001school committee meeting of May 28th at 4:30 p.m. Can I get a roll call, please? Mrs. Joyce >> here. >> Mr. Mara, >> here. >> Miss Peza, >> Mr. Dupi >> here. >> Mrs. Keeling, >> Mr. Joyce >> here, >> Mrs. Cook >> here, Miss Ferrer >> here, >> and Mr. Rizzo >> here. >> Could we all please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Um, approval of meeting minutes 7th open in executive session. >> Madam Chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of the open meeting on May 7th, 2026 as presented in the packet. >> Second. Any discussion? All those in
002favor? >> I opposed. Abstensions. >> Madam chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of the open meeting on May 12th as presented in the packet. >> Second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Abstensions. >> I'm staying. I wasn't at that one. >> Thank you, Amy. Madam chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of the open meeting on May 18th, 2026 as presented in the packet. >> Second, any discussion? All those in favor? I I opposed. Abstensions. >> Madam chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of the executive session meeting on May 7, 2026 as presented in the packet. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All those in favor? I >> I opposed abstensions. >> Madam chair, I make a motion to approve the minutes of
003the executive session meeting on May 18th, 2026 as presented in the packet. >> Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Um, seek to convene into executive session at 4:32 p.m. >> Madam Chair, I make a motion to seek to convene to executive session to discuss and vote on the following matters. Port Island general Law 42-46-5A. Number two, legal advice and pending litigation, update on potential litigation regarding alleged teacher misconduct, and discuss the trust recommendation for internal review. Second. >> All those in favor? All right. Hi. All right. Go do that again. >> Madam chair, I make a motion to reconvene to open session. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Abstensions. It is 5:15 for the record. >> Madame Chair, I make a motion to seal the minutes
004of executive session. >> Second. All those in favor >> I >> opposed extensions >> and announce >> and it is 55 announce. >> Yep. >> Um no >> during executive session we had an update on potential litigation regarding the alleged teacher misconduct and we discussed the trust recommendation for general review. No votes were taken. Madam chair, I make a motion to approve the engagement of the honorable William E. Smith to conduct the independent investigation. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Abstensions. >> Thank you, judge. >> Thank you, honor. >> We appreciate your time tonight. >> Thank you for coming out. >> Okay. um public comment related to open session agenda items. And this is just a reminder that public comments are limited only to agenda items, which is the appointment of
005the Honorable William E. Smith. >> Brian, just hit the mic and say state your name. >> Brian Kelly, 94 Country Medal Lane. Uh just to tie in just out of curiosity and I'm glad to hear that the motion was for an independent investigation. That's not how it's listed on the agenda, but um just in preparation for this meeting, I did a Google search and I wanted to find out the difference in definition between an independent in uh review independent investigation. I gave no other parameters other than that question. And uh the the response back from AI was an independent review is a high level assessment of existing documents, reports or processes to gain a broad understanding or limited assurances. That's independent investigation. a deep, meticulous and impartial factf finding process conducted by outside parties to
006uncover exact details, interview witnesses and reconstruction of events. So then I took that information again without parameters and I posted a poll on both the glosser page and the foster page without particulars. I the question I pose is if you had a current invest issue of significant importance in the regional school system which you would pref which would you prefer and A was the independent review and B was the independent investigation didn't go beyond the scope of that question about particulars. So of the respondents of those two choices 96% said independent investigation. That's what they've been calling for. That's what they're looking for. That's what they're expecting. So, just giving my feedback. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? Any other comment? >> Madam Chair, I make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. All those in
007favor? >> I opposed. >> I have one question. I'm one of the crazies that you call that you people called the crazies on Facebook. >> And my question is who and where did this guy come from? Did you get him out of phone book or the guy that's going to do the investigation? >> Can I just ask why you waited till we adjourned the meeting to come up and ask your question? I didn't think it was going to