001with that Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of Al to un States of America the stands na indivisible fire department regulations exits the chair if there's um an emergency we have two exits located right over here if those are blocked we right through here follow the exit s thank you uh D FY 26 budget through the chair I'll present our FY 26 proposed baypath budget so the next uh our funding sources Chapter 70 and 71 estimates are based on the governor's budget submitted January 2025 estimated Chapter 70 funding for FY 2026 is 14,5 $6 5,886 our estimated chapter 71 funding for FY 26 is 1,375 37 375 375 dollar sorry that's going uh these are preliminary estimates subject to change based on how the budget makes it through the house and the Senate I don't want
002the next slide impact on bayth here you see our Chapter 70 our minimum contribution for both FY 26 and fy2 as well as our required net School spending so there's an increase of 112,000 um roughly on our Chapter 70 and increase of 388,000 um on our minimum contribution overall required net School spending has gone up just over 500,000 um on that and then information FY 26 total budget for assessments is 30 million U yeah 30, 29872 Our member toal assessments are at the minimum our budget includes a debt service assessment of$ 1, 15523 our operational budget does not require Municipal funds above the minimum contributions by our membering communities Our member assessment total is 13,665 798 although the assessments are at the minimum it's important to note that the required minimum contributions that each Town
003must contribute have increased collectively by just over $388,000 our member Town's Transportation assessment has increased by $345,100 to partially offset an even higher increase some of our financial highlights total Chapter 70 revenue is 14,565 1886 our school choice assessment is $293,700 75 the use of $75,000 from excess and deficiency received to continue funding oped liability and in FY 24 the district missed missed its net School spending requirements by$ 66,9 the FY 26 budget contains in a proportion of 500,000 from and to reduce that shortfall and the next slide if you can read it um this is our statement of Assessments in the 26 proposed operating budget um so at the top you can see operational total budget is 26,6 110,111 uh that's composed of our Chapter 70 just over 14.5 million our school choice assessment
004that's negative because we pay that out that's 293,2mb is 11.6 million um we have no assessment over the minimum required local contribution our interest in earnings is 150,000 and we're offsetting our opet by 75,000 from end and our andd med school spending Gap um we're offsetting with 500,000 as well the transportation budget the total is 2,359 chapter 71 is 1,375 375 and our & assessment reduces that by2 $ 6,531 uh for a total assessment of 500,000 to our towns Debt Service you can see again that our principal is higher than our interest uh and that comes out to 1,552 sou ,3 um no Capital no sewer betterment fee and our FY 26 budget for assess assessment is $3,298 721 the school Choice gets added back in so the total operating budget with school choice is
005$3,592 510 um and again you can see our operating budget of U FY 26 of 30 point Just sh $3.3 million on that so some of our budget highlights we're adding a new diesel vocational program with two instructors we have one instructor on this year and next year we'll increase that to um we're adding 10 part-time student summer positions these are student positions that will help uh with buildings and grounds maintenance over the summer uh and we'll add a vocational instructional coach as well as ADD uh uh health and dental vocational Aid and contractual wage increases have been built in for all our employees and our health insurance did see an 18% increase this year um that is IND indry standard uh some school districts are seeing 20 to 21 over the last several years
006we haven't seen an increase in our healthc care um and one year we even got a redate on that um so in talking with uh the Hampshire board we're seeing this across they've since realized that in those good years rather than not have an increase they'll do a marginal increase on that so that we're not facing such a a drastic increase as year um but uh many of the schools are seeing double digit um in the 20s on that so 18% this year we'll continue to use our SOA funds to provide significant professional development to all our staff especially the programs focused on social emotional issues with our students the use of the SOA funds to provide programs and speakers to students to address issues such as buing bias mental health and War other budget
007highlights our supply and material accounts have been funded to account for continued inflation and some of the larger shop equipment purchases will be a steaming oven for a culinary arts landscape utility vehicle for property uh building Property Maintenance updated student workstations for our HVAC students and a frame machine for our automotive cision department as well part of our budget um calculations is the Freshman seat allocation so we're allocating 330 seats for a freshman this year that's an increase of five additional students over 325 last year you can see the breakdown this is calculated by the school age children population in each one of our 10 Towns for a total of 17695 and then we figure out the percentage makeup and allocate the seats accordingly so uh we'll see that Auburn has the largest number of
008seats available this year at 48 and see going down the the list there the next slide is our foundation enrollment for bayth so this is a total number of students enrolled by uh each town so uh all grades in this and you can see the difference from FY 25 as well as FY 26 on it so uh overall there'll be a slight decrease in total foundational en on you just put that back okay can just refresh my memory if you would please um when the to I'm looking at o for example gone down by seven and why does it go down this why does it go down I guess so it could go down because there was a large group and one of the years so the graduating seniors was large group larger than the
009incoming classes that could be one uh students leave throughout the four years as well so you know without drilling down individually in each town I don't have a specific answer those are some of the reasons okay you know uh so uh if a town doesn't fill their their seat allocation those seats are divided up okay equitably among the other nine towns so the alloc allocations don't change the allocations don't change so Auburn and rotman historically didn't fill that got their allocation so those five seeds or four seeds will be then equitably distributed among the other eight towns so that could lead to an increase but a year where AUB fills the other towns don't get any increases so that could contribute to a high enrollment one year and then lower the next year we didn't
010know good thank you so our statement of Assessments for our towns here you can see each one of the towns um highlighted on this the minimum contribution which is set by the state for a total of $1.6 million um assessment above again is zero uh Foundation enrollment is put on there the foundation enrollment is used in the calculation of Transportation assessment so you can see that RNs 10.6 at 10.6 is multiplied by the total transportation assessment of 500,000 so that equates to 52,900 the capital population again ratio is used for Debt Service and capital Improvement we have zero Capital Improvement so you can see that um has 2580 out of 17695 so that's 14.58% that's multiplied by the 1,552 th3 equates to $226,200 and then we add up the transport the minimum contribution the transportation
011assessment and The Debt Service for each one of the towns and you can see the assessments for each one of the towns there so aubert as the example town is $1.8 million from Total assessment to our 10 member towns of 13,665 798 and now for each one of you we break it out by town so you can see a comparison of FY 26 to fy2 for all the assessments minimum contribution Transportation Debt Service um so auin you can see an overall increase of $74,000 or an increase of 4.28% question Charlton same overall uh increase is $71,500 for a 2.9% increase Dudley it's going down $467 or a decrease of 3.92% big contributed Factor there was the minimum local contribution North Brookfield is going up$ 64,0 for a 12.52% increase Oxford increase of $65,100 per increase
012Transportation was the biggest Factor there again we typically years pass at more in our transportation reimbursement account to offset that this year rather than 500,000 um or a larger amount it's down to 500,000 taxon 57 1,965 per increase 99.74% increase Rutland $172,700 increase or 21.85% increase larest is their minimum contribution and they're 147,50 it's okay South Bridge increase 10 7,959 Again transportation and minimum contribution largest contributors there or 8.92% increase Spencer increasing 25,27 dollar U or 9.91% increase Webster $ 39793 increase or 2.66% our grand totals uh overall increase 733,000 thank you for your continued support and any questions any questions I'm here Al on the uh total up there it said seven less this year than last year y we have a waiting list of students we so overall and I'm getting to your
013your slide so you're looking at the uh Foundation enrollment for Oxford or uh Charlton and those that the think can you get to SL 12 I think that's the slide right there those numbers out will we fill that minus 7 with from the waiting list no so that's just the total number of freshmen sophomores Juniors and seniors from last year to this year that's the difference so Oxford had seven less students this this year they had 149 students next year with the graduating class a large number of students go out this freshman seed allocation of Oxford 35 will bring their total to 142 students so it's seven less than last year we do overall we have a weight list of 400 students on our uh Fring application so thank you any other questions just because
014it's always a pet peeve of mine what was the transportation reimbursement on the ring you know cuz it was always a promise 100% reimburse transportation and whatnot what did it actually end up being for can I was trying to find the total but I wasn't coming across it that was the first um well that was that if we put it yeah right there so the total amount was 2,135 906 and we were reimbursed from the state 1.375 so promises me Promises Kept y Kyle just as a heads up that's that's the projection for next year okay but remember that your reimbursement is a year in a yeah so that million 375 is based on what we reported as expended by June 30th of 24 so the reimbursement rate when you look at 1.3 versus what
015we spent last year is going to end up being about 86% okay okay now what happens is in some cases the contract goes up faster than previous increase in chapter 7 one so it's always a little bit behind right if the governor gets her way they've changed the budget for next year she's only got probably 60% in the budget and then she's got this magic number that they can reallocate and do this and do that depending on what happens so it's going to be much harder to figure out exactly what it is until we get any other questions anyone from the Public Public hearing none all right with that I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing any seconds all those in favor I opposed all right so we're out of the public hearing
016and with that regular meeting minutes February 3rd 2025 move to approve second a motion second any discussion yes yes correction uh I was not here at the last meeting that would be a correction okay any other Corrections or questions being none I'll call for the vote to approve as amended all those in favor I opposed motion carries approval of warrants they are going around and there is a bunch of them to sign so please make sure you sign those and with that I'll entertain a motion to approve so Motion in a second any no discussion on that so all those in favor opposed motion carries e review of budget year-to date expenditure report through February 2025 the chair um you all have a copy of the expenditure report showing expenses and incumbrances through February 24th
0172025 um and miss ffield this year uh to answer any questions as well as proposing should be proposing a series of transfers to balance the accounts for the March me just this is much yep any other questions comments discussion okay thank you we'll move past that correspondence I know amar's not here L is already okay student advisory committee I see Matt may be late aing for 7 o00 y yeah he does have a um a small report okay so what we'll do is we'll just take that out of when he shows up old business there is none tonight citizen participation nothing okay new business recognitions Athletics the chair we have several uh February is exciting month for Bap a Athletics um both boys and girls Varity basketball teams are in spots in the large school
018state vocational tournament both teams had outstanding performances in the tournament the boys fought hard but fell short against a shashin tough shot shoting 37 to 35 the girls won backto back titles with their 5553 victory over greater new bord uh so we want to send congratulations out to both coaches but in particular for the girls coach shman uh and both the boys and girls teams on that in the basketball we had individual basketball highlights to uh include not one but two students hitting 1,000 career points at B path on February 12th senior Ali Welton surpassed 1,000 points in on February 18th Al became the all-time leading girl scorer surpassing 1,6 Point Nicole Prim Vera from 2007 to 2011 uh on February 25th senior Peter barbell scored his 1000 point on the road against Milton high
019school during an MIA division 2 playoff game uh I do want to shout out to Milton they were able to they agreed to suspend the game and do a recognition of that uh career highlight for so they were very um gracious in doing that Peter did not attend the bayth didn't attend bayth as a freshman so this accomplishment was completed in just three years which is pretty remarkable so congratulations to both Ally and Peter on that uh continuing with our Sports congratulations to our cheerleaders who finished third at the heart of the Hill invitation the cheerleaders also placed second in division two at the Regional Central Mass championships it will be moving on to the States this Sunday March 9th uh this is the first time in Bay Path history that a cheerleading team has
020made it to the states in both fall and winter seasons on the same school year the states will be held at wer State University this year our Co-op wrestlers participated in the state tournament over the weekend congrats to both Jacob Ferguson and leam uh colon on that accomplishment and we were just made aware that bayth was named best technical trade school in the 2024 best of central math Community Choice Awards uh in the T so that's certainly an accomplishment to be proud of and this one came in on the water before the meeting um our athletic director Rick Carrero sent this out I'd like to congratulate the bowling team of P Belford Nico yakas Dylan should practice hent all right thank you thank you Trevor Amaral Matthew TW our own Matthew tley Alex kak and
021Sarah kety for finishing fourth in the Central Mass Bowling Championship held this pack past week in at Bolero Auburn Lanes in the individual girls a division Sarah finished third and secured a high game for the regular season in division B for the girls Pope elford finished 10th and Sharice bir finished second Alex K finished second in the board boys division D so that was a pretty fantastic showing by our students congratulations to everybody that competed in that um as well thank you for that so I mean the recognitions I'm glad we've added that to the beginning of the agenda so they we touch base on some of these Great accomplishments and a th000 points and less than for you I mean that is unbelievable um moving on to presentations adoption of the FY 26 schol
022budget and again the majority of us no one's entered the room except Matt I'm sure he's not interested in seeing that presentation so we're going to skip the presentation and move into adopting the FY 26 budget so so moved no Tim I got to make a motion superintendent director the school business manager budget subcommittee recommend the school committee vote to approve the FY 26 budget in the amount of 30 million $592,500 including school choice with an operating budget for assessments of 30, 298,000 reflect the final action of the legislature second all right have a motion in a second any discussion no all right this does require a 2third vote we're going to just simply try it make sure if it's unanimous and we'll be good all those in favor opposed declare 2third vote passing that
023uh presentations B2 FY 24 audit report scam Associates so through the screw chair with recommendation in the audit subcommittee the superintendent director and the school business manager we recommend the school committee vote to accept the FY 24 annual audit from scandlon Associates as presented that audit was presented earlier in a subcommittee meeting this evening uh there were no findings on that audit so a significant change from the years past we're in great financial standing and we do have our former interm business manager if there are any questions on the audit a motion so second have a motion in a second any questions or comments for John scoffield or Kyle just a comment I'd like to thank everyone John and everyone who was involved in um the Improvement year over year in that whole audit process
024and the outcome of it um no management letter because there were no findings um so great strides made there so again I just want to pass my thanks along thank you any other comments or questions being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor accepting the AUD opposed carries freshman placement process who the chair we have our director of career vocational Tech bed here tonight and he's going to do a a quick presentation on the new freshman placement process Mr trip so who the chair I promise this will be quick um in your packets there is a a very DET I'd say rather detailed um description of the Freshman placement process this year and how it compares to years past so I'll keep my presentation quick with some high level um highlights so
025this past year 2023 2024 school year we had approximately 12 volunteer CTE Educators all around the building that met voluntarily um to go through the exploratory process year of bath not only the the grading process but also the scheduling process and what that looks like uh what we did is we gathered feedback curent CTE staff locational staff here with the goal of determining if the existing system is the best best seared APAP students um our goal was to enhance Top Choice placements so first second third choice selections got question so is the existing system Equitable do all programs assess students similar similarly um does does the system place as many students into first place Choice First Choice placement as possible what are the best practices from across the state so what are other CTE schools
026doing we reached out to them and how can we improve the process at bath not necessarily scaling their system I realize bath is we realize that bath is its own unique school but share best practices so pre-placement guidelines uh 2024 2025 so before this year the old rubric it's before you it's hard to read There is a copy of this in your packet previously there was a big emphasis on scheduling points so shop teachers could place students uh s student scheduling points the more scheduling points they have the more likely they were to be placed du to their first St shop the new rubric that we created uh takes away scheduling points essentially breaks it down into workmanship or workers ship safety competency employability and attendance the final cdte program placement was based on 60%
027of their average shop grades from across all nine exploratories 30% of the related Theory grades and then 10% discipline that 10% discipline is only heavy discipline so typically the 10 days up um students with the highest average will be admitted into the First Choice program selection hopefully unless it's a long weight list in the event of a tie we would use the students's highest grade in the First Choice program second tie highest related grade in the First Choice and then you go to academic average which we do not have to do um looking at the old rubric here so pretty simple and straightforward again the commit didn't mean to necessarily get rid of this old rubric we didn't feel that it didn't work we just wanted to see what was out there and what you'll
028see on the next page with our new rubric it's broken down in Greater detail uh what we did was created this template for daily grade and we shared it out with each CTE program to adopt with their own content area language if they so desire to some shops use the general language that we have here um but what this did when they shared it with the students and families parents Guardians students knew what the expectations were of that specific program they couldn't change the grading necessarily but the content area language that was embedded in that for each program seemed to help we do have some fine tuning to do uh we had a handful of programs reading students uh very high high 90s we'll just say that so we do have some fine to do
029there the committee is continuing to meet this year we're actually meeting on Wednesday again to go through this in Greater detail and see how we can emphasize that perhaps students would be difficult to achieve 100 in exploratory that's the best way to that so what does 100 look like versus any questions any questions he lot of effort went into this a lot of thought it's great and it's it's nice to see looking at this from a different angle um I don't have an answer to an observation so I'm just going to throw it out there just a thought um looking at if there's a tie okay between you know I'm thinking of a kid who or student who wants to be a welder could be the best welder in the world does a work in
030the shop blah blah blah academically loses the time that's hard that's hard um I don't know the answer I don't know I know what I would like to do I think that if the guidance counselors know the students and I know they don't know them because they're freshman coming in I would hope that we could we would look at that and say this kid should be inol or this kid should be accy because that's who they are they're not academic academically inclined it's a life-changing experience and I know it's a lot of weight on you and and and everybody else so I don't have any answer to it but haven't been with kids for so long and haven't seen those kids that should be in that shop that will lose up because of academics but
031have the trade in a a good technically that's a high enough to swallow so um through the chair I think the best attempt was made because academic is only the third tiebreaker the first tiebreaker is their high is the in that actual shop so if it's a tie between two kids and the gentleman who will be a great wether um but academics out there the first tiebreaker is looking at that individual's grade in the shop the next one is related which is more academically inclined as a tiebreaker and the third tiebreaker is the academic average on it so the weight is there and I think also the highest percentage of points is workmanship which is shop grade so the shop grade the actual Hands-On is the highest there's not a perfect but hopefully they the
032emphasis and correct me if I'm wrong Mr trip the emphasis is on Shop Performance first over related and then academic grades academic grad is only comes into effect for any placement on a third tiebreaker I like I said I don't have the answer to it but I can see it happening you know unfortunately there's no perfect system there isn't there isn't but I'm just you know as as a shop teacher when I see this kid goes through and I know this kid okay Hey listen had a bad day been a couple days but I know he's got the capabilities of doing it and he lost out to my shot is there a way of reaching you know reaching out to to make it happen that's that's my and don't just thrown it up any other
033comments or questions or Don real quick uh Mr trip did a great job with all that data it's a lot of stuff up there to uh analyze and and I guess you accomplished your goal of increasing the first second third choices this year because I think it was by 1% that you you did that so you achieved the goal very good thank you excent any other comments I would just Echo those sentiments great job getting that ton of data there and I think we're moving in the right direction I don't know how much better we can get it actually I really don't you know you start splitting hairs and sometimes things can turn the other way so I just I think it's going to work out pretty good I love the new rubric compared to
034the old one even the fact that it's not in the old penmanship that looks like it might have been here at the Inception we can change it back right let's leave it as as it is I like the fact that um individual shops can change out the content as well so that works out great so now you just have to get them stuck hundreds and all yeah if I may and I'm splitting haes I'm splitting ha I agree with George great job um so kudos to to you and the team and what I want to say and it didn't make it in the actual presentation but there is a link in what we were presented in the packets I invite you all to click on that because he has it broken down so far into
035the weeds I mean it's actually very good as to figure out which shops got which placements which kids when they got here and applied with their one through nine choices and at the end how they ranked them after their nine trips through exploratory I mean it's all in there I mean some of the numbers that I was reading through I mean it's amazing you had the time and didn't go crosy filling out that spreadsheet so again everyone said but excellent job through the chair just just one more comment I think I I think it's important that we get the message out to the families and I say it again year after year to the students and I don't think they fully get the importance of doing well in all of the shops I don't know
036how much more you can put it out there but if we could brainstorm ways to get that through to the families because I don't think the kids totally get it and um they they come here and they they work hard in their favorite shops and then if they get put into were nontraditional or even something else that they're not completely satisfied with they're not putting forth that effort the importance of it um as Mr gr said it's it can be um life altering at least temporarily um makes people pretty upset families students alike so if we can just find a way to get that message out there um even as seventh and eighth graders when you do come here you have to do well in so true any other questions or comments okay with that
037we will move on to C awarding of the 2025 2026 house project updates for current project so to the uh chair the superintendent director vocational director and the house selection committee recommend the school committee vote to award the 2526 house project to Albert and Patricia Zamba for a 1,120 ft one floor ran to be built at zero for Suter Road in South brid mass and you all have a copy of the U blueprints for that house second have a motion a second any discussion and I feel um very comfortable that we're going back to some basic structures for sure yeah some some of the previous years were pretty elaborate um and I think uh the focus here and I'm glad Southbridge is uh awarded as as a project Town any other comments or questions I
038see the first house of the year but what about the other 12200 squ foot house that they're going to do when they're done with that one Ben's got a pool house the same size that like I mean it's it's the a third of the size of some of the ones that they've done yeah I I think it's actually a good opportunity I think it gives you more time to slow down and do a little bit more on one-on-one instruction and go over some of the basics meeing the competencies rather than you know say the term I was going to throw it there let we use the construction but instead of going all out yeah yeah that's a good way to put it sure yeah all any other last question um so was it just this
039one applicant that that had committ um submitted all the things necessary two applicants submitted everything uh the other house was Charlton okay sh was next up good thank you any other questions or comments being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor opposed motion carries before we jump over up on the current project um through the chair believe this is in your packets as well so electrical just going through quickly here bedroom living room and master bedroom rough wiring is complete um as of the writing of this so this was the last week uh bathroom and kitchen rough wiring expected to complete um possibly sometime this week carpentry Fring and Roofing comly complete carpentry team is now working on the sating installation Plumbing underground plumbing has been signed off uh basement floor is
040ready to be poured for from a plumbing standpoint over February vacation bathtubs and shower stalls delivered and they were being installed as of last week water piping work will resume first week of March so starting this week the involvement of the junior class uh the goals to achieve complete rough pluming sign off by March 10th a slight variance of a day or two and terms of cabin making the home own came in and met with Mr martinon and they're starting to discuss specifications ordering materials excellent any questions for the update okay D Surplus equipment one science department through chair superintendent director principal and school business manager recommend the school committee vote to place 471 science textbooks of little to no value and 420 science textbooks and good to like new condition on the Surplus equipment
041list to be disposed of according to the school committee Surplus policy so move second a motion a second any discussion none I'll call for the vote all those in favor oppos motion carries two business office to the chair superintendent director the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to place 120 chairs SL stools and 19 2x4 desks on Surplus appointment list to be disposed up according to the school committee Surplus equipment policy motion second any discussion being none call for the vote all those in favor opposed motion carries three maintenance through the chair the superintendent director the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to cancel the registration in place one Lincoln Navigator of scrap value on the Surplus equipment list to be disposed of according to the school committee Surplus equipment policy
042Motion in a second any discussion being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor I oppos Mo carries for cosmetology the chair the superintendent director and Vocational director of school business manager recommend the school committee vote to place two towel warmers in working condition good $20 each eight stying chairs and working valued at $40 each and 32 styling chairs of no value on the Surplus list to be disposed up according to the cace equipment policy motion on the second any discussion I was G to let Kyle take credit for these nice bers but this Kyle nice job Kyle all those in favor oppos motion carries e approval of out ofate field trips Bunch from Veterinary animal science so the school chair vet animal science Mystic Aquarium Mystic Connecticut superintendent director vocational director and
043principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the veterinary science out of state field trip move second have a motion and a second any discussion being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor I opposed motion carries two Plumbing to the school chair the superintendent director The Vocational director of principal recommend the school committee go to approve the plumbing out of state field trip to diega New Hampshire seminar Center in Nash New Hampshire on April 4th 2025 so move second have a motion a second any discussion being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor I oppos motion carries three Veterinary animal Science school chair super director vocational director and principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the batary animal science out of state field trip to oakrid dairy farm
044in Ellington Connecticut on April 29th 2025 so second Motion in a second any discussion being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor opposed motion carries for cabinet making through the school chair the superintendent director vocational director and principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the cabinet making out ofate field trip to the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence Rhode Island on March 28th 2025 so we I have a motion and a second any discussion being then I'll call for the vote all those in favor opposed motion carries while we're on the out of state field trips I want to uh entertain a motion to walk on another out ofate field trip for veterinarian animal science so move have a motion second I have a motion a second to walk it on
045any discussion comments on that all those in favor opposed okay so with that E5 approval of outstate field trip Veterinary and animal science the schol chair the superintendent director The Vocational director and the principal recommend the school committee vote to approve the veterinary animal science out of state field trip to Peckham farm at URI West Kingston RH Island on April 16th 2025 second motion the second any discussion being none I'll call for the vote all those in favor oppos motion carries right F awarding of waterjet machine 200 bid the school chair superintendent director the school business manager recommend the school committee vote to award the purchase and delivery of a new waterjet Mack 200 machine to Machine Tools USA in in the amount of $232,200 bid that's my understanding that's correct um do we typically
046act on one bid or is it wise Is it wise to uh extend the bidding process so we actually had um there was five or six vendors that were interested but because of the specifications of this really this government Machine Tool USA is really the only one that we really wanted to have to be come through so they're the most qualified to do a machine that we want so we obviously feel it's a a good fa all right Al you got a question well I just thought it was a very expensive price and being it was only one bid and I'm curious why Flo the most prominent one of flowjet and water jet didn't have a price in here were they even contacted I think that yeah so this company Machine Tool USA I think
047um when I spoke to um eight the the department head he was the one that was looking at this company to the best things theyve merged companies I believe so that's why it came to Machine Tools USA okay Don did you have a question uh was that a budgeted it from last year the C budget or is it through a no that was budget right okay thank you any other questions or comments being thatone I'll call for the vote all those in favor opposed motion carries G acceptance of donation sure through school chair superintendent director principal vocational director and business manager are excited to recommend to the school committee vote to accept the donation of $155,000 from the Ellis Cappy bitman charitable trust to purchase a compact crawler boom lift for the school students so
048moved I have a motion a second any discussion so it says it's going to be used by the electrical and construction departments staff students or combination of both or or and do do they the hoisting license is that still an issue that the teachers have to get so excellent um and through the school chair uh yes so the stars came into alignment um hoisting licenses are um in hoisting is something that the state legislators incorporated into one of the bills so vocational schools are allowed to offer the hoisting license under a um certified instructor so part of this um purchase will involve the company that we're buying it from Train in certifying so many instructors and then coming in and certifying our students um so it'll be used by both staff and students the students
049have to be in the lift with a certified instructor on it so that's why we say it will start in electrical and then it'll be available to any of the construction trades that want to get certified so that they can offer this certification to their students and give them what yet one more credential they can walk out with so that Reg too with um you know we used to used to because of driving forklift for instance our instructors had to get license so the students be able to get will that license cover them too on the forklift or is just this machine so that'll be for the boom lift for the Boom Lift okay and what about in um like in maintenance U building Property Maintenance all those um lifts the uh so yeah they
050whatever lifts they're using so wasting is something that we can offer vocational students again now legislation by back yeah so it used to be just aie schools right yeah okay and and they were taken off as well so the maava love e hard for agies and vocational schools to get this in and it was uh voted and approved in legislation going forward now so yeah we're very fortunate you know going through yeah it's good really good it's good for the kids any other comments yeah well a question I mean it's an extremely generous gift um what's the history of the the charitable fun we they Mr trip uh keep me in bounds because the individual didn't want any recognition but they approached the school um and asked what do we want um and came in
051had a meeting and you know uh in the electrical field because LS Cappy bman was an electrician right um so talk to him uh the humbleness of our our instructors are oh we really don't need and he said dream B and this was a dream item that has been on the list for uh the instructors for a while but legislation prohibited us from getting any value out of having a a lift that we can't train our students on or even use um so with that legis that's why I say the Stars Al line that legislation came in and out of the blue this charitable trust came in um and offered a lift and he said is that the best he goes no it's an affordable one and um the gentleman went out and found the
052best and said here's a check to buy the best um so so like extremely generous all he asked is that we recognize on the Boom Lift uh you know uh Ellis CH uh chappie bitman on it we'll paint that thing Ellis chappie bit um so yeah uh doesn't want you know recognition with a picture and the big check or anything uh but just was happy to be able to uh provide our students with this opportunity and we're extremely grateful for this opportunity that's great I will add to just that when they par the staff they gave up stff back and found was like for 55,000 like I'm not good enough so they went back out uh this crawler boom will it be used off PRM no probably not um that would require Transportation it's something
053that um setting up the staging our students are there the picture our security cameras outside every time our electrical students needed to adjust or work on those they had to go down get the stage and carry it over set it all up um this new crawler boom just go over get in it go up come down and it's done it fits through a normal doorway too so it can be used internally in the gymnasium to get up and change or get those volleyballs that are always stuck up in the upper um and stuff so it's it's really versatile all around this building um but we'll probably not take it off site what is the mot motorization it's a track it's a track machine it's machine uh it's got the you know integrated Booms that go
054out and set it up uh lifts capacity of over 500 lb and uh it's gas the Power electric D Electric electrical it's electric it's 2 foot6 wide 6'6 tall it goes I think 62 feet tall and it's Max Capacity at 500 lb battery power battery powered four Outriggers um I think jldg is the manufacturer I mean it's it is the Cadillac ofs do we have a charger in house that charge the battery we make sure we have I bet it comes with yeah it'll come with one I think I know some electricians wi that any other questions or comments being n let's call for the vote to accept this extremely grateful donation all those in favor even want to ask if anyone's opposed so but all those any opposed being none motion carries information of
055proposals report from the superintendent director through the chair I submitted a written report and prepar to answer any questions on that um can I can oh that'll go uh on the report I just want to highlight that U the finance committees are scheduled those that we have dates for so look at that um when we confirm those we've been including the two representatives from the towns on that so you know when that night is and you're more than welcome to attend many of you do do that um and that's great uh I do want to call out I sent out from the board of Elementary and secondary education met on Tuesday February 25th they voted to solicit public comment on several initiatives one being amendments to the regulations on the mcast uh and competency determination
056so please review that if you have any public comment feel free to submit those they voted to solicit public comment on the proposed amendments to regulations on educator licensure and preparation program approval uh so several uh changes to educator lenser to streamline the process and um get more teachers in the pool uh and lastly they agreed to continue discussion on Career Technical education proposed amendments to the regulations uh 603 cmr4 uh that is on admissions to vocational schools the current proposal is a lottery it's currently a qualified Lottery um they went into further they voted not to put it out for public comment because they're doing further study on the qualifications for that so currently as it was proposed on Tuesday was two qualifiers um attendance no more than 10 and discipline and again that
057was of the Heavy Hitters of 10 days or longer um it was brought up that interest should be integral to that um and why that's important one they should want a vocation um because they're coming to a vocational school but two interest takes it from um and I don't know our numbers but there is one school that has 1,200 applications of the 1200 applications only um just under a thousand are completed applications so if it doesn't take into consideration interest that would be a lottery ticket for all ,200 students who just wrote their name on the application and submitted it um so uh they're going into study and some board members brought up that they want to eliminate attendance because um you know as middle schoolers a lot of those students don't make a choice
058whether they go to school or not that's their parents who make that choice so there's a higher um absentee rate among certain subgroups on that um I won't give my position because that's my position but if you feel strongly about any of these reach out and I'm getting some templates from MAA that I can send out to school committee and to our advisors as well but if you feel strongly about any of these please stay tuned and I'll send you the next working session when they come back and present their work on what that interest will be and if they change anything on on attendance on that but um this is time especially to reach out and talk to your legislators or or submit public comments on that uh these these changes will go into
059effect for next year's admission cycle for the class of 2030 on that so um there there's a lot of talk on both sides of it I will say the proponents to The Advocates of the lottery are doing a good job of bringing the people in in their comments and presenting it m in the phenomenal job and the superintendent are doing a great job we show a strong Presence at these meetings both online and in person we've had uh spots three spots for public comment from superintendent on that as well um so uh advocate for what you believe in if it's the lottery Advocate um if it's qualifiers for the lottery Advocate but now's the opportunity to do that thank you subcommittee reports audit subcommittee the audit subcommittee met earlier this evening and uh gladly accepted
060the audit report that was presented thank you budget subcommittee Tim had a public hearing this evening um we we look to see what adjustments there may be down the road from Commonwealth thank you building a ground subcommittee they haven't met this year so update negotiation subcommittee Dave um last month I reported that uh unit M uh we had closed uh and and finished our negotiations on UNM however uh since that time there were still some questions from UNM on the negotiations so that is still open there is is not a closed uh session on that um and I emailed uh late this afternoon so I apologize to the subcommittee members but um I shared with the uh subcommittee the uh questions from UNM so they have that in their emails um the S late late
061today uh and finally the uh we're beginning a pair of professional negotiations this Wednesday March 5th at 5:00 so that'll be the next next round thank you policy Peter is not here we have an update we met last Wednesday got through policy uh sections e and f a lot of good work was there our next meeting is March 25th at 5:30 okay warrant subc commmittee again warrants are available for Signature by all the members at monthly meetings and during the day of school just call before you come up make sure someone's available to get you in to see them future business meeting date uh next month Monday April 7th 7 p.m. in this room topics for future agenda as always reach out to Leah Kyler myself and we'll see what we can do accommodate for
062the agenda remarks from the superintendent director anything additional do we want to have after this um sure have um a couple things to announce one uh you start on the way in but we're having our pay path career night uh is scheduled for April 14th that evening afternoon into the evening so um a lot of great work last year the gym was full and parking was really tight for all the people attending that our students and so forth so be aware of that March is women's history month so Valerie vodka our librarian uh has done some great work I just want to highlight what will be coming out for women's History Month uh she's designed a gallery walk featuring one female from as many of our 23 programs that uh we could get that's going
063to come in and she's working with our graphics and highlighting them this is a prototype of of the gallery so we'll have a poster board made up and these will be set up up in the library and and maybe even in the lobby when you walk in so there'll be close to 23 of these put up uh this is Becca uh buet 22 automotive tech and we're going to highlight you know what shop where they're currently working or going to school so she's said Heritage Valley for putham they gave a quote my best memory at bayth was making new friends and truly enjoying shop class you know uh path after bay path straight into the workforce skills gained I gained hands-on experience and the opportunity to pursue a trade I was passionate about I learned
064the importance of keeping my workspace clean and making sure my oil bucket wasn't full um so yeah in another quote on that so she's done a tremendous amount of work we have them from recent grads to you know U not so recent grads uh and a couple more I think like four she's trying to get four more students from uh some trades on that and put them up so stay tuned and when they're up I welcome you all to come up as she always does with all her presentation come up and take a look but uh I think that's really a wonderful idea that she put together on that so excellent um and then some of the outside work we've done for our our towns uh Charlton is a heavy hitter here and Charlton for
065Boy Scout Troop 165 they made graphic Communications made some banners uh Charon library at carentry did some trim on there La columns um Charlton Middle School our graphic Communications did banners and flyers at the Overlook uh carpentry made some bookshelves and winter benches uh Dudley Middle School trff Communications made some Fatheads and uh for the dudly CH Regional School District you know what those are those are cut out um culinary arts made some Trey Ley Li cakes L CH Cakes Oxford little leag um our graphic Communications s banners and Sovereign Grace Chapel in Southbridge beam uh did some books and agendas assembly for them I think those are the remarks I have thank you very much I'm going to jump to Matt now since he was a little bit later than when we started a
066little early tonight so Matt all right uh I just I didn't have many things I just had kind of because March is kind of a slow month but just want to say this year's kind of flying by and I can't believe we're already in March thankfully Winter's coming to a close I know I hate the cold and spring can't come any sooner uh this month we have the district skills USA competition which is being held on Wednesday March 12th which is an early release for all students I'll I will be participating in this event I'm very excited to see the outcome for myself and all my other fellow students uh I know that spring Sports registration has started and winter sports are soon coming to a close and our steering committee has decided on our
067senior prom theme uh being a night in Venice which is almost like a beautiful nighttime landscape with the accents of boats to complement the Venice style Transportation so that is all I have but thank you thank you all right so moving in that direction I'll make it real quick I was I'm actually on our Town's finance committee and they asked me what was going on here at bayth and I just told them a lot of special things and Great accomplishments which we summarized every time and we'll see you next Wednesday excellent you're friend the crowd Al Al can I speak before you you okay everybody sure George um just congratulations to our Sports teams um for the individual athlete um accomplishments thank you for a great presentation as always um it was nice to have
068that Accolade paid um to our school I forgot what the organization was um a magazine or something oh be uh Choice Awards Choice Awards um that's excellent um good stuff all around very excited about skills and good luck good luck with that good luck to all our students I love that part of the year so hopefully Grand moms to go and head off the Nations Katie I think I'm good tonight okay ktim a warm thank you to the P family for their generous gifts and and U it kind of sounds like it's a dream come true big pass thank you very much Don all set thank you all right all set all right help I I hope I didn't inadvertently um leave cind out of my comments earlier about the accolades towards the audit if
069I did I didn't mean to I know John was here during that um you know the process of of the intrum but I didn't mean to leave you out in my comments so the appreciation extends towards you as well um thank you to the uh the bitman uh trust that's an extremely generous gift and uh of course all the the students and and overall athlete accolades that were listed out tonight thank you Helen I'm fine thank you Dave y what's up all right Al distribute one of these to each one of the women in the after I finish talking okay okay well have you noticed it's going to be a sensitive thing for me so be patient with me I'm going to state today as an Air Force veteran I would like to share some
070of my happy thoughts and feelings with you all about this upcoming Memorial Day parade and our Grand Marshall is a military major nurse combat who has helped so many wounded veterans and her age is over 100 and she is truly a living hero I am also proud to honor all of the women who are a vital part of bath and especially the woman serving on our school committee and being able to speak for many veterans Heroes that hope you can all enjoy this Saturday March 88th as it is well-deserved day stating happy national women's day and it says you can't spell hero without an H eer and that's Happy International Day for the women all set thank you all right I can't top that so I guess I'm not even going to try I'm going
071to start letting you speak ahead of you uh with that I'm going to say we move to G which is executive session contract negotiation and I need to entertain a motion that the school committee vote to move into executive session for the purpose of mgl chapter 3A section 21 A3 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 Union bbta power professionals level three grievance and to reconvene an open session only for Journal second I have a motion in a second and with that is a roll call vote Katie yes what Joe Becker yes Al Bean yeah calwell is absent Jess yes Donette yes grer yes Mary Johnson is absent I am a yes Helen
072yes Don Montville yes and Marie Al and Peter Sher abson Timothy Sher yes George stby yes mber abs and Bob Trembley yes Jeff wiel yes Bob D yes okay