001Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. And I am pleased to say that we have a very full house this evening. Uh very excited to see everybody here. So, we're going to take our agenda a bit out of order this evening and we're going to skip to our principal report. And joining us this evening is Miss Heidi Peterson from Webster Middle School. Good evening, Miss Peterson. Good evening, everybody. Um, so the only thing that I have on the agenda to share this evening is to recognize our middle school boys basketball team um because they have uh completed in a couple actually a month ago, but um they had an 18-0 winning undefeated season. So I wanted to publicly recognize them and and invite them and their families to join us this evening. So I just want to
002go over a couple of uh quick um data points for you. So they had obviously 18 games since they are 18 and0 and I want to share their scores of all 18 games because it is so impressive that is just um astonishing. So um we started with Knox Trail with a 46-38 victory followed by Milbury with a 57 to 24 victory. Knox trail again 59-13. Douglas 71-30. The Vipers was a 60-29 win. Oxford back-to- back games with 58-29 and 61-30. Back to Milbury with a 51-28 win. Sutton was 55 to22. St. Peters 46-26. Um WC 58-19. Douglas again with a 67-29 victory. Um, Auburn was one of two of their closest games with a 48- 45 nailbiting victory. Uh, Qubog a 69-28 win. All Saints was the other close victory with a 56- 51 win.
003Southbridge uh back-to- back 5621 and 5816. and QuaBug with the um largest amount. The spread was a win by 51 points with 74 to 23. So I want to congratulate the Webster Middle School basketball team. Thank you [Applause] everybody. I also want to point out that um our eighth grader, Mr. Kase Safford, if you can stand up. Kase, uh, scored a um, uh, 500 points. So, he has a, um, record there with 500 points. Congratulations, [Applause] Kes. And I will read, although they're not all here, I do want to again publicly recognize all of the teams. So, we have fifth graders. If you're here, stand up. um Logan Maida and Ryan Sadiki. Sixth graders, Desmond Bosn Bzanowski, Connor Rockwood, Damen Palamales, Irving Rivera, AJ Pereira, and Hector Espola. Sixth graders here tonight. No. Seventh graders
004Braden Faraher, Jall Rivera, Connor Opatka, B Foris Rugles, Logan Casperac, Tyler Bernier, Jamal Ford, and Prince Rosario. [Applause] And our eighth grade team, Mason Gri, Weston Mulreddy, Kase Stafford, Amorei Anokei, Yandreel Perez, Jimenez, Braden Wilcox, Joy Cologne Morales, and Emanuel Arshapang. And then um also within their victory was a um all Saints uh hosted a um tournament. Thank you. Long day. A tournament that our team won and this is their trophy. So I wanted to share that with everybody and also congratulate our coaches, Mr. Bankston. And who else is here? Mr. Bangston is Thank you. So, I also want to point out that these three gentlemen not only led the team to victory, but if you uh were able to see any of their games, it's just amazing that the cohesiveness that this team presents.
005Um there, you know, even though Kasein is our 500 point scorer, they definitely are not a a oneperson team, they work so well together. Um, uh, Coach Bangston has worked with this team, um, building their communication skills, uh, their academic skills, and have really has really worked to build allaround gentlemen. So, thank you, Mr. Bankston, for helping create positivity at Webster Middle School. I did ask Mr. Bangston if he wanted to speak and he he declined. So, um, not leaving him out, but, um, questions or comments from the committee through the chair, members. I just want to say Kase, I don't know if you recognize me, but I'm your neighbor. Um, and I just want to say like it's not only the talent that I know you guys all have, but Kase is out. I
006hear the basketball until literally like it feels like 10 o'clock and I hear him dribbling and I hear him shooting and I just your hard work is not does not go unnoticed compared to your talent. So you I just wish you so much luck hopefully playing for Bartlett next year. Definitely a lot of hard work. I had the pleasure of watching a lot of your games and it the wins are impressive, but the sportsmanship that you all displayed out there was really commendable and that's something that um is really special to see. So, I'm looking forward to watching all of you grow in your basketball careers over at Bartlett, too. And I would like to echo those comments. I was able to see quite a few games and um I am always impressed um with
007the sportsmanship on the court, the effort, and you're absolutely right. it was a cohesive team and how the coaching staff is always looking to support and lift the kids up which is wonderful what we like to see out on the court. So um I am very proud of all of you. You represent Webster, the best of Webster and uh we appreciate that very much. Um you had a wonderful season and I would like to hear from a couple of you what did you think of your season and what did you think of the win? And I think coaches that if the kids are going to be talking, I think I'd love to hear from the coaches, too. [Music] You don't want to talk? Does anybody want to talk about your season? Silent leader. He doesn't
008talk like ever. Um, but he leads on the court. Weston also very quiet. Um, our young guys didn't really get to play as much, but they show in practice that they're going to be able to take over the program. Just like if you ever come to our games, you see that it looks like a football team because we have 25 kids on the roster. Uh, and everybody always wonders why we keep so many kids. And so they are in practice instead of going home after school. They have something to do. They get to practice every day. And Weston Kase and some of the other eighth graders are an example why they get to come to practice every day, get to go to games, and they build with the program and they get better every day.
009And that's why somebody like Kase who had 570 points in his career starting in sixth grade was able to get better every day. Same thing with Weston and other people. So they I give all the credit to them. We do what we can, but we are not on the court. They have to do everything. So I give all the credit to the kids. And they might not want to talk right now, but they should get all the credit. They should be the ones talking about all the things they did throughout the season. It's very easy for eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth grade boys to check out and lose a game that you could easily lose a three-point game at Auburn when they have, I don't know, 100, 150 people cheering. It's a very tough place to
010play. They could easily lost that game, but they stayed in the moment and still won. We were up by 10. We easily could have lost that game. We won. And any other any other game they could have lost, they stayed blocked in. Very easy for a middle school boy just to lose and say like, "Oh, whatever. It's just a game. They're going to play with AU travel, pickup games. They're going to play hundreds of games." And they took every game serious and they went game by game just like their varsity basketball players going game by game. So, I give them all the credit. And hopefully I know they won't, but one of our eighth grade leaders would like to say something. Don't look at Weston. But once again, I'd like to give them all the
011credit. This was The last few years have been a great experience. Um, it doesn't even feel like work. I just get to show up every day with kids who really want to be there. They love basketball. They want to get better every day. You don't need to try to get them to be there. I don't need to try to get them to care about their grades. I don't need to get them to try to care on the court, off the court. They just want to be there. They want to get better. They want to get better outside the season. And it makes our job as coaches that much easier. So again, I want to give all the credit to them. Even if they're not here today, another round of applause for the team. through the
012chair. Member Adamopoulos. Um, usually when we talk about sports, unfortunately, over the last couple years, we've been talking about dwindling numbers um, in these teams. It's really nice to hear that from a 5 to 8th grade level, we got 25 kids that are participating, even while you're building up a program. And I think that's something that's really commendable because it's been a while since I think we've actually been able to focus on building these kids up from a young age and seeing them progress year to year and ultimately go from a middle school to a high school program, from a JV program to a varsity program. So, I'm really happy that you're focusing on not only the kids that are participating and playing more often, but also building up those young players so that they
013want to keep coming back year after year and get their chance to play. And I really do hope for the all you guys that are here and that your teammates that you know you consider staying in the school system and going to Bartlett and playing together because you did amazing things together now. Who knows what you can do three or four years from now and maybe you bring home a few more trophies and a few bigger trophies down the line. So congratulations to you the coaches and the uh family that's here. You know, thank you for letting your kids participate. Thank you through the chair. If I can just add um tagging on to that, I really want to give a big shout out to Coach Bangston. He has been committed to this program for
014many, many years. Um his heart and soul has been into this. He connects really well with the athletes on and off the court. Um he coached my son many years ago. I know that he instills a lot of confidence in you when you don't have it. Um he's in the court with you when it's off season, outside, everywhere. And to your point, um, he's very connected with the high school program and keeping that as a feeder program. And we are very lucky to have you, Coach Bangston. Um, thank you so much for how much you've been committed to this program to see where it's come and where it was. Um, you know, we can really attribute a lot of that to you and thank you. Thank you, Miss Ktos. Just my last comment, I also
015want to focus on the coaches for a moment because coach Benson, you talked about these kids showing up every day for practice and there were games that were close, there were games that were nailbiters and they never gave up. And it's very easy at this age to lose your love of the sport and it really does come down to the coaching. So, when you take a 10-year-old and you have them out practicing and learning the game, that's a make or break time period between 10 and 14 years old where you're either going to these kids are committed. You had 25 kids that wanted to be at practice. They wanted to come during vacations and whatever other times that you were holding practices. Um, and that is a testament to all three of you that were
016showed up at every practice and expected had high expectations of this team and and of yourselves. So, I want to thank you as a as somebody who was watching the games and has watched my my own son, you know, grow under your leadership. It's very much appreciated. We see you. And I just wanted to thank all the parents um who show up because it's a huge commitment. Um the the parents are also playing the game. Um they're picking up from practices, they're there on the sidelines, they're rooting, they're cheering, um they're running around. So, thank you for your support here in Webster. We appreciate you and we love your partnership and we are very proud to have your kids. Well, thank you and congratulations once again. Thank you. Awesome. All right. You guys are certainly
017welcome to stay for the next hour and a half if you'd like. [Laughter] Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, that was great. So, we're going to move back in the order of our agenda at this point. Miss Peterson, that was that was your update for this evening. Is that right? Great. Well, thank you. Thank you for bringing the crowd, too. Uh the next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Good evening, Miss Pangeli. Good evening. Thank you. Uh the first item I have for you this evening is a personnel update. Uh we received a retirement notice from Pamela Ward, a power professional at Park A Elementary. Um, I did get confirmation that she will be at our next school committee meeting to be celebrated. Um, we
018do have a new hire, an Adriana Stratton, a prior professional at Park A Elementary. Uh, we have a recent resignation, an ABA at Parkav, Miss Ariel Gabbor. And then we did have a transfer this past week. Uh, Mr. Corsy has transferred over to the assistant principal position at the high school. Below are the vacancies that we have been looking to fill all year and continue to work to fill. Um any questions on personnel? No. Okay. Moving on to instructional update. Um as you know it is March April we're getting into MCCAST testing. It is underway across the uh district. Uh the system has moved to a new platform this year. Um and there is a little bit of a learning curve for all of us right on this platform. Um but they are learning how
019to navigate the system, create the system. I did um have an excited conversation with our principal at Parkav about the new system. Um she was talking about the practice tests that are on the system and how the kids were able to go in, log in, take practice tests. They were able to talk about the tests with the kids after review them. um and she was really excited about the platform and hopeful um that this tool is going to be useful to the kids going forward. So she's looking uh forward to what comes um at the end of this month in April, we get our access source. Uh so we're looking to dive into them and analyze the data that we get back. Um, as you know, this time of year is also the year that
020we're working on all of our plans for next year and finishing um, uh, closing out plans for this year and working on plans for the new year coming away. Um, Dr. Patty Mai has burn working on our 2526 um, S SOA which are a student opportunity act plan which was submitted on April 20 April 1st. um and she is here to talk a little bit about what that plan says and um I will turn the floor over to her. We have a quick little slideshow. While that gets going, I'd like to give you a quick little update on uh Saturday and April camp. Saturday school and April camp. Um I should have mentioned it when the basketball team was here. Mr. Mr. Bankston is one of our Saturday school teachers and we had been talking
021at some other meetings about expanding the opportunities of Saturday morning. We already have the building open. We already have a custodian. We already have um we already have staff. Um he's working in the library with some middle school students and we're fairly well staffed and it's really just supervision and help when needed, but we're well staffed. And so I approached him and asked uh with permission of course I approached him and asked like what if we created a different experience in Saturday morning and would you like to do some sports something um on Saturday morning like the gym can be opened and he jumped on that and so he would like to expand um his presence at the middle school on Saturday mornings for continued basketball um and so we will be sending out information
022about that very June. Um we continue so like I said we continue with uh with Saturday school and uh going into April vacation we have 81 students that whose families or students have said that they will be coming um from the high school to complete work. Um so the high school version is work completion getting caught up preventing failure preventing dropout. Um and we have about 29 students who will be participating at the middle school level on the acceleration piece which is um designing uh projects based on some standards that have been identified by the school-based teams um as to like which standards need more reinforcing and they'll be doing these projects to help with that and and um uh keep the kids motivated and and accelerate that learning for for the week. So, we're
023very excited that um the numbers are there and we're able to run the camp. All good. Yep. Okay. Good. So, as you know, we submitted the S SOA, the Student Opportunity Act, last year. Um it is a three-year plan. And so, the submission in April is an update on it's a progress report um that we have to submit to DESIE. Um this is just an overview of what the S SOA is. It's kind of an elusive um plan I think on on that you know some of us know about but I would say that it's still fairly elusive in the district. It's an example of how the Commonwealth is committed to ensuring um that every student in the state experiences highquality learning opportunities that lead to success in school and in post-secary success. The act
024calls for every district and charter school in the Commonwealth to develop three-year plans that identify key disparities in student learning opportunities and outcomes for the student groups they serve and describe how they will utilize evidence-based practices and strategies to address those disparities. So unlike something like the TAG grant or our um involvement with SSOS which is based on our accountability, the S SOA is something that every school district is um required to do across Massachusetts. We decided to focus on Next slide please. We we decided to focus here in Webster um on uh the same subgroups that we chose for our instructional priority. And this is all it's based on looking at all kinds of data looking at um how those how students um perform in absenteeism, suspensions, nth grade passing, dropouts, and graduation rates.
025If you know if you remember from those categories, those are like the educational milestones that are predictors of future academic success. And um we decided to focus our work again with students with disabilities and the English language learners. Our theory of action which is the next slide. I won't read the I won't read the whole thing, but our theory of action pretty much says if we put um strategies in place that are evidence-based that we're using HQIM that we are um evaluating the effectiveness and making changes to those um then we will see we will see increases in our student achievement um and that increase in student achievement will also impact those other things like dropouts and um school failures. So the two evidence-based practices that we chose, one was uh 1.1 um they call
026these EBPs 1.1 which is uh promoting students physical and mental health and wellness and welcoming firming and safe spaces. Specifically, we chose 1.1C which is positive school environments. Webster is committed to creating positive school environments through our continued implementation of PBIS and we are investing in increasing the competency of all educators in the area of trauma sensitivity but also in culturally responsive practices and in understanding um social emotional learning in general beyond PBIS. And the second focus area 1.2 two states um implement a multi-tered system of supports MTSS that helps all students progress both academically and in their social, emotional, and behavioral development, specifically effective student support systems. Um funding is um there's no funds that there are no funds that come with the S SOA. So, it's whatever funds we have, um, our LEA,
027our special ed budget, our title one budget, TAG grant, um, uh, title three grant, um, and any of the entitles, entitlement grants, uh, for that and our S SOA progress report. This is what I just submitted. Um is you evidence of our of our progress or participation in this um EPB is that we have been participating in the SEB so many acronyms the SEB academy which is the social emotional behavioral academy through DESIE. Um it's one of the um MTSSmies. Uh each school does have a focus on PBIS. We have clear evidence of that. We're not all in the same place, but we are we have been working very heavily on um on ensuring that we have adequate tier one processes in um in PBIS. And we know that increased fidelity to PBIS at the
028tier one level will eventually impact those student outcomes that we talked about. Um and also lead student lead schools to delve into tier 2 and tier three. Um each school collects school climate information from students and staff. Our next steps are to um increase family engagement. Um increase our use of data, articulate the processes for students accessing higher levels of SEAL behavioral and mental health supports and evaluate the effectiveness of our interventions. We've done a lot more work on uh the first E uh BP. The second EBP is something that um has existed all along. It's MTSS. We do parts of MTSS. MTSS is multi-tiered systems of support. We again look at tier one, two, and three um and beyond. And you know, we have systems like a DAP, a district um uh curriculum accommodation
029plan um that is tier one that all students have access to. Um, each school has SST processes. We have some things better articulated than others. We have different interventions at different levels. We just don't have it well articulated in a comprehensive plan. And so our um our next steps for the DECAP would be to update the decap. We're actually going to be starting a committee for that. Articulating what supports are available at each tier. Um to ensure a continuum of supports, update standard operating procedures to increase consistency across schools, create protocols for accessing different levels of support, and again evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Um, and the goal for us, the overall goal, this is a three-year plan, is that by 2027, we will see these two sort of um integrate and the district should
030have a well articulated MTSS plan that integrates academic, social, emotional, and behavioral supports so that it's not like the behavioral MTSS system and the academic MTSS system, but it's one MTSS system that um incorporates both because often times the way that students are um the state of social emotional development that students are in impacts their academic development and so we need to stop seeing them as separate um entities. Um, I think that all those words help us think about and we can we can see the relatedness to our instructional priority. And I'm hopeful that some of this thinking can actually help feed some of the thinking that we have going into strategic planning, the next strategic planning that we have. Thank you. Questions or comments about that? I just want to thank Dr. Mai for
031this and as you can see I hope you can see that what we're trying to do is for many years a lot of these plans or a lot of the work lived in silos and we're really trying to embody all of it um and make it connect through our instructional priorities so that way um they're all talking all the work is aligning with one another so I appreciate the oversight with that um and the work that is upcoming for the next year it's a it's a good step in the right direction. Thank you. Okay. Um check two minutes until the public hearing. Okay. So, I'll just finish this up. Yep. So, um the last thing I have under instructional update is the announcement of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Um as you know, um
032it's a merit-based program that provides credit towards tuition for up to eight semesters. Um the scholarship is based on 10th grade MCCAST um scores. Um so I'd like to congratulate uh the following students. Gracian Ber Winter Katie, Jaden Casey, Miss Hope Cooper, who's not here tonight. Uh Sydney Fuller, Avery Gil, Gford, Justin Ilarazza, Lexani Lewis, Daniel McKillery, Somaya Mulba, Leonado Ala, Lexi May Fanthong, Adam Phillips, Raphael Trevino, Adam Yado, and Ha um Harry Zu. So congratulate to all. Um this is a great award and something they should be very proud of. So, thank you. Are we at our public hearing time? We're at 6:29. Did I talk too fast? I need to buy us 30 seconds. Okay. So, with the time being 6:30 p.m., we're going to move into our public hearing regarding the FY26
033budget. So, I'll call our public hearing to order. Thank you. So, as you know, annually, every April, we have a public hearing which speaks to the budget that we will be presenting at town meeting. Um, oh, did you take a motion to enter? We do need a motion to go into Sorry. Thank you, Desiree. I will entertain a motion to open our public hearing. So moved. Second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. We're now opening our public hearing. Thank you. Good reminder. Um so tonight we we're just we're not going to spend a ton of time. Uh we'll walk through the presentation. You know the presentation, but we will go through um and talk a little bit about each slide. As
034you know, we're here tonight to present our 3.65% 65% budget um that we approved at our last uh school committee meeting. Okay. So, I'll take it over from there. Um as the superintendent said, we'll touch upon each side. Some of this will be a recap for you because we have reviewed this information through the course of this budget season. So, we are presenting a 3.65% increase over fiscal year 25. We do have some key drivers in this increase. Um, we have curriculum updates. We have your standard step and lane changes. Also, as a result of uh employee turnover and hiring, we have salary increase contingencies in this budget for the contract negotiation. We have compliance mandates which includes special education tuition and other fixed and contractual obligations. One other driver that I noted um on
035here is transportation. And now transportation costs is not directly in this LEA budget. So this 3.65% increase budget. However, transportation does indirectly affect this budget. And we'll get into that in a little bit more detail as we move on. So as a reminder, the budget that we're moving forward with the 3.65 is comprised um of the local funds, right? So that represents 89% of what we have in our budget. The rest of um our budget and what we have and what we'll present is augmented by other funding sources that includes grants, circuit breaker, for special education tuition as well as school choice. Now, let's just step back. We mentioned that one of our drivers is special education cost. We did share this with you previously, but you can see what the trend has been over
036time. And that trend represented first at the bottom right showing you the various buckets of special education costs that we have in our budget. So we have a variety of tuition buckets. We have instate collaborives non-public and outofstate. In addition to that, we have contractual services that we also offer. That can be in the form of um it could be tutors, it could be speech, it could be therapeutic services. And then we also have how we apply our circuit breaker money in any given fiscal year. And then the trend line is really the total of all of those over this 10-year period. You do see a little dip here from 20 to 21. Again, that's a COVID dip. Um but you can see the acceleration of the trend following that, right? So that is really
037um illustrating some of the things that we're seeing um as a result of post-pandemic times. Also going handinhand with our um special education costs particularly tuition is what we pay for transportation. So as a reminder we have transportation for special education both in district and out of district. Um we also while we categorize um homeless and foster portion within our sped um portion of the budget, it really is separate and is not always someone on an IEP in that particular case, but we do tend to bundle that together in the district. Um and you can see we've been talking about this. We started seeing the spike in our transportation costs going up in 2024 and that is continuing as we move forward um in this year and into next year with our projections. So, let's
038just pause a minute and talk about the fiscal year 26 projection. So, you can see here that we have our regular ed as well as our special education um projection for next year. So, we're at 2.7 million for special education transportation. of that um transportation cost. 58% of that is in district and 63% that doesn't sound right to me as I'm reading it. Um is out of district. That looks like a typo to me. Um we'll go back and circle back before we post that. And then um our homeless for out of district is 22%. So what are some of those key drivers here? Um we're seeing a 57% increase over this year in in transportation costs. uh close to 8% is coming from regular ed transportation and 90% of that is for special education.
039Now just as a recap for our regular education transportation or general education um we have nine routes that we run for Webster Middle School and Bartlett High School. We have 10 roots for Park A and we also have two routes for parochial schools for special education. At the time of when this analysis was done, we had 49 routes um across nine providers. So within those routes would be the the the in district. So at um Webster Middle School in Bartlett in district we have four buses and at Park A um we have three. We added one this year. Some of the major drivers that we have related to transportation inc includes our contractual rate increases. Uh you may recall that we talked a little bit about this when we talked to AA transportation and what
040they're seeing in the industry and post pandemic. Some of the challenges that they're having supply chain issues right the cost increase in um vehicles and repairs as well as their talent pool has really decreased. A lot of that is attributed to the fact that people can work from home and get opportunities for remote work. And a good portion of folks that they used to have and they could recruit um were maybe stay-at-home parents, right? While their kids were in school, they wanted to pick up these roots and now they don't have to do that because they have other opportunities where they can work from home. We've seen an increase in monitor needs as well as the the roots and the runs um increasing over time. Actually, just one other thing. I got to switch to
041my glasses. I can't look up here and on my screen at the same time. Um, one thing we looked at when we were looking at that increase into 24, we saw um a huge increase in the monitors. I mentioned that as the drivers, it went up about 124% in monitors from 23 to 24 and our roots increase from 23 to 24 by 55% in that year. So, I think those are notable uh things for us to continue to monitor. So, let's jump into our funding sources and how we're funded. Um, for our LEA budget, there are six key factors that make up the formula for how the state dictates our budget. Two of those are consistent for every district, and that's your wage adjustment factor and the inflation rate. The other four are variable. And
042so, enrollment is a key um number, which we'll jump into. But you can see some of the other things from the local contribution standpoint. We're looking at property values, income, and what's your municipal growth. And our municipal growth is only at 4.02%. So, we're not seeing a lot of growth in Webster. So, let's jump into enrollment. We talked about this um when we first presented this slide back in January. And you may recall um and I'll level set this for everyone is that when this formula is derived, it's based on what is your enrollment as of October 1st. So, as of October 1st, you can see it's very small at the bottom the chart. Um, I think it's Bartlett was 403. My eyes are horrible. Webster Middle School, I think, was 566 and Park A
043is 7 39. Uh, you can see on the right I gave you what does it look like as of April 1st. So, you can see we have increased by 50 students since October 1st. So, those are 50 students that aren't calculated in the funding formula. Just to note, when we presented this on January 14th, um this is an increase of 17 students since then. So, just want to point that out that it's very fluid. We're seeing lots of people move into the district. So, this is a historical view um for you. So, again, it's citing what our chapter 70 aid is for this year and what that increase number is. So, we're getting an increase of 6.39%. And our local contribution is earmarked to be increased at 5.49%. You can see the various um chapter
04470 numbers on the left hand side in terms of what our increases have been. And we're going to dive a little bit into this because chapter 7 aid, you may look at that and saying, "Hey, you're getting 6.39%. How come the budget is only where it's at in terms of an increase?" So, we're going to break that down and explain how transportation and other factors tie into um how we're funded. The next one is really how is the sausage made from a chapter 70 standpoint. I won't go through this in a lot of detail, but um for people at home who may be viewing this to understand it, the right hand side breaks down how the formula works. Um they use those factors that I talked about to derive the actual dollar values for that.
045Um, we are fortunate that we're in a position that we are getting an increase in our funding. There are some districts who are in that category. You can see it's the second to the bottom, the hold harmless um where they're only guaranteed um, you know, $30 per student per uh, pupil increase, right? So, we're very fortunate that we're not in that situation. I want to actually turn this over to the superintendent. she's going to dive into a little bit about the chapter 78 and how that correlates to our revenue and how that's um allocated within Webster. Sure. So, what what we do as a community and every community has um different process um how they distribute aid through the schools. So, as you heard Miss KTO say previously on the slide that we were getting
0461.283 in the chapter 8 increase. What we do in our community is all the revenue goes into one bucket. That revenue is made of of education receipts which is our chapter 70 local uh receipts which is our excise tax, our taxes that are coming in and our property taxes and then general government aid. Um all of that goes into one big giant pool or pot of money, a bucket. Out of that bucket, the community takes out the town. The agreement is that shared costs come out of that. If you look in the middle of our slide, those shared costs are crossing guards, health insurance, um as Miss Ktos reported earlier, how does transportation come into play? Because transportation is in the town budget. That's considered um a shared cost. So the inc increase in transportation
047not only impacts the school department but it impacts all the other departments because that's pulling from the pool of revenue that's coming um into the town. Um we also have regional school assessment um debt outstanding debt uh retirement unemployment uh general liability insurance and ice uh Medicare tax and certain road improvements. All of that kind of comes into a shared cost across all the departments in the town of Webster. So, we have our revenue, which is our receipts that are coming in, our local receipts, our government aid, and our education receipts. All of that gets kind of tallied up and put into a pot. Then we come up with a total of our shared expenses, our shared costs across the community. That gets taken off of our receipts and that leaves us a balance, we
048hope, right? And that balance is distributed 7030 between the school and the town. The school department gets 70% of the remaining funds and the town gets 30%. And that's really divied up by the amount of employees that we have. We have about 70% of the workforce in the community. Um we're the biggest department. So that's how the funds get distributed. So, if anybody's wondering how how across Webster that we are divvying up the funds, um, as you know, we said that we had 1.2 million in chapter 78, um, but we're only estimated to receive about 975,000 is what we're asking for in this 3% budget. Are there any questions about that? No. um when we are looking into our budget and we were looking at um reductions because as you know our first budget I
049think that we submitted our departmental crest was um I think it was 8% 8.1 maybe um we had taken a look at if we have to um make workforce reductions um what are our considerations going to be so we talk about um our class size our needs for special education and Well, um our teacher ratios, enrollment trends, um we look at programs across the district and um you know our higher AR is our mission alignment. Are what work are we doing? Um and can we do that? Uh this is our bud uh budget evolution from our budget in January to where we are today. Um, as you know, we started with the 8 um 1% and then we made reductions along the way. Uh, we looked at our annual salary budget line. As you know,
050we're going through negotiations. So, we took a look at that. We've looked made reductions in curriculum. Um, we've really gone through our sophomore uh software with a fine tooth comb. Uh, we've had made some adjustments to the sped tuition, as you know, that's been fluid. So, as students come in and out, we make adjustments to that. Um, we are uh we um went any new positions that we requested, those immediately came off the top. We were looking for uh three long-term building subs, a.5 L teacher, and a world language teacher at the middle school. Those were immediately removed. Um we actually um applied more circuit breaker and made an adjustment in how the school resource officer is funded. As you know, when we met with the town, the town already had that in their budget.
051So they said they would um be comfortable leaving that there. Um so that was an adjustment. We're not going to see any change in service um as we move forward. And then uh we did have to come to some workforce reductions um at the very end once we've got um done digging through our budget. Uh we are looking to reduce our schoolyear administrative assistant at Park Avenue. Um we have um combined a class at uh Webster Middle School. So one of the special education teachers is moving um to the Bright program. Uh we are reducing at the high school a music teacher and a re-engagement specialist. Um again these are the position impacts that we just spoke about and that concludes our presentation. As you know again we are submitting down a 3.65% 65% budget
052um increase over FY25 um to the town meeting 4 um requesting uh an additional 975,000 um to support our budget in FY26. So I just want to let the public know we will put this presentation online. Um, and as always, uh, Miss Ktos and I are here for any questions that may come up. At any point, the public can call one of our offices. We'd be happy to talk to them about the budget, um, anything in the school system. Uh, we, you know, we are open door, so we'd rather people understand the impacts and know what's going on and reach out if they have questions. There any questions uh, from the school committee? Thank you, Mrs. Brangley. member Adamopoulos. Um, last week they stated that Massachusetts was losing $106 million of federal grant funding. We
053know what the impact's going to be here. Uh, we have not I don't think we're impacted. Yeah, I believe that was um some estroike funding for um building improvement types of um projects not impacting us. It impacted I think 30 I think it was 20 something districts. Um they had the list and we were not impacted by that. That wasn't Yeah, as you know, we have title one funds which are federally funded and um special education funds which total almost I looked at the amount it was 1.5 million and that doesn't include our other title grants, title two, title three, title four um and uh across the district. So, you know, we are hoping that um those will not be impacted because if they are, we are looking at um ma major reductions across the
054district. I mean, I could take power professionals alone that covers about $400,000 just in power professionals. Um so to lose that funding would be devastating for us. Um so we are watching that closely. We haven't heard of any cuts coming our way yet in that area. Um but again um things evolve quickly. A nice way of saying it. Well, we certainly appreciate all the time and effort that's gone into preparing this budget. I know it's been a lot of back and forth among members of district and school leadership and uh you know, I never none of us ever want to see reductions in our workforce for sure. Um, unfortunately, this is the the path that we're on at the moment, barring any other um, good news that could potentially come our way that we're not
055aware of at this point. So, um, much appreciated and, uh, also appreciative of the town for their support as well. Any other questions or comments from the committee? Y. So, we're going to need a motion to close the public hearing and go back to regular session. Okay. There's no further discussion. I will entertain a motion to adjourn our public hearing and reconvene our school committee meeting. So, moved. Second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Um, and moving back into school committee business, the next item on our agenda, Mrs. Pranguli, do you have more to your um, superintendent update? I do. Okay. Well, let's move back into that then. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Um, just a few things under other updates. On uh,
056Thursday, March 27th, uh, principal um, Gina Neas from the high school and I attended the superintendent scholar lunchon with um, Mr. Adam Phillips, a student here at the high school, as part of his recognition for receiving the academic excellent award. Um, so we enjoyed a nice lunch and got to celebrate him for all of his achievements. Um, and it was a great time. And then on Friday, April 4th, Dr. Mai held a family engagement meeting. Unfortunately, I was able unable to attend um as Miss Kontos and I were um participating in a fiscal f focus group uh which is being held by Desi in regards to our S SOA funding and ESSER funding. Uh they are doing groups across the state um for different communities um gateway communities, urban, rural, um regionals um and really
057uh asking about the impact of the ESSER funds and the student opportunity act um about how it how it's impacting our programs. What do we gain from it? What do we lose? Did we find it to be beneficial? um and how the sudden impact or the loss of those funds um impacted us. Um were we able to sustain any of the costs that we had during those. So it was an interesting um conversation. We look forward to um they're finalizing a report they said for Desi. So hopefully we'll get some feedback on that and get to look at that um once it's complete. And then as you know uh the first phase of the project is coming to an end quickly. I know Miss Kontos is going to be giving an update during her report.
058Um but we are hustling and bustling um and getting ready for the move and are excited about that. Um we just keep saying um I I I think it'll happen. I think it'll happen. So we've got our fingers crossed for it. Um but it it the builder is feeling somewhat confident. So we're feeling confident. Um, and then I'm also excited to report that um, community reading will be coming up next week on Wednesday. So, I look forward to participating that. That's always a highlight of um, the year for me. I enjoy going over and spending time with the kids and just seeing the community members come out and read to the kids is is a real highlight. It's well attended and um, it's great to see so many community members show up and be present
059for our kids. So, I love that. Um, and that concludes my report. Thank you, Mrs. Pangi. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the committee? Hearing none, the next item on the agenda is a business manager report. Good evening, Mrs. Ktos. Good evening. So, before I jump into the uh renovation updates, uh, I want to just give one maintenance update. I want to give a big shout out to the DPW. They help with some maintenance on the football field for the track program. the long jump uh needed some needed repairs and sand and uh Kenny Pazetti and his team was were extremely responsive and you know showed up within hours of the request and we again can't say enough about the strong partnership we have with the other town the departments in this town. So
060with that said let's move on to the renovation update. Let me give you a couple uh bits of information and then we'll jump into a slideshow. So, the substantial completion date is targeted for Thursday, April 17th. With that said, our um GC is really pushing, you know, he wants it to be this Friday. Uh but of course, there's inspections and other activities that have to happen, but he is really treating completion for him by the end of this week. Uh so, remaining installations are underway, and I can tell you from day to day when I pop in there, it's amazing the progress. 24 hours can make in the building. Um, actually I was in there today and there's a lot of cleaning in progress. So, the kitchen was being scrubbed while I was there and
061there's some touch-up painting going on. Inspections have been taking place. I'm happy to report the elevator has passed and that's a big one to get the state in here to get that inspected. The um electrical uh inspector passed today. Uh the chair lift was installed in the auditorium. So, we're just waiting on that inspection. And there's a few other inspections. We're talking about having the health inspector come out on Thursday to do a preliminary walk through, make sure we're all set, and hopefully be able to get that um inspected as well. The other um activity that we're heavily working on is the technology implementation. So, configuration is in progress by our third party vendor who's supporting us and we are planning for the equipment installation starting to happen next week. the the data the teleata
062closets have been cleaned out and they're ready for that installation. We have our fiber cut over. So currently our network connectivity runs into this section of the building. We ran new fiber to the renovated section. So we have spectrum planned to come out on April 21st which is a holiday for the district. So the district offices will be closed and we're hoping to do that network cut over on that Monday. Also lots of activities around move planning. Boxes have arise, arrive, packing is in progress. Really just waiting for what's the date that it gets moved. Right? So there's going to be factors around that and that is really when do we get our occupancy? Um for some of the things that have to be moving um can we move it outside? Will it be raining?
063You know, like certain things that we're all working on. We're hoping we'll start some moves. Um potentially some areas may be able to move some things in next week. Um but we're going to wait and see. Um but hopefully earliest would be on Good Friday that some of the activities would start and would continue into the next week. Also um the superintendent as well as the Bartlett principal are working together to get a virtual information session planned for parents. I know we were targeting um for either the 16th or 17th next week. Um, so we will getting that published out as well so that we can explain to parents what they can expect during phase two. Uh, so for those that are watching at home, the traffic pattern will not change. It will be the
064same as it is right now. Um, and when I say traffic pattern, I mean the driving pattern in where you come into the campus. However, the logistical pattern that the students take will change, right? They'll be moving between three separate buildings. So that is one of the things that we really want to communicate to parents so they understand how students will be moving through the campus. Are there any questions? Hey, let's jump in and show you some pictures. So let's take a look at the auditorium. Um so what you can see the chairs are all covered um both downstairs and upstairs. Uh the upper right hand corner, it's really hard to tell in the picture, but that's the rug that was in progress of being put down today when I was in there. So, I
065expect that when we walk in tomorrow, that'll be complete. Bottom left doesn't look that spectacular, but that's the ticket booth window right there. So, I just wanted to call that out. Uh, so I I've mentioned this before, the one area that um does not look like it's as finished, although I'll tell you, they're rapidly um getting things done is the auditorium, but I expect that'll change dramatically over the next three days. Um, you can tell on the right hand side. I don't know if you can see it, but in both of those pictures, you can see the wood panels that surround the stage. You can see it in the bottom one. Thank you. Um, and then at the top. So, it really it's a very nice touch in there. Now, we're going to show you
066the dining area. So, this is a view from downstairs. So, this is with the kitchen to our back. Um, you can see not all the tiles are in. They're still working in the the ceiling grid. So, that's from the ground floor. Now from the top we can go to the next slide and you can see all the lights that are hanging from the top. So this is from the upstairs looking down into the dining area. Again you can see the the finished paint. You can see the paneling that we have throughout this entire section of the building. Now in the kitchen going to show you some finished kitchen. It's really coming together. Um you can see that's some of the prep area in the back in the center. Uh the other two pictures are giving
067you two different views of the serving area as well as the milk cooler. Uh some of the things were moved around because they were cleaning. So I wasn't able to get it where it will be in its place. Um but they've made tremendous pro uh progress in in the kitchen and we're hopeful that we'll get that inspection soon and pass that inspection. Get a couple views of the classrooms. You can see that all the smartboards are in. Classrooms are ready to go. Uh they just need their final cleaning. in there gymnasium. Um, so you can see here the the floor is completely finished. The graphics are down. The shine is bright on that floor. Um, and in this picture, they were still doing the installation and it was complete when I went today, but all
068the green padding around the gymnasium is completed. And take a peek at the locker rooms. They look like locker rooms. Um, so, uh, upper right is, uh, some of the, uh, gym or PE locker rooms and, uh, the bottom is showing you what the team rooms look like. So, the lockers are bigger in the team rooms. So, we have four locker rooms. Uh, we have two uh, PE locker rooms, one for girls, one for boys. Likewise for the team sports as well. Team lockers are bigger, they have equipment, so it needs to be much larger to store their equipment. And then just some site work that's going on. on. I I wish I got out there today to take some more pictures of what they've been doing because they've been really making progress there. They're
069starting a lot of the planting. So, um that is also um on progress to be complete in time. So, I will tell you that the project team is extremely um hopeful. The G is the GC is very optimist optimistic that he'll get everything completed in time, but as I said uh at the last meeting, it really comes down to inspections and affidavits. Um and those are in progress and under review. So time will tell but we have as far as the GC is concerned he has eight working days left. So we are down to the wire. Very exciting. Any questions? Any questions from the committee through the chair? Members correl. Um for the gymnasium where are the bleacher? So they're going to be because before it was like bleachers in the middle of A and
070B court. Yep. So, it's going to be the same way. Same bleachers. So, the bleachers um that were permanent bleachers on uh let's see now because I took most of the pictures from that other angle. So, the permanent bleachers when you originally walked into court A will stay there and then those movable ones that were between court A and B will be the same type of movable bleachers as they were before, but brand new bleachers. Got it. Perfect. Thank you. And those bleachers um were um they were they were shipped and I think they're just waiting for them to arrive. Very exciting. The other thing I'll mention is we do have um a walkth through planned the week before break for the high school staff. We're going to do that on the Tuesday before break.
071Uh and the administrative team is going in next week. Um, Gina hasn't been in in a while. Um, nor have her two um, assistants been in. So, they're going to get a walkth through next week. Actually, tomorrow, I think. Was it tomorrow? Yeah, I think it's tomorrow. I know. Tomorrow. Just uh for them to start seeing the location so they can start planning, thinking about what it's going to look like when we're in there with kids and um, transitioning. So, it's it's it's happening fast and it's every moment I think that we go through every day. It's just um you know, we're in another meeting, but it it the progress is incredible um that they're going through and I'm really pleased uh about the collaboration we're seeing between the teams at this point, all focused
072on getting it done. So, they're doing a great job. Great. Very exciting. Can't wait to see over the next couple weeks. Miss Ktos, does that conclude your updates or do you have additional updates for us? It does. Okay, great. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is um we don't have our student rep with us this evening. Do you have any updates from Hope? I do. I do have some. Uh she wasn't feeling well this evening, but I do have her notes, so I'm going to do my best. I know I am no Hope Cooper here. So, um, and updates. I want to announce that the baseball team beat Lester 12 to nothing on April 2nd and the softball team beat Lester 8 to3. Um, prom tickets have gone on sale. They're $75. Um,
073Whoops. Uh, in Miss Nv's newsletter, there is some information on scholarships. So, please see her newsletter in regards to available scholarships. Um, the updated newsletter also discusses possible mentorships at BEu for Project Lead the Way students. Um, so see Miss Nev's email for more information. In upcoming events, um, the inschool egg hunt is April 11th. Um, they received a lot of candy donations. They were being accepted through April 10th. I think they're in pretty solid shape. I saw the list today. It is amazing what they've received for donations. Uh the family egg hunt will be April 13th from 9 to 11 here. Um Saturday school is on April 12th. Uh they are working on the senior overnight which is going to be held on May 30th. That is always a fun event for our senior
074students. And then the Project Lead the Way um intern showcase will be u May 2nd at hopefully in the new cafeteria at the um C-section once it opens. The students will be presenting what they have learned throughout their internship. I know Miss Contos is not here at the moment, but she's like, "They want to do what on the new floor." And I'm like, "It's a school. It's going to be used and lived in. Um, it'll be new for about two seconds." And, um, we're anxious to get in there and break it in. So, uh, it's exciting stuff coming up. Great. And that concludes Hope's report. Well, thank you for those updates um both to you, Mrs. Pranchley for relaying them and hope for putting them together. Next item on the on the agenda under old
075business is a monthly report on fundraising applications. I see there's a number of fundraising applications for the high school in our packet. Uh as a reminder, it's the role of the school committee to review fundraising applications, but we don't approve them. That's done at the building level. Um anything on that? No. And then uh we have a second reading on a number of policies. So I I will um go through each of these individually. The first is policy AC non-discrimination policy including harassment and retaliation. Next is a second reading of policy ACAB sexual harassment and title 9 policy. The next is second reading of policy ACABR, grievance procedure for complaints of sexual harassment. Second reading of policy ACR, civil rights grievance procedure. Second reading on policy JLCCB, headlice policing of policy JLCD, administering medicine to
076students. and the second reading of policy EBB first aid. Next on the agenda under new business is a discussion and vote on school choice for the school year 2025 to 2026. Thank you. So as you know annually we approve the number of seats that will be available for our school choice um for the following year. We need to submit that in. Um so attached in your packet uh you will see a list of the anticipated enrollments for next year. Anything that has an asterct means that we are um there are no seats available for that grade level. Um the ren recommended cap for 2526 we're looking at um estimating park a cap for 140 at each grade level. At Whipston Middle School it is 150 and atlet it is 150. Um, our cuto off date
077is October 1st of the fiscal year. Um, so it would be it's actually October 1st of 2025 for that school year. Down below should be 25, not 24. Um, so I'm looking for school committee approval of the school choice numbers. Thank you. Yeah, it looks like nothing's changed over last year. No. Yep. I'll entertain a motion to approve the school choice um information as provided. So moved. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. And the next item on the agenda is a CPAC update. Thank you. I am going to actually turn it over so for our director of student support services to report on CPAC. Thank you, Superintendent Pangelie. I am pleased to announce that we have a a CPAC. It's been
078quite some time and for those of you have not that are not familiar, the CPAC is a regulation that's part of special education. It's mandatory for a public school system to have a parent advisory council. CPAC actually stands for special education parent advisory council. Um, as you may recall, back in the fall, member Spurlia, she had mentioned that she looked at our website and she did not see um, anything related to CPAC. So, shortly afterward, we took some action. We updated the the Webster School's website and I put a memorandum requesting any interested parties to please step forward. And quite some time did pass, but a parent by the name of Sabrina Piche did reach out and asked um expressed interest in, you know, revitalizing our CPAC. So, we have been actively working to do
079so. Um if you were to look at the website now, you would see a section on notices, resources, a means to contact Sabrina, uh Mrs. Piche also um some information about the Webster CPAC in general and just wanted to give Mrs. Piche a special thank you for her um create creativity. She created a CPAC brochure. She um taught herself how to use Canvas and it's posted on our website as well. Uh we are we are also recruiting members for the CPAC and we did a small marketing campaign where we sent out the brochure to all special ed students in district and all staff in district as to honor autism awareness day. We thought that would be a really good way to um introduce the revitalation and um as a result of that campaign we have
080two additional members to the CPAC. So we're growing. Um our next step is to meet and we have some dates in the schedule to develop our bylaws. So this is an ent a governing entity of amongst themselves. So we'll be doing that. We're also going to um create the bylaws. We're going to um do some more recruitment plan events and meetings. So more information to come. But it's really exciting and uh Mrs. Piche has a lot of positive energy and is really excited about this opportunity and I share in the sentiment. So I'm really pleased to announce this. Any questions? That's great news. Thank you for those updates, Miss Hair. Any questions or comments from the committee through the chair? Member Scrigg. No. And I thank you for posting that to the district website. And
081I think you know looking at our district and the population that we have, we have such a large number of uh families who have students with disabilities. So I think giving them this governing force and self-governing force and advocacy group or support group however they wish to utilize the time that they have I think is only going to you know bridge even the gap the you know between our district and parents in that engagement with the community too. So that's awesome and I'm so happy and you know looking at Dudley Charlton or Oxford or any other you know me um neighboring districts and how we can collaborate with them and set parents up with each other too I think was awesome. May I speak to that please? So um thank you for bringing that up.
082Um when while we were waiting to see if we get any response from the website, I did reach out to Dudley Charlton who is working collaboratively with our district and welcomed us to any of their CPAC resources. So Mrs. Piche and I were invited to attend one of their CPAC meetings which we did and it was a wonderful learning experience and we have neighboring resources that we could tap into. So it's really wonderful. It's great news. Any other questions or comments from the committee? hearing none. The next item on the agenda is the approval of disposal of surplus items and there's some library books and some IT equipment that's outlined in our packet. Yep. And I just want you to know that we just updated one of the files and looking through it, I realized
083that um in your packet, uh only a portion of the file was copied over. um when they were doing their library weeding um going through the library removing all the old books, we have about um 898, so it's uh I think it was like 1,000 something pages of books um that they're cleaning up that you will see in your packet that are outdated. They took anything new. Um luckily with the system that we had, we were able to use the scanner to kind of quickly go through the librarian did do that. um and did do that herself. Um and we have students who are packing up the old books. Miss Kontos will be working with a company um that takes the old books and distributes them out. Um she was also reaching um out to
084the libraries to see if there was anything they wanted first before we did that. So, uh we are looking to surplus those because as you know we are quickly moving into phase two um which will be starting the week after break. So, uh, we need to have everything cleared out by then. Um, so you will see those in your packets. Great. Any questions or comments from the committee about these surplus items and the IT? Yep. Thank you. And so, um, just to clarify that library books and the IT items as well. Hearing no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion to declare surplus items of miscellaneous library books and IT equipment from Webster Public Schools and to direct the superintendent or the business manager to auction off, donate, or otherwise recycle or dispose of these
085materials in conjunction with Massachusetts General Law 30B. So moved. Second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, motion passes. And the next item on the agenda is the review, transfer, signing of warren, bills, payroll, and vouchers. Before we get into that, yes, I do believe that tonight is Mrs. Ble's last meeting. Um, you had seven years on the school committee and, um, is not running for reelection this year. So this will be her official last meeting. So um you know I can't speak on behalf of the committee. I can only speak on behalf of myself. And you know even before I sat in this chair when I was over here in the business manager seat um I truly always felt very supported by you and
086appreciated your kind words and understanding and um your hard work and your support. You've always supported the kids. You've supported the staff. You've supported the teachers. um and myself along with that. So, I cannot thank you enough for your service to Webster um in your part on the school committee. You have touched many many um lives and impacted decisions made across this school uh for the past seven years and even before that in your other career um when you were working within the school. Um I can't tell you how much you are appreciated. I was hoping our plaque would be updated so you could see it tonight. I didn't get them back from um it's a busy time of year for awards, but there they should be done any day now. Um so I look
087forward to putting your name and and having you hang on our wall for many years to come where we can appreciate you and thank you for your service. Thank you very much. So I don't know, I'll open it up to the committee to the chair. Member Adamopoulos. From a personal level, I I really want to say thank you for everything. Um, when I first started, you know, you reached out immediately, introduced yourself. If I had any questions, you always had an answer for me, pointed me in the right direction. So, um, you know, I didn't know what I was doing and you went out of your way to really help me and give me all the information so I can, you know, from a personal level just thank you for that. But I think you've
088always brought a great perspective to the committee. Um, obviously, you know, you've volunteered your time here. You run the building committee also to a lot of behind thes scenes work that you've done. So I want to commend you for all that and for just the all your input that you brought forward and you know all the input you've brought to the community as a whole. Um I'm sure seven years went by pretty quick but I just want to say thank you for everything you've done. Thank you. Thank you. I second what Nick said and that thanking you for welcoming me to the committee and helping to make me feel a part of it and always here to answer question also. Yeah. I mean I feel like you know we we have a great team. we
089are able to speak freely and we have a healthy respect for each other. U you know when we're not in agreement with everything. Uh you know I've I've loved my years here. It was a very very hard decision for me um to not run again. But with both of my children being out of district now for three years, it's you know time for somebody else to to be able to give back. Uh, you won't be getting rid of me that quickly though. I'll still be volunteering and attending games and things like that. So, um, I've loved my time here and I thank each and every one of you because you you've really made it easy and and great for me to enjoy it. So, thank you. I too just want to thank you Shayla um
090for all of the the time and effort that you've put into not only as as member Adam Moples pointed out not only the school committee but the Webster community in general. It's been a real honor to serve with you on on the school committee over these years and getting to know you and the perspective that you share and you know really student centered and staff centered um it's been an important voice over the years. So um appreciate it. I'll miss our time together. Thank you. Oh, thank you. So sweet. Thank you. I know it's there. Thank you. Well, with that being said, we will now move into signing uh warrants. Thank you, Mrs. Branchley. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. There's a me a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull
091the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Meeting adjourned. Good night everyone.