001i call the abrsc to order good evening y'all although we are in person tonight members of the public who wish to view the meeting may use actin tv's youtube channel found on the top of the agenda this meeting is being recorded and will be posted on acton tv's website at actontv.org welcome to liz falks who is our new member from boxborough yay we welcomed our new acton member rebecca wilson at our previous meeting but welcome hi um and with that i would like to call up molly norris i believe for our as our student rep are there any other student reps here tonight hey sorry about that come on up y'all okay recently when talking with mr chorba about what i was going to talk about during this meeting i learned that our school has
002gender neutral bathrooms that are available to all students before talking about this with mr chorba my friends and i were not even aware of the fact that there were any gender neutral bathrooms at all i think there are a few situations to this problem first of all at the beginning of the year we should make it more clear that there are gender neutral bathrooms one way we could do this is by sharing on the announcements for the first few days of school that there are gender neutral bathrooms and where they are this would make sure that anyone who wasn't there the first day or two would still be aware that there are gender neutral bathrooms along with this we should be sure to include information in the morning email for the first few weeks of
003school explaining more information about the gender neutral bathrooms and then how around halfway through the school year make sure to include that information in the morning email again which would help make sure everyone is still aware of the gender-neutral bathrooms due to this exposure there will be a lot more students who are comfortable in their environment along with this there are some larger changes that can be made as well at worcester polytechnic institute they have made it so all bathrooms including bathrooms and stalls are gender neutral this would ensure everyone was able to feel comfortable a student named evie shoemaker the person who organized the walkout against anti-queer legislation said that students should not have to take time out of their classes to find a bathroom that makes them more comfortable everyone deserves to be
004comfortable in their school without it taking away from learning time i hope you consider my proposal as the summer is coming up and changes would be able to be made thank you have a great night all right so i'm really glad molly um shared that with you because that's extremely important for all of us um i have a little bit um well so as the year comes to an end i want to spend a brief moment reflecting on one of the wildest school years that we've been a part of um so we started this year finally bringing all of our students back in person and back into this new normal and we got accustomed to getting boosters and wearing masks and most importantly being around one another again and i remember i don't know if
005many of you do but at the beginning of the year my biggest concern that i voiced was whether or not the high school's wi-fi could support all the new student-issued chromebooks and obviously that's nowhere near the biggest challenge we faced this year but whether it was controversial issues such as dropping the mass mandate or the mascot debate or smaller things like the rj grain high school's wasp problem we all came together and found solutions or often things worked themselves out so i just wanted to um take this time to thank all of you um for representing us this year and our best interests and i'm excited to keep working with you all next year um i think this is going to be our last presentation so yes thank you all so much thank you and
006thank you for to all of our um our student representatives you've been amazing it's been wonderful to have your presence here at our meetings you've represented your school and your peers exceptionally well and we wish you luck in all of your future adventures all right y'all this is the time for public participation per policy p-e-d-h members of the public are invited to speak for up to three minutes regarding items that are not on the agenda for items on the agenda the public is asked to please wait for that item the committee does not typically respond to comments during public participation do we have any public participation this evening and although i am the substitute teacher the expectation is still the same that this will be civil thank you hi christine marlowe boxborough massachusetts i'm here
007today because i want the best for the students that attend our schools i want every student to be the best that they can be and be proud of themselves when they walk out the doors of our schools so today i'm here with questions and suggestions on how we can ensure our students are getting an education in a learning environment where they can succeed first i have to ask the entire board of administration if you really want the best for our students why did you all vote to lay off 20 teachers assistance have any of you been at an elementary school lately if you had you would know that we need more assistance not less our children are struggling because of a year and a half of remote and hybrid learning their social behaviors on the
008rowdier and loud side i can't believe that there was not one or two administrative positions that could have been trimmed back or laid off those positions have a lot more expense and are not as valuable as a teacher's assistant now our overburdened teachers will have more responsibility and less help how is this good for our students also in the high school how is getting rid of the ae level of learning good for our students this is another area where a b excelled it gave our students an opportunity to learn at a faster pace than the college prep but not at the accelerated pace of honors my children benefited so much from the structure especially in college and the sciences i say we bring back the ae track it allows the students to be successful and
009ahead of the game in college third when a student and or their family believe a teacher does not teach to the way that child learns they should be able to change their teachers right now it's an antiquated unfair way if you're the oldest child you have no way of getting out if that teacher does not teach to your learning ability if you are a younger child but your sibling hasn't had that teacher you don't get to get out of that you talk about equity well in this situation the child who can get outside help will and the child who can't get outside help will struggle and possibly fail how is this equitable this should be one of the first things that changes finally how does not having midterms and finals prepare our children for the
010future colleges have midterms and finals to be a doctor a lawyer an engineer you have to be able to pass midterms and finals if there are some subjects that make more sense to do a project or write a paper then do that but finals and midterms make sense for the most of the classes please bring them back please help our students reach the stars and be the best that they can be and please consider these suggestions so our si students can succeed at acton-boxborough thank you thank you hi good evening martin benson 21 deacon hunt drive um it was noteworthy in your last meeting that a committee that prided itself on identifying a replacement mascot that was inclusive and culturally sensitive to the diversity of acton-boxborough appears to have abruptly selected one that is troubling
011to a significant portion of the population the lack of reaction from any member of the committee following the thoughtful comments of yebin wang was most striking mr wang cited both the dictionary definition of revolution as well as historical references as he elaborated revolution is quote not so rosy and carries it with carries with it many troubling connotations including violence and civil disorder revolutions have often resulted not in innovation or progress but rather in repression of conflicting ideas and free oppression and have threatened the well-being of large segments of populations this is reality is vivid for many in our diverse community mr wang cited that the chinese communist revolution resulted in both the eradication of traditional culture and the death of millions of people specifically those who were anti-revolution received the death penalty since the retirement
012of the colonial mascot the school committee has boasted that it will find a new mascot reflecting the school district's core values of diversity equity and inclusion here was your chance to address your concern and no reaction when mr wang who is the only school committee member representing the asian community which accounts for a quarter of acton's population addressed his concern no one from the school committee showed any curiosity or empathy toward his position what is the reason for the rush to adopt a new name which sacrificed inclusivity did any of you reach out to him after the meeting to further understand his point of view it's important to note that the mascot subcommittee which was hand selected by superintendent light lacked diversity and included no members from the asian community the hypocrisy displayed by this
013committee and administration is astounding secondly at the last meeting mrs christian murphy referencing colonial mascot supporters said quote there are still going to be people who believe lies and conspiracy theories it's not true but it doesn't matter end quote what is true miss christian murphy is that you and other committee members have admitted in writing to their attorney general that you were texting throughout the october 15 2020 meeting retiring the colonial mascot however you continue to defy multiple orders from the secretary of state's office to produce these text messages which are public records and were originally sought via public records request in november of 2020. in regards to conspiracy theories do note following the december 17 2020 zoom bombing incident you were one of the first elected officials to publicly accuse colonial mascot supporters of
014being responsible for the attack records requests revealed that you joined with other elected and public officials to peddle this false claim in an effort to maliciously silence colonial supporters when the police investigation revealed the zoom bomber had no connection to the acton-boxborough community no member apologized to those falsely accused miss christian murphy you are the last person who should be giving lectures about lies and conspiracy theories i asked for this to be civil mr benson time [Music] no no but we did ask for this to be civil it's not worth it but i did ask for this to be civil i would like the record to show that i did ask for this to be civil and mr benson did not comply with that good evening everyone i too am substitute teaching today tonight um
015peter could not be with us um so i'm going to give a brief superintendent update and i'm going to focus on hiring we are heavy duty in the hiring season so far we've hired 20 educators to start with us either over the summer or in the fall we've had lots of changes in administration and so i'm going to kind of go through some of those you've seen some of this along the way but so at gates i think you know that ellison warren who is a long time junior high assistant principal and has been the assistant principal at gates for the last couple years has been appointed the principal so effective july 1st she'll be the principal when lynn newman retires so a couple weeks left and they have hired kate worth she will be
016joining acton-boxborough as the assistant principal of the gate school at conant again you know that val granzowitz was appointed the principal in february and alison leahy has been hired to be the assistant principal at conan allison has been a longtime special educator in the district as well as an assistant principal i'm sorry a special ed coordinator at douglas lucia sullivan has been an interim this year she's going to continue next year she is in the process of hiring an assistant principal because assistant principal general larenega has been appointed to be a principal in another district we will miss jenna and lucia will be announcing the assistant principal soon at merriam juliana schneider is leaving at the end of the year and we're working on hiring an interim principal for merriam at the junior high school
017jim marcotte has been appointed the principal assistant principal david lawrence has accepted a principal position in another district congratulations to david and we have hired a new assistant principal his name is anthony zhang and he will be joining acton-boxborough this summer as an assistant principal and i keep going at the high school fred hohn who is one of our deans of students he's returning to teaching full-time at the high school he's a long time science teacher and so we have hired a new assistant principal his name is chris ocampo and he'll be joining as well this summer we have we'll be welcoming three new special ed coordinators you might remember as part of the budget process we expanded our special ed coordinators so we have hired rebecca kaminsky she'll be supporting miriam and conan as
018a special ed coordinator we are in the process of hiring a special ed coordinator for mccarthy town and we recently learned that special ed coordinator at the high school susan irvine miller is going to be retiring and we are in the process of hiring a special ed coordinator for the high school a couple more so our director of pre-k to 12 visual arts leo mullner has taken a position in a different district and we have posted for a replacement for the director of visual arts david james who is our director of physical education and health is going to return to a full-time teaching position in the district and we are in the process of hiring a director of physical education and health and then lastly you know that jen faber has been hired as the
019director of dei effective july 1st and we have hired the new executive assistant to the superintendent to replace ms petter when she retires her name is julie la lumiere and she's coming from lexington she's been a long time assistant to the principal at lexington high school beth will though continue to be at these meetings and take minutes etc and julie will be supporting the committee in other ways along with the superintendent so we look forward to julie starting she'll be overlapping some days in june and start officially july 1st so that's a lot of hiring again we've hired 20 new educators seven of the new educators so far are educators of color including three assistant principals so we're really excited about that so we still have several more coming over the next few weeks and
020as you know things happen over the summer so um in late august early september we'll do a full staffing report and give you a lot more detail and you'll see sort of the bios of all the new folks but we're very excited we've hired really great people and uh looking forward to next year almost not quite yet but thank you thank you marie any discussion or questions about that update nobody crickets i'm really sorry to see beth go i'm glad that you're going to get a break i know at least since i've been on the committee the last eight years it's been um you've just poured your heart and soul into it i know no one can take your place but i'm very happy someone is willing to try and i look forward to seeing
021you at meetings i echo that indeed all right friends um marie would you like to introduce the absaf members yes please come on forward why don't you folks come over to the either the presentation table or the microphone or wherever you want how about here is this good does this work okay i think it's on is it on it's on so hang on chili let me do a quick um so there's a memo in your packet with some background about ab saf they have been generously donating to the district for over 40 years and even through covid with a lot of creativity there's been a lot of work done to make sure that they can support student activities in athletics and performing arts in the district so shelley moore is our president of absaf and
022shelley if you would introduce everyone you have with you that would be awesome sure i'll have everyone introduce themselves how's that but i will say just for people who don't know just to elaborate on marie's description so absaf stands for the acton-boxborough student activities fund and you may have seen things called absaf passes and things for sporting events or going to theater events and basically we're a group that raises funds to be able to donate back to the school system to help defer the costs of student activities for not only athletics but also academic clubs drama music everything without these donations some activities would be much harder for families to be able to afford for their students to be able to pursue these activities and we pride ourselves on trying to be able to help
023you know in that way we're also unique in that our board is made up known not only of adult members but also student members i have two of them here with me tonight many of them actually are involved tonight in the activities that they're part of sports athletics there's a chorus concert i heard so there's a lot of stuff going on fundraisers for the mentoring program et cetera so we have uh a big group we fill this whole room with our meetings and these are passionate kids who are not only fundraising but they're also learning about student government so we run our program in the same kind of method that you do these school committee meetings and it helps our students get a flavor for how to run those meetings and that parliamentary process okay
024so we raise this money we give it to the school committee as an honorarium basically and then the individual uh groups at the high school and junior high decide how to allocate those funds and so that's that's what we're here to do today is to present our check um let me let these guys introduce themselves why don't you start you're one of our newest members yeah hi my name is can we just ask can you guys come to the mic just because we're on cable and they can't hear at home if you're not in the microphone uh hi mine yeah hi my name is druva ire and i'm a freshman at abrhs thank you hi i'm preethi um i am new to the apps app but i'm really thrilled to be here today with the
025old timers and the experts but i will learn hopefully and it's a good uh place to be in here we're glad you joined so thank you i'm trish hasham i'm the vice president and i had a great time working with all the kids and i'm excited that we were able to raise as much money as we did so let's see what we do with it hi i'm sarah sahesian and i'm a sophomore at the high school hi my name is claudine sahajan i'm sarah's mom and i've been on the absaf committee for several years now so we look forward to hearing what you do with the funds so this year we were able to raise money not only through the sales of passes and things but we have you may have eaten one of our
026loaves you may have bought some of our pansies there's a bunch of other things we have these really amazing bucket hats that you would all look splendid in i should have bought some we do take venmo so you know maybe on the way out i don't know but we were able to pull together enough funds to run our organization which is a non-profit and then as well to donate our do you want to do drumroll uh our fifty thousand dollars oh come together all right let's get a photo come on in come on so we do need to take a picture so that's doing it and substitute teachers included yeah maybe we'll move the microphone can i do that [Music] okay they didn't tell me that as a substitute teacher i'd be in photos i'm
027glad i put on a cute outfit all right y'all any discussions questions about this generosity before i accept emotion for this generous check that we have to hopefully accept hi amy i thank you so much our kids i mean i just i cannot tell you how much i appreciate the hard work and the fact that you are this is going to go back to our students and i know my kids really benefited a lot from the different activities and not all sports theater band i just i could not begin to thank you enough so thank you for all your work i second that they it's hard to do this in this environment and you know to bring that astounding number back to our our student community is phenomenal and it is a reflection of i'm
028sure many hours and some sleepless nights and some worries in between so thank you so much for this it is everything other comments i would love to accept a motion motion to gratefully accept this brilliant donation of 50 000 from the absaf so that was andrew uh made the motion tessa seconded and uh i think we get to take a vote so um all those in favor thank you so much all those in favor say aye anybody who opposes anybody abstaining very good i think that passed unanimously have a good evening y'all all right with that um i am so delighted to welcome amanda bailey i see you amanda i know um carol lafferty and abe gutierrez gutierrez who uh co-chair cpac they are here to present their spring update welcome y'all don't be scared
029don't be scared come on having us here thank you so much for having us here tonight i'm kara lafferty this is amanda bailey abe gutierrez and we represent the act in box furrow special education parent advisory council so our mission on a local level consists of making sure that children with disabilities are entitled to an appropriate education the cpac is actually grounded in state law as this organization is required of every school district in the state of massachusetts and part of that mission that we're charged with is is making sure that we are advising individuals and groups and administrators in the planning development and evaluation of the school district special education program so it's wonderful to be here tonight to put a face to all of your names who we've some of we've met and
030some we haven't and we're happy to kind of work with you in the future and we hope to be in really close contact when we're talking about these different programs for the new committee members welcome for the visual learners we have this this means the cpac has both an advisory and a participatory role regarding all the things on the right there policies programs practices and services we take individual experiences to inform and then make an impact we're truly better together so up here you'll see our 2021-2022 priorities these were met these were made with our broader membership and so each year we hold a meeting and we talk to people about what's important to them these are parents the cpac consists of parents of children with disabilities and also any other interested individual but it's
031generally parents that are making these goals so relationship building with new admin administrators one of whom is here tonight jennifer truslow who is in constant communication with all of us we've really had a chance to meet her and spend a lot of time with her probably too much time to be totally honest we're a little lengthy in our meetings so we apologize for that but uh the next one address and remove barriers to cpac participation i think one of the benefits of one of the only benefits of this pandemic was this wide adoption of zoom parents of children especially small children with disabilities are kind of you know just we're spread a little thin right i think we can all agree to that so it's difficult sometimes to come in person to these meetings right
032but zoom has been a wonderful thing that we've had many different faces come to the meetings the next one gather stakeholder feedback particularly with the children in the substantially sub-separate programs in schools so that's something that will have more information for you all soon with a survey that's just gone out that's yielding lots of great responses the next one the dyslexia recommendation one thing the cpac has done actually is next week there will be a meeting with jen treslow and the litter in deb bookis is right over here and there were some dyslexia recommendations made in 2020 and the three of us will hopefully sit down and meet and go over what's happened in the in the last couple of years and what's left to do the next one extended school year for many of
033our families this is one of the big items that people spend a lot of time thinking about planning for and and holding continuous conversations to make sure that families know what's to be expected what's happening uh who's eligible who's maybe not eligible the next and the last one is are some workshops and they did take place this year there was lots of great workshops amanda has really spearheaded those workshops and and scheduled them with fantastic people so even if you don't have a child with a disability with special special education needs they're fantastic workshops with from some really great people and the last thing that i forgot on the removing barriers to cpac participation and to thank amanda one more time on this item because i think that one of the barriers to something like
034leadership within a cpac is is to have someone to kind of apprentice under and for anyone listening that's just vaguely interested in a leadership role within the cpac it would behoove you to come in while amanda is here to guide you and teach you because just absolutely phenomenal human all right so much for avoiding anything awkward um all right uh now in regards to relationship building from the cpac with our new administrators we've actually had monthly meetings with john trusslow the director of special education as well as we participated in the search for the new dei director jen faber we've also have a staff recognition form that has been sent out to highlight positive stories as there have been it's a it's a lot easier to remember and focus on negative situations or experiences where
035a lot of positive points can be easily overlooked for families we've actually held listening sessions along with uh jen trusslow director of special education we had a kindergarten social that was held as well as a continuum of supports workshop and this was a workshop to make families aware of resources they may not have known before the cpec has had joint pto participation as well as established a connection with the dei family advisory group excuse me family advisory leadership additional efforts and events are the fall playground meetup and a as well as social media outreach via facebook included and further exposure of the cpac was helped with the actin and focus interview as well to kind of help everyone in general know about the cpac and what the cpac how cpa can serve we do the
036cpec also does communicate with area cpex as well we don't really operate in a vacuum communication is actually a key point among the different cpacs there was a leadership meeting last summer and we jointly hosted workshops including the understanding of the iep and we participate in both regional and statewide leadership groups as well as holding memberships in both masspec plus and the spanish pack so forming connections with parents that are able to attend cpac meetings and parents that are not able to attend cpac meetings of children with disabilities is really important to us as a group and i think that we've made some real headway this year and for example conant has requested the cpac to speak at a pto meeting mccarthy town has a newly formed dei committee that as part of that meeting
037had requested you know advice on speakers and i think that these types of blanchard has requested children's literacy playground accessibility advice and then just different relationship buildings building opportunities as part of have come out with the new administrators around the district but also through the joint pto meetings that the cpac has graciously been invited to each month and this is this is something that you know we can't operate in a vacuum as as they've said so kind of being in the room for the decisions that are being made for public events that um that children with disabilities you know might be better accommodated to attend has been has been really critical and um and that's something that's happening in our schools and we're really thankful to be part of those conversations because you know we
038all want the same thing every child wants to attend these events and and be fully included and it's been it's been fantastic to see the kind of culture really shifting on a national level and folks reaching out to to make sure that all of our kids are included in these types of efforts so we've already mentioned the listening sessions a couple of times these times these were initiated by jen as part of her entry into the school district and we welcomed the opportunity to introduce our organization to family members as well as hear from folks from the early childhood program elementary junior high high school and out of district communities we were then able to sort of nimbly address some of the themes that came up again through workshops through discussions and resources and meetings
039and we're going to be gathering more through our survey i want to underscore that the themes that we heard were present pre-pandemic but they've really come up to a boiling point in some cases and really been exacerbated as a result so to kind of we've touched over lots of these different things but the early childhood themes that we're seeing as being very important to parents of children with disabilities is that critical transition from early intervention into the earlier child early childhood program and then from the early head child program to kindergarten it's really difficult sometimes how to advocate and what to ask for when you've never seen a child go through those years right so you don't know what your kindergarten first grader is going to encounter so you don't necessarily know what to ask
040for you know to help them get through those so those are themes that are coming up often in our last meeting with jen treslow it sounds like much more summer meetings are happening and there's an emphasis on making sure that those handoffs are are going to be really intentional and we're so excited to hear about that switching over to the elementary school so social emotional support is an enormous issue right across the country i think we're reading and seeing that everywhere and we're not we are that's very much happening in our own schools and we're hearing about it we're talking about it and i think that there is a presentation later today that we'll hear more about this so we're excited for that overall communication is something that we're hearing lots of feedback on um
041there's you know great success stories and then there's some areas for growth the awareness and understanding of differences to foster inclusion and prevent bullying so i think that this is this key item is on talking to children talking to parents about how to appropriately include and that's something that this committee last time we spoke in the fall very astutely asked us about how to maximize inclusion and what our thoughts were on that and that's something that's happening and we're really glad to be part of that conversation from our junior high and high school families we heard a lot about executive functioning preparation at the elementary level there is no set executive functioning methodology or curriculum and no homework so our kids are not necessarily practicing and embedding those skills early on we heard more about
042bullying again transitions from program to program and year to year i want to underscore that we have had consistently glowing positive program and staff specific feedback particularly at the junior high phenomenal team there meaningful inclusion again social emotional i think at the high school we particularly heard about 504 plans which are accommodation plans under civil rights law not necessarily being understood by staff transition assessments and post-secondary planning for life after high school and then of course the concept of one for some still me uh out of district themes so of all of the groups of families who've been impacted by the pandemic our out of district families have in particular uh experienced hardship these are students with most intensive support needs and complex profiles they've been particularly plagued by transportation issues and that's regarding a
043statewide driver shortage staff shortages and turnover in those private placements there's a strong desire for community and inclusion in our towns of acton and boxborough again transition planning for post-secondary and again caregiver strikes and isolation and sibling supports these families were isolated before the pandemic but this has just been tragic i'll use the word tragic people were actually so thrilled just to be in the listening session they were exchanging contact information just so thrilled just to be there with one another so our objectives have the top three objectives of our surveys are firstly to solicit information from our entire community having a child or children with disabilities can be very overwhelming to families caregivers guardians so to have to have feedback and have provide a voice to these families is very important where we aim
044to facilitate participation and ensure that our efforts represent all children with disabilities be they physical disabilities or learning disabilities or any others secondly our surveys are a source of feedback from families regarding their personal experiences in turn the cpac is able to provide that feedback as well as some guidance to the district and again to facilitate communication between uh special needs families and and school district uh thirdly um our surveys provide a follow-up on previously reported issues and this is not only of your surveys but also through anecdotal reporting as well in addressing and removing barriers to cpec leadership and participation our meetings are held online they are all recorded and they are available as public record for everyone to view and access as we know with busy schedules sometimes it's not always feasible for
045everyone to participate we have gained additional exposure via different medium with the actin focus interview again touching back on that that helped to really bring light to a resource that maybe outside of special needs families everyone is able to to learn about maybe somebody may know someone that may be in need of it whether it be our district or perhaps in a different in a different community touching back on our surveys they've actually been bolstered with a demographic question regarding race and ethnicity in addition to actually being translated in other languages to address families where english may not be the primary language spoken at home we've also established a connection with the district dei family advisory group as well we're coming up on the end i promise other accomplishments this year you may remember us
046from such budget processes as um so we did work closely around the budget this year and advocated with you all for disability related items we've continued to participate in statewide initiatives including the ongoing iep improvement project we've tracked district progress toward addressing the significant disproportionality finding of black students being over identified with communication disabilities and jen's been very good about following up with us about that we've also been tagging up with the administration on questions regarding absenteeism progress reporting transportation accounting confusion over what is an iep a 504 and what is the decap i think it's really important to know again that this has been the hardest year of the pandemic for all for staff for administrators for our families and so again you know they're all relationship building years but this one in particular
047was critically important to establish those and as well as with all of you so we do welcome conversations over the summer to get to know you for the new members but also just to follow up with older members now for upcoming events next week on the 15th we have the annual meeting as well as officer elections at the junior high library we'll also have a parent guardians social held beforehand at 6 30 pm and the meeting itself uh beginning at 7 00 pm and with that as always thank you uh to jen tusslow and uh dr light who i know isn't present tonight um besos to all of you the ab school committee for all of your ongoing collaboration and support we're really really thankful for this relationship and we look forward to continue having
048it grow and are there any questions i don't get to sit at the mic that often so i'm going to take advantage but um amanda cara and abe thank you for all your tyler's tireless efforts on behalf of our students and our families and your collaboration and to our director of special education jen trusslow for your collaboration and hard work and the partnership is visible and is making a difference so thank you all i just want to add to that that you are all three amazing humans i'm just glad that that was said but then i wanted to be on the record that all three of you are amazing humans um hi evelyn nice um so i know amanda you highlighted um out of district kids and i can echo enough how much those parents
049that have to seek care for their kids out of this district really um are headed and i don't know i mean you highlighted it but you didn't offer any anything around how we can help these people because i i hear about it all the time and you know families are just they don't have transportation it's impacting their jobs you know it's impacting families it's just it's a real situation that we should find a way to address thank you for that i think a lot of this has been around connecting families with one another to be able to support one another and share their experiences and their resources so to combat that isolation and put them in contact with a support network first and foremost as far as transportation i would leave that to jen to
050speak to and what the district has done to try to alleviate that it's been absolutely devastating this year and i'll say statewide but also definitely for local families they're suffering so i don't know if jen would like to contribute anything to that at this point or come back i don't want to put her on the spot transportation what you've done i mean yeah i mean um yes so i mean the transportation issues we've been dealing with well first of all thank you hi i'm jennifer trusslow director of special education we have been working with families around the difficulties around transportation we have our primary vendors but we've reached out to multiple vendors we're constantly searching for for ways to help families transport their students um and case has been terrific case collaborative that does the
051bulk of our transportation is constantly looking for new drivers as well so we've done our best it's an on we've you know we can always do better but it's been an ongoing struggle we've looked for partnerships with other districts if you know a student is going to a particular school we look to see if we might be able to partner and get on their vans and things like that but it's definitely our highest priority headed into the the summer and into the fall and we've actually gotten some really promising um uh information that we're hoping to be able to cover more of the roots that haven't been able to be covered this year so so i have a follow-up to that um i don't know what the rules are about is that opportunity for people
052to [Music] find other means of transportation rather than using the vendors and the case passes because you know their families that this is really impacting and and especially families of color in this district that really did not even have family members here to support them or help them take care of their kids or drive their kids you know not everybody has a sister or mother or dad living close by people come from different countries different places and those are the people that this is really impacted and i don't know if there's an opportunity for people to find another means to transport their children or whether they have to go with the vendors that this school provide i mean we have to think innovatively and creatively about how to solve this problem there's a workforce shortage
053everywhere i work in healthcare i'm 40 down i can't even recruit so i know that you guys are feeling the pain as well the the district is not any different kovid has really impacted recruitment and and workforce so we have to be innovative and creative about how we do this right absolutely and we do look at every possible option but there are we also are very cognizant of the fact that we are transporting some of our most vulnerable learners and there are certain rules and and supports for them and supervision that is required while they're being transported we have had some families look into you know pla things like uber and those kinds of things but we can't put a you know a five-year-old in an uber that's unaccompanied so we've you know parents have
054been really creative we have been working as teams to really think about things but um there are different definite rules that we do need to follow before putting a student in you know a private car or a taxi service or things like that we do have some medically fragile students who require nursing so we have had we've been able to find nurses to support but um there are also rules around using ambulances and what we can and can't do there if we need to to transport students so i appreciate that and we you know if anyone has any additional creative ideas please send them my way but we are you know hoping to be able to cover more of the routes that we weren't able to cover this year with our our numerous vendors that
055we work with in our partner schools other discussion and questions so i have one amanda um we have what will end up being a bubble of students right our youngest students who started during this pandemic you know started their early school careers during this pandemic who will see an echoing of need from now until they graduate those needs will morph and change as they get older hopefully we will be able to catch some things with interventions but i guess what i'm asking is what would you like us as a committee and us as a district to think about for this bubble of students who who you know are students who have been identified with special needs but also those who are in that cohort who will be identified with special needs as we go thank
056you for that question so i want to note here that the early intervention referrals and numbers were down over the pandemic because kids weren't in front of pediatricians to make those referrals for the birth to three programs so early intervention is critical it's our best front line and it was missed for many kids so then of course they're hitting our preschools and our local daycares and nursery schools so them now we're bringing them in as kindergartners and jen can speak to the wave of evaluations that took place as they were coming in the other population that is forgotten is our transition age students coming out of the high school who missed critical years of transition planning that's pre-employment that's college readiness that's life in the community that was just missed entirely so it's actually on
057both ends that we're seeing this wave rock through and we're going to be seeing it for years you're exactly right so i think it's bearing that in mind as you approach budgets that these students are going to continue to have needs and they're going to morph and change as you've noted cara kira sorry kara kira um particularly around social emotional well-being and behavior and i think the district is taking a number of steps i wish peter were here to report on that tonight but definitely something to watch and just to keep in mind that um to not forget our kids our babies and our older students also you only get to see him this one time y'all y'all sure you don't have any questions i know it's late in the season but i'm just saying
058these three great humans can't even see us so any other questions before i let them go so we did plan on reporting on our district goals tonight and we have postponed that to next week because i think it's really important for peter to be here for that but we do have lots of things happening in the sel area that you're going to hear about that's really promising and helpful but we're definitely aware of you know what kids are experiencing in families and you'll be hearing a lot more about our responses next week so hi tessa i have a random question and i don't know if it's something that you can follow with data but i'd be curious to know we've talked a little bit about how we are losing students or we have increasing numbers
059of students going to places like charter schools and vote tax and whatnot and i would be really curious if there's any way to know what percentage of those students are on ieps you can actually go and look up the number of students with ieps at minuteman tech and you can compare it and you can sort of go backwards we may be able to track that more internally you're talking to these fine folks but historically minuteman had half of their students with ieps and that number's calmed down a little bit so great question likely that data exists we can work on trying to pull that we do know we have had more kids go to charter schools than in the past as well as minuteman we do think a big push for minuteman had to do
060with the new building and the programming available to students with that and you're right it's come down it was 50 55 for many many years before the new building but we'll take a look at that and see what we can get you i'm curious about that too okay um i would just uh invite our new members please reach out you know these cpac is so these leaders are amazing and they are so full of wonderful knowledge and they they do inform us quite a bit and i look forward to summer conversations i guess my last question is um i i see you have a june 15th meeting for new families to a b who might be moving in this summer where can they find you how can they find you just give us that information
061one more time so our contact information is at the bottom of this slide and our hope is at the beginning of the school year the district does send out an email communication introducing the cpac with our links our contact information a way to join our mailing list so they'll be welcomed um as they come in from the district itself with an email typically so we're gonna yeah all right brilliant thank you so much all right moving right along we are going to welcome our high school principal joanie dean joni i i feel like this is the third meeting in a row that we're seeing you does that sound about right yes are you sick of me yet no not sick of you i'm just i'm just making note of the uh this the superhero efforts
062here toward the end of the year nope you gotta turn on your mic okay there we go can hear me now okay great good evening yes i've been here a few meetings in a row a few important topics and tonight it's the handbook so try to make that as interesting as exciting as possible yes indeed marie do you have something you want to say about this no okay okay so first i would just like to say we had graduation last week and we graduated 444 seniors and i want to say congratulations to the class of 2022. they really had a lot to do with the spirit of our high school and leading it through a pandemic and so congratulations to the graduates and thank you i guess i'd also just say that this has been
063an interesting challenging and i'll even say supportive school year and i just like to say thank you to all the educators and staff across the district for all that they have done all right on to the high school handbook we have two proposed changes for the high school handbook next year they are mostly i would say and i'll go through them in in summary form um from a perspective of um clarifying and possibly slightly mechanical in nature so before i get into exactly what they are i just like to share a little bit about reasonings of why there are only two and what are some of our thoughts about future work on the handbook so as you know as i said before as you all know as your children know students know as educators know
064as the world knows this has been a very interesting year right and we have been focusing on of course supporting students and educators through it and in doing so um [Music] i think that a comprehensive look at the handbook especially in my first year wasn't possible and so we have plans to do that over the course of the next one to two years i would say that beginning next fall we're really going to have a committee of both educators and students look at our handbook and this will be in coordination with our knee ask process so we're going to go through a niask accreditation process which will culminate in october of 2025. sorry can you just tell us what neo is for the lay folk yeah you know there's a lot of acronyms here and
065i'm also getting used to them so i think niask stands for new england association of school what would it be marie okay yeah so it's our accreditation agency right and so they're going to accredit high school to just say that we're doing what we're supposed to be doing right and so that whole process has has actually evolved and changed and that's not actually the purpose of what i'm talking about now but it is much more based on mission vision values work and portrait of a graduate and thinking about what we really want our students overall to be gaining as the through their high school experience and so we are going to go through that process as a high school and really focus on looking at our mission vision values portrait of a graduate work over
066the course the next two years and i think that that work will be really instrumental of course to then shed light on what changes and different perspectives we should be looking at our handbook through if that makes sense and so i just want to highlight that that that is work that is coming up and so the two changes that you'll see tonight are not sweeping or comprehensive and i just want to acknowledge that there's a lot of work to be done okay so i will say that along that same line one thing that you'll note or you'll notice about the handbook and there have been a couple comments since we posted the specifics about it to school committee that that the handbook reads in a certain way and we certainly want to look at our
067handbook through a more restorative lens through restorative practices not just disciplinarian consequences but also what are we doing in those situations to help educate and actually implement restorative practices and so i will say right now tonight that even though some of those things are not codified in our handbook i've seen great movement even over the course of this year in many of our meetings and our interactions and our support around consequences that not only are there consequences but there are als also program developed supported mechanisms for individuals and and groups of students to receive not only education individual education and also restoration around certain events that happen so i've seen that in practice even though i wouldn't say it's exactly codified just yet in our handbook and of course that's work like i'm saying to
068be done over the course the next couple years when we look at this as a committee with students and teachers and then also through our knee ask accreditation process okay so now i'm going to go to the specifics that i've shared with you all right so i will say that the there are two changes specified and before i get to those i should note that the handbook that you see online if you were to go to our website the content besides these two changes we are proposing will all be the same though you may notice that there might be a slight reorganization of just some of the topics putting all the academic pieces together and and things like that so i just want to note that up front and now the two specific changes the
069first one is in regards to attendance so i mean specifically in the handbooks on page 54. what we are proposing is that we take our three-point product sorry three-point deduction for an unexcused absence for any class we're proposing that we remove that from the handbook so no academic penalty can be given for an unexcused absences um instead are going to work on we are we are going to tabulate our unexcused absences for students quarterly instead of yearly and right now there's loss of credit if a student misses 20 classes in a year either excused or unexcused we are proposing instead that loss of class credit will be put into effect every quarter only for unexcused absences and that will be after five unexcused absences now there's two points that i want to make about this
070first of all we are limiting this only to unexcused absences and secondly we want to follow up more quickly with students which is one of the reasons to change it from at the end of the year to quarterly so we can really under like we really want to follow up with the students and understand what's going on in real time and try to figure out what supports we can put in place if we're noticing that students aren't going to class right actually even possibly help them start to gain credit back as the school year is going on so while i'm talking about all of this and talking about loss of credit and all of these things you know the real intention is to help support students get back to their academics and understand why they're
071not going to class right that's that's the real intention we are and and i don't want to get too into this because i take too much time but we are going to have more of a team model for administrators and counselors to work with students in high school next year and so there'll be groups of one associate principal associate assistant principal count two counselors and a campus support person working with a group of 400 students instead of a group of 800 students and so we're trying to really focus on the needs of the students and we think that that group of administrators and counselors will be able to follow up better with those individual students on attendance in a quarterly fashion okay so that's the first suggested change okay second suggested change is really clarity
072around grading for teachers because there's some confusion on what a medical exemption is in a no grade so we are um well first before the grades we're asking that the time frame for an incomplete grade be finished um at the interim of the next quarter instead of waiting until two weeks the end of the quarter of course if there's an appeal or a student needs more time that's fine but we want to help put things in place for students more quickly to finish their work and then secondly a no grade will replace the medical grade and the effect of that grade is the same but it's just going to provide clarity and less redundancy in our current grading system for teachers and students and then thirdly we're going to allow a pass option for students
073to earn credit in a marking period in which they're actually absent from more than 50 of the classroom instruction but they finish at least 60 of the work so we want to offer that for students so those are the two proposed changes for next year so um i just want to make two more quick comments there were some comments as i said that came in after this was sent to school committee and i've addressed one a bit which is um a request for more restorative practices and um procedures and structures put into place and i've addressed that a bit in terms of that i do think that we are putting that into practice more that is actually codified within the handbook and secondly we have long-term work both next year in a committee and then
074through our accreditation process process mission vision values work to really incorporate that more in our written documentation um and then the second comment had to do with the excused and unexcused and and you'll note that um the attendance policy was amended to only um have unexcused absences that would result in loss of credit for a course not excused as well the current policy with the 20 over the year has excused and unexcused okay so i think i've covered most of it thank you for your attention questions yeah um i'm gonna open this up to the committee any questions i know that was a lot yeah hi so i don't have a question as much as a comment um [Music] i um i really appreciate the approach to restorative actions i know that the first time
075i read the handbook it felt very um old school punitive so i i'm really applaud this kind of new focus on you know really looking at because if kids are missing school unexcused absences there's probably something going on that needs to be addressed they don't just need to be punished i mean you know what i'm saying so thank you for that and graduation was lovely thank you so much he was great and congratulations thank you and i will say that i completely agree um and i just want to note that also a lot of the language in the handbook has to pass muster in terms of our legal obligations of what we state and share with families right and so that will just also take time to include other pieces and have you know this
076supportive and restorative perspective because we also have to make sure the document is legally up to par right joanie thank you for this i think that it is a remarkably compassionate way of looking at what can often be some terrible times for kids regardless of the cause and i also like that it's something that shows that we're in not quite the after but getting closer to the after living with um medical issues that will crop up for five to ten days at a time so i just want to appreciate the the the approach on this and also the way that this is a just a supportive and well balanced rule change so thank you for for that for making our community a bit better thank you you're welcome um thank you for that presentation i
077just say to committee members um when there is the masc conference in the fall i actually was able to attend a workshop on the knee ask process which like now i totally understand and i was like i i thought that the workshop was something completely and totally different because the description in the book was not so accurate but i'm glad that i went because we are about to go through it and i think it gives you a really good perspective on how some decisions are made at the high school um because it isn't all about like what joni wants or what you know like superintendent light wants and there's a lot that goes into it um so you should watch and see if msc offers something like that again because it was really super informative
078and um and i think if as far as we're involved in the process of things you know this discussion a portrait of a graduate those of us that have been on the committee for a while know about but it's probably something totally new to those who are not on the committee and that have eight-year-olds at home so um i our committee for a lot of them have really young kids so i do think especially in that light it it was really informative and i think it is a huge process and it's very cool to go through and i think it's a great idea to wait to do a thorough overhaul of the student handbook until we have a better perspective on on where we're going because you don't want to make all these big changes
079and then be like oh wait that's not what we wanted so thank you and graduation was lovely my son was like wow you get to sit so close you have to have one perk right yes thank you joni you're welcome evelyn congrats on your one year anniversary oh thank you and i just want to echo what my fellow committee members have said about the unexcused absences and the changes that you're making i think this is really going to benefit black and brown kids that and i know when we pull the data they're probably the ones that are not showing up in school for one reason or the other so i think this digging into the problem before it becomes a problem is what we need to do and also you know putting in restorative practices
080most schools are doing this you know kids at that age are not learning anything from people being from being from being punished they just dig their heels anyway so i think that that's the way to go so thanks for coming to talk to us about this thank you may i ask a question really quick um does the pass option do anything to the weight of the gpa does it or does it just does it okay i just want to make sure i i i don't want to say with 100 clarity but i can't imagine that it does i'll follow up with you but i think that that's just would just be a wash you know because otherwise that wouldn't make sense but i'll make sure thank you anybody else on the committee before i let
081former committee members come all up in here and muddy the water and say things do you want me to time him do you need a timer mr peterson are you gonna be cool i'll try not to make too much trouble i wanted to say that you know i very much also enjoyed graduation and i'm sure like many people there was both celebrating what had been accomplished and wondering what might come next and of course for the class of 2022 we'll just have to wait to see what comes next but for the class of 1981 they recently celebrated the fact that linda fagan graduated from acton-boxborough regional high school and is now the commander of the coast guard so it was a double first it was the first woman to head one of the branches of
082military but also i believe the first abrhs graduate but perhaps not the last and because a number of people have touched on portrait of the graduate i just wanted to emphasize the point that it needs to be a really big picture because if it's going to include people who are going to head the coast guard along with everything else the range of possibilities is just enormous thank you mr peterson hi evan hi danny uh so i like the idea of uh check up the i have every quarter quarter checkup with the students and to make sure they don't fail in in the last minute so so just some colorful clarification so i just wanted so the five unexcused absence is for a whole year right it's not for every quarter it's for every quarter so
083it would be 20 for the year so do you think that's too much so increase from 3 to 20. no i'm sorry right now it's 20 for the year and so so that pretty much replaces that the three-point deduction is is something else that is currently in the handbook but not many teachers still use it and we're going to take it out it is that if there is any one missed class unexcused absence a student can lose three points off their grade and that's an academic penalty that we don't feel as appropriate as a consequence for missing class the if we go back to the 20 right now the 20 include excused and unexcused we're replacing the five per quarter with only unexcused is that great does that kind of clear it up yeah yeah
084okay so can you give examples of unexcused unexcused a student is just kind of you know hanging out in the cafeteria or um possibly in the commons or outside the school instead of going to their designated class and they don't have a medical reason or an excuse from a parental figure or guidance counselor or any teacher for why they're missing the class for one regular class how many so how many classes in the total so i was just talking about like one class like say just by math class or just a social studies class i mean a student could be taking between five and seven classes total no no whole school year uh so for example the math how many classes the student usually attend i'm not sure i quite understand the question sorry uh
085so i just wanted to have an idea is 20 out of 40 or whatever how many numbers how many class periods are there say in a quarter in the school year in the whole year i mean there's 180 school days right so i'd say yeah i'm sorry thanks marie no it's fine do you just turn it off for a sec please um so there's 180 school days there's a drop every x number of days so i believe there are 140 sessions of each class that's a full year class and just to follow up on you but are we talking symbol are you counting my classes or counting by days is truancy based on like you have 20 days in a year where you could be unexcused or are you talking five days with four classes
086per day okay i'm going to try to answer the question again i'm sorry that if i'm not exactly answering it but so if i'm going to lose credit it's going to be for a course or a class so it's going to be for my science class so i'm going to look overall if i have science in the b block one out of every seven days it's actually going to drop right so i have science b block six out of seven days i'm gonna look at in a quarter so if that's 140 divided by four gosh what we have like 40 30 30 something classes 35 right um have i missed five classes unexcused in my biology b block is that did i answer it yep hi actually just to piggyback off of that so then
087with this new proposed change would you have five per quarter per class or is it all-encompassing i believe the answer to that question is per class okay because i don't understand it otherwise right can i just add so i i do think that was a point of confusion so if you were to miss a whole day you'd miss five or six classes that day but this applies to five of the same class across a quarter so if i missed all five of my classes that day it would be one it would be one absence like per each for each class or subject okay thank you that makes sense because sorry you say you guys all have little kids and you've not ever been in the high school so you get a call that your kid
088has not attended class yes and you get an email sounds very efficient um and credits in the high school you have to have so many to graduate right and it's all per course not like per day you're in school you don't like great so yeah um all right my last thought is about just i just want to be that english person who nitpicks about the word truancy um is i don't know actually how this work and it works and the lawyers might tell us that it has to be the word truancy but is there a way that maybe we can either define what truancy means or or use the word absence or or something else so i'm just thinking about it's such an old school word and it's a wonky word and i just wonder
089if we can be more expansive with our handbook but that's me being nitpicky i will say i had the exact same question and i actually asked what did it mean when i first got here and the answer was it's an unexcused absence and yes i will check in with the lawyers about that and i often just say unexcused absences maybe that's a little longer i do believe that they are synonymous and i understand your point and i'll check that out and i'll just add it is actually a legal term and there are legal requirements around attending school and not meeting the legal requirements around attending school is defined to have been truant we actually have to have truancy officers but that doesn't mean that word has to be in the handbook so we will look
090into it and just one quick point this is the first read you have a second read next week and a vote um but it's great to get the questions and comments out on the table and hopefully we won't need to have joanie come back next thursday i've been in so many meetings you've been a trooper and we're really grateful thank you so much thank you i will not ask you again to be civil you may ask your question i'm just letting you know my expectation um if there's no longer a punishment for skipping class what prevents students i guess from constantly cutting class and if the school is in locos parentis of the students how can we ensure that students are being looked after by the school during the school day so there is a
091consequence what you're saying is for one unexcused absence there's not a particular consequence right now the only particular consequence is the three-point deduction which i would say is not really being enforced at all and so on the books the consequence is after five unexcused absences there's the possibility of loss of credit there are many other practices and support measures in place though that happen on a day-to-day basis we have our campus support we have our deans we have our counselors we have our associate principals who notice when students aren't where they're supposed to be and we follow up with them we try to find out what's going on we try to figure out how we can support them and get them to class this year we instituted a practice in which we called students down
092to their dean's office after two unexcused absences or three tardies unexcused tardies and they had a conversation with their dean we instituted that in about december january it really kind of got refined in february march and again the real intention of that was to try to understand what was going on and if they really were unexcused tardies and absences we actually assigned a lunch detention to those students in which they were monitored by a campus support person again the intention was with the dean and the conversation beforehand offer support coordinate with a counselor and have a conversation with a campus support person also when they had to um go to the room during their lunch so those things aren't again like explicitly in the handbook but those have been practices that we had this year
093and that will continue in some form next year a quick one pro it's not related to high school i mean i just wonder for the junior high do we also have such kind of a policy so i would expect a junior high priorities i mean there's a policy on the high school student who will be more restrictive than the junior high because uh junior high is a junior right so so they have they have more excuse me i just wanted well i think the junior high students are scheduled every single class period so no students really are ever free yeah i can add a little bit thank you joanie that's exactly right and the junior high is organized in teams of teachers where a group of students share the same teachers so they are scheduled
094all day there aren't free periods so it's much less likely that a student is not going to show up for a particular class but when they're absent for the day again the families call in and explain why or report them being absent and if a student isn't there who hasn't been excused then there's a phone call and so on so it's um it's a different type of environment but there's definitely follow-up with kids who who aren't there who are expected to be there i mean mean i always say uh we will we may is it realistic say for the ninth group nice year ninth grade uh we implemented such policy but for the ten senior then we may uh put a more restrictive more restrictions i mean i understand we expect that they grow up
095right i understand why you're suggesting that and i think it points to the fact that we do probably need to make sure that ninth graders understand this especially the difference between junior high and high school so your point is well taken and i think that we need to you know work with them because what they've had in the junior high is very different now than in the high school i would be hesitant to make it more restrictive though overall for 12th graders at least and especially at this time because i don't believe that that is what the needs of our students are i think that we really need to be as supportive and as helpful as possible in that regards okay you've been a trooper thank you so much johnny have a great night you
096do okay brian okay we are now on to ongoing business um and we have a quick edco update from marie um so today was the last edco board meeting um as peter's been reporting over the last year or more edco is in the process of dissolving and so peter did attend that meeting today everything's on track to be completed by june 30th it's been approved they're now just awaiting a letter from the commissioner so it's expected to fully go through and after june 30th once it's complete i think all the kind of the financials have been taken care of and we're expecting to get back 60 to 70 thousand dollars after july first um from what has been paid to them so it's moving forward and he just wanted me to give you that update
097any questions about that very good thank you marie okay subcommittee and member reports it looks like it's just me um sub budget sub met one last time on the 23rd of may we discussed the fy 22 budget status i will not steal dave sunder if he wants to talk about turnbacks and mr peterson is gone anyway so i don't think anybody wants to talk about that david's like no okay great um we had a um revenue update for fy23 and mostly our conversation was about debriefing around town meeting i look forward to working with mr schwartz and amy chris northey and all the members of this committee next year on working on how we bring the narrative of the budget process to town meeting um we know that educating everyone about the budget on the
098town meeting floor is not how we do this there is a narrative that happens all year round and while i you know i thought we were doing that this year clearly we did not do that effectively so we will have a strategy for that next year and that was the biggest result um of that meeting the budget sub will meet again very early in september 2022 because we know that the next budget cycle will be i'm going to use the challenging i think the challenging is the right word and yet we will persevere and we will deliver and it will be good so there all right on to the consent agenda dave did you you're looking at me did you want to say the thing okay good just want to make sure all right consent
099agenda items on the consent agenda do not usually require discussion and are approved with one vote unless any member would like to hold an item for discussion any separate vote i will read each item name and if any number would like or any member would like it held please say hold members do not have to attend a meeting to vote on the minutes first item is approval of the abrsc meeting minutes for may 19 2022. second is approval of remaining fy 22 subcommittee minutes including the budget capital improvements community engagement debt strategy mascot screening and policy sub committees all right is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second that was tessa and amy all those in favor aye aye very good i believe that that was unanimous statement of warrants and
100recommendation to approve hi tessa i move that the school committee vote to approve payroll warrants as follows number p224 dated 519 2022 and the amount of 2 thousand eight 9118 ninety three dollars and eighty nine cents number p two two five dated six two twenty twenty two in the amount of two million eight hundred ninety eight thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and seventy six cents payroll deduction warrant number 22-0 pr dated 519 2022 and the amount of 1 million 184 281 dollars and 60 cents number 22.025 pr dated 62 2022 in the amount of 579 thousand four hundred eighty three dollars and thirty seven cents vendor warrant number twenty two dash zero two four a dated five nineteen twenty twenty two in the amount of forty one thousand sixty four dollars and fifty three cents
101number twenty two dash zero two four dated five twenty six twenty twenty two in the amount of seven hundred ninety one thousand forty one dollars and twenty eight cents number twenty two dash zero two four b dated five twenty six twenty twenty two in the amount of 3382.16 number 22-025-a dated 6-2 2022 in the amount of 407.16 student activity warrant number 22-02 dated 526 2022 in the amount of 12 446 dollars and 70 cents uh i think we're voting all those in favor i believe that was unanimous okay fyi marie is there anything that you would like to highlight in the fyi yes i know we're almost done but so we have as you know six and a half days of school left the last day of school is tuesday june 21st monday is a
102holiday for juneteenth and we are looking forward to getting to the finish line there is a document in the fyi which lists all of our retirees and if you will indulge me i will quickly read them we have betty bricker nietzsche carlson kelly carter susan bowmiller marianne farron betty foster nurse betty yes lynn french ned gallant jackie goddessman rebecca greeley peggy harvey cappy kelly gayle kessler walsh paula sage jim maloney lynn newman beth petter judy philbrick gay prosnitz brigitte seely kathleen smith debbie trench yes the famous phone caller yes she gave such a great speech ann velagnik and chris whitbeck and i echo she gave debbie trench gave a great farewell speech at graduation it was phenomenal so just congratulations to all of those all of our retirees and thank you this mct mom says
103i love you nurse betty and i will miss you and this school committee member says i love you beth petter and i will miss you yes we will miss all of y'all retirees so there um anything else in the fyi no okay so i think that there was something in our packet um from from food services yes in our packet anybody who's listening anybody who needs there is a note that breakfast lunch snacks and drinks will be sold daily from 9 a.m to 11 30 a.m in the high school cafeteria again this summer from june 27th to august the 5th closed on july 4th for students who are currently receiving free or reduced lunch their eligibility continues through the summer for more information please contact kristen nelson kirsten nelson i'm so sorry and more information
104about that is in the packet i just want to highlight that i think that's extraordinarily important and we're really grateful for that service um our next and last meeting of the school year is next week next thursday june 16th at 7 pm same that time same that place and we'll include our school committee reorganization for fy23 i will accept a motion to adjourn so moved that was tessa and evelyn all those in favor aye any opposed or abstain that was unanimous thank you so much everybody you