Everett School Committee Livestream: January 20th, 2026

001Heat. Heat. N. My name is Chris Barrett and I was the proud principal of the Webster School. It is with great pride and gratitude that I share the incredible honor of our wonderful school community being named a 2025 national distinguished school. This recognition reflects the collective commitment of our students, families, teachers, staff, and community. All whom worked tirelessly every day to ensure that every child at the Webster school is supported, challenged, and celebrated. >> Every morning we recite the Webster WCAT pledge. I We are proud of the diverse community which is home to our future leaders. We are kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. We work hard to overcome challenges and meet our goals. Our success is guaranteed for our families, teachers, and community always believe in us. >> My name is Devon Abra

002and I'm interm principal here at the Webster School. We have great pride in serving a diverse student population of approximately 351 students. Of these students, 72% speak a language other than English at home and 48% are identified as English language learners. We support English language learners through intentional co-eing and co-planning using access to grade level content while develop English language proficiency instruction integrates listening, reading, writing, and speaking tasks across all content areas with targeted language instruction. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide creative interventions and meet students where they're at, yet still push them to achieve our goals. Our students make progress because of the level of care provided from our staff in the building based on students unique needs. Our team strive to be solutionoriented and we work hard to include all of

003our students and create a welcoming community for every single student who steps within our door. We have had tremendous success at the Webster School in the area of science and it's really due to our hardworking students who come to school every day and want to learn and the wonderful curriculum we've been able to develop here based on the state and national standards. I love the Webster school because everyone is always kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. This school is special to me because everyone is kind to each other and no one's left out ever. >> So, you got to hear from our great folks at the Webster School here in Everett, Massachusetts. I'd like to say thank you to all of our staff there because you all found out what I knew already. We

004have an award-winning school, nationally recognized, and I thank them, the teachers, and of course, our wonderful parents and students for making Everett and the Webster School such a great place. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. My name is Chris Barrett and I was the proud proud principal of the Webster School. It is with great pride and gratitude that I share the incredible honor of our wonderful school community being named a 2025 National Distinguished School. This recognition reflects the collective commitment of our students, families, teachers, staff, and community all whom worked tirelessly every day to ensure that every child at the Webster School is supported, challenged, and celebrated. Every morning we recite the Webster Yatai pledge. I We are proud of the diverse community which is home to our future leaders. We are kind, responsible, and

005always prepared to learn. We work hard to overcome challenges and meet our goals. Our success is guaranteed for our families, teachers, and community. Always believe in us. My name is Devon Abra and I'm interm principal here at the Webster School. We have great pride in serving a diverse student population of approximately 351 students. Of these students, 72% speak a language other than English at home and 48% are identified as English language learners. We support English language learners through intentional co-eing and co-planning using access to grade level content while develop English language proficiency. Instruction integrates listening, reading, writing, and speaking tasks across all content areas with targeted language instruction. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide creative interventions and meet students where they're at. yet still push them to achieve our goals. Our students make

006progress because of the level of care provided from our staff in the building based on students unique needs. Our team strive to be solutionoriented and we work hard to include all of our students and create a welcoming community for every single student who steps within our door. We have had tremendous success at the Webster School in the area of science and it's really due to our hardworking students who come to school every day and want to learn and the wonderful curriculum we've been able to develop here based on the state and national standards. >> I love the Webster school because everyone is always kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. >> This school is special to me because everyone is kind to each other and no one's left out ever. So, you got to hear

007from our great folks at the Webster School here in Everett, Massachusetts. I'd like to say thank you to all of our staff there because you all found out what I knew already. We have an award-winning school, nationally recognized, and I thank them, the teachers, and of course, our wonderful parents and students for making Everett and the Webster School such a great place. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. My name is Chris Barrett and I was the proud principal of the Webster School. It is with great pride and gratitude that I share the incredible honor of our wonderful school community being named a 2025 National Distinguished School. This recognition reflects the collective commitment of our students, families, teachers, staff, and community. All whom worked tirelessly every day to ensure that every child at the

008Webster school is supported, challenged, and celebrated. >> Every morning we recite the Webster Wat Pledge. I We are proud of the diverse community which is home to our future leaders. We are kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. We work hard to overcome challenges and meet our goals. Our success is guaranteed for our families, teachers, and community always believe in us. >> My name is Devon Abra and I'm interimm principal here at the Webster School. We have great pride in serving a diverse student population of approximately 351 students. Of these students, 72% speak a language other than English at home and 48% are identified as English language learners. We support English language learners through intentional co-eing and co-planning using access to grade level content while develop English language proficiency instruction integrates listening, reading, writing, and

009speaking tasks across all content areas with targeted language instruction. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide creative interventions and meet students where they're at, yet still push them to achieve our goals. Our students make progress because of the level of care provided from our staff in the building based on students unique needs. Our team strive to be solutionoriented and we work hard to include all of our students and create a welcoming community for every single student who steps within our door. We have had tremendous success at the Webster School in the area of science and it's really due to our hardworking students who come to school every day and want to learn and the wonderful curriculum we've been able to develop here based on the state and national standards. I love the Webster school

010because everyone is always kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. This school is special to me because everyone is kind to each other, and no one's left out ever. >> So, you got to hear from our great folks at the Webster School here in Everett, Massachusetts. I'd like to say thank you to all of our staff there because you all found out what I knew already. We have an award-winning school, nationally recognized, and I thank them, the teachers, and of course our wonderful parents and students for making Everett and the Webster School such a great place. My name is Chris Barrett and I was the proud principal of the Webster School. It is with great pride and gratitude that I share the incredible honor of our wonderful school community being named a 2025 national distinguished

011school. This recognition reflects the collective commitment of our students, families, teachers, staff, and community. All whom worked tirelessly every day to ensure that every child at the Webster school is supported, challenged, and celebrated. >> Every morning, we recite the Webster Wildcat pledge. I We are proud of the diverse community which is home to our future leaders. We are kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. We work hard to overcome challenges and meet our goals. Our success is guaranteed for our families, teachers, and community always believe in us. >> My name is Devon Abraes and I'm interimm principal here at the Webster School. We have great pride in serving a diverse student population of approximately 351 students. Of these students, 72% speak a language other than English at home and 48% are identified as English language

012learners. We support English language learners through intentional co-eing and co-planning using access to grade level content while develop English language proficiency instruction integrates listening, reading, writing, and speaking tasks across all content areas with targeted language instruction. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide creative interventions and meet students where they're at, yet still push them to achieve our goals. Our students make progress because of the level of care provided from our staff in the building based on students unique needs. Our team strive to be solutionoriented and we work hard to include all of our students and create a welcoming community for every single student who steps within our door. We have had tremendous success at the Webster School in the area of science and it's really due to our hardworking students who come to school

013every day and want to learn and the wonderful curriculum we've been able to develop here based on the state and national standards. I love the Webster school because everyone is always kind, responsible, and always prepared to learn. This school is special to me because everyone is kind to each other and no one's left out ever. >> So, you got to hear from our great folks at the Webster School here in Everett, Massachusetts. I'd like to say thank you to all of our staff there because you all found out what I knew already. We have an award-winning school, nationally recognized, and I thank them, the teachers, and of course our wonderful parents and students for making Everett and the Webster School such a great place. Do you feel me? really occur. Good evening and welcome to

014the Everett School Committee meeting for Tuesday, January 20th, 2026. The time is 6:30 p.m. Clerk, could you call the role to determine a quorum? >> Student Representative Emma Perry, >> present. >> Mr. Almeida Barrows, >> present. >> Miss Babcock, >> present. >> Miss Cardelloo, >> present. >> Miss Cornelio, >> present. Miss Cristiano >> present. >> Mr. Denarfio, >> Miss Garren, >> present. >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> present. >> Mayor Vanampen, >> present. >> Madame Chair, >> present. >> Nine members present. We do have a quorum. If everyone could join me in saluting the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. Nation under God, indivisibley andice and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. Mr. Superintendent, the next order

015of business, >> Roman numeral 3, reading of the records, item one, Monday for Monday, December 15th, 2025. >> Make a motion to um to file the >> wave the reading >> to wave the reading of the records and place them on file. >> Motion has been made by Miss Babcock, seconded by Mr. Lmon Monica to wave the reading of Monday, December 15, 2025. Accept the report and place on file. Roll call. >> Miss Almeida Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 90. Motion passed. >> Superintendent. The next order of business. Item number two under reading

016of the records for Monday, May, excuse me, Monday, January 5th, 2026. >> I'd like to make a motion to um suspend the rules and take them out of order for item number two and invite the Webster school children. >> We're going to put a pause on that >> and we're just going to pause that real quick. Um is there a motion to >> Yes. Make a motion to wave the reading of the um records from Monday, January 5th, and place them on file. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to accept the report for Monday, January 5th, 2026. Wave the reading and place on file. Roll call. >> Mr. Elme? >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock? >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. >>

017Miss Garren? Yes, >> Mr. Lam Monica. >> Yes, >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes, >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 90. Motion passed. >> Superintendent. The next order. >> Roman numeral four. Public comment. >> Yeah. >> Motion open public comment. >> Second. >> Motion has been made by Mr. Lammonica, seconded by Mayor Vancampen to open public comment. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Baros? >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock? >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancamp, >> yes. >> Madame Chair, >> yes. >> So move 90. Motion passed. Public comment is now open. Seeing no um no one on the signup sheet. Is there anyone interested in speaking at public comment? >> Move

018to close public comment. >> Second. Motion has been made by Mayor Vancampen, seconded by Miss Babcock to close public comment. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardelloo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 90. Mr. Mr. Clerk, could you >> Roman numeral five reporter the student representative, Miss Perry? >> Hold on one second, Emma. Uh, Mr. Clerk, Mr. Dafhrio is here. He just came in. >> Thank you. >> He was He was here for two. >> He's been here. >> Thank you. Uh, Miss Perry, go right ahead. Thank you. Hello, everyone. Today's students returned from the long

019weekend. The high school's winter sports season has continued. Boys basketball is away in Malden tonight, but will play Chelsea at home this Thursday. The girls team is playing Malden in the gym tonight. And the hockey team will be playing East Boston this Wednesday at 7:00. Indoor track has al also has a meet this Friday at the Reggie Lewis Center. The mock trial team had a great first trial last week. They not only defended their client so well, he was acquitted, but they beat Cambridge Charter Charter by 11 points. Last Tuesday and Wednesday, the high school had access testing and registration is currently open for 11th and 12th or 9th through 11th grade students for next year's courses. In the second quarter is coming to a close on Friday the 30th. Midterms for the year will

020be held starting on the 23rd, continuing till the 30th. Since the last meeting was organizational, I wanted to quickly talk about some activities from the past month. The Key Club sock drive in collaboration with Rosy's Place was a success. There was lots of participation. So, thank you to all who donated. There was the senior class also enjoyed a movie day before break. Before break as well, the senior sorry, the class of 2027 delivered candy cane grams to students and the fundraiser was a success. Tonight, I wanted to highlight Mr. Callahan's life skills class. The students in Mr. Callahan's class sell bagels and drinks to staff each week throughout the school year. This helps these students better with their communication skills and with math and teamwork. Students have to gather orders from teachers, calculate change, prepare

021the drinks and food, and deliver the order to classrooms each Friday. I know teachers look forward to a little pickme up when they receive their bagel and coffee. But is also a joy to watch these students complete their ta complete their tasks as well. There are a few key club members who assist these students on a weekly basis and staff who support our life skill students each day with the coffee shop. There's a notable noticeable difference when a student is speaking up more because of the coffee shop or members of teachers order from last week. Watching my peers grow from this experience under Mr. Callahan's guidance is so wonderful to see. And at this time, I would like to welcome the incoming members, Mayor Vancampen and Miss Cardelloo. I'm excited to have you both here.

022And I wanted to take this opportunity to also thank Mayor Duria and Miss Barrows for all they did during their time as members of this body. I wanted to especially thank Miss Baros for her devotion to the Tide Council. We were very fortunate to have her as our liaison. Miss Barrows always listened to what each of our members had to say and always swiftly came up with possible solutions. She was open to our opinions and we all valued hers. As I as I said, I look forward to working with you both and congratulations to you as well as Chairwoman Hurley and vice chair. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Perry. >> Make a motion to accept the report of the student representative. Motion made by Miss Babcock, seconded by Miss Cardillo to accept the report of

023the student representative and place on file. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardelloo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madame Chair, >> yes. >> So move 100. Motion passed. I believe now would be a good time to make a motion to take number two out of order. >> So moved, Madam Chair, >> report of the superintendent. >> I make a motion to suspend the word uh suspend the rules and take item two out of order and invite the um Webster school children up. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded to suspend our rules and take one two

024three Roman numeral six item number two school spotlight Webster school out of order. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madam Chair. Yes. >> So move 100. Superintendent. >> So tonight um as we welcome the Webster School uh third graders and their teaching staff along with uh Miss Appris to talk a little bit about the student projects. As you remember, uh each month of the year of school year, we will highlight a specific school and grade to come before the school committee and to our uh audience at home to talk about a

025project or an activity or an event that they were involved with that had an impact and share it with the community. And so tonight, I welcome a group of teachers and of course Miss Appris who is at the end. And so I'm going to turn that over to you uh Miss Appris to uh in introduce and invite. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for having us and giving us the opportunity to share some of the wonderful things that we're doing at the Webster School. As many of you know, we are in year two of implementation of CKLA, which is our literacy curriculum. CKLA explores various topics and units of study. Um, it also includes two pausing point days per unit which gives teachers the opportunity to differentiate instruction and gives students

026the opportunity to share their understanding of the content in various unique ways. Um, our third grade team gets very creative on pausing points days including in unit two for the classification of animals. Students became zoologologists which is what you're going to see today. Um, I'm going to turn it over to third grade teacher Mrs. Pelleter, who's going to give you a little bit more information about the projects specifically. Throughout the CKLA unit of study on animal classification, students learned how to categorize animals into different groups according to their unique characteristics. To complete this project, students referenced a variety of highquality instructional materials to research each animals habitat, life cycle, diet, and adaptations. At home, students created diaramas of their vertebrates living in their habitats with the help of their families. In school, the students followed

027the steps of the writing process to write anformational paragraph about the vertebbrates and their unique characteristics. This project intricately weaves together science, reading, and writing curriculum standards. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and creativity. We are so appreciative to our brilliant third graders and their families for all their support and encouragement. Now, we're going to turn it over to our zoologologists. Jonathan, you want to come up? >> If we could speak nice and loud into the mic so they could be heard, that'd be great. Thank you. Poison dar frog is colorful, poisonous and classified as an amphibian. To begin, poison dar frogs are amphibians because they live on land and water. So the poison dar frog is poisonous because they secrete poison from their skin next to cindar frog breed oxygen with gills

028in the lungs which makes the amphibians. Lastly, poison dar frogs are blue and brightly colored. In summary, cindar frogs are colorful, poisonous, and color blind coldblooded amphibians. >> Very good, Jonathan. Thank you. Next, we have Laura. Um, my name is um, king cobras are dangerous predators. There are classified as reptiles. To begin, snakes are dangerous reptiles because every time a snake see its prey, the snake will inject them inject venom to its prey. Next, snakes are predators because they hunt mice, fish, birds, frogs, toads, lizards, bugs, and spiders. Finally, snakes like king cobras are reptiles because they have dry skelly skin that sheds or molds when they grow bigger. In summary, king cobras are interesting reptiles and dangerous predators. >> Very good, Laura. Thank you. Next we have Laura's sister, Isidora. >> Hi, my name

029is Sedora. I choose a axelotus because axelotus are rare amphibians colors and they are prey. to begin exalotus are rare amphibians because they are in danger so it's very hard to find them you can only find them in me in Mexico also they are carnivores because they eat earthworms mosquitoes crickets and small crins and all of them have meat lastly axelotas are prey because large birds like her and egrets hunt them in summary that's how axelotas are amphibians carnivores and prey Adora there. >> Shaky. The Siberian tiger is classified as a warm-blooded mammal that lives in cold climates. To begin, the Siberian tiger are tigers are classified as mammals because they give milk to their babies. Furthermore, Siberian tigers are warm-blooded because their body temperature does not change. Lastly, they live in cold climates. Be

030in the eastern Russian forest. the the temperature goes to -30° to -50°. All in all, the Siberian tiger is classified as a warm-blooded mammal that lives in cold climates. Brian I chose I chose Sticking to our grave. Last two, two, three. One day on and on the very good Very good. >> Science. >> I picked a clown fish because clown fishes have many unique characteristics. To begin, clown fishes have mucus on their skin. They rub it on the seene enemy's tentacles. This keeps the an enemy from stinging them. In addition, they come in many different colors such as black and white, yellow and orange. However, the most famous one being the orange with three white stripes. Lastly, clown fishes are omnivores because their diet includes algae and sea creatures that are found on the sea

031enemies. These are many unique characteristics of a clown fish. >> Awesome job, >> Empress. Koalers are classified as warm-blooded mammals that are nocturnal. To begin, koalas are mammals because they are covered in fur. Also, koalas are herbivores because they eat lots of eucalyptic trees. In addition, koalas live in Australia. Lastly, koalas are nocturnal because they are active at night. All in all, koalas are warmblooded mammals that are nocturnal. >> And last, but certainly not least, Mia. Axelados are classified as current amphidians and live in aquatic areas like small lakes. To begin, axelottals are amphidians that live in small lakes near near Mexico City. Also, they can eat whatever they get their jaws on, including most larae and crust and taples and some fish. Lastly, oxalados are amphidians because they can live underwater and on land.

032They have gills when they are offspring and deliver lungs as they get older. All in all, oxalars are classified as amphidians and live in aquatic areas. >> Very nice. >> So, as you can see, they did a lot of exploring and learning as scientists. Do you have any questions that you would like to ask our zoologologists or teachers? >> Sure. Uh, Miss Garin. >> Uh, thank you, Madam Chair. Um, I just first of all, I want to thank you all for coming up and doing presentations. I know it's, you know, being on that side of the table, it's intimidating to do a presentation. Um, so, uh, you all did a great job, you guys, first of all. So, thank you for that. Um, yeah, for the teachers, I really love the the combination of the

033art and the reading and the science coming into one project. Um, what can you talk a little bit about the reading materials you use? >> Um, I know I I hear, you know, I'm I'm sort of new to this phrase, the the high quality reading materials. Uh, are they books? Are they online? Or what what was like the main sources for this project? So I can speak to that from the school level. Um each grade is different. So grades three, four, and five have student readers where the text is in front of them. It's all based on rigorous text that has to do with that content area. So for example, when they're doing the classification of animals, all of the text that is being read to students or that students are reading in readalouds has

034to do with that topic. And then um there are various units that include social studies topics as well and kind of goes back and forth. I'm not sure if there's anything else you would like to add specifically about third grade text. >> Um, thank you for that question. The students mainly used the highquality instructional materials provided by the CKLA curriculum um to research many of their animals. Um, some students went a step further and even logged into their Chromebooks and accessed websites such as Nat Geo Kids to find additional information about their specific vertebrates that they wanted to learn more about. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Miss Garen. Miss Babcock, >> um, yes. Um, I wanted to say the same thing. I thought that that the students did a wonderful job presenting

035their diaramas and talking about the animals and what they learned. We learned a lot. I learned a lot. I enjoyed it very much. Um, I want I'd like to know that uh how are the diaramas used in the classroom once they're created? Do they do a presentation? Do they do a show and tell, a question answer? >> Um, thank you. We do a vertebraate around the world fair. So, we push all their desks together and they all display their diaramas and we invite the other classrooms to come in and walk around and the students can read their paragraphs or present some information or some of the other kids ask questions and they're able to answer questions and give facts about their animals. We also had the we also had the projects on display um during

036our parent teacher conferences at the Webster school. So all the parents were able to see the hard work that the students put into the projects as well. >> We we just thought it was a great way to bring the Webster School community together as well and to be able to share their projects really means a lot to them and it means a lot to the kids as well who are seeing them. >> Thank you so much. I think it's uh like uh um Miss Garin also said, it's it's just, you know, that multi-dimensional learning factors that you're getting for that student, you know, to to be able to stand up and do something crafty with their hands and then talk about it and read about it and just, you know, that that multiple dimensions of

037learning. I think it's great. It's awesome. And I know that when my daughter was that age that projects were a lot of fun. those were the things that you remember. I I still have our diarama at home on the silverback gorilla. So, it was nice to see them. >> I think that that's why the pausing points are really important in CKA because it allows students the opportunity to show their understanding without having to just take a paper and pencil test. So, >> I love the way they all incorporated the vests >> and the uh binoculars. Quite creative. And you touched every item. It was It was amazing. Do does Do they follow through as they go to each grade with things like this? >> That's great. I think you're going to be the future leaders

038of tomorrow. Keep it up. Amazing. >> Thank you, Miss Cornelio. Are there any other questions for our guests? I would just like to add that um we have some fantastic teachers in front of us uh that put their time, effort and talent to work with these great students. And I want to also thank the parents who are here with us this evening uh supporting our students. We have great children and great parents and wonderful teaching staff that make all this possible. And this is truly an enriching experience and we all get to see this. And I think, excuse me, I think that's why I wanted to showcase a a there's so many things going on, but every school an opportunity to come forward and and do this little snippet of of a of a work

039day or a work week in a school building and the energy that's put forth and look at the outcome and every student gets to participate. And I agree with you, Miss Babcock, the uh the work that they do and they also present without a flaw. This is terrific. Very good job. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Superintendent. >> Uh, Mayor Vanc, >> thank you. Uh, and just I really just want to echo Superintendent Hart. I, um, as Miss Apert knows, I toured the, um, Webster with Chair Hurley and Superintendent Hart several weeks ago and really was impressed with the learning going on inside the Webster school. So, I want to commend you folks for this great presentation tonight. But, I have one question for the children. How do I get one of those vests?

040>> Whoever can make a vest for me gets to visit me in the mayor's office. So, I'd love to get one of those. >> Great job. >> Nice job. >> It might not fit me, but >> thank you everyone for attending tonight. Could we entertain a motion to excuse our guests and return to the >> regular business guest for >> second? Motion has been made by Vice Chair Barrow, seconded by Miss Babcock to excuse our guests and return to the regular order of business. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardell? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancamp? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair?

041>> Yes. >> So move 10. Motion pass. Superintendent. The next order of business, >> returning to the regular order of business, we would be under uh item number one, superintendent's update. And with your permission, I um would also like to continue the accolades for the Webster School and ask you to invite um the former principal there and the assistant superintendent um Mr. Barrett to come forward because earlier today the Webster school was recognized at the state house for being among 63 schools in the United States receiving a distinguished award for all the good things that I think many of you already know and today they were recognized. Um and if you invite Mr. Barrett he can tell you of all the all the pomp and circumstance that occurred earlier today and this new designation for

042one school in Massachusetts and that is the Webster school on Dartman Street. So, if you would invite Mr. Bar I'd like to make a motion to invite Mr. Barrett up. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to invite uh Mr. Barrett up before us. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancamp. >> Yes. >> Madam Chair. Yes. >> So move 100. Motion pass. Welcome Mr. Barrett. >> And before Mr. Barrett begins, I think for some of you who may have been watching our um screens earlier and parents, I know we're here. Um we had

043a short video that we had done recognizing the efforts of the school and we have shared it on social media as well, but um Mr. Barrett will tell you a little bit more about this distinguished award. >> Superintendent Hart, thank you school committee. Um, distinguished guest, appreciate uh you're inviting me up here to speak to the Webster School. This is a tough act to follow. Um, you're going to hear from me on why we are chosen uh to be honored at the state house today, but I think our students did a wonderful job uh showing you firsthand the extraordinary children we have in every public schools with wonderful families who are truly responsible for any success uh myself and Miss Abra and anyone else can claim. As the former principal of the Webster School, I

044often said many times that we are one of the greatest uh elementary schools in the nation. And today um that belief was affirmed. Um I was honored to attend the state house to receive uh the certificate of national recognition on behalf of the Webster School. The Webster School was named one of only two Massachusetts schools recognized through the National Elementary and Secondary Education Distinguished Schools Program. I look today I think in since 2015 I think there's been only several um schools from the greater Boston area that have been recognized in that category. Schools may be recognized in one of three categories. The Webster School was honored for category three excellence in serving special populations including English learner students, students with disabilities and our students with the highest needs. nominated by Desi. This recognition reflects the

045intentional data-informed decisions made over several years under the leadership of Superintendent William Hart, resulted in meaningful gains across student subgroups and accelerated MCCAST progress. Over the last three years, the Webster School and uh the district have continued to make progress on reaching those goals on the MCAST test. We should be commend all of our educators for that. I also want to congratulate um my counterpart Devon Abra for her outstanding leadership and partnership in helping make this recognition possible. This achievement represents the collected efforts of our students, our educators, our families, our district leadership, the school committee, and our city leaders. Now, one of my favorite quotes is from President John F. Kennedy. He said, "A rising tide lifts all boats." The success of the Webster School is a reflection of the rise in achievement across

046Ever Public Schools, where a shared vision, strong leadership, and unwavering focus on student achievement have created momentum that continues to lift every school and every learner. These students behind me and the students in every public school is why I am so proud to be a part of this wonderful school community. So, thank you for having me up here at the night. Thank you, Mr. Barrett. >> I'd like to um quickly break to take a photo if that's okay with everybody. >> Second. >> H excuse them. >> Yeah, >> let's leave our guest. Motion to excuse our customer our guest with a customer. Thanks. >> Second. >> Motion made and seconded to excuse our guest with the customary thanks. Roll call and then we will recess briefly. >> Mr. Almeida Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock.

047>> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denario. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. L Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancamp? >> Yes. >> Madam Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 100. >> So move 10. Motion passed. We will take a brief recess. Baby, baby. Hey baby. Welcome. Welcome back to the regularly scheduled school committee meeting for Tuesday, January 20, 20 20th, 2026. The time is 7:06 p.m. Superintendent, the next order or continue with with your update. >> Thank you so much, Madam Chair and members of the school committee. I'll return to the update that I'd like uh for this evening. Um, let me just also uh give you a couple of quick things. We uh just received notice from our

048um end of the year audit for our financials here in the district. And once again uh we have no audit findings on 22 areas of our financials which is significant um because often times uh you do get a finding or recommendations for sure but findings uh also are usually included in this end ofear audit. uh that is uh not the case once again this year for the last couple of years. Um every audit has been clean and without finding. So it is done by an independent audit firm uh that completed it uh for at the end of the fiscal year and then provide a report to the school department and through the financial office here of the district. So I just wanted to mention that quickly. Um but let me also um talk a little

049bit about one of the things that I think is really um an essential part of a strong learning environment and that is full day prechool programs. We have in this district um have a wonderful engaged staff providing prek opportunities over two school buildings with several um more than several hundred students who attend on a half-day program. Half-day programs really run only about two and a half hours per session. I know that our students will benefit by this. I know our families have wanted it. I know some school districts have employed a full day preschool program in certain districts around us. And I certainly uh when uh if you take the opportunity to invite our assistant superintendent Margaret Adams forward, she'll provide you some additional details. But really, I think this really to me and I

050think that there's certainly a lot of um research that will show that our student outcomes will continue to be stronger each and every year with this kind of a preschool offering. So, a full day program. There is many many studies, one at the University of um Virginia that has said that prek positively impacts young children's school readiness uh resulting in sizable gains over students that who are only offered half-day sessions. Uh closer to home, I know that the Boston public schools did a study and found that full day prek yield significant impacts and that was seen in the children's vocabulary, reading, math, and social emotional skills. And there's countless other documents that will support this move. And I think tonight you'll hear a little bit more about why we would like to do and offer

051this in Everett. I know our parents want it. I know that we can do it. I think you'll also hear from me that as we flush this out and talk a little bit more about it. Um there should be no sizable or uh really no huge impact to our budget request for the coming year because um as we look at the way we would implement this and the way in which um we would staff it, I think that we would see very negligible um numbers of of staff that would be required to uh support this effort. So I think uh Dave, you have teed up behind me. Here's some of the really the kind of long-term benefits. Stronger literacy and language skills. So you have much more time for rich conversation, storytelling, funological awareness, and

052communication ability. Reducing achievement gaps. This extends time allows for targeted support and foundational skills uh for all students. And again, each of these pieces are are really one of those foundations, if you will, of of a stronger student opportunity for them to succeed as they continue on in the rest of the um grades beyond prek. It improves math readiness. It enhances social emotional development and supports, of course, our working families. Um here in Everett in particular, that will be a great help. This is just a handful of long uh benefits for the children and their families. The long-term benefits of early childhood programs or have higher rates of high school graduation and lower dropout rates. This is all supported by research and statistical analysis and data that has been collected um throughout the United States

053on these types of programs. There's a reduction in um future special ed placement. Um, as you know, we have um an enormous amount of children who I shouldn't say enormous, but we have a significant amount of children that are end up testing into special ed. This early, um, intervention, if you will, this early interaction with teaching staff in in programs that run the full day, um, I think will help reduce the need to either send children out of the district for support. It certainly will identify any weaknesses that can be worked upon immediately in our schools uh once that child continues on beyond prek. Increased achievement and literacy and numeracy and better employment and income postgraduation. So you can see it's not just a one-year gain. It is the whole continuum of K through 12

054beyond the pre-K experience. Um and if you would, I would ask you to um invite uh Dr. Adams up because I've asked her to provide some data and some additional information on how we would roll this out. Um, who could be involved and when we'd like to kick it off. >> Make a motion to invite Dr. Adams to come up and speak. >> Motion has been made by Miss Babcock, seconded by Mayor Vancampen to invite Dr. Adams before us. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Barrow. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardello. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So

055move 100. Motion passed. Welcome Dr. Adams. >> Just outline a little bit about school districts. options for school. We looked at current enrollment in the program now of both general education and special education students. We also went back and looked at five We also went back and looked at five years of enrollment as well um to get a sense of the numbers over time um and um how much um programming we would need to offer at the highest capacity. We looked at space as well, what spaces were available to support students. We looked at the current needs of students with special needs um including an overview of the students IEPs and how those were written and how we could provide services within um and maintain the same level of services we've been offering in the

056halfday program and in in our integrated learning programs. We looked at research um of early childhood programs. Um what were the best practices um for programming um program models in nearby districts um enrollment procedures as well from nearby districts. How do other districts um provide these options to families? um and looked at um an inventory of any required materials um both curriculum as well as physical materials that might be needed, supplies, furniture that might be needed to make this change. So we've decided upon um three program models um that we think will help support moving in this direction. Um one would be a multi-age classroom. This is a mixture of um students who are three and four um as well as um students um often will loop in this classroom. We'll spend two years um

057with students in this um with with the same teacher. Um this program would also serve and I'll show this in the next slide but we'll also serve what our students are being currently served in our integrated learning program which are students mostly with autism or may have several disabilities. Um this provides an option for those students to be in an integrated inclusionary setting where we have some students with special needs and some students um who are general education um and they're learning from each other. We know that our students from um the gened benefit from the opportunity to be included with students with special needs as um they have opportunities to learn about their resilience um their ability to navigate spaces and communicate as well as our students with special needs um benefit from the

058opportunity to be integrated with our general education students. Our pre kindergarten classroom um would be our four-year-olds um those who are in their second year of preschool. um and it supports um the the the working towards independence and gaining further literacy and math skills. Um and our preschool classroom would be the age three um student on the next slide to kind of outline what the current programs are and then our proposed program. So currently we offer a preschool halfday and a pre kindergarten halfday and the integrated learning program consists of 7 to nine um depending on the um number of students all special needs students um in um and they're in a full day program. Um so our proposal is to move towards those integrated learning programs into multi-age classrooms threes and fours. Um some

059of the students being students with special needs and some being general education students. Um the preschool halfday we would offer a combination of preschool full day and some half day. Pre kindergarten half day would we'd offer some pre kindergarten full day and some half day. um why the continued cons um the half-day option in the proposed programs we want to make sure and I think it's was very important value um of all of us is that we don't want to not offer something for a student who might enroll throughout the school year. We anticipate that we'll fill those full day slots. Um, and then we might have more students who enroll and we might not have a full day and we want to at least provide an option of a half day. Um, because we

060just don't have space to be able to offer full day to everyone. So, we'll have a a half-day option to allow students who may articulate later on a spot. We don't want to turn anyone away. And that was an important value both of the superintendent and of the committee and the teachers. We want to make sure that any student who's three and four who wants to enroll as they currently do has a spot. Um but we want to emphasize and start to transition some classrooms and provide that full day option. Um especially for our students with special needs. Remember that a preschool program, prek program in a public school setting meets our obligation to provide special needs services to our threes and fours. Um, and by providing access to general education students, we're providing those

061special needs students an inclusionary setting, which we know is the most effective means to meet the needs of students with disabilities. On the next slide, we have begun to outline some enrollment um procedures with the parent information um um center and also with Janette BZ. Um we would have families complete the regist registration process as always including um indicating their interest in full day programming. We would begin that process in March. Um we would also ask current um families of three-year-olds to also indicate do they want a half day, do they want a full day so that they can also have the opportunity um moving into prek. Um we would hold a lottery if needed um in May um for those any full day programming slots. We would inform families um of that lottery in

062June and we would support families in confirming residency. One of the things we do know from neighboring districts is when you begin to offer full day um you sometimes have families who may not be residents um can trying to get um because this is still all free. No, there's no cost. Um so we want to make sure to put in um several places where we work with the family to check residency. For example, um after receiving in our procedures after receiving notification of um you're you're in a full day program, um we would ask families to submit a bill that it's um around 60 days um to indicate residency and of course work with families who are not able to do that. Um we would work with them and we have other ways to help

063confirm their residency if needed. Um we don't want to create an obstacle, but we also want to ensure that we're serving the students of Everett. um as well. And we've learned that um kind of procedure from other districts including Chelsea and Lynn who have similar kinds of programs um that it's important to u maintain that um check on residency. Just we wanted to provide you some information on some other area programs. Um most are offering an option of half day, full day. Um most are offering it at cost. Um and most are doing a lottery to help inform um that process. As the superintendent indicated, Boston is one of the districts that does offer um free prek preschool, but um of we'll do it at at a lottery and often there are waiting list. Um

064Winthrop is also free. Lynn and Somerville often they have waiting lists um for those full day slots as well. And we would create if needed a full waiting list as well. So as openings become available um we would fill those um as well. Um next slide. Our next steps um we're trying to figure out the right combination. How many half-day programs do we need? Um how many full days? Looking very closely at our three-year-old population moving to fours. Um how many multi-age classrooms do we need? do we need to continue an integrated learning program classroom because we have a group of students who may have more significant needs. Um so we're working to figure out the right configuration. Um but we know that um with we have the current staffing. Um we believe the numbers

065um in the space will allow us to move some classrooms to full day um and maintain um some half-day options. Um and we really believe it's a better program model for our students with special needs. Um we're going to meet with the teachers um in February, get some more feedback. Um they've given some feedback. We've made modifications for example in the sizes of the classes. Um we'd like to hear from them more and sort of outline further any um concerns around meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Um so we're going to do that work in the next couple of weeks. Um we also as we begin the budget process want to plan for any staff materials and supplies needed in the FY27 budget. Um we've outlined some needs that we might have for supplies

066and materials. They're really not large number of um that's not a large amount um given the um impact that this will have um and we'll include that in our budget. Um and we believe we can do it with any minimal um staff needs um at this point as well. Um so we believe these changes will have um as the superintendent outlined a great impact on um the student achievement. I think that's it. >> Are there any questions for Dr. Adams? Miss Garin. >> Right. Uh thank you Madam Chair. Uh thank you Dr. Adams. Um first of all I mean this is fantastic. I'm I am always in favor of more access to preK preschool. My own children have benefited greatly from having free full day uh prek in Everett. Um so this is wonderful. Um

067I do uh have a couple of questions. Uh first of all um is the co is covering the cost is that going to be from the budget? Um and and you're confident that that's that it is going to be free for the families. >> Correct. There would be no cost. I don't think there's any interest on um superintendent's behalf or anybody okay to include a cost. Um right now in our models um the only staffing additional staffing we would need is one parah at the atoms to facilitate um a multi-age classroom there so that we're able to meet the needs of more students with special needs. Um and you know maybe $30 to $40,000 of some furniture and some materials that we currently don't have. There may be some additional um needs um around supplies

068and materials, but we're just thinking of using the current staffing in a different way to provide the same service. >> Okay. Thank you. Um and then um obviously big concern that's been going on for a while is the space. Um, now I I've been I saw the atoms I think a year or so ago and they were, you know, doing a great job, but they were still very much using every space available in the hallways. Um, and so I assume there's going to be an increased enrollment with full with full day. Um, can you talk a little bit about how you're going to be allocating the space for it? So, we're using existing half-day classrooms and converting them to a full day kind of option and there'll still be some half day. Um, so while

069there may be increased students, um, they're using the same space that they're currently using in the half day. Um, the Adams is also using um, an existing space um, down in the basement um, that was used temporarily by HR and I think facilities was in there in the past. Um so they've been using that space as a swing space as well. Um and the Webster extension um with the support of the city um and facilities here in the um ever public schools was able to convert two additional classrooms to be able to move some um students some classrooms that were in spaces that weren't as large um into two additional classrooms. So I we've carefully looked at the space and really thought deeply about which spaces were appropriate. Um and we're going to do that

070continue that work into next month. And that kind of defines how many of each classroom we can have. Um you know how many full day how many half days we should have dependent on the spaces. >> Okay. And uh one last question. Um how many uh children per class? And I assume that's going to be different for special ed classrooms as opposed to general ed. So currently our thinking is um for um the three-year-olds to 16 um which the regulations from the state allow us to have five special needs students in that classroom, the three-year-old classroom, the preschool. In the prek, um, we'd go up to 18, which allows us to have five spots for special needs. In the multi-age, in that classroom model, you have 15, seven special needs, and eight general education students.

071Um, th those classrooms, we plan to have additional PAR support um at least two and depending on the needs of students, there might be additional PAR or other supports added to the classroom. >> Okay, thank you very much. >> So, a common question too is what are the hours? Um I forgot to say that um would be 8:15 to 1:45 is what we're thinking which allows dismissal to happen from 1:45 to two and then um the teachers preparation period is at the end of the day. >> Thank you Miss Garen. Uh Miss Bka. >> Um mine's just a quick question about um the lottery system. Um, so for parents who already currently have children um enrolled, do do they have a first opportunity or is it really just go back to everyone who is interested

072can apply and then it will go into a basic lottery? >> In our procedures, we didn't give preference. Um, but we do want to make sure that we inform every parent. That's some of the work that would happen between March and the in May to make sure parents who are currently three-year-olds um understand that if they want full day using our family liaison to outreach to the students. Um we didn't want to give preference because we imagined that there were families who didn't access the program because they needed full day options. M >> um so we felt it was just to make it clean to everybody has the same opportunity um for a full day and we would create a waiting list >> and as those um seats are emptied we'd go through the waiting

073list so that we are providing um every family an opportunity um as soon as we could. >> So for uh for families that are currently part-time if they were not able to join the full-time lottery they would be able to continue in the part-time format >> if they wanted to. We we would provide a half day option. >> Half day. Half day. Sorry. >> Our thinking is we want to ensure that there's a half day option. >> One. There may be families who want um you know often I find there are very few um but there are some as well as we want to make sure we still have seats for any that meticulate beyond our ability to provide full day. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Miss Babcock. I think this is

074um a win for us our our young people and I know and thank you Miss Garren. We we we desperately wanted to do this and I um I truly believe that it will have all those benefits that we've discussed and that research proves and so we would like to continue to move forward on these plans to make this a reality. I do think that the cost associated with this is minim minimal but the benefits are priceless and I um I wanted to be sure that this was in front of you um this evening because we would like to kick off the uh process in March for enrollment and um begin the plans. So, uh, with your blessing, we will, uh, move forward with this, uh, this work so that we can start to, uh, get

075a full day preschool program, pre-K program ready for September. >> Are we looking to make a motion, >> Madam Chair? My compliments, the superintendent, Dr. Adams, and all involved. I feel like we're really have moved into the 21st century. This is This is almost going to make me cry. This is so wonderful. Most of us have been around school age children starting with preschool all the way up. And now I'm on the second round with the grandchild. And I see the progress in just those three years between my son and my grandson, my son's friends, and my grandson's friends, and how much more mature they are. Children are so eager to learn and giving them the opportunity at age three to experience that full day. I mean, it's not like we're trying to make them

076little soldiers and, you know, salute us. We're just trying to teach them because what you learn in preK3, you take with you to four and and on and on. And and this to me is what we all should be doing. And I know everything has a cost to it. It sounds like this is going to be a minimal cost, but whatever it is, this is so imperative that we do it. And bringing this entire community out to the 21st century just by doing this is it's remarkable. And I just want to say thank you to the whole staff because this is great. Thank you. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. and you know that um I've been focused on several initiatives since I took on the superintendency and um Margaret and I shared this interest

077as well and I appreciate that comment because we do know that it proves it proves out to benefit our students and so thank you to Margaret and the team that u are working behind the scenes to have this presentation this evening. Um and I I do see great things with this. So thank you for that. >> Thank you Miss Babcock. Um, is this something that we need to approve when we look at the budget? Is this something we're moving on or is this I mean it seems like um >> Mr. Baris. >> Yes. >> Um, so this is a policy change which requires the vote of the school committee. We do not need to wait until the budget. The superintendent is telling us that he has the budget to do it. M >> uh um

078I I think the correct approach is bring this back as a line item on the agenda for the next meeting where we can vote and the superintendent can continue uh with the work and the school committee can vote uh next next meeting on it is not list it is listed as the superintendent's update. So we we shouldn't be voting on something that is not listed on the agenda. So I would suggest bring this back as a as a line item on the agenda. We voted uh the next meeting which in the meantime the superintendent will of course continue to do this work. Um if I may in addition to that two things one I want to commend the superintendent and his team and folks should just be aware how huge this is. >> There are

079school districts across the state uh laying off staff because they don't have the budget for it. Mhm. >> Everett is actually bringing full day preschool. So this is humongous. >> Okay. It is really amazing. See Mr. Mayor how you started. >> Um second thing that I want to mention is for us school committee members. You will get lots of calls because as Dr. Adam said they have a lorry and this space will fill up pretty fast, right? So all of us will be getting calls but my kid was not but my kid was not. What I ask you is let the superintendent and his team do the work. Uh because everyone will be calling if all of us 10 members be calling the superintendent because so and so didn't get a spot, he's not going

080to be able to do anything. So I would as this I am 100% sure this is will be really popular >> really popular uh but we cannot accommodate anyone well more than the space that we have at this time as we have a new mayor working to give us more space right look at him um but just want to mention that let's leave the superintendent do his job with his team um because everyone will be calling us because there won't be enough spot available for everyone. And again, this is huge. Thank you, Sprinton, and and your team. >> Thank you. >> So, make a motion to add this as a line item to the next um agenda. >> Second motion. >> Should I phrase the phrase it as a line item to approve a full

081day? >> Um >> you can add this to the next agenda. Yes. Asking me to add it to the next agenda as a line item to approve as a school committee as a policy change. So yes, that um so Mr. um Okconor will put that on as an agenda item. >> Um >> and it it can come from all the membership quite frankly if you all endorse it or certainly can come under any one of you individually as we put items on the agenda, but we we'll have it there. >> Thank you, Superintendent there. Any further questions for Dr. Adams? >> Make a motion to excuse Dr. Adams. Second with a customary. Thanks. >> Motion has been made by Miss Babcock, seconded by Miss Cornelio to excuse Dr. Adams. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros.

082>> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardello. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair? Yes. >> So move 100. >> There was a motion made and seconded to refer um this item for the next meeting agenda. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafario. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madame Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 100. >> So move 10. Motion passed. Superintendent. >> Thank you everybody for

083that and we'll have that on uh the February agenda for your approval. Um quickly on attendance, as you know, I continually report on attendance. Um as of uh January the 8th, over a week ago, our district's daily attendance rate is at 92.5% and our chronic absenteeism continues to decline, which is what we wanted to do. um we continue to outpace our year-over-year um performance and as you know again that was a a priority that I had made in this district for us kids for our kids to succeed they have to be in those seats and to be in those seats we have to make sure they get to class and get to school on time so we working kind of a dual effort um and it's it is paying off we continue to see great

084improvements across all of the schools all the grades um you know from time to time there's a dip here or there and that sometimes with weather or maybe that um Friday before a long vacation there's a few extra folks but normally we're doing very well and I I wanted to mention that um just right readers today um as part of efforts here to emphasize reading and literacy we're going to launch a fun and helpful initiative for students and families um to enjoy during the holiday uh vacation breaks including summer in partnership with uh just just right reader we will be sending home a collection of short and fun books to every ever public school students from pre from kindergarten through grade three. Students will receive books uh before the February vacation, April vacation, and summer

085break. Just Right Reader is an educational publisher that specializes in decodable books, which are shortleveled text written so that every word can be sounded out with phonics skills a child has hopefully already been taught. The reading selections are aligned to each student's reading assessment data targeting specific phonics skills. Each pack of books um reinforces the same skills through varied and engaging practices. Um the books do come with a QR code that link to audio descriptions in multiple languages encouraging family engagement. It does align to our instru in instructional priority which stresses student centered highquality and datadriven literacy instruction that leads to grade level proficiency in reading fluency, comprehension, and academic language and development. And earlier today um we produced um a social media post and a reel that will be played and go home to

086parents in those grade levels so that um they know this is coming. Um and hopefully um the parent engages with the children. Again, these are all uh to influence uh our reading skills for our students in those lower grades in multiple languages. And the books aren't really hardbound. They're they're packets. So, it's not going to be cumbersome. They'll be easy to carry. And um as I said, they can be decoded into um other languages. So, I wanted to report on that um as well. Um quick update. Ever high school has some additional uh participation in the addage program that was through UMass. Um again I want to thank our vice chair uh Mr. Almeida Baros for bringing that to our attention. We had several more students participating um in programming and web development class um

087and they receive as you may remember um new laptop computers when they complete the program. So we had um Bridget Para Medina, Steven Cabra and Dominico Del Rose who are current students who completed the program and will receive their brand new computers um through this partnership. Um Massachusetts Bioed, um Kayn St. Germaine who's an instructor and career mentor from Mass Bowed. Visited Everett High School um last week on the 13th to talk to students about summer internships. U Miss St. Germaine was a biology, chemistry, and general science instructor before joining Mass Bioed. And she provided information about building resumes, interviewing, and how to effectively and efficiently search for internship opportunities. Um this is great because um we have real real time professionals from varied fields and of course mass bioed is um no stranger to

088people in the um science field um as strong partners to uh ever public schools and I want to give a shout out to the staff who work with them in particular I see Missetta back there our director of science for grades 9 through 12. These partnerships aren't necessarily easy to have, but they have great benefits on you once you have aligned with various folks and Mass Bioed is one of those uh one of those fe folks and groups that send really high-end people to ever public schools on a regular basis. Um also joining Miss Cheddar in that effort is Dr. Blland, Dr. Ciders and Dr. Hearn um who work on those relationships um each year. So thanks out loud to them and thanks again uh to the members of the committee uh who I know

089think that this work is important including internships. Um Everett High School students are once again participating and excelling in the Boston Debate League's debate and espanol program. The third debate of the season was held before the holiday vacation at Suffach University. Um we received second place honors. our our student Yorman Sepes and Nthali Romero and Santiago Therreso both finished inside the top 10. Um, again, our students continue to excel, not just here at Everett High School or any of our schools, but as you heard earlier about the Webster and so many other outside of Everett um third party uh evaluators, our kids just continue to excel and um I I just can't um be more proud of them when they come back with all smiles after they've placed somewhere um in the top rankings. And

090uh again, the Boston Debate League uh is one of those places. Um maybe second to last item, I know many of you um since I came here were concerned um not concerned but expressed an interest in having the return of a Thanksgiving Day game uh with Everett High School and some school. Um it does take a lot of work to organize that to get a willing partner. Um, so the city of Waltham will host a Thanksgiving Day football game for the first time in many years for Everett High School on the Thanksgiving Day. We assume it's going to be at 10:00, but it has not been confirmed yet. But more of that information will become available once the time is actually confirmed. I want to give a shout out to Tammy Turner, our athletic director,

091and um Steve Gallagha for working um with coaches across um the area to to develop these um willing partners. And uh I think we're going to see some energy back on Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving Day uh with our football team. Uh last but certainly not least, um a big congratulations is going to go out to Ever High School seniors Kahan Eveard and Lucas Nunees. um the senior track stars and set new records during the last week's uh Northeast Invitational at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston. Kahan broke his own school record in the 300 meters, running 34 35.59 to top his previous best of 36.14. Uh Lucas broke the school record in the thousand meter. Uh he just continues to set records all the time. The season isn't over. Um and we um we will

092probably have some more good news before the season's over from our head coach um Ju Simo. So Madame Chair and members of the committee, that's my uh report for this evening. >> Thank you, Superintendent. Miss Babcock, >> I just wanted to make um two one question for you for the books over vacation. Are they is it is it a kind of like a little packet that they bring home and bring back or is it something they get to keep? >> They keep um >> they're about this size, Robert, Miss Pepcock. the small. >> Love it. >> Very easy to to take on. >> Perfect. Love it. Because I I I remember actually in my daughter's like preschool program, she got to like they used to have like a rotation of books that the kids could

093bring home, but it was like proper hardcover books. So, thank you. Um Miss St. Germaine was my daughter's um ninth grade biology teacher, and she really challenged her. And in fact, I think that she is the main reason that Amelia went into health science. She actually did really well on the MCAST in biology because of her and still has a passion for biology now. And it was thanks to Miss St. Germaine. So, thank you, Miss St. Germaine, for coming back and supporting our kids. And I think she actually is she might be at UMass, too, working on her PhD. PhD. >> Yeah, because I feel like I've seen her on campus as well. So, it's it's nice to see our teachers coming back and um she came to graduation, too. She's like very invested in

094in our school. It's wonderful. >> Very good. Yeah. And I know that um both your daughter and Miss Hurley's daughter are on deans lists at their respective colleges. And why do you think they are? Because they got a great foundation here at Ever Public Schools. So, shout out to your to your families for their great work at their new schools. >> And um I don't know if you remember, but Lucas is the one who won our our um homecoming race. >> Yes. Right. >> Yes. He he is that's absolutely right. like Kahan that speed 35 seconds I know that is that is fast >> all the way around the track and a half >> in 35 seconds it's like the incredibles so thank you for those updates >> thank you Miss Babcock any other questions

095for the superintendent seeing none >> accept the superintendent report in place on file >> second motion has been made by vice chair Barrows seconded by Miss Cornelio to accept the superintendent's report in place on file Roll call. >> Mr. Almeidaros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 10. Motion pass. Superintendent the next order of business. >> We'll go to item number three. I'm requesting your approval to dispose of old furniture at here at Ever High School. We have a pro. We have 40 chairs uh with the attached desks that are all

096broken and not repairable. So, we'd like to have them removed and disposed of with your permission. >> So, move. >> Second. >> Motion has been made by and seconded to approve the disposal of old furniture at Ever High School. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardell? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? Yes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 100. >> 10. Motion pass. Superintendent. The next order of business. >> Item number four is acceptance of a Gleam continuation grant in the amount of $55,000. I'm asking you to uh accept this favorably. This grant will provide some stipens

097to support our teachers in creating pacing guides for our our students across um all all areas um to strengthen their literacy um instruction. And this will be implemented uh throughout this year. It is a continuation grant because again um the first grant we did what we said we were going to do. We saw improvement in um reading literacy and so we we received the second grant of $55,000. We'll continue to f purchase high quality instructional materials to help students engage in um all kinds of work in classrooms and um with writing guides and so forth. So, I'm hoping that you'll >> make a motion to accept a gleam continuation grant in the amount of $55,000. >> Motion has been made by Miss Cornelio, seconded by Miss Cadillo to accept the Gleam continuation grant in the

098amount of $55,000. Roll call. Miss John Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardell, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So move 10. Mot motion pass. Superintendent. The next order of business. >> Item number five is the acceptance of the proposed 2026 2027 district school calendar. I believe each of you had it in your packet and emailed to you. We do this in every year um in advance of the school year so that we can begin to to plan additional um uh items around dates off and so forth. Ever teachers association has confirmed that this is in compliance with

099um all the bargaining things that we have included in terms of time. >> Make a motion to accept the proposal for the 2026 2027 district calendar. >> Second. >> Motion has been made by Miss Cornelio. Seconded by Miss Babcock to accept the proposed 20 26 to 2027 district calendar. Roll call. >> Miss Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardello. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 10. Motion pass. Superintendent. The next order of business. >> Roman numeral 7. Items submitted by school committee members. Item number one, review of current enrollment figures, recent trends, and projected impacts offered

100by Miss Babcock. >> Miss Babcock, >> thank you. Um, excuse me for one second. So, I sponsored this agenda item because as Everett is a gateway city, um, other cities in our area have been experiencing declines in enrollment. Some of the declines are due to housing crisises. it's it's due to broader demographic issues and it is also due to immigration uh factors. Um so for many of our immigrant communities because of this heightened sort of fear of uh of immigration they are choosing to leave and unenroll or they've experienced other deportation issues. So I am curious. I proposed this because our funding is closely related to our enrollment and chapter 70 numbers are decided based on how many students we are enrolling and I wanted to know what kind of trends that are we are

101seeing. Are we seeing lower enrollments or students that are leaving the schools? Um is it a number that might be concerning? I noticed that in a recent Boston Globe article that Chelsea lost 350 students which is quite a significant number um and our demographic is not dissimilar. So I propose this item and I was hoping that the superintendent could give us some information how projections look. I know that also even in January sometimes we see an influx of increases at at times as well. So I think that now is a good time to check in on how that is going. Thank you, Miss Babcock. Superintendent. >> So, um, like Chelsea, we have lost some students. Um, I cannot attribute it to one item or another, but there are all those things that you mentioned are

102certainly factors for why there is a decrease in enrollment, but Everett has historically, and I I do have a chart which I can share with you after, um, that we have fluctuated. So two years ago when I first came here we were at our highest ever number of students in the ever public schools and now we are just a little bit below that and you're right we we have a change in January. So for example if you were to ask me today what our enrollment is it is going to be different than what we have to report on October 1st. October 1st, we reported a little over 300 students, less than last October, but we've already gained over a hundred. I have 30 more that are waiting to what we call in the queue waiting

103to be assigned to a school. They're waiting. They just have to bring additional documentation and it's usually one item. And we had just today alone when I checked in just before the meeting uh we had five new enrollments. We'll continue to see that through um through the end of January for sure. So as of today we have over almost 7,82 students. We reported 6908. So if you go on the DESIE website that is just a specific number in time on that date because they have to compare to something. So they use that date but we historically enroll more people. And once again in March we'll report a number of of those kids that stayed. But to your question about funding and this is where the funding formula is is unique in a lot of ways.

104So while we may have seen a decrease in actual numbers as of October 1st, what we didn't see a decrease is in the number of kids that came to this community in this past year that are considered firsttime students. We actually saw an increase in that population. So it's counterintuitive to people leaving. We had an increase. We had a thousand students in general who came to us for the first time um in the first 12 months of their time in in um Massachusetts or in America. And those students in that funding formula provide Everett with more dollars than somebody who grew up on your street and enrolled their child and they're here. We also have had just as an FYI in the last 10 years we used to have you know we also get additional

105money for EL students we had 12% of our population were EL students 44% of our student population is EL so the number that's associated with those individuals we get a higher reimbursement special ed students we are capped so even though we may increase on the number of special ed enrollments We are capped um I think it says 4% but we we calculated we actually get reimbured around 5% higher than um a student that's already been enrolled here. So when the chapter 70 funds are released um or the governor's budget I should say comes out at the end of this month and I'm going to defer it to our our vice chair uh who knows this intimately that'll tell us our actual number but it's based on variables not just quote number of students that's the

106quickest that's the quickest measure I guess but the kind of students that come to Everett and the kind of students that we support provide us with more um state funds and we need them and we provide service as you heard. We we're going to continue to provide it is our moral obligation to do this and so um we will continue to look at ways to support our students without sacrificing quality of of teaching and instructors and additional materials. Um while I can't predict what we will do, I don't know that that number of decrease from last year to this year on that reportable number is going to have a huge impact if at all. And we won't know that and I could certainly give you a better indicator once the chapter 70 quote formula. I

107do know that um we've had a champion in the state house with Senator D. Dominico when that uh report came out um and an interview with our neighboring city. I immediately got a little uncomfortable and I know that the governor's office um or he has at least spoken to folks in the governor's office. I'm not sure who I don't want to give out his uh his contacts but um you know I think that there's always going to be a special attention to gateway communities as you mentioned like Everett like Holio and we can go on you know so while I don't want to be cocky about it um I don't think it's as dire as some other communities that don't have the population that we have. Um because again the kids that we service come

108at a higher reimbursement rate and we have more kids that need service. So I know that's a little bit of everything but um I appreciate the question because I know that that's the first thing you think of. Oh geez you have 300 less kids. Well, we've had 500 less kids in the district and we haven't had an issue providing support, but now we have kids that need more support, but we're getting reimbursed a little bit better um on those populations, which continue to go up for us. So, um happy to provide the historical number and you'll see we we kind of eb and flow. We go from 6,900 10 years ago to that reporting number of, you know, 7,7100. So, if you look at our our history, we're always in that ballpark. Um, but it's

109the kind of students that we support um that provide us, I guess, with the additional dollars to run the system. >> Well, that's very helpful because, you know, it is concerning. >> Sure. >> With the change and giving that our demographic is extremely diverse. Yes. >> And many of them are immigrants, uh, non-native speakers. Um, >> correct. So, I I do know we have a very I think don't we have the most diverse high school in Massachusetts or Malton's always saying that it's them, but I think it's us. We'll take it. Right. So, I you know, obviously with if if if there had been a dramatic drop in enrollment, it could have had a detrimental effect to our budget, but it sounds like our enrollment is staying fairly similar to what it has been. And

110actually what's actually happening is that we are enrolling students that need more services which may positively impact our funding. That's this that's what I am hearing. >> That is correct. >> Perfect. >> That is correct. >> So unless someone else do you guys have any other questions? >> Any further questions? >> All right. Return to sponsor. >> Motion has been made and seconded to refer back to sponsor. Uh roll call. >> Mr. Almearos. >> Yes. Yes. Miss Babcock. >> Uh, yes. >> Miss Cardillo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Yes. >> Miss Garren. >> Yes. >> Mr. L Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancamp. >> Yes. >> Madame Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 10. Motion pass. Superintendent. The next order of business. >> Roman

111numeral 8 subcommittee reports. Item one, finance and negotiation subcommittee for Monday, December the 15th, 2025. >> Madam Chairman. Yes, Miss Cristiano. >> I'd like to uh wave the reading and accept the uh committee report and place it on file. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to accept the finance and negotiation subcommittee report from Monday, December 15, 2025 and place on file. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeid Baros? >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock? >> Yes. >> Miss Cardillo? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. Mr. Denafhrio, yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> yes. Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So move 10. Motion passed. Superintendent, the next order of business, >> Roman numeral nine, bills and payrolls. We have two

112separate um bills and payrolls. Uh two different dates totaling. Madam Chairman. >> Yes, Miss Cristiano. I'd like to uh uh submit bills and payroll for 1230 20225 in the amount of 1,538,844.96. >> Motion has been made. Second >> and seconded to submit bills and payroll from December 30th, 2025 in the amount of 1,538,844.96 cents. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Barros, >> yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardelloo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmonica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So move 10. Motion passed. >> Madame Chairman. >> Yes, Miss Cristiano. >> I'd like to uh pay bills and payroll from uh from the date of 123025 uh

113in the amount of 1,538 $538,844.96. Second motion has been made and seconded to pay bills and payroll from December 30th, 2025 in the amount of 1,538,844.96. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros? >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock? >> Yes. >> Miss Cardello? >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio? >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano? >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmonica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair? Yes. >> So move 100. Motion passed. >> Madame Chairman. >> Yes. Miss Cristiano, >> I'd like to submit bills and payroll from uh January 14th, 2026 in the amount of 3,91,721.92. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded to submit bills and payroll from January 14th, 2026 in the amount of 3,91,721.92 cents. Roll call. >> Mr. Amita Barrels, >>

114yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardelloo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. Madam Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 100. Motion passed. >> Madame Chairman. >> Yes, Miss Cristiano. >> I'd like to uh pay bills and payroll from January 14th, 2026 in the amount of 3,91,721.92. >> Second. Motion has been made and seconded to pay bills and payroll from January 14th, 2026 in the amount of 3,91,721.92. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Barrels, >> yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardillo, >> yes. >> Miss Cornellio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmon

115Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madam Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 100. Motion passed. Superintendent, the next order of business. >> Roman numeral 10, unfinished business. There's none before you. Roman numeral 11, new business. Item one, appointment of subcommittees. >> Thank you, Superintendent. Um, handed out before you is the 2026 subcommittee uh assignments for members. Um, it was great to hear from everyone about their interests and what they hope to do moving forward. Um if there are any questions or concerns after this I guess you can ask but I feel as though uh everyone seemed pleased. So this is official. We also have three positions to reappoint which consists of the MASC uh delegate position, the shore collaborative board member position and the student advisory liaison position. Uh these are done

116by opening uh nominations for each uh closing nominations voting for that member and then they are officially appointed. So >> Madam Chairman, >> yes, Miss Cristiano, >> I'd like to open up nominations for the SH collaborative um position. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to open nominations for the Shore Collaborative Board position. Roll call. Mr. Delmaros, >> yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardell, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So move 100. Uh, nomination. >> Madam Chairman. >> Yes, Miss Cristiano. Um, Madam Chairman, I'd like to nominate uh Samantha Hurley uh for the position of uh our

117uh school committee representative, the SH collaborative. Uh she's been doing it for the last two years. Uh it seems to be going seamlessly. Um I know she enjoys that work. I know they enjoy having her. And um what I like most about it is, you know, uh we get to hear about what the Sh collaborative is doing. Uh she's been uh very diligent in providing updates to us. So um I'd like to nominate Samantha Hurley. Thank you. >> I'll second I'll second the nomination. >> Motion has has been made and seconded to nominate Samantha Hurley. There any other nominations for the position? to close nominations for the short collaborative seat. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to close the nominations. Um so we'll roll call to close the nominations which is yes

118or no. And then we will do another roll call vote and you say the name of the member. So roll call for closing nominations. >> Mr. Almeid Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardell. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornellio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio. Yes, >> Miss Garen. >> Yes, >> Mr. Lam Monica. >> Yes, >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes, >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> So, move 10-0. >> 10-0. Nominations are now closed. Um, roll call vote to appoint the member. Um, just state the name of the member for the short collaborative board position. >> Mr. Almearos. >> Madame Chair. Samantha Hurley. >> Miss Babcock. >> Madam Chair. Samantha Hurley. >> Miss Cadillo. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Miss Cristiano. Madam

119Chair, Samantha Hurley. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Miss Garren. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Mr. Lammon Monica. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Samantha Hurley. >> Chairperson Hurley. >> Samantha Hurley. >> 10 votes for chairperson Hurley. >> 10 votes. Motion passed. Um, this is awkward from the chair. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I enjoy the work and look forward to continuing. Um, motion passed. Moving forward. Next up would be the MASC delegate position. If we could motion to open the nominations for that. >> Make a motion to uh open the nominations for the MASC delegate position. >> Motion has been made and seconded to open nominations for the MASC delegate position. Roll call. >> Mr. Ali Barrels. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardell. >> Yes. >> Miss

120Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica? Yes. Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madam Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 100. Motion passed. Nominations are open. >> Madame Chair. >> Mr. uh Vice Chair Barrows. >> I'd like to nominate uh Joanna Garin to be our representative with the Mass. >> Second school committee. She did that before and she does a fantastic job. >> Motion has been made and seconded to nominate Miss Garin for the MASC delegate position. Are there any other nominations? Move to close nominations. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to close nominations. Uh, roll call. Again, we're roll calling to close nominations. First, >> Mr. Almearos. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcar, >> yes. >> Miss Cardell,

121>> yes. >> Miss Cornellio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio? >> Yes. >> Miss Garren? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lam Monica? >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen? >> Yes. >> Madame Chair? >> Yes. >> So move 100. >> So move 10. Nominations are open. I'm going to ask for a roll call vote to appoint the MASC delegate. Um, state the name of the individual. >> Mr. Alita Barrows. >> Joanna Garin. >> Miss Babcar. >> Joanna Garren. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Joanna Garren. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Joanna Garren. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Joanna Garren. >> Mr. Denafhrio. >> Joanna Garren. >> Miss Garren. >> Joanna Garren. >> Mr. Lammon Monica. >> Joanna Garren. Mayor Vancamp and Joanna Garin. >> Madam Chair, >> Joanna Garin. >> 10 votes for Miss Joanna Garin to be

122the representative to mask. >> Motion passed. 10 members voted. Congratulations, Miss Garin. Uh, next up is the student advisory liaison position. Uh, same thing. Please just uh >> move to open nominations. >> Second. >> Motion has been made and seconded to open nominations for the student advisory liaison. Roll call. Mr. Almeid Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. >> Miss Cardell, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmon Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, >> yes. >> So move 10. Nominations are open. >> Madam Chair, >> Mr. Vice Chair Barrows. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to nominate Robin Babcock to uh be the representative with our students. >> Second

123the nomination. >> Motion has been made and seconded to nominate Robin Babcock for the student advisory liaison position. >> Move to close nominations. >> Motion has been made and seconded to close nominations. Roll call. >> Mr. Almeida Baros. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock. >> Yes. >> Miss Cardelloo. >> Yes. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Yes. >> Miss Cristiano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. Lammon Monica, >> yes. >> Mayor Vancampen, >> yes. >> Madam Chair, yes. >> So move 10 Z. >> Nominations are now closed. We will do a roll call vote to appoint the student advisory liaison. >> Mr. Alita Barrows. >> Robin Babcock. >> Miss Babcock. >> Robin Babcock. >> Miss Codello. Mr. >> Robin Babcock. >> Miss Cornelio. >> Robin Babcock. >> Miss Cristiano.

124>> Robin. >> Mr. Denafhrio. Robin Babcock, >> Miss Garren, >> Robin Babcock, >> Mr. Lam Monica, >> Robin Babcock, >> Mayor Vancampen, >> Robin Babcock, >> Madame Chair, >> Robin Babcock, >> 10 votes for Miss Babcock, the new liaison to the student advisory council. >> 10 votes. Motion passed. Uh, Miss Babcock. >> Yes. I just want to say thank you so much for this opportunity. I really enjoy um being involved at the high school in many of the different capacities and sports photography mom um poster maker and you know I know that when my daughter served on that committee that um Samantha Lambert was in that role and that she really was enjoyed and committed to that role. It would be nice to stay connected to the high school now that my daughter has uh

125moved on to college and I really look forward to working with Emma who I have known since she was in kindergarten and it will be exciting to work with her as an adult in this capacity. So, thank you for nominating me um vice chairman and thank you for putting her faith in me and I look forward to meeting with the students and hearing what they have to say and sharing it with you and allowing them to share their ideas with you as well. >> Thank you, Miss Babcock. Congratulations again to all superintendent. The next order of business, >> Roman numeral 12, hearings, there are none before you. Roman numeral 13, matters for executive session. Item number one to discuss strategy with respect to pending litigation where an open meeting law, excuse me, where an open

126meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the Ever School Committee and the chair so declares it pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 38 section 21A3 to MCAD case and Mr. Wallace versus Everett at all and further strategy with respect to potential litigation that is demonstrabably likely where an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the Ever School Committee and the chair so declares pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 38 section 21A3. >> I'll make a motion to go into executive session and adjourn in executive session. >> Second a motion. Motion has been made and seconded to enter executive session to discuss strategy with respect to pending litigation where an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigating position of the Everett school committee. And

127the chair so declares pursuant to mash general law chapter 38 section 21A to wit MCAD MCAD case and Wallace versus Everett at all and further strategy with respect to potential litigation that demonstrabably likely where an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on litigating position of the Everett school committee. And the chair so declares pursuant to mass general law chapter 38 section 21A3 with invitations to superintendent Hart, Attorney Bracket Smith, Attorney Galvin, and Attorney Gil and Dean Nicol Antonio. And we will adjourn in executive session. Roll call. >> Mr. Alita Barrows. >> Yes. >> Miss Babcock, >> yes. Miss Cardella, >> yes. >> Miss Cornelio, >> yes. >> Miss Cristiano, >> yes. >> Mr. Denafhrio, >> yes. >> Miss Garren, >> yes. >> Mr. L Monica. >> Yes. >> Mayor Vancampen. >> Yes. >> Madame

128Chair. >> Yes. >> So move 100. We have entered executive session at 8:16 p.m. Good evening everyone.