001Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] That's [Applause] a heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh. [Music] Wow. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] N. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Wow. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. [Music] Okay. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Wow. Heat. [Music] Hey. [Applause] [Music] Oh no. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Wow. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey.
002[Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Oh, heat. [Music] Woo! Heat! [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Help. [Music] Wow. [Music] Oh. [Music] Good evening and welcome to the Everett School Committee regular meeting for Monday, May 19th, 2025. The time is 6:33 p.m. Clerk, could you call the role to determine a quorum? Miss Babcock, present. Miss Baros, present. Miss Baros. Oh, Miss Baros. Miss Baros, better word. Present. No. Mr. Almeida Baros present. Miss Cornelio present. Mayor Di Maria. Mr. Denafhrio present. Miss Garren. Miss Cristiano present. Mr. Lmon Monica present. Madame Chair present. Seven members present. Seven members present. We do have a quorum. Quorum. If everyone could rise and join me in saluting the flag. To the flag of the United States of America and to
003the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. I would like to extend um Miss Sparrow reached out, Miss Garin reached out, Mayor Di Maria reached out that they send their regrets they were unable to attend this evening. And our student rep, Kelly St. Fort had an athletics conflict this evening and she is unable to attend as well. Uh Mr. Superintendent, the next order of business. Roman numeral 3, reading of the records for Monday, May the 5th, 2025. Make a motion to wave the reading of the records. Seconded. Motion has been made by Miss Babcock, seconded by Miss Cornelio to wave the reading of the Monday, May 5th, 2025 records and place on file. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes
004have it. Motion passed. Uh, Mr. Superintendent, the next order of business, Roman numeral four, public comment. Motion open public comment. Second. Motion has been made by Mr. Lam Monica, seconded by Miss Cristiano to open public comment. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Public comment is open. The time is 6:35 p.m. There is no public comment speakers on the sheet. Is there anyone interested in speaking at public comment this evening? Seeing none, motion to close public comment. Second. Motion has been made by Mr. Lammon Monica, seconded by Miss Babcock to close public comment. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Public comment is now closed. There's the superintendent. Roman numeral 5 is the report of the student representative, Miss St. Fort, but as you all know, she's
005absent this evening. So, moving right along to Roman numeral six, report of the superintendent. Item number one, the superintendent's update. Um, I'll go quickly through this, but first I'd like to start by acknowledging two members of our community who have been distinguished for uh and by various organizations. Uh, the first is our human resources and employee relations director, Miss Ela Mge. She has been named the Commonwealth Heroine uh award and she is the um recipient of this award um and was recognized and nominated by state representative Joe McGonagal and she was selected by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women to receive this award. She will be recognized at a state house ceremony on June the 26th. Um, so legislators from across the Commonwealth are invited to nominate a member from their district that
006they believe goes above and beyond to make their community a better place. The commission themselves describe these women as those who always um who don't always make the news, but they truly make the difference. And indeed, our friend Elaine is a difference maker in her community and here in a role in in the city as our human resources director for the Bever public schools. Um, just a brief bio, Elaine entered the Army National Guard as a high school student. She completed boot camp between her junior and senior years. She has served as a human resources personnel administrative specialist while she was in the National Guard. And she has had a distinguished career in the private sector from working at Metro Credit Union from and to the governor's office and beyond and now with us here
007at the Ever Public Schools for the past 13 years. Elaine has been an active member of the Chelsea Kuanas Club. She served as its president from 2023 to 24. She is currently the lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth's Kowanas District Division 10 uh which is um includes all of New England and Bermuda. She's been involved in many many fundraising events and charitable initiatives. And um she's uh also a dual member. She's a member here with the city of Everett's Kuanas Club and joins me at those meetings and working on behalf of our community through Kuanas. Elaine and her husband Steven have have been married over 15 years and they have two wonderful children, Ilani and Alisandre. But for the past six years, um Elaine has fostered more than 12 children ranging in age from 3 weeks
008to 17 years old. Um Elaine leads a very u robust human resources division um taking care of over 1300 employees. She really is a quiet doer and um she's been recognized rightfully so. Elaine is here this evening with us. I asked her to come for those of you who may not have met her personally. Um Elaine, thank you for your service to us and for all that you do privately um that we know you do. Um thank you so very much. Another member of our our community here is um and I I think he was going to try to make it, but he he is has been on duty is Detective um Steven Ramuno. Um, Stephen is going to receive a national award for exceptional service at the Organization of National School Safety uh conference
009officers down in Texas this July. This award that he's received um are for those individuals willing to support and further develop the SRO partnership and exemplify leadership, innovation, dedication, and proactive measures to enhance the safety of our school community. And for those of you who've known Steve, he's been with us um for over six years, and he is an outstanding member of the Ever Police Department, but certainly has been a very integral part of the safety and well-being of our students and staff across this district. He has led um the most recent effort to train um and be involved with Alice training protocols across the district. um always a smiling face and certainly has been um a key player with our young people here at Ever High School. So um if he comes in a
010little bit later, please extend um our sincere thanks to Steve for his work in the Everett public schools. Two great professionals and remember about um two months ago um we also recognize one of our custodial staff who received an award from the Lafayette school. Shannon does a great job there each and every day. We've got some stellar employees in the district and each and every time I'm aware of awards, I'd like to bring them to your attention so you know the caliber of people that we not only attract but stay here in our Everett public school district. Um, if for those of you who uh joined me and the hundred of kids or so who uh received scholarships last week, I know many of you were in attendance and I want to thank you for
011that. It was a great evening. Uh we awarded over $100,000 in scholarships um to stu well-deserving students from various organizations throughout the district from Kowanas to um Chamber of Commerce to um you know family scholarship and awards and we want to thank them again publicly for continuing to provide our students with much needed funds um to go on to their next step after after graduating from Everett High School. Um, also, uh, in a week and a half away is the 8th grade parent night. Um, Everett High School will hold this information session for parents and guardians of eighth graders on Wednesday, May the 28th from 5 to 7:00. They're going to learn about the classes and schedules here at the high school and activities and services that um, the young uh, children will be able
012to participate once they uh, come out of the eighth grades across the district and to uh, the high school. Um the guidance department here at Everett High School puts that on uh for our families and it's a great opportunity for get to get information and get their students prepared for the 25 26 school year. Imagine we're already planning for that. Um just as an FYI, many of you probably have seen some of the press around it for the second year in a row. I had asked our um staff across the district um district leadership to join me in the annual Memorial Day flag placing across the Glenwood and Woodlon cemeteries here in Everett. We did that on May 12th and the 13th. We had over 30 folks who uh attended one or both of those
013morning um walkthroughs to the cemetery placing flags on military personnel who uh are laid to rest in both of those locations. I want to thank all of them and the work of our our city of Everett uh veterans affair office that we assist in helping them do this important work recognizing our men and women who have gone before us. Also like to extend a great thanks to um Tammy Turner, our athletic director. She brought a huge contingent of students from the Key Club and um members of the the various uh sport teams that we have in Everett and did participated in the city's cleanup day this past Saturday. And um I know the weather was a little sluggish at first, but our young people uh did a great amount of uh community service, a lot
014of smiles, a lot of happy faces, and a long a lot of clean parks and um city property. And I want to thank all of those folks for um coming together and uh doing great community service. I also would like to recognize once again the tremendous tremendous music program that we have here in Everett under the leadership of of uh Mr. O'Brien. uh they have been honored uh of our public schools has been honored with the best communities for music education designation from the NAM foundation and NAM stands for the National Association of Music Merchants, an organization that has been in existence for over 100 years. Um, Everett continues to distinguish itself in so many ways in the music program and this is the second consecutive year that the Ever Public Schools has received this
015prestigious designation and the fifth time all around overall, excuse me. And Mr. O'Brien is actually here tonight. Um, I can't thank you enough for the leadership you've shown to our students and bringing them to great heights. Again, a lot to be proud of in Everett and what we do and our kids get the benefit of that. So, thank you, Mr. O'Brien and to all the folks who make um our students shine where they should. U Memorial Day concert uh tomorrow here at Ever High School Auditorium at 5:30 there will be the annual Memorial Day uh concert that is given free and the public is always invited and this theme this year will will be we will remember you. So we hope that your schedule permits. There's a lot going on in the month of May
016and certainly this week is no different. I know many of you are involved in so many activities that the district has going on, but please stop by and um and support the uh the program and to honor our veterans. And last but not least, on June the 2nd, we will have the annual pride flag here at the entrance of Everett High School. I'd like to thank Mr. Sean Salazar, our and our library coordinator, Mary Pulio, for organizing this event. Once again, we expect a large turnout. there'll be some um distinguished guests and lots of things to celebrate and conversations to be had and people to recognize. And so please, if your schedule permits, I know that's um a work day for some folks, but at 3:00 on June the 2nd, please join faculty, staff, and
017students here at the uh front steps of Everett High School for the Pride Raising Flag. And Madam Chair, that is my report. Thank you, Superintendent. Um, Miss Cristiano, thank you, Madam Chair. Just to to to update the committee, uh, on a side note, um, you know, we always hear about our band and, you know, all the great things that all of our, uh, students are doing, and that's so wonderful. But I got to share just one story. I I had an opportunity last Friday night to go over to uh, Herd Field in, uh, in Lynn and watch our Everett Varsity softball team play. uh Lynn Classical and I cannot remember a more exciting and thrilling softball a baseball game. It's got to be years. I mean, the girls played with such intensity, determination, and passion.
018Um you know, they they left it all on the field. They came up short, but you know what? It just made me proud to be there because, you know, it it just everything seems to be jelling and coming together and and I think that's a testament to you, Mr. Hart. You know, uh the whole community is uh seems to be working in in one. And uh you certainly changed a lot of the culture here and uh so I thank you, but I also want to congratulate those girls uh for a job well done. Thank you. Thank you. And we had the boys baseball out here at um at Glendale Park for a home game with Medford. And when I left there was it was tied but um they again energy, excitement, parents engaged and uh
019we have a good community here and I'm happy to be part of it. Thank you everyone. I do have a quick question if from the chair. Um the eighth grade parent night. Um I know I already asked but just so the public knows there is no registration for that. It is welcome to families to show up. Yes, it is. And work with guidance and they'll see what um to expect when they come in. Absolutely. Yep. No registration required. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. There. Any questions of the superintendent and his report? Accept the report in place on file. Second. Motion has been made by Mr. Barrow, seconded by Miss Cornelio to accept the superintendent's report and place on file. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Motion passed. Mr. Superintendent,
020the next order of business. Item number two, acceptance of a registered teacher appre apprenticeship program grant in the amount of $25,000. I'm asking for your favorable action to accept the grant. This helps um continue to support our folks here in the district to take additional uh courses through a program that we have with Bridgewwater Bridgewater State University and it allows our paraprofessionals to uh advance their uh degree level from associate to bachelor's degree. So we have a grant in the amount of $25,000 that ask for your acceptance of that grant. Move for favorable action to accept that grant. Motion has been made by Miss Cornelio, seconded by Miss Christristiano to accept the registered teachers apprenticeship program grant in the amount of $25,000. Roll call. Miss Babcock, yes. Mr. Almeida Barrows, yes. Miss Cornelio, yes. Miss
021Cristiano, yes. Mr. Denafhrio, yes. Mr. Lammon Monica, yes. Madame Chair, yes. So move 70. 70. Motion passed. Mr. Superintendent. Item three is acceptance of a teacher diversification grant in the amount of $39,390. Uh this grant award recognizes our commitment to diversifying the uh teacher workforce and particular here fostering a more inclusive school environment. These funds enable us to provide tuition re reimbursements for our BIPO professionals. BIPAC, as you know, stands for black, indigenous, and people of color. This is um another award that we received from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. As you know, these just don't come to us. We apply for it. We we support it with um facts and action plans and they're evaluated based on that information. And I'm happy to say that uh we were awarded a sizable grant
022and I'd like to thank, you know, publicly thank Desi and the um the governor's administration for continuing to support grants like this that help us do what we need to do. So, I'm asking for your acceptance of the grant of $39,390. Move to favor action. Okay. Move to favorable action to accept the teacher diversification grant in the amount of $39,39. Second. Motion made by Miss Beepcock, seconded by Miss Cruciano to accept the teacher diversification grant in the amount of $39,390. Roll call. Miss Babcock. Yes. Miss Mr. Almeita Barrels. Yes, Miss Cornelio. Yes, Miss Cristiano. Yes, Mr. Denafhrio. Yes, Mr. Lammonica. Yes, Madame Chair. Yes. So, move 70. 70. Motion passed. Mr. Superintendent. Roman numeral 7 items submitted by school committee members. There is nothing new under the agenda. Roman numeral 8 is subcommittee reports. And
023as you may remember, we did not have a finance and negotiations meeting on May 5th, so there's no report to present. And now it brings me to Roman numeral 9, bills and payroll. Madam Chairman, yes, Miss Cristiano, I'd like to submit uh bills and payroll in the amount of 1,975,62087. Second. Motion has been made by Miss Cristiano, seconded by Miss Cornelio to submit bills and payroll in the amount of 1,975,62087. Roll call. Mr. Mr. Almeida Baros. Yes. Miss Babcock. Yes. Miss Cornelio. Yes. Miss Cristiano. Yes. Mr. Denafhrio. Yes. Mr. Lmonica. Yes. Madam Chair. Yes. So move 70. 70. Motion passed. Madam Chairman. Yes. Miss Cristiano. I'd like to uh uh approve bills and payroll in the amount of 1 million. pay approve and pay uh bills and payroll in the amount of 1,975,62087. Second. Motion
024has been made and seconded to pay bills and payroll in the amount of $1,975,62087. Roll call. Mr. Almeida Barrows. Yes. Miss Babcock. Yes. Miss Cornelio. Yes. Miss Cristiano. Yes. Mr. Denafario, yes. Mr. Lam Monica, yes. Madame Chair, yes. So move 70. So moves. Uh, motion passed. Superintendent. Roman numeral 10, unfinished business. There's none before you this evening. Roman numeral 11, new business. There is none. Roman numeral 12, there are no hearings. Roman numeral 13, there are no matters for executive session. And finally, Roman numeral 14, adjournment. Make a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion has been made in by Mr. Barrow. Seconded by Miss Cornelio to adjourn. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. The eyes have it. We have adjourned at 6:52 p.m. Good evening everyone. Thanks. Okay. [Music]