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All right. Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the Stoneham.

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School committee meeting for September 24th, 2026. Please join us in the

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pledge of allegiance.

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Flag of the United States of America due to the Republic.

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Which stands one nation.

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Another God, indivisible with Liberty.

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And justice for all.

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All right. Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight.

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We will start with agenda.

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Item a approval of items by consensus.

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We have minutes and a financial report.

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Consideration of warrants. Would anyone like to vote these together

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or pull them out? Do I have a motion?

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I'll make a motion to approve them together. Okay. I

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guess census and I'll second. Want the warrant information number?

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The warrant number is 27 13.

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Three. It is a vendor warrant in the amount of.

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$1,270,000.

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Let me do that again. 1 million, $270,454 and 42 cents. You

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know, I read that number about eight times before I

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got on camera.

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But that is correct. All right, so we have a

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motion and a second all in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Aye. And I am an aye as well. So that.

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Passes. All right. Public comment. Is there anyone here?

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In person for public comment.

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Seeing none. Is there anyone online for public comment?

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Nope. I gotta join us panelists before I can give

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you that information. Hold on one second.

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We do have two attendees online, but neither of them

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are raising their hand for public comment.

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Okay, no public comment. We will move on to D

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student representatives. We have Maggie and Jayden. Welcome Jayden. Hello.

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Good evening tomorrow, Friday, the 25th. There will be the

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second annual homecoming dance.

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Students should have bought their tickets already, but do not

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worry if you didn't, because you can also buy your

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tickets for just a few dollars more at the door.

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In preparation for Friday, there's a football game happening right

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now.

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And there is, which is the second season home game.

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In addition with the pep rally from last week, spirit

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week is taking place where each day has a theme

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and each person who participates will earn a point for

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their.

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Grade the winning grade gets big a world.

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I believe the sophomores are currently in first place. Oh,

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wow. Spirit week has come to a close on Friday

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with the last day being pajama day and the last

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day at, erm.

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Points due to there being a lot, going on at

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the high school, Wednesday took a pause from spirit week

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for picture day where ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th, and.

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Any faculty who wanted their picture taken could do so.

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Additionally chorus got the exciting opportunity.

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To sing at the red Sox game on Tuesday evening.

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Now onto Jayden, the new student representative.

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Yesterday at 6:00 PM during senior parent information night, the high

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school shared important information.

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With the parents slash guardians regarding the.

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Future of the seniors specifically regarding colleges.

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Colleges. I'd also like to mention the upcoming PTO meeting.

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This will be on the first PTO meeting happening on

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Tuesday, September 29th at 6:30 PM.

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It's a good way for all parents and Stoneham high

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school staff to stay up to date with events going

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on within the school.

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Next I'd also like to mention.

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The upcoming PSATs and the deadlines that go along with

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them.

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Sophomores and juniors have the opportunity to sign up and

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take the PSATs in preparation for the actual SATs.

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SATs students are set to take the P SATs on

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October 17th and are required to register by September 23rd.

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Lastly sports are now in the middle of their season

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with girls volleyball, getting a big win.

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Against . Thank you. .

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Mm-hmm . All right. Thank you so much. And welcome.

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Do we have you wanna tell them about your serenade

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at the.

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Park while we're here. oh, yes. You did mention

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the, you did mention the red Sox game. I happen

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to be in attendance. It was great to be able

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to see.

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The students have some pictures in my, in my update

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that I'll show you, but I was able to visit

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them ahead of time on the field. It happened to

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be my birthday that evening. And so.

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The, the course did sing me happy birthday before they,

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they went onto stage and then they also put up

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a.

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Happy birthday, Dr. De Francisco on the, the big jumbotron,

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which was very, very sweet thing to do. It was

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probably one. I, I will, I will say that was

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a high.

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Highlight of my career and I've been doing this for

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a long time. So I really appreciate that they did

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that. And it was, it was really fun to see

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them saying.

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On at Fenway park, there was quite a few people

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on the stands for that section too. I think it

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sold out. So we didn't even care that it was

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windy and cold. Right.

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Sarah and Catherine, not at all. .

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That's great. Does anyone have any questions? So I have

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a question. So the winners of the class, then.

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They get bagels or do they get bagel world bagels

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from bagel, world bagels. Gotcha. Just make sure on that.

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Cuz you said they went bagel world. I was like,

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Wanna bagel world too.

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That's great. All right. So there's no other questions, you

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know, feel free to head over to the homecoming game.

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You guys don't need to stay for the rest of

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the meeting. So.

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I know this is a short one for you, but

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feel free to stay if you'd like, but don't feel

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bad. I know you get, if you wanna go support

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them at the game, feel free to go, but thank

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you.

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Thank you and you can check in at the game.

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Yeah, you can send us check-ins. Thank you. thank

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you. Yep. You're welcome. Thank you guys. Enjoy, welcome.

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Jayden, we look forward to having you this year and

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next year.

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Oh, great. We look forward to having you this year.

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Thank you. You're welcome. I really appreciate that.

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All right, moving on.

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We have an athletics presentation. Dr. D Francisco is going

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to show us a video.

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principals first. Yeah, of course. Oh yes. Yep. We wanna

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move that. Well, actually it's it's it's no, it's actually

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before it it, oh, okay. Okay.

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Great. so

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E comes before F I did. I did get an

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education. Okay. All right. So introducing Mr. Zeoli and Ms.

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Marshan, if.

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You could come up. Thank you. So our approaching the

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table is our I'm calling them fondly, our interim team.

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As you know, we have an interim principal.

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A position that was available in August at Robinhood elementary

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school.

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As well as central middle school.

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And we feel very, very fortunate to have these two

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folks sitting in front of you right now that are

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filling those positions.

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Positions Ms. Marshan is working at the elementary school at

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Robinhood and Mr. Andy Zuto is working at the middle

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school.

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And I'm just gonna allow them to introduce themselves a

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little bit and talk briefly about how they've found their

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first couple of weeks in the.

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Stone on public schools, you can go first ladies for

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Thank you. Good evening. I have to say it has

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been a sheer delight. It's been really exciting.

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Joining the Robinhood staff. It's a wonderful.

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High expertise and welcoming.

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It's been energizing the whole.

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Experience for the, it seems like it's been a little

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longer. I feel like I know the much better than

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I should if not only being there a few weeks,

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but it's been.

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Great fun. And I think we're learning a lot together.

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And enjoying the really enjoying being here in the district.

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I love being in Stoneham. Great, great opportunity. Thank you

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so much. And something you.

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Should know, Cindy is that.

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When I come to Robinhood.

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I was just there today, actually. And I do my

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walk around, you know, I'm really thinking about what is

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the buzz of the school and what is the culture

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of the school. And you have.

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Transitioned them beautifully. It's not easy to get a new

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principal in, in late summer.

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The other thing that I would want you to know

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is that the comments that I'm getting about the way

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you're running professional development and learning, which we've had actually

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quite a few session.

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Sessions, even though it's only the beginning of the year.

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Staff is really appreciating the support that you're giving them.

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And it's it's early on yet. So.

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We are going to enjoy you. And I'm sure that

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our time with you is going to be way too

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short. I already know that at this point. So thank

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you for being at Robinhood.

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Thank you. I paid them to say that. Yeah.

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while it's working.

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Andy. Hi everyone. I, I agree with Cindy. I feel

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very fortunate.

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I knew right from the day I came and saw

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the mentoring. Cause I.

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Texted Dr. D and I said,

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not that you need to hear it from me, but

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this is how world class.

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School systems operate. I feel really proud to be a

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part of it. This.

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Great leadership here. Great kids, the families have been super

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kind and welcoming. So.

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I really love being here. And I mentioned that to

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you the other day, I.

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I I'm gonna feel sad at the end of the

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frankly.

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Thank you. And I think I, in addition to that,

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I would just wanna add that your presence you're just

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being around the building.

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Where kids can see you and staff can see you

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and greeting kids at the door. And.

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As we know middle school is a very special space,

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right. And, you know, just being able to build relationships

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with students that you're already working to do. And.

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Helping support staff who are really working hard to build

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relationships with students is evident.

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I also appreciate that when I pick up the phone

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and call you you're on the other end of it

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and willing to do whatever it is, we need to

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make the, the day successful.

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For our kids. So again, the time will go by

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quickly and I'm sure we are also gonna share your

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sentiment will be very sad as well, but we appre

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we're gonna enjoy you while.

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We have you both. Yep, sure. And I appreciate that.

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You're, you've joined the welcome to being a Spartan.

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Thank you. Thank you. I just wanna jump in and

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piggyback on what Andy said, because one of the things

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I know last year, you all worked very.

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routines and structures in the district. And that was one

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of the things that for me, was very obvious.

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When I came in the transition this year.

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With students entering the building was so smooth. Teachers had

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routines in place from day one.

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There was a high level of comfort with the students

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and teachers had all the routines and plays.

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Communicated beautifully, both orally and.

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Through their anchor charts on the board. So all the

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work that you did last year on structures and routines

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and building agency for.

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Students is showing. So just so keep talking like that,

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both of you and you we'll find something for you

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to do it, so you might not get.

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Away that fast mutual admiration. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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That's great. Does anyone from the committee have questions?

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Questions. No questions. Just welcome.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. It's nice to hear

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the perspective from you guys, just coming into the school

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district this year. So thank you for everything you're doing.

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And we look forward to seeing.

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What you do while you're here this year. Life pleasure.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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that. all right.

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Now athletics presentation. Yes. We're gonna, we're gonna give this

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a whirl, as you heard earlier.

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Our athletic director is currently.

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On the football field for our second.

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Home game. And so this was a move because we're

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worried about the weather.

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So I'm gonna give this a whirl and try to

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share with you.

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As you know, sometimes when we try to share something

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with.

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Sound. It doesn't always go the way we exactly want.

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So I'm gonna stop talking because if I talk while

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this is going, I won't narrate.

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Narrate maybe that's a blessing for y'all.

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Once I turn the sound on, I don't want it

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to echo, so let's see, I'm gonna do this in

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a certain order.

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Those of you that are part of the.

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Success of this. Thank you. Please mute your microphones.

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Microphones, you can't get this to go.

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All right.

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hello. You hear that?

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Have some fun, make sure you get loud.

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And have a laugh enjoy this year.

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It starts today, the culture of this school.

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To be the

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how did that come over? Did it come over? Okay.

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I don't over the screen. It came over on the

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screen. Fine. Yeah. Okay. Great.

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And we wanted to show you just a little snippet.

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If you remember last year we had all of the

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athletes come.

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it was great to listen to them. But about 45

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minutes later, we still had all of the athletes here.

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So we decided this year, we were gonna start to

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use some videos I'd like to thank Chris Sarino for.

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Going and videoing the pep rally where you could see

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the spirit like.

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Oozing from the gym. It was, I'm actually looking at

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Dr. Burnham right now. He's he was probably, I I'm

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gonna ask you when you come up to talk about

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the.

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Field trip, how you felt about all of the commotion

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that was going on in the gym.

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And you saw the captains there. If you were watching

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the video, the captains came up and they spoke with

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everybody.

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And then you saw the list of their names. So

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we're gonna be working to make sure that we do

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this season by season so that you can be introduced

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to all of the athletes.

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Athletes that are on our fields. Our student athletes are

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balancing a lot of different things and we wanna make

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sure that.

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We are celebrating them here at school committee, just like

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we do with some of the drama folks and our

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music.

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Our musicians. So we will continue this student participation throughout

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the school year and hope you enjoyed a little sneak

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preview.

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And that's it.

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Great. Yeah, I definitely wanna.

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Share that video around. I think that's awesome. Yeah. Came

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out really good. Yeah, it did.

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Okay. Now we are moving on to athletics facility, rental

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forms.

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Forms and I have we've invited as well. Dave Pinon

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who's on the football field.

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And Chris Sereno, who is going to be Anne Diane Johnson,

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who have spearheaded.

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Work on the rental facil athletics facility and rental forms.

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We really wanted.

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Talking about systems and structures. And if I were going

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to nest this in one of the district improvement plan,

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overarching goals, it would be goal three.

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And four in some ways, because it's a system and

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structure, but it's also talks about our finances and, and

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helps us to bring in a little bit of revenue.

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So they are both gonna talk about how the con

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the conceptualized, the form and what the timeline is for

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us launching this out. Thank you for being here.

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Tonight, Chris and Diane, of course.

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And just a word about the pep rally. I've been

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at 23 Stoneham pep rallies over the years now in

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that one was gonna be, it's gonna be hard to

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beat. It was.

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Incredible the new gym, the sound equipment that we have

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in that gym. It's just amazing for a pep rally.

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So kudos to the athletic department.

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All right. Follet facilities, rental software.

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So that's what we're gonna be talking about next.

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We broke up the information tonight in a few different

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topics. The first one, how it came about the second

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one.

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Benefits of the new software and third next steps for

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us.

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So how this came about, we wanted to modernize our

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rental.

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System. We wanna make sure that it's transparent.

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It's efficient and that it's automated.

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Right now, as you probably know, we have a Google

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form that handles our rentals.

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Rentals. It's been okay for us.

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But it's very much a manual process.

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Manual entry manual.

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Scheduling of staff manual.

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Invoicing and the nightmare of tracking insurance certificates for all

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of our renters.

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And the only thing that we typically rent out thus

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far is gyms and fields.

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So now with the new high school coming online.

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That's gonna be a very much a sought after rental

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for us. So we wanted to make sure we had

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a robust platform that could handle that.

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Influx of inquiries for rentals. And we feel like this

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software can really do it for us. And again,

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Dr. D just talked about it, but we look in

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the district and we've been trying to ramp up our.

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Systems and structures, and this is just another area.

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Where we can, we can elevate our systems and structure

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structures and put the right things in place for us.

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And that's this software for us.

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The benefits of the new software.

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One of the key benefits is that it integrates completely

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with arbiter. Arbiter is our sports scheduling software.

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And Follett was able to integrate that. So we don't

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have to do any redundant work with putting those into

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the schedule.

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Are it takes arbiter information and it puts it right

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into the calendar.

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And it blocks out those days. So renters don't have

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the ability to double book on those particular days and

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times, that was a huge benefit to the athletic department.

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And it works really well already. That's been in place.

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The other thing that it does really well, is it

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tracks insurance certificates for our renters. And this is huge

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for us.

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It'll give reminders to renters when insurance certificates are due.

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And need to be updated and it won't allow them

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to rent on our system.

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Until that happens. So we always know that a renter

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has the proper insurance certificates in place.

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Before they come into our facilities to rent. Think that's

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a huge benefit.

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The other thing that it does for us, it gives

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us complete control.

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Over the

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sorry. I lost my place.

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Where am I

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over the approval paths. So what we can do on

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the back end of this is set up all the

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approval paths, so that principles are in the know athletic.

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Directors are in the know and also our custodial staff.

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We can send out notifications to them and it's all

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automated. Once something is booked. So that's a really nice

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piece of this.

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We can also prioritize rentals. So we wanna make sure

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that our sports teams and our youth organizations.

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They have the ability to rent.

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And block out those spaces.

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Gyms fields and things like that. And then we have

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the ability to open up our calendar to other renters

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after that point.

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Ultimately

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what this is gonna do for us is maximize our

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abilities to rent, but also protect our spaces.

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Making sure that our renters are vetted. They have the

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improper, proper insurance certificates in place, and we can also

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through the system.

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Invoice them prior to the event. So if that's something

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that we're interested in, we also have that ability.

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Next steps.

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Okay. So we do have software in place already, and

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we did a soft rollout. Our athletic director was able

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to reach out to our youth.

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Organizations that work with us every year.

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And we sort of piloted the program with them. We

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got some feedback from them. What was working well, what

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they thought about it. They had some suggestions for.

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Us. We were able to go back to Follet and

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ask if those could be implemented and put into place

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and they were able to do that. So we had

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a good soft.

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Rollout so far with our youth organizations.

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Next steps for us. We actually have a training tomorrow

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set up with Follett and that training is gonna be

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based on.

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How we can embed and bake in some of our

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custodial fees.

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So that as a renter, you can get a proper

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estimate on what it's gonna cost to rent our spaces.

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After that we're gonna be looking to train our leadership

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teams and our front office staff. This is gonna.

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Be really important. We need principals to be on board

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so that at the beginning of the year, they block

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out their dates. That's gonna be really, I.

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Important. So we don't double book renters.

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Principals should know, basically at the beginning of the year,

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when they're doing their back to school nights, when parent-teacher

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conferences are, when moving on ceremonies.

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Are so we are gonna have them get comfortable in

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the system. They're gonna have a username and access to

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the system, and then they can block out their dates

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for the school.

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So those will never show up as available dates for

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renters to begin with because they'll be blocked out.

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So that's really important.

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The last piece that I have to, this is we

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have to, as a district understand.

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Some of the special circumstances that might come up from

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this. And the thing that comes to mind is our

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auditorium at the high school. That's a.

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Really sophisticated site.

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And it's gonna take some planning on our end. If

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someone wants to rent that space.

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Because of the systems that are there, the lighting and

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the sound.

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Are really expensive pieces of equipment and we want it

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to be protected. So we have to think about how

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we're going to have a.

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A sound in lighting engineer.

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Be tagged on to those rentals if they happen in

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the future. So that's something we still have to discuss

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and figure out going forward with those spaces.

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Anything to add Diane? No, you covered it very, very

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well. any questions before they take questions? I just,

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I wanna talk a little.

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Bit about why this was important to.

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You know, Megan had mentioned it and said, you know,

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we should probably.

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Bring that to the forefront.

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When I started here in Stoneham last year, one of

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the things that was being spoken about around finances is,

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is revenue. And I was really clear.

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About the fact that schools are really not a revenue

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producing.

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Entity. However, the space that we do have to create

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some revenue is renting.

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Part of the reason that I felt it was important

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for you to come and explain is that we don't

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just rent.

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To somebody and shake their hand and say, yes, you

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can have the space.

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There's a lot that goes into.

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Setting us up to be successful for renting insurance.

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Fees, making sure we're consistent.

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That somebody doesn't just rent it and there's no oversight

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over who's in there. Where's the custodian. So.

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I I really thank you for coming. Thank you for

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working on this. Thank you for finding something so quickly

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that could be put in place.

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For a system and

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just coming to school committee and explaining to folks what

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it looks, feels. And sounds like when we run.

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Something like this. So I appreciate that.

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You're here tonight and that you worked hard to make

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sure we would have a system pleasure. One thing about

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fees. If I could mention, we worked with school committee

515
00:23:13,370 --> 00:23:14,230
closely on.

516
00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:16,030
Developing our policy for rentals.

517
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,930
Rentals and the fee structure that's in the policy.

518
00:23:19,630 --> 00:23:20,930
Is already baked into the platform.

519
00:23:21,970 --> 00:23:25,600
So when we categorize a renter as a nonprofit or

520
00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,830
a for-profit renter, those serving yep. And those.

521
00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,830
Fees are already baked in based on the policy that's

522
00:23:32,830 --> 00:23:33,070
in place.

523
00:23:34,570 --> 00:23:36,300
So actually speaking of that, we.

524
00:23:38,470 --> 00:23:40,700
A few years ago, we started to get really good

525
00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:40,970
about.

526
00:23:41,930 --> 00:23:44,030
Renewing our fees and, and at least looking at them

527
00:23:44,030 --> 00:23:44,570
each year.

528
00:23:45,570 --> 00:23:48,930
And reaffirming what they were gonna be. We haven't done

529
00:23:48,930 --> 00:23:49,230
that since.

530
00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:52,670
August of 2025, partly because.

531
00:23:53,570 --> 00:23:55,230
We knew this was an undertaking.

532
00:23:56,030 --> 00:23:57,670
Thank you guys. It's real. I.

533
00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:02,500
Got to see from somebody using for the soft rollout

534
00:24:02,670 --> 00:24:04,030
and they had.

535
00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,030
Rave reviews about it. That's great. And said, it was

536
00:24:07,030 --> 00:24:09,800
like, oh, nice. So much easier. That's awesome. So thank

537
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,000
you. But that is something we should probably.

538
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,470
Be putting on an agenda soon to.

539
00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:22,800
Anybody else have questions. Yeah, no, along those lines, I

540
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,700
was curious at the cost of the software. And if

541
00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:26,230
we'd be rolling that into the fees,

542
00:24:26,870 --> 00:24:29,100
going forward. Sounds like we'll be reviewing that soon.

543
00:24:29,970 --> 00:24:32,930
But I had a couple other questions with the connectivity

544
00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:35,030
to arbiter. Is it a two way?

545
00:24:36,030 --> 00:24:38,930
Two-way connectivity where no. So if a coach has to

546
00:24:38,930 --> 00:24:41,200
reschedule a game like tonight's football game, they'd have to

547
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,930
go into this new software to make sure or it.

548
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,570
No, it syncs with arbiter. So if the change is

549
00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:49,670
made in arbiter, I'm not sure the sync time between

550
00:24:49,670 --> 00:24:52,370
the two, but it would carry over to fall.

551
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,500
It. Well, what about in the case where we had

552
00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:55,770
a rescheduled game in the.

553
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,670
Field or a gym or somewhere it's already booked by

554
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,000
if it's an interscholastic event that's happening through arbiter already.

555
00:25:04,030 --> 00:25:05,700
And then it would just pull into our system here.

556
00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:08,770
Right. And we would have to, if there were, you

557
00:25:08,770 --> 00:25:11,070
know, if we had already put practices in or anything,

558
00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:13,670
we'd have to bump those. Okay. So, well say someone

559
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:14,070
rented.

560
00:25:14,870 --> 00:25:16,500
Say the gym, say one, the youth sports or someone

561
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,430
else in a game got rescheduled. We'd be sending an

562
00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:22,030
email to them saying, we're very sorry, but we're going

563
00:25:22,030 --> 00:25:22,700
to have to take your.

564
00:25:23,070 --> 00:25:24,770
Slot, you know, if there was a snow day, for

565
00:25:24,770 --> 00:25:26,000
example, that's classic example.

566
00:25:27,070 --> 00:25:28,930
We, we would have the capacity within the system to

567
00:25:28,930 --> 00:25:31,930
pull up everybody's on that date. Send 'em an email

568
00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:33,970
saying we're very sorry. You're not gonna be able to

569
00:25:33,970 --> 00:25:34,970
use the space this night.

570
00:25:35,770 --> 00:25:38,070
Anything you've paid will be refunded. If, if that's app

571
00:25:38,230 --> 00:25:39,030
applicable.

572
00:25:39,830 --> 00:25:40,930
Due to the weather and we can do all that

573
00:25:40,930 --> 00:25:43,370
through this app, all through the system. Great. We can

574
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,930
also relocate the game too. If, if this is a

575
00:25:46,930 --> 00:25:47,770
rental that we.

576
00:25:48,030 --> 00:25:49,500
You know, are in good standing with, and we wanna

577
00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:51,470
keep in good standing in the middle school is open

578
00:25:51,470 --> 00:25:53,000
if it's basketball or if it's whatever.

579
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,570
We, we could also do it that way too. But

580
00:25:56,570 --> 00:25:59,200
what I'm hearing Diane say is that it's it, the,

581
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,830
the program is facile. You can mm-hmm .

582
00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,930
Yeah, and I believe there's some safeguards within the policy.

583
00:26:05,770 --> 00:26:08,100
That pro protect protects us for those situations as well.

584
00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:11,000
Okay. Yeah. I'm, I'm more worried about like, say someone

585
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,670
from outside of Stoneham trying rinse the space for.

586
00:26:13,930 --> 00:26:16,000
For whatever event. And then we end up saying, oh,

587
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,370
we need it. So as long as we got that

588
00:26:17,370 --> 00:26:18,030
covered, great.

589
00:26:18,930 --> 00:26:21,970
I do like the document management and rental management features

590
00:26:21,970 --> 00:26:22,100
in there.

591
00:26:23,070 --> 00:26:24,700
Are we going, if someone were to rent the space,

592
00:26:25,570 --> 00:26:28,500
and say not live up to their part of the

593
00:26:28,970 --> 00:26:30,300
contract. Would we be able to flag them so we

594
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,600
know not the future a hundred percent awesome.

595
00:26:33,570 --> 00:26:35,200
And then just something else to consider for future.

596
00:26:36,030 --> 00:26:38,430
Integrations as we're talking calendars and schools and all this

597
00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:40,300
other stuff, it'd be great if we could. I know

598
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:42,270
we talked about a district-wide calendar. It seems like we've

599
00:26:42,270 --> 00:26:44,000
got a feeder system already, so maybe we.

600
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:44,830
Can to prevent

601
00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:47,830
I'm not related to this, but.

602
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,970
Can prevent having competing.

603
00:26:51,830 --> 00:26:54,700
Events at schools where parents are torn between two places.

604
00:26:54,830 --> 00:26:57,030
Mm-hmm, , it'll be certainly a lot easier if you'll

605
00:26:57,030 --> 00:26:59,830
be able to see all the events happening simultaneously. Exactly.

606
00:27:00,030 --> 00:27:03,370
Yeah, because right now the, the school's rather function independently.

607
00:27:03,470 --> 00:27:05,370
Yeah. And this will allow them to all be functioning

608
00:27:05,370 --> 00:27:07,370
on the same platform. So it'll be a lot easier

609
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:08,000
to.

610
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,030
Cross look. Yep. And then, you know, what's going on

611
00:27:10,030 --> 00:27:11,430
on this date? Oh, oh.

612
00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:13,470
Well, maybe somebody shift.

613
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:15,030
Yep. Awesome. Thank you.

614
00:27:17,370 --> 00:27:18,030
Anybody else?

615
00:27:19,870 --> 00:27:21,800
Sorry. Did you say how much it costs? What, how

616
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,700
much the software is? I know how much it costs.

617
00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:27,000
Oh, okay. The first year is 4,005.

618
00:27:27,270 --> 00:27:31,000
Hundred $30. That's with implementation fees. The second year is

619
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:31,470
3000.

620
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,470
$842. And the third year is $3,957.

621
00:27:37,570 --> 00:27:39,370
And it's being paid for out of the building.

622
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,670
Rental revolving account. So the fees we take in will

623
00:27:42,670 --> 00:27:44,700
be covering the cost of this. I mean, it really

624
00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:45,970
is overhead for renting.

625
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,770
Right. Mm-hmm great. That was good.

626
00:27:49,770 --> 00:27:52,300
Okay. Mm-hmm there just a quick.

627
00:27:53,170 --> 00:27:56,970
Related item on our agenda coming up later is a

628
00:27:56,970 --> 00:27:57,070
policy.

629
00:27:57,930 --> 00:27:59,270
That kind of goes along with the one that we

630
00:27:59,270 --> 00:28:01,370
talked about a few months ago when we, we did

631
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,030
the rental.

632
00:28:02,870 --> 00:28:05,600
Kind of community use of school facility policy. There was

633
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,600
a whole bunch of procedures in there that we rescinded,

634
00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:10,030
cuz we said, you know, we will have the policy

635
00:28:09,970 --> 00:28:10,800
and then you guys.

636
00:28:11,070 --> 00:28:14,430
Make the procedures. There was just one short model policy

637
00:28:14,630 --> 00:28:17,430
that Massey recommended that we looked at at our last

638
00:28:17,430 --> 00:28:18,930
policy meeting. That's coming forward.

639
00:28:19,470 --> 00:28:20,830
For first reading tonight. So it's not final.

640
00:28:21,770 --> 00:28:23,300
But if you both could take a look at it

641
00:28:23,930 --> 00:28:26,370
and let us know if you have comments, it just

642
00:28:26,370 --> 00:28:29,070
kind of reaffirms things like you just said that all

643
00:28:29,070 --> 00:28:29,570
groups will.

644
00:28:29,930 --> 00:28:31,830
Have insurance, all groups, you know, will not.

645
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,800
Smoke use alcohol tobacco, right. Things like that.

646
00:28:35,830 --> 00:28:37,300
That are a little more procedural, but we just want,

647
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,770
we felt like it was important to put on paper.

648
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:41,970
That all renters are gonna do that.

649
00:28:42,870 --> 00:28:44,930
So, but just, you know, take a look and if

650
00:28:44,930 --> 00:28:47,930
you have comments, you can let the superintendent know or

651
00:28:47,970 --> 00:28:50,670
us at the policy subcommittee mm-hmm will do, which

652
00:28:50,670 --> 00:28:50,830
you.

653
00:28:51,070 --> 00:28:53,970
Came to exactly you kidding the first time I didn't.

654
00:28:54,070 --> 00:28:55,970
One of the things that was, that's been really nice

655
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:56,430
about.

656
00:28:57,170 --> 00:28:58,700
Having, you know, and it just was.

657
00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:03,230
Luck that you were all redoing the policy manual. When

658
00:29:03,230 --> 00:29:03,770
I started.

659
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,370
And now we're looking into different systems and structures that

660
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,300
are going to need.

661
00:29:09,370 --> 00:29:11,700
Procedures and protocols that

662
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,300
it's aligning that we can have conversations while the policy

663
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:17,970
subcommittee is looking at what the policy says.

664
00:29:19,070 --> 00:29:20,030
And remove the

665
00:29:21,170 --> 00:29:24,600
procedures and the protocols, but know that they live somewhere

666
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:24,830
else.

667
00:29:25,770 --> 00:29:27,600
Because that's been a concern and it's really important that

668
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,700
they do. Now. We have a system for them to

669
00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,100
live in, right. This isn't something that goes in a

670
00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:33,770
handbook or this isn't.

671
00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:35,500
Isn't something that necessarily, I mean, it will go on

672
00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,770
the website in the sense that you can access it

673
00:29:37,770 --> 00:29:41,200
from there, but it's good to know that those procedures

674
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:41,830
and those.

675
00:29:43,430 --> 00:29:44,670
Protocols live somewhere.

676
00:29:45,570 --> 00:29:47,100
And so we've got, that's how it's supposed to look

677
00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:47,970
right. Policy.

678
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,030
And then once that policy dictates what we need to

679
00:29:51,030 --> 00:29:51,370
do for.

680
00:29:52,230 --> 00:29:54,570
For procedures and protocols. So that's a perfect example.

681
00:29:55,870 --> 00:29:57,700
And that was a really nice starting point for us

682
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,470
looking at the policy first, discussing that. Right. And then

683
00:30:00,470 --> 00:30:01,970
moving on to this, right. It was great.

684
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:04,830
Corey's very happy right now.

685
00:30:05,870 --> 00:30:08,600
All right. Anybody else have questions? No. Thank, thank you

686
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,600
both. Thanks for all your hard work on this now.

687
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,230
There's appreciate a blue line. There you go. that's

688
00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:13,470
great.

689
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,000
All right, moving on, Dr. Burnham's here.

690
00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:21,030
To discuss the sternum high school, New York, DC field trip

691
00:30:21,270 --> 00:30:22,430
approval. Thank you for coming.

692
00:30:23,970 --> 00:30:26,370
Mm-hmm . Thank you for having me. Yeah. So this

693
00:30:26,370 --> 00:30:27,230
is coming up in.

694
00:30:28,030 --> 00:30:29,570
March. Yes. Okay. And

695
00:30:31,070 --> 00:30:34,030
April, obviously I'm not gonna be the expert on these

696
00:30:34,030 --> 00:30:36,500
field trips, not having been here, right. To ever see

697
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:38,370
them before, but I'm excited to talk to you.

698
00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:42,030
About them tonight. One of the things I kind of

699
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,300
wanna start out with.

700
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,770
Is there's about four places.

701
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:49,430
In my opinion in the country that I think every

702
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:50,830
single American should go see.

703
00:30:52,070 --> 00:30:54,230
Two of those are in these field trips, right? I

704
00:30:54,230 --> 00:30:57,030
think the trip, if you were, and I see a

705
00:30:57,030 --> 00:30:58,700
lot of people in this room who were wi with

706
00:30:58,700 --> 00:30:59,770
us at the assembly.

707
00:31:00,030 --> 00:31:00,970
For nine 11.

708
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:04,770
Taking some of our students down to New York.

709
00:31:05,570 --> 00:31:07,100
To be there at that site, I think is an

710
00:31:07,430 --> 00:31:11,300
incredibly powerful learning experience that I think every American should

711
00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:13,570
experience and going to our nation.

712
00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:15,670
Nation's capital I think is obviously.

713
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,670
Something that is valuable for every single person to see

714
00:31:18,670 --> 00:31:19,970
that in action and be there.

715
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,370
And see those institutions and, and I think it's wonderful

716
00:31:23,370 --> 00:31:26,030
that our students have that opportunity. I, I think that

717
00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:29,000
field-based learning experiences are something.

718
00:31:29,170 --> 00:31:31,200
That kids remember for their entire life.

719
00:31:32,870 --> 00:31:34,800
One thing that we're really proud of is.

720
00:31:35,630 --> 00:31:36,500
You might remember.

721
00:31:38,030 --> 00:31:40,300
About five years ago, we used a company to help

722
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,300
us pull those off. It was EF was the name

723
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:42,930
of the company.

724
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,970
We've moved to doing that. In-house.

725
00:31:46,870 --> 00:31:48,770
And for the past five years, what that's meant is

726
00:31:48,770 --> 00:31:50,030
we've controlled the itinerary.

727
00:31:51,070 --> 00:31:52,930
And we've kept the cost exactly the same for five

728
00:31:52,930 --> 00:31:55,370
years. There's never been a time in the past five

729
00:31:55,370 --> 00:31:55,600
years.

730
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,970
Where the prices went up. I think that's remarkable.

731
00:31:58,930 --> 00:32:01,000
So those are a couple highlights that I just wanted

732
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,370
you to know about the trips. Again, I haven't been

733
00:32:03,370 --> 00:32:03,830
on one.

734
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,270
I did send the itineraries over your way to, to

735
00:32:07,270 --> 00:32:08,000
look them over.

736
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,030
And I, I certainly can't be an expert on them

737
00:32:11,030 --> 00:32:14,030
having not experienced them, but I'm happy to answer any

738
00:32:14,230 --> 00:32:14,970
questions that I can.

739
00:32:17,070 --> 00:32:19,000
Does anyone have any questions about the trip?

740
00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:22,030
I had a que, so, so I see that the

741
00:32:22,030 --> 00:32:22,500
senior trip.

742
00:32:23,370 --> 00:32:25,000
The, the scholarships are available.

743
00:32:25,970 --> 00:32:28,930
Is there scholarships available for the sophomore trip? Yes. Okay.

744
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:29,570
Yes.

745
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,070
Okay. Yep. We have been successful over the past five

746
00:32:33,170 --> 00:32:36,300
past five years of making sure every student that wanted

747
00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:38,200
to go can go. That was my next question.

748
00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:39,030
Okay. Good.

749
00:32:42,370 --> 00:32:43,100
Anybody else?

750
00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:45,600
Everyone's looking through the itinerary.

751
00:32:46,970 --> 00:32:50,100
Yeah on the senior trip, it says cost based on

752
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,770
45 travelers. So that go, is it only are we

753
00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:54,700
capping it at 45?

754
00:32:55,070 --> 00:32:56,930
Students or are we, is that gonna be open to

755
00:32:56,930 --> 00:32:59,070
all seniors? It's open to all seniors. Okay. Yeah.

756
00:33:02,170 --> 00:33:04,030
So you just get a second bus. If the first

757
00:33:04,030 --> 00:33:04,800
one fills up.

758
00:33:05,570 --> 00:33:07,970
Is that we have been able to do that with

759
00:33:07,930 --> 00:33:09,070
one bus historically.

760
00:33:09,930 --> 00:33:12,000
But if we needed more, more vehicles, we'd have to

761
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:12,470
look at that.

762
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:18,930
Are they they're, they're probably just continuously sleeping in these

763
00:33:19,370 --> 00:33:19,470
.

764
00:33:20,230 --> 00:33:23,430
Buses between such a crazy itinerary. It's great though. You

765
00:33:23,430 --> 00:33:24,970
gotta keep 'em busy and there's so much to see

766
00:33:25,030 --> 00:33:27,100
in that short amount of time. So sleeping on the

767
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:28,100
bus ride is the best.

768
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,930
Case scenario. Yes. Yes. Yes.

769
00:33:31,830 --> 00:33:35,600
Exactly fair. They pump lullabies off the dispute. .

770
00:33:38,570 --> 00:33:39,770
Anybody have anything?

771
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,930
No, I will. My daughter went on this. She's a

772
00:33:43,930 --> 00:33:46,770
senior now, but she went on the sophomore trip.

773
00:33:48,030 --> 00:33:50,200
And I think Connor did want us too. And it

774
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,970
really is. It is such a fantastic trip. It's a,

775
00:33:52,970 --> 00:33:54,070
it's a whirlwind. It's.

776
00:33:55,470 --> 00:33:59,000
It's but Mr. V does a fantastic job with this

777
00:33:58,930 --> 00:33:59,200
and.

778
00:34:00,230 --> 00:34:02,830
He has done an amazing job organizing these. He couldn't

779
00:34:02,830 --> 00:34:05,300
be with us tonight because of some other responsibilities, but

780
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:05,970
I will tell you.

781
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:08,930
He takes up a lot of leadership in the school.

782
00:34:09,970 --> 00:34:11,930
And you need those kind of people on staff. Right.

783
00:34:11,970 --> 00:34:13,800
And, and he is one of those people with just

784
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:14,800
a force of personality.

785
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,830
Can really, really make things work and connects it right

786
00:34:18,830 --> 00:34:20,500
back to the curriculum. So, yeah.

787
00:34:21,370 --> 00:34:23,100
Know, Connor went last year and I think he slept

788
00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:26,000
like the entire day he got back. Mm-hmm 24

789
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,270
hours straight. You're welcome. yeah.

790
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,470
Yep. Oh, that's great. All right, I'll entertain a motion

791
00:34:33,570 --> 00:34:36,670
then. I'm I'm gonna ask that we separate okay. Trips.

792
00:34:36,770 --> 00:34:37,500
That sounds great.

793
00:34:38,430 --> 00:34:41,030
So we wanna do, which one would you like to.

794
00:34:42,270 --> 00:34:46,500
Let's start with sure. Sophomores, sophomore trip. Would anyone like

795
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,470
to make a motion? Motion to approve?

796
00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:50,930
Sophomores going to

797
00:34:51,970 --> 00:34:52,930
Washington DC.

798
00:34:53,970 --> 00:34:55,300
second. Okay.

799
00:34:56,470 --> 00:34:58,800
All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. And I am an

800
00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,100
aye as well.

801
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,070
Would someone like to make a motion for the senior

802
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:02,830
class trip?

803
00:35:04,070 --> 00:35:04,830
Motion. We

804
00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:07,930
approve the senior class trip to New York city.

805
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,500
Say your second, second. All right. All in favor. Aye.

806
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,000
Aye. Aye. I'm gonna abstain. Okay. We have one abstention

807
00:35:15,370 --> 00:35:16,770
for Ms. Wallace and.

808
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,100
I'm also an I, so that passes.

809
00:35:19,270 --> 00:35:21,930
Passes. All right. Thank you so much for coming. We

810
00:35:21,930 --> 00:35:23,270
appreciate it. Thank you. I think it's gonna be a

811
00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:25,030
great trip as almost. Thank you. Thank you. Are you

812
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:26,830
gonna go on the trip? I am not sure.

813
00:35:27,630 --> 00:35:31,070
I know that our assistant principal, Mr. Jim grok

814
00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:33,370
is all over the New York trip. He really wants in

815
00:35:33,370 --> 00:35:35,600
on that. Mm-hmm so we'll see. We'll see. Great.

816
00:35:36,030 --> 00:35:37,200
So I had one more question. You said there was

817
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:37,830
four places.

818
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:41,500
Yeah. What are the other two? great question.

819
00:35:41,970 --> 00:35:44,470
so my other two are this, I think every American

820
00:35:44,470 --> 00:35:46,770
citizen should one point.

821
00:35:47,070 --> 00:35:49,700
In their lives visit valley valley forge. That was a

822
00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,100
site of Washington's army. As you know, when they wintered

823
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:52,370
there.

824
00:35:53,170 --> 00:35:55,300
And that was the most diverse our army has ever

825
00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:55,570
been.

826
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,670
The country really came together and we ended up having

827
00:35:58,670 --> 00:35:59,970
this incredible victory.

828
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,600
And then I think when you do that trip and

829
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,600
I've done this with my daughter,

830
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:05,970
the next place you should go to get is Gettysburg,

831
00:36:06,270 --> 00:36:09,030
which is exactly where we fell apart and became divided.

832
00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:10,800
Sure. Right. And it's the high water mark of the

833
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:11,200
Confederacy.

834
00:36:12,030 --> 00:36:14,100
They're two incredibly powerful spots to stand.

835
00:36:15,070 --> 00:36:17,030
And to really reflect on our nation's history. Yep.

836
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,970
Well history lesson there. I like it. I was a

837
00:36:19,970 --> 00:36:23,370
history teacher stone in high school. thank you very

838
00:36:23,370 --> 00:36:26,430
much before we let you go. I know you.

839
00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:28,770
Came and introduced yourself when you first started. And now

840
00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:30,800
you've had a little bit of time to get your

841
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,670
feet wet and I have.

842
00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:35,370
Been so impressed with your visibility.

843
00:36:36,570 --> 00:36:39,930
With students, both you and, and Mr. Groke, as a

844
00:36:39,930 --> 00:36:40,230
matter of fact,

845
00:36:41,170 --> 00:36:42,700
who was I speaking with? Act. It was, it was

846
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,930
Jason who I can see who's sitting there. He's like,

847
00:36:44,930 --> 00:36:45,830
you know, when the kids are.

848
00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:48,370
Are moving around the hallways. Maybe they are supposed to

849
00:36:48,370 --> 00:36:50,000
be in the hallways. Maybe they aren't supposed to be

850
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,100
in the hallways. They literally materialize from around the corner

851
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,770
and say, Hey, where are you supposed?

852
00:36:55,070 --> 00:36:57,270
To be . So I think, you know, you're really

853
00:36:57,270 --> 00:37:00,100
working on, on building relationships with students and.

854
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000
I've just been very impressed with, with your ability to

855
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,200
be, as Jason says, like everywhere.

856
00:37:07,070 --> 00:37:10,470
So we really appreciate your spirit and the energy that

857
00:37:10,470 --> 00:37:13,770
you've approached launching this school, school year with. And I

858
00:37:13,770 --> 00:37:15,070
think the high school students, if they.

859
00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:17,830
Were here to say would also would also agree. So

860
00:37:17,830 --> 00:37:20,570
thank you. I really appreciate that. And I can't be

861
00:37:20,570 --> 00:37:23,030
everywhere, but I'm really glad my high school students think

862
00:37:23,030 --> 00:37:23,300
I am.

863
00:37:23,830 --> 00:37:25,070
Yeah, that's right. you go?

864
00:37:25,930 --> 00:37:28,370
Just clone yourself. that's right.

865
00:37:29,170 --> 00:37:30,800
All right. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. Have

866
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:31,070
a good night.

867
00:37:32,070 --> 00:37:34,370
Have fun at home coming. Thank you so much. Yes.

868
00:37:35,470 --> 00:37:38,770
All right, moving on to announcement of confetti festival. All

869
00:37:38,770 --> 00:37:40,600
right, we're gonna try this again. Let's see if we

870
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,300
can pull this off and have the sound work.

871
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,770
So last year.

872
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,500
Was the very first, if I can talk and do

873
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,930
this at the SI same time, the very first confetti

874
00:37:53,030 --> 00:37:53,270
festival.

875
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:55,770
Actually I'm gonna stop sharing, cuz I think there's a

876
00:37:55,770 --> 00:37:57,370
button I need to click while I'm doing that.

877
00:37:58,630 --> 00:37:59,930
Pause please. Ah,

878
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,800
huh. Okay. Here we go. Yeah. Be ready to mute.

879
00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:06,700
Let me, let me say this before I actually click

880
00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:08,470
on the button as I don't want that squeaky noise.

881
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,830
Last year, we started an annual tradition of a confetti.

882
00:38:12,030 --> 00:38:14,800
Confetti festival and the purpose of the confetti festival last

883
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,930
year was really to start to begin to have a,

884
00:38:17,830 --> 00:38:19,670
a great way for us to turn our schools inside

885
00:38:19,670 --> 00:38:19,930
out.

886
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,100
And the little clip that I have here also created

887
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,030
by Chris Reno. If I didn't have Chris Reno, you

888
00:38:26,030 --> 00:38:27,570
wouldn't be able to see all these great things.

889
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,670
What's you are going to be able to take a

890
00:38:30,670 --> 00:38:33,830
peek at is the confetti festival from last year. So

891
00:38:33,830 --> 00:38:34,800
you can have a reminder.

892
00:38:35,830 --> 00:38:38,030
Of what the festival was like. And then after it's

893
00:38:38,030 --> 00:38:38,070
over.

894
00:38:39,070 --> 00:38:41,070
I will share a little bit about what we're hoping

895
00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:42,930
to do in this year's confetti festival.

896
00:38:43,830 --> 00:38:44,700
That's why I'm going to unmute.

897
00:39:00,670 --> 00:39:03,570
Hi, there I am. Dr. D Francisco coming to you

898
00:39:03,570 --> 00:39:04,700
from Spartan place.

899
00:39:05,570 --> 00:39:07,200
Which is the site of our first annual.

900
00:39:08,030 --> 00:39:11,070
Confetti festival. This is a day when the district comes

901
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:13,570
out and shows all of the different things we're doing

902
00:39:13,630 --> 00:39:15,800
in Stoneham to make confetti moments.

903
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,370
Possible for our students. We can't wait for everybody to

904
00:39:19,370 --> 00:39:19,770
arrive.

905
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,830
Our guests are on their way. And when they come,

906
00:39:22,930 --> 00:39:25,700
we will be celebrating all of those confetti moments together.

907
00:39:38,870 --> 00:39:39,370
I'm glowing.

908
00:39:44,070 --> 00:39:44,970
Something's going

909
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:52,200
to keep me quiet.

910
00:39:54,030 --> 00:39:54,770
There's no.

911
00:39:57,970 --> 00:40:04,000
I'm like

912
00:40:16,230 --> 00:40:24,000
why. Okay. That's your work? I'm not.

913
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,200
Buzzing. Yeah. So it's really fun to look back at

914
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,100
that. And I'm looking at Chris and, you know, just

915
00:40:29,470 --> 00:40:31,670
remembering the energy that was in the room that evening.

916
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,670
I'm looking forward to doing this again. And, and one

917
00:40:34,670 --> 00:40:37,230
of the reasons why is because we're about to enter

918
00:40:37,230 --> 00:40:39,800
this strategic planning or long multi-year.

919
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,800
Planning process. And this is a great way to bring

920
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,070
people out to the, from the community to come and

921
00:40:45,070 --> 00:40:46,930
see what we're doing in schools. And.

922
00:40:48,030 --> 00:40:49,500
Also educate them a little bit about.

923
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,470
How they can get involved in this multi-year planning process.

924
00:40:53,830 --> 00:40:56,770
So if you remember last year I was on the

925
00:40:56,770 --> 00:40:57,370
second floor.

926
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,670
Talking a little bit about finances and talking about launching

927
00:41:01,970 --> 00:41:03,970
the, the community movement around the override.

928
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,830
This year, I will be talking a little bit about

929
00:41:06,970 --> 00:41:09,830
how we're using override money, but also how we can

930
00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:11,000
strategically move forward.

931
00:41:12,030 --> 00:41:13,270
In all of the areas of our.

932
00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:17,930
District improvement plan and growing those into a multi-year plan.

933
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,970
So this is, I'm gonna be honest with you, a

934
00:41:20,970 --> 00:41:21,830
mammoth task.

935
00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,500
To be able to get all of the stakeholder.

936
00:41:25,570 --> 00:41:28,700
Feedback that is going to be important to me personally,

937
00:41:29,170 --> 00:41:31,770
Dr. Kwei and then us as a district.

938
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,800
And I'm working through some ways to make it a

939
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,100
little bit more manageable, but the launch of that work

940
00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:38,030
will be on.

941
00:41:38,870 --> 00:41:41,000
October 20th, beginning at six 30.

942
00:41:41,970 --> 00:41:42,930
In Spartan place.

943
00:41:44,030 --> 00:41:47,430
At our second annual confetti festival. So this is consider

944
00:41:47,430 --> 00:41:49,470
this your first invitation. You'll be getting a lot of

945
00:41:49,470 --> 00:41:50,470
information about this.

946
00:41:51,270 --> 00:41:53,230
I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up in the

947
00:41:53,230 --> 00:41:57,700
next, oh, hello Stoneham. Because that's launching probably the beginning

948
00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,230
of October. So you'll be seeing some.

949
00:41:59,630 --> 00:42:00,230
Announcements about it. There.

950
00:42:01,970 --> 00:42:02,570
Great questions.

951
00:42:04,030 --> 00:42:06,300
Questions does anyone from the committee have questions? That was

952
00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:08,770
a great video. Mm-hmm . Isn't that great. Yeah. Nice

953
00:42:08,770 --> 00:42:10,200
job, Chris. Not awesome, Chris. Thanks.

954
00:42:11,170 --> 00:42:11,930
You got really good.

955
00:42:13,470 --> 00:42:15,470
It's gonna be a fun time. Thank you so much

956
00:42:15,630 --> 00:42:16,700
for all the info.

957
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:21,370
All right. Dr. D Francisco's webpage.

958
00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,370
Okay. So the next thing that I wanted to really,

959
00:42:24,470 --> 00:42:26,800
oh gosh, Chris, you are the star of the evening.

960
00:42:26,970 --> 00:42:29,470
if you could see him on camera, he's gonna

961
00:42:30,070 --> 00:42:30,270
on his.

962
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:34,430
Face. We wanted to start to really think about how

963
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,270
we were launching our website. If we want folks to

964
00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:38,570
go there, we want.

965
00:42:39,070 --> 00:42:40,370
The spaces to be informative. So.

966
00:42:41,170 --> 00:42:43,300
Two things I'm gonna show you this evening is because

967
00:42:43,470 --> 00:42:45,830
I have the most control over working on the central

968
00:42:45,970 --> 00:42:47,470
office space in our.

969
00:42:48,230 --> 00:42:50,970
In our website. So what we are, what we've done

970
00:42:51,170 --> 00:42:52,030
is we.

971
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,430
Had an afternoon where we got central office together. We

972
00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:56,270
had snacks together.

973
00:42:57,170 --> 00:43:00,500
And Chris Sarino brought all of his camera equipment and

974
00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:02,970
a backdrop, and we all got new pictures taken. So

975
00:43:03,030 --> 00:43:04,930
when you visit the central.

976
00:43:05,570 --> 00:43:08,500
Office page of the website, you are going to see.

977
00:43:09,370 --> 00:43:12,030
All of us in our glory, in these beautiful pictures

978
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:13,370
that we're taken by.

979
00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:17,300
Chris Sarino and folks are gonna be able to really

980
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:19,300
be able to identify people's faces.

981
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,670
Faces we're working on getting emails up. So those will

982
00:43:22,670 --> 00:43:25,070
be live. Phone numbers. Are there actually, the emails are

983
00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:27,700
live. We're triaging some of the phone numbers because we're

984
00:43:27,830 --> 00:43:28,600
learning some of.

985
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,970
Them don't go exactly to where they were supposed to

986
00:43:30,970 --> 00:43:33,030
go. We think that's part of the high school transition.

987
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:33,470
So.

988
00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:37,570
We're really renovating the website in ways so that it

989
00:43:37,570 --> 00:43:38,030
can be.

990
00:43:38,870 --> 00:43:40,700
A place where people go to get good information.

991
00:43:41,770 --> 00:43:42,430
My page in particular.

992
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,270
Is set up similar to how we're gonna have others.

993
00:43:47,370 --> 00:43:49,670
So Dr. Kristan, we will have a page that looks

994
00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:51,770
like this, so will all of the departments.

995
00:43:52,470 --> 00:43:54,430
All my page. The first thing that you can see

996
00:43:54,430 --> 00:43:55,930
is the district improvement plan.

997
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,370
So you're able to see both the slide deck that

998
00:43:59,500 --> 00:43:59,670
I.

999
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,000
Created that we use a lot at school committee and

1000
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,100
then also the actual document.

1001
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,100
My monthly newsletters will go here. There's archived from last

1002
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:10,600
year. And then of course, this year, if I were

1003
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,430
to drag this down, you would see my first one

1004
00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:13,000
out and about.

1005
00:44:13,370 --> 00:44:16,230
In September, there'll be a second in October. There we

1006
00:44:16,230 --> 00:44:17,970
are celebrating graduation.

1007
00:44:18,870 --> 00:44:19,770
As a school committee.

1008
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,500
My oh, hellos are listed here. So this was the

1009
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:25,970
first September for people to have easy access.

1010
00:44:26,870 --> 00:44:29,200
I usually will put some, check this out. Guess what?

1011
00:44:29,270 --> 00:44:31,930
It's the school improvement plan again, because I, if they

1012
00:44:31,930 --> 00:44:33,700
missed it in the first section, I want them to

1013
00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:34,430
get it in that one.

1014
00:44:35,230 --> 00:44:39,030
Some current resources for folks and then also upcoming events.

1015
00:44:39,030 --> 00:44:40,000
And we were at town day.

1016
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,670
This was that just this past weekend? Mm-hmm no

1017
00:44:42,670 --> 00:44:44,570
way. Mm-hmm, just this past weekend. We were at

1018
00:44:44,570 --> 00:44:46,430
town day and I have some highlights of that in

1019
00:44:46,430 --> 00:44:47,430
my update. So.

1020
00:44:48,230 --> 00:44:50,200
I'll wait for them to talk with you about it,

1021
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,000
but a little bit about what we're doing on the

1022
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:52,830
website to.

1023
00:44:53,770 --> 00:44:55,970
Have people gravitate toward there and really use it as

1024
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:56,300
a resource.

1025
00:44:58,230 --> 00:44:59,030
Looks great.

1026
00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:02,600
Yeah, I chance came out really good. All your pictures

1027
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:03,030
look great.

1028
00:45:04,030 --> 00:45:05,800
Thanks. Yeah. Anyone have any questions?

1029
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:10,970
Questions. Yeah. I love that. The contact information for people's

1030
00:45:10,970 --> 00:45:13,300
up there and the phone numbers and emails. That's great.

1031
00:45:14,830 --> 00:45:15,230
Mm-hmm

1032
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:17,830
all right.

1033
00:45:19,270 --> 00:45:20,000
Anybody else?

1034
00:45:21,970 --> 00:45:23,770
Okay, thank you for announcing that.

1035
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:25,800
Moving on. We have

1036
00:45:27,270 --> 00:45:30,930
suspend age and degree requirement for substitutes. We can skip

1037
00:45:30,930 --> 00:45:32,200
this one this evening.

1038
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,270
Because we have a new policy that makes it so

1039
00:45:35,270 --> 00:45:37,270
that we don't have to approve this every single year,

1040
00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:38,700
but usually we do it around this time.

1041
00:45:39,470 --> 00:45:40,970
So we are going to skip K.

1042
00:45:41,930 --> 00:45:44,500
And move to street data, which we are also going

1043
00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:47,970
to move under Dr. D Francisco's superintendent's report.

1044
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,700
So we'll move on to item M Massey policy updates

1045
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:53,000
from Corey and Melanie.

1046
00:45:56,630 --> 00:45:57,100
Here already.

1047
00:45:58,930 --> 00:46:00,500
All right. So these

1048
00:46:01,570 --> 00:46:04,800
are policies are all the changes are all posted on

1049
00:46:04,830 --> 00:46:04,930
the.

1050
00:46:05,930 --> 00:46:09,070
Website under the school committee page, current items for discussion.

1051
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:12,500
So I would like to make a motion that we

1052
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:15,830
waive the reading of the policies. Second.

1053
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:18,670
Okay. And all in favor.

1054
00:46:19,470 --> 00:46:21,370
Aye. Aye. Aye. And I am an aye as well.

1055
00:46:21,770 --> 00:46:22,600
We'll waive the reading.

1056
00:46:24,230 --> 00:46:25,800
So I'll just tell you a little bit about the

1057
00:46:25,970 --> 00:46:28,370
policies. One is the one that I mentioned a few

1058
00:46:28,370 --> 00:46:31,600
minutes ago during the athletics and facility rental.

1059
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,230
Discussion it is.

1060
00:46:35,070 --> 00:46:39,030
Policy KF dash R community use of school facilities. It's

1061
00:46:39,030 --> 00:46:40,570
meant to go along with KF.

1062
00:46:41,970 --> 00:46:44,800
KF community use to school facilities. And these are just

1063
00:46:44,830 --> 00:46:47,270
kind of like reiterate. I know we say we want

1064
00:46:47,770 --> 00:46:49,370
policies and not procedures, but these are.

1065
00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:51,230
Important enough procedures that

1066
00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:54,700
M a S C feels, you know, should be in

1067
00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:56,200
the handbook. And so we.

1068
00:46:57,570 --> 00:46:59,470
Are proposing to adopt these. As I said, they're mostly

1069
00:46:59,570 --> 00:46:59,930
like,

1070
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,270
everybody's gonna have liability insurance and obey all the rules

1071
00:47:03,270 --> 00:47:06,300
that we already have, but it's important enough to be

1072
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:08,570
in writing. So that's coming forth.

1073
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,100
For first reading and then we are proposing to.

1074
00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:16,570
Just rename one of our policies.

1075
00:47:18,230 --> 00:47:22,030
We have policy five dash nine distribution of communications.

1076
00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:25,930
And we want to rename that to K D C

1077
00:47:25,970 --> 00:47:28,200
D district communication. Just to kind of go in line

1078
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,770
with the template policies.

1079
00:47:31,070 --> 00:47:31,800
That we have

1080
00:47:33,370 --> 00:47:36,930
and the last two are rescinding to policies. Five dash

1081
00:47:36,970 --> 00:47:37,200
three.

1082
00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:41,100
Publication by the administration and five dash seven individual school

1083
00:47:41,170 --> 00:47:41,500
news.

1084
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:45,270
These were those policies that we discussed a couple of

1085
00:47:45,270 --> 00:47:46,100
meetings ago.

1086
00:47:47,770 --> 00:47:50,430
That basically say every school has to have a social

1087
00:47:50,430 --> 00:47:53,930
media, has to be Facebook. And we, the committee felt

1088
00:47:53,930 --> 00:47:54,970
that that wasn't really necess.

1089
00:47:55,470 --> 00:47:58,230
Necessary that we do believe in communication and social media,

1090
00:47:58,400 --> 00:47:59,970
but we don't need to have a policy about it.

1091
00:47:59,970 --> 00:48:01,670
There should be a procedure around it. So.

1092
00:48:02,670 --> 00:48:04,230
Those are the changes we're proposing.

1093
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,970
Okay. Is there any discussion?

1094
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:12,500
Good. Mm-hmm okay.

1095
00:48:13,370 --> 00:48:14,800
All right. So you don't need a vote for us

1096
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,570
for anything for tonight? Nope, that's enough. Okay. Thank you

1097
00:48:17,570 --> 00:48:18,700
both for all your work on this.

1098
00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:21,930
Moving on to the superintendent's report.

1099
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,300
Okay. I am going to actually start with the district

1100
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:27,970
highlights.

1101
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:29,970
Before I invite

1102
00:48:31,770 --> 00:48:33,830
Diane Johnson to come up and talk a little bit about

1103
00:48:33,830 --> 00:48:37,500
budget, and I'm also gonna have Dr. Kwei speaking a

1104
00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:38,970
little bit about multi-tiered system.

1105
00:48:39,270 --> 00:48:39,930
Of support. So

1106
00:48:41,570 --> 00:48:44,030
as you're looking at our update this evening. What I

1107
00:48:44,030 --> 00:48:46,570
want you to watch for is we're gonna do this

1108
00:48:46,570 --> 00:48:48,030
every single time I present.

1109
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,500
The embedded spaces of the district improvement plan. So my

1110
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:53,700
goal is to show you.

1111
00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:57,370
In the update where we're working on our goals and

1112
00:48:57,370 --> 00:48:58,030
our objectives.

1113
00:48:59,070 --> 00:49:00,970
Objectives. So the first thing that you're gonna see is.

1114
00:49:01,770 --> 00:49:04,000
When I talk about the out and about update, you

1115
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:04,470
will see.

1116
00:49:05,570 --> 00:49:07,300
This really is a culture and climate.

1117
00:49:08,630 --> 00:49:10,970
Space that we're working in. So when I'm out and

1118
00:49:10,970 --> 00:49:13,670
about, and I'm, I'm working in different spaces to collect

1119
00:49:13,670 --> 00:49:16,370
information, to show you at school committee, what we're.

1120
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,200
Really doing is building a culture. We're building a culture

1121
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:19,930
around.

1122
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000
The vision of a graduate, the vision of a learner,

1123
00:49:23,300 --> 00:49:27,030
belonging, safety, respect, all the things that come together to

1124
00:49:27,070 --> 00:49:28,670
create culture in Stoneham.

1125
00:49:29,170 --> 00:49:32,800
Public schools and really beyond the classroom. Right? So our

1126
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:33,070
fields.

1127
00:49:34,370 --> 00:49:37,670
Are Fenway park. When we go and watch our students

1128
00:49:37,670 --> 00:49:38,000
perform.

1129
00:49:39,070 --> 00:49:42,930
Drama festival. When we go to different sites, the, that,

1130
00:49:42,930 --> 00:49:45,100
that all is included in building the space.

1131
00:49:46,830 --> 00:49:49,470
Going to New York going to DC, the field trips we

1132
00:49:49,470 --> 00:49:49,800
take.

1133
00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:54,030
So having this information in my report. Yes. It's important

1134
00:49:54,070 --> 00:49:55,000
for me to know.

1135
00:49:55,830 --> 00:49:57,370
For you to know where I am out and about,

1136
00:49:57,830 --> 00:50:00,030
but there's a means to the end there. Right. So

1137
00:50:00,030 --> 00:50:01,830
we're really thinking about building culture.

1138
00:50:02,870 --> 00:50:06,270
So this week we had confetti moments and first downs.

1139
00:50:06,570 --> 00:50:08,570
So I wanna talk a little bit about what that

1140
00:50:08,570 --> 00:50:09,000
looked like.

1141
00:50:09,930 --> 00:50:12,970
This is a picture of the entire leadership team.

1142
00:50:13,770 --> 00:50:15,000
Lined up. Are we on the one yard line here?

1143
00:50:15,370 --> 00:50:17,000
Well, we're somewhere on the football field.

1144
00:50:17,970 --> 00:50:19,770
Guess who took the picture? You get three guesses in

1145
00:50:19,770 --> 00:50:20,470
the first two don't count.

1146
00:50:23,230 --> 00:50:27,030
Any guesses, Chris, Mr. Sir, Chris Sarino, he was able

1147
00:50:27,170 --> 00:50:28,000
to capture.

1148
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,030
Really the perspective of us standing on the.

1149
00:50:31,970 --> 00:50:33,770
I don't know where we're standing in this space, but

1150
00:50:33,770 --> 00:50:35,800
we started on the one yard line after a really

1151
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:36,930
good return kick.

1152
00:50:37,830 --> 00:50:40,030
And our goal was to think about what is our

1153
00:50:40,030 --> 00:50:42,430
common understanding of how we're now gonna move the ball

1154
00:50:42,430 --> 00:50:42,970
down the field.

1155
00:50:44,030 --> 00:50:46,230
And each one of the participants in our leadership team

1156
00:50:46,230 --> 00:50:49,100
thought about either their goal for the year related to

1157
00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:50,600
their school improvement plan.

1158
00:50:51,470 --> 00:50:52,800
Aligned to the district improvement plan.

1159
00:50:53,770 --> 00:50:55,430
Or some project related to their goal.

1160
00:50:56,230 --> 00:50:58,070
And they took time to turn and talk with one

1161
00:50:58,070 --> 00:51:01,600
another about the, the first downs that you need to

1162
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:01,830
get.

1163
00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:04,800
In a project in order to keep the motivation of

1164
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,030
yourself and your team moving.

1165
00:51:06,870 --> 00:51:07,970
It's called the progress principle.

1166
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,230
And there is a disproportionate amount of motivation for a

1167
00:51:12,270 --> 00:51:15,270
small move. Like the, the motivation is really high. Even

1168
00:51:15,270 --> 00:51:16,930
if you have still have a long way to go.

1169
00:51:17,370 --> 00:51:19,230
So the football fields gave us a real good visual

1170
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:19,830
of that.

1171
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,830
You can get a really great first down and throw

1172
00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:26,000
confetti and celebrate that confetti and you should, and then

1173
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,030
you need to get the next first down and the

1174
00:51:28,030 --> 00:51:28,300
next one.

1175
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,770
And the next one after that until you're in the

1176
00:51:30,770 --> 00:51:34,300
end zone. So the second picture is we're at different

1177
00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:36,600
places because people were at different places.

1178
00:51:37,170 --> 00:51:39,030
With their projects or their goals.

1179
00:51:39,970 --> 00:51:41,700
So I wanted to share this with you because we

1180
00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:44,570
are actively moving the district improvement plan forward.

1181
00:51:45,570 --> 00:51:47,930
And we're celebrating those first downs as we get them.

1182
00:51:49,930 --> 00:51:52,370
In addition, we sang at Fenway park.

1183
00:51:53,230 --> 00:51:54,430
There was a sound check.

1184
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,670
There was waiting on the field. So on your mark.

1185
00:52:00,170 --> 00:52:00,970
Get set.

1186
00:52:02,570 --> 00:52:05,970
Go. And this is what our team looked like.

1187
00:52:06,870 --> 00:52:09,570
Our team. So I say team because they, yes, they

1188
00:52:09,570 --> 00:52:09,930
are course.

1189
00:52:11,070 --> 00:52:14,030
But the amount of teamwork that went into getting ready

1190
00:52:13,930 --> 00:52:14,770
for this evening.

1191
00:52:15,630 --> 00:52:18,200
And you've all been to Fenway park. I'm assuming it's

1192
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:19,030
such a big.

1193
00:52:19,830 --> 00:52:23,600
Encompassing field and there's our little group.

1194
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,770
Small standing there ready to sing. And when they started.

1195
00:52:27,830 --> 00:52:29,930
It took over the whole entire park. It was really,

1196
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,100
I'm like, I'm getting chills. Just thinking about it again.

1197
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,930
So building that culture and thank you to Logan White.

1198
00:52:36,030 --> 00:52:38,370
For making sure that our students had this experience.

1199
00:52:41,030 --> 00:52:42,470
Getting curious in our buildings.

1200
00:52:43,830 --> 00:52:46,230
Buildings. This was a celebration in one of our elementary

1201
00:52:46,230 --> 00:52:47,970
schools around.day.

1202
00:52:49,070 --> 00:52:51,600
And they got curious about how they could turn a

1203
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,370
single dot into a picture.

1204
00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:56,600
So you have an astronaut, you have a new moon

1205
00:52:56,670 --> 00:52:58,600
and it is a new moon. It is not a

1206
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,970
full moon. The artist wants you to know, and then

1207
00:53:00,970 --> 00:53:02,300
you have two noses of.

1208
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:05,670
Animals coming together to create that dot. So that's how

1209
00:53:05,670 --> 00:53:06,970
they're getting curious in art.

1210
00:53:07,830 --> 00:53:09,930
And the culture that, that the art room is creating

1211
00:53:10,030 --> 00:53:10,600
for our students.

1212
00:53:11,630 --> 00:53:13,000
Students when they take, you know, a, a, just a

1213
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,570
cognitive break from the different kind of learning that's having

1214
00:53:15,630 --> 00:53:17,000
that's happening in their classrooms.

1215
00:53:17,930 --> 00:53:20,100
Classrooms. We got curious at Stoneham town day.

1216
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,470
So, this is a picture of that. Chris Reno did

1217
00:53:23,470 --> 00:53:26,970
not take. There you go. Chris, someone else took this

1218
00:53:26,970 --> 00:53:29,070
picture, but we were getting curious there and.

1219
00:53:29,570 --> 00:53:33,570
This is the third cath Dr. Stanway, Mrs. O'Leary myself

1220
00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:35,570
standing in front of our get curious board.

1221
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,670
And Monty also got curious with us. He was.

1222
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,800
Making the rounds. I he's having a nap there in

1223
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:43,470
my arms while.

1224
00:53:44,230 --> 00:53:46,570
While officer Pacini is being dunked in the dunk tank,

1225
00:53:46,630 --> 00:53:49,100
but he was getting curious about what we were doing

1226
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,830
at town day. And so were our students.

1227
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,600
Students. So every student that stopped by our booth, we

1228
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,930
asked them what they were curious about. Here's just a

1229
00:53:57,930 --> 00:53:58,300
little sampling.

1230
00:53:59,270 --> 00:54:01,270
I think my favorite is I'm curious about typing.

1231
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,500
So we have a colonial Josh. I hope you get

1232
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:06,000
to learn a lot about typing this year.

1233
00:54:06,930 --> 00:54:09,670
There's lots of science on there. There's math. There's being

1234
00:54:09,670 --> 00:54:10,830
curious about social studies.

1235
00:54:11,930 --> 00:54:15,600
So once Leo's curious about everything, which is great.

1236
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,500
So, this was just one way for us to engage

1237
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:19,970
our students in our booth.

1238
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,470
The other was to engage our parents getting curious about

1239
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:27,300
their fifth, fourth, third, second, first. And you can't see

1240
00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:27,930
kindergarten.

1241
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,500
But these pamphlets really help parents to understand how they're.

1242
00:54:33,570 --> 00:54:37,070
Their elementary school student is, is moving through different phases

1243
00:54:37,070 --> 00:54:38,000
of development.

1244
00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:40,800
Academically, social, socially and emotionally.

1245
00:54:42,100 --> 00:54:43,970
And then finally we had some fun.

1246
00:54:44,870 --> 00:54:49,030
We, we had 150. We were prepared to make 150

1247
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:50,500
key chains. We ran out.

1248
00:54:51,470 --> 00:54:53,830
So we had that many students really cycling through our

1249
00:54:53,870 --> 00:54:56,500
tables. Monty got a key chain. I don't know if

1250
00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:58,370
you can see it down in the corner, but he's

1251
00:54:59,000 --> 00:54:59,230
probably wearing.

1252
00:54:59,830 --> 00:55:02,000
His name and a Stoneham keychain. And I went ahead

1253
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,270
and made myself an oh hello, Stoneham, keychain.

1254
00:55:05,170 --> 00:55:07,230
To wear around my lanyard. So we had a wonderful

1255
00:55:07,230 --> 00:55:10,000
time. Thanks to Dr. Castonguay for going into the dunk

1256
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:10,100
tank.

1257
00:55:12,230 --> 00:55:16,100
She's brave and was cold. It's cold. Oops, cold. And

1258
00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:18,370
it was a little pink. I wonder why that was,

1259
00:55:18,630 --> 00:55:20,100
oh, it's a little pink in the.

1260
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,930
Dunk tank. curious. I was curious right after me.

1261
00:55:24,970 --> 00:55:27,770
Right, right after. Right, right after it was a little

1262
00:55:27,770 --> 00:55:27,970
pink.

1263
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,570
Before you go onto that. Does the committee have questions

1264
00:55:30,570 --> 00:55:31,030
on anything so far?

1265
00:55:33,030 --> 00:55:34,930
I'm not good about checking in, in the halftime here.

1266
00:55:35,030 --> 00:55:38,030
Okay. Those pamphlets looked great. Are those something we made

1267
00:55:38,030 --> 00:55:40,030
the third, fourth? We did not make them. Okay. But

1268
00:55:40,030 --> 00:55:40,800
they're, those are cool.

1269
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,270
These are a book.

1270
00:55:43,270 --> 00:55:47,300
Called yardsticks. Okay. The author is not kidding. Chip wood.

1271
00:55:48,430 --> 00:55:49,500
And he is

1272
00:55:50,700 --> 00:55:52,700
really wrote a wonderful book about.

1273
00:55:54,230 --> 00:55:58,030
Elementary development I've yet we, it actually goes through eighth

1274
00:55:58,030 --> 00:55:59,770
grade. I've yet to find one for the high school.

1275
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,600
Like this, a couple of our teachers came by the

1276
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,500
booth and they've asked for us to have these for

1277
00:56:05,500 --> 00:56:08,500
open house nights. So we're going to start to think.

1278
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,000
About handing these out at open house nights. And what

1279
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,700
it really does is it talks about the age swing.

1280
00:56:13,870 --> 00:56:16,000
So one of the pamphlets for example, will give you.

1281
00:56:17,630 --> 00:56:20,970
Age five age six, age seven. Right? So entering.

1282
00:56:21,930 --> 00:56:23,270
In and moving out of.

1283
00:56:24,230 --> 00:56:26,230
And they're very helpful, you know, if a, if your

1284
00:56:26,230 --> 00:56:29,000
student is playing on their own and not maybe.

1285
00:56:29,770 --> 00:56:32,270
Interacted with a lot that might be developmentally appropriate for

1286
00:56:32,270 --> 00:56:33,370
them to be playing alone.

1287
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:36,970
During that particular phase. So it gives, it gives our,

1288
00:56:37,030 --> 00:56:39,200
our grownups at home a, a heads up. So I'm

1289
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,300
glad you noticed them. They.

1290
00:56:41,170 --> 00:56:43,570
They were people were taking them. So I think we'll

1291
00:56:43,570 --> 00:56:45,700
make that investment next year and, and make sure that

1292
00:56:45,700 --> 00:56:46,670
we have them for open house.

1293
00:56:47,630 --> 00:56:49,430
Okay, could we have 'em at the confetti festival for

1294
00:56:49,430 --> 00:56:51,600
the, we can have them at the confetti festival. Great

1295
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,600
idea. We were very cool. I asked you about the

1296
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:55,470
high school one. Yeah.

1297
00:56:56,030 --> 00:56:58,430
And I think we, there's a, there's an implementation teenagers

1298
00:56:58,430 --> 00:57:01,070
gap there manual. Yeah. There's a research gap there that

1299
00:57:01,070 --> 00:57:03,030
if we would like to write a manual, .

1300
00:57:04,470 --> 00:57:06,430
Good luck. We might not have as fancy as a

1301
00:57:06,430 --> 00:57:09,770
name as the other author, but any of those, you

1302
00:57:09,770 --> 00:57:10,800
know, we can, we can certainly.

1303
00:57:11,630 --> 00:57:13,670
Think about that. And, and maybe we can put some

1304
00:57:13,670 --> 00:57:17,230
guidelines together as well. I'm just being reminded. I'm, I'm

1305
00:57:17,230 --> 00:57:18,100
looking to my right and.

1306
00:57:19,070 --> 00:57:20,970
And Jason EPKs there. Maybe he would like to take

1307
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,070
a shot as an English teacher of writing some manuals

1308
00:57:23,070 --> 00:57:25,930
for a freshman, sophomore spare time. No big deal.

1309
00:57:26,830 --> 00:57:26,930
he.

1310
00:57:27,270 --> 00:57:30,470
He's smiling. He's excited. He says, yes. He's curious. Yes.

1311
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,800
Okay. The second thing that we're gonna talk about is

1312
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,600
street data. So before we get into the street data,

1313
00:57:38,830 --> 00:57:40,270
I want to talk about why that's important.

1314
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,200
This is goal three. This is communications.

1315
00:57:44,230 --> 00:57:46,670
Systems and structures and it's about our.

1316
00:57:47,470 --> 00:57:50,700
To assess our other channels for community communication through our

1317
00:57:50,700 --> 00:57:51,670
use of social media.

1318
00:57:53,430 --> 00:57:57,030
My thing is social media, Stoneham, TV, Stoneham, independent council

1319
00:57:56,970 --> 00:57:58,500
on aging and the public library.

1320
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,570
So specifically, this one is asking.

1321
00:58:03,470 --> 00:58:06,930
Us to talk about social media. The questions that I

1322
00:58:06,930 --> 00:58:09,430
sent out at the very bottom of my last newsletter

1323
00:58:09,470 --> 00:58:10,970
for street data were about.

1324
00:58:11,830 --> 00:58:13,570
Looking at wood families.

1325
00:58:14,300 --> 00:58:17,000
Look at Facebook or Instagram, if we did some posting

1326
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,430
there, I know some of our schools have sites there

1327
00:58:19,700 --> 00:58:21,430
and those seem to be pretty well.

1328
00:58:22,300 --> 00:58:24,430
Looked at, but I'm also thinking about doing this at

1329
00:58:24,430 --> 00:58:25,100
the district level.

1330
00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:28,030
And wood families be interested in looking at it. I

1331
00:58:28,030 --> 00:58:30,930
was actually particularly interested in the elementary school.

1332
00:58:32,030 --> 00:58:33,670
Because those are the ones that tend to use theirs

1333
00:58:33,670 --> 00:58:33,970
the most.

1334
00:58:34,870 --> 00:58:37,430
And out of the 81, which is actually.

1335
00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:39,600
Pretty good for a newsletter survey.

1336
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,300
People 44 were from elementary school. 44 were from middle

1337
00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:44,770
school.

1338
00:58:45,770 --> 00:58:47,970
20 were from high school and four were from preschool.

1339
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,600
And the elementary school and middle school actually tied for

1340
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:52,700
the most participation.

1341
00:58:53,770 --> 00:58:56,200
So I can show you what that looks like here.

1342
00:58:58,430 --> 00:59:01,270
Facebook came in at, you know, I never really look

1343
00:59:01,270 --> 00:59:04,370
at Facebook and I'm indifferent about social media are your

1344
00:59:04,370 --> 00:59:04,930
blue block.

1345
00:59:05,570 --> 00:59:07,700
And your red block mm-hmm and then I would

1346
00:59:07,970 --> 00:59:11,670
probably look, and yes, please are your green block and

1347
00:59:11,670 --> 00:59:12,970
your orange block. It's pretty halfway.

1348
00:59:13,970 --> 00:59:15,700
Pretty divided, you know, pretty 50, 50.

1349
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,370
Enough for me to think about, okay, what am I

1350
00:59:19,370 --> 00:59:21,570
putting on Facebook? Because if I've got that many people

1351
00:59:21,570 --> 00:59:22,300
that will look at it,

1352
00:59:23,070 --> 00:59:24,430
you know, we're word will travel.

1353
00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:29,430
Instagram came in a little bit more likely for people

1354
00:59:29,430 --> 00:59:30,470
to look at Instagram.

1355
00:59:31,470 --> 00:59:34,230
So I'm gonna wanna make sure that I link those

1356
00:59:34,230 --> 00:59:36,430
two accounts and that whatever we put up is going

1357
00:59:36,430 --> 00:59:37,270
up on Facebook.

1358
00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:41,970
And on Instagram. So 81 responses was, I, I feel

1359
00:59:41,970 --> 00:59:44,000
pretty good. I, I would like to see that grow.

1360
00:59:44,100 --> 00:59:46,030
So I'm alerting you at the bottom of the.

1361
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:48,670
Newsletter every time I send it out, there will be

1362
00:59:48,670 --> 00:59:51,830
some form of street data. This was to post or

1363
00:59:51,830 --> 00:59:53,600
not to post next time. I'll do a different.

1364
00:59:54,500 --> 00:59:56,770
A different topic and just get some feedback from families

1365
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,270
so we can communicate in ways that are gonna reach

1366
00:59:59,300 --> 00:59:59,970
the audience.

1367
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,500
Does anyone have any questions about that?

1368
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,430
The good thing about Instagram is it's linked.

1369
01:00:07,270 --> 01:00:09,270
You can link it to like five different social media

1370
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,430
pages. So that's why people are probably saying Instagram mm-hmm

1371
01:00:12,470 --> 01:00:14,200
, but Facebook is one of those that you can

1372
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:15,300
link it to. So, yep.

1373
01:00:16,230 --> 01:00:18,030
So it's pretty easy to do. I mean, you post

1374
01:00:18,030 --> 01:00:19,600
in one place and it goes to both. So.

1375
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,270
Not a heavy as a li of a lift.

1376
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,000
The next thing, that, that was my out and about.

1377
01:00:27,100 --> 01:00:29,100
If you have any questions about out and about now

1378
01:00:29,100 --> 01:00:30,370
would be a good time to ask them.

1379
01:00:32,470 --> 01:00:33,230
Okay. We good.

1380
01:00:34,100 --> 01:00:36,030
Mm-hmm and Diane is making her way to the

1381
01:00:36,030 --> 01:00:38,800
table. And as she does, I want to highlight the

1382
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,030
fact that we are now moving into the overarching goal.

1383
01:00:42,500 --> 01:00:43,800
For from the district improvement plan.

1384
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,570
And that was I I'm actually gonna read it. And

1385
01:00:47,570 --> 01:00:49,970
I think it's important for us to, we haven't talked

1386
01:00:49,970 --> 01:00:52,070
about this one as much, and now we're getting into

1387
01:00:52,070 --> 01:00:52,770
the space where.

1388
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,800
We're gonna be able to, so that goal was to

1389
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:00,030
develop and sustain safe, functional, and future focused learning environments

1390
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:01,000
by addressing.

1391
01:01:01,470 --> 01:01:03,500
District facility needs through strategic planning.

1392
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,570
Preventative maintenance and long-term capital improvements.

1393
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:13,000
The district will implement a transparent, collaborative and fiscally responsible

1394
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:14,030
budgeting process.

1395
01:01:14,870 --> 01:01:16,500
That aligns resources with student needs.

1396
01:01:17,370 --> 01:01:20,000
District priorities and the vision of a learner and vision

1397
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:20,770
of a graduate.

1398
01:01:21,570 --> 01:01:23,570
While fostering trust and engagement with staff.

1399
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:25,970
Families and the broader community.

1400
01:01:26,700 --> 01:01:28,970
So the budget report we're about to present.

1401
01:01:29,970 --> 01:01:32,100
Falls under this goal and specifically.

1402
01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:34,300
Under this objective.

1403
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,100
And objective four, two.

1404
01:01:38,100 --> 01:01:40,500
So the overarching goal is four. This is the second

1405
01:01:40,500 --> 01:01:41,300
objective there.

1406
01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:45,030
Talks about developing a common understanding of the budget process

1407
01:01:45,230 --> 01:01:48,200
in our schools and a transparent way to share and

1408
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,370
monitor our finances with all stakeholders.

1409
01:01:51,270 --> 01:01:52,800
Digging in a little bit deeper.

1410
01:01:53,970 --> 01:01:57,700
And action step under that objective is budget reporting.

1411
01:01:58,700 --> 01:02:00,300
Develop budget reporting for general.

1412
01:02:01,170 --> 01:02:04,000
Grant and revolving funds on a quarterly basis.

1413
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,600
To all stakeholders and I'm very happy and proud to

1414
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,670
say that we're gonna do that for the first time

1415
01:02:09,670 --> 01:02:10,830
under my tenure tonight.

1416
01:02:11,830 --> 01:02:13,600
And Diane has prepared. So I'm gonna come out of

1417
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,970
this deck and I'm going to go into this one.

1418
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:18,930
Has prepared a financial

1419
01:02:19,830 --> 01:02:21,470
report for us that what I want you to think

1420
01:02:21,470 --> 01:02:24,000
about as she's presenting it is that this is the

1421
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,230
first time under this district improvement plan.

1422
01:02:27,070 --> 01:02:29,800
That we've started to define what this transparency will look

1423
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:30,030
like.

1424
01:02:31,170 --> 01:02:33,500
And I would also like to mention that on Monday

1425
01:02:33,970 --> 01:02:36,970
we have a subcommittee meeting of the.

1426
01:02:37,770 --> 01:02:40,500
Budget and finance subcommittee for school committee. So we'll be

1427
01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:42,070
looking for feedback at that meeting.

1428
01:02:43,070 --> 01:02:45,830
Around both this report and the next report.

1429
01:02:46,700 --> 01:02:48,430
So I'm gonna let Diane talk to you a little

1430
01:02:48,430 --> 01:02:50,430
bit about what you'll be looking at tonight.

1431
01:02:51,470 --> 01:02:53,070
And I'm sure she'll give you just a peak at

1432
01:02:53,070 --> 01:02:54,800
what you'll be looking at in the future.

1433
01:02:55,670 --> 01:02:58,500
She's worked really hard to make sure this is digestible.

1434
01:02:59,470 --> 01:03:02,070
And also shows future movement. And I really appreciate her

1435
01:03:02,100 --> 01:03:05,500
head down philosophy. These she's had these past couple of

1436
01:03:05,500 --> 01:03:07,430
weeks while we're all starting school to get.

1437
01:03:07,830 --> 01:03:11,000
This ready for you, Diane. Thank you, Kristen. Good evening,

1438
01:03:11,070 --> 01:03:11,300
everyone.

1439
01:03:12,770 --> 01:03:15,670
This is the FY 26 financial report.

1440
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,800
And for everybody else in the known world who doesn't

1441
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:20,000
think in terms of fiscal years,

1442
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,030
this is about the data that was last school year,

1443
01:03:23,030 --> 01:03:24,000
that ended June 30.

1444
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,470
The reason we're talking about it now is because I

1445
01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:28,030
have to file.

1446
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,470
The dreaded end of year report the E O Y

1447
01:03:31,670 --> 01:03:35,930
R for Dessie department of elementary and secondary education by

1448
01:03:35,970 --> 01:03:36,770
September 30th.

1449
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,070
It's some perversion of, I don't know what that we

1450
01:03:41,070 --> 01:03:43,430
have to file this massive report, right? During the start

1451
01:03:43,430 --> 01:03:43,830
of school.

1452
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:46,430
But there it is. It's been part of my life

1453
01:03:46,430 --> 01:03:48,030
for the whole 20 years. I've been doing this.

1454
01:03:49,930 --> 01:03:53,030
So basically while everybody else goes on summer vacation, you're

1455
01:03:53,030 --> 01:03:55,270
closing down the fiscal year. You're tidying up the books.

1456
01:03:56,030 --> 01:03:57,670
And then when everybody comes running in the door in

1457
01:03:57,670 --> 01:03:59,230
August, you're trying to get this report done.

1458
01:04:00,230 --> 01:04:01,600
But I'm happy to say that it's done.

1459
01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:04,830
And I've sent it to, it's been approved by the

1460
01:04:04,830 --> 01:04:06,700
town auditor and I've sent it to.

1461
01:04:08,070 --> 01:04:10,470
Our chair and to the superintendent for their signatures.

1462
01:04:11,470 --> 01:04:13,200
Signatures and it'll be filed ahead of the deadline next

1463
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:14,030
week. God willing.

1464
01:04:15,070 --> 01:04:17,500
So this information comes from my work to get that

1465
01:04:17,500 --> 01:04:18,300
report completed.

1466
01:04:23,630 --> 01:04:26,270
So school funding in Stoneham has an in most municipalities

1467
01:04:26,270 --> 01:04:27,200
has three main sources.

1468
01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:30,970
The general fund, which includes taxpayer support and chapter 70

1469
01:04:31,070 --> 01:04:31,570
state aid.

1470
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,200
Grants, which generally can be classified as federal state or

1471
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:37,000
private in origin.

1472
01:04:37,770 --> 01:04:41,430
And revolving funds, which are specific areas defined by law,

1473
01:04:41,430 --> 01:04:44,500
where schools are allowed to collect fees and pay expenses

1474
01:04:44,500 --> 01:04:45,570
related to the.

1475
01:04:45,930 --> 01:04:46,030
Activities.

1476
01:04:49,030 --> 01:04:51,370
So, this is how we ended last fiscal year. And

1477
01:04:51,370 --> 01:04:53,830
it was very frustrating to me that I couldn't report

1478
01:04:53,930 --> 01:04:56,100
more closely on last fiscal year, but it was a.

1479
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,200
Budget I inherited and a chart of accounts that I

1480
01:04:59,200 --> 01:04:59,830
struggled with.

1481
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,570
So I was able to do this year's end of

1482
01:05:02,630 --> 01:05:06,670
year report by crosswalking last year's chart of accounts to

1483
01:05:06,700 --> 01:05:07,700
my new chart of accounts.

1484
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,070
Accounts, and then use that to develop the end of

1485
01:05:11,070 --> 01:05:11,770
the year report.

1486
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,270
So all of this reporting is based on my new

1487
01:05:14,270 --> 01:05:15,030
chart of accounts.

1488
01:05:16,030 --> 01:05:16,830
Accounts crosswalked back.

1489
01:05:18,970 --> 01:05:19,030
So

1490
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,770
as you see from the pie chart, the vast majority

1491
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:24,970
of what we spend in the schools here is the

1492
01:05:24,970 --> 01:05:26,270
general fund, the dark blue.

1493
01:05:27,270 --> 01:05:28,570
The orange is grants.

1494
01:05:29,570 --> 01:05:30,230
Grants and the gray.

1495
01:05:31,830 --> 01:05:33,000
Is revolving, which includes

1496
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:36,500
includes circuit breaker and food services of the two major.

1497
01:05:37,570 --> 01:05:39,030
Revolving accounts, but we'll look at those.

1498
01:05:40,230 --> 01:05:41,700
More closely individually.

1499
01:05:43,300 --> 01:05:44,100
For federal grants.

1500
01:05:45,170 --> 01:05:46,830
Grants. Those are mostly entitlement grants.

1501
01:05:47,830 --> 01:05:49,830
Grants. There's not a lot we can do to increase

1502
01:05:49,870 --> 01:05:52,070
the funding. That's pretty much at the whim of Washington.

1503
01:05:53,170 --> 01:05:55,930
There's a lot of work involved in federal grants, a

1504
01:05:55,930 --> 01:05:59,830
lot of applications, lots of reporting, lots of re rules

1505
01:05:59,870 --> 01:06:00,800
and regulations.

1506
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,570
These grants are administered through Desi's grant portal.

1507
01:06:06,300 --> 01:06:09,300
Gems and these grants can also run up to 27

1508
01:06:09,300 --> 01:06:12,700
months. So you can have multiple fiscal years running simultaneously,

1509
01:06:12,970 --> 01:06:14,230
which can get a little confus.

1510
01:06:14,700 --> 01:06:18,070
Confusing. These are the ones we're doing right now. Now

1511
01:06:18,070 --> 01:06:20,830
you'll notice prism says that it's both federal and state.

1512
01:06:21,770 --> 01:06:23,930
Prism is a multi-year grant that we're doing to support

1513
01:06:24,030 --> 01:06:25,600
literacy. We're in year three.

1514
01:06:27,100 --> 01:06:29,500
It started out as a state grant, but now it's

1515
01:06:29,500 --> 01:06:30,100
a federal grant.

1516
01:06:31,070 --> 01:06:33,070
And they're changing the rules of the game midstream.

1517
01:06:34,100 --> 01:06:36,930
Dr. Stanway is gonna tell you more about that. Mm-hmm

1518
01:06:36,970 --> 01:06:39,930
. I had to report them this year on the

1519
01:06:39,930 --> 01:06:41,470
end of the year report as a federal grant.

1520
01:06:42,500 --> 01:06:44,430
But I'm putting them on our report as a state

1521
01:06:44,430 --> 01:06:45,430
grant, because I think.

1522
01:06:46,300 --> 01:06:47,270
I think they belong there.

1523
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:50,000
But I give the state what they want.

1524
01:06:50,870 --> 01:06:51,670
Our state grants.

1525
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,100
Grants are usually more competitive.

1526
01:06:55,270 --> 01:06:57,370
They're also summer administered through Desi.

1527
01:06:58,500 --> 01:07:01,670
Dessie but not all of them. Like the nursing grant

1528
01:07:01,670 --> 01:07:02,970
is an example of one that isn't.

1529
01:07:04,030 --> 01:07:08,000
Isn't and earmarks previously were not administered through Desi, but

1530
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:08,930
now they're going to be.

1531
01:07:10,170 --> 01:07:13,100
And they have different deadlines, different start and end dates,

1532
01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:16,570
different award amounts. They happen all over the place all

1533
01:07:16,570 --> 01:07:17,570
over the time. They all.

1534
01:07:17,930 --> 01:07:20,470
Run on their own interior logic, all of which has

1535
01:07:20,470 --> 01:07:20,930
to be managed.

1536
01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:24,600
Managed and private grants.

1537
01:07:25,770 --> 01:07:30,930
Grants. We have a variety of private grants, Stoneham business,

1538
01:07:30,930 --> 01:07:33,470
and community grants. We get a variety. We had four

1539
01:07:33,470 --> 01:07:33,600
of.

1540
01:07:33,930 --> 01:07:34,970
Those in FY 26.

1541
01:07:36,230 --> 01:07:38,070
They're very helpful, but they also have a variety of

1542
01:07:38,070 --> 01:07:42,500
application deadlines, different start and end dates, different reporting requirements.

1543
01:07:43,270 --> 01:07:45,270
And they can come from lots of different sources. They're

1544
01:07:45,270 --> 01:07:46,570
almost always competitive.

1545
01:07:48,670 --> 01:07:50,970
In a bigger district, you would have a grant office

1546
01:07:51,070 --> 01:07:53,270
to manage all of this, but here in Stoneham, we

1547
01:07:53,270 --> 01:07:54,800
cobble it together as best we can.

1548
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,430
Key things to remember about grant funding. It is by

1549
01:07:59,430 --> 01:08:01,770
far the smallest source of our revenue. Not that we

1550
01:08:01,770 --> 01:08:02,700
don't relish every penny.

1551
01:08:03,470 --> 01:08:05,470
But it's small relative to everything else.

1552
01:08:06,300 --> 01:08:07,970
They take a lot of work to manage.

1553
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:09,300
From start to end.

1554
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,800
And that you have to spend them according to what

1555
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,030
you said, you were going to spend them on. When

1556
01:08:16,030 --> 01:08:18,970
you do a grant application, that's a promise to spend

1557
01:08:18,970 --> 01:08:19,100
them.

1558
01:08:20,100 --> 01:08:22,370
On something. That's why they gave you the money.

1559
01:08:23,270 --> 01:08:24,830
You can't say you're gonna spend it on one thing

1560
01:08:24,830 --> 01:08:26,670
and then spend it on something completely different.

1561
01:08:27,630 --> 01:08:29,830
That's why you have all those reporting requirements. So you

1562
01:08:29,830 --> 01:08:31,500
can prove to them that you did in fact spend

1563
01:08:32,930 --> 01:08:32,930
it on what you said you were gonna spend iton.

1564
01:08:35,070 --> 01:08:37,830
Not every district is as scrupulous about that as they

1565
01:08:37,830 --> 01:08:38,200
might be.

1566
01:08:39,270 --> 01:08:42,070
And that's why things have gotten tighter and tighter and

1567
01:08:42,070 --> 01:08:44,300
tighter in terms of repro reporting requirements.

1568
01:08:47,930 --> 01:08:48,270
Okay.

1569
01:08:49,300 --> 01:08:50,230
Revolving accounts.

1570
01:08:51,470 --> 01:08:53,470
Accounts. These are fun. This is my favorite.

1571
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:57,670
so what you have here.

1572
01:08:58,870 --> 01:09:00,600
Are what was spent.

1573
01:09:01,430 --> 01:09:04,000
In fiscal 26 last year.

1574
01:09:05,300 --> 01:09:07,670
And the balance as of June 30.

1575
01:09:09,870 --> 01:09:11,030
So that's a point in time.

1576
01:09:12,030 --> 01:09:13,930
The thing about a, a revolving account is it's always

1577
01:09:13,930 --> 01:09:14,270
flowing.

1578
01:09:15,070 --> 01:09:16,300
For example with food services.

1579
01:09:17,770 --> 01:09:19,930
Services. We get reimbursed by the feds in the state,

1580
01:09:19,930 --> 01:09:20,830
through the state.

1581
01:09:21,970 --> 01:09:24,970
Afterwards. So all the meals we served in June, the

1582
01:09:24,970 --> 01:09:26,070
cash didn't come in until July.

1583
01:09:27,070 --> 01:09:29,270
That's why we had a deficit balance on June 30.

1584
01:09:30,100 --> 01:09:32,570
Because we hadn't received the payments for the meals we

1585
01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:33,100
served in June.

1586
01:09:33,930 --> 01:09:36,430
They didn't come in until July. That's a pretty normal

1587
01:09:36,430 --> 01:09:39,830
circumstance, unless you happen to have a PA a positive

1588
01:09:39,830 --> 01:09:41,100
balance, which we did not this year.

1589
01:09:43,300 --> 01:09:46,600
Our main, our main revolving accounts are circuit breaker.

1590
01:09:47,770 --> 01:09:48,230
Food service.

1591
01:09:50,030 --> 01:09:50,800
I'm building rental.

1592
01:09:53,870 --> 01:09:57,670
Early childhood. We see such a strong, positive balance because

1593
01:09:57,670 --> 01:09:58,930
they front load their tuitions.

1594
01:10:00,030 --> 01:10:02,030
Tuitions. So a lot of those tuitions are really for

1595
01:10:02,030 --> 01:10:02,270
this year.

1596
01:10:03,070 --> 01:10:05,200
They just collected them in the prior fiscal year. So

1597
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:06,100
they're gonna spend down.

1598
01:10:07,070 --> 01:10:10,030
Their account will drop precipitously as the year goes on,

1599
01:10:09,930 --> 01:10:12,270
they just front load it. And then as they approach

1600
01:10:12,270 --> 01:10:14,100
the end of next year, they'll be loading up tuition

1601
01:10:14,230 --> 01:10:15,030
for the following.

1602
01:10:15,270 --> 01:10:17,600
Year. So they're just on a different fiscal cycle. I

1603
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,300
don't know why, but I guess they always have been.

1604
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:24,800
So, and student activities encompasses a whole bunch of things.

1605
01:10:25,570 --> 01:10:27,670
Lost Chromebook chargers. That was a new one to me.

1606
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,370
But lost books, things like that. Drama.

1607
01:10:32,230 --> 01:10:35,270
Things like that. Go in here. Athletic stands alone. The

1608
01:10:35,270 --> 01:10:37,000
state wants to track that separately.

1609
01:10:40,430 --> 01:10:42,000
All right. General fund.

1610
01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:44,770
This is how we landed at the end of the

1611
01:10:44,770 --> 01:10:45,270
general fund.

1612
01:10:46,300 --> 01:10:48,370
Our budget versus our actual expenses.

1613
01:10:49,570 --> 01:10:51,300
Expenses. We brought it in pretty darn close.

1614
01:10:54,630 --> 01:10:55,970
And these are the voting categories.

1615
01:10:57,570 --> 01:10:58,570
That you've seen before.

1616
01:10:59,470 --> 01:11:01,300
This is how we landed with the final expenses.

1617
01:11:02,300 --> 01:11:06,230
Expenses now we weren't able to do a lot of

1618
01:11:06,230 --> 01:11:08,100
detail as the year was going. And I didn't like

1619
01:11:08,100 --> 01:11:08,770
that at all.

1620
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:11,570
And I'd like to show you.

1621
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,030
A forecast of the kind of detail.

1622
01:11:15,830 --> 01:11:17,930
I want to be getting into, as we move into

1623
01:11:17,970 --> 01:11:18,930
FY 27.

1624
01:11:19,630 --> 01:11:23,230
And beyond on this page, I've just taken for example.

1625
01:11:24,030 --> 01:11:25,270
Teachers union salaries.

1626
01:11:26,300 --> 01:11:29,030
Salaries at the top. You see only art teachers.

1627
01:11:30,100 --> 01:11:32,770
Teachers and you'll notice that there's two different object codes.

1628
01:11:33,030 --> 01:11:35,600
5 1, 1 0 1 and 5 1, 1 0 2.

1629
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,470
Which are 26 pays and 22 pays.

1630
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:42,670
Pays I broken the teachers out by these two categories

1631
01:11:42,700 --> 01:11:45,970
so I can project the salaries. It's very difficult to

1632
01:11:45,970 --> 01:11:48,100
project salaries. If they're being paid on two different pay

1633
01:11:48,100 --> 01:11:48,430
cycle.

1634
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:50,000
Cycles in the same budget code.

1635
01:11:51,070 --> 01:11:51,770
So I had to separate them.

1636
01:11:54,970 --> 01:11:57,230
So you look in prior years, they were all lumped

1637
01:11:57,430 --> 01:11:57,570
together.

1638
01:11:58,300 --> 01:12:01,000
But now they're separated as we move for the next

1639
01:12:01,170 --> 01:12:01,700
few fiscal.

1640
01:12:02,500 --> 01:12:05,000
Years we're gonna see that separation and it it's gonna

1641
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,670
make more sense, but now it looks lumpy.

1642
01:12:07,630 --> 01:12:11,000
Lumpy, the next group is the Robinhood and that's the

1643
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,200
whole elementary school.

1644
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,600
Teacher salaries. And you can see, again, the teachers were

1645
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,030
all kind of compressed together in a few lines.

1646
01:12:20,670 --> 01:12:24,100
But now we've opened up categories, not only by the

1647
01:12:24,170 --> 01:12:26,270
pay cycle, so I can better project salaries.

1648
01:12:27,470 --> 01:12:30,200
Salaries, but also by special we've separated special ed.

1649
01:12:31,270 --> 01:12:33,270
And sub-separate so we can have a sense of what

1650
01:12:33,270 --> 01:12:34,700
sub-separate is costing us.

1651
01:12:35,470 --> 01:12:38,030
Over time, just so we know.

1652
01:12:38,700 --> 01:12:40,930
So we can really do analysis relative to the cost

1653
01:12:40,930 --> 01:12:42,470
of in-district versus out of district.

1654
01:12:43,870 --> 01:12:46,970
And I've also separated, separated out the categories that we

1655
01:12:46,970 --> 01:12:48,430
need to report onto the state.

1656
01:12:49,170 --> 01:12:51,370
Like medical, therapeutic and psych.

1657
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:53,930
Psyche and all of these things that tended to be

1658
01:12:53,930 --> 01:12:56,970
jumbled together and now are broken out more Gran in

1659
01:12:56,970 --> 01:12:57,970
a more granulated way.

1660
01:12:59,670 --> 01:13:02,430
The final one is the total teacher's salary.

1661
01:13:04,070 --> 01:13:04,930
All pulled together.

1662
01:13:06,030 --> 01:13:08,930
And you can see from FY 23, we went from

1663
01:13:09,270 --> 01:13:10,930
$17.9 million.

1664
01:13:12,370 --> 01:13:14,230
FY 26 of 20 point.

1665
01:13:15,070 --> 01:13:17,000
Roughly $20.9 million.

1666
01:13:17,930 --> 01:13:20,800
An FY 27, the budget as of June 24th.

1667
01:13:21,570 --> 01:13:24,800
Which was uploaded into Munis was 25.6.

1668
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:28,230
I'm working right now. And what you'll see in October

1669
01:13:28,700 --> 01:13:30,970
is the update with all the summer hires and everything

1670
01:13:30,970 --> 01:13:31,770
that's changed.

1671
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:34,700
So we'll have a better picture of where we actually

1672
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:35,770
landed for salaries.

1673
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,030
Salaries once all, once I get all of those.

1674
01:13:39,070 --> 01:13:40,430
Hires and changes, updated.

1675
01:13:41,370 --> 01:13:45,230
Updated. So

1676
01:13:47,270 --> 01:13:47,470
questions.

1677
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:52,470
Questions. I'm happy to go back to any slides that

1678
01:13:52,700 --> 01:13:54,230
interest you, anyone from the committee have questions.

1679
01:13:55,070 --> 01:13:57,000
Questions. Yeah, I, I have a question. I.

1680
01:13:57,770 --> 01:13:59,930
First, thank you. This is, I like the granularity. I

1681
01:13:59,930 --> 01:14:01,930
like the breakout that you're doing. I think that's really

1682
01:14:01,930 --> 01:14:02,100
good.

1683
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,030
Back up on the, on the revolving side.

1684
01:14:08,030 --> 01:14:11,430
For that food services is that is the expenditure a

1685
01:14:11,430 --> 01:14:13,770
hundred percent reimbursed or just a portion of it.

1686
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,370
Is it a hundred percent reimbursed?

1687
01:14:21,970 --> 01:14:25,670
No. Some of the revenues that come in are from

1688
01:14:25,770 --> 01:14:27,430
food sales, beyond the national.

1689
01:14:27,830 --> 01:14:29,230
Food Sur national.

1690
01:14:30,300 --> 01:14:31,270
School lunch program.

1691
01:14:33,170 --> 01:14:34,470
We sell like additional

1692
01:14:35,470 --> 01:14:37,600
additional meals or additional components.

1693
01:14:38,700 --> 01:14:41,470
Components. And those are a cash basis. We sell lunches

1694
01:14:41,470 --> 01:14:44,830
to teachers. We collect fees for that. Okay. Some of

1695
01:14:44,830 --> 01:14:46,600
it is sales. It's a very small portion.

1696
01:14:47,070 --> 01:14:49,370
Of it all right. Most of it, the, the lions

1697
01:14:49,370 --> 01:14:51,930
share by far is, but not all of it. Okay.

1698
01:14:51,930 --> 01:14:53,570
So then I guess my next, my follow up to

1699
01:14:53,570 --> 01:14:54,930
that would be maybe it might help to have that.

1700
01:14:55,270 --> 01:14:58,000
Alright receivable, or to offset that negative end of year

1701
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,100
balance to know what our balance would be expected. If

1702
01:15:00,170 --> 01:15:02,970
you have that, it's a see, that's the whole thing

1703
01:15:02,970 --> 01:15:03,270
of a.

1704
01:15:03,630 --> 01:15:06,270
Revolving account. It's always moving. Right. But if you, and

1705
01:15:06,270 --> 01:15:07,970
that's why, if you, but my thought is if you

1706
01:15:08,100 --> 01:15:11,500
had the, what you're expecting as an outstanding payments at

1707
01:15:11,500 --> 01:15:11,700
that.

1708
01:15:12,030 --> 01:15:14,930
Time that receivable balance of say, all right, we're, we're

1709
01:15:14,930 --> 01:15:16,430
expecting X number of dollars in.

1710
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:18,600
In reimbursements.

1711
01:15:19,630 --> 01:15:21,770
Reimbursements factoring having another column, just to show that we're

1712
01:15:21,770 --> 01:15:24,570
really not in that for someone that doesn't under have

1713
01:15:24,570 --> 01:15:26,270
that knowledge or have that transparency.

1714
01:15:27,270 --> 01:15:29,270
Or the window into when you see that we're a

1715
01:15:29,470 --> 01:15:31,570
negative 50,000 at the end of balance, we know that

1716
01:15:31,570 --> 01:15:34,270
that's not the actual, when you talk about account receivables,

1717
01:15:34,270 --> 01:15:35,030
that's not the actual.

1718
01:15:36,030 --> 01:15:38,370
What we're expected to have, right. So if we can

1719
01:15:38,370 --> 01:15:39,970
have something in there to show that, Hey, we're not

1720
01:15:39,970 --> 01:15:43,470
really negative 50 we're really are expected cash balance.

1721
01:15:44,030 --> 01:15:45,430
For the, for the income, I mean, at the end

1722
01:15:45,430 --> 01:15:46,670
of the fiscal year. Yeah.

1723
01:15:47,470 --> 01:15:49,830
Right. The inflows that were, that the inflows that were

1724
01:15:49,930 --> 01:15:52,300
expected at the end of the fiscal year would be

1725
01:15:52,370 --> 01:15:54,000
this. So like we have, so what the June number

1726
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:55,270
would've that? That's a real.

1727
01:15:55,830 --> 01:15:58,030
Point in time snapshot mm-hmm yep. Yep. And, and

1728
01:15:58,030 --> 01:16:01,600
everybody understands how school lunch works. Mm-hmm so.

1729
01:16:03,070 --> 01:16:06,070
Yeah, sure. No, I'm just, yeah, but you know that

1730
01:16:06,070 --> 01:16:06,770
that's typical.

1731
01:16:07,630 --> 01:16:09,930
You know, it is really hard to show.

1732
01:16:15,270 --> 01:16:16,770
Sorry. No, it's okay. No, do we know, do we

1733
01:16:16,770 --> 01:16:18,270
know what that, in what, as of.

1734
01:16:19,070 --> 01:16:21,700
At the end of fiscal year 26.

1735
01:16:22,700 --> 01:16:23,970
Did we know what the open.

1736
01:16:25,300 --> 01:16:28,370
What monies were coming into offset that 50,000. I don't

1737
01:16:28,370 --> 01:16:30,030
have that number off top. No, no, no, but I

1738
01:16:30,030 --> 01:16:32,100
mean, it's known, right? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So my

1739
01:16:32,100 --> 01:16:32,770
thought is.

1740
01:16:33,170 --> 01:16:35,000
If you had included that on here, then we would,

1741
01:16:34,930 --> 01:16:36,500
I'm not saying put it as the balance.

1742
01:16:37,370 --> 01:16:39,000
I'm saying include that on here. So we know, all

1743
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,300
right, this is what our balance is now, but then

1744
01:16:41,300 --> 01:16:41,770
we have.

1745
01:16:42,500 --> 01:16:43,970
Receivables that are expected to come in.

1746
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,270
After the fiscal year end, that would offset. That would

1747
01:16:47,270 --> 01:16:50,200
offset that 50,000. Okay. Yeah, that, that's my only thought.

1748
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,500
Yeah. And I think, I think too, this is, what's

1749
01:16:52,500 --> 01:16:53,000
gonna be helpful.

1750
01:16:53,370 --> 01:16:55,800
About, I understand what your question is and mm-hmm

1751
01:16:55,870 --> 01:16:58,230
right now, here, we have the opportunity to do a

1752
01:16:58,230 --> 01:17:01,370
lot of education when we're presenting the report. Mm-hmm.

1753
01:17:01,770 --> 01:17:04,470
. But then when we go and we create a

1754
01:17:04,470 --> 01:17:07,770
budget book that someone might pick up absent of Diane

1755
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:09,700
sitting here and being able to answer.

1756
01:17:09,930 --> 01:17:12,500
Questions. These are the kinds of things that we need

1757
01:17:12,500 --> 01:17:15,000
to work through when we're thinking about the budget book.

1758
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:16,430
And we're thinking about what we post.

1759
01:17:17,370 --> 01:17:19,100
I remember that when I was doing this for the

1760
01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:19,770
override.

1761
01:17:20,630 --> 01:17:21,200
Education.

1762
01:17:23,100 --> 01:17:25,500
The beginning, we weren't as like, we were just putting

1763
01:17:25,500 --> 01:17:27,800
those numbers out there. And if you remember, we started

1764
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:28,970
to add some asterisks.

1765
01:17:29,970 --> 01:17:31,300
Asterisks to some of those presentations. So.

1766
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,930
I think growing into what we wanna see and balancing

1767
01:17:35,970 --> 01:17:39,030
the PA the, the, the difference between this is a

1768
01:17:39,070 --> 01:17:40,270
snapshot. This is what it was when.

1769
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,030
We recorded it. This is actually what is going in

1770
01:17:43,030 --> 01:17:45,200
at the FY, the end of FY 26. This is

1771
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,300
what we're putting in the report. Mm-hmm however,

1772
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:50,800
you know, in thinking through some of those things, I

1773
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:51,030
think.

1774
01:17:52,030 --> 01:17:54,370
Especially with revolving accounts because they got a lot of

1775
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:55,770
questions about revolving accounts.

1776
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:57,930
Accounts last year when we were talking about budget.

1777
01:17:59,070 --> 01:18:01,000
Some things and grants, which is part of the reason

1778
01:18:01,100 --> 01:18:03,830
why Diane structured this, the way that she did.

1779
01:18:04,970 --> 01:18:07,930
Those kinds of things are gonna become important. So we'll

1780
01:18:07,930 --> 01:18:08,930
add that to our list and.

1781
01:18:10,770 --> 01:18:14,000
Yeah. Yeah. Even, even that asterisk, Aaron just says expecting,

1782
01:18:14,470 --> 01:18:14,930
you know,

1783
01:18:16,230 --> 01:18:18,970
open receivables or something. Yeah. Some, yeah, even if, even

1784
01:18:18,970 --> 01:18:20,930
if it isn't, even if we aren't able to produce

1785
01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:23,830
a, an amount that is, you know, we feel good

1786
01:18:23,830 --> 01:18:23,970
about.

1787
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,770
Saying, this is the amount we're getting. Mm-hmm for

1788
01:18:26,770 --> 01:18:27,030
sure.

1789
01:18:27,830 --> 01:18:30,500
We can say we can put an asterisk. Yeah, exactly,

1790
01:18:30,500 --> 01:18:33,770
exactly. That's what a projection is. Right? So it's it.

1791
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:35,430
It's bound to change and.

1792
01:18:36,030 --> 01:18:37,570
Mm-hmm , you know, if they were swings or.

1793
01:18:38,300 --> 01:18:41,470
Just the same way. We, we project and estimate what

1794
01:18:41,470 --> 01:18:44,600
we're getting for chapter 70. We don't know until, until,

1795
01:18:44,870 --> 01:18:45,600
until after.

1796
01:18:46,700 --> 01:18:49,430
Your husband. Yeah. But we make those assumptions. Yeah, though.

1797
01:18:49,430 --> 01:18:50,030
Mm-hmm .

1798
01:18:50,870 --> 01:18:53,370
Yep. Then I also had a question on the grants

1799
01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:56,700
and I'm assuming you have this, I'm not asking for

1800
01:18:56,700 --> 01:18:58,000
it per se, but I was just wondering, do you

1801
01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:58,830
have software to help?

1802
01:18:59,070 --> 01:19:01,930
You manage that or like, well, you know, the financial

1803
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,370
software Munis yeah. Were required to.

1804
01:19:05,170 --> 01:19:06,670
Were required to have separate.

1805
01:19:08,100 --> 01:19:09,470
Funds for each of these.

1806
01:19:10,700 --> 01:19:12,470
And we break out. For example, title two.

1807
01:19:13,570 --> 01:19:15,430
We have a fund code and then we have a

1808
01:19:15,430 --> 01:19:16,000
different org.

1809
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,300
For each fiscal year, so that within the same fund

1810
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:21,270
they're related.

1811
01:19:22,370 --> 01:19:25,070
But we know each fiscal year, because for example, we

1812
01:19:25,070 --> 01:19:27,800
still have some funds available on title one mm-hmm .

1813
01:19:27,930 --> 01:19:30,000
So FY 26, title one is.

1814
01:19:30,500 --> 01:19:34,200
Still open and allowable. Yeah. And then FY 27 will

1815
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:35,600
be arriving sometime this fall.

1816
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:38,770
And so we'll wanna spend down 26 before we start

1817
01:19:38,870 --> 01:19:42,670
27, but we may be spending both concurrently. And so

1818
01:19:42,670 --> 01:19:44,200
it's very important to keep that clean.

1819
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,430
There'd be no way you could report accurately back to

1820
01:19:47,430 --> 01:19:49,930
these grantors if you didn't keep them clean in that

1821
01:19:49,930 --> 01:19:52,000
way. Yeah. Yeah. And, and so you do have that

1822
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:52,970
burned down then of.

1823
01:19:53,170 --> 01:19:55,700
Where yeah. Munis makes that possible. Okay, good. No, I

1824
01:19:55,700 --> 01:19:57,600
was, I was, I was just hoping you had something

1825
01:19:57,630 --> 01:19:59,230
to help me. I know how much work it is.

1826
01:19:59,770 --> 01:20:00,970
Thank you that you have.

1827
01:20:01,570 --> 01:20:03,030
That you're supported in that way. Yep.

1828
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:06,770
Any other questions from the committee?

1829
01:20:08,100 --> 01:20:11,430
I've got one. So if you look at the slide

1830
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,570
that has the general fund voting categories.

1831
01:20:16,930 --> 01:20:17,670
Yes, this one.

1832
01:20:18,700 --> 01:20:19,370
So now

1833
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,000
all the crosswalking now to the new chart of accounts

1834
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,100
has been done for these numbers in FY 26.

1835
01:20:27,430 --> 01:20:29,000
That's got your new chart of accounts.

1836
01:20:29,930 --> 01:20:33,100
Accounts mm-hmm .

1837
01:20:34,230 --> 01:20:38,100
so that then the 26 will be comparable to

1838
01:20:38,100 --> 01:20:41,830
27, right? Yes. Right. Okay. So 26 is in the

1839
01:20:41,830 --> 01:20:42,030
new chart.

1840
01:20:42,500 --> 01:20:46,200
Of accounts. So is it accurate to say, like we

1841
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:50,270
shouldn't look at 25 to 26, those numbers really? You

1842
01:20:50,270 --> 01:20:50,470
can.

1843
01:20:50,870 --> 01:20:52,430
Can't like say they're apples to apples cuz a lot

1844
01:20:52,430 --> 01:20:54,770
of stuff moved around. Right. So it's not that.

1845
01:20:55,630 --> 01:20:57,770
Professional development, you know, really went up by that much.

1846
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:00,100
We might've just moved stuff from another line. Right. Mm-hmm

1847
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,570
so I can't really vouch when six words, anything

1848
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:03,470
start and you.

1849
01:21:04,030 --> 01:21:06,470
Go on. Okay. I can't vouch for anything before 26.

1850
01:21:06,700 --> 01:21:10,300
Right. But I do think the general, the big lines.

1851
01:21:11,270 --> 01:21:12,970
Are probably pretty good.

1852
01:21:14,470 --> 01:21:16,700
Okay. Not a hundred percent. I can't swear to it,

1853
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:17,100
but okay.

1854
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:22,200
And I think too, what, you'll, what we did add

1855
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:25,300
money into the professional development fund. So it wouldn't be

1856
01:21:25,300 --> 01:21:26,030
surprising.

1857
01:21:26,300 --> 01:21:28,430
To me. I don't, I, I don't know if it's

1858
01:21:28,430 --> 01:21:31,100
exactly what this represents here, but we did put that

1859
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,030
we also did in the curriculum development fund. So it

1860
01:21:34,030 --> 01:21:34,270
doesn't.

1861
01:21:34,700 --> 01:21:36,600
Doesn't surprise me, but then we took it out. So

1862
01:21:36,930 --> 01:21:39,000
remember when we were doing some of that movement last

1863
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:42,370
year, because we were still negotiating. So we.

1864
01:21:43,070 --> 01:21:45,030
Proposed that we were gonna put money in these categories,

1865
01:21:45,070 --> 01:21:46,500
but then we had to back some of it out

1866
01:21:46,500 --> 01:21:50,000
when we were doing the negotiation. So I think we're

1867
01:21:50,230 --> 01:21:50,970
positioned now.

1868
01:21:51,270 --> 01:21:52,830
Over the next few years to.

1869
01:21:54,700 --> 01:21:56,770
Do what you just said, be able to do some

1870
01:21:56,770 --> 01:21:59,600
comparison year over year, but why I'm really glad that

1871
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:00,800
you said that is because.

1872
01:22:01,570 --> 01:22:03,070
Of the same reason of why you said what you

1873
01:22:03,070 --> 01:22:05,430
just said. Mm-hmm if we've got, we have to

1874
01:22:05,430 --> 01:22:07,430
decide now in the, in the subcommittee.

1875
01:22:08,230 --> 01:22:10,770
How, what we are going to present in our budget

1876
01:22:10,970 --> 01:22:11,070
book.

1877
01:22:12,030 --> 01:22:15,500
And when these things live up live and we're.

1878
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:18,470
Continuing. And I, I wanna be really clear about this

1879
01:22:18,630 --> 01:22:22,000
just because we are in a year of, other than

1880
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:22,600
the cafeteria.

1881
01:22:23,630 --> 01:22:26,700
Not a lot of negotiations and naughty year where we're

1882
01:22:26,700 --> 01:22:29,470
thinking about an override doesn't mean we shouldn't be talking

1883
01:22:29,470 --> 01:22:29,930
about.

1884
01:22:30,700 --> 01:22:33,930
And doing some really good education and predicting around finances

1885
01:22:33,930 --> 01:22:34,300
and money.

1886
01:22:35,070 --> 01:22:36,770
I wanna make sure that when somebody goes and looks

1887
01:22:36,770 --> 01:22:40,000
at this chart, they don't say if I'm comparing 25

1888
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,970
to 26 and I see because it it's what.

1889
01:22:43,470 --> 01:22:45,370
You just said, Diane came in and really.

1890
01:22:46,300 --> 01:22:49,030
I mean, I remember when you first started and you

1891
01:22:49,030 --> 01:22:51,000
said, I know what I could do. I could recreate

1892
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,230
the whole chart of accounts. And then I said, can

1893
01:22:53,230 --> 01:22:53,930
you do that for FY?

1894
01:22:54,700 --> 01:22:55,100
FY 26 and you went.

1895
01:22:57,170 --> 01:22:59,600
Not while I'm also doing this, this and this, but

1896
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:01,470
guess what? You did it anyway.

1897
01:23:02,300 --> 01:23:04,030
And so now we're in the position where.

1898
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:06,970
We're not gonna have to wait a whole nother year

1899
01:23:07,030 --> 01:23:09,830
to be able to do those comparisons. So our FY

1900
01:23:09,830 --> 01:23:12,930
26, FY 27 and FY 28, when.

1901
01:23:13,170 --> 01:23:14,930
We're really thinking about that three year.

1902
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:20,570
Negotiation swing, perhaps override conversation swing will have some really

1903
01:23:20,570 --> 01:23:23,770
good apples to apples comparisons. I'm really glad you said

1904
01:23:23,770 --> 01:23:23,930
that.

1905
01:23:24,030 --> 01:23:26,370
Mm-hmm because now when we talk footnote, you know,

1906
01:23:26,430 --> 01:23:29,670
I on a presentation or something yeah. To say, you

1907
01:23:29,670 --> 01:23:31,500
know, new chart of accounts, I mean, people do that

1908
01:23:31,570 --> 01:23:32,000
in, in.

1909
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,700
Accounting all the time. Yeah. You always see the footnote

1910
01:23:34,700 --> 01:23:35,700
at the bottom, you know?

1911
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:40,930
Numbers restated and you know, 20, 24, whatever. So, well, even

1912
01:23:40,930 --> 01:23:42,230
last year when Diane was.

1913
01:23:43,270 --> 01:23:45,670
Not last year, but last fiscal year, when Diane was

1914
01:23:45,670 --> 01:23:48,500
going over, she had made footnotes about how.

1915
01:23:49,370 --> 01:23:51,030
Hey, this, this salary.

1916
01:23:52,030 --> 01:23:53,470
Was was over.

1917
01:23:54,500 --> 01:23:57,030
Listed under here. It's really, we moved it up over

1918
01:23:57,030 --> 01:23:59,570
here. So that's why you're seeing such a big swing.

1919
01:23:59,700 --> 01:24:02,300
So yeah, so we can add those. I think.

1920
01:24:02,870 --> 01:24:05,000
Diane before we post this up, but this is.

1921
01:24:05,770 --> 01:24:08,570
I really appreciate the collaboration around how we're kind of

1922
01:24:08,570 --> 01:24:09,030
thinking this.

1923
01:24:10,100 --> 01:24:13,100
This through and each one of these little, so just

1924
01:24:13,100 --> 01:24:14,430
like Diane showed you.

1925
01:24:15,270 --> 01:24:16,930
Here. I'm gonna brag on you, Diane, a little bit,

1926
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:19,670
just like she showed you here. And you're only really

1927
01:24:19,670 --> 01:24:22,470
getting a snapshot of the details so that she can,

1928
01:24:22,570 --> 01:24:23,230
she wanted to be able.

1929
01:24:23,630 --> 01:24:25,470
To walk through and explain little bit by little bit,

1930
01:24:25,970 --> 01:24:29,470
but every one of those voting categories does this. So

1931
01:24:29,470 --> 01:24:30,970
where you see the little plus.

1932
01:24:32,030 --> 01:24:33,230
To the left of the bucket.

1933
01:24:34,100 --> 01:24:36,670
Sh we can click on that and pull down all

1934
01:24:36,670 --> 01:24:39,030
the detail underneath each one of those things. And then

1935
01:24:39,030 --> 01:24:40,600
if I ask her to sort it in a certain

1936
01:24:40,700 --> 01:24:41,000
way,

1937
01:24:41,970 --> 01:24:43,270
she can sort it by location.

1938
01:24:44,030 --> 01:24:46,570
By subject by all of these great things for us

1939
01:24:46,830 --> 01:24:47,000
that.

1940
01:24:48,030 --> 01:24:51,470
When we're working in the budget and finance subcommittee, and

1941
01:24:51,470 --> 01:24:53,600
we're looking at all of that in the detail and

1942
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,770
deciding what we wanna share out in ways.

1943
01:24:56,230 --> 01:24:57,930
With, as we grow the budget book.

1944
01:24:58,870 --> 01:25:01,300
It's it's really helpful. And we're also looking at other

1945
01:25:01,300 --> 01:25:04,800
budget books in other towns to decide. We have some

1946
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,700
downstairs sitting on my desk right now with little.

1947
01:25:07,070 --> 01:25:09,200
Earmarks in each one of them about how we want

1948
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:10,200
to gather and present.

1949
01:25:11,570 --> 01:25:13,230
So it won't be be, it will be.

1950
01:25:14,100 --> 01:25:16,200
Good to have the detail that we wanna have. And

1951
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,230
then now we're gonna just figure out how do we

1952
01:25:18,230 --> 01:25:20,230
present this with a lot of entry points for people.

1953
01:25:21,770 --> 01:25:24,030
From the, I'm just gonna look at your chart.

1954
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,230
To, I wanna look at what your chart means in

1955
01:25:27,230 --> 01:25:30,230
an appendix or something like that. So one of the,

1956
01:25:30,930 --> 01:25:32,830
one of the big things that the national.

1957
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,670
School business association says is that you should build a

1958
01:25:35,670 --> 01:25:36,800
school budget, like a pyramid.

1959
01:25:37,570 --> 01:25:39,000
That you should start at the top of the pyramid

1960
01:25:39,070 --> 01:25:40,370
with the least amount of detail.

1961
01:25:41,370 --> 01:25:43,070
It should be mostly narrative with very few numbers.

1962
01:25:44,070 --> 01:25:46,500
And then you should go down, down, down, down, down

1963
01:25:46,570 --> 01:25:47,030
in detail.

1964
01:25:48,030 --> 01:25:49,930
So that people can read down to their level of

1965
01:25:49,930 --> 01:25:50,100
comfort.

1966
01:25:51,070 --> 01:25:53,570
Because some people are just want the executive summary. They

1967
01:25:53,570 --> 01:25:54,930
want words only a couple of numbers.

1968
01:25:55,830 --> 01:25:58,070
Some people want more details. Some people want more detail.

1969
01:25:58,270 --> 01:26:00,970
Some people want more detail and some people want to

1970
01:26:00,970 --> 01:26:03,670
drill all the way down to the bedrock and that's.

1971
01:26:04,030 --> 01:26:05,970
That's fine. And you should create it that way so

1972
01:26:05,970 --> 01:26:08,970
people can drill to whatever level they want. Mm-hmm .

1973
01:26:09,970 --> 01:26:11,030
But if you do it the other way, and you

1974
01:26:11,030 --> 01:26:13,830
start with all this detail, you'll lose half your audience

1975
01:26:13,830 --> 01:26:15,100
right there. So.

1976
01:26:16,230 --> 01:26:19,570
You know, that envisioning something that starts high, like, like

1977
01:26:19,570 --> 01:26:19,930
this level.

1978
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:22,270
And then creating all the detail.

1979
01:26:23,270 --> 01:26:25,770
With the footnote that you don't have to go any

1980
01:26:25,770 --> 01:26:29,200
deeper than you feel comfortable. Mm-hmm mm-hmm . I

1981
01:26:29,230 --> 01:26:30,930
remember having to sit down with a school committee member

1982
01:26:30,970 --> 01:26:31,230
who.

1983
01:26:31,630 --> 01:26:34,100
Was an attorney and walking him through the budget and

1984
01:26:34,100 --> 01:26:36,970
I'm, and I told him just that you only have

1985
01:26:36,970 --> 01:26:38,500
to go as deep as you feel comfortable. And he

1986
01:26:38,500 --> 01:26:39,270
was like, oh, thank God.

1987
01:26:40,030 --> 01:26:41,930
Mm-hmm and he was pretty much like executive level

1988
01:26:41,930 --> 01:26:44,100
only. Great. I'm done. Yeah. Like makes sense to me.

1989
01:26:44,230 --> 01:26:47,000
I'm fine. And, and other people just like, they wanna

1990
01:26:47,030 --> 01:26:47,800
go down. Yeah.

1991
01:26:48,230 --> 01:26:51,000
And that's fine. It it's really what works for you

1992
01:26:51,070 --> 01:26:53,930
and to make a budget book that is flexible, that

1993
01:26:53,930 --> 01:26:56,100
allows, like you said, all those points of entry.

1994
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:59,430
Yeah, as educators, we certainly don't wanna lose 50% of

1995
01:26:59,430 --> 01:27:02,030
our audience. on the giddy up intro of the

1996
01:27:02,030 --> 01:27:02,070
lesson.

1997
01:27:03,570 --> 01:27:06,000
So, I mean, I'm really proud of this for a

1998
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:07,000
lot of reasons. I think.

1999
01:27:08,030 --> 01:27:09,430
Not the least of which is.

2000
01:27:10,300 --> 01:27:12,300
And Diane alluded to this a little bit at the

2001
01:27:12,300 --> 01:27:14,430
beginning, you know, when everybody goes away for the summer

2002
01:27:14,570 --> 01:27:17,070
and starts to think about winding down and reflecting as

2003
01:27:17,070 --> 01:27:18,270
she's gearing up to.

2004
01:27:18,700 --> 01:27:20,500
Put the fiscal year to rest.

2005
01:27:21,930 --> 01:27:22,670
We've asked.

2006
01:27:23,830 --> 01:27:23,930
Rightfully

2007
01:27:26,630 --> 01:27:28,200
her and me to.

2008
01:27:29,170 --> 01:27:31,070
Get to a place where we can be transparent about

2009
01:27:31,070 --> 01:27:32,000
this is very important.

2010
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:34,830
And so what I like about this is I feel

2011
01:27:34,830 --> 01:27:37,100
like it's progre, we, we hit a first down. I'll

2012
01:27:37,100 --> 01:27:39,200
just use my analogy, maybe even a second down.

2013
01:27:40,030 --> 01:27:43,300
And celebrating that moment and now planning. Okay. How are

2014
01:27:43,300 --> 01:27:45,670
we gonna, how we've got a whole new set of.

2015
01:27:46,500 --> 01:27:48,770
Of let's get the first down. Right. And what is

2016
01:27:48,770 --> 01:27:51,470
that first down? It's gonna be the subcommittee helping.

2017
01:27:52,230 --> 01:27:53,930
To kind of decide, okay, how are we gonna show

2018
01:27:53,930 --> 01:27:54,470
up in October?

2019
01:27:55,470 --> 01:27:57,700
No, we won't be talking about FY 26 anymore. We'll

2020
01:27:57,700 --> 01:27:59,000
be talking about what we're spending.

2021
01:27:59,970 --> 01:28:03,670
And I like when you say Diane FY 26 was

2022
01:28:03,670 --> 01:28:04,270
what we spent.

2023
01:28:05,870 --> 01:28:08,930
FY 27. Everybody is what we're currently spending right now

2024
01:28:09,070 --> 01:28:12,030
to fund our school year. And FY 28 is what

2025
01:28:12,030 --> 01:28:12,930
we plan to spend.

2026
01:28:13,770 --> 01:28:15,370
You know, it's the, where we were, where we are

2027
01:28:15,370 --> 01:28:17,030
and where we're going of the finances.

2028
01:28:18,500 --> 01:28:20,430
Finances. And so you've, you've given us a nice peak

2029
01:28:20,470 --> 01:28:22,070
into how we're gonna be able to do that. Well,

2030
01:28:24,670 --> 01:28:25,500
anyone have questions.

2031
01:28:26,500 --> 01:28:26,930
Questions from the committee.

2032
01:28:29,070 --> 01:28:31,800
Thank you for all the work. Thank you. Yeah, this

2033
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:33,230
is very well done. Thank you, Diane. For all your

2034
01:28:33,230 --> 01:28:35,970
hair, I'm excited to play with the numbers. in

2035
01:28:35,970 --> 01:28:36,370
no way.

2036
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:38,830
Melanie's gonna win no way. No, I'm a bedrock person

2037
01:28:38,930 --> 01:28:42,100
down. We're out. I wanna open the Melanie has identified

2038
01:28:42,100 --> 01:28:45,030
herself as a bedrock person. we aim.

2039
01:28:45,370 --> 01:28:49,470
You please. I do want to make one comment, like

2040
01:28:50,170 --> 01:28:53,270
on, similar to piggyback on what we talked about before.

2041
01:28:53,770 --> 01:28:57,200
With the, the rental system and now with the financial

2042
01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:58,430
reporting and.

2043
01:28:59,700 --> 01:29:02,300
Something that isn't known to the greater public, but we

2044
01:29:02,370 --> 01:29:02,600
saw.

2045
01:29:04,100 --> 01:29:07,670
An HR update that our staff can finally wow.

2046
01:29:08,570 --> 01:29:10,930
Actually see their time off remaining live.

2047
01:29:12,170 --> 01:29:14,300
So these are all things that we.

2048
01:29:15,070 --> 01:29:19,430
Have been wanting to do and, and build the, these

2049
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:22,030
structures and these procedures and have these systems.

2050
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:25,370
And for, you know,

2051
01:29:26,300 --> 01:29:27,670
money was tight and we couldn't do it.

2052
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,000
Staffing was tight. Staffing is still tight, but like, so

2053
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:33,300
there were so many things that like all of these

2054
01:29:33,300 --> 01:29:35,000
things had to just keep getting.

2055
01:29:36,100 --> 01:29:39,270
You know, shoved to the side and it's so fantastic

2056
01:29:39,470 --> 01:29:40,030
to see.

2057
01:29:41,470 --> 01:29:43,770
These things that we have wanted to do for years.

2058
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:48,030
Be able to, to start to come to fruition, fruition.

2059
01:29:48,200 --> 01:29:49,000
I'm so glad.

2060
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:51,100
Thank you, Diane. Thank you so much.

2061
01:29:53,970 --> 01:29:56,670
And we will slide back into finishing up the report

2062
01:29:56,770 --> 01:29:57,570
with Dr.

2063
01:29:58,300 --> 01:30:00,270
Stanway is gonna bring us home. She's gonna talk about

2064
01:30:00,270 --> 01:30:01,970
multi-tiered systems of support.

2065
01:30:02,870 --> 01:30:05,000
This nest underneath overarching goal number one.

2066
01:30:06,300 --> 01:30:07,230
For teaching and learning.

2067
01:30:08,230 --> 01:30:12,200
More more specifically, this talks about creating our first objective,

2068
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:15,000
which is thinking about those six to eight high level

2069
01:30:15,370 --> 01:30:16,030
practices. And.

2070
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:18,800
The action step behind that is high level practice, focus

2071
01:30:18,970 --> 01:30:19,070
area.

2072
01:30:20,030 --> 01:30:21,700
Of consistent classroom, routines and structures.

2073
01:30:22,700 --> 01:30:28,000
Structures. Okay. So we are building a lot of structures

2074
01:30:27,970 --> 01:30:30,700
as Jamie was just talking about different kinds of S.

2075
01:30:31,070 --> 01:30:34,030
Structures. We are doing this in our classrooms and with

2076
01:30:34,030 --> 01:30:37,670
our professional learning this year as Dr. D Francisco alluded

2077
01:30:37,670 --> 01:30:38,000
to.

2078
01:30:38,700 --> 01:30:40,970
Earlier in the meeting, we've had a lot of PD

2079
01:30:41,030 --> 01:30:44,500
already and it's September 24th. So we're really, you know, moving

2080
01:30:44,670 --> 01:30:44,930
along.

2081
01:30:45,930 --> 01:30:49,430
And here on the slide, you see the structure for

2082
01:30:50,030 --> 01:30:51,470
mine over so I can look at it.

2083
01:30:52,930 --> 01:30:55,570
Our theme this year is really getting curious.

2084
01:30:56,600 --> 01:31:00,030
And we are look getting curious about creating our learning

2085
01:31:00,030 --> 01:31:02,230
environments to meet all of our students' needs.

2086
01:31:03,270 --> 01:31:05,770
We're focused in on that, through our multi-tiered systems of

2087
01:31:05,770 --> 01:31:06,200
supports.

2088
01:31:07,070 --> 01:31:09,500
Supports you've heard us talk for the last two years.

2089
01:31:10,300 --> 01:31:14,000
Really is we're really identify, we've identified the seven high

2090
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:14,270
level.

2091
01:31:15,070 --> 01:31:16,570
Instructional look fors with our staff.

2092
01:31:17,370 --> 01:31:21,670
And so this year we got together on September 17th and

2093
01:31:21,670 --> 01:31:23,030
18th with our staff.

2094
01:31:23,830 --> 01:31:27,600
And we were really able to start the conversation with

2095
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:30,430
staff across the district around consist one of our look

2096
01:31:30,570 --> 01:31:31,830
fors or instructional.

2097
01:31:32,030 --> 01:31:34,930
Routines is consistent classroom, routines and structures.

2098
01:31:36,030 --> 01:31:38,270
Structures. And so staff were really able to apply that

2099
01:31:38,270 --> 01:31:40,030
through that zero to five.

2100
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:44,000
Think space that we've also talked about quite frequently and

2101
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:45,300
we are using as a structure.

2102
01:31:46,100 --> 01:31:48,800
To think through and identify, you know, what our common

2103
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:51,970
understanding is of consistent classroom, routines and structures.

2104
01:31:53,170 --> 01:31:55,200
Structures the through line through all of this and the

2105
01:31:55,430 --> 01:31:57,070
backdrop of it is our.

2106
01:31:57,970 --> 01:32:01,700
You know, school-wide district-wide book read, which is power of

2107
01:32:01,700 --> 01:32:03,100
our words. So it's language.

2108
01:32:04,030 --> 01:32:06,370
And we're really thinking about that, what it looks like

2109
01:32:06,630 --> 01:32:08,300
in our classroom and tier one.

2110
01:32:09,170 --> 01:32:10,270
And then we pulled it through.

2111
01:32:11,830 --> 01:32:13,300
Safety situations. So

2112
01:32:14,300 --> 01:32:17,670
deescalation being one and, and also emergency situations.

2113
01:32:18,870 --> 01:32:20,930
If you wanna go back to that one slide from

2114
01:32:20,930 --> 01:32:22,370
silk. So this is an example.

2115
01:32:23,270 --> 01:32:27,300
From our September 17th and 18th work from our.

2116
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,200
Early learning center. And so you see at the top

2117
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:33,600
there at the zero, that's a common understanding.

2118
01:32:34,630 --> 01:32:38,800
Of consistent classroom routines and structures and staff spent time

2119
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:40,470
really defining that and having.

2120
01:32:42,100 --> 01:32:45,830
Collaborative conversations at every school about, you know, what it

2121
01:32:45,830 --> 01:32:46,200
looks like.

2122
01:32:47,270 --> 01:32:50,300
Sounds like, and feels like in our classrooms, preschool.

2123
01:32:51,070 --> 01:32:53,030
Through grade 12. So

2124
01:32:53,930 --> 01:32:56,370
during this time with the through line of language.

2125
01:32:57,170 --> 01:33:00,670
We then moved into, you know, how our words matter

2126
01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:05,030
in the instructional space, whether it's academics, social, emotional, and.

2127
01:33:05,570 --> 01:33:08,070
Behavioral and staff were able to.

2128
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:12,030
Listen to Mrs. O'Leary and myself.

2129
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:17,670
Doing a voice O voiced over presentation on deescalation strategies.

2130
01:33:17,970 --> 01:33:18,930
And we were really.

2131
01:33:19,630 --> 01:33:22,030
Very intentional and Mrs. O'Leary was very thoughtful.

2132
01:33:22,930 --> 01:33:25,830
In planning this about making sure that we connected it

2133
01:33:25,830 --> 01:33:28,500
back to our language and how we use our language

2134
01:33:28,870 --> 01:33:30,770
to help students who.

2135
01:33:31,070 --> 01:33:33,570
Are struggling to regulate emotions and behavior.

2136
01:33:34,930 --> 01:33:37,100
To get back to center and to deescalate.

2137
01:33:38,100 --> 01:33:42,070
We connected this then to standard response protocol.

2138
01:33:43,070 --> 01:33:46,230
And some of you may remember, or even participated in,

2139
01:33:46,270 --> 01:33:49,670
I think maybe school committee might have with, I love

2140
01:33:49,670 --> 01:33:50,200
you guys training.

2141
01:33:51,270 --> 01:33:54,600
And we are, we revisited this, you know, thinking about

2142
01:33:54,630 --> 01:33:58,970
the language that we use during true emergency situations. You'll

2143
01:33:58,970 --> 01:33:59,100
see.

2144
01:33:59,630 --> 01:34:02,370
On the screen here that the, you know, these are

2145
01:34:02,370 --> 01:34:04,370
the icons in the language for a hold.

2146
01:34:05,370 --> 01:34:07,200
And we have to put the building on a hold,

2147
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:07,970
a secure.

2148
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:10,070
When we actually have to lock down.

2149
01:34:11,300 --> 01:34:12,470
Evacuate and shelter.

2150
01:34:13,370 --> 01:34:16,430
So this was just, you know, sort of revisiting it.

2151
01:34:16,430 --> 01:34:19,030
We spent a short amount of time on this, so

2152
01:34:19,030 --> 01:34:21,300
that principals can then go back again.

2153
01:34:21,770 --> 01:34:24,230
And talk in greater detail with staff to make sure

2154
01:34:24,230 --> 01:34:25,700
that we started the year off.

2155
01:34:26,570 --> 01:34:29,770
Thinking about this, ensuring the safety of all of our

2156
01:34:29,770 --> 01:34:32,030
students and connecting it back to the language that we

2157
01:34:32,070 --> 01:34:32,300
use.

2158
01:34:33,470 --> 01:34:35,430
And I'll just do a little shout out. There's some

2159
01:34:35,670 --> 01:34:38,000
evidence for my professional goal right up on the screen

2160
01:34:38,100 --> 01:34:40,970
which is safety. So this was a nice.

2161
01:34:41,570 --> 01:34:44,030
Opportunity for us to, to attach that to language.

2162
01:34:47,430 --> 01:34:49,030
Catherine also is

2163
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:52,500
she manages so much in the course of a day.

2164
01:34:52,630 --> 01:34:54,500
And one of the things she manages is the prism

2165
01:34:54,500 --> 01:34:54,930
grant.

2166
01:34:55,670 --> 01:34:57,300
We thought this would be a nice thing for you

2167
01:34:57,300 --> 01:35:00,100
to actually just look at in a timely way that

2168
01:35:00,170 --> 01:35:02,970
Diane just presented about all the grants and time and

2169
01:35:02,970 --> 01:35:03,570
effort and how.

2170
01:35:04,030 --> 01:35:06,000
We keep track. This is.

2171
01:35:06,870 --> 01:35:09,700
The prism grant, just a little peak of, I mean,

2172
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:11,230
I can bring it up if you want them to

2173
01:35:11,230 --> 01:35:13,100
see the whole thing. Yeah. I don't know that they

2174
01:35:13,100 --> 01:35:14,970
wanna go through the whole thing, but.

2175
01:35:15,830 --> 01:35:17,930
It's certainly there. I could share the link.

2176
01:35:18,700 --> 01:35:22,670
But the requirements from the department of education have grown.

2177
01:35:23,470 --> 01:35:26,030
Significantly with the prism grant on the back end.

2178
01:35:27,070 --> 01:35:29,770
So we are very fortunate to have this funding and

2179
01:35:29,770 --> 01:35:32,500
it has, it has given us lots of opportunities to

2180
01:35:32,630 --> 01:35:34,370
expand our literacy curriculum.

2181
01:35:35,270 --> 01:35:37,600
Our instructional practices. We are, you know,

2182
01:35:38,500 --> 01:35:41,970
engaged in a robust professional learning plan because of the

2183
01:35:41,970 --> 01:35:44,300
grant at the elementary it's preschool through grade three.

2184
01:35:45,170 --> 01:35:47,600
But you'll see on the screen, it's a, it's a

2185
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,930
screenshot. It's a picture of an action plan.

2186
01:35:50,700 --> 01:35:53,030
And on the document tabs on the left.

2187
01:35:54,100 --> 01:35:56,800
Each tab are areas that we are required.

2188
01:35:57,770 --> 01:36:01,970
Required to map out in our prism literacy action plan.

2189
01:36:02,070 --> 01:36:02,670
So we have.

2190
01:36:03,470 --> 01:36:06,070
Goals and calendars in our agendas. We have to have

2191
01:36:06,100 --> 01:36:07,430
a professional learning plan.

2192
01:36:08,370 --> 01:36:11,830
A pre-K work plan, a K three work plan that

2193
01:36:11,830 --> 01:36:13,070
are connected back to our goals.

2194
01:36:13,930 --> 01:36:14,930
And assessment plan.

2195
01:36:16,230 --> 01:36:19,470
We engage in a learning systems scan, and we have

2196
01:36:19,470 --> 01:36:21,000
to rate ourselves each year.

2197
01:36:21,930 --> 01:36:25,370
The other component of this is that teachers across the

2198
01:36:25,500 --> 01:36:28,800
district are asked to participate in a survey developed by

2199
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:30,000
brown university, which.

2200
01:36:30,300 --> 01:36:31,970
Is actually measuring the impact.

2201
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:35,000
Of the activities and the professional learning and the grant

2202
01:36:34,970 --> 01:36:38,430
on teacher knowledge around literacy in the science of reading

2203
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:40,100
and, and that's quite an extensive.

2204
01:36:41,170 --> 01:36:43,100
Survey. So I'm really grateful for the teachers who have.

2205
01:36:44,370 --> 01:36:46,830
Been really wonderful about participating in that.

2206
01:36:47,670 --> 01:36:50,070
And, and leaned into it and will be asked to

2207
01:36:50,070 --> 01:36:51,230
do that again this year.

2208
01:36:52,030 --> 01:36:54,930
And we are now required to and what you don't

2209
01:36:54,930 --> 01:36:56,700
see. Oh, you might see on here is fund use.

2210
01:36:57,030 --> 01:36:58,670
So I keep a very detailed.

2211
01:36:59,470 --> 01:37:02,030
Spreadsheet of how we are spending our money and all

2212
01:37:02,030 --> 01:37:03,970
the documents that are attached to it.

2213
01:37:05,230 --> 01:37:06,470
But I now need to.

2214
01:37:07,470 --> 01:37:09,200
You know, seek permission from.

2215
01:37:09,930 --> 01:37:13,000
My contact at Desi for everything that we spend.

2216
01:37:13,970 --> 01:37:15,670
So there's the oversight of the grant.

2217
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:18,230
And sort of the time and effort that goes into

2218
01:37:18,230 --> 01:37:20,430
it is this is just an example. I am happy

2219
01:37:20,430 --> 01:37:22,600
to do it, and I am thrilled that we have

2220
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:24,370
the money, but I just wanted to show.

2221
01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:28,230
You it really tied into what Diane Johnson was just sharing

2222
01:37:28,270 --> 01:37:30,500
with you is that we do not have a grant

2223
01:37:30,500 --> 01:37:31,000
manager.

2224
01:37:32,230 --> 01:37:34,570
We are all wearing lots of hats. This grant is

2225
01:37:34,570 --> 01:37:34,930
not just.

2226
01:37:36,030 --> 01:37:38,300
My I'm not just managing it. Diane is helping me

2227
01:37:38,300 --> 01:37:42,930
manage it. My administrative assistant Alex Nuen is helping me

2228
01:37:42,930 --> 01:37:43,930
significantly.

2229
01:37:44,230 --> 01:37:47,100
To manage it and keep track. Jill Anderson is, is

2230
01:37:47,100 --> 01:37:48,570
helping to pay things so.

2231
01:37:49,370 --> 01:37:51,600
It is, you know, it's, it's really that, you know,

2232
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:56,100
team effort here and making sure that we're following through

2233
01:37:56,170 --> 01:37:57,930
on all of the grant expectations.

2234
01:37:59,700 --> 01:38:01,670
Thank you. You're welcome. And that is the end of

2235
01:38:01,670 --> 01:38:02,800
the superintendent's report.

2236
01:38:03,830 --> 01:38:06,970
All right. Any other questions? Discussion.

2237
01:38:08,030 --> 01:38:11,930
Okay. We are moving on. We have our school building

2238
01:38:11,930 --> 01:38:14,500
committee update, which we are going to soon put under

2239
01:38:14,500 --> 01:38:14,930
committee.

2240
01:38:16,030 --> 01:38:18,230
Lays liaison subcommittee reports, but I'm assuming no.

2241
01:38:19,070 --> 01:38:22,030
Report we're meeting on Monday, Monday night, Monday night. Okay.

2242
01:38:24,430 --> 01:38:26,800
All right committee lays on subcommittee reports.

2243
01:38:30,630 --> 01:38:31,430
Well, I have a couple.

2244
01:38:32,230 --> 01:38:34,500
So we'll see, we'll do it.

2245
01:38:35,470 --> 01:38:35,470
Do

2246
01:38:38,500 --> 01:38:39,570
stone and coalition.

2247
01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,670
And there's a couple things. So on Saturday from three

2248
01:38:43,670 --> 01:38:45,470
to six, there's gonna be the recovery Fest.

2249
01:38:46,300 --> 01:38:48,500
Which is gonna be on storm common. They're gonna have

2250
01:38:48,500 --> 01:38:49,470
vendors there, community.

2251
01:38:50,500 --> 01:38:51,800
Resources, inspirational speakers.

2252
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,770
Speakers raffles. I don't like that word, but there's gonna

2253
01:38:55,770 --> 01:38:56,600
be lots of raffles.

2254
01:38:57,970 --> 01:38:59,930
Raffles. If it rains, it will be in the Stoneham

2255
01:38:59,930 --> 01:39:00,500
town hall.

2256
01:39:01,370 --> 01:39:01,970
Meeting room.

2257
01:39:03,970 --> 01:39:07,000
The strong coalitions also, and the storm health department is

2258
01:39:07,570 --> 01:39:11,000
partnering and putting together mental health, first aid trainings.

2259
01:39:12,030 --> 01:39:13,500
Trainings there's gonna be a two-parter.

2260
01:39:14,500 --> 01:39:16,970
So it's gonna be on October 5th and October 6th.

2261
01:39:17,970 --> 01:39:19,770
And if you want more information, you can go to

2262
01:39:19,770 --> 01:39:20,200
their website.

2263
01:39:21,170 --> 01:39:21,500
Stone coalition.

2264
01:39:23,470 --> 01:39:26,830
And then stone Alliance against violence.

2265
01:39:28,430 --> 01:39:30,430
Is putting on a comedy for a cause.

2266
01:39:31,700 --> 01:39:32,970
It's going to be at.

2267
01:39:33,770 --> 01:39:35,000
Prince pizza in sagas.

2268
01:39:36,230 --> 01:39:37,700
Sagas and mostly it's gonna have pizza.

2269
01:39:38,500 --> 01:39:40,800
Comedy and donations.

2270
01:39:41,970 --> 01:39:43,000
To save.

2271
01:39:44,030 --> 01:39:45,470
Great. Thank you very much.

2272
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:49,570
Anything else. All right, I'll take a motion. I had

2273
01:39:49,570 --> 01:39:52,570
one, sorry, from the S B C E F. They're

2274
01:39:52,570 --> 01:39:54,500
having their annual character breakfast.

2275
01:39:54,870 --> 01:39:57,070
At got shifted from the springtime to the fall.

2276
01:39:57,930 --> 01:40:00,570
And then I'll be Saturday, October 17th, from nine to 11

2277
01:40:00,830 --> 01:40:02,100
at the high school Spartan place.

2278
01:40:03,070 --> 01:40:06,300
It's $8 per child, adults and children under one are

2279
01:40:06,300 --> 01:40:06,670
free.

2280
01:40:07,670 --> 01:40:11,500
It's an opportunity to have breakfast juice, coffee, donuts games,

2281
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:15,230
play for the kids to play games, earn prizes and.

2282
01:40:16,030 --> 01:40:18,100
Come dressed up as it's Halloween season and.

2283
01:40:19,230 --> 01:40:21,700
There'll be other volunteers that are dressed up as.

2284
01:40:22,700 --> 01:40:24,700
Different characters. So it could be a good event.

2285
01:40:25,570 --> 01:40:26,230
Great. Thank you.

2286
01:40:28,030 --> 01:40:30,970
All right. I will take a motion. We do have

2287
01:40:30,970 --> 01:40:31,970
a need for executive session.

2288
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:34,030
Would someone like to make a motion and read it,

2289
01:40:34,030 --> 01:40:34,300
please?

2290
01:40:36,470 --> 01:40:37,030
Actually, I'm sorry.

2291
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:38,970
What about new stuff? I mean,

2292
01:40:40,230 --> 01:40:42,800
yes. Is there new items? I'm sorry. No, I don't

2293
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:44,270
have I missed that one. Does anyone have any new

2294
01:40:44,270 --> 01:40:44,500
items?

2295
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:46,570
It's not on here.

2296
01:40:47,630 --> 01:40:49,370
Is it not? Yeah, it's right. It's at the bottom

2297
01:40:49,670 --> 01:40:51,470
way. Oh, it got cut off on mine. Okay. Yeah.

2298
01:40:51,630 --> 01:40:53,300
All right. Sorry. Anyone have any new items?

2299
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:56,100
Okay.

2300
01:40:57,600 --> 01:40:59,830
Was someone like to make a motion for executive session?

2301
01:41:01,370 --> 01:41:04,370
I'll make a motion to enter into executive session for

2302
01:41:04,370 --> 01:41:06,930
the purpose of collective bargaining per master in law, chapter

2303
01:41:06,930 --> 01:41:08,800
30, a section 21 a and.

2304
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:13,000
Three to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with

2305
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:15,970
the cafeteria unit or litigation. If an open meeting may

2306
01:41:15,970 --> 01:41:16,930
have a detrimental effect.

2307
01:41:17,370 --> 01:41:19,930
On the bargaining or litigating position of the public body

2308
01:41:19,930 --> 01:41:21,770
and the chair. So declares not to return.

2309
01:41:22,600 --> 01:41:24,370
Is there a second, second.

2310
01:41:25,370 --> 01:41:28,570
Okay. We'll do a roll call, Melanie. Yes. Jamie? Yes.

2311
01:41:28,700 --> 01:41:31,670
Corey. Yes, Jr. Yes. And I'm a yes as well.

2312
01:41:31,670 --> 01:41:32,930
Thank you so much. We Ajour and have a good

2313
01:41:32,930 --> 01:41:33,070
night.