001this scarborough school board meeting may i have the attendance please mrs skiptis here mr kelleher here miss leong she's excused mrs lindstrom here mr peeny huff here this is turner and she will be late miss gift is here and miss patulia here thank you um can everybody join me please for the pledge of allegiance [Music] and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all perfect agenda item 4.0 is adjustments to the agenda are there any adjustments assuming no adjustments agenda item 5.0 is public comment on agenda items is there anybody interested in making public comment this evening [Music] all right seeing none i will go ahead and close public comment agenda item 6.0 is the reading of a town proclamation so i'm going to invite
002april seither up to the podium [Music] counselor thank you good evening uh i'd like to take a second since you gave me a microphone to thank all of those who are retiring this year some of whom taught my husband and myself two of whom taught my children this year so i'll let you read into that what you will um our school community is so blessed to have you all and we thank you so much for your service so from my family um just wishing you all the best now for the official reason that i'm here it is impossible to count the lives that tom griffin has shaped during his more than three decades of coaching girls softball his legacy extends far beyond scarborough and the young women that he has coached have gone on to
003become coaches themselves including here in town many of those young women have gone on to have daughters who now are my daughters teammates and friends for all of us in the scarborough softball family we thank you for building and maintaining such a strong program for all these years and for those of you that don't know coach griffin was already audience to this proclamation but if you could drum up some surprise and oohs that would be that would be great so here goes proclamation 22-0202 be it resolved by the council of the town of scarborough maine in town council assembled that whereas the town council seeks to honor and commemorate mr griffin for his years of unselfish dedicated service to the scarborough school department and the students and whereas the oak hill sports complex is such
004a prominent and visible symbol for sporting events one of which being that of girls softball and whereas coach griffin has been coaching the scarborough high school girls softball team for the past 32 years and whereas he has had great success on the field including seven class a state championships and whereas over 32 years he has taught coached mentored thousands of kids whether it was in the classroom or on the field there are so many that he has touched along the way whereas that his legacy is well known and respected throughout the state and softball community and is one which other programs strive to emulate now therefore be it further resolved by the scarborough town council and the town manager and the town of scarborough that the town of scarborough does hereby recognize the retirement of
005thomas e griffin and supports the naming of the softball field the thomas e griffin softball field in his honor signed and sealed on this day the 20th of may 2022 um i was caught by surprise on friday going into high school auditor cafeteria with a big reception and my players and so many of my former coaches and and players and parents and my family were there i was just very overwhelmed and it was very much a big surprise and very much appreciated um i must say that that night i i didn't sleep very well um you know all these things you know you focus on you know the next game or the next season and you know it was like the first time i really started to realize and reflect on my god 32 years
006and all these things are going through my head and in sleep and then the next morning the first thing i did is i went downstairs to read the proclamation just to make sure that the uh it said the thomas e field and didn't say the thomas e griffin memorial field um reassured it didn't um and you know you go through something like this and you the first thing you need to do is really reflect on all the people that made all this happen and you know i get a lot of the credit but you know the reality is so many other people are involved to make that happen um first of all my wife um so supportive and allow me to do what i wanted to do for for so many years um in my
007family um you know the coaches um from from little league to the to the travel leagues um the pitching coaches um my assistant coaches you know dave curry is over here 10 years he was my first a lot of people forgot this name he's my first jb coach and assistant coach and for the first 10 years and then all the all the wonderful players i'm sorry i'm looking over here and gabby and gavin is all you know gabby giftos is one of those players and i've been so blessed to have so many just wonderful kids um i just don't know how this has happened um gabby is a pure example of this the type of kid that is drawn to our program for some reason and um you know the intelligent kid and the you
008know the caring kid and the hard worker and the you know that's that's exactly the type of kid that's in our program just like gabby so many you know they just you know just make it so much easier and so much fun for me to i don't have to worry about a lot of those little things uh those are taken care of because they take care of those thumbs up themselves um and then the most you know i've had some just wonderful athletic directors over the years um they've allowed me to kind of do my thing and give me some creativity and give me some space to be able to you know make some of those mistakes and learn from them and grow from them and i can't thank them enough and especially michael gage
009has been my ad for for several years now i can't can't thank him enough for his support and his encouragement and he always has my back and i know that i appreciate that thank you for the nice words you shared on friday night as well um but there's two people i need to really thank um very much so and those are my two assistant coaches liz winslow was a was a player for me a long long time ago we won seven state uh class a championships but we also won a class b championship and liz winslow was the pitcher on that team and um when she when she graduated we moved her into a coaching position and um and i can't thank her enough uh in in charlie anderson um who's a great friend of
010mine he's been with me for the last 31 years as an assistant coach as well and those two people are are two of the best of the best of this community and i rely heavily on their expertise and their friendship and their intelligence and they keep me grounded and um i mean all the successes is all accommodation from that teamwork that we have together and the wonderful kids and the great administration i've had and and the the all the coaches that are involved and the parents have been involved and you know i really thank you guys all this has been a wonderful surprise um looking forward to continue working with gabby for the next few weeks and hopefully you can bring on another state championship so thank you all appreciate it [Applause] i think he
011comes outside are there any comments i just want to say coach griffin you're amazing like i vote ever since i was younger i was always i can't wait to be on his team and this is so well deserved so thank you so much for everything you do all the girls we all like we all just adore you so thank you i just want to say congratulations congratulations it's definitely the impact you've left and the legacy you've left is really really amazing to hear from everybody and this the younger girls that are here too to support you it's just across the board that's a really powerful statement to your your impact so congratulations all right um agenda item 7.0 is recognition 7.1 is retirees all right retirees and um we uh we added all up this
012represents and this is kind of staggering when you really start to think about it 491 years of service you know and it's just it's the strength of your school district and your community are um is our staff and the number of years represents um just just the the commitment shared commitment and investment in in our kids um and and that that's just such a such an honor to be able to recognize that service and that dedication and investment and in our community so i just wanted to pass that on collectively to everyone in this room uh it's pretty astounding and and amazing to be a part of even though it's it's still i'm still my first year but um so thank you for for your collective service to scarborough um and we'll start with marcella
013oh yes kathy would do middle school first sorry about that yeah you ready okay so at the middle school we have four retirees um first marcy alquest began teaching art at scarborough middle school in 2010. she came to sms with 13 years of prior teaching experience six of those at scarborough high school a highlight of her time at the middle school was selecting student artwork to celebrate youth art month and having the artwork exhibited at the portland museum of art she looks back on this experience as being so rewarding for students their families in the scarborough school community she also is grateful to our students for allowing me to experience the world through their eyes by sharing learning experiences and unique expressions of their creativity as one of her colleagues shares marcy dedicates herself with
014great effort to whatever she's working on her creativity supportive nature willingness to go above and beyond and her ready smile and sense of humor will be sincerely missed outside of school she enjoys springtime with her friends and her family especially her three grandchildren she enjoys time at her camp on richardson lake and being an artist she is always creating and exploring in retirement she is looking forward to hiking boating going to the beach and working on home improvement projects and she's not here this evening brenda rainsborough she joined sms in february of 2003 as an edtech and was hired as a classroom teacher in june of the same year previously she worked at unum for 22 years before pursuing her teacher certification at une in 2000 at sms she has taught across all three grade
015levels in a variety of subject areas including ela and civics most recently she has taught sixth grade science for four years looking back on her time at sms brenda shares that the biggest highlight of my career has been getting to know hundreds and hundreds of great middle school students and so many wonderful supportive and fun people based on what one colleague shared about her these feelings are mutual she has a knack for relating with students as well as with her co-workers and has the gift of humor if you need to brighten your day brenda is your answer outside of school she enjoys leisure time at her camp walking and spending time with her family and friends in retirement she plans to travel to alaska relax and most importantly spend as much time as she wants
016eating her lunch [Applause] tom griffin's first year at scarborough middle school was 1987. prior to this time he gained unique teaching experience as the k-12 physical education and health teacher at the baxter school for the deaf he has taught these same subjects throughout his career at sms in addition to teaching tom has been hugely influential in connecting sms to the broader community he organized the bike walk for aids fundraiser that generated approximately 250 thousand dollars for the franny peabody center and was the volunteer coordinator of the builders club which engaged hundreds of students in community service projects tom also leaves behind a legacy of leading the scarborough high school softball team to eight state championships during his 32-year tenure with these accomplishments it's not surprising that a colleague of his shares that he is one
017of the most selfless and caring people he knows as long as i have worked with him he has tirelessly put his students and athletes first to help them be the best that they can be outside of school he enjoys playing golf gardening and home repairs in retirement he is looking forward to care to taking care of his first grandchild as well as playing more golf traveling more and spending the winter months in north carolina [Applause] okay dave courier dave courier's career at scarborough middle school began in 1987 with four prior years of experience in physical education and coaching he continued teaching physical education at sms and coached several sports in addition to serving as middle school athletic director in 2008 dave became the assistant principal and has served in that position since that time he
018states that his goal at scarborough middle school has always been to provide a safe and respectful learning environment for all students staff and visitors to our building by demonstrating kindness and respect for all members of our community he says we can build a better climate and culture in our school his efforts towards his goal have not gone unnoticed a colleague shares that dave is a positive example for others to follow he is thoughtful sensitive and always concerned for others he is a true professional who has made a lasting impact outside of school his passions include fitness skiing the beach and most importantly family in retirement he plans to take advantage of his newfound time in the fall and winter to enjoy more hiking and traveling and i'm sure skiing i do want to thank all
019four of our retirees for their service and we're really going to miss them [Applause] um hi everyone i'm kelly crosby very proud to be the principal at wentworth school tonight i am recognizing one two three four five retirees from wentworth um so i'm gonna go in alphabetical order and i'll start with miss cody mrs carla cody carla has been a teacher for 27 years 21 of those is a third and fourth grade teacher at wentworth school she attended the university of southern maine where she earned multiple degrees first her associate in businesses business administration then a bachelor's in social science she worked in the private sector as a legal secretary a recruitment coordinator and in client services and marketing before discovering her true calling teaching children she returned to usm and earned her master of
020science in teaching and learning upon completion of her certification miss cody began her teaching career in new gloucester before coming to the scarborough public schools where she found her home at wentworth and she's been with us ever since miss cody's warm and nurturing approach have touched the lives of many students and her commitment and dedication to to her craft have earned the respect and admiration of her colleagues colleagues describe her as gracious kind hardworking giving witty smart fun thoughtful generous caring flexible reflex respectful and professional and i could go on i would add that she's also a humble county gal who just this morning wowed our school with her impeccable french speaking and the history of the main potato harvest on the morning announcements right to the bitter end she is just going for it
021many a new teacher have said to me i want to be carla cody when i grow up her personal and professional presents are certainly worth looking up to carla will be greatly missed in the halls always giving a smile and leading her little ducklings along the path to success thank you miss cody for sharing your gifts with all of us we know you will enjoy your family and adventures north in your retirement the next retiree i don't believe is here but it is mrs rita doring and she has worked in the scarborough public schools for 15 years she attended fordham university and the university of southern maine and worked several places as a secretary and administrative assistant in both the private sector as well as in higher education while raising her triplets she began working
022in the public school setting in the lunchroom and cafeteria in portland before she was hired at scarborough middle school in 2007 as the technology equipment ed tech in 2018 mrs doring joined wentworth school as an ed tech in the learning commons also known as the library and she has truly embraced the role mrs doering has now read most of our collection of children's literature and has enjoyed sharing stories with students and helping them navigate the learning commons rita has a very tender heart underneath a strong exterior she has been known to have silent tears streaming down her cheeks as she reads an especially moving picture book to herself colleagues describe her as having a strong worth work ethic kind funny smart and a great storyteller she has paid her dues with many a cold morning
023of car rider supervision and we wish her very warm weather and sunny skies in her retirement next up is mrs katie hayes mrs hayes has provided 19 years of service to the scarborough public schools she taught for five years at a corner school and has been at wentworth for 14 years for a total of 22 years in education mrs hayes holds her bachelor's degree in economics from the university of massachusetts and also did a little dabbling and did one year of education at the academy of art in san francisco she took graduate courses within the literacy department of usm to earn a literacy certification and she truly has a special knack for teaching reading mrs hayes has always had the heart of an educator from her work at a daycare in cape elizabeth to her
024role at the masonic learning center for children in portland and as an edtech at eight corners working with children with learning disabilities before becoming a classroom teacher colleagues describe mrs hayes as caring flexible collaborative kind smart and helpful one colleague shared that katie is right there with them and she always let the students lead the way with their ideas and their creativity she integrates the curriculum using watercolors for writing or writing a grant for the american revolution costumes for the plays that the students wanted to act act out from their reading class she has such a gentle approach with her students we met we wish mrs hayes joy with her family and many years of health strength and well-being in her retirement thank you katie [Applause] okay next up we have mrs martha olive martha
025olive has been an educator for 26 years 19 years in scarborough with 15 of those years as a literacy support teacher at wentworth school skillfully supporting students reading skills she attended georgetown university earning her bachelor's in linguistics then completed her teacher certification at usm followed by learn earning her master's in education with a literacy focus from the university of colorado at boulder mrs olive taught in cape elizabeth falmouth wyndham and colorado schools and has also worked in the private sector as well as in higher education admissions colleagues describe her as kind willing to help smart caring and inquisitive she volunteered for many years on the sunshine committee and is dedicated to helping her colleagues feel appreciated and cared for mrs olive has found true joy in working with her literacy support colleagues and in helping
026struggling readers meet their goals she is very tenacious about finding just the right strategy to help her readers we know mrs olive will stay very busy visiting her daughter crafting singing dancing reading and traveling with her husband in her retirement congratulations mrs oliver and rounding out the gen ed retirees from wentworth school we have mrs deb tate mrs tate has been a teacher at wentworth school for 16 years she previously earned her bachelor of science in business administration graduating with highest honors from usm and worked for many years in finance in portland as well as in worcester massachusetts she then attended the university of new england to earn her teacher certification and began her second career as a teacher right here in scarborough in 2004 mrs tate has enjoyed teaching fifth graders team teaching and
027mentoring new teachers as they pursue their certification colleagues describe her as super organized caring prepared supportive well-dressed and that is true she's very snappy smiling dependable dedicated selfless creative and crafty her colleague and teaching partner shared that deb's partnership has meant the world to her and to their shared students she went on to say that deb has been the calm when seas were rough she's been the guide when the past path was not clear and she has been the help mate when it seemed that too much lay before us we know that retirement will find her spending time with family golfing and gail says hit him long and straight deb reading skiing swimming cooking and gardening to her heart's content best wishes we'll miss you mrs tate and the quote that i have at this
028is teaching is the greatest act of optimism by colleen wilcox and these ladies certainly embody that so thank you we'll miss you all i'm here to speak about four remarkable people they are unable to be here but they're definitely worth hearing about scott mcdonald uh has given over 25 years in education in addition he was been a real estate broker and a dear dealer in rare music records when scott came to scarborough four years ago it was to become our first secondary transition specialist the high school realized very quickly that scott was an invaluable resource he is described as thorough innovative inquisitive tireless thoughtful compassionate has a real hearty laugh sense of humor no challenge is too big fantastic amazing a true gem scott generally genuinely believes in every child's potential in finding ways to
029make that grow scott meets individually with every special education student at the high school multiple times to plan and assist them in meeting their post-secondary goals in education employment and independent living skills examples of his work include the development of our own culinary arts program internships and extended learning opportunities out in the community assessing and accessing vocational programs the strive and tops program day habilitation programs job corps and students accessing adult education to get their high set much of his work also includes the family in accessing section 21 and 29 waivers main care supportive decision making of guardianship shared living options truly a remarkable man the list goes on and on all that being said we really do wish scott the very best in enjoying his retirement with his wife cooking listening to music and
030puttering at camp scott mcdonald [Applause] dr jane bolas has been a practicing school psychologist for the last 23 years she has worked in thompson saco portland falmouth and began with us five years ago she has evaluated students from age three to 20 and has a wide breadth of clinical expertise her evaluations are thorough understandable to the parents and staff and rich with educational recommendations and parent resources the best way to describe jane is to call her a superhero or wonder woman colleagues describe her as smart compassionate pragmatic loyal energetic a problem solver thoughtful sense of humor and excels as a team player she never forgets a birthday and always brings in homemade ice cream to celebrate she'll text you when you're sick and just to check in over vacation jane cares about making the world
031a better place jane's immediate plans include her oldest daughter getting married this weekend uh and traveling to italy this fall where her husband will be hiking with his friends and she'll be sipping some fine red wine in a italian market square we would not be so foolish to lose chain and have convinced her to stay on in scarborough and do a bit of clinical supervision and consultation work with us so it is really not goodbye and we hope that that does not happen for years to come jane bolas [Applause] sue bertrand part of the wentworth family as well sue has been a wentworth resource room student uh teacher with us since 2008. prior to that she was a teacher in lyman biddeford and springville a career of 29 years of teaching while with us her
032first ed tech was jamie diches who she mentored and who also now is a wonderful resource room teacher at wentworth recently a student asked sue how long have you been teaching and she said that she started teaching the year mr shays was born the tweet the student replied wow you need to retire uh jamie and sue host an author's tea ever with their students each trimester to celebrate their work she sets the room up with tables and a big group in the center and puts out tablecloths so it looks real fancy students would pick their favorite piece of writing to share with a group while they nibbled on cookies and drank tea or juice sue really loved doing these types of activities with her students colleagues describe her as welcoming helpful inclusive thoughtful strong-willed dedicated
033and an advocate i have always been struck with sue's quote on her email communications learning is a treasure that will follow its owners everywhere i can think of no better way to describe sue her dedication to all of her students learning was always at the forefront of her work we wish sue a much deserved retirement joining her husband who retired last year and maybe in the future becoming snowbirds sue bertrand and last we have kim hoops kim hoops actually retired in august but we do not want to let this opportunity pass with not uh without recognizing her she joined us as an ed tech 14 years ago and has been a high school resource room ed tech with bill stone for the last 10 years or so i asked bill to share with me a
034few special highlights and i think i will read exactly what he wrote as it is heartfelt and embraces my thoughts as well from bill i am so thankful to have been able to work alongside kim hoops for over a decade she has been the standard of professionalism in our building she is a very dependable person and easy to work with whenever we were throwing curve balls in our class whether it be a scheduling issue student challenges or the frequent last minute addition to our caseload she demonstrated a knack for adjusting and for specifically implementing student goals sue and i became a team and worked very effectively together helping the students who needed assistance the most despite the extremely difficult adjustments needed for the 2019-20 and 2021 school years kim took her position seriously and contacted
035each student independently to offer help and instruction her record-keeping was impeccable and greatly appreciated and she valued the importance in proper data collection being a mother of three wonderful young ladies who all went through the scarborough schools she had a unique outlook on what adolescents go through during their secondary years and was able to relate to issues that came up with our students and offer understanding and compassion though she can never be replaced she provided me with the experience to be able to work more effectively with others on staff to serve our students with exemplary care she deserves a great deal of recognition recognition for her service to our town i am forever in her debt and she has been the shining light in my own educational career kim hoops [Applause] good evening i have
036the pleasure of talking about seven high school students tonight and the seven high school teachers um and the seven high school teachers i'm honoring tonight encompass 148 years of experience just at scarborough high school i'm not even counting the other schools that they've taught in we are retiring a wealth of knowledge skill talent and love this spring first up greg byther greg has been a member of scarborough high school for 17 years he has always been in the science department and i know that for a number of years he has been our only full times physics teacher greg is known for his magic tricks on fridays his rocket launches and for being the science department head for many years in his retirement greg is currently deciding if he's going to flip another house or not
037and he and his wife will be traveling to warmer weather in the winter months and returning to maine in the summer i know that greg will be golfing all that he can thank you greg for your many contributions to scarborough high school we will miss you but we wish you the very best next up is carrie curtis carrie has been with us for two school years and has been integral in growing our stem program as well as vex robotics in these two years just this last month the vex team earned their way to compete in texas at the world competition for the very first time in retirement carrie will be joining his wife for fun and adventures since she got to retire last year they will be spending more time with their boys kerry thank
038you for sharing your teaching skills with our students we so appreciate your work and we wish you well next is jody king jody has worked at shs for a short 28 years and as a wonderful pe teacher jody has been a leader in develop developing the pe class that meets all of the state requirements and then she's helped to add courses that allow students to choose their interests in pe one example is outdoor activities which students love to take so they can enjoy the outdoors in all kinds of weather jody also started volleyball at scarborough high school and was the first coach for this team what a great tradition she started jody will be joining her husband eric in retirement and i'm sure that they will be active biking hiking cross-country skiing in the winter
039they love to be active also i know that on july 1st they will be joining me in watching the tour de france this year we talk about it annually jody thank you for all you've given to shs through the years and enjoy your retirement [Applause] molly montgomery molly has shared her skills in counseling wisdom here for 16 years her original title at shs was substance abuse counselor but we've grown and changed that to the student assistance counselor along the way whatever the title molly has counseled students in a million different ways through the years she has advised natural helpers which she has grown into sources of strength in the last year or so she has been the my house coordinator for many years and she offers mindfulness and yoga to classes and during a east
040time weekly molly and her husband ted will be enjoying retirement together doing some traveling including visiting their son out west and going to their newly updated camp to rest relax and enjoy the outdoors they too will be enjoying time with their sons molly i think will also be continuing her private practice molly thank you for always sharing your kindness grace and wisdom with all of us have the best time in your retirement congratulations [Applause] next up is renee richardson renee wins the prize for second place finish with 34 years at scarborough high school renee has been a superb instrumental music teacher at both the high school and occasionally the middle school as well she grew our instrumental music program from one high school band to three she started a jazz band program here which has
041extended to the middle school in fact renee taught jasbian for a number of years renee is considering working as an ed tech within our system if she can find the right fit she will be doing some traveling starting with canada this month and we will be in and she will be enjoying spending time with her family and friends as soon as her foot heals i imagine she'll be back on her bike renee and i shared a music room and lots of musical students through the years and i will miss your presence at scarborough high school the very best of luck to you drew sullivan drew wins the prize for the longest run at shs this year with 39 years drew has been the primary math support in the study center center since it was created
042way back in the 80s drew really had the vision to create the study center as we see it today dew has served as the math department head for many years the high school certificate certification support chair and she's been a leader in the knee husk process not once but twice a long while back drew headed the restructuring grant at the high school which probably only a few of us remember now and she has served on countless committees started the alex credit recovery program as well drew is going to jump start her retirement by going to monhegan island with her great friend and study center teacher alumni jan grant this month also she has a new cocker spaniel puppy named casey who she hopes to train to be a therapy dog drew is starting off retirement
043sending her husband rick to work every day at yarmouth high school and will be surely traveling to new york city to see her daughter and her husband drew we wish you lots of fun adventures in your retirement have fun [Laughter] and last but not least tim walker tim has been a guidance counselor extraordinaire at scarborough high school for 12 years he served as the department head for guidance for a time and then focused on his student caseload tim has helped to grow and implement a curriculum in their department and he has been a tremendous student advocate and has supported many students along the way with his kindness humor warmth and open honesty with students and their parents in retirement tim will be spending time with family and friends doing some traveling no doubt and will
044continue to enjoy his hiking rumor has it that we may be able to catch him at harbor fish across the street tim thank you for all your work with students we wish you the very best well those are hard acts to follow um i have the pleasure tonight uh to honor one custodian debbie who's with us here tonight deb's served the scarborough schools for 22 years when she first started in scarborough she actually didn't work for the facilities department she worked for the food service department she spent two years two years in food service and then joined the custodial ranks uh around 2002. she's spent the majority of her time between the high school and the middle school and anyone who has done anything remotely close to custodial work will understand that it is uh
045truly thankless work they are behind the scenes she's worked the evening shift three to eleven two to ten whatever the shift is that's what debbie has worked and it's a hard shift it's grueling work sometimes if you have an evening event custodians set up the tables take down the chairs vacuum up the popcorn from the bleachers after a basketball game they do all sorts of interesting and again thankless work because we're facilities we do things a little differently all these nice presentations about our professionals retiring i'm going to give you just a brief estimation by the numbers of what debbie has done for us in 20 years as a custodian the average custodian has approximately 15 rooms or more most times more in their area that they're responsible to clean each room has approximately 20
046desks which are cleaned each night chairs floors garbage cans all these things need to be attended to at night so let's just take a quick look 20 years 15 rooms conservative estimate 20 desks in each room in one year a custodian like that would clean 54 000 desks i'm going to put on my glasses over 20 years that would be 1 million 80 000 desks vacuuming carpets most of the areas in classrooms at the middle school in the high school are carpeted roughly 600 square feet per classroom that means over a year you'd vacuum 1.62 million square feet of carpeting over 20 years that number rises to 32 million four hundred thousand square feet of carpeting let's talk trash cans there are generally two in every classroom plus a recycling container trash alone 7 200
047trash cans per year and they're carted out to a dumpster in any kind of weather rain snow sleet and 90 degree temperatures over the course of 20 years that would be 144 trash cans emptied now let's talk about the really fun things custodians do they clean toilets and bathrooms let's just conservatively estimate that a custodian has 10 toilets that they're responsible for i guarantee you it's more than that but because i'm a mathematical idiot i'm going to keep it simple ten toilets a night eighteen hundred toilets per year thirty six thousand toilets over twenty years cleaned by one custodian debbie bean i'm going to go on and talk about very briefly all of the things that other things that custodians do like cleaning lockers and windows and dusting and cleaning up after games dodging the
048indoor track runners on the second floor of the high school remember that yes so debbie has served us well for 20 years and that's just the beginning of the numbers but really when asking those who have worked for with her and she actually retired in november so she's been retired for a little while now they have said the following things debbie is a great communicator she's direct but respectful she has a great sense of humor she's caring kind and thoughtful she's very strong-willed and spiritual and she's committed to her work just tonight when i arrived the first thing she asked me was how another custodian who's been struggling with health issues is doing that's the kind of person debbie bean is so debbie thank you so much for doing the thankless work and for your
04922 years of service at the scarborough schools good evening i'm chris rhode i'm the assistant director of special services and it's my honor tonight to talk a little bit about allison marchese as soon as i unfold my speech and it's small fun 37 years it's a lot of ground to cover well allison i'll start with a little background earned her ba from umaine orono and her masters in social work from adelphi university in new york after graduating allison worked as a social worker for several different day treatment programs for students with disabilities here in maine and then started her career in scarborough schools in 1985 as a social worker at the middle school allison then served for six years as the assistant principal at scarborough middle school and then was appointed to her current position
050as director of special services in 2003 and has served in that position for the past 20 years bringing allison to a grand total of 37 years of scarborough schools second place tonight to drew but not bad uh so during that time allison has been an active member of the main administrators of services for children with disabilities the cumberland county administrator recertification group um countless committees as a part of scarborough schools and one particular honor that allison had was being named um the maine special education administrator of the year in and this honor reflected the uh reflects the extremely high regard of which allison has always been held by her colleagues here and made other special education directors um i think it would be difficult everybody to agree to overstate the the pace of change in
051public schools over the past 20 years during which allison has served as director and i think that change has been even more pronounced in the area of special services and allison's leadership has been the driving force through those years here in scarborough and keeping pace with those changes and making sure that all of our students receive the services that they need and deserved a short list of those accomplishments because the long list would be more than one page for sure would be helping develop one of the first comprehensive programs for students with autism in public schools here in the southern maine area spearheading the use of social thinking curriculums to help students learn social skills supporting a swim program for students in our functional life skills programs supporting the development of a unified sports program
052supporting participation in special olympics supporting the implementation of innovative programs and support for executive functioning leading the special services department through the covet pandemic overseeing the implementation of highly effective reading programs the list really would go on and on it's been an amazing body of work for sure and uh while i'm sure allison would defer credit for a lot of this work to the the staff that she's worked with over the years um i think it's equally true that many of those staff would agree that none of this work would have been successful without allison's leadership so anyone who's worked with alison will attest to the many talents that make her an incredible school leader and again the short version of this list would include her ability to creatively problem solve on the fly her
053deep understanding of the technical aspects special services work her ability to listen to all viewpoints and create consensus her ability to project calm in the most stressful situations her empathy and understanding for students parents and staff her patients her ability to keep the focus on students in all situations no matter how challenging her tireless work ethic her joy in her work her sense of fairness and ethics and last but not least her amazing sense of humor um so todd shared some numbers i only have one number tonight to share but um really when we think about the allison's time here that um she has probably directly impacted the lives of over 2 000 students through the course of her time as director here and it's a really a wide variety and unique and diverse group
054of kids with different strengths different weaknesses abilities and disabilities hopes and dreams and um you know i think this is really a legacy of lasting impact that anybody would be proud to be a part of um on a personal note i've worked as assistant director for allison with 17 years and it has really just been a stroke of great luck and privilege for me to have had such a great friend and mentor over the years a person i could share a story with a worry a win for the kids that we work with uh and at least once a day a good laugh to keep everything in perspective so well we'll miss allison greatly i know she's looking forward to a well-earned retirement in florida with her husband charlie who just retired last night she's
055got other family and friends in the area so um of course we wish you all the best within the next leg of your journey so alison marchese i have a pleasure of sharing uh information about a few more of our retirees um mike grant uh is one of our bus drivers and uh sarah redmond could not be here this evening but asked me to share this on her behalf mike grant joined the bus department in january of 2007 he has been a dedicated and dependable driver on our team for the last 15 years his work ethic is exceptional and he was a major factor in moving the department in a positive direction he has performed his job with pride and confidence and his co-workers consider him a leader his involvement with the wellness committee helped
056keep the atmosphere at the bus department upbeat we will surely miss mike but even though mike is retiring from scarborough schools he will still be active in the community as he is now working with scarborough community services good luck mike and enjoy your much deserved retirement [Applause] kelly mullen martin wasn't able to be here this evening but she passed along a couple of videos to recognize her staff so uh the first person that we would like to acknowledge is julianne belanger and so let's hope this all works oh no [Music] right yeah she shared it with kelly okay so we may need to put this on hold for a few minutes and uh figure out how to work those technical difficulties out isn't that always so fun um so anyhow um as as kelly is
057looking to see uh how we can change the access on that um we will put this piece on hold um and also the acknowledgement of kelly harriman who is another staffer at blue point school um for whom miss mullen martin has also shared a video so never fear we can do this all right so we'll come back to this if that's okay my apologies no absolutely we will come back um i will pick up them with agenda item 7.2 which is our student recognition um it is my honor to speak about gabby giftos tonight gabby has been our student representative on the board for the last two years and has been a wonderful addition her caring and upbeat student reports continuously bring a smile to everyone's face gabby you are a true light among the
058team here in addition to your fun videos and updates your thoughtful way of viewing situations adds so much value to our discussions you take all the information in think about the impact and share your perspective with us you are incredibly smart and incredibly insightful the students and the board are so incredibly fortunate to have you advocate on their behalf in addition to her work on the board gabby has been deeply involved in and committed to the scarborough school community she is this year's salutatorian a member of the sources of strength club field hockey softball united basketball and math teams and if all of this wasn't enough gabby has many honors to her name the harvard book club excellence in ap latin and latin one excellence in social studies and excellence in ap calculus she is
059a member of the national honor society was awarded the main seal of by literacy in latin and granted the top scholars award from the university of maine in the fall gabby will attend the university of maine honors program studying biology and pre-med i think i speak for the entire board when i say how very proud of you we are in all you've accomplished it doesn't happen by luck or happenstance it happens with hard work a good support system dedication and sacrifice and gabby you exemplify all these traits and so much more you are an exceptional person with an exceptional future ahead of you and we all will be here cheering you on from the sidelines good luck and we can't wait to see what your future holds tears all right yeah let's try and go
060back hmm um i can keep going through i'm gonna keep working on okay perfect um agenda item 8.0 is new business 8.1 is appointments and 8.1.1 is second year probationary professionals all right i'll read off the list of our second year probationary teacher names um first michelle cesari kate griffin brian clifford robert roach megan curteau haley mccambridge andrew martell alicia anemic stacy hang wendy spaulding lisa farisi amanda milholland kelsey o'neill lorraine armando scott harris jennifer bishop heather jacques shannon o'brien jamie devin allison avery elise lahoskey andrea capano cyprian marinette and madison mahoney and dylan white all right thank you do i have a motion to approve the second year probationary professionals so moved second any discussion all right can we call the vote sure mrs giftis yes mr kelleher yes miss lindstrom yes mr peony
061huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss pertulia yes perfect thank you and congratulations um agenda item 8.1.2 is the first year continuous contract professionals okay a little bit longer list here i'm gonna start actually and recognize we have uh four of our first year continuing contract professionals who are here this evening uh sue wood carla griffin jim harmon and suzanne maher thank you for joining us this evening congratulations and uh laurie hibbard colleen haku heather wiggins jeffrey mosher carolyn thompson kate angela keating melissa mills megan bailey amy chang brian lamont carrie bracey david pay jacqueline anaboli heidi heidi ignary daria kirkhoff abby randall catherine newell theresa quinn amanda eason christopher rowley doris groschon gwen cesari claire ledoux alexandra schroeder kimberly littlefield kristen goodall carly hughes rachel smith gene geslin andrew rice jennifer
062fatagliano yes paige andrews and if i butchered any of your names you can hold it against me for the for the rest of your career that's that's all good thank you first year continuing contract professions all right do i have a motion to approve the first year continuous contract professionals so moved second all right any discussion all right mrs giftes yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes all right thank you um agenda item 8.1.3 is the high school student assistance counselor we can actually we can go back we're ready oh we're ready all right we're ready let's put a pin in that one then and let's go back to um agenda item 7.1 they say third time is a charge yes
063absolutely third or maybe we're more than that i'm not sure third time third time yeah yes all right and so again this is an acknowledgement of julianne belanger uh from blue point school good evening everyone i'm sorry i couldn't be there in person tonight but i wanted to make sure that i was able to speak from the heart about our retirees the first one i'm going to speak to is julie belanger julie has worked in the district for 18 years she started as a literacy ed tech in 2004 at blue point school and she's held multiple roles as a multi-age teacher and first and second grade teacher she's most recently been a first grade teacher for about five years at blue point one of the things you need to know about julie is that she's
064always prepared she actually wrote me a speech for tonight so that i would be prepared about a month ago so thank you julie you helped me fill in my template for tonight she has been an active school a community member working on things like veterans day memorial day presentations for students she's always made sure that they were involved with the community she's created a role called a classroom note writer people in the building would get little love notes and thank you notes with a piece of chocolate and we always knew that came from kids in julie's class it was a great pick-me-up she also had students send notes to nursing homes and organizations outside of school and that was always her way to give back she always engaged students in reflection and looking back she
065would often make um in back in the day it was a dvd of the year in review for students to look at what they had done what they had experienced and she's modified that over the years julie really has always viewed herself as a lifelong learner and she's always exemplified that i can speak to that in looking at what she's learned and how she's pushed herself over the past few years as all teachers have really through the pandemic but julie has really just been exemplary in her use of technology and how she's just really never never said no and never given up she's really proud of the skills that she's learned and the level that she's reached in her career her students have grown academically and socially they've been challenged and they've had fun in
066her retirement she plans to spend more time with her husband her family and her beautiful grandchildren so we wish her all the best congratulations julie and last but not least our last retiree this evening is kelly harriman who's been a teacher at blue point school for 22 years the second retiree that i'm pleased to speak about tonight is kelly harriman she has worked in the district for 23 years she started out as a multi-age teacher at pleasant hill school and then moved to blue point where she's taught multi-age looping first and second grade most recently she's been a second grade teacher kelly really has exemplified a love of literacy of mentorship she's had several interns and student teachers over the years she's also really dedicated herself to curriculum work she's contributed to many of those
067projects over the years one of the quotes from kelly is that she one of her greatest accomplishments that she cherishes is when she has helped students to meet their goals and to envision possibilities for themselves which i think is a really beautiful way to look at education [Music] kelly is a really kind-hearted really generous teacher she has has been wonderful to work with with her colleagues she really nurtures kids and their love of learning and her classroom is a really warm and welcoming place so it's been great to work with her in her retirement she looks forward to nurturing her future granddaughter who is due to make her debut to the world in september so we wish her all the best as well so congratulations kelly all right um now that we we've gotten through
0687.1 are there any comments i just want to say congratulations and and good luck and on your next adventures i know it's this is an exciting time and that's a it's an impressive amount of of years almost 500 years combined that's that's quite the accomplishment so congratulations and and you know great wishes on your on your next your next adventures all right did we do we do the counselor that's right okay thank you um so we are on 8.1.3 the high school student assistance counselor still okay william messer has been selected to fill this position created by retirement mr messer received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the university of new england he is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed addiction and drug counselor he's worked at both the spur rinks spurwink
069school and connections for kids beginning in 1996. since 22 2020 he's been the director of school-based services and children's residential treatment all right thank you do i have a motion to approve the high school student assistance counselor so moved second all right any discussion all right mrs giftas yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peaney huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes all right thank you um agenda item 8.1.4 is the middle school math teacher olivia gikas has been chosen to fill this position created by retirement ms gigas earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from the university of maine in farmington she's been a classroom teacher at lewiston middle school for two years do i have a motion to approve the middle school math teacher so moved second
070all right any discussion mrs giftes yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peaney huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes all right thank you agenda item 8.1.5 is the wentworth school classroom teacher matthew coleman has been nominated to fill this position created by a resignation mr coleman received both his bachelor's of arts degree and his master of science degree in education from usm he's been a sixth grade teacher in auburn for two years an eighth grade language arts teacher at wells junior high school for four years a seventh grade global studies teacher at the middle school of the kennebunks for six years and is currently an eighth grade social studies teacher at uh genetic trail middle school in colorado springs all right um do i have a motion to
071approve the wentworth school classroom teacher so moved second any discussion all right mrs gibdas yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeney huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes wonderful thank you um agenda item 8.2 is the superintendent authorization of summer hires do i have a motion to approve the superintendent authorization of summer hires second any discussion all right can you call the vote sure mrs giftes yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes all right thank you agenda item 8.3 are the meeting minutes of may 5th 2022. do i have a motion to approve them as presented so moved second any discussion all right mrs giptis yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeney
072huff yes mrs turner yes miss gibkas yes and ms pertulia yes all right thank you i'm going to bundle 8.4 and 8.5 um they are the second readings of the policies we we saw in our last meeting so um do i have a motion to approve the second reading of policy imga service animals in school and the second reading of policy ebcf automated external defibrillators aeds so moved okay any discussion mrs giftas yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertullia yes all right fantastic um agenda item 8.6 is the school board committee assignments um as you know we've we've um uh with the loss of one of our board members we've reshuffled and changed our committee assignments so um the new assignments would
073be for the finance committee uh jenna would be the chair kristin and myself would be the other two board members for the policy committee i would be the chair alicia and jillian would be the other two members long-range facilities planning as kristin is the chair alicia and john as the other two board members negotiations um alicia would chair was chant with myself and jenna has the other two board members um outreach and communication task team would be jillian as the chair kristen and jenna is the other two board members curriculum committee john is the chair um with alicia and jillian serving with him building steering committee is kristin and jillian and the diversity equity and inclusion committee is alicia and myself so do i have a motion to approve the committees as presented somewhat second
074all right any discussion all right mrs giftis yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner no miss giftus yes miss bertullia yes thank you um agenda item 9.0 is the superintendent's report i'll keep this uh brief um first of all just again wanted to thank and recognize all of our retirees this evening and also the thoughtful um words by by our leadership team too and and our principles regarding um all of their service and work for scarborough schools that was that was really really inspiring um i did have a couple slides just to first reinforce a couple messages that i sent out to the community um on school safety and um and and just just to mention and again reinforced it that we have a very active and well established
075district emergency management team that's that's actually been meeting uh in particular this spring several times uh we're we're purchasing and implementing uh new uh emergency management software um that i think is really going to uh make our our drills and emergency crisis management even in communication even more uh efficient and effective so so we're excited to implement that and i'm going to be working on that through the through the um summer and into the into the fall and then also we're we're having another meeting um next week and and also have um uh extended an invitation to uh one town counselor who's interested in attending the meeting as well as uh um a board member as well board of education to to sit in on that on that meeting uh as well coming up so
076the the the scarborough really has had emergency crisis management procedures and protocols in place across town departments police and fire and school for several years uh and is really actually a model for a lot of other communities and how to um you know be proactive and preventative and then also um making sure that that we're doing everything we can for uh make sure our school campuses are safe and and if people may or may not have noticed in the last couple weeks too there has been a little more enhanced presence with uh with our um officers and school resource officers and then around campus as well so i just wanted to extend you know many thanks to everyone who's involved and and all that collaboration and and focus on school safety so um and then
077secondly just just again to um put another plug-in for um monday evening june 6th so this coming monday from 6 to 8 p.m we're going to have a second virtual community forum related to the building building committee project and new primary school projects so and that's going to be focused uh on site selection and it's actually it's going to be online there will be a link in there it is going to be participatory in the sense that um you know there's there's a virtual uh back and forth similar to to our first um presentation by harriman so that's coming up again that's june 6th on monday from 6 to 8 p.m and the links the link to that will be sent out and put up on the website and that's all the news is fit
078to print for me are there any questions for jeff all right agenda item 10.0 is the chairs report um i know jillian is going to cover um early voting i'm just going to put in the plug that we would really appreciate everybody um going out and voting it's it's how early voting is happening right now and if that's not an option um in-person voting on june 14th um so the second thing on my agenda is that the main school board association um they annually hold a delegate assembly um each board in maine has the opportunity to elect a delegate that goes and represents scarborough for us would represent scarborough um at the delegate assembly so what they do it's the the assembly is essentially the policy-making body of the of the association so as a
079delegate you would represent scarborough and it's um you would help to adopt resolutions you would also help to write amendments or update amendments to the association so you would represent scarborough or delegate would represent scarborough's views on that um to give you some dates there um this uh assembly will be saturday october 22nd it will be virtual it starts at 9 30 a.m and then the other requirement for this is to attend a regional meeting on september 8th and that's to get familiar with the process the voting process um the the resolutions that you will be discussing and the assembly and kind of gather that information so um is there anybody interested in doing and being our representative that would be question one what's the date again um saturday october 22nd that's a virtual meeting
080i'm outgoing so i don't think it would be a good use of of you know the knowledge to i think it should be somebody that's just starting on the board yeah i'll i'll do that shannon okay fantastic thank you jillian um i also want to go ahead and let you know um of the date that the main school management association will hold their annual fall conference um year will be october 27th and 28th um it will be in person this year so for the first time in a well almost three years yeah so um that is exciting it will be in augusta um i attended my first last year i found it to be incredibly insightful and helpful it's a really good opportunity to learn about your role and as a school board member um
081what you know kind of network with other educational leaders and really get an idea and a sense of what's impacting um schools in maine right and what's going on around around the state so i just want to give those dates that you can put them on your calendar um hopefully this is something that we can all we can all attend all right um and i think that that's all i have for mine so um i'm going to go through the committees and if i if i forget someone please let me know um building steering to me do we have an update today do we do the student representative report first oh yes i'm sorry yes we do agenda agenda item 11.0 is the student representative report so we'll start with you leah um so [Music]
082pleasant hill had author and illustrator kevin hawks come in to talk with the second graders and actually came to all of the elementary schools and he just shared his creative process and sort of what he does to illustrate um and on the next slide he actually came and did that with blue point as well um on the left and then they also had the chaonky foundation come in and talk about marine sciences and do a sort of fun activity with them and they also had a balanced bikes field day for the kindergarten class um so it looks like it was a lot of fun um and then eight corners um had a second grade field day and it looks like they all competed on teams and wentworth um they on the left there's a video
083they had their fifth grade band concert recently so that's a little excerpt from that [Music] um that was made extra amazing since they learned to play the instruments in nine months and mostly with masks so that's really cool um there was also a little art walk display um for the family's before and after the concerts so it sounds like it was a big event and fifth graders also had their dare graduation and sarah and andre were featured essayists for that and they had future dreams recognition as well as a warrior challenge next week which was supposed to be this week but it was postponed from the rain they're also decorating lockers and they're going to do a victory lap around wentworth so it sounds like they have a lot of fun activities planned they also
084had a student organized fundraiser for refugee strong i can't get enough of that i'm trying to move on to the next one which is an organization connected to the school-wide read-aloud and author visit um from when stars are scattered and the students did a dollar drive and created educational slides and morning announcements and on the top left of the two pictures the entire third grade students took a trip to the maine wildlife park they had a great time and classes have been spending a lot of time in the garden and they've been measuring planting and weeding and doing a lot of work there and on the next slide there's today start up the second grade step-up visits to wentworth so those are the ambassadors the current third grade students and they did a live q
085a they gave advice and they gave tours to the incoming third graders and they have a special tradition that each incoming third grader plants a sunflower seed so when they come back they have a sunflower that greets them that they planted which is really cute and that's it for the elementary schools okay here i go the last one um so at the middle school the eighth grade english classes they learn about the holocaust and on may 18th um author and podcaster rachel serrati visited the library at the school she gave a little um presentation about her story her grandmother was a holocaust survivor and um she shared with the students not only um her story but also about of her grandmother's life but also about podcasting and creative writing stuff like that to tie it
086all together and so that's her and then the picture of the students there and then so my next slide um before we play this video it's a tradition at the high school for um to do the little chalk on the sidewalk on where you're going to college next year and we actually did that today as our last day it was so fun it was so many pictures taken it was a little sentimental but i have a video of the chalk walk do you want to see that way to go guys so that's just a little short video some of the art skills were crazy i mean there's one girl drawing a black bear for you maine i was very highly impressed yes yes yeah after yeah definitely and then before i go and announce our
087next year's junior representative i just want to say thank you to you all um you guys have been great mentors and i was thinking back like to my first meeting and i was kind of shy and i was very nervous very nervous and i just think you guys were so welcoming and you've really helped my confidence grow which i'm very excited to use in the future so thank you all and then on that note i don't have a slide for this but um i'd like to introduce colby shumway who was elected he is a sophomore and he's going to be next year's junior representative so colby if you don't mind you can go up to the podium hello i'm sure most of you know me already but uh it's an honor to be elected to
088this position uh i run i do track i do model u.n and i was on the student council for the past two years and i've always wanted to do this job for a very long time and i've had my eye on it i guess for a while but uh i'm looking forward to representing the student voice and collaborating with the board to have some good change and help out the community so thank you um congratulations colby you'll do great it's such an amazing experience so good luck all right um are there any comments or questions uh motion to have gabby giftas the first alumni student representative [Laughter] thank you thank you gabby for for everything you you represent scarborough and your town and your peers so well and welcome colby we look forward to working
089with you too so congratulations all right so now we'll get to those committee reports so agenda item 13.0 is are the committee reports and flip to the first it's communication so jillian you're up first all right so we we had our um we had a meeting today it was at 11 30 on zoom we are our next meeting is july 7th at 11 30 am also my zoom and routinely every thursday first thursday of the month um and so like shannon said we would like everybody to get out and vote uh you can vote early now or you can vote at the high school on june 14th from 7 am to 8 pm thank you perfect thank you jillian are there any questions no but i have one comment that i'm gonna add um you
090guys are gonna probably start getting harassed by the communications committee to help us start sharing stuff on social media yeah that's a plug if any of the committees have have things they want to yeah talk about very good thank you all right facilities yes we had a productive meeting a couple of weeks ago we talked about potentially commissioning a new enrollment study in the best time to do that given that the town has a few things going on that might change the growth numbers that go into that formula that i'm not going to pretend to understand so we're still talking about that because the building committee is probably also going to need those numbers coming up soon so it's on our radar we also got an update from todd on the high school stem lab
091i don't know if anyone remembers but that was approved in the fy 22 budget and the high school never had a stem lab so it is just about done they're finishing up over the summer and we'll be good to go for the fall so it's really exciting this will known as the stem lab we got a quick turf update which also is on schedule to be ready to go in august and i just want to thank jeff and his team for moving that along because i think we will all breathe a sigh of relief when that is in place and our student athletes in the community has a safe surface to play on so thank you for that and the other thing that we quickly talked about were because we've been getting a lot of
092feedback from the community and from the council about a cost estimate for the k-8 building project and it's sort of a complicated thing but we are aware of it i didn't want it to get lost in the building committee so we wanted to bring it back to one of the regular board committees but we decided that it will live in finance for now to keep it as a running agenda item and coming up we did start talking a little bit about some traffic and pedestrian safety concerns that we've seen on campus so that's sort of where we're gonna shift to next very good thank you kristen are there any um questions or comments for kristen all right building committee this is me too um the building committee had its regular meeting i don't even couple
093weeks ago as well the we're going to start with the forming of the subcommittees starting with communication so hopefully people will start to see a lot more coming out of that at the community dialogue jeff with harriman gave an update on the project which was great hopefully people got to tune into that and if you didn't it is available on the website and jeff covered off on the upcoming second community forum of the site selection on june 6th i really would encourage anyone who is interested in this process to tune in because there's so much that goes into the site selection and it's i think it's very interesting i think it will really help people wrap their heads around what's happening and the interactive features that harriman uses are a great opportunity for people to
094have their opinions heard on a location for a school very good um are there any questions for all right thank you john uh we went over uh in the curriculum committee meeting which was on the 18th of may i think it was it wasn't march i don't know it was sometime uh but we went over the march 18th staff dave reports uh and actually i don't know if anybody can click there to uh you don't have to what i'm just saying if anyone out there that wants to find information it's really some good information on the slides that that monique put together so i included it in that it's also accessible through the curriculum committee section of the webpage so if people want to look at it you can find out just different numbers of
095uh you know statistics of what's uh what what happened in different grade levels for for some of the uh reporting that we did the fall to winter growth work study initiative things like that uh that and the uh summer planning for uh different programs that are available this year it's all uh listed in there i just thought it was good information that people might want to take a look at so i included it very good perfect thank you john are there any questions or comments for john thank you all right um i'm a negotiator i know we have negotiations and um a dei update yeah i didn't do a slide just because i'm terrible at them but uh i guess i'll start with dei we've selected our um committee members the combined committee members that
096are returning in in new community members are composed of two board members that's me um and shannon as well for administration we have kelly crosby and jeff bruno for teachers and staff members we have michelle shep amy sullivan maria champagne stacey knapp and catherine newell we have seven community members slash parents uh that's uh sarah alvarez nicole diroff andre eason betty kabashi frayla turpinian kiana wilkinson and anusha romano john for students we have isabel liu addison leno mackenzie stimpson isabella hernandez kaylee q and andy drosso we did have our first meeting on may 31st um [Music] really we just got on the books had introductions we reviewed expectations and the updated committee charter which um had been approved by the board so there were a few changes to the committee chart um charges you might
097remember jeff gave the committee an update on the dei work that the district has been involved in and we've discussed next steps we're gonna um discuss meeting either every two weeks or every three weeks um as we discussed at our last the last time we discussed dei and discuss and discuss when we were last um before the school board um discussing dei we had the debate about um [Music] bringing the board members up to speed with the information we talked about having a reporting committee member so we shared that in the in the um actual committee it sounded like people there were were okay with that so um we're gonna start working during the summer which isn't necessarily ideal particularly because um some of those students are moving on but i think some of them
098are gonna you know remain on for the summer at least and um we talked about maybe have a brainstorming session next time just to identify priorities and and try to um get action plan items recommended for the board and um just really see what what types of things we can float out there for ideas so that's i think the dei update all right are there any questions for alicia yeah how many um students are going to be moving on after the summer um well i know three-year seniors gabby's telling me thank god for gabby and i know that one one did um email me and indicate that that individual was going to be moving on and so the i don't know about the others if they're if they're able to participate or not um that's
099not a discussion that we've had but so we'll fill those in the fall yeah yeah that's cool yeah there are three that are not seen there are three that are not seniors um but will be so they'll be at 12th 11th and 10th so we've got three three of the four classes represented our grade level zone all right any other questions all right okay so for negotiations we are um bargaining for three contracts right now the administrative contract has started we do have our um first maintenance meeting scheduled and we have professional staff negotiations ongoing um we're meeting how frequently every three weeks maybe for for that for professional staff every two weeks um [Music] so uh currently we've heard from from the professional staff what their priorities are and and some of the things
100that they would like to be considered and they've explained the rationale and that's been somewhat time consuming because there are a number of us who are not familiar with the intricate operations of the schools so they've been sort of filling us in how many of those things work it's been pretty educational for us but unfortunately it's you know pretty tedious for i'm sure for those of um who do that work we've um agreed that we are going to continue to be through the summer and and really start to meet more frequently and um our hope is that by the fall we'll have um an agreement or the end of the summer thank you are there any questions all right thank you are there any liaison reports updates all right um agenda item 14.0 is a
101motion to go into an executive session pursuant to one mrsa 405 6a for the purpose of discussing the superintendent's annual review not to return to public session do i have a motion i'll moved second any discussion all right can we call the vote yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftis yes and miss bertulia yes perfect thank you and agenda item 15.0 is adjournment do i have a motion second any discussion mrs giftas yes mr kelleher yes mrs lindstrom yes mr peeny huff yes mrs turner yes miss giftus yes and miss patulia yes thank you so much gaby and everybody have a wonderful night