001e e that's evening everyone I call this meeting to order thank you for joining us in the room thank you for joining us at home this is the Bangor school committee today is Wednesday October 23rd right at 7 pm please join me for the pledge Nations God indivisible thank you on to public comments and just as a reminder members of the public May address the school committee for up to three minutes on school and education matters public comments 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
002shouting and request that speakers be civil discussion of specific Personnel or student matters and complaints concerning specific employees or students will not be allowed they will be addressed through established policies and procedures before speaking we encourage speakers to review school committee policy AC which provides that the committee does not and will not discriminate nor tolerate discrimination against students or employees on the basis of membership in a protected class speakers to share comments contrary to this policy will not be allowed to continue and we ask that speakers uh share their name and place of residence and do we have any public comments tonight see none we will move on to superintendent's proposals and updates um and we have one action item and it's a first reading of the comprehensive emergency plan management plan Dr Robertson excuse
003me um I would like to recommend um accepting the first reading of the comprehensive emergency management plan um it's included in the packet um it what's included in the packet is the public portion um if anyone would like to view the confidential portions uh of the plan um that really um needs to happen in private in the uh office so that can be scheduled with the AG okay and perfect can I get a motion please so move second any questions into or comments all in favor okay next we have a couple of informational items the first is an update on the Bor school department Ram cam Club so I would like to welcome up our community Outreach and safety director raay fny um he has been working with students uh in a a new project
004called the ram cam club and um this club promotes events and activities for the Bangalore school department and Ray has uh I think a video to share with us tonight I do so two years ago Dr Butler and I had a conversation about forming a group um that would allow students who were interested in digital media to record create and design content and so with L of learning funding through Esser we are able to purchase equipment for students to use for this program so for the past month students in the group have been working on a video project to promote the role that teachers have in belonging with students students spent morning meetings before school after school filming and a few study hall sessions to learn about and discuss the importance of branding color the
005impact of words editing length and music selection um the students have a lot of ideas for future projects as well so the students started with a 13-minute interview and created a 2minute and 31 second video for you after tonight's Premiere their work will actually be showcased on our website YouTube channel and social media accounts so it's my pleasure to present to you teachers make a difference uh and I'd like to shout out to Brown who is a teacher at the James F dowy school who is actually the subject of our video project for the past three weeks and so now the video [Music] my name is Alison Brown and I'm a seventh grade social studies teacher here at I would say I want this school to be a place that kids look forward to so
006every day and I know during Middle School you don't want to get up in the morning but I want kids to come here and say okay I'm here we're a family this is a community for the six hours that I'm in this building I'm going to have a POS and that's really important to me um I think this school's amazing we have in my opinion just one of the most incredible staffs I've ever worked with we care about kids we're here for the kids and we make that known and the kids are incredible I really do feel like this is a community and this is a [Music] family so first of all I want them to come out of here with a love of learning things I want them to be C ious I want
007them to think I want to learn more so that I want them to come out here with confidence um in themselves I think is the hardest time especially now um being a teenager I want them to have a positive self-image Bel in themselves to know that they can do anything and I also want them to know that they have a team of people behind them just because you're going to high school and you're leaving me doesn't mean that I don't still care about you and I think that that's a really important thing for them to know we're here for you if you're in our classroom or [Music] not I think once kids know that you care about them and you have set that base of positivity and confidence and all of those things your test
008SCS are will to up because they feel connected they feel the community they feel the positivity and I think they makes a huge difference it's an incredible place and uh why am I was crying this community is incredible there's nowhere else that I would want to work there's no other people that I would want to work with there's no other kids that I would want to work with um our kids come in with a lot of things on their plate and I think that it's really important for them to have just positive people in their life for some kids maybe this is the one place where they can feel safe or they can feel love where they can be respected and I think that's really important thank you you guys have any questions about R
009questions remember John Dr I don't have any questions so much that I have a comment that was lovely and they did a great job and as person who works in this field of communication and teaches it it I always tell folks it matters who the who the content is coming from who produces it who you know so they've clearly selected a great you know interview um and did an an excellent job putting it together so and you said it was three weeks it was three weeks I spent 15 weeks working on students with this the university level so they pulled it off in like an amazing time they should be proud of themselves that is delightful so thank you the the first meeting was actually a 20 minute session where it we watched the 13-minute
010video and I said so go home and think about it took a lot of time yeah yes remember um thank you thank you so much for sharing this I I love the message my question is um can you share a little bit more about the ram cam Club what's the the plan I know that you said that this was the first uh individual that would be interviewed are you doing more teachers more Sports staff more students there's a couple different things so they've actually recorded a couple of different um athletic events that we've had they plan on going to homecoming next week to be able to film that um part of it with our new website we're actually able to have section that we can coordin off for student viewing only so we can actually
011have a password that students can have to log into that space um we're working on building that out and and making that available so that students who are not able to actually physically go to Cameron can still watch and can actually still participate in school spirit with that um so that function is our next goal um so we hope that High School athletics in the winter will actually be easier to a tend Transportation isn't always the easiest but the high school is a much more attainable goal so that's our goal in the future um we also have some student interviews that we're doing in regards to how you know why should you be proud to be a bangal ram whether no matter what level you're at so it's about promoting that there's also talk about
012how do we do things like Instagram and you know without doing video how do we use visual pieces as well so there's they have a lot of things they want to learn um and I'm really excited about being a part of it um but it's a lot of time how many kids are in the club so I have I had this conversation with Dr Robinson I have three that have been able to actually be at all of the meetings sure um in total we have about 10 to 15 that come um 7:30 in the morning is an interesting time to meet with students um sometimes their bus runs a little late um but we meet Thursday mornings and that's when we have our official meetings and then um we meet whenever they're available throughout the
013week so I make myself available for them study halls month 7 on Monday through Wednesday works well for our students um but after school as well and so we have conversations when we can around their schedules because they're really busy as well great thank you thanks so much welcome questions thank you so much this is wonderful you're welcome thank you next we have superintendent update I like to provide my update for uh this this evening um in terms of the schools uh we are really trying to focus on communication um and making sure that that happens internally as well as externally uh so the district team has been working very well to support that department wide communication um and we've the schools have adopted this more newsletter you may have seen it coming out with
014some really um catchy names uh so we have Ram tracks Bulldog bulletin fruit scoop shine just to name a few uh the snow forecast um and families are reading so one of the um great aspects of snore is that it um well at least they're opening it I guess we can't really tell that they're actually reading it but we'd like to make that assumption if they're opening it so um it tracks that and then we can collect that data um at the high school uh the theater program they are preparing for The Little Mermaid and they're also hosting a national filmmaker uh with local ties uh for some filming in her up coming movie and her name is listed there um KY aselton as yeah aselton um so I think more uh information will come
015as that progresses down east had a pizza and PBS night on October 10th Vine Street had their fall festival and ice cream social um I didn't put it in there but there was also a fall Jubilee at 14th Street and um if there were other events I'm forgetting them right now but there a lot of things happening these are just a few highlights um but all very well attended um and that dowy CNL Aviation uh served the lunch last week um and I was able to connect with the CEO of that organization and the plan is to uh meet and talk about other potential Partnerships um with that company so that's exciting terms of the district I want to welcome our new student representative uh Brandon broseman uh we had uh several highly qualified very
016impressive high school students that uh ex shared some interest in being a representative uh so we uh met as a u committee so a member oeri myself principal Butler and our director Dana Carver by hour we met and discussed and then we held a zoom session for our finalists and then we were able to make a decision from the but a tough decision but we're very pleased I think Brandon is going to uh do a great job so welcome to you Brandon um at the end of this month I have a meeting scheduled uh with Ryan Parker who's the regional representative of Food Corp um You Might Recall with the garden committee they were discussing that potential other ways to expand on you're really looking at food and Gardens and how do we bring more
017of that here to Bangor so I'll be finding out about that I'm in the process of developing a survey for staff uh and it's really going to be quite simple uh what should we keep doing what should we stop doing and what should we consider changing and that information um open-ended Dr Harris meberg and I are going to really dig into that research and uh kind of come out with some themes and bring that back uh for the committee and for the staff and and it will help to drive some of the the future initiatives in the department we are creating a safety team with representatives from uh each building to ensure that uh any issues that are happening uh in the schools are are brought to our attention in a timely manner and we
018can stay on top of things um and we'll have monthly meetings uh we're in the process of preparing to publish the communic and this was a magazine that I think I don't think it came out last year maybe not the year before but it's been in existence in the past and we are working on producing that so that will be coming out um later in the fall and I did have a discussion uh with the city around school zone signage uh so we're in discussions and I've been Gathering more information about that um to really make sure that those school zone uh safety lights and signs are where they need to be for student safety um in terms of the the region and State uh there's uh the main teacher apprenticeship program and this is
019a collaboration with the doe and the Department of Labor and they're really looking for uh additional Pathways to support edtech and teacher certification um and there's a mix of flexible kind of Competency Based and uh online so that it can help to streamline the process and the final piece is uh the guardian caps um I know um remember seret you brought that up about questions around that and uh this is something that's designed to protect students from concussions um we started the discussion regionally it hadn't been a a big topic i' brought it up at our last meeting um there are a couple of U challenges but I will follow up with it um right now um the mpa has allowed it um but there are issues with our current helmet and how it negates
020the warranty so um there's it's it's brand new and it's presenting a little bit of challenge but we'll continue to provide updates on that everything I have this evening thank you so much any questions for Dr Robin seeing none we're moving to business action items and the first action item is our minutes for the regular meeting of October 9th 2024 can I get a motion please second any questions and or comments all in favor seven up next we have Personnel we have extra Duty assignments to recommend approval of the following extra Duty assignments 204 2025 Rebecca tower5 IEP coordinator at Bangor High School motion please so second any questions all in favor next we have donations read by member John Dr all right so to the Fruit Street School from St Paul Apostle Parish sneakers
021and socks to support students having a total dollar value of $500 to 14 Street School from machia Savings Bank school supplies having a total dollar value of $100 and to 14 Street School from the Bangor Elks Lodge dictionaries for all grade three students having a total dollar value of $100 great thank I any questions in or com all in favor so thank you so much moving on to committee updates do we have any comments and or questions from the committee want to do my msba delegates update okay um this will be brief um I had the opportunity to participate in the uh main School Board Association delegates meeting this past Saturday um was a great crew of representation from across the state some of it was your basic kind of housekeeping items going over finances
022what got done what you know they're still working on um the probably the most interesting things that we worked on were some of the resolutions um for the board um again a few housekeeping items but we did adopt or vote to adopt two new resolutions one that's focused on AI um and you know guidance for how schools the school Comm and schools adopt policies around am um and one looking at school funding that the state needs its 55% uh you budget and then with a Wishful thought that they keep up with inflation so um it was a great meeting attended by a great of individuals So yeah thank you so much a member spr I would like to thank you for doing that meeting because I participated in that meeting and it's one of the
023most brutally boring things thank you for giving up a for that have the group I appreciate that that is not the main thing I wanted to uh I would like at some point discussion and maybe presentation about how we are talking about drugs and alcohol in our schools I was reminded this week that it was Red Ribbon Week and I had forgotten week existed it was a thing when I was a kid and I'm just curious I felt ignorant as a parent uh of a fifth grader who I don't know what he's learning and what resources are being used to accompany things like the Red Ribbon Week and I'm just interested in learning more I think grade four five is a perfectly age appropriate level to start talking about this but it's got to be
024supplemented with things in the classroom and it's got to be we have a lot of local experts in this community in this field and I think this is a crucial topic and I'm just curious I think that we should all learn more about it too what happens at grade four five even if they do touch on things that prek through three but certainly four five through middle school and certainly in the high school I just want to have an open discussion about it and learn more about what we're doing thanks any other comments any questions okay I'm seeing none of course um our committee appointments will take place at the reorganizational meeting on November 13th so uh stay tuned for that um and do we have any Representatives or toward the UTC nothing okay um
025so last but not least student Committee Member update member creso uh good evening everyone I just wanted to start off by welcoming Brandon um I'm gonna let him say a little bit uh I'm Brandon bronan I'm a junior at Bangor High I play soccer and tennis and I'm part of the stem Academy I'm happy and grateful to be here with all of you and I'd like to extend my special thanks to Sophia and principal Butler for sharing this opportunity with me um so some upcoming events is we have Homecoming in the week of October 28th to November 1st um the themes are from Monday it's TV movie day Tuesday rhyme without reason Wednesday blast to the Past Thursday Halloween and Friday we have class color day um seniors their theme has not been decided yet
026juniors are wearing white sophomores wear blue and freshman red just a reminder that school rules still apply during homecoming week so homecoming dance is going to be held November 2nd um here at the school um senior class will be hosting a schoolwide volleyball tournament during the week of homecoming um the competition is taking place October 28th October 29th and October 30th all with like the different grade levels competing um the games will be held in the gym here and all competition days begin at 700 p.m. um this week for Halloween we have two Trunk or Treats one at down east um October 25th at 4:15 at the dowy school and one at Bangor October 28th um from 5: to 7 at Bangor High School and a quick reminder to all my seniors turn in your
027senior photos baby photos and closing activities thank you so much and welcome member brosman did I pronounce that yes um moving on to informational items several important dates Wednesday November 13 2024 is our reorganizational meeting uh 11:00 a. council chambers where we will have um two new school committee members um Thursday November uh 14 2024 um later in the afternoon 5:00 pm is our Workshop here right here at the library um Thursday November 14 2024 right after that is our 700 p.m. regular meeting here in the library um November 18th uh which is a Monday our school committee Retreats 8:30 to noon um and the location may be changing um due to popular demand and maybe keeping it here in Bor so more to come on the location uh Wednesday November 20 20th 2024 another
028regular meeting 7M right here at Bangor High library and then finally Wednesday December 11th 2024 another regular meeting 7 p.m. right here in the Library Final Call for questions and or comments member luchana um I am going to steal a moment and say if this is my last school board meeting I wanted to just say thank you in case I am not reluctant from those um but this has been um three really wonderful years and I have loved all of it so thank you very much um we'll see how things go but this has been ex so thank you thank you remember spr thank you that next two school committee members are in this room right now I also just want to thank the my colleagues here uh it's been a mostly positive experience serving
029on the school committee and I thank you for your friendship and working together particularly member Luciano I've enjoyed serving with you very much at Le three years something I think happens when you run with somebody you just become close with them I appreciate it but uh and I also want to congratulate and thank our chair for successful completion of another year it's a lot of work and it's not easy it's a challenging job so congratulations to you on the Fulfillment and completion of another year thank you and also want to wish the three of you the rest of luck so we'll see you on November 13th um and uh any other comments and or questions okay so um adjournment can I get a please so moved second all in favor thank you all so much