001I believe uh we'll go ahead and get started here. It is 7:36 on Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. Uh this is a meeting of the Westport School Committee. And I'll call this meeting call the meeting to order. Uh pursuant to Governor Healey's approved legislation H62, a bill extending authorizations for local boards, commissions, and committees to hold public meetings remotely or in a hybrid format extended timeline amending section 3A of chapter 20 of the acts of 2021, most recently amended by section 40 of chapter 2 of the acts of 2023 and replacing the current expiration date of March 31st, 2025 with June 30th, 2027. Therefore, this meeting is being conducted via remote participation in order to ensure public access to the deliberations. And uh we'll call to order. And I guess we'll if if you have a
002flag handy, uh take a look at it and we'll we'll say the pledge right quick. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the stands, one nation. God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. For all. All right. Thank you all very much. Uh so at this time we will have an opportunity for comments and statements from the public if anyone uh wishes to speak. I don't believe I'm not sure we have any we have anybody. Yes, we do. We do have one person that had their hand up. I don't know if they still do. Uh, Donna Amarol, I'm going to allow her to talk. Yes, absolutely. Hold on one second. I just got to Hi, Donna. Can you hear us? On mute. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay, beautiful. Um, I
003I'm here just to um uh request that the school board um move to select a school department representative to be appointed to the opioid settlement fund advisory committee. Um we have been without uh school department representation for uh we've had six we're going to have our seventh meeting next week and we have been without representation um for four or five of those meetings. We've only had um a school representative there for two of the meetings. Um uh Laura has uh Sheret has um asked to resign and made a request for a suggestion for Jennifer Shabs to um replace her. Um I understand that the board school board was um waiting for Dr. Roy um to start her tenure and um and so I just wanted to make a reminder and the importance of having representation
004um from the school department um because this is about the kids. This is about how we can best use these funds to help them and their adult caregivers, which many of them are grandparents um be taking care of them because their parents um have had struggles with substance use disorder. Um and during our meeting so far at the opioid settlement fund advisory committee, we've had police come and speak about the program they're involved with with the Bristol County Outreach Collaborative Program. um and they have done research on um the number of overdoses in the town of Westport and since 2019 there were 112 reported overdoses in Westport and uh 97 were non-fatal but 15 were fatal and I asked the officer um and how many of them had children at home when the overdose occurred
005and the police officer told me that at least half. So, those are kids that may have witnessed this that are not getting any kind of support or might not be getting any kind of support. And I think it's really important for um us to utilize some of these funds. Um and for those who don't know, currently we have about $370,000. Um but we're expected by 2038 to receive almost a million dollars in funds. So, I really want representation from the school department. It's really it's it's in our charter that we need to have someone. Um but um as we're moving forward and looking at um organizing um to distribute funds, I really feel it's important to have a member of the school department sitting at the table. And that's that's all I have to say.
006So I I'm glad that you were able to hear me this morning. Thank you very much, Don. And yes, I I do agree that uh do need to get that taken care of. Um I think that the so the next select board meeting I believe is the 21st. Um and I think the the procedure is that we would appoint a uh appoint a member and then that would go to the select board. Um, right. So, what I believe I if we don't have we don't currently have a meeting scheduled between now and then, but I think we could uh very easily schedule a special uh meeting just just to for the purposes of getting that set before the next select board meeting. So, thank thank you very much for uh for for reminding us of
007that uh of that need. Yes. And we you know we are uh the next meeting is next week. We won't have that um earn someone on the uh committee by then, but I'm hoping by August that we would have somebody at the table with us. Excellent. I think that's uh I I see no reason why that uh that can't happen. So, I appreciate that. And uh go So, I was just going to say, Donna, I I will uh I know I've attended some in the past, so I if I can, I will uh attend that as well as a non-member just to, you know, just to be there and and uh stay in the loop. So, in the absence of having an actual appointed member, I you know, if I can make it there, I
008I certainly will. Yes. Well, I know you're a busy a busy man, um Evan. So, um but it's it I mean, we are we are moving forward. We have um I've had a lot of speakers tell us um you know, ways in which the funds could be utilized. But my heart is with the school department and helping the kids. Um, I feel very strongly about that, but there's a lot of things I would like to do, but I cannot get done unless I have an inside man that I have somebody that's in the school department that's working and connecting and knows what the needs are and has a pulse on on what's happening. So, um, but but thank you, um, Evan, for, you know, saying that you will do that, but I know that you're
009a very busy man as well. I just wanted to just last point, just wanted to thank you for your advocacy on that. I know you've always you've put the school, you know, front and center on on this since it since its inception. So, I just wanted to thank you for that as well. You're welcome. All right. Thank Thank you very much uh and I will uh keep you posted on uh on getting that uh sent to the select board and making sure that we can get that taken care of as soon as possible. So, thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Excellent. So, um, at this time, we'll move on to the, uh, the next item. Uh, so we're going to do our action agenda first. Um, and this is,
010of course, a traditional close out end of year closing out the end of year books. Uh, that's why we're all here at bright and early this day. Um, so just to uh give our new committee members a a brief overview. Uh, we basically do these do these transfers at the very end just to to uh again closing out the books, moving things that need to be moved uh and uh making sure that the incumbrances are are taken care of uh so uh the fiscal year 2025 can be uh can be closed out. So very quick, the first item is the uh the fiscal year 2025 funds to be expended uh expended for salaries and goods and services. Uh within the packet uh or or the links are within the agenda here. Um the school uh
011the uh recommendation from our superintendent is to approve 1,853,87428 as a total incumbrance for FY25 as enclosed. Uh and reading from the letter here, just note all incumbent salaries have already been earned prior to June 30th, 2025. and salary funds have been encumbered for teachers and support staff who elect to receive their previously earned uh fiscal year 2025 salary through the summer months. Encumbered expense funds represent goods or services which have been ordered and received prior to June 30th, but billing will not be processed either until July or August. So, at this time, I would entertain a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 incumbrance in the amount of 1,853,87428. So, moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? We'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Jendro. Hi, Evan Jendro. Miss
012Sampers. Hi, Caitlyn Sampers. Mr. Pico, I Jason Pacico and I, Christopher Thrasher. All right. Thank you very much. We'll move on to the second item in the on the agenda, which is to approve fiscal year 2025 line item transfers. I'm going to read all the transfers here at once, and uh we'll entertain a motion uh to approve all transfers here. a transfer of of $79,64849 from various line items and sped salaries to various line items and regular ed regular education salaries. A transfer of 20, excuse me, of $11,672.51 various line items in sped salaries to various line items in sped expenses. A transfer of $63,97.73 from various line items and sped salaries to various line items in regular education expenses. Transfer of $20,627 from various line items in regular education transportation salaries to various line
013items in regular education expenses. transfer of $30,3267, which is a uh it's 30, excuse me, uh 31,322.64 minus uh $995.97 surplus uh from various line items in transportation, regular education expenses to various line items in regular education expenses. a transfer of $77,222.97 from various line items in sped transportation expenses to various line items in regular education expenses for a total transfers of $373,45.37. I will entertain a motion to approve these transfers as written. Move approval of the transfers. Second. It's been moved and seconded. We'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Gendro. Kevin Gentro. I Miss Sampers. Caitlyn Sampers. I Mr. Pico. I Jason Pico. And I Christopher Thrasher. All right. Moving right along. Uh, next is to uh approve total expenditures for the fiscal year 2025. And the recommendation is to approve the total expenditure
014for fiscal year 2025 as two excuse me 22,650,211.3 and to declare a $995.97 surplus uh from transportation, regular education expense, unex expenses, unexpended funds for the fiscal year 2025 town meeting appropriation to be returned to the town of Westport general fund. And I will entertain a motion to approve this expenditure as recommended. I move approval of the total expenditure. Second. It's been moved and seconded. We'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Gendro. I Vagendro. Miss Sampers. I Caitlyn Sampers. Miss Pico. I Jason Pacito. and I, Christopher Thrasher, we will move along to the next item is to approve. Mr. Chair, if I could just on that item, uh, I just wanted to to note that, you know, just again wanted to thank the the town for working with us on that budget for FY25. Um,
015you know, obviously it's, you know, it's as shown in the expenditures, you know, we really do need every penny to support the the good work that our staff does and support our students. Um, so just wanted to recognize that as part of that item. Thank you, Mr. Jendro. And I certainly second the um and our business staff, of course, too. Always appreciate their their work and and uh facilitating that that budget. Yes, indeed. I uh this uh none of this would happen if it weren't for both the partnership with the town and and uh the uh the the the magic in the from the business office. So, thank you all very very much for uh making sure uh everything's uh buttoned up this year. Um so, the next item on the agenda is actually to
016approve the uh uh return uh from the unexpended encumbrances which I believe we just uh oh, excuse me. We do have one one other uh item on the incumbrances. So, uh, this is a a prior year in encumbrance of $620, excuse me, $6201 surplus from custodial and sub coverage and unexpended regular education expenses. And I'll entertain a motion to approve this recommendation. Move approval to return the surplus. Second. It's been moved and seconded. We'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Gender, I gender. Miss Sampers. I kitten Sampers. Mr. Pico. Hi. Jason Pico. I Christopher Thrasher. We'll now move to approve returning fiscal year 2024 unexpended incumbrances to the town of Westport general fund and prior year grant unexpended funds to the town of Westport general fund. Uh which would be I I apologize. We did
017just do the prior year incumbrance. Now we'll go to the prior year grants. Uh recommending that uh school committee vote to return surplus uh from the following grant accounts to the town of Westport general fund uh er uh chapter 3 fiscal year uh 2022 in the amount of 53 cents. Title 4 FY23 in the amount of 50 cents. Title one FY24 in the amount of 1 cent. Math Acceleration Academyy's fiscal year 24 in the amount of 30 cents. Rule aid fiscal year 24 in the amount of 2 cents and ASOS summer uh fiscal year 25 for 84 cents. I move approval to uh return the uh fiscal year 24 grant unexpended funds to the town. Second. It's been moved and seconded. We'll take a roll vote. Mr. Gender. Ian Jendro, Miss Sampers, I Caitlyn Sampers,
018Mr. Pico, I Jason Pico, and I Christopher Thrasher. And we will now move to the bill warrant for uh June 27th, and uh June 30th, 2025. June, excuse me, June 27th, 2025 in the amount of $277,522.70 and June 30th, 2025 in the amount of $535,24321. Was there any any questions uh on the on the bill warrant? All right, hearing none, uh, consider that bill warrant acknowledged and we will now go to review and acted minutes. Uh, school committee minutes from Wednesday, uh, June 18th, 2025 and Thursday, June 26, 2025. Now, we'll entertain a motion for approval of the minutes. So moved. Second. It's been moved and second. Any further discussion? All right, we'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Jendro, IRO. Miss Sampers. I Caitlyn Sampers. Mr. Chico. I Jason Bacho. And I, Christopher Thrasher.
019All right, moving right along here. So, next is to review and act on the appointment of Dr. Roy to the board of directors at South Coast Educational Collaborative. Uh, this is the first moment uh to welcome Dr. Roy. This is a heck of a meeting for the first one, but thank you so much. I hope hope all is is well and you're settling in. Um so this is a uh this is an appointment again to the the directors of the South Coast Educational Collaborative. Um which I believe, please correct me someone if I'm wrong, but I believe this is just always the the superintendent. Uh so if there's any uh unless there's any questions, I would entertain a motion to approve this uh this appointment. Move approval. Second. It's been moved and second. We'll take
020a roll call vote. If there's no further discussion, Mr. Jro, Iro, Miss Sampers, I Caitlin Sampers. Mr. Pico, I Jason Pico and I Christopher Thrasher. And uh next is to review and act on appointment of Dr. Roy to the school building committee. This also was the uh this was the seat technically held by the superintendent uh Mr. Alen. Um I I uh I have not had chance to actually to to speak with you uh Dr. Roy on this, but I I I did assume that you wanted to be on on that on that committee. May not want to, but felt like it anyway. Okay. Excellent. All right. So, I will uh entertain a motion to approve the appointment of Dr. Roy to the school building committee. So, moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. If
021there's no further discussion, we'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Gender. IO. Miss Sampers. I Caitlyn Sampers. Mr. Pico. I Jason Pico. I Christopher Thrasher. All right. Well, that wasn't too bad. We are through with the action agenda. Uh we'll now proceed to theformational agenda and I am very pleased to ask for the first superintendent report from Dr. Roy. Uh thank you Mr. Chair. Uh I do have a few updates. Uh first I'd like to begin with publicly thanking the many staff members who welcomed and supported both me and our new curriculum director, Miss Holly Hograves, with getting us up and running. Miss Hogra is online with us today and um we're welcoming her to the committee as well. It has been a very busy and productive 5 days. We've held listening sessions across almost
022all departments with a variety of personnel. In addition, Miss Hargraves and I have met with each building principal for an extensive conversation about their work at the school level. Um, further updates, the bathroom renovation project at the West is in progress and upon completion will begin at the MAC. The MAC air condition project has also begun. Both projects are on track with an expected completion date prior to the start of school. From HR, currently we have 10 open positions that staff are working hard to fill. These include one assistant principal and one custodian for the elementary school, four teaching assistants, one STEM teacher, one special education teacher, and one LPN at the middle high school and a teacher of the visually impaired. On Wednesday, July 2nd, we received correspondence from Commissioner Martinez that the federal
023government is holding specific entitlement grants for review. While the good news is that title one funding will remain intact, we are anticipating at the very least a delay of title 2 part a supporting effective instruction and title 4 part a student support and academic enrichment which for us for Westport is approximately if we go based on last year $61,000. Those funds have historically covered the costs of professional development, training for staff, and social and emotional learning programming. We have met on it already and will continue to monitor the situation. On a more positive note, summer program for students continues with the out of schooltime program, middle and high summer school, and the extended school year program which began yesterday. and I was very pleased to get a glimpse of those students and teachers. And my
024last update right now is fall sports registration will start on July 15th. Tryyouts will begin on August 18th starting with middle school soccer. Thank you. Excellent. And um thank you again, Dr. Roy. looking looking forward to get getting u getting the all the all the activities in the summer going and uh preparing for the ne next school year. So uh thank you and again welcome and I also do want to take a moment to to welcome uh Miss Holly. I have not had a chance to to meet meet with you yet but uh I appreciate you attending this meeting and I look forward to speaking with you soon. So are there any uh any questions from Dr. for or for Dr. Roy at this time? Now, I just wanted to say thank you for the
025update. Welcome again uh to both you and and Holly. Looking forward to working with you both and appreciate uh all the work you put in so far and meeting with staff and uh so just want to say thanks. Excellent. Thank you. So uh we'll move on to the uh next item on theformational agenda which is the the mask mass joint uh conference uh which is going to be held in Hyannis November uh 12th through the 14th. Um this is a a conference that uh school committee members traditionally u some some have have chosen to attend. Um I did uh attend uh for a couple sessions last year. Um and Lori, do you have any other details about uh about this that is worth noting beyond what's on here or um no I don't just to
026say that um in the past you know school committee members have attended um and so if you are interested in attending please let me know. we do get a discount if I um register you before September 5th. So that would be great if we could get um you know if you can align your schedule with attending it would be awesome. Excellent. All right. Thank you. So if you're interested in uh attending the conference u please reach out to uh either myself or Lori uh to get that uh get that taken care of. zone. All right. So, we're moving right along to the last item discussion item, which is the uh request from the town clerk uh for voting new, excuse me, the uh the using the the Westport uh middle high school as a centralized
027voting location. So, in case uh in case you're not aware, this is a plan that has been in the works uh by the town clerk for uh quite a while now to consolidate all of the five po polling places in Westport uh to one central location. Uh there is a uh there has been a letter uh sent earlier this month that details the the potential uses uses of or uses uh use days I guess for uh the election days. Um we have already built this into the calendar for the next year. Um, I think that there at this time there is a there's a request for the town clerk to provide a a statement of agreement for use of the middle high school uh for this purpose. Um, I uh although it is not on
028the agenda as an action item, I would certainly be willing to entertain a motion to that uh to that end. Um, but first I just wanted to ask if anyone has any particular questions. I actually do, Chris. Yes, please go right ahead. Why the middle high school that's occupied by students and not the old high school that's not occupied during daytime hours by students? So the easiest answer I have for that is that based on my discussions with the town clerk, there was when this process first began, there was a question of whether the old high school was actually going to be available. Um I think that there there has been some movement indicating that it would at some point in time become available. Uh but at at the moment I think that was the
029reasoning with with going towards the middle high school. Um I I will note that the the plan would be to have election days uh not be instruction days. Of course. I'm just thinking like now we're adding days onto the end of the calendar because we have an empty building that could be used for voting that doesn't have students occupying it during the day. It essentially sits empty minus admin. So I I I think that I think that it is going to be worth revisiting uh perhaps when more uh I guess when there's more certainty surrounding the the old high school. Um I I you know I can certainly mention there's you know some work in in in progress there uh that may may see a more permanent uh more permanent presence for the for that
030building going forward. But I know that the town clerk was operating under the assumption uh or not the assumption but operating I guess with the with the possibility that that building would not be available. So that's why And knowing that this affects the school day for the students in the middle high school, what happens with the rest of like the elementary and the Mac Humber that would not be being used? Would they have school? I think the we currently do that with I think the MAC is a polling place as well. Yeah. And they were in the building with the students this year. So we had voters in the building with the children. Yeah. My I my understanding when we when we voted on the calendar I think was to have those days as as
031no school for the district. Yeah. For the entire district. Yeah. Right. So you understand my concerns, right? Like we had a very long school year this year because of a long vacation, days missing, like that sort of thing. Um, so I'm trying to avoid the same complaints that we had last year. And if it's an opportunity to avoid having to use a school day for something like this where we have to make, you know, add another day on the end of the calendar, I just think it makes sense to use the building that's empty. I think the issue we may run into with the old building and you know obviously the elections are under the town clerk's purview but uh the issue with the old building is I think from perhaps from her perspective is
032that whether something is done with the building or not I think that there's going to be a period where it can't be used cuz either there's going to be a construction or renovation project and it's out or there's or the building will sit and at some point the town will have to get rid of the building in some fashion so I think that's I think that's where it's currently at and some of the uncertainty surrounding it. That's that was my part of my understanding of it. And and I will I will also mention to your point um I was not a fan of of elections taking place on a school day in the Mac Humber. And so no matter what, right, we're no matter what it's going to be, I think it's necessary that there
033there be no uh no school on election days. um because the Mac Cumber even as it as it stands right now the Mac Cumber is is a poll in place. So um that's you know that I I I think again this is not necessarily in our purview as far as uh you know setting the polling places is is the town clerk. Um but given the the current I wouldn't say uncertainty but the you know given given the current status of the old high school building I I this seems to me is as is the the best option at this moment. Is it going to be the best option in a few years? Maybe not. But at the moment I think this is this this makes sense. Um Mr. Chico, I I apologize. I see your
034hand up. Please go right ahead. You know, I just uh you know, wanted to echo what what Caitlyn said. Um and you know, if if damage has been done and it's too late at this point, then I would say it kind of is what it is. But, you know, at the same time, I I do uh think it would be smarter um and and a better option if we did use the old high school um if it became available. Um, you know, again, it it is available. I I get the reasoning um or whatever, but at the same time, we know that we have kids in it for programs throughout the school year, throughout the day, regardless. Yeah. Right. To say that, you know, we weren't sure or, you know, whatever whatever the reasoning is.
035Um, you know, again, I I hate to see our our kids in our district kind of, you know, shut down um, you know, from school for for elections um, when we have when we have a place that we still could centrally locate um, and move all of the uh, all of the polling places to um, basically at our disposal. Um, so and I I have to add to that and ask like obviously the the this had to have come to the school committee at some point to make adjustments to the calendar. I wasn't on the committee yet when that happened, but like how does this process work? Like clearly there had to have been a conversation from the town clerk in regards to the calendar to make sure that we had this day off, but
036it sounds like the committee members weren't aware of that. This this the conversation had had I think been going on for quite a while and then the clerk had had reached out a few times and when we had discussed this um with the committee there there seemed to be no objection at the time when it was it was brought up I think at a at a couple different meetings of the school committee. Um it's kind of been it's kind of been an ongoing issue for for a while. Yeah, I would have objected if I was on the committee then. They they use the so those days are are it's not just like a a complete day off. They're used as professional development which they need to have anyway. So I think it's kind of just
037a shift in the calendar because they're using those as PD right for students with time in school. It counts for the teachers time in school but it doesn't count for the student in school. Yeah. I don't know if we're necessarily adding any days. I think we're just moving around where the PD days are. That was my understanding with at least with the uh the next calendar year uh or the next the next academic calendar. Um and and you know this has been the these discussions have been going when I say discussions I mean the the plan by the the town clerk uh this has been in the works since 2023. Um this predates my time on the on the committee as well. Um, and the the switching the just I'm I'm trying to go back
038to when we switched the calendar coming up and I'm pretty sure that it was ex exactly as Mr. Jingro described. We uh we just shifted a professional day around to accommodate the uh the April uh the April talent town election. So, um I I tell you what, so this has not been this has not been noticed as an action item. Um, I could I would Is there is there was there any is there any uh is there a timeline from the clerk on when she would need a um the clerk would so she has indicated that she's trying to get this uh you know taken care of as soon as possible because she would need to send uh there would there would need to be an access basically a site survey would need to be
039completed by the building inspector. That's easy enough. Uh but the notifications would have to go out uh for the January annual census. Uh there is a requirement of course that uh all you know all all the voters be be made aware uh through the mail of uh of the polling place change. So we, you know, there is there is a need certainly to act at some point in time in the near future, but um I I would be happy to table this for now uh or table this for this meeting. I'll go back to to the clerk uh discuss uh see if if there's if it's possible to look at uh alternative the alternative of the old high school. But again, I I will say that I am I'm concerned because no matter what happens
040with the old high school, it will either be uh you know, it will either continue to be unknown as to the availability of the build building going forward or there would potentially be a period where the building will be unusable because of uh because of work being done. So, one way or the other, uh I'm not sure that that is going to be an option for the immediate future. I do think that uh if if it does end up being uh useful long-term, that's another discussion. But for the for the immediate elections coming up in 2026, um at at at this time we have we have already set the calendar the academic calendar uh to accommodate for the April election. So that's that's kind of where we are right now. But again, I I'd be
041happy to table this matter for the moment. Uh go back to the town clerk and report back to the committee at the next meeting. I would be I'm I'm comfortable with the clerk's recommendation um to use the building given that we've adjusted the calendar and and shifted a PD day. Um I'm fine with you know if you want to go back and talk more that's I think that's fine. Um and bring any concerns of the committee. Um, but I would I would be based on the information that I have, I would I would be in favor. Like I said, I'm I you know, it's already set in kind of, you know, as far as I'm concerned, it's set in stone. We have our school calendar set in stone for uh for this upcoming year. So,
042that's fine. But I would like to look into, you know, that option um you know, for future years before we lock in, you know, what looks to be a plan for uh for the next four years or so here in this uh in this letter. um you know again looking 2028 there with 1 2 3 4 um you know four elections and in a you know I know it's calendar year um over the span of uh of those two school years but um you know just to just to keep our options open I think it would be smart to uh to look into that. So, let me ask you this. Um, would I think that it's going to be necessary based on the requirements of notice going to voters in the in the yearly census.
043Um, I I think a letter of agreement would be appropriate for the 2526 academic year and the 26 27 academic year. that way um you know that way we're not locked in but at the same time the that gives the opportunity to potentially change the polling place again for for 2028 but um I I think it would be very difficult to very difficult for the clerk's office to to change something for um any of uh the elections in 2026 uh or excuse me the the fall elections in 2026 and then the April election in 2027. So if if it's agreeable to the committee, I would I would entertain a motion to to do a uh a statement of agreement for uh through the 2026 2027 academic calendar year. So that takes us through spring of
0442027 and by then I think there is definitely uh by then I would anticipate having some more certainty as to the availability of the old high school going forward. I'm sorry, what was the specific recommendation you were I mean uh motion you recommending? The specific motion I'm recommending is to have a letter of agreement uh sent to the town clerk that uh that agrees to use the the the middle high school for uh the 2026 and 2027 election dates which would take us through the academic years uh 2026 27. So, through through spring of 2027, is that what the I'm sorry, I don't have the the letter from the clerk in front of me. Is that what the what the clerk was recommending in terms of in terms of a an agreement date? Was she
045asking for a specific time period that uh to agree to? The clerk has given the election dates through 2029. Okay. Um, but I I do think it would be appropriate to I mean I'm also fine with I'm I'm not opposed to tableabling as well if if it doesn't have to be acted on this meeting and and you know talking to the clerk would would you know address the concerns of of members. I'm I'm fine with that as well. I I I think this time I will I will table and take this to the clerk. I I but I would anticipate uh I would anticipate making a recommendation at at that we uh have an agreement through the 2027 school year uh spring 2027. So, but I I I I think for this for now, we'll
046table it. I'll talk to to Chris and see what uh see what the what the thinking is. So, Okay. So, with that uh with that item being done, I believe we have uh we actually have nothing else on ourformational agenda. Uh routine matters, correspondence, and notices. I have none. Uh topics the chair cannot reasonably anticipate. I have none of those either. So, if there is uh if there's nothing further from the committee at this time, I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. We'll take a roll call vote. Mr. Gendro. I have a Jendro. Miss Sampers. I Caitlyn Sampers. Mr. Pico. Hi. Jason Pico. And I Christopher Thrasher. We are adjourned. Thank you all very much and have a wonderful day.