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Good evening everyone. The meeting of the school committee is called to order. It is 630 on August 17th, 2026. I'm just going to read a brief statement at the moment.

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This meeting is being held remotely or in person as an alternate means of public access, pursuant to chapter two of the acts of 2025 and other applicable laws temporarily amending certain provisions of the Opening Law. You were hereby advise of this meeting, and all other communications during this meeting may be recorded by the Town of Hingham in accordance with the opening law.

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If any participant wishes to record this meeting, please notify the chair at the start of the meeting in according to the master and the law. Chapter 38, section 20 F so that the chair may inform all other participants of said recording.

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Is there anyone in the audience who is recording or anyone on zoom who is recording? Okay. Seeing none, we'll move on. Tonight, I just want to let him know that I am joined by my school committee colleagues Nina Vilanova, John Mooney, Matt, Cosmin, Carrie and and I am Jen Benham. And we're going to start off with our first order of business, which is approval of minutes.

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We have one set of minutes from July 13th in our packet. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of the school committee meeting held on July 13th, 2026. Second, is there any discussion or questions or comments? All right. All those in favor I proposed. All right. Are approved. All right.

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Moving on to agenda item number three, which is the superintendent's before it. So pass it on to Roberts. Great. Thank you Jen. So we are rapidly counting down to show time with students arriving. And just a short few days I and I spent the day doing facilities tours to make sure our buildings are ready to go.

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And last week, our full leadership team, our senior leadership team, principals in Central Office staff met for a retreat to plan out some of our key initiatives for the year, which include the implementation of the Elementary Bridges Math Program, our Special Education Improvement Plan, and other district wide projects.

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This Thursday, our full leadership team is back, our curriculum directors, and so on, and we'll continue that work of strategic planning. And then on Monday, August 24th, is when our students start to arrive back on campus. So our fall athletes will be on campus for fall tryouts, and our new teacher orientation will begin. And finally, we will welcome our students on September 1st, which we're looking forward to.

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This week, we said farewell to our summer interns, who have been a terrific help to our Central Office team, working on a number of projects, and we're always grateful for the energy and enthusiasm that they bring to our work, and we wish them all the best as they head back to college.

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On a similar note, one of our summer interns, Nathan Tessler, who's a high school alumni. As part of his internship, he collaborates some outreach for us.

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And this year, for the second time, he organized a jazz band concert at the Senior Center, which was very much appreciated, and it gave me an opportunity to get to know some of our our seniors at Cal and allowed me to highlight some of our programs and strategic initiatives. And last but not least, I had some late breaking news that I just dropped into the folder I used to open.

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And our Director of Transportation, Padraic Cunningham, have been hard at work in our Electric Bus initiative and pleased to share that all 13 of our new electric busses have been received from Highland and all of the charging infrastructure has been installed. And so we're just in the process now of taking care of some things like registering them, installing security cameras and so on.

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But also importantly, we are pleased to share that the district did receive the full EPA grant, as promised, to the tune of about $2.9 million, which was a terrific way to support this initiative and again, really need to credit Asia and Cunningham for all of their collaboration and great thinking on this project.

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So anything to add to that? It's exciting. It's very exciting. And what was most exciting was that the vivo had a show at Falmouth, and one of our busses actually drove down to Falmouth and back without being charged. So that was most exciting. Terrific. Okay. And they came in. I had a schedule. Exactly. That's great.

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So you won't hear them. They're driving down, right? Just be on time. All right. Moving on to item four, which is communications. Any communications received? I received some communications from middle school parents wanting to know about schedules and teacher assignments. Both families that contacted me are from were in Foster Elementary School.

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So they were walkers and now their need to use the bus. So they're in a heightened state. So anything that any light you could shed on that or get the information out as fast, it would make them very happy. I've already spoken offline, but that's it. Those are the communications I received. So Park just finished this weekend.

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He actually worked the weekend trying to make sure that he could finish doing up the the bus routes. When I spoke to him this morning, he said that he just had the private schools to tweak a bit.

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So we're hoping that that once he runs the routes and make sure everybody is accounted for, he will post them on the website and those will be available to families in terms of that. And I know that the middle school, I couldn't say exactly what day, but there is there actually tours, open houses at the middle school coming up very shortly as well.

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The principal sent an email out last week informing families about that. So you can definitely let the families, or they should look out for an email from the principal. I think informing the email addresses schedules will likely come out on Wednesday. Exactly. No guarantee. That's what I said. Yeah.

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And then if families are new to a building and are feeling like they're not receiving emails, certainly reach out to the principals. But there was a communication that went out last week. And so if families aren't familiar, sometimes they're not familiar to with some of the names.

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So sometimes communication might be sent out by an administrative assistant, for example, it might not be a name that's familiar. And so if they're not receiving communications definitely reach out. But we are right on schedule for where we usually are in a typical year. Mid-August is usually when middle school schedules and bus schedules go out.

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We actually were a little ahead of the curve this year on elementary schedules. We actually released those almost two weeks earlier than we usually do, and so having that staggered release time might have created some confusion for our middle school and high school families. Our elementary schedules are much simpler.

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It's one teacher we're announcing, whereas at the secondary level, students have as many as eight teachers in the course of a cycle. And so it's just a more complicated Jenga puzzle. But that will be coming out soon. And I know students are excited to get that information, so that's great. I received one communication from a parent.

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It was a follow up to policy meeting that you had last week on policy. So new information regarding the technology policies that you guys reviewed, they're not on tonight, but I believe that policy is still working on those. And then it was also regarding the handbooks which we will address tonight. I just want to know that I did receive communication about that.

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Did anyone else receive any other communications? Yes. I received a communication about requesting a representative from Hingham Public Schools to the cable TV Advisory Committee, which I forwarded to Catherine. Great. Thank you. All right, next up, we have unfinished business. We have two policies to review. Just get my notes out.

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All right. We have policy a b. This is a second read. The only addition to this policy is they've added the line and to personal whose work requires it on the second to last paragraph.

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That's that's under access to buildings. Is there any discussion or comments on this policy before we move it forward? I'll make a motion to approve the amended policy. ECB access to buildings and grounds. Second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. I'll see.

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And the next one we have is policy E EA, which is bus driver examination and training. This policy is just one line that's being actually one section of line that's being removed about tuberculosis. It's just following the new Department of Public Health guidelines. Any discussion questions on that? I'll take a motion.

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I'll make a motion to approve the amended policy e e e a bus driver examination and training. I was second in favor. Say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right, next up we have new business. Which 6.1, which is to receive a update from the 2025 School Building Committee. Chair Angela is here tonight to update the committee on the recent happenings with the projects. Welcome, Angela.

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Thank you. Jen.

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It's great to be back. I'm Angela. I'm representing the 2025 School Building Committee. Jim Cahill would have been here tonight, but unfortunately he's not feeling well. So he may be joining by zoom, but he wasn't able to join tonight.

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So on the next slide I'll be going through, I'll just show you a brief reminder of the MSBA process and where we are in that process. And then for the bulk of tonight, we will be reviewing the preliminary schematic design packages for South Elementary School roof and the Plymouth River Elementary School roof. And so I'll highlight that these are preliminary.

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They are not yet approved by the school building committee. We will be meeting tomorrow evening. But the intent of this presentation is to bring you all up to speed.

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And then that way when you meet on Wednesday, you'd be looking at just what has changed, if anything, since now, until you approve on Wednesday, if there is any reason that we cannot approve tomorrow, then we can work with Jen on determining what that next step might be. And then the last thing I'll talk about is the I'll just give you an update on the options one through five for the high school HVAC feasibility study. So here is the MSBA Accelerated Repair Program process.

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As you'll remember, the last time I came for an update, we were at the very beginning of module four Schematic Design. Now we are at the very end of schematic design for the elementary school roofs, and we are in the middle of schematic design for the high school.

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You'll see that little picture of the people that represents the MSBA board meeting for the elementary school roofs. We are planning to submit in order to have MSBA board meeting approval October 28th, and the module five funding of the project would then be at Special Town Meeting on October 29th. And for the high school.

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The MSBA board meeting that we're targeting is on February 24th, 2027, and then module five funding. The project would be able to happen at the annual town meeting in April of 2027. Next slide. So for the South Elementary School, schematic design existing conditions update. This has been I'll just give you an update of what was found during the existing conditions. Evaluation.

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This is an aerial view of South Elementary School. And I'd like to just point out that there are two key roofing, two different roofing systems. So on the original 1948 build, which is the lower left portion on the on the photo, this is primarily asphalt shingle with some metal standing roof portions, and

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the existing condition report found that the asphalt shingles to be in fair to poor condition. You can kind of see in the picture there's like some rippling that's happening on the slope of the roofs. They also found indications of significant water infiltration.

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And this is seen there's many, many pictures in the report, but a lot of streaking water both on ceiling tiles and then above ceiling tiles as well. And they did an infrared study and found potential water entrapment as well below below the shingles, like in the insulation and the roofing materials. Additionally, underneath the roof, they took a look at the structural components.

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And this whole section has the original timber roof framing. And so when they looked at current day snow loads and what that looks like on top of this 1948 timber framing, the engineers do recommend doing structural reinforcement of that section to just have sister members attached to give that extra security on the structural components of that portion of the building,

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and that reinforcement is required to bring us up to current code, and then also through the sides. There's a lot of pictures of damaged masonry and also flashing delamination where the flashing, where the roof components meet the brick. Some of that flashing has even peeled off or deteriorated. So that's for the. 1948 portion of the building.

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There's also these portions up here that are 1955 and 1998 additions. The roofing sections here are primarily low slope ePDM. And then there is some asphalt shingling and then a little bit of metal roof components here. The ePDM was in fair condition with sections of poor condition above.

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The above roof windows were in good condition, but it was noted that some of the sealants around the windows did need to be replaced. And then on this side as well, there's localized flashing delamination, deterioration, and deteriorated sealants as well. So we'd want to make sure those are buttoned up and a portion of the building.

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I'll highlight it right in the middle of this middle section is it meets code. But if we were to want to put solar on that part of the building, it would need structural reinforcement. So that was noted as well. And there was limited hazmat testing performed.

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There was some lead based paint detected at one of the roof trusses. So as we do the work, we will need to make sure that if anything is modified, that we're testing those areas and doing appropriate work to make sure that we're addressing any lead based paint that we would touch. So that's the update on the existing conditions.

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I also did include in the appendix for your reference some photos as well. So you have those on the next slide is the proposed scope. So the design team recommended a full roof replacement. And they recommended the portion where that's asphalt. So this portion in this front portion here they're recommending a standing seam metal roof.

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So it would look it would be able to seal the water better. And it also has a 30 to 40 year lifespan with minimal maintenance. So that's the proposal for these. And then the back portion would be a 80mm PVC with a 30 year warranty. Those are the proposals.

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Additionally there are two structural modifications included in the numbers that you'll see tonight. That's structural modification to reinforce the 1948 portion of the building. And it does also currently include the structural modifications in the center of the addition to enable solar. And then with those structural modifications there's also ceiling modifications. So above and below ceiling just so that they can both access it.

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And some areas they'll have to do some modifications so that structural modifications and ceiling modifications kind of go together. The estimate also includes masonry flashing repairs and repointing in the areas that need it.

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And because this project would exceed 30% of the assessed value of the building, we also would need to make any Ada may be accessibility updates to be able to bring it up to code. So I did include some details here on the structural modifications, but I described them verbally. On the next slide we have the construction estimate. This is not the total project budget, but it's just a breakdown of the construction estimate.

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You'll see the top line here the roof system replacement scope. That is coming out to be 5.1 million. I did pull up the. 2025 town meeting warrant to see what we had said that it would be in the past, and in the 2025 town meeting warrant, the estimated cost of the South School roof replacement was 5.4 million.

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So when you look at the roof system replacement and these masonry flashing repairs, those two numbers do come pretty close to what that estimate was. And then on top of that, when you when we look at the structural modifications and the ceiling and above ceiling modifications, that comes out to about point 9 million.

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So that is addition on top of what was anticipated before. And then on top of that we have a estimate for the accessibility scope may be accessibility scope. So that's how we get to just shy of $7 million in construction estimates. Again I'll highlight these are preliminary.

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And I know that at the school building committee meeting, I have a very strong feeling we will want to dig into these a little bit more. So you'll get the final numbers before you approve. On the next slide we have that construction number falls in here. And this is the total estimated budget. It includes the current schematic design work.

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So this 181,000 is actually already spent. That's what we spent for this part of the project. The architecture and OPM costs going forward are estimated at about 700,000 plus. The construction plus miscellaneous costs brings our project budget to about seven, just shy of 7.9 million. And then with contingencies 8.2 million. Now, once this is finalized, we'll submit.

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Of course, it'll go to you for approval. It'll go to the select board for approval. Once we submit it to MSBA, they'll do a detailed review, identify what's in scope for them, what isn't in scope. And they'll assign this maximum facilities grant. So right now we're estimating that grant to be at 2.9 million.

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We'll find out what it finally is when the MSBA reviews. And then our estimated town contribution would be 5.3 million 5.35 million.

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Are there any questions on South Elementary School? Okay. Oh yes. Please. I just I'm trying to just make sure I understand. So the originally at the town meeting with the proposal or the estimate was 5.4 in 25 and that is that that and as part of that we were approved or the town was approving the schematic design for some amount of money.

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Right. Correct. Wasn't included in that. And then would it have been reasonable for somebody I don't know. I mean, I certainly didn't ask the question to have thought that we would have to have the Ada the accessibility.

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As part of that of the structural modifications. Structural modifications? Probably not. I guess it seems to me like I don't even know who I'm asking, but I think I think maybe at that time, even at that time when we got the estimates, the, the, the, the 5.4 million was considered like high and high estimate.

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That would have taken into consideration all of those costs. But I think, I think the some of the, the structural and some of the that have come up have been some of the new things that have come up. And also add on to that the fact that costs have definitely gone up since then as well.

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So I think it's a combination of those things, but I think he's asking, did we factor in the Ada? I think that, I don't know, not specifically in a line by line, not that we would have known it was 336,000. Exactly. Okay. Yeah.

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And so I guess I know you said the construction cost is very close to the 5.4, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know that anyone's going to care about that. I'm not trying to. I'm just thinking of if, like, I'm trying to reconcile the 5.4 versus the 8.2 total project budget.

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And some of it is the structural stuff that we didn't know about. That's like a million Ada 300,000. And then what's the and there's like another 1.5 million or something like that. Is that can you go back a slide.

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Can you go back a slide? Sorry I don't. Can we go back one slide. Thank you. Yeah.

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Yeah just under a million for the structural I guess it's the OPM cost architecture.

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I'm not. Yeah. I'm not intending to be critical or anything that I'm just putting my at or saying. There's anything we can do about it. I'm just putting myself in the space of town meeting, just coming out of what we just had, which is like, oh, I know I think there are appropriate questions and I think,

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I think this is the time to be asking the questions. So I think the answer, I guess I think we should be prepared to sort of answer to that. And it could be that project costs have gone up. It could be the structural stuff we would have had no idea about.

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I mean, the we would have had to know there would be OPM costs, which maybe it was all baked into the 5.4. So maybe it's as simple as not maybe not. And I know you're just presenting to us and not to town meeting, but not trying to say, hey, here's what it was a town meeting.

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We kind of said it was close to 5.4, and we're pretty close with construction because I think what I am hearing is that was our best guess at the time, but it was intended to be inclusive of everything, not just construction. It was should have been okay.

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And then my only other sort of again, looking back, this is, I think, a different project than the center for Active Living. But there was a lot of pushback at town meeting around, like, did we need this room or did we need this? You know, and again, I get this is a different project.

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If we is there a the ability to take anything out of this and still have something that is 99.95% is good and you save $1 million. Sure. The answer is no. That's definitely a question I'll bring back tomorrow to the school building committee.

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Obviously, if if you take a million out and we're going to have a roof that's 60% is good, that's not acceptable. But if it's 99.9, I'd want to understand what that is, I guess.

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Yeah, I think I think the biggest thing that the, the committee did, the evaluation of what to select some of the things that came into play was longevity in terms of I think Angela and the committee cited off with how many years are we thinking about being this building? How long is this for? That was one of the earlier questions that we'll ask that was asked.

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And I think in terms of trying to select the roof with that would provide that longevity with minimal repairs going forward in terms of maintenance as well as that, for example, when we come to press, you'll see that there's even more structural with that school. We also want to make sure that it's a school that will continue to be safe for students.

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Right now, it's is safe for students, but then if there is a certain amount of snow, it means that we have to evacuate students to get snow off the roof. And the consideration is, do we want to continue to be doing that every winter? Right. So these are some of the considerations that were taken into consideration or will discuss that's specific that was considered.

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But I'm saying even in terms of this one here, we from the pictures that Angela include included in the package with the structural. And you'll see where the structural areas were lined as being areas where there needed to be strengthened itself. And this is addressing that as well. And with the the Ada assessment this is required. Yeah. I'm not pushing against that. I'm simply suggesting. Yeah.

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So I'm just kind of walking you through the process like that. That seemed like a reasonable thing to assume. I mean we knew the I don't think that's value has changed in a year. We would have assumed that we were going to have to do that. We wouldn't have known exactly how much.

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I mean, it's not actually I mean, it's, you know, whatever, 3% of the overall budget. So to me, that's important just in terms of how we articulate it at. And that was important to kind of walk through the steps in terms of getting.

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I don't know if Angela is anything I missed in terms of the steps I should go into this one. If I could just share one thing I did just pull up. Habib, our house doctor, is organization that put forth this figure, and it really is. When you're making that kind of an estimate, it's a fairly crude number.

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And so it was purely based on square footage from what I'm understanding of it. So they gave us a rough estimate. And again looking at the square footage, they, they made a best estimate of just really looking at the physical roof.

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There's no way until you peel that roof back to make any estimate about the structural, structural pieces. I also didn't get into the type of materials that would be that would be used.

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It's kind of like with like how I think about it with the center for Active Living when they're talking about, do you need this frame of that room? And then with a roof project, it's. Materials are you using and what level? And if you use this material, how long do you get the roof and what's your biggest bang for your buck with the type of materials. And I think that's how this project has been looked at.

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And reading straight from the Habib report, it says the budget numbers are provided to assist with order of magnitude costs for the proposed project, and should not be used for sensitive budgeting. The cost will depend on the confirmed projects, go facing, escalation costs, material availability, abatement work, etc. so it it was put forth, as you know, truly an order of magnitude cost.

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That makes sense. And just to be clear, I'm not saying this is the wrong estimate or we're, you know, going overboard with what we're suggesting. I'm just trying to anticipate, you know, what the conversation will be at on the floor at town meeting.

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I think the other thing to to think about articulating there is were there could we have done you know, I don't know I think you've said it before like how long the life is expected of this, but like, we could have actually made choices to spend even more than this I would assume. Right. Like this is not that we've chosen the best.

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You know, we're doing everything we can to be both provide a safe environment that is going to last for a long time, minimize maintenance costs. But we're not choosing the top material in every case, the, you know, the very top material or every. So I think being able to articulate where we made some trade offs.

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Yeah. You know, that still protect the safety. And that would be helpful as part of the talk track. So again you don't need to tell. I'm not even going to understand what those are myself. But I do think having some of that as part of the dialog there would be useful. Yeah.

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And doing this expense, the life of the building too. And it's a lot more expensive to replace a building than a roof. Yes.

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The estimate is only $10.8 million. Other buildings. Got to be more fun than that. Great. Thank you. It is. Yeah. Thank you for the points. And I also just to acknowledge the Habib estimate, I do want to be able to bridge it, like just acknowledging, hey, this is more and here's the key drivers of why. Yeah. Great.

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And then what this gets us. Yeah. Any other questions on South and. Yeah. And sorry, just to be clear the presentation tonight was not is not you know, I'm just saying what's on my mind right now. It's not that. Oh that should have been a part of today's discussion or anything like that.

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It's not a miss of the building committee to not be articulating that in this meeting. That's just where my head's at is, you know. Yeah, that's for sure that this is a yes, because it's, you know, obviously critical.

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I think as we go forward, as Angela gets more presentations and as a building committee has more discussions, I think questions like that is helpful as we're socializing this with everyone. I think it's the conversations are good to have. Yeah. Great. Thank you. So now we'll move on to Plymouth River Elementary School. There's a little like picture cut in in the center.

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That is actually the part of the building that extends off the picture on the right, the top right corner. So it's kind of this backwards L if we're looking at it. In the existing conditions report, I'll go through what was finally condition was report number one. The building was built in 1969. There is the whole roof is a gravel roof.

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So there's two different slopes, these middle portions that just kind of go like a trough down the middle are low slope when you're on it. It actually kind of feels flat, but it does like just gently slope and then the sides on either side of those and then this bottom right hand corner and the leftmost corner are our called steep slope gravel.

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But they are just they're not very steep. It's kind of like a shallow steepness. So that's what the roof system consists of. It was last replaced. Portions of it were last replaced in 1990 to 2000. And then there was a portion right here in the center that's dark.

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That was replaced when there was damage in 2015 due to a snowstorm in heavy snow. Loading. So the existing conditions report found widespread roof deterioration of not only the roof and gravel surfaces, also flashing and draining components. They also found vegetative growth. So you can kind of there's like green patches. And that's where areas where water sits and then things are starting to grow.

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And that's actually just holding the water there even more. So those areas are like along some of the edges of the roof system. There is recurring water infiltration, a lot of areas with stained ceiling tiles and then even staining above the ceiling tiles, localized masonry cracking, both cracking, of bricks, and also deterioration of mortar.

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And there we did have an extensive structural analysis done. You can kind of ask at the beginning of the committee, could we have foreseen structural in my personal perspective on South, I did not because I just and it's one of those things that it was like oh okay.

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Well I guess it makes sense that it was its original timber, but I wouldn't we wouldn't have known that until they went and dug in. The Plymouth River school is different because even in February we had instances where there was observed deflection. And so we and the school is proactively working on clearing that roof every time there's a snowstorm.

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So this is something that's actively monitored. It is something that we're watching closely. So this one we did have an extensive structural analysis. Done this to really look at what is this building needing for the long term.

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And what it found was that the roof, not only were there some select framing members, especially just in these like center areas where the roof really collects up snow that they noted concern about.

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They also noted, that the roof deck system was something that needed to be either reinforced or replaced. And so the estimates I'm going to show you include a replacement of the entire roof deck system and structural reinforcements in these low middle, like the the areas that are called low slope but feel like no slope right in these middle areas.

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There was also in the estimates you'll be seeing. There's also some structural reinforcement in this bottom right corner. In this sloped area. And those are based off of experienced snow loads. And with those reinforcements the engineers did say they could make it solar ready.

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So this is something that will be digging into a lot more at the school building committee tomorrow. But I just want to make sure you know what's in the scope of the numbers that you're seeing tonight. There also is limited hazmat testing. There was a isolated area of asbestos, asbestos that we'll need to work with. And then lead containing paint was identified.

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So we'll also have to monitor anything that we anything we disturb in this work. So the scope of full roof replacement of all of the roof surfaces, the recommended material replacement is that same 80 mill PVC with a 30 year warranty.

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And then additionally structural modifications in these the low middle areas of the roof and the bottom right corner roof, as well as a full roof deck replacement is in the scope. And then ceiling modifications wherever that structural work is happening, and masonry repairs and then Ada accessibility improvements as well, because this will exceed 30% of the assessed value of the building.

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I did include details that you can that you have access to on the breakdown of some of that additional scope on the next slide. Again, this is the construction estimate just for awareness and reference on what was discussed or what was presented in the 2025 Town Meeting. The estimated total for this project was 6.1 million.

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So you'll see that even just with the roof system and the masonry, we are slightly above that. And then a significant add on this project is the structural modifications and the ceiling modifications with that. So the structural modifications of this are a lot bigger than just adding a sister member.

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These are like a lot of weld points and adding metal support beams cross other existing support beams. So this is a much more involved structural scope as well as the full roof deck replacement, which is in the structural component here. So all of those pieces together, including the six ish, 6.

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5 million for the structural and ceiling, the total construction construction estimate is 13.8. And then on the next slide, the total budget, including our current schematic design architecture and OPM, which is a little higher because of the structural work and the miscellaneous project cost. The total project budget, including contingencies for the scope discussed, is 16 million.

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The estimated maximum facilities grant would be 5 million. Again, we do have to. We do have a question out with MSBA. They do have some limits on what they will cover. So this needs to be this will be reviewed tomorrow night as well. But right now estimated facilities grant from MSBA 5.6 million. That brings the estimated town contribution to 10.4 million.

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Any questions on Plymouth River?

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Yes, sir. A couple of questions. Maybe I should wait on myself. So I got to this one. So the MSBA piece. So you said a couple of times we need you know, we're not sure that they will be able to cover all that.

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I think you also said the meeting the meeting itself is like literally the day before town meeting. If I heard that correctly, I'm assuming we will have answer. Can you just talk through how that. Yeah. Thank you. That seems very. Yes. You don't control that or we don't control that. But it. Yeah. I can walk you through what the our OPM have walked through with us.

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And Asia can probably speak more because she has experience with even like the foster building. But our OPM have described that once we submit the schematic design package at the end of this month, the MSBA does their review and add about one month timeframe, like maybe 4 or 5 weeks into the process,

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they will come back to us with their review of these are the things that this is a preliminary of what we would and wouldn't cover. And at that point, from what I understand, we actually can make some decisions to if that changes what we would do or wouldn't do.

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And then that goes to the board meeting on the day before our special town meeting to get final like rubber stamp approval. So we will have a feedback loop in there so that we will be able to, if it doesn't turn out looking a certain way, or if it looks, you know, if it changes in any way that we have some adjustment time. Yeah.

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And just to add to what you said as well with the MSBA in terms of eligible costs will be determined as well. So they will go through the design and everything else and the sum and what is eligible. And 36.89% is really a percentage of eligible costs as well as for the roof itself.

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They will not go over $100 per square foot. So that's another measure that we have in terms of information from the MSBA. Okay. But like I guess how like this is an estimate, do we have based on what you just said, it feels like we'd be able to calculate the square footage piece already. Right, right.

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So I think it's just like a fairly I know we don't know for sure, but like, is there a chance I guess there's always a chance that they're like, yeah, we're only going to cover 2 million of this because it's generally like 35%, right? Is the reimbursement 3537.

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And I guess the other thing too, is that the committee is also meeting tomorrow to discuss more of this, to vet this whole. And we also have a committee has a reviewer, a Pear reviewer, who is herb even associates, who has actually worked on that roof a lot, who'll be giving us feedback on it as well.

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So we're hoping that we can incorporate all of that feedback and get some updates through the design team as well. Okay. Thank you. Two other quick questions or comments I guess I don't fully understand, and you don't need to explain to me because I probably won't.

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But like the the reason why the ceiling slash above ceiling modification scope is yeah, one time 21 times as high as the South one. I think it's because we need more structural modifications.

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Just being able to again articulate, I don't know what we're going to end up showing in terms of like the breakdown, but like that just stuck out to me as like, wow, that's like way bigger. That's structural bigger. Maybe it's I guess it's tied to that. I think you said. Yeah. And it's a big portion of that is actually from the roof deck.

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So if we don't need to replace the whole roof deck or portions of the roof deck, that changes quite a bit. But the ceiling is actually attached to the roof deck. And so, we'd have to it detach the roof deck from the ceiling, put the new roof deck on. But then also a lot of the ceiling tiles are like even stained.

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So it's like you probably just want to put the new, you know, just get new ceiling if you're going to replace the roof deck because they're all attached. So a lot of that number is from the roof tech roof deck, part of the structural. Okay. Yeah.

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And then I think being able to be very clear like this is this is obviously, you know, significantly higher than what we thought understand it was an initial estimate based on square footage. And but being able to say here are the reasons why we have to do or we're strongly recommending to do this, 6.

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5 million of structural modifications and ceiling, because if it's, you know, I is it you know, how much of that is safety versus how much of that is saving money of snow removal? I know it's all tied together, but I think that's going to be important to articulate and understand, I guess, because if it's like the roof is not,

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it's just not going to be safe enough without this. That's an easier story to sell than what still might be a good financial investment to do it up front and not pay every year of having to remove the snow. And, you know, that obviously degrades the roof and things like that.

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But like that's a little bit I could see somebody saying, well, you know, let's take our chances. I know we got a lot of snow last year, but it didn't snow for ten years before that.

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And you know, and not to interrupt you, but I think a lot of that information we don't we haven't found that out yet. We're going to get a lot of that have more of that information tomorrow night. As I mentioned. Have you talked to they're going to give us some more information.

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But yeah, there's a lot of those questions that are unanswered because it is significantly higher, especially with the the structural component of it. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't deliver a lot of that in confidence because I myself have questions on how much of this is needed. So I think that will be but 100%, I think splitting out what's absolutely required and what is optional and why that is worth it if.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. In general, I think, you know, again, like you hire somebody to do this and they're going to try and do the best they can to say this is, you know, this is sort of like what is maybe, you know, I'm sure we've given them, you know, we can't just have the unlimited budget,

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but they're trying to design it in a way that is, you know, the best. And we we obviously want that. But we also need this to pass so. Well yeah we know the need. Like what do we need as a community. And we can apply that lens. Yeah exactly. Sorry. One more thing. I'll shut up.

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You had made the comment that, you know, we would have the opportunity of the MSBA came back and said, you know, we're only giving you 60% of that to then make a different decision, which is good. I mean, we should that that's important to understand.

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But I do think having that lens I'm sure you have throughout is important. So like I guess I would suggest if there's things that we can cut, you know, but we're not going to or you know, we wouldn't if we're going to get the MSBA funding, that's still money that the town is going to pay.

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Then we should be strong like that should be on the list of like discussion items of like is does this make enough sense to get like you know, in some ways I feel like whatever we go to the MSBA with and or and say, this is our best what we're asking for, they're probably shouldn't be anything else that we're going to like, cut after they come back.

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Because to me, that that should be what we are. We feel like we absolutely need to do the best job. It's my opinion. Maybe. Yeah. One thing is, you know, some things could be really beneficial if we do get the reimbursement, but then if we find out we don't, it could be like, okay, well maybe not.

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So one thing about, you know, if, for instance, if we had a just 30 year warranty on the PVC instead of a 20 year, there is an argument that if we get a 30% discount, it's worth taking it forward.

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But then if they said, well, no, actually we won't cover that, we'll just cover this, then we could be like, okay, like, well, so yes, and there are some things that might be slightly more expensive but like justified if we have the reimbursement. So yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Great. Any other questions on this slide. Yeah maybe a dumb one.

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But it's one that I've been hearing since 2015 when there was that the snow issue and the roof on were having a trough down the middle of the roof is doesn't seem like the best design in New England.

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Was there any discussion of like just completely redoing the roof? Or would that not be doable? No, but I would like to bring that up tomorrow because I mean, yeah. On what type of structural supports were put into place in 2015? Yes, absolutely. Would impact the structural reinforcements. But it's only like one patch. There's only one patch.

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So when they looked at the total package it doesn't really save you much money. I think it was like a couple trusses. What they said. Yeah, but also like carry. Are you talking about, like, even just lifting that portion of the roof to make it meet? So there's not a collection like. I don't know, because I think it's worth the question.

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I think we'll just ask it tomorrow. I'll ask it tomorrow because that is something that has crossed my mind briefly. Yeah, yeah, I remember that being discussed before, and it's been such an issue with this roof in particular. Yeah, yeah. And parts of it are slate part of it.

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Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I think that has something to do with it I don't know okay. We'll ask. I think it's worth asking. Yeah. Great.

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Any other questions on the Plymouth River Elementary School? Okay, great. So then our last item is just an update on the high school project. As I mentioned, it is solidly in the middle of schematic design. My update for you tonight here or the committee's update for you tonight is the life cycle costing analysis on options one through five on the next slide.

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As a reminder, the MSBA requires us to evaluate three heat pump options ground source, air source, and hybrid. And then as a committee, we chose to also include an option for which is replace the existing HVAC system with a. Non heat pump solution.

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So that would be boilers and air conditioning units in the areas that are currently air conditioned. And then we also included an option five. And this is replacing the existing HVAC but also including air conditioning in all of the classrooms. Because ground the MSBA options one, two and three also include air conditioning in all of the classrooms.

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So to really have both, what if we just replaced it with what we have now? Or what if we replace it and expand our conditioning without look like? So we now have on the next slide, the LCA.

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I think I dropped my pointer. So. I'll walk through this verbally. We do have in the top five lines. It's pretty much how much it would cost for each of those options for the h vac replacement. I do also want to just step back here for a moment. This is just HVAC numbers.

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This does not include the roof. It does not include a comprehensive structural evaluation, and it does not include maybe. So this is really just only the numbers that we needed to look at that differ for the different HVAC options.

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So you can see for options there's the average total HVAC only costs that range from 4.78 million for option 1 to 20 3 to 29 million for options four and five. Now, some of these options add weight to the roof, and some of the options need more electricity or more electricity, more bandwidth of our electricity for running that option.

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So there is a the fourth line down includes potential additional costs for structural and electrical service upgrades for the different options. And then there's a total estimated HVAC installation cost affair that we have National grid incentives available for all of the options except for, option for, and then MSBA reimbursement available for the three heat pump options.

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So when we look at the totals after those reimbursements, that adjusts the math quite a bit, where all of the options come in between 20 to 30 million. And then additionally, there is an upside of the IRA geothermal tax credit. And this is a tax credit that Foster School benefited from. And for the scope of this project, we would be eligible for a 40% credit.

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That turns into 34% because the project is funded with bonds. So when we apply that 34% credit, that turns into a pretty significant number, especially for option one. So considering all of the potential credits, the FAC only cost then shifts where option one is down to 15 million. Option 219. Option 322.

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And then options four and five are at that 25 to 32 million. So after all of the credits, option one is the lowest. The committee did have some concerns with the IRA credit and really understanding what are the risks with that. The risks of not getting it. We do or don't. We did have some experts come in.

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We also have Katie Duggan doing some work to help us see if there's any options for ensuring that or any ways to secure that credit, especially if it does play a significant role in the decision. But so after the credits, that option one looks pretty competitive. We did vote as a committee on selecting a heat pump selection.

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Option one was the selected. We have not had a discussion as a full discussion as a committee. Now once we learned more about options four and five. So we'll have that discussion tomorrow. Below those numbers are like more of the ongoing costs. So there's a total operating cost in that bottom of the next section.

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We have the social cost of carbon over 40 years on the next section. And then we have equipment replacement class over 40 years, so that the bottom two lines are the total cost of ownership in present day dollars, with and without the carbon cost, the social cost of carbon added in.

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And then additionally, we did take into account also the difficulty of maintenance and option for. Obviously has like the existing maintenance. And then option one also has an easier maintenance with the ground source just it's like you install it and it stays running. And also we have a complimentary system with foster.

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So with the maintenance, that felt more manageable than adding in a new air source system. And then at the most difficult maintenance would be actually having the hybrid where we have to manage both a geothermal and an air source system in the school. So those are the key outputs of the life cycle cost analysis. Any questions? Yes.

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So foster uses, from what I understand, the ground scope heat pumps for heating and cooling. Correct. Yes. That's correct. And our maintenance director is fine with providing maintenance for that new state of the art system. Correct? Correct. All right.

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And if we install this similar system in the high school, it'll cost no new training or no new employees to be hired to maintain this new system in high school. Correct. I will look at Aisha.

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I wouldn't say that there'll be none. Well, yeah, I'm just it's not going to. It's not going to take him long to figure out how to maintain this new one. That'll be familiarity. I would say. If anything, it will be a time saving.

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It's very expensive in terms of the manpower needed to keep our current aging boilers, their daily and sometimes near hourly checks of that system. So having a functioning system will increase our bandwidth. So I agree completely. Thank you.

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At that point, if if we get them high school on board with ground source heat pump and then we already have foster school ground source heat pump, then we have the remaining schools. I think we're we I think at least me as a school committee member, I would like to keep moving along that each school eventually has ground source heat pump.

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And then our facilities director and maintenance people are all working on a similar system, possibly with even interchangeable parts, possibly all all zero emission and good for heating and cooling and good for everyone. And to me, I think option one seems like a very good option. I don't know what specifically goes into this indicator of total social costs of carbon. I'd love to hear that offline. What goes into that? But.

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I think our best way to pitch this to the community is foster is working pretty good. That's a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling. We have to upgrade the high school. We have a ground source heat pump option there. We have facilities, people and maintenance people that are already know how to work on that stuff.

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And frankly, his personal opinion here. Option four and five I don't know, in 20 or 30 years if we're going to have personnel that specialize in fixing five ton boilers anymore or even have no out to do that, I think how are option four and five added is just someone wanted to see those or.

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No, I think we just wanted to see what's what is the we didn't know how much the heat pumps would come out at. And so a big part was just if there is an incremental like cost, like if it was a lot more, what are we getting, you know, in terms of the long term savings.

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So that was a key reason. Just what would it be if we didn't do a heat pump? What's the status quo? We still have backup boilers correct? Yes. Sorry. That's the other there is in all of the systems one through three.

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There are backup boilers, just in case we were to lose power and we wouldn't be able to or lose the system temporarily for some other reason. The backup boilers would keep the building running at like 50 something degrees, so it would keep things from freezing.

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Additionally, in like the dead of winter in the very, very coldest days, sometimes these systems have a hard time keeping up, so having those backup boilers also offer some supplement to the system to for some efficiency, because these can get very expensive when they're competing against the cold. So it doesn't totally eliminate fossil fuel from the building. But and also they won't be, you know, five ton boilers.

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They're going to be like smaller, more efficient sized for what we need. But that's and also what what that could allow is if there was an emergency replacement needed now or something sooner that could be done now, and you wouldn't have to wait for this all to be online. And we could still use that in the future as well.

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So just some things that having those backup boilers could afford over time options. So just knowing that we would need the backup boilers, they wanted to look at options for and five plus it was brought up on the floor of town meeting was there were a couple people that had asked that question both years.

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So it felt that we needed to get this information for the public. Sure. From advisory committee to I think it's really good that you did. Looking for those options. I love this chart. Yeah, I know it's it's great. I was able to zone in on this.

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And you might have to explain the difficulty and maintenance aspect to the people in town meeting or.

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What goes into the total social cost of carbon over 40 years. I mean, I, I did I'll randomly say I did a master's degree thesis on selling smart growth a long time ago and was ripped apart for creating new economic indicators using green. So I'm sure there will be a loud. Loud, loud voices speaking.

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Trying to figure out what total social cost of carbon over 40 years is, and what I'm more into pitching this and getting this past. I love option one. I'm sure we'll come to the right decision. I'll shut up.

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And they're also concerns of disruption, of the system, of getting there because it's drilling 200 wells and how long that's going to take. But in the long run it is the cheapest option.

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Yeah. As Jen mentioned, there are short term costs like the loss of a practice field and the for a season two. So there are some things short term parking. Yeah. And some short term costs that aren't tangible. Yeah. Any other questions or comments.

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Well thank you so much. You're welcome to join us tomorrow at our committee meeting here. Our deliberation. And of course, if you have any specific questions for the design team before you approve, you're welcome to raise those tomorrow as well. And anything we can do to support your vote following hours. We're here for that.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Just everyone else. So Angela will be speaking to giving this presentation to advisory tomorrow at six. I did post if anyone wants to listen in on that meeting. You're welcome to do that. And then I posted for the building committee meeting which is at seven.

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So if you want to listen in on that as well to keep because we are going to be getting more information tomorrow night to kind of add on to what you learn tonight and then hopefully will reduce the time that we need on Wednesday. I'll get up to speed.

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How are you doing the meeting at six on zoom? I haven't decided yet. I think I'm going to do it in person, I think. Yeah, get on a 7:00. Yeah, I might do it from here. Yeah. Great. And then I just want to ask if there's anyone online that has any questions. Open it up to the public.

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I don't see anyone, but I just wanted to offer that. I don't see any hand. So thank you very much, Angela. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Angela. Okay. All right. Next up we have 6.2, which is to review the elementary, middle, and high school handbooks and act as appropriate. Terrific. Thank you.

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Jen and I will just ask Sherri to promote Erica Pollard, who will be helping to present Erica Pollard. She'll be helping to present. So our revision of the handbooks is a multi-week process which includes a first pass by our principles. We also have additional conversation with various subcommittees to address various aspects of the handbook.

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And then we do have our student services. Attorney gives our handbooks a final look in making sure, in particular, that we're aligned to any changes in regulations or laws that might have occurred in the previous year. And so I wanted to thank Erica Pollard, in particular for her work with our principles.

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And this year we did give our handbooks, I would say, a deeper dive than usual, including some restructuring for consistency across the three levels and also for just organization and flow. And again, want to thank Erica and the principles for that. So with that said, Erica did include a memo in your packet.

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And so Erica, if you are on the call I'll just ask that you review your work. Yes. Thank you. As Katie mentioned, full versions of all three handbooks are in your folder to review. But I'm going to summarize for you the major changes that we made in each handbook.

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So the first section of the memo deals with changes that were made to all three handbooks the high school, the middle school, and the common handbook that the elementary schools use. In all of those handbooks, they were updated for staff contact information to reflect current staffing, and all of the references to school committee policies were updated and linked.

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As as Katie just mentioned, our legal counsel took a look particularly at our the language in our handbooks around title nine and sexual harassment, which have been updated to reflect current legal definitions, as has the language regarding emergency removal, short and long term suspensions, expulsions, felony suspensions, and the right to due process.

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All of those have been updated and vetted by our legal counsel. Because the School Committee recently approved a change to the home schooling policy, we updated the high school handbook to include the following language a proper approval of the superintendent a student may enroll in no more than one course per semester, contingent upon space and availability.

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Sorry, I said that was the high school, but that is in all of the handbooks now. And then we added this additional section, which is about image and also about voice alterations.

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Some of what's in this section is similar to what already exists in our bullying and cyber bullying and harassment prohibitions, but this one deals specifically with the ethical use of digital technology and content creation that alters the image or likeness or voice of another individual.

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So this section of the handbooks will explicitly prohibit any of the use of any of those, use of any, any technology at all to imitate or alter the image or likeness of another person, and points out that, if applicable, the harassment and sexual harassment or bullying policy may come into effect, and if warranted, the offense would be reported to the Hingham Police Department.

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In the next section of the memo, you can see changes that were made to both the high school and the middle school handbook. And that's sorry, that's just one change. The alcohol and drug section has been updated to include tobacco and nicotine products. Previously, it only referenced tobacco products.

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I would say that of all of our handbooks, the high school handbook got the biggest facelift. We changed the organizational structure of the handbook to mirror the organization of the middle school and elementary handbooks, and made some additional changes to that to the high school handbook.

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Specifically, we added some language about teacher changes to schedule to let people know that the building principal has the discretion to change a student's schedule or teacher assignment for administrative purposes, and our attendance policies have been updated. Previously, our attendance policy allowed for up to five unexcused absences per term, which would put students at a potential total of 20 unexcused absences for a school year.

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The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education defines chronic absenteeism as students who are having for 18 or more days per year, so we wanted to bring our policy in line with the with disease policies. So instead of five unexcused absences per term, students will now have four unexcused absences per term. And this doesn't make any changes to excused absences.

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Those will still be handled in exactly the same way.

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And then finally, thanks to the Wellness Committee, the Wellness Committee has put together an a wellness addendum to add to the Elementary Handbook. It contains the wellness policy and information about school meals, school beverages, research, wellness and cell curriculum, and health and social emotional screenings.

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So this is a first step, and we're hopeful that in the next year, we will have a wellness addendum to add to the other handbooks as well. And those are the major changes. Eric, I have a couple little things, if you don't mind. Sure thing. So the first is on for the it's the high school on its page 54.

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It's just little. It talks about the M.I.A. And it links to the athletics page which then links to the M.I.A. Handbook. And that that link just needs to be updated because it's the old M.I.A. Rules. So it's like a link. And then on page 60 it talks about goggles have to be worn for field hockey.

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I think that role might have changed. I don't have a field hockey. I feel like that rule changed in the last six months. And okay, I can I can find out. I'm sure that Jim Quatermain will know the answer. Yes. And then for the elementary, this is just another little thing. On the elementary one. It's page 28.

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It has channel seven. It says it's NBC, it's not NBC. Channel seven is an NBC anymore. Thank you. All right. I can fix that. It's a if you're curious. And then the last thing is, I know that we updated our communicable diseases policy. I think it was February or January this year.

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It's JLC and I just I'm not sure if it corresponds with that because I'm still seeing language in here about Covid. Got it. And that's my list. Thank you. Next one about the image alterations. Does this apply to conduct outside of school. So our attorney did discuss that.

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And actually one clarification that I'd like to make when Erica explained in her memo our tourney did very specifically say image alteration of a member of our community, because in an artistic venue, someone might alter an image. And so needing to have that kind of artistic license, but it specifically precludes altering the image of a member of our community.

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And that includes both students and staff, both image and voice. But in terms of our attorney cautioned that this standalone section calls out that image alteration. But we then need to go to the relevant section of whether it's bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, in order to then apply the relevant discipline. So it will be specific.

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So you might alter an image that might fall more under bullying. It might fall more under title nine. It really would depend on the nature of the image alteration. Or I'm thankful to one of our AG president, actually. Jacqueline Beaupre also added I suggest that we add voice alteration.

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There's been a number of recent cases of voice altering as well. And so this section on deepfakes, in order to apply the discipline, you then need to go through the proper portion of the code of discipline to actually then apply the consequences depending on the category. That makes sense. So.

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So it could apply if one of these if it was a title nine issue or bullying cyberbullying issue, it could apply to conduct outside of school. If if it is so the attorney again we're having our legal training this this Thursday. And our student services attorney will go over this. In some cases it's a matter of locus of control.

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In some cases it's a matter of impact and preventing access to education programing in the school environment again depending on which category. But we would need to follow the usual processes. If it's a title nine investigation, we would have to follow usual title nine processes.

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If it's bullying or cyber cyberbullying, we would follow those usual processes and there are some instances in which it will become a law enforcement matter.

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And so but it will be a case by case basis depending on the nature of the image and or voice alteration, and kind of the extent of the impact of it is, is there any would it be worth putting in there that it could apply to conduct outside of school? If it's it might make it too complicated, but I would have to go back to our attorney on that.

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He was kind of very careful in his phrasing, and he's advising not only us, but other districts as well as every district is grappling with this. And so he really cautioned that this is just calling something out that truly was already covered in our handbook in, in that if it's falling in one of these other categories, that is the process to be followed and and the consequences to be meted.

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I'm happy to go back to him again. But he had thoroughly vetted and again is also working with other districts on, on this similar type of language.

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And then my last thing is, would it be worth adding in the acceptable use policy as well? So if something was shared on a public schools device, that would be kind of hyperlinked within this this section, you're saying no. Well, you mentioned the harassment, sexual harassment of bullying policies, but would it also make sense to include acceptable use? That makes sense, actually, Eric, do you have any thoughts on that that that does make sense. That would make yeah. Great sense.

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I think that would be a good addition to make. Thank you. Working on the technology policies to that. Any changes to those that would be updated in here as well? Yes, yes.

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Just two quick things. One, I am glad. Just say I'm glad to see that we've added the image alterations. I understand there were pieces of it in other in other portions, but I think it's an important step to in messaging, so appreciate it. My only question I just didn't really understand if you could explain it all.

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Erica, I guess the impetus between adding the teacher changes to schedule, I just didn't really understand this. I don't know if you can give an example of like when the building principal has the discretion to change a student schedule for administrative purposes.

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If it's not appropriate to give an example, that's fine, but the fact that we're adding it any more color, I guess you could give on that. I just if I were a student reading that, I would be like, what does that mean? Yes. So this is sorry, I'm just reopening my document here. It's a call out of something that has always been our practice, which is that.

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If, for example, a course is over enrolled and then the student might need to be moved to another section or to another teacher, it calls out that the building principal has the discretion to basically to have the final say in a student's schedule, and that sometimes those changes are I mean,

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we obviously want to minimize changes after the schedule is made, but. There are certain circumstances under which, you know, we have an influx of new students. We have to change a we've had cases in the past year, for example, where we had to change a teacher's teaching assignment after the school year had started.

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And then that has, you know, has ripple effects in terms of changing a student's schedule. So it's just sort of calling out that that does happen occasionally. Got it. Thank you.

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Erica, I have one other thing. How will the the socialization not socially well, I guess socialization of the changing of the absences from 5 to 4. Will that all the teachers be, you know, really communicating that with the students? Because I think that is a big change for that. Yes. So teachers will be communicating this with students.

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But in addition to that, there are quite a few opportunities at the start of the school year for the students to interact with counseling and administration as part of our super homeroom at the beginning of the year, it's generally our practice to review any significant changes to the handbook

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as part of the Super Homeroom, so students will have it explained to them then, and also in grade level assemblies. And I think it will be appropriate for us to reinforce this information throughout the year as we go on, just to make sure that it's on everybody's radar.

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And that would be going over the image alteration language that's being added in there as well. Yes, I would assume that that would be part of the the review of changes and updates to the handbook. Thank you. All right. Is there anyone online that has any questions.

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Seeing none. Anyone else? Would you like a motion? I would like a motion. Okay. I will make a motion to approve the amended elementary middle school and hang em high school handbooks as presented. I'll second any more questions or comments? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

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Thank you very much. Thank you all. All right. Next up we have 6.3 which is to review the transportation handbooks. Great. Again I'd like to thank each and Cunningham for their collaborative work on updating and refreshing our transportation policies. And so I should take it from here. Thank you.

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And what we've done for this is that we've given you two sessions to review the handbook as well, because we recognize that this is a significant change in the handbook from the last time that we reviewed in all even that we had the handbook before you. So this is just an initial presentation of the handbook.

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And at the 831 meeting we hope to get approval of the handbook. We we tried to make sure that we streamlined the handbook. And it's really a major change in terms of that.

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We also got Sarah Spadafora to review the handbook in terms of where they were, any legal updates in there as well as we removed some of the areas, for example, where it discussed the different title nine and everything else in there, because we thought that that was more of a generic district wide policy item rather than a procedure, rather than having it in the specific transportation handbook. So this is just specific to transportation.

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I don't know if you have any initial questions on this, but we just wanted to we can definitely give you the opportunity for the next three weeks or so to review it. Was that one question the very the very last page, I think the emergency numbers. Yep. So that's all central office right? Yes.

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So if there's if a parent has a needs to get in touch with the transportation director or there's an emergency where they need to, they call a central office. So this is not for parents for staff. Okay. So that's a big difference. I'm a little tired. No, that's all right. Good point. Okay. Yeah.

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So they would all cost here. Yes. Can you on for good I said that I know that's all right. Thank you. Okay, so I just this is kind of just a kind of a pet peeve, but the policies and procedures, and since this isn't really I mean, it's driven by school committee policies, but it's not.

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Could we call it a procedural handbook or something like that? Sure. Just because I feel like a lot of districts, we're pretty good about it. But a lot of districts play fast and loose with policy and good point, something specific. And then the only other thing, maybe just handbook. Oh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.

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And then there is something in here talking about students with special needs. I was just wondering if we could change that to students with disabilities. Okay.

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Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I mean, we'll be having more discussions. I'm sure everybody will have enough time to make this part of your bedtime reading.

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All right, next up, we have 6.4, which is to discuss the school committee meeting calendar and approve that there's a draft in your folder.

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Does anyone have any questions or conflicts? I guess the biggest thing I just want to make sure is that Saturday workshop work for everyone. The September 19th, eight it was.

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Start at 8 a.m. I think last year we were done at 1030.

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Could be like have a zoom option. Would that be okay? I'm going to be looking at colleges. Okay, I have to go to college. I totally forgot about this when we booked that. We might we just might be. We just set the date so now. But we had talked about it.

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I think it's probably being then I mean I might I need to look at the.

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Redo the next weekend, 26th.

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Does that work better the following weekend?

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For me, that's not happening, right? It's not it's not homecoming. No.

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Yeah. It was work for me to following weekend. Yeah. When? Double check with Allie and Tim and we'll just have the September 19th or September 26th be tentative. We'll come back. And just if everyone has time to meet with your subcommittee so you can start working on your your goals for that meeting. Is that so 26.

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I'll be in town. Okay. I'll be around for sure. Okay. Yeah. I think we. Are you thinking about the same structure as before? Yeah. Okay. So we'll just. If we could prove it tonight so I can send it to Carol so we can book the room, and then we'll just do Saturday. We'll keep it as tentative.

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Either the 19th of 26. I'll get Allie and Tim's availability in those states, and I'll just email you guys. Is this. I don't think it matters for the approval, but just for my own calendar for Wednesday is it says 630 on here, is that right? Or is it that six? I thought it was six two. Yeah.

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I think the calendar in Bedfordshire is at six. So yeah the text said six 3730 and I got posted for six. So are we doing doing six, six, six. Everyone posted for a second. That's Wednesday. Yeah. This week I have a question about that.

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I do have I have a conflict at seven and I'll be like driving somewhere like I'm not the driver but can I take it from the car? Great. Yeah, yeah, it's just going to be on zoom. Perfect. I will be on zoom in. Excellent. So 6:00. We'll fix that. Okay. It's just a vote quick.

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Yeah, well, and I want to I want if everyone if everyone has able to tune on Tuesday. If you want to have questions you can also email Angela Aisha during the day if you have questions. But it should be quick and there is a possibility that that it might be moved.

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The vote for for press may be moved to either. Hey, Riley. Those bowls need to be cleaned. Eric. Eric, could you please. Okay. It's possible that the vote might be moved to later in the week, depending on some of the the reviews that are coming up and the back and the questions.

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And if that's the case, then I'm sure you may have to. I don't think you want to vote ahead of the no, we don't want to. We don't want to vote before the building committee.

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So if building committee doesn't, for some reason, doesn't vote tomorrow night, I'll let you guys know and we'll have to reschedule our vote. Okay. All right, all right, all right. I'll take a motion to approve the calendar. Okay. I will make a motion to approve the 2026 2027 School Committee calendar, as amended. Second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. All right. Next is.

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To receive an update on the FY 26 federal grants. And once again grateful to Erika Pollock for her work on the title grant. So, Erica, would you like to take it away? Yeah, I will unmute myself again. Sorry about that. This memo outlines the federal funds that we will be receiving in fiscal year 27.

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The first part of our Essa grant is title one, and title one is intended to provide all children with the opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high quality education and to close educational achievement gaps.

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This year, we will be receiving $83,950 in title one funding, and we will be using that funding at Hingham High School to fund a math interventionist to work with students who are at risk of not meeting graduation requirements. Normally, we are required to provide title one services to eligible children attending private and elementary and secondary schools. But this year, none of our private schools have requested access to title one funding, so.

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We are required every year to reach out to them to let them know that whether or not they are eligible and none of the eligible schools have indicated that they would like to request this funding.

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Title two is intended to increase student achievement, improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school leaders, and to increase the number of teachers, principals, and school leaders who are effective in improving student achievement in schools and to provide low income and minority students with greater access to effective teachers, principals, and other school leaders.

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We will be receiving $41,830 entitled to funding, which will primarily be used to further our strategic initiatives related to professional development. We are, as with title one, required to provide equitable access to title two funding for students attending private schools within Hingham, and schools have until September to request a share of this funding.

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I have reached out to all of the private schools in Hingham and have set up consultation calls to determine whether or not they would like to request title two funding. Finally, title for title for program title for programs are meant to support well-rounded educational opportunities, support health and safe and healthy students, and support effective use of technology.

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We will be receiving $10,000 in title for funding, which will be used primarily to fund professional development focused on the effective use of technology to support student learning, and on instructing culturally and linguistically diverse students.

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Similar to title two, private schools in Hingham have until September to request a share of this funding, and I'm in the process of consulting with those private schools to figure out which schools want to take advantage of that opportunity. Does anyone any questions for Erica? Thank you. Erica. Thank you. Next is grants and donations. We have one two. Yep. This evening we have one of our grants to approve is from the high school PTO.

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Each year the HHS PTO has funded several initiatives. The first is helping Hingham. They provide a stipend in the amount of $750. Our peer tutoring, which was formerly known as the Homework Club. They found a stipend in the amount of $4,500, and they also fund a volunteer coordinator who tracks student service hours in the amount of 1500.

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So very grateful to the high school PTO for all of their support for these initiatives.

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All right. I'll take a motion. Thank you. To the high school PTO. I'll make a motion to accept the Hingham High School PTO grants of $750, $4,500, and $1,500 as presented. Second. All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you to the PTO. That our only one.

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All right. Surplus. We have one surplus. Yes. We're excited that the Food Service Department has funded the change in the tables in the cafeteria at the high school. There's a video online today. I know it was a video posted. Yes. Yes, I look great.

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Yeah, they look great, don't they? I'm sure the students will be excited to come back to school, to the new furniture and the cafeteria. And with that, we those tables and chairs and and the cafeteria, we had to declare them. So there's nothing else we could do with them. So that's what they are not comfortable. Right? And they were all right, I went there. Yeah.

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Not too long ago. Yes, exactly. I'm sure you had your name on the back of some of them. Not me.

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All right. These TVs look like they were gathering a little dust. They might also be from our era. Exactly. The channel. Channel one? Yes, yes, yes, that's right, Anderson Cooper. Good memory. All right, I'll take a motion. I will make a motion to declare a surplus items listed above.

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And authorize the executive director of Business and Support services to dispose of them at the lowest possible cost to the district. Second. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Great. Thank you everyone. All right. Next is questions and comments.

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This is the portion of meeting where we open it up to anyone who has questions and comments on items that are not on our agenda. Is there anyone online that has anything? There's no one in the audience, right? Seeing none, we will move on to subcommittee and project reports. Do you have anything? Yes. So. The policy subcommittee met to look at the technology policies, and we're still in process on those.

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And then the Foster School building, the 2017 building committee met last week. I'm just looking for my notes on that. You're focused primarily on some of the things that are kind of still outstanding.

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Notably the well that they're trying to dig was held up, and we were still waiting on that to find some dates for when the landscaping, etc. could move forward. I'd say that was my biggest takeaway from from that meeting.

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Thank you John. Do everything. Matt Kerry. So we have a to with unit C. So that's very exciting. So I can fill you in session. And I attended last Tuesday mask. So the Massachusetts Association of School Committees had a legislative update. It was fascinating. Their slides are going to be available and I'll share them with everyone.

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I think the big takeaway is that there's going to be a task force looking at chapter 70 funding for schools, which is much needed. So Massey has a seat at the table. I think mass does too, and their representatives from other places. So that's great. Yeah. Thank you. I have a few things.

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Sustainable Budget Task Force has been meeting throughout the summer, meeting every two weeks, making some progress with that. And then obviously school building committee, we've been meeting weekly every other week and meeting last week. We have been meeting this week.

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So I think the full update tonight on that and then all to just mention that they finalized date for the special town meeting in the fall, which is October 29th, Thursday.

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And then our next meeting is going to be Wednesday. And then the following regular schedule meeting will be August 31st. And we do not have anything for 48 hours. And with that, I will take a motion to adjourn to executive session, not to return to open session.

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I'll make a motion to adjourn to executive session, not to return to open session pursuant to Mass General law. Chapter 38, section 21 A3. For the purposes of to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation, and act as appropriate. If an open meeting law may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body.

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To approve minutes of the School Committee executive session held on July 13th, 2026, and pursuant to Mass General Law, chapter 38, section 21, A7. To comply with or act under the authority of any general or special law, specifically of the Massachusetts Open Meeting law.

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General Law chapter 30 A section 2022 F and G, for the purpose of reviewing, approving, and determining the release status of Historical Executive Session minutes dating from December 31st, 1975 to March 31st, 2024, 2024. In response to a formal request under Mass General Law. Chapter 38, section 22, G and the chair. So I said, okay, all right. We are adjourned. Everyone have a good night.

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Thank you. Couldn't vote. I need to do a roll call. Vote yes. Thank you. Need a second? I'm sorry, I was saying. Second one declaring I'm ready. I am ready to review those 50 years of minutes. All those in favor? By robo call, vote. Nina. Hi, John. Matt. Kerry, Ray and I am an I as well.

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We are done. Everyone have a good night.