1.9.2023 Fall River School Committee

I'd like to call up to order the regular meeting at the far Harbor school committee January 9th Deb please call the roll here here miss larabee here Ms Pereira here miss Roderick here mayor Kruger here we'll uh salute to the flag United States

uh pursuant to the open meeting law any person in making audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meetings or any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings of Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible citizens input we have two tonight first Melissa Machado Bay Street in Fall River

good afternoon is there an update on issues relative to Citizens input rules changing that mayor Coogan both put on the table and subsequently removed I wanted to understand whether it is still being considered or not I feel it is unfair to citizens who have situations that prevent them from personally appearing but I want to be involved in but want to be involved in their local

government below was my prior feedback I understand that mayor Coogan wants to eliminate the opportunity for citizens to send in citizens input for these meetings this is not a mock monarchy this is a democracy a professional should not have their feedback unheard due to not being able to be physically present I hope that the committee denies this request and encourages citizens to be active in

the local government thank you in advance for your time and consideration Melissa Machado 1025 Bay Street next up Colin Dyess Ray Street Fall River good afternoon members of the school committee I believe it is important for the committee that we have elected officials that maintain checks and balances on our tax dollars I heard some comments from the last meeting that were concerning and I believe City residents

should be as be concerned as well we were told by the administration that the FY 24 budget would be submitted late and I believe the CFO said there would be a conflict with the charter the school committee has a role in an obligation to apply checks and balances and that's to make sure our public officials follow the charter and that's to demand the budget be presented on time I think too often public officials

follow the charter only when it benefits them and we saw this mess that took place two years ago when the administration blackballed the city council and passed a budget without any legislative due process without any citizen oversight it was not a good situation and again I hope the direction of the school department and I'll Reserve comment until I see the budget itself is to increase the standard pay for teachers

and power professionals and to focus on increasing the behavioral mental health Team and to finally cut on administrative salaries and positions that is bloated in every budget I've seen that's what the parents of this District deserve in the taxpayers of our city I'm disheartened when I see school committee members stick up for repulsive organizations such as the judge ronburg Center and then vote to send the

organization taxpayer money and then say we're doing it because we support the taxpayer I believe that this is hypocritical and exactly what city residents didn't want and thank you to the three members who voted against funding that's called a backbone I believe the city council when it comes time to the Joint meeting and when it's time for the city to pay their fair share of net School spending

need to ask the tough questions as to why we are wasting taxpayer money to organizations such as jrc before the city council approves finalizing net School spending now lastly is the mayor going to update the school committee on the citizens input measure he has tabled at the last meeting I do not see it on tonight's agenda again I'll hold my I'll hold the opinion the school committee

should find ways to expand citizens participation not get rid of written input for political purposes I'm ashamed more school committee members have not spoken out on this and I'm ashamed there are members of the school committee that support the Chairman's position to lower citizens input for political purposes this is a new era no one is going to magically appear in person to meetings

anymore however we have a growing number of people who wish to give their input on matters that cannot take that cannot make it to meetings which we have seen this is an accessibility issue think of the person who is a mother a father work second or third shift or does not have adequate Transportation their voices suddenly silenced that's not fair there should be at least some sort of compromise we have the

technology to allow people to submit pre-recorded input video input audio input and it's time the school committee starts thinking outside the box and I believe it's time we have elected officials that respect the constitutional rights of residents they swore at oath to uphold and to represent Colin dies 560 Race Street thanks Deb we have no sub um recognition Awards tonight uh Mr aggia just uh related to the

recognition Awards I know we we established the committee but I'd like to just uh ask uh both the superintendent as well as anybody watching and the principals and directors that we need to get some nominations several years ago we had uh a lot more nominations of either a student or a staff member parent volunteer somebody that goes above and beyond that should be recognized because

we do have that throughout the district but we for whatever reason under the prior superintendent moved away from that and I think we need to get back to sending those out making sure that people nominate so that we have the subcommittee but if the subcommittee doesn't have any nominations to review for to select someone for each meeting we cannot recognize those so if we can make an emphasis both here as well as uh

to the superintendent to get some nominations in the committee will then meet we'll go over those uh we'll select folks to get the awards that uh I think it's a great thing to do to reward people for doing a great job and volunteering or working hard going above and beyond so if any help that anybody can make we'd be much appreciated thank you thanks Mr yeah uh we have no super we have no subcommittee updates tonight

but we do have a superintendent support um superintendent Potts uh thank you Mr Mayor this week for the hiring update for the month of December up until today the last month we've hired 54 employees we have 24 teachers 22 Paris two administrators I think that's 74. two administrators 11 educational support positions nine Operational Support positions and six substitutes excuse me that was 74. for a

total of 74 positions that joined our Fall River Public Schools community and conversely exited we exited 12 teachers four pairs two educational support positions and five Operational Support positions for a total of 23. so the good thing is that we have many more hires than exits which is a good sign also speaking of recognition just wanted to I know he updated the committee um in a Friday email but I think for the

community it's important for them to also hear about some of the great things happening within our schools and some of the great um folks so last month right before the break I had the honor of attending the Francis galasha Junior awards ceremony which was organized by Dr heinbecker from the south coast educational collaborative each year the collaborative honors one student from

each District's High School the students are recognized at a luncheon with their families their principal and superintendents followed Public Schools student recipient was Shakira Cadet Shakira was honored for excellence in leadership service and academics during your high school career Shakira is a model scholar athlete at Durfee not only does she Excel academically and athletically but also she finds time to

volunteer at Durfee as well as in the elementary schools and in the community she holds 13 school records for winter and spring track combined she is the 2022 Mass All-State champion and triple jump and the Durfee 2021 female athletes of the year so we are all very proud of Shakira her mom was there with us and I think it's important for the community to also recognize the caliber of

students that we have at darfi and speaking of Durfee also Deca highlights and that stands for distributive education clubs of America that's an association of marketing students that encourages the development of business and Leadership skills through academic conferences and competitions just this afternoon we learned that durfee's Deca chapter has earned the distinction of Thrive level for its efforts in

showcasing the impact that Deca has on preparing its emerging leaders for College and Career Success are the first year teacher Ariel St Germain took students to a conference 31 students from Durfee competed in the DECA District 8 conference which was held at the Hyannis Resort and Conference Center on January 5th and 6th on Durfee High School students won numerous Awards and came home with event

medallions including four third place medallions one second place Medallion and one first place event Medallion Deca is an association of marketing students each student has three tests in marketing field and scores are added together for their placements in this category the three assessments include a national marketing exam two role play case studies where they use their problem solving skills based on event

simulation and students are evaluated on how they both develop and communicate their responses to situations presented Durfee High School had sent 31 students to compete 19 students placed in the top ten in their categories and those students and those students four of them are moving forward to compete at the state development conference in Boston on March 9th in the end through the 11th

students placing top five in the category and moving on to the states are Jack Souza and Ali Costa from Financial Services team decision making fourth place overall Anthony sweat Automotive of services marketing fifth place overall and Alicia Silva food marketing fifth place overall congratulations to all as well as to the Miss Sylvia and her team over at darfi and that's it for me yeah South Coast

educational collaborative I had a question just one second Mr I get please did you talk about the south coast yes okay Mr Aggie I'm sorry thank you sorry so just on uh the hiring I know I've asked this before but we had a position called Labor as their progress been made on the Labor's position that's it yeah yeah oh yeah um so Mr aggiel it looks like there's a couple of applicants that are coming in

for interviews I'm not sure if it's this week or next week um Mr Monas and um this blog just will be doing those interviews okay I just I asked that each month and I can be a pain in the neck with it but it's long you know yes I would also recommend that as I said at the last meeting the provision that we've allowed for to bring somebody in at minimum wage

to do the work can happen sort of quicker I think than that so I think we should Implement that potentially see how other people are but that's your call but I'm every month I'm going to ask that same question until the position gets hired sure I do appreciate the info my other question is on the Transportation Administration or do we have an update on that where that's at so we do have an individual who is going

to take the job interim a current employee and we'll be working out those details so it's moving forward yes you know because I think we need to have somebody in place my last question was on the bus I know last time I mentioned to the mayor to try to get an update but we haven't received it but the new 15 the electric bus issue can we get some information on that because uh

I'm confused I'm not sure we know exactly what's going on with it but we just saw the press conference three months ago and then I this committee hasn't been involved in it so anything you could share would be much appreciated absolutely thank you okay are you thank you um next up we have uh student comment uh joining us tonight is a Durfee student Samantha aguiar go ahead Sam um you guys on the water ball situation

we officially put out the water Gatorade jugs in the cafeteria on the first floor and third floor and it's a huge hit everyone is talking about the that it's very accessible having the free water right there with the cups so everyone is talking about it and really like they didn't even know that I did it they're like Stan this is so cool whoever this is amazing I'm like okay good so I was

like really happy about that and then Mr Damaris and I are working on our designs for the water bottles to get passed out and hopefully soon we can be purchasing them and then the last thing is that Damaris and the senior officers are working on like big senior events for the end of the year to celebrate our last few months here at darfi sad I know and anybody have any questions for the

student Mr Egg no not for her but it's about what about I think when I heard her saying it's hard to hear down here but that there's Gatorade jugs that are filled with water so the children can use them during school yeah during lunch is there not uh one of uh fountains in the new building so there is and Mr Damaris and I realized that kids complain about the water not tasting

well but it doesn't really make sense because we're using the same bubbler water um in the Gatorade jugs but they say it tastes better from that so it's kind of like doesn't make sense but um hopefully when we receive the bottles they will be using the Gatorade not the Gatorade jugs the bubblers it's kind of a way to give them the water bottles so they will be using uh they don't have

like no reason not to use the water fountains that's all I wanted I just was curious I hadn't been building enough to know I'm assuming that they're around where you put the bottle in and the water comes out Fresh So I think that's got to be tested and seems like that would be even more sanitary or whatever than it is yeah I personally use the water fountains all the time and I think

it tastes fine sounds good thank you appreciate it okay thank you Messiah next we have two sets of minutes looking for approval the finance committee meeting of 1212 and the regular school committee meeting of 12 12. can I get a motion to approve second I have a motion a second any discussion on the minutes Deb please call the roll Mr yes yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes uh next we have number eight travel

requests we have three sets of travel requests um in front of us um I'm looking for a motion a second to approve the travel Solutions I have a motion a second discussion on the Travel Deb would you please call the roll Mister again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Ms Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes item nine is the acceptance of donations we have a number of donations tonight could

I get a motion a second second Deb could you please call the roll this drug yeah yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravee yes Ms Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Krueger yes um Miss Ponce could you read the donations please sure from um popplestone Foundation to the Early Childhood director Miss Faris accepts 42 000 donation from meditech to follower Public Schools fifteen thousand dollar donation

from Mass cultural Council to the Fine Arts fine and Performing Arts to Jackie Francisco six thousand dollars from the mass cultural Council to mass cultural Council Jackie Francisco again six thousand dollars and from the Lebanese Society to Fall River Public Schools two thousand thirty two dollars and fifty three cents from Mass cultural Council again Mass uh to Jackie Francisco two thousand dollar award and

from Kyle Johnson Foundation to Durfee Athletics director Brad Bustin two thousand dollars Barnett HVAC Incorporated to Durfee athletic director Brad Bustin one thousand dollars and from Jake Ferreira to Durfee Athletics to on behalf of Brad Bustin hot tub valued at 175 dollars thank you everyone thank you Miss Ponce item number 10 is the approval of contracts uh any any issue on contracts that someone wants to

talk about hearing none I'm looking for emotions I have a question on imagine okay we'll hold we'll hold uh and the first one at Wilkinson boiler and what's the next one Mr yeah imagine learning okay we'll hold those two anybody on the other three could I get a motion in a second motion to approve second I have a motion a second um Deb would you please call the roll on the other three contracts Please

Mr Dragon yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss larvy yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Rodricks yes mayor Kruger yes Mr aguiar on Wilkinson boilers please so just as a general just a comment as I mentioned this last month I believe that these should be presented in a different fashion I had a nice conversation with Mrs Ponce related to that some of the ones for instance that we just approved

already are in existence so we're once again approving the paying for but not the approval of it so we had a nice conversation so I'm hoping that by next month we have a little bit of a different process the first one Wilkinson Boyle is I was just wondering if we could get an update on it's a new school like what's the background on it so that we can figure out

where this is uh how this happened and what's going to happen moving forward so the um the pool boiler um there was a failure in the heat transfer system so the the heat exchanger and um the parts were not available and the pots are not going to be available until sometime in February maybe March so we could not run the pool heater without bringing in a temporary heater so the parts of warranty the the installation

is warrantied but that wouldn't do us any good in March it would be after the swim season so the temporary boiler from Wilkinson is set up on the out in the back side of the Butler Building in back of the field house and that's being used to heat pool water through the natural system inside the building and that was a failure of the part on the warranty on the unit

so it's a new everything is new so the boilers are all new it's just that the apart failed inside the new boiler that just heats the pool water and after we removed that part it's a warranty item but the parts are not available

ize the water because the swim team was starting three days later yeah no I understand the urgency of the heating the pool water but it's a brand new pool costs six million dollars or more right to come in and say that something broke in the first year that shouldn't sit well with anybody right and it doesn't and and the issue is is that we couldn't the company's not going to send that

that rental heated Down Here Without a signature without getting us to say that they're going to be paid at the end of all of this and that third contract that third party contractor um that we're concerned with here um we feel that we have enough leverage because the bills are still you know we still have outstanding um bills on the final payments and close out on the project that we'll be able to

recoup the funds but I just didn't have the time to wait for that process and let the pool get down to a situation we couldn't use it right so the so so when I look at this it looks like we're paying it out of our budget with the last person that should be painted is us right and we're not so this is uh stop Gap so that I can keep everything running so that there's no interruption

in the season and then when the parts come in we'll be making that exchange and then we'll be going for the full Reclamation of all of the funds that we put out it seems like you're in agreement with what I'm saying just that what we got presented didn't say that so I think the missing link was just that other what you just said sure that says that we're either going to get it from

the building committee or for that company but it's not going to come out of our budget but temporarily we have to authorize it so yeah I fully get it but it points to what I just mentioned about contracts versus payments versus contracts because this happened in November so you had to in your duty as the CEO get this taken care of in an emergency so we didn't have to approve that

contract because you needed to do it with the superintendent's authority to do it as so I believe that this shouldn't even be here at the present time because it makes it look like as if we're approving a contract for you to go out and rent a a um temporary boiler whereas that should that's already done that's an emergency that you have to do in your job and so I appreciate the information with that

I'll make a motion to approve I have a motion a second on the boiler rental I'm dead please call the old yes Miss rodericks yes very quick yes uh Mr Hagia Imagine Learning so I I can't find it right now but I think there was a a one-pager in here about what the purpose of this is for credit recovery classes right it's for credit recovery at Darby High School so my question is just on data related

to I think it said in there was 200 students but that there's still students that need remediation from for courses from the last couple of years but what is a let's say I'm a current student at the high school and I'm having a hard time being in the building based on my disability or whatever do I have the ability to take an Edgenuity cost so that I don't fall behind

well we can't allow kids just not to go to school so they have to be in school I think that if a student is behind they can have an opportunity to do it to to take a credit recovery to catch them up as an addition but it's not going to take place of them being in school so so you're saying no so it doesn't it doesn't replace being in school this is for credit recovery so

they're making up some coursework that they are behind in but that doesn't mean that they can opt to just do credit recovery online and not come to school correct So within within uh a person's plan within their um relative to the disability or whatever that they're having a hard time so we're halfway through the school year student has zero credits let's say when do we stop and say well maybe we

should look at a situation where if that person can do it whether they're even in the building taking an edge annuity recovery so that they don't get zero credits at the end is my question when I read that it looked like as if and I've used this program before we use that they're in covid we've used it in summer school all right I just don't know how what the extent of of

this being a credit recovery option it's being implemented at the high school so maybe we could get a one-pager with some data and Analysis on that okay I would appreciate it because I think it's valuable it's worth the money but I think there's certain cases we might need to use it more thank you emotional proof second I have a motion a second any discussion Deb please call the roll

Mr Ikea yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Laramie yes Ms Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes we Have No grants tonight so we'll move directly to the committee of the whole item number 12. 12 1 is a vote to approve the election of a vice chairman for the Fall River school committee Mr Hunt uh thank you Mr Mayor I'm honored tonight to nominate uh school committee woman Mimi laravee as the next

Vice chair I have a motion in a second are there any other candidates hearing none Deb would you please oh Mr right here yeah I just want to make a couple of comments so I'm going to be supporting Miss laravee tonight I had a nice conversation with her as well I think as a group I think we need to continue the oversight and the role that we have as a school committee so I'm

looking forward to working with her on making sure that the right questions are asked that the communication is there between meetings so that the meetings not only can go smoother but we can hold everybody accountable in an appropriate professional way as we move forward so I'm honored to be voting for her tonight thank you thank you Mr yeah any further comment Miss laravey thank you mayor

first I would um like to thank Paul Hart our colleague for his uh dedication and commitment this past year as our vice chair thank you Paul um I would also like to thank my colleagues for their confidence and my ability to lead this committee I strongly believe that this committee has the passion and the leadership ability to achieve the standard of Excellence that we have prioritized as our main goal

I'm looking forward to working with the mayor with the superintendent and this Committee in providing our students with a safe environment and a first class education that will continue to prepare them for the 21st century thank you my colleagues I appreciate it and uh on to business good luck Mimi but we still have to vote for you first

yes Mr harp yes hilarious Miss Laramie I don't know yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes and I personally appreciate the speech beforehand so you got one good thing yes um 12.2 thank you congratulations Miss laravey and thank you for your service Mr Hart 12-2 is a discussion and vote to approve the Surplus uniform declaration as presented by Brad Bustin I have a motion a second on the Surplus uniforms

you want to tell us what we're doing there Dr Boston good evening so this uh last time this was done was about eight or nine years ago before I became athletic director and uh it's just all the uniforms and sweatsuits and just things that have accumulated throughout the years that are no longer in circulation and with the move to uh from the old school to the new school these were all put in bags and putting

storage containers outside and then they were all brought back in so the items that I gave to you are all upstairs and on new equipment room still in the bags so we're just looking to declare them as Surplus and then do what we can with them any Mr agya hi Dad just uh it said between 1990 and now that's a lot of years what it what happened to all the rest of them like what and what

happens to these now when it's declared Surplus so we're still finding stuff um everywhere and um a lot of the stuff was in the old storage room and with the move and again throughout the years this is what we had in the bags that I counted um so these are again these are no longer in circulation we have all new uniforms now and new stuff that we have for the for the teams so over the years

because I know this can get touchy I think in the past we've had conversations from parents about they wanted to buy this jersey or whatever and it became really a Hot Topic yeah years ago what do we do with these now is it uh do they get sold is it first come first serve if you've you wore one of these or something like that how do you differentiate between who gets what

and has anybody gotten things given to them you know sometimes you see people posting pictures I've got my jersey I got this what about these people like so these items right here it is my understanding that once they're declared for Surplus we can do what we want with them um you know we can give them out to the kids we can sell them if we if we want

to uh when it was done in the past again before I became athletic director uh the all the stuff went to a different organization um so they have that stuff and I believe they sell the items for 20 or 25 or whatever if somebody wanted something um but these items uh like the first one on the list is 41 Track and Field Jackets and those were probably 15 years old and there's 41 of them

there's not enough of them for everybody that we have on the track and field team right now but there are some kids that could probably use them if they if they needed them so you know it could be nice just to give them a jacket if they needed a jacket one night not have to worry about getting it back um but I also think it's a good idea to

maybe you know do a do a sale have like a yard sale and uh and sell something you know five ten dollars and get rid of some of the stuff that way yeah I'm not looking to give you any more work of a hard time but then people that get offended they'll call us and say how did this person get it all like I think we had an issue in the past somebody wanted

a jersey sir I would just caution you to be careful of how it goes because you don't want to get it to be like I gave it to Sarah instead of Kevin and then like I'd be saying what about me so maybe the work with the superintendent to find out a way or the principal to say what's fair if you want it let us know by x amount of date so that then you'll be

free to to cover yourself that's all I'm asking for because it's good to clean this out and I'm assuming you you have a plan moving forward to when we buy new ones just clear them out right away so they're not here for 30 years yeah we're in a pretty good five-year cycle right now of getting new uniforms sounds good thank you I yield just a quick uh question Mr busted you

just said you're on a five-year cycle right so every five years every team gets new uniforms yes as of right now when did that start has that always been like that or is it was it by need I'm not sure what was done before I got here um I mean I was the equipment manager before I came I became athletic director so I did see new uniforms coming in I'm

not sure if there was an actual cycle going on um I will tell you that the contract that we have with PS4 sporting goods and Under Armor has made a big that's been a huge help okay so first up I need it's by your five year cycle and yeah and we get all under on you all under armor uniforms really nice uniforms and pretty much every program is in Under Armor

right now okay thank you I yield um we have a motion a second right we do would you please call the roll tap Mr again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes yes projects yes yes 12-3 is a discussion and vote to approve the technology position conversion is presented by Scott Cabral can I ask you a question Oh Mr agya just before you start Mr Cabral can you update the committee on any of the current positions

where they're at and what you have vacant not vacant and have you done all the hiring uh we still have two vacant positions in the instructional technology side we just cannot get candidates right now we've had a few and they've fallen through as far as on the Sims side we have the current data technician and data specialist position open which we're going to talk about in a moment and on the technology Services

side we are finally at full staff and I have no openings at this time so we hired for the Communications yes the communications specialist position I made a recommendation for appointment we're in the process of onboarding that employee now thank you thanks um so with these two positions in The Sims area uh having a conversation with the Sims coordinator um he asked for a conversion of a data

Tech position and a data specialist position and to merge them into a new position that we'd call State reporting specialist we're having a difficult time in certain areas of Technology filling some of these positions and these are two of them that we have had a very difficult time to find ideal candidates one of the biggest areas of time consuming and just not efficient for us is State reporting we

have people that are entering the data but when it comes time for the reporting piece The Sims coordinator is stopping everything else that has to be done in that department and he is validating and fixing the errors and sometimes with certain um pieces of the reporting that could be excess of 7 500 to 8 000 errors on any given state report so you can imagine that when the Sims coordinator sits down

to do that he typically says he's going into the bunker because it takes him weeks at a time you can fix 5 000 of them but then three thousand more errors will arise so in speaking with him and his team we came up with a new position that this position is basically going to deal with the reporting side of State reporting so that person is going to be validating errors that person is going

to be working on the workflows this will allow the Sims coordinator to do the Sims coordinator job to get out into the buildings to teach the end users how to do some of the day-to-day reports the absentee reporting the tardy reporting something that he has not been able to do at this point because they've been overwhelmed with the state reporting piece I have a question where do 8 000 errors come from

so it depends in our old system with X2 you can enter in one digit wrong on a state sacid number it can be a wrong class for a teacher there are so many different variables so it flags as an error some of them are as simple as you can remove all the zeros and it'll clean those up and then it becomes demographic issues if this is not correct or if a

license is not correct with a teacher or if it picks up a schedule that a teacher doesn't have the correct schedule the the errors are endless the one thing I can say is we've gone through our first state reporting piece with PowerSchool and it has been more streamlined for us because it is easier to see the errors as they're happening in the past with X2 data would go in and then you'd see the

errors at the end when you're reporting and a lot of times the state has been good however we're always 15 14 days past the deadline which they allow that grace period but we're always at that 11th hour because of the number of Errors so if if I put in a wrong SAS number on a student do we catch it here or does the state tell us that's wrong so most of the time

if the training is done in the buildings it would be caught at the building level and that's what we want the Sims coordinator to be doing but right now it's being caught when we do the initial upload they'll send back you need to check these and there's some back and forth with the state it usually takes three or four times and then we're error-free and we're you know submitting

okay thank you Mr well any any further questions from Mr Cabral Mr Aguilar yeah the current data technician that's vacant and the data specialist are those new positions that were hired under the last additions for you only one was and it was the data specialist position um and in order to think outside the box and get you know the the type of position that the Sims coordinator requested

um he is confident and I am as confident as well that this new person will be able to do these two positions would have done what this person would do and the clientele and the people that would apply for this position we have a feeling there'll be that many more applicants than there would for those lower level positions so the answer to that was there's one one of these is new and we never got any

applicants uh we we got a few but they were they're just not they did not meet the requirements that we were looking for have you had any people apply for your positions that wanted to come but just needed a little more money because it wasn't enough yes um in other areas of the technology world and instructional technology um there were some candidates that would have been ideal however other districts

were paying more in the teacher's side than than we were able to offer and that has nothing to do with Sims you're talking about Mr Michael azac correct yes Mr Michael is a screw so he's the one person that's there who is who would be the second person if Mr Michael isak wasn't here who would be uh right now currently it's Kim Bernard and what's that title database manager She's Been instrumental in creating

workflows and and working with Brian they work excellent together they've created some processes and workflows that have totally cleaned up the way we do things and she doesn't do anything with this she does a piece of it right now but the plan is to have that person deal solely with State reporting so that Kim and Brian can be dealing with pushing down to the buildings the new policies the

procedures the way of doing things so that way the data that's coming into this system is much cleaner than it had been in the past yeah the only part of my hesitance in a position like this is that state reporting doesn't happen every day so you know like I know it goes but we don't do the report like so there's crunch time in jobs and there's you got

to just keep on it as you go and to piggyback on what the mail was saying I don't know why some of these errors should they should happen one time in a school system if they happen the second time the same thing if somebody's entering the data while the schools aren't doing what they need to do with whoever it is it should happen one time and I and I agree with you and

unfortunately the way that that department has run for many years it's been very reactive because of the amount of Staffing that they had when I came in as CIO we took a look we're moving in the right direction in this position we'll be doing State reporting will we be able to catch those errors as we're going and now strengthening that team will be able to get out to the end users

The Gatekeepers so that way when it comes time to State reporting we're not in this crunch all the time so the person is titled State reporting specialist however there is plenty of work we still have 17 years of historical data that we have not inputted into PowerSchool yet so that person would also be able to help with that huge lift and this is going to be non-union correct has it been brought to the union

no it has not from technology from the tech department yeah no I I get you I'm not going to be supporting this but I do think that when we have positions we should be reaching out to them to um to see if it fits if it doesn't fit or whatever um but I just honestly I don't think that this necessarily is needed but I do think we need to look at when we have

people if they're if we're getting people in this door that are qualified and they're just getting not getting paid to do the kind of work that we need then that needs to be a conversation so that we can recruit the person that can do all this stuff from another place that's a better use of some of the funds than adding another position or converting more positions so I'm not going to be supporting it and I yield

can I get a motion in a second approved secondary motion is there any further discussion on Deb could you please call the roll Mister again no Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes 12-4 is a discussion and vote to approve the second reading of the school committee superintendent goals as presented by Maria Ponce superintendent

thank you you have the goals that were presented to the subcommittee back in September and we actually I think the the piece of the goals that was in question is we had not received the targets from Desi which we still have not so those we had not put numbers attached to that goal the committee gave feedback and we went back although we have not received official targets we went back to the 2018-2019 data looked

at averages as to how it was calculated for the target for student achievement as well as for student growth attendance Etc and we attached our estimations in into those goals so for instance for student achievement we are proposing that we will increase the percentage of students meeting and exceeding by 10 percent while also decreasing the students not meeting we have a critical mass of students in the partially

meeting and we need to move those students out of that partial meeting into the meeting and exceeding hopefully we also our SGP student growth percentile needs the the typical what's considered to be typical growth is 40 to 60 percent we are proposing that we are at minimum at 50 for a district like ours we need to be showing aggressive growth in order to be moving our students and maintaining any any student

growth percentile under 50 will just allow us to maintain where we are we will not move forward and in addition we also are proposing to increase the four-year cohort graduation rate by two points increase the extended engagement by one and a half points and decrease the annual annual dropout rate by 10 percent these are all based on the last two full years that we had of data and how it was calculated and um

we have our Access Data our for English language Learners we're proposing that we increase the um and that we're moving the Target by 10 points decreasing chronic absenteeism by five points currently last year we're at 48 decreasing by five points and increasing the percentage of 11th and 12th graders completing Advanced coursework by Five Points so all all of those numbers that were added to it they

were not based on deci targets but they were based on well not this year's we have not received yet but they were based on averages from past deci targets and estimations that we're making but we feel that if we're moving our kids 10 percent out of it we're going because the the target let's say for Stu student achievement is not going to be from deci that 50 of the kids are

going to be meeting or exceeding it's going going to be on that students are going to be meeting the an average scale score but we know that if we're moving them 10 percent their scale scores are going to increase so that it will will be able to hit those targets the the other goals are the same uh remain the same as they were from September um the only ones really that we were

asked to to go add um the numbers were for the first the student learning goals that we had held on any questions any questions the superintendent Miss Rogers I'm looking on to Mr aggress because my mic um but when I'm looking at this and this is just sort of occurring to me now do we have a set spot where those intervention strategies for those objectives are outlined so we have on here

we're going to increase a percentage of students that are meeting or exceeding Expectations by 10 percentage unit points do we have anywhere that says these are the things that we're doing to move towards that objective as a district I know that's not a like specific to you but as a district what are we doing that aligns with those if you look underneath it says that how they're going to be measured and then

there are key key actions as to how we're going to achieve that so the the things that we're going to do the you know the data Dives the data sessions data analysis and Cycles Etc so right part of the plan so that's how we're analyzing that right we're doing these deep data Dives we're getting that how we're getting the information but do we have anywhere and again it's it's sort of separate but not

quite do we have anywhere that can align what we're actually doing in the individual schools to get to this point right so their school Improvement plans will outline how each school is attacking their data each School Improvement plan but it's we're talking about 16 different right schools so I'm just wondering if there's a way we have a district Improvement plan too so I'm just thinking of a way to just

link the two so that way we can be concrete I like plans I like goals I like objectives I like interventions and so it helps me put into perspective hey we're getting this and it helps the public know hey this is what our goal is right now and these are all of the things that we're doing individually to get to that place so it's not necessarily A a superintendent goal piece but it's like taking it that

extra plan to get an action plan that we can make available so that way we can look at and say hey so if we haven't met that goal how have we done on these specific interventions have these things worked out if not what are we doing I know you're getting that information right data wise but is there a way that we can kind of cross-check those pieces so that way we're all on that same page

so we're all really understanding what that looks like because we've done a lot of work but we know that there's a lot more to be done but that's what happens when you have a district of 11 000 almost 11 000 students that's the daily work that we do and that's when when we're meeting with schools reviewing their data and doing check-ins on their progress they're making adjustments and creating

short-term goals as a result of where they are some of sometimes they're on target sometimes they're not and they have to make adjustments so that's all outlined and we'll share that we'll bring those plans to the February meeting okay okay and that I yields Mr Hart uh superintendent ponds just on number three for the student attendance um by June of 2023 you your goal is to go from 87.6 to 92 percent and I see the

key actions in the other uh successive implementation we documented and measured by I just want to know like um also how is the is there an update how is that coming along have you guys been meeting uh monthly or bi-weekly or to tackle that yes every school has an attendance um uh well they have a student support team we also have met with our attendance officers Miss Kudo and I are

establishing re-establishing the the attendance task force she wants it to be strategic as to who and what the purpose of that group is we are hovering around 90 right now so obviously when we have a half day it hurts our attendance brings it down for the month uh we are in a better place than we were last year but we are inching our way up some schools are doing very well some schools are

struggling we have to we're looking constantly at the tenants and trying to figure out how to kids need to be in school that's the the that's the number one thing if they're not in school they can't learn so we know that that's the priority and we need to be um I don't want to use the word aggressive but you know more ambitious in regards to reaching out to families supporting families and getting kids to

school so that they're able to access learning so yeah no I think it's very important as well but it's good to see so we're it's it's you're not being aggressive but more like assertive and that it's uh it's actually the meetings are taking place now and um how confident I am that the goal will be at 292 by June oh well um I'm always going to be ambitious and be confident that's what we tell our

teachers to do to be ambitious so um you know if I'm expecting them to set ambitious goals we're going to do the same thing so I'm confident that we're going to continue to work and do our best to reach our goal I rather aim high and thank I mean I just think that it's what needs to be done no I agree all right thank you I yield Miss laravey thank you uh Madam

superintendent just a question on the uh School Improvement plans is that something that they uh the principles give you or is it through recommendations from you and done together is it done separately they present to you how is that that process yes that's done in collaboration with us uh it starts with our district Improvement plan and us uh creating our priorities together and

then schools look at their data and they create their own goals and plans in regards to what the needs of the school um uh the needs of the school is and then they create action plans on how they're going to get there and then we have to do check-ins we we really need to bring we're going to bring the school Improvement Dr Curley and I talked about this today we need to bring the school

Improvement plans to all of you as well as the district Improvement plan we've been working and making adjustments the states change the format so we had to change we changed the format for hours and as you know we have some schools that are level four schools and or under that 10 threshold so theirs are called turnaround plans so um we have we we had to get them all aligned so that we can submit them but

you know committeeman woman rodericks brings up a very good point as do you we need to bring them so that you can actually see what's happening at each school and how they're going about closing the gaps at those times thank you I yield yeah anything further yes Mr Rogers so just make one more pitch for that so I think when we're talking about kind of having that golden thread when we're looking at

the goals what your goals are what your objectives are and then what are the actual interventions happening I think part of what happens is that brings the community back in and so I know that's a piece that we've been pushing for a long time how do we get our community more involved well if they can see what the the interventions are if they can see what actually is happening versus kind

of the the negative information that they may get constantly and see where they can fit in I think that might help a little bit you know I know I'm kind of going pollyanna-ish but I think ultimately we want the community to be invested and if they can see what's happening that there is a thread that there's not just these sort of arbitrary goals and objectives that there really is solid work happening to meet those

goals and that there's a place for them to become more involved I think we're all going to be in better shape so that's kind of where I'm going with that that if we can have that information in that can really help try to bring the community more into the schools because this isn't just a you know our kids are with us eight to four at most so we've got to figure out other ways that we can

get the community more involved and with that yields agree well Mr aguio so the a couple of comments I've mentioned these in September when we met as well I think when we look at the percentages at one point we talked about having this document even under the prior superintendent mirror some of what we require of our teachers and administrators in the format and looking at this I would sort of push back on

this if I was an administrator saying that we need further data to explain what sort of the current Baseline is for certain things so as we go through we're going to increase the percentage of students meeting Expectations by 10 percentage points so I think the missing link to that is from 28 to 38 or some the background info for that would make sense somewhere throughout this in some places it

actually States like from we're going to increase something by 50 from 11 to 17.

I think that's the piece that I'm curious about so we know exactly what it is each school should have those same numbers so that each school should have to report to you and then you could report to us saying each school is going to go if each school goes by 10 you're right on your target we know that's not going to happen it's going to be some higher or lower but what does that mean

across uh the schools would be my questions going down to uh on the district performance e decreased chronic absenteeism by Five Points so this is an example of where what does that mean I in my head I have some data that was given that said 49 was chronically absent last year but it could be off 48 you know so it would say decrease chronic absenteeism by five points from 48 to

43. it would just help us when later on when we come and say did we meet that and you say a chronically absentee rate is Now 46 percent we would know okay yeah that meta that's what I would be recommending to my people that I'm evaluating in in as a teacher as an administrator the one around grade um a lot of these at high school because of the MCAS I'm most concerned about the

youngest so when you look at um number of students reading below Benchmark under the additional growth comments like that I'd be more inclined to want to know how many of our current grade 3 students are proficient readers currently whatever that number is and then we can say from there because you can increase by 10 the number of students meeting or exceeding Benchmark which I only would

have to assume that that meant that they're proficient readers but if we don't just get serious about by the end of grade three we have to have 90 of our students have proficient readers we're going to be in trouble so I'd like to see something not that I want you to tweak this but when you give out reporting on it I think that's one that I would like to uh

look at we talked about data Dives I think at one of the meetings I made a comment something like I don't know what that means so we'd like to see what that means when we go to you go to the school and they do a data dive let's show us the data so we can you know see it for ourselves the Pre-K part about expanding by five classrooms I think we need to get data

and I've been asking for this for a long time since the summer on what do we need to do legally you know by how many classrooms and basically sort of a better analysis of where we're at and what do we got to do to get there how much is it going to cost is there ways to do other things we actually are in the middle of a study so we should be getting that

data that does exactly that projects where we are and what we need cost analysis and all of that it did say by December 1st the task force would be up and running yes and I know we didn't improve that but it is three years at Midway so I don't I think you agree with me on that one is time um my last comment is on the talks about suspensions and whether we're going to increase or

decrease suspensions and I don't know what the data is because it's not here it says a decrease in out of school suspensions in relation to school year 22 measures so I think we should get some data on that as well as on in-school suspension I think a Missing Link in this district is we don't have in-school suspension even though this committee four years ago added positions at every school

under Dr Malone to say that we were going to have an in-school suspension program in every school and if I ask now they're not up and running and I don't think any schools are very few so for me personally I think that's uh the in-school suspension is needed more than just sending kids home with a you want to go home and not do it do the work so I want to support this but I

hope that some of the comments lead to more information coming to us sooner rather than later and um my only other comment is this going to be to October so we talked about when the evaluation is going to go what is the end of this because we're proving it now in January are we still it should be till October and then you're going to report in November we're going to evaluate you

in the month following this is that still should be if that's good with the committee I just think we want to make sure we know when is it that we're going to look at it so that we hold ourselves accountable to it with that ideal thank you any further discussion um do I have a motion to Second Deb yet no I have a motion a second Deb would you please call the roll Mr Dragon yes Mr

Bailey yes Mr heart Miss larvy yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes item 12-5 is a second reading and a vote to approve the superintendents recommended 24 budget priorities presented by Maria Ponce superintendent last month we brought these priorities to the committee and it was recommended that we go back and check to make sure because the goals had you know been on

hold to make sure that they're aligned which we did priorities are really if you will the the buckets where of Investments for our budget uh really just because we have a new budget every year it doesn't mean that we start fresh every year it means that we figure out how to deepen the work our focus in many areas Remains the Same it just we are looking at how do we

go to the next level of the work so for the first priority teaching and learning how to strengthen that work we are continuing to one of the things that this committee has done is made a tremendous investment on making sure that our students have high quality instructional materials in front of them we are currently in the in the exploring a middle school literacy curriculum which we do not have so we have a couple

of Pilots going on in a couple of schools and then we're going through this to the instructional subcommittee and going through the process of vetting that the curriculum so that we can bring forth a recommendation to this committee professional development we need to convince continue to invest in our staff building capacity coaching and teacher leadership that that again is to deepen

our knowledge social and I think that somebody mentioned maybe in citizens input social emotional learning behavioral support we could not agree more we need to prioritize that our students are we're seeing some significant gaps and we need to figure out and and bring in resources to support our teachers as well as our students tier two and tier three intervention support search based that we need to continue to

train up our staff we have many students who are not reading in in Middle School even in high school we have students who are not reading we need to figure out how to support them and and put some targeted interventions uh in place to do that social emotional learning out of school timing create opportunities for tutoring enrichment opportunities build some Community Partnerships where we can

bring Community Partners in to do some after-school programming for our students we want to continue to expand our special ed programming we have additional obviously we need to reassess and evaluate the effectiveness of the programming that we have in place now make adjustments as needed professional development to support our students and our teachers on inclusive practices certainly very very much needed

we have some early literacy very targeted interventions such as Wilson Orton Gillingham Project Read Linguistics that we are training up staff so that they can train other staff we also want to look at our multilingual programming we had piloted an inclusive programming um program over at Henry Lord we want to be able to assess its Effectiveness look at the data this year which will be a true data source and

decide on how to expand that additional staff to truly support our multilingual Learners professional development is always across the board our College and Career Pathways Early College dual language we want to continue to expand that and give our kids opportunities to to grow and to move closer to their goals of Beyond High School pre-k expansion as I shared before we're in the midst of of

creating a study where we're looking at what our projections are where we are what we need to do as we grow we said five we targeted five classrooms this year but we know that we want to put um our kids need to be in school the earlier the better they need to be to have access to language to literacy and numeracy skills so we need to to grow that as much as possible career and Tech at

our I.T department has grown by Leaps and Bounds we want to make sure that we maintain human capital that um uh Cabral has started and we want to maintain some of those Tech platforms that we've invested in you know student information center system is new we continue to learn from it to grow we need to we need to do some additional work with that with our staff and our Hardware so we we need to have a

plan for recycling our Hardware just because everybody has we're one to one right now it doesn't mean that we don't we can't we should have a plan for recycling because some of our computers are outdated and need to be replaced Etc so we we're we're not going we're going to be proactive not wait for everything to break down before we replace them make sure we have a thoughtful plan in place

as far as facilities and operations we are creating looking for opportunities to grow we are exploring the modular option we also are exploring facility acquisition we are investing heavily on HVAC upgrades to our improve the air quality in our schools district-wide roof conditions again we want to have Capital Improvements so that we're proactive instead of being reactive we have an opportunity to

really use our budget to shore up our infrastructure it's not really only we can't use all this money just on Staffing we need to build our infrastructure so that we are able to do what we need to do and we need to invest in Safety and Security again in all of our schools cameras technology Etc and then family and Community engagement continue to seek out bilingual Outreach staff Family Support

specialists we want to make sure that we're bringing this year we brought in a lot of community facilitators we need to continue to grow them also build their capacity through professional development programming we want to grow our early intervention Play and Learn groups and develop our staff Human Resources something that is Paramount right now is to focus on Recruitment and Retention of Staff we

need to think outside the box we need to explore incentives for recruiting and retaining I think we need to look at our structure for compensation working with our unions we really need to if we want the best and the brightest we need to invest in the best and brightest and we need to have some systems in place for professional onboarding and development and work on also incentives for staff attendance and

absent absence management system which we're looking at how to improve so those are just some of the um those are the buckets that we want to put put our resources in as we continue to grow as a district any question on the priorities Mr Mayor Mr aguir yeah just had a comment on the it kind of goes to the next slide about the timing of the budget but nothing in here that I see is not

hasn't been talked about before like it's sort of a continuation of where we're at but I think when we look at our budget priorities we have to get a good handle and that has to come from information from the superintendent and her team about where are we currently with the budget to keep everyone working because we've used some funds we've used some one-time funds so I personally try

to pride myself on paying attention and knowing where we're at and it's very difficult sometimes to figure the amount of money that we actually have carrying forward so on the front end I would like to even if we move the timing back get a good handle on where we're at with if everyone stayed in the current job to go to the next year where would we be what are we looking at for a budget because I

I do think we're going to have plenty of money relative to the student Opportunity Act um but I for one want to know exactly how much money we have left over right now if we paid everybody for the rest of the year And if every job was filled what do we have in our current budget and what do we have moving forward because that'll tell us what the the priority should be to keep everybody

working that we currently have otherwise we wasted money hiring them before we start adding to different types of of things and um when I mentioned before about the grade three so it's in here again about you had mentioned reading that we have some students reading I would like to specifically ask you know by in a Friday email that it you submit to us something to show how many students are proficient

readers and by grade three in our entire District because I'd be curious to see if we're actually um I got a feeling I know where we're at but looking at something very simple like that is going to tell me as one member what needs to drive additional resources and it's not necessarily probably what we're doing so if you could get that to us by the end of the week I'd appreciate it with that I yield

anything further could I get a motion in a second emotional approve second Deb would you please call the roll Mister again yes Mr Bailey yes Ms johar yes Ms Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes 12-6 is discussion and vote to approve the amended 2024 budget calendars presented by Kevin Almeida Chief Financial Officer good evening everybody um what you have in front of you is an

updated budget calendar uh with the new governor coming in she's due to submit her budget by March 1st uh we're anticipating that the budget's going to be released by March 6th um so what I'm looking to do is to schedule the presentation for the budget on March 20th so that'll give us two weeks after when I believe the budget will be provided to us by the state and then we'll follow our timeline that we

normally have each year in essence what this is going to do is going to push the timeline about a month but in about a month's time frame so normally we would submit the budget in by April 15th to the city this is actually going to bring it closer to the May 15 deadline of when it's actually due to the city council but it will provide enough time to provide the the

figures to the mayor so that when he does when he does submit his budget to the city council have it in a plenty of plenty of time anybody have any question on the amended timeline Mr agya yeah I know last year we talked about a budget time not doing things like we have for years where everybody has to come before us and present in a certain way and I think that we need to

revisit that personally I don't think that's as effective as what should be um so I know at that time there was agreement that okay next year we'll look at it differently and I'm seeing here is exactly the same as we've done it other than the timing so I do think that we need to in the next month or so have the superintendent and Michelle made a report back on what might be the best

way that we would like to um get this presentation and my only comment on the on the the money is we have a document that Mr Almeida created when we were adding all this money from Esser and spending one-time funds I had asked the question to say how do we know what the city council was worried about spending one-time money so Michelle meeteth via the superintendent gave us a document that said here's the

projections over the next four or five years of what the student Opportunity Act is going to give and I'll make a statement 100 confident that those numbers are going to go up from there so I would personally tell the superintendent trust those numbers and we're going to be fine because there's going to be more money with the legislature and the Democratic governor so I'm I don't want to get people to think well

let's just wait I would say let's do those do it sooner and we're going to have at least the money that Mr Almeda had put forth I'm pretty confident in that but I would ask that we look at um potentially looking at a different presentation the principles get all worked up for no reason to have to come before us and present things and one principle does one thing another thing doesn't know that somebody else is

asking for something so I think combining it and one might make the most sense with that I yield emotional proof or if it's not done anything further on the timeline um that can I get a motion in a second motion second I have a motion second Deb would you please call tomorrow

yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss larva yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes and just be aware that we will be moving the um March meeting to the 20th from the 13th 12 7 is a discussion and vote to approve the second quarter revolving fund report as presented by Kevin Almeida Chief Financial Officer so you have in front of you the 15 revolving funds that we have for our school district

um each revolving fund has a positive balance in total they're about just under 10 million dollars subject to nutrition um receiving some reimbursements from the federal and state government which we will receive uh this month into next month but all balance is a positive and I'm looking for your recommendation please foreign State spread circuit breaker reimbursement yes so if I'm reading that

where it says September balance was 3 million and then the December balance is three one what do we projected in our budget if we if everything stayed the same now what are we projected to have as of June in the circuit breaker is that like an account yes what what does that go down to zero and then it goes back up no so what what we've been doing historically um not say historically but over the

last several years we've been carrying one years of re one year of reimbursement over from one year to the next so the as of the end of the year the balance should be about 3.3 million and the in the in the circuit breaker account as of the end of the year and that's a one year so we get that's one year of reimbursement we get 3.3 yes sir so if the legislature in the infinite

wisdom ever funded us at 100 percent that 3.3 would go up so is it safe to say that we have a for lack of a better way to say it so if anybody doesn't understand we got a bank account at a credit union with 3.3 million in it for special education reimbursement money that's not spent that's not supposed to be spent that's just sitting there I I will say yes but with hesitation only

because unless something happens unless something happens correct yeah so with that caveat so yes to me that is a good feeling when we say okay could we be tight on something else and we know that we have 3.3 million dollars there so a student comes in from out of District or something and it's going to cost us a hundred thousand dollars for the rest of the year the circuit break is going to reimburse us 70 percent

above thirty thousand so we're only liable for basically 40 000 of that money correct so when somebody comes into the committee and says oh we're getting a person that we actually have a nest egg which is a good thing and I've been fighting for that in other ways so correct that's not far off correct yep absolutely and the healthcare is not on this one it's the next presentation right yes with that I

yield emotional proof can I get a uh do I have a second second I have a motion a second uh Deb would you please call the roll Mr Andrew yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Mr Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes yes 12.

0.8 it's discussion vote to approve the quarterly budget update as presented by Kevin Almeida so included here is our second quarterly budget update for your review all cost centers have favorable percentages I do anticipate that for the third third quarter that we will have some transfers that some things shake out but I will have that for you for the third quarter third quarter report

um in addition to that I have included for your review the Esser balances and where we are in sr12 and three again sr1 has ended it ended 9 30 22 answer 2 ends 9 30 23 and sr3 ends 9 30 24. uh finally I included the insurance projection for your review and the documents along with the administrative staff by schools as we typically do with that I'll open it up to questions any questions on the uh

quarterly update Mr agya I've asked this before and I I don't need looking I'm not looking for an answer but I think that on the the document by cost center if we if we paid everything that we if all the people were filled I'd like to see a line at the end added the cost to complete so what what's sort of if everything stays the same no surprises everybody's you know salaries are in

there what is the cost to complete in each of the core centers I would like to ask for that to be added in on the healthcare uh Mr Almeda can you help me through where where the uh says projection is 24 3.

yes what is that related to like what where are we at with what what we have budgeted is it the 27 yes so we're looking to be to the good three million or to the bad 3 million to the good three million to the good three million yes yes so for us that leads me to the next question of last year we talked about the city I want us more money is there any updates

on that where that's at we we have met with the city and we are working with the city to work through that and when are we going to see that money come to the school department as far as the money for food service no for the back so the back money we've got so the back money we originally so you're talking so the city provided us with the million the million 370 back in the fall I'm

back in I'm sorry in October so as far as from the report standpoint that made us speak not school spending but by the shift to the nutrition and moving the benefits that was about six hundred thousand dollars so we've begun well so we've been gone we've we've talked with the city we're in the process of getting that initial set of money there so this at least to make it so that the

city has budgeted that proper amount because this is even the worst like this is on the city Side this is correct so I would like to make a motion that we at the next meeting have anybody representing the city come before us to address this issue if it gets taken care of before then and there's no need to show up but the city basically has six hundred thousand dollars that should be

in the school department and I want to make a motion that we get this by the next meeting otherwise I want the city uh Finance team before us

usually what happens with emotion is somebody says I make a motion and then you as chairman say Mr Aggie I made a motion is there a second so nobody heard that they were waiting for you to say that I did I said is anybody making a second I didn't hear that but I second it all right thank you so I have a motion a second um on Mr um aguiar's Amendment Dad please call

the roll let's try again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravee yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes and um on the original vote to approve the quarterly budget can I get a motion I have a motion a second Deb could you please call the roll Mr I guess yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes

um item number 13 is for your information only we have a number of retirements appointments motion to approve 13.1 um we're going to take them off at 13.2 13.3 13.4 sorry second I have a motion a second for your information uh Deb would you please call me just one oh I'm sorry yeah uh on 13-3 the appointments so we talked earlier in the uh um meeting about how we're doing with the

hiring would it be possible to get Madam superintendent a list of any vacancies by school as I go on sometimes I look on the website as I mentioned last meeting when it says what school is missing you know and it's very confusing because I think they're uh they're getting put back to the top so it seems like one school has all of them I'm just curious to see what we have across the district for vacancies thank

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a bargaining position of the committee national awards chapter 38 section 2186 to consider the purchase exchange lease or the value of real property located at 2501 South Main Street Fall River Massachusetts as the chairs declared that an open session open meeting may have a detrimental impact on negotiating a position of the school committee the committee would reconvene there may or

may not be statements at that time uh can I get a motion in a second for executive session it's almost second I have a motion second Deb please call the roll yes yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes executive session of research call back to order the meeting of uh January 9th Deb would you please call the role here here Mr Hart here mayor Coogan yeah anything further to come before the committee Mr Hart a

motion to approve the executive session minutes for December 12 2022 of the regular school committee meeting second I have a motion a second any discussion Dad please call the roll let's try again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Mr Harvey Herrera yeah yes anything further um Mr Mayor motion to uh wish Deb a happy birthday a motion to adren motion to adjourn I have a second yeah I have a motion to sing for classes

do I have a second second can we vote please yes yes yes yes Miss rodericks yes mayor cougar yes adjourned