0017 o'clock. I'll call the May 5th meeting of the Southern Regional Regional School District Committee. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Okay. Fire Department regulation notice of proper exit. We have two exits located right here street of those and follow the emergency exit. If those are blocked, we can exit right through. Thank you. Minutes, regular meeting minutes, April 7, 2025. So move motion second. Any discussion, additions, deletion? I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? carry session of second full of warrants. They are going around. I don't see the book here now, but I do have the basket. So, make sure you sign those. We can pay our bills.
002Public hearing. Thanks, Kyle. Too late, mate. Too late now. Start over. I will yesterday. Yep. I went astray because I had the wrong agenda. It's not there. That's why. All right. Explanation of school choice through the chair. Interd district school choice program under general law chapter 76 subsection 12B allows families to enroll their children in schools and communities other than this other than the city or town which they reside. Tuition is paid by the sending district to the receiving district. Districts may elect not to enroll school choice students if no space is available. It's the superintendent and business manager's recommendation that southern Wy County Regional Vocational School District not allow school choice. So reason being we have short reason being we have a wait list of in district students to the tune of about 600
003students. So, any questions from the committee or public regarding schools? Is this one of these opposite votes? Yes, no, no, yes. This is just the public hearing board just to answer any questions. There'll be a vote in the regular meeting agenda for this. Being no questions or comments, I can entertain a motion to adjourn the public hearing that I move. Second motion and a second. Any discussion? None. All those in favor of returning the public hearing. Opposed. Okay. It's the second of this regular meeting now. All right. Approval of warrants is where I'm going to pick it up because we did already do the approval of minutes order. Uh they are going around. I will entertain a motion to approve the warrants. Motion in the second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote.
004All those in favor? Opposed? Carries. Review budget year to date expenditure report through April 2025. The chair. We submit our expenditure reports year to date. If you have any questions, school uh school business manager Cindy SC is here to any questions for Cindy regarding the budget report presented. Okay. If there are any that come up, feel free to reach out to Kyle or city directly. She is on top of it. We go on the correspondence. Nothing. Nothing. Okay. No correspondence tonight. And item G, student advisory committee. Tonight we have Matt with us, which is his last meeting with us because he will be graduating at the end of the month. So want to say thank you for the eight meetings. I think we just counted together that you offered insight and input. Thank you very
005much for that. And with that, what do you have for us tonight? Uh so good evening everyone. I have a few things to talk about before I say my final goodbyes and continue to college. Uh I just wanted to say congrats to all our Skills USA participants and give a big round of applause to those that moved on to nationals by earning gold in their competition. Uh I wanted to say with Memorial Day coming up, I'd like to say thank you to anyone who served and you're greatly appreciated for your sacrifices. Uh, college AP tests begin this week going on into the next and I'll be part of these taking AP environmental, AP calculus, and AP English. Good luck to everyone in those tests. Uh, senior finals begin this week. Senior prom is all set
006and planned to take place at Wus Mountain next Friday, May 16th, and I for one can't wait to be there. Uh, the senior class trip is May 27th. We will be going to High Meadows by some other senior classes for a day full of fun. The seniors and I end our four-year journey through high school on May 30th with DCU Center. It's been a great experience, but one I can't wait to be done. This is unfortunately going to be my last meeting with all of you. I will be going on to Marramac College to pursue mechanical engineering and eventually gain a career in that. I just want to say thank you to all the great people on this committee and being your student representative has been nothing short of eye. Being involved in the committee
007by hearing out issues has taught me so much more about what really goes into our school system. Everyone here works tireless tire tirelessly to provide for not only the students but the faculty and staff as well is truly impressive. Thank you all for this experience and I wish you the best for any future endeavors. Thank you. That was something from Thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Good luck. Can't wait to open it. Oh, that's nice. office. Oh, wow. Oh, this is cool. That's beautiful. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now for your last meeting, we start with another hour and a half. All right, moving on to old business, which there is none tonight. Citizen participation. Sorry, we're the parents. He didn't even know we were coming. I know.
008I'm sorry. No, I was trying to I'm not going to embarrass your promise. I'll just say my Thank you for sharing them with us. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Appreciate it. Any other citizen participation tips? No. Okay. Moving on to new business recognitions through the chair. Uh I just want to call out our students that did a wonderful job. You can see the names of all participants, 40 something participants that took part uh to showcase their skills this past weekend at the state skills. I'll call out the students that uh meddled this weekend. Cabinet Making bronze, Jordan Russell. CNC programmer silver. Hunter Kums. Skills USA alumni and friends scholarship goes to Amelia White. Job skill demonstration silver. Lexi Harris. Plumbing gold. Jameson Burke. Teamwork silver. Carlos Laurano. Nicholas Jabbert. Edward Flash. Web design
009gold. Vincent Vanam. Nay Ray. First aid postsecary gold lei. Medical terminology postsecary silver Natasha Roman and medical terminology post secondary gold Ashley. The gold medalist will represent Massachusetts at the Skills USA national leadership and skills conference in Atlanta, Georgia this June. Um so congratulations to the gold medal winners and we wish them luck at nationals and I want to thank all of the participants as well as the adviserss and the teachers that went to support them this past weekend. So, congratulations on that. Second up for recognitions, I want to recognize uh a ninth grade student from Charlton, Tatiana Smolinsky. Uh Tatiana is a Beam student who's also part of our school newspaper, but took the opportunity through experience on the school newspaper to submit to the South Bridge Press and have one of her articles
010recently published in the Southbridge Press. a phenomenal job that Tatiana is doing as well as the advisors of the school newspaper on that. Um, next up I want to call out I received from Lind Dyer the human resource director at the town of Charlton a letter for our practical nursing students. I wanted to take the time to thank you all for attending the Charlton Health and Wellness Fair. We hope everyone was able to have fun and enjoy the day. Without all of you attending, the fair would not be possible. Thank you for helping us educate our employees of the importance of health and wellness and being part of our wellness fair. So, congratulations to our practical nurses. Uh this past weekend, we had over 300 students come in and take the placement test. Over 17
011participants from staff who staffed it. And uh this is why we do what we do. We received from a parent shortly after the test. Hello, Miss Packard. I want to take a moment to pass along how impressed I was this morning when I brought my daughter for her placement test. I had the pleasure of meeting you briefly and it was refreshing to see your genuine excitement for your incoming class of freshmen. Watching you greet and congratulate as many students as you could left me with an overwhelming feeling of gratitude that our daughter has the opportunity to join your community. On top of that, my daughter left feeling welcomed already based on how personable all of your staff were throughout the process. We're looking forward to the next four years at Bayat. Thank you again for
012making today such an exciting experience for my daughter. Congratulations. Uh next up, PayPal Ed Foundation awarded I won't call out all the names, but we awarded over $15,000 in scholarships for tools in higher education uh to our students. So, congratulations to all of them. I think next up we have a quick video of the fantastic Spring Explore, which I mentioned in the director's report, but uh I thought you'd all get a joy out of seeing this. All right. Where's the play? You have to rewind. Apologize. Progress. Okay, it's not there. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. So wonder why we got 600 people on the wait list. So congratulations to all those who took part in that and put that on. And lastly, I'd be remiss if I didn't recognize our very own Mr.
013James Trip Kabicious who I was recently notified has fulfilled our requirement for a curriculum and teaching masters of education degree at Pittsburgh State. So congratulations Thank you. All right. Again, recognition right over here. Moving on to presentations. We have a presentation of the 2024 2025 house project update. Sure. Uh so through the chair, uh the memo goes into greater detail. Uh electrical and plumbing has been rough has been signed off. uh carpentry insulation inspection was last week. Uh this past week the um the drywall went up into this week. Hopefully by the time Friday comes around, the plastering will be all set and then that's on to painting and whatnot. Um few hangups. Uh the national grid, we're waiting on a homeowner easement for the for the pole for electrical. Um and in terms of
014drywall and painting, so drywall is obviously done, but painting um before we put in the cabinets and whatnot. So, few little hang-ups there, but not on our part. That's more on the uh the vendors and the outside contractors with the homeowners. So, we're moving forward. Any questions regarding the update? Okay. Number two, MCCAST update, the competency determination. Hello. Hello. I know I've met you all. I'm Dr. Mcuan, the curriculum coordinator. I'm Liz Ortiz. I'm the testing coordinator here at the school. Nice to meet you. Welcome. So, we are seeking approval of our new CD requirement. Um, it was has been put on the district to determine what we shall do with that since uh the ballot passed November. So, yeah. So, since the ballot has passed in November, MCCAST are no longer passing MCCAST are
015no longer required for uh graduation. So, um, DESIE, the Department of Education has asked school districts to come up with our own, um, competency determination plan. So, we're here tonight to just tell you a little bit about that plan. We would like to ask, um, students in the graduating class of 2027 and beyond to uh, complete a skills plan if they don't pass uh, uh, MCCAST. And um those skill plans are all they have to they include ELA, algebra, geometry, and bio. So they would be able to take a plan in any of those subjects. Why do we choose a skill plan? Well, the most important reason why is because it is aligned to the Massachusetts standards and so aren't the MCAST. So these particular skill plans through as I said, they are aligned to
016the Massachusetts standards. They're cost effective. We're already using ISL. That's what we use this weekend when we did our placement testing with our students. Some of the students from our sending districts use. So, a lot of the students are already familiar with the platform. Uh the data is reliable and um it's students can work independently at their own pace and um yeah, it's unbiased. So, so the tricky part of this is that we have um some groups of students who have been caught in the middle of this. This change came through suddenly and um our current seniors are about to graduate. We have a couple who still had an MCCAST to pass, but and then we have some in the junior class. The commissioner told us, Kyle and I met uh went to the webinar
017um the live webinar with the commissioner and they are no longer allowing students to retest for MCCAST. You can no longer prove that you have these competencies in these areas by taking the test again after studying and having interventions and all that. Um that's not an option. So um that's where we came up with the skill plan. It's still the burden is now on us as a school district to find a way to prove that these students are proficient in these standards even though they cannot retest an MPS. Um the students in the senior and junior class now, especially the seniors, obviously they're about to cross the stage. They've been attending um after school tutoring. They've been receiving interventions um and they've been working hard anticipating that they would take MCCAST again this year, but
018we're not allowed to give it to them. So, um I am asking that we are able to just use um all the coursework they did, the assessments they did within the tutoring programs and all the hard work they've done over the last couple of years um to prepare for retest if we can use that for them because it's too late to do a skill plan. Um and then the class of 2027, as Liz said, um we want them to do the full skill plan. However, we do have a a little um percentage of students who as freshmen, they took the biology MCAST last year, they did not find success yet. We scheduled them into a biology uh part two class this year again in anticipation that they'll be able to retest and they took that
019away from them. And so, they've now spent a whole year studying biology again. And I am asking that we allow them to use their course grades, their assessments, and all of that for a year worth of curriculum instead of making them do a skill plan because obviously it's no fault of their own that things change at the state level. Um so once we get over that hump 2020 um 2027, we'll be good to go. Um, is great because it already has for each standard um, uh, bar that they meet for proficiency and it's neutral. It's out of our hands. It's not one person saying, "Yeah, they should graduate." Um, and I think it'll be the best way to go. I'll leave copies of some of the skills plans here. I printed some if anybody wants
020to peruse them later. It's important also to note that um we will continue for now um short term to use leverage the afterchool tutoring to um assist these students and get them one-on-one help with their skill plan if we move forward with this because we still do not have intervention blocks in our master schedule. We are working on that with our scheduling committee. We're working on a plan to have intervention during the day because um nobody loves the fact that students are in school all day, then they stay after school and they're still working on it when we can try to find ways to fit that into the school day. Um because obviously if a student wants to be employed, play sports, things like that, when they're in tutoring after school multiple days a week,
021they don't have all those opportunities. Um so we are looking to build in those intervention blocks. And if a student is diligent, if they we alert them as soon as we are allowed to, as soon as the data is no longer embargoed. Um if they're diligent, they come to school um and they work on that skill plan with a highly qualified instructor. They can do it in as little as 5 months, but it could take as long as a year and a half to get it done. Obviously, if they have their um sight set on co-op, we want them to, you know, find that success and be able to, you know, be eligible junior year for co-op. So, it is possible if they do are committed to coming and getting that plan done that they
022can still do co-op junior year. Um, and we will meet them where they're at. Um, in the rare case when they can't come after school because perhaps they help their family a lot, whatever the situation may be, we'll do our best to meet them where they're at and find a way. But most kids, almost all kids do come after school right now. And basically, um, once it's approved, our CD requirement, we will add it to the, um, program of studies. we'll add it to our website and we will of course notify the families who have been patiently waiting for us to come up with a plan since all of this changed. Um you didn't find out that you couldn't retest our MCCAST until even like January. So we have in the last couple months been
023working really hard to come up with what we think is equitable and practical for our students who work hard every day. Um, and we would love to be able to notify the families immediately if possible and the students. Yeah. Yeah. They're waiting. The students have been asking too. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions for question is I online? Yes. So it's on my platform that they'll use during the day or is it expected after school as part of their tutoring? Well, the skill plan specifically for MCCAST this coming school year would be after school. Okay. But again, we would like to build in with a new master schedule. We would like to build in interventional watch day so they could get done during the day. We are using in addition to the
024skill pin. All students are able to use to practice their skills in um science, math and English. Um anyway, so we use it for other purposes as well. Okay. And this will be for all students across the board, even multilingual learners in our special ed population. This is going to be their path or are they still going to do a portfolio? What is that? Nope. Nope. This is the path. And um is great because it can translate in 80 languages. Um the audio part of it is only Spanish um as of right now, but they're working on um being in audio for the other 79 languages. Additionally, you can add in um accommodations for students who are special ed. So there's speech to text, there's calculators, there's all kinds of things just like we would
025be able to implement for MCAST testing. And we did utilize that. Miss Ortiz um you you know worked on that for the placement testing that just happened this weekend as well. So we tried out some of those accommodations. So we can build those supports in. Thank you. Uh the intervention blocks, do they have anything to do with taking time out of shop or religion? No. That's why we want them. Okay. because we want to build in time during the day so that we don't have to pull them out of other things. Okay. Um currently we do have to pull students out of things out of trade or of different academic classes. There are times when we have to to give them supports and we would prefer to just build it in. It gives everybody an
026opportunity to work on skills. So if they're not working on a skill plan for MCAST, they might be working on other employability skills. We're talking about offering seminars and all kinds of stuff for all students to build their skills um for academic and vocational purposes. And I'm sure you realize that they hate to leave Yeah. the shop. Of course, we went through that many years ago and it wasn't very successful because of that. It's a punishment at that point. Punitive. Definitely. Absolutely. So, we we want to avoid that at all costs. Uh what's the reason why they cannot retake the test? because because um MCCAST is no longer a a graduation requirement even though you can use MCCAST to satisfy the CD requirement. It's not required to graduate. So, I don't know why they decided
027to not let students have another try at the test to prove it. I guess they want to avoid that situation where the kids keep retesting and retesting. That's part of the reason why people I think voted to not have it be a graduation requirement, but it still is our burden to show proficiency either way. Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, a lot of us school districts have been asking that, right? You know, it could have been an option, but it's not an option. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? I mean, I want to tell you it was a great presentation. Thank you. Yes. Thank you for your consideration. So want to entertain a motion to approve the the competency determination as as presented. Okay. So I'll entertain a motion to approve. Okay. Second. Have
028a motion to second. Any discussion? None. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed. car opposed. Yes. Thank you. A C superintendent evaluation. Great job, guys. Good job. The chair. The school committee is tasked with evaluating the superintendent yearly for negotiation subcommittee meant to review and refine my goals prior to the acceptance by the full school committee earlier this year. The school committee provided with a blank copy of the superintendent evaluation form and follow evidence of that conflict. Uh once all evaluations are received, the results will be tallied by the chairman. The report will be prepared to be read and discussed at the school meeting in June. So uh prior to this evening's meeting, I emailed all school committee members a copy of my end of the year report in alignment with the
029goals as we go through it. I also advise to open it electronically because of all the hyperlinks to the evidence and the data and the information on it. And I also caution that um I know many of you forward your APA email to your personal account. It's easier. However, going through that way will sometimes prevent access to the shared files. So I advise that you use your direct BAB email account because their shared files and those credentials will allow the opening of the data and the reports that are cited as evidence. And I do want to thank you all for allowing me to lead such a phenomenal community. I look forward to your uh evaluation and reflective feedback. Okay. Thank you. I believe for a time frame I'd like to see if we can get
030these evaluations completed and I know it's the Friday of Memorial Day weekend but we'll just say uh May 23rd having those submitted to Leah at which point then I will set up a meeting to come in and start tabulating a group that will give us four days prior to meeting so we have information. Um one thing I am working on I actually sent Kyle and I received it from from Don just as a uh basically a timeline for all of us is to set a standard operating procedure for the superintendent evaluation. That way there's a known timeline to us as the committee to Kyle as a superintendent or the next superintendent or whoever it may be and then there's no guesswork. Are we getting midyear goals? Are we seeing what they are for negotiation? It's
031just to set a standard operating procedure that I think will help streamline and answer the steps throughout the process. We'll still need to get that information, but we'll have deliverable dates for everyone to go. So, Kyle and I were actually talking about that earlier today. Um, we're going to try and refine a little bit of what we have and then present it. I I don't know if it'll be next month, but in the uh in the next coming meet. So, please uh do the best you can to get that into us by the 23rd so we can get a fair and accurate evaluation for Kyle. Right. There's no motion for that. So, moving on to appointment of district treasurer to school chair. The superintendent, director, and the business manager recommend the appointment of Katherine Cammy
032as the new district treasurer effective June 1st, 2025 at the salary of $23,600 per fiscal year. Miss Lama will act as the district treasurer entering from May 1st through June 30th, 2025. So have a motion and a second. Any discussion? I'll call for the vote. All those in favor. Any background for um Yes. So uh background information on Miss Lama. She was a former business longtime uh school business manager uh in locally locally and she is also the treasurer treasurer for at least two other school districts currently. Um so her yeah her credentials are outstanding. She has a she has a CPA and also um our auditor scan highly recommend her. They've used her on some of the state um projects they've been working on to do some of the reporting finance reporting for those
033as well. also highly recommended by our auditors as well. Thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion that we don't miss? I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. E. Approval of FY26 non-residential vocational tuition rates to the chair. The superintendent director and the school business manager recommend the school committee vote that our non-resident tuition rate for school year 2526 be set at $19,476. That our non-resident special education tuition rate for school year 2526 be set at $21,500. That the rate for non-resident transportation, if necessary, be based on our contract for transportation for the school year 25 26 by assessing a pr-rated share of the route or by assessing the actual cost of individual transportation. So move second. Have a motion and second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote.
034All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. F. Approval of budget transfers includes revolving accounts. Through the chair, the superintendent director of the school business manager recommend that the school committee vote to authorize transfers to balance the accounts including revolving accounts for the date ending April 28, 2025. Simple second. Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? How are we saving so much on electricity? Um, I'm going to let the city talk. I think there was Yeah. So, when the when the budget was made for FY25, uh, there was an extra 100,000 that account that probably should not have been. So, that's the rationale for that. So, um, we're decreasing it for next year's budget. Any other discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. G. Approval of out
035of state field trip one cosmetology Connecticut Barber Expoville, Connecticut. Mr. Chair, the director, vocational director, and the principal recommend vote to approve cosmetology out of state field trip to the Barber Expo in Hunusville, Connecticut, May 19th, 2025. Second. A motion and a second. Any discussion? I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Carries. Two. Drafting Lake Compounds Bristol, Connecticut. To the chair, the superintendent director, the vocational director, and the principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the drafting field trips to education engineering day at Lake Compounds Management Park in Bristol, Connecticut on May 23rd and May 29th. Second motion and a second. Any discussion? Quick question. Assuming it's a typo 23rd sophom freshman soft junior possibly, right? Okay. Okay. Any other discussion? Al, what is the lake come from? It's an amusement
036park in Connecticut. So, just retired. They they have an engineering day where the plant engineers talk to the students about the physics and all the engineering that go into the rides roller coaster. That's when you do draft thing on top. Any other? All right. All those in favored Harry H. Surplus equipment building and property maintenance to the chair. The superintendent director, the vocational director, and the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to place one dovetail machine in working order valued at $500 on the surplus equipment list to be disposed of according to the school committee surplus equipment policy using the most appropriate method available. So move second. Motion and second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. I approval of participation in Skills
037USA Nationals Conference. To the chair, the superintendent director, the location director, the practical nursing director, the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to allow three payout students, two practical nursing students, two adviserss, two instructors, chaperons, and an expected three administrators, two school committee members, and one PM administrator to attend the Skills USA national conference in Atlanta, Georgia from June 23rd to the 27th, 2025 for costs for secondary students of up to 27,2 $200 to be paid out of account number 53, Skills USA, and the cost for PN students of $6,450 to be paid out of account number 12334, Skills US expense. So, a motion and second. Any discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Approval of outside projects the canned field south. To the
038chair, the superintendent director and the vocational director recommend the school committee vote to approve the outside projects for the can field in South Bridge, Mass, as submitted. So second motion with a second. Any discussion? What is the project? What does it involve? Must be the field. Yep. So it's at the field. is to replace a set of exterior stairs at the field press box. So the the stairs to the press box at the canfield are deteriorating. So carpentry students um teacher went over looked at it and said it's definitely something we can do. Very good. Thank you. Any other discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay. vote to participate in the school choice. The chair should director recommends the school committee vote not to participate in
039the school choice for the 2526 school year. Second have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Carries. L. Approval for revision to 2025 2026 school calendar through the chair. Uh no school day when a full day of PD for staff scheduled for May 1st, 2026 was inadvertently omitted from the 2526 school calendar. Due to this addition, the last day of school will now be on Monday, June 15, 2026. The superintendent director and the principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the 2526 school calendar revisions as presented. So move second motion a second. Any discussion? Being none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. M. Approval of job description for additional assistant principal through the chair. The superintendent
040director and the principal recommend the school committee vote go to approve the proposed job description for an additional assistant principal as submitted. So move a motion and second. Any discussion? This this is a new position obviously. Is this part of the proposed budget for next year or is this next year's added position for next year or Yes, it would be added for next year. Um we did review the school budget and we have enough in there to cover this position. So uh going down the line in future years you are you leaning towardmies is that is that where this is going you know u and I know you can't you know say for sure but you did with guidance this year I think you went to programs that each one is responsible for. Is that
041is that what this is going to similar to what they do with the tech? I wouldn't say so much as leading down the road tomies as it is to meet the needs of our students u the responsibilities of all the you know different administrators. So this this one if you look at the job description there is a focus on u you know testing you know uh and data you know someone in charge of all that. So it's more in alignment with having the assistant principal's responsibility. So one in charge of all crisis management planning and and presenting, one in charge of social emotional supports for students and one in charge of you know testing and data on on those. So it's alignment with those. It's also offers u you know more access to administrators who
042can address disciplinary and social emotional you know crisises that occur. So someone available is waiting on that. So we have more people available to address those needs as well. Um and it was one thing sorry but so it's in alignment with the responsibility. Oh evaluations the evaluations that our administrators do uh it allows for you know lightening the load. Thus they can go deeper into their evaluations and you know spend more time on coaching and things like that. So you have a testing administrator now, but do you have someone that's responsible for the MPS testing and like testing and data, right? Okay. So that job responsibility will now become the assistant principles. Mhm. So is that position going to be limited? We're looking at how we collapse it. This will only be presented or posted
043internally. So we're looking to pro promote from within. So how that lays out we'll work on on how that that comes out to play. Thank you. Any other discussion? Done. How many assistant principles do we currently two? Any other questions? Being none. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. All right. Information and proposals report from the superintendent director to the chair. I submitted a written report if there's any questions. So I'm happy to answer those now. Okay. Thank you. Subcommittee reports. Audit subcommittee. Joe, nothing to report. Thank you. Budget subcommittee. Tim is not here tonight but as we know the budget work was done previously last month so nothing new to report building and grounds hasn't met this year negotiation subcommittee date is not here high level uh so yes
044we we initiated the par professionals contracts and those have now been postponed Y policy subcommittee I'm not skipping you this month I swear um policy subcommittee did meet on April 14th with Tracy Novak. Um we were we are continuing um and doing our best to complete the policies. We our next meeting I believe is May 27. Yeah. So we have quite a few meet still left but uh we've been chipping away and growers. Excellent. Thank you. Warrant subcommittee. Uh warrants are available for signatures by all school committee members at the monthly meetings and during the day of the school. Please call before you come in to make sure someone's available if you choose to come up during the middle of the week to come. Uh with that, we have future business of our next school
045committee meeting. We'll be here June 2nd, 700 p.m. Talks to the future agenda. Reach out to Leah, myself, and Kyle, and we will do our best to accommodate to get it on the agenda. Um with that we have a remarks from the superintendent director. Sure to the chair first I want to congratulate and uh more importantly thank Matthew for being on the uh the student representative in the school. Matthew it's been a pleasure meeting with you every month to discuss uh how things are going and getting also uh on the student body. So thank you for that. uh and I must say that you're genuinely and truly a kind individual and you have a very bright future ahead of you. I wish you all the best. Uh I want to remind everybody that we have
046a wonderful Memorial Day ceremony uh scheduled for May 22nd. U so I look forward to that. Our model a club wester county is coming back for the students the dates and superintendent director report on that. Uh, I want to thank our our teachers and our staff. Uh, if you didn't notice, it is teacher appreciation week. We combined together all our staff. Everybody plays an important role in the school. And I sent a letter out to the entire staff with my heartfelt thank you for all that they do every day for all of our students. Um, and this week we if you've been keeping dabs, we do little puns each day. Uh yesterday was uh well today is the first day of a pen day pen for everybody uh and thanking them all for being incredible.
047Uh so we have a surprise every day for them culminating with the largest surprise on uh Friday of this week. So we look forward to celebrating you know just a little token of our appreciation for all that teachers and staff do. We couldn't do it without and I think you see with our way and all the recognitions just how u how many fantastic opportunities we present to our students uh every day and again we couldn't do that with everybody you know was pulling in the same direction on that so I thank them all for that so thank the teacher this week thank you caught me off guard you I was I'm going to go this way tonight. Helen. Okay. I just wanted to congratulate all the um all of our students who did so well
048at skills and they wanted to thank Mr. Trick for um putting together with the Harrington Hospital Auxiliary um a nice presentation and lunchon here last week. Three of our students presented in the area of their expertise in medtech and our members found it very interesting and um also wanted to say goodbye to Matt and best wishes have a great life. Thank you. Thank you. No, I also want to echo everyone's feelings Matthew. Thank you for your contributions this year. Best of luck to you at Marramac and and beyond. Um, also congratulations to all the skill award winners and of course thanks Kyle for pointing out teacher appreciation week. Thank you to all our teachers and and administration for everything that you do to make that path great. It's really it doesn't go unnoticed. Um, I
049also just want to say thank you to everyone. Um, given that Rland's election is next Monday and I'm not on the ballot. Um, after six years I've decided to to to move on. Uh, but I want to thank everyone for everything you do on this committee. I've really enjoyed the experience. Um, I know my successor will be familiar to many of you. U I'm I'm predicting it will be my successor. He's all opposed on the ballot, so I don't want to jump a gun on it, but uh your name Mr. Pantos will be joining uh I think um back on the committee. But uh thank you to everyone um administration, teachers for all your valuable feedback along the way. Um Kyle, you know, it's chair working with you so closely. Um you know, I I
050have a great appreciation for what you do for the school. So please continue it as well as everyone. So thank you. Can I say one more thing? Yeah. Go back. Yes. I won't be on the ballot either. So after 21 years on the school committee, I decided that someone else might like to do this and I hope we get a good candidate. So our election is June 10th not on the ballot which is unusual on the ballot but thanks for everything from everyone. I said great experience. I'm thankful. Thank you. I knew I should have gone late. Mary, I don't think you're gonna talk that. So, yeah. I'm just gonna wish Matthew the best of luck. Um, and Marramac, happy teachers appreciation to all the awesome teachers here at that work so hard to make
051this school as great as it is. So, thank you for your work hard work. Thank you. Done. I'm not on the ballot either, but it's okay. It's not not a re-election issue. Wow, this corner is getting lonely, but yeah, just thanks for thanks for being part of the group, man. You know, brought a lot, you know, a lot of, you know, information that normally we're not privy to. Um, you know, and certainly enjoy your participation. Thank you. Also, thank you teacher appreciation exciting time for you guys. And Marie, congratulations. It's so nice to have you here perspective. Congratulations to all the students winners. That's awesome. a huge group is very well. Thank you, Jim. Uh I'm on not on the ballot either, but Matthew, best wishes in your endeavors and studies. And as you're designing
052the future, remember us old folks here that have to deal with that technology that you're going to design. Thank you for the teachers uh and your your endeavors too to keep everybody straight. After having about 4,000 students last week at B at full service village, you earn everything you can get. That's it. That's all I can. Good luck, Matt. Thank you very much for your participation this year and success in your college career. Uh also want to thank the skills winners or and everyone who participated um and good luck for their continued competition. Yeah. All right. Just get home. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you for participating. Um Helen and Joe, thanks for your service. Very much appreciate it. Helen, thanks for letting me be vice chairman of this taxi role, I must tell you.
053But uh handle it. Um thank all our veterans this month. Very important. Um and thank all our teachers. So thank you very much. First, I'd like to thank all the teachers for everything they do. Um Joe, uh thank you for your time here. I know you're very dedicated to it. You're very committed. You're always well prepared. Helen, we'll get to see you next month. Uh and again, Matt, best of luck to you. Good luck to your future. Thank you to our colleagues who are saying retiring. appreciate the hard work that you've done and appreciate our service together. Uh on May 1st, uh Spencer held his annual town meeting and the budget from Bay Path was approved. I think that was the first one. First one. So all the others will go smoothly. I'm sure uh
054thank you to the teachers for the dedication to our students and good luck all those heads USA been a pleasure nice working with both of you over the years I know Helen will see you again next month thank you I had the pleasure to be at skills on Friday as with judges What a great group of kids. I can say it's quite an experience just to see it. So, congratulations to all the skilled winners. Great job. And Matthew, been a pleasure sitting next to you here this year. You're going to do a great job. You're a great kid. Parents, you did an awesome job. He's a He's a great guy. I can tell. So, you did a nice job. Raise a nice young man. So, good luck with everything. Good luck. Matt, your turn. I'm
055gonna let you thank everybody back. Thank you for all your kind words. I I don't even know what to say, but just like thank you. I mean, it's been an honor being on this committee and being a part of this. And I mean, thank you everybody. And I hope you all take your name. Don't put it on your own room door. Al, before I speak, I'll let you speak next. Well, first I want to give Matt all of the wishes for happiness, success, and safety. and knowing all the I wasn't on the ballot this year and I missed it. But Bob wrote in my name and a lot of my other friends have also coed wrote in my name. So hopefully I'll be back here. Uh we know we got our day coming up on
056the 22nd and I see on the card it said 10:00 a.m. instead of 9. So, I'm going to tell all of my veterans at Wednesday's meeting that it'll be 10:00, the DAB will be 10:00. And I especially want to thank all of the staff and teachers for everything that they do with Bay Path. They make that they make that a shining star and having lost my best friend Al Reach which we will memorialize with him on the 22nd. So I thought about all of this school being the number one star. So, I made a star. It will be presented at the 22nd when we do the memoriam for Al. And it's truly a blessing as my boy boys both graduated here. My grandson graduated here. So, it really has a solid solid part in me.
057And I'm a graduate of the old wister boy trade. And that's exactly where our superintendent came from. So there's a lot of ties that makes me feel a part of Bay Path and that's why I have the debate path on bottom of the star that will include everybody from Bay Path and Al's family I'm sure will be very pleased with that. So thank you all. Thank you. So I can do it last now by I can't upage you quite often. But um again Matt can't say thanks enough this this year you did pay attention all the service you saw when you get done with college feel free to go volunteer on the board whatever town you decide to sometimes good sometimes bad but always you know always rewarding. So just you know bear this experience
058in mind for a future endeavor because you don't have to be old to do it as you see I mean but again giving back is where where it matters you know take that from this experience real uh teachers again you know where I was going with this thank you is last Friday we had our third and final meeting for the year of the working group that we put together uh We've hammered on a lot of issues. We made a lot of points. Whether they've all been solved or not, we're not going to solve them right away. And I I think I speak for Nicole and and Miss Mac here at the same time that we had a good meeting this last time. Uh we've laid the stage for next year already. We've planned for three
059with the option of four, trying to do it quarterly if needed. The hopes of that fourth one if we do have it being the last one. Those are pie in the sky dreams. I'm hoping we get there. We have that chance to do so. So that that communication is still getting fostered. We're still seeing that we've got things on both sides of the table that we need to listen to. So it's really starting to progress, I think. Are we there yet? No. But are we close? Absolutely. So with that, I mean, I I thank everybody for their involvement in that, everyone allowing us to do that. The board here, you know, if anyone wants to volunteer next year, please keep that in mind because it is a good thing to sit in on. uh they
060are during the day so it's a little bit tough for some schedules. I understand that but it's something I encourage you to think about. I know Bob has said it too out of the the three we had. You know, you get to hear everything. So with that being said, we do have to walk on an item tonight for executive session for contract negotiations. And I'm going to entertain a motion that the school committee vote 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 detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and to reconvene in open session only for so declared. Thank you. Second motion second. So that'll be a roll
061call vote to go into the executive session. This vote right here will just be to add it to the agenda which any discussion with that is the agenda. I'll call for the vote add the agenda. All those in favor opposed. Okay. It's now on the agenda. So item G executive session again for the purpose of MGL chapter 38 section 21A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigated position of the public body and to reconvene an open session only for adjournment. So as a roll call vote I will call Katie is absent. Joe Becker yes. Al Be Caldwell yes. Jesseline is absent. Don Gillette, yes. Dave Fier, absent. Mary, yes. Yes. Helen, yes. Don Bonville, yes. And Marie, yes. Peter
062Peters, yes. Tim is absent. George Scob. Bob Trembley. Yes. Jeff Wel, yes. Okay, with that, we are going to move into executive session.