001[Music] you [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] he [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] we have signups for public comment if anyone would like to public comment please sign up at the main desk here public [Music] n [Music] good evening and welcome to the Everett school committee regular meeting for Tuesday February 25th 2025 the time is 6:32 Mr clerk if you could call the role to determine a quorum Mr alme baros present Miss Babcock present Miss baros present Miss Cornelio Miss Cristiano we couldn't hear you miss Cristiano Miss Cristiano oh she said presid but her M her mic is M I did hear she did say she's here okay mayor Di Maria Mr denafo present Miss Garren present Mr L Monica present Madame chair present eight members present eight members present we do have a
002quorum I would would just like to let everybody know that uh the mayor um gives his regrets he had a scheduled conflict Margaret Cornelio also couldn't attend this evening and um Kelly St Fort our student rep has a scheduling conflict as well um with that if everyone could rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance PL allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Mr superintendent the next order of business thank you madam chair Roman numeral 3 reading of the records for Monday February 3rd 2025 make a motion to wave the reading and place on file second motion has been made by Miss Barrow seconded by Miss Babcock to wave the
003reading for Monday February 3rd 2025 in place on file roll call Mr Alita baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes madame chair yes so moved 80 80 motion passed um Mr superintendent the next order of business Roman numeral for public comment make a motion to open public comment second second motion has been made by Miss barrows seconded by Mr Barrow to open public comment roll call Mr elme baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 80 8 0 motion passed we have open public comment uh seeing no speakers on the list is there anyone that would like to speak in the audience seeing none
004make a motion to close public comments second motion has been made by Mr Barrow seconded by Miss Babcock to close public comment roll call Mr Alita baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano Mr denafo yes yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 80 80 motion passed we have closed 80 motion passed we have closed public comment Mr superintendent the next order of business Roman number five report of the student Representative no she do not okay seeing the student represent here and um doesn't have anything for us to read the next order of business ran numeral 6 report of the superintendent item number one superintendent update Madam chair ladies and gentlemen uh of the committee and uh audience at home and here in the school at Evert
005high school I have several updates to provide you this evening uh one of which is um more of a kind of at home issue uh this past Thursday morning uh the Everett um administration building that where that house offices not only the office of the superintendent but um all the support staff was closed uh due to a significant water uh breakage in the building that damaged U several floors of one side of our building the fire department had responded to an alarm of about 5:40 on Thursday morning I was in the building about 10 or 6 the water had um had been uh flowing for a short time but enough to Dam damaged um several floors of the offices uh on Vine Street so what we did was we um we contacted several of our
006senior staff who have our employees take home up laptops and we deployed um information out to everybody about working from home until we could assess the damage and we redirected our phones our phone lines from offices to individuals who are responsible for that we had a plan in place already that we had just instituted over the winter months which we're actually still in winter months should the occasion arise that we had to keep people home and as of Monday morning um we've set up um shop if you will in three locations across the district in um kind of shared space so I'm here at ever high school along with um the our immediate office Dave o Conor and uh Denise cadillo who served the superintendent's office we are in a single office that was occupied
007by the vice principal who's moved over and sharing the office with the principal we had eight cubicles that had just been um recently put together in what was a Storage Center to House some of our additional staff here at the high school we've used them for all of our um finance department which is Led um by our Deputy superintendent and at the Devon School we've utilized a classroom space for 11 members of staff under Dr Adams um uh division of academics and the human resource offices in the atam school which uh in the basement which was once the maintenance office in storage so um we quickly set up shop and I want to thank our custodial staff in particular um they did an enormous amount of very quick work establishing workstations and those three locations
008that I mentioned and have accommodated us uh quite nicely our it staff quickly redirected all kinds of um all kinds of it um support so we were able to be fully functional in person on Monday morning uh Mr OK Conor um communicated with staff remotely from Thursday and Friday U to let them know what what was happening we are in the process of um so the building has been what we would call remediated all the damage for the most part has been removed the building is kind of curing if you will for seven days days we have to wait for everything to dry um some significant damage um on our beautiful wooden floors that uh were once part of that original building and some of our obviously our furnishings and some of our computers and
009even some of our you know uh storage of files so that is um all in process and now we will uh have the insurance adjust here I believe tomorrow and they'll make an assessment as to what the insurance will cover for damages in the the building um the water has been shut off to the building electricity is off and as I said the people who've been in there have been remediating it and removing and now we're just trying to avoid any further damage by mold and other other items that may um suffer for not removing the damage stuff so um we don't know the length of time that will be but as I said we have fully functioning and people can get to us I would say the kind of the public piece of that
010is our building is often the site where um Young Folks come to get working papers and uh we would just um I think we're going to have it on our website as well if a student uh that is not attending at every high school and want working papers they can come to every high school and we'll service them right out of the um out of the guidance really but they'll come into the main office and we'll take care of them from there we've redirected mail and deliveries you know to this building and uh we're kind of setting up a network and again thanks to all the people who have been so helpful to make this uh difficult time uh quite easy so I will keep you updated but for now the administration building on 1219
011street is closed for day-to-day business it is now redirected in the three locations I just mentioned I also was asked by a member of the committee Miss Garen uh during this kind of Uncertain time that we've heard from our our national leaders about the future of federal funding and uh we as a district like most most districts across this this state anyway receive federal funds for a number of a number of programs that support the work that we do each and every single day some of those funds come uh in the form of title grants Title One title two title three and you know I've made a a big effort to use Title One funds um to support reading across the district and uh Dr Adams has initiated a plan to use those funds we
012have a total of 13 Federal funds that come into the district to support the various programs that we have across the district um there are basically millions of dollars in total and what we would be doing is um just so you get an idea of process funds come to us as a result of reimbursements from the state so the federal funds flow to the state states to the districts we draw down from from those funds via the state through desie you know the department of Elementary and secondary education those are done on a regular basis so that we kind of reimburse for the expenses uh or support the expenses connected to any particular Grant the concern I think that Miss Garen had and I know many of you have is what happens if it's a
013big question right millions of dollars how do you make up those millions of dollars should something occur that interrupts that flow of funds now we are pretty um well funded currently with our federal dollars and the the State dollars that we get to run on what we do and and we we have budgeted pretty well if something should occur I think that we have enough time to understand how to manage any change a lot of the federal funding now and I think miss Karen if you don't mind me saying when she and I first communicated via email there was um 13 I think funding s excuse me there was more than 13 but there was 89 funding sources that were up for um defunding if you will or the funding flow was going to stop
014it didn't have anything to do with us at that moment in time but many of those were um had a stay so a federal judge or a local judge put a stop on it so that no action would happen as a result of an executive order we do know that there are other actions yet to be unfolded and we don't know what they will be and if they are seemingly threatened to any of the 13 that we have I think it's fair to say that there's enough energy and support um even amongst um Congressional leaders that may share the same party with our our president that aren't necessarily in favor of defunding programs that are very significant to their districts which support our young people in particular with that there would come you know the
015same kind of stays or injunctions that the courts would impose upon any of these Cuts or slowdowns so I'm not trying to um I have a breakdown and I'm happy to supply it to M Garen as I promised and I've shared some of that with the chairperson already we now have identified every dollar that comes in I mean we always knew but I have it on a nice flowchart that it can you can see where it comes from and should anything get impacted we'll be able to react we'll know what it affs we'll know how it hurts a program if that's the case so I I appreciate your question and it kind of put us on alert to be sure that we were paying attention to all those pieces of the federal dollars while we
016don't feel quote threatened today um it's it was a great exercise for us to to review to understand our exposure if there was to be any drastic changes in the federal flow of dollars but um I think all of you have probably followed the news that a lot of those executive office of executive orders particular and certainly other statements that have been made have slowed down because again the the judges have gotten involved and kind of put a stop to it at least temporarily so with your um with your patience I'll be happy to send that document out to you and we can you can have a you know give me a shout and we can go through that but I hate to say that when we're we're in Jeopardy but it's a good action
017to be aware of and we know what that means um there's a lot of uncertainty but I I really can't make a plan with so much out there so all I can do is understand what what would happen if and then you look down as you'll see this chart if this actually happens and what that means to Everett I have that for you so I just wanted to say that generally I didn't want to get into the weeds this evening um I don't want to alarm people in our district who know that some of the work that we do is funded through these grants um but we um as you know the federal uh cycle the fiscal cycle goes through September 30th and as many of you know and I know many of you follow
018this and I'm looking at member baros who's right on top of it on on a local level too um you know the likelihood of stuff that's approved by Congress of getting um taken away from us is pretty hard to do I mean Congress still has the power right so I think that we have some time God forbid there was some real movement to make a plan so I I I do appreciate the opportunity to just say that generally to kind of allay any concerns at least in the short term and certainly if there was something down the road I think we're aware of what that could mean forever and then I would come back to you with a very strategic response to any threat to our dollars but as of today we have not been
019notified that we're losing any money we have not been notified not to spend any money we've been not been notified that we should watch out I mean it's just we're following the the rhetoric and paying attention so I want to thank um uh member Garen for bringing that up and to the chairperson who's kind of worked alongside me in these conversations internally and the staff that's helped me assemble what I think is is a pretty good I I don't want to call it a cheat sheet but I have a kind of a cheat sheet in front of me that uh that helps guide us uh so I can know where the big buckets are so um if there's no immediate questions I I'll go on to uh the rest of my report Miss Garen okay
020thank you madam chair uh just thank you Mr Hart for uh speaking out about that um so the public knows I know we had talked a little bit over email of course this does affect me personally my children benefit massively from the special ed Department in Everett they've they've really been it's been really wonderful for them and I know there's a lot of people in a similar position who are concerned um were and um I'm glad to know that we're aware of this and we're staying on top of this and hopefully Common Sense will prevail um and we'll just keep working as best we can thank you thank you miss Karen uh Miss babcook I just want to say thank you for that update as well because it was definitely concerning to me um given
021the shift in in in budget spending and conversation at the federal level um it sounds like I'm just going to I I it's not really a question I'm just going to rephrase it and see if you're if I'm correct it sounds like you if there were a need you would be able to make an adjustment you or there's a POS you have a a think I would have a patent yes okay right that's it was so drastic let let me just take it to the other end and I I don't want to opine on things that I'm not you know sure would happen but under the very rare um option that we would lose significant dollars we would have to review what we do for business in ever public schools and every District would be
022in the same boat we would be no different we just happen to get you know when uh Miss Garen mentions federal dollars for special ed we get 2 point almost 2.5 uh 2.3 million dollar um annually from the feds to support our special ed Department and but some of this also is supported by state funds and you know our governor in in this in the Commonwealth has been very upfront in supporting education and has certainly given us a reason to have a little sigh of relief that we know that the state may also step in should we ever get to that point and I'm hoping that we never do may I ask a question about the the the water d damage mhm um so um I want to say I'm glad that you had your
023winter plan in place who who knew that the the Frozen water would be the winter plan I've had that circumstance happen to me in my workplace before and it was not pleasant at all um but they we did get back on track um was there anything damaged Beyond you know structural things and computers was there any Student Records or records that are or employment records that were are are significant important damaged in the process no the only thing that I think we uh saw some miscellaneous paperwork that was open in the human resource office but those can be things that we maintain in you know in the cloud so we would we just have to reprint them and there is a service that's provided through insurance that would do document recovery but the document has
024to be at least legible to recover and when water seeps on things that come through your printer it just dissipates so it's it's a mush but all of the employment records that we keep paper copies for um and some things we do both we we keep a paper copy for example of a Corey um because we're required to do that but we also have it in employees um electronic file um those were not damaged so so knock on wood yes we we do not we did another inventory uh this morning of the human resource there was one other file cabinet that we wanted to double check and those records were intact thank you very much you know walls can be fixed yes it can be fixed and everybody's okay so that's great thank you you're
025welcome thank you Miss Babcock Mr Baris thank you uh Madame chair and superintendent I want to thank you for that description that you gave regarding the federal uh grants it was perfect um and I just want to remind my colleagues as a superintendent mention um and members of the public both on the state level and on the federal level when the me when the head of the executive branch in this case the governor here and the president in Washington DC um when they write an executive order the executive order cannot override state law if it's done by the governor and if it's done by the president cannot override Congress those Federal Appropriations that we have that the superintendent described very well uh were appropriated by Congress what the president has done and he's been doing
026for this past four months uh is many EX uh signing main executive orders that causes more um confusion and Chaos then actually has a value or it's a legal document so the both the State Attorney General Andre cample and the govern's office through the department to the exe Executive Office of Education are following these uh updates and these orders that come from DC because the appropriation that we have at this moment was already appropriated by Congress so could be the current president another president they could write 100 executive orders that's why the judge as the superintendent mention put a stop because it's illegal to stop money that was already appropriated by Congress currently uh the house and the Senate are going to present very soon a new budget that will start October 1st if a
027lot of those programs that they fund currently they decide to defund or to reduce funding then it would be a concern that we would have starting on October 1st but right now I'm glad that the superintendent has a plan in place but I personally am not that concerned that we would lose any funding at this moment one because the state's falling closely but also the State Attorney General because that funding was already appropriated by Congress so even this president or any other president signing any document that they can do uh it's more of a threat and it's more causing chaos than having an legal ground so I just want to share that as the superintendent described very well because when we read the things on the news oh they're going to defund because we fund
028this they're going to defund us or cut funded because we fund that the president has no power even though he thinks he does uh to do that unless of Cong of course Congress starting October 1st decides to do something different then we should be concerned but at this moment uh the courts will stand in the way and funding will will continue coming at least until the end of September just so to make that clarification as the the superintendent described well but it's good that members of the public that gets of course we as school Comm school committee members get no afraid or scared that we're going to lose funing what's going what's going to happen of course the president isue in the executive order uh but legally that's the other side of the story thank
029you thank you Mr Mr baros Miss bcuk um through you to Mr baros uh thank you for that clear and simple explanation of the executive policy for everybody it's it's well appreciated and it's certainly a relief to know that we have a little bit of uh leeway here and a little bit of comfort at least till October so thank you very much sure pleasure thank you and real quick from the chair if I may um Mr superintendent thank you for talking me through this um and if you're flowchart is not when it enters a not draft form if you wouldn't mind sharing that with the committee that'd be great because I like I like seeing things and it was very um it explained things very well sure I'm happy to do so perfect thank you
030you're welcome are there any further questions regarding uh this topic all right superintendent thank you very much um ever high school's participation and prominence in the Boston debate Le League's debate and espanol division continues to grow I'd like to uh thank the leadership of our advisers Ruth Cardona Suarez and Catalina Ramos uh we have two additional students that will um compete in Elizabeth Rivera and Nathalie Romero they've earn spots in um the championship semi-finals for debate and that going to occur on Thursday of this week the 27th and then finals are slated for the following week on March the 7th at the Museum of Science we have an impressive group of young people uh that have participated in the past thanks to the leadership of those two folks that I mentioned and we will continue
031to see our students engage in um in very energized debate so I'll keep you updated as to their outcomes uh when those finals and semi-finals are complete I know that um from time to time I like to report on attendance uh to all of you because it has been a personal uh goal of mine along with the support of the district's principles and staff once again uh our overall attendance um while not the the Superior that we' hope we are still far um ahead of what we were last year at this time we're at almost 91% attendance rate which is a good rate and chronic absenteeism is down when I say down meaning the the the young people that are chronically absent um continues to um decrease so we are um continually focus on that
032we have monthly meetings with a wide variety of people just as a reminder we have student voices we have parent voices we have folks that um come in and talk to us about other strategies we look at strategies across the the nation because this isn't as I've always told you isn't an Everett problem and so our our schools are actively engaged in some simple strategies to outright um you know calling parents themselves messaging having events at school that include parents having events that you know get kids engaged in the process with reward um so there's a lot more focus and attention attention on attendance and I think it's it's showing up now this is what we would call the I guess it's termed spring slip where young people um decide that they get a little
033spring fever and may want to take an extra day here and there we're we're looking at different ways in which to keep them engaged in the school experience tidiness has certainly also been um addressed as well as outright absenteeism and again uh we have initiatives in place to encourage young young folks to get to school on time so it's paying off and I'll continue to keep you um AB breast of this um boys basketball last night um I was in attendance with um Miss Babcock was there members of a huge contingent from Everett uh where boys basketball were in a a tournament uh against Boston College High School uh although we did not Prevail last evening we had an impressive season with our boys our girls we have um a wonderfully engaged um coaching staff
034across uh basketball and we um see the energy and excitement with our students it's not always about winning it's about how they play and um the team spirit and the cooperation that um the or I should say the the the fans that comea usually um so for girls basketball a lot of the boys show up and conversely boys basketball um has a lot of the girls show up and we had a lot of team spirit last night would you not agree Miss Babcock may I add to that I want to say that that ever rolled in strong and the um 30 some odd cheerleaders were just phenomenal incredible and I want to thank them for being there and keeping the energy up for the whole game because they were great um we you know I
035I have to say they're being been more of ever than there was PC High there yester made great showing last night and we we have great and it was very stressful I agree but but definitely very proud of boys and our community so um Tide Rises as we always mention uh on a monthly basis we have students that are recognized here at the high school um Library um those students get nominated by faculty and staff because they have exhibited one of the attributes of of our Tide Rises program um this month it was self-awareness so we had the largest number of of um awardees if you will or recognized 19 students which meant 19 faculty members and staff members took time and recognized the student that exemplified the trait uh in self-awareness and we are
036building fine young men and women at ever high school this program is just one way to acknowledge that I have included um the what I usually put at your desk Dave puts together some pictures of the folks that um in events that we have taken in the previous week or two um so we had uh we have teachers and parents that often come to these U programs they get a little um little Trinket in acknowledgement Bel along with their certificate for the fine um to fine young men and women that they are and they're notifi noticed for that so I I uh I want to thank all the organizers of that and all the teachers and staff who continually acknowledge our students in this way we also had um the teddy peanut butter challenge as
037you all know Teddy peanut butter headquarters is here in Everett and they sponsor an annual event um and it's hosted down here in the Crimson Cafe and our students mostly culinary students participate in this challenge in which students put together and it doesn't have to be a dessert it could be a food item um and with made with peanut butter and there are Judges from our own staff and the teddy beanut butter company and our students put together um a great a great afternoon and uh some delicious treats and so uh we do that annually and so the winners because we have to pick a winner with judges was our Junior Jen Garcia Jen actually I talked with her today as well she made a churro stacked with peanut butter mousse and chocolate ganache which
038was phenomenal and then another Junior Milton Garcia he made a spicy peanut butter an orange chicken skewer over noodles so again it doesn't have to be a dessert it's a food item and um they really put their heart and soul into it and uh they were recognized by the folks from uh Teddy peanut butter and I want to thank Teddy for being a uh peanut butter for being a great partner here in Everett uh music events March is uh the National Music in our schools month and we have a lot planned for as you can imagine with the the robust um music program that we have and we have string night uh which is coming up uh on March the 4th and on March the 6th and those are broken up by grades um and
039these performance will be held here at the high school auditorium and they all begin at 6:00 we'll have that additional information on our website as well as um we will be doing some social media um surrounding I think it's already out Dave on uh the the March 4th so we're using social media also to get to um a wider audience and we we see some great responses from that we're also planning a family University um we haven't done this here I guess in a number of years but it's been traditionally called in the past parent University for those of you who either have heard about or participated in in it so now we're going to call it Family University and it's going to be held on Wednesday March 26th um at the Lafayette school from
0405: to 8:00 p.m. all prek to eight families will be invited to attend a free program that will um give folks folks in in multiple languages by the way opportunities for the parents and the caregivers to sign up for a number of different I'll call them workshops they're about 45 minute and they can select which ones they want to participate we'll offer some food and um allow our parents um some time to take some additional information in a one in a more personal way they'll they'll come to the school and actually hear from uh professionals across many topics from understanding your child's eye ready uh promoting bilingual uh education at home supporting your student with math so these are very specific ways in which parents can support their young their students uh through any one
041of these little sessions it will help them understand the role um and finally our um maybe not finally but our next regular meeting is going to be March 3rd so as you know we're kind of off cycle this this week so tonight is a Tuesday um we will meet next Monday back on our cycle of regular meeting times I guess it's been a practice of to to not hold the regularly scheduled school committee during a school vacation week if it should occur in that cycle and in this case it did so we didn't have a meeting last week Monday last night was a city council meeting so we don't hold meetings two nights um the same meeting the same night having two governmental meetings so we were meeting tonight however our cycle now starts again
042next um next week on on um March the 3D and finally um as you may all know I um have presented uh a couple of scenarios in the past about graduation day and graduation um has has been a time when uh we bring people together uh as a community and I know this last year we made it a very inclusive event by translating having live translation having all kinds of opportunities for people to participate and and find a more meaningful way of participation what we didn't realize or at least was never brought to our attention is that we had a number of students that can't participate on a Saturday because of religious reasons and last year um we had at least six that we're aware of that had communicated that they would not be able
043to participate this year we we already have a couple of families who have communicated with the school principal that they cannot participate on Saturday so I'm informing you that I'm going to change the date to June the 4th which is a Wednesday evening I've spoken to the police chief I've spoken to the chair of the board I've spoken to desie um I have as you know on the school calendar it is an asteris that this is subject to change the date um we fall within the the timeline that we can old graduation but this gives us an opportunity to allow every student who wants to participate in the ceremony to be part of it I don't care if it was one we have to give them an opportunity to participate and these young uh boys
044and girls couldn't do that this past year and um and for that I'm deeply sorry so this year I would like to hold it on June the 4th and I will have an internal meeting of the graduation committee here at ever high school um to plan that out and give everyone an opportunity to participate and have a Stella graduation so that is my report Madam chair any questions make a motion to oh I'm sorry oh that's okay Mr bars thank you and thank superintend for the update I fully agree we should have that on a Wednesday when you don't have at least one family who can participate we shouldn't do it um I just want to say that you might get call from some superintendent because I've shared their uh success with uh several Educators
045in a meeting with the Secretary of Education regarding uh School attendance there's a lot of superintendent concern especially with the latest um initiatives from the federal government um so that a lot of school districts concerned with attendance and kids not showing up and they said well you need to learn what Everett is doing so sorry thanks sorry but might get a few calls uh because I share in that meeting with the secretary and other uh superintendent of schools thank you so much thank you Mr baros any other questions of the superintendent if I may from the chair real quick um regarding tardiness and attendance I know I've asked before um of the superintendent some phone calls don't differentiate between late or absent which which creates Panic with a parent when you're getting a phone call
046and you don't know the difference um to just make sure that schools consider making that differ we are trying that's with the software and and thank you for mentioning that and the other thing it doesn't do is if you have more than one child in the district it doesn't differentiate the child so if you get a call and you're parent and happen to be at work and it says your child is either absent or tardy first of all you don't know if they're absent or tardy and secondly you don't know which child it is if in fact to have more children in the district so that is um an issue that we are addressing with uh the company that provides that service so that we can differentiate uh tardy we can differentiate because it's by
047around 9:00 that they get those calls we know the time we know the message but when you think about it it isn't clear enough so we are working with them to change that so thank you for also mentioning that tonight thank you very much my pleasure any further questions is there a motion make a motion to uh accept the report of the superintendent motion made by Miss babock seconded by Miss Barrow to accept the superintendent report and place on file roll call Mr Del baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss Barrow yes Miss Cristiano Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 80 80 motion pass superintendent the next order of business item number two is I'm requesting your approval of ever high school's Career Technical education admissions policy
048that was shared with you um in the packet just as a quick overview and if there's any more specific questions our director is here with us this evening sioban arah but um this document is just um there with some clerical changes but it's about a rotation of exploratory it's a change that was we gave our students more options to succeed and the timing of our our um scheduling was reviewed and changed and some of the language that we knew we needed to have Clarity on we changed to to Really match the Statewide language and policy so um those are the two major and I may not have explained it exactly the way you you may want to hear and I'm certainly happy to have Siobhan come up but um it just puts us in line
049with supporting our students and making it clear what the expectation is and matches the policy that the states require us to follow so I'd ask for your approval unless you have a question Mr baros I do thank you uh Madame chair superintendent uh you I'm sure know that Des is voting tonight same time as we are meeting now yes on uh proposed change that the governor is proposing regarding vocational schools admission SL C programs uh um which has been a long time coming because that's been unions advocates in schools asking uh for that kind of change how does that change that Des is considering tonight align with this that we are um voting tonight and if are they similar or in case that Desi approves um those change again we go to a second vote
050because they still need go to go through a public comment period but in case that they approve uh are we have to go back and adjust this based on those change or should we wait or not yeah no I think this is fine because this is just getting this ready but uh I did look at the proposed changes and I didn't match them one to one but they didn't seem because we got a final draft well a final copy if you will today through the commission's office and it's um they have now a listening Tour on the proposed policy I did forward it uh to uh Siobhan um arah and the principal so they're going to look at it probably much more in depth but um on the surface it doesn't appear to have any
051huge difference from what we have but I couldn't be detailed at this point because I haven't gone through the whole document but I accepting this is really and I I don't want to reduce it it's a it's housekeeping in some cases so it's not it's not really policy polic change it's an a procedural change internally about how we schedule our students um with rotation so the the policy that dictates CTE is not being changed by this document this is how we in everit follow the guidelines at this point and make that language more closely aligned but the real activity change is what we do with rotation okay and that gives our students more options to to explore the programs that we currently have now we have you know X number of programs here so you
052they have a chance to rotate through that to see which they like and we want them to get at 75 percentage you see everything you needed to see then you make the selection got it so we're not going to be um inconsistent ultimately with any change that's proposed the way I read it and if there is any change that come back this we can come back all right sounds good thank you yes so I'd request your favorable action thank you Mr baros Miss bcuk um the rotation that you're discussing is there a particular spot that we should address our eyes to in this document um if you go [Applause] to let me get to the page the program selection process kind of details um when in the exploratory 9th grade so the blocks that you
053see there um in effect tell you what a student um would take or what they would do in each of those grades so the rotation in and and Siobhan's here and maybe she can be much more articulate in that if you don't mind bringing shobana because she can be very specific about that missa motion made by Miss babock seconded by Mr Barrow to invite um CTE director Shan Aria uh before us roll call Mr Al baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes madame chair yes so move date Zero thank you welcome Miss arah thank you saon I was killing it so I want you to make sure it's clear it was very good so are there any specific questions or do you
054want me to explain how exploratory Works does is everyone familiar with exploratory at this school and how it works yes okay at least I am okay um so I can actually briefly say that exploratory is an 8-day cycle all freshmen unless they are in the seed Academy so the stem seed Academy they can opt out of it um they go through for eight days and then they rotate through um to the next program so for example on one of these Pages there is a little graphic um and it kind of outlines the process of where they're going so they might start in marketing and then after eight days in that class they'll rotate to employability and then they'll rotate from there to hospitality management and they go through all of the rotations and then the
055last rotation is a redo of the first rotation and we use that for students to make up work that they might have missed in a previous rotation so that last rotation is really helpful um for students who may have been absent for medical reasons or for just personal reasons um and they didn't like their grade in a specific rotation they can always make up that work and that's also the rotation that we do the um program selection in as well so that's a very brief um recap of exploratory Miss babcook um could you just explain what the change in the rotation was that that uh superintendent Hart was talking about so the last rotation um rotation 10 so we have 10 rotations we have nine classes I would say we have eight chapter 74 CT
056programs we added in a ninth um rotation called employability skills because it's important for students to have employability skills when they're going to college or the workforce uh so that last rotation rotation 10 is a redo that will allow students to make up work um and we do this for a lot of different reasons mostly it's for Equity uh so that students who want to improve their grade in a specific rotation maybe they were absent for that rotation um they can make up that grade and that could just be a student who really wants to get into culinary and they need that 75 to get in and maybe they're at a 71 um that last rotation allows them to contact the teacher and then make up that work to get over that threshold to be
057eligible for the lottery Miss Pap just for the public if you would explain that 75% just for the folks that are listening we see it on the paper but they they they could hear it as well that would be helpful absolutely so uh we at Evert High School have a lottery system for all CTE programs so there is no contacting students to get in we do not do that um and that is one of the changes that the department is talking about is across the board having a lottery system for every school um in the state of Massachusetts and we are already doing that here and we're not changing that and in this document you won't see that highlighted anywhere we're not taking the lottery away that is the fairest way to allow students into
058our programs um so to be eligible for our programs you need to pass exploratory which means go through all eight rotations and then the or all nine rotations and get a 60 overall so all of your quarterly grades are averaged out um into a final grade for the year if you pass that's step one step two when you fill out the acceptance um applic the grade you need to be eligible for that specific program is a 75 so if you rank your top eight and your first choice is culinary and your second is Hospitality management and your third is marketing if you got a 75 in culinary and that's your first choice you'll go into that Lottery automatically if you passed exploratory with a 60 and then passed culinary with at least a 75 and
059we have rubrics available as well um I'm happy to share those with you those have not changed since the last um policy approval so that is the same as was voted in last year okay thank you any further questions no make a motion to excuse our gas to F Mar tanks second second motion has been made by Mr Barrow seconded by Miss Barrow to excuse um CTE director uh Shian oia orah I'm sorry roll call I added an r or Mr alme baros yes and thank you thank you Miss Babcock yes Miss Barrow yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes madame chair yes so moved 80 thank you very much I make a motion to accept the recommendation with the city admission policy seconds motion has been
060made by Mr Barrow seconded by Miss Babcock to um accept the approval of the Ever High School's Career and Technical education admission policy full call Mr alme baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss Barrow yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 80 uh 80 motion passed superintendent the next order of business item number three acceptance of and in your packet and on your agenda it says $600 on donations from individuals in memory of Leo Barrett um as you know Leo Barrett was the father of our school principal Chris Barrett um to be director to the general scholarship fund but once this was printed we had a check that wasn't calculated it should be 850 so I'd ask you to amend the amount to$
061850 and then accept it uh to go into the general scholarship fund make a motion to accept the $850 donation from individuals in the memory of Leo Barrett um Madame chair if I may I'll make a motion to edit the agenda instead of $600 to $850 first second a motion has been made by Mr Barrow seconded by Miss Babcock to amend the agenda to reflect um 850 $ in a donation as opposed to $600 roll call Ma Madam chairman on the motion yes Miss crisano uh Madam chairman I'd just like to speak uh favorably on this uh Leo Barrett uh was a true ever uh son of ever I mean you know we all know Chris is his son but Leo was uh has been invested in ever his entire life before was passing he
062uh raised his family here in Everett he had a cab uh taxi company here in Everett but more importantly he was committed to Public Service you know he served on the common Council uh here in Everett as well as the board of Alderman and I remember when he ran for for mayor so he's truly a favorite son of Everett and um I can't think of a better way to salute him and honor him by this scholarship thank thank you madam chairman words uh roll call vote for the amendment Mr Al baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes madame chair yes so moved so moved motion passed is there a motion to yes make a motion to accept the $850 donation
063from individuals in the memory of Leo Barrett second motion made by Miss bcck seconded by Miss baros to accept the $850 donation from individuals in the memory of Leo Barrett to be directed to the general scholarship account roll call Mr Al baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 808 in the affirmative motion passed Mr superintendent the next order of business item four acceptance of a $2,000 Grant from the Boston Children's Hospital trauma and Community resilience Center this money um we use to train individuals here in our school district in um School threat assessment so I'd ask you to accept the $2,000 make a motion to accept um the 2,000 Grand from the B Boston Children's
064Hospital trauma and Community resilience Center second motion made by Miss Babcock seconded by Miss Barrow to accept the $2,000 Grant from the Boston Children's Hospital trauma and Community resilience Center roll call Mr Alita baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes Madam chair yes so moved 8 Z eight in the affirmative motion has passed Mr superintendent the next business Roman numeral 7 item submitted by school committee members item number one update on the feasibility study for the Massachusetts school building authority also known M as msba which is due June this is offered by Miss Babcock Miss BCU yes I would just uh bring up the feasibility study and clarify for the public the steps of the process of the of getting
065uh our a possible new high school being built I know we have passed through the first phase and the next part is to develop the feasibility report um to see if this we could move into the next phase so if you could explain that to the public that would be lovely great so the process started about 2021 when uh we were visited by Nas which is the New England Association of schools and colleges and one of their findings if you will or observations was that the current School building this ever high school was not sufficient to conduct um the kind of work that we're doing here in across the board as a comprehensive high school so their recommendation was to look at a better use of space and more space um then in 2023 the
066msba themselves did a what they call a senior study which is a walkthrough of this building and talk with staff in this building about what they do in the building how they program it the number of students so they look at all the kind of demographic information and they in effect would in invite us to consider as a city as a community um to um enter into the msba building authority process which was done um and it was voted on December 13 2023 um to authorize the city to enter into what they call the eligibility period um for a new Everett High School so as part of the eligibility period I'm just going to kind of go quickly through it the district and the city or asked to provide a number of items in order
067for them the msba to actually do the study to actually look at the feasibility of building a new High School in this city with the information that they ask us like any other District to provide them to incorporate all that information into what they would use as a report to the community so we've done um based on their guidelines and their timeline in July we had information that was due which is a compliance certification we had to establish a school building committee which was formed and we provided that in August of August 31st we revised our chapter 74 Vocational Technical education viability document which was done in September 30th of this past year then the eligibility uh period system access form it just allows us to look at the information that's been submitted so we've
068done that then there were enrollment questionnaires about what we saw for enrollment Trends and we provide those informations we we those are documents also that are backed up about what we provide to desie with our enrollment current and what we've had so that was done by September 30th we've held um enrollment meetings across the district um with our folks in here in the community and then we um provided documents also about our main M and capital items for this building and then there is um what they call evidence of the feasibility study vote by the city which um already occurred so we we are in the process and we are now waiting for kind of the next steps by the um msba you're now invited if you will to go to the next step or
069the next phase of the process um the fact that we've come this far I think is you know an indication that they as the msba believe that we should be proceeding but we do receive official notification from them about next steps so we had our part to do we've done it now we wait on them to review that those documents and to look at the kind of big picture here and um we move forward now don't forget to be invited to even participate in that you know several more than several school districts I think there were 13 at the time that we actually received the official invitation back in December of 2023 to move forward so you know there's maybe a hundred proposals by different districts um 13 or 14 got selected we were one
070of them so they see the value already and then we then have to back it up with documentation that's provided on a you know on a timeline and then they ask for clarification we they may ask us questions in between but everything is submitted that we have to do at this point um and now wait till the next step of Eligibility period is is um is moved M papot do you can you clarify what the next step of the eligibility period is or um I don't have that off the top of my head because I wasn't really sure where you necessarily were going with this agender item I thought um that you probably wanted a general I didn't hear anything specific from anybody but that is what I can tell you at this point um
071I think you know if uh if you want to look we can look it up and see what each of those phases mean I'm sure it's on their website but and I know that you do a lot of research on your own so I imagine that you probably maybe have done that already but I wanted to let you know I assumed that you wanted to know if we've met all the criteria up to this point and we have um actually I hadn't I did try to do some research on it and it was quite complicated so I thought that I would go back to you as the expert because I looked at it and I thought wow I'm an expert in education but not an expert in building surprisingly so I found it quite complicated
072so it's it it's not just one just document it's many things through phases in the feasibility period is what it sounds like am am I correct in my understanding many faces here after okay that's very helpful thank you very much welcome Madam chair we have the CFO from the city here Mr demon and if there is anything that he' like to add to what the superintendent already uh described uh i' would love to invite him to come before us I'll make a motion to invite Mr demon before us a second motion has been made and seconded to invite um Mr Eric Deus before us to answer some questions regarding the feasibility study roll call Mr Alita baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss baros yes Miss Cristiano yes yes Mr denafo yes Miss Garen yes Mr
073L Monica yes Madam chair yes so mve 8 zero so Move Motion pass welcome Mr Deus uh good evening thank you and first I want to apologize I forgot my suit jacket so um just wanted to offer my apologies I actually don't have anything um in addition to add the superintendent did a fabulous job recapping um what the school the district and the city have been working on the only piece of information just [Music] he [Music] you [Music] thank you welcome back we apologize for the slight Interruption as we've lost power we will uh continue the regularly scheduled meeting we are having a hard time getting uh Vice chair Cristiano back into the meeting so we'll just proceed as is which means we don't have to do everything via roll call anymore um Miss Babcock
074and Mr Deus take it away uh all I was saying is that the superintendent um did an excellent job um in covering where we are and how we got here uh the only bit of information I just wanted to add was that in addition to all of the other enrollment and school related data that we needed to provide to the msba as part of this process the phase that we're in is we also did provide uh financial information uh to the msba for their review specifically our outstanding debt all of our statement of indebtedness as well as potential future debt that we're going to have in future years so they're in the process of reviewing all of the information um that we have provided to them and as a superintendent indicated we're waiting to hear
075back from the msba once they complete their process to start the next phase and be invited into the feasibility phase Mr Baris thank you and thank you Mr Deon and just one question which I don't know if we are in that phase yet but where is the space around the city that we are considering uh this building or I don't know if we got that yet with them but where we are thinking about that these would be so you're correct we are not in that phase yet that's in the feasibility phase that we're the next phase that we're going to be entering got it got it makes sense thank you thank you Mr baros any further questions Mr uh nope make a motion to to excuse Mr Deus what the customer thinks second motion has
076been made by Miss babock seconded by Miss barrows to excuse Mr Deus all those in favor I all those opposed thank you we're all set thank you Mr Deus miss good advice avoid the elevator Miss Babcock your pleasure uh yes I actually would just like to to table this matter one of the things I wanted to to to discuss tonight was I wanted to make the committee slightly more familiar with the um Desi certification for nurses would you like to refer the feasibility study item back to I'd like to return that to sponsor feasibility stud return to sponsor second motion has been made by Miss B seconded by Mr Barrow to um refer back to sponsor the update on feasibility study for the Massachusetts school building authority msba which is due in June all those
077in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it uh Mr superintendent the next order of business item number two discussion about the department of Elementary and secondary education's certification process for school Nerf nurses offered by Miss Babcock Miss Babcock yes I wanted to um familiarize the committee with the certification process and and there is a um website that shows two possibilities um you know doing it post um graduation from RN or doing it as a dual enrollment and I wanted to uh be able to discuss I have a uh constituent who is an RN um a Desi RN in another district and uh they shared uh their experience and the benefit of being a dese uh certified nurse um I don't what I was hoping that would be shared or at least a copy
078of was just so that you could see the process if you look at it it is very similar to what other Desy certified Educators would do whether you're a nurse or whether you are a educator it's a similar process and I would have liked to have that in your hands so you could look at it so I'd like to table the matter so that we could provide just so that you could see the process and the link to the website so you can see in advance and then I'd like to share uh this constituent who's a Desy nurse's experience with you um and the the the pluses that that uh they have experienced in becoming certified the professional benefits and the benefits for children so that we're more um you know up to date and
079and understand really what that means I'd like to share that next time and move I'd like to make move to table this so that we can share the link to the the process you know I would just add um if if I could from my position you know I I explained what I thought the pros and cons with this were happy to share it Miss Babcock but we don't do that now so we the nurses at the at in Everett would have to say they don't want to be servicing us any longer for us to take any additional steps while I can appreciate where you're coming from it may be fa not I mean we'd have to have those nurses say we don't want to be part of this and we want to be you
080know your employee and if that happens we also have they have to wait a certain number of months before they can join an additional or different Union to come to us I just want to offer that because while we're laying this over again or laying this over to another conversation I'm not sure what we hope to do with it I want I guess I want to add too like would it become a conflict within unions I know my husband's part of a union so I know like sometimes it's like School against City I wonder if that would be a conflict uh I noticed Miss auger I know that you represent U the union and and J um maybe you could can you share anything with us if you okay is there invite Miss augar up
081to the meeting y make made and seconded to invite uh Kim auger the union president of the ETA before us all those in favor all those opposed the eyes have it welcome Miss auger sorry to put you on the spot thank you no that's okay um I'm happy to answer any questions I just wanted to specify that first of all we support our brothers and sisters that are part of our city Union um we've worked with them before on some contract negotiations but we are totally separate you know entities and unions the biggest part of this would be that if they did decide not to be servicing our students any longer and we decided to take them on the school committee decided to take them on on our end they'd have to be disassociated from
082their Union for six months before we would be able to take them on I knew there was a timeline here so we wouldn't be able to it's it's I hate the word but it would be considered raiding the union and we wouldn't be able we would not do that nor would we want to give them that opportunity not to be protected by their Union for that amount of time before they came and worked with us so I'm happy to answer any questions or at another school committee me meeting bring more information for you but that would be our biggest concern thank you thank you Miss bcuk um is there anyone who could advise us so so all of the nurs that work for the city are in a union already basically a professional Union um
083I did not know that that they were and that you would Union rating that is I had no idea that that was an issue um I just wanted to to continue to bring it up because I do think that there are certain benefits to it but given that Logistics that does put a hold on it I guess my question would also be is there a possibility um and I think that I'm not prepared really for this but is there a possibility or a conflict of interest in creating Desy nurse positions as well to see if we could attract more nurses you know through the school hiring as well I'm just because we are quite short I I have seen the advertisements for it it's lovely to see them everywhere um I have actually mentioned it
084to a few of my nursing students you know well maybe do you want me to answer or yes is that just a generic so so I I think you know I think you probably heard taking this action or or maybe even exercising this thought process could be considered union busting and I know you don't want to do that you work at a university I don't think that that would be a good thing to say I think I think you have to be careful with this I thought I gave you a good enough reason to why I thought the way in which we are currently serving is okay not that I would like having 11 nurses when we need 18 but I don't think what you're proposing and I'm going to outright say it clearly I
085don't think that that's going to get us any better yield of nurses in the schools a because of timeline just as I think Miss auger suggested they would we would have to in effect I would imagine and I'm just hey we don't want you here well I'm not going to say that to anybody right now then if we go out to recruit nurses we in effect would to your point be asking our new nursing staff that uh we would have to create our own Division if you will and and and higher nurses obviously at a higher rate because that's what's going to bring them in right High higher dollar amount to go through a testing and and maybe that's my personal bias I mean uh you know I mentioned to you that the qualification for
086Desi nurse is they have to they have to take the mtel exam on communication I know you and I talked offline about this that doesn't make them a better nurse it just means now you're desie qualified they pass national exams they take on um a Statewide or they take a state certification to be a nurse they come to us that way I'm glad that nurses in our district are willing to be paid what they get paid and do the job they do for us we need more nurses I know that the union has been working actively with the city to raise that wage to be more comparable to what nurses have paid right up the street at the former wooden hospital now col Cambridge Health Alliance Everett so that's the the battle I know other
087communities uh as you mentioned last time uh have Desi certified if you want to call them nurses um that's that's maybe something they've been employing before the nursing shortage and they're the same nurses I don't know the history all I know is ever's been trying we've been working working diligently they've supported our needs by augmenting it with outside nurses that are costing um the city a premium Miss Garen uh thank you madam chair um so I was actually at the city council meeting last night um and they had someone from HR come and talk about the nursing situation um and um as as far as Desi certification if if I'm correct um I believe there is an incentive there's a financial incentive that if if a nurse um obtains Desi certification there's I believe it's
088like a onetime payment of $5,000 um so by whom who who pays the 5,000 oh dear uh I I can't I can't actually answer that um a Desi Grand thank you um like like we do with nurses I EXC me staff that we're hiring um yes you can probably you probably get a better idea if you watch uh the the meeting from last night I think you can look that up on YouTube but um yeah that's all yeah they they've communicated with us about what so the city's look to us to reply to the same answers that you're asking you know it is about paying a wage that is comparable to attract nurses to to Everett um and that's really you know adding this other layer in I don't see currently the advantage to that
089yes do I want more nurses to support what we're doing here absolutely um I don't and I can I think there's a process and I think we're hearing part of the process may involve you know kind of union busting we don't want to do that um I will respect the union position with the nurses um I'm not sure uh quite frankly I'm not sure quite frankly why we want to get into that this this not fight but I don't know why we want to get into this I have I can see you know I can see if we were trying to eliminate people to come to us but we we want to attract people and I think this might be certainly a deterrent but that's my point of view Miss Babcock I just want to
090say I want to thank uh Miss auger for explaining that because I did not realize that there was this feasibility you know this period of transition that would that would would be completely ineffective I did not realize that that is why I brought this up because I wanted to talk about it I have spoken to there are a number of Educators in our school system that are RNs and they have said that that they are getting better benefits through being Educators than from being RN so hopefully the increase in salary that the the city hall is proposing will attract uh more uh teachers to our district the Desi um the Desi grant that encourages it I heard about that at the University as well because the nurse shortage isn't just us it's everywhere hospitals clinical
091sites um it's everywhere so you know anything to make the position you know more attractive I thought that being in a Dusty position would make it more attractive but given the union conflict situation it seems a lot it seems frankly quite impossible maybe the city will consider an incentive just like des's offering on a temporary basis at desie be that would be lovely right but that's for them to figure out we obviously have shared our concerns and shared our support as I've explained to you in the past that we want the nurses we we we're helping recruit with doing everything we can to support that um and I want them in our in our buildings um so we have them in our buildings but it's you know if someone's out sick then they they're trying
092to and as you know our field trip policy as it's come up uh I I can't have nurses leaving the building and leaving a building open when to send 40 kids on a on a field trip when there's 700 in a school no I I agree I I'm I just I'm think all I'm thinking is what can we do given especially the overcrowding of our school systems to attract an a an adequate number of nurses to cover the Acuity of our schools and it's it's just not enough and we we know how important our School nurses are so um and that we're you know paying catalo nurses to step in where we can but it's not enough to to not have permanent nurses that have a relationship with the with the students as well you
093know the school nurse is a a key is a key educator and provider in the school systems too to be a a place for the for the students and their families so well thank you for uh go go if I may from the chair is there anything stopping um Des certified nurses from applying at City Hall no no so anybody any nurse could apply pretty much if there's nothing stopping like this specific if you were a nurse in another District that wanted to come to work for us uh you could whether you have a Desi certification or not and the certification let me remind you is taking that test and applying for an additional license so the nurse has to spend money to take a test communication and literacy which have just finished school don't
094again I'm not going to try to aine here but and in another additional license to say they were Desy nurse to go to a district and apply for a job the incentive from what I think we're hearing came from Desi it was a Desi incentive program to attract nurses to become Desi certified but I I don't think that um that would preclude a Desi certified nurse from applying to a job at City Hall okay I mean I I'm I'm I'm assuming that that would be the case no one's going to say no to them any further questions Mr bars I have no question just thank Madam chair I have no question I have uh just a comment that I I actually uh thank my fellow school committee member from World 4 uh from bringing this
095up because it is a we just trying to find a solution for a problem that the superintendent is also trying to find no one can deny that we do not have enough nurses available so I think this discussion uh which it's good that bring us Clarity especially uh with Union relations uh it's it's it's a good discussion for us to have because we are just trying to believe that it's her intent um trying to find a solution for a problem that we have and we don't seem to find because that problem goes beyond us it is an issue because we have a shter of shortage of nurses not only in the a public schools but in hospitals across the state and across the country right covid left actually never left still around but left this
096this issue for us to deal with so I just wanted to command that's the correct word you for bringing this up because we just this is not the solution for it um but I want to commend you for bring this up because that's one of the ways that perhaps you're trying to do uh to see how we can solve this issue but I think the issue it is it is bigger than us it is an issue that it is out there it's a shortage of nurses more than a short shortage of nurses who want to work for the average public schools all the seity of everything so thank you Miss babcook uh uh through you to um Mr baros thank you for your support of my bringing this up the reason that I had bring
097it up and it's and it's it's unfortunate that it's not feasible is that I I fir I do believe that that there it is attractive to to because the school systems that do have uh Dusty certified uh nurses um that those nurses do get paid more they do have um more vacation time they are covered by the same benefits as uh the union they get to um also collaborate with the teachers I'm sure they're collaborating now because that's we we're all on the same level so I just brought it up and and I did want to try to figure out a solution because I know how important this is and I've recently you know read quite a few articles I have a number of students that are actually School nurses and they are talking about
098how stressful it really is to be overburdened uh when with of lack of of uh nursing teachers and part of it goes back to the fact that there's not enough nursing Educators to actually educate the nurses to put them back out there as well so it's it's it is a huge circular problem that that they we're seeing in healthcare and in education and I was I was thinking that this is a more attractive method but given the union conflict it there's not in unless someone can think of a viable solution to that that doesn't break any Union rules which I certainly don't want to do because I appreciate my union so much so thank you thank you Miss bcuk um from the chair I also want to say when you did reach out you found
099factual information from the Desi website explaining the certification shared it with me and it was not printed for this evening so for that I apologize uh make a motion to return to sponsor second motion has been made by Miss Babcock seconded by Mr Barrow to refer um item number two the discussion about the department of Elementary and secondary Education certification process for School nurses back to sponsor all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it motion passed Mr superintendent the next Roman numeral 8 item one finance and negotiation subcommittee meeting for Monday February the 3rd 2025 is there a motion make a motion to access the finance and negotiation subcomittee report please right motion has been made and seconded to accept the subcommittee report for finance and negotiations from Monday February 3rd
1002025 in place on file all those in favor all those opposed the eyes have it motion passed Mr superintendent the next order of business Roman numeral 9 bills and payroll make a motion to approve bills and payroll submit first submit sorry motion has been made second and seconded to submit bills and payroll in the amount of 1,721 n432 roll call Mr alme baros yes Miss Babcock yes Miss baros yes Mr denofrio yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica yes madame chair yes so moved 70 70 motion passed make a motion to pay bills and payroll motion has been made and seconded to pay bills and payroll in the amount of 1,721 943 and 29 roll call Mr alme baros yes Miss Babar yes Miss Barrow yes Mr denofrio yes Miss Garen yes Mr L Monica
101yes Madam chair yes so move 70 70 motion passed the next order of business um Roman numeral 10 unfinished business there is none Roman numeral 11 new business there is none Roman numeral 12 hearings there are none item 13 uh Roman numeral 13 matters for executive session there is none last item ran normal 14 adjournment make a motion to adjourn second second motion has been made and seconded to adjourn all those in favor I all those opposed the eyes have it we have adjourned at 8:08 thank you everybody have a good night [Music]