001Thank you. And do we have any adjustments to the agenda? >> No adjustments this evening. >> All right, moving on to public comment. And as a reminder, members of the public may address the school committee for up to three minutes on school and education matters. Public comment shall be directed to the school committee and be brief and not repetitive. The school committee's practice is not to respond or debate with speakers during the public comment period. We are here to listen. The superintendent or her staff will follow up on comments outside of the meeting as appropriate. The committee will not permit profanity or shouting and request that speakers be civil. Discussion of specific personnel or student matters and complaints concerning specific employees or students will not be allowed, but will be addressed through established policies and
002procedures. Before speaking, we encourage speakers to review the school committee policy AC, which provides that the school committee does not and will not discriminate nor tolerate discrimination against students or employees on the basis of membership in a protected class. Speakers who share comments contrary to this policy will not be allowed to continue. Before starting, please state your name and place of residence. And do we have any public comment this evening? Nope. All right. Moving on, we have uh superintendent proposals and updates. And first we have action items. The first reading of the comprehensive emergency management plan. >> Um thank >> thank you. I am recommending the uh accepting of the first reading of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Included in the packet is the public portion. Um and if any of you would like to
003view the confidential portions of the plan um prior um at any time, please contact Lori Mitchell. Thank you. Are there any questions at this time? No. All right. Move to motion. A motion to accept. >> Any questions, discussion? No. All in favor? 7. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have information items. Uh, first is our smart social presentation. >> Thank you. Yes. Um, I'm going to ask our uh, director of community relations, Ray Fenny, to uh, introduce our guest who's going to talk more about our smart social partnership. >> Good evening. I'm pleased to welcome Andrea Allen from smartocial.com to our school committee meeting this evening. Since August, we have been fortunate to partner partner with smart social to enhance the digital safety and well-being of our students in the Bangor School department. brings
004a wealth of knowledge and experience in promoting responsible social media use and online safety. Tonight, she will share valuable resources and insights that can help our students navigate the digital landscape safely and responsibly. Please help me in joining where in welcoming. >> Thank you everyone. It's a pleasure to be here and we are excited to partner with your school district to help protect your families and keep them safe. I'm going to start today by sharing a quick overview of smart social from a parents um for your parents today. for getting Just so everyone is aware, uh we cannot hear anything from this video in case anyone anywhere can hear anything from this video. Um so we are in the midst of trying to fix it and we'll hopefully have sound soon. Oh, should I keep
005should I keep playing or should I stop that? >> We'll have you stop playing that for some reason. There's no sound coming through. It's just the microphone that's working. >> Oh, okay. You can't Can you not hear me? >> No, we can we can hear you. We just can't hear anything that's coming off of your machine. >> I understand. Well, let me stop them that video and just give a quick overview um so that you can hear. So, I apologize about that. So, here at Smart Social, we're here to keep and protect your families. And we know that it's hard to stay updated on all the apps and um everything online. So, we're here to partner with your parents and your staff to keep and protect your families. So, here you can see we have
006450 plus resources. We stay updated on all the apps and we have 50 plus live virtual events for your families to participate in to show up for. If they do register, you not only get a replay if you can't attend that live event, um you can also if you do attend win fun prizes, we give away we just gave away a 3D printer, um Kindles, and um all kinds of fun things. So, we stay up on the most urgent trends. So, we cover a lot of AI. So, why AI therapy can harm your teen's mental health. We cover the new release of Instagram maps that actually track your child. How Tik Tok's algorithms target vulnerable teens. These are three to four minute videos for you and your family to keep you safe. We have replays
007of all past events and these are available for all of your families. So, what I'd like to do in the short amount of time that we have here together today, I'm going to go ahead and put in the chat the link for all those attending or on right now to go ahead and click. I'm also going to share and I'll go ahead and put up here on the screen. I will give me one moment here and I'm going to go ahead and share. If you are just on a digital device, um you can go ahead and scan this with your your phone. Let me see. Can you let me see if I'm sharing my screen here? Share. There we go. Are you able to see see that? >> Yes. >> Okay, great. So, for those
008of you, you can use your phone just to to scan that um or click the link. I'll just give you one moment to do that. So, in addition, we have about 100 student videos and we do have a student internship program and we would love to have your kids be part of our student internship program. So, I'm going to share a little bit more information. Here you go. So, we have three different ways that your kids can participate. They can participate in a quick video project. They answer a few questions and every uh student that participates get a $25 either Starbucks or Amazon gift card. We do need parent permissions to apply and get approval. We have research and writing projects and even if you'd like your student can come and join as a live
009event guest at one of our live events and we really hope that your students will participate. And if you go and explore um this this video, if you just go to our resources and type in internship, you'd be able to see um and access that page. Does anyone have any questions so far about Smart Social? We really encourage you to share this resource with your other parents. We consider any parents that join us as very informed parents. And as you start to learn and understand how to protect your family, we really encourage you to check out our resources. You can go to our sharing center and share these resources with your families of your district. Um, we also want to hear from you in regards to any issues or struggles that you're having. you can
010speak to your school district and get back to us and we will try to cover some of the things that are worrisome or of concern to you. So, first things first, just go ahead to this month is National Anti-bullying Month. So, please join us for an upcoming uh live event, combat online bullying. We these are very fast-paced. We have a lot of student voices and experts in every live event. Okay, any questions? >> Yes, members Greg, >> thank you. Uh, thank you for being with us. Appreciate the presentation and seeing these resources. I don't know if my question is for you, although it possibly might be. I'm just wondering like foundationally, what is our relationship with this? What are we doing to drive attention to offer our, you know, endorsement of it? what is what
011is our plan for unrolling and for our relationship with this entity? >> Thank you for your question, Ben. I'll actually answer that for you. Um, so we provide login information to all of our principles, but they which they include in their more newsletters that go out to our families. We've also been posting at least once a week in regards to social media events that are happening with Smart Social. So, for example, prior to tonight's meeting, there was a message that went out on our social media accounts and all of our websites that encouraged parents and families and guardians to watch tonight's meeting to actually see what Smart Social was about to be able to get some information as well as the link that Andrea shared is embedded within that message as well. Um, if you
012go to our website and you look at the button bar, which is that bright red bar that goes across underneath the pictures, there's actually a link for parents to sign up for Smart Social. So, they can actually click there and automatically be directed to the signup page for Bangor as well. So, in multiple areas, but it's an ongoing story of that partnership. It's an ongoing story of what resources are available. So when Andrea's team comes up with a new topic, grab that topic and share it with our constituents. >> Uh member Brighten. >> Thank you. And and to be clear, because of Bankworth's partnership, if a parent goes on, they'll say, you know, find your district, put in our zip code, and then there's no cost to these resources. >> That is correct. Also, if
013they use the link that's on our website or the link that is here, it's automatically more doesn't it doesn't require additional information. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, member Sur. >> Thank you. And yes, also thank you for the presentation. Uh, I'm just curious, are we thinking that this resource is only going to interface with parents and families or will this also be a potential instruction tool? So, something like uh maybe a teacher wants to use some of these resources during a a morning meeting or a school counselor wants to use these with a group of students uh during a group that that they have. It can you tell me about that? >> Actually, Andrea, would you be able to share some information about that? >> Yes. and and the answer is
014yes. We absolutely want each one of you and um your staff members to utilize and search for uh all of our resources. We additionally have student voices and I can share if you click on one of them there are e even discussion points or questions to be utilized from a teacher's point of view um that they can share in the classroom. So we absolutely encourage staff members and counselors specifically to utilize these resources, share with parents as all kinds of concerns um and really yeah inform both students and and families. Now there is no collection of student data and so these aren't these aren't presentation or or videos for students to use but for teachers to share in the classrooms for parents to share these videos with their children together. Um in addition we do
015have a professional development for example tomorrow we are putting on a professional development basically um educator live event around cyber bullying how to address these concerns student voices and um ways to learn about our resources then did that help answer your question sir >> yes it did thank you >> thank you any other questions member Carrie. >> Um, thank you for the presentation. Um, I have several questions. Um, one, uh, to piggyback on member Bryan's question, um, that there's no cost to, you know, the parent to utilize their services. And forgive me if this I just missed this information, but there is a is there a cost to the district to use these services? That's my first question. Second of all, um the is there a age limit for the um internship um for students
016and what is being used or what what is the the the data that the students the questions that they're answering? What is that those those questions or those answers being used for? >> Yes, there is. So, I'll start with your first question if I may. And yes, there is a uh we are paid by the school district. That is the only way Smart Social is paid is through um is through the school districts. So I that answers your first question and then I'd love to answer your second question. Um we have different questions each month. So each topic that we do cover um and we cover 12 different main topics each month. So um if you were to students can fill out an application again there's parent permissions to these um to participate and if
017so then they will be given a a list of five to six questions around one of our main topics. So this is a um a quick overview of some of our main topics. So August we covered AI. I can part I can send you as a followup some of the questions that we have asked in the past about five different questions for each of these topics and these would be answered by the by the um by the students. Um I don't have an example of those off the top of my head but it will be um a question of um yeah around one of these topics I can share really quickly a video um if for just one moment um if you for example I'm just going to look for cyber bullying um our latest
018topic for this month and I realize that I might you might not be able to hear. Give me one I'm going to stop share and see if I can get a way to share my audio. Give me one more moment here. So, this is um an example. Let me know if you can hear. This is a 60-second video. To me, cyber bullying looks like repeated instances of harassment and saying hurtful or derogatory things towards others, especially if it is a one-on-one connection with that person. Bullying can make the recipient feel alone, secluded, or as if the false things the bully is saying are true, even though that is often come from hurt feelings and personal vibe. I have had a friend who had some bullying issues, specifically on the app Discord. Someone that they thought
019they were friends with but kept harassing them. Their approach was to block all notifications from that site and try and figure out a way around it to approach that person. And my response was essentially to just say, "Hey, I'm here. I understand if you don't want to talk to me through Discord cuz that's how we talked just so you don't have to deal with that, but I'm here. I have trusted adults if you don't." and to just work with her to get to an end solution. >> You're never alone in dealing with. >> So that's just really quickly an example and that might have been three to four questions. Have you ever had a friend who has been cyberbullied? Can you share how you supported that friend when they were being cyberbullied? Do you have
020any other suggestions for parents on how they might help their child if they were being bullied? So, there might be a series of five different questions and then we our team puts them together in 60-cond videos to help um help educate and have parents provide resources for parents and faculty and um and students. Was that helpful? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Yes, it was helpful. I was just wondering is there like a a minimum or Mac or minimum age that students Yes. You can is there a age? >> Yes, we only um ask that middle school and high school students uh participate. >> Thank you. Uh member Sarat, >> thank you. Um I was curious about who are the individuals that are are creating the videos and and could you just tell us a little
021bit about their professional background? Are they are they educators, former educators, school psychologists? What what is their uh professional expertise? >> Yes, thank you. So, um Josh Oaks is the founder of Smart Social. He's been the founder for over a decade and has been the number one presenter on this topic. He traveled across the country um and presented to almost 35 states um on topics of keeping kids safe and shining online. And so he is um with us. We have an entire team. There is a lot of moms on this team with specific um one two of them are past teachers on our staff. We have um a video editor. Um we have a multiple moms that are um part of a research team and they research these topics. Um and we have additional staff
022um to support the video pieces. Um we're across the country. We do work with experts. So we interview just like we interview the kids. We inter we Josh has interviewed 235 plus district leaders and we use the content from those interviews of superintendent across the nation in and creating our content. So you can check out our podcast. We have about 230 plus district leaders um that Josh interviews again to collect some of this data and information as well as counselors um of our partner districts and experts um on specific topics around app usage parental controls. >> Thanks member Brighten. >> Yes, thank you. Thanks again um Andrea for this presentation. I appreciate all of the uh areas of focus that you're sharing in terms of educating parents um on ways to keep their children safe
023online. Um but I think it goes without saying that technology also has a lot of wonderful things to offer. So, can you point out where on the app? I I've done some research and I I just think it's important to highlight some of the really great ways that this app can also be used to um bring attention to positive and encouraging and thoughtful and um empowering ways that students can get really comfortable with tech. >> Yes, I would love to share those. Um so, Josh has published a couple books. one is about shining online. So everything you know we are very tech friendly AI it I don't know if there's a bigger fan of AI than Josh. Um so we integrate all kinds of positives and we never want to say um we we we
024don't teach parents not to use these apps but we teach them how to use them in a positive way. And the number one thing that we do teach is to for parents to have open conversations with their kids. And so, um, we have an entire event around how to create a positive, um, a positive footprint, how to shine online, how to stand out with an online portfolio, how that's going to get you your your dream job or your um your uh to get into the school that you would like. Um, how to create those portfolios. So there's lots of student videos down here. Think before you post, you know, shine on building your brand identity, building careers and online skills, social media, inspiring creativity and opportunity, how to shine online, posting with purpose and perspective,
025what to include in your portfolio. Again, we really encourage even with AI, we our AI events was encouraging parents to use AI. How do students use AI to to better study, to be more efficient, um use it in a positive way, create a great morning routine? We really encourage positive use of um of these resources throughout our site and I hope that um we don't have a lot of time but definitely our all of our um our messages are very uh positive around using social media just um staying informed parents having open conversations with your children be on the apps with them play video games with them and um keep that connection with your child no matter what. >> I really appreciate that, Andrea. Thank you so much because I had looked at some of
026the resources, but I didn't find Shine Online. So, that answered so many of my questions. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> And member Hosman. >> Yeah. Um, thank you so much, Andrea, for a great presentation. Um, so my question is about the questions, and I know that they're, um, age appropriate, you said for middle school and high school. Um so for students who don't have a parent um at home for example who's available um are or what are you suggesting for those questions to be um covered or for the answers for the students or is there someone online who can kind of walk through some of the the answers with the students? That's my first question. >> Yeah. So, for the student internship, if the student doesn't have someone, um there could be a teacher
027or a any kind of parental guardian, we just want to make sure that's the only piece of our program that we do involve student participation in. Um so, as long as there's some kind of um okay for them for us to reach out and ask them these questions, then um then we move forward in that direction. It would be one of the professionals that you mentioned earlier. >> Correct. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. And I know you mentioned um 35 you're in 35 states, correct? How many schools approximately? Um and what's what's the consensus around what this has done for students, for example. >> Um so Josh's mission is to save a life and um he's been on this mission for 10 years. We um school districts reach out to us and um to help
028educate their parents and we have worked with schools. Uh Josh did travel to 35 states. We don't currently we aren't currently um partnering with 35 uh districts and 35 different states at this very moment. Um I would have to get back with you on the number of districts um that we do work with. Um I I don't have that exact number for you today, but I can follow up with that number. Um we are in a lot of states throughout the country and um you know we have had continuous ongoing relationships for for years. We have um a number of emails of gratitude from parents and districts and educators um saying that we are making a difference. We have continued renewals with all our district partners for years. Um and yeah, we think you know
029people are grateful and and really um I I guess one of the things I want to say is that we collect parent feedback after our events. And so if I can for for just one moment um we collect parent feedback. So we're getting real data, real comments from parents and the difference that we're making um from all of our districts. Um, and so I'm happy to share some of that, uh, you know, some of that with you and you will collect your own, um, parent feedback as we start to grow together and, um, parents begin to attend live events, we collect not only data, we have a district dashboard and you'll be able to collect data from your own parents of of how it's making a difference for them. >> Perfect. All right. I wanted
030to hear that. Thank you so much. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Are there any other questions at this time? >> No. Oh, no. Member Sret. >> Sorry. I'm just curious about next steps on this. Is this I know we're not voting on this tonight. It'sformational. Correct. >> So, what are what are next steps on this? >> Um, basically just continue to allow it to grow this year. Um, as Andrea mentioned, we have the dashboard. So, um, Director Finey and I collaborate and, uh, we'll be checking in and monitoring that throughout the year and certainly can provide updates, um, quarterly, I'd say, at minimum, um, to let everyone know how it's working and to determine if it is, uh, a good fit for, uh, Bangor and if we're going to continue with it. >> I appreciate
031that. And I another and we don't need to determine this right now, but I' I'd be interested if Maine is one of those states and if if so, are there other school districts uh in Maine that are using this program? >> I can get back with you on that as well. >> Great. Thanks. >> You're welcome. And I just wanted to give you a quick over peak. um you have your own dashboard, but you can see with one of our partners, we have 87 parent event feedbacks from their community of parents providing data, and we provide data as well um for your district as we start to grow together. >> Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. And I'll be getting back to you on some of
032your questions. >> Great. Thank you so much. >> Thank you for having us. >> All right. Bye bye. >> Bye. >> All right. Up next, we have uh superintendent updates. >> I have my update for this evening. Uh copy was in your packets. Um just to highlight some of the things. There's always so many great things happening and so many um opportunities to share. I've highlighted some here. Uh we have another Bangor uh beautiful mural at Down East that's been completed. um really great opportunity for kids to be involved in the whole process and see that final piece public um with that's been generated from their work. Uh we're in the process of uh determining our best uh next steps in terms of sharing that school profile, school um SEC, the school core competency information
033at our December 10th um workshop. And uh we had some really good discussions this morning at our administrative council on how to best make sure that that's a really solid representation um and aligns to what we're trying to do in the Bangalore school department. So more to come on that. Uh we are um as we I talked about this last spring, but um the Healthwave student group is working um they are a group that has already been established at Bangor High School and they focus on community um different topics related to community health and wellness and they are going to be the group that is going to be involved in the listening schools. Uh we had uh Dr. Butler had shared a little bit about that last year. So, that's getting ready to be up
034and running and we'll have further updates with that. Our Best Buddies program is up and running and we are uh expanding our mentoring at the middle school level. Um we have partnerships with grade six and Bangar High School and we're also developing a partnership with uh Glenburn. Um and the the partnerships within the school department, high school and grade six, uh we are doing mentoring days during our early release days. So, um that will be an opportunity for some middle school students to stay and participate with their uh mentors. In terms of the district, we do uh we have been awarded the opioid settlement grant and um we're working through the details of that. Um, one of the key pieces that that will allow, and this is a three-year grant, um, that's going to allow
035us to, um, bring in a person to support alternatives to suspension at the middle and high school level, and, um, we're excited to see how that evolves and I'll certainly be providing further updates. Um, of course, there's lots of research to show that um, repeated suspension doesn't necessarily change behavior and often leads to uh, poor outcomes for students. So, we're excited for that. U, we're also in the process of planning our fall uh, school committee retreat. So, hopefully we can um, get a date together for that. We continue to have the regional discussions on the child development services. Um and this is a transition. Um actually um Dr. Chadbornne and I will be attending a meeting um that's talking a little bit more about that cohort and the state support in that transition bringing in
036and providing services for three and four year olds. So, more to come on that and the next uh Penquist meeting will be next week which um I'm sure I'll have other updates from that meeting. Any questions? >> Member Spike. >> Thank you. Uh I do have a question just to see how feedback internally went to the professional development day. I think we have another one coming up soon. Uh, and also related to that, just this is a broad question. I don't need an answer tonight, but I'm always interested in kind of the morale of the staff. And I get that that might be not uh at this setting, but always curious about, you know, the both the quantitative data metrics about how are people feeling professionally? Do they feel like they're getting opportunities development? How's
037morale? Does it vary across the city? Um, then if you do survey, there becomes sort of some longitudinal data on that that can be tracked over time. And I just I don't know if we do that, but I think it would be great to think about. And I'm glad we're doing the professional development days. I was admittedly a little bit on the fence about so many early release days, but I think that it seemed to be communicated out well what we were doing and um I I'm in on it. But uh I guess my two-part question is how did the first one go? How's the mood? And related to that, what are we doing to really solicit feedback and perspective from our staff? >> Absolutely. So the I can give you a general uh response
038certainly um and happy to get further details as we proceed with our early release days. Uh but I received very positive feedback. Um again this is the principles um being able to be empowered to design professional learning that is uh very responsive to the needs of their particular staff and in alignment with what we're doing uh departmentwide. So, um there's opportunity for teacher input. Um we just again at our administrative council meeting this morning um talked about the upcoming early release and we have um opportunities that some schools are utilizing through our school psychologist offering a training and then others aren't. So again, this is not about a one-sizefits-all and I think that's really um very important and I think that's one of the things that the staff is appreciating. Um I know back when
039I was a teacher, I taught math and I had to go to all the trainings even if it was reading and and literacy and things that didn't that didn't really pertain to me. So we're really trying to move away from that so that um even the specialists so um art music um are able to have um opportunities to work as a team across the department um and really uh hone their skills and instructional practices. So so far I feel like it's been positive um but we can certainly continue providing updates. >> Thank you member Hosman. >> Yeah, thank you. Um, great updates. I'm very intrigued by the alternative to suspension uh, piece. I don't know if you have any more information as a school committee. I know we've discussed it several times during our retreats
040as well. And I'm wondering if it's going to include the restorative justice practices or is that still kind of It's still in discussions. Um, but essentially um, I think just taking a a restorative approach. Um from what I've gathered at this point um it becomes really challenging to go strictly on restorative justice. Um so I think you know initially our discussions have been focused on merging you know our current disciplinary practices. I mean certainly there are needs for suspension at some point depending on the um you know what's going on. So I think again we have to be responsive but um the idea is to think about um providing this as a teaching opportunity um a support uh because we all I mean in education it's very common knowledge and I'm sure beyond that um
041behaviors various behaviors are a form of communication. So we're trying to pay attention to that and really be responsive to you know it's it's oftenimes a cry for help. So, how do we come in in a supportive manner to hopefully u prevent future suspensions from happening and not allowing it to become a a a pattern that leads to worse outcomes? >> I'm excited. I'll follow this closely because I know like you said the this the research backs it >> up. Yep. Thank you. Member Brighten. >> Um similarly, I think this is a great use of these funds. Um my question is I I know that that you said it was a three-year period, a grant. Um is the idea that an individual would come in and do some consulting with our disciplinary um sort of
042models that we use now? Is this sort of like a a short-term staffing position that you're envisioning? Can can you say a little bit more about how you envision these funds supporting a person and what that person might look like in the school? >> Certainly. Um again, we're still in the planning phases. Um there's only been one meeting around it. Um we're looking at a possible um shared schedule at the middle and high school. Um but mostly focus at the high school level. Uh the idea over the three years and I think after the first year we'll have a better um idea of how it might look moving forward. Um but it certainly could be sharing those skills, training others. Um but it also could end up being an opportunity that you know we may
043decide that this is a need um similarly to um our literacy specialists. >> Um you know there's there's a lot of uh needs going on um and you know what what is that going to look like and and again we have to >> we have to see how it works out >> what are the uh metrics that are demonstrating the effectiveness of it and then go from there. Um, so I think at this point it's open. Uh, but really looking to do what's going to be most effective and supportive for kids. Great. Well, thank you very much for this update. I really appreciate it. >> Sure. >> Thank you. Any other questions right now? Okay. All right. Well, thank you for the update. >> Of course. >> Did you have I was like we got
044to we got to the end. Okay. >> Yes. >> Just making sure. >> All right. Moving on to business action items. And first we have um the regular meeting minutes of September 24, 2025. >> I'm recommending >> recommending approval of the draft minutes of the September 24, 2025 regular school committee meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> 7. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we've got um personnel nominations and teacher nominations for the 2526 school year. I'm recommending the following teacher nomination for the 2526 school year with a one-year probationary contract. James W. Fehee, French teacher, point8 Bangor High School, point 2 at William S. Cohen School. >> And can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> All in favor? >> 70. Thank you. >> Thank you. And next we
045have extra duty assignments. >> I'm recommending the following extra duty assignments. Olivia Belute 0.25. 25 IEP coordinator Fairmount School. Angela Lundy 0.51 IEP coordinator Mary Snow School Tracy Rearen 0.51 IEP coordinator at Mary Snow School Heidi Robinson 0.51 IEP coordinator at Mary Snow School Anthony Crabtree freshman class advisor Bangor High School Evan Marshall freshman class adviser Bangor High School Robert Spring adviser Bangor High school. Elsa Saunders, drama advisor, James F. Dowy School. >> And can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> 7. Thank you. >> Thank you. And next we have donations to be read by Vice Chair Serret. >> Thank you to Down East School from Acadia Credit Union. Snacks and school supplies for students having a total dollar value of 500. To Fruit Street School from
046St. Paul the Apostle Parish. sneakers and socks for students having a total dollar value of 500 to Fruit Street School from the Fruit Street School PTO. A cash donation to support the learning of all students having a total dollar value of 1,50 to Mary Snow School from St. Paul the Apostle Parish. My new shoes, sneakers, and socks for students having a total dollar value of 850 to James F. Dowy School from St. Paul the Apostle Parish sneakers and socks for students having a total dollar value of 250 to the technology department from MSAD60 20 HP switches eight UniFi outdoor access points and one 40 gate firewall having a total dollar value of 5,800 to Vine Street School from Burlington store adopt a classroom a grant for classroom supplies having a total dollar value of 5,000
047to Fairmont School from Bangor Savings Bank, jars of peanut butter and jelly to support students having a total dollar value of 325. And I'll make a motion to accept these generous donations with thanks. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> 7. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have introduction items and first reading of the revised policies. Do you want to take these all together? Yes, that's okay. I'm recommending approval of the first reading of revised policies. Revised policy JA, field trips and other student travel. Revised policy JOC, school volunteers. Revised policy IKF graduation requirements. Revised policy JIA, weapons, violence, and school safety. Revised policy J Kaa use of physical restraint and seclusion. >> Thank you. And can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you. And
048next we move to community updates. Do we have any representatives reports? Member Brighten. UTC met at the beginning of the month. Um just some quick updates. more than ever, uh, the population at UTC is expanding. There are currently, uh, in total, including UTC and the several, um, exploration, um, exploratory programs that they have at several of the high schools, there are 1,32 students enrolled, which is um, higher than ever and and really fantastic. Um, Bangor has 81 students in the exploratory program at our high school. Um and then 179 students from you from Bangor High School go to UTC. Um which again is is higher than ever before. So we're really excited about that move and that enthusiasm especially from Bangor for um all of the programming that UTC has to offer. Um the bond
049that was passed last November will officially be spent um by the middle of next month. All that's left is automotive and electrical. Uh so we're getting there in spending down um that really really huge bond that was passed by the city of Bangor and really allows our students to get new resources, new technology to really emphasize their learning. Um and the next steps for UTC is to really explore ways that we can implement programming at the middle school level and what that might look like. Um we're obviously seeing a shift in growth and interest. Um and so anything that we can do to continue to cultivate that interest in learning and what those pathways might look like, um we're on a really good track. So that's really all exciting stuff. Uh Vice Chair Sret, did
050I miss anything from our meeting? I >> think you covered covered it very well. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. Any other reports? >> All right. Uh onto our student committee updating. >> Thank you. Uh first off, the SAT hosted at the high school has been rescheduled from today the 8th to the 22nd of October. The P PSATs are also scheduled for the 22nd as well. Uh next, BHS is holding on the spot admissions for m for multiple schools. EM EMCC on October 28th, Hassan on the 30th, UMAN on November 4th, and University of Southern Maine on November 12th. Uh as well, yearbook deadlines for seniors is at the end of the month, but then you need to have submitted your senior photos, baby photos, quotes, and activities. >> I'll show you. >> And finally, for
051spirit week, Monday we have no school. Tuesday we have duo day, uh which was made by me. Thank you. Um and Wednesday, which is a half day, we have anything but a backpack day. So that'll be interesting. Um, Thursday we have decades day and Friday class color and senior theme. The senior theme is secret, so I don't think I'm allowed to disclose it to you guys, but you guys will see. >> Thank you. That's it. >> Thank you. Um, at this time, are there any reports or questions and comments from the committee? Member Sesler. All right, you have one more meeting to get that right there. I feel good. Um, I just wanted to say thank you for everybody for being here. We're six weeks into the school year, seven weeks, right? I teach at
052the university, so I know it's like that time where we're all a little dragging. So, thank you for all of your hard work. Um, keep it up. It's a long weekend. I hope you all have something restorative planned. >> Thank you. Anyone else? No. All right. So, moving on toformational items. Uh, we have upcoming important dates. Wednesday, October 29th, 2025, regular meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers. Monday, November 10th, 2025, reorganizational meeting, 11:00 a.m. Council Chambers. Thursday, November 13th, 2025, workshop at 5:00 p.m. at Bangor High School Library. And Thursday, November 13, 2025, regular meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers. And with that, I move to adjourn. All in favor? All right. So, we are >> adjourned. >> Great job. and we nailed the donations.