001I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Tina, do you have this meeting? Okay. Going to put the school committee meeting to order uh for Monday, May 5th, 2025. Get a motion to approve the bills, please. So motion to second whatever you need. Second. Any questions? No. Okay. All in favor? I abstain. I wasn't here. Uh review of the minutes. Uh if we can get uh approval on the amendments for April 14th, 2025, please. Some move. Second. Any questions, concerns, thoughts? Okay. All in favor? Abstain. Sand. Thank you. Is there any public comment for the meeting today? Being none, we will close public comment. Do we have a student rep
002today? No student rep today. Thank you, Mr. Surmach. CTA. Yes. How you doing, Brenda? Good. How are you? I'm doing well, thank you. Excellent. Okay. So, CTA met with Representative Meg Kilcoin, and I just wanted to share out a couple of things. It was went really, really well. Um, so Meg asked our opinion on a proposed statewide ban on cell phones in schools. Um, all are in agreement that they're a distraction during the day, but she's going to keep us posted on that legislation. That was kind of that was good. Um, teachers were concerned with the quality of breakfast, particularly sugar cereals being served at school. We know that meets the food meets the federal guidelines, but we talked about the state's commitment to universal free breakfast and lunch and she's looking into farm to
003school provisions since we're lucky enough to live in central Mass and lots of farms around here. So, I'll keep you posted on that. Um, we discussed the budget process and she was really more concerned about next year's budget. If we have a recession, then there'd be less revenue. So, let's hope we don't have a recession. Um, and let's see. Um, lastly, all right, since we, um, no longer run the DC trip and field trips to Boston are very expensive due to the busing costs, um, Meg's going to look into bringing the state house to the middle school and to plan events at the middle school. um she's looking forward to working with us at school and she's also looking forward to um working with the social studies teachers on the democratic knowledge project. So all
004good. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. I think from the PTA I was going to say I noticed your partner in crime's not here. She worked all day. Yeah. She was running around delivering snacks tonight. Okay. All right. She's pulling double dippy cuz I couldn't take the day off to work the book there. So, um, good evening. Uh, so we are currently sitting at 160 members. Um, we are still shy of our goal of 216, which would meet our goal of doubling from last year. Um, a little ambitious, but we're hopeful. Um, we closed out our PTA scholarship application on the 30th with three applicants. Uh all applications have been sent to the committee for evaluations. Um they will have their decisions to us by this Sunday the 11th and
005from there we will then award the scholarships uh by uh that following week and letting guidance know um on their awards. Um our next meeting is uh this Wednesday the 7th at 6:15. There is a change to the Wednesday because we didn't hold it last week because of uh an event that CES had. So, we didn't want to conflict. Um, I mentioned the meeting change because it is important. Um, attendance for this meeting. We're stressing um because we have several funding requests that are going to be brought up and attendance by members is greatly appreciated because we can't actually vote on anything if we don't have quorum. Um, one of the biggest funding requests that we are looking forward to voting in, um, is a new fundraising event that Miss Sylvio brought to us and
006proposed and we are going forward with. And we are going to, uh, run a Boostathon glow run at the elementary school pending a vote um, for approval for spending for the um, services that are offered through Boostathon. and that'll be held in the fall at the elementary school for all grades prek through 4th. Um Emily and Jess actually went and uh was able to attend another school's glow run and it is so fun. The kids are going to have a blast. It's done in the gym so it's rain or shine. They get all ppped up. They provide a bunch of volunteers and the gear and everything. It's inclusive. The teachers um get to get involved with the kids. So much fun. So, we're thinking that that'll be so much more interactive um and more enjoyable
007than buy stuff out of the catalog. Um we also have two fund requests from um sixth and eighth grade that we need to have voted in so that we can provide help with busing costs. Um we have uh two things going on this week. We have teacher appreciation week. Um and we could not be remiss in letting it go by without spoiling our teachers. So, we have our sweet treats scheduled for Wednesday. Um, we have um tea and lemonade coming from Raising Canes again this year for all three schools. Um, as well as nothing but cupcakes. Uh, all being donated. Um, as well as for the admin building. We didn't forget you. Um, so those will be coming Wednesday morning. Um and then each school um and the administration building um members who have uh
008joined the PTA will be included with the high school in the raffle. We have three raffles that will be running for PTA members for the faculty. Um that will include um there's probably I think at least $150 in value worth of items and gift cards in each um their carts filled with swag um that will be raffled off at the end of the week. Um and then we are in the gathering stages uh for our um calendar that we'll be doing again for next year. Uh so we'll be gathering all the date sponsors um looking for our you know big ticket person who or um sponsor to take the headline of the cover. Um and we have our book fair running at the elementary school this week. So all the things. Is that all? That's
009why Emily is working tonight and went home to sleep. Oh, thanks Rebecca. Thank you very much. Anything? Anything from CPAC? Alpac, how are you? Hello. Hi. Good evening. Just a a brief summary about the multicultural. We have nine countries that represent their culture. Student from the tree building collect information from different countries and create poster they wish were displaying the event. Six six community leaders offer information for family. Um we received donation from seven business in and around Clinton. Um we have a great turnout. A lot of students and teachers especially from high school for me that is huge were present in the event. um was a totally success. Families are feeling welcome. On behalf of the ELPAC, I want to thank each parents, students, teacher, administration, and school committee for being there with us.
010Thank you. Thanks for all the work that you do. It was wonderful. Thank you for all the work that you do. Thank you. Tried to be good, but you can't go to that and not eat. You got to eat in every country, too, because you can't just choose. Dr. Meyer, over to you, sir. All right. Uh, so for staffing updates, uh, we had a couple. We had, uh, Lillian, uh, was our, uh, basically our sub nurse covering for a maternity leave and she ended up taking a full-time position, so she's leaving. Um, Ash Le Pearl, CESIA, uh, uh, has resigned. and Brianna Durkin, our uh math interventionist at the middle school, has given us her uh resignation. We knew that was coming, though. That was concluded in the uh budget cuts when she's officially given
011it to us. And Shelley Eert, who um uh has been out for a little while, but we uh confirmed it was she officially has retired. So, we wish her well, and she's invited to the retiree celebration next meeting. Uh, I do have one other staffing update that we need to uh address is Andrea Whitman, grade 1 special ed co-teer. Uh, she's requesting to miss the entire year next year for a long-term maternity leave. So, she's able to take the portion that would be uh like the FMLA time. U, but then the rest of that would be unpaid. Um, so she is eligible to do that, but it says it has to go to the school committee for uh approval. um we are uh recommending that and that's actually probably one of the ways that we'll
012be able to take a staff member who might have been uh without a job and be able to have them at least fill in for her next year. So um so I'm recommending that we approve her uh the full year leave for Andrea Whitman. Um I'll support that motion. I'll second. Okay. Okay. Any questions, conversation? All in favor? I. Thank you. All right. We'll let her know. Uh, all right. So, next up is our athletics update and we have athletic director Golden here to present to us. Good evening, everyone. Hey, John. Hello. So, good to be here again. It's been a little bit. Um, but I am going to dive into the spring season. Um, winter season did go out in the newsletter last time as far as how we did. It was phenomenal. A
013great uh season. So, again, jumping into the spring, we've seen some chaotic weather. Then we saw some great weather and now we're back to chaotic weather this week. So, lucky today. We were able to not only uh postpone, we were also able to reschedule within like two hours, which is great because that gets us back on. Officials are are a hot commodity and we were able to fill those slots as quickly as possible, which is great. Um, thank you to debusting and our facility workers for all their help accommodating these kind of chaotic weather days when I'm calling five minutes 20 minutes before a game or not usually quite that close saying, "Okay, left left turn. We're doing this now." So, it's been great and I really appreciate all of their help. Um, we look
014forward to a great run in this in the tournament season. Teams are doing well. Um, including our lacrosse uh cooperative teams. Middle school teams are off to a great start and we look forward to celebrating those student athletes who play on middle school teams on June 17th at 8:30 at CMS. So that's something a little bit different and new. Um we are doing certificates for all of the eighth grade participants that were on teams. My goal is to get in front of the audience of CMS and promote them to continue participation increased participation. My other goal is that it's not going to be me speaking to them. It's I'm looking to have my ambassadors do that as long as they're free that morning or at least bring student athletes down so that they can do
015the speaking and congratulating the student athletes if it's a better buy than than myself speaking. Um so there's that side of it and then we do have two other celebrations actually three coming up. On May 28th is our senior athletic banquet. Before that we will do our signing ceremony in the auditorium for our seniors that are going on to play post uh secondary uh collegiate um athletics. So that'll be a great evening not only to celebrate them but then to move over and do our senior athletic banquet. Uh again that's the 28th at 6 pm. On June 9th is our all sports banquet again at 6 p.m. um holding that in um in the auditorium. So again great occasions. Please we hope that you can join us on those occasions um to celebrate these uh
016student athletes that have done so well this year. A couple different things that we are doing. I've been working with booster club on this. We will be celebrating also our junior our JV players with a certificate. Um in the past I know they had not received anything. So everyone will get a certificate with the seasons they played with the level designated um for whether it be JV or varsity and then for varsity they'll have their pins, letters and other awards that they have also gotten. So little bit of streamlining and a and a kind of getting everybody recognized. So we're kind of excited about that. Any questions on the banquetss? script the uh yearly they we have the traditional like family athletic awards. What night are those presented? So the the athletic the um all
017sports banquet is going to be on June 9th and that's when those the that's when those are given out. That's when those will be given. The um uh that's when not for the just the seniors. Those are for all all the other student athletes. Oh no, this is just I think these are just for the senior I think these are only senior awards. So senior awards are going to be May 28th. Okay. So the the family awards I think. Oh, you're referring to like the I was going to say the theory the memorandum honorary awards. Yes. The honorary awards. Yes. Yep. So that is I'm sorry that is May 28th at 6 p.m. Okay. So we'll do the signing ceremony first for those students and families and we'll move in have food and then move
018in to giving all the awards afterwards. Uh fall signs begin on May 12th. I did delay that a little bit just because we are still um finishing up some interviews and getting ready for our fall seasons. Um the Arbiter is already updated with 90% if not all of the games for the fall and we'll be updated with all of the winter athletics within the next week and a half or two weeks. It's crazy to think you're already into next year. It's like how fast it goes. How fast it goes. You and me both. I think it was this morning they were like, "Can we have independent data?" I said, "I need to get the regular schedule out for for winter. Give me five minutes here. So, I'm like, we're moving. Um, a couple of big
019events that are coming up. Um, Clinton verse Nishoba at Polar Park. Please, there is an update. It's going to be at 7 p.m. Polar Park requested that. They obviously had to cancel things today and they were trying to move and go back to back. So, that is now a 700 p.m. start. Exciting night um for everyone and and we're excited to host there. That is also going to be a Kyle's care week where we will have ribbons. Um they're actually a Kelly green ribbon for mental health awareness. So that game will have that. They'll have some information about that and then during the week I will have all the student athletes make sure that they have a ribbon on to um to commemorate that. We also have during that week the 16th um the Clinton
020softball team strikeout cancer game. 4 o'clock will be JV. 7 o'clock will be varsity. Again another great event um to celebrate. Um we've got some special items happening that day including I think um it's a raffle going on that they're doing um as well dur during that game during those games. So please come out and support that. And a couple little data points. So this isn't official data because this year is not over but I just wanted to run some numbers for everybody since we're using final forms. Um the last time I checked we had 118 12th graders enrolled. 39 of those participate in sports. Five of those are three sports student athletes. 16 or two sport student athletes. The last time I checked at CHS when I ran this data, 556 was the total
021enrollment. 281 participate in sports. 281. It's that is amazing numbers for our school size. I mean over 50% of of our student body participates in athletics. I I'm baffled by it. 45 are three sport athletes, 95 are two sport athletes. Our staff is 52 in the athletic department minus me that's 53 um people that we have for paid or volunteer that need to sign up be registered and continue all their PD um that they have to do. 26 are paid 26 are volunteer. One coach uh coaches three sports 11 coaches coach two sports. At the middle school we have 277th and eighth graders. 115 I'm sorry 277 eighth graders. 115 seventh eighth graders participate in sports. 31 of them play two sports, seven play three sports, and we have 21 sixth graders that participate as
022well. So, the reason why I find it, and again, I'm a a data person as well. I like to see how that looks, is it is truly amazing. I have not worked at a school that has this much participation. Um, it is excellent. It's a it's a lot of work because there's a lot of people to certify for such a small district and even the staff on is is great. Um, the amount of people that coach and then coach multiple sports is is is wonderful. So again, a big congratulations to this community for all the support that they give and um I appreciate everything. Any questions for me. Yeah, you might have more energy than I do. Yeah, you talk faster than I do. Sorry. No, no. Um so I had brought this up before
023um but I was talking to Bri Far, the facilities guy today about having the Thanksgiving game down at Fuller. Okay. Okay. Now, it wouldn't be our ne our home is next year 26. I mean, great if the show would do it. I mean, it's halfway between Bolton schools. It'd be great if they do it every year. I know they probably would, but when I was talking to Bri, if it's something that you wanted to do, there's there's things that have to happen between now and then about with with the the grounds. So, when I was talking to him today, I we just talking nonsense for a little bit and that just came up. So if it is something that that you know you want to entertain, we would have to make that decision, let them
024know so that they can like the scoreboard stuff has to be has to be repaired. So we wait. I just don't I want to do it, but I'm not saying you have to. Just my idea, but if they do, I'd want to wait till next June and say, "Hey, we we'd love to do it, but we didn't have enough time to to get stuff ready." So something you would like me to look into is maybe doing it at Fuller Field. Please. I will. I could do that. And I could you know, you're a lot easier to get along with than other people I know. Bring the bleachers back. That was one of the Okay, that was another side job. I'd have to go down here and look at it and see what it's like. But
025no, it would be awesome if you did that. So, I think, you know, I mean, that would be something fun on both sides. I'm not even I mean, I know it's in the showa next year, but it's more of a split cost and it's not like Tanya works it or I work it. We're all there. Um, so I will I will discuss that with Tanya as well. So, that'd be great if I think it's half distance between each school. I will let her know that. Pretty close. I I'm too lazy to measure it. Yeah. But for the for the expected crowd, is it is the parking realistic down there? Maybe. It is. But it but they they did it for 50 years. I mean, but I think Yeah, I think the numbers maybe were Well,
026maybe not. I don't know. It only one game. I I'd like to see it. We We had a We had a I don't remember what it was. It was a fundraiser or something. They had a game down at They used to do a throwback game. A throwback game. Yes. Baseball does it. Baseball does it annually usually. This year we're doing Polar Park. We talked about that. I'm like, are we throwing on the the the throwback? And it was like back and forth, back and forth. I think we're sticking. Well, we never played Nisha on the throwback. It was usually Mater or somebody else. But now that Noba has Fuller Field and Clinton can't seem to get on to it. Uh probably not a lot of room to play Clinton baseball games on Fuller Field anymore.
027We'll have to talk about that for next season. Yeah, we will definitely work on that for next season. So, and the tickets for Polar Park, they'll be available at the door. They are definitely available at the box office. Um I will also have some things at um Dr. 's office uh on Wednesday and I will send out some information to everybody. So, but you can order you can get them beforehand. I say wait until just beforehand if you need to. Um if you do need to purchase extra tickets, I do say do it before you get there only because you don't want to get stuck in the box office lines because those with IDs that um that get in for free, the students or staff members are all for all get in for free uh
028will have to go to the box office to get a ticket. So, it could be a little bit more timeconuming. You're better off with a digital ticket if you need one. Okay. All right. So, but I I will update everybody on that. All right. Great. Cool. Thanks. All right. I will get to that. Thank you. Love that kind of stuff. And one more question while we're on athletics. So, there's there are no more fees, right? Every every student plays sports, free charge for us. Yes. Okay. For co-ops, if there's an additional fee like an ice fee or something, now that's that's not included, but user fees for everybody. Yeah. And I think we had last year basically we had to say if a and correct me if I'm wrong if an athlete plays a co-op
029and the cost to pay to play at that school that fee were to come through and it was it was basically akin to what a fee used to be here like we would cover it but we can't we can't go further to cover things like if it's ice hockey it's ice time if it's diving it's pool time but if it was a straight up like $150 or $200 fee then we would make sure that this the Clinton student didn't pay that fee to the co-op program as a flat fee. Mhm. I I just wonder the increase in numbers that we that I believe we've seen and and you know that that she provided was and how much is that attributed to children being able to just sign up without there being a charge. Not that
030we didn't offer, you know, assistance or whatever assistance before. No, I think it helps because I definitely think particularly I think uh some sports like track, you know, I think track's a good one where um there are definitely some kids where track is their sport, but there are other kids that might just do track more casually and and it's okay, right? Maybe you could sort of excel in one area or not, but it's just you want to go do something. And I think not having that barrier of like even if it wasn't a lot of money, but just it's not that that extra hurdle that you can say, "Yeah, I'll come up and do it." you know, so no pun intended track with the hurdle. Yeah. All right. Um, so just a couple end of
031year logistics things. Uh, you have a, uh, updated, uh, events calendar in here, uh, which we probably already need to make. The Clinton Doshoba game is not at six, it's now at seven. Change to it. Uh I tried to bold some of the things that are more likely to be kind of uh typical school committee commitments. Uh some of those other things are just sort of there for your benefit if you want to attend them or not. 10 or 12. Um and then I have some school committee dates. Uh the next sheet uh just before we move on. So for the um uh like this week, I know tomorrow night is National Honor Society. Um I know there's the like the different sports events and stuff. Um is it can we say it's customary that
032we'll all go and if whoever attends and sit like towards the front row like Okay. I just wanted to be clear because sometimes we go and we're not really sure. Um, and then the other thing too that um is coming up is the Memorial Day parade. I wasn't sure Oh, yeah. if we if we wanted to continue to march in the Memorial Day parade as a board. If the sun's out, I'm down. We'll be happy to march in the Memorial Day parade. Okay. Well, if it's raining, we usually don't have one, but rain last year. Um, okay. So, Dr. Jim, do you think you'd be able to get us some some type of uh cool swag? Throw swag. I got pencils. I got some pencils ready to go. Uh we can do that. And uh
033we got the banner, I think, ready to go. Pick up the banner. Um and then I think I think Rotary is also taking more of an active role with the Memorial Day parade this year, too. So, uh they'll be kind of up front. So, I don't know if we can maybe be near them or not. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. But Terry's got them. Um they're going to go out in front of actually kind of right in front of the parade. You know, he bought the Rotary has a small flags and he's going to have the the I think they're the National Honor Society students. They're going to actually hand out flags right before the color guard and then everybody else. Okay. Cool. Are you committed to the Rotary? Um I haven't
034really like Okay. I haven't been I haven't been penciled in yet. So you don't want to walk with us? That's what Tina is saying. She's asking not to put you on the spot. Listen in front of the 11 viewers at home. I I was trying to get I was just trying to get them back to back so I can kind of like walk fast and be a rotary and then hang back and be with the school. No. [Music] Uh All right. So, we'll I'll try to uh I have the stuff for Memorial Day. Yeah. So, we can we can take care of that. Cool. Um All right. School committee calendar. So, the 16th right now, we're going to plan on meeting here at 5:00. The uh eighth grade step up night is at uh 6.
035So this should that should hopefully be a very brief meeting. Really it's just kind of usually it'll be it'll probably be just reorg and bills and minutes and that kind of stuff unless there's anything crazy that comes up. Um and then we can just go right from here over to the eighth grade recognition. If something does come up major for whatever reason, some town meeting surprise or something like that, if we need to either reschedule it or or that night schedule another meeting, we can. Um July 14th is what I'm proposing for the date in July. That's the same week as the superintendent's conference, so I know that I'll be around uh because it's later in the week. And then the two meetings in August, I was looking at August 11th and 25th. That's kind
036of typically what we've been doing where we do that uh that 25th like the day we come back and we kind of give you sort of an update and get our last minute things before we go. So, um unless there's any major questions or changes to that and then I'll try to get we'll work on the full year calendar and get that out in the in the summer. Okay. Okay. Uh FY26 budget update. Uh the House budget did come out. You have those cherry sheets in there. Uh there have been some changes. uh but not necessarily to chapter 70. Our chapter 70 stayed exactly the same. So the governor proposed fully funding um student opportunity act. The house kept it that way. Um so that's uh that's good. Uh we'll see um you know we'll
037see how this continues to play out. Uh there's a couple other things. I know that the federal government came out with their or at least the president came out with the uh the White House came out with the their skinny budget I think they called it something like that on Friday. Um and it uh indicated that um sort of consolidating some of the title grants seemingly into sort of like one sort of grant um and then cons consolidating the special ed grants into one sort of idea grant. Um, it seemed when I was reading the breakdown of it, it seemed more positive than it could have been, but not not necessarily positive, but more not as bad as it could have been. Uh, because they're indicating that title one funding won't go down, but it
038is probably I mean, I'd already wrapped my head around the fact that title two and title four were probably going to get eliminated, which it seems like they are. Title three seems to be the question mark. That one I thought would survive, and I think right now that is on the that was pencileled in. Um, we'll see how where the federal government goes from there. Um, but at least Title One and IDEIDA, which are our biggest, are the ones that seem to be kind of left alone right now. So, um, you know, it's a much losing title one versus losing title three is a it's, you know, total different order of magnitude. So, um, we we'll we'll figure that out. Uh, so overall, it wasn't worst case scenario. Um the one other thing that I
039know that we're looking into is we do have some uh we are working on closing out FY25. Um and I know Annette has been working hard with Amanda looking at our uh incumbrances and kind of recoding things to make sure that things that should have been or or are eligible for grants are are are charged to those. Um and we're looking at our FY26 budget um to try to come up with the most current things. We have seen an increase in our out of district placements for next year. Uh we have particularly two large tuitions that are um moveins so that they're students who at some point during the last year their parent the family moved to town and now we are getting uh students in now district placement and now we have we have
040financial responsibility for that. Uh that might require us using more circuit breaker for next year. Uh we have that money to do that. So I'm meeting tomorrow. Tomorrow I have a meeting to review all the out of district placements and try to get up on that. We've been reaching out to confirm all of our vocational uh acceptances. So next meeting we should have a budget version C which will have some staffing changes that are based on our most current just staffing changes that we have. Um and then the tuition updates and any implications that might have on circuit breaker. So we'll get that that there. But I think um you know obviously it's not you don't want to have to use circuit breaker but that's why it's there. If those tuitions all come through it
041is one of those things where we might qualify for extraordinary relief next year which means we would get additional circuit breaker funds to offset those which would help kind of backfill that. Um so we're we're working on that. uh we're trying to kind of identify all of those, but couple uh last minute surprises that we got to account for. So, um but that's that's why it's there. Um middle school building project update. I don't think I put anything in the packet. Uh we have our regular um we have our you know, we have a meeting every Tuesday. So, I'll have my meeting tomorrow. One of the big things we have going on this week is they will be bringing furniture samples to the middle school on uh they'll be set up for Friday for the
042half day and the there'll be different samples of furniture that teachers can uh provide their feedback on. So there's different you know a lot there's a lot of different options these days for chairs and desks and all that kind of stuff. So, it's just sort of uh getting feedback on and it's more it's not necessarily like if this is the most popular chair, that's the one we're ordering. It's just it's more for kind of like the style and that kind of that feedback so that we know uh what we're looking for and then we go from there. So, um yeah, on the middle school project, yeah, has there been any feedback about the where to dispose of the excess oils? I had mentioned uh looking at the I I'll probably get depression out there. I'll
043probably get updated on that tomorrow. I'm not sure where it landed, but I do know there was a separate meeting with um the chairman of the permanent building committee, Chris Mcgown, uh to talk about the spoils and looking at that uh as an option. And I know we walked the site um a couple weeks ago to really look at things like we wanted to preserve in the building and that kind of stuff. And that was one of the things we checked out was just making sure that they saw that area and we said this is what we're talking about and that kind of stuff. So could save a significant amount of money. Yeah, I know they were looking at it. So I I don't know exactly where it landed. I know that there's a separate
044meeting with with Chris to go over that. Uh like I said, I'm sure I'll probably get briefed on it tomorrow and I'm sure it'll be on the next full committee meeting which I think is in another week. Um, all right. The And believe me, I I've been in plenty of meetings on uh so dirt soil disposal. Let's call it what is dirt. Yeah. I'll still leave my backyard open if they want to. We used to make fun of the uh we used to make fun of the civil engineers when I was at WPI because all their classes were names like dirt. Yeah. You know, that kind of stuff. And now it's like now I understand it. There's a lot of money in dirt. uh the uh school dirty dirty school choice vote amendment. Uh just
045asking you to uh I'm I'm recommending that we vote to um amend the school choice participation vote that we took last meeting to include three slots for kindergarten. Uh we did a survey like we did last year and there were three families who currently have students in the district who would have younger siblings that would be entering K. So it would be allowing that family to keep in there and we can we can give them preferential treatment if there's more applications due to sibling preference. That is the one of the things you are allowed to do. So, um the I guess I would recommend that we amend the motion to include the 3K slots in to uh be anticipated to be filled via sibling preference. So, move. I'll second questions conversation. All in favor? Thank
046you. You're welcome. And I think the last order of business I have under mine is uh just the high school uh is looking to have early dismissals at 11:39 on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 16th for their final exams. And then we have our typical last day of school, Tuesday the 17th, dismissal times is 10:30, 11, and 12. So, since those are just sort of uh at least the high school ones definitely are not on the published calendar, we normally have you take a vote to approve those. Mr. Serach 11:39, not 11:40, but 11:39. You understand how a high school operates. You just put the times and the passing time and where it ends, it ends. Wait, you still have to stay till 2:30 though, right? Yes, sir. I I'm deciding my vote now. I'll
047be checking out. I'll entertain a motion to uh approve the final exam schedule on the last day of school. So moved. Second. Conversation, concerns, questions? All in favor? Very good. All right. Thank [Applause] you. Uh I don't think we've had any subcommittee meetings since the last one. We do have a safety committee meeting coming up the 14th. Uh we are going to do a little bit of uh safety exercise during the half day on the 9th. Okay. And I think the scholarship committee meeting is on the 14th, too. Um I'm pretty sure. Well, I think there's a Yeah. So, I think there's a there's a scholarship meeting. Well, our regular scholarship meeting is this Wednesday and then yeah, the selection meeting is probably that. Yeah, something like that. I can I can confirm that tomorrow
048or Wednesday. I think I think Kelly I think you had sent me an email on it. I think I'm pretty sure have it in my calendar. And then we do have the negotiations committee uh in is the the CTA MOA is here. So if you guys are so this is the memorandum of agreement between the school committee and teacher association through our negotiations with the CTA. Um, I thought they were very productive and uh, you know, uh, professional negotiations and, um, this is the agreement that we came to. So, we need a school a full vote by the school committee. If you're in favor of it, motion to approve the agreement negotiated with the CTA. Want to second it first? Second. Y, sure. Steve just hit on, hey Brena, to you and your staff, everybody
049Sam and and I don't know everybody's names are in that room negotiating, but that was uh I actually had fun with it. You know, nobody left there mad. You know, a couple good laughs, but you know, and I know there's a lot of work put into it and especially that last day, you know, and Steve, you know, breaking down the money and and showing, you know, where it went and everybody was cording. It was really was enjoyable and the the first union and Clinton to settle and maybe a couple others could take a take a page from yours, but you guys did good and appreciate it. Thank you. All in favor? No. Yeah. All right. I think that's all I have. Is it? You're good. Do we have anything under old business? Anything under new
050business? I'll take a motion to adjourn. Okay. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We made the motion. You're too busy talking. Well, thanks Mr. Surac. Did they cut the video before he supported