sir. Way to little speeches you're giving impressive and we've nominated you for something certainly. Thank you. >> You also said thank you and you welcome David and Marie. >> Welcome David. You certainly show yourself a great leader here. >> Thank you. Great opening remarks. Very good. Um James, thank you very much for the continued expanded updates on house building projects. Very well done. >> Thank you. tag. >> Okay. All right. Listen, uh, welcome David. Happy to have you on board. Um, I have to kind of almost mimic what Kirsten is saying over there. Um, I've been on the committee just a little over a year and I've heard this numerous times and I said even before I left Bayath staff a couple years ago, I was already
065feeling the tension in the air here and it wasn't nice and it was, as I said, as a student in South High when things started to go downhill. When I graduated in 2002, it was around 2000, you started to feel the shift. They've been in state receiverhip for how long now? And I just I would hate to see this to continue down this road and see it just get worse. So, I would love to get to the bottom of this. >> Thank you, George. >> Thank you. Um, yeah, I would just uh reinforce that that as well. Um, it's just it's it's getting old. It's it's sad. I just wish there was a way that that we could pull this together really. And I know we we've tried a couple of different things, but I
066just I just think it's it's past time. I mean, we need to figure something out. Ben, I appreciate your your efforts and working with that that committee and yeah, just hopefully we can pull this together. Thank you for the presentations tonight. Those are great. David, um your opening, if that's any indication of what kind of a student rep you're going to be, um we have a lot to look forward to. So, welcome aboard. Thank you. >> Thank you, Pete. >> Thank you for the great presentation. Welcome, David. Uh we'll enjoy your input throughout the whole year. Um and I've been uh watching the athletic program and they've been doing pretty well this fall. So, want them to continue uh their winning success. Absolutely. >> Again, thanks for it repetitive here. Thanks for the presentation and
067David, welcome. I see maybe a future in politics for you. I'm not sure if that's good or a bad thing. I'll let you take that one. Think about it, but thank you, Doug. Again, I just I want to say, Peter, you do you guys did a great job on that. Okay, I don't want to sound like I was nitpicking, but like I said, I was reading the thing and I was going through it. Um, I was trying to reference something that was said at one of the previous school committee meetings. Um, and I noticed that the August and September meetings weren't up online. I just wonder if that's going to if they can be put up online for people to see. Um, and congratulations. And, uh, the draft department seems to send quite a few
068kids to us. Uh, nice job. >> Thank you. Last but not least, uh I understand the teachers concern for the prep times. Question I would have is when were the signatures collected? Before and after school or during prep time uh the printing of the material was that after school or before school or during prep time? They're just thoughts. >> Thank you. as a former teacher in the public school system for 10 years. >> Thank you again. Welcome. Um I mean the presentation tonight, Dr. McGee after she escaped. She did a great presentation. So let her that was well worth it. There's a lot to digest there. Um everybody, thank you. the the students with his running time. I'm just amazed at that still because I mean it's it's impressive to see how fast some some
069people actually are. Uh with that, tonight we have to move into an executive session. I'm going to ask that I entertain a motion to move into executive session for the purpose of MGL chapter 30A section 21A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and to reconvene in open session only for a journey. So >> second have a motion and a second. With that I have to call for a roll call vote. So Katie, >> yes means yes. Right. >> Yes. Beans, yes. >> Okay. >> Al Bean, absent. Jim Cwell, absent. Richard Clark, >> yes. >> Kirsten, >> Don Jat, >> yes. >> Dave Grineer, >> yes. >> Mary Johnson, >> yes. >> Myself
070is Yes. Don Montel, >> yes. >> Henry Pantos, >> yes. >> Michael Pantos, yes. >> And real is all right. Peter Sher, >> yes. Tim Sher, >> yes. >> George Scobby, >> yes. >> Mike Tberry, absent. Bob Trembley, absent. Jeff Wel, >> yes. >> Bob Tukowski, >> yes. >> With that, we are in executive session. Give it a few minutes. I know you want to invite a couple people.