The Fall River School Committee convened its regular meeting on June 13th, 2022, addressing a wide range of topics from citizen concerns to budget approvals and personnel matters. Public input focused heavily on condemning the Judge Rothenberg Center (JRC) for its use of electric shock therapy and opposing the transfer of school department one-time monies to the city budget. Several speakers urged the committee to vote against funding the JRC and to allocate school funds directly to student needs, particularly special education. The meeting also included a significant segment honoring numerous retiring school staff members for their years of service. Key discussions and decisions included the approval of various contracts and grants, with several items, notably the JRC contract and ESL curriculum, being pulled for further discussion or tabled. The committee approved the allocation of $1,267,376 in pandemic-related assistance to the Durfee athletic fields, following a motion by Mayor Coogan. Significant time was spent on updates regarding the PowerSchool implementation, which is set to go live on July 1st despite challenges with data migration and a request for additional hours. The committee also approved the creation of a CVTE revolving fund to support vocational programs and discussed plans for Pre-K classroom expansion, including staffing for a new facility at 951 Slade Street. In a notable decision, the committee authorized Superintendent Ponce to immediately create and hire for new Student Support Specialist positions to address urgent social-emotional learning (SEL) needs, bypassing the usual approval process due to the critical demand. Other approvals included three additional ESL instructors for Morton Middle School and a social studies teacher for Kuss Middle School, both aimed at enhancing educational equity and meeting instructional requirements. The meeting concluded with approvals of executive session minutes, litigation settlements, and non-union personnel contracts, before adjourning.
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i'd like to call to order the june 13th regular meeting of the farva school committee deb please call the roll mr again here mr bailey here mr harper here ms laravey here miss pereira here mr rodriguez here mayor coogan here salute to the
0:28to the republic flag which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all pursuant to the open meeting law any person may 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
0:57deemed acknowledged and permissible citizens input first a gabriel am roll from indian town road good afternoon members of the fall river school committee since i am a big advocate for the children of this great city let me tell you about the judge ruthenberg center the judge rothenberg center has been condemned by the u.n and the fda the use of electric shock therapy as a form of punishment is something no child
1:31should be subject to this form of treatment is inhumane i understand that there is a process for a student to be placed in another institution such as the our jrc i understand that this process can involve state agencies i do not place blame on the school department however the school department should use its voice and its seat at the table to advocate against this organization we
1:58should never send fall river taxpayer funds to organizations like the jrc i would like the school committee to make a motion and take a vote to condemn the jrc now on to moving of the school department one-time monies that is meant for kids to be moved to the flushed city budget i would hope our school committee officials would deny this these these monies are meant for the students of the school district not
2:27raises and other meaningless expenditures on the city side school committee member sarah rodriguez asked over the last few meetings how will this transfer help the taxpayers the silence from city hall says plenty about it while all we see in the budget is raise after raise for city hall employees nothing about helping the citizens once again nothing about relief for taxpayers unfortunately that is the norm in this
2:55city we elected you to do better and be better for the city we accept nothing less when it comes to protecting our children in our schools thank you all for what you do for our youth have a great evening gabriel emerald 901 indian town road fall river next up jeffrey gadro palmer street fall river good afternoon for school committee i wish to speak about two issues tonight first issue is the judge rothenberg
3:22center i am against the fall river public schools sending any taxpayer money to that evil organization the judge rothenberg center is known for its cruel punishments which includes torture electric shock therapy which has shocks that are 18 stronger than a taser has no place in our society the city of fall river and the far river school department should and must have no affiliation with that cruel organization
3:51this organization has denounced has been denounced by the many organizations including united nations the school department should not put far river under another black cloud i have a few questions was this the parents choice to want to send their child there or is that a school department decision also how many other fall river students attend the judge rothenberg center this should not be an option or a
4:20suggestion at all to send four of our students my other issue is the request of the city to take one-time monies of the fall river school department school committee member sarah roderick asked twice at the last two school committee meetings what was the plan for the use of these one-time monies how will this help the taxpayers there was silence both times thank you for reading my statement next sheila dyas
4:51ray street forever good afternoon school committee members it has come to my attention we are providing taxpayer funds to go towards the jrc i would like you to consider making a motion and to take a vote to condemn electric shock therapy and to condemn the jrc i think the city and the school department should go on record condemning the actions of organizations like those also please deny the request to move
5:18school department one-time monies to the city side those monies should go to help the students of the school department not be infused into flushed budgets thank you very much for your consideration next up colin colin dyess ray street forever good afternoon members of the school committee and i thank you for your time and um i first wanted to speak like everyone else has about the jrc
5:48first of all we should take a vote as it was said to condemn the jrc and electric shock therapy which is a cruel punishment and is 50 times more powerful than a taser the jrc as has been said has been condemned by the united nations and their practices have been stopped by the fda and it might be stopped again and i do understand that there are a lot of hands in play when it comes to
6:16sending a fall over student out out of the district and i understand there is a lot of state involvement with these decisions so i don't blame anyone on this stage and i don't blame the faller public schools for this specifically however the school department and the special education department should put in more effort to keep students from going outside the district in general not just the jrc but anywhere
6:41that is why i want to suggest the school committee move these one-time monies that were also discussed that the mayor wants to move to the city side and throw it to the special education department and let's make our special education department in our city never have to deny anyone services these money should not be going to the city side and where the mayor did stay the city and its budget was flushed
7:09i would also very respectfully ask him to recuse himself when that vote comes up and allowed the six other members of the committee to vote on any transfer to the city to the city side as it is a conflict of interest thank you for your time next up nelson vasquez sunset hill
7:36it's come to my attention that i read that the coach from before our local local team here has announced that their season is back on track but it's also come to my attention that our fields barely passed inspection and which brings me to the 1.3 million dollar transfer that that is before this committee i think now more than ever is not the time to spend irresponsibly and create structural deficits
8:05and now more than ever we need to keep our youth especially who are involved in sports on the fields and off the streets because given this wrath of violence that's taken over our city i don't want to see our youth get sucked into that and get put into a jail cell where they have to wear an inmate number it's imperative they wear a jersey that they can take part in the sport
8:29that they love and stay off the streets i respectfully ask for this committee to deny that transfer because we we need to spend very wisely not only on on the school side but on the city side let the chairperson figure it out on the city side now is the time to do the right thing for our youth and let's keep them on the field thank you item number three recognition awards
8:56we're all going to go down to the front of the stage the superintendent ponce will read the news
9:14thank you
9:38good evening so tonight is a special night because we're going to honor people who have served follower public schools for a range of time from four years to 36 years and these people are going to well-deserved retirement going off to retirement and we thank them for their service to fall republic schools certainly we know how hard it is you know this year has been and the work that it entails so it
10:06takes committed people uh like the people that we're seeing on this paper i as i look at the paper many of the people here i have personally worked with throughout my journey so it's very interesting i'm feeling old so let's start with i know some of them are here and some many are not but it's important that we honor them publicly i think it's worthy of the time to recognize them and their
10:31years of service and then we will get for those that are not here we will get their souvenir to them in thanksgiving for all that they've done for our children in our district so we'll start with brad bradford woodruff 36 years of service he works for he's a custodian facilities in operations gary correa groundskeeper 35 years in facilities and operations thank you james wilkinson a custodian facilities
11:02and operations 35 years of service paula rigo a teacher special needs department 33 years yep i know she's at henry lord right now gary bigelow a teacher in the fine arts department 32 years of service durfee high school sammy soak paraprofessional spencer boarding school 31 years robert bergaard a teacher fine arts department 29 years and cabuccio a teacher at durfee high school 27 years i know she's here
11:54actually have the honor to work with ann laurie cody cody a teacher at green elementary school 27 years maria kudo a clerk at the watson elementary school 24 years of service nancy tobin a clerk at durfee high school 23 years lucy narcisso a clerk for the special ed department 23 years heidi gabala a teacher at durfee high school 21 years cynthia joris a clerk at the special ed department 21 years
12:28linda santos a teacher at spencer borden elementary school 21 years barbara st pierre para professional at cuss middle school 21 years daniel como a teacher at spencer borden elementary school 21 years linda sardinia paraprofessional at henry lord community school 20 years susan darmody a teacher at spencer borden elementary school 20 years karen boddington a teacher at durfee high school 18 years
13:03elaine dinoya teacher at sylvia elementary school 18 years donna monis a cafeteria worker in the nutrition department 17 years anne riordan teacher at talbot middle school 17 years doreen carberry a teacher at morton middle school 17 years grace melham a clerk in the parent center 17 years haiti santiago a paraprofessional at morton middle school 16 years elizabeth rosendies a nurse on the nursing department 16 years
13:40donna bernier a teacher at green elementary school 14 years douglas velu a custodian facilities and operations 13 years donna scanlon paraprofessional at stone day school nine years well one week short of 10 years so we'll give her the 10.
14:00and belton kopp a teacher at durfee high school nine years joyce lepage a paraprofessional at durfee high school six years and stacy patton hammond a teacher at vivaris elementary school four years thank you all for your years of service
14:40what's up
14:53next up is item number four subcommittee minutes do we have a um update a subcommittee update from the instructional subcommittee miss laravey thank you mr chairperson um the instructional subcommittee which is myself mr aguiar miss pereira we met on tuesday june 7th at the administration building uh there were three new curriculum items up for discussion to vote to refer sel esl in sub-separate core
15:27sel claudia costa and andrew woodward gave us a presentation on the leadership program violence prevention violence prevention curriculum this curriculum will be used in addition to the continued district-wide implementation of the four pillars of choose love esl veranda veracruz presented she stated our current curriculum curriculum edge was not meeting the needs of our middle school esl
15:55population she presented time zones curriculum for esl one in impact for esl two and three for henry lord doran in rpa she presented frames in fluency for talbot morton and cars ellie for all k through eight schools in durfee and finish line for all k through a schools the third discussion sub separate core curriculum michael lotion deb falco presented presented styler fitzgerald curriculum to serve
16:24our asd population and attainment curriculum to serve our intellectually impaired population both curriculums were previewed by teachers from all schools that host each program in the district's joint labor management group the instructional subcommittee members voted to refer all through the full committee there were also two discussions on the agenda with curriculum updates uh first
16:47was lexia core five reading and power up literacy presented by stephanie kennedy stephanie presented a power up report with data from september 2nd 21 to may 5th 2021 and alexia core 5 reading data report from july 26 21 to may 13 2022 both reports included grades you should usage times goals in progress stephanie stated it's an important element for all students to meet their usage target benchmarks to ensure
17:18progress lastly we we had silvan ryan present a social studies update she presented as follows third grade massachusetts history fourth grade north american geography history and peoples fifth grade united states history to civil war and modern civil rights movement eighth grade the partnership is being reviewed with generation citizen the civics component high school ap enrollment is increasing
17:46and more textbooks are being requested by social studies department edit durfee the committee requested a breakdown of all courses and grades in which they are offered the whole social studies curriculum superintendent ponce provided the full committee that information this uh friday via email that's all i have i yield thank you mr aguiar just nothing on that but i also had the informal
18:15jeffy fields committee so i'd like to just present a brief couple of comments if that's okay on what the informal durfy fields committee that i'm a representative of and i'd like to make a comment on what happened over the last month for the edification of the public and the school committee but that's not even a committee kevin that's just okay i'll just take it as denied thank you thank you superintendents report
18:45thank you tonight we're going to start our superintendent's report by calling up some of our henry lord community school scholars they actually as you know eighth graders across the city have been engaged in generation citizen i had the pleasure of meeting these children on friday in a more in-depth manner where they very passionately shared what they had researched generation citizen part of the work is
19:13that they do some action research and bring to the their communities some potential solutions so i see solanges and i see isaiah here and there see that um and they're going to tell us a little bit about what they research and what they learned and and um what they want us to think about go ahead isaiah good evening um my name is isaiah i call calderon um i just want to say thank you for the
19:39invitation to speak for the school community uh as you know we represent uh henry community school um we have a request we would like to officially make in order to make an effective change throughout the far risk school district for our generation project we started researching about opiate addiction and substance abuse problem in fall river from going up here we all know that the
20:00crisis is getting worse and not better as we spend time speaking to members of our local government state government um school districts you know addicts and recovery dcf workers medical professionals we learned that something must be done to slow down this crisis in our city i'm going to go ahead and pass it on to swanjee's good evening my name is salanji vasquez i'm also a student at handler community school
20:28our main goal originally was to make a change at our school henry lord we were hoping to get stronger substance abuse education added to our wellness curriculum by meeting with our principal dr b um in the wellness team at henry community school we already made progress on making real change then we widened our goal to the state level we started to research bill es.322 which is about act relative to substance abuse
20:57education in schools we reached out to the office of massachusetts state representative diana de ziglio and found that the bill was will be delayed to the next voting session in the fall although we were somewhat discouraged we were able to present our our project at massachusetts civics day at the edward kennedy institute on june 6th while there we met massachusetts state representative tom stanley
21:23he informed us that the bill's previous sponsor will no longer be leading the bill and he was convinced by our presentation um that he promised to sponsor the bill in the fall legislative session and continue to work closely with us to get the bill passed um so that was um something that really like excited us when we accomplished when we went to the boston civic stay we are excited to keep to speak in front
21:49of the school committee today to officially request that fall river public schools in advance of the passing of this bill make substance abuse education an official part of the wellness or slash health curriculum of all middle schools thank you for your time and for having us here thank you thank you
22:16very very nice appreciate it um next from the superintendent is the graduation update yep so last week on june 2nd on thursday we graduated 38 scholars from the robert almaderis resiliency prep academy that graduation took place at heritage park and on friday we attended and we participated in the durfee graduation on in the fields at durfee high school 537 students graduated from that school we
22:51congratulate all of our graduates their families and we wish them the best in their future endeavors also we have a little summer school update we're gearing up for the end of the year as we have in the past we're going to be offering a wide range of summer programming opportunities for fallbrook public school students including our 21st century programming at eight of our elementary schools elementary middle and
23:15high school credit recovery opportunities for our middle and high school students academic enrichment and learning experiences at multiple elementary schools and extended school year programming for students who require esy per their individual educational program additionally durfee will run its traditional for pay summer enrichment program that's very popular back in full swing
23:39for children ages 7 through 13. all of our our programs are intended to keep our students connected to fallout public schools community throughout the summer to support students in transition from one school year to the next programs are going to be running from early july until august and parents should be on the lookout because there is going to be communication from the schools going out and will be posted on
24:02our website so people can sign up for summer programming so please look out for that and then finally you have before you sharing with you a superintendent's entry plan as a new superintendent part of the work i am part of the new superintendent's induction program uh now that um there's the interim title was uh removed um and it's official part of the work is that a superintendent does an official
24:33entry plan where the superintendent uh meets with focus groups meets with community members um to to really i've been in the district a long time i i've seen i've gotten to know the district from a teacher perspective and other roles that i filled but from the superintendency it's a different perspective it's important for me to hear from the community from parents from teachers from students
25:00hear what they think is going well here where we can improve we all know that there's room for improvement anywhere you go so officially it's just an outline of the plan i'm informing you that i'm in some of this work has already started because i've already been in the role for a while so some of it has started and then in the fall i'll be bringing in the full report with the findings and these findings
25:23will hopefully they will drive the goals for the district for improvement for um the year for next year and beyond and what do you think for the superintendent mr aguiar i'd like to ask the superintendent to comment on the doorfee athletic fields uh meeting since i can't do it as a official subcommittee i do think it's important that we when we meet so i'd like to ask her for her input on what happened at the
25:52meetings as you know mr again i was not present at that meeting so it's hard for me to comment on that if you want to call up anybody that works for you that could articulate it i i can ask mr pacheco to do that sure thank you so the um the ad hoc committee that was put together for the fields met a couple of days ago to decide on some cosmetic items logos different design pieces and
26:30to give any kind of input to the designer and to the opm and take quite a bit of information from coaches ads and those of us who are present at the meeting the project is going to be put out to bid three fields the practice football field the baseball field and the new field that's built up on the hill the which is the softball field and enfield events so those three items are
27:10going to go out to bid very shortly and that construction will start on two of those three projects i want to say mid to late august with the hope of of completing both baseball and softball before year's end and the replacement carpet on that practice field to take place um sometime in march of next year um as soon as the weather breaks thank you mr pachico can you just ask uh
27:43as far as like i'm a member of the committee voluntarily but i think there's a role of the school committee to be had in once this stuff gets to the point where it's going to go out that when does the school the whole school committee get to either vote on that or not i'm just trying to set the stage for my colleagues to know where we currently are and then as well as where are we
28:01going to be to come to fruition on the rest of the project so that's the reason why i asked for the update i think it's all been positive i think we're making good progress i think we're on the right track but i do think that this committee has to be part of it at some point and i don't think you disagree just that we don't know necessarily what does it look like over the next several
28:20months for us and what is it going to look like for the rest of the project like we don't have enough money to complete all of the fields up there so we need to know that ahead of time along with the plan from the superintendent to figure out how we're going to fund that so that's the nature of why i'm asking those questions i'm hoping that the at the next school committee meeting
28:39we will have either a bid document or i will we'll have a big document for sure but i may even have the bids in place by that time depending on how quickly the process moves if those bids are ready to go out right now which i don't think they are i think after listening to the designer at the meeting it looks like it's another week maybe week and a half we get the permitting process that
29:10that is underway right now so my guess is is that that bidding process could take us uh pretty close to the next meeting so that document will be here not necessarily for a vote but for discussion and then we will be looking for um at that point when those bids do come in we'll be looking at the balance so to speak of what we have encumbered as far as dollars to perform this first
29:39phase and looking forward to uh the next phase phase two which would be the stadium the um the jv and a jv softball and baseball field and the two fields at talbot anything further no i just had a different question but if anybody has any questions on that no thank you the only other comment i'd make a supernatant on superintendent's report so the um entry plan you know we just got that so
30:12we'll digest it i'm just going to speak for myself and what i think is needed in this district i believe personally that we need to really hone in and focus on the academics and instruction in our school system and i think for for far too long we've been very very stagnant and i think now is an opportunity with various openings to think outside the box and create a situation where we bring in an
30:38additional instructional leader that you madam superintendent have to run the entire district i think we really need to focus on the academic piece and bring in somebody from wherever to be the best possible person and pay whatever we have to pay to get a competitive salary to bring somebody in to oversee our academics like a chief academic officer but somebody that's elevated up maybe under the
31:00superintendent so that that really becomes the focus and i do strongly uh believe that that needs to happen sooner rather than later because we do have the opening so speaking for myself that's one of the things i'd look at as one of the most important things coming up for us with that i yield thank you uh item number seven i'm looking for a motion a second on the approval of minutes from the 5 9 22 meeting
31:28motion to approve second i have motion a second any discussion in the minutes that please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss larabee yes miss pereira yes mr rodrick yes mayor coogan yes we have a number of travel requests uh if anybody has any items they'd like to pull out let me know now and we'll if not i'm looking for a motion in a second on the travel requests
31:54motion to approve second i have a motion a second discussion on travel hearing none dead please call the roll mr again yes mr bailey yes mr yes miss laravel yes miss pereira yes mr rogers yes mayor coogan yes um we have some donations tonight i'm looking for again a motion to second to accept these donations emotional accept donations second second i have a motion a second before uh superintendent reads them um
32:26any discussion uh deb please call the roll miss dragon yes mr bailey yes mr yes miss laravey yes mrs pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes uh miss uh superintendent ponce on behalf of dr kim la liberty director of science curriculum to follow public schools from the boston museum museum of science 107 712.96 thank you on behalf of uh principal uh lens to the silvia school from the fall over cultural council
33:01uh one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars on behalf of of um two faller public schools from mr colin dyess 670 dollars and 12 cents and on behalf of principal demaris to durfee high school from global companies llc 500 thank you all thank you all very much thank you item number 10 is the approval of contracts again here if someone has any contracts um hold on uh superintendent
33:34if i may i would like us to pull the smiles the south coast mentoring uh initiative at this time they are restructuring and recruiting staff etc so it's not ready so when it is when they are ready we'll bring it forth but right now we are going to pull that contract okay anything else i'd like to pull the judge rotenberg center i'm sorry uh miss rodriguez i couldn't understand the judge rotenberg center
34:00i'd like to pull that one out under special education contracts
34:13okay okay we're going to hold the judge rothenberg center any others okay before we move to discussion i'm judging oh i'm sorry mr aggia i have questions on him i don't need if we have a question we want to hold is that what you said just tell me to hold it whatever you want to talk on kev yep number 13 number 13. is there a number power school which one is it paris school power school okay
34:39we're going to hold power school number five which one is that people incorporated okay people incorporated hold power school hold okay number eight which one is that sterling corporation still incorporation gotcha power school okay anything else in our number 16.
35:02and that's which one that's what's the name tntp one goal what is it early college the one goal okay early college you have to show me around okay so with those being held for discussion can i get a motion a second on accepting the others second do we need some motivation someone has to make a motion motion get a motion and a second i think it was this one okay who made the move she said mimi
35:29okay and uh mr mr bailey could you please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yeah yes uh laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor cogan yes now if i miss one of these please let me know uh we'll start with the first one and people incorporated um someone had some questions on that grant mr again the uh the only question i have on it is uh
36:00looking to see what is in the contract for what they actually are supposed to do what's currently being done and um not opposed to it per se but some of these are just either things that we haven't gotten any information over the last year or so so i don't know if that's something that can happen now or does that do they need time to prepare i actually people incorporated actually sent me a letter this afternoon
36:26i will say that they are as you know they are based out of um we have them working at rlm rpa it's been a challenge to for it to function as it has functioned in the past uh post covid uh we're getting ourselves back on track they do some tutoring they're working in the engagement center certainly principal um mr woodward as well as uh principal brooks are here they can answer any
36:55questions but we did our hope is that we're going to get ourselves back to um where we were last year they they've been a good partner they um the the staff there goes above and beyond and i would certainly support us moving forward with them do would you like me to read their letter no i mean we don't have to read the letter i mean i think it's best if we
37:23get this stuff ahead of time so we can know what it is yeah no i hear you i'm not blaming you it's just sort of as a as a future like it makes sense to get it ahead of time so we know what it does when i look at some of the comments that you just made based on the letter we've been in school this year in person since the whole year
37:40so as far as what i'm concerned you know if we go back two three years ago and now they've been in school all year they should be doing nothing different and maybe even more than what they were doing two years ago i'm not in a position to say yes or no or whatever they're doing at the same time we have to know we're paying seventy thousand dollars for a re-engagement center at
37:57the same time as we get requests to say we need to do uh an enrollment thing different and you know so i'm trying to piece all these things together and that's why i asked the question that i do think that they're a valuable piece but the piece has to be able to fit within what we're told and i don't have anything to go on other than you know basically your recommendation
38:17so i'm not looking to stop this but i do think that we need to look at what they do what are we paying the 70 000 for just as i would for any of these other agencies that are doing whatever we're going to hear from coaching for change today they got 150 000. they're going to tell us what they've done and you know i think all of these folks should be able to give us a
38:35one-pager on what's happening the thing with the smiles i don't know why that's out but i know what you just said you know why is it even on here then would be my question if they haven't been doing whatever so i just think we need to get it ahead of time but i'm not looking to stop it i'm fine with it but if we could just get a one pager on how they fit into the
38:56the mix down at the alternative right i'll actually forward the letter to you as well as a one pager from the school i mean they do a lot of work with mcas students as well as tutoring they're in the student engagement center um they're working with the at-risk students i what i said was it was hard to get staffing tutors etc so everybody's been doing double duty but our hope is that next
39:19year we are back fully staffed at the school and doing what what the intention is so certainly uh we'll get you there i hear what you're saying but now that just begged another question so if we pay 70 000 for tutors and we couldn't find them where's the rest of the money did they not spend it all no they were doing the tutoring the the the typically last year well before covid
39:42they they also there was work happening in that engagement center culinary there were pathways that they were supporting students the cna that has not gotten off the ground because bcc had a vaccination requirement so we couldn't send kids there so that's what i'm saying there were some things that prohibited us from being fully functional but they that that person has been there
40:06and done that i hear what you're saying and i'm not giving you hard time don't get me wrong all i'm suggesting is that like if two years ago we paid 70 000 and we got x y and z services x amount of hours and this year we for whatever reason we didn't like how do we make sure that we're spending this money and we're getting a good bang for our buck across
40:24all of them so thank you for the information so on people incorporated i'm looking for a motion absolutely oh i'm sorry miss larry all right so i i mean i agree with mr aguiar wholeheartedly um when i was first introduced to this program at um rpa um it was impressive uh the culinary the the the all of it was impressive so now i think my question is for the superintendent is is this something
40:54we're going to be speaking about i know that principal is is presenting tonight is is this part of her presentation uh when she comes up discussing it she wasn't um going to be she's going to talk about the future of the school so certainly we can ask what she envisions as part of the future of the school she wasn't going to specifically talk about the people inc contract but certainly
41:18she will be speaking about where we see i mean where the goal is to expand and and have uh you know the the culinary and the cnas back on track those pathways back on track so that is the vision together absolutely so again i'm looking for a motion motion to approve i got a motion for mr again and a second from miss rogers on people inc uh deb please call the role
41:47ms yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss laravey yes miss pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor yes i believe the next one held was the sterling corporation who had a discussion um mr aguiar mr patrick my only question on this is this i know what this got brought up before and it was a window is this just the same thing it's just a contract it is like one year it's not a every
42:11year thing it's this is this is a one-shot move so that we can get everything out of the two schools get it over to the new warehouse that's the end of the contract that was done um for that particular purpose so this is the move to get to the warehouse which is only a couple of years if we you know it's three to five years depending on what our plans are after
42:32that but this isn't going to be recurring no thank you anything further on sterling corporation uh emotional proof um i have a motion for mr again a second for mr hart discussion deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr heart yes ms yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes again i think the next one up was power school um who who had a question on power school
43:02or were we gonna listen to a presentation first no there's no problem well there's a power school update later on in the agenda i don't know if you want to hold it for that or do you want to do it now my question on the power school is similar to what i've been asking for all along that i believe that we keep on paying and we keep on paying we were told one
43:22thing and it just changes and it's 40 000 watts 30 000 more so i think there needs to be some clarity on what this is and um is this enough like we keep on saying yep this is it and then it's more so i think as part of the presentation we're probably going to get into this a little deeper so i'm not looking to vote against this i think the superintendent feels like this is needed
43:47uh i would question at the time at the time coming up that there is some issues here that i'm not particularly personally happy with and i think we need to be a little clearer with the committee on what it is and what it's not so i'm going to make a motion to approve this now uh knowing that we have questions for later thank you okay i have a motion second i have a motion and a second
44:08discussion then please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes ms yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes ms rodriguez yes yes i believe the next one was tntp inc one goal which one one goal goal was one goal well you're on that 14 can what is that anyway okay the tntp like what is that new is that uh recurring so tntp is a organization that has worked is currently working with the district in a
44:49couple different capacities but we're bringing them we've brought them on to support our early college expansion this year we're looking to double our early college enrollment from this year to next year so along with that comes logistics supports different types of things that we want to make sure that we are working through thoughtfully and in the best way possible so tntp is helping us
45:16with our recruitment strategies they're helping us design our 10th grade early college seminar course which is going to focus on literacy and 21st century skills getting students ready for success in early college classes and they've been working with us since about march of this year through our early college expansion grant with the state and what does that stand for is that just the name of the
45:38organization for election correct it doesn't stand for something not that i'm aware of that and it is a contract so you have there's a contract meaning some sort of agreement correct is that possible we could get that madam superintendent yes thank you are you done mr anger yep anybody have anything else for tntp i didn't ask to hold that one i don't think so i think that might have been
46:03through already i'm sorry one goal what is it one goal one goal one goal i just took it upon myself to ask a question because mr woodward came up one goal i'm sorry one gold partnership for fiscal year who had the question on one day that was me that was me on this mr aggie i'll go ahead just briefly so this is something that's at durfee high again right i think this is multiple years correct if
46:26we can just get an explanation of what this is and uh i for one i'm having a hard time with uh there's a lot of resources at that high school as far as outside agencies and the like trying to put all those together to figure out what are they doing that somebody else in our district was i just don't know how they fit in not opposed to it it's a grant and all
46:45that but i think we all should know how all those pieces are all fitting together so that if they're doing a certain task and then we're told we need another person to do that task we can at least make an informed decision i'm not opposed to it with that i make a motion to approve can i get a motion in a second or just you need a motion he made a motion who's
47:05second and sarah i mean miss roger's second discussion that please call them roll miss drag yeah yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodricks yes mayor coogan yes and i think the last one we put a hold on was the judge rothenberg educational center mr mayor mr ragia i meant to ask a question on number 20 that i forgot just if we're going to go in order
47:29which was can i just please ask what the um number 20. it's a 24 800 for a team chair coverage is this person retired yes she is so it's like a retiree that's coming back she's helping out yes but she used to work for us right like she did all right i'm just trying to figure out how you could get both be working and then taken make sense thank you sorry about that
47:54the judge rothenberg center who had questions on that please that's right ms rogers okay i want to clarify i guess for folks or for families that saw this and immediately reacted i immediately reacted and i continue to have an issue with it um but families do look at the school committee agenda when it goes out and they do pay very close attention especially to especially your special ed families
48:23are paying close attention to those special ed contracts because at any point in time that could be one of our kids right and we want to make sure that our kids are going to places that we feel confident can support our kids needs jrc has has been it is the only placement in the country that proves the use of electric shock and i'm not going to sit here and pretend like i know what
48:50is best for this particular student i don't know this student i don't know this family but i can't sit here in good faith and support a placement like that but i think what families also need to understand is that the district doesn't make that sole decision and that's why i wanted to speak about that so it's not like you know the superintendent or our special ed director sits there and says hmm we're
49:14going to send this kid over to jrc because we're not sure what else to do it's a team decision that usually involves a lot of state agency involvement in order to make that call it doesn't mean we necessarily agree with that call or agree with the practices that are there but it's not just a one person sits here and says we don't know how to service this kid so off we go it's usually a lot more
49:35complex than that um so i don't want anybody having the impression that the district just said oh we're going to send this kid over to jrc they use electric shock we support that because i don't believe for a second that that's the case but i brought it up because i can't in good conscience support this just knowing that even if that is a practice that's not used on any of our students
49:57knowing that our kids would bear witness to that i can't in good conscience vote on that which is why i asked to take it separately and with that i yield um well is mr loshear to talk about it jrc yeah i can certainly answer um well if you would broadly to any questions we may have regarding it without uh divulging any specifics i would speak to regarding the student situation i would speak to miss rodrick's concerns
50:26yup um you know i i agree with ms rodriguez it's never a practice the district would endorse nor allow to happen to any of our students um this was a situation where there were extremely limited options um and the district was not the um ultimate decision maker in this process uh so you know our kind of in a situation where our hands were tied and we needed to move forward with it
50:51due to lack of other options but we've we have talked to collaborators and looking at other placements moving forward they're certainly open to that conversation and really this was you know a situation that kind of spurred per the pandemic and a lot of our public day and res ed communities having limited options and numbers due to staffing um so it is a piece where we're currently looking to you know ongoingly
51:17address with our other collaboratives um not sorry not our not our sending clerk but our collaborators on this situation um in order to make sure um you know the student has the best placement moving forward mr just real quick mr losh um and how long so well i won't even go into that but can you give a better maybe more detailed um uh how the the whole the jrc landscape
51:44operates you don't have to go into a full depth but i'm just curious how it uh how they uh what their protocol is and what their um procedures are there um it is a residential ed placement which means they do both living and the education component they do service students who would be considered have a severe level of need in terms of um you know the the shock treatment aspect and specifically
52:12i know very little about it i do know they need a court order in order to move forward with it for certain students from certain states not every state requires their students to have a court order i think massachusetts does require a court order from what i remember but not ever so students come in from multiple states not all of them require it i think as a district that's something
52:32we just wouldn't support in general okay yeah and that's fine and i i agree with mr rodericks i mean i'm not obviously going to vote for something and allocate money uh to that particular line item so i yield thank you any further discussion uh miss pereira yeah i was kind of surprised when i was reviewing this and saw that was on there i'm curious and you probably can't tell me but
52:58oftentimes it's also a decision of the parent where the child is placed um and usually in cases i was a just to preface this i was a pediatric psych nurse for about 10 13 years um so i've worked in facilities where physical restraints like papoose boards were used chemicals restraints were used um this place i can't believe it's still operating in massachusetts to be honest with you it's
53:25been closed down in connecticut it's been closed down in california i mean at one point i think they did well in court but then it was appealed um and i guess the rationale is that yes although this shock therapy is horrendous because it's basically inflicting it's a torture device to change behavior on someone who has difficulty comprehending why they're behaving a certain way so
53:50it's much different you know for me for example if i do something wrong and somebody shocks me i'm not going to do it again not necessarily the way it works with kids um kiddos who have um you know who are living with disabilities um but the other side of it is you know when i'm i'm not going to vote i'm not going to vote on this because like mrs rodriguez is saying in good
54:13conscience i in good conscience i can't but i am curious to know is that because there are parents out there believe me that feel like this is the best thing for their child because the child's behaviors are so extreme that they could lead to death um by way of self-harm and that some parents are led to believe this is the best way to keep their child alive so i'm hesitant to vote for it today
54:39because i don't feel like we have the information i don't feel like this is the best place to be sending kids i do understand during the pandemic you know parents in agencies had to do act quickly to do whatever they needed to do to make sure kids were safe in that time period i think i would need a little more information to be able to vote to approve this and that that a
55:03lot of this is based on my personal experience um like i said i can't believe they're actually even functioning so i mean i know somebody had mentioned it's it's against uh you know it's also against the u.n i mean it's it's a torture device um so i can't in good conscience a good conscience vote for this now i hope that's not an issue i hope we can revisit it and maybe get some more
55:27answers um i do believe you do it does require a court order in massachusetts just a part just a little bit more of clarifying information on this uh there was an extensive search to find this student a placement and this was the only place that would accept them so they did went to extensive lengths in and out of state to find a an option for this student but this was the only place that what
55:53they were and we're not sending with the intent that they would need that um intervention if that's what you want to call it it was it was the only option i believe you there are there are lack of beds and children who have significant behaviors i'm not talking about what we may see here and there but i mean i've worked with children who have significant psychiatric um you know medical issues
56:21and those behaviors are extremely significant i mean in my time i think i've been stabbed three times once with a fork twice with a pencil these these are kids who need a lot of help because their their behaviors are significant and i have no doubt that this child was placed there due to the fact that it was the only place my question is can we find another place now is this just to pay them for the
56:45time he already had yeah uh so far until they the placement would expire we find a new one until what until the place when they expire we find a new a new residence for the student do you know when that occurs um at this point it's kind of to be determined because we still would have to send out new packets the the parents would have to consent to that process so it could be a few months
57:10okay because that was going to be my next question yeah it's really paying for this is paying for services already rendered then i'm going to vote yes because they already rendered the services they need to get paid but also like i said before it's i don't want people in the community thinking like sarah said that we're just placing kids there obviously it's not our choice it's a parent's choice unless
57:30they are you know um unless they're they're a ward of the state or it's an agency that is overseeing the welfare of the child but if the parents are overseeing the welfare of the child and it's a decision the parents are making which makes it more difficult for us to then overstep what a parent thinks is the best choice for their child because they're the ones that know their child
57:50the best um and although i don't agree with this i can't like again i said i can't believe they're still open but i'm also not going to sit here and judge a parent because i didn't have the experiences that parent had and it's possible that they feel this is the safest place for their child so with that if we're paying for services that we've already done that's great i would hope that we could maybe
58:12work with the parent to find um to see what their thoughts are maybe find better placement this child in the future with that i yield mr again so this contract it says 23 949 what is that paying for his educational component what the educational component yeah so what so what timing miss pereira just asked a question he said 18 months like i thought it sounded like it but i couldn't no no he's been it's hard to
58:42hear they've only been there a short period of time what is the timeline of the educational component that we're buying for twenty three thousand nine hundred when did it start when does this twenty three nine end i would have to go back and look at the specific agreement but i wanna say um it was probably late april so we started billing already yes the student the student says late
59:08april april 30th the student starts we're now in june we're getting this bill for 23 900 but what does that entail is that what the bill is from april so it's twenty three thousand dollars per month uh i mean we could double check and when april through june so that is for a three month period so if it was late april so we have two months at a minimum
59:33i'm just trying to get a feel for what is this going to cost us for the year so we this is what the school committee has for the education of the public it says the judge rottenberg educational center contract totals 23949 this contract will pay for tuition for students with special needs funding for this is from the operating budget special ed tuitions line that's it we have zero information to back up
59:55whatever this is not is this the entire bill are we cost sharing it it is a cost share with with another order how would i know that from reading this i wouldn't because it doesn't say it and we're not responsible for their side of the payment either correct but how do we know what it is so the the the this is just another example of not giving us enough information this is
1:00:19template language that comes in approve the contract blah blah blah same thing same thing same thing now everybody knew that it was on this administration would know that there was going to be questions on this particular topic we got zero information presented here today so now we have to take a vote on something that all of us probably want to vote no if we were all sitting here to say we all want to vote no
1:00:41in essence we don't have much more to go on other than the limited information that you gave us and i'm not looking for specifics on the student but how how much is it going to be when is it was there a team meeting somebody said there was a team meeting was there a team meeting did we vote no did we have a choice is there is this is there any other parts of the contract
1:01:00is this person not going to be treated with shock therapy these are all questions that i think we all have but i don't understand why it's not here so we all vote no on this today we have a bill as ms pereira said that we can't pay correct we vote no on this contract what do we do i guess we have to go back to our other agencies and have a conversation so that's okay no
1:01:28they will probably end up trying taking legal action you said we'll take legal action yes they would take legal action also them right i just think that we need more information i'm not trying to give you a hard time mr this is very much a controversial type of topic at the same time i could go to the next line and there's another one that we're paying for a special education thing i have no idea
1:01:52what any of these mean are they for contracts up until june 30th if they're not like is this something that just came up that we were over by we were under budgeted by a certain amount we get zero information other than let's just approve these contracts and do them all at once and we don't know what we're voting on if if i'm being honest so i'm not trying to put up a
1:02:14a problem here but i think we need to articulate this a little better so i'd make a motion that we tabled this particular contract till next meeting second can i just speak generally about what the consequences are no no discussion or emotion sorry um deb please call the role ms drag yes mr bailey yes mr heart yes ms laravey yes mr pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor cogan yes 11.1 approval of grants again we have uh
1:02:51four grants here if no one has any specific questions about any grants i'll entertain a motion to emotional proof second i have a motion a second dead please call the roll mr again yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes miss laramie yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes the committee of the whole 12.1 is a presentation of coaching for change as presented by marquis taylor and drew woodward director of guidance
1:03:41good evening thank you for giving us an opportunity to present an update and also a look forward with coaching for change here with me is uh dr amy braunhard the principal of henry lord as well as marquis taylor the founder of coaching for change i'm going to turn it over to marquis to start the presentation hey doing marquis good how are you good thank you guys for for this time and
1:04:07giving me this opportunity to present so i gave her sent over a packet earlier um and i just wanted to kind of run through it um and give a little overview of what coaching for change is how we set up the partnership or how we designed it or how we were thinking about it last year talk about what we've done this year and present a vision of what we're hoping to
1:04:32do moving forward um so coaching for change has been in fall river since uh 2017 and we have partnered with henry lord community school as an extended learning time option giving kids more once the bell rings giving kids after school time programming by putting college students in schools and high school students in schools after school to provide project-based learning and what we started realizing
1:04:58recognizing is that while the middle schools middle school students were working with they were engaging in projects they were building relationships with college students and also high school students we also saw that college students started expressing interest in becoming educators and so through that model we started recognizing that we're having a dual impact for young people they were
1:05:22getting additional supports and for uh college students this was building a pipeline into or getting exposure into a career of education um covet hit and we went virtual and it caused us to rethink what the model looked like what it felt like and unfortunately we had to eliminate the high school portion of our program and last year we did it virtually or because we're yeah we're currently in
1:05:50the sheer slash yeah um and we brought 14 students from across the country into fall river to to build an online platform uh or online programming and so over the summer we designed a program where it was not just an after-school program anymore we were going to do our after school program in all five middle schools and then also pilot an in-school model where college students weren't just after school
1:06:20workers but they were enrichment buddies they were teachers assistants they were leading some form something that was going on within the school school day and so the vision was by 2025 could we bring in 125 college students uh to work both in school after school and during the summer and so that that's a little of the the background of how we got to to to where we are now and so this year we grew from two
1:06:50schools to five schools uh we were able to we grew from placing 15 college students uh to 70 college students and we grew from serving 70 students to 298 students and we piloted also a summer program last year and an in-school model this year and so we're in five schools um 289 uh middle school students 70 college students placed and we had trained 23 college students and so um we were able to place 10 college
1:07:28students over the summer um because it was on the backdrop of covid we didn't get uh the attendance as well as we hoped but we planned to do that this year of the number of students we were able to serve our after-school model we placed 57 college students serving 241 and in our in-school model we had three college students serving 57 students and so if you look at the students that
1:08:01who do we serve within the district we we served 91 or sorry we served 61 percent college or sorry 61 of students of color um 31 um were sorry 13 were el students 31 were students with disabilities uh 40 english language learners and then also 90 percent of the students we serve were low income or economically disadvantaged and so our student outcomes this isn't saying that just this purely is because of
1:08:39coaching for change but this is the baseline data that we're trying to pull to make sure that we're every year we're making improvements and being able to make adjustments based on the data that we're seeing uh from the students we're serving and one of the one of the key factors that we've talked about is being able to put college students of color in in our schools right so knowing that majority
1:09:06of um school staff are female and white it doesn't necessarily represent the student body that we are we're serving here in fall river and so bringing college students of color from umass dartmouth from bridgewater state from stonehill college into the schools so that young people have shared experiences shared culture with with with young people is really important and powerful and
1:09:35also being able to recruit some of these college students to become paras or student support assistants um this is a really cool way of encouraging young people who aren't thinking about a career in education to pursue a career in education and seeing it beyond just being a teacher so the plan right now is we want to continue moving forward with the in-school model the after-school model and the summer model
1:10:05and figuring out how do we make sure that our college students aren't just working in in those programs but also able to matriculate into some kind of career a career path within the district and so on on the final page it is a breakdown of what we're hoping to do next year with three college students over the summer in each school anywhere from six to ten college students in the after school program
1:10:35and piloting a model where we're having three to five college students during the school day so i'll turn it over to drew or dr bronward thank you marquis just some brief comments about the coaching for change model this is as marquis said this is our first year that we've expanded from two schools to five schools and also the first year that we've piloted the in-school and summer model
1:11:08also as you take a look at the outcomes and the student demographics really what schools are looking at when they're referring students to coaching for change are students who aren't connected to the school community for one reason or another so the cross age mentorship program that they experience in the after school and summer program as well as the in-school kind of academic and
1:11:29enrichment support is really helping them find success or greater success that's the goal within their school day i'd like to turn it over to dr amy braunhard principal of henry lord community school just to give a couple comments from a school leader's perspective on the impact of coaching for change thanks drew i feel like this is my annual kickoff campaign to the let's keep what works
1:11:57model um i think in education oftentimes programs particularly extracurricular programs come and go um and we often forget about what we were originally intending to do as a result of that program in the first place with the next best idea um coaching for change has been really instrumental at henry lord and amidst the ever-changing five years that i've been the leader down at lord
1:12:16coaching for change has been consistent the program has continued um to be marketed across our middle schools most specifically and our kids continue to subscribe to it it's an engaging opportunity where they have opportunities to connect with networks and community members and really get behind some passionate activities and program development for themselves as middle school students as
1:12:37well as noted you know our kids stay after school and we keep them at school working with trusted and caring adults to keep them off of our city streets particularly during the winter months when we know it gets dark and kids have not many places to be able to be so coaching for change has been a great program at lord i would highly continue to encourage it we have been the recipients of all three programs at
1:12:58henry lord we had summer students last year i've already been receiving outreach from some of our coaching for change summer students from last year who are now graduating from college trying to come back to forever public schools and put their grassroots in the community it's exactly the checkbox we were hoping to have in addition to that we had two coaching for change students in our day program this year
1:13:19and we were able to support eighth grade ela as well as sixth grade math classes with regular attention and support and small group working align side the classroom teacher and it was really powerful to watch all of the different interactions with different kids with our college mentors in the classroom setting and then we had our traditional after school program that this year at lord we went back to
1:13:40our food truck program and we had the highest number of participants that we had seen pre-covered numbers which was really awesome to see this past spring so when we have good programs i think it's important to keep those good programs and continue to build upon them and henry lord has been able to really leverage those supports because as much as we have a wide and robust middle
1:14:01school athletics program not all of our kids are into athletics and this truly has been a way for us to just cast a father-reaching net to ensure that we can create as many opportunities as possible to give kids places to be in places where they see themselves connecting with positive adults and positive peer relationships as well so thank you to the committee for your ongoing support of coaching for change
1:14:24my goal and hope would be to see that the program continues in fall river as we get back to more traditional times for all of us in education and beyond thank you any ques miss larabee i talked to bernard so i i did write down a couple questions about the the school-placed uh college students um are we looking to get more than three in each school or are you looking to get more than three
1:14:53in your school or is that the number that we're sticking to so in my partnership with marquis i think it's all about applicability i don't think it's just about making placements but making sure they're the right placements um so when we find college mentors who are interested in exploring this work it's always doors you know doors open come check us out but it's really about finding the right
1:15:14co-teacher to partner with this college student who's able to give the time to mentor this college student and provide a real experience for the college kids because we don't want this to be a typical come in the building and then go be a substitute because we we understand what happens with the lack of training and the lack of opportunity to train our substitutes in meaningful ways that we
1:15:33would otherwise like right so that was actually how the day program started a few years back we had attempted to move some after-school students into the day program and realized that the skills were not fully transferable and so we want to make sure that we have the right mentor teachers in the building and then the right college mentors as well so i it does become a student to student and
1:15:53teach in you know school-based decision and i i would say honestly i wouldn't probably look to take on any more than three or four because i want to make sure we can give that experience to the college kids effectively and appropriately right thank you i yield anything further well thank you guys it's a discussion we appreciate the update how many i do have one question how many kids you looking
1:16:14to get this summer in the program you mean college students or our students so each middle school is looking to have approximately three to five college students and they would be supporting the school-based summer programming with enrichment and academic opportunities so they could be for example like a teacher support like our in-school model they could be supporting some of the
1:16:42enrichment opportunities so the number of students will vary by school size size of the summer program and the the fit whether it's a class a college student who's mentoring in a classroom all day or is kind of moving from classroom or space supporting in different ways all right so you you envision them almost in a role as a second teacher in the room when the kids are in there it's not a pull-out model or where you
1:17:08get small groups and go uh play soccer or no the the goal of it is it's more of a and model okay college students are inserted as support staff okay i appreciate that thank you guys anything further next up thank you is a discussion of whitson's food service relevant to the president contract as presented by ken pacheco chief operating officer so with the last school committee meeting we had a request
1:17:39for whitson's to come before the committee and um i you know we reached out uh with an invitation to whitson's to join us so we have uh joe armenti who is district manager for whitson's and he's joined by bob cutting who's the food service director for foreign and i can invite joe up right now for any questions you may have good evening thank you for having us come tonight
1:18:23bob is the as you all know bob is the director here come on bob and bob's been here for as a director for 10 years i've been the district manager here for 12 years just to give you a brief overview of whitson's whitson's culinary group is currently the 16th largest dining service provider in the u.s we provide a wide range of highly customized dining service to about 100 school districts throughout the northeast
1:18:59the strong focus on nutritious high quality meals made from some fresh ingredients whitsons is a family-owned company it's also a certified minority business enterprise which embraces diversity and inclusion as part of our mission as i said bob has been here for 10 years i've been here for 12.
1:19:26our core values have never changed since we've wood since has been here we treat everyone like family we serve wholesome foods that taste good and we provide honest authentic communication the pandemic has presented the entire food industry with many challenges nationwide shortages and delays have affected the availability of certain products leading to some last-minute substitutions of menu items
1:20:02as well as some unprecedent president shortages currently we have about 24 open positions in the nutrition department some of the strategies we've used to limit interruptions in the program include keeping many of the students favorites in stock so if we do have a substitution we can replace it with something that they like like a chicken patty or a cheeseburger um if we have to switch something
1:20:34we're keeping the menu this year generic just because of a lot of the interruptions in the supply chain so you won't see the normal variety that we usually have we use several brought on several more vendors to make sure that we have product we don't prepare the menu to too far in advance also to prevent interruptions and using a more simplified menu during the pandemic i feel that's going to change next year
1:21:14when the supply chain hopefully loosens up and we can add more staff um just to give you an idea what uh the team does down there is we've already served over 1.2 million lunches this year and about a million breakfasts so far participation last month was about 80 percent of the kids had lunch and about 60 percent had breakfast bob and his team was instrumental in closing the old high school and moving
1:21:52into the new high school dealing with changing routines and learning the new equipment we continue to partner with the district in stop and shop to provide school school pantry and meals for students over the weekends we were also asked to help with the transition of utility workers in each kitchen and we were able to coordinate that we applied for a grant and a district was approved for
1:22:34the grant for 106 thousand dollars infrastructure grant and we were able to purchase a refrigerated truck to receive commodities that they can move around the district that's the district owns the truck we also work closely with cd rec with the summer program um we're involved in the christmas parade uh we uh helped prepare thanksgiving meal that we did a cheerios promotion with saint i would stop and shop as well
1:23:10we participated in the farmers the families program teaming up with several community partners in the in the city and we distributed a thousand boxes of produce each week there's been many challenges with the pandemic but the team along with bob here have stepped up to every challenge and to make students experience positive every day when they come down to the cafeteria questions mr aguiar how are you doing sir hi
1:23:52so um you had mentioned about uh you've been out there for 10 years uh has is there any reports any uh an annual budget for your your program any reports any uh state audits anything like that that happens on a regular basis yes it does and and uh mr pachico anything like that we deal with um with him on that and um kevin as far as the financials every month we uh provide them with a financial
1:24:21statement of revenues expenses um budgets things like that so we've we've worked closely with those two fellows previous to that was tom thank you madam superintendent may we please get some of those i've never seen one of those in my entire career um how about the um i've heard you know little complaints here and there but is there any been any satisfaction surveys any kind of thing
1:24:47like that where you send it out to know where uh are people happy with it are the children happy with it are families happy with it do you have any um ongoing things like that yeah we do have surveys i think um we could do some online surveys and we've done them in the past i think with the covid um i think last year we did one um with the kova the way the service and
1:25:16things were changed yeah if you could just get any any of those i i think the reason why i asked that you'd come was because we get questioned and i have no answers to give people so it's not to attack you i'm not saying whether the surveys are going to be good or bad the data is going to be good or bad but we get we have nothing to go on other than that
1:25:35when we're making money i guess is a good part in your contracts are there any such thing as bonuses based on profitable profits in your contract any bonuses or anything like that if you do a certain thing do you get does your company get any extra money no it's regulated by the contracts regulated by the usda so there's there's none of that we we receive a yearly fee to operate the
1:25:58program and that's it so there's no extra triggers we made no if we surpass the budget or below budget it doesn't matter that's it and that's that's regulated by the usda that that has to be the way the contract is understood so you operate all the kitchens um that's what whitsons does they operate all the kids yeah we met yeah do you have a ongoing pest management prevention program in all of your kitchens
1:26:28yes the district does yes can you explain that what that what that means to me um if we if we have any incidents in the kitchens um a report of a a pest um my first call is to mr correa and he then reaches out to flynn pest control and they they come out immediately to address that issue yep so my question was do you as running a kitchen have an ongoing preventative pest
1:26:57management control program right you do you we do we have a company that comes in and mr correa is the one that oversees that the thing is what we do is if we see something then we're the ones that to call him but the the district owns the buildings and i understand he i understand yeah you're running the kitchen right if you run a restaurant you have to have somebody come in every
1:27:22month to do preventative pest control what i'm hearing the gentleman just say is if we have an issue we call flynn pest control no you misunderstood what he's saying is we do have that and he's saying above and beyond that i think he's saying above and beyond that if we do so who pays for that is what i'm telling what i'm asking the district pays for that an ongoing monthly service
1:27:44preventative maintenance yes and you've seen that bill wouldn't that come out of your account run in the kitchen it's it's the way the contract is is is written is yeah so because they have the district has the buildings and they want to try i understand sir so that's that's i understand this is the way i'm looking at it okay you run a kitchen yeah we can't have pests inside the kitchen
1:28:11i think we all would agree on that yeah we don't with that being said we need a monthly service or whatever a regular service to prevent pests from coming into the school if we have a contract like such a thing you should see or mr cutting should see every month there's this the person comes around and checks to make sure that all of our hit cooking kitchens all of our kitchens have somebody doing preventative pest
1:28:37control if that's the case somebody's going to get a bill for that monthly service correct yep i've asked for all those bills from the the district and i don't see it so you're saying we have a preventative plan i've asked for the ahead of time to say where is the monthly cost and the backup for that where is the copy of the contract and i still don't have it and i've been asking for this for several
1:29:02months so the reason why i'm asking you is because you're running this like you're this is your kitchen so you should know you should say yeah the guy comes in every wednesday he comes in here and he does this and that he does he does he for free person comes in every month he does he does that i guess it's for free then it's not for free well i haven't seen a bill
1:29:23so flynn is our contractor he's a licensed contractor and he does do monthly checks as part of the contract and then he does any kind of services that are needed when we do have a situation that's the pest control we do have a we do have a a plan for the entire district with every school listed on it and what is being done at each school and what are the remediations yep now
1:29:56you're aware mr pacheco i know because i sent it to you yes i've asked for over a month now for a copy of the plan haven't received it i asked for copies of all the bills paid to flynn pest control not one of the bills for the current year 2022 says anything about a monthly service at all so when i'm asking this question is because i've already tried to ask ahead
1:30:19of time so if we have a contract the committee should get a copy of it if we have a monthly service if the guy's not doing it for free there should be some sort of bill that says flynn pest control monthly service x amount of dollars all 13 buildings that's all i was expecting and the fact when i don't see it now i see these gentlemen like they should be
1:30:38on you to say well the guy's showing up now i'm hearing the guys there all the time well it's it's not on them it's on me um it's got nothing to do with whitsons so whitson does do what they say they do but they also let us know when there are issues in the kitchen that we take care of no different than any other issue in the kitchen they're not responsible for changing light bulbs
1:30:59they're not responsible for fixing a sink that's that's uh plugged or a floor drain or grease traps that's all maintenance so is the pest control all on the maintenance side so if it's not getting done that's on me yep but when you look at the at the gentleman running the company yes there's a kitchen that's why i'm asking them because they're here no no i say you have mice inside of a
1:31:24school it should be an issue for mr cutting and this gentleman that is the negative and immediately and immediately they call me we can't have that happening you're absolutely right and i think we all agree on that i just i'm not sure i've ever been given enough documents to give me confidence sure that we're doing what we need to do to make sure that we have that pest management control in place so that's
1:31:46the only reason why i asked that question sure do you have any um numbers on how much waste so when students get i know there's certain regulations are they throwing out a lot of food what's the percentage of food that gets wasted do you do any kind of checks i don't think we have a lot of waste i think there's kids in this in this district that look forward to the meal need the meal
1:32:12some some kids maybe their only meal i don't feel we don't we don't have a lot of ways and you think the kids are happy with the meals anecdotally do you work here or is i yeah no i would you're like the manager i i absolutely work here and mr cutting you'd agree with that that there's no waste there's not much waste no we could we run production records every day which
1:32:34record what we send out and what does come back if anything and at that point then we also project if i send out a particular meal that wasn't a favorable meal and i get extra returns so to speak we then adjust that for the next time so we all we have production records every single meal every single day that control that overall waste i'm talking about in the barrel though
1:32:58you're talking about if a child takes a meal throws it away i i do that's part of myself and our management team to observe that so we do walk around and look for that and if we do happen to see that that would be a quick adjustment to that particular product that we serve that day so i would adjust it in the in the upcoming menus so somebody's monitoring is what you're correct
1:33:21the uh you had mentioned that you helped coordinate the thing called utility worker i think you mentioned that sir can you explain to me what that means you that you helped coordinate that i don't know what that can you expound there was a change this year where there was utility workers added to the kitchen custodial staff that used to be in in the kitchen there was a change the district had asked
1:33:48to make a change and have a person be in the kitchen and we worked and coordinated that those folks most of the custodian most of the full-timers in the cook uh kitchens were able to get custodian folks that moved over into those positions but then we had to get part-timers in a lot of the elementary school we had to go to the outside and when we hired those staff from the outside
1:34:21a lot of them didn't have as much experience under their belt so we did some training coordinated some training with the district and got those folks up to speed and some of those smaller schools where those were part-timers and how would you think that that's in your estimation how do you think the utility work is going like any any new program it has its ups and downs in the beginning
1:34:49but i think it's working okay now i think it's it seems to be working smooth you know do you pay the utility workers the district the district pays the employees to all the employees of district team members so if they have to get overtime that wouldn't be something that would go to you so if you can't find a utility worker what happens in your kitchen you you could explain well we we go right
1:35:18stay within the school and ask a another food service worker if they want to take that position for the day if someone say i called out today and if we don't have one of those then we would go again mr correa would provide a custodial fill in and that's how we would replace that person but how do they stay within the within the kitchens first within our staff is there any days that you don't feel
1:35:42adequate cleanings happening in your kitchens uh getting thrown out things like that in the beginning of this program i would say i would agree with you 100 but we we had some training over the april break um mr dennis board just helped us train went back to basics on some of those items and i see a great improvement since then and we'll also have them working over the summer time
1:36:06doing floors and learning more of that so i i see it in improving each month yes the kitchen's well kept and clean and the folks here are very proud of their kitchens and keeping them clean so that's something that they take pride yeah i personally don't believe that the utility worker is working properly we were told one thing and i don't think it's happened my personal opinion would
1:36:34be that the kitchens are not getting clean like they should and that they have in the past my third opinion would be that we're paying overtime to the roof in order to fund those positions and to clean those kitchens as far as you being like the guy that runs the kitchen like as if it was a restaurant if it's not getting done properly it's up to you to notify somebody that it is
1:36:52and i know you'll say you go to canon joe and all this stuff just speaking from myself candidly i don't think it's working and i think we have some problems relative to the cleaning of those spots you would mention cd rec in the summer that you help or you work with them yes where does that funding come from we provide the meals for the summer program to cd wreck and we uh charge the
1:37:14district charges them that's been going on since we've been here and and you get paid from how do you get we don't we don't get paid what happens is we see direct gets the meals from us from the district here and then we we charge the district charges cd-rec to cover the cost of the meals cd rec um claims the meals from the state and then they get paid from the state for the
1:37:42summer meals and then their portion of that comes back to us to cover the cost us meaning the district when i say us i mean fall river district so your company doesn't get anything other than the original contractors no just for helping with that no we don't we get the fee and that's it my last question is you said there's 24 open positions in fall river so how do you bill is it only
1:38:06straight-up employees or do you do you get a lump sum the district pays it's the district's payroll so they pay for the they pay the folks they're on there on you on the district's payroll so if we had a budget we would have a budget for x amount of employees if we're 24 short and those people all got 10 000 each then we have 240 000 dollars left over in our budget that we wouldn't have had
1:38:31otherwise exactly it's probably the wrong number but yeah yeah no i i did you your eggs yeah so we should have a little surplus right if you're running short what we had budgeted for those people were not right and we'll have a surplus based on that and you still and you said you're still providing all the services and everything else is going well so yeah we've provided right through the uh through coven um
1:38:55you know we've had issues with you know like anyone else with with folks getting sick and needing to be home i understand you like that thank you i yielded anything further oh mr pizza if i could just so 24 people down i don't know how many of those are part-timers we've got custodians down and part-timers missing also just like we have teachers just like we have paris the entire district is
1:39:22short-handed and everyone's short-handed it's very difficult to fill positions we've made some improvements with the collective bargaining agreements however we're not there yet and there's still more work to be done and that's what we're trying to do with our negotiations now but the the fact that the work is getting done and the fact that there is overtime is based on open positions
1:39:48not on the fact that the work can't be done with the employees that are there but it is the open positions that drive everything and it's driving it in the regular custodians so the overtime is through the roof because we have open positions that we can't fill someone has to do that work and it's getting done in overtime and until we have a full staff that's the unfortunate part about what we do both in nutrition
1:40:12custodial it doesn't hit maintenance and and the other groups but it does hit those two pretty hard what would a custodian overtime be for utility worker can you tell us what that means so how would that work uh again as as bob said if we have an opening it's asked who wants to work that opening a four-hour shift whatev whatever that may be and basically they would go in and do whatever that
1:40:38responsibility was of that person who's not in so if i worked second shift i could come in four hours early if you worked second shift and that opening was in during the day then yes you could and if you were specifically to the utility worker and if it was right so we have first shift utility workers and second shift utility workers so if that first shift position needs to be filled a second shift person
1:41:04could come in and fill that and vice versa and what if it didn't the first shift worker can work in utility a a first shift worker could get the overtime themselves so if a person is working at a cooking kitchen and there is a night shift that would come in for four hours if that person wanted to stay past their shift then they could and fill that position some do some
1:41:30don't so if we have a school up seven to three yes it's a school day and the utility worker would normally be in that cafeteria for the whole period because that's what we were told when we they'd be there for eight hours to clean that yes yes that person is gone and nobody wants to take the overtime how does that building get cleaned how does that kitchen get clean for that eight hours we would ask some
1:41:51we would ask for a custodian to fill that position and pay them the overtime depending on what shift they were on so if nobody wants it then what do we do somebody always wants it so we've never had any uh any if we've had it at a non-cooking kitchen a non-cooking kitchen and basically a cafeteria cleaning the trash is always empty no matter who shows up and the work of of that cleaning
1:42:22i can't remember when it hasn't happened i'm sure there are people in the district who could say that they know when it's happened and maybe even write it down every day but i'm going to tell you that i don't know when it happens i'm sure it does happen and at some point we would have to have someone else come in and clean that kitchen who cleans the barrels if you said it the barrels will
1:42:42get picked up no matter what the barrels are on the side of of nutrition so they're owned by nutrition but if that nutrition worker is not in then we would ask a custodian to do that work on an ot not on regular time so the buildings are part of the barrels are part of the nutrition everything inside the kitchen is the kitchen in the cafeteria belongs to nutrition that's it that's the end of that line
1:43:07so remember we had people who did this job mostly seniors who would stand there all day while those kids were eating and wheel a barrel back and forth that work wasn't happening while students were there this cafeteria person now is the one doing that which freed up custodians to be inside the building doing work that they needed to do so this was not just about nutrition it served the custodial side
1:43:37very well because a lot of people got freed up and created some of these floating positions so if a senior is doing their job they can assign that person to do different duties so a senior can clean up the cafeteria if a senior wants to take that as an overtime they they are not utility workers the utility workers are cleaning the kitchen right so i think that's the problem is that we
1:44:01created a system where we can't just have the custodians in the building including a senior florida casino florida seniors whoever just come in and help us clean those barrels up the idea is is that the money that's being used should be used in the by employees of the nutrition side this is why we got marks dings so to speak every single audit because we were transferring money from one to the other now we are still
1:44:26transferring dollars to pay for overtime no different than we did before and no different that's happening on the on the regular side of custodians with an awful lot of overtime because of people not showing up for work or shorthanded yeah mr cutting can i just ask what happens when mr chico said that you guys are responsible for emptying the barrels in nutrition can you explain what that
1:44:48would look like if there's no utility worker if there's no utility worker then the food service workers would take up that responsibility and if not then management i've gone out and emptied barrels with that i've been in the kitchens so if i have nobody there we'll be there i'll be there so we empty them throughout lunch the barrels go all rotate through the through the meals so we always have a food service worker
1:45:14will present it to them would you like to step up and do this job today they get that higher rate they do it for the day the barrels always move so my only comment on it is that i've seen a lot of the ladies that work in the util you know in the cafeterias and stuff i for one wouldn't think that they should be having to take barrels and take trash out to the dumpsters you know
1:45:34maybe some could but yeah but what i think mr bull just taught them is is the half barrels to half bags if that is that's the case we don't feel them overflowing so it's a half a bag and we do teamwork so if i get to push this barrel which are all on wheels to a dumpster i'm bringing mr mentee with me and we do quarter bags half bags who was
1:45:54i didn't hear what you said i couldn't what you're saying is they help each other we do teams to lift one barrel because they it's it's the same thing as when they go in a freezer and there's a big box and a freezer they go in with help you know what i mean someone else is going to help them to take it down um that's that's just the way they work
1:46:15yeah i i i think you get the point i'm not telling you that i think the utility work is working well in any way shape or form i don't think the place is getting cleaned properly and i want to leave it at that with that i yield okay i just have one super quick question who monitors the utility worker because obviously you can you cannot be there the whole time so who is in there you
1:46:36know making sure like yep the floors are swept yep they're washed yep the trash is out a good point we have kitchen what we call managers managers in the kitchen leads in the in the elementary schools not the satellite schools they are a day-to-day responsibility is to watch them and we were finding that they at the beginning of this program they didn't have quite the training either so
1:46:58we incorporated them into that april training not only did our field supervisors but all our leads and managers went to the training with utility workers so now they know what to look for and then they would report back to correct they go back to field supervisors or myself so would you say with all confidence that our flaws in our cafeteria and kitchens are being swept and washed every day and our trash
1:47:20is being removed every day because it's all well and good to have people take out trash but we all know you know even my boyfriend can't eat without putting crumbs on the ground i'm sure kids do as well and then you have an increase of mice or what have you correct so you can say with all confidence that's the trash is being empty and the floors and the floods in the cafe and kitchen yes
1:47:41okay thank you i thought i yelled okay that was a discussion i want to thank you guys thank you up next 12.3 is the discussion and vote to approve the student support specialist job description as presented by tom coogan i would actually like to chime in on this please okay i i actually would like to withdraw this uh job description ms costa ms kudo and i have been going back and forth with this job
1:48:14description trying to retrofit it into something that we envision as a layer of support sel support for our students in k-8 we do have a student support position specialist position that is functioning well at the high school but we as we the more we talked about it the more we realize that this needs to look different it really um needs to mirror what we have as an instructional support
1:48:43liaison but from the sel side on that person who's going to be doing that um response uh and be that layer of support prior to the the sac giving doing that tier three so it really doesn't fit in this position we're trying to make it fit and we actually are creating a new job description that we can bring back to all of you so at this time this yeah well i would like to withdraw this one
1:49:11position mr chairman mr ag thank you madam superintendent uh this has been an ongoing issue for us i think for a long time related to sel services and sel needs that we have in our school system so we've been trying to create going way back to the budget which is probably in march or april a position that would be sort of uh similar to like the isl that we had for the uh
1:49:38you know a full-time teacher so that we can get something working with a person who's maybe not certified as a counselor right now but they can provide services to our children in the sel world and i think that's so important for us what we what we actually need right now and while i can appreciate you trying to pull this i think the need is not going to go and go away and i think kicking
1:50:01this down to july then to potentially august we need to hire these people like yesterday a lot of these people that are working in the in the counseling field are going to have to give notice they're going to have to give time so i for one support what you're talking through with ms costa with miss kudo to talk about creating a different job description that's going to help us create the services that are
1:50:25needed hit to hit the ground running in september with our students so i know that we usually wait uh you know to have you come back i for one would like you to move forward with this and trusting your professional judgment with ms costas and miss kudos to say you create the position you create the job description and you create the uh advertisement so we can start interviewing and putting these people
1:50:48locking some people in in the sel world for us i think that's very very important that we do it now rather than wait until july to approve it and then we can advertise it so i'd like to make a motion that we authorize the superintendent to create the job description implement the job description and start to hire these sel folks for our district so that we can hit the ground running in september
1:51:08second we get a motion in a second any further discussion on letting the superintendent hire and build the job description i'm i'm just going to throw my two cents in go right ahead because you know these are the folks that have been doing this work in this district for ever and a day and they're in the schools every day and i 100 would trust that they have the judgment they have the understanding and they know what
1:51:33they need best so i 100 am in support of that okay let's give it a roll call mr again yes mr bailey yes mr heart yes miss laravey yes ms carrera yes mr rodrick yes mayor coogan yes we'll share the job description this week thank you 12.4 uh update on powerschool as presented by scott cabral chief information officer good evening everyone i'm going to be brief with our overall comments on the implementation
1:52:02update because there are questions regarding some additional hours that are going to be need to be purchased to finalize the product the project i can tell you on the data side that the basic information for all of our 60 000 students 8 000 staff with historical data most of that data is in there complete brian and his team have been working um quite long hours to get this going we will be
1:52:27ready and live for july 1st there are i have come to you guys since early fall there are hiccups along the way this project is taking 20 years of historical data from a system that we've only used for 20 years some of that data is stored in that system much differently than it is in many other vendors i can share with you some issues that powerschool had said that we
1:52:55had with historical data and i can say that it was an eye-opening experience for us internally brian and his team made some changes there's been much more dialogue in the last few months back and forth with this data conversion than there was early going when we signed the initial contract part of the original scope of work was 350 hours of data conversion time okay there was a little
1:53:19asterisk underneath that said that if there was more time needed we would have to purchase more time i can say and brian can say we thought we were going to be okay with 350 hours they gave us that 350 hour window based on other districts of our size but other districts of our size were also not ingesting 20 plus years of data uh if we look at it i mean you could probably
1:53:42walk from here to california and back 50 to 100 times that's how much data we have in this system so if we go forward where we are right now and don't have you all have approved you know the extra hours moving forward we're just going to have in that very limited data we're not going to have any way to store all that historical data so when we want to look at reports and we
1:54:03want to look at historical data to try to make changes in the classroom the district we don't have that data we have to then take that data back it all up in pdf and i can tell you that no one on this board would want me to come to you our cfo would not want to pay for the amount of storage that i would have to you know we'd be looking at
1:54:21eight to nine hundred thousand dollars of a server farm to store the amount of data that we would have to store locally now it's stored on the cloud with them secure we don't have to worry about it it's always at our fingertip i will say a lot of the conversations that have been going ongoing you know the last three or four weeks brian and i are not going to sugarcoat this we were nervous okay
1:54:42if you got to meet about four weeks ago right after the last school committee meeting it was touch and go there we expected some touch and go but we we were concerned because there were a lot of issues with them trying to digest and and ingest some of that data into our new system the one thing that they did say and you know lessons learned we did something like we did for 20 years
1:55:04it worked you know aspen worked as a district stakeholders teachers principals central admin sims team we all decided collectively school committee to go with a new vendor power school was chosen so now we're with powerschool we're learning the system we're learning the system brian is going to come up in a minute he has been spending so much time in the back end to get everything to work
1:55:27that he's still green on some of the stuff in the front end now to build a capacity from within we've hired two individuals that have combined 25 years plus power school experience so we sat down brian and i and said okay we have staff members that know x2 now we need to push this over the finish line what are we doing we have two people coming in now that are going to
1:55:47be able to support our power school implementation for july 1 and moving forward and we still have our team members that have been so versed in x2 over the last 20 years they'll be able to push our state reporting through we're going to still report from x2 this year and then as they do that they're familiarizing themselves with our trainings to move forward with power school so next year at this point we
1:56:09really have a team of six individuals that are going to be completely power school involved the one thing that they did say was our aspen system is fairly open okay and i can get very technical with you but just look at that as a box of marbles okay some of our fields of data had hundreds of thousands of marbles in that one little field and brian and i are very technical so we
1:56:34could say field one equals field one in the new system however for some reason in their architecture powerschool did not see field one five hundred thousand miles in x2 to field one power school five hundred thousand marbles it didn't equate it didn't match up it was like that movie johnny five he needed more input they needed more input so that's where the dialogue happened brian and his team have been going back
1:57:02and forth um the one thing that they also said that they acknowledged that there were challenges and the amount of time that the whole exercise of researching and profiling our sauce aspen took right they it's an unavoidable exercise and any migration it's unavoidable we could have taken the information from aspen and we could have gone to one of the other vendors we could have gone to infinite campus we
1:57:27could have gone to x2 x2 was not even willing to send you know sell us a new version of x2 because they weren't sure how we were going to get our data in so we were going to have hiccups along the way i will say brian and beth lewis and a couple of members of our sim team were actually able to work hand-in-hand with powerschool and all of a sudden i started to open and
1:57:50that the data flow was much easier at that point and he'll tell you he was frustrated i was concerned we meet weekly as a central office team brian comes in and he he said if i was driving across the country and i was going straight across i actually had to drop down into the center of the country right now because i'm concerned i'm off i'm off course but literally within the course of about two weeks we
1:58:13had many powwows with power school and stuff started to come back into the you know we're back on 95 we're at the finish line the problem is we still have all that data so when we got a quote for extra hours they're providing us a quote for 250 extra hours of which they've now discounted they came back to us with one price and i almost fell off my chair in the office so they've gone down
1:58:39it's basically about 13 to 14 grand discount because they actually see sitting on both sides of the table that maybe they weren't looking at the data correctly at the same time so we've come to an agreement now the thing is they've written into this new thing this new contract that if we ever get to the point where 250 hours aren't enough we'd be we'd be paying and that's something i've been telling you know the
1:59:02console the whole time in full transparency that we may have hiccups and there have been hiccups am i necessarily pleased with the way some of the hiccups happened with power school no but at the same time the onus doesn't fall directly on power school it falls on the fall river public schools the way we've been doing sims for 20 years was our way it worked right we're trying something different we're trying
1:59:30something for ease of use for our end users but some of our data just didn't match up with their data you would think it would be that simple student name to student name well student name and x2 actually could be a total different description in powerschool and brian would call and he'd scratch his head he said i can't believe they do it like that but now he actually is starting to get a little bit more
1:59:54comfortable with some of the pieces we are and the addition of those new personnel it's actually starting to connect the dots right brian has been so involved in x2 for 20 years it's tough to see some of those differences right but on the central office level we have we need extra hours in order to do this if you know and you guys have approved it and i did for a point i've talked with maria
2:00:19about it and some of the other members of central office i do feel that at times there could be a little bit of nickel and diming there it almost feels to me like it's a billable hour very early on in the project brian would have a question via email he'd send an email to our representative we actually get knocked for a 20-minute charge because we asked a question well we fixed that they actually opened up a
2:00:43ticket portal for us they weren't charging us the one piece that i am waiting on and as soon as i have it you can all have it is i want to direct what those 350 hours were used for so if they used five hours to look at student demographic data in x2 to try to match field sets i want to know about it their reply to us on that is they have
2:01:06so many different contractors and people working on it so just for me i'm just looking at you if you were one of the consultants and you worked six hours on one of those projects you have to actually invoice power school for those six hours so they're putting that list together however moving forward for this 250 hours of which they're charging us for i believe just right around 200 they're
2:01:28responsible to report to us now because we're in crunch time and and brian and i want to really see where those hours are going and i can tell you just as a breakdown they've already told us that and again we're ready to go live july 1.
2:01:44it's going to look different it's going to be a lift for people to get used to but the training schedule has started brian and his team have a robust training schedule so teachers will get a little piece of it before they leave for the summer we'll also be doing brian has a little like coffee hour set up throughout the summer so if it rains and the teacher doesn't want to go to the beach
2:02:04they can come in and they can see videos we're actually also doing online on demand videos you can do it from the privacy of your home we're doing google classroom so the training will be there that's where our concentration is right now because within two weeks we lose most of our staff for the summer so right now the big push is on the training piece as soon as that training piece kicks off we're gonna get back
2:02:25into finalizing and cleaning up these data sets and i can tell you july one will be live demographics schedules the whole nine yards however we're going to be making changes as a district as we move forward there are going to be things that the nursing department may like to see that are different so just you know in true transparency work in progress if i ever get to a point maria or myself will let the committee
2:02:49know that we're in danger we will we need more hours it was it's an unfortunate thing but it's a huge project they did say when they came to us and they did their their show that they were going to have enough hours with 350 hours that they have done districts like us but again 20 years 10 000 plus students 17 buildings so we've already started the project we can't stop now that's why they we can't
2:03:15we came to you guys tonight for those additional hours i do anticipate that we will not hit the 250 hours brian i would say we should be in good shape with the 250 hours do you have anything to add you're in the trenches with them day after day if you want to just explain uh to use a sports analogy you know it was bumpy in the beginning didn't know what we're gonna really make
2:03:38i was very worried about six weeks ago but we've done a lot of uh soul searching on both sides i think they've really come to the table with more proactive and weekly uh and semi-weekly calls with all the big wigs at the power school level um and the data teams and anytime there's a concern now they get to us when a phone call or a zoom meeting and we figure it
2:03:59out and we're more a lot more communication and i think now we've made the turn out to boylston street to head to the finish line and although we're not going to be you know fully you know everything in aspen is going to be in power school by july 1.
2:04:12we will be able to open up on july 1 and operate our school department and still have aspen as a resource and i agree we thought the 350 was going to be enough and it kills me that we have to add more hours because like anything else i've always treated the any money we spend like it's my own money and i try to be fiscally responsible and i know scott does that too
2:04:32and any of the other bills that have come before you have actually been a collaboration with scott and i and to beating them up and trying to get them to give us a discount and recognize extend their discounts for that say end on may 1st to give us the discount into june and the rate we're getting now was discounted for this pool of hours that we're seeing right now this time last year their proposal
2:04:55that we was their second proposal after we had our first round that we ended up stopping the process um for several reasons they picked back up and came back with a much much higher proposal than what you actually approved in the fall and both myself scott and um actually dr kirill we basically met with power school and basically made them recognize that if you want any help of getting into photo of that
2:05:18go back and shop in your pencils and we actually knocked off about a hundred thousand dollars off this the other proposal from my uh last summer and the proposal you have you approved was about 122 000 discount um based on that last middle proposal there so i think we're anytime there's anything to do with rebuilding we try to argue with them and try to get them to come to the table and shop in the
2:05:40pencils or meet us halfway or give us whatever discounts apply and they've been very willing to do that you know um so i do think we're going to hit the july 1st deadline we've been doing trainings with staff uh all throughout june hitting every stakeholder group you know the nurses the attendance officers coming up that we had the clerks they made clerks in the district admin last week we're
2:05:59hitting them all to make sure that we understand how to do get their feet wet with the system gather questions of things they want to know that we're waiting and cover and then we're hitting all those uh 12-month employees the clerks the admin the principals in the summer again several times with different trainings on different parts doing kind of doing attendance getting the score up and
2:06:15running we're having open labs every wednesday we'll have all the new staff and the old staff there um to help out come in drop in and anything you want to learn as a clerk you need help with doing your home rooms for them for the new year we'll be able to help you so i mean it's going to be very uh ambitious and hopefully productive summer for us and um pretty much that's end of that
2:06:40any any questions oh mr aggia a couple of comments one is i still maintain that they sold us a bill of goods at the meeting they told us everything was going to be included they told us that they've worked with systems before today it sounds like as if they've never actually worked with aspen before transfer and data when we covered first the guy told us everything was going to be smooth they were just selling they
2:07:03were just selling and i really feel like they they got one over on us then we see that we got the 350 hours which i was assuming is the 58 000 additional money when we first got the contract is that where the 350 came from the 350 was included in our base contract so that was so like brian just said we went back and forth they sharpened pencils a number of times
2:07:23there actually were four or five different options we could have gone with we went with the corolla knowing that over the next year and a half we may be adding we added the power pack just last month we added the hr piece we may actually look at down the line we don't know they have an ell piece they have a bunch of other pieces that may suit us better moving forward so it
2:07:45it is a type of a nickel and dime there's a lot of add-ons so you buy the base model and there's add-ons and that's where i think right i just want you to understand why i'm frustrated is because when we asked those questions at the meeting it wasn't told to us that we pay 191 000 with it possibly an additional 58 based on one-to-one support we weren't told that by the way all the things that they
2:08:10told us they could do we're going to have add-ons we're going to have an add-on we're going to so i feel like they snuck at us a little bit in my opinion but that being said we still don't have a clear definition of what we're spending and what we're not so if you could get us something to the superintendent to say here's what the base is what we paid and then we paid
2:08:28for the special education which i don't think we should have had to but that's being said that's a separate line then we had uh something else for the hr that should be a separate i just feel like i keep on approving extra money for power school and i don't know what the heck it's for so it's not your fault i just really feel like i think at some point we need a definite explanation when you
2:08:49say that we didn't keep track of or they didn't keep track of the 350 hours that should be a no-no for any contract so if and if i can interrupt we've we've been brian and i for the past three and a half months it's been go we get little blocks at the beginning we would actually get the invoices to review they would go to the bookkeeping department they've since stopped and they're
2:09:08reviewing all those and they have promised us by july 1 to have a a document of infidelity of what we've used for hours with descriptions because and i already told brian i know that we're going to go live with this on july 1. but i want to sit down and i want to go line for line and i want to make sure that what he see in line for line is
2:09:25there because if not we'll go back to them have we got paid have they got paid already they've been paid the initial just roughly 191 so far based off of invoices for core services and some of the add-ons i think you get the idea nobody on this board i don't think wants us to just pay without having backup so whatever you can do to try to to help with that my only
2:09:47question would be the superintendent of where this additional money is going to come out of because i think it said it's coming out of essa and i would want to know what is that just i believe we we said we budgeted we had placeholders for all s or funds so which which worker cut out in order to do this so when we give you the one page with the costs we will also tell you
2:10:10but you understand what i'm saying so if we said everything was accounted for and now we're taking 40 grand we should say what what's cut out right thank you with that i yield okay that was simply an update scott we appreciate it thank you very much 12 5 is also an update from the robert madeiras residency prep academy as presented by clarice brooks the principal
2:10:50good evening and thank you for this opportunity okay during the 2019-2020 school year research and consultancy was conducted between our district and the school and maine institute to establish the best approach to the revitalization of the robert el medeiros resiliency preparatory academy the work included the participation and work of the school in maine institute members of rpa and our district office
2:11:20unfortunately the coveted pandemic halted the implementation of this collaborative work this school year the rpa community revisit revisited this research revitalization plan and worked with our district office to return to this plan and to bring it to life in our upcoming school year twice during this school year i went before the subcommittee to present and discuss all of the requested data that you asked for
2:11:48of my school tonight i'd like to present the main points of this revitalization plan and how we'd like to move forward in activating it so as i mentioned i had presented all of the data before and reports um in thick volume but i have for you now a one pager that just consolidates that work that we can look at right now if that's okay
2:12:22is
2:12:46as you get this sheet you will notice that the top of the sheet is in yellow those are some of those are the main points some of the main points um consolidated that the um school and main institute outline would be best for the revitalization of resiliency preparatory academy below it in the green you will see the steps that we have organized that align directly with what the school and maine institute recommended
2:13:15for our school after conducting their research you'll see under the center-based approach to engage students there is an opportu there is a strategy to expand and the intake assessment and orientation center making it fully staffed and comprehensive as well as an opportunity to take assessments there for the students who come in and start to do career and academic exploration as well as sel
2:13:45work in for the students as they come in it would be a multi-step comprehensive process that supports the needs of the whole child they also recommend that students stay between 1 and 45 days in that intake and orientation center where work would be done with them there they also state that they would have an opportunity to create their my career and academic plan and get wraparound services
2:14:14just below you will see how we took that information and created a plan for a smooth academic and sel transition into rlm rpa we are recommending a that we create a three-week rotating intake process followed by an additional three weeks of supporting students once they move into their entered classes so the intake center will focus on supporting students academics their career development and sel needs
2:14:43as well as creating students excuse me as well as orienting students to the rlm rpa culture and expectations so the first week would be their intake week where we have to work with schools parents etc to get everything outlined for the students second and third week orientation and transitioning where they're engaged in academic work expectations have an opportunity to explore different career options learn
2:15:09about their learning styles create specific goals determine exactly where they are in their education process in terms of credit credit accumulation and other concerns moving to their classes during week four and the intake team continued to just monitor them but this time hand in hand with the guidance counselors and sac and bts the other column talks about um the teaching and learning and how because we
2:15:39are as we are in alternative school it cannot be the same model as it would be in the other schools we see that that did not really work with our students so we recommend having a personalized student scheduling maximizing opportunities for students to get back on track we made space in our schedules for a win period for the students to be engaged there as well and below you'll see moving from trimesters to semesters
2:16:07quarters that will allow for more opportunity to take credit recovery classes students who get to work on their credit recovery work are often able to finish it within what would have been a quarter time so adding an additional moving from three semesters to four quarters would give an even additional time for them to complete another one if that is the work that they are engaged in and
2:16:32they set their minds to it and move forward it also aligns with school and maine's recommendation to align the school year structure with the sending schools which will also help to ease the transition into our pa and it aligned to the three week rotating intake process that i just described to you so this is just a one pager that consolidates much of the information um in the packet that i had
2:16:54already provided to you nice and any questions for uh principal brooks mr aguiar just for the superintendent do you endorse these uh proposals yes i think we will continue to work with principal brooks and the team there on implementing the original redesign plan which we haven't with the modifications that we need to personalize the learning for our students so i i don't think we have to vote on
2:17:23any of this uh no it's just sort of informational i would ask that this company you know to get into the a little deeper in to the subcommittee the subcommittee's gotten some overviews but not necessarily the data and um sort of really digging in some of my concerns were over the last four years that i've been on this board we had received grants and and consultants came in to say we're gonna
2:17:47we should do x y and z i think that some of the current um systems are veering away from that with the credit recovery building up the overage and under credited students the the numbers in the high school were were lower so those were some of my concerns when i looked at some of the data i it begged a lot of questions on what we received related to the edgenuity classes
2:18:13i asked how many students were bubbled up we didn't get necessarily really straight answer on that so i have some questions more in the weeds per se the only question i had on the going from a trimester to semesters was um i believe there was internship programs in the past they still have those at the school internship programs for the internships for for this that the students were
2:18:38doing or that college students were coming in to do for the students for the high school students that's actually one of the things that we want to um that we want to create and expand in the um in the upcoming school year with the career exploration that wasn't this year we had a lot of work problems with the pandemic and i know that there were some things that had been in place that were not in
2:18:57place this year but it is one of the things that is in the career exploration uh work that we want to do with the students yeah i think that you might want to look at the timing of those internships that were in place before so the cement the trimester model actually was a way to give students an opportunity to have three different because it's so many weeks for the year so when reviewing some of
2:19:21my other notes from in the past it was actually the model was so that the students could do the proper amount of weeks and then have a couple of weeks to digest and go into the second trimester by making that into quarters the quarter might actually be done before the actual internship that has to be 12 or 13 weeks so it might actually con conflict with uh some of the internship program and
2:19:44my last comment is just i think that we we've talked about this at a subcommittee meeting we have a lot of kids that are uh they need a true alternative school not necessarily the program like the evolve program that moved up to durfee so that's one model but we need a continuum and what i start what i'm starting to feel like is if the the continuum down there is kind of swing to another evolve and i
2:20:09don't think that's necessarily the what the needs of the district are we have the evolve program that's going to expand for certain children we have we have the program for overage under credited kids that need to you know get credit recovery bubble up and move on to college career and uh you know the workforce or something like that so that's my only concern with some of this stuff is i think we need to make
2:20:29sure across the district that your school is serving what the goal and the mission is of the district and what we need that's all and i'll be happy to speak about it more in the future without ill thank you okay anything further for principal brooks thank you thank you 12.6 is a discussion and vote to approve the fy 2022 one-time assistance for districts with pandemic related enrollment disruptions impacting chapter
2:20:5978 in the amount of 1.267376 million as presented by maria pont superintendent of schools i do want to make one quick comment on this in working with the state delegation i believe that the the money that was requested in this amount has been covered both through unrestricted government aid and with some future funding in the mckinney-vento although it's not officially passed yet i'm confident in
2:21:31both the senate and the house and and they're working with communities like fall river um we'll be able to cover this amount in our budget now we've budgeted for it um i would like to make a motion that this 1.267 million go to the fields at durfee and i hope that i can get support for that second i have a motion to second any further discussion on that number mr aguiar just just a comment and i
2:21:59mentioned this before with mr pacheco we're chipping away at the big project i just want to make sure that the committee is very well aware that this by no means is completing the durfee field project so we need to put the pressure on the superintendent mr pacheco to keep coming back to us to say what is going to be needed and i think the talbot should be separate personally
2:22:20but i think we need to know to make that durfee high school a new school all fields done appropriately for all the sports what is the number that we're looking at and i think it's going to be a couple million dollars we've got to figure out a way to fund that and i'd ask the superintendent to come back with mr pacheco to the full committee with phase two whatever we want to call it we
2:22:39need to we need to do more than this but i do appreciate the mayor's comments and uh with that i yield thank you um discussion that please call the roll ms dragon yes mr bailey yes that's jehovah yes this is laramie she stepped out nope miss pereira yes ms rodriguez yes mayor coogan yep 12.7 is a discussion and vote to approve three additional esl instructors for morton middle school as presented by fernando veracruz
2:23:12ml director miss veracruz is actually not here today so what you have i do have principal patterson here as well as aguero beret here who works closely with the middle schools in the spring the middle school principals met with ms veracruz and her team trying to figure out the model for as you know talbot used to be the only middle school that housed our foundational students and in in an effort to be equitable
2:23:46and have students attend their neighborhood school we created um a foundational strand at each middle school so morton now houses one cuss as well as talbot staffing as a result of that it impacted staffing at morton because cuss has nine teams they were able to absorb that absorb that into one of their teams because as you know they're transitioning gates so they had the staffing talbot had the staffing because they
2:24:19also they used to house all the foundational students morton however is sure a team which is why we are coming here to ask for we are we have a cohort model so we need principal patterson at morton needs an additional three staff to be able to um because the kids are rolling over to be able to service the students so bad any discussion on this go ahead let's drag yeah the um my only
2:24:51question on this is why was it not in the budget um when we did the budget yep i knew i knew that question was going to come up because no that's a fair question we actually um had not looked at the numbers and projected you're right it should have been part of the budget um but when we decided on the cohort model the principals already had created the budgets we already had come
2:25:14through and then that model um is a model where students are going to be traveling as a cohort and rolling over and that would require at morton specifically for them to have a team designated to service the foundational students that was only decided and those projections only came in after our budget process so we had a tremendous influx of students and that are needed here in may
2:25:42no that's not necessarily uh about so the sixth graders are rolling into seventh grade um and the seventh graders are rolling into eighth grade it's not necessarily about the the uh swelling of the numbers it's about creating a cohort model at each middle school where the students will be serviced by esl teachers um and that they're going to they have to get pulled out for uh literacy instruction and then
2:26:10they need they travel as a cohort so you need to have a math science and a social studies teacher that they're going to travel to so you're saying telling me during the whole budget and the with the ell department cohort model wasn't discussed uh it was not decided at that time no because they uh at morton in when the kids were in sixth grade they used to um they had low numbers at the time for
2:26:35morton and they were mainstreamed into the other classrooms and creating the cohort model is requiring a team that's designated to support students yeah i think this is a comment i keep on making when we have discussions on something or our budget or whatever it has to be thoroughly vetted by each department i find no reason why this wasn't included this didn't come as a panacea in late
2:27:03may that this is what's happening so it's not a reflection on you madam superintendent but we have to have expectations for our people to have the recommendations when it comes to the budget so when we sit here and say listen to that department come up they should say we're going to go to the cohort model because of x y and z and how it's going to benefit kids at the budget
2:27:21because now we pass the budget so now my next question is going to be where are you going to get the money for these three additional teachers out of the budget because on the one hand we say the budget's got each line item everything's accounted for and now we get this but i and i'm trying to find out if it's in here on where it's coming from but am i missing that i i will
2:27:38defer that to mr almeida listen uh i agree it is a reflection on me because it was our budget process and they know i like everything in a row and we knew that this was going to be an issue we have we have funds in the budget to support the additional positions requested say that again we have funds in the budget to support the additional positions requested the other ones that are coming up also
2:28:12mr almeida yes okay do you think that makes that's a good operating budget for next year yes maybe um maybe it's just me maybe it's just me i sat here when we went over the budget and i asked for the line items i asked for the how it all adds up to a certain number i'm assuming these people are going to get at least 50 grand a piece so what we're being told right now is that
2:28:39without any other movement we got 150 000 we're just yep we got the money in the budget that's what we're being told here now that to me is a very tough sell i don't believe i don't deny it i'm not saying this though if you so what i'm stating to you is once the once the bodies hit the seats once everybody once we have all of our staff in place for next year
2:28:59with turnover with open positions and everything that happens over the summer time i will have the money in the budget to to cover these positions if you want me to give you a place that's going to cover right now i'll take it out of the easter grants at this current time right now to say that i'm going to take it out of there but the reality is more than likely it will come out of the budget
2:29:18madam superintendent how much more cushion do we have all right how much cushion do we i don't know what was your question how much how much more question do we have i think it's a fair question we're told we're going to take it out of the uh you know people coming and going this that whatever so how as a committee member i think we should all know how much cushion do we have in the budget
2:29:41mr aguero i have a budget that is and i will i will state i have a budget that's going to be 200 million dollars next year okay and to tell you that there's not going to be some cushion once everything is settled and everybody's in place and what happens i will not i will not state that okay um it's it's a big budget one percent of 200 million dollars is 2 million
2:30:04i'll just put put that out there things again things are going to happen positions are going to change people are going to retire people are going to resign all kinds of things are going to happen i will give you a place placeholder right now it's going to come out of the easter grant and that's where it's going to come out of next year the madam superintendent might i think you understand my questions the we can't
2:30:28i don't i'm not trying to say mr almeida is going to take it out and they're going to go in a deficit but we sit at some meetings and say we have everything accounted for we have the x amount of ftes as we said we were going to do the new policy so now we add three ftes we don't we don't have anything on this sheet other than requesting three new teachers
2:30:47so i'd like to next meeting come up with something to talk to my colleagues and maybe come up with something else to say we need another three people at other places i don't i can't recommend that because we don't know how much we have as a cushion that's my only point i i do think we're giving support to kids i don't know the background of why this happened late it shouldn't happen this
2:31:05way so hopefully in the future it doesn't with that idea okay can i get a i have a question sorry mr rodricks i have a question about the cohort model what what's happening right now so at talbot that's where most of our kids are right most of our mll students are this year no this year our students went to the neighborhoods so we have a foundational model we have um
2:31:32strand at each of the middle schools but certainly mrs patterson can explain how her students are serviced this year as opposed to how they will be serviced next year okay hello for the past two years i don't know what agar is the foundational students are in a cohort with non-foundational students and that's how it's functioned they push in just like i would any other subgroup so to go to the cohort model
2:32:09all of the kids in the foundational group now have to have their own separate cohort and i don't have enough staffing to do that they're at capacity in terms of their schedule so i'll have a sixth grade seventh grade in eighth grade which means a new math teacher will have all three of those grade levels to teach and those are all just foundational students in that cohort yes right now when they go to their esl
2:32:36class instead of going to an english class they're cohorted but when they go to social studies science or mathematics they're in with a cohort like 7a 7b which is mainstreamed current yes so what's the benefit of having them all be in essentially what looks like a sub separate type model um hi my name is agabor i am the k-8 mll coordinator um just want to say ms veracruz sends apologies for not being
2:33:07able to be here so i'm here to answer questions to my best ability um desi and both state and federal regulations require students at the lowest levels of proficiency to have curriculum adjusted to their language ability at the at the time for level one and two specifically which we are unable to do when the students are in the mainstream class because their materials and the curriculum in those classes are designed
2:33:35for students who are proficient sorry english proficient and to provide foundational students with curriculum and materials that are appropriate for that level uh it's the benefit that they are in a cohorted model okay i'm trying to just process that information because this is new information for me and so i'm always going to go back to you know where's the inclusion aspect and i'm not um saying
2:34:02that we shouldn't have a cohort model and i'm not for one suggesting that we should never have kids in separate educational models but i just go to we had them mainstreamed what was the data did it look like they weren't making enough progress weren't were they not uh not to say that we didn't did something wrong but were they not making the gains that we had expected them to make and they need that
2:34:25cohort in order to be able to do that i'm not expecting you to have those answers now by any means but i'm just wondering how this decision came to be because i would like to know before we we say yes we're just going to move all the kids to a cohort model um so talbot already had the cohorted model prior to this meeting in in the spring and the idea was to um
2:34:53what's the word expand to expand to other schools but also to have a common programming among the three middle schools so that when students move they can experience um they can have an equal experience in each school so rather than having three different models we wanted to have a common model between the three middle schools and since since talbot had success with the cohort model that's the decision was made to
2:35:18use that same model in the other schools of course we will monitor the program as as we implemented and depending on what the data shows us we may adjust how uh how the programming is done at the middle schools but right now the idea is to solidify and have the same model in three the same model in three different schools that will also help with curriculum development and you can see
2:35:45the next item which is me also and i did want to speak to you ask about students being exposed to peers so for the cohorted model they are only in the cohort for the core subjects they we are making our best effort to give them access to peers and um all the fine arts music computers of gym et cetera so they do have contact with proficient speaking peers and then the goal is of course for
2:36:14them to um exit the foundational program and be in a cma stream program where they will have even more exposure to proficient speaking peers do we have a sense of how long it takes for a student to leave the foundational program it varies because it depends on what background the student already comes with so if they come and they are literate in first language and appropriately educated let's say for two
2:36:39sixth grade level standards then um it may take two to three years depending on other factors like family situation exposure to english outside of school but if a student does not have literacy skills for example in in their first language it might take longer so then what happens when those students transition into the high school do we have a similar cohort model in the high school so the the high school has um
2:37:05i'm sorry i can't really speak to the high school i'm a k-8 coordinator so i don't want to say something that's incorrect i know they do have different levels of esl classes but i can't speak to how it works for the content classes that i would have asked before sorry i can speak to the high school there is a cohort model in the high school for level ones and twos okay so they're transitioning from a
2:37:29middle school cohort model to a high school cohort model if they are still if they still need that level level one or two right this is only level ones and twos right right i'm just i'm this is me trying to process this information because i'm getting it here so i'm just trying to understand we've got the equity piece down or we've got the the equitable services down but
2:37:51i guess for me i just need to know more about what we do about inclusion and i speak ad nauseam about that i know this but if we're going to talk about being an inclusive district then we've got to be an inclusive district so how do we do that um i yield for now because i'm at i'm just mr aguero so i think i i feel like i'm reading this trying to solve a riddle because
2:38:18it blows my mind some of the things that get presented to us and it hasn't been you know a back and forth i'm reading what it says here says fall river public schools opened the foundational programs at custom martin in fy a prior to 20 or in school year 21 which is this past year grade six classes opened in school year 21 with plans to expand one grade level
2:38:39in each of the next two years to follow so if i take that fact and the young lady just said that the desc recommends that all of these programs would be in a consul a cohort model like you said that's what i think i heard which is what we want to go to now so solving the riddle it looks like we screwed up because when we opened the program here at those schools we didn't do
2:39:02what we're now saying was what dassey said that we were supposed to do to duplicate what was done at talbot last year or the current year we said we did whatever else we did so now we have to even though it this tells us that we had the goal to expand by one uh over the next two years the young lady said that that's he said this is what we should be doing we haven't been
2:39:22doing it so now we're going to add three different classes here at the in the current budget well we're not adding three different classes because we didn't do it that's the recommendation from desi we started at morton and cuss with sixth grade and then those sixth graders rolled up into seventh grade and then the sixth graders that from fifth grade that needed to go they went to the neighborhood middle
2:39:47school so it's the neighborhood kids that are going to their school and each year so those seventh graders will become eighth graders so that foundational group that cohort stays in that school right but when we opened it as a sixth grade that's the riddle i think i solved is that we should have opened it up in the model that we're talking about now rather than we took the kids out of
2:40:07talbot to say we're going to start that would have gone to talbot and said we're going to duplicate what's at talbot at morton and we didn't have the staffing in place to do that model is what i'm you're right what i'm thinking so last year we would have said okay we're going to duplicate this model because that's what's recommended and this is what we need to do if that was the case last
2:40:26year then the current year we would have said okay now we need the seventh and eighth and this would have come up in the budget the way i'm looking at this now there's no excuse why this didn't happen in the budget point-blank but that being said i believe that we also made a motion at prior meetings to say that all foundational classrooms have a power in them across the district so now we're
2:40:44adding three paris or a couple of more powers at the school based on what we said we would want in all foundation classes based on student need we already have four esl powers in the building so when they'll be in the esl classroom and then they'll push into the core content classes so all of these foundational classes are going to have a powerful time not full they won't be in there every period okay the
2:41:09the motion was made at prior meetings to say that all foundational classes are going to have a paraprofessional as part of it so i'll yield because i think this is just we could keep on feeling this onion back this was not this was a problem the way that it went and i think we need to get better with it with that i yield so i'm looking for a motion and a second on um adding the three
2:41:32positions at morton motion to approve adding three positions i have a motion and a second for miss laravey uh deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes ms laramie yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes 12.8 is a discussion and vote to approve the esl curriculum as referred by the instructional subcommittee and presented by fernando veracruz mll motion a table
2:42:00until the director can show up to be here i have a motion to table and it's a second discussion hearing none deb please mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes ms laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes 12.9 is a discussion and vote to approve the addition of a social studies teacher at cuss middle school as presented by melissa rouette principal of cuss middle school
2:42:41good evening thank you for allowing me to present to you this evening um and i think that you have my document from before this meeting but i am respectfully requesting an additional full-time social studies teacher position to be added to our budget for the next school year um in an effort to create equity among the core content areas and meet requirements for time on core instruction in each content area an
2:43:11additional social studies teacher is needed at cusp currently our students receive four days of social studies instruction per week due to the staffing structure that has been in place at cuss for numerous years all other content areas receive five days a week of instruction we have two social studies teachers per grade where there are three teachers per grade for english math and science
2:43:38our need for a new position also stems from an influx of foundational english language learners that will be entering cuss next year due to the transitions that we just that you just heard about um uh in the prior discussion motion to approve the request yeah i just i look for a second i have a motion a second um deb please mrs yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes ms rodriguez yes
2:44:10mayor coogan yes thank you thank you very much 1210 is a discussion and vote to approve the sel curriculum as referred by the instructional subcommittee and presented by claudia costa lead school adjustment counselor scl coordinator and drew woodward director of guidance emotional proof i have a motion to appreciate i have a motion a second any discussion on this curriculum hearing none deb please call the role ms
2:44:38dragon yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss larabee yes ms pereira yes yes sorry 12 11 is discussion and vote to approve the sub separate core curriculum as referred by the instructional subcommittee and presented by michael losch assistant superintendent of special education motion to refer to a special ed subcommittee second okay hold on a second i'm sorry i didn't hear that we didn't hear you we couldn't hear you
2:45:13motion to refer to the special ed subcommittee sorry it's the mask i'm sorry we have a motion and a second to refer to the special ed subcommittee is that what we want to do as a group deb mr yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes miss laravey yes miss pereira yeah yes mr rodricks yes mary coogan yes 12 12 is a discussion and vote to approve the proposed start and end times
2:45:41for the school year of 2023 as presented by ken patico the chief operating officer
2:45:53with the elimination of elt at morton and lieterno we're asking to reduce those times on the end of the day so at laterno the day was 8 20 to 3 52 we're taking an hour off the new time will be 8 20 to 2 52 and at morton the old time is 7 20 to 3 20 and we're changing that to 7 20 to 2 20.
2:46:32the third one is the fonsica school and when their time was added on along with the 15 extra minutes of instructional time it was negotiated it all went off the uh back end so what we're doing here is just flip-flopping the time and moving the 20 minutes to the front of the day or the start of the day so the old time was 8 50 to 3 42 and
2:47:00the new time is 8 30 to 3 22. so overall there's some loss in tiering of buses we gain and we're almost even so i think we lose one tiering piece overall and we pick it up due to the fonts because the fonsica piece and also some of the eternal stuff wasn't eligible for tearing because of its time emotional proof second second i have a motion to prove in a second any discussion
2:47:32one question mr anger so i would assume this is not necessarily out to the parents yet but it'll be like forthcoming yes we just don't want to it's the end of the year you know we didn't want to do it until we got it thank you i have a motion a second discussion again deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes yes mr harper yes i'm sorry miss laravey yes miss pereira yes
2:47:54miss roderick yes mayor coogan yes 12 13 is the discussion and vote to approve the naming renaming committee members as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee motion to approve second i have a motion a second any discussion on the committee mr aguiar just i looked at some of the info i still believe it's the superintendent everything goes to the superintendent before there was some
2:48:20pieces of policies in there that i'd like to ask the superintendent to look at to bring back as a separate part of this i believe this is the naming committee but there's other policies yes you can look that over in the future bring it back to us okay thank you okay i have a motion to second anything further deb please mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes
2:48:42ms rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes 12 14 is a discussion on pre-k classroom expansion as presented by ken pacheco the chief operating officer sir and kristen farias our early childhood director so an rfp was was put out to look for a facility for leasing three year with a two option on on the district side to house between five and seven pre-k classrooms with a target date of 9-1 we had one response to that request
2:49:24that meets all of the qualifications we're looking at preparing a contract and lease agreement that will come back to this committee on the july meeting for signature how many classrooms can between five and seven okay i'm sorry is what we were looking for there are five right ready to go and then two others that we need to do a little bit of um modification to um add the other two classes it would be nice
2:49:53to add seven classrooms anything further on the pre-k guys miss rodricks where is it uh 951 slade street next to the chew park it's the old um word
2:50:13anything further well because we're opening these classrooms we're going to have to add staff so that's why asparagus is here um mr aguiar so i think he's saying there was one was this like a temporary thing or was this long-term what was the so this is this is the short-term solution which will give us three five five guarantee and two extra seven that'll take us through the next school year
2:50:45and in hopes that our second rfp which is out there for a purchase would give us you know probably an additional four to five classrooms on top of this number so this is a one year so this is a three-year contract that we can utilize there it has two years optional because we're not quite sure what we were going to get back for an rfp on the on the purchase
2:51:16there are not a lot of buildings that would automatically fit what we're looking for so the hope is is that when we get some responses from that rfp uh for the purchase we'll see just what that generates so this is like when you said three is it's a one two one it's three years yeah it's it's three consecutive years for lease but we're tied in for three years um so the two additional years after
2:51:43our options on our side so technically we secured the property for five years at our option three of which we will be there and two are optional and this was sorry for not understanding this but the rfp that went out for uh at least for three years it was for three years with a two-year extension a few classes this was for we asked for a minimum of five mat so we asking for five to seven
2:52:16classrooms this particular building has five currently and the possibility of seven if we decide to do some modifications so if the other rfp comes back with a better facility with more room for expansion we have to wait for three years i don't believe that the other building will be able to house everything we need if the growth continues so i'm saying that are going to try and get through
2:52:42this year with the five classrooms we are not going back to the boys and girls club so those classrooms that we're using there are not going to be so we already know we have two of the of the five classrooms already failed the next year not counting the new the newcomers you know i'm in favor of expansion big time so i'm not asking for that it's just that if we lock ourselves into five
2:53:07like i think we should have 15.
2:53:09you know my personal opinion sooner than later so yes yeah what you're saying is it's not going to prohibit us from expanding beyond the five if we get a good response to the other if there's other options to add five more great you're gonna forward absolutely so we'll have ten toes yeah yeah yeah as soon as possible yes am i missing that or is that no we just need
2:53:28to make sure that the other if we do end up with that facility that we have it ready and ready to go right when it does we just we'll double it or whatever it's not prohibiting it it's going to just be uh an addition after looking at what was available throughout the city i don't think that anything else is move-in ready like this one is so we wouldn't be able to have anything
2:53:50ready for september anyway in the other building if we purchase another building um so this will give us what we need to get to that point and then it'll give us some time too i fully understand what you're saying just know my my feeling is we should have 10 new ones in september if we can't we can't then whatever the earliest time is we should be having full day universal pre-k
2:54:12across the district thank you are you i just one more question just about the kids at the boys and girls club right now are those pre-k three pre-k four kids like are those kids transitioning to kindergarten next year so the kiddos that are at the boys and girls club have um two years of preschool more to go they're babies yeah they're the babies babies okay so those are special ed principal classrooms
2:54:39yes so they're they're inter there's a mix of integrated and sub separate classrooms um currently there's two of each at the boys and girls club right so two classrooms but two half-day sessions two half-day sessions yep and so all of the special education children there will be with us for at least two more years the children that are heading to k are the the lottery kiddos so all of our community peers have to be
2:55:07four years old on or before september first and heading to k the following year right so i'm just thinking and this is more of a planning issue i'm just thinking that our special ed kids are making two transitions they're going from one physical building to another physical building and then they'll be going to an additional building so our goal long term i think is to have those full day four-year-old classrooms
2:55:31available in as many of our elementary schools as we can by having the babies together in one building we're best able to support them and then as we open more of those classrooms be able to transition the rooms that are in our elementary schools to those full-day classrooms trying to get kids into their neighborhood school for four-year-old preschool so there isn't that two transition piece that they'll go to
2:55:57their neighborhood school for four-year-old preschool and then continue on there for kindergarten i'm not disagreeing with any of this i just hate the way that it's played out that our kids are making two transitions because it's hard it's hard for the kids and it's hard for the family so i'm just pointing that out but i don't disagree with any of it i yield anything further on the pre-k expansion
2:56:19that was simply a discussion are we able to talk about positions that we need or is that can we post anticipated on positions because we have to get ready start recruiting yeah ideally we'd be able to start recruiting teachers so that we're able to staff the building do you want to talk about positions you're going to have right we're gonna have to if we're going to add at minimum three additional positions
2:56:44because we already have two teachers that are transitioning from the boys and girls club to that facility and then we need at minimum three more um three teachers and then the pairs that accompanied them as anticipation as long as it comes out of the cushion ouch but it's giving you what you want right you need the position so let's like i say why wait i mean we're going to need
2:57:08them let's let's just vote to do it we can't have it so we have to do we have to have a nurse and um adjustment counselor i'm assuming um we don't need an adjustment counselor for preschool what i am proposing though is that we have an early childhood bcba that covers not just this building but all of our preschools working with our littlest learners is a very different skill set
2:57:33and so having a bcba that is focused on working with young children ages three to five and all what will be 24 of our preschool classrooms throughout the district okay making a motion to approve a fully staffed preschool subject to the superintendent's professional opinion and judgment i have a motion i have a second oh i'm sorry i have a motion second any further discussion deb please call the role yes
2:58:04mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes maricoga yes thank you 12 15 is a discussion and vote to approve opening of a discussion for our indirect cost agreement as presented by kevin almeida chief financial officer motion to approve second i have a motion in a second any discussion on opening up the cost agreement mr aguiar i've been advocating
2:58:34for this so i appreciate it being on the agenda i would like to just um ask the superintendent to work with the committee members individually to come up with some ideas that would be beneficial both to the schools as well as the the district and have that ongoing conversation because there is some spots in here i think that makes sense for both sides so that long term we can do this the only other thing
2:58:56that i'd like to put on the table which i did go in citizen input time as a citizen to the city council was to talk about a potential way that we could do some bonding to finish the durfee project within the confines of the law if there's any home rule petitions that need to happen or any of that stuff to work it out so that the district could pay the school
2:59:16district could pay for the bonds rather than have to continue to go to the city council then they go to the mayor and then it goes to the voters again to pay those bonds i think we're in a financial position that we can pay x amount of dollars per year to continue that project rather than keep going to the voters for the bond so i'd like to ask that to be part of that discussion and
2:59:34i'm happy to participate in as much or as little as the superintendent would like with that well um we'll probably put some kind of a committee together okay i'll let you know um we have do we have emotions yes we do could you please call the role deb mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laravey yes mrs pereira yes mr rodriguez yes yes 1216 is a discussion and vote to approve
3:00:03prepaid to tuitions as presented by kevin to approve kevin almeida chief financial officer second i have a motion and a second any discussion for prepaid tuitions ted please call the roll mr yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss laravey yes ms pereira yes miss rodriguez yes mary cougar yes 12 17 is a discussion and vote to approve the creation of a cvte revolving fund as presented by kevin
3:00:36almeida chief financial officer so what you have in front of you is a request i've i've been working with the cbt director cindy silvia and she wants to establish a cvt revolving fund similar to what she had in plymouth where she's able to generate funds to build the program about programming up at durfee and what we envision is a fund that potentially can expend up to 200 thousand dollars
3:01:06this fund will include programming for um construction craft labor early education and care uh culinary cosmetology visual design health assisting and engineering and robotics and you know i we believe that 200 000 is actually a low amount but we want to be conservative at this time to be able to build the revolving fund up in the future any questions on the revolving fund for cbte mr aggio what was happening now
3:01:41so currently we have just a revolving fund for culinary yeah we do not have any other revolving funds for the vocational programs over at durfee and why did why was it not done before just the new the new person has a the new person came in she reviewed the vocational programming and she's been kind of pushing this uh you know since she since she came on board and it um i probably should have brought
3:02:07it up with the budget when we developed the budget but you know it was something that i missed on my end and i bring it forward too right now right so if i'm reading what section 14b of the law it says any income received from the purchase and sale products and culinary or the vocational program in any public comprehensive regional technical high school shall be deposited in a special fund
3:02:31in banking so you're saying we had a special fund it's just this is a different one is that no so we we currently have just a culinary one we don't have one established for all of vocational ed so what uh what we will be doing is closing out the culinary funds with what we have left in the account next year and then any funds received and expended thereon for vocational will come out of the new
3:02:55vocational revolving fund so non-vocate non-culinary funds now that we'll receive where do they go so that's a great great question that gets deposited into the and it's until cindy came on board i had no idea so i it's it's been deposited in the student activity account and it's something that should never happen that way so we are fixing wrongs of the past i'm just but i'm not missing that right
3:03:21it says they shall be yes in a fund so we've been doing it wrong for a bunch of years and now we're going to fix it yes and we've and we've done it on a lower scale because i don't think that we've been uh you know doing it to the extent that we possibly can so with this i think it's a way to build up the program so i'm not giving you a hard time or
3:03:38anything i just i'd rather have you say we weren't doing it right now we're going to fix it that to me is a good enough answer i just too many times this keeps coming up we were doing things we shouldn't have done but as i as things come up that i you know we figure out is wrong we try to fix them so thank you very much i yield
3:03:56okay do i have a motion and a second i do not can i get a motor second i have a motion a second uh could you please call the uh role on the revolving fronts yes drag yeah yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes ms larabee yes ms pereira mr rodricks yes mayor coogan yes 12 18 is discussion and vote to approve transfers as presented by kevin almeida the chief financial officer
3:04:26so this is just the next transfer for the month of june we will be doing one final cleanup transfer in july after all payroll has been paid out and all bills have been paid with that i'm requesting your approval tonight motion to approve i have a motion in a second that please call the role bobby okay mr again yes mr bailey yes mr heart yes miss larabee yes ms pereira mr rodriguez yes yes
3:05:0012 19 is the discussion and vote to approve so moved the year-to-date budget report as presented by kevin almeida i have a motion second we have a second any discussion on the year to date mr aguiar so uh i had mentioned at the last meeting about the nutrition account and having it be self-sufficient i've been on this since 2018 i provided the document to several members to the superintendent that
3:05:27when we have a a nutrition account i take that as a revolving account my research indicates that we should be taking all the expenses if we're going to take the salaries out of that account we're supposed to take all the benefits out of the account i've been asking this for way too long the benefit of that for this committee is that if we take the benefits out of that account it therefore gives the school committee
3:05:53the equivalent of that amount of money to spend on other things so i know i talked to superintendent before i'm assuming that some mrl media have a number of what that means at this point yes what is it please in total the benefits are about 600 000 when you account the insurance medicare and the retirement you said 600 about six hundred thousand and we have several million in uh yes in the account so
3:06:18what i would what i i thought was going to happen at this meeting was that a presentation was going to be done in order for us to to do a very logical thing that if we have millions of dollars in an account and technically speaking in a revolving account based on the law we're supposed to take out benefits that we haven't been doing that we should just do it and i'm disappointed that it's not on this
3:06:41agenda today for that particular reason but i would ask the superintendent to to look at this to to see i think that we should be doing it right now i'm trying to get the language in it but there's 44 section 53 e in one half and it talks about if you're going to have a revolving account that you're supposed to take the benefits out of so i think we need to look at this and
3:07:11if that's the case this needs to happen now rather than wait until july or the next fiscal year and um i can send this to the superintendent if you want but it talks about the um if you're going to pay the salaries you got to pay the benefit so i think we should look at it if that's the case i don't think an emotion on this committee needs to be done is just to do what's right
3:07:35i got a question kevin isn't that going to transfer a tremendous bill to the city it might it depends on what it is i think it's going to transfer to 600 i did ask kevin about it and that can potentially transfer the whole 600 000 right over to the city maybe it might but if the insurance is over let's say we're over right now at that point we would be you'd be able
3:07:57to bill us with to say we're over so right now it's fluid as mr almeida puts in his thing it's not things can happen but what i'm looking at is just what's right so if the law says they should take the benefits and we have the money we should take the benefits at that point it's not going to trigger it immediately it'll trigger it a year from now when we get
3:08:15the data but to me it's just logical that we have uh for instance if we have a title one grant come in we take all the benefits and all that stuff from the title one grant to to charge to the title one grant that therefore frees up us to be able to spend some other money this is very logical it's been on it's been going on since 2018 i've sent the
3:08:34document to everybody i just think we need to look at it and if it's part of the law we should do it immediately worst case scenario it comes back in july but i think in this current fiscal year we really need to take a hard look at it and um with that i yield okay anything further on transfers i mean i'm sorry on the year-to-date budget report deb can you call the role mr again yes
3:08:57mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laravey yes ms pereira yes that's roger yes yes um the next item is 13 for your information we have a number of retirements resignations emotional 13.1.2.3.4 um and if there's a second just on the second i want to ask mr coogan um tom for the outgoing interviews for the people that resigned there's quite a few of them here i'm just interested who responded and what they what that what
3:09:31those uh outcome that's fine okay thank you i need a second i mean i'm uh yeah i need a second on the second second okay on all of the informational stuff uh further discussion deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes miss laravey yes forever yes mrs rodricks yes yes 14 is new business anything to come before the committee it's just a request the uh durfee athletic hall of fame committee
3:10:08is requesting a one-day liquor license for the banquet on october 22nd similar to the um sorry similar to the uh event that took place um recently um they want to collaborate with primo's bartending to just bring in and i'm still looking for the athletic hall of fame banquet um like i said on october 22nd yeah talking to that mike bob please oh sorry buddy pull the mic down there you go there you go
3:10:37uh like i said the durfee athletic hall of fame committee is requesting a one-day liquor license um for the hall of fame banquet on october 22nd as a member obviously i have to abstain from this vote but i'd like to put that forth to the committee uh i i just want to let the committee know that it's the kind of like a piggy backing on that um the last call event the last the last
3:11:05call at darfur yeah they want to do beer and wine and have an event at the school um i couldn't hear the date so he's asking he's asking that the hall of fame committee is having a date october 22nd yeah i'm my personal opinion i am not i'm not opposed to it but they need to send the letter to the superintendent requesting it and then we can approve it next month yeah that's fine plenty okay
3:11:31thanks bobby is there a request for executive session uh there would be mayor can you get um do we want to do the motion first wait till he's done i'll give the reasons go ahead okay we'll wait chapter 38 action chapter 38 section 2187 to review and approve executive session minutes for the may 9 regular school committee meeting national laws chapter 38 section 21a1 to review the committee law complaint dated
3:11:59may 11 2022 filed by colin dyers regarding the may 9th 2022 meeting and agenda items are not reasonably specific enough for the public to understand mr dice alleges that there were two agenda items that were not neces reasonably specific for the public to understand what the committee was discussing national law chapter 38 section 21a1 to review the upcoming law complaint dated may 11 2022
3:12:26filed by colin dyers regarding may 9 2022 meeting of this discovering that mayor coogan deliberated with a quorum of the school committee outside of a posted meeting mr dyers alleges they may discuss a transfer on one-time monies to the school department to be transferred to the city to pay for transportation mass general laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to
3:12:52collective bargaining relative to all administrators and employees represented by the foreign administrators association as the chairs determined that no possession may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee national laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all paraprofessional employees of the
3:13:10florida school system represented by the former federation of paraprofessionals as the chair has determined that no possession may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee national laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining relative to all civil service employees of the forward school system represented by the florida department of civil
3:13:29service clerical employees associations as the chair has determined that an open session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee national chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect with respect to litigation with regards to paul borigan versus the city of four river school department docket department of industrial accidents board number
3:13:515140-15 as the chairs determined that no possession may have a detrimental impact on the litigating position of the school committee mass general law laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation with respect with regards to lauren securo versus the city of florida school department docket my department of industrial accidents board number 31916-21 as the chairs determined that an open
3:14:18session may have a detrimental impact on litigating position of the school committee national laws chapter 38 section 2182 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel and or to conduct contract negotiations with non-union personnel including kimberly barnard sims database manager craig salvador technology and production assistant gregory scott computer technician
3:14:44heather tebow tibitar i'm sorry administrative assistant for special education and all school principals for educational and photo governmental tv cable media instructor positions all techno technology support positions all facilities and operations support positions all non-union central administration support staff kenneth pacheco chief operating officer kenneth l kevin almeida chief financial officer
3:15:11thomas coogan executive director of human resources michael losch assistant superintendent for special education services stacy gehen grant's manager all school-based instructional liaison positions all parent and community support workers specialists and tutor positions all school-based positions administrative interns redesigned coach program coordinator and athletic trainer positions
3:15:38the committee would reconvene there may or may not be statements at that time okay i need a motion in a second so moved second i have a motion a second deb please call the role yes mr bailey yes mr harper yes yes ms pereira yes ms rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes in recess
3:16:14coming out of executive session uh deb please call the role mr again mr bailey here mr heart here miss laravey here ms pereira here mr rodricks yeah mayor coogan here uh anything further to come before the community mr mayor yeah a motion to approve the executive session meetings for may 9th regular school committee meeting will be a second second i need a second second
3:16:49yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes ms laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodricks yes mayor coogan yes mr mayor mr motion to approve the settlement as negotiated for paul bieragod emotional proof second any further deb please call the role mr again yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes miss larvae yes miss pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes mr heart motion to approve a settlement as negotiated with lauren securo
3:17:27notion to approve the second that police call the wrong mr again yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes miss larabee yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes mr hot motion to approve the contract as negotiated with kimberly barnard moshe to approve second i have a motion second i think yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes ms larvae yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor cody yes mr hart in motion to
3:18:02approve the contract as negotiated for heather tippett much too approved
3:18:14yes mr bailey yes mr harp yes ms laravey yes ms pereira yes mr rodriguez yes mayor coogan yes motion to adjourn most to adjourn second second mr again this question or just a comment yeah i believe that we talked about july being that we're going to be at durfee is that still in place right yes yes so this will be the last meeting at cuss we're going to be meeting at their feet moving forward
3:18:46thank you i have a motion in a second deb you dude right yeah yes mr bailey yes mr hart yes that's larvae yes mr pereira yes ms rodriguez yes
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