001to 100 . anymore until May 16th 2016 26 25 36 and corresponding credit balance between 26 725 identity account um 69. and our total of operating cash balance yeah Jill appreciate a motion to accept the cash balance we put in swimming a second questions comments all those in favor opposed okay all right so we have we only have we only have five microphones what they're trying to do is because they're having difficulty with the sound that goes out on Zoom they're trying to see if by having less microphones there's less Interruption between them so when you when it's your turn you talk if you just grab the microphone and put it in front of you between two people uh see if it works better okay this is Fitzgerald don't hog the mic okay uh consolidating
002cash Reconciliation Report evolving fund report budget report these are all in your packet or been given out to you do you have any questions this is the channel yes I had one question on um the warrant I believe it was for ADI for fire related fired related services and I was wondering if that was it was forty one thousand dollars in something so I was just wondering if that was going towards repair replacement of existing things or was that for new construction renovation of different shops who can answer that uh I don't have what what did it say in the warranty ADI was the name of the vendor and it showed that it went out on quotes but I couldn't discern what what department or whatever it was being used for um so it was
003it was goes on the Fidelity Grant and it was for fire alarms data security fire alarm and data security for uh did it say what out of one of the grants out of fidelity Grant so oh that that was equipment for um Electrical uh low uh low voltage program to teach kids how to install that as part of the program that's what that was for just wondering okay anything further all those in favor all right all right you would opposed okay donations uh you know Dell Foundation is please do a what greater launch technical school with a 250 000 Grant to purchase Robotics and automation equipment the foundation is dedicated to supporting educational programs that translate to near-term employment in professions with careers advancement opportunities funding the new equipment aligns with our goals and ex
004and by expanding student access to career and smart Manufacturing also a great donations great Alliance technical school was one of 300 schools from 36 States across the country to receive a five thousand dollar Grant uh through the Lara Bush foundation for American libraries mrsaro yes I have a question not about the wonderful Grant but just wondering if it's in the right category under donations we usually see things that residents or businesses have donated to us for use whether it's equipment and was this a grant reapplied for or did they just come knocking on the door and say here's some money for you is it a true donation I know France are a donation in such but I've never seen our grants listed under um donations before foreign so this was a foundation that uh basically
005uh contacted us and uh wanted to support the robotic automation program and so uh they wanted to provide um 250 000 to buy robotic equipment for that particular program um it wasn't something we were seeking they are this is one payment of two more payments in the same price range coming to us and this is a foundation that connected with us I believe through uh the Smith foundation work that we did with them and they've um same thing with the Fidelity grant that we've gotten so through our relationship with them um that's how we receive that funds thank you no public participation superintendent uh this evening to prove it so you uh we received the new Wellness uh policy uh for your review last week and the changes that were put in it I asked
006Mike Nelson to come this evening to answer any questions you may have had relatives to this new policy Mike was overseeing the work that was done in this policy thank you any questions yes a question as such but I would like to see if this gets approved tonight that all our other policies that it's actually dated when it that that we did it and acted upon it um and I've asked for that before but I think the print material should save at that point accepted on May 23rd 2023. promotion yes I I move that we accept the um policy as submitted and that we include the date of today's date as accepting it so the second discussion all those in favor so um as my goal for school year 2023-24 uh it was to develop
007a new five-year strategic plan which was due for a vote uh or it was due to you today so you have a copy in front of you in this vanilla folder of the Strategic plan the five-year strategic plan um I will say that this there's a cover letter that I put in there and then there's also our uh our uh what do we call it uh theory of action Our God command this is our theory of action oh yeah theory of action I'm trying to remember what we called it our Theory theory of action that goes with it it kind of outlines uh the plan and then the plan itself this plan was developed uh with uh pretty much input from our total staff uh teachers administrators um Everybody in the facility in the building
008had an opportunity to weigh in on on this particular plan uh and their recommendations suggestions was uh forwarded to the nine Focus area committee who then uh spent the last couple of months working out and developing the plan uh based on the format that I put together for the Strategic plan itself I think it's a little more comprehensive than we've had in the past yes but IT addresses I think some very critical aspects of where the school needs to address over the next five years to ensure that we meet the needs of our students educationally and our community needs as well moving forward so I did a I have a short PowerPoint I'll give you you can look at this over over the next couple of weeks and then next meeting we can vote on
009it and any recommendations or thing changes you'd like to add to this feel free to email me forward me any of your thinking or anything that you'd like to see added or changed in the plan but before we meet in the next two weeks and I can look at it review it and then possibly included in the plan if we've missed something or you think something needs to be expanded upon a little bit more in terms of each aspect of it this is this info ambitious well thought out all of those things but as we embark on these steps to make it happen I was wondering what the plan is and how frequently we every three months uh quarterly whatever how often would we hear either how on track we are if there are stumbling
010blocks what are they what can we do to make it happen um things that have already been done things that are underway so how are you planning to report back that is um something I guess not to be included in the plan but in an overview of how you report back to us and to the community so it's not familiar if you look on the if you look on the very last page of the plan you'll see there's what's called Financial considerations so uh what I'm going to be looking for also is a committee's a vote to approve just have a line item in next year's budget of fifty thousand dollars uh to um ensure the implementation of this particular plan because we know there's a lot of work so Sue and I met today
011specifically to talk about how do we ensure that this plan is implemented and that we follow through on each and every uh aspect of the plan so uh it will be driven by our administrative team it will be bi-monthly there will be a specific line in our agenda on our operational meetings to review each of the focus areas where we're at on it so the focus areas will also will be having a uh the direct the chair of the focus area committee will be chairing in a committee to implement their aspect of the plan to ensure that it's implemented so we'll be having ongoing meetings and continue our committees to uh to meet on an ongoing basis the report will then be reported out at the uh by by monthly meeting and after that report
012is completed I will do a report to the committee uh on a byway by monthly uh uh time frame as well so every two months I will give you an update report on how the Strategic plan is working I'll outline that I'll put an outline on how we're going to implement that in the uh in the Strategic plan as well the financial consideration um I just thought to put in at the end of the day today I haven't even spoken to Melissa about putting that in the budget oh when she heard she ran out but actually uh it's just an estimate we're not sure like I I we started to look at all the different Focus areas and committees and work that needs to be done so um uh that's why I put 50 000
013as a starting point I believe that for this first year that will get us off the ground and then uh if for some reason we find that there's some kind of aspect of the plan that needs to be funded uh that's not funded and we can come back to the committee and ask for an increase in that line item but um that's the intent of how we're going to ensure that this plan is implemented and followed through is that close to its stipends materials what is that and it could be any one of those things it could be stipends materials Consultants um we're not we haven't uh broken that down yet that's the next step that I have to take some time with the plan and put a uh just determine you know what are
014our next steps in terms of implementation we haven't really sat down to develop an implementation plan yet so that's the next step of the plan so how do you know the fifty thousand dollars of covering well that's an estimate that's just an estimate it may not be I'm I'm estimating that it should be enough considering some of the Committees and uh some of what we looked at quickly a lot of some of the funding is already built into the budget so if you look at some of what's in there uh uh like the mtss work to curriculum work we already have money in the budget to the for curriculum development which is in this plan so a lot of the funding needed to implement this is already built into our next year's budget yeah sure
015yeah I can do it now just so people can yeah in case there are questions [Music] so I might have given you some of this information in the past but I thought it was important to kind of highlight what the process was for this particular development of the Strategic plan first uh Focus areas were identified and utilized uh they aligned to the dse's district standards and indicators for uh uh perform High performing School stakeholder feedback collected from students from families from Community from staff Focus areas identified for the glts Strategic plan was the next order of business uh superintendent Lavoy presented each identified Focus area to the stakeholders nine strategic plan committees consisting of administrative and teacheth co-chairs as well as various stakeholders the Strategic plan committee conducted research with available data held planning meetings
016identified goals identified outcomes held open meetings and presented a draft to superintendent boy the final five-year strategic plan within all the data and information presented was then developed into the document that you have in front of you um focus here committee process step one was the multo multiple data source analysis condition of school Effectiveness survey Panorama survey glts Equity audit and the current educational research and Etc that we in other uh data points that we utilize in collecting data step two was overarching goal statements created based on the available data step three was the core strategies created based on available data step four where objectives outputs outcomes created step five was Garner staff feedback and step six was based on feedback and further data analysis final finalizing all Focus areas of the Strategic plan identified
017Focus areas for the Strategic plan one was leadership in governance two curriculum instruction and assessment three teacher recruitment four teacher retention five Workforce Development six student support seven School culture and climate eight finance and asset management and nine increasing access the first one was leadership and governance the goal statement was to establish and maintain procedures that strive to increase transparency and communication regarding decisions and the implementation of policies for all stakeholders including students families staff elected officials support organization and business and the business community core strategies increase for this particular Focus area was to increase transparency and communication to families regarding decision policies affecting students increased transparency and communication regarding decisions affecting staff three increased transparency and communication to all stakeholders regarding decision policies made by elected officials and for increased Communications too and supportive
018Community organizations and the business Community we serve so just with this in mind we had four strategic uh core numbers there or plans in the plan if in going through this strategic plan if there's something that you find would be uh important or advantageous for another Court strategy just feel free to email me and we'll we'll take a look at it curriculum instruction and assessment a goal statement to develop and Implement a vision for curriculum instruction and assessment at greater Lawrence technical school in order to provide students with high quality instructional materials rigorous standard aligned instruction in a variety of methods to assess their Knowledge and Skills the core strategies one design and or Implement high quality curricular and instructional materials that are fully aligned to the Massachusetts DSE framework and include relevant diverse bias-free
019resources develop an instructional toolbox of evidence-based priority instructional practices for implementation of all grade levels and content areas three expand current assessment methods to include universal screen diagnostic progress monitoring common and performance-based assessment methods Etc to provide a more comprehensive view of student achievement teacher recruitment goal statement to increase the amount of qualified applicants to a variety of methods one increase the number of applicants of diverse backgrounds in faculty and staff over the next five years develop part two develop Partnerships to increase the number of Staff applicants for vacant and or new positions three Provide support for applicants in determine what their needs are in order to be able to be employed at glts for develop a recommendation for glts Norm for applicant selection and interview process that REM into viewing process that removes biases
020teacher retention goal statement in the next five years glts will put in place systematic structures that assist in their retention of academic and CTE teachers one expand the support provided to newly hired Educators to attain professional status to expand the support provided to teachers with four or more years of service three build and sustain an environment that supports and acts on the voices ideas and opinions of its teachers of color four Workforce Development a goal statement build jlts to be a recognized Workforce Development Hub in the community one increased connections with employers two provide students with additional supports to successfully access access Co-op positions or employment three all Industries are pivoting towards eco-friendly low carbon strategies to be more resource efficient glts needs to integrate will integrate advancements in each shop to in the relations
021to the resources of efficiency four recruit more industry professionals to teach after dark and adult Workforce Development and use this as a pathway to a licensed teaching career four continue to build post-secondary opportunities at glts to reach goal and being a Workforce hub for the community building upon after dark and entry-level technical skill training and provide more advanced training in post-secondary options student support six goal statement glts recognizing the importance of taking a holistic approach to supporting educating students will address the academic social emotional and health needs of all students through Equitable and targeted action that are integrated in all aspects of the educational environment and programming core strategies develop and Implement a comprehensive career planning model that addresses the unique needs of all students and is integrated throughout the CTE and academic curriculum with
022support from guidance special education and multo multilingual Learners departments two provide the necessary support that all students need to achieve success by systematically addressing academic emotional and Behavioral concerns fostering increased student access and a safe and supportive School climate three provide more opportunities for students to become involved in the extracurricular activities and connected with the school community seven social culture and climate I mean School a goal statement to transfer the school culture at greater Lawrence technical school to Foster an environment where diversity belonging equity and inclusion are at the Forefront of the district develop and share vision for d e d b e i at glts create clear expectations and standards for communication and behavior for staff and for students promote diversity blowing equity and inclusion three provide professional development to support staff in fostering
023a learning environment that is culturally responsive and rooted in diversity belonging equity and inclusion for research and Implement student support team models inclusive of restitative restorative practices and conflict resolution strategies to promote positive relationships five incorporate student voice and student leadership in the decision making and school governance uh a it's Finance Finance uh Go finance and asset management management prioritizing budget allocations to ensure student learning and health needs are met one we do student teacher ratios and maintain smaller class sizes to expand involvement in the budget development process three develop comprehensive inventory systems for expand involvement in obtaining grants and five improve energy conservation practices uh nine increasing access one goal statement to increase Community Access to Greater Lawrence technical school in order to provide opportunities for our sending districts core strategies expand our current
024CTE courses for after dark and adult learning as well as the allotted slots per school year to create Pathways provide the community with educational programs English language Learners U.S citizenships financial literacy technology literacy college process driver's ed and other soft skills to increase access to CTE programs create creating early experience opportunities for middle school students to explore shops and four expand CTE Pathways for current C grade Lawrence technical school students Financial considerations and that's as I said an estimated budget line item requesting a new budget line item for the Strategic plan looking for fifty thousand dollars as an estimate and the primary identified costs research and development of focus areas and their strategies uh strategic plan coordination strategic plan oversight as needed development of subcommittees has outlined its strategic plans additional details will be provided
025after strategic plan workshops with the administrative leadership team in the summer of 2023. and I think that's it uh in addressing some of the concerns with um well first of all I want I want to say a sincere thanks sincere thanks to the entire uh uh School uh Community for all the effort and work that went into this and a very special thanks to all our our uh committee uh leaders the chairs and the co-chairs for the work that they did the enormous amount of time and work went into this uh hundreds of hours were spent developing and put in putting this together and um and I think I think the a positive aspect of putting this plan together is I think we have our entire staff invested in its success because our entire staff
026had a part of developing this and I've had many comments from staff that felt that the process was one of of uh equity in itself and they felt good about being part of the process so I look forward to uh putting this in place over the next five years and uh finding a great launch Tech uh being in a better place in five years than we are today and our students finding more success than we've ever had uh any welcome to answer any questions or concerns at this point how many members are going to take that document anyway we're going to vote on it at the next meeting yes any questions or comments um so I'm missing some of those documents that you just had on the screen I'm expecting yeah well I can send
027you this one as well or I see the comprehensive and that's great but that needs to go along with the core statements that you had there to be able to you know follow along what needs to be done in this one okay um yes we will get a copy of this slide to you peace to the second to last slide thank you yes so um item number two is that U.S citizenship and so forth is that going to be for the uh adult program yeah this slides is just doing an adult program it's a taxi it should be the total school so uh this particular slide I would say uh we may add more strategies course strategies to it um you will see this one was one of the very last ones that I worked
028on but um I will that I met with with the team on so um as I read through here I I could see a few other points I'd like to put in there so I'll I'm going to add a couple of bullet points and send them to you okay so I I just want to add a few more uh regarding uh how we plan on providing more access to the day program so the day program would be adult Day program um what about the adult program we're going to have XML access so looking at citizenship in particular because I know that there's a big push right now for citizenship for adult Learners um are we putting a program together for um citizenship and immigration for that well but yeah I can't hear what you're saying
029Frank but we are the one thing I will say that this particular plan doesn't get to the specifics of what kind of programs what that we will be adding but we'll be looking at all our Workforce Development programs and looking how they can be expanded uh as part of this work and what we found success and what we haven't found successful in the past uh and where we have to expand in building also on building more relationships with the uh organizations that we work with for Workforce Development that'll all be part of the work that we do so my my comment question was U.S citizenship and I know we're especially Lawrence in other communities we're looking to expand um citizenship access for immigration so my my question is are we gonna either partner with an
030organization that does U.S citizenship for adult Learners yeah yeah attend the plan it's in the full plan but what you're what you're speaking to okay yeah yeah Frank uh you made a request that you wanted a copy of the PowerPoint uh yes okay yeah there may be there's additional um there's more that's just a highly this is this slide was just a highlight of the plan itself there's a lot more detail and information in the plan that's more specific yes but you put that in the form of emotion that every member gets a copy of the PowerPoint please yes and I make that in the form of motion you have a second second discussion all those in favor sure thank you very much thank you okay moving right along superintendent uh once you get back
031to your seat the superintendent evaluation it was great you're right all the might sound we um so we put it um I asked Sue to put in the packet uh the uh superintendent's annual evaluation form it's the same form we used last year so that's the form that you see in there that you can um utilize this particular form we can send it to you electronically if if it's easier for you I'll I'll uh I'll well Sue's not in this rest of this week but I'll get it I'll email it to you tomorrow a copy of this electronically to make it easier for you and if you have any questions or concerns regarding and we could send you last what you uh put in last year's if it makes it easier for you if you
032want to see what you put in last year I could send that to you as well if that's helpful to you when there's that feedback uh we were going if you could uh submit it well we have to just to decide who you want to submit the your uh when you've completed the form who you'd like to submit it to committee last year I think went did it go to you Leo so whoever the committee would prefer to if you wanted to go to the director or if you wanted to go to sleep alley show me the keeper of whoever the committee would like to be the keeper Nation so I will that we submit the forms to Sue so that the chairman and can then compile them with Sue I do have a question
033and maybe it was already said will sue be sending this to us electronically so we can write on it and then submit it yes along with last year's thank you yes in the form of emotion Al I suppose yes um so moved second discussion um yes two things the first one is just under the hotel um I believe that's not two thousand dollars a night for four nights it's a total of five hundred dollars a night for four nights equaling 2 000 but it reads differently on here so would I be correct in that okay and the second thing is um this certainly is a wonderful opportunity that the committee is giving you but I wouldn't want it to become this is almost like a once in a lifetime thing when you're at your level
034of position to go to these national conventions um just as I said about the trainer who is going to a um I wouldn't want it to be an every year request but this is a wonderful opportunity of the uh hotel or whatever you want to call it survival yeah out of state travel Mr police office and constructive and head coach of football and drafted to be traveling to Exeter High School next to New Hampshire on July 15th February 7th 87th tournament total cost of 500 this is a 500 registration fees almost a recommendations second discussion all over the table all right uh policies this will require with both pressing a motion on Section B eec executive sessions so I'll move the recommendation [Music] knowing that it has been reviewed by our two-person committee for a
035second second second discussion uh can excuse me new business then cable matters is uh no just the thought under new business um I am not even sure if this where it would come but I I know we're struggling in this room and people struggle to hear us at home until we can totally resolve the problem could we kind of maybe end the year where we were meeting before where there wasn't the feedback I know that a superintendent has brought in sound people to remedy this problem but when um Frank was speaking earlier I couldn't hear what he was saying so I think one of the problems is Right within this room we can't hear each other so that helped so cool he took care of your request um big difference big difference okay I'll withdraw
036what I said if we can keep the fan off hang on uh cables big monkey Distributing to off the tables there is any emotion to discuss the move to take it off the table second second I was opposed Kate wants to discuss it I do yeah I think we should try it and if we see after two or at the most three months that this just isn't working work is piling up and there's too much all in one meeting then we go back to the twice a month meeting but I I think it's worth trying starting in our um September I know we meet in August but September would be the first time where we'd have two meetings but in this case we'd have one um I'm willing to try that Facebook I would just
037uh I would say that um giving it a try for a couple months uh would be a good idea I do believe um we're able we would be able to um get what we need to get done within the time of month one month frame once we have a routine and a process in place that we know we're meeting once a month we'll schedule around knowing that in terms of what goes on the agenda and what needs to happen on a monthly basis and then we can do the um the warrant uh on online anybody else yes and I'm gonna propose it because we have especially coming up within the next couple of months we have a lot of heavy stuff that we have to move um we mean it once a month a lot
038of that's going to fold within the between the cracks so and a lot of them could actually week with me on the time that that's past the time getting stuff done so I agree with shot but I do think like in September May and September June um you know after school um a move that we um give a trial basis to one meeting a month starting in October that we meet in August two meetings in September and then starting in October go to one meeting a month for a trial of say three months and uh review it come December the motion level Center second second any further discussion right there yes I'd like to see a schedule John if you make a schedule on Maryland's suggestion two hours and months in the 201 meetings yes
039thank you Google schedule um I know habits so that's a good idea of this schedule that means we're going to review by what you just said at the end with him and then we're going to make a note of this okay no yes Sharon yes yes yes personal considerations with the Nations League of actors and finance job postings uh this is our information local ladies and gentlemen uh summer position one painter four electricians two quarters four characters two landscapers to give a lot of communication CDA annual positions he held some of our programs up to four teachers and four professionals to support an email summer program is our annual position for both of them okay enough for these following need to be voted on Johnson looking to have two individuals who will take guidance records
040and scan them and this and then destroy the records that are no longer needed foreign so moved okay second discussion yes I I thought there were other times when we have had these same things the person that destroyed the records that um so why is it a new position or are we having more people do it uh we've never done it with guidance records before that that we've scanned them and uh we've done other records but not guidance okay thank you all right um but ratings they even work in collaborations remembered from the end of school years in engines of the month of August to develop to plan for the implementation or grading practices so the 2023-24 school year the committee members will provide staff input and prospectus perspective for child care center oh wait
041that's wrong development of an implementation plan so moved for a second second discussion all those in favor all right okay we're opposed three assistant teaches John so we're looking for three assistant teachers for child care center Monday through Friday 7 to 3 30 p.m at the 10-month position is twenty two dollars an hour starting September 2023 and uh the cost of this will be covered by the uh revenue of the staff who utilize the uh Child Care Center promotion please so moved second discussion yes Mr show are we posting these because our um free registration indicates that they're going to be needed or is this anticipation um I think it's it's it looks like we're going to pretty much fill this each level at the way it's looking right now it's some uh anticipation but
042we're seeing a lot of Staff registering already we feel like if for some reason we don't need a third one or uh a second one then we'll only go with the one so we'll wait towards a little longer before we post it to see what the final outcome will be thank you anything further aye um one custodian maintenance custodian contract new position the need for this is roping up the new cafeteria and we have a custodian that works a cafeteria so the funding for this will come out of the cafeteria account should be able to come out of the cafeteria account from the revenue we we uh obtain a little motion please so moved second from where second second discussion I proposed uh one school counselor for CBA this is a new position due to
043the increase in student population will be at 1800 um we're looking to uh put on one more uh school counselor we've added more academic teachers but we haven't added support staff so we have a request from director of of Admissions and guidance in order to maintain the same student teacher ratio I mean same student guidance Ratio or close to what we have this year moves of recommendation second second discussion okay future gender items and ladies and gentlemen okay this kind of shows something more than go to the executive session for the purpose of collecting body so moved second close the table all right hey bro same rule foreign yes hey I understand you know hello if we were to stand here yes corner go back support [Applause] oh yeah foreign all back on right everybody
044has to put that thing back on put it back in a regular session she'll accept the motion uh concerning the map I moved to approve the memoranda of understanding with the administrators Union second discussion okay all those in favor aye opposed no no you call the rule would you have a moment please all right yes no Mr Hayden yes no emotions fails uh this time the chair accept the motion to adjourn so move sex all those in favor thank you very much ladies and gentlemen you know hmm okay when's the work night 15. in the prom if you're available you want to go to prom then on June 6th huh no no I don't know what is prom June 1st Oh no I got a meeting today