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[0:01] This is Tuesday, September 22nd, 2022, 2016, 63 PM, we're meeting at the Harrington Regional High School Library Media Center. Please stand for pledge allegiance,
[0:13] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic of China, which is a nation undergone in the message of liberty and liberty and justice for all of our.
[0:24] Thank you. This meeting is being recorded by Rehoben TV for live a future broadcast. Thank you.
[0:31] First up, tonight is an executive session.
[0:35] So I know there's a motion to enter executive session for MGL-38,
[0:38] 221A-2 and 3, so perhaps I'm discussing strategy.
[0:41] We'll be back to the collective bargaining with the district DIRPA,
[0:45] Welcome 888 SCIU, custodian local 272 second days in the DIRRTA,
[0:51] as well as potential litigation and open meeting,
[0:52] we have the central mental effect in the bargaining,
[0:54] a living and position, and then you have this one clear.
[0:56] Thank you very much.
[0:58] What's your name?
[1:02] Look at the school chair, seconded,
[1:04] Seconded, two executive session.
[1:08] Also just before we take the vote,
[1:09] As we submitted by opening the regulations
[1:11] The executive session will be conducted remotely by some participants.
[1:14] The security of Golden meeting platform
[1:16] to maintain required confidentiality.
[1:19] Thank you very much.
[1:20] All-Couple?
[1:21] Aye.
[1:22] Aye.
[1:22] All right.
[1:24] All right.
[1:26] Thank you.
[1:26] We'll go into executive session.
[1:28] We'll come out approximately 7.10 tonight.
[1:31] Thank you.
[47:06] One, we are returning to regular session at 717 p.m. September 22nd. Next up, I'd like to open this motion to approve meeting minutes.
[47:14] Motion to approve meeting minutes from the previous school committee meetings September 8th, 206
[47:22] I did motion by Mr. Lucas I did by Ms. Burrell's to approve the meeting minutes of September 8th, 206 any discussion
[47:30] See none also pay the say aye
[47:32] Aye
[47:39] We're not we're not we don't have anybody remote right now
[47:47] So, thank you
[47:49] Warts and people
[47:51] Motion to approve warrants in payroll as
[47:56] presented sir.
[47:58] Motion to approve warrants in payroll as presented in discussion.
[48:04] See you on also.
[48:05] Aye.
[48:06] Opposed.
[48:06] Thank you.
[48:07] You haven't already signed the warrants around the table.
[48:10] Next up is course finance and enclosures.
[48:13] Mr. Rooney.
[48:15] Yes, Mr. Chair.
[48:16] First of all, I'd like to welcome everybody to the revamped Harrington Library Media Center.
[48:21] Thank you to Mr. Bram for delivering on the furniture and Ms. Blackburn for getting the
[48:30] tablecloths that the chair I'd requested. So I think it looks great.
[48:34] Correspondence and closures tonight include meeting minutes of September 8th, 2020, six
[48:38] regular session. Worts in payroll, copy of policy, JICJ, which is the self-imp Policy.
[48:46] We have a copy of the Protect Act Policy.
[48:50] You have the Business Administrators memo.
[48:52] You have a budget to actual printout.
[48:55] You have the Department of Health and Regional High School
[48:57] Freshman and Rolment Brief.
[48:59] You have a pantry support sponsor memo.
[49:02] You have a donation to benefit,
[49:04] Pomeriver Elementary.
[49:05] You have a donation to benefit,
[49:06] Diet and Elementary.
[49:08] And you have the Rehobe PTSA meeting summary.
[49:13] Thank you, Mr. Rene.
[49:14] Questions of Mr. Rene, of course,
[49:15] five student closures, see normal good reports and presentations.
[49:21] The first up is Super Tennis Report.
[49:23] Okay, thank you Mr. Chair.
[49:25] So last meeting, we were informed that
[49:28] Dite Nellimentary had been selected as a unified champion school.
[49:31] And then three days later we found out that
[49:34] Comeriver Elementary has been selected as a unified champion school.
[49:40] So we are so extremely proud of the work that's been done,
[49:45] especially at the elementary level in the last year or so to really expand these unified
[49:51] opportunities and I've already started to work on the goal that I shared with you about
[49:58] unified programming from PreK through 12 plus and we actually had our first meeting today
[50:05] and I'll report on that in the weekend update that comes out all Friday.
[50:11] All committee members have already been invited but I just want to remind the committee that
[50:16] We are having the ribbon cutting for our Falcons Fuelling Families Pantry, which is right outside,
[50:24] and that is going to be next Tuesday, September 29th, and it's going to be at 1230 p.m.
[50:31] Rain or Shine, so we'll be inside here if for whatever reason the weather is not comparable or not compatible.
[50:40] And we are targeting launching the pantry in mid-Optober in time for the Columbus Day weekend.
[50:48] If you recall the primary motivation that I had for this was that food insecurity is something that I'm always concerned about with our students.
[51:00] But when we go into three day weekends, when we go into long breaks, whether it be for the holidays,
[51:08] February, spring break, whatever it is, there are several of our students and their families
[51:14] who struggle with food insecurity. So I'm very proud of the fact that we will be able to send
[51:21] some of our students home with enough not perishables to be able to help support their family
[51:27] through those extended breaks.
[51:32] We had a very meaningful day on September the 11th, DR never
[51:37] forgets day. There was a lot of support across the district, a lot of students and staff wearing
[51:44] red right and blue just in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred
[51:51] throughout various parts of our country, and as I've said before, you know, all of our students,
[52:00] but even some of our staff members were not born yet when that happened in 2001, but still,
[52:09] it is something that we will never forget, and it is an opportunity for us to remind our young people,
[52:16] and some of those young staff members have about the value of our freedom.
[52:23] Then last Friday, we had a tremendous amount of green and gold across the district for the...
[52:29] we are all...
[52:31] All of the schools bought into it. It's wonderful to see all of the schools in green and gold. We've started to see the
[52:58] So, thank you for your support of that initiative back in June, and we're seeing a lot of positive moments.
[53:07] Just want to remind folks that our classic car show is coming up in about a month.
[53:12] It'll be held on Saturday, October 24th, and it will likely be the debut of our culinary program.
[53:21] So some of our freshman culinary students will be preparing some food that day for purchase.
[53:28] and we are looking forward to seeing a great turnout for the Karsha.
[53:35] Also, the DR Unified Buster Club that you approved last year is having a fundraiser on Sunday,
[53:44] October 11th.
[53:45] They're having a 5K race right here at Dietrich Hope at the Regional High School.
[53:50] And if anyone is interested in receiving more information on that, you can email Carol
[53:55] and she still has her DR email address.
[54:04] I know the weather doesn't look great for this weekend,
[54:06] but you know, I haven't heard anything to the contrary,
[54:09] so as of now, we are ready to support.
[54:13] Once again, the Robeth Act of Cultural Fair,
[54:16] grateful to Ms. Tiffany Levec for the DR Maritz program,
[54:21] as well as Mr. Strony from the CTE program,
[54:25] who joined me out at the Ag Fair last year.
[54:28] and looking forward to hopefully the weather cooperating and having a wonderful event this weekend.
[54:40] So the MSBA update is that the meeting with the Facilities Assessment Subcommittee
[54:46] back on September the 16th went extremely well and they gave us some feedback that the
[54:54] and that the OPM will take in a consideration, but we have been formally
[55:00] invited to the Board of Directors Meeting, which is on October 28th, and we are
[55:06] confident that the Board of Directors will approve the preferred scheme, and
[55:11] once that preferred scheme is approved, then we are going to launch into an
[55:20] in Greater Communications Effort and we'll be engaging the community to a greater extent
[55:27] and we're looking forward to a positive vote in the spring of 27.
[55:34] I'm going to ask Lauren to come to the table and she's done a great job for the last several
[55:40] months with these alumni spotlights and we have a really interesting one from the class of 2022.
[55:46] Good evening. This month we kicked off featuring Eliana Reposa, who's a graduate of the class of
[55:54] 2022.
[55:56] She completed her master's at UMass Amherst, and she got her bachelor's in only three years,
[56:08] which is a tremendous accomplishment, and now she's working in her dream job in statistics in
[56:14] major league baseball, which is also really cool.
[56:18] And in her bio that she wrote for us, one of the things she said that really, really struck
[56:23] me, I'm going to quote her here.
[56:25] In terms of classes, DR offered me the ability to take a rigorous course load, including
[56:31] enrolling in a virtual high school class, which through testing allowed me to enter college
[56:36] already having earned 33 credits, giving me the opportunity to graduate with my bachelor's degree
[56:42] a year early. That's a tremendous accomplishment and a great testament to our school, especially
[56:48] now with our early college offerings. So it was really exciting to read about someone
[56:53] already taking advantage of the wonderful things we offer here. And I wish her so much
[56:58] success.
[57:00] Thank you. And you can say right there. So I'm going to ask Mr. Cameras to come up. Join us.
[57:12] So we just have a couple of slides for the committee tonight just about the enrollment data that I spoke about back in August and I just want to briefly revisit that retention discussion from August.
[57:28] We did a deeper dive into the historical data so that what we're presenting tonight is based on a consistent verified methodology.
[57:37] The important takeaway is that the broader story still remains that it is a very positive trend
[57:44] that our great-great-8 to great-9 conversion is moving in the right direction, particularly
[57:50] this year we're seeing meaningful progress and so I've asked Mr. Demers and Ms. Harwood to show
[57:57] you what some of the data says and we're also going to share some of the things that we believe
[58:02] are contributing to that moment.
[58:03] I
[58:06] thank you, Mr. New, thank you everybody, really comfortable seats, so this is great.
[58:11] Just kind of wanted to set the stage by talking about what we mean when we talk about conversion rates.
[58:17] So in a past life, I was an admissions director, so I'm going to put that head on.
[58:21] So conversion rate is a really great way to actually see how we are capitalizing on students.
[58:29] wanted to come to DRHS because if we look at just raw class size of the ninth grade, that's
[58:34] not time to hold a story because as we know, the eighth grade cohort could be very large,
[58:39] one year, it could be smaller another year.
[58:42] So what this conversion rate means is we compare the size of the prior year, grade eight and
[58:48] we see the grade nine enrollment based off of how many of those students join us and we define
[58:55] that as a percentage. So to have a conversion rate means how many of the students are converting
[59:01] and coming here to DRHS instead of going to other options. So this uses that verify cohort data.
[59:09] Again, rather than a comparison of the raw freshman class size, which gives us a much better
[59:15] indication of how successful our interventions are when we when we really try to market DRHS
[59:23] to both of our middle schools in both of our accounts.
[59:32] So, for our data source, we use the numbers that we've reported through state reporting
[59:37] through Sims, except for this year, because we haven't reported Sims yet.
[59:42] And we have shown that the margin rate in our four-year cohort has gone from 69.3 to 83.1%
[59:51] which is a tremendous leap.
[59:54] It represents an increase of 13.8 percentage points.
[1:00:00] And we're very excited about this positive movement. It reflects real progress in our retention efforts. And our focus is now on building that momentum and seeing even better results as we go on.
[1:00:16] So when we look at this change obviously we want to think about like what what have we been doing that might have caused this jump in
[1:00:23] It's not just one one thing. There's no panacea. There's nothing that you know, we can pinpoint to say it's this one thing that we've done
[1:00:30] It's it's a myriad of different things and I think it's all indicative of how hard all of us have worked between central office
[1:00:38] between all of us here at the high school between all our middle schools and elementary schools and all that you do every day for us
[1:00:45] And so just some of the things to keep in mind that I think we need to continue to work on.
[1:00:50] And obviously we know that we always have a lot of room to improve.
[1:00:54] So I think when you look at, from the middle school levels, the different opportunities that we've
[1:01:00] been able to build to get here to the high school, whether it's our eighth grade algebra cohort,
[1:01:05] which has been phenomenal since we've moved out of the pilot stage into our second year,
[1:01:10] All of the abilities for our middle schoolers to come up and participate in extra curriculars,
[1:01:16] whether these would be athletics, whether they'd be theater, marching band,
[1:01:19] that all get students on campus. They see everything here.
[1:01:22] They feel part of the community earlier.
[1:01:24] That's, I think, been a tremendous tremendous way in which we've really helped with that conversion rate.
[1:01:30] We've also, you know, continue to try to build so many different pathways here,
[1:01:35] whether it's early college, whether it's our eSports teams,
[1:01:39] whether it's performing arts, athletics, we're always trying to move forward and give more
[1:01:43] opportunities. I like to always say there's something for everybody at DRHS and that's
[1:01:48] something that I think is starting to permeate down into the middle schools where folks are
[1:01:53] seeing that if you choose some other schools you're kind of choosing to be the best of
[1:01:58] what's the best for me. But here we have the best of all worlds because you have a
[1:02:02] comprehensive high school where you have our tremendous CTE program and where we're building out
[1:02:07] those three new programs, and improving upon our traditional programs.
[1:02:11] You have, again, an award-winning theater program, you have great arts, you have great academics,
[1:02:17] you have so many different pathways.
[1:02:19] If you look at, again, all of those great AP scholars we're producing, the truly is something
[1:02:24] for everyone, and I think that, again, is starting to show, but that's only as good as
[1:02:28] the marketing we're able to do.
[1:02:30] And I think we often already agree that Mr. Rudy is an unbelievable marketer and, in
[1:02:37] terms of, you know, pushing us every day to tell our story here has been something that's really
[1:02:42] important.
[1:02:44] So, continuing those marketing opportunities, we've really improved on Green and Gold Knight.
[1:02:48] I think over the past several years.
[1:02:50] So we're looking forward to another great Green and Gold Knight in October and the staff here
[1:02:55] has really stepped up in terms of that Knight really showing off our schools.
[1:02:59] And I think a great transition program, we put a premium on having the eighth grade have an
[1:03:04] opportunity as they're becoming ninth graders to get here on campus in the summertime.
[1:03:09] We've instituted busing in different things to get them here.
[1:03:12] So I think that transition pathway continues to, you know, we want to improve it even more,
[1:03:18] but that has truly helped.
[1:03:20] You know, it says greater leadership, continuity, stability, but you know, my staff and I are
[1:03:27] hardly perfect, but the one thing we are is that we show up every day and we think about
[1:03:30] make this school better. And I think hopefully that is something that makes one small piece of this entire puzzle.
[1:03:39] And then, you know, that idea that we're going to continuously tell the story,
[1:03:43] and thanks to you as a school committee, you constantly support us.
[1:03:47] You constantly get the word out there. And we can't thank you enough for that.
[1:03:49] So you are a big part, I think, of the change in this conversion rate.
[1:03:53] And it's not always going to be linear. We know that.
[1:03:56] But I think as long as every day when we step into this building and we come here, we think
[1:04:01] about how can we continue to improve the school, this is just going to continue to go in a positive
[1:04:07] trajectory.
[1:04:08] So, thank you for that.
[1:04:09] But again, it's not one thing, it's a complex puzzle, it's ever changing, and we're always
[1:04:15] here to just work as hard as we can to continue to figure out those trends, to figure
[1:04:19] out what the families have done and hold it want, and to make sure that we're continuing to
[1:04:23] build out this momentum.
[1:04:27] Another area where we've seen growing interest is in our CTE program.
[1:04:34] Over the past five years we've gone from 67 students taking the exploratory rotation to 129 students this year at the first day of school taking the rotation.
[1:04:45] That's a huge increase and a very exciting one.
[1:04:51] They're taking advantage of the opportunities.
[1:04:54] They're learning different pathways that they can take.
[1:04:58] And we're just going to continue to see that grow as we expand our CTE.
[1:05:04] And just before I pivot to the last slide,
[1:05:06] if you do look at these percentages in my first year,
[1:05:11] 40% of our freshmen were going into exploratory.
[1:05:16] And as of the first day this year, it was almost 75%.
[1:05:20] Those students are, as Lauren said, those students are getting exposed to pathways that they might not have thought about when they were in fifth or sixth grade, and I think that the marketing efforts that we've had with our seventh and eighth graders with visiting their middle schools, especially with the CTE programs, has had a dramatic impact on having more students go into exploratory.
[1:05:48] So, our last slide is just one other aspect of CTE and that is the next level of exploratory.
[1:05:58] So, it's one thing for these students to be curious about CTE and to have now three out of every four of them,
[1:06:08] opting into exploratory when they arrive on regional road as freshmen, but you got to hook them.
[1:06:15] So it's one of the things that I've talked to Mr. Strony, the director of CTE, and I've met with his department in the years prior, and I've said, listen, once you get them in your programs, you have to sell them.
[1:06:32] And we are now at a point where 100% of the students for the last two years, 100% of the students that are in exploratory are opting into one of the CTE programs.
[1:06:44] And one of the things that I'm really proud of, I'm talking to somebody today, some of them don't even get their first choice because we know there are limits on the seats and some of those programs.
[1:06:57] And these kids are having an enjoyable enough experience that if they don't get their first choice, then they're still sticking with CTE and going into their second choice.
[1:07:05] So thank you for your support of the three new programs, and we're looking forward to those continuing to become more and more robust as we get sophomores next year and juniors that year after that. And, you know, before we know it, we'll have 10 programs that will be from grade 9 through 12. And I've had a few conversations with a few people.
[1:07:30] May be submitting an application maybe for an additional program in the next year or so. But, you know, if you look at the bottom of this slide here, it's kids are choosing DR, they're exploring the opportunities that we have, and they're finding a pathway that is going to help shape their future.
[1:07:51] That concludes my report.
[1:08:13] Could you report Mr. Morith?
[1:08:14] It does.
[1:08:15] Thank you.
[1:08:19] Chief person's report.
[1:08:22] We had a budget subcommittee meeting early at today.
[1:08:26] Mr. Brem reviewed the actuals and the amounts that were
[1:08:32] uncovered for 2027.
[1:08:34] All looks good.
[1:08:35] You can update that in the prison report.
[1:08:38] As at this time, we also reviewed the grants
[1:08:41] and those are on track to be a good year
[1:08:44] for our grant submissions and approvals as well.
[1:08:47] So thank you all, who involved in that.
[1:08:51] Also, I just want to remind everybody next Tuesday at 6 o'clock.
[1:08:54] Your in the high school is the superintendent's value.
[1:08:55] We should workshop and I owe that a couple of people
[1:08:58] I'm going to make it right, but that was the best we could get.
[1:09:02] So I need the bus to be here to work on that next Tuesday at 6 o'clock.
[1:09:06] I think it will be until we could use it.
[1:09:09] We'll get that done in an hour or so, maybe 90 minutes depending on how much.
[1:09:14] questions there are about the indicators, so hopefully we'll get packets out to you shortly
[1:09:18] to handle that, and we're going to have some food and drinks just because the meeting
[1:09:23] is a little bit earlier than usual,
[1:09:28] so I hope you guys have anything else for which you
[1:09:29] are going to like to have it already been tuned.
[1:09:32] Okay, let's all have some secret party questions for the chair.
[1:09:36] Okay, great.
[1:09:37] Thank you.
[1:09:38] Next up is Mr. Mysterious Report, Mr. Brown.
[1:09:48] Thank you very much.
[1:09:49] And the
[1:10:07] budget to actual, we are on target for spending.
[1:10:10] We feel a lot of preparation on the summer.
[1:10:49] Just a bit of some of the energy contracts.
[1:10:53] So,
[1:11:09] thank
[1:12:30] you.
[1:12:32] Next up is discussion action items.
[1:12:34] First up, we have called Falcon fueling families.
[1:12:42] Yes, Mr. Chair.
[1:12:43] You have a memo in your packet.
[1:12:45] It's very similar to the proposal
[1:12:48] that we submit from the Gridiron Club or from the basketball boosters, we're very excited about
[1:12:57] the potential of this pantry.
[1:13:01] You know, I could even imagine that there would be opportunities for us to even help
[1:13:07] tighten families or robot families that don't even necessarily have children in the district.
[1:13:12] But the first step is obviously to take care of our own.
[1:13:15] And we have some interest from Winston's culinary group
[1:13:20] who is our food service provider.
[1:13:23] They are interested in providing some bags and some other materials.
[1:13:29] And we also have interest from the local seafood company
[1:13:32] who is willing to donate some soup.
[1:13:36] And I just figured that it would be easier for me to request
[1:13:43] of you that we could accept these donations as they come in, as you see on the bottom of the
[1:13:50] slide here, when the signage does end up on the pantry outside. It is going to say, for
[1:13:56] increase, you can email pantry at drreginal.org, and that's going to give families a confidential
[1:14:02] opportunity to email us. It's only going to go to me, Ms. Blackburn, Ms. Morby, who has been
[1:14:13] in instrumental in helping rights and grants,
[1:14:17] but also if there's somebody who rides by and
[1:14:19] they say, hey, I'd like to donate to the pantry, then how can I help? And that's an opportunity
[1:14:24] for them to email with an email that's email about that as well.
[1:14:30] Thank you, Mr. Rene. We'll see any questions on Falcon's fueling family.
[1:14:35] Tom Twister.
[1:14:37] What did they see now at the emotion?
[1:14:39] Motion to vote.
[1:14:40] To approve the district request to seek sponsorship for the Falcons, fueling families
[1:14:44] pantry as recommended and presented.
[1:14:47] Much by Mr. Lukasang, I'm a school manager to approve sponsorship for Falcons, fueling.
[1:14:52] For them.
[1:14:55] FFF.
[1:14:56] Seeing the whole discussion.
[1:14:59] All the famous AI.
[1:15:00] Hi.
[1:15:00] Opposed.
[1:15:01] Thank you.
[1:15:02] Thank you.
[1:15:03] Next up, we've got two policies.
[1:15:05] The second read.
[1:15:06] I believe you reviewed these at the last reading.
[1:15:08] Until today is the second reading.
[1:15:09] Let's look at one of those.
[1:15:11] Did you change your mind to those?
[1:15:12] Yep.
[1:15:12] So, policy, GICJ, the self-form policy, we made the amendment as requested with the reference
[1:15:21] to the student code of conduct in the handbook.
[1:15:25] And then, well, should I, I'll wait on the, yeah, yeah, so that was the only, we just made the amendment as recommended for that.
[1:15:37] So if anyone has any questions.
[1:15:42] Any questions on the cell phone policy, second read.
[1:15:46] This time I'll take a motion to approve the policy.
[1:15:49] Motion to vote to approve policy, JICJ, as recommended and presented.
[1:16:04] Mr. Chair.
[1:16:06] Just I want to just let the committee know that.
[1:16:11] As I mentioned at the last meeting, if you approved it, the most substantive change is going to be at the high school.
[1:16:17] And so a message is going to go out for me to all families tomorrow announcing the change.
[1:16:26] Mr. Demers is going to have conversations with all of his students during lunches over the course of the next couple of days.
[1:16:35] And we will remind families in the Friday Family Communication.
[1:16:39] So nothing will be implemented until Monday.
[1:16:41] Thank you.
[1:16:45] Next up is protect deck policy.
[1:16:47] Protect deck policy ACL.
[1:16:49] The only change we made is we have the policy name file name now.
[1:16:54] This is exactly as was presented at the last meeting.
[1:17:00] A discussions on policy ACL protect deck.
[1:17:04] See normal take a motion to approve the policy.
[1:17:06] Motion to go to approve policy ACL as recommended and as presented.
[1:17:10] Thank you.
[1:17:11] Watch from this local second did by the school to approve policy ACL protect deck.
[1:17:15] for the discussion, see you now in all of the famous AI.
[1:17:19] Hello, sir.
[1:17:20] What's your name?
[1:17:22] Next up, we have a few donations today.
[1:17:25] Yes, Mr. Chair.
[1:17:26] The first donation is from the Rachel Brand again,
[1:17:29] Educational Foundation.
[1:17:30] This is an annual one.
[1:17:32] It is one that we are extremely grateful for.
[1:17:35] And I'd just like to read an excerpt.
[1:17:37] I worked with Judy Lesk in Adelboro and Judy was this,
[1:17:43] was Rachel's teacher.
[1:17:45] So on behalf of the Rachel Brand again,
[1:17:47] Educational Foundation, please accept the enclosed books
[1:17:49] as a tribute to her memory.
[1:17:51] Your school was chosen through your students,
[1:17:53] Joanna and James Monson, whose grandmother was Rachel's teacher
[1:17:57] and is currently a board member of the Foundation.
[1:17:59] Rachel Brand again was a bright, articulate, seven-year-old
[1:18:02] who loved to learn.
[1:18:03] She had just started third grade at Highman Fine Elementary
[1:18:06] School in Attleboro when she lost her lengthy battle
[1:18:08] with cancer in September of 2003.
[1:18:16] Mr. Rene on this motion.
[1:18:20] motion to vote to accept the donation of five hard cover books from the Rachel
[1:18:24] Brannigan Education Foundation approximately $100 to the Palmer River Elementary School Library
[1:18:29] as recommended and as presented.
[1:18:32] Most of my misleadness and will excuse you to accept the donation of the Rachel Brannigan Education Foundation
[1:18:37] approximately $100.
[1:18:38] Any further discussion?
[1:18:41] See an unhelp one.
[1:18:42] Just that we're honored to receive these books in her memory.
[1:18:45] Absolutely agree.
[1:18:47] So you know on this question, all of the favour say aye.
[1:18:51] Hi.
[1:18:51] I'm Paul McStayne.
[1:18:52] What's going to be in the second.
[1:18:53] And the second donation is $500 to benefit.
[1:18:59] Diagnetic Elementary School.
[1:19:01] It is from the charity's aid foundation.
[1:19:05] And it was submitted by Cheryl Wongless.
[1:19:09] It's my understanding that this is a matching gift's
[1:19:13] type program through someone's corporate affiliation.
[1:19:22] Motion to vote to accept the donation of $500 from the Charities Aid Foundation to
[1:19:26] tighten elementary school to be used towards student and staff initiatives as recommended and as presented.
[1:19:32] Most of us look aside, they might ascute you to include the five or all knowledge from Charities Aid Foundation to tighten elementary school.
[1:19:37] Any further discussion?
[1:19:42] Thank you very much.
[1:19:48] This time, we'll public input, public input, public input,
[1:19:51] public input, community list, comments and matters within our authority.
[1:19:54] It's a dialogue, please.
[1:19:55] Please report, press all students for specific issues.
[1:19:57] Keep remarks to not 1-3 minutes.
[1:19:58] Anyone here for public input tonight?
[1:20:02] Thank you.
[1:20:07] Come on in.
[1:20:07] Good morning.
[1:20:09] Good evening.
[1:20:09] I have two things to answer and tell them for the record.
[1:20:14] Well, George Solis for Hobbits, thank you so much.
[1:20:17] I was listening to the CTE program.
[1:20:21] And when I was listening to it, I, in my head, the numbers were,
[1:20:27] I was trying to match the numbers.
[1:20:28] And I think I was referring, but I was referring to that.
[1:20:32] There are more students that decided not to go to other CTE schools.
[1:20:36] And I'm not sure if that's like the assumption, and if that was the case, is there any idea of how many students decided to stay versus going to another school?
[1:20:49] If we have somebody to do that.
[1:20:51] Okay.
[1:20:51] I mean, the raw percentage is the eighth grade cohort to the current ninth grade classes, 83%.
[1:21:00] where as it's been anywhere from 65 to then 70 to maybe 72, 73 that doesn't necessarily indicate whether somebody chose a private school or something like that.
[1:21:23] the term, and I'm the kids could have gone to some other C-3Bs, I mean the majority of the
[1:21:31] difference would be kids that could have gone anywhere and they chose to come here, but
[1:21:41] the eighth grade guidance department typically does an exit survey to, you know, see where kids are
[1:21:48] going, I don't have that information with me right now. I was just thinking how much money that
[1:21:53] saves the towns because the towns have to pay extra money for the safety of these schools for
[1:21:59] the first study and I was sort of excited back there thinking that all this was safety
[1:22:05] you guys at the site of the state. I mean it's exciting yeah. I think you it's more like you'll
[1:22:12] see it later on when the budgets come up for those schools like as the enrollment increases it
[1:22:16] decrease the one not you know what you'll see from ours is the enrollment increase but
[1:22:20] cost don't necessarily increase because we're just keeping the same number of classrooms
[1:22:23] which is why it's important to do the conversion, other than the three new programs
[1:22:27] where they see the grant funded to us.
[1:22:30] Two of the three are, but yeah, I agree. I mean, we've got just a good program here as any of the CT school and parents have, you know, a lot of choice to make. So I appreciate that they've, sites come here. I think it was a good decision.
[1:22:43] Well, the second thing I came up here, it was the most important thing I had all night and thought about all day.
[1:22:49] Today, the Sleckman wanted to wish happy birthday to Bill Williams.
[1:22:55] So I'm up here to extend congratulations, and I made it.
[1:22:59] Well, this hope you get to 61.
[1:23:02] Thank you, Mr. Solis.
[1:23:03] Thank you, sir.
[1:23:04] Thank you, sir.
[1:23:07] He's contracts to 231.
[1:23:09] So he's got gold.
[1:23:10] Exactly.
[1:23:10] He is in 69.
[1:23:14] All right, thank you.
[1:23:14] Any other information to come to Philadelphia committee tonight?
[1:23:17] It's going to sound like the most emotion to adjourn.
[1:23:20] So moved.
[1:23:20] Watch one.
[1:23:21] Let's look at second date by my school to two adjourn.
[1:23:25] 7.53 all of us pay for say aye.
[1:23:28] Policeman most guys here.
[1:23:29] Thank you.
[1:23:29] Good night, buddy.