 Good evening, I am Bill Haynard, Chair of the Allicton School Committee. This open meeting of the Allicton School Committee is being conducted remotely, consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12th, 2020, due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 virus. In order to mitigate the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, we have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings. And as such, the governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of the public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely. The order which you can find posted with the agenda materials for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely, so long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. 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I will introduce each speaker on the agenda after they have concluded the remarks. The chair will ask if any members have any questions or comments. Please remember to mute your phone or computer when you are not speaking. Please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. Permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. When I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Ms. Ekston. Yes. Mr. Schlickman. Yes. Mr. Thielman. Yes, here. Ms. Morgan. Yes. Dr. Bodie. Yes. Dr. McNeil. Yes. Mr. Spiegel. Yes. Mr. Mason. Yes. Ms. Elmer. Yes. AEA representative Kees. Yes. And I think that's just about everybody that we're anticipating. We do not have anyone for public comment. So I'm gonna move to our first item. At this time, the school calendar. Dr. Bodie. Sorry. Good evening. This evening, I would like to have a first read of the updated calendar. We've already had a read on earlier dates, start date of school. What this represents tonight are two things to call your attention to. One are kindergarten screens. This year for FY21, we're going to be handling kindergarten screenings in two different ways. One is on early release days in June. We'll have some screenings, we'll have some on June 25th, which is the day after the last day of school. And we'll have teachers doing screenings the week before we start school. So because of the nature of this year, we did not want to have our kindergarten students dismissing earlier than the other students. So we have rearranged how we're handling screenings. However, next year, we had agreement with the union, the teachers union to have two days at the end of June, the days where we could do the kindergarten screenings, which are required by state law. And on those two days, the last day for kindergarten students will be Thursday, June 16th. Cause the screenings will occur on Friday the 17th and the following Monday. Obviously it'd be nicer if it worked out, so it wasn't across weekends, but that's the way the calendar fell next year. So that's one thing to call your attention to. And the other are the early release days for conferences for the middle school and for the high school next year. We did not put on evening conferences on the calendar. Evening conferences will be announced by all of the secondary schools, and remind as well as the elementary schools in September. But it was important for parents to know when students would be dismissed, either for early release conferences or for an early release day. And those are all on this calendar. One thing I will say, and I will compliment Mr. Schell, I think it gets increasingly more difficult to create the codes for these events, but she's done a terrific job. And you can see in the gray area to the right or to the left of the calendar what those particular days are. The other thing I would want to remind everybody is that the day after Labor Day, next year is going to be a no school day, as is for students the Wednesday to September 8th. That will be a professional development day for teachers. We have found this particular year that having some preparation days before school opens is very helpful. I'm not sure that that's how it will continue in the years after this, but for next year, we will have a professional development day. Kindergarten, everyone will start on the Thursday after Labor Day, which is the ninth. What will be different for kindergarten is that half the class of kindergarten will come to school on Thursday, the other half on Friday, and on Monday, all students will attend. What will, I can't tell you parents right now, which day your child will be attending, but you will know if not this month, soon in July what day that will be. It certainly will be before school starts. So those are the highlights, Mr. Haynor, of the calendar. I don't know if there's any questions everyone has. I want to remind you, this is a first read. So if there's some things we need to alter or if there's questions about, this would be a good time to mention them. Thank you, Dr. Bodie. Ms. Morgan? Dr. Bodie, why does the middle school early release day not line up with the elementary early release day? Well, we're considering that, but the middle school, well, the curriculum leaders, administrators. Dr. Bodie's screen, I think froze. We lost your audio, Dr. Bodie. Can you hear me, Mr. Haynor? Yes, we can now. I don't know, it seems like Ms. Morgan froze. Maybe that's me. Okay. We changed it so there'd be more flexibility around meeting times, can you hear me? It does say my connection is unstable. Is that better? The reason is we wanted more flexibility for meeting schedules for the six, for the Gibbs Odyssey and the high school. Having all the meetings on the same day rather than different days would provide that flexibility. Okay, my feedback is for families, it's always easier if kids at different levels, there's lots of people who have kids who are in middle school and kids who are in elementary school or, so I think it's, I appreciate the rationale for it, but I think it's hard for teachers with kids in this district who teach at one level and have kids being released on different days at different times. So, but I guess we give it a try and see maybe other parents don't care and well, you know, or we'll get a lot of feedback about it. And I mean, you know, it's just the same old, same old, right? It's that you've got kids coming and going and they're not on this, and I appreciate they're not on the same schedule right now anyway with the 2.30 and the three o'clock release, it's just more of that. Yeah, I do appreciate that. And that was something that was considered as well. What has historically been the case is that the middle school has been on the same day as elementary and the high school different. So we've always had a split that way in our meeting and early release days. If this is something that is something you would like us to take back and have some reconsideration of, we can certainly take a look at that. But this is what we thought would work the best next year. Any other members have any questions regarding the calendar at this time on the first read? Seeing none, I just like to, and it's easy for me to say because I don't have any children at all. If the rationale is to have the sixth through 12th grade faculty working together, I think we ought to try it. If it is a massive inconvenience for parents and stuff, the parents need to let us know so we can make adjustments to that. So do we need a motion for the first read? No. One point of order there, but you have two children. Bill, you have two children. You said you're not. Yes, but they're both teachers in other districts. Thank you, Jeff, for reminding me. So my wife doesn't get upset with me. I was worried about that. Thank you, Jeff. I've always been worried about that. So we're gonna move on to the district goals 2020, 2021. And I'm gonna turn it over to Dr. McNeil at this time. So I submitted the document. I do wanna provide some clarification because one of the school committee members emailed me. The document that you have in front of you was I was asked to provide a document that gives the status of each one of the goals. And I did that in anticipation. Well, I was asked to do that to give out to you very early on so that if you had any questions regarding any of the goals, you could send them to me through email. So that is why the document does not include other information, but I will state that, in my department of curriculum and instruction, the curriculum leaders are preparing a more detailed document that will provide evidence and more information regarding the goals and their status. Thank you. So anybody have any questions or comments for Dr. McNeil on the 2020, 2021 goals? Seeing none, I am going to, and if I move too quick, folks, don't hesitate. I know you won't. To the district goals for 2021, 2022. And I'm not sure if it's Dr. McNeil or Dr. Bordi that's going to start this off. I have both names down on my agenda. Well, both of us can talk to these goals. One of the other reasons why, why does he give an update, at least a very high level, very high level, look at what happened with the 2021, is that there are a number of broad objectives that we want to continue next year, which you will see in the district goals for 2021, 2022. Before I begin that though, let me just say that one of the things that we have an agreement with, and this keys is here and you can talk to it if you'd like, is that we would have the district goals approved for next year by the school committee by the end of the school year. And the purpose for that, so that teachers if they're planning any of their own professional development of the summer or want to begin working on their goals, they know what the parameters are, what we're looking to focus on next year. And so there's still quite a bit of work left to be done on this in terms of really taking these down to the next level in terms of the action plans that's going to be provided for each one of these. As you can see with the 2021 goal, what is evident in these is how broadly they are assumed within departments in terms of a department having a very specific goal related to the district objective. And that's exactly what will happen with the 21-22 goals is that we will have a much more detailed look at what are going to be the actions that we're going to do in support of these. A number of years, again, I wanna go back to sort of a high level look at this. A number of years ago, the school committee developed overarching goals for the district, sort of the strategic plan of the district in terms of direction. And every year, we develop objective goals that focus those particular overarching goals. And a third layer are those particular objective goals, how they manifest in each department. So there's another layer to this. If you, the wording is a little different but not substantially different in terms of the objective goals under student achievement. We are still going to be looking at inclusive pedagogy and curricula that is aligned with our district vision of student as learner and global citizen being much more specific about that this year. And with an emphasis on the transferable skills and of course all of our curriculum is aligned to the state standards. So that is the first objective and it really hasn't shifted very much from last year. And then another major focus for next year and we've all talked about this throughout the year is the need that we have in our district to make sure that we support our students in developing social emotional skills with age appropriate social emotional curriculum. And that work has been going on this year and we'll continue next year. And as we've talked about how important it's going to be to make sure that those kinds of supports are there for students next year. So that's sort of the broad focus of goal number one on a student achievement. Dr. Misele, you wanna talk a little bit about the professional staff facts along some professional development. I was muted, sorry. Oh, okay. So looking at the professional development goals I mean, basically we're continuing our focus on providing professional development around culturally responsive instruction and SEL and learning and continue to integrate and so that teachers are able to integrate it into their instruction. And so we will continue that theme for next year. And then that is a goal objective 2.1. And I can, are there any questions about that? Yes. Ms. Morgan. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Heiner. I should wait. That's all right. I'm hearing that there's no sound on ACMI. So Sean, that's the story. Okay. But I will definitely acknowledge Dr. Bodie's emphasis that these are high level. And so I just wanna make sure that we within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and within the, you know, with the district we will continue to develop action steps for how we're gonna continue that and we'll base those action steps upon what we were able to accomplish this year. And then you can look at the goal document that shows the status of the goals where it has those action steps and we will provide evidence. And then we would use that evidence in the data that we collected this year from many different sources in order to continue to create goals moving forward. Let me just interject for one second in the fact that we do not have anyone coming from the public to participate at this time other than the panelists that are currently here. The recording will be made available to the public. So I'm not too worried about it going out over ACMI live at this time. Sorry, Dr. McNeil, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I just want to make that clear to everyone. Yes, sir. I just finished and- Thank you. There's somebody who has their hand raised. Ms. Exton. And Dr. Alson also has her hand just. Yep, thank you. Thank you, Dr. McNeil and Dr. Bodie. And I guess my sort of questions and comments relate to both goal one and two. I noticed that the phrase awareness of cultural bias was removed from goal objective 1.2. So one of my questions is just can you talk about your thinking about why that was? And my thinking in asking that is, we did a lot of work around the equity audit where we have this panorama survey. We have a new position, the director of DEI and I see them included in objective 2.2. But when we think of our district becoming culturally responsive and thinking about anti-racist and anti-bias teaching, I hear you that it's gonna be in the more specific layers of different departments. But I guess my thoughts and my comments for, I think it's important to also have it somewhere in these high level goals. Thank you. You know, you're absolutely right. So a lot of the work that's going to happen this year, we should really be more specific. Let me add that in. I think you have a good point, Ms. Exton. There's going to be quite a bit of departmental work on incorporating some of the suggestions that came through in the curriculum audit. And there's work that's going on this summer. And let me go back and we'll send out, update that a little bit and send it back out for when we do the second read in the vote next meeting. And I will add on Ms. Exton as we develop our very specific content area goals that will definitely be included in that language and the use of the equity audit, our equity, the SEL audit that was also done in our SEL curriculum, Dr. Simmons also reviewed those materials. So we will definitely make sure that language is in there because that is the work that will be completed this summer and continue one out throughout next year. Thank you. And I know that it will be in those deeper layers, but I just, if somebody's in the community or is just looking at that, the big picture here on this two page document, that's what they're taking from it. I think it's important to have it out there. Sure thing. That's a great point. Thank you for pointing that out. Yeah, I think that in our re-reading of some of it, there's an oversight in our part. So thank you for pointing that out. Actually, the objective 2.2, which has to do actually related to this is the work that we've been doing around finding ways to make our teaching staff, our paraprofessional staff much more diverse so that we have more of our staff that represents the range of cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds of our students. That work will continue and we're always looking for ways that we can do that. So that particular objective, again, to call attention to this work, which is ongoing remains in the district goals. Slightly rewarded, but the same idea. And Mr. Hayner, I wanna point out that Dr. Allison Ampe is at her end of the question. Just waiting for Dr. Bodhi to finish. Dr. Ampe. Thank you. And thank you, Dr. Bodhi and Dr. McNeil. I have a question about, I guess it's really kind of about both goal one and maybe goal two. I just wondered that the word pandemic isn't mentioned anywhere and that this year or the coming year is different again than just about every other educational year because we're coming out of the pandemic and things have been different for a long time and whether that implies we should be doing things a little differently next year to kind of make up for that. And I don't have specific suggestions right at this moment but I wanted to raise that as a point. Then if I was a parent looking at district goals, having spent much of the past year with my kids at home or doing hybrid and everything, I would feel like this is something which should be touched upon. So that's my comment. Well, yes, great comment. And let me take a look at that. I can tell you that certainly on our mind because as all the work that we're doing this summer, the idea is not only gonna look after the point of view of the curriculum audit, but what is it that we are going to need to do next year? To address some of these issues because we know that we'll have students that will need some form of refreshing and perhaps more time on particular topics in review than we normally would have. So it's certainly on the minds of all of administrators as we're developing the curriculum work for the summer. I will say that this particular year in light of what you're talking about, we are going to have more curriculum work going on this summer than we have had in the past years. And so it's because of this focus as well as because of the focus of the curriculum audit as we go into next year. So what you're asking for is some acknowledgement of how the pandemic year is influencing the curriculum work that we're doing for next year. Yeah, just that I think there, I mean, what you said you're doing sounds great. And I think what's written should reflect that. Okay. Right, so that people understand when they read this, they have some understanding that this is what's going on behind the scenes. Yes. Okay, thank you. And if you, in the terms of dollar amounts, I think you'll understand when I say that we're probably spending three times as much this summer as we had two summers ago on curriculum professional work. So all right. Any other questions, comments on these first two both? Ms. Morgan has her hand up. Immuted, Jane. My question's on the last goal. So I will wait. Okay. All right. So going on to goal three, which really the people that will eventually get this recording looks at all of the resources and infrastructure and the learning environments in our school. And one of the areas of focus that we've already begun to look at but also will continue, has to continue this summer and next year is developing the technology plan for the next three years. We've had one, I see any of the past technology plans, but an update to that is going to be part of the work that's already ongoing, but it's certainly going to be much more significant to summer. Any questions or any comments on those? That one. Okay. You can move on. All right. We're starting to move into goal three, again, part of the infrastructure. And I will ask Ms. Elmer if she would talk a little bit about this, which is the tiered focus monitoring that we will be doing this coming year and what this comes from in terms of the work, the report that we received this year. Ms. Elmer, do you mind, Mr. Hanna, if I could refer this? Go right ahead. All right. Sure. So just quickly, and I believe Dr. McNeil is going to share that report with you in an upcoming meeting, but what was formerly known as the Coordinated Program Review is now tiered focus monitoring. As you recall in January, we had our onsite visit, which was postponed from last year when they were initially going to be on and then onsite in the pandemic hit. And so we received that report. It was issued on May 20th and they've reviewed both civil rights and special ed criteria. This is what was known as the mid-cycle previously. Now it's known as cycle B. So it was a smaller review. And so those findings were issued and the district has to develop continuous improvement and monitoring plan, continuous improvement and monitoring plan, which Dr. McNeil, as I said, will eventually share with you folks, but this goal is around implementing that action plan. And I will add on that the report has been put on our district website and it's on the news feed. So it's there for the public to have access to which the public can have access. Can you just give a brief overview, both of you, in terms of what would be so the main focus of the work on this? Sure. So there were not any findings specifically in special education for this cycle. And there were two findings in the civil rights criterion and is that echo for me? I'm sorry. So from this civil rights criterion and so those two action items revolve around policies and procedures, as you recall, we discussed at a previous school committee meeting the need to revise the restraint policies so that the policy you adopted matches the current regulations. So that's reflected as part of the action items and as I'm making sure that those regulations are publicly available. And the other one was around documentations and our notices for discipline. And so those have been updated and also shared within the, will be updated and shared within the handbooks. Many members have any questions or comments? Okay, moving on. So then the then goal for which overarching goal talks about operations, communications and stakeholder engagement. So as we have in for many years now we have a goal around the high school, the new high school. And each year there's new ways that we were working on this project. Everyone can see that the high school going out quite a bit more noticeably every day. What we're going to see is continuously more refined space so much so that the plan is that next year we will be moving into the new steam wing and the performing arts wing of the new high school. In fact, this is one thing I did not mention on the calendar which relates to this is that the high school will need a half day right before February vacation and a half day in the morning when we turn for February vacation for moving. I'm sure there'll be a lot of packing before that but the actual moving of materials will start that Friday right before February vacation. So there's going to be a lot. In fact, tomorrow is another transition planning meeting and I think that these meetings actually are going to increase as we go forward. So that goal will continue. Then maybe Mr. Mason will talk a little bit about some of these. One of them is our collaboration with the facilities department in terms of making sure that we continue to have health and safe learning environments in our school. As you know, they did Yeoman's job last summer to make sure that all of our ventilation systems were at the design capacity. But what we know is that these are in some cases older systems and the amount of constant vigilance to make sure that these are up to the level they should be will continue. There are also going to be other infrastructures that will be looked at and put in place as we go forward and share and want to acknowledge that work. And I don't know if Mr. Mason would like to add anything to that because he works very closely with the director of facilities. Yeah, I can add some more information in terms of the goals under 4.2 and 4.3. So more specifically, the town recently released the net zero action plan. And so myself as well as Greg Walters, the new facilities director and Ken Prude, the energy manager for the town, we've been working on a plan to complete electrification in many of the schools to meet what the net zero action plan calls for, which wants all town buildings to be electrified by completely a complete electrification by 2050. So one of the part of the plan is a creation of an electrification and air quality master plan, which this plan will be part of a evaluation of several of the school buildings, which include the audison, the bracket, the gallon, Bishop Hardy and the Pierce. And so actually we'll be starting to do those studies right in the summertime. And this will hopefully identify any issues, any enhancement projects that we may need to do and hopefully outline the scheduling of projects over the next several years. In goal 4.3, it touches upon those things, with 4.2 kind of overlaps with some of those works because of the air quality master plan. And so also with the 4.3 we're talking about what's also called on the net zero action plan, which is tied to electrification of the vehicle fleet. And we've been doing some work trying to also begin to change out some of our diesel vehicles to electric vehicles. So we're in the process of looking to get up to two electric buses, depending on funding. We've been awarded already some funding for that to get at least one bus and to build the infrastructure as well as the, how can I say, the actual procurement of the bus. And if we get some additional funds along with the capital funding, we would then get another bus as well and turn over those two vehicles. But the key thing is now as we get more of these other vehicles, we need to start thinking longterm about where we would place the vehicles. So that will be something that we'll be talking about in the future because there's no central place for our student vehicles. And then 4.4 is just a continuation of what we set up, we established last year and as we're continuing to implement more policies and procedures and trying to modernize the financial procedures. And one of the ways we're looking at is increasing how to decrease the reliance on paper and move to more electronic workflows, which will then also help some of the processes when we are moving over to our new offices in a few years with the Arlington High School Project. Any questions or comments from the members? Mr. Thielman and then Mr. Schlickman and I'll get the rest of you. Okay, so thanks very much. I think one thing I wanna say is that it feels to me that in the next year or so or two, we should start to begin a conversation about submitting an SOI to the MSBA in the not too distant future for the Odyssey Middle School. And I don't exactly know when to begin it, but I do know that we have a very good relationship with the MSBA because we've had successful projects, the Thompson High School and lots of other ones. And so it is possible for us to have as a goal objective to initiate a dialogue with the MSBA to understand an appropriate timetable to begin an SOI, to submit an SOI to the Commonwealth for the Odyssey Middle School. And I mean, just to kind of, and no one should get too excited about it, we have a $289 million project taking place right now in the MSF, $86 million coming from the Commonwealth to the town of Arlington. We're not gonna be high on their list, but as we know it's the process of the high school rebuild started in 2015 and won't finish until 2025. And so it's a long-term process. And I don't know how to put this in the goal. I haven't articulated it. I just started thinking about this this afternoon when I read this, but I just wanted to put that out there that a goal next year could be to begin a dialogue with the MSBA to learn about the appropriate process and timeline for an evaluation of the Odyssey Middle School facility. That's simple because we all know there's, when you begin this process, the MSB, if you're accepted into it, you might not come out with a brand new school. You might come out with a repair or renovation addition or a new school. So I wanted to throw that out there tonight. Thank you, Mr. Schlickman. I really appreciate Mr. Thielman's thoughtful comments because if we're going for electrification of our buildings, the Odyssey seems to be in my mind the most challenging one to bring up to new standards as we renovated that in the late 90s and the equipment in that building is late 90s equipment. My question revolves the vehicles. I'm sort of interested in this. First of all, I've noticed that we're parking our buses up by the church up in the Heights. I guess that's a move that was dictated by the High School Renovation Project and the Town Yard, right? What? Okay, are we in a position now where we can purchase electric vehicles to replace all our current non-electric vehicles such as the buses? Is the technology, are the buses available to purchase at this point in time? Well, the buses, the technology is there but currently it's quite expensive. So the cost of an electric bus is three times the cost of a diesel bus currently. We anticipate those costs to go down over time. As you see, like the electric vehicles are all becoming mainstream by mainstream manufacturers. I had imagined the same things were gonna happen in buses, as well as the technology that is used in buses. Maybe range is a current concern. So the vehicles that we're currently looking to procure they may not be able to be used in the same manner as our diesel vehicles. But I imagine as time goes on, we will be able to get more similar functionality out of the vehicles. That's interesting. I would imagine that given the new federal administrations push towards electrification in the vehicles that incentives may be down the line to correspond to improvements in the vehicles so that it would make sense that if we have a vehicle replacement project on the horizon, we might wanna push it out a year or two for the purpose of being in a better market for doing electric. Are we sort of doing that within the context of the capital plan? So in our capital plan, we have a vehicle schedule that where we've replaced vehicles on a timely basis, a periodic basis. So for our school buses, we look between five to seven years because after five to six years the maintenance starts to creep up and the vehicle values decrease. So we start to trade them in to get a different diesel vehicle. What's being said about electric buses that they do have a guaranteed lifespan and warranty for about 10 years. So where at least we'll get 10 years use out of the vehicles that we would procure in this string of procurement. In terms of how we get more electric vehicles in the future, it all depends on the capital funding and then as well as any grants that are available. So we're able to do this purchase mainly due to the grants that we're receiving. We're receiving a substantial amount. The town of Arlington probably funding about $183,000 through the capital plan and then the remainder is coming from grants. The initial study dollars have been coming from, fortunately from some of our funds this year from the facilities department. But yeah, so that's, I mean, I hope that answers your question in terms of the scheduling and the placement of the vehicle in the future. What are we thinking we may need in terms of land-based infrastructure for charging buses and charging and maintaining electrical vehicles? Well, in general, I would say that we need to build an infrastructure out but as well have physical location for all the vehicles in the central location that is on town property. So right now we're paying a private property for space. And when we were trying to determine where we would put buses, it was, we had to discuss whether we wanted to put public dollar investment to a private property where we currently hold buses. So, one of the ideas that we've been trying to talk about is maybe some kind of parking structure but we haven't really dived too deep in it. We need to find a location for such a place to store our vehicles. I'm sure the town has similar needs. Okay, I'm just sort of thinking this out and hoping that people who are knowledgeable about this and really interested in electric vehicles and infrastructure are also paying attention as part of the meeting. Yeah. Calvin, do you have something to say? Yes, I think that one of the things that you're gonna spend more time talking about next year is exactly this issue. We're hoping we will have these electric buses and we already have a planned, a tentative plan for how we would create charging stations for these two. But this is not a long, this isn't long-term for all the buses we potentially could have. As you know, public space is a public property that is very limited. And so there are, Mr. Mason mentioned infrastructure, perhaps a garage of some sort. And we have some ideas around those. I think they're a little premature to float them right now, but I do think that this is something that the school departments can have to look at. Even if we don't have electric buses or we have some mixed fleet for a number of years, we are going to need to look at where they're going to be housed. And right now, as you know, we're in the middle of the high school construction project. And previously, so everybody knows that they were parked at the DPW. DPW is also under construction, will be soon. And I can tell you that in the final plan, in the plans for DPW, there is no allocation of space for our buses. So this is no small issue actually that we are going to need to figure out in the years to come. Like us to get back, I know that broadly this is on the goals, but I'd like to get back. Ms. Morgan. A question on the board. Let me just state, I hope that we were able to push forward as quickly as possible. And you know, Mr. Hayner has a pretty big driveway so we can put a charge each day. Thank you, Mr. Hayner. You're welcome. Ms. Morgan. Thank you. So I had a question about goal 4.2 about the safe and healthy learning environment, which obviously I think is super-duper-duper important and would like to continue very much and was a little bit surprised at how far we had to go last summer when we needed to like up that safe and healthy learning environment, but also appreciate that it was an extraordinary amount of work from the facilities department. Absolutely think that this is something that we should continue to do. I am a little concerned about the precedent of having it be a goal on the level of all these other goals that we have because in my mind, this is just something that we should be doing. So I appreciate that goals can be aspirational or they can be about holding, about keeping accountability. And I guess maybe this is more the latter. So I guess that's my feedback on 4.2. I think it's really important that we maintain heating, ventilation and air exchange infrastructure and that we ensure it works at the capacity that it's designed for. I guess I just feel like this is something we should be doing and that that's the expectation. But if in order to sort of canonize it into what we need to do, if it needs to be in the goals, I guess I just worry that if we have it in the goals for FY 22 and then it's not somehow there for FY 23, then is it like, oh, so we're now not doing that anymore if that makes sense. So that's my concern about having it there. It feels sort of precedent setting and then if we somehow remove it, does that mean that then we won't be maintaining these systems? So I guess part of my question is about intent and then my feedback from reading it regardless of what the intent is, is that this seems like an accountability goal as opposed to an aspirational goal. So if I can respond, thank you for your comment, Jane, in regards to the feedback in terms of what that goal is stated. And my logic in when I was talking to Kathy about the efforts is, A, I mean, as we are moving from what we just dealt with from the last year and so it's still important, I think it's still important to keep that on this list for that reason until we know for sure that we're not gonna stop doing those things, but it's the level of what we're doing is somewhat different. And so what I would say into that regard is that we were also concerned about how to make spaces more comfortable. So without saying comfortable in the goal because to make a great environment that's good for students, some of that deals with the ventilation, making sure that you get the right level of air exchanges, the right level of cooling. And so I kind of 4.2 and 4.3, there were some similarities because of electrification of the buildings, but some of the work that's being done is tied to how do we can get the air systems to be more modern and efficient. And some of the decisions that were made when buildings were built, whether they have cooling systems or not, how to get those buildings into a way that teachers and students are comfortable. And that's what the intent of that particular goal is. And I think it's important to keep it there. Great, that seems more aspirational to me. So I like that. Yeah, I will add on to it without creating practice false expectations we might not be able to achieve. As we do want to look at buildings being more comfortable, some of the buildings can get so hot. And it's hard to say in the future, really what's going to happen with our climate. We've had nothing, we've only had a few really hot days so far and we're hoping to get through the rest of the year without these, but that's what we say every year. At least some of the buildings get so hot and we buy fans or we just had a chiller that was put into down, but that's not all of our schools. We need to really look at this issue and not be trying to patch it all the time. It's hard to be in a building where it's excessive on either side, too cold, too hot. And we really do need to see what we can do about that. Any other comments on the goals? This is the first, huh, Mr. Schlichman? My only other question is, has this been shared with Dr. Homan in, I guess that's the question. The answer is no, but we're meeting on Friday and that's actually tomorrow. And Dr. Homan is listening this evening, but yeah, we will go over these goals for sure. Yeah, I just wanna make sure because she's the one who's gonna own these things. Well, I will say as a district, we all own them and everyone that's here this evening owns it as well as the school committee. Your role as accountability on the work that we're doing, but yes, you're absolutely correct. And we'll be talking about these tomorrow. We're all set to move on. Thank you, Dr. Bode. Thank you, Dr. McNeil. Moving on to appointment to EDCO Board of Directors and the EDCO Advisory Board. Dr. Bode, do you wanna talk to this or do you want me to do it? I'll do a little overview then. How about if you jump in? Unless you wanna start it. Go right ahead. As we look at next year, everyone is aware of that from the discussions we've had that unfortunately, EDCO as an organization is going to dissolve in June 22. And I'm gonna talk a little bit more about some of our, some other issues around this. But under collaborative law for the Department of Education, there still needs to be governance next year as we go through the last year. And under the new collaborative regulations, there has to be six board meetings. And that is the plan. We have elected a new chair of the board, and it's Bella Wong, the current superintendent, Lincoln Sudbury, and the vice chair is Peter Light, superintendent at Acton-Boxborough. On the board of directors, there are three, out of 16 members, there are three that are school committee members. It's sort of a, it's both not 50-50, it's sort of a mix. There are two, there's also an advisory board that meets and attends board meetings. So I have been the representative to the board for a number of years. And obviously, I'm not going to be here next year. So the school committee is going to need to appoint someone as both the board representative with that responsibility. The board meetings are during the day. They tend to be in the morning. So we did have one this year that was in the evening. So school committee members could attend and then an advisory board member. It's sort of as somebody to talk about what's going on as well as an alternative. But I think next year Arlington should have representation in every board meeting. So that's a little bit of the background on what we need to do. I talked with Dr. Bodie about this. She shared with me that she felt, this is mainly a man positioned this year of being represented, finding out, coming back to our board and sharing and bringing back any decision that we, issues that will be brought through the board, through me as a member, back to you, decisions made. And I'd be the conduit going back and forth. I shared this with Dr. Holman and basically said to her, if you want it, you can have it. And she said, this is what she would prefer since it's just a one year time that it would be better off her focusing her time in other areas. So she, so, and the fact that it is during the day, I have the time, Mr. Shulikman has the time. So I'm recommending to the board, our board, our committee here, the appointment of myself as Arlington member, person on the board of directors and Mr. Shulikman for the advisory board. I'm going to need a motion to that effect. Move, so move. Is there a second? Second. Is there any further discussion at this time? Seeing none, I will do a roll call vote. Ms. Ekston. Yes. Ms. Morgan. Yes. Mr. Shulikman. Yes. Mr. Thielman. Yes. Dr. Ampe. Yes. Mr. Cardin. Yes. And myself. Yes, unanimous vote. Thank you all. Down Massachusetts association school committee, delegate assembly resolutions, Mr. Shulikman. Having heard from nobody, I don't see a pressing need for us to sponsor a resolution. We'll be back early fall with the resolutions that were presented to the resolutions committee, which I have traditionally served on for our opinions and direction for the general assembly in November. Thank you, Mr. Shulikman. Monthly financial report, Mr. Mason. All right, thank you, Mr. Hanner. Tonight, I would like to discuss the monthly financial reports for April 30th or the period ending April 30th. The report format is the same as always. I'm not going to go into that, but what I will say is that you may notice some slight changes in terms of what's presented on the general fund report. A, do you see that salary and conferences are not reflected, is reflected under projected and conferences due to the end of year spending. There was a limitations to our financial system. So we switched to a manual mechanism to control the salaries in the budget. And that will be returned back to normal income starting the new fiscal year, as well as this month we changed the methodology on how we project the general fund. Normally we project the general fund while spending all the department and school budgets are projected to fully spend their budgets. And in the month of April, as we normally do every year, we kind of slow down some of the departmental spending and as it's difficult to sometimes get orders received before the end of the year, as well as give us an idea of what is remaining in our budget and some other sides and funds for other particular projects that we may need to do between facilities tonight in information technology. So you'll see that we're currently projecting in this monthly report $452,000. This is based on, once again, all the current encumbrances and known salaries that are expected to hit. This doesn't mean that this is the final number at this point. I did include everything that I could include from after April 30th that I knew when dropped in this report, but I would say that there's about $5 million still there in comfort. And a lot of those encumbrances are estimates. And sometimes that does not mean that the department will hit the amount that they originally encumbered. And so the amount returned could be more than this, or it can be less. So I would say this is a good estimate, but I would hold off until when we give a final number and we'll keep everybody posted about that. And then also included is just the grants accounts report, which is everything that's running as anticipated. There's no changes in any of the grants that we normally have on track and the revolving fund report, which you'll see that hasn't really changed much since the last time I spoke and presented, but you'll look at overall for the year, revenue is down. And just for those for some to understand is that some of the new ARPA funding that may be coming to the town will provide some support for the lost revenue. So I will end my presentation there and open up for any questions through the chair. Any members, any members have any questions or comments? Mr. Mason. Mr. Cardin. Yeah, I'm sorry, Mr. Mason, could you just go over that last point a little bit in more detail? So ARPA funds, that's gonna all happen before the end of the fiscal year or what are you talking about there? ARPA funds is, so the counter Arlington has an allocation of over 30 or $36 million, I believe. And a part of those funds can be used for lost revenue that has incurred due to the pandemic. And where we do a calculation using the base year, which was before the pandemic, which was fiscal 19, that was the full complete year that they would look at revenue and then use that to compare the fiscal years after that. So if you look at the grants, I mean, the revolving report, you'll see that total revenue is around two point, we were around $2 million currently and the current expenditure is around $3 million. Fortunately, we're able to do this because we've had balances in some of our funds. But ARPA, the ARPA funding are the, the mechanism is a stipulation in there where districts or towns can claim on select types of revenue. If the revenue is lower than the base revenue, we can then claim that and that would come back to the town. Right, so just to be a little bit more concrete. So for example, the foreign exchange revenue that we're expecting 250, we always get 250, we got zero. So it's possible that we could submit a claim to under ARPA for that 250,000, would that then go into that account or would that just go to the general town budget? Do we know that yet? Do not know that information yet. So it might, so it's helpful to the town, but we just don't know yet if that's actually gonna help us directly. Okay, thank you. Mr. Slickman. Thank you. I would imagine that a lot of the decisions regarding the ARPA funding will be made in relation to next year's budget and possible additions to that we would have going forward next year. Is that correct? So in terms of the revenue loss that I was just speaking of. Or any additional funding coming in, both the revenue loss line item and anything else that might be coming our way. Yeah, the ARPA funding will go until fiscal 24. So it's not just not here. Okay, so we've got three years of which to use this pot of money going forward to compensate for issues that evolved during the pandemic. Correct. That answers my question. And one of them was revolving around heating and ventilation as well. So that's also another reason why we were talking about related to goals and stuff. So we can do some HVAC work going forward with this ARPA money that we normally wouldn't do. So it's an addition on the capital side. Correct. Okay, and the last final question which I think is an easy one to answer. We don't see a line item for antacid and stomach medicine. So I assume you're happy and optimistic going forward through the end of the fiscal year. Yes, I'm happy and fine with that. As long as we don't see that line item on the budget, I think that we could relax a little. Thank you very much. Great job. Any other questions from the board to finance? Seeing none. Hey! Sorry, I apologize. I'm sorry. Dr. Ampey. Okay, thank you. I'll go for the ARPA question first. Mr. Mason, I understand what you're saying about the lost revenue, but couldn't ARPA funds also be used for certain aspects of education making it for learning loss or anything? So a part of the American Rescue Plan is that there's the SR3 funds which is called the ARP-SR, which was recently allocated. Allocations were recently announced and the town of Arlington will get about $1.1 million. Okay, so those are separate from ARPA. Yeah, that was separate from the municipal side of ARPA, correct. Okay, okay. That answers no. I'll go ahead, sorry. I was trying to find my thing to make sure I was reading something. Okay, so the other questions I have are regarding page 10. First, looking at the circuit breaker, I was wondering if the reason that we're projecting $500 million still coming is because they pay, sorry, $500,000 still coming or 521 is because they're paying in chunks and we haven't gotten our last jump. Yeah, circuit breaker is, I assume that you're referring to circuit breaker and the circuit breaker line is paid, the revenue is paid quarterly. So our last payment is made on June 30th and so that's when it'll be posted. Okay, and we expect that it will come in as billed because I know sometimes they don't always pay out everything they had originally said they would or it changes. To answer that, I have not heard any information that would say otherwise. And also sometimes they do pay a little bit more if there's money in the pot, but no information. And then my second question is also on page 10 and it's about the foreign exchange and I'm confused where it says projected that completion is 199,000 or actually maybe it's just dollars. I don't know what that is. So is this effectively the zero that Mr. Cardin was talking about before? Well, no, no, I believe, and I appreciate first I appreciate you sending me the questions in advance for this particular portion of this report. The negative 199 dollars is a methodology that we use for the grants and revolving reports. And what it does is it basically assumes that the budget amount that's in the system will be spent down to zero. And so in this case, the actual is higher and so it's reflecting a negative amount which essentially, if you look at the line above which is 85103, the instructional materials on page 10 for foreign exchange is projecting a 287. So really what's left to spend that we believe is $88. And that's not really reflected clearly here. So we'll go back and try to work on this to make it a little bit more clearer for the next report. Great, I guess I was confused when I was looking at this but I guess my real question is, so where is the missing revenue in this? Well, and also why, how are we having expenses if we didn't have the students? So the foreign exchange fund supports the Arlington Public Schools and more specifically some aspects of the high school and sometimes professional development district wide. And so there's been expenses on this fund throughout the year and that was based on the school committee approving a certain amount of money for us to spend on these funds. And we have a current balance that we're able to spend for. Okay, yeah, now I understand now it's not actually talking, it's talking about what fund the monies that we've been spending are coming from not the title isn't actually where the fund, what the fund is spending the money on necessarily. So, okay, thank you. Ms. Morgan. Mr. Mason, can you just remind me, so ESSER isn't, we can't go in arrears with ESSER, right? ESSER is just ahead, like we can't go back and fill things to ESSER. No. So that's only FY22 and ahead. Correct. But for some of the ARPA stuff, we may be able to go back and pull it out from FY19 but we'll need to negotiate with the town about where that actually lands because we can find lots of lost, potentially find some lost revenue that goes and sits in the town's books and not on ours. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, I mean. Yeah, so, and just a further comment if I can. The ARPA, we, you know, me and the deputy town manager, Sandy Pullo worked on some estimates on in which funds based on the calculations provided through the formula that's provided from ARPA and there was some estimates that what we could possibly get back from least the first year, which was between $4 million to $8 million between all the funds from the lost revenue and this same calculation would happen again for this fiscal year, well, this calendar year, it says by calendar year. So it'll happen for this calendar year, in 2022 calendar year and 2023 calendar. Thank you. Looking around, seeing no other hands. The idea go forward. Let's try it. Dr. Bordy, superintendent's report, please. Thank you, Mr. Heyner. Actually, the first thing that's not on my list, I have a couple of things that are not. It has to do with an award, one of our coalitions in the high school received. I'm going to ask Ms. Keys, who is the president of the Arlington Educator Association to talk about this award. Thanks, Dr. Bordy. I just found out about this yesterday. So this is breaking news and it's really exciting. I'm going to give you a little bit of background. Since 1983, the Mass Teachers Association's Human Relations Committee has reviewed nominations and selected recipients of annual Human and Civil Rights Awards. They honor those who have shown extraordinary dedication to civil rights and human relations, honoring those who dedicate themselves to equality for all, which is a proud tradition of the MTA. They have been given in the past to individuals and to groups. And one of the recipients this year of the Kathleen Roberts Creative Leadership Awards is the Arlington High School Asian American Coalition. They are led by Sane Park, who is a world language teacher at the high school. She nominated them for this award. Their nomination was supported by both district and high school level administration. And they are going to be receiving their award during a virtual ceremony on June 18th. So I'm very excited for this recognition to be coming to Arlington, because I think our students have been doing a phenomenal job with celebrating and supporting differences among themselves and really educating their classmates. And I really encourage you to go look at this group's Instagram. It's A-H-S-A-A-C. They have a phenomenal series of posts that have been done by their student leader, Andrew Yang, about Asian American hate and some of the biases that we see in the media and in other aspects of culture that have really served our community well. And I hope that they're able to continue their work. Thank you. Thank you. It's really a great honor for the work. And I would echo what Ms. Keith said. Our students have been phenomenal, this group as well as other groups in bringing student voices in terms of having us become much more caring, aware, tolerant society. And I really applaud all their efforts. So it's terrific. And you certainly would be welcome to attend the June 19th award ceremony. We also have, I've talked about this before in the newsletter, but I think it's also worth mentioning since we're talking about recognitions is that one of our fourth grade teachers at Thompson, Sarah Marie Jetty, is a semifinalist now for Teacher of the Year in Massachusetts. And so this is a tremendous honor as well. And so I'm hoping for her because I think she is an extraordinary teacher. And among many extraordinary teachers in our district as we have seen many years, but particularly this year, our teachers have really shown great flexibility, resiliency, creativity, determination as they encountered all the challenges of this year. And there's also, we've heard that before, but I think that they also will leave this year, I hope they leave this year feeling very proud of what they have accomplished because they have accomplished so much. And we will always be very grateful for their efforts on behalf of our students. So it's a, having a semifinalist, I think is also speaks to our entire staff, but we particularly wish her well. She is the author, by the way, of a book, of a children's book for middle grades. And I've read it and I will put it out there for everybody else if you're interested. It's really actually quite, sort of in the fancical, weird tradition or magic treehouse, that's a little bit younger version, but it's really quite lovely. So where the wind blows, I'm trying to think I'll stop my head. All right, so we talked a little bit about the high school. Every day, it's a little changes, but we notice them as we drive by in park every day. So it's definitely moving along and one of the things that will be scheduled in June are some walkthroughs. And ACMI has agreed to be part of one of the walkthroughs. So everyone in the community is going to be able to see what the school looks like from the inside. There will be, there's also certainly looking at the videos that our contractor, Consigli helps provide, also gives you the idea of what it's looking like right now. So that's to be coming. The subcommittee work continues. We have, I know I have two in the next couple of days. And then next Tuesday, June, is that the fourth, I think? No, what is next Tuesday? That is the next building committee meeting. And I thought, Julie, you were gonna say what the date was, it was a... It's the first. It's the first. Okay, thank you. All right, moving on. I also want to mention this evening to our school committee that there's going to be a change coming at lab. Patrick Barbieri, who has been the executive director for the last 14 years, is going to retire as of the end of the school year. His announcement came late enough in the school year that the board of directors, which are the five superintendents from the five districts that created lab, and that's Lexington, Arlington, Belmont, Bedford, and Burlington, has appointed Dr. Bill Lopini to be the interim director. Dr. Lopini was former superintendent in Brookline and Essex Agricultural School and then a superintendent in New Hampshire. And he is going to take this on as well as the search for next year. But I do want to make a few comments about Mr. Barbieri. He has been really an extraordinary director for lab. While he's been 14 years as an executive director, he has spent his entire career at lab as a teacher and different administrator. And as I said, 14 years as an executive director. I think the term that has been used frequently by several people is how transformational he has been as a leader. There has certainly been a growth of programs, a number of them, which I think he's particularly proud of in terms of some of the vocational. But in particular, I think he is very proud of these respite houses that he has worked with till another organization to create. They are in Lexington and these homes provide an opportunity for parents who have a disabled student to be able to take a weekend off and the students live in this house and become part of basically living there and taking care of it and learning many skills. So he will be a great loss to lab and I think he'll be certainly be looking to find someone who will continue his work and hopefully in time, love of lab as much as Mr. Barriieri does and probably always will have for the organization. And one thing I can say too is from feedback from parents, we have lots of different programs and what makes lab unique is that the programs exist in these school systems buildings. As you know, we're building lab classrooms in the new high school. It's just how happy the children have been in the lab program. They've participated in the Olympics program which we haven't been able to have the last couple of years but certainly been highlight past years. And I think another one they've had are problems or get together so kids can get dressed up. So there's just been so many things that make the lab experience so memorable to so many families. And I just wanted to acknowledge what great work he has done for the organization. I don't know if there's anybody else would make like to make a comment about that going to the last issue, which is EDCO. Mr. Cardin. Sure, thank you. So yes, we are a lab family as well and just relatively recently but Mr. Barbiari's reputation preceded him. He's well known in the community for building a very strong and caring program. The lab program attracts students from not just the five districts that are members. We're very fortunate to be a member because it's basically we get priority. We get the programs right in our schools but also from 60 other districts across Eastern Massachusetts. People come from all over the programs that he's helped build. He was very early on the podcast scene and he has a podcast that he's recorded with helpful information for parents. He and himself not only being having worked for lab for a very long time but his sister is a lab graduate. So he has a personal connection which really makes a big difference. So he will be missed and we'll be looking forward to the process for finding a new leader. Thank you. All right, thank you. And you're absolutely right. I think that one of the motivations for how important the Woodland Homes would be that these respite homes was guided by that. I will say one more thing that I think that's outstanding in terms of lab is that he has been quite helpful and parents who want to buy a house that their children can share. He's been lab has given a lot of counseling on that issue. So moving on to EDCO, here's another great organization which unfortunately is going to, it's in the process of dissolution as we've talked about and we've also talked about early this meeting in terms of our representation on that. We've had increased assessments this year for the operating costs of FY 21 and we've been able to be assessed for some of the costs that can be attributed to this year which will reduce what our share of the dissolution costs will be which still remain quite unknown as we deal with the number of issues. And that will certainly be the work of next year. So we have, districts have paid the assessment, the increased assessment which total for Arlington about 70,000 this year and EDCO will be able to make its budget for this year, be able to close it. So another thing that we are working very diligently about is making sure that the retirees from EDCO are still have some way to supplement the costs for healthcare in the years ahead. And so again, that will be an area of focus and at this point that is still something that's being worked out but will be discussed. It's much more detailed in the year ahead. So I just wanted to give you an update on that but one other part of that are to let you know that our interim director, Dr. Tamar has done a fantastic job of being able to move some of the programs that everyone thought was so valuable such as the deaf and hard of hearing program that was located in the Newton public schools. Another collaborative has taken that over and other programs also have been moved or we certainly have executive director, directors of special ed in districts have been able, given the time necessary to find other placements. Also some very important programs that have been part of the EDCO offerings. One for professional development. One is the EMI program which provides a very affordable way for educators to get their principal license. That also is going to be in existence. That was something we were very concerned about. So that will continue and the ideas program. You've heard us talk about ideas here at the table. This is a professional development of opportunities programs, courses to run anti-racism bias and responsive teaching. So that program is also going to continue to exist and is going to be under the auspices of the Massachusetts Superintendents Association which is probably an excellent place for them to be because that is the issues of equity, inclusion, diversity and anti-racism are a focus of that organization in the year ahead, not to mention years ahead. So that, unless there's any questions on EDCO, that's my report on EDCO at this time. Any questions from any members of the board? Comments. Dr. Bordi, is that conclude your report? That concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Ham. Thank you. Moving on to the consent agenda. All items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the committee so requests in which event the item will be considered in a normal sequence. Approval of Warren, Warren number 21256 stated 518-2021 total amounts $708,314.56. Approval of minutes, school committee, regular minutes, May 13th, 2021 and school committee special meeting, August 31st, 2020. Approval of Ida Robbins scholarship presented to two students with the highest GPA. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Is there a second? Second. Roll call. Ms. Exton? Yeah. Ms. Morgan? Yes. Mr. Schlickman? Yes. Mr. Thielman? Yes. Dr. Ampey? Yes. Mr. Carden? Yes. And I vote yes. Thank you. Subcommittee and liaison reports, budget. Dr. Ampey? Nothing to report. We'll be sending out the meeting in the next couple of weeks. Thank you. Community relations, Ms. Exton? Sure. So I have two updates, one on our chat and one on the return to in-person meetings. We had the last chat, sorry. The last chat of the school year will be this Saturday, May 29th at 11 a.m. Everyone is welcome, but especially families and caregivers with students in grades six through 12. I also just wanted to mention that kindergarten to fifth grade chat a few weeks ago, a parent asked about the librarians and Dr. McNeil reported back that APS had hired another certified librarian who has already started working in the district. So we are continuing to grow our library program. So the subcommittee will meet next Thursday, June 3rd at 4 p.m. to discuss the return to in-person meetings and school committee chats. I have spoken to Christine Bonjourno of the Health and Human Services Department and Dan Sheehan, the interim director of information technology regarding the COVID piece of this and the logistics and details for returning to in-person in some kind of hybrid format. And there's some technology needs that need to be put together in order for us to have hybrid meetings. So our subcommittee will discuss that further. Mr. Sheehan will be, I believe, at the meeting next Thursday so we can get more specific information. Thank you. Curriculum Instruction Assessment and Accountability. Mr. Cardin. Thank you. So because I came in late, just to clarify the draft goals often would go to CIA for review, but given the timing of the year and the discussion tonight, I think that's not necessary. Is that correct, Mr. Heiner? I would defer to you. I think the timing and the opportunity to ask questions for us as a full board have already been met coming forward. So there's no plan for a CIA meeting for now and so no report. Thanks. Thank you. Facilities, Mr. Thielman. No report. Policies and procedure, Mr. Schlickman. Thank you. We will certainly need to pay attention to community relations in their discussion of the return to in-person meetings because I'm sure that where we are going will require some adjustments to our policy. So I appreciate the feedback from the chair keeping me in the loop. The only other thing we have outstanding right now is developing a policy pertaining to the land use acknowledgement statement that was adopted by town meeting, exactly how we're going to do that. So that's on the agenda. We'll start thinking about this after we conclude the town meeting. I have a quick question. The two issues that Dr. I mean, Ms. Alba brought up earlier. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think policies and procedures have already addressed this and it's just us bringing them in line and in our documentation. Which issue is that? The restraint. Oh, the restraint policy. Yeah, we adopted that. So we're fine there. Great. Are there any liaison reports at this time? Any members have any announcements that they'd like to share? I have one, I would like to recognize the workplace program at the high school, the staff and the students, for the help today in putting up 157 flags for the Flags for Ellington Rotary Flags for Heroes program. I would invite the members and the public to go up and walk among the flags to see all the ones that people recognize. It's an impressive sight. And we're looking forward, hopefully, to come back to the high school once the high school is done. Any future agenda items at this time? We have one more meeting scheduled for this year, folks. And I'm sure you can always email me between now and then. Okay, executive session. Term next read. Sorry. Just as a quick comment, there's a video circulating from channel for Calhodge who is our goaltender for our lacrosse team. Squared a goal and that made channel four new. So if you can dig that up on channel four, that's well worth looking at. Thank you, Mr. Schlicker. I'm amazed how you can multitask through all our meetings. Thank you. Ready for the executive session statement. To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with union and on non-union personnel or contract negotiations with union and on non-union, which have held in open meeting may have a detrimental effect. Conduct strategies with respect to collective bargaining or litigation in which it held in the open meeting may have a detrimental effect. Collective bargaining may also be conducted. Mr. Spiegel, will we be returning to open session? No. Thank you. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. No. I'm sorry, a motion to go into executive session. Almost had a perfect meeting. Almost. We'll move. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Roll call vote. Ms. Exitant. Yes. Ms. Morgan. Yes. Mr. Schlickman. Yes. Mr. Thielman. Yes. Dr. Hampie. Yes. Mr. Carden. Yes. And I vote yes. Thank you.