001you stop it dude hey good to call the meeting to order would you please join me in a pledge of the flag at the remains standing for a moment of silence I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation one of God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please keep in your thoughts this evening uh retired employee long time employee Don Mason is recovering from a very serious operation but he is recovering we wish him well and Mr Mike Ramos Plumbing instructor passed away and also the men and women are protecting us around the world hey thank you very much when you have a moment would you call the roll for the purpose of attendance please Miss disler has to hate
002him Mr Cirillo Miss Fitzgerald Mr LaMontagne here okay superintendent very nice part of the meeting the exceptional Reggie for this month would you uh please present please so this evening we haven't had a uh we haven't had an exceptional Reggie for a while but we're fortunate tonight to have one of our dead and toe assistant a career student uh with us tonight that we want to recognize her name is Michelle but Batista Michelle has been a student at greater Lawrence region great Lawrence Technical High School since September 2019 she's studying in the dental assistant career program she is OSHA and CPR first aid certified and has extensive skills in her career area along with experience in patient care record keeping sterilization and infection control Michelle has had field placement experience at Dental Arts in Lawrence
003Mass and is currently employed at Andover Pediatrics as a dental assistant in Lawrence through our Co-op education program Michelle has been successful in her academic and career area coursework at greater Lawrence with a 4.43 GPA is currently ranked second out of a class of 405 students in the class of 2023. Michelle has enrolled in our concurrent enrollment class with Middlesex Community College and will graduate from high school with nine undergraduate credits Michelle was awarded to Boston College book award as a junior due to her outstanding academic and community service record Michelle was also our school's nominee for the MVA m-a-s-s-cte secondary student award for the school year 2022-23 Michelle has made contributions to our school Community outside of the classroom as a Reggie leader and a member of the interact Club the interact Club through
004its work with the local Rotary Club has sponsored events in community service in the City of Lawrence Michelle has also given to her community outside of school by volunteering at veterans breakfast to recognize local veterans at the Andover Elks Lodge Michelle is also part-time as a part-time cashier at Market Basket in her very busy schedule congratulations to Michelle I'd like to present it with the certificate foreign thank you very much thank you for choosing great allowance to come to Greater Lawrence very good okay moving on the minutes from January 17th I have a motion on those please second discussion all those in favor and he would opposed okay oh can you call a roll please for the uh the minutes please Miss Fitzgerald yes Miss disler Mr Hayden Mr cirilla yes Mr LaMontagne yes thank
005you okay Mr DiStefano all right cash balance report please okay before we had deposits from January 11th to February 7th less payroll on January 19th over tonight number 32 October 2nd of 39 000 and 830 please spot 824 Downs on February 7th 2023 or 2903 and corresponding ten thousands in the same day at 29 893 731 spot 32. you know mmdt account on January 10 2023 he had nine million 466 9 10 Gene two 25. jail accept the motion discussion opposed thank you very much Gary our Consolidated cash reconciliation it was a handout given involving funds in your packet budget resources in the packet are there any questions on any of those uh documents okay Ms Martel about budget transfers please yep so the budget transfers are in your packet I broke them out by
006salaries and expenses so the salary journal entries are basically cleaning up all the accounts that have negative balances and I'm using [Music] some positions that were funded by Perkins reallocating to administrator positions to the correct budget line and then the rest of the revenue is coming from positions that weren't filled on the expense entries it's the same thing cleaning up all the negative balances and then fixing a couple of accounts on the credit side that when the budget was built I think the account numbers were used in error okay you have a motion please so moved second discussion yes um I understand totally why budget transfers happened I was just concerned that as much of it went into salaries as did versus program expenses or whatever so I was wondering um what that situation was
007that we either hadn't budgeted or we have new positions but um it seemed like a fair amount of that money was going into salaries so on the salary side so I I look at the budget I always look at it salaries and expenses so I kind of look at it as two budgets so to break it out this way is kind of just for me to keep it organized but on the salary side I like to see where the overages are and where I have savings so a lot of the savings came from two positions that were funded by a grant this year that were budgeted for but then we moved to a grant and then some of it is just reclassifying like positions that were originally on one line I've moved them to another
008and then there were some savings from positions that weren't filled or were filled mid-year so I'm just kind of like sweeping through those accounts and putting the money where it belongs if I'm reading this correctly on the first group of transfers into the credit side um the uh in discipline the professional salary had uh 142 000 put in that was one that caught it then same thing in the athletic department the uh was a large transfer again and so was that an additional so I reclassified um Miss Gillis when she was put into a different into an assistant principal role so I changed her account number okay so there was an overage there but a negative amount where I put her so this just corrects that and the same thing on Athletics thank you you're
009welcome I see here there's automotive equipment I'm imagining it's for the new part of the building but wasn't all that already budgeted there's twelve thousand dollars going into supplies which I can understand the supplies increase but automotive equipment for ten thousand six is that for the new portion of the building this little boy yeah we have I've had some requests from some of the Departments to buy some additional I can that might have been for a lift they asked to buy they asked to uh get a specific lift per to uh uh that they wanted to change one of the lifts to a different type of lift and because we had uh we felt as though we had excess money in our account this year that we couldn't move it into this year's budget so
010that's why you're seeing uh that added into this year's budget where you see it as a debt sort of uh transfer the money in to cover that that request anything further all those in favor aye you want to post okay Mrs Martel I believe you're still up I think it's to is it to reload the budget yeah the revoke yes okay I'm sorry yep that's fine um so with the completion of the fiscal year 22 end of the year report um I discovered that we didn't meet net School spending by about 1.6 million but we were under the five percent so um just remain compliant with Chapter 70 we need to reallocate that money to our budget this year so I'm asking to re-vote the budget at um the 39 million oh 53 523 which
011was our foundation budget plus an additional 1 million 616 887 which is the money that was unspent from fiscal year 22 that we need to move to fiscal year 23. of emotion please so moved a little second um it's about to tell uh well that also will affect the communities won't it won't affect the community's uh being very strong okay yes uh Francis Frank it's okay Leo thank you um and I understand that we need to um vote on this but I don't have any documentation showing the numbers what's that I can give you a copy of the end of the year report which shows the 1.6 carryover into fiscal year 23. so I can give that to all of you okay is that a deal breaker refranka I mean I'm going to move forward
012with it or what I mean you're still going to get you the information but let me just say delete oh you have it here okay can we move forward with it or do you want to table it I know we have to but it's not the end of the year yet so I don't think it's a make or break thing but okay anything further on it all those in favor anyone opposed thank you for Communications donations 2007 Toyota Tundra valued at six thousand four hundred and seventy five dollars donated by Mr Vernon Stevens from Andover in a 2007 Volvo valued at three thousand four hundred dollars donated by Miss Jillian gray also from Andover I see no articles here and uh don't believe any public participation uh John your report please update on the new
013program approvals please so um we got a final approval of the department we got a final approval from the Department of uh DSE on Aviation child care and programming were all approved and uh we're now working on Part B which is due on March 3rd so between the part B approval to getting ready for part I mean part A approval getting ready for Part B approval very short window with a lot of work to do so we feel good about getting that work done but particularly in the aviation program there's an enormous amount of work that we have to do to prepare for Part B once Part B is approved then the next aspect will be for the Department of Ed to come in in May to do an inspection of the space that that
014the programs will be located as well as looking at curriculum and doing a safety inspection of the space meeting with our advisory committee for those programs as well that'll all happen in May and then once that's completed we'll get a final okay to start the program in September so we're on target we are meeting just every day our CTE team is meeting um for a good part of the day to work on the project of getting part be completed and ready to go so there are some action steps that we have to take in order to be ready and prepared in which I will be requesting a vote from the committee a little further into the meeting around Aviation for the most part Child Care space is looking pretty good in programming um determining where
015that program will be located uh looks pretty good at this point as well so I think we're in good shape for those three programs looking good to open them next year at this point anyways but still lots of work to do to to finalize everything questions uh concerning them anything okay John the uh the purchase of a a hanger for Aviation please so um one of the one of the main requirements for us the probably the biggest challenge we have is aviation in having finding a home for them out at the airport we have to in order to get that program approved we do have to have a hangar we are also building some space here a hanger space here at glts which will take you know a year and a half to two years
016to complete but there is a hanger for sale out at Lawrence airport it's on the market for 320 thousand dollars I've been in contact with the owner and a representative who is doing the work to sell the hanger for them um and um I at this point what I would need from the committee is a vote to continue negotiating the purchase of of that Hangar um in order to have that space ready for uh to put in our report for Part B that we do have uh in fact a space that we're going to deliver that program instruction for that program so um I would entertain a vote from the committee to move forward on on that there's recommendations recommendation on the table about purchasing a hanger for our new uh Aviation programs have a
017motion on that please have a motion so move have a second Zoila you have a question oh sorry I didn't hear hanger they basically like a big garage where you keep their airplanes in yep y'all set Joe my Mr Hannah Mr Lavoy you said we're going to building space here where we would be building the space here would be connected to one of the buildings or is it out back yeah so if you remember we put in for a a grant uh we put in for five million dollars next to the pool yes which we were approved for four million so that's where we're going to build this the uh space uh here at the school for the hangar it'll include a space to uh to do teach the students how to repair airplanes but
018also have some classroom space as well as part of that plan also we did some we got some preliminary drawings done for the back of the school for two smaller additions to add more classroom space because in increasing student population to for these three new programs means also a need to increase space for classrooms as well so that uh we had preliminary drawings which were sent as part of this grant proposal when we got the grant the drawings for the aviation program and the two spaces were submitted as part of this grant for approval so uh utilizing the funds for those three projects have been approved by the state to utilize that money and then we also anticipated using some of our Esser dollars that are being which we'll have to put some amendments in
019so we looked at that as well and we're also looking at possibly going to our cities and towns which uh we may be an option uh we're working we're waiting for the Architects to get back to us on some more concrete numbers on the costs they gave us some preliminary numbers but um more concrete numbers that now that we have approval to move forward from the state on these programs we're working on those numbers now to come up with more concrete to see if we need to maybe ask for a little more Capital Improvement money in this year's budget we may be okay we may need an extra 500 000 we may need an extra million but we're trying to figure that out now the new classroom space will be dedicated to the aviation program
020uh no the English maths what academic programming as well as some related Theory program for the aviation program and some of the other programs but also includes space for academic programming what's up excuse me yeah this is the show it's kind of related to the motion that's on the floor in terms of deciding what to do but you said that you have uh are working with the Architects for classroom space for academics correct yes and so my overall question is how many additional students freshman students are we looking to take in with our three new programs yeah so we're looking to somewhere around 40 to 45 additional students this year in freshman class and are you anticipating we'd need one new English teacher two new English teachers new science teachers math and so on how
021many of each subject are you anticipating to be able to handle that and then in terms of the classrooms that we're looking at um is I'm assuming that there isn't a single inch of space right within our own confines have we ever thought of using what was affectionately once known as the dog track the um space outside of the shipping receiving area uh it used to be with the business office Courtyard thank you not the dog track that caught you um so like I'm thinking modular classrooms gambling addiction yeah so so we have we're looking to just increase by one academic uh staff member moving into next year right now that's our anticipation each of the academic areas discipline yeah yeah one of each each of the academic area each of the four core subjects
022English math science and social studies um one more question absolutely okay related to this Hangar have has the discussion gone so far as perhaps the owner would be looking to make a healthy tax deduction um as a officers and says a Goodwill gesture whatever has that been discussed at all so interesting you should ask that because I told Frank this morning when I was talking to him about it that my first attempt will be uh trying to have it see if you would be interested in donating person who owns it is my understanding is very wealthy owns hangers all over this all over the country and this one happens to just be one that he hasn't had a lot of interest in and so I was looking to uh to get it off his hands
023so that will be my first attempt uh is to uh so I've got the person that's overseeing this sale for him I've asked for a meeting with the owner because he's the owners has put it in his hand but I've asked for a meeting with the owner so I can approach him and put together a little presentation why how it would benefit students and benefit kids in our area if he would consider that so that'll be my first attempt and then if that doesn't work then how can I reduce the cost this is a toe one follow-up to that is this person that owns the hangar a local businessman or he just happens to have a hanger here for when he comes to do business yeah uh my understanding is not a local businessman I
024think he lives in Connecticut I believe and uh so my first before I sit down and talk with him I I want to learn more about who he is and where his interests lies so I know what are the right conversations to have with them that might have an impact on them in terms of wanting to help us so I think I need to know more about him and so I can educate him about who we are as well and and so that is something I'm working on right now and I've asked the gentleman who's overseeing the sale of the hangar for him uh to get back to me after he spoke to his the owner to have a meeting with me it seems like the owner's not really that much interested in doing anything
025but getting rid of it so anything further John as far as oh yes to hate him John just a follow-up on that how are we going to publicize these programs I know we talked the day after the meeting I had asked you if we can get in touch with the pr firm that handles us and find out what they're doing for us and how they're doing it I know Cassandra's in the building and she does a fine job I know our numbers are up and that's fine but I think we should start thinking now about keeping them up can we get in touch with the pr firm and and tell them what yeah we're paying these people we don't know what they're doing yeah we we will be contacting the pr firm I was trying
026to see and get a little more to know that we had this um hang around in the air at the airport as well as a little bit more of what preparation here at the school so I could report on what our preparation is at this point in terms of uh opening the programs but we will be putting something out there very soon publicly out to the community what the plans are in terms of uh glts growth with programming and some of the other major changes with inside the building so there was also the upgrades to the space in the shop and some of the chat I want to do a article that encompasses it all you know everything from upgrading a lot of our programs that exist now as well as new programming and as
027well as looking towards the future increasing enrollment and the impact it has on the community so more of a very comprehensive uh article out there so and we'll do that sometime in March through the pr firm am I correct yes with the fpr form and some of their expertise Mr Joe yes looking I'm trying to think as big as possible here going back when our Renovations and building were happening and we had 20-something modular classrooms down back but we also had a satellite campus over Off Broadway and I think we had three shops in that satellite and each day of the week the students would be bussed there and an administrator went we took turns doing it going over there and being the administrator of the day in this satellite campus so when our students
028are basically going to be off campus over there have we thought through the ramifications of the busing that would be included at some point added on to this already amazing document and then what personnel would be required over there would we have to have a nurse there um so I I don't want to I don't want to say I don't want to jump the gun but has every last detail whatever been thought about on having an entire program off campus and and what personnel it would be necessary to do it safely yeah so we have lots of experience on running programs off campus so we have our house building program we have nursing programs Dental Programs we have a lot of programs that are offered so the the closest thing I could say that we
029have um where we take kids out to build a house that are on stagings on a lot of real serious uh environments in terms of ensuring student safety and and so the aviation program would be similar it would be an off-site where the instructor would be the lead person with regards to the only one that would be out at the uh at the classroom environment which would be the aviation and the number of students that would be there at any one given time plus the inside would have to meet all the state regulations in terms of the environment of a classroom so we have to you know once we own it then we have to do some work in designing the inside and making sure their bathroom facilities safety facilities all of that um training
030for the all of our instructors have uh first aid training and CPR training and all that so all of those things will have been thought about and I think we have also been in communication we have a consultant from uh Westfield Academy who's working for us who they also have the same situation where they have a Aviation Hangar out at the airport and looking at we've looked at their space we've had conversations with them he's helping us design the space he's also helping us with equipment helping us with curriculum so just yesterday the team that's working on developing the part B for the final approval has been in communication with him we pay him a consulting fee he helped us with part A is helping us with Part B uh very knowledgeable very excited to
031help us through this process and so we'll be Westfield Academy which is they have they're the only other Aviation program in the state they're the only Aviation program in the state at us at a secondary level uh and they have quite an extensive program there where they have um they have 21 or 17 airplanes and one Jet and two helicopters in their program um so they but and they haven't been in uh existence about four years I think the program hasn't been around all that long but they were the first and um seemed to be very successful and Fe FAA we have to have not only state meet State curriculum Frameworks but we also have to meet faa's curriculum Frameworks and safety regulations there so the FAA has assigned a consultant to us to help
032us develop our program and get it off the ground so there's a is a year and a half process just to get approval from you can't open a program without FAA approval and so they uh they're on our advisory and we have a person that I've already had Communications with um close Communications with and we'll be meeting with him on a regular basis to help guide us to make sure that we're meeting their standards as well thank you okay superintendent when you talk about purchasing a hanger you mean just a hanger right because it's on lease land right yeah so the land belongs to the city nobody owns no one can own the land out at the airport it's owned by the city all you're doing is Lisa we're leasing the land um but we'll
033own the building yeah right and have the rights to leasing that land so and it has to be a also the purchase of the hangar also has to be approved by the air airport commission out at in Lawrence and also has to be approved by the state so there's a long process once we've decided that we would move forward in purchasing it you know just getting an agreement on the purchase of it then we have to go through that process of having it approved and they have to accept us as a as a tenant on at the airport the airport commission so we'll have to meet with their board and have conversations with them regarding uh the value that it brings to the airport into the community as well as to the states so there's
034still a lot of work even on that to accomplish once we've actually decided we want to move forward and we don't know the cost of the lease right we don't have anything uh it's I think it was 50 cents per square foot yeah per square foot uh to lease it minimal amount of money I promised almost the last one um have we had that conversation I would think that would be step one are we even going to be welcome there so that conversation has already happened okay yeah yeah we've already we've been at the airport several times and met with some of the people from the commission uh and as well as the airport managers very much in favor of supporting and helping the process and the commission's pretty excited to have us come on
035board so we feel good about that anything further all those in favor all those opposed well she carries okay John update on the school projects if you haven't covered them already so um uh first project Let's uh we'll talk about the Reggie cafes now open been open I think a couple of weeks the one piece that's still not in yet is the refrigeration for the pastry set that's the only thing that's not in yet uh my understanding is coming in Thursday but I've heard it 15 times now it's coming in on Thursday so hopefully this Thursday it really shows up but they feel pretty good about it so that's the only thing left to put in there and that's totally done the Four Winds and it looks really great and the Four Winds um the
036only thing left in the Four Winds to do really is um finish the tables which we're going to finish next week so we've taken the old tables we're taking the tops off and we're putting uh we've built new mahogany tops for the tables and the mahogany we got last year from the church in all the pews from a church in Methuen last year we took all the pews apart we playing down so we have some really beautiful mahogany that will match our uh our glass door that's in there our they'll match the tables that's all the tables are all glued together they need to be planed and sanded and completed which we're going to complete over vacation uh February vacation and we're looking to we've already looked at a few different model chairs to purchase
037if they're not in we're looking to open it uh the second week of March if the chairs aren't in then we'll utilize what's there until they do come in but two of the places we've looked at for chairs it's about a four-week lead time on the chairs so um we had looked at keep taking the library chairs but we're going to use them for another purpose uh the equipment that's in the library we have another use for all that uh Furniture so um that won't go to waste and it'll actually be utilized uh for some educational purposes and for some meeting purposes and other things so uh that'll be good the furniture for the library is coming in next week and so that project will be done as well next week on the Four Winds
038will be done be ready to open the second week of March Child Care Center we have a designated date of opening March 13th taking children in on March 13th the space is pretty much done they're going to do a big cleanup on it tomorrow the custodians or was it tonight I think some of the custodians were coming in early today to clean the space the child care space because it's construction is pretty much done for the most part a few little uh things to get done on it but for the most part done all the inspections that are necessary are happening next week Electrical Plumbing um alarm systems the occupancy and we hope to get the occupancy permit next week and then on the 28th the state is coming to do a State uh is
039coming to do a final inspection and if that passes we'll get our license and we'll be ready to open for March 13th we would we were going to Target March 6 but just in case there's a blip and they want us to do something let that I let staff know yesterday our targeted date was March 13th to open so and it looks really good I mean I think space looks great can you hold that thought Mr savello uh Jenna we're going to have a grand opening for the um Child Care Program we are we are we're going to what we're going to try to do is uh have an opening once I know we got the state approval on the 28th uh the following week one night that week we're going to try to put
040in have an opening for the staff after school to view it and then after that once it's open we'll do an opening what I'd like to do is uh an opening for all three spaces on the same night have uh maybe we could do it on our next school committee meeting at five o'clock to let do a grand opening for the community from five to seven or something like that we can have services but we are going to have an opening a grand opening for that as well for those uh cosmetology Four Winds Reggie in the child care center um and um we won't be we're hoping to have the windows in by then if the windows were in we could do also Automotive but we're not quite sure if that's going to be the
041case yet further John uh I think that's it that's it okay moving on uh out of state travel for Ms Jacqueline Hunter instructional technology specialist to travel to Pennsylvania Convention Center for the professional development and Leadership exchange at the iste conference on June 24th through June 28th the cost is 3180.76 have a motion on that police discussion all those in favor aye that he would opposed okay John Transportation bid please there was excuse me there was a handout also it was given to us okay so um we put out a uh a invitation to bid for a new bus contract um the uh RFP that went out Melissa put it together she did a really an exceptional outstanding job and putting it together was very well very comprehensive uh I think went far and above
042Clarity and touched upon everything that's critical and important touched upon many of the things that we had challenged with over the last few years to try to get a contract that would put us in a better position to hold the bus company accountable so I do want to commend uh Melissa for the well done work that she did on that and we got so it went out we got the bids were opened I should say the bid was open we only got one bid and it was the same company that we have service from now North Reading uh busing company and I'll let Melissa go through the the numbers with you on what they came in at and what the increase is over what our existing contract is so the numbers are a little bit
043um shocking I thought they came in for the first year it's a 25 increase over what we're currently paying for regular transportation um but it is we do need to note that the bus company didn't increase our prices for the last two years so we were to do kind of a big increase I was actually projecting an 18 increase so this was even higher than what I thought um you guys all have the numbers in front of you do you have any questions I don't have a question but I would be totally remiss this is the most comprehensive document I've been looking at these things for a lot of years and the work that went into this the detail is outstanding and I really have to compliment you and thank you for a job really
044well done even though you couldn't control the price coming in it it is so accurate thank you Mr Cirillo did you have a question we didn't didn't charge us more but we will pay more than any other school district in the area during covid so this difference to me is an insult from the bus company especially winning their services to us has been more than lackluster so the unfortunate part of it I guess they're the only game in town right now um but we have to really look at something moving forward okay uh on the bus conference so your recommendation superintendent is oh I'm sorry Zola sorry so this is the new the new the bit like the total what's the old what is the um well the prices that it used to be it's
045not here right [Music] I don't think I have the exact number in front of me but we're currently at 1.4 I want to say it's like 1.47 million and this is now 1.7 the new the new number so yeah that's Year One yeah 1.7 okay anything further John your recommendation is I would recommend we go with the with the better that their proposal for the contract because we don't have any other options actually we have a recommendation for the superintendent do I have a motion please have a second discussion Frank this is for how many years three years three three years with uh two until desire to do it's a two-year option if we at that time decide decide that we want to extend it for those two years we're about to we find about
046something better can we get out of this contract not if we sign a three-year contract well there there are mechanisms in the in the contract in the bid that if they're not providing the service as stated in the contract that we do have an out but I mean the problem is we'd have to go out to bid again and the reality is would probably just be stuck with the same company yes I know that John was going to meet with the people at Whittier to see how viable their program is I know it's been in place forever but at the total price of this I guess we have three years to figure out if we can afford or be able to run our own Fleet of buses so if we pass this tonight it gives
047us some time if the committee wanted to go that route to really delve into whether it was a viable option or not uh thank you Leo um I'm gonna agree with you Marilyn and I was out there with John so I know that um we would have to it's going to take time to build what we need and the unfortunate part right now we could do it today I would jump all over that but we it's going to take time and looking at finances and what work we can actually do in the purchasing of the buses so are these three years will give us time to really look at something anything further it all loans in favor all those opposed motion carries okay uh oh I'm sorry just just a quick comment yeah you know
048albeit we don't have any control now that we have a new bus this new bus contract the one thing we can look at is late runs and Athletics and all that if we can provide any of that service it would save us some money so we have you know many buses and other options and we've tried to utilize even our mini buses we have here but the challenge is getting bus drivers so we've offered now we've offered the custodians of five percent increase in their contract if they're willing to get a 7D license so then we could utilize them and really save some money but and I've spoken to almost each one of them individually I've had no takers so it's really hard to get people that are interested in driving buses so but if
049if down the road we came up you know uh continue to try to pursue that we could save a little bit of money not a substantial but we could save some money uh by doing some of that uh that work ourselves okay uh moving on um uh Frank uh sorry um so we were to get people to to drive some of the Vans and buses would it be just the evening oh yeah it would yes it would only be um two of two uh different events we uh you need a CDL license to bring students back and forth home but to do the other kinds of activities you can do it with a 7D license so those are the kinds of things we could do where we could do you know take the kids to
050the different track events or athletic events and bring them home I mean bring them back to the school what we can't do is drive them home unless you have a CDL license anything for them certainly okay John admission report is in the packet student Achievement Award for high need students in the packet we have any questions or calling you have any comments on those documents John uh just a quick comment on uh the award the new award uh that the commissioner is putting out the new award program that the commissioner is putting out so basically what he's doing is he is putting out an award for I need students who perform uh well in the uh MCAS so he's going to send out certificates to the school and some kind of gift certificate to award
051to the students that's supposed to start this year we I haven't seen any names we have to provide them with the names and everything but I haven't seen I just we just received a communication from him he will also provide a letter to those students who are recognized so this is a new award program that he's starting but I did put a new package just so you're aware of it that he's starting this new program okay um John you update the committee on The Advisory Board of recommendations of safety on The Advisory Board recommendations um I've met with each of the individual uh Millicent myself actually um and the CT director I've met with the supervisors of different programs to review all the advisory recommendations for not only safety but all the recommendations and Melissa
052and I will be moving uh meeting this week we were talking about it today to look at what we could fund this year but we will definitely Target all this ensure that we're meeting all any of the safety concerns or areas of safety that need to be addressed we will definitely address those this year and quickly to get those resolved and then some of the other recommendations but I believe almost all the recommendations I think we could probably figure out some way of for the most part funding those recommendations before the even before the end of this year so we will update you on those exact projects or activity will be doing to address those recommendations at our next meeting okay excuse me superintendent update the committee on the legislative breakfast coming on Friday March
05324th please so we will be um having our yearly or annual I don't think we've had for a couple years because of covid but we'll be doing our annual legislative breakfast this year March 24th which gives us time to talk about uh special funding with them that we might be targeting before the April when they start putting their getting their bills organized at the house and in the Senate we do know that uh representative uh Moran Frank Moran has already moving a six a three billion dollar bill through this uh house and in the Senate there's also a bill to try to provide more funding for putting additions on and expanding access for vocational uh education uh and some uh some of that funding can go for new schools but a big amount of it
054is to expand existing Pro schools programming and so we'll be doing uh work with mava to ensure support for that I will also be giving you some communication on that bill as well to ask you to submit a letter to our legislators maybe we could do it as a as a committee as a whole I'll put a letter together to have the committee sign off on to support his bill and I'll give you some more detail both on that bill and a few other vocational bills that are going to be submitted in this legislative year at our next meeting and but that particular legislative breakfast we'll be talking and looking for support for that also some of our own such as if we decide that we want to expand and we need more funding for
055any of our existing projects or expansion of the school for adding on once we have our final numbers there's a couple other special programs we're looking at to try to provide more access here at glts for some of our high school students that do not have access now that we may be looking for a bill but at our next meeting I will give you more comprehensive report on long-term ranges I'm going to do give you a preliminary report on my five-year strategic plan next meeting where an update on on the work that's being done on that which will include some of the long-range plans for expansion of the school programs student enrollment all of that so that it will be outlined more clearly for you before the legislative breakfast so you will be educated and
056understand also have the opportunity to weigh in on what you'd like to see and whether you like the vision or the ideas before anything is presented at the legislative breakfast I would like to get your input on all of that so I'll present that to you at our next school committee meeting Craig did you have a question no okay okay moving on uh we've got activities seen on all businesses uh District committee priorities policies this is this is for Joe what was exercise or what time okay we're not we're not uh we're not there yet so just so you can new business there's three items on table matters position title change part time or full-time positions and dental assistants is there any need to pull any of those off to speak about them this evening
057nope okay well John I think I think we may have in posting dental assistant do we put that in this this one Susan we are looking to uh uh post for a dental assistant to re for a replacement for next year but also I got to pull this off of need a motion to take the position of dental assistant instructor off of the table have a second discussion all those in favor anyone of those continue John I'm sorry okay so we're looking uh I believe we're going to have it on postings tonight uh looking to hire someone for dental assistant um uh to replace a dental assistant teacher that's going to be retiring uh in September but in order to start because there's only three instructors in that program we're looking to bring on somebody
058early to get trained and to get familiar with the curriculum for next year and fill some of the voids of particularly clinical work that that we need another person to help work through some of the clinical that we do outside of the school so we'd like to bring in that person at this time and be better prepared for next school year as well as meet some of the needs of this completing this year's clinical work that's going on outside the school any questions or comments Mr Hayden John didn't we have the director of it's position posted uh yes we do have that posted and um we we have a community we have a subcommittee working on that they're actually meeting tomorrow to make final decision on the three candidates are going to start interviewing uh
059so they're going through that and also are putting together the questions they're meeting tomorrow morning on two of those uh aspects of it so they can start interviewing uh soon one other question I asked this before you said you were going to get the answer did we get all our computers back from the Lost IT director we did get everything back yes getting off track here a little bit okay uh can I this time then can I instruct it to take the dental assistant instructor out of the table matters at this point no take it out totally it won't list it won't be listed again right so we're all I don't need a vote on that I just went on a consensus that everybody's happy with the superintendent's explanation okay Personnel consideration report resignations we
060have a special ed instructor effective jet alongside oh HR business yes um with the part-time and full time you want to discuss that yeah yeah I have a motion to uh a recommendation from the superintendent to take part time to full-time position uh out of table matters some motion do you have a second all those a favor anyone opposed go ahead John so now that that contract is completed uh we would like to uh have the HR business office Specialists that helps with the H helps the HR Director also does some work in the finance office from part-time to a full-time position uh I think uh the time that the added time would take a lot of the pressure and support the HR Director in keeping up with a lot of what's uh been on
061her plate would make a huge difference in staying on top of that as well as supporting the work that happens I think it also what I think might help us I believe in uh I think we're looking for someone to also learn some of the responsibilities of payroll and that that we don't have now that that person might be able to learn in in case something were to happen so we would like to move that person the full time okay we have a recommendation from the superintendent do you have a motion please some of one of his little second okay discussion questions comments yes Zoila wasn't that part of the negotiation the full time to the part-time to full time no no it wasn't no no okay John was bringing this after we started negotiations
062so we tabled it until after the negotiations were completed so you're saying the negotiations completed yes that's colorful clerical okay that was done last week right now okay John is this a union position is this a represented position or human resources is usually a contract position because of the delicacy yeah this is not a new position okay and what would the impact be for us to go for her full time money um well to the end it would be minimal money for this year it's only the difference between um I'm not sure what her salary is or what the amount of money but it's it it's not going to cost us all that much money we can well afford it um given the vote that you made tonight also but I would say that um
063does it have minimal uh impact on our budget even for next year all anything further all those in favor then you want to pose we can remove that also from the table matters moving on to Personnel consideration resignations uh special ed instructor uh effective uh January 24th 2023 leave of absence assistant principle effective January 11 2023 culinary arts instructor effective January 19th 2023 El instructor effective February 27 2023 history instructor effective February 27th 2023 I'm sorry oh and uh School adjustment counselor effective February 28 2023 did I say something wrong oh okay yeah uh okay retirements I see none appointments we get a John uh well yeah I just had a question on the leaves of absence in my mind or recollection I thought a leave of absent had a start and an end date
064uh these just I don't know John do you ever most of these leaves have end dates but just not listed here approximately they have approximate and they some of them are firm some of them are not totally firm because they're somewhere for maternally paternity leave different various reasons but um but most of them do have end dates might be a good idea superintendent without mentioning the people's names to to put the uh like I said without mentioning their names or even you know their position other than what's here you know I mean calling the acts instructor there's three or four of them uh you know maybe so that the committee would have an idea you know in the future yeah we can give you the end dates if we for the ones we do know
065in the future absolutely okay every time it's done uh appointments uh Ms Sheen Davis electrical instructor January 23 2023 John uh job postings the following would have to be voted on ladies and gentlemen dental assistant instructor for teacher contract replacement position uh Aviation instructor for teacher contract that's a new position so you're seeing here some positions that we would like to post for the new some of the new programs uh we're projecting that may be difficult to find instructors in these areas so we do want to get a posting out as soon as we can but these are all for the next school year so the aviation instructor could teach a contract Child Care instructor a teacher contract programming instructor for teacher contract uh uh in evening or do you want to vote on those
066well we vote on that those four right there have a motion on those please that's presented by the superintendent discussion yes Mr Hayden um John the retirement positions why are those coming before us can't you just replace the teacher who's being retired we're not adding a position where are you very much school counselor position it says uh replacement posted yes but they don't have to come before us for a vote do they well no but we've always had to practice we've always made that we've always had that practice in the past that's the only reason I'm bringing it forward okay uh we have do we have a motion in a second yeah just this discussion all those in favor anyone opposed continue John please um evening adult auto collision repair instructor two for sixty five
067dollar not 65 an hour for 280 hours of instruction fifty dollars an hour for prep Time March to June 2023 Monday through Thursday from 4 P.M to 8 P.M to be supported through a contract with the Commonwealth Corporation for a Career Technical initiative Grant awarded for an occupational skills training program for adults this is an annual position that we've posted and continue this particular program to support adults who are unemployed or underemployed school counselor guidance counselor that's been taken off let's just do this one here John okay okay evening adult Auto Collision of a second of any discussion John what it says um supported through the contract does that mean the Commonwealth Corporation for Career Technical initiative Grant they're paying the whole they're paying the whole thing yes okay anything further all those in favor
068is what opposed okay strategic plan uh uh the last one is a strategic Plan Focus committee we're looking for eight staff members to work 20 hours each of them to be conducted after school hours 2022-23 contract uh agreement for their salaries these are new positions that um I think you have a post a uh description of their duties they will perform as a Committee Member another second discussion all those in favor anyone opposed future agenda items the March District committee meeting John so in um on March the committee meeting for March 14th I think 14 14th I won't be here I'm going to be off on vacation that week taking the week that week particular week off um so I'm looking to move I'd like to see if the committee would be uh minimal to
069moving that meeting from the 14th to what did we decide now 28th okay a little confusing give me one second yeah I had Sue [Music] before we came in here there was a discussion about the budget um the vote um in the 28th of March maybe a little bit too late so I think right Melissa we were thinking of canceling the February 28th and having a March 7th in a March 28th okay this is oops I know okay so that that's what we discussed but Melissa can you explain a little bit more please would like to present the fiscal year 24 budget but we're waiting for the numbers from the governor which are supposed to be out the beginning of March maybe the end of February but um we don't want to wait too long
070to present that to you because we do want to get those numbers to the towns so but if they're not out by March 7th there's no need to meet then the governor's numbers should be I should have them by the third so John and I could present the budget to school committee I think it's on the 7th okay if they're not out there's no need to meet then that's my just my own I'm not saying they're not going to be yeah but I think stranger things have happened in life that's true you know what I'm saying that's all so want to make a preliminary uh I mean for the uh the seventh if uh if if needed if and then we will skip the 14th still yeah and then meet on the 28th okay is
071that agreeable to uh to everybody yeah I'm going to Puerto Rico so I'll be happy to take you you guys can help me with the language uh in any case uh so what that would mean is we would still have our February 28th meeting then if we need a budget we would provisionally right now or determine that we will have a meeting on March 7th and then we'll have a meeting on March 28th just so that everybody's clear so it'd be the 28th of February the 7th of March and the 28th of March right now oh yeah we're not going to have the 28th we'll cancel that one okay so we'll move the 28th to the 7th and then the 20th about even so we will meet again until the 7th of March our next
072meeting will be March 7th and then the meeting after that will be March 28th I'm pretty sure we're going to get the numbers for March 7th I have uh there's been a lot of communication with different people who have the governor's ear people like the executive director for Mars has been in communication with her office there's a pretty uh there's a commitment to have it ready for the end of her she has a commitment to have it ready for the 28th somewhere around the 28th of February last word is she's really working hard to try to meet that commitment very good I hope she's successful um anything further okay does everybody understand the record the motion on the table oh go ahead I'm sorry Frank can you repeat the motion okay the motion is um
073that we are going to um eliminate the March 28th meeting we're going to meet Fabby February 28th meaning excuse me February 28th meeting meet on March 7th and March 28th for the 14th is another description I have a motion on that discussion all those in favor anyone opposed Mrs Fitzgerald yes I had another agenda item looking towards the meeting on March 28th if the superintendent could report or give us a report of the actual plans for classroom spacing for our three new um projects and the actual spaces that they will have so the programming the child care is pretty obvious and then um will there be a place in the building should we not have the hangar immediately where would we be putting them so a report because I'm really nervous that we have just
074bitten off so much all at one time that in order to take these students in knowing that it's greatly expanding you know the other parts of the building so from cafeteria space and so on that we could see at least a preliminary plan of what's Happening that would be like six weeks from now so I'd be happy to do that I'll give you a complete comprehensive plan on how many staff members will be new for next year and where this where they'll be situated in terms of classroom space and shop space and then moving forward over the next three years as these three programs become fully enrolled what the spaces we need and how we're going to meet those needs I'll have that all for you in on that 28th March 28th right under superintendent's
075uh the superintendent public portion yes Mr Hayden one more please we're not expecting to lose any existing disciplines to make room for these people we're not losing any of the shops uh there's no plans to close any shops at this time anything further yes uh Frank uh I want to touch on something that Tom had mentioned we were supposed to have an update a report on the marketing piece for this meeting because we have that for the next meeting oh sure yes put that under the superintendent's uh report also please okay anything further the executive session yes contract negotiations yes okay chill except the motion to go into executive session for them all those in favor aye any word opposed you called the roll Miss Fitzgerald yes Miss disler Mr Hayden Mr Cirillo yes Mr
076LaMontagne yes we'll be coming back I had um foreign okay meetings back in uh regular regular session superintendent you have a uh recommendation or a request excuse me your microphone John please I would ask the committee to consider uh allowing me to sell back uh enough vacation days to bring me down to 30 vacation days which is somewhere between 20 and 25 vacation days to get me down to 30 vacation days on the books because I recommendation the request for the superintendent have a motion for a second discussion did you your hand up no okay her daughter was yes sir yes I just have a comment I just want to make it public that I believe he should take those vacations instead of selling them that's all okay hey big brother all those in favor
077all those opposed could you call Off the Wall please when you have a moment Mr Fitzgerald yes Miss disler Mr Hayden yes Mr cirilla Mr LaMontagne yes no further business scene this evening the chair will accept the monster to adjourn all in favor we were opposed to remember we are meeting March remember we're meeting March 7th correct [Music] ly tomorrow the Mayors come at 11 30 years actually thank you is this something special there's a special award being given award ceremony yeah touring lunch I'm lunch not being Wise Guys but you can all leave now [Laughter] [Music] time to believe no they're just shocked they were open for 17 is it before 7 30. thank you make me a hero with my wife uh Mr Hayden thank you thank you very much thank you oh
078you gave me the hot oh no oh this no this is from Maryland Maryland thank you very much oh thanks Marilyn thanks tell Debbie I doubled down oh okay don't eat them on the way home oh okay cool don't eat them on the way home