001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] to order the school committee meeting for Monday June 5th roll roll call please Kate Kathleen Amaral here Chris Oliver here Elizabeth Coughlin here Shannon Jenkins she's on Zoom you with us Shannon Shannon Shannon's on Zoom that Echo is gonna beat the mice I can see Mr party but I can't see the anyone else Shannon Jenkins here John Nunes yep great please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance of America thank you everyone I don't know if I'm going to get through this yeah are we able to cut back on the echo a little bit Elsa oh that's wonderful great um so thank you everyone uh we're going to um uh take as it's on the agenda we're going to begin I'm going to turn it over to um Mr Kylie to introduce
002our first uh presentation thank you Mrs Amaral so we're pleased tonight to have Mrs Enid Silva president of the DHS alumni association with us who is going to report on the um on the scholarship essay winners [Laughter] thank you very much for having me this evening I wear the hat of Dartmouth High School alumni association tomorrow will be another hat just as important I've come here this evening because I have been with the Alumni Association since I graduated from Dartmouth High School 65 years ago and in all those 65 years I think that Dartmouth High School has always been an inspiration for all of us that come back and work through our alumni association to make sure that we can make a better future for some of our graduates this year we were able to
003give out twenty one thousand dollars to the class of 2023 and wish we had more and wish that we could follow them all through their college Years because some of the essays were so so heart moving this year a member of our group uh graduated in 1993 Tara Thomas she is a music teacher in middle school she came to one of her first meetings and said do we ever ask the kids if they could tell us about their favorite teacher or teacher that inspired them and we all went no we've never thought to do that of all the years I've been doing this I guess we thought every teacher was respected every teacher was loved there's no need the times have changed I think this happened this year because of the times we didn't plan
004for it we didn't expect it but here it came so we chained we voted and we changed our application so that it would include an essay about a teacher that you admired that inspired you that liked you that you will never forget application started coming in and some of the applications were from the old school that didn't have the question so not all of them were able to give us their favorite teacher but we got at least 12 that did and they celebrated their teachers in essays that were very very personal and deep for some of them and we're all listening to national news talking about the children in America how they have reacted to covid and as adults we know how we have acted with covet and we have probably pride ourselves in thinking
005that we did pretty well we got survivors The Children of America have suffered more because these were their growing years these are the years they were trying to understand themselves and then covet said you can't go there you can't go to friends you can't go anywhere stay home stay out of our way and be invisible teenagers Are Not Invisible especially American teenagers they have opinions and they have feelings and when they're deprived of spitting that out and saying it in a crowded room hostility probably comes through so I guess this was the year to do it and because they were so um so open to tell us their background I have stack about that thick of essays so I tried to make sure that I got only took about a paragraph of everyone's essay so
006I could read them to you reading them to you out of context probably is a disservice to each and every one of them but here's some of them there are many DPS teachers who influenced me I used DPS because I was typing and I have a broken arm who influenced me but I would have to say that my fifth grade teacher Miss Liz vosse was one of the ones who influenced me the most she gave me self-confidence to apply myself and in the best grades possible she's always inspired me because of how dedicated she was to her students in her classroom she wanted her students to have all the tools necessary so she held fundraises to get equipment so that she could make her room an active classroom at the same time she made School
007fun and I remember how much I looked forward to going to school to be with her she had a real impact on me wanting to not only be a good student but to remember to be kind to others along the way as she demonstrated firsthand every day the teacher who has been most influential in my years at DHS is Mrs Melissa lamba she was my Spanish teacher for sophomore and Junior years she was very impactful to me throughout high school because she's caring always gave me extra understanding during difficult moments that high schools present and most importantly she always treated me with respect Mrs lomba is a teacher who is patient and easily relates to her students she is a teacher I know I can trust and has continued her support of me this year
008even though I am no longer one of her students I know I will always remember her kindness and her guidance the DPS teacher who has influenced me the most has been my seventh grade science teacher Rebecca Keenan Mrs Keenan was unlike any teacher from the staff Not only was she my teacher but she became a leader and a parent figure in my life if I was struggling at all or if I just needed a good laugh I could always go to Mrs Keenan I helped her with anything she needed and she did the same for me I was inspired by her kindness and spirit whenever I make a decision regarding school or students I always ask myself what would Mrs Keenan say I thank her for her dedication to her students and her craft I
009think teachers would like to be happy to know they have a craft and I'm happy to say that even after five years we still keep in touch excuse me microphone's not making me drives when you get old everything's dry this one's a little special I'm a Dartmouth student in an external student placement I was able to meet all of dartmouth's requirements passing MCAS and various courses to earn my Dartmouth diploma this June my sixth grade teacher Miss Lisa K Katz turgeon inspired me and drove me to want to educate students with respect patience and compassion that she showed me every each and every day being a student with global learning disabilities I required my work to be scaffold and taught in a way that I could connect Mrs turgeon did this remarkably well in a
010manner that allowed me not only to learn but not to feel embarrassed because I needed her help she was that special education teacher that offered helped to all students opened her room for anyone who needed another explanation or a review of the material taught she truly cared and each one of us saw and felt this it's been six years since I sat in her class but I still vividly remember the way she gave me instructions instilled confidence and advocated for our needs she will forever hold a special place in my heart as a fond memory of being a diamond student I have been admitted to several colleges to study special education and I now aspire to be that teacher whose students want to walk through the door and is there for them to teach them
011every day and guide them to Greatness when I moved in with my dad he immediately enrolled me in Dartmouth High School the first person I met was my social worker Mrs Catherine Thomas who noticed I was panicking and gave me a stress ball as she told me to find each color of the rainbow all around the room looking back I now realize she was just doing her job but everyone in Dartmouth High School has been so helpful from being there for me to hearing my struggles and helping me achieve educationally I am skipping some of it and I hate it this child came from Fall River didn't do well there but got to Dartmouth middle school and started to have a better understanding of things it took some time for me to catch up with
012the other kids in my class but now I have a 3.6 GPA and I'm currently going to graduate from Bristol Community College in June this shows that because of the Dartmouth community and because of how much the teachers friends and family care about me I was able to thrive going to Bryant University in the fall when coming to Dartmouth High School I was nervous I didn't know what I wanted to do as I walked through the doors to my classroom I saw Mr Robert parody TV media teacher he helped to show me the ropes as aspects of media in all aspects of media including field trips showcasing what Dartmouth had to offer a welcoming classroom Friends TV media clubs and opportunities to learn and grow Mr peroti has made me the thriving young individual that
013I am today and from that four years ago when that little girl came walking through his doors he knew I was going to be something special still seem to all be awake I think I'll continue the DPS teacher that influence influenced me the most was Mr Eric Bosworth he was my computer science teacher at DHS we still continue to be friends even though he is no longer my teacher I attend an after-school group that he organized I am inspired by him because he makes me feel normal he listens to me as a person he believes in me as a student and he pushes me to do the things out of my comfort zone he asked me to present coding to Rising 8th graders in DM Dartmouth middle school and at Dartmouth High School open house
014to the families who attended Mr Bosworth is a true inspiration especially to the students that feel less than and are always left out due to their popularity status at school I've been a dance student for 14 years I always found myself unable to imagine a world where I would be able to pursue my dance and academic goals until I met Dr Peter bangs in my senior year of AP biology staying after school with Mr bangs and learning of his incredible academic history and then hearing him tell me that it does not have to be one or the other but it can be both dreams really helped me realize that I can pursue dance now and an academic experience in the future the DPS teacher who has been a great influence in my life is John
015Mr John Bro Not only was he my sophomore year English teacher he was also my academic support advisor and my coach for unified track and basketball he always believed in me and what great things I could accomplish he believed that I was capable of doing more and pushed me to do the to be the best of my ability and make me accountable during my IEP meetings he always showed compassion for myself and my family understanding my personal life and showing perspectives and showed interest in my welfare even though he is an adult figure in my life he knows how to be cool with us young kids he has definitely been a positive Mentor in my life I am truly grateful for having Mr bro as part of my academic team and I hope I can
016make him proud as I attend college and four years from now walk across the stage to accept my degree the teacher who inspired me the most during my time at DHS has been Mr Matthew Tweedy I took his Marine Science class in my junior year and quickly realized that we both share the same love and passion for the ocean learning about coral reefs the Marine ecosystem and how waves our farm created a good learning environment for me I spent most of my time learning about things I had yeah I think I lost my place I spent my time learning about things I most was most passionate about I felt a sense of Engagement and motivation that I never felt in any other class before growing up my life has resolved around the ocean Mr Tweedy
017helped me grow as a person while also expanding my knowledge of the sea he made me want to come to class every day and saw my value and worth He is someone who understands my hobbies and interests someone who actually values my skills and passions he made an effort to show he cared he would always ask things like how's the boat running pretty fun swiftly this weekend huh the ocean keeps me balanced and will allow me to do my best work thank you Mr Tweedy for always inspiring me to be myself and Chase what I love I have been fortunate to have several teachers who have impacted and shaped shake me into the person I am today the teacher who I look back on is having the business best yeah biggest impact on me did
018so at a young age so young that I didn't notice him several years later that was my first grade teacher Miss list nimi as a first-born grandchild I spent a great deal of my time with my great-grandparents my great-grandmother who I call Gigi was a retired Dartmouth Elementary School teacher Gail Frost I think she deserves to be said who cared for me prior to starting school my parents worked on by Gigi and papa Library visits museums boat rides and Adventures Mike Gigi was diagnosed with cancer and passed away while I was in first grade with Mrs nimi my parents and Grandparents were devastated over Gigi's passing and I don't and I don't know that I completely understood but I knew tears and crying and new hugs were comforting but once the out-of-town relatives left we
019were talking about going back to school Mrs Silva has forgot the page that ends this but this family is very near to me too Mrs nimi welcomed her with a gigantic hug as she walked into her first grade classroom and told her she was part of the meaning family which is what she calls her classroom it's a child that was inspired by the welcoming uh attitude of her first grade class character all the way through High School enough so she's often to her college Years with the love of her family her Gigi and everyone at Dartmouth High School alumni association as we sat in not knowing who that child was we always now talking about as adults many years out of school who is the favorite teacher and we all found a favorite teacher and
020some of us had a problem because we had too many favorite teachers and I'm so proud of Dartmouth the town the school committee for keeping up the image that we love here in our community these children were not all a plus students not were they all going to be left in the dust but somehow through the years at Dartmouth Public Schools they were able to come to the top of the pile I tell my grandchildren that all of our children are an apple like an apple tree and the best apples are always at the top the apples would fall to the ground anybody can pick them up but the apples they are at the top of that tree and you should be one of those are the ones that are hardest to pick because they
021have high standards and morals and they wish to be spoken to in a specific way um you were not able to be with us on Sunday when we did our ceremonies the fifth year because of covid I think we're going to do it this way a lot more because now we get we're getting the feel of how much the children enjoy being talked to one-on-one some of you were with us on Sunday and I hope you had a good time we send out a newsletter once a year so over two thousand three thousand people that graduated from Dartmouth High School which is just a small number and uh we asked them if you'd like to join us for ten dollars for life and they join and they send us money for scholarship and because we
022have been trusted by the alumni of Dartmouth High School there are graduates who have sent us large donations for scholarship that's all we do although we did buy a brand new Podium for this High School when it opened I guess we call it the scholarship podium as a gift to the new High School we do not give out loans as we started to do in the 50s because then we figured out we figured out they gave out a hundred dollars as a loan no one paid it back and then they were angry so we decided maybe we should do scholarships we're just starting it I guess at Public School level and so we started giving out scholarships instead our first scholarships were fifty dollars then a hundred then three then five and now we give
023out scholarships with a larger number to a larger number of children because of our donations from alumni members and uh I just wanted to touch base with you guys I know it's not easy for school uh school committee people to get into the classroom during the day as it wasn't easy for a person on the select board to get to the police department and the highway department and all other departments to make sure they were doing their job but I just wanted you to know your teachers are respected and they respected their students and they're doing a good job and we need to support them everyone wants to make the government a business if business brand like government businesses would be out of business a government is a service to the community having a black
024line at the bottom and not a red line is important but it's not it's not everything is cracked up to be we got to make sure that the humans are taken care of and the humans in your case are children I have one young lady who at the ceremony I said if you want to come please come you can read your essay I think several said yes but this one young lady is a bright and shining star in our community and she's going to read her full essay to heal liar [Applause] hello school committee here's my essay that I submitted for the Dartmouth High School alumni association scholarship as a student that immensely struggled emotionally during the first semester of her freshman year I felt nothing but joy when the pandemic first hit two weeks
025off school is there anything better than that I first remarked on Friday March 13th of 2020 but it soon hit me that this pandemic would soon take its course and alter the high school experience for students Nationwide in the class of 2023. as a student trying to figure herself out the isolation of quarantine offered me nothing but time to think to think and think and then think endlessly some more I would ask myself the questions every day who do I want to become who do I want to be known as and what do I want to stand for day by day and month by month the answer is slowly pieced together I finally realized that I wanted to utilize my education and to give back to give back to the community that shaped my childhood
026my aspirations and who I am inside Dartmouth High School has given me the support mentorship and guidance and opportunities to become a successful and ambitious student I cannot think of a more valuable place I could have received my secondary education I walked in here as a student with little to no direction and numerous emotional struggles on June 4th of 2023 I will walk out or now have walked out with the lessons I've learned from my friends peers teachers and administrators as well as the diverse and well-rounded education I spent the last four years obtaining but most importantly the ability and confidence to venture out into the real world and make a difference in my community and communities Beyond DHS gave me the ability to meet a teacher who has influenced my want to give back
027to the community my life would not be the same had I not met Mrs Chamberlain I still remember the day I met Miss Chamberlain I went up to her to strike a conversation because she was my brother's teacher one random morning we immediately clicked and even though I was a freshman and she wasn't one of my teachers we would often find each other having a conversation once I got my schedule back for my junior year and I read the name Mrs Chamberlain Spanish for honors a joy searched over me as I had been wanting to take a class of hers for two years now I always admired her drive to give back to her community she began a free program at Quinn Elementary School to teach students in grades one through three the basics of
028the Spanish language when she was asking for volunteers for the program I was the first to jump at the opportunity I began to see the joy within children was simply unmatched by their adult counterparts a joy so infectious that it spread to even teachers of the program each day Mrs Chamberlain's love and gratitude towards her community inspired me to want to give back to I wanted to start giving back to my community Through volunteering after becoming the president of the Dartmouth High School robotics team my teammates and I organized a free and accessible robotic summer class for students in grades five through eight we've traveled to local schools in the Dartmouth public school system and taught engineering lessons to students while also recruiting four hour summer program we wanted to ensure that every single student
029in the area regardless of income level or gender had access to resources so that they can become a successful and young engineer in two summers we've been able to reach and teach a total of 720 students in the Dartmouth Public School System a number we are immensely proud of this project insulated my love for working with children after getting to teach young students in this area I began to understand how children are the most genuine people on this planet they do not like to sugarcoat anything and truly could not be more honest seeing children be deprived of their natural Joy is something I simply cannot witness I now aspire to be a pediatric surgeon so I can rekindle the spark and fire once extinguished in ill children through the Dartmouth High School alumni association scholarship
030I can be one step closer to my dreams of re-sparking this fire so that's my essay but while I'm up here I would like to take this time to say thank you so much to the Dartmouth High School alumni association and especially president Enid and the other officers especially you guys know how the cost of college is rising every year and the fact that you guys are really able to give back um and really ease this financial burden for so many of students in this area truly just means so much to me in this community so thank you all so much for that thank you that's wonderful I don't know if my colleagues have any any comments or Mr news I was I was here on the Sunday for the afternoon and the teachers had
031correct me from the teachers had no idea why they were here type of deal so it was a total shock to them when you know the teachers were here and the students and and the they were blown away so it was really a nice a nice time we had the big numbers out for him and everything that was perfect that's fantastic Shea was here and he part took of it also so it was nice wonderful we don't tell the children let's not tell the teachers nice so they said can you tell me who it is so I can give them a graduation card make it female we're not telling so when they came and they saw the student it was a revelation to them sure because sometimes they expect it to be that particular student
032because they've kept in touch and other times they were a surprise yeah that's wonderful anyone else have any that's just fantastic fantastic and I hope all the alums stay in touch very important yeah so thank you for your work that's all we do we keep our record straight had to get uh information now because everything is so HIPAA involved but we try to keep all the class records so if they want to have a reunion they come to us they get more updated information than they had the last day they met in high school graduation great thank you so much Enid for bringing this to us it was so nice to hear that yeah and I don't know if if Dr Jenkins has any comments your name in the newsletter yeah it was great thank
033you Enid Dr Jenkins thanks you as well thank you yeah no this is fantastic and thank you for reading your essay it was wonderful to hear and appreciate it and thank you for this I I know my uh my daughter's invitation she was a 2020 grad we received in the mail recently so I just happen to see it on the envelope so excellent thank you so um now we're going to move on I think we have uh now we'll hear our public comments so we've allotted 10 minutes for public comment and so please please feel free to come up to the podium and just State your uh your name and and be mindful of the the 10 minutes got it total well I think I think we're good okay so my name is Maureen Sullivan
034Boyle I'm a teacher in the district and a parent and a resident I'm a long time listener first time caller kind of thing I've been sitting in the crowd for almost every meeting for the last 18 months I'm a building DEA representative from the Middle School I've sat through several rounds of negotiations in my time here but I wanted to thank Mr Kiley uh for working with the DEA and for educating the select board and the finance committee for a very important one-line item in the budget I want to thank the school committee for listening to our many members speak about what was being discussed at the negotiating table and responding with movement on that on those on those issues when you could um I wanted to I know she's not here but I want
035to thank Jasmine Jasmine Olene our new our negotiations chair who facilitated our negotiations process for the first time and she did a fabulous job I want to thank Renee and Jody our co-presidents for their unwavering support when it comes to fighting for the members and trying to get what is rightfully deserved by all members of our units it's a thankless job many many hours it's many uh not nice conversations uh but they don't hear it enough so I just want to say thank you so as you are aware after uh working for without a contract uh this school year it seems like we've ratified the next three-year contract but I want to be clear it's not really a win for anyone movement was made yes on both sides but due to inflation rates and the
036six percent range and a hefty increase in health insurance this was not a win it was barely it's not even a break even we've attended many school committee meetings select board meetings finance committee meetings met with our State Rep our state senator and even representatives from Blue Cross Blue Shield over the past 18 months we've brought our children with us or left them at home and have missed special time we've we've juggled our health as well as the health of loved ones to get to these meetings I'm the one that sits in the audience with my sign that says make Dartmouth competitive again and I always wondered what you all thought that meant um that statement meant to you I've been here for 20 years I can tell you what I think it means it
037means make it possible for make it a place that people want to come to work again want to come and can afford to come work at want to put those applications in for those openings the stacks that we used to get that we're now getting not even a handful of I realized a portion of this is out of your hands however if we've learned anything in the past year and a half of negotiations is that together we can move this town forward we must follow up with suggestions of the select board and the finance committee and work together to inform our community of the short and long-term needs of the school district because making Dartmouth competitive again cannot rest on the shoulders of the Dartmouth educator Association we need you the school committee to work
038is hard for us as we are working for this District so as we look forward to the next round of budget discussions which are coming so so soon I implore you to work together with the select board and the finance committee to help push the town to do whatever it takes to make Dartmouth competitive again thank you [Applause] thank you anyone else great hearing none okay I'm going to move on to the next item on our agenda which is the approval of minutes I have um I'll ask for a motion separately one for the regular session and one for the executive of May 15th so move for the regular session minutes of May 15 2023 all right a second fall for for a vote Kathleen Emerald yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins
039yes John Nunes yes thank you and for the executive for the same evening so move Madam chair with the stipulation today be held until the matter for which they were intended is complete I'll second that right any discussion roll call Emerald yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John news yes thank you for that and um next on the agenda I'm going to turn it over to Mr Kylie for two uh consent items thank you Mrs Amber also the first item on the consent agenda is the DHS marching band and color guard can working uh on concessions at the stadium for our uh for our events there so each year those groups do an incredible job providing concessions for our events and those funds go to support their programs um so we'd
040like to continue that and we'll do so with a with a approval vote from you folks tonight motion to approve Madam chair Second Great any anyone have a discussion on the matter no they do a great job um roll call vote Kathleen Amaral yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes great and so next is related to another consent item right so the next item up is the related is the smec lease of classroom space so the um smec collaborative leases two classroom spaces one at Dartmouth High School and one at the Quinn school they also this year have added a small office space at Dartmouth High School they've actually utilized that in the past but have um had not included that as something in their lease so it was
041good news to see that they are prepared to compensate us for that space and have added it in so we have the room uh it's great to have them in the building and we work very closely with them while it with these classrooms but overall for programs that they provide so um would like to continue that and would do so with the vote tonight all right all right does anyone have anything to ask about whether at the end happen to answer anything as well Dr Jenkins honey questions none all right with that I will um motion to approve the uh memorandum of agreement between the diamond school committee and the Southeastern Massachusetts educational collaborative for fiscal year 24. second that okay any discussion no roll call okay Kathleen Emerald yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin
042yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes great so moving on next we have our a nice presentation we do thank you Mrs Emerald so we have uh we'll invite Mr galshaw up to the podium for a presentation on technology in the district I'm going to take away my duties as floor director to take over here I just wanted to give you a very brief but riveting summation about technology to as the end of the year here we have a lot of things going on educational technology our technology in schools we have a very um a very nice situation by being able to work in the summertime because we can get a lot of things done usually during the year getting things done it's like it's like changing a flat tire of a car moving 60
043miles an hour it doesn't always work but the Summer's a nice pause allowing us to do things so I wanted to give you an idea of where we've been and where we're going so thank you school committee for having me thank you for the people here join here tonight and the hundreds or thousands that are on online right now watching uh Mr perotti said that the numbers just bumped up as I was approaching the podium so that's nice thank you so um this is a current state or uh but I promise uh some people I'd be very brief so I will be brief all right I have five items like to talk about first being Hardware of course we have Chromebooks multitudes of Chromebooks laptops and servers that run things throughout the district in the
044summertime we'll be doing updates moving to about to maximize their use as well as integrating a few new ones for new employees that are coming on board also refurbishing the ones we have we can clean them up and get them running again so we can use them for other purposes and doing a massive inventory to find out where we are and what we what we've gone through and what we have in the district second item is software we have instructional software technical software administrative software we do a full review of educational software we've been doing that over the past few months of what we use in the classroom I'm sorry I heard my I heard someone was calling but not me uh my reaction um as well as with the instructional technology people we look
045at all of the software and make sure that they we produce usage data to make sure we're using it and maximizing our our software use and we've discontinued some products that aren't being used because it's not worth the money to keep them if they're not being used uh one of the ones that I'll talk about later is we're consolidating our communication software to a product called parent square and we're consolidating a few products into one so we're saving thousands of dollars by doing this and it's a much better product as well as multilingual and a lot of different aspects of it and there'll be more about that coming to the people watching at home and to the the staff we look at continuous training of software both for students and for teachers and the development
046of curriculum based on that software that we use we're also redoing the budget software budget sense to a new server and we'll be doing that and transferring that information and all that uh info of that budget information uh the third thing is instructional um products that we we do we the instruction we do for for um technology uh we talk to the students and the staff about uh Computer Care and usage uh taking care of it as well as a big Hot Topic which is cyber security uh both for students and teachers and Internet safety in regards to where to go and what the use of data privacy we're big on data privacy in the in the given of information for the people um we also will do a lot of training so we Master
047the software that we have to making the most out of the software that we've invested in number four is new technologies we will be revamping the website a lot of people have said wow that's really bad the the website has discontinued the company was bought out by another company so we're letting it ride to the summer and letting people get really tired of it really really look at it ugly so the drama and the Showmanship of unveiling the new website which we started doing for September with our new superintendent orientation will be super exciting I think the staff will be overwhelmed by it but uh a final site so it's the evolution of Blackboard into final site and I mentioned about the new communication tool again trying to gather everybody together on one system so
048it's good communication and these types of systems allow teachers and students to parent and parents all to talk by keeping it safe and private so uh it's all within the system so it's not like you have to give out your cell phone number or whatever you can control that on apps it'll add to the communication so it'll be doing a lot of trading trading for parents that are parent nights open house nights as well as for staff along the way very easy to use but we'll be there all the steps of the way and just talk about some of the projects we're working on this summer as I mentioned the summer is a great time to get things done because you can take things apart one of the things we're doing a massive replacement for
049Wi-Fi all right above us here replacing about 330 units that have become they've extended their full life so we've made full maximum life out of it and we got that through um we also got that 50 funded with a grant from the government for a program called e-rate uh we also are continuing our phone Replacements getting all of our phones on IP so that we can ultimately go on to an IP phone system called zip which will allow for 9-1-1 direct dialing something the state's requiring us to do so what it is is that if someone were to call 9-1-1 from a classroom they can pinpoint police and fire can pinpoint exactly where it came from so it's a very important thing the state is requiring it they've they eased regulations during Covey because they
050actually was instituted right before covid but they didn't want to do that to us during covet because we were already having a lot of things going on they've rekindled that thing and we'll be adhering to that we're adding intercom speakers and in certain places as well as security cameras doing walk throughs to make sure that we've maximized the sound of announcements in all buildings as well as coverage of security cameras in all buildings we're also rekindling that relationship with the police department who also have access to our intercoms and to our security cameras in the event of of something that might happen uh they have the ability to view cameras and it might be a very uh good advantage to the police to have the view of schools as well as the ability to speak
051on the intercom over the speaking system from the police department um we do a massive Chrome update we take all the Chromebooks and we clean them and update them and make sure they're all ready good to go and re relabel them if you will get them back in their carts or redistribute them in the fall to the kids and as I mentioned before the financial server we have budget sense we have a server that we've done budget since on we've pretty much given the life of the server I think it's about seven years old and we're going to be transferring it to a new server modern copy of an operating system it's protected now with antivirus and such but we will put it onto a new server do that same protection do a disaster recovery
052from there we wanted to um Mr Oliver very expensive very expensive and I think we have this server available and we can make that transfer and keep it a little low right now but I will keep tabs on that I'm talking to the company about it was just a really big jump and during this time I just it's Tyler right Tyler's technology we can still handle it but ultimately it would be better in the cloud but we do a full disaster recovery on the system we have internally so that's what it does is every 20 minutes it takes all the data puts it into the cloud and keeps it so but ultimately I would love to put the server all services to the cloud I imagine the server cluster that we have that manages the
053district when that age is out it'll probably go to the cloud file serving and stuff like that any questions and that was brief was that not right thank you oh good yes Mr Oliver I expected too thank you thank you Mr galashaw uh the the Wi-Fi the Wi-Fi upgrade the telephone upgrade I know we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars there fifty percent of your rate reimbursement on that is this typically what we would um see from you utilize some of the two hundred thousand dollars that we would be receiving from the town on this um so that's that's we're kind of scrimping and saving down to the penny to make it happen because it's really important that it happens I agree I don't have the flexibility and I'm concerned that when I went
054back to the first item we will be refurbishing a lot of equipment because in the luxury what we had we used to be able to hand a computer to a teacher a new computer we might be really going digging deep and trying to repair the one we have to give to the teacher so in other words you had to shift it's something that's just ultimately important it's only one piece of the project Mr Oliver it's the first part with the Wi-Fi units which expire June of 23 right now so we've the the end of life is the end of this month so it's something we have to do for the fall they'll work they just won't get updates correct and that's always concerning correct now as far as the um the Chromebooks go and obviously
055a ECF emergency connectivity funding has ended with the federal government how are we looking uh with supporting our one-to-one program across the yeah same thing we kind of scrapped the idea of buying new Chromebooks usually for the the fifth graders and the ninth graders we're going to shuffle a few to make to accommodate the fifth graders and and just we're scrounging what we've done is we've taken Chromebooks that were older and out of uh update ability would therefore not be able to be used by MCAS and we're going to push them down to the first and second grades still very usable Chromebooks but they will not be able to do MCAS which is okay because we don't need to do MCAS integrates one and two so their their Auto expiration date has already come but
056they work and again scrimping and saving so I've always appreciated the generosity of the the town and the school committee yeah but this is one of the years I'm going to get tight you know it's just because there it is one last question what does your department consist of who how many staff yeah how many staff immediate staff resurfacing technology yeah means staff we have a technician a server person a network person a data person and a secretary and myself so that's that's what we have in the immediate group um we also have instructional technology people one was not uh replaced but we have them in each of the schools and we have a district-wide technology person that was doing the data privacy which is we have another year of that through Esser funds so
057somehow we're going to do a little bit of supporting the high school during that time with that extra person but it's something I'll have to come back to you and address in the future yeah I just I've always been a proponent for for Staffing and I know Staffing's always tight but technology runs everything without technology it would be very difficult to have school each day yeah and they're and they're the um the threats are there as you know uh it is a continuous job monitoring that Network trying to do the antivirus for the servers um and special projects and also the repairs uh for the Chromebooks their Chromebooks are great machines but they're they're they're very economically built so they they do break and especially in the hands of children that um you know are
058are rugged and they and they just they're not expensive machines so we do what we can to uh kind of Frankenstein them a little bit put borrow keyboards from one to build another one so call me Dr Frankenstein thank you thank you very much yeah thank you for those questions anyone else have anything we'll just say you know I've talked about my lack of computer knowledge and it is what it is type of deal and I appreciate I appreciate this and I appreciate everything that you do for the for the district and such and you know keeping you know everything put together with uh you know bailing chewing gum and bailing wires sometimes you know with as you kind of mentioned here type of deal so anything that we can do we'll do the best
059we can and I think that's a tribute to it and I'm not just sucking up but the staff I have is incredible um it's them it really is uh just they're dedicated beyond words weekends nights they just love what they do they're first class nerds oh I said that out loud um no they really are and they love what they do and the district is very fortunate to have all of them they're dedicated yeah you know them all I'm sure you've intertwined with all of them somewhere thank you Dr Jenkins do you have anything to ask or ADD I'll just say thank you to Mr galashaw he does a lot of great work including helping Mr perrotti get me all set up on Zoom tonight so thank you for everything you do for the district
060thank you Dr Jenkins and and I yeah I don't really have any um thoughtful questions to ask Mr rely on my colleague over here for his uh technology and yours so um I don't know technology yeah I don't either so it works out yeah and I guess I just would say that I just appreciate your uh your candor and uh and and in this really difficult time and your ability to be flexible in your staff and and um you know it's it's a shame that we're here but um yeah we'll get there we'll get there and so we're really lucky to have you and and Mr Kylie you know at the helm uh to really work through some of these things where and together the public that doesn't is watching doesn't know me that well
061I am the voice that speaks to you but that besides that um I I joke and I bring levity because you know it's if you technology can be very uh overwhelming and disappointing at times so I think I try to bring levity but when it comes to doing technology I'm dead serious because I just I really it's a passion I know I joke and stuff like that but it's only to make life just to ease the moment because it's very um teachers are up there in front of kids it has to work yeah it must be unnerving to to lose something in technology while you have 25 you know sets of eyes in front of you so yeah and if we can't really get our town out you're appreciative we're appreciative but if we can't
062get them we have to maintain it it's a forever the value of a public education I don't know if we're going to get them to understand the technology piece is really a critical part of that so um but we'll work on it and technology has become a utility it's just something you have to pay like the electric bill and the water bill it's just like I say to my husband when he asks something really silly it's not 1986. get out of 1986 right where he often who is laughing at home I'm sure but um anyway thank you so much uh for that presentation and for being here and now you can go back to work thank you I think every item on the agenda from here on out I'm going to be turning over to
063you but next we have uh old business and Mr Kylie I'm gonna turn over to you for a budget fiscal 24 budget update in in advance of tomorrow's town meeting 9 A.M yes right thank you Mrs Amaral so that's right big the big issue with the budget is that schedule a is still 99 275 dollars short of where we are budgeted I will um let you know that I had a good discussion with Gary Carrero the town's Finance director today who emphasized his willingness to push for some resolution in the October town meeting um to attempt to provide us with some funding that would at least compensate for the 99 275 likely through um some sort of capital improvement process so most probably technology related so that's that's um you know what has been presented
064and I I'm appreciative of that obviously um but that's that's where we are with it we I talked last meeting about some of our options um we we as a group discussed some options uh that we could we could utilize to move forward and be happy to talk more about those today obviously we could wait and address it that way at the October town meeting we could try and make a change tomorrow um on the floor and would have to be prepared to adjust our budget up and adjust another budget line down um we could cut the money I wouldn't recommend that one um we could ask for a transfer at some point from the fincom reserve fund we could ask a town meeting in October for a transfer from a revolving fund like uh
065like like the kindergarten the kindergarten Reserve fund potentially so we have some options available to us offer it up for some some guidance and discussion on this um Mr Nunes I don't know it looks like you have that's fine whatever my game plan and I'm gonna type it up tonight and I'll have it for uh the moderator in the morning and also I will give Mr Carrero a copy so is to first first and foremost is to hold the school department budget and such and I'm gonna and then I'm also gonna hold the reserve either the reserve fund or one of the other miscellaneous line items type of deal to uh do two things number one is to get the 000 that we rode type of deal and then I'm going to go back I'm
066also going to see about getting the other six hundred thousand dollars just having them increase the uh the estimate for a local local receipts I mean they've uh I gotta find it I didn't write it down they uh you know they've when you do an analysis of what local receipts versus what they've had on the recap for uh and I I just went back to 18 and this is all available on the local division of local services website uh you got to kind of scan down and and such but you know you look at you know you go to 2018 you know they use the 7.3 million on the recap and the actual was 10 million and you know 7-2 became ten five and 19. you know 20 was a little off only because of
067you know the covet situation but they still had 7.4 and we ended up with 9.9 million type of deals so the constant you know there's going to be half a million dollars there 600 000 to type a deal so that that's my game plan so I'll hit one budget line item type of deal and then take the rest just have them increase the local receipts to uh to see what happens you know that's my game plan thank you Mr hopefully get support well you got a couple town meeting members on this yeah in this area so we'll see you in the morning that's that's that's that's that's all I have but that's that's my game plan anyone else have any um anything else to add or questions to ask and I hope that if any
068town meeting members are listening or if anybody wants to share it with them that they should get on board with Mr Nunes yeah yeah um Dr Jenkins do you have anything to add or ask no I mean I just say I would support if I were in town I'm not in town I would support Mr nunes's motion and I appreciate him doing the work to to figure that out to write that up and to make that motion thank you yeah well thank you for that um I know it just it just seemed so frustrating to you know read in the paper that the town is fully funding you know our our budget when that is in fact not the case due to scriptures error or just a miscalculation or a numbers aren't my thing but
069uh I mean to you know two things to wait till wait till October uh you roll the dice yeah number one uh number two I for one at this point would not want to tap that kindergarten fully kindergarten fun you know hopefully everybody remembers that that's our money that we didn't spend in the budget that we turned back to go into the full day kindergarten but we very well may need that next year as a funding source for our budget yeah type of type of deal so and also too uh you know as I mentioned at the last time you know right now we've got fifty thousand dollars out of school choice to uh you know fund the papers and pencils and books and you know ink cartridges etc etc so right that's kind of
070a one-time you know because it's a it's a supply you know it's a consumable versus you know we use it to buy yeah you know the Chromebooks and we bought some stuff from Mr perrotti and such you know which is gonna which has a longer shelf life right so right that's my concern yeah I would agree I would agree with that and I do uh Echo Dr Jenkins comment just really thanking you for digging in I know we we um have received also some emails from uh residents who had similar thoughts or um plans to also bring this up and get this fixed tomorrow so hopefully we do get support at town meeting um so anything anything else on that matter no Okay so now we will move on to new business and I'm going
071to turn it over to you Mr Kiley about the revisions to our student handbook thank you Mrs Amber also this has been a process as you know in central office we we have some folks who've joined us this year Katie paveo Ross Tebow so we're taking a look at this from a first time lens for some of us and certainly me and my joint capacity um so we've done a lot of work on it we've made a lot of improvements there is a ways to go and we're going to start early in the process in this upcoming year to fine tune this even more but we've provided you with some of the changes we will be seeking a a vote of approval tonight from you folks on the student handbook some of the things that
072were technical changes were things like Personnel related changes the school calendar some references to gender that we've changed references to parents where we wanted to include Guardians updated a variety of different links just to resources throughout the document some student discipline information some of our systems and what they're called we've we've done a lot of work on sort of fine-tuning all that and bringing it up to date um so I think we're in a much better place with the student handbook normally we would have brought this to you a little earlier in the year but we really wanted to spend the time to do the work so we feel that it's good it's not perfect it's a lot better than it was and it'll be a lot better next year but at this point where
073I'm hopeful that you'll approve it and we can get it in in our documents and ready to go great does anyone have any questions or discussion yep a niggly one um in the schedule there are yellow days that are half days and most of them have slashes through them except for one um what does that mean oh on the school calendar yeah early on [Applause] one without a slash the 14th of February is yellow but it doesn't have a slash and everybody else is yellow with a slash I just didn't understand it could be a typo it's a good point I'm not sure I believe so okay good otherwise I agree with that changes so could we would we could vote pending that that correct me that may not be an appropriate yellow actually okay
074I think it's not the slash that it's missing you shouldn't be there it should be a red day yeah I believe February 14th yeah okay I'm fine thank you for for noticing that um so we I would entertain a emotion with barring no uh Dr Jenkins I didn't know if you had any anything I'm good no okay all right so I'll entertain a motion to approve with any personal approve the uh student handbook uh as presented with the potential adjustment to the February 14th date color however you want it right second second Mr Oliver um any other comments all right roll call Kathleen Amaral yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes thank you thank you thank you for the work on that um continued work on that I should
075say uh now uh next on the agenda I'm going to turn it back over to you Mr Kylie to talk about some year-end fiscal 23 um year-end authorizations thank you Mrs Amaral so each year I ask that the school committee gives me the authority to adjust from one area of the budget to the other at the close of the fiscal year so that we can close out successfully make sure we've utilized all our resources to the fullest and any areas that required additional funding are addressed if this year is a particularly challenging year to close out for me because I'm a doing two jobs and haven't had a lot of time to do it but um also because our contract settlement um is uh you know hopefully going to be finalized in the in the
076next few minutes here but we've had a lot of uh you know a lot hanging out there waiting to be determined so we're going to proceed hopefully following following tonight to finalize that which will help us get to the end of the year and make sure that we've utilized our resources the way we the way we hoped any funds that would be left the first priority would be to focus on prepayment of special education tuition it's a particularly volatile area of the budget from year to year every year usually quite a few times during the year there are changes in services that are provided for students that come at a fairly high cost and by prepaying our special education tuition it allows us to buffer some of the some of those costs and sort of
077survive the year without um you know having to go back to town meeting and ask for more monies or or utilize some other sources of funding so that's an important activity that we try to do every year [Music] and are hopeful that I can continue that for next year as well great anyone have any questions motion to approve the FY 23 end of the year authorization transfers second um roll call ethylene Amaral yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John news yes we'll get a copy when you give us the year-end that'll have what what went from here to it yeah thank you thank you perfect and so next on the agenda Mr Kylie if you could talk us through the school committee meeting schedule through September from July to September our
078proposed meeting dates thank you Mrs Amaral so we have our next meeting which would be June 26th um we have a proposed meeting in July July 17th and a proposed meeting in August August 21st we also have two meetings in September proposed Monday September 11th and Monday September 25th so there had been a a a member or two had some ideas about start times for meetings so I thought I'd just throw them out there for discussion one was to look at morning meetings in July and August the other was to on July 26th the 4th and August 21st I'm sorry not the fourth I hope we're not here on July July 17th and August 21st to um if if not morning meetings to move them up to a four o'clock start um and then the
079other thing for consideration is moving forward in September to move up the start till 6 pm so those are some some thoughts that committee members had expressed to me individually um and so I thought I'd just share those with you for your discussion thank you Mr Crowley um first it is uh the dates good for everyone I'm I'm not here the 26th okay all right not here the 26th either and I'm not I'm not here the 26th either oh well I think Dr Jenkins is also not okay okay well we won't be meeting on the 20th okay so before I'm not here that week unless we come back unless we meet on Friday I'm not here that week okay I [Laughter] I'm going uh-huh uh but yeah if anything needs to be signed I would
080be available to stop in if you know that sort of thing so we'll skip the 26. okay yeah we'll just have one meeting in June that's all okay and um admittedly I brought up for the summer uh the wondering if it would be possible to get a morning meeting in I um you know I worked through the summer but I can easily start my day later it would be more convenient for me selfishly but I understand that might not work for others and I would be agreeable to the six I don't know that I could do any earlier than that but um but six I would be agreeable to for moving on or just so I open it up for your thoughts and the I mean the the the July 17th and August 21st I
081mean if we start at four o'clock or 4 30 you know if we start earlier that that works for me the six o'clock start time uh in September and I'm gonna make an assumption going forward uh would work for me in in such you know so but that again I'm just the one person um so but you're also considering an am meeting time for for July in August yes yeah and again the the am on those days works for me okay um I like am in the summer for sure and I'm fine with sex in later in the year I guess I'll be the odd Personnel no that's fine yeah no mornings don't work for me okay how about she they don't work for me Dr Jenkins I don't know if they don't warnings don't
082work for me either I can do a 4 30 but I can't do mornings she can do 4 30. is that what we heard Shannon correct I can do 4 30. I cannot do mornings okay okay do 4 30 not the morning right and I I mean just you know I I most you know it's more difficult for me at 4 30 but if it is the pleasure of the committee I can always have um uh Mr Oliver sort of stand in if I'm not available that's not the end of the world kind of close for me at 4 30. okay okay and if we don't if you're not here at 4 30 and we don't start till quarter of five it's it's posted for 4 30. well what works for you I mean I
083I can be flexible it's just like I work till five but um sometimes I'm in Waltham but I I mean I've been able to make it I just want to I'm it wouldn't be the end of the world if I can't make it you know so long as well I would feel better with a five or five thirty star time over the summer all right so let's make it convenient 5 30 then people can make it yeah or you know the five o'clock works well no it doesn't work for you it could be a thing where I could I could do a zoom too if I had if I wasn't somewhere to you know to get here I could do that okay so I want to do that five sure yeah is that what we
084two for five yeah okay this one okay thank you and then um six o'clock proposed starting time yeah how do you feel about that I'm fine with that yeah I'm fine with that I'm good with that um yeah is there any appetite has there ever been Mr Nunes with starting if there is an executive session starting the night off with the executive session I'm just wondering what the we have uh when I first got on we would have them first because our Council was from out of town so it you know Council would come in whatever and then we would so but what would happen is we would have an executive session at 5 30 and then a meeting start at 6 30 type of deal so is that something that would be I would
085you know Walter Shakin said my memory is good maybe that's just I I have a couple of thoughts so just one thing maybe we can talk about it some more yeah I would you know obviously with uh Dr Stephen mcbaya coming on board I think it's important that we have a workshop some point in August yeah um you know maybe a morning uh you know yeah maybe we can do that um yeah just so we can figure some things out yeah yeah the only other and that's fine I mean to and I'm just thinking which I know gets me in trouble sometimes but if we're going forward and we've got to look I'm not sure if we've got a quote an unquote policy that says our meetings start at 6 30. so we may just
086I don't know okay that's off the top of my head but if there is then we may just have to modify that policy which is nothing okay but that's okay you can look into that I'm just not trying to keep yeah no that's good that's right that's good um and you just maybe I know I just for best this part the work working group would be setting the agenda for the for the next year that sort so it's not a meeting no it's just a word it's a workshop that we're figuring out what we're doing it's a workshop we have at Bush Street yeah yeah um okay so we don't okay so so we're good with this okay excellent it's no vote on that or anything right no no okay no meeting on the 26th
087no meeting on the 26th so I want to turn over to you Mr Kylie for um superintendent's update thank you Mr Samuel so uh I guess first I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge uh the devotion and efforts of 12 staff members who um have retired in the latter part of this year we have Kevin obrontes custodian Kathleen Baldwin occupational therapist Sue Bishop grade three teacher Marion D moranville food service worker Darren Doan Middle School principal Donna floor secretary Mita Ganguly teacher assistant Dr Bonnie Gifford superintendent Tony Martin special education teacher Lisa Medeiros literacy coach Maria Rafferty secretary Judith Souza food service worker so we've got uh several people who've committed a lot of years about 250 years I think amongst them to to the district so I'd like to thank them for sure
088no yeah thank you and for the service absolutely I would actually like to see at some point I don't know if it's possible for this year but I think I know the first day of school is usually a recognition of the retirees from the previous year is that still practice I don't know if that's with through the uh Dartmouth Educators Association the acknowledgment but isn't there in the first day of school we have done it in the past I don't think we did it um I don't think we've done it in a couple of years that way okay I I think that our retirees um especially some of our T our teaching staff and you have administrators like Mr Doan and you know uh administrative assistants uh such as Maria Maria Rafferty um that I
089think they're it's certainly worth acknowledging I think it would be a nice gesture if the school committee um if if we could send out uh you know even if it's just an invitation where they're just recognized and they think publicly I think it says something about um this this school department that we acknowledge them and we certainly appreciate their work and their dedication um considering the the amount of years here that I'm looking at um I think it would be a nice gesture from the school committee in the school department that we recognize them at a school committee and maybe we it's something we do moving forward every year just my thoughts yeah thank you like that um some other updates so uh we sort of had the culmination of our senior activities yesterday with
090with the commencement exercise that I I thought was fantastic I've got to say that um it's been fun participating as you know in a kind of a different role and I've been very impressed with our senior class they were they're an exceptional group um and certainly I'm proud of uh I'm proud of them for sure so um lots and lots of activities in the schools Middle School graduation coming up uh next Tuesday at the stadium um we had all the moving up days coming up the field days the concerts the art shows lots and lots of activity I'd obviously like to thank everybody who you know has been a part of that putting those together I also want to give a little bit of a shout out to DCTV who has been covering these things
091non-stop now for for weeks and doing an awesome job and certainly Rob and his and his group have also been been covering lots of events and it's it's been great so it gives an opportunity for people who you know haven't had a chance to make it to things to to get to see um you know see their kids and relatives has been excellent we have the curriculum Summit coming up which is an opportunity for staff to participate in the two-day event that involves professional development and an opportunity for them to work on curriculum we have at this point we have more than 65 teachers signed up for uh to participate it's the two days after school lets out so there's no break you can't go to the beach the next day you've got to participate
092in the curriculum Summit so that's that's quite a commitment of 65 plus staff members to uh on on June 15th and 16th come in and work on uh work on this stuff so we're happy to see that um I wrote this before today's games but baseball softball girls lacrosse tennis were all still involved until today I went to the girls lacrosse game for a bit they were I had to leave to come here but they were down and they did end up losing um but they played well they lost 15 to 10. so we had all of our spring Sports had a great year so we were happy to see that we're also getting ready for our summer programs so we have academic summer school programs we have our extended school year program we also
093are in the process of Mr Tebow and Mrs paveo are working on the acceleration Academy grant that became available so the department of Ed sort of snuck it in last second so we're putting in an application for that so it'll be a one week at the conclusion of our other summer school programs where we'll have to offer to offer kids so another good opportunity and I think that's the bulk of things on my list great thank you for that yeah it's been a busy time exciting time I don't have anything other you know you've kind of covered it all I don't know if any of my colleagues have anything to add Mr Nunes yeah just a couple of things just to kind of piggyback a little bit of what uh Mr Kiley said uh was
094at a wads night with all the scholarships awarded to the seniors and also the senior awards from the different academic classes type of deal uh was fortunate my wife and I to attend graduation and then I was at the after prom and it was just a great evening the students the students had a great time from the time they got there till the time they left and then you know came back to the high school for the after prom and they had a blast so it was you know which is good to see them all together and they eat well nice nice anyone else Dr Jenkins no I'm good thank you great um so our next meeting uh is not going to be June 26th it's going to be July 17th [Laughter] um that will
095be here okay here at the high school so now I'm going to entertain a motion and I hopefully we'll do this correct I'm going to entertain a motion that we convene into we adjourn into executive session to return into Open Session um we're adjourning we're for Union for purposes of Union negotiations to return into Open Session um to conclude matters related so um Madam chair make a motion that we adjourn into executive session for the purposes of update on Union negotiations and return to open session when completed second roll call Kathleen Amaral yes Chris Oliver yes Elizabeth Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes we're in recess what do you think foreign I never put him here you're gonna make it you're gonna make we'll call we're back in session Kathleen Amaral here Chris
096Oliver Elizabeth Coughlin here Shannon Jenkins here John Nunes yep great so um Madam chair just for the record it is 8 12. thank you thank you for that um so we uh gosh what day is it and I have some good news to share that um the Dartmouth school committee has came to agreement with uh four of our bargaining units including our teachers unit our school nurse educator unit our assistance unit our yes that's our esps and our secretary our school year and full year secretaries unit so I'm happy to share that information job well done yeah I would just like to thank our our negotiation team yeah Mr Nunes Mr Kiley all the uh administrators and staff from the uh from Bush Street that were involved and you know and of course uh how
097can we forget our uh uh Council Mr Smith uh so thank you for all your efforts um you know a job well done I I think you know at the end of the day this is certainly um it was a long process but hopefully um you know this is what compromise is all about and I think both sides I did an excellent job um the with compromising and I do want to commend our the uh Dartmouth Educators Association um for their uh their respectful silent protests and all their time um you know being very respectful of the process so I agreed anyone else Dr Jenkins anything nope great um yeah I agree with what you say I um you know there's you know of course it's really exciting but there's still work to be done
098obviously as was noted during public comment today but I just thank everyone and uh really glad that we can come to this agreement in this compromise in this way so um and then town meeting tomorrow 9 A.M so I will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved a second roll call Kathleen Amaral yes Chris Oliver yes with Coughlin yes Shannon Jenkins yes John Nunes yes meeting adjourned um yes [Music] thank you [Music]