5.9.2022 Fall River School Committee

may 9th at the cusp middle school on school choice i believe this deb could you please call the roll

mr again here mr bailey mr hara here miss laravey here miss pereira mr rodriguez here mayor coogan uh before we do the salute to flag i'd like to acknowledge that mr aguiar is joining us virtually salute to the flag please

pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting to 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 um citizens input have none for this part of the meeting um

school choice out of district students in grades 6 to 12 for 2022 2023 school year any discussion of people that wish to speak on school choice for out of district students in grades 6 through 12 the 22-23 school year again school choice for our district students in grades 6 to 12 for 2023 school year hearing none next item school choice for non-resident students in grades k-5 for the floral

public school employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for the 22-23 school year any discussion on that provision again that's the school choice for non-resident students in grades k to five for the former public school employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for the 22-23 school year and finally we'll say it for the last time any discussion on school choice for

non-resident students in grades k to five for the four of public school employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for 22 23 school year hearing none i'll entertain a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn i have a motion a second dad could you please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes miss pereira miss rodricks mayor cooney yes school choice hearing is adjourned

like to call to order the may 9th regular meeting of the farm of a school committee deb please call them old mr aguilar here mr bailey here mr harp here miss laravey here ms pereira mr rodriguez here mayor cougar here salute the flag

uh one quick announcement mr aguiar will be joining us virtually tonight pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting to any medium attendees are there for advisers such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible

do we have any citizens input we do first up is jeffrey gaudreau from palmer street in fall river hello members of the fall river school committee i am writing today in regards to the issues the school committee and your mayor recently received a cease and desist letter from the east coast law firm friedman frame and thrush attorney travis parker that is because mr coogan was once again censoring city

residents such as colin dyas in an effort to suppress information what kind of elected official never mind the mayor of our great city would censor city residents violate the first amendment and the rule of law mr coogan why are you censoring certain residents not only is this a huge issue of trust this kind of action is also dangerous using your official power to silence city residents is terrible it makes me

question what else you would use your official power for that for that's unethical i also have learned that other school committee members have no idea when citizens inputs are censored or not the school committee should be provided any proposed censored letters so that they can question any unethical censoring because now we know don't be sneaky and use power for unethical purposes the last thing this

school district needs is another lawsuit over something that can be easily avoided i respect you paul but please stop censoring people and violating the all the law thank you jeffrey gendro 229 palmer street uh next up nelson vazquez sunset hill fall river good afternoon school committee it appears there's a vote this evening about transferring esther funds to the city side haven't we all haven't we learned

already from paul's cooganomics theory in regard to spending that theory only means spending money without any real plan to make it up and let the dominoes fall why should the taxpayers foot the bill for a for his reckless spending habits in this manner again they should never and it's an outrage that he's seeking a bailout allow me to turn your attention to what happened last year during buzz budget season when

the budget was being finalized he told the city there's work to do and we have some problems we'll get it back to them in this world your word is bond and paul doesn't know a damn thing about keeping his word in addition he mentioned after passage of his ambush budget that he would always keep the taxpayers a priority after jamming down his budget that violated the city's salary ordinance last year his actions

spoke louder than his words on that day with structural deficits looming taxes going up again combined with his outrageous pay increases all of that will create an even more bigger debt problem very soon the cougarnomics theory will only bring the city a fall river and cooganomics recession once his scratch ticket a opera money runs dry in conclusion i urge this committee to keep the deceiver in chief

in line and disapprove this transfer if the city was so flush like he says during a joint meeting why is he asking you to bail him out think again of think about that as you decide on this vote one more thing to the residents of fall river i have a message for you now that paul has been out has been put on notice again about censorship don't be afraid to speak your

mind nelson valsquez 210 sunset hill next up gabriel amaral indian town road fall river good afternoon school committee members please keep in mind the taxpayers of this great city when discussing the allocation of esser funds to pay for the city's transportation budget we do not want any more structural deficits the taxpayers definitely deserve better also why are we making cuts to the school budget to fund this

transportation attempt that is not what our students deserve i hope the school committee school committee fully vets this proposal lastly in regards to the school committee's recent letter they received from a law firm friedman frame and thrush please show full respect and dignity to our constitution and the first amendment right just to reach free speech no more censorship thank you for your

time gabriel emeril 901 indian road river mass next we have sheila dyers ray street fall over to the fall of a school committee i do not agree with taking already allocated esther funds out of the school committee budget the plan is to use the these one-time monies to pay for a transportation budget why is the mayor asking for a bailout from the school committee if the city is in great fiscal shape i am concerned we

are setting up for a structural deficit also why are we censoring citizens input of our residents illegally they recently received a cease and desist letter we should no longer censor city residents this has been happening for some time now when will the school committee support citizens input thank you sheila diaz 560 ray street next we have marcy yitkin a mohawk drive forward good afternoon honorable members of the

fall river school committee i am deeply concerned of the mayor's proposal to allocate one-time monies esther funds out of an already approved budget and move them to pay for transportation on a temporary basis this move not only hurts the school department by making cuts from their budget but also can cause great harm to the city by creating a structural deficit this is the last thing our taxpayers

deserve i respectfully ask that you deny this proposal and discuss other options thank you for reading my citizens input mary atkins 620 mohawk drive our next colin dynast ray street fall over thank you members of the school committee and again i think all the previous citizens input they they speak for themselves again i speak to you today on two separate issues first it was just discussed and we

should all know now that the mayor and the school committee which sent a cease and desist order for once again censoring citizens input and as the other citizens inputs have mentioned we need elected officials who show respect for the constitution and the rule of law the mayor needs to stop silence silencing people he doesn't agree with misusing his authority and the school committee needs to hold

him accountable when he does sneaky actions like this like what he did the only person who should be censored for their actions is you mr mayor at the last meeting i was myself appalled like many in the city were that you disrespected a school committee member that was asking pertinent questions that relate to the taxpayers of this community and quite frankly how dare you mr mayor shun off questions that relate

to the finances of this community i don't support your plan to move one-time monies from the school department to temporarily fund your transportation budget what good does that do for the everyday teacher the student the paraprofessional the kitchen staff the custodians and everyone who makes this school district great what does that do for the taxpayers that you're going to create a fiscal deficit

that we have to make up for years to come this mayor told us the city is in great fiscal shape we're not in great fiscal shape that's why this mayor wants to bail out from the school committee using their dollars to do what he wants to create a structural deficit in the budget increasing the structural deficits that we already have in our five-year fiscal forecast and as citizens another citizen's input

said it's typical cool economics create a structural deficit fix that by raising taxes two and a half percent add-on fees debt exclusions and give your friends and supporter increases and put the taxpayers last i think the mayor underestimated the resilience and the what of the city the residents will no longer i at least i hope will no longer allow this fiscal management to take place now that they know what is

going on and i think we're at a point and i really think the city is at a crossroads where we really need to plan for the long-term outcome of the finances of the city and that includes proper management and accountability of our opera funds and our astra funds and the budget in general and thank you for your time i'd like to entertain a motion so that uh keith michonne could speak motion away the rules

second i have a motion second deb call the role please miss drag yeah

yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss larabee yes mrs pearl mr rodricks yes mayor coogan yes mr michonne thank you good evening i'd like to take a moment to speak about the fair share amendment which would be on the ballot this november you may have seen rebecca cusick and jim pimentel speak on this topic at the city council last month which resulted in the council adopting a resolution to support

this amendment tonight i'm asking this committee to do the same as you know the state passed the student opportunity act revising the old school funding formula significantly increasing funding for districts like fall river this will greatly benefit our students as we create more opportunities for pre-k lower class sizes more support staff and scaling up of the many great opportunities that we that already exist

in our schools there is a lot to love about the soa but one question remains how will the state afford it the state's education budget is largely funded with state income tax money over the past 20 years the state income tax rate has declined from nearly 6 percent to 5 percent where it is now i think everyone would agree that they they don't want to see that return to 6 percent the proposed amendment would create an

additional four percent tax on all income above one million dollars which would specifically be used for education and public transportation it's projected that this would raise an additional two billion dollars for the state so if you make less than one million dollars you won't see any change in your tax bill how is this fair you've heard many times that fair is not equal the students deserve opportunities that

will cr that this will create and the community deserves improved public transportation i know people earning lower wages can't afford even a small increase right now it's hard for me to relate to someone that earns over a million dollars but i think it's safe to say that they can afford an additional 4 cents on every dollar they earn over a million i hope you will join us in supporting the fsn thank you

that concludes citizens input uh attorney assad yes i'd just like to uh mention one point uh that has been brought up at citizen input and that is that the there was a cease and desist letter with respect to uh statements that were made or are not made during citizen input time there were no there was no letter no cease and desist letter a letter we received came from a law firm in from virginia and basically

it was not a cease and desist but actually took into consideration the changes the school committee has made and understood that the school committee is promoting citizen input and the statements that are made no matter as a matter of fact the letter states specifically it was merely a reminder for the committee to continue to observe promoting citizen input by facilitating the protection of their free speech rights

the statements that are made at citizen input when they're in writing are not censored by anyone and certainly not censored by the mayor because the mayor doesn't see them the actual letters come to the school department and they're forwarded to me i make a determination based on the case law of the the state and the federal government as well as the subject matter of the of the statement

there are certain statements that are made that are not within the jurisdiction of the school department that is not something that is appropriate for citizen input and those statements are excluded other than that if the statement is represents something that is within the jurisdiction of the committee the wording is appropriate they are read in full and with respect again once again with

respect to the mayor uh it is not the mayor making that determination it's determination is is made by legal counsel a recommendation to the mayor and then it's promoted that way so i just wanted to be clear for everyone with respect to that thank you thank you subcommittee updates facilities and operations mr hart thank you mayor coogan our meeting on the facilities and operations was held on monday april 25th

at the fonsica elementary school in the community room uh there are a lot of items on the agenda and most of them were to uh for discussion and vote to refer to the whole committee uh the first one was the assist the four of the youth soccer was looking for assistance with taking care of the lawns mowing the lawn uh for a period of one year until they can get back up and running and being a

little more sufficient the other facil the other issue uh the second issue that was discussed was the facility school use uh this was the second time it came in front of the facilities and operations committee and um these are all going to be discussed in the committee on the whole so that that that will be there as well the other item was the labor job description that i think ken pacheco

will bring forward in the committee on the whole but this is to maybe possibly attract some of potentially durfee students and if they can't if we can't get any durfee students for these particular positions then obviously we'd have to go out and outside of the school to hire somebody the other item was the naming and renaming committee members this was came in front of us this was the second time and i think the

uh what happened was the um mr pacheco came back with a list that looked to us um to be more a little more representative of the city uh and i think that was one of the things that uh school committee woman larry suggested as well the other issues were the laterno school carnival and the traffic concerns we had the principal from lieterno and the police officer sergeant galveo come in to discuss with us this traffic

patterns that they possibly uh could uh implement but a lot of things have to happen before that like we have to make sure that we're going to be contacting the neighborhood first and foremost the other issues that came before us were again vote to refer with the administ the solicit bid for five years for the operation management of the school food service program and as well as solicit

bids for a five-year contract for the hvac maintenance and control support services and kenny will ken pacheco will bring this forward to us as well so that was pretty much it for the committee thank you an update from the technology subcommittee mr aguiar yeah so the technology committee did meet we reviewed various digital platforms the district is using the district is using some some they

were not using so we went through that to eliminate some to save some revenue um we looked at the various positions in the technology department that mr cabral that brought forth my personal opinion on those is that they should be talked to with the union but the organizational chat that he presented was reviewed it was very thorough one of the changes is that fred tv is now going to fall under mr cabral's department

we talked a little bit about the chromebooks and the data on uh and policies on relative to when they get broken i believe we're going to be getting some information on that whether we actually have a use policy or not and uh we asked mr cabral to review that as well as the cell phone policy this committee met twice in the last two months so i want to thank the other

members of the committee uh for their support mrs laravey and mr bailey and we look forward to having future meetings as well thank you thank you parent and community outreach ms rod mrs rodricks the parent and community outreach subcommittee met last monday we this is our second meeting of the year we had a few items on the agenda one of them was attendance happy to report that attendance is

slowly increasing across the district but one of the bigger wins is that we have a projected decrease in our chronic absenteeism rate by about eight percent so that's a huge win just given the fact that this has been such a a challenging few years so that's a that's a really big win efforts continue to get kids in school the whole day every day the community facilitator rule job description we discussed a little bit

about that but that's going to come before the full committee tonight mr cabral had done a very thorough overview of power school and parent square which i know he has updates again this evening about we had talked about the transition to power school and that as that continues to move forward with some ongoing training across the board we are going live july 1st um the as of that meeting we had talked about parent

square going live june 1st so that way we're getting everyone on the same type of parent communication platform with the goal of getting families on and using the platform by july 1st so we're hoping to use that month to really um to push that with families the other thing that we had talked about and i think we all know that we are really trying to push healthier decision-making

mental wellness across the district so saturday may 21st i know there's a lot going on in the community on may 21st but hopefully this is a stop for most people at durfee there will be a healthier you um community event sorry there'll be workshops lots of fun things hoping to highlight some of the spots at durfee as well so that'll be from 10 to 12 at durfee information resources giveaways lots of

cool prizes so just making a push to try to again make the community a little bit healthier by by offering some of these thank you mrs rodricks item number five is the superintendent's report thank you mayor coogan we actually have some pretty patient well-mannered um mustangs i was going to say morton mustangs awaiting um they're going to be part of our superintendent's report today because um they're part of a very

special event that's coming up generation citizen on the civics projects morton middle school students here under direction mr mr blanchett as chian are here they've prepared projects that are aimed at improving their community um this is the fourth year that we've contracted with generation citizen they provided professional development for our eighth grade teachers and guidance on implementing action civics

projects in november 2018 governor baker signed into law a requirement that eighth grade students and high school students develop an action civics project so on june 3rd 8th grade students will present their action civics projects at government center to an audience of local educators government officials community stakeholders and the projects are going to be judged by volunteers

the top 20 percent selected from each of our middle schools will attend the statewide event on june 6 at the edward m kennedy institute in boston and due to the pandemic this is the only the second year that we're attending the event in boston at the event students are going to be able to showcase their projects and they're going to be there there will be guest speakers awards all that good

stuff will be happening for their good work so i'm going to invite the morton scholars to come down and they're going to give us a little brief presentation on what they've been working on their research and how their their product their projects are going so come on down

hello our names are sarah madeline isaac skyla and gavin we are here for morton middle school to present our generation citizen project about the rising issue of substance abuse in our community our main concern is how the issue is impacting the lives of young children and teenagers in school kids in our school system are using and being exposed to drugs every day and it needs to be addressed

so we are wondering if the subject of drugs and alcohol can be reviewed more in our school's health curriculum we can help make you have to tackle this problem without obscure programs public speakers and making information more available in our schools in our school to students this can help address how much of an issue substance abuse is in our community we can educate students by adding curriculums

to health classes or classes in general to educate the ongoing issue of substance abuse with this new information students can make better choices and stop abusing drugs thank you for listening to our concerns we hope this will help the schools in our community have a better learning environment and safer experiences and we wish to see these changes being made in our schools and community

hello my name is gerry ellis and i'm with my partner lorraine we're here today about our main issue drug abuse most people here know about the problem drug abuse our classmates focuses on teens and children over the years children and teens have been doing drugs more often over the years we're here trying to find solutions on stopping it for example the ab truth a lot of kids mostly do vapes because of

increasing feelings of stress and anxiety on friday december 28 2018 in two decades drugs overdose death rates among u.s kids and teens had tripled a new study show young children have either died from accidental use of drugs from intentional poisoning meanwhile teens have died of unintentional overdose using their parents prescriptions painkillers drugs bought on the streets and all almost 9 000 youth have died at

the hands of drugs since 1999.

so continuing our project we did some authorizations as if it was harder to find help we had also put ourselves in our in their shoes to seek help and felt and understand how hard it was to find help and how they felt we found out one out of every five teens do drugs about 21.3 percent of 8th grade students have tried drugs at least once our research team has also looked up how drug abuse had

started out early use of drugs increases a person's champ chance of becoming addicted so as an example teen or kids and others a few weeks now our research team discovered that drug abuse most happens during middle school and high school in conclusion as a result we need to end drug abuse because too many young teens and kids are losing their health and dying so by ending this we need to create a small

after school programs and have people and tell their stories of what they've been through so please help us please help us have kids and teens have healthier and better lives so no one has to die over that hello i'm mackenzie and i'm speaking on behalf of morton middle school i'm here to discuss the issue of vaping so vaping what is it vaping is the in is the inhalation of harmful chemicals

through e-cigarettes an e-cigarette is a battery-operated electronic device that heats a mixture of liquid chemicals into aerosol some e-cigarettes such as jewels contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes these chemicals cause health problems in diseases like coronary artery disease popcorn lung copd increased chances of heart attack and increased chances of asthma if you already have asthma vaping

can make it worse after hearing these health risks you may start to think teens are too young to feel most of the effects of vaping like this but surveys have shown that by 2019 5 million u.s high school and middle school students use e-cigarettes and the number is only rising teens walking in our school's bathrooms have witnessed many of their own classmates vaping research has shown

that once you start vaping as a teen you are more likely to start smoking cigarettes or using other tobacco products due to the addictiveness of vaping it also serves as a gateway to drugs and other illegal substances after watching this happen our class has decided to fix this issue our class has posted on social media daily about vaping and research on this topic through our research we have found

a multiple schools that such as patrick henry high have installed special vape sensors that can detect the chemicals that vapes contain once they are exposed to the air these sensors would help reduce the amount of people who vape in school due to the inability to do so without being caught by doing this we would help the vaping issue in our schools and hopefully improve the vaping

issue in other schools as well thank you for taking the time to listen to the speech about vaping hello my name is jonathan gruber jr and i'm here with my peers anisia olivia and alexis we are here today representing morton middle school for our civics project with the topic of mental health issues we want to find ways that we could target the root causes of mental illness and improve the mental

health of teachers and students in our school good afternoon my name is alexis and i go to morton middle school during the pandemic it was very depressing online schools had lots of kids fail because they didn't have the motivation the concentration they were lazy and it was more difficult and it was boring since we didn't get to interact with people face to face while the pendant was going on kids

around the age of 12 and up adjusted to mask and felt insecure about their facial features more than half when we took the survey more than half of the surveys was taken by 8th graders and told us that 33.3 percent were amassed because they are insecure and the biggest percentage was 77.8 which is people know people who are insecure about their face which makes them rare masks to hide it

hello i'm annisa souza and like my friend jonathan stated we're trying to help spread awareness for mental health of not only students but teachers as well we are doing this because it is an important topic that gets ignored by many people jonathan olivia alexis and i have come up with strategies to cope with mental health issues first we thought that maybe a class or club for students who

don't get to express how they feel about their mental health would be important and then we have the idea of a podcast run by students who would like to advocate for other kids and adults suffering with mental health issues and our last idea we came up with was having young mentors help kids because of the small amount of counselors we have due to the lack of teachers and needing subs

unfortunately after having various issues in our system when it comes to mental health especially the lack of support that students received we decided to come here today for us for your help and consideration thank you for listening to our concern we appreciate every single help we can get to make our students future something lighter how many of us are willing to speak up that is the question so few are willing

to address in our community my name is kaylee souza and my class and i realized through surveys we sent out to students and teachers that when the question was finally answered the numbers are almost the complete opposite of what we as a school and community should be putting out we learned at a young age not to tattletail it was always he called me a name not now don't tattle on others but

what happens when we grow up and it changes from name calling to violence well we're too old for tattletailing so don't snitch snitching is a term taken from giving up information for a lesser prison sentence but we aren't criminals so why are we so worried about snitching that is the problem we're here to address the problem that so few teens and children alike are willing to speak

out about the wrong they see around them this is where we come in my class and i are going to stop the fear of speaking out starting from the very beginning addressing the phrase tattletail with elementary school students and teachers letting them know there is nothing wrong with reporting what they think is wrong and showing them the difference between saddle tailing snitching and reporting we'll be

speaking to three different elementary school classes all from different schools in our community we should be able to go to school and feel safe knowing that if something happens we can tell someone without the judgment from our peers that is what we are working towards as a group we are laying the foundation for school we can go to to get our education without worry and anxiety a school where people advocate

for what is best for themselves and the people around them thank you hello we are victoria mello and alexis lefer today we are here to address our concern about homelessness in our community specifically students who are homeless we have learned that there is a population of homeless students of all ages here in fall river we feel that homeless students struggle with socially and academically and we are requesting

your support and addressing the systemic problems in fallout public schools one of the things we think can address the problem is that if we have more programs such as mckinney-vento to assist homeless students and their family but these programs and their staff must be empathetic and qualified people right now we feel our homeless peers are embarrassed of the fact that they are homeless

and many of them may shy away from homeless programs if other students know they are a student in need we are asking that when programs are offered or announced service writers and school staff are well trained so that way they are able to keep the students information private and discreet thank you so much for your time

thank you very much martin we'll see you in the morning miss larvae can i want to wait until you're done or speak on this okay i'm good so first i want to say thank you that was absolutely incredible uh what impressed me most was how factual and powerful it really was and i commend every single one of you for getting up here and presenting to this body very very impressive it's the epitome of youth voice right

the epitome of youth voice and in youth empowerment um mental health drugs bullying snitching all of it we sh we need to pay attention and right now as of right now actually even before now but you just after this presentation i hope a lot more people are listening okay because you just made a big difference and i and i commend all of you thank you for your presentation um mrs rodricks

so i just want to again say thank you to echo what um ms laravey had said but also it takes a lot of guts to stand up here and talk to a room full of adults and so i know that as teens as young teens you're sort of used to not being heard like okay sit down yep we heard you let the adults get it but this is the epitome of leadership right here you

have kids that just stood up talked about what they needed came up with solutions for what they needed and i know that most all of my colleagues right here are listening and i wrote down everything that you said so i plan on taking that back and advocating for what you guys are saying that you need because you know what we can talk about what you need but it means more hearing it from you

so i appreciate all of that mr bailey just to follow up what my colleagues were saying um great job um i was sitting here and i'm not gonna say who but one of one of the students came up and you know she was like you know and it's a lot at your age to stand up and speak just like what miss rodricks was saying to get up here and actually voice your

opinion you guys are true leaders and i'm proud of each and every one of you okay i know uh the superintendent has a couple more points she wants to talk about under her report section no i still have math acceleration and um end of the year activities but before i do that thank you thank you thank you for the teachers that prepare them as well as all of you for having the

courage to come up here and to articulate what your needs are we're here to serve you so we listened and we heard you loud and clear good for you thank you so moving on math acceleration during april vacation um as you know february and we did it we repeated it again in april vacation we hosted our second math acceleration academy for the year this was part of the deci initiative for

to bring these academies to support students with real world math problems we follow public schools engaged 407 students during april vacation and math academies and teachers support staff engage students from schools across the city at six different sites durfee tansy dorn vivaris fonsica and green over the week students engaged in 20 plus hours of mathematics instruction in a small group setting aimed at

accelerating their learning around grade level standards the focus was on surfacing and supporting students ability to make sense of represent and explain mathematical concepts in addition to the math focus elementary students engaged in a variety of enrichment activities including fine arts physical education and stem in our middle and high school students it was held at durfee and they were able to

engage in durfee enrichment programming which included sculpture swimming and culinary arts so it's a well-attended academy and a huge thank you to the staff that work through vacation to make the success a success as well as to students and their families for valuing that work and also all of you have received an end-of-year spreadsheet that has all the promotional activities as well as some significant

events throughout the district so that um you can plan accordingly i know that soleil is going to talk specific specifically about some dirty activities but some of you have inquired about some dates and we want to make sure that you're able to coordinate your calendars and schedules so that's in your hard copy as well as we're um doing it electronically and we'll put it up on our site just so that you have access to

everything that's happening this is a busy time may and june are going to go by very quickly and there's a lot going on throughout 16 schools so please check that and and so that you can attend as many or all the activities that you you choose to and that's it for me thank you superintendent i'd like to turn it over now to uh slay gwasp for the student report okay hi everyone so um some of the

things that um i'll be talking about today is some of the uh involvement that i've been having with the playbook training so just to introduce a little bit on what that is it's inspired by some of the members of the 2016 and 2017 celtics roster so this is part of the boston celtics foundation and the shamrock foundation launched an anti-discrimination and bias prevention program called the play big initiative

so i've been a playbook trainer for approximately two years this is my first time doing in person so this program essentially is inspires a dialogue on race religion gender disability and sexual orientation a lot of topics that aren't normally um talked about in the classroom and it ultimately equips kids with the tools to intervene in challenging social situations so as my second year of playbook i had

the opportunity of facilitating this workshop online to approximately 200 8th graders across the state of massachusetts and i also got to uh facilitate a portion of this workshop last year to the mass superintendents conference in mashpee and this year i was able to also do it virtually to about a few eighth graders across the state as well as administer a in-person workshop at talbot middle school

so just to talk a little bit about it it was approximately two days long and it would be about like one to two hours of a workshop where i would divide it into a warm-up and the scenario discussion which was sort of the meat of what this playbook initiative is where we would introduce a scenario or a social scene in which students are allowed to input how they would intervene in the

situation so as a facilitator i wasn't allowed to input any of my opinion so this was purely just an open discussion amongst all the middle schoolers so they could discuss how they would personally intervene and there was a lot of discussion questions and personally i think the outcome was absolutely amazing because we had a large variety of 8th graders speaking based on their own experience

which isn't really talked about in the classroom and it's very useful for life skills and for life transitioning into high school and after that so preparing them for situations that they may encounter all throughout their life so i really wanted to emphasize that these workshops are very helpful and useful to shape leaders and to steer these student leaders in a really good direction and i hope to hopefully

administer this workshop with more middle schools and hopefully expand it to the community and yeah so that's a little bit about playbook and one other thing i wanted to talk about was an update from the state student advisory council so i am part of the massachusetts department of education state student advisory council i'm the chair of diversity equity inclusion so some of the things that we have been working on

in terms of educational reform projects have been the compiling a new history framework for deci on challenges of the 14th amendment equal protection clause through the lens of federal legislation in favor of various ethnic groups so what our team essentially did i led this project where a lot of us divided it into the african-american community like asian americans and such and we sort of talked about a new history

framework that was very uh much missing into their history department which was uh talking about the effects of the 14th amendment equal protection clause through the lens of these various ethnic groups so excellent nice to have you here anything further thank you so lay item number seven we have um four sets of minutes i'd like to see if we get them all approved at once i have a motion a second and those

minutes are the special meeting of the former school committee on march 14th the regular meeting of the school committee on march 14th the joint meeting of the city council and school committee on april 7th and the regular meeting of the school committee on april 11th i have a motion to second any discussion deb would you please call the role miss jack yeah yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms claravey

yes mr pereira mr rodriguez yes yes item number eight is the approval of some travel requests emotional approved travel requests as looted as status do i have a second second i have a motion a second any discussion on the three travel requests we have in front of us deb would you please call the role ms drag yeah yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms claravey yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mary cougar yes

item number nine is the acceptance of donations um i have a motion i'm sorry mr aggia did you have something mr aguirre i apologize i have action issues yes can you hear me yes okay can you hear me yes yes yes okay we heard you kev we're on donation a couple of questions on the last superintendent's report i know what i was talking and the answer and i raised my hand nobody answered that either

i i didn't hear you on that one kev what's the question on the superintendent's report we'll go back but hold on let's finish donations first kevin and we'll go back he just cut off no it's just the screen that's off oh it's just the screen um can i have a motion to accept the donations i have a motion a second let's vote on that and then we'll go back to kevin's question who made the second

i thought

yes okay mr bailey yes mr har yes miss laravey yes miss pereira ms rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes mr aguiar's question on the superintendent's report am i going to read the donation so i had a question on the um the students when they were presenting the drug and alcohol awareness i know i asked in the past for a copy of the curriculum and i'm not sure if that was sent or is that ongoing the generation citizen

curriculum we can get that to you uh we'll send it to the entire committee now tomorrow couple of months ago during the presentations on the budget i had asked for a copy of our current curriculum for drug and alcohol awareness k-12 and i don't recall seeing that yes you're correct um i think that um i voted that uh mr aguiar from uh miss sharp but i will get that again i will i'll throw that again

thank you my other thing mr chairman was i had had a subcommittee you hadn't reported out on so i want to report out on the subcommittee for the durfee athletic fields that i've been serving on for the edification of the committee that's not on the agenda tonight kevin that's not on the agenda it'll probably be on the next one so when i so we've been we've been meeting on a we've been

meeting relative to the durfee athletic fields myself a number of people in the community mr pacheco the athletic director assistant athletic director a good group of people and i believe that should have been on the agenda for the subcommittee reports there is i don't think there's i just want to briefly talk about what it what we've been going over well it's not on the agenda kevin

isn't the heading subcommittee reports no we did the three that were on the agenda i know the heading main heading is subcommittee reports but we have passed those and we didn't i'm on that committee because somebody in the administration asked me to be on it no i know but we we don't have a report from your subject so you told me not to submit not to talk about it then it's not on the agenda kev

okay doesn't it say subcommittee reports but we have the three listed that are on the subcommittee reports and we did the three you miss rodericks and mr hart we did all three so i have a subcommittee that i'd like to report on and you're telling me that i should not and i cannot no it'll be i'll probably be on next month's agenda we had it i'll talk about it later i

just uh thought it was a pertinent time to talk about the subcommittees when the heading is subcommittees yeah it's not on the agenda kev that's all we got to have miss uh pond read the donations please okay on behalf of sylvia elementary school principal uh lens requests acceptance of 50 headphones donation valued at 749 from new worlds this is to be used in the classroom on behalf of durfee high school and

principal damaris we request the acceptance of 132.41 cents donation from pell industries this is to be used at the discretion of the principal on behalf of durfee high school and principal demaris we request the acceptance of 22.17 a donation from ohio pile prince and this is to be used at the discretion of principal damaris and on behalf of fonsica elementary school and principal lisi

we request the acceptance of one fully assembled two-story little free library charter sign with registration on steward's guide booklet start a collection of books a donation from the little free library this donation will be to provide a resource of books to the fonsica school community at a location close to their homes that's a mobile library thank you everyone nice thank you item number 10 is the approval of

contracts we have one two three four five could i get a motion to approve contracts question approved second i have a motion second any discussion on contracts i do question uh miss laravey first and mr again just a question on the power school group is that the same figure that we discussed at the last meeting or is this another 31 000 same figure scott

so during my budget presentation i mentioned the fact that we were exploring several different variations of software for onboarding we currently use a packet of electronic pdf files which bogs down the time is approximately 13 or 14 forms within that packet this would be to add a module and we tried i think four different demonstrations of different software from different companies that would

allow us to electronically onboard people they could fill out the forms send them ahead of time we can check where they're making progress check back with them assist if needed and this would streamline the onboarding process we have a number of positions to fill this year we're currently down one person in the hr department which we'll be posting for but we expect to have a very busy hiring

season third one in a row of of trying to fill openings so this package of software would allow us to complete that just but it's different than anything you've seen before so it's different so we didn't know powerschool did this before there were it was one of the companies that we were exploring and having them do demonstrations and we had some companies do multiple demonstrations as we went through that process

so we're paying power school now another 31 000 for onboard training this is a series of hr documents that are not part of powerschool's regular program for assists the student information system staff information systems okay this is strictly for them to develop our forms uh make them all electronic get them uh back and forth and create a system which allows us to monitor the onboarding okay so almost a coincidence

that it's power school they're just one of the vendors that we looked at if they didn't have one we we you know we would not have been i now have a better understanding i yield thank you mr aguiar so on that same line questioning what are we not paying for that we paid for last year i don't understand the question mr aguirre repeat it mr aggia your question mike my question is

we not paying we paid for last year with a different company we didn't have a different company mr aguirre mr again currently doing the work currently anything that's hr related is input into aspen x2 but it's done by hand the paper it's a paper process so an employee would come in pick up the papers they would fill out the paperwork they would go through the process this piece and powerschool just happened

to be the vendor that was chosen is going to eliminate the paperwork it's going to create a a digital process right from the piece that if a prospective employee applies for a job on school spring it will automatically populate all of their information demographics licensure information into this system which will then in turn populate a number of forms so that way when the employee comes in for the onboarding

process there is no more need for someone to sit in the conference room and fill out 25 to 30 minutes worth of paperwork everything will be done digitally and it will create a workflow process to make the hr department more efficient so i i think it sounds like it makes sense i just wonder why in 2021 we were still doing things the old-fashioned way i guess that's just the way it was the

programs it wasn't like we were way way behind so when i came on as cio i've been working very closely with mr coogan and one of mr coogan's goals in the hr department was to become more efficient and you know in 2021 2022 uh we've made some great strides in that area we're also looking at and have approved a vendor to do a digital scanning of all of our current life card information for all of our

employees which will then in turn be ingested into power schools into this module so that the hr team can look at everything on a digital end and finally rid ourselves of 90 of the paperwork and what is the amount going forward is going to be less than the first three must do more in the first year right yeah there's a there's there uh a small portion that is a setup fee i believe

it's about six or seven thousand dollars for uh some of the crossover work and after that it would drop in uh in the low twenties and that would go under mr coogan's budget i would assume going forward um i i would assume so as well because it's related to hr i mean correct it's one it's one of the software programs that we use um for instance there are several others for absence management

and some other stuff that that have specific functions that are currently under my budget right thank you very much did you yield kev i guess you you um i need more discussion on contracts now we have a motion a second deb could you please call the roll mr again mr aguiar yes yes yes mr bailey yes mr yes ms laravey yes ms pereira mr rodricks yes mayor coogan yes we only have a couple of grants tonight

um i'm looking for a motion in a second motion to approve second i have a motion a second any discussion on our two grants deb please call the roll mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laramie yes miss pereira miss rodricks yes mayor coogan yes uh committee of the whole 12.1 is a vote to approve school choice for out-of-district students in grades 6-12 and non-resident students in grades

k-5 for the farva public school employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreements for the 22-23 school year as presented by maria ponce superintendent motion to approve i have a motion i have a motion second any discussion

uh mr aguiar could we just just briefly explain what this is so that we're all on the same page including the public okay sure school choice um we there's a a policy that says that we if pending um available space that we have an agreement that we are able to take students from out of our district our fellow public schools from our neighboring communities pending spacing typically that is for grades 6 through

12 because usually our elementary grades are always filled up the exception for k through 5 is for employees if they have children that they want to bring into the district and again that's pending spacing that we make an allowance for them to enroll them in fall republic schools thank you any further discussion deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes ms jahar yes miss laravey yes ms pereira

mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12.2 is discussion and vote to approve an agreement approval for the south coast educational collaborative as presented by michael losch assistant superintendent of special education miss laravey yep motion to approve and i have to read okay please miss larry so motion having read the south coast educational collaborative agreement we vote to reaffirm our requests that the floor of

a school district join the south coast educational collaborative as a member with full benefits privileges and responsibilities and subject to the terms and conditions of the collaborative agreement approved by the department of education and subject to the applicable rules and regulations that the chairman of this school committee is authorized on behalf of the committee to execute all appropriate documentation

to consummate the committee's decision and that the superintendent of schools is appointed as the district's representative on the collaboratives board thank you um is there a second chairman question i have a second um second did it uh mr aguiar has a question the superintendent or mr los explain how much money we've saved in the last several years on this being part of this organization

uh i believe the last time we examined it it was around uh two hundred thousand dollars per school year um on average savings for every student who attends uh comparing the district rate versus member rate versus the non-member rate it's anywhere from a range of five to ten thousand dollars per student um and we've had a prox a fluctuating number here and there at south coast of anywhere from about 35 to

42 over the past few years so my problem with that is obviously i'm a supporter of this but i brought this up three years ago so let's just call it two years so by our prior superintendent not wanting to follow up and just go to a meeting once a month this district has lost 400 000 i find that to be totally unacceptable and i i just can't understand how this has taken this long

literally and i'd like to get a report from the superintendent with an exact figure so every member of the committee and the public knows how much money we have lost by some of the actions that we've taken in the past with that uh if i can just clarify um it took a year-long process for us to get into the collaborative because every single district that's in the collaborative had to have us approved by their school

committee had to go through the process and then had to go to commissioner riley he had to approve also and then we take the final vote tonight and we're officially in the collaborative um i've spoken to mr heinbecker multiple times throughout the year he has included me in in we have professional development that we're going to be part of and we we're going to move forward with it so i

just wanted you to know that this year it's we've had to go through the process that's why it's taken us time but with the vote we are officially in the collaborative and i look forward to working with the group i've spoken to several of the superintendents on it and superintendent you're not saying that we haven't lost money right please are you trying to say that we haven't saved the money

this year we have not been part of the the collaborative we're we're going to be joining the collaborative where we're in as of this vote so we will be part of the collaborative this year we will get you all those figures uh mr aguiar the whole committee those figures and the report dates and times because we've lost four hundred thousand dollars our yield okay mr hart uh thank you mr mayor yeah i

just wanted to uh because i talked to the superintendent um a little bit before the meeting and about regarding the south coast collaborative but i'm very very happy and excited that we're going to be part of this after tonight and i think it's it's it's a good uh first moves first step forward and i'm really happy that uh superintendent ponch are going to be attending those meetings absolutely um

and i look forward to hearing back from you the uh um maybe a summary of homework assignment if you will uh for those particular meetings and what kind of benefits we can we can get for being part of that collaborative so thank you very much anything further on south coast collaborative uh deb please call the roll mr again

mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes miss pereira miss rodricks yes yes item 12.3 is a discussion and vote to approve fall river youth soccer association is referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer motion to approve second i have a motion a second mr pachico so at the subcommittee meeting the four of the youth soccer had a presentation

to let us know that partially because of covid and the lack of ability to use the fields they they had some expenses that they had no way to recoup from quite a bit of money around forty thousand dollars if my memory serves me right so um we they asked the committee if we would consider taking back the cost of taking care of the fields basically the grass cutting they would continue to do the um the

weed control and other uh fertilizing uh situations that they currently handle and we um we'll do this for one year and then i'm assuming that we will we'll have another conversation with for the youth soccer moving forward so the agreement that you have before you is basically the same language of the previous agreement and the only thing that was done to this document was the dates

were changed so it's for one year period and before the one year is up we'll have a conversation with them to see where they stand any questions for mr pachico hearing none mr chairman mr aguiar just a comment i think there's probably some you should let the other members know about how long this has been going on what the rationale was did the youth soccer pay a lot of money for the brittle and

park fields like i think putting it in perspective makes it a little different than just a straight up uh you know just one vote here i think there's more to the story that reason i'm in support of this but i want the public and everyone to know why with that iu thank you any further discussion then please call the role mr i thought mr pacheco was going to answer

i can i i don't have all the history because the original agreement is well before my time but i i can tell you that i was on the city side or brooklyn park and the agreement and the work that the four of the youth soccer group put into getting that field in place the turf field at pritlin through the grant that we received from dcr and as far as the uh sylvia school i was on

the building committee at the silvia school when uh that was developed wasn't part of the negotiations um way back then which is 2004 with uh four of a youth soccer but they have been a good partner and um we have tried to um to be very helpful and a good partner to them also uh with what we can and can't do uh for them so this uh the agreement that we were trying to put together was

a five-year agreement to take care of the fields completely i'm sorry so that they could take care of the fields completely and they would do the mowing and it would be on their schedule as opposed to fitting into our schedule we got about 120 acres of of grass to take care of and depending on rain days and different delays sometimes we can't get to the field when they would like it so we're going

to do our best to help them out this year and see if we can get them through this year and we look forward to another agreement after this one is in place and mr monas the director maintenance thinks that we can we can do this cutting with the current staff um yes so i've i've talked to them and they've they've already begun the you know the regular cutting of the field

and we'll fit it into our schedule and last question is on the sign that was in that was i watched the subcommittee it was last year did we already approve that sign there was some controversy or a sign that just said home of you soccer out front is that a new thing or is that part of i don't remember putting any signs up as part of anything i i'm if it happened i don't believe that um

that it came through my office so if there's a sign up there now it was here when i got here but it says it in the it says it in the in the contract that's why i'm reading it from if that's site hold on one second so it's it's 2014 15 16. i arrived here late on 16 so it was put in back then with the original as i said this contract here has wording

from the original contract and the reason why we did that was because it was vetted out at one point it's all pertinent with the exception of that sign that we will uh obviously pull out of there since it's already done yep and my only other comment is i think it was a hundred thousand dollars that they that youth soccer paid for the brooklyn park field which is a large amount of money if i recall but

i do think that they should get some credit and that's why i'm in favor of this with that i yield thank you anything further uh deb please call the roll mr again yes mr bailey yes mr yes miss laravey yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12.4 is a discussion and vote to approve traffic concerns at the laterno elementary school as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee

and presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer mr pacheco thank you so we have a letter attached to the memo from principal simpson who he he and officer galveo went to the committee to the subcommittee to talk about the traffic situation the traffic situation at letourneau mimics quite a bit of our schools with the exception of being such a a two-street kind of fill it's a it's a very difficult school to

get to uh twice a week twice a day i wish it was twice a week twice a day every day while school's in session anthony street and stafford road it's very complicated to move those those vehicles in and out of that school along with the school buses so there was a request to let us move forward um with a traffic study to start off with and then moving past that to a community

meeting at held at lieterno and then the request from that from those two pieces of this solution would go to the traffic board and then the traffic board would hear the argument on on this side of it i'm sure that there will be some neighbors butters to the property that will have comments that we will bring forward to the traffic board or they will bring them forward themselves and the traffic board

would will decide the the best remedy it can be from making the street a one-way for certain hours or it could be a complete one-way on the anthony street side to facilitate traffic and that the traffic study will show methods as to what we could do and give us some recommendations but it will ultimately be a joint effort between the neighborhood and the school thank you mr pachico mr hart thank you

mr mayor and ken i i know you're you're already ahead of the game here but i would really continue to stress to you about letting the neighbors know exactly what's going on and i know you're doing it i know you're going to have a neighborhood meeting at lateral and that's good they've got a good neighborhood group there and they're very active um but it's it's very important because that's it's going

to be a very uh tough tough decision and it's going to be a tough process to alleviate that that kind of the traffic there it's a very concessive neighborhood uh it's a it's a big school it's got relatively not enough parking really in the parking lot to suit the school so but that's all that's all i i know you're ahead of it but sometimes uh when this is going to be a long process the

neighbors really need to be kept in touch with everything especially the butters absolutely i do have uh principal simpson here um if you'd like to come down and um address the i remember at the last uh the subcommittee meeting on april 25th i recommended that you get some type of letter out to the neighborhoods already has that happened it has not and i was waiting for this committee okay that's fine

good evening i just want to reassure the the community at home this process is going to be collaborative you know we want to all of our abutters we want a safe process for our students to unload um and we want to involve the community so as principal of the school i'll be sure to collaborate with all stakeholders involved all steps of the way and look forward to you know making later no an even safer

and more supportive space for our parents and students thank you uh miss laravey yes i just want to echo uh mr hearts as well the community aspect okay we're all on board with that but how long is uh the um traffic survey going to take give or take are we asking for this september remind me so the hope is that we do the traffic study uh now right um as quickly as we can

you know find a contractor to do that work and then um the results of that will go to that community meeting that we will have if it's before school while school's in session we will have it if it isn't we'll have it over the summer and then the process will move as quickly as we can on the park board i'm sorry the traffic board meets every month so we will be able to get on

an agenda sometime this summer for the traffic board and if that's the case um then it will go to city council um so the quicker we get the start of this thing the more opportunity we're going to have to hit this on on september for our opening but that's what we're shooting for we're shooting for september yes the changes happen before we start school yes right okay i yield thank you anything further on 12.4

mr again mr chairman yes thank you so i did watch the meeting as well and it it struck me that when i read the the information from the minute uh meeting here there was a letter dated march 6 from the principal and it's may 9th so i'm wondering who like it says to whom it may concern and it was talking about right turn only out of the parking lot i'm not sure how that can even be

suggested if there's a two-way street so the process started somebody tell me god i'm sorry no i'm just looking at so for some answers on why it took so long because now we're we might not get anything back um well we're reading it it says march 6. that's all so so we did um have conversation with the traffic board um and um i think that some of the delay was um basically the cart before the horse

you know we tried to see how quickly this thing could get done both with the floor of a pd at the at the school level and we needed to be sure that we had permission to go out for a traffic study uh do the work we need to do to be totally honest the answer that's that the letter addressed as it is may be the solution but i think that we need to look at all

of the possibilities of of a way we could make that traffic pattern both in the morning and in the afternoon work workout to the school's benefit and also the neighborhoods so it it was a one question response at the beginning but i think that looking at the overall situation i think we have an opportunity here to be sure that when we make a change uh that is going to work for everyone

yeah i can appreciate that answer my only thing is and maybe it's just me but this is this is not a new issue this has been going on for years over there so i know we've tried some things or whatever but it's frustrating to me to get a letter in march when we know all year this has been a problem we know last year it was a problem and we don't have anything on what has

been tried or not i know in the past somebody talked about our back entrance when the when the mall wasn't there but i just don't think we we've given this the attention that it needs so i'm glad it's finally getting there i just want to say that with that i yield um okay anything further i'm looking for a motion in a second mostly to prove i have a motion for miss laravey in a

second from mr bailey um deb would you please call the role mr arguelle yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss laravey yes miss pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes item number 12.5 is a discussion and vote to approve the community facilitated job description is presented by tom coogan human resource director i have a motion to approve second i have a motion a second uh any discussion on this

hearing none dad would you please call the role mr again can we just get a presentation or something at least nobody mr mr coogan

uh the community facilitator job description uh was created uh several years ago potentially for the esl program i believe there was three to four uh community facilitators hired over the last few years as we did the budget presentations this year as you know the uh the principals came forward and wanted to use the position as a support for the families of their school communities

we took some feedback because there was some confusion as to the clarity of the role uh during the budget process as the principles came forward each one of them sort of had a different vision of what that position was like so uh using the feedback from uh the principals during meetings that the superintendent held with them uh and getting that feedback we then incorporated into the original

esl community facilitator job description made those modifications created the new job description um and uh i would say it's probably about 80 percent of what it was before 75 to 80 of what it was before with that feedback on those specifics that the the principals want to incorporate as they take that position away from merely an esl position and make it part of their office operations in their school

community to support their families so that is the job description that you see before you this evening so are they all the same now they're going to all go by this job description they are there is still the community facilitator job description for the esl people of which we currently have three i believe on staff but this is a community facility or job description non-esl and this is for the school-based positions

so there's a separate job description for the esl one yes for the other department yes totally separate yep thank you i yield anything further i have a i have a question uh miss rogers so i in here i know that they were originally designed as part of the um our english language learners but there's nothing in here about assisting with cpacs either like we have it in there about that's right but we're missing cpacs

yes i i just noticed that i circled it it it calls out it says such school events and assists with ml events elpac school council but it doesn't it does work so i think specifically i think we need to call out the other we can add that line i was having a little trouble hearing you before we can add that line i think that was just as by way of example for school-based meetings with families

of the school community so we can add that which i can totally appreciate but if we're going to call one out i think we've got to call out the other one and those are our two main advisories we have our parent advisory councils and we have our mlm advisory councils and then we have our cpacs as well so if we're going to call them out we got to call them all out we'll revise

cool anything further miss roger no you don't um okay you have a motion and a second we do deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes mrs laraven yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes okay 12.6 is a discussion and vote to approve this student support specialist job description is presented by tom coogan you've been resource director this is similar to the the previous job

description we just talked about originally this position existed at the high school only um and this was to help uh students with the implementation of both academic support as well as classroom support with some of the sel support needs as well as students who are on intervention plans whether they be short term or continuous and and that was being used at the high school i think it's an important thing

to note that the student support specialist is a licensed teacher position so that there is a background in the academic component of this particular position again since this position was coming out of the high school and moving down to the lower levels i think there was a little bit of clarity that needed to be added to the job description similar to the previous one we just discussed we

used the feedback from those principal meetings of what they were looking to to sort of augment the original job description with uh and and that's incorporated within the document you see mr chairman uh mr aguiar yeah so i i'm not in favor of this as it's listed here we gave feedback i think the whole committee did related to the counseling needs of the students the sel needs

i see this as the same job as a at the high school which is a teaching position and i don't think that's the purpose of why this position was created you're going to have plenty of people that can service kids that don't have a teaching license that this position was created sort of as a a mini counselor somebody that could support our children and then and get to an adjustment counselor

it wasn't meant for teachers union positions that people would leave the classroom to go to this position the focus on mental health and sel needs to be the focus it's not about the teaching part when i voted and and talked about this and i think everybody understands including all the people that work for us in the counseling fields i don't understand why this would be a teaching position

and i i'm not supportive of this i think we need to have a position sort of like a mini counselor and somebody that can handle the sel needs but this is not taking feedback in any way as far as i'm concerned and we're just going to take teachers out of the classroom and put them into this one you clearly indicate it's a bachelor's degree in psychology and social work as one of the preferred qualifications

so this is not going to serve the needs as we need it and i'm not in favor of it as is until it gets changed without yield if i can just interject mr agyar this is a layer between the counseling the sac services and teachers this position is supposed to provide some intervent sel intervention support they can push into classrooms they can run small groups um focus on targeted behaviors etc this is direct result we

talked to principals we talked to them and said you know we have student support specialist we have behavior therapists we have behavior specialists we have sex and asked them what their needs were this position is intended to do exactly what you're saying to not uh to to push into a classroom and to teach with teachers this is really a layer of sel support in between the counselor and the classroom so um

go ahead you can i have a comment about roger okay so i i agree that the position is needed what i'm struggling with is having them come in with a with a teaching license so if we're saying that they're going to be part of the teachers union and we're saying like oh they're going to provide academic support as well then how is that different than what the instructional support liaison is right

this this position to me feels like that in between role that you have an isl person over here and you have a student support specialist over here so in when i'm looking at this coming from that background it doesn't make sense to me why somebody would have a teaching license and be in a teacher's union to take that position because frankly you're gonna you're not gonna attract the right folks you're

gonna be missing out on your whole pool of folks with a bachelor's in psych or a bachelor's in social work they're not coming to the table with a teaching license they're not gonna do that and to provide this work if we're focused on scl they need to be heavy on that side and not so much on the academic side because we have folks that are doing the academic side there's nothing on there that says that

that's how mr coogan left right that's but there's nothing that's that was with the shift that we were making when we talked to principals and they're not providing academic support they're observing students in their academic setting and providing sel support as a result of that but i think this this is where my confusion lies basically led with that and then they're also salary and benefits in accordance with

the fall river education educators association contracts right we have a lot of people in fre that are not certified teachers they're in different lanes but um but if i see them more and more it's like the sex that that's just where my brain's going right now and it's not adding up for me i yield anything further just yes so preferred qualifications the bachelor's degree in psychology social worker related fields

like right now do we have any teachers with psychology degrees that are in the district that we know of like is that rare to have a teacher with a psychiatrist we don't have a great deal of them but we do have teachers that teach sociology courses etc yes teaching courses so that's where i agree with miss roderick i think we're kind of limiting the field of opportunity to get people if we're we're keeping this in

as a teacher in the form of his educators association uh i mean i i do agree with the whole qualification we accept that part you know the the job description all of it but i i don't know about a teacher i'm i'm confused anyway where does it say certified teacher so we have several of these positions already in the unit now and they are certified teachers but the job doesn't say cersei

i'm sorry i'm tell they passed the the deci required licensure piece um but not specific content areas so we do we have some that are currently serving in that role at the high school who so we have student support specialists at the high school who are certified teachers then we have esnons who are behavior specialists who are not certified teachers so and this is supposed to be another a position that's supposed to

um provide that layer of sel support so i think that what we're stuck on is the preferred qualifications and how we word that so that we don't limit ourselves to just a um certified teacher that we open up that pool so that we have people who have social work or um that experience so we need to make sure that we can say preferred or so we'll look at we can actually go back

and look at uh how we word it and then send it uh or we could send it

mr chairman mr aguiar can i please ask attorney assad to weigh in on how he came to where was he part of this to put this on the contract on this language here i'm sorry i didn't yeah he consulted i said kevin you have to speak a little louder into the mic can't hear you were you consulted before this got on the agenda by mr coogan or superintendent fox existing position or anybody

it's a current position that we just tweaked the job description mr agyar so it's already a previously approved position that we went back to the table and took feedback and then reworked it so we're bringing it back to the committee so that we could show the committee of the you know how we uh changed it but um this is not a new position that we created for tonight this position was uh

originally uh approved in 2015.

yep so attorney assad can weigh in on whether when we change it when we took the feedback to make it an sel focus instead of what currently exists should we go through the proper channels to look at the contracts to see where it should fall before it comes to this committee i think the answer to that is yes shaggy i think that the the issue brought up has has been heard

and the matter has been tabled and we'll be taking a look at it after after this meeting thank you i just hope you consulted because as lead negotiator we shouldn't be getting these things placed on our agenda without you attorney assad as our lead negotiator being part of it and i'd also like to request a written recommendation from the people that are working with the sel in our district the head counselor

mrs go to see where they weigh in on these conversations as well because i do think it's important but we need to get it right and including the salary ranges because i think that's what we go wrong we approve things and pigeonhole ourselves and we don't even know what we're voting on sometimes without our yields any further discussion deb please call the role mr yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss

larvae yes ms pereira mrs rodriguez yes yes uh 12.7 is an update on powerschool it's presented by scott cabral chief information officer good evening everyone you received a memo in your packet but i'm just going to briefly talk about some of the more important pieces that have happened uh first would be on the human resource side mr coogan and i met with frontline which is our current absence

absence management system we are going to be using that for accruals moving forward on july 1st because powerschool does not offer that currently in their system this is going to be a cost neutral piece our current contract with frontline has all of those options in the system we just up until this point have not used those modules but moving forward we will they are working on getting a timeline for us and they are

very positive that there will be no issue moving forward for july 1 with accruals and absence management for staff so that was a big win it is not going to be a very heavy lift on our end they're going to be able to take our data from x2 push it into front line and moving forward everything on the accruals and absent management piece will be front line moving forward um the last piece um that's very important

was we had a very productive meeting with powerschool uh mr michael lazy and his team were a little concerned that they weren't meeting some of the data um implementation and um ingesting into power school had a very at length meeting with them at the end of last week and they are actually going to be giving us more personnel on that side as well as an incident tracking module up until this point it's been all done

via email so if brian's team or i or anyone at central admin had an issue we'd be sending an email now everything is going to be done in a portal so that it's tracked it's given a correct timeline and we at the district level can see it through and power school can also give us a you know a more in-depth timeline up until this point like i said it's been emails um so it's cleaning up

the process they um basically told us they have no issue with getting our data for july 1st we're going to actually now meet weekly i am going to meet weekly with their team and our team to make sure that everything that mr michael lazy has is a concern is dealt with and that we are ready to go live for july 1st um other than that you have some other you know just

weekly monthly pieces that we've been talking about in the pace subcommittee there haven't been many other real changes we're continuing to do our due diligence to make sure that we are live for july 1st and you're going to start hearing a lot about training moving forward brian's team has a lot of training lined up for the summer for all the stakeholders in the district thank you mr cabral any questions for mr

cabral miss rodricks uh not a question just a comment i just wanted to point out that uh mr cabral and mr michael lazak's teams have um i just want to acknowledge the fact that they have been working hard and diligently and have provided consistent updates and i think in an age where everybody's looking for that honesty and transparency and consistency that their teams have provided that appreciate that

anything further thank you mr cabral 12 8 is a discussion and vote to approve the technology salary matrix as referred by the technology subcommittee and presented by scott cabral chief information officer motion to approve i have a motion to approve second i have a motion a second mr cabral i'll be brief with this as well what i did when i became cio we looked at the bigger picture

the you know the pieces that we needed to become more efficient with all of the technology and all of the um upgrades that we've done in the district i basically looked at all of our surrounding districts district of our size and these salary ranges will not only allow us to attract new personnel but will also allow us to maintain the people that we've trained and that have become excellent employees

in the past we've trained employees and they've jumped ship after 18 to 24 months because we've trained them so well and they're able to get more money elsewhere this will allow us to keep our personnel in house it will allow us to sustain ourselves from within and i'm very excited to see with additional personnel where you know technology services can take the district moving forward any questions for mr cabral

mr chairman mr aguiar not so much a question just a comment i want to uh thank mr cabral for his hard work on all technology issues i agree with mrs rodricks that that committee and that group has been doing yeoman's work over the last several months so i do appreciate it with all of these new positions i mentioned earlier in my subcommittee report as well as at the meeting

i believe that we need to look at making these positions union positions the reason for that is we have every two years we just keep on changing oh we'll do a contract we'll try to match up to what we make in the other surrounding communities and it's not helping us to keep our talent we can have it in a union where they're going to look at all of the year-round supports and

and all that so i i am in favor of it but mr cabral superintendent parts if they're going to look at making these into the union legitimately if i can just add to that we actually uh are meeting with the with the a bargaining unit fra is that you're referring to to to look through each of the job descriptions to see if they fit i i know that mr cabral has some reservations about some of those

positions um because they of their um of the expectation the flexibility and the the um requirements for their employment because the 12-month positions etc so but we are exploring that and we're going to do our due diligence to see what should be and what um doesn't be mis uh it shouldn't be and mr cabral will be included in that as well as mr coogan and myself and attorney assad will have that discussion

i just want to make sure that and i've said this a bunch of times when you look at whether a position's union or not it's not only about whether a job description fits with the current job descriptions if that was the case we wouldn't have four different units in the frea so the the requirement to to look at that has nothing to do with whether it fits into existing positions people have

a right to bargain and we should do our due diligence to at least offer that to see if it works for the best interest of the union as well as the school department right i think that that's exactly true we have to see if it fits in the best interest of what we're looking for the position so maybe i misspoke i'm talking about whether it fits into what we anticipate what we

want from that position so absolutely we'll have that discussion and figure out what our needs are and where we go from there

anything further deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes miss laravey yes miss pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12.9 is discussion and vote to approve the 2022 one-time assistance for districts with pandemic related enrollment disruptions impacting chapter 78 the amount of six seven three 1.2673 and seventy six thousand i mean million dollars as presented by maria potts superintendent

of schools motion to approve second motion to approve and spend the money to fix the durfee athletic fields

we have a motion to approve it and we have a second by miss rodricks so we have to approve the money first and that's what we'll do now any discussion on approving the money please the motion reads to approve the money and spend it on in one motion on the athletic fields at durfee high school well we had a motion in a second kev before you said you could make that motion that was my

original motion after we accept the money you can make that emotion that's not accurate but we had a motion you can make a motion and surround the money in one motion mister the money is already in the former school department mr mayor well actually what what happened mr aguiar was we had a motion by mr hart and a second by miss rodricks to accept the money your motion for expending it

wherever you want can be made after we accept the money can i ask a question sure maybe there's a delay but i definitely made the motion before anyone talked about it so we'll chalk it up to being a delay but on the motion so when i was looking i thought we were accepting the money first yes and then decide how to spend it so what i what i am seconding is we are receiving the money

and then having i just want to make sure i'm accurate yeah that's exactly what i just said okay okay uh roll call please mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes ms pereira miss rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes i'm going to turn the gate over to mr hart i'd like to make a motion to use this money on the city side excuse me mr chairman he already has a motivation mr

chairman yes mr again i asked to be recognized before you gave the gavel over okay go ahead common dc courtesy i said go ahead i know it might be difficult with the way that the uh being online so the bottom line is before we look at any kind of issues with this money i want to make it very clear to the committee to the public that i've been sitting for several months with mr pachito

and various stakeholders relative to the durfee athletic fields at every single meeting that we've had every single meeting it has been stated for the kid by myself mr pacheco and anybody else that's there that we have zero dollars zero dollars for the athletic fields at durfee high school zero that's the reason why this money needs to go towards the fields because we do not have unlimited resources

any and all one-time monies should go towards the durfee athletic fields i sit in these meetings and there's five or six million dollars worth of fields that needs to get done and we do not have any money put aside for those fields the 263 million dollar durfee project did not include any there so for anyone up on that stage to say that there's money for the fields that's not an accurate

statement we have zero dollars mr pacheco knows it superintendent knows it and anybody that's been sitting on that committee the athletic director the principal of the high school the assistant athletic director everyone knows that we don't have any money for the fields but every time we come to this meeting we're going to have the chairman want to take school department funds and resources for the schools

and take it to to put on his side of the budget for transportation and i think that's quite frankly unacceptable for any member of this committee to sit there and say you're here for the kids and the school department to continue to have to listen to this all the time when meanwhile we don't have any money for the fields we have zero dollars for the fields just so everyone's aware turf b the practice field

is not going to be allowed to be played on in september unless it somehow passes a safety test if we don't pass money to pay for these fields today we run the risk of not having programs at durfee high school in august and september and that's a fact i've sat in meetings in hours upon hours to try to get this done and there's zero dollars that's why i make the motion to spend

this money on the durfee athletic fields every one-time money that we have needs to go towards those fields rather than keep going back to the tax phase i make that in the form of a motion and i was definitely ahead of when the mayor wanted to pass the gavel

um hearing no second i will just normally i just want to throw something out normally when we say that we're making a motion there's usually a response right but in all fairness usually there's a do i hear a second that's how yes we hear a second i have a second from miss rodricks i have a motion and a second i just want to make one thing perfectly clear every year the city spends 2.1 million dollars

give or take a little on non-mandated busing for our students it's not required by law it's not in any of the bills and the city has probably done this to the tune of 15 to 20 million dollars over the last five to ten years the school department in its wisdom in partnering with the city put money into the road at henry lloyd put money into the parking at talbot all non-student-centered things as much as a

bus ride for kids to get to school we're asking for some relief this year we have reduced our ask from the 2 million that we wanted from essa down to this 1.26 late arriving money one of the questions was the money's already been allocated the money's already been allocated we heard that when the argument wasn't as strong now the money has not been allocated this is money that can go to

help the city it can go to help especially our grades seven and eight students get back and forth to school on a bus that the city is under no obligation to pay for but does every year to help the schools while the school goes over and above to help the city this is a partnership mr aguiar has his pick of where he wants the money spent on fields and i respect

that i worked at durfee longer than anybody in this room tonight and i have utmost respect for what goes on at durfee and not most respect for what goes on at sports i'm at more more events than most people here but at the same time the city continues to support the schools in their way the schools continue to support the city in its way this is an opportunity to help the city

with school transportation we were at a meeting this morning miss rodricks was there where simply the um the boys and girls club was talking about the rapid increase in transportation costs you sat there miss rogers you heard it i heard it too this is an opportunity to not take care of kids that are just sports specific but to take care of all kids to transport as many students as possible to and from

schools we don't have any obligation to do this the state law does not mandate it we try to help and we're trying to pitch in just as the schools have pitched into us with the roads that they thought were important for henry lord and talbot this is a give and take my point would be this is an opportunity for un directed money to go help the city fulfill its obligations to transport

kids and that's all i'm talking about here anybody that thinks a baseball field or a soccer p field is more important to school attendance than a bus ride back and forth for seventh eighth ninth tenth or eleventh to twelfth grader i i disagree the fields have to be done i haven't heard one person on this panel talk against the fields and mr aguiar thinks sometimes that if he talks louder

and he talks more forceful and he says he's passionate it will win the day but i beg to differ i think a kid on a bus going to and from school is as important as all sports and i'm asking respectfully for this committee to support the city on this side just like we did with henry lloyd road and with talbot and that's where i sit and again i have no problem with mr aguiar's

opinion that the um that the field should be done it's just right now i'm asking for some tell us mr mayor tell us how much your money's there then mr aggie um tell us how much money is in the budget for the future i did not interrupt you so again we don't need to treat each other like that i'd like to finish talking please my point is once you're done please recognize me

again please let me finish mr aguiar thank you um this is something where we partner with the city like we did on the roads like we did on the parking lot and like we'll end up doing probably on the fields whatever we have to do going forward to get these things done they will all be done but at this opportunity i think it's important to acknowledge the commitment the city has made to the

schools in the form of the two million dollars unmandated transportation costs every year and i think we should look to support the city a little bit on this side and i see nothing wrong with it i hope the committee in its wisdom thinks transporting kids to school is as important as a field which i also think is important because i support sports like i said as much as i can and

and i hope that in their wisdom they see that the person that talks the loudest or the person that talks the most is not always correct this is the right move for the schools this is the right move for the city mr aguiar mr i have one question for you how much money is put aside for the durfee athletic fields right now i don't know did you tell any member of this committee

that the money is there for the fields yes or no i never remember saying that did you lobby anybody on that committee to try to get the votes for this 1.3 million have you had a conversation with any other members no more than your phone calls to them back and forth so have you have you or have you not excuse me i said have you or have you not as i

said no more than your members of the committee mr aguiar your phone calls was probably your head of mine okay so you so you're telling us that you did call around trying to get the votes i followed madam superintendent madam superintendent i would like to get your opinion on this as well as whether maybe you can enlighten us on how much money is available for the durfee athletic fields since the mayor says one thing

and then he now says he doesn't know i don't know well currently we don't have any money set aside for the durfee fields zero so you agree when i said as the mayor would want to say very passionately or forcefully or whatever he wanted to try to say am i making an accurate statement that there's zero dollars for the fields at this time yes can i call mr pachico to the podium

yes mr chico i know we've sat at many meetings where it has been determined that we do not have any direct funds right now to fund the fields and i appreciate your hard work over the last several months working with me and the other colleagues to try to get a plan in place to pay for some of these fields but i want to stress to the commit to the community

and since the mayor thinks that i'm not telling accurate information i'd like you to try to present to the committee the dire straits that we're in at durfee high school related to the second turf field as well as whether you can indicate whether there's money to fund all these fields so mr again the money we have to fund the fields is 2.4 million dollars borrowed by the city council

for the baseball field those funds we do have available we have a small amount of funds that i'm protecting in the construction project a small amount a half a million dollars which won't go very far but a half a million dollars and we have monies that i would love to lobby for on the agenda tonight and at the city council tomorrow night that i would like to lobby for but if but if my your question is

do we have money for the fields right now the answer is no and if we completed the project with the requisite fields for instance if we had two softball fields before we should have two softball fields if we had enough soccer fields baseball fields and the like what would the estimate be for how many millions of dollars in in order to fully fund all of those close to 10 million and we might have

five hundred thousand as long as someone look at ledge and other et cetera at the building project the did you just repeat that did you say 10 million yeah it's approximately 10 million dollars but i'm including the 2.4 i'm including a 2.4 and i'm including um the fields um the proposed fields at the uh talbot the softball field and the baseball field to tell that when you look at the turf b yes

so the edification of my colleagues can you please explain the dire straits of turf b which is the second turf field at durfee so turf b is is the practice field at durfee it is the um field that's most used um of the two of the two turf fields that we currently have uh the stadium field uh being the second one and um it is we will be performing uh very shortly a

gmax test which determines whether or not the field is playable by certain sports so not all sports are eliminated from it but contact sports are so that we're waiting uh we will be doing that test um soon so that when the season when that field is being used in the coming season it will be it will be safe for students to play on this uh so at the meeting if i could just one second sagia

um the the um the field was tested last year and the two fields passed the again the company that does the testing did say that the test for the turf field b uh the practice field was uh in tough shape yeah so i agree with with that the only thing i would add is at the meeting the gentleman basically said that field's not going to pass he also said we can try to do it you

know and we're putting him in a tough spot because that field if anybody's walked out there it's like walking on cement that field is four years beyond its useful life and i don't think the urgency is there for my colleagues necessarily if they're not part of this discussions and to to know the background on why these are very important issues so if that turf b is not able to be safely utilized

i heard the athletic director and the assistant athletic director talk about the mess that it's going to be at durfee high school in the fall for three soccer teams three football teams cross country or whoever else they're not going to have anywhere to practice because the baseball field is going to be under construction and they're not going to have anywhere to practice so i think it's very important

and the reason why i think this needs to happen is because if we don't have the money allocated you can't go out to bid and if we wait another month we're going to run the risk of not being allowed to make that field potentially converted with a new turf field by september and i think the urgency needs to be there on this committee now we talk about transportation the mayor wants to talk about

whether we're going to transport students we have asked the mayor in the city are they proposing not to transport the students at durfee high school how about the middle school we're not going to transport them either we're not going to transport students that they so-called say are unnecessary or not legal but who the heck is thinking that we've all agreed including the mayor at private meetings prior meetings

that the money is going to be there because we have to transport these children we have an attendance problem already and the mayor saying frivolously that we can just do without 2.7 million dollars oh that's extra money you shouldn't have to pay that that's basic transportation that's been provided to these students for 10 years 20 years it's actually a joke to even consider that

and then we're going to give away money in the school department with no plan in the future for how that's going to go so the mayor's going to take the one-time money pad his budget and then and then do what in the future years the city has money we were at a joint council meeting all of us on this stage were here the mayor and the rest of us administrative team said they were flush

with money what the heck happened different now now all of a sudden we need this the city has 10 million dollars in unallocated funds why don't they use that nope let's go after the school department and let's try and snicker the school committee into giving away 1.2 million dollars when we have needs i firmly believe that if we go to the city council city councils know there's not money they're not flush

they're not going to agree to bond more money these fields my colleagues these fields are going to be on us to fund somehow in the school department the city council is not going to agree to fund more and go back to the taxpayers again and again and again we only lose an opportunity to not use this money to pay for the fields and once again i can tell you with certainty i watched the meeting

the mayor said oh i want to fund the transportation we of course we've got to transport kids but just give me the 1.

0.3 well the city budget's not even done yet the legislature hasn't even given away their budget to know how much money the city is going to get in funds or extra funds the mayor told me right out that the senator told them they were going to try to increase money on the city side so let's give the 1.2 now and then see them get more money putting the copy for the horse and we

have 10 million dollars in needs up to that high school and for anybody to vote against that it's it's a damn shame with that i yield thank you i do want to clear up a couple things we went back nobody from the city side said flush the word was used by one of the counselors in a question the city budget is done it's out it was delivered last week so when you base your comments on things

that are not accurate then that's what you're gonna get it's my position that if the city i mean if the state reimburses the city to a tune that's a heck of a lot more then we will adjust and help it's my point right now though is to wrap yourselves around baseball fields softball fields when kids every single day from the south end from the flint need a ride to school and the city has

consistently gone over and above on bus funding to help the kids to ask for a one-time relief we got a million dollars a year or two ago for public safety that we use for our police and fire this is the same principle this 1.257 million will help with our bus transportation bill which is at least 11 million dollars uh if not going up on some fuel assessments and it is

important that we take care of all the kids not just the athletes which i have the utmost respect of because obviously i'm i'm married to one of the top athletes in the city but let's be real here every single day these kids are on the corner waiting for a bus so you're going to put you're going to pit because you want to win an argument when you're saying things that aren't even accurate my point is

that transporting kids is as important as any field and when all you want to talk about is some fields versus every day day in day out transportation to school late buses truant buses those things are also important in education and i'm asking for some one-time relief on that and if as we sit here right now the state does something with other and there's a way to help i will be glad to

pitch in on those fields everybody knows uh i'm i attend probably more sporting events at durfee and other schools than uh than most people in this auditorium so i have the utmost respect for athletes i think we should support them but at the same time i have the utmost respect for kids trying to get to and from school and to try to turn this into some kind of twisted oh what about this

did you say zero my point is very clear we're asking for one time relief to get some buses if my unrestricted aid money comes through as some people have suggested i will be glad to come back here to work with this school committee to support those fields any way i can and we may do it anyway but at this time i'm asking for the committee to vote to transfer this

money to the city to help with school transportation period anything further miss rodricks go ahead mimi you can go first i'd just question for mr pachico so mr pacheco so you just said 10 million dollars that kind of came out i mean kind of quick right so counting the 2.4 that we borrowed for the base time right 2.4 so that's seven six right about seven six so add the one point two we're down to

six oh my bath it's terrible don't go math with me kevin so what is the 1.2 going to do for these fields like what is taking place you add the 1.2 to the 1.4 that's on the agenda later on another 850 000 that's in the city council um we're getting pretty close to a number that we can get comfortable with so my ultimate goal obviously is to do as much field as i can however

we set our sights on the ones that we know we could do is we do have we do have to get them out soon in order to make sure that we can get something done i i can't guarantee anyone that even if we made a decision tomorrow i wouldn't be able to i may not be able to get the practice field done just because of supply chain the bidding process

so it's all all of the work that we have um is is subject to to the procurement process which is pretty lengthy however um that is the pipeline of of what needs to be done in the order it needs to be finished so we have a field up on the hill uh which is the all-purpose field which will be the girls varsity softball field and the outside the outfield of that not the outfield of

that field but the remaining land that's left up on the hill will be for all the field events from the track and field and then the jv i'm sorry the um turf b would be soccer and football practice and i'm not sure if field hockey will play there or they'll play in the stadium so that's the the order of magnitude and then the baseball field will definitely be going out very

shortly so in regards to practice fields there it's a good possibility in september we don't have any if if the gmax test fails then i can't play contact sports on it so soccer would have to be moved to the varsity to the stadium or things like that and that is not i i won't know that till we actually do the test we do grooming there'll be grooming done before

we do the test on both fields the the varsity field the i'm sorry i keep calling the varsity field but the stadium will need to be groomed also to get that one ready for the fall and the field field turf b would be groomed as we do each year to see if it has life left in it to play contact spots so what measures were going to be taken or pretend this 1.2

didn't happen okay it doesn't exist right now what were we doing to get these kids out on the field we would have to make decisions as to where what we would do for instance the upper field we may not be able to do we would have to push our resources sorry is softball correct the upper field is is um is uh facity softball so there would be decisions that we

would have to make in in the order of of priority as to what we had to do again the hope is that the conversation that's that's coming on the 1.4 million dollars will help um some of the the some of my issues coming up are the fact that all of the pricing is a moving target um the baseball field at 2.4 million dollars is probably more like 2.8 now because of you know

fuel charges and manufacturing issues so all of those things are coming into play so i don't have the the comfort of saying i got 2.4 from the city and i can do the baseball field so i don't have to worry about that that's not the case so i need to be sure that i can finish that field completely finish that field and move on to the next one so it would change the

order in which we would do things and the upper fields my issue with the upper field is it's going to be a dust bowl so one way or another i have to do something with that field so if i don't do anything with it i plant grass on it not that we can play on it not that we can practice on it but i would plant grass to hold

the the soil in place so that it isn't a dust bowl and we would cut the grass and not use that field until we had the funds to do what we need to do so that's the right act that we're doing and the fields were never part of the of the project except for that upper field that was the only field that was included in the project we also hit some ledge as of late up in

that area doing the utility work and that's a concern to be sure that we don't get ourselves into a position that i don't have any funds left over which is why we we're committing 500 of our five hundred thousand dollars of the remaining funds in the durfee project as a whole to help us out with the field construction

i i yield for now i yield first anything further miss rogers okay um it it takes a lot for me to get really heated about something i guess but the one thing that really i see as a problem is a level of disrespect right and that's kind of what we've had here during parts of this discussion so i'm having a really hard time reconciling this idea of comparing redoing the fields to we're going to transport students

because we really don't have to but we've been doing it that feels very manipulative to other folks and and i see the looks of confusion but but when we're when we're saying things like okay well i guess the fields are more important than the students you know i think transporting our sixth seventh and eighth grade students you know our seventh and eighth grade students are more important than the fields

that's not a fair statement it's not an either or right and so then i i also get into the issue of just say you had this one-time money i asked a month ago how this would be helpful specifically helpful in writing how is this going to directly support the taxpayers and i haven't gotten an answer on that i'm one of those taxpayers i said it before i'll say it again i made twenty one thousand dollars

last year my husband makes about seventy five thousand dollars i along with every other taxpaying person in this community needs a break absolutely but i want to know how that's going to help me i need to see that in writing how that's going to be supportive we keep doing this thing where we're saying the city the the school department has all this extra money this is not extra money

this is money that we were underfunded for so long and anyone that's been in this community knows that we have been underfunded for so long so some of this is reimbursement money because of low enrollments right and so i have a really hard time when folks start saying oh this is extra money this is extra money it's not extra money some of this money is a result of the pandemic some of this

money is due due to the low enrollment because of the pandemic and a good chunk of this money which i think we keep forgetting is because of the significantly high needs of our students so to use the oh well it's about you know oh i guess you know the fields are more important that's not a fair statement it's not that the fields are more important it's that we're talking about opera we sat at a meeting

this morning and you referenced that we did but our conversation was not about school transportation our our issues were about the infrastructure that we have where we can't get students from the south end to the north end to get to activities after school and yes the cost of transportation is really high but that wasn't the conversation that we were having and i want to be very clear

about that it was about the activities that we need to get our kids to and from so if we're talking about not redoing the fields we're pulling an activity from our kids i just want to be clear about that i think we all know that if i had my way and i had 1.2 or whatever million dollars we're playing with here i would invest it all in seo right but i know that's not necessarily

the right answer either because it has to be something sustainable and right now i'm not hearing how allocating that money to transportation is sustainable what are we doing next year when my tech my taxes are going up next year what are we doing so i'm just having a really hard time when we're talking about this and as far as the city budget being flushed since that has been brought up many times

council vice president dion did ask specifically if the city budget was flush and the answer from every person at that table was yes and so again i struggle with how can i be told yes a month ago that the city has money and now be told i don't have money so this is where i struggle well on one thing i do want to clear up when someone says um your budget is flush i thought they

meant balanced it's not flaw all we have to do is deliver a balanced budget that's what we're referring to the word flush was not used by anybody at our table that's all i said i did not i did not disagree with miss uh mrs dion it was that the city budget was balanced and that's what we're working towards and if we get some support and to say um pit one thing against the other is what

i heard before i opened my mouth i didn't hear that i did i mean i heard let's do this let's do that my point is this is one time money of course i think the fields are important my ties to durfee are extremely deep i was there this morning i'll be there thursday i will not do anything to harm the kids at that school and as i said before if the state increases the unrestricted aid

to a point where we can shuffle money back to the schools for the fields then that's going to happen that's how i operate i'm asking for this support now and going forward as mr pacheco said himself we'll see how we get this done but we'll do our best to get it done right now i was asking for support on transportation so i have one more question so are you saying specifically that if you don't

get the money for transportation that you are not going to transport our grades seven through twelve students what i'm saying is it's extremely difficult to take money over and above the state guidelines to transport students year in year out and at this time i think this is an opportunity to help the city this time that's what i'm saying every year we do it as you're aware miss rogers and

i don't see any reason to continue not doing it but at the same time to give our residents a fall river across the spectrum some relief for one year is not the worst thing we can do as a committee you are absolutely right it's not but again i asked a month ago for how that's going to help me directly at this meeting i asked can i have in writing how that will help us

directly i sat here and said i make 21 000 a year i think i've repeated that multiple times if there's any resident in the city that does not know that that is how much money i make i would be shocked but i asked directly how that's going to help my wallet in my house because i am in the same boat as every other taxpayer here so we have a motion

for mr aguiar mr chairman to use the funds for fields mr aguiar just a couple of follow-ups so madam superintendent can you tell us what the language says in the indirect cost agreement related to one-time capital expenses or one of your designees i i don't have it with me right now mr agyar all right so look it up so i can i can quote it and you can tell me if i'm

wrong so the language requires a vote from the school committee mr mr uh almeda has it it's a requirement for a vote from the school committee for what to make it eligible to make it eligible for net school spending and therefore typically it's a voluntary thing on the school committee if it's over that we're going to allow that yes it is correct correct now i recall at the joint meeting in

front of all the city councillors school committee mayor and all of his team you had a slide up that showed how much money we've actually spent on major projects do you recall how much that was uh just just over the past year it was over three million dollars three million dollars that we we the school committee voluntarily chose to pay because we didn't want to hit the city with over 150 000

which we could have very easy how much money are we going to spend in our essa funds to do capital projects that are over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and we're not required to do we have that's the city expense how much how many of them we have 17 million committed to hvac projects and it without a vote of the committee that would fall on the city to replace correct yes sir the um

when you look at the one-time funds the use of one-time funds should be for capital projects which is i think what you and the superintendent have recommended so i totally agree with it um madam superintendent i i met with you two weeks ago related to the sustainability of such using one time funds and i'm going to make a statement and please correct me if i'm wrong in that meeting i determined and i and i suggested

to you that using one-time funds is not going to help us long-term on the city side that we needed to look at ways to help long-term to have a strategy to help long-term with the school budget how it can help the city and i suggested at that time that rather than worrying about one-time funds that we should look to potentially crossing guards maybe one of the police officers and reopening the indirect cost agreement

so maybe we could give the city four hundred thousand dollars for ten years twenty years as long as we had the agreement rather than a one-time funds is anything i'm saying not accurate no that's correct and can you tell the committee whether you had a conversation with the mayor after that yes we did talk about whether um we should open up the indirect cost and we actually discussed the crossing guards and

um uh trash we we talked about any uh options that we could include in the indirect cost agreement to alleviate some of the costs is it on the agenda today to reopen the indirect cost agreement it is not so i've asked the mayor at three subsequent meetings are we going to open up the indirect cost agreement the answer was no three different times what i recommended to the superintendent and mr pacheco

was that we look into that so that we can have long-term assistance to the city now we're going to turn around and say we're going to give away 1.2 million well then why would we reopen to give away more money so logically it would make sense to do something long-term related to helping the city with the finances i know we've had that discussion i don't believe for a second that the superintendent feels this is a

good thing to transfer 1.3 million i don't believe that for a second and if if i'm wrong please let me miss but as superintendent of schools i don't think you would be advocating for us to move this 1.3 million in school funds over to the city my last point is on that what ms rodriguez talked about the mayor did say at multiple meetings we're going to transport the kids because that's what we have to do

he said that at multiple meetings over and over and now all of a sudden we're going to figure out well it might have been if the mayor wants to go on record or anybody on this committee wants to go on record and say we don't believe the kids should be transported feel free to take a vote that's not what anybody's saying it's the duty and responsibility of the mayor and the city to pay for all

transportation period period that's the duty of the city and the duty of the school committee and our fiduciary responsibility to advocate for the projects within the school department that's why i'm asking my colleagues to vote yes by yield so we have a motion from mr aguiar seconded by miss rodricks to use the 1.2 million for the fields uh deb would you please call the roll yes mr bailey no mr harp no

miss laravey no miss pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan no really quick my motion mr bailey if i could talk um to be honest i would like more time to digest what's going on would i be able to table it to actually have more time is that possible i would second that i know i know we just voted something down i might i i was waiting to make my motion because miss rodricks and mr again

um i'd like to go forward i have a motion now what is it if it's a table just to vote on the on whether or not the table if it doesn't pass then you'd make your vote okay yeah yeah so we have a motion to table by mr bailey any discussion deb please call the vote ms drag yeah yes mr bailey yes mr har no miss laravey yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan no

motion passes to table tables uh 12-10 second read and vote to approve updated language on the following policies who's talking on this motion to approve most of all policies as written i have a motion to approve all policies second i have a motion and a second any discussion on any policy specifically please mr chairman you mr ag i would just like to say that after the suggestions at the last meeting to clarify

the bullying policy relative to adults to adults adults to students and anybody has been clarified and highlighted in the policy so i do appreciate uh superintendent taking that feedback and mr coogan mr tom cogan and bringing that back so i will be supporting but i want to acknowledge that they did take our feedback and highlighted that with that iu thank you so uh mr aguiar's point was that the

bullying policy has been modified anything further on the policies i would have a a vote deb please mr rodriguez oh miss rogers i was just double checking because i know we had talked about the sexual harassment policy and i don't remember seeing it early okay never mind i i just reviewed again i reviewed it earlier but i i see the part about we were talking about making sure that it wasn't just the person

that it was directed to that included others but that's in there so i yield any further discussion uh ted please call the role ms draga yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes ms laravey yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes um 12 11 is a discussion and vote to approve the naming renaming committee members as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by ken pacheco the chief

operating officer motion to approve i have a motion to approve and do i have a second second any discussion on the naming renaming committee mr chairman mr aguiar yes i i just got a chance to take a look at this we did have some situations with the naming and there was a problem over the last year in my opinion and i suggested to the superintendent at the time that there needs to be some vetting

before things come forth so i do agree that there needs to be some vetting where i disagree is i think the vetting should be done by the superintendent or the people that are working in the school department before it goes to any outside community because i think part of a naming has to be a more comprehensive policy so that if someone is going to make name something that the superintendent

doesn't think fits she should be able to not have to bring that forth so i think there needs to be a double process which i don't see listed here i do think i trust the superintendent if she felt that somebody was deserving of recognition to name or rename something the due diligence should be by a full-time school department employee superintendent and her designees rather than giving it out to someone

that's going to potentially put people on the spot and that's what happened in the last case and i do think that we need to correct we can't go back and take back votes that we've taken in the past but i do think there needs to be this where the superintendent has an input before it gets to the full committee i haven't had a chance to review this and talk to her

but i would like to make a motion that we table this until next meeting to allow the superintendent to bring a more comprehensive plan you second his motion there was a motion already kevin and seconded to move it yeah all i did was make a motion for the table table that's all if anybody wants to second it fine if not so be it that takes precedence i'll second the table only but with a

question okay so is it accurate i thought we did say that the first request would go to the school department and then that request would go to the naming committee is that inaccurate because that's what mr aguiar is it is the intent so if if further than this particular letter um in the documents that we drew up if that's not the case then we can make a correction in that

and make it so that the first step would be superintendent or her designee and then move forward to this committee if that right i mean can we just switch the motion and make a motion that all uh requests go to the superintendent or designate then to this committee can we just make that motion you could amend the motion amendment amend the motion we have a few motions going at once now we have the

original motion we have a motion to table um and now we have a motion to remember i guess we could remove the motion to table if we amend so why don't we take bruce should we take a vote on the motion to table i would yeah i would okay deb please call the role chairman mr tim the only thing i was just reading the one page document that came in that's why i was getting this info

so if the superintendent is stating something otherwise is there now my emotion the table but i haven't heard her say that that's the i thought we needed more time to go back and review that piece of it is that what i'm not hearing or okay um kevin we do have uh more documents that go so this was just the naming we were looking for the board to approve this naming however

there was documents that went along with with this originally and that had a little more language to it for instance the person should be deceased all kinds of different criteria that would be used to to allow a person to have something you know memorialized so i think that that other document could be i think the other document just could be with emotion um to say that that is the the first uh

first step would be the superintendent's approval and then moving to this committee second but we never voted on that yet is that where are these documents it's a policy that was it was it would have gone out with this originally and that would have been um november-ish if i'm not mistaking november december yeah it sounds like it sounds like there's more to it that we would you know need to get so i'm going

to leave my motion to table and hope that we can come back next month with a comprehensive uh step-by-step process mr aggie yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes yes yep mr pereira it's roderick yes mayor coogan uh yes all right so we tabled it um 12 12. is a discussion and vote to approve the labor job description as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer

so during the budget deliberations we as part of the maintenance unit i had asked for a laborers position to be added within that unit and that labor's position is outlined in the job description that we added the position we have a dollar amount that we are going to use in the contract that currently exists it's called tradesmen um if i'm not mistaking it's 18 in 32 cents maybe i'm not positive on that

but it's 18 dollars in in change so um the ultimate goal as i said that night and and um is to allow the the uh tradesman ones twos um the craftsmen and to allow them to work on the projects that need to be worked on and have this labor's position as an ancillary system to provide both manpower to that particular job when needed or to allow this person to do the setups tear downs clean up demolition

the running to and from supply houses with material and allowing the higher paid tradespeople to stay in their roles we also would like to use this position as a pipeline for possibly the construction craft laborers program at durfee and take a student on co-op so to speak and have them train and hopefully find a career in in one of these trades or as a laborer whichever that student would like to do

any discussion on the laborers position uh the chairman mr aguiar just a quick question and uh i support the position entry level uh did we look at how this position is going to be paid relative to the custodians and where it fits into the um the salary range the tradesmen position i'm concerned about is somebody you know go ahead sorry no no i i i think it's equal it's actually a little less than uh custodial

starting position and um i don't believe that it would be a landing spot for anyone in that union however you know that may be um it could be in someone's wheelhouse i don't know that it would not be closed obviously to anyone you currently have a position called tradesperson there's a position in the maintenance union in the maintenance division of that union that is called tradesmen

and it's the lowest paid could it be possible that we'd support this position and have attorney assad work that out to make sure that we've dotted our eyes and crosstalk is relative to the union so it's currently it's currently in negotiations so we did bring this position forward as a possibility that it could happen um with the uh the bargaining unit for um the maintenance division

currently right now so at that point it will make sense otherwise it wouldn't go in the exactly we'd have to approve that as part of the contract it would be it's already in the contract the only thing that's not in the contract is the name that we're calling it um the because the the way the contract's broken down it's broken down into tradesmen tradesmen one tradesman two skilled tradesmen won skill tradesman two

so this would be already it's already a a um a dollar amount or a position or a classification in the union as we speak but my concern is that if it it's a labor position it might not fit with the tradesmen like it i'm just curious why wouldn't we just create a position called labor and then negotiate that along the way you might be talking about the same thing but

it looks like you bring in a job description that's not the one that was from tradesmen before you know what i mean um we could change the classes a new job description correct well we could we could i mean it's a maintenance position it would never be anything but a maintenance position however we could ask the union to change the classification from tradesmen to labor the laborer is a term is a um as a union term

um or a civil service term on the city side the word labor on the school side there are no laborers in the job descriptions so on this side they were called tradesmen and that's the lowest paid classification in that contract so again it could be just a name change on that side i would want the position to reflect the word labor because that's what it is yeah i i don't disagree what i'm

suggesting though is like you're talking about the trades craftsman you know moving up to this from the high school like wholeheartedly want that but we have people that are working for years that don't make as much money so there has to be us a step you know we don't want to offend somebody that's working that's making almost the same amount of money and somebody just out of high school gets

like that's what i'm asking is if that's been looked at i i don't believe that we i'm not trying to pigeonhole it for the craftsman labor uh for that for the program i'm just saying it's an opportunity so if this position if if and again if there was no inside person or current employee of the district that would be looking for this job then i would say we go to the construction craft laborers program

and try and fill it i wouldn't say that we would overlook someone or bypass anyone in the in that's currently employed that that was never the intent so what are the what is the range and how many steps are there in this place it's one step everything within the everything within the maintenance contract along with the custodian contract they're all one step the person who walks in the door today

makes as much as the 25-year person so yeah one they make x amount of dollars per hour a year two the same year two would be whatever the increase is in the contract so everyone's moving up at whatever percentage is in the contract if it's a zero then it's the same pay from year to year so if you're a junior custodian you don't have four different steps yeah one year two year three or

four no you walk in and you're a junior custodian and tomorrow the next person walks in and they're a junior custodian and so on the steps have disappeared okay i'm looking at the contract that i was reviewing today and it talks about junior custodians step one step two step three right which is why but it's over a course of quite a few it's not in the next year it's two or three years later am i right

i don't have that pop but it says in 2020 you know you get a little bit of money for a senior but and the reason why i'm asking is because i think we need to look at this as an entry level position as you're describing it as an entry level labor and i don't want to have the situation happen where people are not making as much money relative to the work that they're doing

and all of a sudden somebody's in this so i just think it's an equity piece i'm not trying to go against it i think we should approve it but i think we should look at talking with attorney assad through negotiations and figure out to make sure we're not you know unintention really that's all i'm asking so we support it thank you we will definitely um i'll talk to uh attorney assad and we

will uh put this in play with the negotiate within negotiations

roll call i need a motion i need a motion a second guys motion second second motion um that please call the role on the laborer's position mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harvey yes miss lara yes yes ms roderick yes mayor coogan yes next 12 13 is the discussion and vote to approve the facility school use is referred by facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer so um

this particular matrix is includes everything that we have that's rentable as of today we don't have any of the new fields at durfee in this mix however as they come into play they would be put onto onto this schedule we also with the approval of the policy on facilities that has a minimum charge for turf fields we think that that this these numbers would all work for the district and also

for those who are looking to use the facilities and again anyone who feels that they would like a break or discount on the fees would would submit that to the superintendent who would have final say on that particular piece as it's outlined in the policy for facility use any questions mr pacheco on the use of facilities could i get a motion in a second motion to accept second i have a motion

in a second by mr rogers discussion dad please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss larabee yes ms pereira ms roderick yes yes 12 14 is discussion and vote to approve to allow the administration to solicit bids for a five-year contract for the operation and management of the school firs food service program promotional approved second as referred by the facilities and operations

subcommittee and presented by ken chico i have a motion a second any discussion on the opportunity to solicit mr aguiar can i please request that we have uh whitson's come before the committee at the next meeting to talk about the uh state of affairs in the cafeteria uh for what i didn't care well he wants whitsons to come we have a motion in a second and mr aguiar's request is to get woodson's

come down for the next meeting mr chico talk i'm sure we can i um so this vote is basically to give me permission to go to a five-year company other companies so it's not um there's nothing being approved here right we the the bidding process needs to happen and then um the reason for the request is a five-year contract it's a one-year contract with four one-year renewals and this allows us to

from where i stand make corrections if we need to make corrections with those one-year contracts so someone if we give them a three-year contract it's much more difficult for us to maneuver as opposed to a one-year contract with four one-year renewals after that process then we would go to our regular process of sending out the rfp entertaining vendors and so forth there is no issue with asking west wix's to

come um at the next meeting for discussion purposes i it doesn't however um affect this right and what i would also need with this approval i would also need to go to city council for a five-year contract it's exactly the same request to the city council um to approve a five-year contract um mr if um as far as getting which uh the food service company here would it be better if they were in the facilities

and operations subcommittee or is it meant for that i'm not quite sure what we're asking so i wasn't sure what mrs request was if it's a state of affairs okay if it's just a um if it's just a request for them to give us an update you know an update then i think we could do it as a committee of a whole but if there's anything in particular that we want them

to prepare for then maybe um facilities all right so we'll get whitson's to the next meeting anything further to discuss on just the solicitation for bids for the food service then please call the roll mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laramie yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes yes 12 15 is a discussion and vote to approve to allow the administration the same thing to solicit bids for a

five-year contract for hvac maintenance and control support services as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer same thing so it's exactly the same thing for a different service it's a one-year contract with four one-year renewals i have a motion in a second any discussion on the solicitation of bids ted please call the roll mr argue yes

mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laravey yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12 16 is a discussion and vote to approve the spending of 1.4 million appropriation is presented by maria ponce superintendent of schools so what you have is um on april 12th the city council um appropriated for us the 1.427230 money to fulfill its net school spending requirements with this 1.4 million um we are still

owed eight hundred and seventy one thousand one hundred and four fifty one dollars in order for um the city to um for us to be at one hundred percent net school spending um our recommendation is that we use this one million four hundred and twenty seven thousand two hundred and thirty um dollars to offset the cost of the athletic fields at durfee high school can i get a motion move the second

superintendent's recommendation motion to approve i have a motion second and if i missed a motion mr aggie i made the motion mr hart secretary any further discussion could i just add something question mr almeida thanks so i just wanted to add that with that eight so the plan so that everybody knows so the city council has the transfer for 871 000 in front of them for tomorrow night and the plan is going to be to use

the 871 thousand dollars towards the athletic fields so so you know going into it that that is the plan moving forward so thank you and there goes zero um so we have a motion in a second because uh mr mr almeida when when did we learn about this 2.2 million what date was it so it happened it was i believe it was right around right around february vacation we got the letter

so we started working with the city very shortly thereafter and the appropriation went through right after our april school committee meeting is when it went through and so it i know we're kind of we you know if we we almost made the timing for the april meeting we just missed it so that's why we're requesting the approval tonight i'm just wondering why is it separate that's that would be

i'm sorry maybe i didn't hear that last comment mr sorry it says they didn't fulfill its budgeted net school spending by 2.2 million yep in the letter yeah so why don't we get why didn't we just get 2.2 million because i the one thing why are we waiting on 871 because they identified the funding for the 1.4 million dollars and we're still researching the 870 000 where they come up with it

and now that's all done so now that's on the council's agenda it's on the agenda for tomorrow night yes sir so i would like to make an amendment to the motion to say that we're going to spend 2.298 381 on the athletic fields as mr almeida just indeed that was as long as the appropriation is approved tomorrow night well we can just say can we just say pending approval tomorrow okay that's fine

mr aguiar's new motion is the amended motion for the 2.2 whatever the change is after that um can i get a second on that uh second i have a motion second any discussion on both groups of funds going to the fields hearing none deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss laravey yes miss pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12 17 is a discussion and vote to

approve transfer as presented by kevin almeida our chief financial officer so this is just a regular transfer we'll be coming back with another one i'm sure in june and our final transfer we are transferring 160 000 into classroom supplies and 19 000 into the water sewer account so we have two numbers 19 and 160 transferring any discussion on those transfers i'm looking for a motion in a second one

question sir oh yeah of course let's see if anybody uh motions i'll make a motion to approve with a question i have a motion from mr aguiar can i get a second before mr randy's question i have a motion a second for mr rogers mr aguiar could we please get a uh a one pager or a span of information related to the preventative maintenance uh having the surplus from the superintendent for next week yes all set

thank you anything further deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss larabee yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12 18 is a discussion and vote to approve a year to date budget report is presented by kevin almeida our chief financial officer so this is the report as of april 30th we've spent 75 percent to date we are taught we are on target to meet our

budget for the end of the year the as of this time the insurance we're projecting about a 300 000 surplus at this time but it's subject to change um and that's where we are with the update for this month can we uh motion to a question i have a motion to approve do i have a second and then i'll go to mr again can i get a second second second bobby or miss roger exposed second then

mr again so mr um healthcare yes uh at for several years now since 2018 i've been advocating that school lunch program pay for the healthcare yes out of the nutrition account you know how often how much that is i don't have it in front of me i i don't i don't know exactly how much it was the last time i had calculated it it was some it's just over three hundred thousand dollars per year

but uh it's all dependent on who has health care within the school lunch account and that changes every year so i think the last time i did it was probably about two years ago can i please request to the superintendent that for the next meeting we have an agenda item related to making that department self-sufficient reason why i say that is if that's a 300 000 expense that we're going to reimburse that 300 000

the 300 000 that we've got a surplus and the health care is going to be now 600 000 and i'd like that at the next meeting so that before we close our books we know exactly what we have sure it's just a simple request no motions or anything and i do support this thank you sir i have a motion in a second anything further uh deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey

is johar yes miss laramie yes it's pereira it's rodericks yes mary yes uh 13 is obviously informational retirements resignations motion to accept and place on file 13.1 13.2 13.3 appointments can i get a second on those second deb please call the role yes mr bailey yes mr harm yes miss laravey yes herrera mr rodriguez yes yes any new business to come before the committee tonight the motion to accept

and place on file 13.4 oh we bet we left one off i'm sorry so we have to do one more 13.4 i have a motion need a second on the last piece second i have motion second dead please call the roll miss dragon yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes ms larabee yes herrera is roderick yes yes i need new business to come before the committee chairman mr again mr chairman

just a question i was reviewing the uh facilities meeting and i don't know if i missed it as part of this agenda not being there there's something about use of the school for a carnival maternal school oh um actually i believe that that was subcommittee and i didn't know if that was on here no you're right mr aguiar that was on the agenda we did um uh talk about that at the facilities in

operation but they have withdrawn their request um that's been canceled they're gonna do something uh during school i see thank you very much you're welcome 15 is there a request for executive session there would be a need can i get a motion in a second to enter into one motions i have a motion a second mr assad please read why sure national laws chapter 38 section 2187 to review and approve the executive session

minutes for april 11 2022 regular school committee meeting also national law chapter 38 section 28 1 to review the open meeting law complaint dated april 11 2022 filed by patrick higgins regarding april 11 2022 and approving minutes for february 14 2022 met march 1 2022 march 7 2022 march 8 2022 march 9th 202 and march 14 2022 in a timely matter mr higgins alleges the school committee

did not approve the minutes in a timely manner national laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all cafeteria employees former school system represented by the american federation of state county and municipal employees council 93 local 1118 as the chairs determine an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining

position of the committee national laws chapter 38 section 21a3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all maintenance employees of the forward school system represented by the american federation of state county and municipal employees council 93 local 1118 is the as the chairs determined an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee

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manager cherise taylor assistant superintendent of student services and strategic integration uh the committee would reconvene there may or may not be statements at that time could i get a roll call deb please mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss larabee yes ms pereira mrs rodricks yes mayor coogan yes recess for executive session

back in order deb please call the roll mr again mr bailey here mr harp here miss larabee yes mr rodriguez here mayor coogan yep uh anything to come before the committee mr hart um may i make a motion to approve the executive session minutes for april 11 2022 regular school committee meeting second sorry it's late yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes mrs pereira mr rodriguez yes yep

yeah yep make a motion to modify contract as negotiated for charisse taylor second

yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss marvey yes miss herrera miss rodricks yes mayor coogan yep mr heart and make a motion to approve the fraa contract as negotiated i have a motion in a second deb please call the role

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hold on hold on hold on we've got some clarification they're clarifying that right hang on one second please want to get this right my apologies um make a motion to approve f-r-e-a contract as negotiated it's f-r-e-a kev yes thank you you're welcome i need a second second so i get a second go ahead deb please call the role mr argue yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes miss pereira mr rodricks yes

mayor coogan yes anything further to come before the committee i'll entertain a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second please call the roll miss drag yeah yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laramie yes pereira chris rodriguez yeah

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