The Fall River School Committee convened its regular meeting on December 13, 2021, addressing a range of educational and administrative matters. During citizens' input, resident Colin Dyess raised concerns about structural issues at Durfee High School, including falling ceiling parts, and called for an audit and accountability from the construction company, Suffolk. Superintendent Maria Ponce provided an update on the Durfee After Dark program, noting the successful launch of the Medical Assistant program with 12 students and the planned launch of Business Tech and Culinary Arts pathways, while the Auto Technology program awaited an instructor. She also reported on the resolution of $105,408 in outstanding 2021 transportation costs for 'wait time' that would be sent to the city for payment, a topic that led to a spirited debate between Mr. Aguiar and Mr. Costa regarding financial oversight and vendor relations. The committee approved several key items, including the appointment of Terry Ramos as a district nurse, the District Handbook, and the Durfee Program of Studies, which introduced new electives and credit recovery options. A significant discussion revolved around the revised CTE Admissions Policy, presented by Cynthia Silvia, Andrew Woodward, and Matthew Demaris, which aimed to expand access for students by making scholastic achievement, attendance, and conduct criteria more flexible. The committee also approved an increase in substitute teacher pay to $125 per day, with further discussion on a comprehensive recruitment plan. A moment of silence was held for former colleague Joseph Martins. Towards the end of the meeting, the committee approved the conversion of an Autism Specialist position to a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) at the Laterno School to support a new program for students with autism. The first read of the Superintendent's Recommended Budget Priorities for FY23 was presented, focusing on instructional support, special populations, and human capital. The committee approved a $39 million ESSER 3 grant, which will continue existing positions, expand pre-K with 10 new teaching and 20 new para positions, and allocate $15 million for HVAC improvements and new windows at Henry Lord School. Several contracts for non-union personnel and the Fall River Administrators Association were approved following an executive session, and the meeting was adjourned.
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i'd like to call to order the monday december 13th regular meeting of the farva school committee uh deb would you please call the role mr again here mr costa here mr harp here mr hatzel mr corey here is laravel here here salute to the flag 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
0:41open meeting law pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video let's try that again i'm sorry i raised my voice pursuant to the open meeting law any person and make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or
1:04unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible citizens input we have one tonight um colin dyess ray street fall river good afternoon mr mayor members of the school committee first um first off i see on the agenda tonight um recognition awards for um outgoing members of the school committee i first just want to wish uh
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2:42testing one two test one two all set now just want us all to test them out of recess mr dice please thank you um oh there we go um i want to wish mr costa and mr corey well in their future endeavors good health good fortune and i was going to go on but i think that was just a sign from god for me to continue on to the next topic and for the next topic
3:09today as reported by the bottom line we discovered today that parts of the ceiling at durfee are falling on top of students and i have heard throughout the last couple months so many first-hand accounts of so many structural issues with this building by just so many either students in the community concerned parents teachers and and i wish this school committee and the committee of four would have
3:38addressed these issues before the city is liable with a lawsuit is this a matter of time and hopefully this new school committee works to do so and suffolk the people who um made the school the construction company needs to be held accountable and brought to the table for their poor job we need an audit done on the school on all these present issues before the warranty is done we need to have a
4:08strategic plan done to make sure our schools are maintained and i would just advise the mayor to school committee that we need to not suppress any information in the school department as well to press any information on any damages to these schools just to appease suffolk we need to make sure we're holding them accountable first of all and again you can have a beautiful dodge challenger with a hellcat engine however
4:38if it has a check engine light you don't maintain your vehicle it's going to break down and this city our tax we need to make sure we maintain our taxpayer-funded funded schools not only do our students deserve it our faculty deserves nothing less our taxpayer and the city deserves nothing less and we need to address these issues when they come up thank you okay we're going to go just a tad out of
5:06order here i'm going to go to item 4 please superintendents report um superintendent part good evening so tonight um i'm going to give you an update on the durfee after dark as we know we've been to the committee several times and we said that once we launched we would be coming back to the committee so expansion of the cte through after dark programming the durfee diamond partnership the medical assistant program
5:38did launch with a full uh cohort of 12 students that launched on 12-7 we also have the business tech students five of them already confirmed with the gold to launch with a minimum of 10 students there are additional there was an additional info session on the 10th and then there was one today diamond has scheduled an orientation for the 20th of december for the business program launch
6:07we are hoping that it's going to launch on january 4th pending the number of applicants and the auto technology program also to be taking place at diamond we have a full cohort of students already committed we are awaiting diamonds instructor there they are having difficulty getting an instructor they the staff there is not interested in teaching after dark so they are going outside looking for an
6:33instructor as soon as that person is hired that will be ready to launch in addition to that derpy after dark with diamond we also have derpy after dark with the rlm rpa cosmetology added six new 10th grade students to that cohort and we have a culinary arts staffing that are confirmed for after dark pathway is going to launch on january 11 2021 uh 2022 and currently we have 26 initial
7:03applicants for 16 spots so that's a pretty popular thing there will be a tour of the granite grill and info session scheduled for well that actually happened today and as far as we i also have another item in the superintendent's report as you know the last month we had a discussion about unpaid transportation bills to a vendor we scheduled a meeting regarding those specific questions we did meet with with them mr
7:36almeida myself donna cabral and mr pacheco there was uh in the bills that we received there was something that was marked wait time which we questioned um they were able to clarify that that actually was um wait time between runs that is uh the money that we do owe is attributed to the bus monitor and the vendor and the driver we will be uh sending to the city a bill for hundred and five
8:11thousand four hundred and eight dollars that is for outstanding 2021 um transportation cost for wait time that's how it was uh categorized um that will be going down to the to the city for payment there was also another uh unpaid bond uh bill that was our was not submitted on time and that's also in the schedule to be paid so that uh memo will be going to the city tomorrow morning for payments thank you any questions
8:44mr again yeah so just uh not so much a question but a few comments on on the situation so when we go back to the june meeting where we had to discuss whether we were going to encumber any funds at the end of the year i had made a point at that time that we had vendors that were still owed money it wasn't dealt with with much support from this committee or from the city administration
9:13but once again we just took all the money gave it over to the city and made believe there was no bills after that meeting i suggested to the superintendent to her credit to look at it look at the bills and to try to treat these people fairly and to mrs ponce's credit i think that's what she's cur she's currently doing but let's make no mistake about it there wasn't there was money owed there was bills incurred
9:42and that we didn't save the money for on the school department side after that meeting all the money keeps going to the city nobody wants to discuss treating these bus vendors fairly and i still maintain that we need to do that and to mrs ponce's credit she's going to be working over the next 30 days to come up with those numbers and to sit down with those vendors because
10:03it's the right thing to do to treat the vendors fairly after the last meeting we've had situations where the administration the city administration takes emails and sends them to the herald news wants to criticize me to say that to make it look like as if i'm asking unfair questions and all i was simply doing all along was trying to say if we owe money in a bill to the vendors why don't we just take
10:26care of it right then and there after the meeting ends i find out later on that the vice chair sends a nasty email to this to the mayor criticizing me personally saying how dare i ask these questions and lo and behold if we fast forward now couple months here we are we owe 105 000 and then some to the vendors so i think it ultimately at the end of the day we need to treat our people
10:53fairly we need to work on our systems so that we don't get the situation where we're trying to figure out how much we owe to a vendor five months after the fiscal year ends and to mrs ponce's credit once again she's going to work with the departments to make sure that that doesn't happen so i want to personally thank mrs ponce for what she's done here today to try to get these bills paid
11:14as well as looking at the in the next 30 days to actually sit down with the vendors and to discuss some of the bills that i've been saying i believe that we owe money to the vendors because we cancelled the school so if we cancel the routes on our accord then we should have the courtesy to sit down with those vendors not just one vendor all vendors and to mrs ponce's credit once again she's committed to
11:37doing that so i want to personally say thank you with that i yield mr costa i normally wouldn't have responded but since i was called out i i probably should sort of emailed it ms aggie your reference and you've read it so what it does say in there is that i was appalled that a single member of the committee would be working outside of the committee that he was elected to serve on
12:01and offering up suggestions to an outside vendor to actually sue the city and its taxpayers that's a clearest form of grandstanding i guess the best term that i could use that i could come up with at that point um the matter was before this committee we have a cfo we have mr pachico both individuals who had suggested to this committee that there was a need at that time to pay these vendors
12:35this wasn't that wasn't a matter before the full committee once that money became either incumbent and bills went out or if there was money left in that account that money gets turned back over to the city there was no school department funds transportation is paid by the city so yeah my message to the to the chair at that time was i was appalled that one member would suggest to an outside
12:59vendor that the remedy for dealing with an issue rather than sitting down with its administration would be to file a lawsuit against its taxpayers and so if that rubbed you the wrong way mr aguiar take note and i hope that going forward when you do take votes or when you do act you do it as a committee and not an individual and that's the best form of advice i guess i could leave you with thank you
13:25mr chair mr aguiar the fact of the matter is when we sat here as a full committee in june the vendors were owed money we sat here and did not want to say to the administration in the school if we owe money we need to encumber it and look at now five months later four months later what do we got a hundred and five thousand dollars was owed to a vendor
13:52that's the problem if we owe money we need to pay it we need to get our bills paid we need to do it on time and the same thing now with the next thing in 30 days we just kick that over to the city like it's the city's problem but the school committee signs the bills and signs the contracts with these vendors so over the next 30 days they're going to look at it
14:11and we're going to determine whether we owe more money than this now and to sit there and don't worry about it it's incumbent it goes to the city the city takes the money they spent it on other things that's unheard of the bottom line is is we owed and here's the proof today the proof today is we owe 105 000 to a vendor that we sat here in june and said we didn't that's the bottom line
14:32are you anything further okay we're going to stay out of order for a couple minutes please guys uh we have no student comment or student delegate report tonight number five we have two sets of minutes that need approval i'm going to ask for approval of the minutes from the policy subcommittee meeting on 8 25.
14:55i have a motion to approve have a motion a second any discussion on the first one hearing none deb please call the role mr again yes mr costa yes yes mr hetzer yes corey yes inspire me yes yes 6.2 was an approval of minutes from the regular school committee on 10 18.
15:16i have a motion and a second any discussion deb please mrs yes mr costa yes mr harp yes mr hetzel yes mr corey yes ms larabee yes yes item number seven is a travel request um to go to rhode island for a jv hockey game i have a motion to approve do i have any discussion deb please call the role yes mr costa yes mr harper yes mr hudson yes yes ms laravey yes yes
15:52acceptance of donations uh we have a number of donations tonight motion to accept second i have a motion and a second can we call the role please deb before um this uh superintendent ponce explains them to us yes mr costa yes mr harper yes mr hetzel yes mr corey yes ms yes yes superintendent ponce okay um from the michael troye foundation eleven thousand dollars um to the fine arts department um
16:28miss francisco accepting on behalf of mr bustin to the durfee athletic department from campus box media 500 to 1 000 on behalf of principal brooks uh for the robert almadeiros resiliency prep academy from christ rock church five hundred dollars on behalf of principal damaris durfee high school from the pell industries 406 dollars and 86 cents principal demaris on behalf of durfee high school from howard weiner
17:0510 lacrosse sticks valued at 400 dollars from principal demaris on behalf of durfee high school ohio pile prince 236.24 cents republic schools from the good shepherd church 80 thanksgiving baskets to our families fall republic schools except from saint ann's church 30 thanksgiving baskets for our families follow public schools from republic services 20 turkeys for our families faller public schools from the city of
17:39fall river 10 thanksgiving baskets for our families principal dunn for the green elementary school united method union united methodist church five full thanksgiving dinners for the green families for fall river public schools on behalf from new life church thanksgiving basket and fall republic schools from bay coast bank 8 000 water bottles for fall public school students k through eight thank you uh mr corey
18:11just point of clarification superintendent funds i was saying anthony the desert church oh oh okay that's i just sing it okay thank you absolutely thank you item number nine is the approval of contracts any uh any questions motion to approve the motion the one that says evolve uh we're gonna let all uh ghosts except for uh mr aguiars evolve questions at the end of the meeting possibly
18:43take it at the end of the meeting yeah okay so we're going to move evolve to the end all other contracts have a motion second i have a motion second any discussion deb please mr again yes mr costa yes mr harp yes yes mr corey yes yes yes approval of grants 10.1 um any discussion on grants deb please call the roll yes mr costa yes mr hart yes mr hutzel yes mr corey yes ms laravey yes
19:24yes uh we'll we'll stay out of order until a few more moments please thank you committee of the whole discussion item number one is a discussion and vote to approve selection and appointment of terry ramus nurse for the florida public schools as presented by caring long i have a motion and a second any discussion on the appointment of terry ramos
20:03yes 11.2 is a discussion and vote to approve the district handbook maria ponce interim superintendent of schools so moved i have a motion second and a second discussion hearing none deb please call the role yes mr costa yes mr harper yes mr hudson yes mr corey yes miss larabee yes mayor coogan yes item 11.3 is a discussion and vote to approve the durfee program of studies is presented by matthew demaris principal
20:36of josephus i have a motion and a second i guess mr hart and mr corey any discussion on the program of studies for durfee can we please hear from them on a quick summary mr uh mr demaris please
21:04good evening everyone good evening i know that the program of studies is in front of you much earlier this year there are a number of reasons why primarily we want to be as ready as we possibly can i can't hear you you can't hear me all right okay the the main reason why we have this in front of you now is that we want to be as ready as we possibly can for the migration from from
21:33x2 to power schools a little later in the year additionally there are not many changes there are no major substantive changes to the program of studies this year as you saw in the executive summary there are some additional courses electives we've identified some intervention classes we've expanded some of what we articulate in the program of studies in terms of special education programs as well as credit
22:00recovery options another piece of on this is that for staffing for next year as we enter the budget season if we have a better idea of what our course demand is and we might need to ask for positions in different areas that will give us a better understanding and more clarity so those are the primary reasons why we have that in front of you this early but thinking about the future moving forward
22:27i'd like to have this be something that does get presented to the committee much earlier because as we enter the spring we have a lot of things going on with mcas and with actually getting the kids scheduled for next year so i'd like to say that we will be moving forward we'll have this in front of you much earlier if you do want to get into any specifics um regarding the uh regarding the executive summary or
22:50anything in the program of studies we have our dean's directors department heads here as well and mrs morgan who did a lion's share of of the work putting this together after all the departments focused on their sections um we're here to answer any questions any questions mr demaris mr aguiar yeah just uh as i'm looking at it i see in the executive summary a lot of additions and not that many
23:15subtractions is that just going to mean more offerings and less section you're not necessarily adding this many sections one thing we looked at with the whole vision we've always been prioritizing the core and we still absolutely are prioritizing the core but with our population growing we find ourselves with students who need some places to be and so rather than just we want to make sure we have very mindful
23:37places for those students to be so it's one of those needs we've had um we've haven't we actually cut back in a lot of electives in the past because they're competing with each other so there'd be lower class sizes we wouldn't run them so we're really mindful kind of revamping what we're offering for electives to help students again with what their needs are and also to give them a rich experience
23:56so it's not inherently just going to add a bunch of need for additional teachers just by nature of it it's meeting the needs of the population we have right so some might have less subscriptions than others exactly now if they if they if they're under subscribed they don't run yeah the um i know we usually take this up in the uh instructional subcommittee as you said i understand the rationale i
24:17spoke to mrs ponce about that last year one of my concerns was the credit recovery classes that were taken out and mrs ponce indicated that there at least some are back in is that not in the executive summary because i'm i'm not sure if i'm i'm just trying to see it as i'm going exactly oh then i've been i apologize yes there was a section added for the credit recovery
24:37options that did get added it's in there and there's also a couple courses like tier like uh to help with our tier three students for ela and math those courses are in the executive summary yeah you know my i think you both know my uh it is page nine sorry my feeling on that is just to make sure that we add something so that it's there needs to be some of those options
24:57absolutely across the board so as long as that's in there i i want to thank you i appreciate it absolutely it's page nine and then those two the ela and math ones are in the executive summary as well thank you i yield uh deb we need a roll call vote please mr again yes mr costa yes yes mr hetzer yes mr corey yes ms yes yes thank you all right number 11-4 is discussion and
25:26vote to approve the cte admissions policy as presented by cynthia silvia the cte director andrew woodward the director of guidance and matt demaris principal of durfee high school motion to approve i have a motion second i have a motion a second um discussion cynthia silvia andrew woodward and mr demaris just tell us what you're doing just go into it so um but even tonight we have before you the
26:00the cte admissions policy which should go by the school committee every year for approval because it isn't it is a policy and the policy should be approved by the school committee um so there's a lot of things that are not changed in the in the policy that we have there are some minor changes that expand opportunities for our students with regard to some scholastic achievement the wider scale makes it more um
26:31more students can have access access and equity is what we shoot for here to really give the the policy a little bit more leniency if you will to allow more students to enter the cte or have the opportunity to enter cte program especially with the the the way that the new school has developed those programs with the infrastructure i think it's going to be definitely something that
27:00the students are going to want to come into and you have to have a very explicit admissions policy so that parents guardians and students know exactly what the programs are how they're set up how they're run and what the admissions policy is to get in the attendance policy also allows for some flexibility so it's not as rigid so it also allows students more access the conduct also trends away from
27:29what would be called i guess what's it called here is it infractions infractions so if a student um gets in trouble now it's just suspensions so it also lends itself to some more um i guess students aren't held quite as high as hard to those to those conduct standards which is a good thing because some kids just have to learn and grow and we allow them to learn and grow and still have access
28:01and then finally the counselor recommendation portion which is nothing more than advocacy of that student so that they have somebody in their corner rooting for them because with the scholastic achievement and the attendance and the conduct that already speaks to a lot of that but sometimes a kid just needs somebody in their corner to advocate for them and that's what the counselor recommendation is there for
28:24so really in essence it's all spelled out it's shared with you so that you are very well aware of the policy and that you the the governing board makes that vote any questions mr corey i just have a comment mr chairman um it's my last meeting on the school board tonight and when i decided to run for the school board the expansion of career and technical education was one of my platforms
28:52and for me to sit here and hear this progress and this growth that's going on thanks to you miss sylvia and the outgoing director ray madaris and uh mr woodward and mr damaris have a firm focus on the growth and development of this program so for the edification to the public cte is career and technical education and it depends on its own grant funding source chapter 74. and i know that our
29:23chapter 74 growth is limited year by year but it's continuing to grow and with the brand new high school there's a an intense focus on the development of these programs and i just want to say thank you for your hard work and i really believe it's going to have a great benefit to our city and our community in the years ahead thank you very much i yield anything further miss laravey thank you mr chairman i as
29:52well echo uh mr corey's sentiments on cte i strongly believe it's what we need at durfee right now in the direction we're going uh i'm elated to to be able to watch it i do have a question on the rubric um i am excited as soon as you said when i read it i saw the suspensions and not so much the the the behavior infractions because we all know
30:20uh not all kids learn the same okay we have to teach them the way they learn um but how are you working this rubric like is a certain number that you're focused on like we have it all in front of us yeah it's it's out of a 20 20 point scale so yep so each one of those are five points and it's articulated in the actual policy exactly how many
30:43points you get for us to miss that okay yep it's all spelled out so there is no mystery whatsoever to parents guardians or students or ascending schools as well i'm very excited to be here in fall river because cte is truly truly going to explode here at durfee high school and to be on the ground floor of watching that explosion is just it's incredible all right i i i'm excited that there are going to be
31:08more opportunities for uh for our youth um in this program so good luck to all of you i'm excited to see where it goes and thank you for your efforts thank you mr costa thank you mr chairman i just want to say how proud i am of the progress that's been made with cvte over the years the program has grown and i guess i'd be remiss if i didn't mention a former colleague who recently
31:37passed mr joseph martins who in my eyes was a champion for the expansion of cvte here in florida public schools he had a unique way of going about it but his heart was always in the right place and he knew that giving students here at durfee an opportunity to not only be prepared to go off to college but also have if they're not going to college or into the military an opportunity to have some skills some
32:04tangible skills um to go out into the workforce and actually provide for themselves and for their families he never lost sight of that and he was always a champion for expansion and so i'm happy tonight that it's here before us um i'm happy that you're the uh responsible party now miss sylvia for for running the program and i'm excited that you have so much enthusiasm for it because um i think we all agree that not
32:33all students who walk through the halls of durfee will go off to college or in the military given them tangible vocational skills to be able to use once they leave durfee couldn't be more important so i will support it tonight and thank you for the work that you have done as well as mr woodward and obviously mr demaris has been around the high school for a number of years and watched this program expand and so
32:58i hope if the opportunity presents itself i know space is limited and i know there are a lot of restrictions on chapter 74 programs within a public schools because of the offerings they have over at diamond but to the extent that we can be creative and offer up pathways that may not be covered at diamond i would encourage folks to take a look at that and try to leverage those programs for our students here
33:23at the high school so thank you very much and with that iu thank you uh mr aguiar so if i'm looking at this screen is it the only highlighted yellow is the only change those are those are the subs substantive changes yes the rest stays intact it looks a little different because i cleaned up some of the formatting but in essence it is the same exact policy outside of changing those those scoring those scoring
33:49rubrics and making them more accessible number c the school discipline suspension five points maximum yep can you just describe briefly what is what changed well we used to have what was um so if a student got a detention that could be one they start with a 25 point scale and they got a detention now it would go to 24 and then they would um forget their chromebook at home and be
34:14in trouble and then it wouldn't be another point off because they would get a referral to the to the assistant principal or who whoever manages that conduct so instead of having every infraction take away the opportunity for our students to access cte now it gives more flexibility in that yes a student can forget their chromebook and not have it absolutely deter their get in the way of their chances to be in
34:45the cte program however a suspension is more serious so that being the benchmark at that point then you have to look but just because you get one suspension doesn't also rule you out so it also gives opportunity so i think it just expands it in that it allows kids to grow these are kids and they're going to make mistakes but if they learn from those mistakes then they can grow and those students
35:11absolutely should have access to the cte programming at durfee high school yeah so the old policy you're saying was one point was deducted for every infraction minor or major correct did it say what the major ones were did they get no they would all be the same if they get an infraction minus a point minus a point minus a point minus a point minus a point same thing you get a suspension what did it cost
35:36um i'm not really sure my guess is that it was still one point i mean that makes zero sense i agree with what you're saying but i think it was all the same the fact that we've been doing what you just suggested which sounds ridiculous for how many years is a problem because we should have picked this up a long time ago i don't disagree with anything you just said about access and all that
35:58with that being said though do we separate from this is it um there's been always an issue with the vocational schools in general that we the kids that need it the most are not necessarily the ones that are in it and i think some i'm paraphrasing what you said but i think that's what you are getting at i'm not sure if this goes as far as doing much different
36:24you know has there been any look at like what would the enrollment have looked like if it was this instead of the past was is it going to change that much i think we have to look at the data because it hasn't been run yet so once we look at the data um we can see how many kids we have on the wait list i wasn't privy to or i didn't have access to
36:44data that showed the wait list based on the on the previous admissions policy so moving in as a new director i want to get that data but i also want to open up more doors in in and route to getting that data so i know how many students we have currently in cte and i also know how many openings we have in certain programming you know cte there are going to be more competitive programs
37:10than others and with regard to that this is where this might come into come into play you know um so i just hope to grow the programs that we have and show the students exactly what they can do and what they can be without if they get their second choice or their third choice they can still have a good experience because it's still their choice so i want to get as
37:37many kids as i possibly can into cte and not leave them out because i think all kids i know the old school thinking is some of our kids need cte i think all of our kids need cte i think every single one of them i think that the world is changing and it's a paradigm shift i don't think our kids are college and career ready anymore i think our kids should be
37:58career and college ready because i think they should all have a pathway regardless if they're in cte or they're not in cte i think all kids should have a plan and i think that cte creates that in a more intense environment but i think that all of our kids if i could i would put them in cte believe me if i told you we'd have 2 300 plus kids in cte if i
38:22could do it yeah i don't disagree with anything you're saying i actually agree my last question is on number d where it says counselor and team teachers recommendation yep is that five points total how does that get five five points total and it's they can they don't write a recommendation it's not a letter it's um it's a very benign rubric that they that they do about effort responsibility um
38:48you know if their character integrity those kinds of things come into play and it's a it's a counselor's rubric so it's only five points but those five points could mean a whole lot to a kid that struggled in the other areas so really it's it's their mickey to the to the kids rocky so it's basically the council it's not a team team it looks on here when i'm reading it like as if him and i
39:12he's the teacher on the council no it's one person one person gives that score and how does that marriage correct they collaborate to to do the best by the kid that really truly is the advocacy of the kid right thank you very much i appreciate your input thank you sure ready for the discussion deb please call the role thank you oh yes sorry deb mr costa yes mr harp yes mr hetzer yes mr corey yes yes
39:43yes item 11.5 is a discussion and vote to approve an increase in our substitute teachers pay as presented by tom cogan director of human resources motion to approve i have a motion to approve second i have a motion in a second any discussion on this okay mr aguiar so in one of the uh i think it was in the description it talked about whether we wanted to change um the amount offered for degrees instead
40:17of associates degree and i don't see that in the recommendation i did read that bsba degree i guess he left it up to us mr coogan i'm just thinking if we're looking at at addressing it do we want to do the whole piece or we come back so well we did make a specific recommendation on that there are two ways that that could go currently if a person holds a bachelor's degree and
40:41they're certified in an area where they're doing a long-term sub we pay them at the teacher's step one rate after a period of time in the position six weeks if the committee wanted to address it as some of these other districts have uh one of the things that um we got into was there there are several districts that are being sort of uh flexible in their approach to that uh if the committee were so inclined
41:04i would suggest we go up another ten dollars on the on a bachelor's degree rate uh as a as a substitute rate but uh i would leave that to the discretion of the committee i mean my feeling is that you know we only get these things so many off so many times coming before us so the one going up to 125 is that what that's basically what you're asking
41:27i think that's what we need to do as a floor rate just to be competitive with the surrounding districts if you wanted to try to attract a little bit higher educated standard of sub i would i would suggest that we we go up at least another 10.
41:40i would just um personally i think we need to look at the whole picture and figure out what it what's the best way to recruit and get people that are loyal to the city so i personally don't have a problem with the 125 but i'd like to ask that you come back to us with a more comprehensive plan for the bachelor's degree folks the certified folks and sometimes people use
42:03if you're loyal to the school you know if you're you're willing to come in and be ready every day you get a little extra bonus uh we got to try and find a way to that when we get somebody somewhat loyal to us that we keep them but i don't want to do that on the floor here i don't think this is the time you know to do it but i think it's a valid
42:20thing to look at whether you guys recommend after looking at it no we're happy with what it is i personally would vote for more but i don't think we should do it just over the um dies right now so okay without a yield we have a motion in a second for what's in front of us um any more discussion deb please call the role mr yes mr costa yes mr yes mr corey yes yes
42:47yes mr mayor i have one question not related to the 120 it's related to subs but not the 125.
42:54the uh at durfee high school are we currently operating under the um what i believe dr malone had told me in the past was that he didn't believe in subs and uh we they were warehousing the kids in the cafeteria instead of the subs that came directly from dr malone to me um i'm not sure if that ever came before the committee back in the day but where are we at with that now
43:20mr aguiar uh on a daily basis i have approximately 10 subs available in addition to that we pay teachers on their prep periods to cover uncovered classes and even with all that i don't have enough coverage and so at times there are classes that are sent to the cafeteria with with two substitutes and with you know additional administration keeping an eye on things it's not that we're not using subs we
43:48simply don't have enough at this time in the past was it up am i in the past was it more like we don't care we're not hiring subs i mean that's what i got directly from the superintendent there were certain things that that were said up on that stage about an idea about subs but we never implemented that at durfee high school we we've used you guys to try everything
44:07you can when you can't get them you've got no other choice that's exactly right no i i don't disagree with that but along that same lines if you have suggestions on how to us incentivize bring them on because i think what you just explained doesn't make it easy you know you need more subs whatever we got to do we got to get more bodies to help you so i'm on board with
44:26that thank you very much thank you okay we're at at this time we're going to go back to the recognition awards but i was remiss in uh saying something at the beginning of the meeting that vice chairman costa did bring up we lost a value colleague joe martens i served with them a good number of years on the school committee and i would ask everybody to please respectfully let's offer a moment of silence for joe
44:53and all he did for the city of forever
45:04thank you with that being said we'd like to go down to the front of the stage we have to acknowledge um some of our colleagues and it's very important we do that
45:34uh
45:52well um
46:00um it's both a good time and a bad time in the city of fall river the bad time tonight is um we're losing three very valued colleagues that i've had the pleasure to serve with i judge everybody in politics by where their priorities are and these guys always put fall river first no matter if we disagreed or we agreed these three people worked hard for the city of four of his students every day
46:28and in most cases for the entire city to make it a better place to live and we have to respectfully thank them for their service and i'll call them up and we have a citation for them and a plaque and we want to acknowledge all the good things they did while they were representing the city of fall river and the public schools first is vice chairman mark coster i learned a ton from him he
46:55kept me going straight uh corrected me when i did things wrong and showed me how you work as a member of the school committee and for that i will always be grateful and it was a pleasure to serve with you mark costa may i miss the chair thanks so let me start off by saying that this has been quite a journey um seven mayors four superintendents 16 years um it's been a long journey
47:37want to just thank some people just briefly first i want to thank my family who have supported me through these years it's not easy and i certainly thank them for my family uh friends uh supporters the city of fall river who time and time again at the election box put their faith in my ability to serve so thank you thank you to my former colleagues that i've had the opportunity to serve with over the years
48:13administrators they've been too many to name but certainly want to thank the ones who are still here currently and and the former administrators for all of their hard work to each and every employee regardless of which role you played in the day-to-day operations of our school district for our kids um thank you and i mean that it's not easy work but you all come to work every day and do the best you can
48:43with the resources you have so um thank you for that colin thank you for all your kind words on and uh appreciate that to my colleagues my current colleagues um thank you um it may be a spirited debate at times it may be ugly debate at times but i know that each member of the committee here who stands before you and i know the incoming members uh all have what's in the best interest
49:15of our city and it's the students who we all serve and i firmly believe that um education particularly for our students here in the city is the great equalizer and i think if we give them the best opportunity to succeed in our classrooms then they become better individuals and ultimately better citizens for our city so i wish you all well i wish the remaining colleagues as well as the
49:46new colleagues mr bailey miss pereira and miss roderick rodriguez excuse me all the best of luck going forward and i just ask that you all again keep that spirit of debate um work together as a group as a committee be supportive when you can and hold people accountable when you have to um and so thank you for this recognition mr chairman members of the committee deborah thank you for the years of
50:16service and hard work and keeping all of us on our toes especially when we needed to be but thank you everybody see i'm still learning from mr costa i'm taking my mask off too if he can do it i can do it next up is another member i had the pleasure of working with tom for a number of years in the farm of public schools he far and away put kids first and almost
50:54all of his actions in the city whether it was music peaceful coalition on the school committee or working as a counselor in our public schools or a teacher i'm going to miss him i wish him the best of luck and he lives right around the corner so the only place i'm not going to see him is here but he was a big advocate for the city of four river
51:14and i want to thank tom corey for his service on the farm school committee
51:30if i could give a heartfelt thank you to the community bittersweet you know but it is what it is and i had a great career in education and to be able to follow that career up in public service as an elected official is truly an honor for me it was an honor to serve under mayor coogan it was an honor to serve with this school board it was an honor to serve the children
52:00and the school teachers and the administrators in the city the great city of fall river and i have a big heartfelt thank you for allowing me to serve and putting your trust in me and i just want to let you know i gave a hundred percent as an elected official so i'm gonna be stepping away and i'm not gonna forget this experience ever thank you again i mean merry christmas and a happy and healthy
52:30new year to you all thank you
52:39and last but not least it's probably somebody i see outside of school as much as i do on these meetings we work on a number of issues together and he and i specifically don't agree on everything but again i never question his commitment to the city of fall river and what he's doing to make it a safer better place to live for all age groups whether it's our public safety individuals our
53:05students or the residents of the city i'm going to miss him a lot and i know he's going to be successful in whatever he does going forward because i'm saying that because he's a lot younger than us and i know he's got a long way to go so i'm not worried about him but i am going to miss him josh hetzler
53:31well i can say it's absolutely been an honor to serve the citizens of fall river i want to thank everyone who supported me to get me here i want to thank everyone in the district who works hard every single day to ensure that our students that our family that our loved ones are taken care of that they're educated that they're safe that they get the things that they need it means a lot to me um i
53:52learned a lot from all my colleagues up here i couldn't have done this job without many of them some of them i've developed close relationships with that i think will be friends forever i really appreciate the strong work for every one of you and to the new committee coming on uh good luck i try to you know someone taught me told me once that you should try to leave it better
54:15than you found it and i hope that i was able to do that and i wish you luck and i hope that you're able to do that as well thank you very much
54:37so on behalf of follower public schools ten thousand three hundred plus students our eighteen hundred employees i thank you fee of public service it's not an easy job there's a lot of sacrifice and commitment to make our world and our community better these three people have done that we thank them and um we wish them well in the future endeavors we are grateful for their service thank you
55:44no thank you uh
56:04back to the agenda discussion item 11.6 is a discussion and vote to approve the conversion of an autism specialist position to a board certified behavior analyst position as presented by michael lowes assistant superintendent of special education i have a motion in a second mr loesch good evening uh this position uh currently supports the laterno school which is a new program in the district uh that we
56:34really didn't anticipate less budget cycle we're going to need this position however this person has been supporting the program throughout the school year has put in a tremendous amount of effort and hours in order to get this program off the off the ground and really supporting of both the teachers and the school itself right now between this is the only one of two autism specialist positions so we would like to
56:56convert this one and we don't actually plan on filling the other uh moving forward any discussion on the conversion mr again so this happened at the beginning of the year when did this program exist we went we moved forward uh with this with august i believe it was the committee meeting uh when these classrooms were approved this was really due to the large amount of movement uh move-ins for students who are on the
57:20autism spectrum uh that we really needed to create this capacity as we noted i think in a couple previous meetings we've just had a tremendous amount of students move into the district from other areas with this disability so we had to create these classrooms at a new location and this individual has been supporting those programs and really doing a heck of a job throughout this very challenging school year
57:43so what was what would have been the job of the autism specialist the autism specialist was more of the the frea position they would do some program evaluation they would design and development for students there conduct fbas provide some consultation to teachers but this person has really worked to support and grow the program as well as you know moving into the role they're going to continue to support but
58:11also to evaluate our paraprofessionals who are assigned with that program and just continue to really advocate for the growth and development of at the laterno school so it was at the same place it wasn't the original job autism specialist was at the latino school we we actually shifted this position this position was one that was out of central office originally that did a lot of our
58:34consults through many other schools that we've had to re allocate at this point because this program needed this level of support uh so we took that position and moved it over to letourneau so that they could have consistent support and now it's going to go by this you're trying to go retroactive to the beginning of the beginning of the year yes that is a union issue wouldn't that be looked at with the
58:58union on whether the person was doing a union job and i'm not sure if that's our determination to make that determination at this point that is a piece i would have to defer either to the superintendent or attorney assad i just know that this person has been supporting this program at the same capacity as our other bcbas and cluster coordinators from the beginning of year and they really have honestly done at
59:23this point at this time out of the need in the level of need of the school so my my question is along the lines of if we had a program that was at schoolx and from the start of the year we knew that the structure in all of these programs is a bcba runs it and it looks like we started a program without that the way that i'm just reading this so
59:49now it's in december and we're here and we need to make the person into an administrator because they've been doing a role for several months that are not necessarily the role that they were in at that time so my only concern and i don't really we don't need to get into it i don't even know the president i don't know but at the end of the day they were in a different role appointed by this school
1:00:12administration so if we convert it we don't normally convert and go backwards unless there's some other background to say why the superintendent feels that way via negotiations with the union because now this person would go into the administrators union so if other people have done something very similar have we given all of those folks retroactive pay those are the questions i don't have
1:00:36here but i think that's something that the superintendent can answer with hr at some point right those were part of the um negotiations when we were with the bargaining units so we did convert some autism specialists to bcbas and they went to the freaa union and this is in line with what we've done with the other positions so they got retro pay they started the year they started the year as administrators yeah
1:01:11so i'm not opposed to it it seems like you know you need a person we need a structure in all the programs that should be very consistent so that the children are getting the services that they need my only questioning on this is that it's december 13th and it started in september that would that's my only you know question and i think i would approve the conversion and and not fill
1:01:32in the other one and i would just leave the other piece out because that's up to the superintendent whether somebody gets paid or not that's like a negotiation piece not necessarily meant for to being here over the um over this so right what's before you is to approve the conversion right right what it says in here the reason why i'm asking this because it says somewhere it says about going retro
1:02:00and that was my recommendation to the superintendent that that would be a negotiated piece so we're not necessarily you're going to take care of that right wrong with your hr yes that will be a negotiated piece yeah okay thank you any further discussion roll call please deb mr again yes yes mr hart yes mr hussein yes mr corey yes ms yes yes next up is 11.7 which is the first read of the superintendent's recommended
1:02:30budget priorities for fy23 as presented by the superintendent maria ponce motion to approve sex it's a first read it's the first read we have before you as you see is the first read of the budget priorities as you see um they look very similar to the previous year obviously our goal is to deepen and expand the work that we're doing our focus is still on on creating a district that provides
1:03:01instruction that's second to none in order to do that we need to invest in supports instructional supports invest in supporting our special populations our multilingual learners our special needs learners create pathways additional pathways expand that our instructional technology we are looking at our departments revising and really creating a state-of-the-art department that's going to provide the
1:03:29support that we need as we move into the next century also provide opportunities for our family and community engagement it's not it's not okay to just translate we need to create opportunities to truly engage our families by providing workshops and opportunities to bring them in uh investing in our human capital in regards to recruiting and retaining uh high quality staff as well as
1:03:55really providing them with the supports that they need as they continue to build their expertise so all of these this first read you have here the buckets and and where we are investing our resources the goal would be to get feedback from all of you if you have any questions uh concerns feel free to email to send them fourth and when we bring them bring this back to you it'll be a more detailed uh
1:04:21for second read any discussion on the priorities thank you superintendent 11.8 is a discussion of vote to approve spending of the 1.1 million appropriation as presented by maria ponce the interim superintendent of schools make a motion we refer this to the full finance committee with the new committee starting in january check it have a motion a second any discussion so is it a motion a table
1:04:53was that a motion to table no it was uh to refer to finance so that the full committee you know we did that finance committee uh yeah as a whole but this is the full committee no finance remember how we talked about having a finance committee so committee of the whole and finance so that the new new committee could sit get the information relative to this so that we
1:05:16can hash out what it is what it's not before we decide to spend this money but it is still the full committee uh mr aguilar we're this it's the same group this is before us tonight so it's either gonna where do you make a motion a table second i have a motion a second any discussion i'm tabling oh i'm sorry no discussion on the motion table deb please call the vote
1:05:42yes mr class yes mr heart yes mr hansel yes mr corey yep ms laravey yes 11.9 is a discussion and vote to approve the sr-3 as presented by kevin almeida to approve i have a motion to approve second i have a second mr almeida so our 39 million easter three grant application was approved recently by the desc in this through this grant we are continuing the positions that we had in our esr1 application and our ec2
1:06:17application in addition to that we are expanding our pre-k by up to 10 new position new teaching positions 20 new power positions and expanding that program in addition to that we are putting in 15 million dollars worth of hvac improvements across the district as part of that 15 million dollars a portion of that is for new windows at um henry lord the just just to give you some background the grant was submitted back
1:06:48in early october and uh it took up it took me about two months to get the grant approved so it was uh quite uh quite an endeavor to get this approved so with that said i'm looking for your approval tonight thank you any discussion on the asset funds mr aguiar yeah i'm still having a as much as we we get some of this information i'm still having some a difficult time
1:07:15trying to figure out what's in the current budget you know the operating budget the grant funds the non-grant funds the money that came from the city just um i'll speak for myself i still have no idea where each of the lines are and i can see in the summaries but then there's things that happen with i'm still trying to figure out what we have for available resources so when i look at at some of the stuff
1:07:38in here and this would include any of any additional money that we currently have we consistently hear on a regular basis that we have needs in the schools that the staff has needs we need more staff we need more mental health services all of these things and we just say oh we're going to spend 15 million dollars on upgrades in uh you know hvac systems and the like i think
1:08:00we have to look at the whole picture it's not criticism of you mr almeida by no means but as a body we need to look at it and say what are the best way we can give the services now that the kids need rather than looking at down the road well we'll spend this we'll spend that we have plenty of money right now to add staff and services in my opinion so
1:08:19i i think these are all we can amend these as we go new committee comes in and wants to do some different things but i don't think it's necessarily i don't want to stop this i think it's fine but we really need to get down to uh what do we currently have in the budget and what we don't and what resources that we have that we can add now because the kids
1:08:38need the services no so if i can just make a couple points sure so the first point is you know i'm i continue to look at the budget going forward so this is again this is you know one-time money we're going to get this for a couple years so we have these three grant allocations that after three more years they're gone they go away so you really got to be mindful of you know additional positions
1:08:59and things and i and i agree we have the needs we have the money let's do it um second thing is um and i just lost my train of thought the reason i put so much money into the capital is because it fits within the grant needs here and it's and i was trying to be mindful of trying to keep um you know money away from having to spend it on the city side and
1:09:22the city having to bond and do those kind of things so you know things like the window project that henry lord that's something that's severely needed and it's something that you know it's millions of dollars that we won't have to spend over on the city side and i was able to get the okay with through the state but the but the funding here is very particular so they don't they're not really
1:09:40allowing you to spend it on a lot of capital and so you know the windows and the hvac upgrades were something that very clearly could be spent on here in the grant and it took some some hurdles to to get it to get it through so you know i tried being we tried being very mindful on how we spent the moneys here so yeah i'm not suggesting otherwise i just think that we look when
1:10:00you look at it we had some public input there was a lot of stuff going on i don't necessarily think this committee took a vote on every single thing it was more like bunched together so i'm not criticizing anybody all i'm saying is i think we need to take another look at it case in point four hundred and twenty thousand dollars was just going to be spent and we tabled it but out of the
1:10:19one one million dollars that one million dollars is part of the budget so that budget number is going to stay the same next year that's four hundred and twenty thousand dollars in one-time monies well now we're spending 15 million here when i spend that 420 on that and hire 420 000 worth of counselors for the kids that we need it right now that's the kind of thing that i'm
1:10:38looking at so with that you know i'm not giving you a hard time mr almeida i just think that we need to get another look at it with that i yield thank you any further discussion deb please call the role mr again yes mr costa yes mr heart yes mr hudson yes mr corey yep yes yes yes number 11.10 is a discussion and vote to approve a second transfer as presented by kevin almeida chief financial officer
1:11:06second i have a motion in a second mr almeida so we're looking to move money into the coach's salaries and i know that line item is going to go over by the end of the year so i wanted to do that ahead of time it's due to contract negotiations that were done this past year after the budget was uh was approved so i'm looking for your approval tonight any discussion mr again does the city
1:11:33not have a grant writer anymore the the monies uh to my to my knowledge are all being funded by the city mrs sahari had contacted me a couple months ago to indicate that the city is funding the whole thing so i was told that we don't have uh that we don't have to pay for any portion of it this year so they're not going to count that towards that school spending that's good are they going no
1:12:00no so they're not going to account half the salary in that school spending no i know where that must be yes i am well it was it was there was um some confusion mr aguiar with this issue with mr sahari i mean sorry mrs sadie and mr almeida work to rectify it it was just an oversight i think next year we'll be fixing it back to the way it was because they're still using
1:12:23uh the grant writer it was just a mistake but it's being corrected so it's not going to be counted it will be next year hopefully i i mean it's short money yeah but at the same time to be fair you know at certain times i'll tell the city they need to fund stuff for the school this makes zero sense to me when the city doesn't have the money to fund that
1:12:45school spending that we say we're going to take an item that we paid half of and the city's going to pick it up just it's this is not something that i was you know that i that that i was part of i was just notified that they they would be funding the full salary this year so i'm taking the monies now and just moving it somewhere we need to that's
1:13:02all i'm doing yeah i mean i don't know they probably paid it out of a grand or something whatever it is all i'm saying is this makes zero sense but if they want to fund it and they're flush then it's obvious but i don't think is that a yield any further discussion dad please call the roll yes mr costume yes mr harper yes mr corey yep yeah yes 11 11 is a discussion and vote to
1:13:29approve the year-to-date budget report as presented by kevin almeida chief financial officer i have a motion a second any discussion on the end of the year report uh year-to-date report i'm sorry uh mr idea the uh i've been advocating for a couple of positions that were i think they were in the budget for instructional technology folks to add to that group you know we've had emails and
1:13:52discussions back and forth and i i want to say something's going forward i just want to solidify the fact that we're going to be hiring additional instructional technology folks when i first brought this issue up i went back to the april of 2020 tech report that said we needed them back then and now it's two years later we still don't have them i was frustrated i was able to now go back to
1:14:16the budget book and it looks like the two positions were there the whole time so one i'm looking for why haven't they been hired yet and two are they officially approved to get hired yesterday i can tell you that they are officially approved yes they are posted and the positions are posted so they can go forward no it's not subject to funding or anything no money absolutely not in the money for those
1:14:40positions i have it it's allocated in the budget regular budget yes they're ready to be yes sir all right and i also think that from what i gather we're going to have some presentations in the future about any future needs because i although it says two quite honestly with the number of of uh computers and technology that we have in the schools i don't think the two's enough but
1:15:00i would refer to the superintendent when you're ready to come back with a robust uh hiring process there because we need more without you thank you we'll be coming to the committee next month with a revised tech plan that includes staffing and technology needs thank you anything further deb please call the role again yes mr costner yes mr harper yes mr hudson yes mr paul yes yes yes
1:15:33uh we have a number of items option to accept and place on file mr all your information i have a motion to accept uh dead please call the role mr again yes mr costa yes mr heart yes mr hustler yes yes yes yes uh no any new business to come before the committee under item number 13 tonight hearing none is there a request for executive session i feel like i could recite the reason
1:16:05for it okay please on mass general laws chapter 38 section 2187 to review and approve the executive session minutes for november 8th 2021 regular school committee meeting national law chapter 38 section 21a1 to reviewing the open media law complaint dated december 13 2021 followed by patrick higgins regarding the august 25th 2021 policy subcommittee meeting mr higgins alleges a violation of meeting law
1:16:34mr higgins alleges that the meeting minutes were not accepted or adopted in a timely manner manner national law chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all civil clerical employees of the florida school system represented by the forward department of civil service clerical employees association as the chair has determined that no concession may have a
1:16:55detrimental impact on the on the bottoming position of the committee national law chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all paraprofessional employees of the forward school system represented by the florida federation of paraprofessionals the chairs determined and open session may have a detrimental impact on a bargaining position of this of the committee
1:17:17national law chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all administrators and employees represented by the foreign administrators association as the chairs determined an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee national laws chapter 38 20 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to
1:17:38collective bargaining relative to all par professional teaching employees the public school system including coaches title 1 teachers nurses occupational physical therapists and specialists in the teaching profession represented by the florida educators association as the chair has attuned an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee law chapter 38 section 2184 to discuss
1:18:00the deployment of security personnel or devices or strategies with respect to uh there too uh mass general laws chapter 38 section 2183 to the uh sorry strike that national law chapter 38 section 21a2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel and or to conduct contact negotiations with non-union personnel including patrick mahoney administrative
1:18:28intern kevin raposa tech support technician emmanuel madeiras junior technician darlene heissen home visitor parent child plus program kellyanne pereira home visitor parent child plus program and thomas coogan human resources director we will reconvene there may or may not be statements for that time can i get a motion in a second to go to executive session motion for executive system please call the role yes yes yes
1:19:02yes yes yes yes executive session
1:19:17back from executive session uh deb please call the world mr
1:19:28here um earlier in the meeting we had a request by councilman committeeman again to uh move evolve to the end of the agenda um i'll entertain a motion to approve and uh i'm sorry motion to authorize the public public schools to enter into a contract with the valve express penguin superintendent's approval i have a motion second and a second any discussion deb please call the role yes mr cosby yes yes yes yes yes yes
1:20:06uh anything uh further to come out of um executive session mr chairman i'd like to make a motion to approve the executive session minutes for november 8 2021 of the regular school committee second i have a motion a second discussion deb please mrs yes mr costa yes mr harper yes yes mr corey yes yes yes i'd like to make a motion to a approve the contract between the fall river administrators association and the
1:20:41borough public schools as negotiated second i have a motion a second discussion deb please mr heck yes mr costa yes yes yes corey yes yes yes i'd like to make a motion to approve the contract between patrick mahoney administrative intern in the floral public schools motion in a second discussion please call the role yes yes
1:21:18yes like to make a motion uh to approve the contract with kevin raposa technical tech support technician in the fall republic schools i have a motion a second debt please call the roll yes mr costa yes yes mr hetzel yes yes yes yes i'd like to make a motion to approve the contract with emmanuel medeiros junior technician in the fall republic schools as negotiated second i have a motion in a second
1:21:53deb please call the role yes mr costa yes mr heart yes mr hansel yes mr corey yes yes yes i'd like to make a motion to approve the contract with darlene heisen home visitor parent child plus program as negotiated with school department second i have a motion a second deb please call the role yeah yes mr costa yes yes mr henderson yes mr corey yes yes make a motion to approve the contract
1:22:25with kellyanne pereira home visitor for the parent trust parent child plus program as negotiated between the foreign i have a motion a second deb please call the role yes mr costa yes yes yes mr corey yes ms yes yes i'd like to make a motion to approve the contract between mr thomas coogan human resource director and the follower for public schools as directed i mean as um negotiated
1:22:57second i have a motion second deb please call the role yes mr costa yes mr heart yes mr hatson yes mr anything further to come before the committee mr chairman i'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting second i have a motion and a second to adjourn deb please call the role mr again yes mr costa yes yes mr hebson yes yes ms yes yes merry christmas