8.14.2023 Fall River School Committee

so you guys all set I'd like to call it to order the regular meeting on the floor of a school committee August 14th Deb would you please call the roll yeah Mr Bailey Mr Hart here here is Pereira Ms Roderick here mayor Coogan yeah sold to the flag please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty

and justice for all

Miss Pereira won't be with us tonight she has a family commitment to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting to any medium attendees are there for advice it's such recording or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible sorry no one signed up for Citizens

input tonight nor do we have any recognition Awards subcommittee updates facilities and operations subcommittee Mr Hart chairman thank you Mr Mayor the subcommittee took place on Monday August 7th on the agenda with the following SRO memorandum of understanding price Matrix with facility School use naming and renaming committee and demographic study report Mr Pacheco requested that the subcommittee the SRO

moob tabled there was additional information that the district was waiting for he said currently the district had in place in the 2022 mou the subcommittee voted to table the item and Revisited when the district had all the information they needed Mr pachico stated the documents the subcommittee had before them was an updated list with pricing for the new Fields out there if you that has that therapy has now there

was one change which has which was to the football field he was asking the subcommittee to refer the item to the full committee for the vetting Mr pachico provided the subcommittee with the committee names and criteria criteria that were approved by the committee back in 2022 under the criteria Mr Pacheco is recommending a change to the criteria so a person could not would not have to be deceased to

have something named after them he also was suggesting that the committee recommend additional names to add to the naming and renaming committee Mr pachico stated the demographic study report was a comprehensive report which provided the district with a look ahead the report would give the district an opportunity to make an informed decision if the district needed to be redistricted that's all for that

and the second report we have the policy subcommittee took place on Tuesday August 8th the agenda was divided into two sections the first section of policies contained only minor grammatical changes neutral references or updated legal references that do not alter the language or intent of the policies the second section of policies required further reviewing and vetting from the committee Mr Coogan gave an

update on the changes made and recommendations that were being made to the policies Dr bronhad provided an overview of the updates made through the district attendance policy and all policies were referred to the full committee for further vetting with recommendations being at the subcommittee that's all thank you Mr hot any questions Mr um superintendent Potts the school of opening update please

thank you Mr Mayor so back to school information it's hard to believe but here we are just a few short weeks from welcoming back our Scholars as of today our enrollment is at a healthy 10 589 our kindergarten enrollment is at 606. I will say that um there are there were 103 students on the Queue to be processed so and I know that we will see more registrations in the last couple of

weeks of school so we are definitely seeing good numbers on Wednesday August 30th we will welcome students in grades one through twelve there will be no school on September 1st and Monday September 4th in observance of Labor Day also on Tuesday September 5th we'll welcome our youngest Scholars our Pre-K kids we'll come back Friday September 8th we will welcome our kindergarten they will be screened in that interim

that week that we returned before they start also school start is start and end times are posted on our website principles will be communicating with families directly regarding school specific information I will also be sending something out to families probably next week Transportation information is posted on our website parents that whose students typically are transported should check the website

bus routes are also I checked today they're already updated on the website student registrations are going strong we know that if you have to Reg we want you to know that if you have to register a student we know it's late but registration is at our parents and Community engagement Center on Ray Street not at individual schools so please don't go to school to register them you need to go to the parent Center

any questions certainly you can if parents have questions about opening they can reach out to their child's school or feel free to call my office and we'll help you and direct you we look forward to a productive year as we prepare to welcome our staff and students back in a few short weeks finally there is actually a Citywide back to school block party happening on Saturday August 19th we have follower

Public Schools will be present parents and students attending will be able to meet School folks Pace will be there to offer opportunities for registration so if you can't get to the parent Center and Saturday you have an opportunity we'll have technology there you can actually register your child there we will even have folks from our HR department there if anyone is looking to apply for a position within follower

Public Schools it's a community-wide event and follow Fall River Public Schools is definitely showing up as a partner with our community in preparing for well welcoming our Scholars and meeting many parents we are ready for a successful year and we look forward to meeting everyone there and within our schools um admin Institute update and I know I share this with the committee for the

edification of the public we just welcomed our administrators back for our annual administrator Institute last week our administrators gathered at Darfield high school for a variety of professional development opportunities so schools also worked in teams as they began to process data and developing priorities that are reflective of where they are schools there was a strong focus on attendance and how we are

called to show up for our scholars in fact this year you will be hearing and seeing the hashtag show up tagline frequently throughout in school memos throughout our district as we challenge one another to reflect on the many ways that we show up for our school communities we know we cannot be successful if our Scholars aren't in school so being a presence adults as well as Scholars will be at the

Forefront of every single thing that we do every single day we have an incredibly strong group of Administrators ready to launch into another year as a district this committee has invested heavily in our admin group to ensure that schools are staffed appropriately and we are committed to collaborating with one another as together we move our district forward and finally a hiring update this has

been a very very busy time for our human resources department since our last school committee meeting we have onboarded 126 new hires we have hired 49 teachers 16 administrative positions 31 paraprofessionals 19 educational support positions and a level 11 Operational Support positions we have also lost some due to resignations and retirements we actually have had 35 resignations this

is something that is common in August 15 teachers six administrators eight pair professionals three educational support positions and three operations folks have exited and we have had three retirement notices I want to say that two of those will not be leaving until part of the year they will come in and then exit at their appropriate dates we currently still have 84 teacher openings I will say some of

those are not direct classroom teacher openings and again I would say the bulk of those openings are special ed departments ESL departments and we have 56 para openings now I say that they are openings because they're posted still on the site but many people are being processed daily so that number's fluid and that number will change between now next week and the week after so I know

those numbers sound alarming but those numbers are actually low it will be lower by the end of the week and on the ensuing weeks so we are getting ready to go we'll be ready within a couple of weeks so we welcome to welcome everybody back and that's it thank you superintendent item number six student comment we don't have our student comments set up for the year yet I do have three sets of minutes

I'm looking for approval of the minutes from the technology subcommittee on 7 6 23 I'm looking for approval of the minutes of the regular school committee from 7 17 23 and approval of the minutes from the facilities and operations subcommittee from 8 7 23. motion to approve 7.1 7.217.3 yeah second I have a motion a second any discussion on the minutes Deb would you please call the roll yes Mr Bailey yes

Mr Hart yes Miss fiery yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yes yes mayor Kruger yes item number eight is approval of travel requests we have one travel request on the agenda for our marching band motion to approve second any discussion on that Deb would you please call the roll this drug yeah yes Mr yes Mr harp yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira Miss rodericks yes mayor Krugman yes item number nine is the acceptance

of donations we have two uh two with us tonight I'm looking for a motion in a second before the superintendent reads the donations motion to accept second I have almost a second please call the roll yes Mr Miller yes Mr Hart yes yes Miss Pereira Miss rodericks yes yes uh superintendent thank you from the 1 8 Foundation to middle school science classrooms 18 500 to help defray the cost of science kits and from Maureen

Monty to the Watson Elementary School on behalf of principal Hogue she accepts five bicycles donated to be used in student Raffles associated with st math math competition and Lexia competitions throughout the school year thank you everyone thank you um contracts we have a number of contracts for approval tonight but obviously we would um like to discuss or talk about anybody that anyone has any

issues with if you give them to me before we do the bulk I'll be glad to pull them out anybody have any contracts of concern Ed uh Mr agya you aspire Wilkinson boiler okay you Aspire One goal uh Wilkinson mobile boiler what was your third one one goal one goal okay Precision human resources under the old ones Precision human resources and one goal all right so we have four that have been taken out U.S Spire one

goal Wilkinson boiler and precision Human Resources could I get a motion a second on the others uh Deb would you call the rule yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes Miss laravey yes Ms Pereira Ms rodericks yes yes uh Mr ragiar on you Aspire I just was curious if if this was the presentation that we got last month it is if you recall um I think a couple months ago some of

those contracts that we have instead of just automatically rolling them over I think you asked for some specifics about it so we've been bringing a couple of them forth they they actually presented last week last month in regards to the work that they're doing with in our system so the uh because there's one another one on one goal which is also at the high school is that just totally different yeah it's a different

different and I would just ask that we get some information on why are we not just hiring the person for us that was what I had suggested last time so as we proceed that's just the line going forward not that I don't want to approve this so I'm good with that one in the one goal just that I think if we're going to pay the individual to work to be a grant like a

third party it sounded like she was almost like an employee of the high school and if she's doing valuable work why don't we just pay it instead of paying an outside third party that's okay we'll we'll get you um can I get a motion and a second I get a motion do I have a second second I have a motion a second on you Aspire Deb please call the roll

yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Larry yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes the next hell hold was Wilkinson mobile boiler um reimbursement from the building committee so just an update Mr pachico so the um the boilers in the process of being installed as we speak the new boiler which is a warrantied issue and then we are looking for the These funds to be returned back to the district

via that warranty from the installer and also from the manufacturer of the boiler so it's going to be a considerable if this is two months then it's been like that for a while so we're going to get all that money back is that that's that is the whole PS that is what we're looking for in the settlement yes and then that comes back to the school committee that will come back that will come back

to the district yes meaning the school district yes thank you can I get a motion emotional proof on Wilkinson mobile boiler I have a motion a second Deb please call the roll Mr yes yes Mrs Pereira Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes um one goal Mr agya I'm good on that one okay can I get a motion a second Deb Please Mr I guess yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss flower yes Miss Pereira

Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes um the last one we held was Precision Human Resources uh Mr agya I just would like an update of what that um what does that get us for 400 000 and where is that money coming from

we we have the money in the special ed uh contract the services budget and what that will get us is Staffing for teachers and Paris as we have the openings to start the year and it will fill holes throughout the year so it fluctuates over the course of the Year depending on if we're able to hire people you know as the year goes on and it's just there as a placeholder at the

moment so is this the same is this an every year thing yes and what happens if a person was was in the budget and they replaced if they're doing a service of somebody in the budget so then we would have to have to move the money around in the budget in order to make that and make that happen so last year um I believe we started at three or four hundred thousand at the beginning of the

year and this contract increased over the course of the year it's almost a million dollars over the course of the year so then we would require salary Savings in order to move it over to cover this right so the only way I'll support this is if as we go forward I think it's important because we need to stop the agencies or staff there teachers and assistants or whoever is that I believe what happens is we

have budgeted money in positions that we say we can't fund a person so we're going to fund it through this and this committee doesn't get until the end of the year which is I was a little critical of that we get a three million dollar Surplus at the end of the year so the only way I would support this right now and I think I would recommend and nobody else supports it either unless

we're going to get periodic updates so as we have money in the budget that we know we're paying for a service provider instead of the budget every month it should come off that the other number should go down so that therefore we would have some flexibility on how to spending we won't have a three million dollar Surplus at the end of the year that's reasonable we can we can put something together and update as the

numbers go up or down yep so I mean it kind of makes sense I I would think but so you're making that commitment yes thank you emotional approved second do I have a second Mr Bailey Mr Rogers um any discussion Deb please call the roll yes yes

item number 11 is the approval Mr Matt Mr I had questions on the new I had said my questions were on the old contracts okay we usually take those separately all right so I had a question on Industrial pump mock-up Ford and ignite reading all right so we'll we'll do that right now separately we'll approve all but three on new contracts motion approved can I have a second Deb please call the roll

ER yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss Larry yes Miss rodericks yes mayor cougar yes Mr aguiar industrial pump sales so this is at the Doran School I just had a question on um there's been some leaks down there or like some flooding and all that stuff so this is a sewage ejector that handles the lower floor and is there an issue down there with a generator that a generator works or is it been working

for years the generator is fine there was issues this is not the cause this was not part of the generator issue the generator issue was corrected this this is something else did we have a generator issue at some point we did yes and now it's rectified yes so it was it wasn't working and now it's working yes thank you motion approved I have a motion a second any discussion Deb please call the roll Mr yes Mr

Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes next marcott Ford Mr Egg yeah just a question on the I know we keep when we purchase we go through a place not in Fall River basically stay business yes have we ever gone to the local Ford dealership and asked them to match the price have we no we haven't because it's not I mean I would need to

get more than just that from them because if we're going to go to individual dealerships then we would need to go with a formal bid so are they on the state bid list no may I just ask the superintendent via Mr pachico to reach out to the local Ford dealership to explain to them that if they wanted to get us to purchase vehicles from them whatever the process is so that it just seems like we just

approving it and I think we should be going to locals whenever we can at least give them a fair shot at it thank you motion approved I have a motion a second discussion Deb called the roll on Mark cart forward Please Mr yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira yes ignite reading Australia this I think is well I got two questions one is probably just the agenda item

that is backwards because we're going to approve this and we're going to approve the grant that's paying for this after you're right the the grant actually we need to move that out I'm sorry you're right it's that because the grant was actually supposed to be here last month Miss Kennedy wasn't able to be here so they both came that's fine it just looks like that's what we're doing one thing

before the other but while I have you so I don't know if this came before the subcommittee but it some it sounded similar familiar but the more I looked at it it was for tutoring during the day while the kids are with teachers but can you tell us how that would yes I'm just trying to figure out how that would yep so it is um virtual one-on-one high-dose tutoring with a trained reading teacher

um and so while um students are in the Wind Block so that's the what I need block their intervention block these students would in addition to being serviced by the teacher receive an additional dose so they might not go to a station another station in the classroom instead they'd have this one-on-one time that will provide them an additional dose of instruction and that's like functionally doable in a school

like with they just go by themselves like no they don't actually leave the room I'm sorry I shouldn't say that out of the schools there's one that will have students leave the room um and that's Spencer board and so Spencer Borden will take all the students that are going on this high dose one-on-one tutoring into a separate location and have students with headsets and computers all with their own

separate tutor during this 15-minute chunk of time um but in the classroom it would just be like a child this I'm going to the next Center and so the center for that child between say 9 and 9 15 is that they're on their computer headset on engaging with their tutor and is this um money not able to be spent for us to hire a real person no it's not um this this program

um is through the 1 8 Foundation which we also work closely with in both science and in math with st math um and the tutor the the study itself is around this high-dose one-on-one tutoring and so um in order to provide that to all the schools of course we could have a human do it but the money would not allow us to be servicing 300 students that so it doesn't prohibit it you tell

me this is a trial like a study it's a proven it's a proven research but what they're what the trial is is kind of like they're trying to get their name out there I'm sure it's about um you know trying to get people to hop on board with their training after it's not paid for anymore um but they already have a solid research base yeah I mean I'm going to vote it's a

grant obviously you know but I would ask that we get some as much data as possible to know whether it's actually working or not yeah and so up until this point we have ordered the text that they are basing their um their instruction on um we are being part of every single meeting that the company is having so we can see how they're digging into that data is it different than what we do

we're talking about how we can use our intervention staff for next year when we will not have the grant at this at this level um and so that we can start to mimic some of the things that we know are working especially that one-on-one piece which has the highest research basis being the most effective and so how can we use our current staff to improve our own structures and systems and our

buildings yeah I I think it's it's valid just report back and hopefully it works yeah emotional proof no we I think we have to approve the grant first and then I think on your catchmaster I'll make a motion approve the Grant on our number 11 for 1A Foundation well how about all the grants we have uh yeah they're all open they're all one let's go to Grants first and do that there's no proof do I

have a second this is item number 11. I have a motion and a second on approval of Grants uh Deb please call the roll yes going back to the new grants ignite reading the grant motion approved I have a motion and a second Deb any discussion please call the roll yes yes Mr harp yes Miss Lowry yes Miss Pereira Ms rodericks yes yes item number 12 Committee of the whole

12-1 is a discussion and vote to approve the selection and appointment of Debbie aruta nurse for the Florida Public Schools as presented by Mary Gustav director of nursing do I have a motion approved second I have a motion a second do we want any discussion on this hearing none Deb would you please call the roll yes yes 12-2 is a vote to approve the school committee Delegate for November's

m-a-s-c-m-a-s-s joint conference as presented by Maria Pond superintendent of schools so as you know this is an annual conference it will be happening on Wednesday Thursday and Friday of November 8th through the 10th and we are looking for representation for Fall River anyone I know I nominate Miss rodericks I think that was an interesting everyone turned their heads we know how much you

loved it and you brought back some great information so we appreciate your efforts this is Larry so I did mayor I did speak with um uh Sarah today to see if she was interested I told her I may join her if there is an opportunity for two of us to go I just have to uh check in on work and see if it's possible great okay can I get a a

motion to approve Miss rodericks as our delegate so move second I have a motion a second that would you please call the roll yes yes

12-3 is a discussion and vote to approve the addition of a vice principal at the fonzaga elementary school as presented by superintendent Park so as as you know um Fonseca school is in turnaround for several years now we have new leadership in the school starting well started July 1st principal Cobb is actually here the school 30 of the staff is new the school has struggled both academically as well

as with SEL issues principal Cobb is restructuring the school and her leadership team to support teachers as well as students I think that she wants to create opportunities for vice principals to be more proactive to be in classrooms as well as opposed to just being you know dealing with tier three behaviors and never being able to be in the classrooms and supporting the teachers I think that if

you go to the problem the problem doesn't come to you so principal Cobb is asking for an additional VP to help support the work at Fonseca any discussion on this item Mr agya yeah so the as we go through the budget and haven't been here for a few years I've asked a lot of questions on the amount of staff that we've had at the level four schools historically I would have liked to have seen

some of that in in this so principal Cobb is no I get it I understand but we have sat here for years approving additional positions many which were listed in the turnaround plan and we spent a lot of money over the last five years let's say on additional staff and one of the things that bothers me that we do here sometimes is we say well we're going to fund this instead of that and then three

four years later now we're funding this and that and I think that's a similar case here I want to make sure that she's successful so I want to support this but I do think we wrote an explanation on the amount of staff that has been at that school and I have personally asked those questions over the years of do we have enough staff at every budget meeting at every budget hearing for the fantical

school we're making progress we're doing the right things we're making progress we're doing the right things and then we find out well we weren't making the progress and we weren't doing necessarily the right things and now we need to do things different so I'm just voicing my frustration with it a little but I'm going to support this for the reason of we need to start strong but we need to analyze the budgets and

historical perspective is important with that I make emotional proof if there's not a second I have a motion second any further discussion Deb would you please call the roll yes yes Mr Hart yes Mr laravey yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yes mayor Cooley yes 12-4 is a discussion and vote to approve the updated policies as referred by the policy subcommittee and presented by Tom Coogan human resource director

promotional proof I have a second second motion a second Mr Coogan uh the committee may be aware recall that in the spring we had a sizable release of policy updates from masc and in those policy updates it was approximately 90 90 plus policies to address we addressed half of them in uh school committee two months ago this represents the other half this first batch of policies are really just minor

language updates or updates to the legal references the laws may have changed there's a new Citation for a law or a gender change uh change in the words his her to the air such such things the first group of policies really contains no change to the intent of the original policy and they also include anything where there's a minor merge between an existing Fall River policy that we want

to keep the language from and an updated masc policy we've just included those items that the school committee previously approved I would ask that you approved this first batch of policies and I'll answer any questions the committee may have any questions on the first batch hearing Nation one question Mr agya so this uh the policy I'm referring to a school committee negotiating agents can you give me them I'm sorry

just so I can they're in alphabetical order so I can refer to it there's a bunch of pages and I'm trying to figure out which one's which if you look at the uh let's go to the agenda if I can help you if you go to the top Mr agyar and you tell us the letters yeah the one I'm looking at is HB negotiation legal status yep

HB b as in boy so like there's a series of HBS so it's HB and then it's HP and then there's another one that says HB with day highlighted in yellow then is HF they all seem to be very similar to

so I'm assuming that when these got looked at we look at the entire policies to know whether it's pertinent to what we do or not is that a fair assessment yes the policy HB just talks about the legal status of the district and following chapter 150 under Mass general laws and then in the original one is references to employees having the right to organize Etc that's been updated with the legal reference

that's on on the first but we Fall River Public Schools we don't necessarily have an outside negotiator we have attorney Assad who is our employee and he's in in The Negotiator so you're referring to HB or HF both like they I think they all kind of come to go together one of them HB talks about the legal status and then whatever we do and then they're all related to negotiation

so my thing is I just don't think it's it's appropriate what we we do we have an employee do it so I don't think we need all this stuff to you know to go back and forth on and then it talks about how we're going to do negotiations but we don't necessarily pay attention to this when we like we don't appoint attorney Assad as our lead negotiator I know because of his history here

well the language and the con in the policy says that the committee designates a negotiator and that is Mr Assad right but when do we do that and how how are we going to do negotiations all of them do we actually vote on that doesn't say that it requires a vote it just says that you designate to newly negotiator Madam superintendent do you understand what I'm saying or am I totally off are

you do you want to add are you saying that you want to add something to the existing policy because you all would have to add the language that you want to see there right this one in the one that was like sort of just not changing anything that's why I didn't look at it at the subcommittee but as I'm looking at it now it looks like as if we should at some point vote

to a point the lead negotiator along with how we're going to negotiate well Mr Hager he's appointed when you hire him that's that's part of the process you appoint him when you hire him as your legal counsel and then there's usually meetings before the negotiations begin where you're given the parameters for what you want to discuss during negotiations what you want to do et cetera and that's the

that's the process I don't think I don't think the language is objectionable to what so what you're the point you're raising so I think it's confusing for one and for two I think we should be making decisions on how we're going to do our negotiations on a regular basis so I'd like to do collaborative bargaining because quite frankly I'm I'm not comfortable with the way we've been going about it

because it doesn't we don't get to the end result so I'd like to as one member have collaborative bargaining I've never once since I've been on here for a while sat across from the table from my colleagues in in uh in the unions to have a discussion when do we vote on that we don't and that's why I think this needs to be adjusted to what we actually do so that we could have a say

if we're going to do that or not but we don't without you anything further on the policies I have a motion a second on the first batch is that what you call them opens let's try again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes yes we are cooking yes 12-5 is discussion and vote to approve the updated policies is referred by the policy subcommittee and presented by Tom Coogan human resource director now you

get a motion in a second motion second I have a motion a second discussion on the new policies hearing none Deb would you please call them oh Mr aguir sorry so these are new policies that if you read the piece it talks about um we reviewed him at the subcommittee and the committee should look into it or weigh in on them as something along those lines so can somebody highlight what is different between

the subcommittee meeting and now so I I've reached out to several other legal resources for some guidance on the proposed fraterization policy so I'd ask the committee hold off on that policy tonight until we get more information back from them I've had several communities that I've contacted but I previously compared their policy on that particular topic an masc I'm waiting for a return call from them

conversation we had towards the end of last week so that policy I would just ask that you set aside as opposed to approving it at this point and I'll bring it back as soon as I have more Legal Information for you it's an important topic it doesn't preclude the committee from acting in the case of something for the administration from acting in the case of something that comes up there's a

policy GBE EBD which is new to the committee um that is online uh fundraising and solicitations um it's come up in a number of times where somebody seeks out a donation through GoFundMe or something this policy merely puts some structure to that process it requires approval ahead of time it also requires that the person who's soliciting um follows certain guidelines to make sure they're operating in ethically as

well as checking in with technology so that we're not seeking donations of equipment that's not compatible either from a techno technology standpoint or from a software standpoint with anything that the district is trying to do so there's a number of safeguards in there which just protect us in the process that's a new policy um there is a policy that just tightens up the language on employment of principles

it's referred to as gcbb that policy has minor changes from the previous policy approved by the committee however it was suggested at the subcommittee meeting that the committee have the ability to set parameters for the way they negotiate with principles on contracts and I believe the language in the first paragraph does that so but I'm certainly willing to let the Committee Member that

brought that issue forward address it if he wishes to um some of the other policies that are so may I just interrupt for a second sure so at the subcommittee we brought up some valid points and we had to although we had a nice discussion about some of the policies it was suggested at that time which what I was expecting to look at now would be a one-pager where we say here's what the

policy was here's what it said something very s very clear as I'm going through what I see in this binder I don't know if I'm missing it there's nothing in here that's clear related to that issue I see every now and again a highlight underneath that says at the policy it was suggested that we allow blah blah blah but what is the recommended policy so we were going to go through just now and

say emotional approved get it to go through and be gone if I didn't stop and say what please explain what it is half the things that are that we ask for are not even here or they were requiring a further discussion of the committee to say what would the committee as a whole do but when are we going to get like a paper that says here's what my recommendation is as superintendent as HR Director or whoever

this is what like I I just I I don't know where the disconnect is we we sat and talked about it didn't we so why are we coming here a week later if we're not ready just say we we're not ready we need to do some more work on it we're going to go here at the end we're going to go to an attendance policy I said at the subcommittee meeting the

attendance policy is exactly how we should do a policy it articulates exactly what was changed or not changed and very clear for the committee I thought it was pretty clear what we were going to do and I just don't understand why we can't get from one subcommittee to now the looking back at the gifts here's an example I mentioned at the time there was some kind of policy that we had to

go look at to say how much was the gifts we were going to talk about here's the policy if I'm looking at it right and it has a highlight and it says lo and behold it says note include the cost limit practice instituted by the school committee that's what it says here in the policy now we asked at the policy subcommittee we didn't know what it was 50 100 a

certain minimum so we don't have to do it you're telling me that in a week we can't get the number and put it in the policy that anything over whatever that number was which we were supposed to research to put it in this policy so that the full committee can actually know what they're voting on I I it's I just don't understand I I go to a public comment complaints one

yeah yeah Mr aggio the motion to table we'll come back next meeting if I could just say can we at least look at the attendance because I'd like that to be ready for us okay and that's you want to be ready I just have one question on it on a different matter the same on a different policy the public complaint policy it was suggested that this not be included it says in parentheses the the

Mata says talking about public complaints complaints about school Personnel will be investigated fully and fairly however before any such complaint is investigated the complainant must submit their complaint in writing Anonymous complaints will be disregarded Matt is referred to the school commit superintendent school committee must be in writing and should be specific in terms of the action desired

now I said at the time I'm not voting for this if it says that language so we almost voted here today to vote with a note thankfully there's a note there that says at the subcommittee it was suggested that this requirement not be included at the subcommittee I asked the superintendent is this a policy that you approve of superintendent said yes but it sounded like after a discussion

we might change it a little because maybe it doesn't make as much sense or we might need to tweak it a little so I figured we're going to go for the next week when this comes back there's no way in hell this is going to come back the same as it is and lo and behold what do we got the same one so I want to table it because I think they're um

I don't know what to say we have a meeting we have a subcommittee meeting Mr hot and I took an hour and a half of our time to sit there we went over the policies we did a good job if I'm going to do that for my hour and a half all I expect somebody to do is listen and come back with it if you disagree or disagree you just write it don't come back with

the same stuff without an answer it does it defies logic the attendance policy I agree with 100 and I told you that at the subcommittee so I'll make a motion to approve the attendance piece of this because we can't table it first otherwise we wouldn't no I said we table everything pull that out like we do with everything else and go to that one that's fine all right so I have a motion

to table the new policies um I have a motion a second leaving out the Fall River Public School attendance policy I have almost a second discussion on the table Deb call the roll please Mr strong yeah

yes uh now on I'm looking for a motion and a second to approve the floor of a Public School attendance policy emotional approve I have a motion I have a second any discussion Deb give it a ride please Mr again yes Mr Bailey yeah Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes Mr Ms rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes um right now we're going to move to 12.6 discussion and vote to approve a human

resource manager to the human resource department as presented by Tom Coogan human restore resource director I thought we had one in between the position that previously existed in the HR department the human resource manager position was vacant from 2016 to the end of 2018. at that time we added an HR coordinator who basically manages the evaluation system the attendance software for the 2000 2200 employees

that we now have working within the system the HR manager position is needed because of the volume of employees that we have now in addition there is a number of critical issues that have come up we're entering a cycle of negotiations with all nine bargaining units and there are a number of factors that just require more attention more human capital to be able to manage those tasks I would ask that you reinstu

Institute this position and we post and hire for it looking for a motion motion to approve we have a second second any discussion was there a second I couldn't hear I'll just read anybody else that wants to ask questions on this good idea nobody else I have a question but I'm calling no I'm just saying I want to let everybody else go first so I called on you you can ask a question oh certainly so

what does the the hot man look like when you I basically just said in the last comment related to what we need what we don't need and how we we run departments and then we find out what we took a different position then we come back and we add a position and guess where we're at now two items later here we are again same exact thing at the time when we voted to say we want

to combine positions we want to pay somebody a little extra money have this and that we voted for I voted for it and said we were going to do it at every meeting every budget meeting do we have what we need yes we have what we need do we need any more positions nope we don't need any more positions meanwhile things are going haywire but we just keep on going to say we don't need the positions

and now we're going to be here again saying we need another position because of what what was what was new now August whatever the date is August 14th that was different than June 30th yes so we had a discussion about this position earlier in the spring and we decided to wait on it um the superintendent of myself we went back and forth about whether or not we could sort of redeploy the resources

within the human resources department and cover the tasks that are cited here in this job description and really with the volume of of work that's there now um it's it's really a necessary position so a reconsideration if you will but uh not not from a lack of planning a discussion prior to this Madam superintendent do you have anything to say on that well I I mean I Mr Coogan as he said we have had many

discussions about this the department is understaffed we have hired many people the volume of work that goes through that office we need to be efficient and I think that um there is just too much work for uh for people in that department uh you know so this is a start I I wasn't I wasn't around when that position was eliminated by certainly um see that Mr Coogan needs an additional position down there to

support the work we there's work that has to be done and as you know HR is time sensitive we have to get the work done and it has to get done immediately in addition to all the other things that come across that department unexpectedly so you know my stance on it because I've mentioned this to the whole committee and yourself that there's only a few departments we're not org shot in our

organizational structure that don't have an assistant superintendent a deputy superintendent or anyone overseeing them I've mentioned that since the spring the same thing saying we need help because we're not doing things we need to do we need help I'm not denying the fact that HR department needs help but when I suggested it many years over a year ago that we need to have that position answered to an assistant

superintendent or a deputy superintendent if fell on deaf ears Oh it sounded good but maybe wait this and that I don't think this is correcting what we need to do in that department are they understaffed sure I've been saying it all along but now all of a sudden we go to the budget well no we're not going to do that we're not going to do this it's only two months after the budget

if you can't understand why somebody that pays attention to the budget would be upset when over and over principals don't get a chance to abide at that Apple they come at budget time and say what they need for their department they need for their school they wouldn't come back they wouldn't even dare some of them come and say oh by the way I also was talking about this so I need another like

it it to me I'm going to support it because I think we need to have more people in that department but it's tiring when it's just the same thing over and over where's the where's the background on this in this one page where is the background on what does the department look like what does the department look like compared to other districts what does the department look like from five years ago what is the

thing it they're underfunded I'm not denying that peace but we've known that for so long we know that it's not performing at that level that it should that entire department but we've kept it and said oh no we're not going to do it meanwhile we've got millions of dollars that we could spend so I'm going to support it because we have the money but it's just frustrating that we need to

have more background info so we know what it was what it wasn't and maybe some comparison this is why I need this you probably look at a comparison you might say you need two positions of something but we're only going to go with the one here let's just fix it if we did the comparison analysis and said in order to make us more efficient and do this and not drop the ball on anything we need x

y and z Mr Coogan should come to you you should come to us and say here's what we need let's fix it and staff that department properly that's my level of frustration not that Mr Coogan doesn't have a right to come before us now I wish this would have came before us at the budget because I think we would have had a different conversation one of the things that's difficult to compare when you do

a district by District comparison and I've had conversations with other districts throughout the thing that I'm a member of the mass Association of school Personnel administrators is that some districts have a different structure for instance in Fall River benefits are administered through the department of City Hall we don't handle that within our department so in some cases where a school department or

School District does benefits Administration through their office they may have three four five more employees depending on the volume of things it depends which functions are handled within HR in some cases they do get involved in some of the financial aspects payroll and other type things so that really affects it's not an Apples to Apples comparison when you look at all districts so no I get it but that

would be done in your analysis you would say this might look like something but they have another it's basically just showing the committee who is part-time to just show us why are we advocating for this that and the other thing so you could say that exact thing and then you added your department if the case you just mentioned you could probably add your department and the city's HR department together and they

still don't equal what some School departments have for a quality HR department I'm just going to go on a limit and say that's probably true we don't have any analysis is the point all I'm asking for is to do some analysis so we know and we have the resources to fund it properly and then hold people accountable to do the work with that I'll make a motion to approve if it's not done already seconded

okay Deb roll the call let's try again because you have a question that was it answered no you asked it thank you yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes yes

12-7 is a discussion and vote to approve the fourth quarter revolving fund as presented by Kevin Almeida reported to you here is the other 13 revolving funds each one of the revolving funds have positive balances we started the year with just about 12 million dollars in the revolving funds we ended the year with just over 13 million dollars in the funds with that I'm requesting a vote to approve please any discussion

Ms Rogers I think you just said sorry oh that's okay um so the report in front of you has our 13 revolving funds this is our fourth quarter report uh each fund has a positive balance as you can see the um the balance went from 12 million at the beginning of the year to 13 million where we stand now and I'm just requesting a vote to approve please uh yeah thank you for the information

I'd like to request that two items get placed on the next Special Education subcommittee meeting from this revolving account one being the state's better reimbursement circuit breaker and the second one stone tuition yep so that we can discuss ways to spend that money on our children okay thank you if you said that one more time and I didn't hear what the first one was the special ed

circuit breaker the bottom two numbers are related to special education funding and I think we need to on a regular basis to speak about that as subcommittee so we know what additional things we can provide for our children emotional approve otherwise if not then I have a motion second I have a motion a second any further discussion Dad please call the roll yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes yes mayor Kruger yes

12-8 is a discussion and vote to approve the design Development and Construction phase of the Robert L Medeiros resiliency Preparatory Academy is presented by Ken Pacheco Chief Operating Officer emotional proof I have a motion to approve I have a second promotion a second just one question Mr agua the uh can you get us not so much for right now but over the next whatever week or so what has happened in the

building as far as space so I know at one point we had like two floors then it was three floors four foot I'm just curious to see with this the whole building is going to have new windows I get all that stuff but what is the use of the building how much do we have are we using it all something like that thank you I yield anything further Miss Rodricks and then just

turn that like what's up projected time frame to get some of this work done so that way we can access the whole building sure and I know you can't give exact dates because Lord knows that's not going to happen but just some kind of an idea of what what that's absolutely thank you yeah if um if I could there's some vote language that we need to do for the record uh Mr heart yeah okay um thank

you Mr Mayor to see if the city of Fall River vote to appropriate borrow or transfer from available funds an amount of money to be expended under the direction of the Fall River school committee for MSA msba accelerated repair project at the rlm resiliency Preparatory Academy 290 Rock Street consisting of windows and doors replacement project the project consists of replacement of exterior doors and

windows in addition of an accessible bathroom which this proposed repair project would materially extend the useful life of the school and preserve an asset that otherwise is capable of supporting the required educational program and for which the city may be eligible for a school construction Grant from the msba the city acknowledges that the msba's grant program is a non-entitlement discretionary program

based on need as determined by the msba and any project us the city incurs in excess of Any Grant approved by and received from the msba shall be the sole responsibility of the city any grant that the city may receive from the msba for the project shall not exceed the lesser of 180 percent of eligible approved project cost as determined by the msba or two the total maximum Grant

amount determined by the msba thank you Mr Hart any further discussion my heart made that motion we have a motion a second thanks Miss Rogers Deb please call the vote Mr agap yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey abstain Herrera Ms rodericks yes yes 12-9 is a discussion and vote to approve the pricing Matrix for the for facilities of school use as referred by facilities and operations committee and

presented by Ken Pacheco Chief Operating Officer Mr pachico so um there's a small small list of changes proposed changes that we're looking for and only one of the changes exists in the current Matrix that we have so the Mac Aldridge stadium was one that was in the in the original approval that the school committee um voted on I think it was last year so the rest of the items right across non-profit profit and again

non-community non-community the same thing non-profit and profit this covers all of the multi vola Fields including a multi-use field that costs and um they are all the artificial turf fields which is what we're most concerned with when we do our rentals there's also a fee for lighting that we're including because if they're using those fields the opportunity for night use is now available that wasn't available

before I have I have one is this per hour he's a per hour and the um the statement that was originally written into the other pieces is that anyone any group who is looking for some relief non-profit group who's looking for some relief can always see the superintendent and she can have that discussion with them and then bring it to the committee to have that waived any further discussion on this question Miss um

Miss laravey so we're going uh from last year's well the amounts from last year from 75 I'm going for Mac Aldridge right now the stadium for 75 to 150 right for non-profit Community yes okay does that cover any security is that included with the rental no this is just a straight rental right so on top of this they would have any of the required so you would neces you would not necessarily need um

it's not it's not a flat fee so to speak so what would happen is if if your if you're planning on having an event that's going to have 800 people added or a thousand people then we're going to ask you to have extra security uh depending on the age group we may ask you to have police offices at that event um we've had issues in the past with some groups when they do use the field it's

always what adults never with kids so we you know we we require certain things uh when these fields are used and it and it is based on which group is using it and what their invent is going to entail right I think my only concern is that the community non-profit like we don't have much of a break with that it's the 150 to 175 or the 125 for other fields

uh to 150 in comparison but if you're saying that a non-for-profit organization could um reach out to the superintendent if the superintendent deems it's necessary to come in front of us I mean I would I know I would appreciate that and would like to be told if they are reaching out um if if that's possible Madam superintendent um I think uh I just think it's a little close

um in in money wise 150 to 175 but um I mean I'm going to prove I'm going to vote Yes but with that I guess request stating that if somebody does come to the district requesting uh a break yes and they are only I'm only asking for non-profit community that we are made aware sure and and um also the um the purpose of these feasts obviously is so that at some point we are going to

replace these surfaces again it took 18 years and and probably three years too late when we replaced them this time because they were in really rough shape so the goal is to to allow these funds to build up to a point where if we have to replace you know a surface that we do have the funds we were lucky enough to to have the committee vote some Surplus Monies to uh to do those fields and

we've got a 11 million dollar investment out there now that we're hoping to get the most use out of but we also want other people to use it also thank you I yield Mr Bailey uh for me it's one of the things that come to mind when we talk about um you know 11 million dollar facilities oh sorry is the liability insurance um when you're using certain facilities to make sure that

not only are we renting and protecting the fields but we're protecting the people using them um when we get certain crowds you know so we well yeah so we we no one uses the field unless they come with a policy to protect the district and then in that policy also they are taking full responsibility of the use of the school and the facilities that's it anything further Mr Right Here

following up on Mr Bailey so I think I asked this before um if I didn't I apologize but I might ask it again the policy what are the policies for the new school for the Jeffrey High indoor as far as uh what's expected what's allowed what's not allowed water Gatorade gum high heels the whole like it's it's straight water there's nothing else that's allowed no food on the fields so in the stands they

would be allowed to have other other things but on the fields on the playing fields for teams that are coming in water and water only and that's in tattoo like it's police how is it being policed every every one of the schools that will play us will receive that prior to the season starting that they are not to bring any Gatorade onto the fields that's that's basically what we're policing we're hoping that each group

pays attention to that I'm sure that those people who are at the facility the A.D the assistant ad would be looking to see if those products are not being brought on the field I I will say that the conversation has been had before about having a person who does this work strictly on rentals it wasn't including our own games but it was for outside rentals that we have someone there to police all of the

things that we asked people the do's and the don'ts so to speak and so that's in there is not it is not in in The Matrix no it's not right now yeah yeah um we made an investment I'm going to support this for that reason but I will ask that you come back to the committee with the policy like what we just went over a whole bunch of policies that a

lot of them are not nearly as important as this one so I'd like to see a good review of what the policy is what it's not so get everybody on the same page so when you have to tell somebody you can't do it you have our backing that we voted on a policy because a lot of times we go well they said he said whatever I want to see what the policy is when we did

the new indoor uh facility whatever that was 10 15 years ago it was promised to the committee that worked on that that we were going to do no food in the gym this and that no way did it happen that can't happen again and by putting it in a policy that says this is what's going on we shouldn't see somebody walking in there with a coffee period but right now there's no policy I

don't think it's sort of up on here so I'm going to vote for this but I hope that you'll be able to put together all policies and thank you I yield sure I I will uh piggyback on Mr Matt yeah in the gym they're not allowed to have any coffee or anything it's strictly water inside the gym that little eating area outside is where they have to be weight room Jim okay yeah yeah and who

right now is it if that's the existing policy Mr Pacheco who's responsible for enforcing that all depends on what event it is so we we do monitor basketball game so a basketball game we would have a city I mean a school department personnel at that okay that would hopefully be doing that along with everything else well I'm with Mr Aggie although I see it kind of through the year it seems to get loose oh absolutely

I know okay and the same thing he brought up something else um high heels on the on the turf is that allowed so it's not the heel it's the shape of the heel so uh stiletto heels okay it's not it's not going to puncture the surface but it's not advised that we use okay anything further on this Miss Rodricks um so the community nonprofits that are currently using that space

how much notice are they being given for that price increase nobody's using the fields using it right now okay so they'll all receive this this whole piece and before we send them any policy obviously we'll be bringing that back um before the seasons start because it is it is double for a small that is going to be a pretty huge hit so if we did have folks currently using it

they would need a lot of lead time to be able to make that work but if no one's using it right now um hopefully that's okay anything further yeah just on what Mr Bailey was saying Ken about the insurance you did say that they need a insurance binder they do oh okay I thought I thought you said something and it names us as okay and then as far as what Mr Aggie I was saying about the

policies if you want to maybe get together on that with this week is towards the subcommittee um goes we can we can have something else anything further Deb please call the rolling I need them oh we need a motion motion approve second motion a second Deb Please Mr agnow yes Mr Bailey yes Mr yes Miss Lowry yes Miss Pereira Mr rodericks yes mayor Cogan yes uh 12 10 is a discussion and vote to

approve the naming and renaming committee as referred by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by Mr Pacheco motion approved I have a motion second Mr Pacheco so there were a couple of things that I mentioned in the cover letter um a um a request that I had made to the committee to remove a portion of the fourth bulleted line item under the criteria which reads and who has been

deceased for a period of at least two years um if if that was something acceptable to the committee and then the second piece was that before we we call a meeting of this group the superintendent will receive the requests as the the procedure says uh vet those that request first and then um put the committee on notice that that they can start uh some deliberations I also wanted to take that this time to see if the

um if this committee wanted to add any names to that committee that's currently in place I was voted on a while back and hasn't met as of yet Miss Harvey that was my first question have you met yet I have not met yet when would you want us to come back if we do have some recommendations we can just you can just forward them to the okay I would think though that this committee

was a committee that was voted on by the school committee so I would think that you're going to need it to come back here for a vote unless it can be tonight which I'm not sure anybody so maybe by next month if we have any recommendations we can get this done okay I yield anything further on Mr Edgar the uh when this was approved my recollection is that the superintendent is the

gatekeeper basically yes so I wanted to just make sure that's clear as well that it's not you can't just jump to bring something forward without the superintendent doing the background research and she has basically veto power yes to make sure that if it's not in her mind something that's worth going to that subcommittee can't bypass the superintendent correct no no it has to go to the superintendent first when it

leaves the superintendent it goes to this community but the superintendent holds the gate exactly yes thank you our yield promotional approved I have a motion there's already a motion a second Mr Aggie uh Deb Mr chairman um the um the request for those that line could that would the committee entertain that um yes I know about um the criteria page yeah just on that criteria page which is I think it's pretty

encompassing I don't see too much wrong with it anybody have any suggestions for Corrections on the criteria as Mr aguio said it's the superintendent will vet each name and then it will go to the committee after that and the Highlight in blue is is um is where we would ask the um if the committee fails that they want a person to be able to receive this a dedication so to speak if they're still alive

because right now it says they need to be deceased right whether they're alive they should also be it should also be right yeah approved to before them I think do we want to amend that and take out yeah um change the learning to Civic service to a municipal facility period I would make a motion to amend that no second and take out who has been deceased for a period of two years yes okay

I have a motion a second on and who has been deceased for two years being removed from the criteria any discussion on that go ahead Mr anger the uh we're only taking out the words about deceased the rest of the states yes up until the facility no no who has uh and from and down Mr agya Ann who has been deceased for a period of at least two years period period period the rest of it is

yeah the rest stays yeah it was highlighted just because I was trying to draw attention oh I know what you mean particular um so it's only that little piece it's just that one piece well how about where it says his or her next kin yeah well if you take out the Justice you gotta take that we're not we're not eliminating someone deceased from being named oh okay so we would want to leave that in okay

he's right anything further go ahead just a comment I I still think the most important piece is superintendent vetting these things before it just comes to the politicians to vote on so I'm in favor of this because it would it would still have to go to her but whoever the superintendent is to say this is a valid situation so I will support it thank you okay so we have a motion a second on

removal of that line from the criteria uh dad would you please call the roll Mr Dragon yes Mr yes yes now I want to prove in the policy do I have a motion in second time on the full on the whole renaming committee no yes I do Deb please call the role yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Laramie yes yes 12 11 is a discussion and vote to accept the demographic study report as referred

by the facilities and operations subcommittee and presented by Ken Pacheco Chief Operating Officer so sometime ago the committee was looking for um a extensive look at Pre-K expansion where we were going in the district with uh with some of those conversations and in order to do that we needed to start with knowing what we have and what we what we're projecting coming into the district so

the committee voted to authorize an expenditure to hire the demographic company which was proper GIS to look at the district and give it a 10-year look and see where we've been and where we're going and that document is what was delivered with your packet there's also some highlights that I hear it's showing a small growth in the district over a period of time taking it to um 20 you know 33 and that um that in itself

is not the full picture and as you deep dive into that particular document you will see where those bubbles are in in certain years and it basically is based on the fact that the city is aging that the incoming new residents of the city are not necessarily bringing a host of children with them to to add to the school system so it was it's also changing the face of Fall River when you

look at the construction that's going on the kind of construction that's going on the over 55 rentals that are popping up in in different areas and the market rate housing in some of the Mills so some of those neighborhoods are changing drastically which is also going to Force us to do a look a deep dive into our districting and see if we need to do some work on that superintendent is is

probably going to soon put a committee together to start looking at where we're going and take that document and put some of those numbers to work for us so it's a tool that we'll use setting up our future expansion or are changing of of our district borders so that we can see which schools are are going to experience some of those bigger changes in their areas based on um on this report and other factors obviously

this is a discussion in vote to approve item could I get a motion to approve to accept well to accept I'm sorry I have a motion do I have a second second any discussion Dad please call the roll let's try again yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes yes uh 13 is a for information obviously there's a number of um retirements new hires regretfully a few deceased I have a motion a second

on accepting the foyer information

which which part are we on for the information for your information all of it are just that one all of it The Hires and the uh is that a question resignations go ahead on the highest so at some point I thought I saw in here Behavior therapist on the higher list you see that somewhere or am I listening and my question is I thought we were we were not going to be utilizing that term anymore

I see Behavior therapists on page 16 partially down yeah I recall multiple times that we had talked about this and we were gonna we created the SEL liaison for the reason that we were gonna not be filling these spots and just looking for some info

the position was an existing budgeted position it's also collectively bargained position I defer to attorney Assad on this but you've actually received communication from the the Union on this and the position was approved to be posted so they can tell us where we're going to fill positions or not no it was a budgeted position it was an existing position exactly so it's a budgeted position we were told

by the superintendent and you or whoever else was involved in these conversations that we were not going to fill those positions anymore at budget time I was told that specifically from the administration that we were not going to fill these positions anymore we were going to do a different type of position which is in your purview to to not fill the position and fill it with another I

just don't get it we said we weren't going to add new positions we have existing we have a couple of existing Behavior therapist positions already budgeted for right but when you if you say we're not going to use we're not going to use that terminology for a reason that we're going to create a new position when the position becomes vacant that's how you through attrition lose those positions we just keep on

doing we say we're not going to fill a position nope the a position doesn't make sense well but let's fill it again so now we're stuck with another positions again it doesn't make any sense our yield do I have a motion and secondhand for your information you do yep then please call the roll let's try again no yes Miss Laramie yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yeah yes okay yes any new business to come before the

committee item 1914.

hearing none attorney Assad do we have any reason to go into executive session they would now what would you please tell us you first would be National laws chapter 38 section 2187 the review and approve the executive session minutes for July 17 2023 regular school committee meeting also National laws chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation including workers

compensation case regarding James Colette Department of initial actions Board number zero one one seven one five dash one eight as the chair is attended Open Session may have a detrimental impact on the litigation position of the committee National laws chapter 38 section 21a3 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation including workers compensation case regarding sentida Castellano Department of industrial

accidents Board number zero three one nine one two-21 as it chairs the Tomb of the local session may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee National verse chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collect the bargaining relative to all administrators employees represented by the former administrators Association as the chair is the term that an open session may have a

detrimental impact on a bargaining position of the committee Mass General lawyers chapter 38 section 2183 to discuss strategy with respect to collect the bargaining relative to All Professional teaching employees the former School System including coaches Title One teachers nurses occupational and physical therapists and specialists in the teaching profession represented by the former Educators Association as

the chairs determine that no possession may have a detrimental impact on the bargaining position of the committee Mass generals chapter 38 section 2182 to conduct strategy sessions and preparation for negotiation with non-union personnel and or to conduct contract negotiations with non-union Personnel Including Alice and loss redesign coach Heather tivitotte Administrative Assistant for the special

education department Paula saws executive assistant to the superintendent Deborah Cabral administrative assistant assistant to the school committee Lori Madura assistant Administrative Assistant Megan Souza Administrative Assistant Grace Coster Administrative Assistant when this scenario Administrative Assistant Goretti Furtado Administrative Assistant which is Elaine degrassa the Graco human resource coordinator

Stacy Gahan Financial Manager at Kelly Mahoney athletic trainer John Ventura director of Safety and Security Services Louis Taurus the director of Campus services Kenneth Pacheco Chief Operating Officer Kevin Almeida Chief Financial Officer Thomas Coogan human resource director Dr Tracy Curley assistant superintendent Chief academic officer Laurie obachane assistant superintendent of special education

Clarice Brooks former Robert L Maduras resiliency Preparatory Academy principal I apologize for some of the names and the the pronunciations we will reconvene that may not be statements at that time can I have a motion in a second to go into executive session our motion second please call the roll Mr agam yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Hart yes Miss laravey yes yes

back in regular recession Deb would you please call the roll Mr Dragon here Mr Bailey here Mr Hart here anything further come before the committee Mr Mayor Mr Hyde uh make a motion to approve the executive session minutes for July 17 2023 of the regular school committee meeting I have a motion second uh any discussion Deb please call the roll Mr agile yes Mr Bailey yes Mr Harper yes Miss Larry yes

it's Pereira Ms rodericks yes mayor Kruger yes anything further Mr Mayor Mr Hyde a motion to approve Allison Lowe's uh contract as negotiated I have a motion a second any discussion Deb please call the roll let's drag yeah yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes Miss laravey yes Miss Pereira Miss Roderick yes mayor Kruger yes mayor Mr Hart motion to approve the contract of John Ventura as negotiated second any discussion

Deb could you please call the roll let's drag yeah yes Mr yes Mr yes Miss larvae yes Ms Pereira Ms rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes mayor let's start a motion to approve the contract of Louis Torres as negotiated I have a motion the second discussion hearing none Deb please call the roll Mr strike yes Mr Hart yes Pereira Miss rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes mayor Mr High a vote to approve the

contract for Tracy Curley as negotiated I have a motion a second discussion Dan please call them all yes Mr Bailey yes Mr harp yes yes Mr Pereira Ms Roderick yes mayor Coogan yes and one more Mr Hunt uh vote to approve the contract of Lori obenching as as negotiated motion a second discussion Deb please call the roll Mr Dragon yes Mr yes Mrs yes Ms rodericks yes mayor Coogan yes motion

to adjourn second I have a motion a second to adjourn Dad please call the roll yes yes June