001Can I can I please get a motion to return from executive session? So moved. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor? I I opposed. Absention. Motion passes. Um all rise for the pledge of allegiance to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Um, I did that slightly out of order. Okay. Um, Mrs. Flynn, can you please call the role? Here. Linda Gains here. Jeff H here. Sophia Bonet Holland here. Donna Logan here. Maryanne Megan here. Eileen Snook here. Marian Quinn here. Mark here. Thank you. Um the reading of the district mission. Our mission is to empower all students to be self-directed lifelong learners who willingly contribute to their community and lead passionate, purposeful lives. Um can I please get a motion to approve tonight's
002agenda? So moved. Second. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Motion passes. Correspondents. Does anyone have any correspondence they'd like to share this evening? Seeing none, board president remarks. Um, welcome. Nice to see everybody here. Uh, coming in on your kind of quasi day off. Um, I just want to I happily arrived at my arrived at my seat and I had my little tiny canvases that I got at the art fair. So, I just want to shout out. They're all so awesome. Um, and one I'll I'll say this because PTI, every child, one voice. I got a PTA one. I got some beautiful ones here. So, thank you so much for all the people who participated in that. That was great. That's it for my remarks tonight.
003Do you have some remarks? Uh, thank you, Maryanne. Just a few. Uh, first, I I know there were many Memorial Day uh ceremonies throughout our region occurring yesterday. I wanted to remind folks that we have our own uh tomorrow evening at Arlington High School at 6 o'clock, which is also being combined with the Charlie Johnson award ceremony. Uh we have many guests that we anticipate attending tomorrow's ceremony. I I think uh Mr. Carroll and Mr. Earlbacher have done a great job just setting the uh stage for for tomorrow evening to be a great event. If you have the opportunity to stop by, please do it. Uh I think will be very memorable. Um I also just wanted to uh congratulate our girls flag football team on the culmination of a great season. Uh there was
004a lot of learning that that went on over the course of the season and uh that was something that I know Mr. ing and the coaches acknowledged how much the team was growing in a in a new sport uh from game to game. Uh so much so that they made it all the way to the sectional finals, which I I don't think they would have anticipated making it to. They had a tough loss in the final, but a a great inaugural season nonetheless. So, congratulations to the girls. We have several other teams that are still in competition in sectionals this week. Good luck to all of them. Uh and for right now, that concludes my remarks. I'll have some others as we go along in the agenda. Thank you very much, Mrs. Lyn, do we
005have anyone for public comment this evening? Okay, thank you so much. Um, new business. Our new business section of the agenda lists several items for individual resolution approval. Documentation concerning these items have been provided to our board members in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Um, uh, first reading. We have a first reading here. We don't need to vote on that. We have a first reading. Thank you to the policy committee. Very busy. We have a nice a nice uh pile of of um policies to look at there. Thank you very much. Um item C, civil service creation of position. Can I get a motion, please? So moved. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? Just wanted to note that this was a new position that was included in next year's budget. Uh and
006that's why you're acting upon its creation seated. Great. Thank you. Um anything else? Okay. All those in favor? Opposed? abstensions. Motion passes. Um item D, certified instructional abolition of position. Um may I please get a motion? So moved. Thank you both. Um any discussion? Just if I may, uh that these were positions we discussed early on in the budget development process that uh we were eliminating uh through attrition in the development of next year's budget. That's great. Um let's see all those any other discussion on that point. All those in favor I opposed abstensions. Motion passes. Certified instructional creation of position. Um can I get a motion please? So moved. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? Similar. We created this position. It's included in next year's budget. That's why that's why we're including it on
007this evening's agenda. Perfect. Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I opposed. Abstension. Motion passes. That moves us on to the business consent agenda. Our consent section of the agenda lists several items for approval by a single motion. Documentation concerning these items has been provided to our board members in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Um, can I please get a motion on the consent agenda? So moved. Thank you both. Um, any discussion? If I may, I just wanted to again thank uh Margie uh and Francita for the facilitation of the uh annual district budget a couple of weeks ago um with great success. Uh we have a few election inspectors who we included here who were at it on late um and we thank them for their support
008of the budget vote uh which is quite the operation right Margie but a lot of hands come together to make that work and thank you for leading that. I also wanted to acknowledge that on uh this evening's agenda includes uh our recommendation for the next executive principal of Arlington High School uh which is Mr. Mike Murphy. Mike's in the audience here. You know, might give us a wave there. So uh just a few things uh that I'll reiterate in the letter that I said shared with the community that uh there is a standard uh for leadership uh in Arlington. Uh and that standard has been set by those who came before me and before Mike and uh and many others. Um and uh that includes individuals uh that are present uh they're steady uh and
009they're trustworthy. And through Mike's short time back with the district because Mike's been with us before, uh he certainly has established himself as such at Arlington High School and I'm really enthused uh about him joining our team and and leading Arlington High School into the future. Great. Thank you. Any other comments on the consent agenda? Nope. Anybody else? Okay. All those in favor? I I opposed. Absention. Motion passes. Congratulations. Congrats, Mike. And to get appointed at such a short meeting, too. What a lucky day. I think that brings us to future discussion items. Anybody have anything they want to throw out there today? Jen, I was um wanted to inquire about um possibly the formation of a EPS committee. I know that some boards um in other places do have them um to um look
010at special ed support services and wellness. Are you um are you proposing like there is a PPS committee? Are you proposing a board committee? A board committee. Okay. So I will just remind everybody um quickly about our future discussion item protocols. So um Jen has legitimately put forward something. I think what'll happen in the next couple of weeks is I'll probably reach out to her before our next meeting kind of expand on what she's trying to propose and then what we'll do is we bring any of these type of things back to the full board and we have a disc and and I'm probably going to talk to Dr. for Bernante too, see what his influence would be there. And then we'll have a full discussion about um whether we want to task the board
011or the or the administration with with implementing that or adding that to a future um agenda and we've done it so it rolls now. We used to do it in a different way. I think it's very good that it rolls. So it's generally at the very next meeting. So we do this one. So we'll have discussion next time about Jen's um conversation. So what's nice too is we don't have one on the spot because that way everyone has a chance to sort of be prepared or sort of understand what the issues are related to there's a little primmer on future discussion items because we haven't had one in a while. So thank you for that too. I love giving little primmers. Um anybody else seeing none um moving on public comment for non-aggenda items. Still
012no people for public comment. Okay. Okay. Okay, that moves us on to committee reports. Advocacy, nothing. Auto finance, um, something in June we haven't determined yet. Cathy, I know that you and I and Phil want to talk about the timing of your next Cathy meeting. Okay. But that's fine. I mean, you can set it when you want to set it. That's fine. Okay. We're looking at June 4th at this point. Okay. U policy. Um, nothing new from the last meeting, but our next meeting is June 11th. You do have a number of policies on uh the agenda today, so please look at them. You have until next Friday, June 6. Please email myself and Dr. Bonante. Any tweaks you want, suggestions, thoughts, issues, anything. Okay. June 6th, email myself and Dr. Benanti. Got it. Um,
013moving on to organization reports. Arlington Education Foundation. Um, nothing really new. You all got invitations to the scholarship breakfast, which is June 5th, uh, 7:30 a.m. Um, and their next meeting is June 5th, the whatever that Wednesday is, June 6th. Okay. Um, that's it. The first week of June is filling right up. Yeah. Um, just county school boards that we spoke, but there is coming up the dinner. Yep. Thursday. Yes. Yes. At Milhouse for those who are attending. Okay, great. PTA, PTSA council. Um, there hasn't been a meeting since we last met. Okay, thank you. District Health and Safety. Not sure if we're going to have another one this school year. Okay. Um Equity, the next meeting is June 12th. Okay. Um Superintendent's closing remarks. Marian, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention just share
014some sad news in that we received word over the course of the long weekend that Val Sudter had passed away. And Val uh was a longtime Arlington teacher. I'll say a beloved uh Arlington teacher, certainly by me because I was in her class uh many years ago and and Val, as Mark reminded me, was also a member of the board of education. I'm trying to recall the timing of that. I'll I'll I'll find that out. But I do recall she was on the board at one point um and ended up towards the latter part of her career because she was such a fantastic teacher and teacher leader uh became an administrator in the district to help organize our science curriculum K12. And the one thing I will share about Val and you know personal note
015um you know you look back on your life and you realize there's individuals who came into your life at different points that you don't have the perspective then that you have you know decades later and you realized how that was a transformative person that you're on a particular path and that person maybe set you on a different path and Val was one of those people for me um and I know uh for several of my classmates as well and I I say everybody every kid deserves to have someone a teacher uh like like Val Sudter in their life. So you can't have a teacher like that every year. It's just not possible. But somewhere along your journey as a student, you should have someone like Mrs. Sudter. And um so I just wanted to acknowledge
016that. I know her uh her loss unfortunately was s sudden and unexpected and as she and her family were dealing with loss. Um but I I again felt compelled to make sure I shared a little bit about Mrs. Sudter this evening. She was a wonderful person. Thank you very much. Um, then we'll I guess move on to board reflections if anybody else has any reflections they'd like to share tonight. Seeing none, I'll call for an adjournment. May I please get a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Motion passes.