001Starcher >> here. >> Austin Kousma Kinhands >> here. >> Okay, we'll move into a pledge or anything like that. >> Nope. >> Okay, we're going to move into the superintendent's consent agenda. Motion to approve the certificated personnel resignations, retirements, and leaves and absences as presented. And then also 2.02, 2.03, and 2.0 4. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President. A couple things to this evening on this. Just a reminder to those that may watch this at home. Um, we oftentimes do not do action items at the work session. Um, I usually do make a note for May and August and let you guys know ahead of time. It's likely we we will do action items. We're always permitted to. um specifically those months because of employment, it usually is helpful
002to do a um do some action items on the work uh work session. So that's why we're doing that this evening. Just going through some information here with you. So some resignations and retirements there, a couple medical leaves, um two resignations. Mary Kelly worked here for a good number of years and is going back to her alma mater to teach. and Paula Meyer Paula Caceri some people might know her as uh is retiring January 1st and a couple medical leaves there as well. On the uh hiring side as again this is a busy time of year for us which is another reason why to have this uh meeting this evening. Um you have some new employees and some people that are switching to different types of jobs. So, for example, like Molly Cypos, um, and
003Tracy Brocker Miller, they're not actually new employees, but they are moving from, uh, positions that were not insurance eligible to insurance eligible positions. So, we put those on there just for note. Um, we have a contract. Also, a reminder, we have contract subs, which are if you know you're going to be out for more than 60 days, it's a it's a a different pay. It's actually the contract collective bargaining pay. Um, if it is a long-term sub, we just know that the person's going to be out for a while and that pay um is $150 a day. And what we would call a casual sub, just, you know, if you're able to sub for a day and then somewhere else another day is $120 a day. So, those are all defined in there as such.
004Uh Karen Glover is going to do a second grade contract sub as we have a long-term medical leave there um that she's filling in for another one with Kristen Banick. That one is not um all year but part of part of the year uh contract sub for uh Mary Kelly's position uh after July one we post them as contract subs just because we don't know exactly the market at that time but we're fortunate Chris Petti who's been a sub force in the past is going to be able to do that Shanley Fair will be title one reading there at cornerstone as that's part of our title one funding and so that's why that's contracts sub every year and long-term sub and Vicki Bos Kilmer and Emily right here. Also, I I think besides telling you
005that we got some good people in these positions late, which I'm really appreciative of, uh, also thankful that some of these people were willing, you know, to to do this. Becky Bosler Keller is a great example. We had a long-term leave that was u, you know, kind of unexpected. Um, and she's willing to help us out with that, right? So, you know, it's a not only good it's good for uh them hopefully, but it's it's really good for us. We appreciate it. Um on the classified side, um some resignations, some of this like Molly Cypos didn't resign, she just moved. Kristen Tucker, they moved to the other, um union, so that's why they moved from classified to certified. But a couple long-term resignations and retirements here to make a note of. Lisa Alts, who has
006been at Melrose for many years, uh went ahead and decided to retire as a library par professional. Definitely going to miss her. She did a great job for us a long time. Tina Padarini um is still working in the area with youth but uh took another job and she'd been with us in a couple different roles for a long time. Did a great job. Dave Dave Smith was our softball coach at one point and was a groundskeeper uh for a long time and he has resigned along uh who worked here for us the last couple years. Nutter is just a long-term leave of absence from medical. On the classified employment side, we have um a couple people that are actually returning. Tracy Harmon and Stacy Swank actually worked here before uh retired res well resigned
007and then decided to come back. Um we have some substitute custodians which we're very thankful for and a couple new pair new pair uh Julie Quaddlebomb is actually just moving into insurance. So again, it is an action-packed time in terms of uh um hiring staff and and some resignations. Today we did our new employee orientation. I think we had over 40 new employees there. Uh was a was a really good day. I think set set everything off on on a on a good foot. And like I told them and I I tell you and you know, staffing is getting harder. Uh I I think the competition for good staff is continuing to become more challenging in all fields of education is no different. But I really am excited about the staff that we hired this
008year. We continued to see good applicants apply for jobs throughout, you know, the spring and summer. Um, including some of these late hires. We're just really, really excited about staff we put together. So, should have a few more employment things for you next week, but it will only be what happens between today and the 19th. Uh, so it should be a little more minor. Good. Okay. >> All right. Good. Right. >> Yes. >> Start your Yes. >> kind hands. >> Yes. >> Down to the superintendent's regular agenda. First item be to consider the approval of Erie Restoration Emergency Services contract for highly high quality cleaning and mold remediation remediation. >> So moved. >> Second. So, unfortunately, we've had kind of an eventful couple weeks here uh and due to some some mold growth and we've
009notified those teachers and worked through that. That the challenge has been we've had a very humid summer. Uh we also with some carpet cleaning, we just kind of had the uh the perfect storm in a few areas. So, uh Mr. Madigan and his team have worked very hard. big part of what they've been doing lately is because there's really it's kind of like the same as in if you have like an engineer and then you have the person doing the work. So Eerie is the people doing the work. We have an independent people that come in and kind of you know make your recommendations about what to do. Um so Eerie is the company that was selected after that. They're they're they're not quite done but they're done with most of it at this point
010I think. And um and then testing will continue here in the next week. Edgewood, right? >> That's Edgewood. Yep. >> Klein hands. Yes. Starcher. Yes. >> Good. Right. >> Yes. Then our last item on the regular agenda would be to consider the approval of the affiliation agreement between Worcester City Schools and Westview Healthy Living for training and education of students in health technologies career tech program at Worcester High School >> second. >> Um so excited about this. This is last year our new career tech program in health technologies. you know, first year we're getting a lot of student interest. It was a goal of Mrs. Anderson's and the high school to start connecting with employment uh opportunities. Westview Healthy Living uh obviously a local employer. This is kind of a mutual where we'll be able
011to get some hands-on training. They'll get some, you know, uh some possibly some candidates for future. Uh it's not a financial u you know, transaction whatsoever. It's really just uh memorializing that we would have the opportunity to send our kids there. Um that they would the opport have the opportunity to use our kids and then kind of clarifies insurance and some pieces. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. It's a nice place. >> Yeah. Very, very exciting. >> All the way here. >> Yeah. As obviously our goal and is to get kids connected to these employers so that they can go right out into the work world if you know that's the last level of training they intend to do or go to work while they're continuing to get more training. Right. It's nice to
012have a local entity willing to do that. >> Yes. >> There's different choices out there, but at least we had one that was willing to step up their kids. >> Yeah. Kind of hoping that it's the the first and maybe comes a model and there's a few more that we can get, you know, interested the better off that is for kids because it gives them more options. Okay. Uh, Goodright, >> yes. >> Starcher, yes. Klein, >> hands, >> yes. >> Okay. Number five, suspend uh consider approval to suspend Robert's rules of order. >> So moved. Second. >> Uh, goodight. >> Yes. >> Kleinhens Starer. >> Yes. >> Okay. work session and then for that um need to consider a motion to approve the moving into executive session for the purposes of attached >> second. Yeah,
013as I don't really uh you know sometimes in our work sessions we'll we'll have presentations and different things. I don't have a lot of that this evening really not a lot to make too much of a note on for for next week's board meeting. Should be a light agenda as well. It's before we get into student regulations. You'll have, you know, employment. Like I said, really the one big thing that will be on there, and it's not actually big, but I think it's is worth clarifying to you before we go into executive is the OFCC master plan agreement will be on the agenda. Um, there's been some misinformation out there at times about that. I want to make it very clear that is nothing new. That was something that we worked on and completed prior
014to the bond failure. This just simply allows us to If we choose to do any building project of any kind, pass a bond, you name it, within a 16-month period that would align with the master plan, um we would then just be eligible for the co-unding. It is not a decision to move forward in any way project. Um and it is possible to adjust our master plan. We would have to then get we'd have to go back to the OFCC if we wanted to tweak any piece of that and then it would have to come back to you from board approval. But the reason there's a delay is because the Jul in July is when the OFCC commission actually approves it. So we can't approve it. You're like people, why didn't you approve it in
015April? Well, it wasn't ready in April. Our part was ready, but it has to wait for the OFCC and now that they've approved, you guys can. So I just think that's going to be worth mentioning so that you know people can make sure they understand that's not a decision to do any type of project. It's really the final step in actually uh you know ensuring that we have the ability for co-unding. uh if if an opportunity presented itself. >> Okay. >> Yes. And I think it's even a a note in there because it it it provides money obviously for the uh you know co-unding of within the master plan and then like honestly it talks about a a demolition co-unding amount for a building such as cornerstone. There's no that didn't mean we had a
016plan of demolishing cornerstone. It's they're going to provide an opport that that money is there. That doesn't mean you have to use it and obviously it's only the percentage that they're giving you. >> So I think that's just important to clarify as we are um far from making any kind of decisions right now about what's next for us. We do continue to have facility we need to review and look at but right now our focus is to get the year started well and start to review different options that could help us in some way and and uh make further recommendations when we're ready which we are definitely not ready to do >> good clarity >> questions >> um starcher. >> Yes. >> Good. Right. >> Yes. >> Kind. >> Thank you.