001I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all >> fire department regulations notice of proper exits >> through the chair we have exits located right here um just go out and follow the exit signs if those are blocked we can go in through this door here and follow the exit signs thank You see approval of minutes organizational meeting minutes August 4th 2025. So move >> second. >> I have a motion in a second. Any discussion? >> Yes. I just want to I was not here and I am present on the minutes. >> We will get that corrected. >> Any other changes here or corrections? No. >> Okay. All those in favor to accept as
002correct. >> I >> opposed carries. Regular meeting minutes August 4th, 2025. >> So move. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Carries. Approval of warrants. They are going around. I did see them. And there are some in there from last meeting that we need to get signed. So, make sure you go where that sticky note is so we can get those bills paid. And with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> So, second motion in a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, call for the vote. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. E. Budget review year-to- date expenditure report through August 2025. Through the chair attaches the expenditure report showing expenses and incumbrances through August 27,
0032025. And we have our school business manager Cindy Scoffield here if there are any questions. Are there any questions for Cindy? Okay, moving on then. Correspondents. I have none listed. Any Okay, student advisory committee. I see that we're looking for a new rep now the school year started. >> We'll have one for the next meeting. >> Excellent. No old business tonight. Citizen participation, nothing. Okay. Welcome. >> Moving right on to new business. A acceptance of donation >> through the chair. The vocational director received notice that PB Heat LLC would like to donate one peerless series MID04 boiler and one peerless purifier model PF200 boiler in good condition. Previously used to benefit the students in the H track and the CTI institute. That night, the superintendent director, vocational director, and business manager recommend the school committee
004vote to accept the donation of one peerless series MIE full boiler and one peerless purifier model PF200 boiler in good previously used condition. >> So move second. >> A motion and a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. B. Approval of student handbook provisions to sections 4.D cafeteria and 4.F cell phone and electronics through the chair attaches a memo um from our school nutrition Karen Lee Hickeyi regarding the student handbook policy on cafeteria as well as a cell phone electronics policy from our assistant principles. The superintendent, director, dean of students, and the policy subcommittee recommend the school committee vote to approve the proposed student handbook revision for 2025 2026 school year as amended. The school nutrition stays as submitted and the cell phone is
005amended to include under recommended revisions. Third offense, students will have their cell phone confiscated by administration. Parents will be notified by administration and will need to pick up the cell phone from school and the student will be given a Saturday detention. Further amended on the last line. If a student reports that they did not bring a phone to school but is later found with a phone or electronic device on that person, said student jumps to the third offense automatically. Okay. So move second. I >> have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carried. C. Approval to add policy on religious exemptions from curriculum to 2025 2026 student handbook. >> Through the chair attached. Please find the recommended language to
006add policy regarding religious exemption from curriculum areas to the 2526 student handbook. The superintendent director de assistant principles in the policy subcommittee recommend the school committee vote to approve the addition of a policy on religious exemptions from the curriculum as presented. >> 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. D. House project updates >> through the chair. U CDT director, Mr. Canadishious can bring us up to date on the house. >> Sure. Um through the chair, FY26 of this year's house project. Um carpentry is out there. They're going to start on the basement walls. Uh they were out there today bringing equipment out back and forth. Um, so we're good to go there. Foundation was poured,
007uh, early August, I want to say it was. Um, good to go. Port is on site. That's exciting. In terms of this past year's house project, um, homeowner didn't get as much painted as we had hoped. Um, we don't think that's going to stall us. Still some finished work to do on the front rear decks. Um, some trim work to do. Cabinets are ready to be hung, but again, we're just waiting on some paint. Um, some finished plumbing in terms of toilet installation, some faucets, electrical. Most of the electrical is done. Really, the only thing was to run an electrical line to connect the uh, heat pump system and just some minor work throughout the house. So, that's more of a filler job right now. Um, everyone's busy and back in action. >> Excellent. Any
008questions regarding the house project? Okay, that we jumped through that pretty quick. So, we'll move on to C information and proposals, which is C1 report from the superintendent director. To the chair, I submitted a written report. We prepared to answer any questions on that. Just uh the quick highlights are we had a great opening to the school year. Our freshman orientation saw 95% attendance rate on that one day to come in and get a jump start on the year. uh some fun games, distributing all their yonder pouches, their Chromebooks, and giving them their login and going through that. Um provided a breakdown of where those students came from in our towns, whether it was an increase or a decrease or held the same. We did have um some upper classman transfers in um coming from
009previously the sophomores are taking seats in available shops and the upper juniors and seniors have transferred from a district that they were enrolled in approved program and they've uh moved into our district on that. Um new T2 orientation went well. I give a list of all the new employees that we have a mix of staff and instructors. Um we recognize on opening day over 370 years of service. So I wrote that down milestone 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years and 25 years. Um a highlight that I want to call out uh during one of those first two day the first day is the presentation of Bayath's core values. A lot of work went into designing a set of core values for the school. Um, we sent out a survey to all our stakeholders,
010students, and staff. They gave us the input. The administrative team whittleled it down. And, um, it's a it's a really nice uh, pneummonic. It's OSHA B. So, O is for own it. Uh, S is for strive for excellence. H is for have an attitude for gratitude. A is act with integrity. And lastly, be kind. for me. Um so uh we talked about that. We talked about the importance that it's not just words. It will be um values to live by through the year and each month we'll be celebrating and talking about each one of those individually over the course of this year on it. So a lot of work on that. Um so big kudos to everybody for making such a good start to the year as well. >> Thank you. With that, we're going
011to move on to subcommittee reports. Audit subcommittee hasn't met yet. Budget subcommittee, I know Tim's not here, but nothing to report there, I would imagine. Building and grounds, nothing at this point. Negotiation subcommittee. Tyler, want to give a quick update? Just anything that we've got going on coming into the new school year? >> We have a scheduled date for a mediation on the cars for September 23rd. Okay. And uh we have agreement on the integrated unit M which will be signed by the chair tonight and signed by unit M members tomorrow. Okay. Policy subcommittee. Uh this tonight we elected Pete chair again. Pete I know we just did some of your bidding tonight but >> right uh we the subcommittee had met earlier prior to this uh meeting uh as Mr. Briner had had mentioned
012that uh the approval of uh section 4.D and section 4. M uh the cafeteria and cell phone and electronics uh was voted and approved. Uh the subcommittee is still going to review some of the overall policies that we have been going over for the last uh almost 12 months. and then it will be presented uh to the full school committee sometime hopefully in October. That's our goal to uh uh have that looked at and approved. >> We're actually going to I was just talking to Kyle. What we're going to do is everyone should be seeing an email with that with all the red line documents as the board as the policy committee has been hard at work for well over a year. >> They're ready to pass it on to us. There will be, I
013believe, three policies that will not be included for review currently just due to changes in state legislation and other items that we're just still need to be combed through. Reply once you've reviewed that with your questions because we're going to try and get that on next month's agenda to get that adopted and finally >> end all that work for that policy subcommittee. So, >> yeah, excuse me. Was that already given to us? I think we have a red line coffee. >> We have the red line coffee. Yep. >> Okay. >> So, what they did tonight was they went back through it just to, you know, didn't even have to, but they're going to look at that again one more time and we'll make sure we have all the correct options. >> Okay. We'll show it
014through the chair. Just >> don't worry about Title N uh medication for students or um >> admissions. Yeah. Admissions. >> Yes. Yes. Admissions. As soon as those are redlinined, I'll send those out to to everybody. >> Again, he'll reply back, Kyle will reply back with to Paul to answer some of the questions that come in just to make it a little bit quicker on the review for us so that next month when we have it in front of us, we should be able to hopefully get that approved and passed through. >> Okay. >> To the chair, how how long are we looking at for the admissions policy, do you think? estimate a couple months, one month. >> No, it should. No, it has to be in place for this year's admission. So, technically has to
015be in place for October. I'm hoping in the next two weeks to have that finalized, presented to you all and then, you know, talk about it in October and hopefully accept it. >> Should we get together as a policy committee when that is drafted? >> Absolutely. I think that it did. So, as soon as I have a a a good draft, I'll reach out to Peter to schedule a meeting that we can come together, look at that as a subcommittee, and then present it. And hopefully by that time, I'll have some feedback on the uh title N abuse uh molestation and um and the medication from our school nurse on that. So, that mean subcommittee would be able to review all three of those to present to. So there's there's a chance that we could
016wrap it all up next month if everything >> I know it's aggressive but I think that would be the best. >> So you're saying there's a chance? >> Yes. >> Perfect. >> Thanks Pete. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um F warrants subcommittee. So again warrants are going around. They are available to sign in between meetings. So, if you are available, I know there are members on the board that do make a chance up here to sign so we can pay the bills between, but just see if you can call ahead and someone is available to get you in there. Future business, we have a meeting in this room Monday, October 6, 7 p.m. Reach out to Leah, Kyle, or myself if you need to discuss or get something put on the agenda. And with that,
017we will do remarks from the superintendent director. >> Chair, just a couple remarks. Uh, a CTI update. CTI is a career tech initiative or we call career tech institute. Uh, on Wednesday, August 27th, the last of 115 interviews, total of 22 days were completed. We have selected 81 students officially into this fall's seven CTI program. So, I want to commend everybody who took part in that and getting that up and running. As you know, we just received just shy of $1.4 million to run round 10. So, huge kudos to that. Um, we talked about the student representative. We're selecting that. Our student advisory to the superintendent and principal will resume this month and we'll have the first meeting prior to the next school committee meeting on that. And we'll publish those dates. If any school
018committee member wants to or has the availability to attend, you're welcome to attend those meetings with the students. Um September 18th, we'll hold our college fair in the gym from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. At this time, we have 45 colleges and university signed up to attend. That's always a good time. And I just want to call out um on Saturday, September 20th, Lamro Ford is holding its 6th annual antique and muscle car show from 8 to 1. Uh so if you have a car you want to enter um you can and the vehicle entry fees that is collected will be donated to the big path head foundation all set >> that's it. >> Okay comments questions from the committee >> um just welcome back again and it's a great summer and looking forward to a
019a nice new year here. So >> excellent. Excellent. Doc, >> couple quick things. Um, there was during your freshman orientation, you gave out the yond pouches and the Chromebooks. >> How did that go last June collecting the yonder pouches? And were the Chromebooks collected or do they stay with the kids until they graduate? How does that work? >> I defer to the principal on how it went on that yonder pouches through the chair. Uh, yonder pouches were collected. It was quite a task in the last couple days of school. Obviously the seniors are first and the Chromebooks did stay with the students throughout the summer. That way we did not have to worry about we just had to take collect the seniors obviously because the senior class would have been re uh reallocated out to
020the freshman class. >> So as far as the houses were there, you know what's you know give me an approximate number as because they were expensive. >> Yeah, we got them all back every chased them down to the end. >> No. Yeah, we're very happy with the number we got back. They're in decent shape. >> Okay. And last thing, um, on the new hires, I saw you have a competent tree cabinet teacher hired. >> Um, is there a reason why they're dual certificate certified or are they dual certified or >> dual certification? Because we're just forecasting what the state is doing in terms of cabinetry and not updating the frameworks for cabinetry. So they will be eventually phasing out cabinetry. So staying ahead of that having someone who is due certified will be ahead of
021the curve. >> This person this person is >> this person will be certified in both. Right Jim? >> Correct. Yeah. So we're focusing on uh through the chair focusing on carpentry lure because has an extra construction supervisor license. Focusing on that first is the primary. >> Okay. So, do you foresee a timetable for that? You're you're saying you're >> We're monitoring it. We So, this is stage one with it. Um, we'll monitor it and I'll update if we're getting closer to, you know, an actual like we did with being on that. So, um, but yeah, we're looking to, you know, there's a initial thoughts are there's a place for finish work, which is cabinetry and, you know, uh, carpentry. So how do we how do we build that together and share the space and you
022know make it one robust >> many schools do combine the two. >> Yep. >> Right. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Hey uh want to wish everyone the best of luck this coming school year both faculty students and athletics teams. So uh best of luck to everyone. >> Excellent. Well, it's been very very thankful to see that everybody's returned from a safe summer and looking forward to this next school year. Okay. Thank you, George. I'm just welcome back to staff and students and um to piggy back on what Pete said. I hope everyone gets a great academic start and our sports teams do wonderfully and everyone stays safe and uh have a great school year. >> Katie, get off. Hey, >> say to the ditto. No, >> I just fig throw it out there. >>
023I'll set that. >> All right, Mary. >> Welcome back. And I just want to thank the policy staff. What a job you guys are doing. So, >> wow. >> Yeah. Where do you see the red lights? >> We're going to retire. >> Uh, I would just like to commend Mr. package for his video updates. Infectious enthusiasm, I think I would use his words to characterize those. Uh, and the little musical updates along with them. Thank you for those and keep them coming. >> Okay, great. >> Okay, Dave. >> Um, just a quick one, the um I really like the Bay Path core values. I think that's u always needed for every organization. So my question is, was there any thought about posting those in the classrooms? >> So yeah, I'll share we'll email this to
024you so you have a copy of it. I didn't make it, but uh we finalized what it is. So our plan is to put up posters as well as you know each month uh or two months because there's five throughout the year. So yep, rotate and and have presentations or announcements in the morning on that. But yeah, really embed it and have it posted all around. >> Okay. All right. Cool. Um, yeah, that's it. Welcome back. >> Okay, thank you. Real quick, thank you for electing me chair again. I couldn't be here last month. Um, I'm sure there's a long list of takers, but um, other than that, looking forward to this year. Welcome to the new members. Sorry I wasn't here last month to, you know, welcome you, but again, as you see, this
025is the nice way to get all this business done nice and quick. >> Yeah. With that, entertain a motion to adjurnn. I don't want to break the order. No move. Second. >> All right. Any discussion? Seeing none, call for the vote. All those in favor. >> All right. See you on