 Speakers may offer such objective criticism of the school operations and programs as concerned them But in public session the committee will not hear personal complaints about school school personnel Nor against any member of the school community except for the school committee or the superintendent in the capacity as Operational leader of the Allington public schools Novel committee here anything that might identify or infringe upon a student's privacy by name our incident If you would like to sign up to speak Please email e-diggins at allington dot k12 dot ma dot us by 12 noon on the date of the meeting The first speaker tonight is Rajeev To speak start now. Yes Okay, thank you. My name is Good evening everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today I'm one of the two coaches of the Allington Human Rights Commission and on behalf of the HRC I would like to express the endorsement for the proposal for heterogeneous grouping at the Allington High School starting in the next school year and part of the study committee and we heard from students and staff about their willingness and Readiness to implement this pilot program. We meant frequently to research discuss and debate heterogeneous learning models We read many articles attended forums on growth mindset heard from representatives of neighboring school districts such as Cambridge Lexington and Summabill. We met weekly for three months to come up with this pilot proposal As part of the HRC we voted unanimously in favor and wrote a letter to the school committee Highlighting the business for doing so. In our decision-making, we were informed by research that provided support to the argument that heterogeneous groupings help address long-standing systemic inequities within the school system for students who identify as BIPOC, ELL, or who receive special education services. I make the following remarks in my personal capacity as a parent of a ninth grader at the high school Following comments on social media forums and also listening to school committee meetings I understand that you have heard from many within the school community who are not in favor of implementing this proposal Many of the comments are from those who fear that the traditional honors curriculum students experience will be affected The notion that if most students pursue honors that this amount diminishes the honors curriculum experience is questionable at best Furthermore, the research is conclusive that allowing everyone to learn together irrespective of whether they pursue honors or not will benefit all students Education is improved through discourse and the more diverse the discourse the richer is the student experience and Consequently, wills peer support and the ability to learn from different new points Events in the past few years have shown us that the community faces considerable challenges in all aspects of public life In my view the best approach in dealing with these challenges is by mutual collaboration Coordination and contributions from everybody within society heterogeneous grouping models this behavior in the classroom Enabling students to work together regardless of background I hope the members of the school committee considered this aspect and I request that you vote yes Thank you. Thank you Next speaker is Debbie she here Debbie You can speak if you'd like Thank you. Hello. Sorry. Thank you for your patience Hello everyone. So I My name is Deborah Padreschi. I'm a mom of a seventh grader My son is in fifth grade over at Bishop. I'm also commenting on the heterogeneous. Thanks for your proposal so I I saw the Panel that you guys did and I read the full proposal and I think it actually in the ideal form sounds absolutely amazing You know, it sounds great What my concern is is that in reality what ends up rolling out? So I'm mostly concerned that it's gonna end up being like a pretty much like a lose-lose situation where the kids who need extra help end up not getting it because you know the teacher has a lot Extra to do with like two different classes and I know it was discussed in the panel But I feel like they might not get the help they need and then the other kids who are maybe hungry for a greater challenge Also, I get that so that kind of seems lose lose I do actually think though that this model could work in ninth grade English Given the right training and the right teachers, which I know I've heard discussed and it's like everyone's in favor of I think you could also potentially work in global studies or history in the future I think what my actual main concern that I want to voice is that I know science is being discussed as next and I've seen in plans of math in the future and I don't really see these models working for that and the reason is because I feel like what's gonna end up happening is that people whose Families can afford it are gonna end up getting outside enrichment and people whose families can't afford it Well, this is what happens in the younger grade I know that I had Heard from a lot of people, you know in math like people will do RSM or other Outside services and it's it's expensive. So you end up with a situation where maybe kids who really do want to be challenged Can't be because they won't get that at school. So that's that's kind of or What I wanted a voice today I definitely think that Anyone who wants to should be an honors and I think it's amazing that Arlington High School has the open honors program And I just wanted to comment this maybe also something that is already been taught about but I was thinking potentially I wonder if resources could be sent So in some way have a group that maybe like what encourage kids who don't traditionally Take honors classes to try it even if they're hesitant and maybe there'd be like academic help and You know something like that. So maybe putting resources towards that might might be a good idea to encourage people That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much At this time and I apologize Megan. I skipped over you Megan comedy the Student representative. Do you have anything to share tonight? projects into our new ones Thank you The next item on the agenda is a letter That I'm going to share with the committee and the public. I'm reading this not only as the chair of the Arlington school committee, but as the representative for the board of directors of edco collaborative the letter is directed to The Lexington school committee the Ms. Lenehan chair of the Lexington school committee We write to you as peers and fellow members of the long-standing partnership of the edco collaborative For 50 years edco was brought together 16 communities to serve students with special needs and provide educators professional development Together we have pooled time leadership and significant resources and dedication to the students and families of our districts in good faith and shared interest While we are heartbroken to dissolve the organized this organization that has well served thousands of students and professionals We're grateful for the thoughtful cooperation of all edco member communities to bring our partnership to a graceful close It is in this spirit that we share our concerns about the remaining responsibilities of all the members of edco and assuring that our collective duties are Executed in a timely manner to assure that no additional costs will burden any of our budgets in the upcoming critical fiscal year Due to a variety of factors including the pandemic edco has been forced to dissolve as an organization and break the 15-year lease On its Bedford property as part of the closure process all the member districts of edco must resolve all liabilities Including the lease as soon as possible in order to secure the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education approval to close on June 30 This is necessary to avoid incurring an additional year of significant operating costs Lexington public schools has been and remains a longtime member of edco as Recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Early and Secondary Education Lexington is also a legal signator on the Bedford campus lease agreement as a member and as a signator There is no doubt that Lexington has responsibilities and obligations to the dissolution of the ed of edco While edco leadership has offered meetings written letters and attempted multiple forms of communication with Lexington public schools About their responsibilities to the dissolution process Including a recent meeting with the superintendent the chair and vice chair of the edco board and the interim Executive director we have yet to receive any commitment from Lexington with regard to these liabilities It appears the position that Lexington leadership has taken is that they are not responsible for paying their fair share of the Dissolution cost to date Lexington has indicated that they do not intend to pay their portion of the lease cost approximately $113,000 Not the fiscal year 22 operating costs approximately 36,000 dollars While we appreciate the hundred forty thousand dollars is not insignificant is not insignificant money Money paid for an obligation rather than in service to Lexington students We remind Lexington leadership that all other edco communities are paying their share of the significant cost of the dissolution Indeed even communities like Wellesley and Winchester, which are no longer members have affirmed their responsibility to fulfill their obligations from past membership Other member districts many that face significant economic challenges are also meeting their obligations as good faith members of our long-standing Collective the stakes for the entire collaborative are significant if Lexington public school continues to take the position of not meeting their Obligations to the edco dissolution the cost of these expenses Will fall to the remaining 15 member districts many of which are facing staff reductions budget shortages or extraordinary Financial challenges in our post pandemic economy to be frank Lexington public schools choice to turn its back on its obligations to add the edco collaborative will mean less money for the rest of our Region students money that can be spent meeting the challenges of the increasing social emotional needs Early literacy needs and academic recovery needs of students who have experienced the trauma of learning and growing during the pandemic in The spirit of 50 years of friendship and collaboration the school committees of the 15 member edco Collaboratives request the school committee and leadership of Lexington public schools acknowledge and fulfill their obligations To the communities with which they have long enjoyed successful partnerships We make this request as neighbors and his fellow communities dedicated to the needs of our students Let us see this 50 years strong partnership come to a graceful close with all that we've taken part giving the officiator to see it done Signed by William J. Hanna chair of the Allington school committee I will entertain a motion at this time to authorize the chair to sign this letter and send it to the Allington advocate and to each Individual member of the Lexington school committee Mr. Schluckman, I would like to make that motion But I'd also like to add to the motion That the letter also be sent to the other 15 edco communities and to the commissioner of education Is there a second to that motion? Thank you, Mr. Tillman Okay, is there any further discussion by any of the members? Dr. Ampe Thank you First it's a great letter I'm sorry that we have to go to this. I just wanted to know Some and maybe this was already discussed and I'm sorry if I missed it Doesn't desi have something to say about all of this and Therefore, don't they have some ability to intervene? When desi has let us have gone to desi from the board desi has indicated that Lexington has this responsibility and such But desi has desi has the power to deal with chapter 70 But it has not come forward to do so and it's not indicated that it will they are supportive as far as Stating the Lexington is a member and has this liability I'm sorry. I can't give you any more than that Okay, and If they're not going to intervene Can't we sue I mean echo and I understand that cost money and takes time etc. Etc. But I just $100,000 is a lot of money even if it's split among 15 Members of the board have discussed that have asked that the legal costs are one thing The other part is if we do not if it go does not dissolve by June 30th It has to go through all the process and maintain all all sorts of things for another complete year another Full year so the total cost would greatly outweigh this what we are seeking to do with this letter is to bring Awareness to the community Lexington Has the ability to pay they are not in the financial Straits that other communities are that will it will have a negative effect on several of the members as well If they have to pick up this piece, that's the intent of this letter Couldn't we sue in retrospect? To get reimbursement if it came to that We were the way I understand it from legal is that we would have to sue as an entity and the entity will cease to exist on June 30th And we would not Okay, thank you. Thank you This is like when yeah, I mean, I think it's disgraceful that Lexington is doing this We all get into partnerships together for the purposes of doing good things for kids and Edko was a great idea when we started with it Times change our ability to do professional development changed Our ability and the ability of 15 municipalities in edco I have changed our needs have changed which is sort of read or dead co Obsolete and I'm very thankful for the services they provided for children for all this time But just as we came into this partnership with the dedication to operate within the terms of an agreement and to Share the cost is appropriated by the agreement That agreement should be honored by all 16 towns and unfortunately We've got one which is a very wealthy town in terms of municipal finance Who's just decided they don't want to meet your obligation. It is a shame and I'd like to just make two Technical corrections if I may in The second paragraph it's the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education But and I would also like to add your Arlington to the list of recipients just to be consistent Thank you Is there anything else from the committee? I Would like to just add one Comment I have been on the I've been the Allington representative on the board of directors since July 1st of 2021 And at no time has there ever been a member Are Coming from Lexington to offer their side So just want to add that so at this time I'll take a roll call vote to authorize the cheer to send this letter and with the added Copies that Mr. Schlickman did Dr. Ampe Do we send it to our state reps do Especially the shared ones sure. I think yes and the senator Thank you this letter a form of this letter is being presented to all members of itco Let you know that okay Roll call vote This accent. Yes, Mr. Schlickman. Yes, Mr. Thielman. Yes, dr. Ampe Yes, this Morgan Mr. Hanna. Yes 6-0 vote. Thank you everyone next item on the agenda is School committee right reorganization So I just have a little information in accordance with that part of policy BDA school committee organizational meeting which states And I'm just quoting a small piece of that of BDA Approximately one month prior to the school committee organizational meetings school committee members Interested in offices positions will be notified administrative secretary and are the chairperson as the chair I have received communication from three members seeking offices for the 2022 2023 school year one for cheer and two for vice chair I recommend that each member familiarize themselves with our policies BDA and BDA a Before our next meeting at which time the school committee organizational meeting will take place I will ask Ms. Diggins to forward copies of those two policies to each member of the committee I'll repeat it again BDA and BDA a That was information if anybody has memory any questions or comments fine Mr. Hain is talking more on his last night than he's done all year At this time I Superintendent's evaluation dr. Holman So I wanted to speak with the committee about the evaluation time on the beginning of the year I had indicated an interest in one of our workshops in Having a timeline that would have you all do my summative evaluation at the end of this first year and Upon reflection and upon bit of experience in the role I wanted to share with all of you that I am open to shifting this timeline to November for a couple of reasons One is that I've shared a lot of materials with you as part of my formative Evaluation got some fantastic feedback from all of you and I don't have a lot more to share between now and June I'm sure I surely will have some that I could add to the materials that you got for the formative But I also think that after we go through some strategic planning work Enter into a new school year in the fall and have results back from both more surveys And from MCAS that you I may have more materials to share with you And maybe you may you all may be able to give me more targeted feedback if we were to wait until November So given that that had been current that had been practiced before I had asked for something different early I've had the time to do the job for a little while and reflect on it I wanted to open the conversation back up to potentially shifting the timeline back to November if that's something that committee members were still contemplating or interested in doing Wish to make a comment I just have a question So we would this would move your day evaluation timeline Back to the way it was the way it was And my anticipation would be also that we would do a formative then at some point in the spring next year So you do formatives for my first two years and we would be able to do a formative in May And then we'd be on more like a six-month cycle than a you know three months in between cycle Anyone else? I'm very happy with that Yeah, yes This morning at dark amperd do you have anything you'd like to share your part, okay? Yes, that's fine. Thank you. Okay, and so we now have Superintendent's report We'll pull up my slides Okay, so before you you have our numbers for this week right now last week We had quite an uptick in cases. We had 60 cases of COVID nurse school 59 cases of COVID in our schools And this week we're trending a little bit lower at 38 as we move into Friday We have needed to do some targeted Masking we've moved so far since we have required masking at Bishop We have only strongly recommended it at other schools with small outbreaks Our practice tends to be that when we hit about three cases we will notify families We will tell them that there are multiple cases in the room We will strongly recommend masking and then we will do repeat testing on those classrooms Throughout the week and we will often do multiple rounds of repeat testing in those classrooms And how many students who test positive it certainly spreads in classrooms When there is a case and when there is there are a lot of students who are not wearing masks So those measures though are having a really positive effect on bringing cases down Once we strongly recommend masks a lot of families send their students in masks And it's able to bring the threshold down far enough that we're able to respond and keep everybody in school Our our goal remains to make sure that students are staying in school as much as possible The case rate in Arlington is relatively stable and we continue to watch that as well You would advance me one Okay, great No, I didn't you did I did that I did that okay now it's working So for April one of the things that I had said when we dropped the mask requirement and went masks Optional was that I would be coming back around at least monthly to revisit some of the requirements that we left in place One of those was pertaining to buses the other one was pertaining to monotony preschool at this time after consulting with Steve Angelo transportation director as well as Joyce Schlinger at monotony preschool and Folks at the Department of Health and Human Services and our own nursing team I am going to lift the masking requirement on buses effective tomorrow morning. It will be optional on buses We're also entering a season in which it's a lot easier for us to keep the windows open on our buses But we'll maintain the masking requirement with the waiver process at monotony preschool Given what we're seeing and what we know about what might be a second surge and the case rates in our classrooms right now We still think it's very important that we protect our most vulnerable students Many of whom are at monotony and our youngest students who cannot be vaccinated And so we would like to maintain that requirement with the waiver process And we have had several families take advantage of the waiver process for students who it benefits to have masks off As I mentioned earlier, we are still Doing outbreak response in our schools We had a temporary masking requirement the week of 314 at Bishop We're still doing individual class requirements and strong recommendations at several schools that are listed in your materials And we also do a return to cohorting practices before we will implement mask requirements And maintain the goal of keeping students in school for upcoming presentations I just wanted to make the committee aware of some presentations that we have on the docket for the rest of this year And if there's anything else that you all would like to hear about please let me know as we move towards The end of the school year next time we meet we will hear from our Ellington Public Schools Librarians, which is an ever-expanding and fantastic group of people can't wait to have them And we'll also talk about heterogeneous grouping on April 28 We will do discipline reports K to 12 for all levels And we will have some of our principals here to help us with that on May 12th Our my goal is to have the after-school programming report to you and on May 26 We'll talk about summer school on June 9th We will do a first read of the district mission vision and priorities and initiatives preview And we will do a professional development summary that day the goal is that our Strategic planning team, which I'll talk about in a minute will have at least a draft ready for mission vision and priorities This is in place of what used to be district goals So this these will be the district goals for us to look at at the end of this school year The initiatives preview is us saying here are the initiatives that we believe aligned to these goals We don't have a strategic plan in place yet at that point So the goal would be for you to read those and provide approval for them on June 23rd at our last meeting few other updates We do have a strategic planning facilitator LMP educational services will be working with us to Plan and implement and facilitate our strategic planning group. We have sent the invitation out We sent it on Wednesday all of our strategic planning partners are going to be compensated unless they choose to opt out of that option Including anyone who's over the age of 16 students who participate if they are over 16 have the option of either being compensated or getting Community service hours if they are under 16 then they can have community service hours towards the high school requirement Even if they're only in middle school, so that's a great way for them to begin their community service work And I'm pleased to announce also that we have already 37 applicants and we just sent it out last night So that's fantastic our equity audit team launch happened the week of the 21st over 30 Participants from across the organization are taking part in this and we are also offering compensation for it And they're looking at district materials across seven domains Which we've been in the process of compiling and they're working with our facilitators of the equity audit to do that I enjoyed visiting the bracket school play Wizard of Oz this past weekend with my five-year-old daughter who also thought it was Fantastic our elementary Vespians did a wonderful job in their first in person performance in nearly three years and the upcoming Arlington High School Musical is next weekend and it's the who's Tommy and I can I'm happy to send you information if you'd like to get tickets We're really looking forward to this They've been working extremely hard and we've been I've been graced by the rehearsals as I've come and gone from the theater Area of the new wing over the last several weeks In admin learning news. We have been working on culture and climate action plans after completing our first round of panorama surveys and we're doing our final set of instructional rounds in April We're also doing follow-up targeted surveys in May through June looking at specific domains that Rows to the surface in the results that we got from the first round of surveys earlier this year We have two administrative hiring searches that are about to launch for a full-time director of wellness pre-k to 12 And a full-time director of visual arts pre-k to 12 and the enrollments are also in your packet I am happy to answer any questions Anybody have any questions Yes, I have an enrollment question and sort of thinking about Miss Morgan to this 347 For kindergarten is does not include ones that are Haven't been fully Are we updated it but where are you seeing For next year I had updated Yeah, it is 390, but the one in novice is not the updated version I am happy to project the while I can Okay, so the 390 Includes Families who are waiting to get through the process or these are only ones that have been fully these are real numbers Okay, this is fully registered gone through buffer zones been assigned to school. Okay. Yeah, so and I just like I said How does this Morgan? How does this line up with? Just I know you've taken thought about this for a long time and have a lot of data and I'm just curious where How this looks now to where we're gonna be in September versus This morning go right ahead It looks a little But I mean it makes you think that maybe we won't have as many right It's also starting to like bend that curve, right? It's not growing so fast. So that's when you start to get a sense of like Again, it does that like exponential growth. I mean, that's when you just don't know where it's gonna end And it looks like it's starting to turn, but I Don't know I Don't know where all the stratton kids are either I almost I almost said that back to dr. Homan But I mean we knew it was we we expected to be A little bit smaller, so I mean I'm not shocked but it looks like it looks well Anyone else We're all set Thank You Sorry, I apologize. I'm sorry. Yeah, or maybe Go ahead Kersi Okay, I'll go but then it sounds like Jane also had something so two things first Dr. Homan you didn't mention the forum next week on the fifth on the heterogeneous Group initiative Yeah so Just what I understand it starts at 615 runs till 6 730. It's open to everyone. It'll be remote There is a link. I think on the high school website and there's going to be one The district website And I'll have information about it So it's a time for people to have a chance to hear about the project and I think Be able to ask questions. I'm not positive Yes, and I'm sending out a communication about it tomorrow as well Okay, awesome, and then my second question is more for the group and I guess Mr. So the strategic plan Was hoping that one or two of us would join if there's more than that of us to join. How do we decide? My comment to dr. Homan is if you don't get anybody, I'll be happy to join which I am implying that if you've got two and I'm the third I'll bow out Are there other members of the committee that are interested in being on this so there's one two three four, okay, then How many do you want? I Believe we can only have Okay You right now you have three miss Morgan Dr. Ampe and mr. Schlickman draw lots. I don't know Okay, so now you got to All set Land did you have any I'm sorry I Solve that solves that is there any other discussion on this? Yes, miss Morgan Developed by the strategic planning Root are going to come to us And I guess I'm trying to understand like I guess I'm curious for people because like I didn't write the bull They were written before I came here, but I'm sort of curious about what role the school committee had in that and I appreciate We've just sent mr. Schlickman and dr. Allison Ampe to the strategic planning Group or whatever it's called, which is great, but I guess like if If they're gonna come to us with a mission and vision What what else are we gonna do other than rubber stamp it? I guess and like if if so then like I Guess I just I don't understand The role that we have in that but if it's going to replace the goals Those are really really important, and I think we're developed with the full committee In the past, so I guess I'm sort of curious about how this is all gonna happen We haven't done like a like you know, we're living right now under goals that We Dr. Bode last spring right so we haven't like done that cycle yet and have a new mission and vision Then I guess I feel kind of weird about not being involved in that other than just having to vote yes I I would hope that That this wouldn't be brought feta complete It would be brought periodically and give us an update for us to have some input as a group I don't know if that was your plan Yes, I mean my goal was to update you at the next several meetings that all the rest basically of the meetings about the progress of This group and where they had landed. I don't imagine they'll have much in the way of drafts I mean, there's a vision statement a mission statement, and then there are the four to five Priority areas which are which would be the things that would replace the overarching goals that we have right now and We'll cover the same domains would be my anticipation as the four overarching goals that we have right now the Purpose of the committee and the development of this group is to be as representative as possible and to engage them in all of the data that we've that I've used in part of my entry plan and that we use to evaluate the progress of the school system, so I would be Surprised I suppose if they were to come forward with a set of priorities and a mission or vision statement That wasn't in alignment with what our community wanted and needed to see for our schools but I am Intending to update you all and get your feedback and I can bring that back to the committee Periodically as the work moves forward, and we will have two members on the strategic plan The final thing would have to be approved by the committee my correct. Yes, and the strategic plan would need to be approved by the committee as well Yeah, the reason why I volunteered to do this is that I've actually been a leader of the process in Lowell in my professional life so I've seen that part of the Strategic planning process and given the cohesiveness of the community and the responsiveness of this committee I don't think that we're going to be out of alignment that said is that any vote of the strategic plan Is owned by the school committee. It's ours. It's a recommendation and We as a committee can schedule it so that two weeks before we vote approval We get a first read and and can send back comments as well if there are things that we would like to shape it because We are the people who were representing the entire community and and In we are empowered by them to set to actually approve and set The strategic vision for the district, so I don't I don't see it as a conflict And I don't think that there's a lot of potential for going astray Just a film. Yeah, man. I think it was a decade ago. We voted. Yeah, we voted the goals And so it's probably good time to review and then you know, we went through two readings That's what we do Come back to us. We have a discussion. I What's that I could bring a draft sooner if they have one in writing I just don't know if that they'll have one right fall and I argued about split infinitives Dr. Rampy Yeah, I was just gonna add that we did have We tweaked them For things that were not included in so we we definitely had more than just over staying up on the last time and and more than just grammar to So and I would Hope that we will have that ability in this to me not just as a as representatives on the Strategic planning group, but I don't want to take away from the ability of the school committee to Set Make sure that their vision is also incorporated. Thank you This morning Yeah, I mean I agree I think you know the challenge here, right is that like I I totally appreciate that we can we're gonna send to Members, but like I'm also a parent in this district, right? And so I can't participate in the strategic planning initiative By virtue I can't apply as a parent because I'm a school committee member, right? Which is like a little like that's really complicated And so I guess I just you know, I Appreciate the efforts. Obviously there needs to be this group needs to be formed. It's just it It's hard because It then sometimes feels like oh, well this group did all of this work And this is what they want and what I would you ever want to change it or do something different And so it's just it feels complicated because you know, some of us are We ultimately are precluded from participating In the in the sort of And so then we end up sort of having to like Anyway, you know, we'll see how it goes. I'm sure it'll be fine. I'm sure nothing like wild and crazy It's gonna come out of it and roll again. So thank you The we having the two members From the committee and the superintendent hearing what was just said I think there'll be Any breaks that are necessary going forward in the planning will be applied We all set Okay, moving on Sent agenda all items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion There'll be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the committee so request in which event the item will be considered in its Normal sequence warrant number two two two one two Dated March 22nd 2022 in the amount of $79,997.37 regular school committee minutes March 17 2022 We have a motion so moved. Is there a second? Roll call vote this exit. Yes, Mr. Schlickman. Yes, Mr. Thielman. Yes, Mr. Cardin Dr. Ampe Yes, this Morgan And I vote yes subcommittee liaison reports announcements budget dr. Ampe Thank you. So Administration did for finance committee on Monday, and then we all attended the finance committee presentation and Discussion afterwards. I want to read so first the presentation was awesome and There were very few questions at the end and then the Budget was unanimously passed So I want to say thank you to dr. Holman. Thank you to mr. Mason Thank you to everyone working behind the scenes to prepare that but I also want to read to you the email that we received from Chairman of the finance committee Which I know you folks have heard but this is for our many millions of viewers at home Liz and Michael your presentation at last night's finance committee meeting was outstanding and as you could see well received I have also read for the budget document approved by the school committee and found it exceptionally understandable and transparent There were many points that I could favorably comment on with respect to goals policies actions and budget details Amongst the many steps to drive good education results for all our students and their parents to jump out at me One restructuring and reorganization to create new and better services within a constrained framework I'm sure this was hard work and required a high level of intensity across the entire APS team To dropping athletic and music fees This is a powerful signal to the entire community the equity and dignity is important amongst teachers Administration students and parents that APS is a family. I'm sure you didn't get to this point alone So as an interested citizen I extend my thanks not only to you But also to the budget subcommittee in the school committees a whole and my chair provided both rigorous critique and strong support all the way so I Think that says more than I can in this point. So I'm just gonna leave it there. Thank you. Thank you Community relations this accident Thank you. We'll be having a school committee chat on zoom on Tuesday April 5th at 9 a.m This Morgan and dr. Allison ampey will be in attendance and the zoom link can be found on the APS calendar Curriculum instruction assessment and accountability mr. Cardin. I Yes, we met earlier this week to hear Early draft of the proposal Grouping initiative. There were several members of the study group present to present The findings and the proposal and answered questions and receive feedback I believe the plan is to have that come before the full committee at our next meeting. Thank you facilities pistol fulfillment We met on the 21st I think it was with mr. Mason and we discussed the three playground projects this summer Which are good news at the Bishop the strat and the Pierce and the construction should begin So that was good to get that report and then we talked a little bit about The bracket playground which I guess is a conversation that's ongoing about how to repair that and then we discussed a Report that capital needs report a capital needs assessment report that'll be done at the odyssey middle school April 19th and 20th in a month later. We'll have a report that can be used to inform whether it's worthwhile to pursue Any support from the MSBA? Thank you Policies and procedures mr. Slickman. Thank you. We've got a bunch of stuff to report First of all, there's a stack of policies for first read and I will run through them The first one is policy BDA school committee organizational meeting unanimous voted to recommend by the subcommittee Excuse me, this is merely a minor change that creates a reference to file be the L the lead File BEDB agenda format preparation and dissemination again a unanimous vote of the subcommittee again. It is a Minor change creating a reference back to be the BEDL the land acknowledgement BID. Thank you to mr. Carton for the recommendation on BID. He had his eyes on this Last year's town meeting voted to grant a stipend the school committee members Our policy BID said that school committee members are served without compensation So we're making an adjustment to the policy to bring it in line with the town meeting vote That was unanimously recommended for first read By the subcommittee file a see non-discrimination policy including harassment and retaliation there was a package of Four policy changes that were suggested by the mass association mass association of school committees And they worked with the Attorney General civil rights division to review the policies into broadened discrimination to include harassment and retaliation AC is the non-discrimination policy including harassment and retaliation Recommended for first read by a three-nothing vote Second policy in that group this file ac dash our non-discrimination policy including harassment and retaliation This is a New policy And three nothing both recommended for first reading a CAB sexual harassment When we reached this dr. Allison ampy noted there were some issues with punctuation and wording and the superintendent agreed so we Asked folks to take a look at it and we'll bring that back up at a subsequent meeting Just to tidy it up and get it in line. So on a motion so we voted three nothing to table that Not for content, but just to clean it up That'll be coming after our next meeting file j ick harassment of students Again the fourth of that group and the subcommittee recommended that for first read unanimously then we reached files ff and ff and potential file ffv the superintendent with the support of dr. Janger brought forth a series of procedures for naming the new spaces within our linkedin high school so that It can serve as the exhibit for a Procedure that aligns to policy ff It is in your novice the recommendations from the superintendent We will discuss it further Going forward at another meeting And we certainly would like to get feedback from the members who are not On the policies subcommittee although we need to figure out who will be on the policy subcommittee next month so that could be a Little bit of a switch we want this to be something that all seven of us in school committee members are Aligned with an agreement and if you have any questions or comments about the process that was outlined And recommended by the superintendent you probably would want to have a conversation with her one thing that she said is that It would be 2024 Before we really really really need to have this These names coming in and she requested that we have the issue of the naming Policy settled by the end of this school year Let me just ask the superintendent who's nodding if she'd like Through the chair comment on this part I would just say for in order for us to be able to have a plan for naming those Spaces at the high school in particular and I think what we're leaning towards is really just a procedure for the high school purposes of making sure that the key spaces have a process for being named that doesn't Bog the committee down an excessive conversation about each individual space But also involves members of the community and putting proposals forward for those spaces because people are going to have Ideas for how we could name some of the sort of key spaces of high school that we just want to have something in place before the summer so that we can be in convening that group next school year and Start the process of naming some of these spaces before the building projects done And I reflected in the minutes that miss Morgan had similar concerns to what she had for the Strategic planning committee in terms of things getting to the school committee at the end of the process Which she expressed which I think is is a valid concern and If miss Morgan would Comment through the chair if she if she so chooses Jane do you want to make any comment? Thank you, and and finally and finally file ebc supplemental general intern policy and covert related issues We're looking to sunset this policy that we established two years ago at the onset of the Pandemic and amended going forward. There are three items within this policy that we are considering retaining and bringing into elsewhere in our policy book, which would be the observations of special education programs requiring vaccination or evidence of a negative test student vaccination requirements rostered extracurriculars and for Ki Vaccination requirements for visitors in schools and buildings There was some commentary about this within the minutes Of what we're considering we've since this meeting gotten an opinion that this is within our regulatory powers to do That was written by council. I believe they're a novice that is the report and And so I move that we take the policies designated for first reading for actually The these policies that we presented for first reading now before the committee for adoption of the next Can you make sure that through miss Tiggins that we all get Copies and notification of that. Yeah, they are all in notice this week and make sure that they get back in next That's the feeling you have a comment Yeah, I'm so we're gonna talk about this policy FF or is this coming back for a second reading No FF we're not going anywhere with We haven't decided what to do with it We're just saying that this is coming and we're going to need to resolve this between now and June So that if there are issues with FF that people want to go in and adjust Some of us thought that we should be taking part of the FFE proposal and putting in FF I think that it can work as a standalone But this is also an opportunity for us to look at FF and see if we want to change that as well Well, it's like to go Ali in high school building committee, Mr. Thielman Committee meets on the fifth at 6 p.m. I Saw that you got demolition going on already Yeah We need the members have any announcements at this time I have a liaison update. Well Yeah, go ahead. Julie liaison. I apologize The CPAC has requested to present their survey data to the committee sometime this spring, so As they're currently is on I told them that I would work with the committee to schedule that The committee to know that that was fine. It's coming any other liaison reports at this time Any announcements by members of the committee, I just want to thank the chair for a great year Oh, it was already planned. I have two announces first I want to acknowledge that this past Wednesday March 29th, and each year March on March 29th was Vietnam Veterans Day. I want to thank those veterans and all of the veterans for their service second and Hopefully no other comment. I would like to thank the following for all the help during that my term is chair the superintendent's administrative staff The school administration the superintendent and all members of the alley from school committee. Thank you all Moving on. Are there any future? Are there any future agenda items? Mr. Schlichman, I think we're we need to Through the current chair to the vice chair you know Usually about this time we're getting requests for committee assignments for next year because we will need to vote that at the New York meeting So You got that? She's cool At this time I just want to make an announcement about executive session. We will be coming back To a regular session, but I am not I'm pretty sure that the zoom link and everything will not work It when we come back, it will be very short It will be for a vote it will be recorded and it will be put on the ACMI Completed minutes and it will be part of the active minutes of the meeting. So Executive session will be coming back to conduct strategy session in preparation for negotiations with union in on union non-union personnel I'm sorry. Yes. Do you need me to stick around to sign something tonight? Oh, I have work to do I can sit in the hall and work, but why why don't you? Conduct strategy sessions of preparation for negotiation with union and on non-union personnel or cook Yes, dr. Anthony I'm sorry I didn't understand what mr. Schlichman said about The current chair choosing the vice chair or no, I didn't understand At the reorganization meeting one of the things that we also vote our subcommittee chairs and things of that nature So the vice chair who will be more likely be the new chair has to communicate with different members of what chairs They what subcommittees they wish to be involved in next year. Oh You mean the current vice chair? Yes Okay. Okay, then I understand. Thank you. Okay before I read this thing for a fourth time. I'm going to look around You are not sorry. Yes, mr. Go right ahead. I just wanted to suggest that Julie can pre-sign whatever we're talking about Are we ready can I say my speech? Executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations Important things to get a better view now. Do we need the members have any announcements at this time? I have a liaison update. Go ahead. Well Yeah, go ahead to a late liaison. I apologize The CPAC has requested to present their survey data to the committee sometime this spring So as they're currently is on I told them that I would work with the committee to schedule that on the agenda Since you may have Miss Dickens and I just wanted the committee to know that that was fine. It's coming. Any other liaison reports at this time Any announcements by members of the committee? I Just want to thank the chair for a great year I have to I wait you. Oh, oh, you it was already playing I have two announces first I want to acknowledge that this past Wednesday March 29th and each year my turn March 29th was veteran Vietnam Veterans Day I want to thank those veterans and all other veterans for their service second and Hopefully no other comment I would like to thank the following for all the help during that my term is chair the superintendent's administrative staff the school administration The superintendent and all members of the Allenton school committee. Thank you all Moving on. Are there any future? Are there any future agenda items? Mr. Schlickman, I think we're we need to Through the current chair to the vice chair You know Usually about this time we're getting requests for committee assignments for next year because we will need to vote that at the real work meeting Okay, so You got that. She's cool At this time I Just want to make an announcement about executive session. We will be coming back To regular session, but I am not I'm pretty sure that the zoom link and everything will not work It when we come back, it will be very short It will be for a vote it will be recorded and it will be put on the ACMI Completed minutes and it will be part of the active minutes of the meeting. So We'll be executive session will be coming back to conduct strategy session in preparation for negotiations with Union and our Non-union personnel. I'm sorry. Yes. Do you need me to stick around to sign something tonight? No, oh, I have work to do. I can sit in the hall and work But why why don't you? Just conduct strategy sessions of preparation for negotiation with Union and our non-union personnel or cook Yes, dr. Rampus I'm sorry I didn't under I didn't understand what mr. Schleckman said about the current chair choosing the vice chair or no, I didn't understand At the reorganization meeting one of the things that we also vote our subcommittee chairs and things of that nature So the vice chair who will be more likely be the new chair has to communicate with different members of What chairs they what subcommittees they wish to be involved in next year? Oh You mean the current vice chair? Yes Okay, okay Didn't understand. Thank you. Okay, and before I read this thing for a fourth time. I'm gonna look around Yes, mr. Carly go right ahead I just wanted to suggest that Julie can pre-sign whatever we're talking about at the executive session Are we ready can I say my speech Executive session to conduct strategy sessions and preparation for negotiations with Union and our non-union personnel a contract negotiation with Union and our Non-union in which have held in an open meeting may have a detrimental effect to conduct strategy with respect to collective bargaining All litigation in which you've held in an open meeting may have a detrimental effect The topics for the assistant superintendent for student services and AEA contract Roll call miss Axton Motion to go into executive session Roll call Is there a second second screw this up right? Your last public vote. Yeah, I'm gonna mess it up. We ready roll call miss Axton. Yes, mr. Schlickman. Yes, mr. Thielman. Yes, mr. Cardin Yes, this Morgan Yes, dr. Ampe Yes, and I vote yes