001student represent. Not yet. She doesn't want to come over talk yet. No. CTA PTA, tell me would you like to join us? We do the crowd. So, um, we made it and I'm just going to I want to say thank you to all of you for your roles that you've taken on throughout this last school year. My daughter and my son and I went to graduation. Nice to see you all at work. More fun for us and for me you guys do besides um and thank you for the opportunity to serve as vice president. will continue at least through early. So that's it. This is your agenda. Thank you for all the work this year. We had a good time. reviews from [Music] Sure. Now she's like, "What are we doing?" Um, but this has
002been a great learning experience this year for all of us and we take the lead from a lot of people. We appreciate that and Thank you. Crack this evening or so staffing report. Um Jessica Murphy did contract uh was going to special approved the last meeting. So she is schedually. will be joining our team on Wednesday as we have our end of year beginning math teacher and Phil has also been hired as a CHS math teacher. Uh I did include a little press release I gave just with changes out. Um, all right. The next thing in here is the ESSA federal grant program monitoring. Um, this is just kind of like an FYI for you, but this is just one of those things that all the federal grants we get come with very specific uh
003requirements. Things are certifications. Some things are reaching out to private schools where Clinton residents might attend. There's also how you use funds, all that kind of stuff. Uh, so we had to do our grant monitoring for title one, title 2 A, and title 4A this year. Uh, so I handled uh this. I did write those grants and we were found in uh compliance uh have having fulfilled all those requirements with no uh required. So sort of an update on that. Uh the next report in here is the special education integrated monitoring report. I already shared a preliminary version of this with you guys. I've made like sort of a summary chart. This is just the official one uh from the state on the special education uh report we had. Um everything was found to be
004uh implemented. All the civil rights uh were implemented. All the special ed two that were partially implemented that was special ed indicator 9 and 18B. Both of those had to do with timelines. Um so we are this is part of our corrective action. Um there was some professional development in the beginning of the year just to focus on tightening up our timelines and one of those it actually is related to a uh sort of interpretation a change recent change to interpretation of timeline as well that a lot of districts are. So we will address that other than that it was very clean report um CMS building project update. So the there's some thoughts in here for the groundbreaking ceremony. Right now it's scheduled for September 5th from 11 to 12th. Uh we had to work
005with the MSBA to schedule that and kind of sort of do it right at the beginning of the next school year. So there'll be been a lot of work done, but most of what's going to be done immediately is going to be site work, drilling wells, that kind of stuff. So it's not like we're going to have ground breaking and there's like a building already there. Um it really will kind of be marking sort of the That'll be our ceremonial kind of kickoff right when the kids come back on September 5th. Um I tried to start looking at guest list of like who we'd want to invite. Um the uh sort of an agenda kind of some of the stuff we might want to do. So if you have any thoughts like we're trying to
006build some of this off some samples that other schools have done obviously uh one of the recent ones that they did was students possibly along invited everyone that so um so we're trying to kind of go some different ones that are more comparable. Um, but if you have any, I guess this is just sort of for your information, this is in the planning stages, but if you have any specific ideas, concerns, thoughts, things that you think like, oh, we should make sure we invite this person organized to so and so can speak or whatever, let me know. um as we're kind of starting to formulate this program and then we'll be getting invitations out uh middle school surfacing scheme and design. There's a little um uh packet in here. And so this is stuff. It's
007still kind of in its development uh phase. So it hasn't been like officially approved yet. But what you can see is kind of on the third page, you can see some of the green and gold looking things for the playground surfacing that'll go there for the uh right outside of the fourth grade uh wing there. Um so we looking inside of the look at those colors, those structures. Those structures are kind of identified through um through committee feedback. They all serve like specific purposes. And then the next page, that green and gold with the gray shows the uh proposed coloring of the basketball courts that it's not right now. But the one of the things that we will discuss Okay. I know where you are. drawings at the work. figure out different places where it
008can be prudent to maybe think of a full scale sign that is instead of being a scroll sign on top of that marquee and have that for various talking about passing out cost. Yeah. And I think and and probably we should have the most current cost estimate for tomorrow at the meeting. Depending on how that's tracking, that might be something that uh uh I know one of the things that was that's still kind of hanging out there was I think the town had approved some money at one point to put those signs and they were they were going to put one up here. Um and I think they and into I think talking to uh Philadelphia that there couple locations they look fell within the fell within the um national grid right away or there
009was difficulty with getting power to it or something along those lines or something that so we got to I also want to check on uh status in that project because if the if the town's going to put up a a fulls size sign we don't necessarily need to put another full that sign 50 ft away from it. But if that's not going to exist, I'd agree the larger the sign. Well, yeah. And and if we can take the benefit of maybe having it not be right where the middle school is, but pushing it up towards where the mutual entry is, maybe instead of the same middle school education campus, but having a course, however you like, now you have multiple uses for like traffic, big traffic, middle school, present closures, and you get you get
010maximum utility out of that. Yeah. So I think we have to say I think we still want something that would clearly identify where middle school I don't know what Yep. Um, all right. So, the next sheets in here, I just kind of uh snuck these ones in sort of at the last minute. um trying to see if they didn't necessarily well they kind of So if you see on the first one there's the the green outline where the new building if you see that one immediately to the left of like the green building if you go over there's like a red line or orange line or something that kind of traces the old building and it goes around the parking lot there. That's going to be phase that's going to be where they're going to
011kind of be fencing off starting like Wednesday. Um so that it'll be it'll be blocked there cuz they got to block it that far back so that they can build sort of like their temporary entrance road and get the uh utilities through and that kind of stuff. So, it'll be like that for a little while over the summer and then um prior to the school year starting, it's hard to tell because the old building is missing on the next one, but prior to the school year starting, the fence will be pushed back so that the uh parent group is is part of it. So, what you're going to have uh immediately starting literally like Wednesday is the construction zone itself is going to literally be bounded by the back and that gym side of the
012school. So, there will be little um uh sort of barricades. Barricades is a good word. maybe like signage with like con temporary fences and stuff that would be out right outside all those exits on those two sides of the building so people know not to go out there. But they met with the uh did meet with the building inspector to make sure that there blockade they're putting up is still enough that like in the event of a true emergency would push through it if um but they're not too worried about it because the we shouldn't be anywhere near capacity building kids um because uh then you'll be that'll all be backed off by the times. So, I did send a message out on Sunday reminding people that tomorrow's the last day of school. I also
013tried to sneak in there that uh just asking people to just be careful of changing traffic patterns. When you come up there this summer, it'll be a little bit um and I'm not sure exactly what it's going to be on a day-to-day basis as they kind of work on sort of the temporary entrance. for a while you're probably to come in sort of back out came in and then like I said the goal is by the time school starts next year the fence will be set back enough so that we can get back to school some of them do so we have tried to minimize it and then that's one of the things we're going to talk about uh meeting uh have a meeting on Wednesday too at the building which will be on site,
014but we talked about making sure that they they try to use the main entrance for any of those and then like walk in the building to where they need to go instead of kind of get dropped off all around. Uh we are going to let uh Fontaine use the uh industrial arts room over there. got a direct access to outside um as sort of a temporary office until they can get the utilities hooked up and get the construction trailer on site. Once the construction trailers on site, they'll move on to that. And is there still plans to put that temporary like parking lot right at the back corner where we start? They're talking about that place where they kept utility vehicles. Yes, I believe that's still the that's still the plan for during the construction
015phase for this beginning phase obviously until I thought they will be doing our some of our parking in the summer. We went over that in the meeting to to try to have them park uh if they can park down that end and if possible over there so that if we are moving traffic where it's not possible but it shouldn't be a ton of vehicles uh early a lot of the early work is going to be a couple drills just out there. Um, but it's crazy to think that it it's going to become real like here Wednesday people on site to do stuff. So, you know, I'll be up there Wednesday morning to meet with them. All right. Um, in your packet, there's also a draft school committee schedule. Uh this schedule for the most part
016mirrors uh last year. I just try to make the data combinations and go through the schedule and if there's a holiday fell differently or something, but last year and this year were pretty similar in terms of the impacts on on our uh meetings. Um, and there's a couple little, one of the things we tried to do is like May 4th and May 18th. Um, we try to celebrate doing the students of the month and retirees. It goes on two different nights instead of one just because we end up, you know, that when we do retirey one always conflicts with the adult head graduation. So, we fig have better seating. Um, there might be a couple other things in between, but for the most part, that's what it is. So, um, you know, I don't need
017I don't know if anyone has any, you know, if you have major conflicts with this or concerns about the meeting dates. Um, we don't need to set all these now. The next meeting is scheduled for July 14th. We can approve it then. Uh, if you guys want to double check your calendar or go through it and see if you have any questions. Um, I guess the last thing I had on mine was just a end of year wrapup. Um, you know, nothing really uh prepared for that. But uh tomorrow is obviously the last day. Um we met met with the advent team today. Uh we kind of did a little reflecting on this year and and um you know I think it was there was a lot going on this year when you sit and
018you kind of reflect and you think about all the things with the new building contract negotiations and the high school getting the innovation pathways designation some other stuff like there's there's a lot you know with a new principal like forget about some of that by the time you get to the end of the year right like not new anymore right so uh you know so it's It it's it's so overall, you know, like every year has its challenges. Every year has those days where you're you're going crazy, but I think overall was a positive year and already started thinking about a lot for next year and what we need to uh do we want to do to improve and we start that process out meeting. Um, so 8 o'clock I'm meeting at the middle school
019on Wednesday to meet with the construction guys and then at 9:00 we have an admin meeting all morning uh to really just focus on what we need to do this summer get the ball rolling for you know all the plans we have for next year now we're in what we need to do as far as that's about all I have good year and it comes a close Thank you. Before I jump into my report, I'm going to hand hand out some virtual flowers. First wanted to congratulate Jane Fitzgerald on her run for school committee. We're happy to have her familiar face in the school system and someone that I did some work with for field trips and I did. I did. And you and you kept me in line when we needed to be in
020line, too. So, welcome. Welcome. Congratulations. Congratulations, Mr. following on his run to select board and his return to select board. We've been uh privileged to have him here and helped us through some very strategic opportunities with building his future brings as far as this board and I wasn't here at the last meeting so I didn't want to congratulate Steve on this new contract. Um we're so pleased to be able to extend Steve and in the work that he's been doing. Uh we're when you look at the landscape of superintendent just just school executives and admin in general like there's there's a lot out there that culture we have a great one here and we're happy to keep that up for a little longer. Thank you for being on six more years. Six more years in
021in lifetime extend that congratulations. Um as far as committee reassignments I think that's something we could probably start to work our way through as the the dust settles and committee sort of where we will be for the near future. So Jane, if there's any particular advisory committees that would be of interest to you, happy to hear about that. We can we don't have to plug you in where Pan was, we we've moved around in the past. So if there are things that interest you, we want to make sure we have alignment and things you're interested in and we can talk about that and sort of regroup as a as a team on what that will look like. I think the full list of them is last page of your packet has a full um probably
022hopefully don't need a CTA negotiation stuff maybe next year. So, and then um Kelly, thank you for sending the soft copy of uh Steve Steve's um self evaluation as well as a document for us to complete his evaluation. Uh we do have that. We're in the process of working on that as a team and we'll make sure that it's completed and I'll make sure it goes back to Kelly a couple weeks ago. The soft copy a couple weeks ago I can I'm sure you have it too. So you just have to like come with that. Um any negotiations? Uh you have anything to update on just where we are on the last group of folks? I mean unity is all done. So you guys voted on that when they voted. So they did approve. So
023that's all set. Um you know I met today we have anything under old business with the wellness I know she said I'm used to send it out they are going to have feed again so that's going one acre. Yes, right now I think it's scheduled the way the proposal was set up to have one summer feeding site at the acre. Um we talked to the wellness committee about maybe trying to do a survey. I haven't done the survey yet. So we'll work on that. Uh we want to get that out just to see if there was any other locations that we could maybe identify in town that help make it more accessible. There's also feeding and all the kids, right? They do all the meals for anyone that's in the anyone that's in the summer
024regiment, the parks summer playground, the summer school, the extens program. And that's was good. That was one of the things we one of the main focuses I wanted to be because uh whether there was going to be funding for summer feeding was a little iffy. you got any business? I was just going to comment on saying u couple weeks ago I know that Dr. Meyer and Scott Survac were, you know, huddling up at 7:15 in the morning to try to make a call on graduation. It's the worst possible place to ever find yourself when there's clouds in the air and raindrops to do. No matter what you do, someone's going to see you inside the wrong thing. But they walked around the park after graduation, which is a fabulous ceremony, and we did dodge some
025raindrops. I heard a lot from the kids about how excited and appreciative, pumped they were outside. So, a little bit of a game, but uh I think you made the right decision. And like I said, there's going to be no right decision for the masses no matter what we do. But, uh, kudos to you guys for taking the extra effort, looking at the radar, trying to like figure out what their pocket was. you guys rearranged the whole agenda is to maybe cut some things out in favor of the kids getting what you thought they want. collaboration. It's 5:45 7:15. 7:15 when I called it was I don't know how you got so close to this spot. We were halfway and it came back right. This must have been a total disaster to take on you
026get it. I guess uh I was going to say uh I also wanted to to uh compliment the high school and uh principal SAC and quickly work that uh Katie Ball was here um talking about the innovation pathway designation that we got. We were literally informed today 10:53. Um, but we've been recommending to get the early college program designation as well. Um, so that's a good one. And the official vote for it will be on Wednesday the 18th at 3:00. Um, we were they recommended us for approval. So inviting us there. So guess planning on voting us down. So that was good. And I guess the one other thing I would share is that we did get um I did we did get an email about um some parents that were inquiring about 8th grade
027Washington DC trip 2027. Um, I did reach out to a green district to try to get some of their information, give me some of their cost information. Um, so mostly it's not any cheaper, but um, you know, I don't know the [Music] best approach that um, you know, school would like to handle. I'm happy to to maybe meet with a parent, talk about, you know, some of you sort of seen the challenges and see what they want to do if you want meeting to set something up or if you like a meeting. So there's yeah I mean I think any dialogue that we can have that can bring back what I feel are great experiences with kids. I had one child that was able to go through and do eighth grade in Washington DC and
028sixth grade in what's the name of program. Thank you. Nature's classroom of which both went really really well and I had one daughter I have a dog missed out on both of those things. I think we've returned to travel in the high school and I think you know Paulus and a lot of those teachers have done a great job putting the programs together. I understand they fall on uh primarily on vacation time so there's no lost learning involved. But I think continue the dialogue to bring it back. I think it's something right. Yeah. And that's that and that's why they're reaching out now because they said, you know, they realize that like, you know, if you don't reach if we don't kind of if someone has to take get the ball rolling for a few
029weeks down the road, by the time people are like, hey, there's no trip, it's like, well, we can't pull it off in three months. All right. I can maybe I'll start by um meeting with this parent because it seems um there might be another group like part spokesperson for some others maybe offer to meet with them and then maybe just sort of I can I can share some of what maybe some of our um concerns as you look at the logistics of the trip and share some of the the feedback we got from other district and then u see what their their thoughts are what their thinking is. And I forgot you congratulations for all her work. And I I felt one I felt bad because um our our program is was always kind of
030like traditionally sort of set up in a certain way and it didn't necessarily go into exact order of the program, right? And so I kind of like made some comments about that. So this year she made it very she very deliberately made sure that the program followed the agenda and then we went and changed the agenda on her and I felt bad. So um she she did do a nice job and she was going to uh follow everything. I'm sorry. I want to see a motion for a journ. All in favor? Thank you.