001e for nomination of a chair for this meeting I would like to nominate a member jro for the role of chair this evening I second it okay all in favor five thank you all right so thank you all um and Welcome to our meeting we will go ahead and start with the Pledge of Allegiance flag United States of America stands one nation God IND and justice for all all right so thanks again everyone for being here this evening we do have a special recognition to kick off our evening um and that is for the 2024 girls soccer class a state champions and superintendent Robinson did you have anything you want to say absolutely um first of all congratulations to the team um coach TR Kemble is here um this evening to say a little bit
002about the team and um we'll distribute some certificates and um hear a little bit more about uh this great season now this could be dangerous if you give me a mic girls this is more nerve-racking than being in the St game um you know first of all I'd like to thank the angor Community the city council and the school board for just the tremendous support that's given for all of our students and those involved in extracurricular activities if it wasn't for that foundation for us to to be able to do the things that we do both academically and athletically and extracurricular wise and we wouldn't be bang school you know and I think the Bangor School System is fortunate to get the support um that it does from the city the council and from the
003school board it's it's tremendous that we're able to do the things that we're able to do uh like to thank Dr Robinson is this the first state championship yes it is [laughter] first state championship Dr Butler thank you Mr Vanetta signin um our faculty and staff at Bangor High School and throughout the Bangor School System um you guys work with our kids every single day and it's that's what you know brings us pleasure brings us joy in watching the the growth of of our students and all of those involved in our extrac curricular activities parents and families out there getting kids to practices getting them to events the time that you put in you know getting them to to pract tra like travel practices and everything um it's an incredible ordeal that you go through
004um to get them back and forth um throughout the state and a lot of our girls play um soccer year round which is um allows them to have the skills that they they have um I'd like to thank coach young coach McMahon for the time and the investment that they put the organization to let us do the things that we are able to do most importantly though it's the players it's you guys as student athletes that put yourselves out there every single day to be evaluated and you know with the society that we're in today criticized um you guys handle yourselves extremely well um in the classroom on the pitch um and everything that you do and it's you guys as as student athletes that bring us the most pride in watching you guys grow
005um as people um you know this group is incredibly intelligent they they're extremely coachable they're skilled Beyond and athletic like uh there was no team that was faster than us in the state you know when you combine all of those attributes um it allows for you guys to do great things and it was your skill it was your determination it was your togetherness that allowed us on you know that Saturday to be able to come away with with a gold Bo all um you know and then are just great athletes seven are members of the National Honor Society six were voted kvac all academic team um and that's the the academic piece that that comes into all of this I I've been coaching for 38 years now and I really think there's a correlation to
006really good teams and smart kids I really think there's a correlation to that if you can if you can if you're coachable and you can Institute what it is that you're trying to as a team you can go a long ways the graduating seniors over the last two years they're 33 and three they played and won two Regional titles they've played in two state championships they' won a state championship this year they scored 101 goals gave up 13 you know and when you get a difference of 88 goals you know moves many games um yeah KN and to to end this you know about halfway through the season things really started to click and and as a team you know they would get together at halftime and discuss what was going on in terms of
007the game play and practices they would discuss you know how they can get better and about halfway through the season [snorts] they started to talk about Turn the Page and make the next play you know no matter what happened negatively positively was about moving forward making that next play and guys we were you know a lot of people don't realize that both in the Regional Championship and the state championship we were down a goal the other team scored firsts but there was never any sense of panic that I thought and there was never a time that I didn't think that we would win either one of those games and I think that whole idea that whole ideology of we're just going to continue to make the next play is what pushed them um to beat
008state champions you know and it's a it's a tremendous group of young women who uh did some incredible things and brought great joy to um Bangor High School wonderful thank you I have some certificates that um I'm happy for you to distribute sure are congratulations once again this is for you and love the time all right so I'll have him come up and I think Mr finny is going to huh write on Q Eva why should have Coach McMahon and Coach oh you're gonna go right down with Mr finny [laughter] JoJo CL after Sophia Chase qu schmel Avery CL Gabby Gordon G Roy JJ Williams Quin Andrews Emily Adams in Gard restr thank you Stevenson CL oldenberg luio PR the cyphers Nora Zigler Annabelle beer lyia mes em ckins Abby Ken and I'd like to
009thank everybody for um attending tonight a wonderful evening and thank thank you school board for um the recognition it's great congratulations get a photo absolutely so I want to arrange the the team and then I would ask that actually if you guys could divide yourselves three and four and be on either side I think that will work out well so you guys come in it's so weird not seeing you guys wearing bag I pop in like right next to ask put your chairs in the way keep going keep going rearr really close together coaches could you stand with your to as well if you could actually in you're in the front if you can hold them at like waist height and so they the line that looks great actually the back row you have keep
010yours down because it covers your face you want us to [laughter] we can do two one with it up and one it down we'll start with a down okay my knees don't go okay one one two three okay now girls put it up in the back okay up really high you're done you're good thank you name know all right so always lovely to be able to recognize some of our calend student athletes here and recognize how hard it is to achieve those goals at the same time maintaining their academics always um a joy to see them when they're here so I'm moving along our agenda this evening um are there any adjustments to our agenda uh there are no adjustments this evening okay all right so next we'll move on to the public comments portion
011of our meeting um and if you'll excuse me while I just read our brief statement before we enter public comments 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 non-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 requests 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 procedures before speaking we encourage speakers to review
012school committee policy AC which provides the of the school committee does not and will not discriminate nor tolerate discrimination against students or employees on the basis of membership and 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 comments this evening okay seeing none we will move on to uh superintendent proposals and updates um any action items this even we don't have any action items okay um and then we move on to our informational items beginning with the superintendence update okay I have an update to provide to everyone um first I'll start with the schools um just a few highlights of course there are many many things happening in all the schools um
013so I typically just pull out a few um thing things to highlight at the uh High School we've um we're piloting a tobacco cessation program um and this is uh one that's being inserted so that it can uh help to be an alternative to suspension for um those types of disciplinary violations today I was able to participate in the Chinese culture day it was actually right here in the library um a very exciting event uh the students learned about all the different um ethnic groups um and different um uh groups that are in China and and they were some dressed in um unique Garb and um just sharing all about their uh the learning and I it was a a great experience we have uh AB Lincoln um doing very well with attendance 95% in
014September and October and they um had a Turkey Trot that was sponsored by the PTO students ran and walked laps around chapen Park and last week uh Vine Street uh celebrated our veterans with a wreath wreath Across America presentation in terms of the school department um we've um identified through our safety um our school resource officer a uh really helpful website that we are going to begin adding to all of the district newsletters called connect safely and it really um offers some great resources for parents around online um safety for their children uh the staff survey update um I had listed 150 responses but I checked it today and we're up to 174 so that's wonderful um lots of Staff participation more information on that to come uh schools have shared out the PBIS climate
015survey with families so uh we'll learn more about those results in the um in the coming month or two and I would like to thank all of the school committee for a successful Retreat on Monday um it was great to be able to get together and do some discussion and planning and then yesterday we had our deib advisory committee um this was our first meeting to start with and it was off to a good start um I think we have a solid plan and that really entails um reviewing the proposals over the last three to four years and identifying which ones make sense to begin implementation and then developing that plan so that we can see um you know some of the uh work that has been done put into action in terms of the
016region and state um I think it was just yesterday um I had an interview with the doe um following the measure what matters um initiative and this was also connected to the the Rev work that I had done in my previous District really around um Innovation and how do we uh begin to innovate in our Public Schools so that we can make sure that we stay current and um are implementing the best practices so uh that was great to be able to highlight what has been done in the past but I also had an opportunity to highlight some of the great things that I've uh learned and um have experienced being here in Bangor so that was great I don't know that when that will be published but I can share that and um coming
017up on November 25th I'll be attending the UTC meeting uh around the academic crosswalk with Dr Butler um and essentially what that is is um the UTC team has um identified areas within the programs that could potentially offer credit for students who are attending so that meeting will um go a little bit deeper into that discussion and um from that there'll be further results that I will share any questions member of Carri um can you talk a little bit about the tobacco sensation program with it I don't have a tremendous amount of details I don't know if Dr Butler has more maybe than I do yeah so it's uh um just below surface level uh Tim Reed one of our assistant principls has taken a lead on this and Brian Doyle uh it's been in
018partnership with the city of angor I think it's uh the umbrella Grant follows through them and it uh goes hand in hand to some degree with the um with the tobacco settlement money that came our way so in combination with the Vape sensors which were still looking to operationalize and install um it's called My quit and it's uh you know research based uh to a degree voluntary there needs to be some sort of acceptance that the student wants to be involved just like anything else kind of starts with a with a place of desire to be to consider that as um self-reflection and as superintendent mentioned uh we're seeing it as a way to divert away from traditional discipline and there is a disciplinary component to this there are things that aren't supposed to be
019had in school certainly aren't supposed to be used and certainly aren't uh by on any list of healthy behaviors for young people so it's in the context of ownership in this concept of of uh you know personal health and wellness future health and a way to turn a negative into a positive a consequential uh situation into something that has more positive consequences as a student moves on so uh Tim Reed's the actual expert I'll ask him tomorrow to give me a review on how well I did for [laughter] 5,000 foot as I see it I think it be valuable program simple thank you yeah thank you for that any alternative to reasonable alternative to sense Happ your um any other questions on the superintendence report remember Carrie sorry um the staff survey I'm interested I'm
020not sure if it's um this type of survey has done in years past but how many staff um would you anticipate um responding um 150 or 175 or 174 sounds um good but I don't know what's typical in years past how many staff are currently own yeah I i' have to look into the percentages typically um I'd say about 20% return rate I like to see or above so um I'd have to get the actual numbers but I think that would be coming pretty close um and again it's over all staff um in all departments one thing I did leave out not about the survey but that I am serving lunch tomorrow at at dowy I missed that on so that's that's exciting looking forward to that F any other questions before we move along
021just one more [clears throat] question I don't know I [laughter] um as a school Committee Member one of the reasons I wanted to run is so I could serve lunch when do that happen oh great just but I still want oh okay end of December you can watch for that announcement and invitation okay I know we've all been Ching bit except fabulous all any other questions before we move along all right um so next our informational items we have report of resignations I'm reporting the following resignations Taylor blackwell5 winter JV cheering the Bangor High School Jasmine carver5 winter JV cheering at the Bangor High School okay thank you all right next we move on to our business action items of which we do have just a few um starting with the minutes um and our
022organizational meeting minutes of November 13 2024 I'd like to recommend the approval of the draft minutes of November 13 2024 organizational school committee meeting and the November 14 2024 regular school meeting okay all in favor by excellent all right next up we have the financial report I'd like to recommend approval of the August financial report so move second all in favor five um and next within Personnel we have extra Duty assignments I'd like to recommend approval of the following extra Duty assignments for the 2425 school year Jason Smith for the boys JV basketball coach at the Bangor High School Justin Smith for the boys freshman basketball coach at the Bangor High School can I get a motion so move second all in favor five all right and up next Committee Member Shelley o Cary will
023read uh the following donations for our thank you uh to James F dowy school from CNL Aviation clothes and shoes for students having a total dollar value of $1,414 um much appreciated I would like uh to move to have this donation accepted second all in favor by all right um do we have any introduction items no we don't all right so up next we have committee updates and I know that we've just had our reorganizational meeting but are there any committee updates to be shared this evening I think I'll I'll just um not to reiterate what Dr Robinson already shared with the deiv advisory committee but I um I I think and I hope that this year will be a a very productive one for the deib advisory committee not that it wasn't in past
024years but um I love the uh kind of the reformatting where we'll have the internal um you know BSD staff uh each month uh and then the entire group every other month and that will really allow um for us to focus on internal uh procedures for implementing I know that was something that was brought to us several times actionable timeline actionable steps to take and so uh this is exciting and then we will we've all um agreed to report out more often instead of a one-time three-hour meeting so that will be really instrumental this year thank you in my apologies I did skip over one item um which is comments and questions from the committee our kind of generic bucket um are there any comments or questions from the committee all right so we capture
025that and see no other um committee reports um I'll hand it over to member Crespo for our student Committee Member update okay so I don't have very much today I wanted to start off by saying that the Bengal High School's performance of The Little Mermaid is Thursday and Friday and Saturday of this week um Thursday and Friday at 7 o'clock and 2 o'clock on Saturday and the tickets are $5 not 10 um basketball and hockey will begin their preseason games this coming week um Phil the Alon is scheduled for December 27th and Ryan War won the design competition for the shirts so those shirts will be there for purchasing excellent thank you so much any questions for member crossbow no all right no reports right here no okay um so next up we have our
026information items and a few key important dat do I read this part out that's part okay um so we have Wednesday December 11th 2024 a regular meeting 700 p.m. here in the Bangor High School Library Friday December 20th 2024 is Bangor day Wednesday January 8th 2025 regular meeting 7 PM Bangor High School library and Wednesday January 22nd 2025 our regular meeting 7 PM Bangor High School library um and with that are there any um other questions or comments for the committee I do have one before we jump in I just wanted to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving um a much needed break I know you have parent teacher conferences to get through everybody who's in the room and that's you know a few days of work coming up but we wish you luck with that
027um hopefully you have you know some extra parents on hand and some Fort staff you can always reach out um but have an enjoyable holiday safe holiday everyone all right seeing no other questions or comments then I would entertain a motion to adjourn so second all in favor e