Concord Carlisle School Committee October 8, 2024

All right it is 6m on Tuesday October 8th I'd like to call to order the conquer carile Regional School District to order and I will call the conquered school committee to order and I move that the conquer car school committee and conquered school committee will enter into executive session under purpose two of the open meeting law to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with the Superintendent of schools and purpose 7 to comply with or act under authority of any general or special law or Federal Grant in Aid requirements specifically mgl 30A 22 a and

F with regard to the review and approval of executive session minutes from April 23rd 2024 May 7th 2024 May 13th 2024 May 21st 2024 June 4th 2024 June 10th 2024 August 20th 2024 September 3rd 2024 and September 17th 2024 and under purpose two under which the June 4th 2024 June 10th 2024 May 7th 2024 May 13th 202 wait did I skip a line I think I did June and executive sessions were held under purpose three under which the April 23rd 20124 May 7th 2024 May 13th 2024 May 21st 2024 June 4th 2024 June 10th 2024

August 20 2024 September 3rd 2024 and September 17th 2024 executive sessions were held in return to open session we'll be caught up after this perfect second Perfect Right roll call in to exact yes Anderson I her ey Morano ey rainy ey both both and I for both uh Viola I for the region Waton I for the region all right we'll be back so our next um our next agenda item is the cchs student update Z have Felicity yeah so unfortunately Maddie has lacrosse practice so she's not here today but we do have our presentation as

Always um yeah zarya do you want to start yes um these past two weeks have been pretty eventful um as you know like two weeks ago I think the two weeks ago last the weekend of two weeks ago uh kcks for cancer was held um which is basically a fundraiser with sports activities um for cancer research and it was really fun I went you can see the picture uh it was really fun and it was just a really good opportunity to not only have friends Like fun with your friends after school or outside of school

but it was just like a really good cause I didn't go to Mighty moose but I it was probably a really good experience as well I know that a lot of stuff goes into these things and it was just really fun so I I'm assuming that was really fun too uh two weeks ago as well I believe the student Senate activities Fair happened which is basically like a club Fair where everyone like has signed Sheets for their club and they get to promote um it was really cool I signed up for a lot of clubs

and I know it's just a really good way to get your Club out there and I'm like it was really fun um my club was there too uh BSU um and Spectrum Spectrum Club had a went to a conquered library and they did Button making which it sounds really cool I feel like I should have done that but yeah yes and and also um Flex blocks We've had them I think this is our second year with flex blocks now with the new bell schedule and there's been a lot of uh ways that admin and faculty

have been trying to take advantage of those and most recently there have been lots of college in admissions information sessions um and I believe they're actually open to all grades so I've definitely heard a lot of my peers really appreciating that opportunity to get to know a lot of colleges from Different areas um and similarly there was also a I believe one of the science teachers hosted a flex block where people from Emerson health I believe came to talk to students about health science career paths and I know you see the picture on the right

there there was a lot of interest in that Flex block I think there's definitely CCs is very much a a stem stem school um in many ways so it was really a great opportunity to get a lot of people Represented and have a way to kind of think about their future in that way um I know Zary and I are definitely doing a lot of that because we're seniors so that's why you'll hear us talking more about college every single time uh also there was recently I believe one and a half weeks ago there was

a bit of a flooding incident in the cchs building from I believe one of the fourth floor science labs um but there was a lot of I think many students said That there was a lot of good communication from Administration um there was a 2hour delay which honestly I think most people appreciated because we got to sleep in you're welcome and generally um everything has is mostly operating normally now we have uh even though the affected classrooms are still being cleaned up but uh there's been a lot of like movement of different classes that are

from those classrooms so um I haven't heard any issues I think We all were able to adapt relatively well so that's been good um Hispanic Heritage Month has been going on for the past like few weeks um it started on September 15th and is going until I think a few more days until October 15th um and around CC we've I've been seeing a lot of murals a lot of artwork and stuff like that there's been a lot of videos and just it's just a really good way to spread Hispanic heritage and culture and I feel

Like it's I feel like they've been doing a lot more this year and I I don't know I just thought it was really interesting and cool yeah I definitely agree with that um and obligatory CC theater update um the well the fall play is coming up still has it's in less than a month in a couple weeks actually on November 1st through 3rd and z in that and yes and the spring musical was just announced it's going to be Shrek the Musical which um is Obviously very well known so I think it's going to be

a really exciting production we're hoping to get lots of um people involved just because it's definitely one of those like big name musicals so I'm very excited for that I am too and you know what else I'm excited for tomorrow CU there's an early released and the next two weeks we have a Monday off which is really cool but at the same time it's um not for all the staff because they have to come in one Of those days because it's a parent teacher conference but it's good for us [Laughter] I'm sensing some senioritis I

think they're going to be writing college applications is what I think they're going to be doing yeah we don't truly have days off anymore it's just like extra time to do college apps yeah this is great A great update thank you thanks Aria all right let me go see recognition folks already yeah sure in the other all right next on our agenda we have um recognitions we're just checking on the participants that are in the other room all right all right there's seven of us that's great we get chairs so while they're coming in I

can just queue us up um I'll let J do you want chairs you help with chairs and Arrangements uh so Mr Cameron here's from the is here from the middle school tonight we wanted to share out with you the work of the Panther Pro Shop which is the school store and they have with them as you can see a number of students who are working in the store and helping to run and operate it and then the two advisers are here Megan Logan and Donna amadon on so we're welcoming them and once you get settled

Mr Cameron can take it from There need a mic yeah use either one the handheld or that one thanks for being here well thank you for having us of course so I have with us um and we're just going to introduce ourselves really quickly um these are the students that work behind the scenes at our uh we're in year two of our Panther Pro Shop our conquered Middle School school store want we do quick introductions I'm on be and I'm in Eighth grade I'm Colin Middleton and I'm in seventh grade I'm miss Emily I'm in

sixth grade I'm Owen and I'm in eighth grade awesome hi I'm Megan Logan and I am the connections teacher at CMS which is the sub separate program there and I'm Donna amadon I am one of the advisers for the Panther Pro Shop I'm also a tutor at um sbor awesome okay so just um some quick be um context Behind the scenes so um our school store was born out of an initiative called positive behavior incentive systems or supports PBIS is a research based tool that schools will use um in kind of a effort to um

compete for lack of a better word with discipline um and all the focus that a school might have to have what typically is only one or two% of your student population so PBIS was born in the return back from the pandemic um and all schools saw a spike An Extinction burst of discipline um when students return back to school so we felt it necessary to put forward some research-based approaches um in PBIS we wrote a grant for conquered Ed fund and I wanted to make sure that I named that um for um all of this

and it was born um in a very pragmatic way of these lanard that have pouches um faculty and staff carry school store gift cards in their Lanyards in their pouches and conquered Ed fund provided the seed money from for all of us so for many of us this is the original lanyard from 2021 this is the original pouch and the school store gift cards that we want to interact with all of you with in just a couple minutes um these are given to students who work at at our Panther Pro Shop and I recycle back

into circulation and go back into the teachers um faculty rooms to be gathered to put back into the pouches um And the areas in which we decided as a school Community to catch students doing positive things are in the areas of kindness or with the c and CMS of compassion the m in CMS is motivation and the s in CMS is self-awareness and we really go deep in teaching lessons on compassion motivation and self-awareness in our advisory program um and we really go deep in sixth grade with the c compassion deep in seventh grade with

the motivation the m and Really deep in fact we're going so deep this year we are rethinking and reimagining our parent teacher conferences in the area of self-awareness and their student Le conferences for the first time um so this is how we're extending in year three our PBIS and making sure that when students um are caught in these areas we faculty and staff that just aren't catching students when they make a poor choice we're catching students when They're making good choices and we're awarding them and focusing and putting attention on them so they can be

models for their peers we just want to do a quick interaction um we want the school committee members to think of a moment um in their day today where maybe they were acting with compassion motivation or self-awareness and we have five school store gift cards that we're going to give out and we're hoping you will visit Conquered middle school and our Panther Pro Shop name of which came from um a huge tournament we had in advisory where all these different ideas for names of our school store was dwindled down to Panther Pro Shop so um

who would like to go first we have five gift cards to give up I want to get a gift card anyone yes um just this past fall I started volunteering um in an organization called the community closet um that is Something organized by the conquer carel Foundation I think it's called now um and it's a free store where you can come and get clothes boots coats shoes if you're in need of those things um so it has been a real joy for me I've um and I there are some rules there and I've been reprimanded

a couple times because I show compassion by bending the rules and letting people take sometimes more than they're technically supposed to so um and I did that again today um so um Anyway that is um wonder my compassion for the week to give Miss Anderson a Panther Pro Shop gift shop a gift card do you want to do it on yeah go for it just walk up and give her thank you so much awesome would like to go next all day every day in your life this we'll do one for each letter motivation aess here

we go so um today I did a presentation for kids from kindergarten to fourth grade at a small school about Around safety and we had a coloring contest and one of the students I think if she was in the second grade was like struggling and didn't really want to be a part of the contest because she didn't feel confident in her um in her drawing or coloring so um I picked her like you know I was one of the judges so I picked her as one of our winners just because you know just to motivate

her a little bit motivation who would like to give Miss lton school store Panther Pro Shop Gift card teachers are a little bit more like here you go colen you want to do it no okay she's nice you just want to put it on the table and we can pass it down I can pass it down yeah oh good idea go job s self-awareness this is the one the eighth graders sometimes in the beginning of the year are like what the does that exactly mean that's hard one I can do one I think I can

do one no you Go Brian please all right this one's kind of pretty minor but so I have a sixth grader at home she goes to car and now that we're in need a mic now that we're into for the record of course really important um into October timeliness in the morning is a bit of a struggle um and it usually results that we actually have an intercom system in our house that we still use and Buzz up and come on and today I was like You know what I'm going to be a bit more

uh relaxed about this still need to get her out the door but um in a more calm Manner and it actually changed the way the morning went so it was me saying nice I will be more patient today very nice good area self- awareness you're aware of how you were making others feel which is a big part of what we talk about in both the connections program and in eighth grade as well all right I promise this is the last one we're going To give out who wants to hand it over or just put it

on the table here goes Holden much great job what questions do you have of the students who run our Panther Pro Shop I have a question um what do you sell in the Panther Pro Shop good question so we uh sell like um sweatshirt shirts hats um car magnets um snacks nice that's like almost all our drink Yeah what's your best snack it's the best snack what's the best snack the hottest Sal that's what I'm going to come and get Izzy okay there you go the Izzy drinks yeah and where is where's the store located

right now right now right now uh it's in the entrance oh which building Sor which is where our after school programs primarily held so that's where We are right now what are the hours for the pro it's uh Tuesday and Thursday till like 3:30 not that pass your down do you enjoy working in the school store what do you like about it everything everything really fun yes that's great what's the most popular item do you think the snacks sensing a trend middle schoolers any last question Owen looks like he's ready all right how much does

Like a sweatshirt cost like how like how many of those cards would you need to buy a sweatshirt or a snack right we didn't even share how the cards work probably 150 okay I don't know if I heard him each card is varies it could be 25 cents 50 cents or a dollar and our sweatshirts are about 20 so you might 20 to save up for that yeah great you did find it important that um so it's really just a QR code um the students though that work the school store um they convinced us to

actually get a scanner um that just reads a QR code and we do have uh there are items for 25 cents so if a student presents themselves very proud of themselves for having this they're going to walk away with something yeah um y that's great what a great initiative congratulations thank you thanks for all of your hard work yeah D and thank you for coming into this room full of adults I know it's not easy and getting up and speaking we love hearing from you so thank thank you so much for coming we practiced seventh

period and we knocked it out wonderful this is great thank you so much everybody thank you Guardians have a good night okay so we're gonna move on to the next part of the meeting public comment um as a reminder our public comment period Will be period of 20 minutes as a reminder this is a meeting in the public and not with the public so the school committee will not be responding to any comments if you are in the room and you would like to speak you can submit a blue form to me I already have

a couple up here um and you will be called to speak if you are on Zoom you can use the raiseed hand feature when called to speak please state your name and address before you speak we will go every other Starting with comments in the room and then take a comment on Zoom back and forth and you have a time limit of three minutes so I'm going to start with the first one I have in the room so Michael Williams oh oh we had a late arrival can we just make a Qui intruction this is

Anthony um he is part of our school store as well um they were actually rushing back Believe It or Not irony has it from our own cross country welcome Anthony thank you Wonderful thank you yeah that's great Michael Williams 1284 Sudbury Road I quote urbs far our super superintendent words from page four of the executive summary of the 2022 I quote excerpts from our superintendent's words from page four of the executive summary of the 2022 2027 diversity Equity inclusion belonging and anti-racism strategic plan you can find this on the Dei tab of the congre public

schools website and I quote we must be Active listeners creating safe environments for difficult conversations we must all be willing to self-reflect and change we must make efforts for constructive and collaborative dialogue rather than words that injure harm and divide we must want every child to feel safe connected and supported by the school Community she goes on to say we have shown what trusting relationships can create under very difficult circumstances I have Great faith in what this community can accomplish together to better serve each child the dialogue the superintendent and I have initiated has been

quite constructive however I'm directly aware of significant concerns voiced by the Medco ptg regarding metco director turnover and management along with concerns from our local communities organized Against Racism and racial Justice Action Group with my friends and neighbors gathered Here tonight I stand in support of the issues raised by the medal PGG and the local groups I've noted mindful of our superintendent's words I respectfully asked that these issues not only be heard and understood but they also be appropriately addressed thank you thanks Mike do we have anything on zoom two on Zoom see the sorry

I have to promote them give us a second I don't see them I'm sorry promote go from There Katy Katy uh can you name your uh give your first and last name and your address online you speak up promote them yet we go looking for Katie this is the first one that came up she's declining to be promoted oh okay okay so then let's move to to AIA hello and good evening my name is Akia oboss I'm a Boston parent I'm here to express my concerns regarding the Structure and Leadership of the Meco program in

the email dated September 277 Lori Hunter stated that having the Meco program report to the deib director has been a significant positive due to the alignment of the roles purpose however it is crucial that we have clear understanding of the quantitative evidence supporting her claims we have witnessed three Meco directors resign under conquer's current leadership within just three years this turnover is Unaccept unacceptable and not a sustainable model for our students notably among the 33 districts in Massachusetts only two other districts have their Meco directors reporting to someone other than the superintendent or assistant superintendent

conquer's Meco program and more importantly our children deserve dedicated leadership focused on their academic success Meco is a unique program with specific needs that require direct oversight it is Essential for the school committee to leverage data in measuring the success of the Meco program in its current structure key metrics should include academic achievement College acceptance rates participation in honors and ab courses involvement in sports and extracurricular activities ities Meco enrollment and the continuity of Meco leadership these metrics should be assessed over time and more importantly these are the metrics that our future Meco director should

be focused on improving through strategic initiatives and strong partnership with mecco parents in the conquered community so why am I here I am here to ask the school committee on proposing that the new Meco director set to be hired in the upcoming year oversee the entire K through2 conquered Meco program this role should not be held by the current deib director and should report directly into the Superintendent or the assistant superintendent more importantly this change would not replace the existing staff but would enhance the program's leadership thank you for your attention to this matter thank

you AIA all right we move to the next one in the room we have Elizabeth Frank you do it yeah take it off yeah sure hi um is it on yes you're good to go Elizabeth Frank um 1283 Elm Street so um yeah I'm here Just to talk about um my concern about the staff turnover um for the Meco director position um echoing what AIA shared um it's really concerning that there's been three directors who've resigned within three years and it strikes that that lack of stability and that the kids have not had a consistent

Advocate who are in the program um and I would encourage the superintendent and the school committee to look into what systemic issues could be at work I think If this was happening at any program in the district we would pay attention and and want to be curious about that um I'm wondering if there's been exit interviews with the um directors to find out if there were concerns or issues um just ways to be so we could um change and make changes going forward um and um it does seem like it's important for the director to

have authority over the budget and the program as a whole um if they don't have Authority over the budget they're really hamstrung and can't really do the initiatives that they want to do um and I I really feel strongly that our Boston students just like the students the rest of the students here in conquer deserve consistent and empowered leadership and I encourage you all to make that happen thanks thank you do you have any more online no okay all right that concludes the public comment so we're going to move uh next To the consent agenda

I have one item for you to note the um very first warrant for the region 1073 should be $525 it's listed at 252 it had been um incorrectly executed and has been revised okay so just want to ask you to change that I'll make a motion I move that we um ex approve the consent agenda as written with the one adjustment Of um warrant 1073 dated 10124 instead of it being $252 it would be5 $25 second all in favor I great um we'll move on to correspondence um from the region we had um Couple come

in one was just confirming that the website was correct as to who is in Attendance or who sorry who sits here um including the Mecha representative so um we confirm that um we had another question come in about U dropping off of Zoom we've responded to that I think that's everything from the region nothing into CPS okay great okay so we're gonna move on to the superintendent chairs in liaison update um why don't we start with you Dr Hunter great thank you I have just a few updates tonight uh a week ago Saturday Justin Sparks

and I were able to meet with the conquered preservation committee um and we uh talk about the grant that we submitted for the thorough campus project um it was a really positive meeting a lot of great questions we are set to present to them formally on October 29th um and to do the pro you know do the information a little more formally whereas when you're walking around it's a lot less formal but I think we're off to a great Conversation with them uh we are actively pursuing a number of other grants we're grateful for all

of shelle's work des's got some additional competitive grants up we've had some success over the the last year so we're looking at those we've also spotted a couple other um smaller grants Emerson H hospital has one up now so we're really trying to tap as many Revenue sources as possible and of course best grant writing is when the initiatives you're Already working on fit the grant def definitions and we're seeing a lot of correlation there which I think is also very validating in many cases um it's amazing the progress at the new school um I

was able to walk through a week and a half ago can't wait to get back out there next week it it's drywall and paint and the building coming to life the lights are on the auditorium's drywalled and painted it's really quite something so a lot of positive energy There a lot of work to be done as we really look at the move Logistics and all that that's going to enumber and entail and I'm just going to keep saying the schedule is very very tight um but a lot of great momentum and activity going out on

that construction site um and lastly we're in a week or so a little longer maybe I'm about to launch a new District web page it's been a two-year project building behind the scenes if you try to find anything on the current One it's dense and cumbersome on a good day um so we're excited for a clean slate while we preserve the important information but I think everyone from parents to community to students to staff is going to find it a lot more accessible and usable um so excited for that and we'll be sure to notify

you when the official live launch happens aome that's great thank you Tracy do you want to go next with your updates um I went to the select board meeting last Night I am there leaon we were on there in a couple different spots so I want to just report on where we kind of intersect with the schools um Megan zuno presented about the disposition of the pbd school so they are requesting a an appraisal of the three Parcels of land so it's the school the fields and the septic system for lack of a better Tero

I don't really know what to call that thir parcel so they're going to go out for appraisals and see kind of what they Can do with the land um we had also talked at our joint meeting about the letter of interest that Anthony suggested be sent out so they were trying to figure out the appraisal first then the letter of interest will go out to see who's interested in possibly developing that land um and I think the only other spot that we kind of intersected I'm just looking oh the financial audit committee which Cynthia's on

right Cynthia Brian you Guys are on that so they they did say we should I I'll actually let you update that because I'm sure I'll get that that wrong about the update from that meeting so we don't have the formal letter yet right so uh that'll have the good detail we can send around to the committee we did not we're going to meet tomorrow we are not which uh the chair presented her letter okay uh summarizing the findings of the um auditor my corre name um but I don't Think I mean Brian could correct me

if I'm wrong there was no significant findings of any kind in the audit of the region so um but we'll send the letter around microphone oh it's coming out for you sorry we'll send the letter around I'm not sure when we're going to meet next uh we're not clear on that so um with the next month but yeah and I don't think there was anything else where we really intersected there um except for their December 2nd meeting they're Hoping to discuss the roles of Le bons so I know that that's been something that we've been

looking to discuss too so it's just helpful that that's all going to happen at the same time um and then the Dai commission is meeting tomorrow night at 7 uh at the townhouse and in person awesome or on on Zoom sorry house and zoom great and I was gonna ask about we'll talk about the finance committee during our budget update so Right I don't really with them that's what with them they haven't met right uh well they met a couple weeks ago and I thought the only thing that was interesting is um in their in

their discussion of MCI it seemed like there was um some discussion about how depending on how MCI is developed it could really positively impact the town um or really negatively impact the town and then additionally I was listening to your um panel with the league and people Were talking about how the increased housing say might affect the schools and just one of the things that I thought about was that it was a little odd that the school committee doesn't have representation on the MCI committee given that so much I don't know I just think from

a sound perspective sometimes they forget about us and don't appoint us to some things that might be worth having a seat at the table and just given the context of the way the finance Committee was talking about it it just sort of struck me as that might be something we would want to talk about having a more formal role in especially if the development is going to really impact us in a significant way yeah and they did talk about last night I I I missed one of the numbers but um there are 200 plus units

going in at Novo 200 plus at the row the throw Club the throw Club site 82 units at Junction Village and five other units that are Going to come online and then there's another um housing going up at Main Street and route two so that's before MCI that's before MCI so i s too yeah 2229 so so I think there's a there's a lot of discussion that probably we should have representation on if we can get there because all of those units are going to affect the schools y yeah that's good Brian any we have

our meeting this week but yeah just a quick update so um I've had a chance to Connect with our leaz on for the carile um inom as well as carile select board um those two committees are actually meeting in about 27 minutes to talk about the budget planning for this year Capital planning through um fiscal year 30 as well um so while I'm not obviously at that meeting tonight um some of us have a meeting with them tomorrow so Bob Lori Julie and I will be meeting with the two Liaisons just to kind of reflect

on last year and start to Prepare for what's coming it's great any other committees we missed K you want to start with our chair's update yeah sure so um Alexa alluded to this we um Julie and I sat down at the League of Women Voters first fall meeting uh last Thursday is that last week um and it was with the chair of fincom chair of um the select board 2229 and um Wen Pond commission and we everyone kind of gave an update on what has been happening over the last six Months and where things are

heading in the next year so um we talked a lot about our goals um that we had we are planning on voting on tonight and um answered a couple of questions about various topics but it was a great great event and it's always nice to be in the good one for him that's great so that's one the um can I just ask a question do they include carile select board and Carlile F comma as part of that no they should though because it's car leg Women Voters both yeah it's it's the conquered town government committee

that SP so we do have this sponsors it we don't really have an AC of carow we'll work on it yeah I hear you we'll get it gone that's a good point um so Tracy Alexa and I are tasked with um the story of the school we talked about delaying that until janary I'm not tasked with that Tracy Lori and I yes you were justed going to join us too Didn't you offer to join us too on that yeah think as well oh I totally missed oh both of you actually can no you can't no

only one really can yeah I think I said sort of uh as needed great so and Brian not Alexa Lor um anyway we are pushing it off until January to focus this fall on the budget and um so we will start in Earnest the idea is to have something tangible for town meeting um and then we would obviously distribute it Electronically um elsewhere so um the thorough playground committee meets every Friday they are full of energy have a lot of ideas on um supplemental fundraising to um you know curb the cost of that project so

exciting to see that project move forward and um we have the p2g meeting tomorrow so if anyone has anything for that group let us know yeah yeah the only things I would add is the um I cannot emphas enough the the goals so Even some of the things that came up in public comment when we go through the goals later on you'll see some of those things uh rise up so thank you to Domingos and Aisha as well so we um have started a weekly Cadence of connecting uh just this past week so that's one

one piece bi-weekly thank you it's hard to keep track of everything um and then in addition to that I think just reemphasizing the connection with fincom this week um that we have so we have Carlile tomorrow and then with conquered on Friday um and just we'll get into a bit more on the on the budget in a little bit but just trying to stay ahead of everything in addition to the capital planning that we're doing collaboratively so uh no shortage of things happening um looking forward to those conversations um but in the meantime let's move

on to the discussion I see we have some guests in the room um so why Don't we move on to the yrbs results uh youth youth risk behavior survey um and so Lori shared the report in advance with us but we have two Representatives Allison nowiki the guidance chair as well as Christina Johnson The Wellness coordinator why don't you all come on up Brian Miller's here too from the high school and then we have Middle School presentation as well nice to see you again come on up come on up come on Up introduce the middle

school yeah so Mr Cameron's still here and Megan our health teacher is also here um just as they're getting settled there's a lot of data in the yrbs results from this past spring the entirety of the data is posted on the web page it's also linked in one within the slides that are attached to the agenda if people want to dig in um they're going to highlight selections and highlights of the data um because it's too much for one night sure But I think you'll find a really great conversation ahead and um they're really here

to talk with you not at you so let's make it interactive Megan I apologize to saw you in the hallway and I I missed introducing you my apologies so Mr Miller's running the slides thank you so we're alternating between the two schools so that we can make our way through strengths areas of growth and then next steps or needs or do we want to talk on each slide or I Think through all the slides and then I think let's talk on each one because they the topics change as you go yeah great so let's we'll

kick it over to you folks I think we're starting with the Middle School yep so the way this is organized is we're going to talk about strengths at the middle school and then we're going to hop right over to strengths 9 through 12 as well um so here are three areas of strength or growth that um the Data suggests that we made at the middle school one of them is less stress in stressful situations connected to school um significant decrease in self harm and depression and significant decreases in thoughts of suicide um and you see

our growth in all of those um in those screen grabs does anyone have any questions on those before we move on just I think great work I mean there really big improvements cannot be Underscored hi I'm Christina Johnson I'm the wellness coordinator and a school psychologist at the high school my first time here so thank you for welcoming me um so you know with this slide we do have so many strengths at the high school we have poured a lot of energy effort thought into improving our supports for our students um and we when we

saw the results from the yrbs you know we really saw a reflection of what We've been doing which was nice um in terms of belonging um 92% of students report that they have a sense of belonging at the high school and uh that's up from 91% in 2022 and also um 92% of students report that they have a trusted adult at school and that's up from 87% in 2022 and this is a subject that we're continuing to to work on and and strive to improve on but um it's nice to see that you know we're

our efforts are Are on the right we're on the right path um in terms of adult support at school 72% of students report that they feel supported by adults at the school and that is up from 68% in 2022 looking at you know depression self harm suicidal ideation these are topics I think that are hard to talk about hard to ask about you know it it's a difficult matter um but it's necessary that we do it and so from these results we see that rates of reported depression Are down from 27% to 14% rates of

self harm are down from 20% to 12% that's amazing like can you just pause there for like that those two stats are so incredible it's really incredible it it it is and I think it takes our whole you know it takes the whole community and and connections with with students um and also I think students helping each other and also talking to adults in the school um I Think the car's point though just really quickly just I think one of the if I did my math correct I think for every percentage point of improvement it

impacts 13 kids so when I hear that like it's really moving when we're talking about statistics around like wellness and depression and suicide like that is great great work and it's so impactful so I I agree with you yeah and I think we've been working you know certainly I think our like all of our staff members Have or work to have those close connections with students but also I think universally you know what are we doing as a school as a a whole culture within our building to promote you know promote General Wellness and and

education among everyone and then really targeting more effort and more energy with those that really need support yeah from both like a data perspective and sort of anecdotally what you all observe because you're in there it seemed like Data indicated in the in the Years approaching 2020 that um all of these sort of negative um feelings with kids just specifically around anxiety and depression we're on an upward trajectory obviously we know the data supports that in 20 20 it sort of supercharged that um so and in some ways so like I guess my question is

if you take out the 2020 supercharge and you look at what was the still troubling an upward trajectory do you find that this data and what you see In schools do you feel like that's leveling or coming down or just sort of returning to that normal somewhat crappy up upward trajectory and I ask that not to lead you because I see anecdotally a big change in the kids that are around me in my house like wherever I am um and I don't know if that's anecdotal to me or if you're seeing that in a bigger

more macro kind of way um I think I need to go back and Look at some of more data from before yeah last time we didn't do this in 2020 because of the shutdown the last time was 2018 I want to see a little more data to see what that actually looked like I mean we were very I remember 2019 was the year yeah that um a group of us um La remembers as we had that a grant from the state where we were meeting with for five school districts people from Emerson Hospital people from

Advocates people from Elliott um and someone from brigh and we were all talking about this problem we were just one of the stats that we were told was that um the number of hospitalizations had doubled in 10 years so we I haven't heard any new data about that um so I I'm curious to know more right like to find out a little bit more I was surprised by these numbers um like happily surprised yeah of course not in a bad way I was happily surprised um because I think sometimes in in our role As a

psychologist and a counselor often we can get stuck in the the yucky right like we get a lot of kids who are like we're really helping those really hard the really hard cases um so it's sometimes harder for us to see the bigger picture sometimes but um I'm curious to know I mean I think it's wor looking into yeah I've honestly seen a dramatic shift in the culture and the climate um 6 through 12 um a lot I think has to do with the work that we did in 201617 partnering with challenge success um and

then adopting initiatives like advisory and you know I remember coming to The District in 2017 and just asking why you know why are we looking to do advisory and uh the teachers who are leading that initiative just said we need to provide space for kids just to have fun now I see that up at the high school with their fun fridays I see an opportunity for kids just to be kids and you know kid's even 17 and 16 years old And there just seems to be a shift there was a competitive um scol Scholastic um

focus that was very heavy I felt like I came this District that I think has lightened the kids that are speaking to totally fortunate I have a lot of CC kids come visit us um down at the middle school and they share that as well awesome and I think recently too we've been giving like a lot of time and space for students to voice themselves um that's Really important to us you know at least speaking for the high school and when they do you know they can say we need this and we would know that

otherwise um so we can really focus in our our work to has Flex blocks been able to facil facilitate and enhance that like is that where you're doing it yeah we yeah we're ahead to our last slide but um yes I think I truly believe that flexb has had a major impact on our our student population and their wellness and what They need I mean they're able to get extra help during the school day in a block that's dedicated for that or to you know go to the gym and shoot basketballs because that's what they

need to do um so I think it's made a big difference that's great it's hard to know exactly what that you know that never is like I think we all felt it last year there was just this like release of like that's really so helpful and I think we've tried like a lot all At once so it's hard to say like this has helped the specific thing but but Al together I think there is Improvement so that's something um and then oh oh I know then I have to go to this one we were on

such an uplifting but rates of uh suicidal ideation is also down uh 12% to 6% uh and then in terms of you know we think about resilience right can students feel like they can handle Challenges that come to them uh repeatedly like are they equipped to manage it um and then from the yrbs you know they say that um you know students are saying that they have do they have a hard time making uh making it through stressful situations and that is also down from 37% to 31% for me it's always a work in progress

I want to work on resilience but this is good so we're we're we're getting there um in terms of homework uh You know our students are busy right either with after school activities they're busy during the day perhaps they commute home um so hours of homework when we look at that you know those that are doing three or more hours of homework per night is down from 47% to 40% and there's been that's been intentional in the high school you know in terms of teachers uh focus in school you know rates of losing focus in

school due to phone use is down uh from 6% to 3% again that's their intentional policies that maybe kids are not too keen on um but you know it helps them learn and they will feel good about that right maybe we hope uh but the you know those those are just generally the the areas of growth that we saw from this survey and just so people know we were we also looked at the aggregate so we were sent another summary of findings of all of the districts that were doing this and across the board our

numbers Are very similar and there was a time when our stress numbers were way higher than the Aggregate and it's so nice to see that they've come down to where the aggregate is that's great all right areas of growth hi my name is Megan Laughlin I am the seventh grade health teacher teacher at conquered middle school and I'm going to speak a little bit about what we identified as being some of our areas where there is an opportunity for Improvement in students um health and well-being um if you look at the screenshot at the top

this shows that students in both Sixth and eth grade have um experienced a slight increase in bullying at school um from the year 2020 to 2022 to 2024 on the bottom right is an image that breaks down some of the ways in which um people who are students who are transgender students who identify as non-binary um and students who identify With aexuality other than heterosexuality um show increased rate um rates of not feeling as though they belong at school um they are more likely to have been both IED sexually harassed depressed um to engage in

self Haring behaviors um and to consider suicide moving on to um the third bottom left image this shows that um we have a number of students in sixth grade and in eth grade who um if we were to think about 62 to 61% Of sixth graders uh in 2024 do feel that they would be helped by adults at school um in 8th grade we see lower percentages of students feeling as though um they would receive the help that they need if they were experiencing bullying at school I I started talking before and I didn't introduce

myself I'm Alison nowiki chair of the guidance department at the high school um so um some areas of growth for us so Um we did oh actually we didn't mention this but um the number of students that have been reporting high or very high levels of stress has gone down it went down from 64% to 61% um but it's still over 60% it is similar to the aggregate too so we're sort of like right and and I think we've all acknowledge that school is what adolescents do and it's going to be stressful and so we

as a group have to think about what is the healthy struggle Where is the healthy stress what is too much stress so it's something we'll continue to talk about um I was encouraged to see that the numbers have gone down and that we're similar to the aggregate as I mentioned before um while our numbers regarding um suicide consideration are down those who do consider it have a high rate of making a plan and following through um and here we actually are higher than the aggregate which is an interesting Statistic so of those that um um

consider suicide 53% make a plan as opposed to 49% of the Aggregate and 55% of those make a plan follow through versus 41% of the aggregate um we don't really have an answer for that one um just something for us to just to continue to work on and talk with kids and make sure that they're asking for help when they need it and we'll sort of continue to have those Conversations with students and staff and one of the things we are going to also do is um uh do a staff training about um signs to

look for how how they can help um so we'll be doing that um do you need any help do you need sorry over here do you need anything from from us or anything I don't think so um so uh one of our school adjustment counselors Dan Simone and I were both trained in the youth Mental Health First Aid curriculum it's very hard to put into Motion it's a long PD for people to do and it was really hard for us to get a lot of people to do it um but we both between that training

and our own sort of experience of doing similar trainings we've just sort of made up on the Fly for staff I think we're in good shape right now we just have to sort of plan it out and make sure we have the time um we're hoping that we can get some time in January when we have this like PD time for staff um because that was an Area it was an area that had come up in a different survey that staff felt like they might not that they don't have the skills at this point they

don't they wouldn't really know what to do do um we also saw that our marginalized populations um show a lot more vulnerability really across the board um they're showing especially for the lgbtq plus that sort of non-traditional gender identity students they are showing higher rates of depression self harm and Suicide consideration they're bullied at higher rates showing more stress um more than half of the lgbtq plus report that they have a hard time dealing with stressful events and that's as opposed to 28% of our population um another interesting stat I thought i' threw in there

was 37% of our females also are reporting higher stress than um sort of the average of the school and all of those students who report feeling more stress from school are more likely to Get less than six hours of sleep feel more pressure from home and are more likely to be depressed so just all compounds um we had 77% of our students reporting that they get less than seven hours of sleep per night it's similar to the aggregate it's just sort of we continue to struggle with that um we can't make them go to sleep

earlier we don't live with them but umow we hope we would like them to get more um because we know that you Know the more tired you are the the harder it is to deal with stress the the more depressed you might feel like that all it's sort of a snowball um a um odd but students sending or receiving sexually explicit messages is up from 15% to 20% um and those who engage Eng with one risky Behavior no matter what that is are really more likely to engage with other risky behaviors it's not a Surprise

but you know those who use ecigarettes are more likely to view pornography drink alcohol use marijuana send and receive sexually exposive messages and be more depressed Etc whe there any so I think we're moving to a place of um you know it was mentioned earlier the support that we're looking for um um have to be honest I'm putting together this slide if you gave me one school committee meeting I have one chance to ask something it would be This slide um no doubt about it so just want to thank all of you for your support

um what's not mentioned on the slide um is Megan the seventh grade health teacher um we have a sixth grade health teacher Maria McDermot who teaches our fact and um family and consumer science course but it is also a health course as well we also made a pretty dramatic shift last year of taking um a lot of these themes um that were being taught in seventh and eighth Grade health and bringing it down to six and seventh uh quite frankly eighth grade we felt that a lot of these things and a lot of these lessons

were getting to the kids too late um I saw that firsthand because kids were in my office um having broken some very significant rules and it's upon me to self-reflect and think you know where are we teaching this so Megan's hire um in Spring of 2022 202 23 um when she was hired she was told That we're shifting everything down to sixth and eighth grade so continued support of those curriculums um and then um these bullets as I'm putting them together a lot of these um I also feel like I have asked for continued support

over the years um in visiting the group um our Universal screeners um we're we're using Desa right now um for a social emotional Universal screener um all students 6 through eight take the universal Screener and we use that data it's not just data to say o you know we should be proud of ourselves in these areas and here are some areas we going to do better we use these to build intervention groups that all of our school psychologists our guidance counselors and our administrators are leading classes and that wasn't happening five years ago instead our

counselors and our school psychologists they were in off offices waiting for Students to come to them now we're going to them and we're using this data uh so a continued support um in those data Universal screeners um in our mtss emotional intervention classes called parent SSP again led by our guidance counselors our adjust counselors our school psychologists um a big bully prevention program as you all know is our Playbook initiative um where we focus on actual scenarios of bullying and harm done this Year we're actually looking at scenarios that have recently be done in other

school districts um and the kids are asking whether or not we should be using those um to really feel connected to harm done in other districts um then continued support of our bias incident reporting form where most schools adopted this um tool for students this past spring we've had it at the conquered middle school for three years um and we've had multiple student Assemblies really giving them access to that agency and using um this um bias incident reporting form if they have harm done to themselves or they're witnessed of harm um as you saw earlier

this evening continued support of our positive behavioral incentive supports or systems which is PBIS uh continued support of our advisory program Homebase where we deliver a lot of this Curriculum um and finally um more professional development in for teachers and staff and supporting the lgbtq plus population uh for training and assemblies for students um in this population questions that might be Middle School folks Focus one question sorry go ahead oh I have a question um sorry in terms of programming what do you think has had the biggest impact like when you're talking about anxiety depression

Suicidal ideation what programs that you're doing in the Middle School do you think have had the largest impact and do you need more resources from us um I can speak a bit about what the seventh grade health curriculum entails with regards to uh addressing student mental health um anxiety and depression so um each year we have a stress and coping strategies unit during which we do address what is the difference between um day-to-day stress and the Need to practice healthy coping strategies versus what could be some indicators that a student is experiencing anxiety or depression

and we use that as an opportunity to discuss who in the building students could go to um if they have concerns about themselves or about a friend great um Justin would you have more information about uh screening for depression and suicide risk yep that's part of our Desa uh Desa Universal Screener that again all take all students take um every trimester that and again that data feeds into those intervention groups that students are not just placed in a lunch group like maybe some other schools are placed in the class that meets every other day before

months and again the license of the school psychologist or the adjustment counsel the guidance counsel leading those classes when I hear program I also hear initiative School Princi me here's an initiative um you know and I think of our home base which was homegrown by Stu by teachers teachers LED that um just a continuation and support of that um make no mistake about it we're about to fix um what has been fundamentally broken for decades in conquer middle school and that's a two building model um most important to me in these screeners is kids feeling

connected to adults um and when they arrived to the Middle School the way Rec Reconfigured the middle school has them making connections for one year and then the kids leave that connection to go to the next building it's me the music teachers are there familiar faces this time of year so if you were to survey all my seventh graders who what middle school would want their seventh graders feel like adults our data is not good because of the two Building Law so we're about to fix something that home base um has really um brought to

us and I think We're about to see our numbers really go up in the area of kids feeling connected to adults so support and our advisor awesome a great point point one of the my my only question was on the professional development can you talk a little bit about the last bullet like what does that entail and are there like Are there specific programs that specific trainings you're supposed you're suggesting or hoping to bring in yeah we've been partnered with um Lori I'm forgetting the actual group Jeff peralty is his name um schools um at

a des um at a desie the department of Elementary and secondary Ed um and he brought in it's now quietly gosh five years years ago um he brought in some professional development for the leadership team um and we really charged Jeff and bringing Jeff um in his professional development down to the schools um we need to bring that back um and we need he's awesome yes incredible Um and not only that he does such um such a powerful job in actually connecting with the students and finding ways to get the students um one year that

I worked with him he brought myself and some other students to a panel um and we presented um I think it was mlan hospital is where myself and some students just ended up it was myself and some GSA students um so I think retapping and relooking at um some resources that we've had in place that We just need to look at this data and say we need to bring back the Middle School in my working in a school is so important vulnerable communities you know you can that person a really good feel being with your

peers that's huge thank you uh since I now have a mic I just want to jump in and say there's so much information that is home not school related in here so I think It's critical and some of it's really good and I think parents should see it but some of the things you really don't have control sleep devices in bedrooms I mean I think and I made that mistake as a parent and I realize now it's a huge mistake um as much as you they beg you plead with you until their life is going

to be over if they don't have their device in their bedroom so um you know just and there's a lot of other stuff in there so I think it's critical that we Communicate to the families you know the great things we're doing and the things that we need to work on so um and as a reminder you were all very supportive if this was a student laptop this Powers down in just a few hours is not available to the students overnight that was us um demonstr at the middle school I was like that was us

demonstrating and modeling to our parents um that whatever device that is outside of their student laptop that they have should also power Power down or not be in that bedroom what time does it power down I know you've um yeah it's right now 11: um we do want to survey all of our parents um and caregivers to see if 11 feels too late does for me on the record it does for me I'll hear from my eighth grade home base tomorrow yes you will Cynthia kind of had my comment but I'd be curious if parents

took this exact survey especially at the middle School like what the results would show I do feel like a lot of these initiatives are great but you're kind of taking a lot of the responsibility I personally feel like should be on the parents in some in some instances so um maybe a future initiative is you know giving this exact survey to parents and te educating them on some of the Deltas great so um wanted to talk a little bit about some of the resources and sort of Some of the things that we thank you some

of the things that we have implemented already and some new things that are coming up this year so um we have had some mental health speakers over the years last year we brought in somebody from minding your mind um this year we actually have um Nick Tucker coming who um came two years ago I think um and spoke to our 11th and 12th graders he's a really fabulous speaker he talks about um his his keynote is Called the key to resilience he speaks about his family trauma what he grew up with and how he was

able to Excel and he wants to teach some practical skills for kids um so that's Nick we also um I I did schedule a minding your mind um speaker uh but I then came across um this the next one who is Wes Woodson he this is kind of a funny connection um I talked with him and it turns out um he's from Sharon Massachusetts and his dadad was a conquered mecho alumni I was like This is just meant to be we have to get you here so we're working on this one right now but um

we're hoping that he's gonna come do um a a parent evening as well as um two Keynotes so he'll talk to the entire student body and then also offer some um targeted workshops for our bipo students um we're really excited about that we're we think we have the fun and we're just sort of working out the the last pieces but his um I think his keynote is called I have anxiety so What um we also have um we switched actually we did the Desa for the last few years but we've switched to Panorama this year

we're going to give that a try we're going to Pilot thatal screener uh we already did a a test drive with some smaller group of students and we're excited about the results we've seen so far so we're going to be think I finally got the ninth graders all in so we're going to do that um in the next week I think we'll get the ninth graders Screened um and then last year we were really lucky we uh partnered with cartwheel care we are partnering with them again um basic for those who don't know cartwheel is

a way for students uh to get virtual therapy very quickly they used to say within 10 days I don't give that timeline anymore because some of it depends on when the parents get back to them and there can be a little bit of a process in there but um their their goal is to give um young people sort of Shortterm counseling and then if they continue to need counseling then they would try to connect you with somebody outside of cartwheel they also offer parent guidance um so we've offered that to parents along the way and

they will also uh connect you with psychiatric um medicine if you need it um and then new this year they are going to be offering family therapy to those who they after they after they start to do the individual counseling they're going to Start layer in some other pieces and also staff um oh yes we yes staff we um we also have any staff member at conquered carel can reach out anonymously to cartwheel we won't know who they are to get virtual therapy as well not family members but staff members well y uh also the

high school um has several Partnerships with outside organizations uh because it's important that we don't operate in a bubble because we might be Thinking we're doing great things and then you know but it's it's it's important to have experts from outside of our district look at what we're doing and saying these are your rints and these are the things that you should work on and give us ideas um so we are working with the levinia group they help Educators um perform at their best and then students can perform at their best that's the idea right

they're working with the English Department the math Department science department English and math worked with them over the summer science is working with them over this year uh it's become clear that our marginalized students are are struggling the most so together they're all looking at the curriculum and pedagogy and just seeing how we can strive towards Equity because that's the vision uh the high school we also work with challenge success and the Jed Foundation both organizations have you know we've taken Or our population students and staff have taken surveys with them looking at school climate

culture mental health uh social emotional supports um you know and and also increasing student voice so really they've helped us assess where we are intervene given us ideas of interventions and then reassess um challenge success worked closely with our leadership team last year students joined us um it was quite a remarkable group we did a lot of great work Together we used their survey um before covid and I and this year challenge success is surveying the students next week next week yep okay next week we are serving the students again um you know in speaking

with Brian earlier you know you were saying that there's really longitudinal data there you know to look at what was said before how we're doing right now so um yeah to say that we're we're utilizing outside supports to help us as Well um and then thinking about just general student supports you know with my position you know I started as the wellness coordinator last year um and I work with you know I lead the wellness committee um it's a really like really good group that works together we have a lot of fun and we put

a lot of things into action um and and our like Dr Hunter you've spoken about fun fridays I mean that's been seen that's part of our work um to kind of scaffold Connection the importance of play the importance of joy and um to see a lot of smiles um is pretty remarkable and to have that balance between the work and the play and have both be important because I think they do complement one another um and also Lenny learning is curriculum seen through our um health and fitness Department you know with our students really destigmatizing

mental health learning about mental health talking About it um help seeking behaviors so a lot of the students are are being educated um just so you know the brain health boot camp that was started by oh my gosh family right um they've grown a lot um and my Flex learning yes we've talked about Flex blocks it's it's been pretty remarkable I think students and staff alike really see the benefit of it um whether students want academics or to decompress or to be creative um it's Been and just to have breathing space within the week rather

than them beond the constant hamster wheel um has been a huge positive shift um technology so last year we introduced phone caddies or was it last year the year before yeah last year last year phone caddies where students you know when they enter a classroom they have to put their phone in the caddy um so they can focus right focus on their their learning and that's just been Normalized now so they know they know what what to expect and this year what's new is that in terms of IM messenger it's turned off like they cannot

message one one another within the school hours um on the laptop on the laptop yeah when they put the phone in the caddy guess what they're pivoting to the laptop put the old phone that doesn't know there always loopholes we're trying we're trying I know it's but uh but yes um this is all to you know Place importance On learning and and to have everyone help everyone focus and um yeah yeah and I think you know this is not new but um the ninth grade academy model I think has had a really Major Impact on

the students transition to the high school um for me as a as a staff member who is part of a team I can very very easily say that I have never known my ninth graders so quickly and so well um and also using the flex blocks I have already met all of my ninth graders and I'm now starting to sort of see them individually as well um so that's been a real the nth grade academy model has been really just a great thing that we introduced and have slowly sort of added to um you know

it was one of those things we added during Co and we weren't sure how it was going to go but you know you know might as well just go with it um and I just wanted to highlight some of the stuff we've done in our in my department in the guidance and Counseling department so obviously we as counselors are resources to the students and families but we also connect them to resources outside of the school um we've been doing seminars in flexes throughout the year um sort of revising our our plan for this year but

the idea is instead of taking the kids free Block like their study hall we're using the flex block time to get through important information with them and to make connections with them right just to get To know them better um last year we pulled together an alumni panel we're going to do that again this year we had seven alumni come back and talk about their very winding path through life um just to sort of highlight the multiple paths to success um we also uh did a military Fair last year which was probably it was incredibly

well attended um and along we've been doing those sort of college information sessions as well During Flex blocks um we also have John Belmont who's a Community member his kids went through the high school he is a West Point grad and he's done a lot of he's just offered up his time left and right to talk to kids individually talk to families run groups just sort of get information out there we're actually going to do a webinar in November I finally got that one on the book so um he's going to do sort of an

overview of the military the options what you can do Um what the different roles are in the military and some new work that we're doing this year as a department is we are really thinking about how we can differentiate differentiate our work with our low-income first generation Andor bipac families as they are entering high school going through high school and thinking about post High School um so how so we're hopefully going to be working with somebody um to sort of help us think about that that Process um the final thing we just want to bring

up there's a little calendar down the bottom um we've done a lot of work over the years just sort of to support students one is um no homework weekends we have one every month um we just had one over kicks weekend um we do coordinated assessments so the week sort of there tend to be big weeks for assessments and um we say during those weeks Monday and Wednesday are these two departments Tuesday and Thursday are These two departments um that really helps the kids to not have too many things on the same day um and

we implemented reading periods so it's the two days before exams start teach teachers can't introduce new work it's really about time to like synthesize what you're doing make sure you understand what's going to happen next and on great awesome I mean I think you can hear we have volumes of data both Aggregate and Individual student there's obviously been a lot of intentionality at every level here to have this spectrum of things going on whether it's Services seal education changes in how we structure ourselves and the influence we have through those structures um we're really proud

of all this and there's still work to be done so yeah I I think my like biggest takeaway I look forward to this Presentation every year because I feel like I think you said something early on when I this my third year almost and um you said if like if students aren't mentally well they can't like it affects every aspect of their life they can't really show up as a student or an athlete they you have to address the person before you can address the you know academic side of kids and um I've paid attention

to that I had that in my mind as I think about over the years all Of these different presentations about all of the the wellness things that that you all are doing and I think this is what I'm hearing is that um through data like the yrbs through staff data through um like so many different data sources were discussed tonight about and all marrying all of that together to piece it to piece together a strategy to really affect kids and like no it's not perfect but there's still a lot of kids who are hurting and

we have to find them And you have to find them and help them um but the trend is going down and that is amazing to see on so many different levels so um I really commend you on all of these different initiatives and um efforts to help our kids be the best people that they can be said so I I just want to point out too when I think about I'm so grateful that you guys came here to talk at a really indepth level about what you're doing because for me the biggest Takeaway was like

holy moly is like not what I would normally say um this is this is a t like this is a tsunami of support that we have that is really really um thoughtful and intentional for all of the different types of kids that we have in our programs here and I it just even like a reminder to us that we always talk about well we want to see data so that we can um justifies the wrong word but sort of support what we're doing and support the Budgets that we're bringing to the taxpayers and when you

look at the data from the yrbs survey combined with the anecdotes that you all see in the buildings that you're sharing with us today this says to me that it'll it might never be enough but we are in fact supporting kids and the money that we are spending in this area which is such a new category of spending we weren't doing this you know 10 years ago um so it is a shock to the budget a little bit Because these are you know what we call drivers here um so so to show that we're seeing

some gains that are tangible and statistically relevant um I just think we should all remember that um as we approach these coming months so thank you guys yeah it it's important for us to see that yeah because we have to I'm just going to shout out when you write a strategic plan and mental well Wellness mental health all of that is one of four objectives and we live and breathe to of Those objectives it rows it right up to the top and you can see what's happened in the last six years of those priorities budgetary

time resources all of it coming together to really be a very comprehensive set of approaches yeah thank you guys forting and leading I do have one more thing because I'd be remiss um just just on two on two points one of them is professional one's personal so I think the first one is to Alexa's point and I think this is really Important especially before a budget conversation is I happen to work in healthcare and I happen to do a lot with mental health so I'm kind of a data nerd when it comes to this so

um I just double checked but the fiveyear compound annual growth rate for mental health drg codes which is what claims so when you go to the doctor claims F it's expected to be a 7% rise this is not going to C I think in a 10 year it's around 12% and that's for the the general population That doesn't even feed into the Adolescent so I think we just have to be really clear that that you've done some really great work but that does not mean that the storm is slowing um so I just want to

say that publicly I think it's really important for the public to understand that I think second on a personal de I would be remiss to it's funny I look at these this data all the time um I don't know if I'm get through this but being being a member of the Lgbtq um it's hard to hear it um I read it and I'm gonna I'm gonna fight through this because I think it's important for people to to see this it's really hard when you put the numbers um and there's kids involved um so thank you

um I really appreciate you supporting people that were like me and I think second um if there's anything that I can do I think it's important for kids to see it's it's hard but it does get easier even if I'm crying right now um because I think you you hear those numbers and you and you see those kids struggling it's really hard so I again I don't want to just pass this off and just be mindless to it I think it's um it's just it's really hard and I really appreciate what you do I mean

to Julie's point we can celebrate all these great things but every data point there is a child in suffering and we don't we we lose sleep over that every night so I don't want to skirt the severity and serious nature of The kids that are still struggling we've hospitalized too many kids this fall already kids have gone into crisis just with the return to school so it's great we can see growth it's great we have all the systems in place and there's still too much pain yep and you be me to the I was just

going to make a final pitch uh as a parent of a child who uh struggled uh was was rescued from probably drowning from teachers and coaches um it's it's still happening and I just don't want to see those kids drown yeah um so I you know it's just really important that we provide as much PD as possible to not only to you guys but to parents right because it needs to be a conversation um in all homes and All Families about being sure we do the right thing and with empathy so yes all said Cynthia

thank you thank you awesome well thank you appreciate thank you so much yeah thank you have a great night Thank you all right stupid ring door ring not a bud R I can't wait to talk about budget you and Andrew not just one but three all right I just say one other thing like it'd be great for parents to get this version of of kind of the presentation of the data like we're all data nerds around here love looking at it but I think when you hear their words It's just and and that's one part

that I think parents are and I'm one of them we're kind of failing at is is really participating in School parent type of whether it's a conference whether it's a professional development but like parent Ed has not come back from Co we're working on it to I mean we tried last year yeah we're working on a number of ideas to try to keep Gathering people there's been some real successes like the Middle School's run a really Powerful Series where the kids come with the adults um so we're trying to see where the the gains are

um shelle and I are talking with adult and Community aded who has taken over Center for parents and teachers for those of you who knew that group um again funding is the challenge and do we charge and all that so we're trying trying to figure out what the best fit for families is to reach them I mean I sat here every week I sit and wait for the Nugget of what I'm going to put in my Friday note I think this is it folks the data in front of parents share the slides the link to

the recording tonight I think very clearly we want parents to be aware yeah and I think synthesizing it in the way that we did so people really understand it I mean there's been we heard it during public comment there's a request for data we we all have asked for data for different from different pockets of the community and I think once we Understand it it we can it can be actionable and that's why I'm excited to get to the goals conversation because I think we've identified a lot of that where we can do it um

all right so moving into the the budget conversation um I think the the first thing we would we just want to start with um I don't think we have to wait for Carrie to come back um I just want to read a statement that we prepared regarding out of District placement costs um the school Committee typically does not comment on newspaper articles but there was some resar coverage in both the mosquito and the bridge that we want to provide some additional context to our ongoing budget discussion as we feel we need to provide more context

to give the the full picture of what is happening so we've received questions from families and other Town committees about the budget overage related to special education and out of District placements our priority Is to keep to keep all students in their Community Schools whenever possible with their friends their neighbors their siblings and we believe it's best for the students families in the community however there are instances when a student's needs surpass what we can provide in District and we are legally required to seek specialized Services which can be costly these decisions are made collaboratively

with a great deal of thought and always with the students Best best interest in mind this year's increased costs are primarily driven by Rising tuition rates at specialize schools and reduce State reimbursements these challenges are not unique to our district and are affecting many many communities across the state we want to emphasize that our budget decisions are made with careful consideration and while we plan for contingencies some costs related to student needs are not always predi predictable within a budget Cycle the school committee in partnership with Dr Hunter and her administrative team will continue to

prioritize transparency and collaboration as we work with finance committee leaders in both conquer and Carlile to address these challenges I do want to thank Bob conry and Dr Hunter for bringing this information to us early in the process so we can work collaboratively for this upcoming fiscal year and ensure we manage in the most Thoughtful and efficient way possible thank you I mean I just from the administrative side and the leadership side you know I got asked a couple of questions this week from parents of children with special needs of just like does this mean

we can never go out of District does this mean you can't afford it and it's going to be about the money and not my child of course not you're really fortunate here that we've got Such a spectrum of services in District now those didn't exist not that long ago but it's always about whether we can meet the child's needs here or not and money is not going to prohibit that um the law is very clear our well-being of kids is very clear that that is not how we we ride here um we have some reserves

so that was the other question I got asked well how are you going to pay for it and Frank I frankly just said it's not your worry how I pay for it um but We do still have Reserves um the main point of the discussion was we just didn't want any surprises it's a it's a trickier starting place for this budget and it is our job to tell the school committee that not in any way shape or form uh message anything to the parent Community or the you know needs of children or the staff that

things are any different than they always have been we're going to do right by the needs of the kids well said Yeah all right with that um we want to go into the end of year fiscal year 24 you get three fiscal years tonight cuz I know you're excited by that we can start with Z ready yeah should I project or I think so okay I'm not a panelist though I don't think oh I can make you one sorry about that it is cold in here right yeah chil yeah I always dress for this room

I know no right Yeah I know region right yeah we're going to do CPS later okay so um I'm sharing an update on the end of FY 24's uh Financial uh picture on the region um we are closed the years closed in the region um and so I've uh followed the format I did last year is um provide information kind of big picture on the general general fund where we landed versus our operating budget um and I'll Talk a little bit about uh excess and deficiency which ties into revenues and um you've heard end uh

reference before there's a section on revolving funds just uh it's questions that school committees are interested uh and communicate they're interested to see how certain key funds are doing so that's included here and then at the end I've uh have a report that I shared with you for the first time last year that kind of outlines all of the grants that We um obtained last year and um high level information on what they're used for so um I'll I'll jump in and um on the general fund I'm going to start off very high level and

then at the end of the report I have more detail on it um but we essentially spent all of our uh general fund budget we had a b unencumbered unspent balance of $740 at the end of fy2 24 um our initial budget was 37 milon 8198 and um with the school committee's Approval an additional 395,000 888 was authorized to help us pay for the exit costs uh of Minute Man nooba Health Group um which we had not budgeted for um so um our revised budget was 38206 986 and of that 740 was not spent and

I'll Circle go back to the general fund um at the end of this with a little bit more detail um e and is essentially uh the equivalent of free cash for a Regional School District um like a municipality's free Cash There's different limits um you our our permissible cap for end is 5% of our operating budget um in FY on June 30 2023 we were certified at a milion 776 766 which is 4.7% of the FY 24 budget so we're pretty close to the cap we anticipated that that would come down a bit this year

because we had used 395,000 essentially offsetting that in interest income um we didn't want to be Too um optimistic in our in our interest rate forecast but I think we were a little bit more pessimistic than need be and or actually our FY 25 budget reflects a little bit higher uh interest so this is not something that we'll experience to the same extent in fy2 um I will say this there's a risk in getting aggressive in Revenue budgets because if you don't meet a revenue budget you have to cut your spending you can't you can't

just not um you know it It it impacts programs and students if you do that so um but bottom line I guess I'm I'm forecasting that uh from from an end perspective there's other things that go into this there's other offsets but I'm forecasting that it will probably be fairly close to where we were last year at 4.7% which is a healthy balance and we were anticipating a significant draw down um and there's a full uh exercise we need to go through to get that completed and certified by The state but um I'm optimistic that

it's not going to be a large drop um um State and general uh state and federal Grant funds um I'm actually going to skip that that's that's the at the end of this but we do receive sources from um both state and federal Grant funds and I'll go through that next after I go through the revolving funds so the the key revolving funds at the high school are um Adult Ed Athletics school lunch circuit breaker you know we do have small things like a l books fund that has a couple thousand dollars in it I

don't think that's um necessarily the level of detail we want to be looking at um and so um circuit breaker um is what serves as a kind of an offset to um special education costs that are above um kind of typical levels um which is four times the state average uh per pupil cost and um in FY 24 we started with a balance of a little bit over a million our Revenue was a million six that included uh extraordinary relief from the state um our actual uh kind of core circuit breaker funds were a million

275 in change um and we received an additional 3 approximately 3 40,000 350,000 in uh extraordinary relief and circuit and uh Surplus relief and and that covers instances where you have kind of large increases beyond the norm And they give you extra relief to help offset that that was a um a budget saver for us you can see that we spent most of that money the expenses were a million 595 without that circuit breaker relief um would have been a challenge for us to navigate uh more of a challenge for us to navigate last year

um and the good news is that we end with a balance of a million 111,881 following year against Expenses um and we do budget to use um circuit breaker as a as kind of a relief to out of District expenses um and you'll see that when we go through the budget process this year so that's the that's the the main uh fund I wanted to point out the I guess the other funds I won't go into too much detail on um there is um I guess a healthy uh balance and school lunch um almost too

healthy we're supposed to kind of um maintain a certain level reserves and not much more And we're we're pretty close to that level but we do have things that we can spend on um Athletics you know we have um budgeted a little bit more in fy2 um we have um the balance has declined a bit over the last two years uh in previous years it had grown a bit um there's there are es and flows there um and that something we'll continue to to monitor uh some of the adult ed um decrease is due to

timing issues at the end of FY 23 We actually pulled in some revenues that related to FY 24 by um summer programs they started collecting the fees a little bit early so um there is a little bit of a draw down there but I think that will um resolve itself in fy2 um I've also um just reported to the amounts that we pulled in we spend every dollar that we pull in for non-resident tuitions and Facilities rental um but just for your information facilities revolved solving fund pulled in 54512 in FY 24 and the non-resident

tuitions was 80,500 um and those are for the non-resident tuitions are are supporting um staff in the pathways program and the facilities rentals uh covering um facilities maintenance costs uh opab is a um is a trust that's set up to fund post retirement benefits uh we have a very healthy balance there you can see that at the end of FY 23 uh we were 52% funded we Had 8.6 million in assets with a a liability U per our audit firm of 16.5 million um the FY 24 audit is done as part of our financial statement

audit so we don't have that yet but I can tell you that I've seen our investment earnings which were very favorable we had a million 356 in investment earnings um in addition we made a contribution of 425,000 that's in our budget that we make annually so our Balance at the end of fy4 is 10, 382 872 U that's almost a $1.8 million increase um we'll talk more about this during the budget process I it kind of puts us in a position where we're not quite there yet but we're getting close to having a funded open

P um which is fantastic it might provide us the opportunity to look at um whether we need to continue to fund that um in future years awesome Um the grants I'm not going to go through all of them they're there for your information um I did want to point out the ones highlighted in whatever color that is um mauve I don't know what it is um okay I don't know it's Pinker okay yeah these are all competitive grants so we're not guaranteed to get these um metco REI Grant uh the Financial literacy Grant um the

high quality instructional materials Grant seal these are all things uh most of these are things we were going to do anyways uh may maybe there's there's one that we you know maybe we maybe we can't in some cases but these are things we really wanted to do and finding a funding source for it was important and you know I think it's important for us to highlight this because um we do know there's Financial pressures and um we Think it's important to highlight that we do uh work to try to not put the burden on the

towns um when we can um and so you can see one of those was $70,000 um math uh new a new math program for middle school math um and then we know we've talked about youth risk behavior survey and um you know one of the grants is to support social seal and mental health um 45,000 in one district 15 and The other so these also align with our um with our strategic plan um so that's there as a reference and we'll continue to report this in future years the other thing is you can see the

um we're certainly uh grateful for the amount of funding we receive uh in support of uh the students that reside at the shelter um across well CPS is the bulk of it that's about 631 th000 we received and that's supporting um professional staff tutors um Contract Services um all sorts of things um that are critical for us to support those students uh last um item I have is just uh an overview of the general fund and I'm going to ask uh later that you uh vote to approve um budget transfers you approved preliminary transfers the

amounts have changed slightly um my commentary on what's driving these adjustments is slightly changed if if there were some changes but um most of this I've gone through at the last Meeting um I don't think I necessarily going to go through it again unless there's questions on the transfers and I've kind of put explanations for what the key drivers are pretty straightforward got it I love these memos just for the record yeah I really like them yeah just so clear thank you Bob I'm curious why we didn't mention chapter funding Chapter 70 71 um within

the end I that's something I thought about whether to report revenues separately um that's something I could do uh next year but the revenues are overall fairly close to budget the one big exception was the one I pointed out which was the interest income um we have chapter 7s up a little bit chapter 74 which is transportation is down a bit um and so some of those offset um you know but if that's something people are interested in I could um I could just do a revenue Summary as well on the revolving funds Do you

have a minimum like unofficial that you keep in each category or is it um can you restate the question little in your revolving funds yeah do you have a minimum you have four categories like athletic like do you have a minimum you like to keep in there at any given time or is it we have Mery of the budget we have well we have a lot of funds a lot of different small funds Once they've been created they're there um some of them have small balances like we could just try to spend them down so

we're not holding accounts with a couple hundred dollars in them um but the ones that come to mind are like a Lost Books account um there's uh a couple other small ones like that um we also have some small donation accounts as well um some specifically for certain subjects um so there's those are things that you'll approve typically in the school Committee meeting um if their donation um we typically try to spend those down uh quickly but in some cas um they might linger in the big ones that he reported there's best practice attached to

almost all of them adult and Community Ed is self-funding so the goal there is we keep the cash flow in the black but not make too much money um Athletics is going to be a bigger discussion as we go as to how much we're trying to manage in that athletic Account versus the cost of the Athletics school lunch you want three operating months in the year just best practice according to desie and circuit breaker you're always trying to carry a year over yeah okay so it it's account by account yeah yeah thank you that was

I think guess I didn't follow I maybe I didn't an ass it that's okay no no that makes a lot of sense and and I'm guessing of the this is maybe dumb but like of 2024 funding You can only carry over certain categories of funding to 2025 we can carry over Revol most revolving funds you can carry over um in full yeah circuit breaker you can't um circuit breaker you can only carry over the prior year Revenue um you cannot car when I told you we received a million six in circuit breaker the extraordinary relief

piece you have to spend in the year so that had to be spent in 24 but the rest of the circuit breaker can Carry over got it um that that's the one that I tend to focus on the most that we want to have a safety net because we don't have a special ed stabilization fund okay um I think that's yeah perfect region you want to move on to the budget uh FIS year 26 timeline I just have a little bit of a question so sure we usually have a to to vote the year I

know you mentioned it the the transfers right yeah the close out the fiscal year And I see we have a vote to do that but based on not the real transfers like we don't we're not seeing the final like document with all the transfers this is the the summary just a summary but I don't feel comfortable voting on The transfers we don't see really the transfers isn't this what we usually see we usually see a a sheet with the finals you know like where the money's moved around from The I'm not sure I follow but

like this is what we I've been presenting quarterly and this is what the right so the quarterly right so you know what I'm saying the hund Thousand the full year versus just for the quarter this is the full year so this is this is the what I presenting what I've been presenting quarterly is um year to date q1 year to date Q2 year to date Q3 year to date Q4 so you're always seeing cumulative data for the year right so do we see Q4 by Itself I would have to take this and subtract it from

the Q3 report like that would be the how has this changed from Q so I could just would take the the transfers column and um whatever I presented Q3 it would just be the difference between the two well Q4 in the end of the year I mean it's you're talking about the same thing ultimately for uh audit purposes I need to have this what I'm presenting to you approved you need the cumulative which Is normally what you're approving so it's the column here that says transfers and adjustments that's y technically what you're approving is those

movings around I'll abstain then because I'd like to see it but the rest of the committee is happy then let's move forward I think think if if I I think if there was contentious conversations in the previous quarters I would I would no but it's just a a vote yeah Yeah can I ask a question just a clarifying question so in on the final page of the of your memo the transfers and adjustments that we see in column four are those for the quarter or for the aggregate for the the aggregate for the aggregate but

most of oh so over the course of the Year correct yes okay yeah yeah yeah but to your point if we just put The four document four memos that together we would we could see the difference to calculate yes ites over the course of the year right and to date we've always seen the aggregate yes as we go through okay make sure I understand the thank you same but it seems like everyone's good and Cynthia you're saying you're you're not GNA put okay so let's move on Um do you want to do the timeline yeah

Bob will talk you through this quickly and actually we don't need to do it again at CPS it's the same timeline but this is your budget build and leading up to town meeting so this is FY 26 that we're going to start getting into um in the next week or so I have a question um I'm looking at the February 5th date those are the draft warrant articles I forget every year um we'll send that with a number that we will have approved On the 4th um but we can always adjust down from there okay

so we'll continue potentially with all these hearings hear feedback and adjust and deliberate um and you could see reductions from there yeah I just think it's so ear it's such a big February to June is so long I'm surprised there usually January till April or May depending on town meeting so just pushed out Farther so I don't know how much discussion you want to have on this but this is all straightforward it's pretty straightforward we're going to get started next week with the administrators and then you can see how it evolves as we go through

the fall and winter when will Carl set their town meeting date we know that so sorry they had said it yeah and it was the Monday after April vacation and so um it was advised I'm on the town meeting study Committee we advise that that's probably not the best date to have it they're looking at early is May so we could essentially have Carlile town meeting come first I suspect you will more than likely will yes which will be interesting because then that could potentially mean we could have different people at this table well before

we approve the budget Right theory uh I mean you're going to Need an improved budget to go to Carlile town meeting so I think budgets are going to have to be wrapped up by then by then you wouldn't have new people because Brian and I aren't terming out oh perfect um but you might not come back but we wouldn't we wouldn't we would I think we can say with confidence that we would just make that decision yeah after the yeah you so you have to have a regional budget to go to Carlile town Meeting out

yeah right we'll be here if we get kicked out I'm kidding KCK out I'm saying it's not gonna happen Wonder no no we're here're they usually just much closer together they are usually much closer yes you have this 250th thing that you what is that okay I'll just point out a couple things the the capital u meetings are highlighted in yellow just um since those are Um going to get a little bit of a renewed and different Focus this year um the other dates I mean big picture um the dates are pushed back a little

bit because of the timing of conquered town meeting um you can see some of our internal processes at the beginning um and um I've noted some of the meetings we have with the town and then I have January 7th as when we'll first present um our budget to the school committee um the public hearings on the 21st so that's where we are basically looks like there's not much work to do you've got it all under no not at all we're really glad if you close out with 24 so Bob's only running two years at a

time and not three this a significant writing the agenda I was like you have the wrong fisc I car's like you've got the RO I'm like no no don't three years Carrie how how this is and we don't have any dates From Carla no not yet afraid we're be I think that's probably being discussed right tonight as we speak literally well thank you Bob okay that was great and Lori that's all Bob there's a couple dates on there I needed help with I have input a little B all right let's move on to the the

goals you me to share I can share my Screen you sure yeah okay I'm not looking up on the draw okay so um what we able to do we had a lot of conversations I know over the past uh few meetings we had it in the word document um what I thought we would do this is what we've been talking about is just streamline it so hopefully everyone had a chance to just get used to the the look um but I'll start at a macro level just so we can see it and then I'll zoom

in if you remember we had It organized by student achievement and success community relations and Outreach budget base and then school committee operations those were the categories and then within that we actually had um eight eight goals written out um and so what I did is I streamlined it into a dashboard so that when we meet we can just quickly go through it um I'll give you a vision and then obviously I want everyone to push back as as needed um but ideally if Things are in order and we're tracking um Carrie and I will

reach out for obviously updates on on progress if we're not directly involved but if it's green I feel like we probably don't have to spend a lot of time on it in the meeting so when we're preparing the the um agenda for the following meeting we'll really focus the ones that are I'll say off track um and I think I mentioned it before but I want to say it again if the best way to use a tracking Tool like this is if we were to turn something red so if a goal is off track it's

not necessarily don't look at it as um like a mark against you it's more like hey we need some attention to this we need some help um and I think this just would give us a really clear view when Carrie and I send out the agenda overview and the pre packet um that you can directly see and then if you know something is red hot or you need attention to it you can reach out to us Before the meeting and say hold on a second this needs to be added to the agenda and I think

it just will make us run more efficiently and get the right things on the agendas and get us working on the right things um so that being said just a reminder of the the goals the first one is prioritize amplify and be ambassadors for fostering and in inclusive and welcoming environment for all students from Boston Carlile and conquered and their families through Community Partnerships and relationships with other key organizations in the community and then under that are those three smart goals so the first one was what we did tonight share results of the yrbs report

and identify opportunities for improvement and resources we can leverage uh to support students uh the next one would be Benchmark and review participation in an offering of AP classes ensure this is reviewed through an equitable lens and achievement gaps Identified this would also include the k38 IEP analysis so again this is what we were um talked about earlier the third one is um semiannual update on the deib Strategic plan it's currently in year three of um I'm sorry I should say of five um so those are the three under that that we had all agreed

to so those are is there anything that you see that's changed since last week that we didn't capture Okay um um the next one is update and finalize critical policy issues that support the needs of students in the school committee at large so we have uh one policy around the annual report we would do that by the end of this year the next one around social media which we'll actually vote on later tonight that we reviewed at the last meeting um we'll complete that by December 2024 so again this is a great view of something

that's Green right we we're trending and we're going to get this done um we're going to go through Title 9 by the by May of 2 cell phone policy by May of 2025 so those are the the smart goals um under that those ones are a little bit more time time based third is the examine the achievement Gap where we are doing well and where we need to step up um so this is where we're going to report out on Benchmark for benchmarking purposes from cchs and CPS administrators by end of November so we will

have that data um available some of these you know we have a monthly chart here but some of the data is annual so we might do one review of it we go through it and then we have conversations about improvements thereafter um but the data will be will be shared in November of 2024 um the next one have school leaders attend and share success factors with the committee ensuring there are multiple Pathways to success and ways to Measure so really getting into the house so we'll start you know um planning for that so if anyone

has ideas that haven't already been brought up we can we can bring those up um either offline or later and then under community relations and Outreach we have that telling telling the story of the school that we had mentioned earlier Carrie did a great overview before um and then again the smarkle is our time base so we might Change those a bit I was just say can you add Brian in oh yeah and then also can you change it from April to end of May does that sound right no no no sorry at the end

final product by the end of U May okay but do we want that for town meeting in Carlile oh yeah so I well although it's going to be K to 12 that's a really interesting question well I think when you do the formatting you have a Separate great just a separate separate chapter okay would March we'd have to have it done if they're going to have an early April meeting because we'll want to bring it to the won't be early April no but early April you don't think no I know but but if we bring

a final product here get any feedback that you have print it you know what I mean like there's going to be steps that need to be yeah but meeting would be early May yeah okay so end of March I would say End of March March right you went from May to March that's great did I like it no this is great this the whole purpose of smart gos um yeah and then of course do an end of year review on the process outcome and value like is this is this serving what we wanted it to

do is it telling the right story um that we wanted next one um enhanced Community engagement to ensure the school committee are in touch in the Needs of the community so we had um three smart goals on coffees um so Boston Carl and conquered IA will take the lead on Boston I'll take the lead on um carile Alexa will take the lead on conquered so we do have to put some probably some dates on that um we carile only meets U monthly so we have our school committee meeting tomorrow so I'll Circle circulate that um

and come back with a date but at least we have them underneath that we are going to Commit to at least one of these um the next one's pretty straightforward anything budget based I think these are expectations but we did want to call them out for transparency uh goal number six commit to the comprehensive Capital planning process again work collaboratively with both the select board and fincom um seven uh cchs campus completion plan review and recommend a plan for the campus completion including The amenities building and the track um so the smart goal would be

appoint school committee leads um we had talked earlier again Alexa Tracy and Brian to identify grant opportunities and ways to offset the cost of the building by end of October 2024 and start reporting out monthly so that's coming up soon so we're going to set a meeting real soon yes yeah that's right that's right we're going to do it this is keeping us on track though actually this yeah so the Next meeting if you haven't met yet we would probably turn this red okay and we would say let's how can we help you email I

like it I like it too I like yeah there's the um and then the last one is just you know I think really great conversations you know early um in Brian and I's time here but re evaluate the school committee processes um so really looking at um you know review the school committee evaluation process um not only the timing of it um but also Who's included and the questions that we ask making sure that they actually are going to help us um and serve the population um and communities we we serve um last one invite

and encourage existing and future Meco reps to attend Ma C's charting the course training um so we'll get those dates out if we haven't already think we just on the the you you just sign sign up whenever yeah you want perfect Lor did if they sign up do they just email you uh Aaron Aon yeah Aon's F yep we can send the link too yeah um so you have it um but yeah so these are these are the goals they shouldn't look different it's just going to be in primarily in a different format um is

there anything that we missed in Translation or is everyone comfortable with this format yeah good job I love this format so I'm excited to use this this year awesome so I think that the way we have it is I didn't want to set it up for Every single meeting I think having a monthly view of this so we can certainly show it but I think just doing a status at the end of it and then as things get completed we can Market as such and stop tracking them um I think the biggest thing though is

when we get into any like under the um where there's data needed there's seasonality to some of that so I know like some of this of you get in November some of it you'll get in April so I think we might just want to Keep on socializing those timelines because some of it we just cannot accelerate um but just making sure that we have it we know what questions we want to ask and then if we want speakers to come in and talk about it that we have the agenda planned to to do that does

that I capture that okay so we we'll uh that's that so I think thank you guys I really like this this was I like the colors I like the format I like it all Good good awesome um yeah and hopefully like I said it brings the transparency that everyone's asking for and we'll make some progress um all right so let's move to the acttion items where we can actually start approving some of this let's do it all right the first one up is um can I get a motion to approve the social media policy Moved

second second second all right discussion all in favor wait didn't we also want to um rename it no we did rename it if you look at the the three the three views yep no I was going to say weren't we also going to cross reference um to the handbook I I wondered if you really wanted to do That because it's a staff policy if you tell me to put it back I will but when I gave the links to Aaron I was like okay yeah that yeah that makes sense a staff policy okay yeah no

that makes sense okay otherwise no I don't have any other discussion okay just so now so most schools do have a not a social media policy about we kind of talk about it in here so it is more Of a social media policy because we're talking about accounts right not just communication it's like establishing like a kid can go off and say I'm the you know field hockey Instagram account but is it the official field hockey Instagram account or is it just a kid doing that like are we trying to track official accounts versus I'm

just going to St an Instagram page but this isn't that policy that would be a different policy right this is Specifically about students engaging staff engaging with students should we have that maybe that's something that we should bring up at the next to be scheduled policy meeting well said say that one more time Cynthia just so where I work with' been trying to clamp down and have be sure we have an official Instagram account it's just a kid setting up in scram count without Some representing like they'll say this is a club in scram count

which isn't really a sanction Club at the school you know what I'm saying like I have the Dungeons and Dragons Club but okay real but it says the conquer car dungeon dragons account you know yeah okay or like there used to be an account called CC stackers which was the stacking of furniture it wasn't really a real club right it's students sorry students setting it up and they can do it right But do it is it sanction by the administration so I think we should definitely not about the sub subcommittee it's a good point and

I'm just trying to think about like what we can control yeah so it's good that renamed it yeah yeah yeah exactly thank you I'm sorry yeah so it's the electronic communications with students yes absolutely um any other discussion all in favor I I Great all right next is the uh [Music] vote uh second approval to cchs trips 24 to 25 the policy right now maybe you want to put this on your list says you I need to bring it back to you even though you approved the trips in the spring it there's a second approval

process I've never totally been quite clear on the difference but I'm following the policy so these are the trips that are slated to go out this school year Cuba France Italy Hawaii and then uh two uh domestic so I'm hoping you'll Grant second approval the trips are queued up and ready to to roll they'll be enrolling kids imminently are the is the trip website live I don't know if they've updated it yet or not yeah I move the conquer car school committee votes to give second approval on the proposed 2024 2025 trips as outlined with

a condition that assigned District liability waiver em Maya is received from all participants second second all in favor discuss oh sorry discussion Hawaii is not International so we could to the other category true I just spotted that there it feels really far though far away isther than any of the other places true non-continental right there we go I don't I don't mind the second approval because the world changes a lot yeah well you might proove It tonight and last year we had one change and we couldn't go because it was too unsafe in Ecuador so

well it takes three minutes you know it's not deal is that waiver um is that new which the Maya waiver from all participants no no there's always a waiver there's always been Pacific waiver yes and as much as we have PE people wave anything they can still sue us it's right right not actually a w I mean they say to do it but every lawyer Would tell you waivers are going only protect you so much what's the status of the um scholarships this uh Sharon Young fund probably has more than 10,000 I believe yeah it's

probably just over 10 um that's active like leadersh no no no there's nothing active going on there if we get a donation we can Target it there um I think that I mean the Hope was that it would I have a conflict on that one I'll just say it I have a conflict because I established the fund um so I think that as like I can't take charge of it right now in my current r school committee but if there were a teacher that wanted to or a Community member that wanted to step in the

Hope was always that there would be continued fundraising to feed that fund and so it's been on pause since I joined the committee I don't want teachers interested in in working on it but not Leading it um we've put the call out to the community a couple times without any I mean do I have a c actually I should probably go and see I think I do have a conflict oh yeah um what you I don't know for you's the no what's the withdrawal on annually it depends on the trips and the level of need

I was we there's a couple of us looking at things when they come in we were only giving out $500 at a Time when students were eligible because we're going to burn through the money there'll be nothing to offer anyone approximately what was the withdrawal for last year I don't have it off the top of my head 3,000 approximately and just as uh just as historical Sharon Young was the principal at elcut when she retired a fund was established by the ptg ETC and in 2020 that was the first time that the withdrawal was going

to happen and then the trips canel y so There was a process for applications and everything else there was a very large committee and I think it's just it might need some massaging we need someone interested in fundraising is what we need I'm going to call the ethics board to see if I could do fundraising good okay right let me know asking exactly any more discussion I get a vote started all those in favor sorry hi Hi hi hi still getting used to all this okay um okay next is uh the vote to approve the

launch retail space Bob I'll take this over in a moment but we're really excited to I think sometimes things happen for a reason you'll remember we had a more expensive property that needed a lot of Capital Improvements this is a pretty big change to go to something smaller more user ready and um much less expensive so we're excited to get a setting in place And then start the work to get the shop up and running B will talk through the details of the process here that we need you to consider just really quickly I know

we didn't talk about this beforehand but can you just give like an elevator pitch of what the space is going to be used for ab sure this is a fun topic um so the launch program is our 18 to 22 year old program they're housed here at Ripley unless they're offsite somewhere um much of the point Of a transition program for the postsecondary kids is vocational and life skills and making sure they're building some exposure and opportunity out in the community and with some um skills to take away from it so often times right now

they might go out in other settings and do things um we've been able to model after what Shrewsberry and Westborough did to create their own retail spaces it's not a for-profit Endeavor we might make Money if we're doing something right but that's not the point um there's a store manager usually that selects the merchandise and the kids then are very actively involved in all aspects of the retail business from the front of the house to the back of the house sometimes they're even making things that get sold uh but it becomes a real um focal

point for the program we've already had inquiries from other districts about tuition and kids in once this is up and Running the word is out already um because there isn't one in our Geographic vicinity so we think there's just a lot of opportunity here and I think last time Angel was here last year it helped us also to say we can probably hold a few of our own kids more now that um are not staying with us they're going to a collaborative that might have a more expansive of offerings so we're really excited and like

I said everything happens for a reason this is A lot less upfront money and ongoing uh rent and will just you know I think help us all feel a little more comfortable with the costs as much as we appreciated your support last year so do you want to talk yeah it's also nicer than the other property I will say oh much and not toxic was the problem end of the plan there I mean you know just sometimes I want these things for like the minutes for the community to Know like to me this is a

Dei initiative yeah this is an alternate path to success initiative this is an innovation initiative it's also fiscally responsible I mean there's so few opportunities where all of those things connect um and and it's also just the right sort of thing to do so I'm I'm thrilled that we're doing this um and again I can even think of like some time I've spent with CPC like thinking about certain kids whose who were out of District and whose parents were really struggling and this would this would have solved this for them as recently as four years

ago so you know when we talk about even individual students I think this is impactful so um well done yeah I don't know really exciting I wonder if this could also just off of the CMS presentation tonight if this could also be a PBIS initiative like if there's some some way to like interesting I don't know about you but I Want the high school kids to spend real money over there but yeah but you get like you know a dollar and you go in and you spend five interesting that's I don't know car thought about

that there because the love there you go just clearity we're not doing anything that requires Board of Health approval for Safe Serve or any of that it'll be you know bag and go sort of stuff if we offer snacks can I ask a question where is 199 said B Road right in front of Crosby in the attachment this building oh there it is where Simon had his little campaign off I thought it was across oh that's great it's a nice spot great kids go excellent it's right by Starbucks I it's to the school train all

right Bob take us through the the numbers and we can get into discussion so we had to issue an RFP which is a challenging process for Real Estate because Realtors don't want to do that So um but we ended up getting one respondent um and um had to kind of walk them through what we needed um ultimately um we saw a space um thought it met our needs the respondent was Firehouse Capital Inc um for the property there's a picture at the end of the attachment there um the leaste costs that they included were starting

at um they quoted monthly month I just listed the annual cost um 288 and they escalate to 35,4 in the last year um the rules for leases are different than other procurements um we can lease up to 20 years with with um approval from the school committee most other things that we procure are three years um what I am proposing is that we do um a three-year lease with a two-year option the option would be just at our discretion the districts it wouldn't be at the um the retail space's discretion um again these dollars are

Approximately a third of what we were looking at in the other location the other location was bigger um but I think this is in a better location um and there's they're in relatively movein condition we you would need things like shelves and but like small dollar investment um so that's where we are the um again we only had one respondent but uh it turns out to be in a place that we Think is is meets our needs and um so we recommend U moving forward and accepting the bid and um the way I worded the

motion is so that we don't necessarily need to come back again is to uh have the school company award the bid the way I wrote it to this company and that you uh authorize um Dr Hunter and I to work with our uh the district council to execute a lease agreement with the third party um that sent the proposal in For the three years with the two-year option correct the motion doesn't specify that that's uh I said up to five years um we are committing to three you're welcome to amend the motion as You' like

but he was just saying that leases are different and we can do up to 20 years no I'm saying but we are committing to three years oh I see what you're saying I thought you said we are a committee that does Three yeah okay they're not interested for us to go forward with just a year so you know threeyear minimum um if the committee want should we say for three years we'd like the up to five okay oh I see we would obviously keep you posted but well there's G to be a new no matter

what there's G to be a new school committee in three years so probably should come back in three years I think but when would this would this vat lock in those prices With the the prices are locked in we can't change the prices the the question is V the fourth and fifth year option today do we lose those prices that's uh we'll have to negotiate for them to hold those prices so we we can try to get them to agree to hold those prices with it being um an option for us I mean I don't

know what they're going to say but if we vote tonight you're were locked into those prices or they're locked into those Prices no if you vote tonight then we can tell them they have the lease and then Lor and I can work the terms out with the with the other company it basically just lets us out after three should should you either not have enough interest or maybe you need a larger space and after three years you can come back and correct renegotiate that but this would give you up to five that's I'm kind of

saying because I know that the Shrewsberry one of their big things That they they love about their program is the kids are there in that building that's where they are housed not off site so it makes it easier for them to do be flexible with the kids working there and then getting academics and so forth so just if we keep the motion as it is for up to five years this is basically giving the two of you the flexibility to sort of figure it out yeah my plan and recommendation would be to ask for three

Years for a two-year option just because of those issues that have been discussed where if we say three years then you can only negotiate for so I would rather yeah they do have other space in the building that if you know if the program were to grow in three years who knows we might be able to look at other space in the building um in fact so so because we we thinking about doing this do we have this in the budget for this year not for fy2 we would use the Circuit breaker FS was always

the plan was circuit breaker so we also have a lot of new pressure on the circuit breaker funds right well yes and this is going to keep kids in District and bring in tuition so not an fy2 so I just wondering what other expenses we are anticipating let's what's let's let me let's just hear this out so if it's um because I want to make sure I understand it so we we keep kids in District right so there's a cost savings on that for FY 26 potenti even it might even matter now I was goingon

to say wouldn't it have an impact in 25 certainly could because you'd have a program to we don't you know that you have a program to send kids to as they're turning 18 you know as they age out of Pathways to go into lunch you would know because might want to make different decisions what's the timeline right now uh if you approve This tonight we were Angel and I were chatting about a few months to get up and running and then open the doors that's you know ambitious but there's no big things to do other

than figure out what you're going to sell and get a setting arranged so there's no upfront cost though there's versus the other one correct some small costs but not not $300,000 shelves and everything but not like the okay and then it's 2500 a month right 28 28 and the other the other consideration is that this space this space won't be available if we don't forward I just like to yeah I'm a plan person I'm just and I agree with you synth so I just want to talk this out so if it's if it's 2,800 let's

call it let's just call it 3 * 12 36 Grand a year right maybe that even factors in the cost of 28 28 sorry yeah it's 28 a year but so but we 24 2400 a year I mean a month a month right 28800 for the first year of the lease 2400 $2,400 a month okay so I got it the two cross but even even still you're talking like around $30,000 What is one out of what would be one out of District almost always over 80 to 100 yeah don't we get reimbursed 75% on circuit

breaker on this only over the threshold of 50 some thousand at 75% because the question is are we willing to to take a a risk right does it do you know what I mean like it I'm talking through it right now we you know Concerned about our budget last week so it's not we can't borrow money right no but again I guess I I have to you know I do have to advocate for these kids because I do think it's not I'm not I know I know but I'm just I just need to speak my

um words here and we want to do the right things for kids we want to keep kids in District and yes we know we have a budget to meet but I think we can do all of those things by doing this I I see it as very separate because it's Really doing what's right for our kids to keep them in District so and that's just so they in shrewbury they get a lot idea money they do a lot of fundraising they so you know I just like to see more detail because I think to be

successful we need to find I mean we met with Shrewsberry we visited the Space there we talked with them at length they had a much bigger Vision than we have right now we're trying to just get our feet on the ground with a Open the door you know retail setting of at a very lowkey level they took a um you know a building that had been vacated by a a former retail space and renovated it you know down to the studs built it off all back up it's a beautiful space for the program itself in

the back of the house and the retail space out front and workshop in between and a whole bunch of that's not our vision right now we have a workable space here that we've renovated over the Last few years to have some different tools available here um we like the kids getting out and about and actually getting in the van and going somewhere we kind of think that's important not just that keep them in one building so Visions are different this in the we did approve this in the this in the spring are circuit breakers 1.1

million at the high school so a small amount of circuit breaker would be allocated and true to your Point we' approved that before before um we knew about some of these incre additional out of District placements I just I look at this as a very small cost for a like I see the tradeoff like as a decent one and then I'm also I and I know it doesn't work this way because then we go into FY but we won't see tuitions till FY 26 but I'm but I but to your point I just see this

as a a program again not that the goal is to Create Revenue but I see this as eventually becoming a very self-funding so I think we just get it update in two months yeah I think so I I just going to say so I think there's a few things one I think everyone around this table just so we walk away from this is in support of the kids and the need the need to to give them a space and and try to reduce out of District um placements but also just give them like you said

get them out of the the Building give them some some more just extended purpose um so I think we're all in agreement with that I don't have to hesitate on that I think the the second piece that we're not even talking about is um like you said you're not looking to make money but the 2400 they are going to be selling things so the hope is that the numbers break even so it's even less of a risk but I think the other thing is we're we're really just voting to let them negotiate And I think

to Brian's point three years but we want to give you the room to to get to five so the three the desire from the committee from hearing everyone is to go for the three with a twoyear option and that is we would realistically when do you think this lease would even commence soon nov you waiting the date today because we had to wait for the RFP to close to bring it to you right like November December they're also anxious Because they have vacant space right right sure sure sure we're going to start moving this along

tomorrow if you yeah no no no I get that but like so I mean the first you could probably do would be November 1st you think it's that like you're that optimistic that you could sign a lease that you start paying for on 111 or yeah okay so we're talking about like January February but so that's the Hope January February Seven it's it's it's not even the full 28 because it's really only seven months of fy2 so to me I'm comfortable with that that makes Financial sense I think it's a great great line of questioning

um and I think that even if in this current year we don't it it's an investment I think that to everything that everyone has been saying it will it will pay off in the in the long run and I think on lots of levels for the kids for the community And then also for the budget yeah it's a short-term investment for savings you'll see in 26 27 28 and the fact that you're already hearing from other communities about transition or tuition in is and it's not even really been talked about widely it's not even real

yeah it's not even a thing yet yeah I mean I'm looking at this it's $21,000 that we're sort of risking I think that that's well responsible that's the rent right you have to clean it up we have to a product You know there's like a start for sure to any correct yeah yeah can I okay so we will put this on the agenda for we were voting 26 as a no as a review because you had just said we hear more about it in a few months okay for now yes good spot for your coffee

all right I'm gonna move car Regional school committee vote to award the bid for the launch program lease space RFP to Firehouse Capital Inc for Up to a year period at the prices submitted in the RFP and further that the conquer car Regional school committee authorized District administration to negotiate and execute a legal a lease agreement for up to five years in coordination with legal councel second second discussion we already kind of did it but good luck I think I think would just Echo I think everyone it was a very thoughtful conversation so thank you

for For raising everything um all in favor I I I I wonderful um next uh is uh can I have a motion to vote to approve the fiscal year 24 end ofe transfers for CCSD sure um I'll move do you want to just yeah go I'm going to read it it um I move that the conquered Carlile Regional school committee vote to approve the FY 24 and yearend budget transfers as presented in the yearend summary report Second discussion thank you Bob all in favor Iain okay thank you thank you um and then uh final vote

to approve the school committee goals I make a motion to approve the conquer Carlo Regional School District 2024 2025 goals seconded discussion thank you Julie for awesome together yeah and I just want to thank Domingos and Aisha because I know they Don't have a formal vote but I appreciate you guys jumping in and and putting your voices in and then hopefully we continue the discussions and in our bi-weekly meetings make sure that we're on track to what we commit to want to say that publicly for the minutes as Alexa said um all right um all

in favor I all right I move to we just adjourn or do I have to get a vote on that I can never Remember do have a motion to adjourn technically but we sometimes just put got a motion to I move to adour the car Regional school committee right conquered staying in session yep do Julie there we go part ofe good night miss making up for all times I heard nobody else did it so thanks everyone than great I was thinking Hydration Station all right do we need a minute do We want to take Bob's

ready bye good night oh my God she get stuck on the road oh yeah this is so much all right B turn the heat on CPS thisal year end of year okay it's gonna get hot this week so for um CPS um end of year report here for FY 24 um I did want to just highlight uh That um we spent a lot of work reconciling with the town um with new staff they are new staff in our office and um they've also converted from a very old uh software to munice and um you know

converted their balances to a new system so the town has not officially closed FY 24 um but given now that we're in October and my expectation that we won't have any adjustments to our books um that if there are adjustments it'll be to the towns um in Relation to stool accounts I'm moving forward with reporting year end figures if something does change I'll report it back to the school Comm committee uh at a future meeting I'll send a memo just to tell you what changed um but again I'm not anticipating that um for the general

fund um we spent essentially all of our budget um the operating budget was $ 45,47 176 um we have an unspent unencumbered Balance of 2,11 at the end of fy2 24 again I'll go through that in more detail uh at the end of this our uh revolving funds are a little bit more limited at uh CPS we don't have an adult ed or um athletic uh large Athletic program um the integrated preschool fund um takes in expenses uh fees for some certain paying students um and um we spend all of those that's the kind of

unspoken or maybe it's spoken Agreement with the committee that we commit to spend down all of the fees that we receive um so we took in 189,000 spent all of those this past fiscal year uh that's about 20% of the program costs most of the program um is funded by the general fund um the school lunch um maintained a healthy balance was spent down slightly um I do think they'll get the benefit benefit of um as we consolidate the two schools the middle schools um we do have good participation There but there'll be some efficiency

from operating in a single cafeteria with modern equipment um so I I think that um that trend of a decline there will um will be helped next year um another thing just as a reminder our this state is continuing to fund Universal free school lunch that includes a free breakfast our um food service director wanted me to say that loudly to people anybody who's still paying attention you can get breakfast Free too uh including at the elementary schools um we've advertised that I think um in a newsletter uh recently as well uh to families uh

and then our circuit breaker uh balance actually um uh improved a bit um the um you can see the balance increased from 571 th000 to 630,000 uh the most that we can carry over is approximately 840,000 that's the revenue that we received this year Um so um you know we're in decent position but the CPS uh circuit breaker fund is smaller because we have a sign iFly smaller number of students that are out of District um it's about 16 students I believe um on a largest student population the high school is closer to 40 something

so um again this is the the piece that we received from the state um one other comment just on circuit breaker is that the state Funding wasn't quite as favorable it's not like it's going to decline from what we um received this year but we were hoping for a nice bump and then the um way it was funded was a little bit less than we anticipated so we'll talk more about that during the budget process the not Mau color shading here I think it's technically cantaloupe I looked it up in between section cantaloup C I

like cantaloupe into that the end of the meeting better Getting a little Punchy at the end of the meeting here so I apologize um so again the same information but uh we we kind of went through this and um and uh the last section is the um transfers and adjustments it was I would guess I would describe it as there was a little bit less moving Parts in the CPS budget um in FY 24 than the high school um and you can see that the transfers and Adjustments were more moderate than um than at the

high school um and I've kind of highlighted the the reasons um one of the large ones was the fixed assets um we had we're still waiting for delivery of buses that were supposed to come um so that's that's the primary reason for the fixed assets being um under budget um so um you know again we we work through the certainly the homeless grant funding was a um important Source um for us to get through the year and Cover some of the expenses that we otherwise um didn't have funding for with the buses so does that

mean we don't pay for them until we receive them so that's why it goes into to a different budget yeah it's it's it's just we just don't pay if we don't have it so it's we we we we basically um transacted to have a lease um we put in a purchase order and when we do the purchase order we reserve the first year uh payment um we don't actually pay it But we reserve it as an incumbrance and then once it comes in we we apply it against that well since it doesn't come come in

we don't even have a year year two payment to apply so everything's just kind of pushed back so we have a placeholder money set aside for year one but since we're already in you know these are 14 months out we're really trying to get the vendors to deliver they've had challenges with supply chain with a lot of orders um it's frustrating To us but so you know one of the things we've looked at is maybe we need to order these at the beginning of the fiscal year so they're not arriving like know in this this

point yeah in November and how does that work from a budgeting standpoint because I assume now these These are now that same line item is moved towards next year's budget yeah it'll push out it'll be in you know once we receive it it'll be in the next four years um so once we get them in the Lease in the buses here we have five years of lease payments the first year we reserve when we make when we place the order okay these are replacement buses though so presumably you have like more maintenance cost to on

the current yeah um the ones yes the older buses definitely have more maintenance um the ones these replaced are things they were going to scrap like they're not even being driven right yeah oh okay yeah they're just sitting yeah Yeah we have trade in we'll get some trade in for they get the spare parts it's actually a little bit more than um the last time we traded and we were getting like a couple thousand dollars in scrap metal I think we're getting six to 8,000 for these buses it's not a lot but it's helps offset

the purchase cost um I bought one of those buses my senior high school did not I did yeah I'll show you A picture why that's a separate discussion yeah let's all get out of here so um our our director of transportation is looking for drivers so uh we'll see Andrew he's going to start Moonlighting so um that's two anyways there's two two buses that were ordered for each district and we are um hopefully going to see those arrive fairly soon um so those are um my updates on CPS um the Budget timeline is the same

we've already seen that um so any questions thank you again yeah thanks M so just that that document is not in our attachment that it's the last page yeah isn't it I I um yeah if you scoll the back too I got panicked when I wasn't there but it is there that's so weird looking at it here it's linked I just pulled it from the agenda me too so Bizarre yeah it's the last page you know what um I pulled it off the agenda yeah no it's in both places on the agenda yeah this oh

it's not in the vote in the what the vote oh right okay yeah got it it's in the yeah it's in the discuss it's in the discussion yeah okay yep but it's there oh yeah I now okay um do you want to just go through the timeline did same as what we talked we already did it okay great so Then um so I'll move well the only the only distinction is CPS Capital yes which we will discuss at our next meeting 20 second that was cool yeah okay so then you does anyone want to make

a motion sure I'll move that the Cocker school committee vote to approve the fy2 for year end budget transfers as presented in the yearend summary report second seconded discussion thanks Bob yeah thank you all In favor I I closed great I'll adjourn thanks need a motion to I'm gonna insist on a little law in order here because the poor people doing the minutes have to make it motion to a Jour I don't I'm not going to hit thank you