001foreign [Music] good afternoon I'd like to call to order this meeting of July 17th to order please stand if you're able for a pledge of allegiance 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 everyone so to start off the meeting of course we um I'm echoing again a roll call roll call that's how we start off the meeting Kathleen Emerald here Chris Oliver here Elizabeth Coughlin Shannon Jenkins here John Nunes yep thank you we start every meeting with public comments so we welcome anyone who would like to speak on an agenda item to step up state your name and keep your comments brief seeing none I think we can safely move
002on to the approval of minutes I will um call for a motion to approve the regular session minutes for June 5th so moved second any discussion um all in favor aye aye aye well now uh take a motion to approve the executive session minutes for that same evening of June 5th so move Madam chair second any discussion all in favor aye um just to remind you probably motion passes yes unanimously motion thank you Mr Oliver problem so next on our agenda we have uh am I looking out there yeah okay we have a consent agenda for um Quinn PTO 2023 2024 Fun Run a move approval second um any discussion on that I don't think so it looks like Mr granfield's here in the audience I don't know if he had anything to add to
003it or just here in case we had any questions no anybody have questions I I feel like we need to ask a question Mr granfield's time like worth it how many years has this been going on now for step on up we'll call you up make it worth your while 40 years in a row they're trying to get that back up and running as early as October of this upcoming year so they're just looking for approval to get moving because it's a huge time commitment for everybody involved oh that's awesome glad to see it's coming back great all right thank you very much thank you we haven't voted yet but we're good I don't have any other questions so I will entertain a motion to approve I already did that okay I moved and he
004seconded in a second we just need to vote all in favor aye passes unanimously thank you and next um we have organization of the committee and I first want to say Mr Kiley is thankfully not here he's taken some time um off well deserved and I and so this is when we have to officially sort of uh appoint our new superintendent as Secretary of the school committee but of course it's not without thanking Mr Kiley who's not here but for just his graciousness his uh leadership his uh time and commitment and in all the ways um I don't know if I my fellow committee members wanted to also add to that no it's not I thank you mad I'm sure there's not much not much to add to to what you did he stepped into
005a fantastic job you know kept the district together and you know held it held it all and you know while wearing multiple hats and such and uh I'm not sure I know he's on vacation and you know I'm not sure if just for Grins and Giggles he's got his laptop and he's watching this but in all seriousness uh sincere thank you to uh to Jim for uh for what he did so with go ahead I'm sorry no I mean I I would agree right I hope he's not watching I hope he's not here I hope he's not reading emails right otherwise we have to teach him how to do vacation but I am uh very grateful to to all the work that he did during a a difficult budget year and um also you know
006having that additional load on top of that was a lot of work and um I appreciate it right yeah I'll just uh send lots of accolades his way for all his work um not only the budget but I'll also uh put in there as well contract negotiations um that were a long and draining um so thrilled that he was able to move that along and uh essentially give a fresh plate to uh like to save a McGuire for her incoming challenges so for to take on some other things so yeah no uh just a big thank you to Jim for all the work that he's done in stepping up denomination point Dr June Saban Maguire as the secretary oh second um any other additional discuss I'm excited we're excited to have you excited I have
007a few things to say great great um so do we just vote on that um [Music] wonderful thank you so I will turn it over to to you so wonderful I am incredibly excited to be here with you this evening in my role as your Dartmouth School Superintendent I do have to say the last few weeks and I even have to say a few months um since I've been appointed I've been incredibly fortunate to have an onboarding experience because the role was not open Mr Kylie was feeling it well um but I had a chance to move into my office thanks to the technology department set me up really well so I started I really would consider that I hit the ground running but I also want to say from Spring to the close of
008the school year I was connected to Dartmouth email right away part of a lot of the school groups including the Quinn school so I got to see a lot of the happenings that were going on really across the district at all of your schools and what I considered to be the celebratory nature of the closing of schools here in Dartmouth I got to visit the Special Olympics and again that's not just a community event but it's certainly an area Community event and it was well attended the students were so happy excited to be be part of that your staff was out there really working with your students and it was just you can tell again when I talk about the nature the celebratory nature of what was happening here in the district I also got
009to go to the Dartmouth graduation um as a spectator wonderful I have to say when I heard it was in the gym I was a little bit skeptical but walking into the gymnasium that day it was truly transformed and it was in fact a truly spectacular really event for the students who we were honoring so I want to take a minute to congratulate the Dartmouth students in the class of 2023 and we're certainly looking forward to the school district to hear about your successes so there are a couple of Staffing updates that I wanted to bring to your attention under teaching and learning one is that we've hired very few individuals there aren't um there aren't a lot of openings here in the Dartmouth public schools and you should be happy and proud about that
010because that means people want to stay so you've hired an occupational therapist at the district level an ell teacher for the Potter School two new point a new I'm sorry not two new 8.2 physical therapist position that will be split between Potter and Cushman and you've also hired a special education Pals teacher for Dartmouth middle school and so many of those folks that I'm talking about are a few anyway came right from within your own district and I think that that again is telling about what the school district has to offer that people want to return and work here and so at the last meeting there was mention of the summer academies and the summer programming the summer programs are up and running and in fact as um as as Miss paveo will come up
011and talk to you and and Mr um and Ross I'm sorry Ross they're going to talk to you I know you're I know your name Ross I just yeah so anyway we were awarded a 126 thousand dollar Grant and this is going to allow us to run some programming in August that you're going to hear more about but in addition you have school year programs that are up and running I was at the high school this morning kid lots of students coming in through the doors again looking happy to be here in the summer walking through the doors of the high school and your staff was welcoming and it sounds to me like they are going to have a really successful summer program but I am going to invite Katie and Ross to come up
012and give an overview of not only what's happening in the summer but also they talked about the the uh the summer curriculum Summit or the end of the year curriculum Summit that they had with with many of the faculty members here hello happy summer first um so uh we were asked to kind of provide an update on a couple of different things the first one being our summer school programming so at the high school level we have um uh credit recovery program going on where we're able to provide kind of a safety net for students who maybe did not do as well as they hoped they would have done during the school year and to recover credits so they don't uh fall behind we have 74 students currently in that program enrolled in 128 different
013courses we have four teachers and one coordinator so it is a very lean staff but they do a tremendous job of of helping us to meet our students academic needs as I said so that they don't become over age and unaccredited oh sorry one other thing prior to that we already also I had an enrichment program the robotics program was the last week of June first week of July and that served about 50 Elementary Middle School students who came learned a little bit about robotics had some fun uh building the robotics themselves and the nice thing about that program is that although we have Mr Brodsky and Mr Lauer who kind of over you know oversee the program it's really led by our high school robotics students they really take the lead they organize the
014camp they do the teaching and it's it's really a phenomenal experience and we're proud of them so I will talk a little bit about our extended year program in the special education office uh our new director of student services is at a special ed conference today so I am going to do my best to talk a little bit about that program um as well as the academic summer school program which is we brought back this year for the first time since pre-covid recognizing the need for our kids who you know really help prevent some of that summer slide we have um what was the number 264 students participating in both our esy and academic summer school program they are a combination of four day and five day programs our kids who are in Pals and
015past are here for an additional day for a 5D program the rest of our munchkins are here four days a week from 8 30 to 12 30. they are spread out all around the high school if you look in the library we have two kindergarten classes that meet in here so let me look down in the Alcove and around you'll see some some great kindergarten stuff happening and then as Dr saber Maguire alluded to we wrote and on Friday found out that we were awarded 126 000 acceleration Academy Grant so we will be able to run an additional week of Summer programming and again this is a Desi funded program designed to really tackle learning loss from covet again so between now and then we will work at targeting students looking at student data to
016really really Target our students that we would like to invite this program will have our Rising kindergartners so we'll have our brand new Dartmouth Public Schools kiddos invited to this all the way through our eighth grade students and then our 10th grade students as well so we have an early literacy Academy for K one and two and then we have a regular Ela Academy for grades three through eight and grade 10 and a math academy grades three through eight and ten and so we look forward to we have 32 classrooms on that Academy it's a wonderful week it's a quick week but the kids get in and we focus a lot on Hands-On learning really getting in and doing some deep skill diving and it's a nice sort of transition for some of our kids
017to start thinking about school again and get back shake off some of that rust really Paul she was positive and drafted the job ad we are ready to put it out in that very day the state came out and approved the grant for Dartmouth so it was her pop it was her positive thinking about the grant money our way so um the other kind of exciting thing that we worked on was the week immediately the first two days right after school got out that Thursday and Friday a month ago I know which is crazy to think that it was already a month ago we held a curriculum Summit here at the high school we had 65 teachers from all levels who really paused their summer vacation by two additional days to come and do some
018professional development around understanding by Design some curriculum professional development around really looking at essential questions and all the things that really make a good unit and then I'll let Mr TiVo talk about some of the uh I'm gonna put you around the spot and talk about the shared drive and all the other great things sure so um one of the one of the things one of the initiatives we have that we planned for in our first year was to kind of move away from Rubicon Atlas which is a very expensive uh repository for our curriculum it's not all all that user friendly Katie and I attended a atlas workshop last fall and there was probably 20 schools and every school district was in the same place where they had invested you know funds in using
019this tool but the tool never really um you know made good on the promise I guess so with shared Google Drive we can do a lot of the same things but at a much more cost effective uh in a much more cost effective way and so with Mr galashaw's help where in the middle of transitioning from Atlas Rubicon over to Shared Google Drives and really we're able to kick that work off in Earnest at the curriculum Summit and um I think Kate was telling me earlier that we had a number of people apply for the summer acceleration program so we're excited about the response very much like order and logic and consistency so k through eight ten what's what's going on with nine there so I'm sure there's some reason I'm just curious and we
020might have some parents of you know students going into ninth grade wondering about that so could you explain that it really has to do with the the way that the state has um created the grant it's really around targeting uh many of the MCAS grades I mean it's not exclusively to that obviously with k-3 involved but that's the primary reason yeah I think the K to two there's a there's a huge focus at the state level on early literacy and early literacy skills and the data that's coming out of the pandemic is around literacy in our kids coming in behind in literacy and I think that's the sort of emphasis around the K-2 and you know unfortunately what Ross said is right the the parameters of the grant are three to eight and ten it's
021not lost on us that those are the years we do MCAS and so I would imagine that that is somewhat of the uh creation and motivation around the Grant and the other reason too just in case I know Katie mentioned um students that we'd be inviting and the reason for that is again the state has emphasized really targeting students who we know were most impacted by the effects of the pandemic um and we are limited to 10 of a grade level so it's for it's designed for a limited uh number of students so it's completely understood it just seems like a weird design for the state like why not include ninth graders because then they've got two years to prepare for the MCAS but what do I know State works in mysterious it sure does
022yes I mean the grant was posted very late too right so yeah fine and when is the program running in about three weeks so yep we're gonna wrap up summer school on Friday August 4th and then we will start the academy on Monday the 7th and hope we can just keep the momentum going and then also get out of the high school so the custodians can clean up before we reopen yeah wow anyone else have any comments or questions that's great thank you fantastic thank you thank you thank you Katie and Ross speaking of Katie and Ross additionally I just want to mention under teaching and learning in August we are going to be facility facilitating a two-day retreat with our Dartmouth leaders and a lot of the focus on that and although it's under
023teaching and learning it is going to really be focused on building climate and culture throughout the leadership team and so that's what I'd like to update you on next in those past few weeks I've had an opportunity to work with our central office leadership team to begin to build upon and strengthen the relationships amongst us because we're the ones who are going to be modeling those relationships for the entire school district and as I hope I expressed in the interview process that relationships are critically important and the way that we work together is not is not to be underestimated in the positive relationships are really going to help us to move the work going forward and it really relationships really are at the heart of any successful organization so we had a little mini retreat
024it was just our leadership team that and at central office we call it the cult team central office leadership team so I'm getting used to some of the acronyms here in Dartmouth I like that one that one's easy for me rolls right off the tongue but what we did was really worked on establishing norms for the way that we're going to work together and it really gave us an opportunity to get to know each other better and so I'm looking forward to having putting some of these processes and and things in place for our August meeting with our DLT team and Katie Ross and I were meeting on that today and we have practically a full day planned on I'm tomorrow planned on focusing on that work and as I told you in Fright when
025I emailed you on Friday I attended the new superintendent induction program in the Mas conference this past week both really rewarding hard to be out of a district when you're brand new in a district but at the same time I think really well worth it at the new superintendent's induction program I was able to meet with all the new superintendents across the state there are 35 of them so that's a pretty I think large number compared to what they usually have but I thought it was rewarding in that I got to connect with so many of them and a few are local so that's going to be truly helpful I was also able to spend time with my new superintendent coach her name is Maureen Lacroix Dr Maureen Lacroix who was a superintendent in Bedford
026and she will be joining us at our next school committee meeting to introduce herself to you I think that for me I I've said the stars of a lion mind because she is going to be just the perfect coach for me based on the initial interactions I've had with her a few highlights from the rest of the conference Katie Pavel was able paveo I'm practicing Katie's name too Katie paveo was able to join me and I'm appreciative of her time it's like having a Learning Partner with you and that's really important when you go to conferences to have somebody partner with you so that you can think about some of the presentations and some of the content that you're learning and be able to have conversations about how it can connect to the work back
027in your own district there were some incredibly inspirational speakers that really lifted us and then there was other work that we felt oh my goodness we have so much work to do in this area so it's a nice balance of pick you up and then bring you back down to earth which is really nice but at the same time it was practical Hands-On information that I think is important for the district and what's going on in both at the state level and nationally in education and how we need to bring that back to our school district and interpret it with our school committee and with our school community um finally I I want to say Mr Kylie can't be replaced um he you talked about him earlier he has been amazing he has truly supported
028me through this process through onboarding and and I've just been incredibly impressed by his professionalism his integrity and his commitment to the students and the faculty and the community of Dartmouth he is really a gem so I am happy to share that with him and I I'm sure I've said that to him many times and I know you know this he's the best of the best and when I say that I say that and all With all sincerity he's the assistant superintendent of operations and finance and has a focus on what's best for kids that is really a rare combination you know sometimes you hear people say that that's the unicorn and it truly is it's been I've had very little experience with Finance people who get what's right for kids too so I'm excited
029about that and at the same time he has some large projects going on I was with John I met John at the Demello School John's last name Bernard and he's wonderful he took me around the Demello to show me some of the little projects big projects because they're not little that are going on and I looked at one project and I said oh my goodness this is a mess he said no it's not this is going to be fine so I appreciated his calm demeanor because he had the vision to see through what that project is going to look like when it's done and it's things that I'm really interested in like grease traps which are incredibly important I learned today very so this is this is my learning curve but he did explain it
030in a way that I could understand what he meant so I walked away with some new knowledge today but other things that are going on there pain I mean they're out there painting you have a very small crew doing a whole lot of work some of what Mr Kylie left for me to share with you is the flooring replacement and Beth at the middle school in the Quinn School the freezer replacement at the Demello which is what I saw which is quite a project if you want to see something that looks like a mess that's but someday is going to look wonderful go and take a stop by there before they fix it there and the grease trap replacement so I got to see that in person and and I don't regret that experience because
031now I can speak to what a grease trap is and why it's incredibly important again the kitchen and cafeteria improvements and several of your buildings I mentioned the painting and you know about I've heard you talk in the past about the renovations that are happening at the for the atlas program space I'm getting my always also wanted to mention that the fiscal year end I mean he really did wrap it up in the last few days and he felt I think some relief as he went off for his two-week vacation and I can promise you he is not watching he made that very clear he has his out of office reply on and I don't even know if he'll go back and watch um but he wanted you to know that we were able to
032prepay some special education tuition which was a first priority for him and for the current budget going into the current budget but he did in these are his words about important for me to repeat following that we will have very little or no funds remaining but we'll be reporting back to the committee at Future school committee meetings and so I think that just about wraps up what I have to say other than I do have a couple of things that I'm hoping to add to our agenda on some of the items that are going on across the state with mass around legislation in particular related to some of our special education costs because I got a few emails right before I left for this meeting from Mary bork who is the co-president of MSS Mass
033Association for school superintendents and they're really hard at work to address some of the the fiscal issues facing communities like Dartmouth around the rising special education costs so thank you thank you for that I testified on another bill the other day and there's uh the the joint committee was quite receptive to understanding the depth and breadth of the the need for that so thank you for bringing that up any comments before we move on with thank you for all of that that was wonderful thank you for your report thank you it was great of course my screen goes black just as I wow that's that is a really informative thank you um and so um so for old business what we have on here it brought back to us is the um the memo regarding
034the um updated charge for the town's indigenous people in history and culture committee and so in your packet is that memorandum I guess it was it's well it has been updated and it's showing the strike strikes where where the changes were made and the edits were made um and uh I don't know if anyone has any comments I I quickly read through but I am trying to remember our where we were when we sent it back in May Dr Jenkins so I had raised some issues related to this on the charge and I think you know in particularly about a committee of non-school committee members or appointments providing any sort of input on instruction right that's the purview of the schools and I was not comfortable with it that's been changed so I'm I'm pretty
035good with that um I still have concerns about membership and I feel like we're trying to squish a square peg into a round hole here um and this may some people in this community may die of shock but I have had several really nice conversations with Jacob Ventura about this and he and I share concerns about the structure of this committee I understand that the town Charter requires voting members to be Town members at the same point in time we are creating a committee about indigenous people and we are saying that our indigenous neighbors are going to be non-voting members of that committee and I have a real problem with that that's not a partnership right and so the work here that's being proposed is good in my opinion but I feel like we should
036take the time to build a structure that's right whether it requires it maybe it requires an amendment to the Charter maybe it requires a petition to state government for you know setting this this up but I think we ought to do it right in full partnership with our tribal neighbors not with them as non-voting members of a committee that right if we look at what's proposed there's no guarantee now that anyone is from an indigenous tribe right it's encouraged but it's not required um so and I and I I guess the last thing I would say on that is there's something different than you know somebody sort of reaching out I'll paraphrase you know Jacob on that he's like there's one thing about someone reaching out to me to get my thoughts that's not the
037same thing as reaching out to the tribe to get the tribe's position on the things that this is doing right because the tribe is official government entity and so I appreciate the effort that that's going on here but I feel like I'd rather take the time to do this right the way that it should be instead of sort of just moving this forward in a way that doesn't allow an appropriate seat at the table for our indigenous Neighbors thank you Chris yeah I will certainly agree that you know I understand the town Charter and the voting capacity of being a voting members of the committee but I do agree with with Shannon uh that we really should be looking extending uh an opportunity out to to the tribes in this area and I don't know
038what we would have to do to get them to be voting members or how we would how this would work but I think if we're going to have a if we're if we're going to form a committee are entitled if I scroll up to the top of it here indigenous people history and culture committee that there certainly should be indigenous people that's not for take it for what it's worth and I would say um so we would look to include the tribal input so if an individual joins the committee they would be representing the tribe not their individual opinions on the subjects can so there's a conflict between right between representation and the town Charter right and the town Charter requires all members of Dartmouth committees to be Dartmouth residents that's not the same as
039the tribe selecting an official representative to represent the position of the tribe right there's people in the on the tribe on various sides of the issues and so whoever's randomly selected does not or appointed by us or whomever doesn't necessarily represent the official position of the tribe and so to me again to Chris's point this is a this is about right indigenous culture and history yet we're relegating our indigenous neighbors to non-voting members of the committee and that just doesn't sit right with me so I think rather than trying to Ram this through and the structure that we have we need to take a step back and say what would a committee look like in an ideal form and what do we need to do to make that happen to have our indigenous neighbors and
040partners be full participatory members of this committee yeah I think maybe we need to take a step back and figure out what it is that we want and then figure out how to make what we want because I'm not sure this is what at least in my opinion this is what we want everyone else can disagree with me though I agree with you 100 um my question is though now how to well how does the committee feel and how should we send this back and John I don't know if you heard anything no no I mean I I agree I agree I agree with you know my my committee members here I mean you know you know part of the chat are all voting members shall be residents of the town of Dartmouth I think
041you said you literally start tying your hands uh when you get into uh you know when you look at like four five six seven type of deal for you know who can be appointed that type of deal is you know who we could appoint here you know who the who's going to represent from the Town Administrator you know that you got to make sure that all these people living in the town I mean I think you're you're hand strapping yourself here type of deal and I agree with Shannon's comment that you know you're sitting here and you're saying the indigenous people are not going to be voting members well you know we're trying to bring them into in into into the into The Fray here and I think they need to be so and my
042I somewhere down the line I just think it you know you know this maybe the select board is going to take another look at this I don't know that that's you know probably what needs to happen Dr Jenkins yeah you know I feel like this has also been a weird process whereby it's a joint committee but it's like it's a game of operator right like the the select board puts something together then it comes to us and then we say here are the issues like right it goes back to them I mean maybe we need to have a conversation with them or um you know maybe we just need to take a step back and think about what what what it is that we really truly want um I I don't know yeah I mean
043I think they need to take another stab at us and my only other question is when you look at the membership okay again go to six and seven what you know those are community members one appointed by the select board one appointed by us for a three-year term it says nothing one through five the select board school committee historical it doesn't say how long those terms are for unless I'm missing something it says seven members but you know one through five do not have a time on the uh for the for the appointment so we you know you come to for discussion purposes you come to this time next year now do those five people have to be reappointed or are they still good because there's nothing in this charge that says how long they
044have to to be you're stuck there forever yeah you can never ever step down [Laughter] Charlie on the MTA never return you know well I think we send it back to the select board yeah and if they want to put it on one of their agendas you know we don't you know I don't see a joint meeting coming up anytime soon so maybe between the five of us two of us could could attend to share our thoughts of what where we discussed this afternoon that's right I can do that sounds good I think they let me know when they're gonna put it on their agenda yeah so so do you want a motion to send this back or with just the consensus we're going to send it back I I think just yeah we want
045to do it right I mean yeah I think you want to do it right yeah agreed yeah agreed yeah I'm good thank you and I I think at this point maybe I turn it over to no exact or save them oh we go into school choice you get new business yes under new business I was going to turn over um just making sure we don't miss that yeah yeah yes authorization uh of the use of school choice funds yes and so um I think in your packet I know that uh Kate had sent you a copy of the request from from Mr Carly regarding authorization of use of school choice funds and I know that that you know that the town's decision not to support the 200 000 annual technology replacement article in June um
046they they decided not to fund that item and because of that we need to we need to ask the school committee to approve 75 000 to purchase technology Hardware to support our one-to-one computers and that is for our fresh incoming freshmen Mr galashaw is here and if you have any questions regarding that purchase he's happy to jump in and answer them and I have some information as well I'll assume Mr galashad that this is for the purchase or the lease of uh Chromebooks for our incoming freshmen for the new Freshman Class the ones coming from eighth grade up we usually get on a life cycle replacement for the fifth graders and the ninth graders but given the shifting of money and what happened we kind of shuffled a little bit for the fifth graders and
047but we really do need the the ninth graders for their career in the high school it's the purchase yeah and I know you know this but I feel like if Mr Kylie here was were here he would say that you know that he is concerned about dipping into school choice funds to use toward purchases that are going to be ongoing and that aren't necessarily uh purchased it's not necessarily money that we're going to be able to depend on currently we have students enrolled in school choice and we've registered at this point in time we've registered another 39. and so we have to think about that moving forward yeah [Music] well unfortunately I you know they didn't give us the money um I think this was you know what we need to do in order to
048support our students so I would certainly make a motion to approve the uh additional use of school choice the use of school choice funds in the amount of seventy five thousand dollars to purchase technology Hardware to support one-to-one computing any other discussion about this Mr Nunes yeah just I mean kind of on that that same subject and in in such in all services just uh a thank you to uh because we haven't met since then but a thank you to town meeting for supporting our budget with the amendment we made you know that was made and and such to uh to at least kind of bring us up a little bit yeah you know I mean and understand if if my memory is any good this 7 75 here and there's 50 that we took
049for uh supplies back when we were doing the budget and the adjustments we had to make so you know that fortunately we have it to use but it's you know you're using you know this money for one-time purchases you know type of deal so it's you know not a good use but that's neither here nor there yeah doctor so I'll just follow up to Mr news I also want to say thank you to Mr Nunes for um putting together those motions um and sort of leading the effort at Town Meeting thank you my pleasure one especially when they tried to when they tried to dip into the kindergarten that was fun I'm sorry right my yeah good job thank you anyone else no you know it's not a good use but certainly necessary yeah yeah
050and you know and yeah I mean we can't go back in time we know that our students have to have access to technology just as if as they had access to textbooks in the past so times have changed in the way our students access content is very different today than it was when at least when I I'll speak for myself when I was in school right so we have a motion we have a second we had some nice discussion um all in favor hi that was it passes unanimously to authorize the expenditure of school choice funds and the amount of up to 75 000 purchase technology Hardware to support the incoming freshmen in their learning so thank you thank you um so we next on our new business we have a superintendent's update but I
051don't know if there's anything else additional that you wanted to um talk about I know we talk I don't know if this is offline or online perhaps um having a retreat or a working group for the I think that that's important to bring that up that we have discussed individually with school committee members that we do want to identify some dates that work for all of us to participate in a school committee Retreat probably more for me than you best and I are new on the school in this role so we could use some support from all of you the veterans on the school committee okay um should we how how would we coordinate that does anyone have any particular preference or weeks that I think if you just emailed Kate some dates she can
052be happy to coordinate our dates for us and then we can figure out a location we'd talk today Shannon and I mentioned uh Dr Jenkins and I mentioned maybe looking at the library and is it traditionally one day of the week in particular it I I'm not sure traditionally what it is here in Dartmouth we've normally what we've normally done is had it like at night at like you know again you know school's not or if we do it like the beginning of September one school has started depending what everybody's schedule is we've done it in like you know five o'clock at night uh at Bush Street just uh and how many hours are we looking at I think we can we can create a three two to three depending depending I would say three
053hours would you know would probably depending you know I vaguely remember having one on a Saturday morning I was going to say Saturday but I didn't want to be the one to say it first [Laughter] yeah just because well I mean sometimes a Saturday can relieve you of of some of the other responsibilities you might be concerned about so okay so we'll we'll email some dates and and firm up uh uh propose a date and time thank you I guess what would be helpful is at least are we looking at August to September just when I'm throwing up I'm thinking August yeah I'm thinking August yeah I think before school starts would make sense yeah yes I think before our September meeting yep I agree great excellent great um I actually don't have anything to
054report uh other than just anecdotally I dropped my daughter off at uh volleyball camp this morning and picked her up at noon and um the kid the kiddos were just so excited and happy and giggly and just with their little backpacks on it was really great to see all the the the students who were in the summer programs and of course the kids that were you know doing the camp were sweaty and exhausted and I'll speak for my daughter hungry and thirsty afterwards so um uh but it was so it looked like they had a lot of fun but other than that I don't know if anyone on the committee has anything you know why you knew they were why they were tired you know they weren't bored oh right right right right right exactly
055yeah literally dripping sweaty from the volleyball anyway but yeah not the student not the extended year students but um anyone anyone else on the committee have anything I just update that I'm sure I just have one thing and you know as usual the standard times over the past few weeks have started you know when they have room and whatever uh just started posting uh their Fall Championships of teams that they that they normally put together for uh winter and spring Sports so we've had a number of Dartmouth students in there already so that was that's good to see excellent I just want to I think just reiterate that there are some great things going on here this summer and if you have a chance to go and take a peek at what's going on here
056I think it would be worth your while because the kids really are happy and you have a lot of Staff here working through the summer so uh that just demonstrates their commitment to your community excellent so I guess if no one else has anything to add we can um next we're meeting next uh on August 21st right at five o'clock that's our next I keep looking at Mr noons with you're like the resident a shaking of the head or you know nodding um so we we meet again August 21st we're going to email Kate some dates and times that work for us come to consensus on a retreat time which will be a great time to talk about the year to come and um and relationship building as well all of that good stuff so
057I would entertain emotion just go ahead Mr that meeting that band camp is going on that week that'll be the kids supper hour but there'll be a lot of activity oh on the 21st on the 21st okay good it'll kind of set the tone you know when you see if you know people stop pulling up there's a lot of cars yeah yeah yeah what's going on yeah okay thank you all right yeah exactly so I will um entertain a motion to adjourn so moved second any discussion all in favor aye unanimous meeting oh your summer everybody and I apologize for being here [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music]