6.12.2023 Fall River School Committee

I'd like to call to order the public hearing for school choice on Monday June 12th at Durfee High School Deb would you please call the roll Mr agya Mr Bailey Mr Hart here miss laravey here Ms Pereira Ms Roderick here mayor Coogan here we have a quorum salute to the flag please

just a quick note couple of notifications School Committee Member Paul Hart is joining us by zoom and pursuant to the open meeting law any person making audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting to any medium attendees are there for advice it's such recordings of Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible

do we have any citizens input Deb Charlie are you here for the uh for the school choice no go ahead and talk right now thank you is that the only one on the on the seat Kenny yep okay go ahead go ahead Mr Chase

so start now yeah right now you're up well I just wanted to say something just a very simple something that we have to get back to the main themes of Education that of teaching the kids common sense ability to analyze and not so much memorize what is being taught by the teacher or the text but that they are able to analyze problems and come up with proper Solutions um especially in math science English

in history that we have true history taught here if we don't know what has happened in the past how are we going to stop having that return in the future it's only by knowing what has gone on and to disregard that I feel is danger to the education of our children right now we're probably around uh around around the 30th or so in the world as far as Nations go for

Math and Science that's for Math and Science for Math and Science when I was uh in high school we were either first second or third we were right up there at the top and the pandemic the way it was handled um different social things that are coming into the schools these are injuring our children for generations to come and we have to get it so that they are thinking students when they leave

this school and the school system that's all I have to say thank you thank you this hearing is on school choice school choice for out of District students in grades 6 to 12 for school year 23 24 anyone like to comment on school choice hearing none school choice for non-resident students in grades K to 5 for the Florida Public School Employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for 2324

any comment on that I'll read them again just so everybody's clear ance hearing is on school choice for our district students in grades 6 to 12 for the 23 24 school year and it's also for school choice for non-resident students in grades K to five for the Fargo Public School Employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for the 23-24 school year any comments I'll read it one more time so people can

make a motion and will vote to approve it school choice for out of District students in grades 6 to 12 for the 23-24 school year and school choice for non-resident students in grades K to five for the Fall River Public School years employees consistent with the collective bargaining agreement for the 23-24 school year motion to improve I'll I'll let um we'll pass it over I'm sorry um Ms

larvae I gave you some wrong information hearing no discussion points on that I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so move second I have a motion a second Deb could you please call the roll Mr drag yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laraveen yes Miss Pereira Ms rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes adjourned

more of a school committee for Monday June 12th quickly uh Paul Hart is joining us by Zoom um Deb would you please call the roll Mr idea yeah yeah Miss Pereira here miss rodericks here mayor Coogan here uh suit to the flag

with liberty and justice for all pursuant to the open meeting law any person we make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible three no citizens input for this meeting

there was one on the first meeting we'll go right to the recognition Awards and as we do every year the school committee will be honoring 35 of our retirees for the 22-23 year we should probably go down oh there's no one here okay there's no one already

okay so we'll just read off okay so on behalf of the recognition committee we have the privilege of recognizing 35 retirees who have devoted their professional lives to serving students families and our communities so we are incredibly grateful for the commitment expertise and passion that's played a crucial role in the work here in our district and we turn it over to superintendent Ponce to celebrate the

dedication contribution of these staff members thank you very much I personally would like to thank all of the recipients for their years of service to follower Public Schools we have people who have dedicated themselves to making our district better and we appreciate you so for Manuel Batello custodian facilities and operations 37 years of service Donna Cabral who served as a clerk and then the executive the

coordinator for student transportation uh 37 37 years of service to Fall River Public Schools Keith Green a custodian facilities and operations 31 years of service to Fall River Christine Donovan physical therapist assistant in the special ed Department 28 years of service Brenda Boudreau teacher interventionist district-wide and she's 27 years of service to follow Public Schools Ralph

Coy paraprofessional for the district's 27 years of service Kathy Richard teacher Carol in Spencer Borden School 25 years of service Natalia Silva Patterson School adjustment counselor and vice principal throughout the District 25 years of service Susan Blackburn paraprofessional at Green 24 years of service Grace farius teacher at Green 24 years of service Lori Gray cafeteria work in the

nutrition Department 24 years of service Darlene Eckard paraprofessional in the district 23 years service Karen Long nurse and director of nursing for the district 23 years of service Rochelle petnati teacher Fine Arts 22 years of service Philomena Moreau paraprofessional special ed Department Sylvia School 21 years of service Joseph Patricio Plummer facilities and operations 21 years of service Cynthia

Silva physical therapist assistant special needs Department 21 years of service urania Carrero Ferreira teacher at Durfee High School 20 years of service Michael D Almeida custodian facilities and operations 20 years of service Paul Gomes custodian facilities and operations 20 years of service Linda Batello paraprofessional at Green School 19 years of service William Brown music teacher for the district 19 years of

service Maria LeBlanc teacher at Spencer Borden 18 years of service Rafael Villa teacher at Durfee High School 18 years of service Maria Medeiros cafeteria worker in the Nutrition department 17 years of service Pamela Reinhardt nurse nursing department 16 years of service Gail Freitas paraprofessional at Stone School 13 years of service Karen sebastio custodian facility and operation 13 years of service

Edward Almeida custodian facilities and operations 12 years of service Sharon Salway teacher coach interventionist at Talbot middle school 11 years of service Michael Cabral custodian facilities and operations 10 years of service Sandra Rodriguez parent Community facilitator district clerk five years of service Michelle gilmette speech language pathologist assistant special ed Department four years of service and

Kevin Galloway facilities and operations one year of service thank you everyone for your dedication to follow public schools and again I'll offer the same kind of recognition thanks everybody for their service with that item number four is our subcommittee reports policy subcommittee Mr Hart thank you Mr Mayor the policy subcommittee met on May 22nd on the agenda that evening with several policy

recommendations from the district superintendent Ponce gave an overview and explained the changes and recommendations that were made by masc the first agenda item was to review the addition on certain policies the policies were consolidations of one or more existing policies due to a new policy District employee cell phone policy was referred for this technology subcommittee for further vetting the

committee voted to refer the remaining policies to the full committee the second agenda item was to recommend it was a recommendation from masc to be deleted Mr Cabral recommended removing the technology donation policy and a suggestion was made to delete bring your own device policy to apply to students only all these policies referred to the full committee the third agenda item was

a group of policies that had minor language change or change to legal reference or formatting the subcommittee reviewed the policies and all policies were referred to the full committee and that was it thank you thank you Mr Hart um I believe that um Mrs rodericks has the special education alternative subcommittee report thank you so special ed alternative at an early childhood meaning met on June 5th we did reviews

overstein's request for additional administrative support within the special ed Department the primary responsibilities of that role are really centered around ensuring our special ed policies procedures and programming are in compliance with special education in deci regulations so we're really looking for this position to bridge some gaps between our schools and families as we

build a strong Department that supports our students in the way that they need to be supported so that job description was referred here with suggestions for review in a vote we also review the expansion of our literacy instruction to Target third graders and up with additional training and implementation of some targeted curriculum supports we did review our current standards and mechanisms for

credit recovery at the high schools and additionally the Continuum of Care within the special ed programs across the district so some additional information was requested so that way we can further explore what that continuity and Equity looks like across student groups and programs we did hold the discussion regarding RPA and we're going to be reconvening at a later date are you doing the next one also no okay

so we'll hold technology over the subcommittee report uh to the next meeting um item number five is the superintendent's report superintendent Potts thank you Mr Mayor so we have a couple of updates so durfey and rlm RPA both held graduations on Thursday June 1st uh 2023 the Robert almedaris resiliency Preparatory Academy sent forth 51 Scholars students staff and families gathered at Morton to celebrate the

graduation certificate celebration and on Friday June 2nd Durfee High School set forth 540 Scholars at their graduation ceremony students staff and families gathered Friday evening to celebrate this Milestone We wish all of our graduates their very best as they move on to the next leg of their journey be it the workforce military or college and we thank all teachers administrators

and staff and families for supporting them along the way we also have a summer programming update every school in our district is offering summer programming opportunities for students the programs vary by school but what we are offering are enrichment programs learning acceleration credit recovery programs academic support and esy and some schools are offering a combination of a couple of them for esy

or extended school year that will be held at Sylvia for grades K-5 from 8 30 to 1 30 Monday through Thursday laterno will host the Pre-K from 8 30 to 1 30 full day and half day session will be 8 30 to 11 and 11 to 1 30. Durfee High School will host the grade six young adults program and the special ed departments will also be providing compensatory services at various

locations pending where the need is also we are offering 21st century summer programming at Doran we're hosting July 6 through August 3rd 8-2 Henry Lord also same time they will have 21st century green Morton and Talbot all have 21st century programs being held at those schools and Durfee High School also has some offerings Durfee summer school will be held on July 5th through August 3rd

Monday through Thursday from 8 to 12.

it's open to Durfee High School students and surrounding high school students also that's unlimited so they usually host a few hundred students 21st century Community Learning Center will be held July 6 through August 3rd at Durfee High school learners and high-risk freshmen that usually Services about 120 students internship program opportunity at Grant to hire college and high school students to work as interns

at the middle and elementary 21st century program sites so 10 and students are going to be taking part in that and evolve is also hosting on July 5th through August 3rd Monday through Thursday from 9 to 12. they also have an academy going on for any students who need additional support and in addition to all of that we have the Durfee summer enrichment program for K-12 students

Durfee Summit Richmond will be held from July 5th until August 11th Monday through Friday from 8 to 2 various enrichment activities for K-8 students take up students will take up up to four programs each day usually that hosts about 150 students any parent who has questions regarding summer programming program offerings should contact their child's School directly so that they can get the information

and finally we have a high rank update since our last school committee meeting we have hired 62 folks 28 teachers eight administrative positions 12 paraprofessionals nine educational support positions five Operational Support positions and conversely we have had 34 resignations 64 teachers for administrators nine paraprofessionals and five educational support positions in regards to recruitments we have a

recruitment event scheduled for Wednesday June 21st from 12 30 to 4 and this event is going to take place at cuss Middle School in the community room that's it thank you superintendent any points no item number seven is the approval of minutes we have three sets we have the approval of all sets posted second uh I'll read them we have the subcommittee meeting instructional five one twenty three we

have the public hearing from 5 15 23 and we have the regular school committee meeting from 5 15 23 we're approving three sets of minutes I have a motion this second any discussion Deb would you please call the roll Mr again yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Barbie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes we have a number of travel requests motion approve all travel requests posted

um we have a motion to approve all travel requests do I have a second I have a motion in a second any discussion on travel Deb would you please call the roll Mr Egg yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravee yes Miss Pereira yes Ms rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes item number nine is our acceptance of donations we have two donations tonight um one for Watson from Project Lead the

Way for seven thousand and one from one from the Green Middle School from Dr Dunn uh 35 cases of Pure Life water and 34 cases of Poland Springs Water could I get a motion to accept motion to accept second Deb could you please call the roll Mr Dragon yes yes superintendent I know I kind of said I'm sorry but yeah you did that's okay from Project Lead the Way to Watson Elementary School principal Hogue

accepts seven thousand and eighty two dollars Project Lead the Way for Project Lead the Way material kits replacement kits and teacher training and from ready Fresh Blue Triton Green Elementary two Green Elementary School Dr Elizabeth Dunn accepts 35 cases of Pure Life water 34 cases of Poland Spring water and refreshments for PTO events and field day thank you very much thank you superintendent item number 10

is the approval of contracts now we have a number of them and as we always do if anyone has any they want to pull out Miss Rogers which one can we pull out Diamond I'm sorry the diamond contract the diamond contract okay and the lighting system and the diamond contract and the lighting system anything else Mr Bailey the diamond contract for cost for the Forum public school yeah she just

took that one that was this project okay the lighting so diamond and lighting then a can I get a motion to accept the others motion except I have a motion a second Deb would you please call the roll that's dry again yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Perrone yes Mr Rogers yes mayor Kruger yes so speaking to the diamond um contract Miss Rodricks I just I just need to abstain from that vote oh I'm

sorry uh Mr Bailey you also as well I'm you're staying as well oh so we have two abstentions

a motion and a second to accept the diamond contract with except with extension a second I have a motion to accept that would you please call the roll Miss Dragon Mr Bailey Mr Hart yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick abstain mayor Kruger yes uh lighting contract yep Mr pachico I just have can you just give a little background on that I don't know if I missed the dialogue the

Barbizon lighting contract Africa so um the the system that's in cost right now is is in disrepair but it also was not a system that we have matched in other in other theaters so it's an upgrade along with the board and other devices within the um within the system um it's going to be paid out of school Improvement money I'm sorry School use money and a combination of other items

but it's um it's the most used theater we have um so it does it does get a lot of use and we've had some um I don't want to say complaints but some some interest in whether or not we were going to upgrade that system so that's where we stand so it's vastly different from it's different it's just it wasn't um robust as robust as uh as this obviously but also more right

so it's just simply the upgrades yeah it does have it does have a few more bells and whistles um you know the system is an upgrade so it is going to be for those who've used that data before this will definitely be a positive Improvement some of I don't have the details well Scott I mean so the upgrade is going to provide for new fixtures new control it's called DMX control new lighting board basically

it's going to mimic the other auditoriums that we have so that when Mr Bigelow and his crew work an event everything can be programmed and that could actually be the program can be used in different areas right now we have basically used paper clips to keep that system together and when there's a rental Ken or myself get a phone call that the lighting system fails and we have people there renting the facility

so this is just going to be lighting rigging wiring and the main control board for this the system did we get bids um so Barbizon is one of the only ones that it's state contract pricing and they're a sole source and they've done all of our auditoriums so in order to try to keep it uniform across the board for us to be able to preventive maintenance moving forward we went with Barbizon okay thank you I yield

any further discussion on the lighting I'm looking for a motion an ex second to accept a second Deb please call the roll yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes

next item is Grants and we have none tonight Committee of the whole we took that up earlier in the public hearing I'm looking for a vote to approve school choice motion to approve for grades 6 to 12 out of District in grades K to five for non-resident students I have a motion to approve I have a second second I have a motion a second discussion on school choice Deb would you please call the roll Miss

Ile yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes item 12.2 is an updating presentation on coaching for change by Marquis Taylor and Drew Woodward director of guidance

good evening everyone we're here to give you a brief update and overview of the coaching for change program I'm excited to be partnering with Marquis Taylor and Victoria here for this presentation and I'm going to turn it over to Marquis now thank you guys for this opportunity to update you guys uh my three objectives today is update you guys on the coaching for Change Model uh talk about the

progress talk about what's next and then give you guys an opportunity to give us a quick q a um so I'm I'm not going to go through every slide we I think you guys have a packet we it's kind of long and Drew's been very specific keep it keep it to 10 minutes so um so uh coaching for change over the last uh three years we've been focused in on providing additional supports to kids by

bringing college students in the schools historically we've been in after school uh program but over the last two years we've piloted um an in-school model to fill the gaps because of the staffing needs the the Urgent needs of young people and really using our college students as um added support to help young people in a myriad of ways right now we're we're having our college students help in one

of three ways they're either academic support providing academic support they're helping guidance counselors with behavior or they're supporting Family Outreach and engagement um and so our college students are trained on mentoring de-escalation diversity equity and inclusion uh academic support strategies first aid mental health and small group facilitation the of the last year we we

three of those are brand new first state mental health diversity equity and inclusion academic support strategies to make sure that our college students are equipped with what is needed and over the last couple of years we've been tweaking our program to improve how we work with principals how we work with our site staff also um and yeah that's a little bit more of what we talked about

um and then so this is how we've been working with our school staff around communication Victoria so these are just a few ways that we communicate with the school staff from us at coaching for change so I'm one of the Hub managers for Fall River so I communicate with our coaches at the school we have monthly meetings where we talk about the successes that the program has had as well as wins maybe

things that could go better and we put a bunch of coaches and site directors from the different schools in Fall River in a meeting with me and Drew so we can all talk about ways that like oh maybe cuss has a strategy that will work for more in so it's a really great way just to facilitate and have conversations we also hold an in-person training for our coaches where they get to meet their

mentors beforehand and they're able to kind of make a strategy for the school year so they all go in prepared ready to meet their students with a strategy in mind and then we also do end of the year debriefs with the principals and the coaches where we can talk about kind of what to expect for the next year coming so we're all on the same page but these are just the strategies that we use so

we can stay in communication so nothing gets swept under the rug and we all have a clear kind of way that that we talk and that kind of goes into our Mentor management as well so we don't leave them out we also have an in-person training for them we have mandatory check-ins that our College coordinators will do with our mentors so there's just a one-on-one check-in so they can talk

about anything that's going on we also have college coordinator support so whenever our mentors need any kind of support they have that college coordinator there to help them and then we also have our trainings which we went over before and we also created a handbook that has a bunch of you know warm-ups that they can do with the kids ways to help the kids if they ever get stuck and need immediate help

so uh in your in your packet you have some specific information about the number of students served and the number of mentors that are at each of our middle schools and that's what this slide is showing overall if we can go to the next slide um coaching for change has served 847 middle school students this year and that was compared to 570 students last year and one of the big changes or enhancement is this year is

that coaching for change has been piloting their in-school model with three of our middle schools so that they can support and Mentor more students awesome so one of the key strategies we're trying to implement right now is making sure we're bringing in diverse college students that have this have similar backgrounds uh to the students they're serving um so this is just a quick demographic

of what our college students male female students of color and one of our key strategies is being able to identify college students that are not going down a education path right so they couldn't be they potentially could be criminal justice Majors sociology Majors Social Work majors and not thinking of a career in education they're spending anywhere from 4 to 12 hours in the schools working directly

with kids and through seeing through watching young people grow and change they're beginning to see themselves as Educators and wanting to pursue a career in education um so I'll let Victoria talk a little bit about the stories yeah so if you read these are just some stories that we've had from our coaches that photo is two of our mentors Royale and Connor and that is Emily from cuss so they had a

great uh time with their after-school program but if you want you can read those stories it is really just them saying how you know they've seen a change with their students their students have been able to connect with them they've been able to kind of see you know not only the college mentors take leadership and be able to practice their facilitation and their leadership skills but the students also learning

from them and being able to be leaders themselves and so this is some of the the coach the college students survey data um hello my name is Lincoln patello and I was a coaching for change College Mentor in the summer of 2022. I'm currently working as a social studies teacher at Matthew J Cox Middle School this would not be possible without the partnership between Fall River Public Schools and

coaching for change as there was coaching for change that placed me at cuss and led to a job offer and my current position at the school coaching for change has also allowed me to connect with some of my students and they have all said that they would love to do it again next year even asking for more resources and time with it and so that's one of our college students that were higher that was hired

by Fall River Public Schools and so hello my name is Lincoln patello there we go okay um and so on the chart here these are college students that worked in Fall River and you'll notice that some of them got hired outside of the district so now that we have a better understanding of what uh the program format is going to look like during the school day and after school this upcoming year our major focus is really

becoming uh more intentional and strategic around how we attract our college students to get jobs here in Fall River Our intention is that 60 of our college students end up that that Mentor here in Fall River will get jobs here so that's one of the things that we're really looking to to enhance this year and then so this is to end on a um with covid we ended our um our college visits but this year we

were able to get a college visit back in and here's a quick video uh of them visiting Stone Hill College yeah so we just wrapped up an amazing day at Stonehill College in northeastern Massachusetts where we hosted a college field trip for the middle school students of Henry Lord Community School in Fall River this was for a lot of them their first time at Stonehill College and for several of them first time on a

college campus in general a lot of students from the communities we work with only hear about the colleges that are right next to where they grew up and don't get the exposure to colleges that just might be a little bit farther down the road and so we get a lot of pleasure and Beautiful Moments bringing college students to see what is available for them when they get to this level what's

up I'm Moses and this is me visiting Stone Hill it's really cool I would enjoy it oh it means the world to me actually because this is why I want to do this I want to be in education because I want to be a part of the process of students reaching their full potential it is especially impactful for us when the college students themselves get to show the students in middle school

around their college campus and so two amazing college mentors for coaching for change took our middle school students around showing them where they go to class where their dorms are where their friends hang out and all of the cool amenities that are available to them including the gyms and Fields and Recreation places it's just super rewarding honestly just going and knowing that you make an

impact and you make some of their days honestly sometimes you're the reason they want to go to school and they just love hanging out with you so that's really just been one of the most rewarding things it's really important to be able to have someone or kids to look up to and to talk to and turn to because sometimes they may not have that at home so you can always be that person for them I'm

here because I've seen physique and I want to go to college definitely joins you for seeing just go out there and get involved in you'll love it it was really a special day for us here we hope to keep doing this moving forward so that we can show our growing students what life can be like if you stay on path to graduate and persist

so um we have more slides but we won't go through them but we'll uh open up if you guys have any questions anybody have any questions for coaching for change that was an excellent presentation Miss laravey just quick um I how are you thank you for the presentation thank you very well done I love this program but I see that the numbers in each School fluctuate a little bit from in school out of school

but as school to school they differ a lot so can you just explain why that is definitely so some schools are we're doing after school programming where we've struggled with enrollment other schools we've been able to really build up enrollment and so we've we've been able to Pilot we're not pilot but go back and forth between uh finding and figuring out different strategies to be able to grow it

um and we're still figuring out what the in-school model looks like exactly but that that's kind of where trying to figure out what what it looks like at each school that's why the numbers vary from school to school right okay thank you also I see the no 847 it's not on my screen but we know it was slower last year right compared to this year it looks like the numbers are really getting high

do you have any expectation for each school as the numbers I I guess so you see them yeah so I think it varies from school to school based on whether it's an in-school program or after school program okay so if it's in school we're starting to notice that we can reach more students because if they're going into the classroom and they're there for three to four periods that's 15 to 20

kids at a time whereas in the after school model they're going to serve anywhere from six to ten students on a on a day-to-day basis right does each school have a an expectation of how many students who want to put through the program sure so um that's a good question in the after school program all five schools do have an after school program our goal is really to have 30 students or more going

into next year for the after school program for the in-school model it depends on the college mentors some schools want one college mentors other are piloting two or three so the more College mentors that are placed in school the more students would be served thank you I yield anything further Miss rodericks how are kids identified to participate so after school I'm assuming it's a sign up but

what does that look like during the school day so during this during the school day it all depends on what classes they feel as though need that help for example in Talbot they have a mentor that works with kids with behavioral issues in a class where she's able to talk to them kind of give them that one-on-one support in other schools it may be um you know maybe a math class that like

some of the kids are falling behind in so they'll place a mentor in there to work one-on-one with those kids in that class and then it really just depends if they feel like the kids might need a boost in their ESL classes they'll have a mentor go in there to help them so it's really what we talk about in like the meetings like you know where do you feel like you might want to place these

mentors does that stay consistent like once they're assigned to a classroom do they stay in that classroom or are they rotating some schools rotate some keep them in a single classroom okay I had one other question and it just went out so when it comes back to me I will ask so I yield for now anything further for coaching for change so my question was just um typically what grades do you um see the highest

um enrollments from students and then also um working primarily with the Middle School correct yeah um how do we um I guess this is a question for ourselves how do we assure that those kids who go to high school were sticking with them as well because it seems like you guys are doing a great job I'm looking at that you know that kid who leaves coaching for change in middle school and then goes to high school

to still kind of have those relationships with mentors because I do think that's important to continue those relationships so um for the first part one of the things that we noticed that we one of the strategies we talked with uh Amy about her big strategy was uh or Amy Reinhardt uh she had a sixth grade um homegrown type of strategy which has allowed us to really grow and become a

part of a community and so that's a strategy we're going to try and pilot in other schools uh rather than than it being a eighth grade or seventh grade experience start at a younger age to make it more integrated in the Middle School uh culture at across all the middle schools as it relates to the high school we're trying to explore how to integrate or use coaching for change with Early College we don't know exactly

what that looks like uh pre-pandemic we had it so that the high school students were working in the after school model and so we're still trying to understand how to how to bring those two things back together with school schedules and busing and everything else prayer yeah just a quick question you had mentioned that some schools have one Mentor some have two what how is that determined is its lack of mentors is it

principles determining what is the determining Factor lack of mentors you're both nodding okay

yeah so I guess it all depends if the school it's really principal dependent we can kind of talk to them like you know we have this many mentors how many do you feel work good with your school for example um Talbot again I talk a lot with Albert um but they only needed one in school this semester because they felt as though like the students to Mentor ratio that's just what worked

um and they had one Mentor that was willing to do it so they're like that's good for us it just depends on again how many students they're looking to serve that year um if they're able to manage more than one Mentor things like that okay thank you love the program thank you um both for all the important really important work you do that's it mayor oh oh hey guys uh appreciate it coaching for change all

the way thanks for coming down giving us an update thank you thank you 12-3 is a discussion and vote to approve the use of the former turfy high school music Wing at the Nagle Auditorium from the Massachusetts National Guard 215th Army ban from July 1 to December 31 24 is presented by Camp Chico so um this request came before us quite a while ago before covet and the committee approved the use of of the

auditorium covet hit the renovation project that's causing them to leave their Armory was delayed it's well underway in the design stage now and they're looking for occupancy in July so that they can continue work the there's two units in that work out of that particular Armory the one that's requesting the use of of Durfee is up the Nagel is the 215th band so they're looking for obviously rehearsal practice and then

um the uh the quarters themselves he'll probably be three to four people who will be there daily and then on the um one weekend a month or whenever they do regular exercise that would be a full a full weekend a full week I'm sorry and then um in the summertime it would be a two-week stint so there'll always be activity there Monday through Friday uh once in a while on the weekends and it's

strictly for the music wing and the auditorium um we do have a couple of issues um in some of those areas it it may or may not rain on them and they know those areas they've already walked through them they do remember what we had showed them when they were back and it's really not much worse than what it was back then um no better either so they know what they're moving into we are going to

secure that area for them so that no one can get into their area nor will they be able to you know go anywhere else in the building there's plenty of space more than or at least equal to what they have currently and that's the request this is um the letter is is the request and then they will draw up a formal document and and get that to us for Signature if it is approved

I need you said the old Jeffy Auditorium I have a motion and the second Deb would you please call the roll yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes 12.4 is a discussion and vote to approve the addition of the following policies is referred by the motion approved and presented by Tom Coogan human resource director I have a motion to approve we have a second I have a motion a second Coogan

these these policy changes come in three separate buckets as explained by committeeman Hart earlier this morning he's the chair of the policy subcommittee the first group of policies is really just these two um we'll call them Consolidated policies they take one or more policies and just merge them into a single unit conversely you will note that that in the section that recommends some

deletionism policies are those policies that are related to this as we merge them into one we're going to delete the other separate policies so there's really just those two policies as recommended there's no significant language changes in either of these groups any any discussion Deb would you please call the roll on 12.4 Mr agnow Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Ms laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss

rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes 12.5 is discussion to vote to approve the deletion of the following policies is referred by the policy subcommittee and presented by Tom Coogan human resource director motion to approve second I have a motion any discussion on that one dad would you please call the roll oh I'm sorry Miss Rogers can we just clarify what those were just so that way folks know

so there were a number of policies that are either redundant because they are covered in law or regulation if you'll notice the first uh five or six policies at the bottom of page nine of the agenda those are the policies that were just Consolidated in the previous motion by the committee some of the other policies that are um on the second page there again are either covered by a uh a law

or a reg and with the exception of Technology donation policy which is not necessary due to one that District's capacity for supplying technology now as well as security requirements that um Force us to not take technology from the outside and those last two are technology policies that were deleted but referred over to the subcommittee for reconsideration in another form yeah I appreciate the explanation just

so that folks knew what we were voting on I yelled thank you any further discussion Deb please call the roll on 12.5 Mr Bailey yes I'm sorry Mr argue Mr Hart yes Miss larabee yes Ms Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes 12.6 is the discussion and vote to approve the updated policies as referred by the policy subcommittee and presented by Tom cooking human resource director

the policies contained here in this particular release of policies typically we get them a couple times a year from the school committee and Deb feeds them out to the committee in smaller bunches this particular group was significant it was between 80 and 90 policies these policies that you see here the significant there's no significant changes typically what the policy does it either refers to a new law that

updates and and doesn't change the language of the policy it's just the legal reference at the end of the policy has changed in some cases it's the the gender pronouns that are in the old policy he she gets changed over to there to make it more like gender neutral in the language and there may be some small grammatical Corrections in the language in one or two cases we have a policy

that we've worked with an attorney on the outside Michael Joyce or attorney Assad to improve the language from the masc or to adopt it to to our own so we would ask that these policies be adopted in a group and the second half of this release will be dealt with in a second meeting there are a few items that require a little further discussion they'll be pushed off to the second

group so we can dig into them a little more and those will come back to the committee either next month or the month after any discussion Miss prayer and do we and I think I've mentioned this before but do we have a policy that addresses our like zoom using Zoom for these meetings and such um we adopted a policy during the covet restrictions most of those have gone away however if we need to adopt one

like for the case of Mr Hart tonight we'd have to do a second policy and reenact that but just in general I've mentioned it before I think it makes sense that it's great that we can use technology I'm all for it um but I know where where I'm employed we have a policy I'm sure the teachers probably have a policy yet especially when going to Executive session I just think it makes sense

go ahead shell it was extended by the government to 25. it's a state regulation okay that's why we use zoom tonight okay we we thought the deadline ended but the governor had extended it okay but it wasn't really necessarily a question about tonight if is this once that ends are we able to continue to use zoom or no okay that's what I'm asking if we're going to continue to use it I

think a policy in place would be good just to cover ourselves but if we don't need it because we're only going to have it for a little while that's fine too thank you I need a motion in a second question Oh Mr Bailey I'm sorry buddy so these are just the ones that were amended um and the other ones are going to come before the subcommittee that you correct there's a second batch that you'll get

in the next month or two all right Deb would you please call the roll let's try again Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey it's Pereira yes Mr Rogers yes mayor Kruger yes 12-7 is a discussion and vote to approve the director of Grant's program job description is presented by Tom Cogan human resource director and Dr Tracy Curley assistant superintendent part of our updating of job descriptions

the previous holder of this particular role has submitted a notice to retire so in looking at the job description which had a different title director of school Improvement and Leadership we're converting it back over to a director of Grant programs this is essentially your title one director job description this particular position also involves a number of Grants title one uh title two

title four there's a number of them as well as the 21st century programs which have multiple sites throughout the district so this position of Grant manager or Grant director is the one that's been retooled and updated to to have the language of the the new job duties associated with that position any discussion can I get a motion in a second I have a motion a second Deb would you please call the roll Mr again

Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes 12 8 is a discussion vote to approve the Early College coordinator counselor job description is presented by Tom Coogan human resource director and Jewel Woodward director of guidance uh Mr Woodward's here to help me with any particular questions about the job I just like to sort of frame it for the

committee this job is essentially a guidance counselor position however it does have some specific duties that are not typical to the regular guidance counselor role at the high school the early college program will be somewhere between 250 and 300 students next year so the normal assignment of students in the building for their regular class needs and their other coursework falls to the the Cadre of

guidance counselors that we have at the high school this particular position is designed to support those students in the early college program and has a particular focus on those students who are not typically well represented at the college level and it's designed to make those two or two and tier three interventions and help those students be successful in the early college program

I think the committee would be familiar with a certain profile of student that comes from a background that makes the transition to college fairly easy for the for the student however they may have family members and other people that they're following in the footsteps of and they know know what's needed to be successful at that level these these other students would be the ones that

may need some extra support they may be the first member of a family to be going on to college or participating in the early college program and the workload is a little bit different at the college level so this position would support those students and that's not typically what happens with a regular guidance counselor who's concerned with getting a student through 9th 10th 11th and 12th

grades so this particular position is is basically a guidance Council position but it's tailored to support those students who have taken on the challenge of the early college program and I'll let Mr Woodward assist me with any particular questions because he's more well-versed in it but that's that's the basic cap cap capsule of the uh the job Miss laravee thank you um two-part question remind me how many

students are in the early college again and second question is who is responsible for these responsibilities now servicing the kids in the program now sure so this current school year we have 244 students in the early college program and you said what number is expected for next next year is over 300 we're projecting between 3 15 and 3 30 for next school year okay um currently the coordination of the

mtss system of supports uh it's kind of split up it's kind of an all hands on deck I do some of that work the Early College advisors do some of that work the academic specialist does some of that work in the counselors that are spread throughout the building I do some of that work and we envision especially with the growing and expanding population that we're seeing and we are hoping to continue that growth is that

there really needs to be a person who is um the centerpiece of that coordination and support so we envision this person really building and progress monitoring the multi-tiered system of support working with our partners at the three institutions of higher ed and our non-profit Partners along with the Durfee staff members who are involved and really as Mr Coogan said really focusing tier two and tier three

supports in a primary person model for the students who need the most support thank you Mr wood would would it be possible if you could just send us just a breakdown of all the staff members who are involved with um Early College just so I can get I can see well we can see I you know absolutely that's all absolutely thank you any further questions Miss rodericks so when we're talking about a caseload for

this particular position what are we thinking will it be all 300 that we're anticipating no so we're thinking A reduced caseload because of uh the coordination of support responsibilities uh that is also attached and also also these students are some of the students who may be a little bit more academically fragile maybe they're coming from an underrepresented uh subgroup that needs

a little little more support to make that transition to college easy easier so we're thinking approximately 40 to 50 percent of a normal caseload 30 to 40 students per grade level and then along with the other responsibilities what's the current caseload for the other guidance counsel counselor so uh for the for the typical counselor it's it's typically between 250 and 300 students we have some

specialized counselors as well such as a counselor specific for English language Learners at the foundational level and a counselor for students with disabilities specifically that has lower reduced caseload because of some of the specific responsibilities and supports needed to support those those students there are also three counselors who work with the uh the CTE programs I yields

anything further on 12.8 Mr Mr Bailey um as you know I mean you Aspire days I I think this is long overdue um so typically we're looking at like the 9th 10th grade students who um who need that support correct yeah so we typically uh on board towards the end of ninth grade in the early college program starts for grade 10 and it goes through grade 12. so typically in grade

10 students will will take an early college seminar or kind of prep class or onboard on-ramp class that also may take a college course to get their feet wet and then in Junior and Senior year they take two or more classes per semester and the idea really is for them to have a semester or two of college complete by the time they graduate that was my only question we pretty much that's the other questions I yield

anything further on 12.8 could I get a motion in a second motion to approve second Deb could you please call the roll this drag yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes yes 12-9 is a discussion and vote to approve the clerk Special Education Department job description is referred by the special education alternative education and early childhood subcommittees as

presented by Tom Coogan Director of Human Resources and Laurie obasham assistant superintendent special education so previously the clerk job description was rather generic it only contained the first I would say five or six items in the duties and responsibilities of the job description as uh assistant superintendent open chain came on board she wanted to get a better defined sense

of the responsibilities of that position and so she's worked back and forth with the clerical Union representatives to talk about what those specific duties might be and really just to call them out to show how that role is different than a regular clerk in a school setting or a clerk and payroll or something else so it's just a little bit finer design of the position I would call a committee's attention to

items six through 19 here which hats off to miss open chain for working with the the clerks Union in discussing any questions and answering any back and forth with that to make sure that those duties really reflect what the what the special ed clerks are actually doing at this time discussion on item 12-9 nope me Ms Rogers I just want to say that I appreciate the going through these positions and and checking on the

specificity and the um that's the word I'm looking for sort of the I guess the efficiency of how certain things are done because I think that's something that's been lacking in our department for quite a while so I just wanted to put that out there that I think these are much needed changes and just speaking as a special education parent who may not see all of this but this then helps the workflow that then

gets to our students so the end of the day really is about supporting our kids and our families and this kind of stuff is is really what we need so I'm just pointing it out that I appreciate that thank you anything further I'm looking for a motion in a second motion approved I have a motion a second dad would you please call the roll Mister yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes

yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Rodricks yes mayor Kruger yes 1210 is discussion and vote to approve the chief officer of special education compliance job description as referred by the special education alternative education early childhood and presented by Tom Coogan human resource director and Laurie obachane assistant superintendent of special education I'm just going to again frame the uh the

job description for the committee the committee has been generous in its offer to support the efforts of Ms open chain to sort of streamline and make the department more efficient but also to respond to the specific needs of the current circumstances this position is a is a new position uh relating to special education compliance Miss open Chain's been very thoughtful about the the needs and the situations

that the department has been confronted with most recently over the last couple years and this position is tailored to help address those needs and support her to allow her to continue with the other important work that she's doing she's certainly much better versed at this position than I am so I'll let her answer the questions on it but I'll hand it over to Ms ovanchi this is that position for a number two

person for special education Michelle bashane which we have discussed but I would like to know if anyone has any questions or discussion points on this one Mr Bailey I just wanted to ask um obviously because we've been going through this does this kind of suit what you were looking for and in terms of like the position and if this yes it is absolutely what I was looking for in terms of the position like I said before

the amount of hours compliance takes in the district this large it's overwhelming for my current staff as well as myself just responding to hearing requests in BCB bsea mediations again is taking up precious time from people being in classrooms with students with staff and for me to do the programming and Visionary work that needs to be done for you anything further Miss Rogers again I think this is a much

needed position because you're right the amount of time that we spend focusing on compliance or not focusing on compliance rather has really done us a disservice so I'm hoping that by adding some of these pieces that what we can do is free up our folks that are are working with our kids with our staff every single day that we can then support them in doing the work that they need to do so they're

not bogged down by this piece in addition I'm hoping that this lowers the number of compliance issues that we have because we have somebody overseeing it so with that in mind you know I think this is long overdue we have a huge district and a huge special education department and the other thing I hope that it does is that builds back some trust with families because when families are

filing for hearing or bsea mediation or just filing PRS complaints the trust is broken somewhere so we need to repair that and with better oversight of this and we can avoid these things moving forward for sure I yield anything further I'll entertain them do we have a motion in a second yet then motion approved I have a motion in a second Deb would you please call the roll Mr argue Mr

Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes American yes 1211 is discussion and vote to approve the specialized programming curriculum as referred by the special education alternative education early childhood and presented by Stephanie Kennedy director of English language arts

um hi uh we are I'm hoping to expand our current intervention programming um for students who have phonological deficits so those are deficits in the child's ability to decode English accurately which is holding them back from Reading fluently which is holding them back from comprehending text So currently in the district we have um Project Read happening in our lower grades we're hoping to expand the use of

Project Read and train up all interventionists and special Educators that would be providing tier three services to the students that we are targeting additionally we're hoping to expand into the middle school and potentially up into the high school with a program called Linguistics which is just the older um older child program of Project Read and so our hope is to have a thread of

phonological programming happening from K until kids no longer need it um by and we'd like to train up all staff that would be providing that intervention any discussion on a curriculum I'll entertain a motion second I have a motion a second Deb would you please call the home let's try again Mr Bailey Mr harp yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira Ms Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes thank you

nothing 12-2 is a discussion and vote to approve the project manager technology Services job description as referred by the technology subcommittee and presented by Scott Cabral the Chief Information officer and Tom Coogan the human resource director motion to approve I have a motion a second Mr cabal so this uh position is going to Encompass a lot of the new technologies that we have in the district as well as

oversee that realm of Technology with the security infrastructure card access and just be another tier of support to run all these major projects that take away from my day-to-day operations in the central office any questions for Mr Cabral any questions Miss Cabral um I have a motion a second hearing nothing Deb please call the roll Mr AG yeah Mr Bailey Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss

Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yep 12 13 is the discussion a vote to approve the district employee's cell phone policy as referred by the technology subcommittee and presented Again by Scott Cabral Chief Information officer Mr caball so up until this point we did not have a district employee cell phone policy so any employee that has a district-owned device moving forward

there is a basically a contract that has to be signed we will also be starting July 1st to use some more security measures in place for those District devices this was referred by the technology subcommittee to just put some strength and language into the contract which is in red there in your packets and it was unanimous unanimously referred to the full committee thank you Mr Cabral I have a motion a

second Deb no I need a motion I need a motion motion to approve I have a motion this second Deb would you please call the roll try again Mr Bailey Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Rodricks yes Mary Coogan yes 1214 is a discussion and broke vote to approve security cameras in school policies as referred by the technology subcommittee and presented by Scott Cabral Chief Information officer

promotional group I have a motion a second Mr cabal you want to tell us what that is so this is just updated language from the masc um there was some strengthened language put in there from the district um just basically regarding the use of security cameras in schools and part of the discussion from the technology subcommittee meeting is over the summer Mr pachico and I will be having signs

installed over the property that just lets people know that video recording is in progress at all time on our properties thank you we have a motion in a second that would you please do man call the roll please Mr agya Mr Bailey Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Mr Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes 12 15 is discussion to vote to approve the VoIP wireless phone purchase as

referred by the technology subcommittee and presented by Scott Cabral Chief Information officer Mr Cabral so this is going to start at Durfee High School and then work its way down to the other buildings currently our security guards only carry a a radio this device will allow them to have communication with offices with individuals in the building teachers it will dial within the

building it can also dial 9-1-1 in the event of an emergency and the devices can be used on any of our properties so it's just going to strengthen the tools that the security guards have on a day-to-day basis excellent any questions can I get a motion in a second motion to approve Deb would you please call the home let's try again Mr Bailey Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss

rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes 1216 is discussion and vote to approve the district firewall upgrade purchase as referred by the tech subcommittee and presented Again by Scott Cabral Chief Information officer so I'll be brief here our current firewall is getting to end of typical use with the advances in our bandwidth and our dark fiber Network across the city it's time to take a look

at our firewall and upgrade it as we move forward with our new devices across the district just to strengthen and Safeguard our Network thank you Mr Cabral can I get a motion in a second or discussion I just want to clarify for folks like what that's going to look like just we're voting on it and I just want to make sure that people are aware of what it is so you said that

um like we're going to replace that but what does implementation look like and what would that mean for our networks just again so that way people are aware of what we're selling on so just for the you know the edification of the public of firewall is something that many of us don't see it's just a piece of appliance that lives in a server room um that basically filters out all the

bad things that a student could possibly get to and or a staff it also protects our data flow in and out currently uh projected timeline will be second week of August I will be in with our team on a Friday night we will take the old firewall down while maintaining the security and then bringing the new one back online you will notice this will be done in conjunction with the vendor we are

versed in this but a project of this size of magnitude we will have the vendor working with us hand in hand for this transition I appreciate it you had grab the other ones so I just wanted clarification on that one that's all I yields Miss laravey yes I I just want to reiterate again uh for the public that everything that Mr Cabral has mentioned in the last four maybe five discussions

were heavily vetted in the subcommittee meetings so I just want to you know make that clear for the public like we're kind of speeding through this none of us have questions but there was some great presentations uh that night at the subcommittee meeting and uh I applaud I love the the new phone thing that well the security I mean that's a that's a great tool to have starting at the high school so

um I yield thank you do I have a motion in a second time second I got a motion in a second Deb please call the roll Mr Argyle Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes Miss laravee yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Rodricks yes mayor Coogan yes 1217 is a discussion and vote to approve nutrition contract as presented by Ken Pacheco Chief Operating Officer so um we are prepared to enter into a one-year contract with a four-year

renewal to whitson's Food Service they have been our contractor for the last 12 years they put in a proposal and the proposal was well done we had one other proposal from a company also well done the value of of whitson's in the district outweighed the other proposal and the price proposal from whitson's was comparable to the other proposal the um it is one year renewals we've been doing

this with them so with food service it's one contract at a time gives you an opportunity to evaluate what's happening over the course of the year and then listen to their proposal when they come back for the one year for the renewal their their price is comparable a slight increase from last year with the with this particular contract so this will go from here if approved to the state for an approval which is why I

say unsigned contract we need to have the state look at the contract first if they approve it it'll come back to us for Signature and we will ratify that contract before the July 1 we start up with summer program a la carte service catering service I should say with the um with CD rack for the summer programs and meals in the park any discussion on that Mr Rogers so you just said catering was the CD Rec

program so Kate it's not Katie it's catering it's not um yeah it's not a la carte so we cater to them they are the ones um they are the contractor for the summer meals and we just provide the meal to them okay because that no that's exactly where that fit in so that's the Sky my other question is like sort of related but do we know about free lunch and breakfast for our kids yet for the

23 24 school it is it is okay I was trying to double check but I wasn't positive um so I appreciate that clarification just to backtrack I knew everyone here was aware of what we had been talking about and voting on so what I was saying so folks knew what we voted on I meant the public just to clarify that that's awesome I yield anything further on whitson's I need a motion in a second

in a second Bobby's second I have a motion in a second I can't hear them Dad please call the roll Miss drug yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes yes Ms Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes 12 18 is a clarification and vote to approve the supervisor of utility service job description as presented by Ken Pacheco Chief Operating Officer and Tom waiting to approve Coogan human resource director I have a motion to

approve do I have a second second Mr pachico so the um the job description hasn't changed from the last meeting the title um was uh a little a little off so this is the title that was approved in the riog and also approved as part of the job descriptions with the Rio and this is that revision so nothing has changed in the job description it's just the title did I have a motion a second Deb

would you please any discussion anybody Deb please call the roll Mr Egg yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Carrero yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes I have a number of items for your information retirements sorry which one did I miss oh I'm sorry the drive-in I'm sorry the discussion about to approve the use of turkey high school parking lot to hold the forward

drive-in movie night on August 25th as presented by Camp pachico I have a motion a second on the drive-in I don't believe there'll be any discussion okay anybody have any questions I do are we only doing one this summer yeah um what happened last year if the attendance had dwindled with a lot of money huh another day is not out of money relax um we'll wait and see what I didn't hear

that no she made a snarky remark and it's your last day I'm here for the snarky remarks I just couldn't hear it no we uh we're gonna see how this one goes we are talking about another one in the fall or around Halloween but we're gonna see how this one goes because the attendance last year was a little spotty on the first two Miss Rogers we have a motion and a second tab yep yes yes

Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes for your information we have a number of retirements resignations appointments um usually regretfully a few uh people doesn't seem like at this time um motion to accept 3.1 3.2 and 13.12 13.1 13 points a motion to accept them all do I have a second I have a motion a second discussion then please call the roll let's try again Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart

yes Miss laravey yes Ms Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes any new business to come before the committee tonight I have a I have a question something um I was approached yesterday but several times I've been approached by um you know residents in the community questioning the use of our fields and who gets to use it and who doesn't get to use it and why this school does why

out of you know town schools do but I just I'd like to um if we could just if I could get an idea of who is using our Fields here at Durfee and what's the process of being able to use it I guess is there a process and why would somebody be denied like what are the rules um that we're using to go by to determine who's able to use the field

does that make sense this way I can make sense of it because I I obviously we have a beautiful place here and obviously I recognize this place belongs first to you know the scholars here at Durfee but it's also a beautiful building that you know is paid for by every taxpayer who has children in elementary middle and what have you so um I just want to make sure that I can respond appropriately though we're doing

a good job sharing that so if I could get that from whomever the powers that be okay thank you very much that is all anything further 15 requests for executive session Mr Assad do we have a reason to go into executive session it wouldn't there okay we want to read those for us please National lawyers chapter 38 section 21a7 to review and approve the executive session minutes from May 15 2023 regular

school committee meeting National Law chapter 38 section 21a3 to discuss strategy with that you've got to collective bargaining relative to all the administrators and employees represented by the Fall River administrative Association as the chair is determine that local session may have a detrimental impact on a bargaining position of the committee National laws chapter 38 section 21a3 to discuss

strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to our professional teaching employees the forward School System including coaches Title One teachers nurses occupational physical therapists and specialists in the teaching profession represented by the Florida Educators Association as the chair is the term that an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee

Mass general laws chapter 38 section 2186 to consider the purchase exchange lease or value of real property located at 2501 South Main Street Fall River Massachusetts as the chairs declared that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of the school committee National lawyers chapter 38 section 2182 to conduct strategy sessions of preparation for negotiation with

non-union personnel and or to conduct contract negotiation with Don Union Personnel food including Sandra Silva payroll manager community facilitators instructional support liaison's cells Early Childhood support staff Jesse Gonzalez Guzman Darlene heisen and Kelly Pereira Clarice Ferreira Jessica roderick's Shannon Dunbar technology department computer technicians Stephen angel Patrick dubowski Jason Oliveira Justin

Reese Chad owls Devon Costa Brittany Estrella Patrick travares Gregory Scott Dylan Camara Kim Costello darum again Emmanuel mediris Jeremy Susie Veronica amorin uh Aaron Dunn's network technician Brian Michael azac Sims coordinator Melissa Pereira data specialist in Chao Tang data technician Jennifer Hodges state report specialist reporting specialist Kimberly Barnard data specialist Renee kochman director

of operations and media Pauline McGrath general manager Pamela Nicholson media editor instructor and Craig Salvador production technician Gary Elite meteor editor instructor Yvonne massoud production technician Pereira Michael Ferreira programming manager Jacob Pereira media editor instructor and Kevin varro Community Field coordinator and Deborah Cavallo director of transportation we would reconvene the

main Minneapolis statements at that time can I get a motion in a second for executive session second I have a motion second Ted please call the roll Mister again Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Laramie yes Miss Pereira yes since Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes recess from executive session uh Deb would you please call the roll Mr agya Mr Bailey Mr Harr yeah miss laravey here miss Pereira yeah Miss

rodericks here mayor Kruger here comes Bobby I think he had all that protein he'd be a little quicker

um those snarky remarks anything for anything further to come before the committee yes Mr Mayor um I'd like to make a motion to approve the executive session minutes for May 15 2023 of the regular school committee I have a second any discussion Deb please call the roll Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes uh Mr Mayor I'd like to vote to approve

make a motion to vote to approve the modifications to the fraa contract as negotiated second I have a motion a second any discussion Ted please call them all again Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes Mr Mayor last one I'd like to make a motion uh to vote to approve the lease agreement for 2501 South Main Street as negotiated second I have a motion this

second any discussion on the lease that would you please call the roll Mister again Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Ms laravee yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes anything further come before the committee hello to adjourn second I have a motion a second to adjourn debt please call the roll let's drag yeah Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravee yes Miss Pereira yes Miss rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes

adjourned