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[0:53] And welcome to the March 25th, 2025 School Committee meeting here at Stingesboro, PDC Room at High School.
[1:01] My name is Anthony Tenerale. I officially call this meeting to order. I will remind everyone that these meetings are audio and video recorded.
[1:09] And I will start with introductions to my vote.
[1:12] Kevin Cody.
[1:13] Good, Bushman.
[1:14] I can stand.
[1:15] Mike Woodlock, Assistant Superintendent.
[1:17] Hi, Mike Flanagan Superintendent.
[1:18] Do you have any other fanos?
[1:20] Brian McMan.
[1:21] Is he a guide up?
[1:22] Rob Mullin.
[1:23] Do you have a state of business minister?
[1:24] And if you'll please drive to the world of allegiance?
[1:28] I pledge allegiance to the flag.
[1:30] I mean, you had a state of America.
[1:32] Thank you.
[1:33] And you're a public, or which is stands.
[1:34] One nation under God.
[1:37] And if it is a little liberty and justice for all.
[1:42] Thank you, everyone.
[1:44] This time of year, when we discuss budgets,
[1:46] we need to have a public hearing.
[1:49] to discuss our proposed 2026 school budget.
[1:53] So at this time, I will seek a motion
[1:55] to suspend the regular meeting
[1:57] and open a public hearing on the 2026 budget.
[2:01] Some of the second, any discussion?
[2:05] All those in favor?
[2:06] Hi.
[2:07] Opposed?
[2:07] I'm staying in that case.
[2:10] And we are in our public meeting.
[2:14] I believe we'll turn that over to Mr. Masina.
[2:17] Thank you, Mr. Chair.
[2:18] So a brief history for the public and anybody watching the meeting.
[2:25] Back on January 28th, we had a budget that essentially brought over the current staff given all of changes in pricing and staff payroll.
[2:43] We had about a $390,000 overage and the superintendent had identified an additional 2.4 positions that we were looking to add into the budget model.
[2:56] So what we did back on February 25th, a month ago, we brought the school committee budget for next year to this school committee that was balanced at the 2.7% growth and included those additional 2.4 positions.
[3:13] This model has a full-time equivalent staff of 236.1, which is actually 4.2 lower than the FY25
[3:26] initial budget of 243.3, but again it is a balanced budget with the R2.7% growth as indicated
[3:37] did by the town manager in cooperation with us.
[3:43] So in front of you tonight is that same budget
[3:45] that was presented to you in February 25th
[3:48] and available for any public comment
[3:51] that might come up today.
[3:58] So you know when from the public,
[3:59] does anyone on this board have anything to think of?
[4:04] I'd like to thank you.
[4:06] And this portion of the here.
[4:07] And for all of you, you and your staff
[4:09] and our administration does to put this together every year.
[4:12] I know it's a lot of work, so thank you very much for that.
[4:16] I will seek a motion to adjourn the public hearing and return to our regular meeting.
[4:21] Second.
[4:22] Any discussion?
[4:23] All those of favor.
[4:24] Hi.
[4:25] Opposed?
[4:26] The carries.
[4:29] So, at this time, I will seek a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 budget as presented in the public hearing.
[4:36] with a total school expenditure of $27,444,638.
[4:44] And school committee budget of $24,9744.
[4:52] I move to accept to approve the FY-2026 budget as presented.
[4:58] Second, any further discussion?
[5:01] All those in favor?
[5:03] Aye.
[5:03] Opposed?
[5:04] Obstained?
[5:05] Okay.
[5:05] Thank you.
[5:07] Thank you, Miss Miss Hena.
[5:08] Again, for all the work you put into that each and every year.
[5:13] Approval of minutes from March 11, 2025 school committee minutes.
[5:19] Seek a motion to approve that.
[5:21] So moved?
[5:22] Second.
[5:24] Any discussion?
[5:25] All those of you.
[5:26] Aye.
[5:27] Opposed?
[5:27] Of course.
[5:28] Okay.
[5:30] Citizen's time.
[5:32] Seeing none.
[5:33] Car respondents, we're going to hold off until later in the presentation.
[5:37] Please, thank you, Mr. Chair.
[5:38] We have no personality this time.
[5:41] Share the success at the podium, please.
[5:43] At TES, several great levels are incorporating flexible grouping during
[5:48] Windblocks to maximize opportunities for intervention and enrichment.
[5:52] TES will highlight their successes with this.
[5:55] With this in next month's video update, the bridge.
[5:58] TES is looking for TES is looking forward to student representatives
[6:01] of presenting at the school committee meeting on April 8th.
[6:04] The presentation will provide an update on the updated windblocks,
[6:07] special subject offerings, grade six transition, and end of year events.
[6:10] T.S. student council members have organized a drive-to-click
[6:13] food and supplies for families in need.
[6:15] The drive runs through this Friday, March 28th.
[6:18] Donations can be dropped off in the main lobby at T.S.
[6:21] At TMS, as we enter the third trimester, it is a busy time for eighth grade students.
[6:25] In two weeks, they take the ELA M-CAS and in three weeks, they go to Washington, D.C.
[6:29] The Pals program is going on a field trip to the Tingsboro Sports Center with over 30 students participating.
[6:35] A THS sophomore's took the ELI on cast exam.
[6:37] They will take the math and cast in May.
[6:39] Students in grades 8-11 received instruction on how to complete their course request for the 25-26 school year.
[6:46] The deadline to submit requests was today March 25.
[6:49] THS is once again participating in the Massachusetts State Seal of Bi Literacy program.
[6:54] The State Seal of Bi Literacy will be awarded to high school seniors who are able to demonstrate proficiency in literacy
[6:58] in two or more languages, as measured by state approved assessments.
[7:02] Springsports are underway with games beginning next week.
[7:05] Peter recently cast their upcoming show, six.
[7:07] Thank you.
[7:08] Thank you, sir.
[7:13] Subcommittee update?
[7:15] Yes, the policy subcommittee met for me with the superintendent, and we'll have two policies
[7:20] coming up in new business for first reads.
[7:25] All right, and we also have the super attendant evaluation subcommittee meeting on
[7:29] You
[7:31] We will see you then. Unfinished business. I must be here at day.
[8:00] In terms of correspondence, I just wanted to keep the committee abreast of where we are with
[8:04] a memorabilia superintendent association.
[8:06] Last Friday we had a legislative breakfast, please turn it out of nearly 60 people in the
[8:12] room.
[8:13] And really, that was our opportunity as educational leaders in the superintendent's really
[8:17] to advocate for, really for a voice, really for a voice at the status.
[8:22] We had a great representation by our local legislators, but we really talked specifically
[8:29] about MASSS priority number one, the long-term health and sustainability of funding with special
[8:35] education. And what we did was we took four colleagues of ours who are part of the MVSA.
[8:43] It took very Westford, Woodward, and the Thun. And we looked at all funding and all spending
[8:50] special-edited, whether it was Audit District, whether it was Transportation, whether it was
[8:59] at the pair of analysis and all the information is in the dry
[9:02] field to really look at.
[9:04] But the real telling thing was the story is the same in every
[9:07] community.
[9:08] No one is alone.
[9:09] As we struggle with out of district cost and transportation costs,
[9:14] we are absolutely not alone.
[9:16] And it was interesting.
[9:16] It was actually effective to have the legislative
[9:19] in the room.
[9:20] So as these four districts were telling their story,
[9:23] I really, district could not have had an agreement
[9:24] and say, yes, we feel the same pain.
[9:27] You know, one of the senators made a great recommendation, you know, potentially we could have a regional coordinated for some of the special education on district transportation.
[9:36] Yeah, that would be great. However, legally, we can't do that because we have to provide door to door service.
[9:41] So, to me, that emphasize the fact that we need this legislation passed so that we have a seat at the table.
[9:49] Right now, we heard from one of the representatives that, you know, we've been talking about this for years.
[9:54] right. We've been talking about this for years. When the rubby hits the road, nothing changes.
[10:01] We need to get a task force, a commission. We need to be in the room to advocate and say
[10:06] the cost of special education, and everything associated with it is unsustainable.
[10:11] The fact that OSD can raise the price for out of district placement by 14%.
[10:17] and our circuit breaker, our circuit breaker reimbursement,
[10:21] which by law is supposed to be 75% is 44% this year.
[10:26] By law, it's supposed to be 75%.
[10:28] So we can continue to have this conversation,
[10:31] but we really advocated for, we need you
[10:34] to sign on and support this piece of legislation,
[10:37] which calls for a task force to come together
[10:40] and start having these conversations
[10:42] in a meaningful manner.
[10:43] We talk about them generically all the time,
[10:47] as we go through the budget process.
[10:49] But we really need to advocate with our legislators
[10:51] to bring this to fruition.
[10:53] So when we have our tribe board meeting on the 7th,
[10:57] with the permission of the chair in the committee,
[10:58] I would like to really strongly advocate
[11:00] that action needs to take place with MSS priority number one,
[11:05] so that something is done.
[11:07] We need to stop talking about it and something needs to happen.
[11:11] So I got my soapbox there, but it's an issue
[11:15] that we all acknowledge.
[11:16] And we continue knowledge, let's do something about it.
[11:20] So that was the legislative breakfast in a nutshell.
[11:22] I will say that we also did share the recent straw poll,
[11:27] I guess you could say, from the memorabilia superintendents
[11:29] around the proposed cell phone legislation.
[11:32] And that shows it's also in the drive that 86% of local districts
[11:35] supported that as well.
[11:37] So those are two big pieces that we talked about.
[11:39] We really focused on special education.
[11:41] So in terms of correspondence, I will reach back out
[11:43] to all the legislators who attend the meeting.
[11:45] I'm sharing the information with you and we're kind of going from there.
[11:51] So that's all I had about that.
[11:52] And you, I support you and bring that up at our tripod meeting.
[11:58] Guess in the last of our committee does as well.
[12:01] Thank you.
[12:04] Teaching and learning, Mr. Woodland.
[12:06] Well, did we want to do the MSB update first?
[12:08] Oh, I'm sorry.
[12:10] So, Katie, we got our school building committee in the last week.
[12:13] And I am pleased to announce that the committee overwhelmingly, not unanimously, but
[12:19] overwhelmingly supported additional funding for the parking lot and the curves and the
[12:24] lights so that when we finish this project, we have a completed campus of front of a diagram
[12:29] of that.
[12:30] I'll show you in just a minute.
[12:31] Additionally, the committee unanimously supported adding an additional scoreboard, a second
[12:35] scoreboard to the middle school gym, so now we'll be able to drop the curtain and run games
[12:40] across court with two independent score boards.
[12:43] So that's a potential revenue for us.
[12:45] And anyone who's been to the elementary school
[12:47] and a Saturday, a Sunday throughout the winter knows
[12:49] that that gym is jam packed with basketball all day long.
[12:54] So that'll alleviate some of that.
[12:56] Currently we're talking about a summer logistics plan.
[12:59] This is a big conversation, particularly in light
[13:02] of the additional funding being proved
[13:04] for the parking lot and curb.
[13:06] We anticipate right now, we anticipate having
[13:09] and 210 available spots for the beginning of the school year.
[13:13] In comparison by last November,
[13:17] we had issued 237 tags in this campus.
[13:20] So we're about 25 sure right now where we were last year.
[13:23] I haven't met with the principal jet.
[13:25] I will meet with them before.
[13:27] I always see me on Thursday to understand
[13:29] this senior class size, verse these sophomore class size,
[13:33] and understand potential licenses that are coming up.
[13:36] Additionally, because it's only going through November,
[13:38] We will have an opportunity to capitalize on the parking
[13:41] O-back on the baseball field in the loading dock area to probably make up that difference of 237.
[13:48] So right now, pull them in early where I would say there will be no limit on tags that will be sold to eligible seniors and juniors.
[13:56] But I just want to confirm that this week.
[13:58] So that's what we are in terms of fall parking, and then I'll coordinate with some logistics.
[14:03] It's going to be a lot of payment work going on here this summer.
[14:05] Additionally, the good news that came out of last Wednesday night's school bill in the
[14:09] committee meeting was the project financially is healthy.
[14:14] And right now, conservatively speaking, and believe me, our OPM is as conservative as
[14:21] you get, conservatively speaking, it looks to be that this project will come in about
[14:25] $2.8 million under budget, which is great news.
[14:29] And that does include fully funding the softball field from the budget, and it also allows
[14:35] a little or five percent, like 5.1 percent of contingency for any, I don't know, for
[14:40] seeing issues that may come down the pike.
[14:42] I know we've three other members of the School of Building Committee here, if there's
[14:44] anything I'd missed or you'd like to apply it on at this time.
[14:48] The only thing I would like to add, I'll flag in is the additional score board.
[14:52] It was part of the original project, and it was cut down to the BE process,
[14:58] where we had to cut 4 million dollars.
[15:00] On the project. All the infrastructure, all the wiring, everything was included in the project. So we would
[15:06] just add a wire there. And the scoreboard was $19,000, which in rentals and that type of stuff
[15:13] will make back in no time at all. So it was, in my opinion, that was a great move. We're going to
[15:21] discuss the parking lot, but we had previously approved $335,000 to pay the whole parking lot and the
[15:29] Is it road?
[15:30] What Dr. Plandigan is going to show us is that area needed some additional work, so we
[15:37] approved an additional $477,000 to replace three light fixtures, which would have been
[15:43] the only light fixtures that hadn't been replaced, repairing the sidewalk out here at the end
[15:49] of the sidewalk out here for the school, and then the additional work to support the new
[15:58] So Dr. Flag, I didn't even warrant that.
[16:00] But, I should go to the next slide, Mr. Woodlock.
[16:03] So the schematic on the left was, you know, part of the original design.
[16:07] And when we committed the 335,000,000-minute commitment, when we earmarked,
[16:12] or as a committee voted to support 335,000 dollars to do the parking lot over,
[16:17] it encompassed everything on the right side, all the black that you see on the right side
[16:21] and really are finding everything.
[16:23] What we came to find out was we had the Civil Engineer come out and look at the parking
[16:27] and that 335 really was for just a mill in an overlay of the existing roadway and parking
[16:35] one.
[16:36] What we found or what the engineer found was that some of the stormdrams and substructure
[16:41] was so bad it was a complete rebuild of the road.
[16:44] So that's why the cost went up significantly.
[16:49] At the end of the day it needed to be done so you couldn't mill an overlay and wouldn't
[16:54] recommended by anyone to mill and overlay bad infrastructure.
[16:57] So it was either not do it and end up with the project on the left, or commit to doing
[17:03] the whole thing and having a finished campus.
[17:07] And one of the things that we talked about in the time was, you know, when we built
[17:10] things rural high school, and a matter of six years, we had six affordable classrooms
[17:15] off the front of the school.
[17:17] When we built the elementary school, when five years before the five by centennial fields
[17:21] were actually done, you know, we need to do
[17:24] that one opportunity of this project can do right, and that can be overwhelmingly supported
[17:29] during the right thing, and financial project, and the right.
[17:32] This is in the project to what you really can't see it here, but, right in front of the high
[17:36] school, the cement sidewalk, you can see a distinct line where, or demarcation where it
[17:44] will stop, where the new sidewalk ends, and the old sidewalk is there, and the old sidewalk
[17:48] is crumbling.
[17:49] So that will all be replaced as well as the light fictions, which will mask the other 32 lights
[17:53] on campus. So we will have a complete finalized project when this is said and done.
[17:59] Conversation came up, you know, could we potentially do this through capital asset committee
[18:03] or or at some form of borrowing down the road? We've all driven these roads. We know
[18:07] if there are other needs throughout the town. So the money is here now and the opportunity
[18:10] to do it right, let's do it right. So that's why that decision was made. So it'll be a
[18:15] busy summer but it'll be exciting.
[18:20] Any discussion on any of that? Yes, sir.
[18:22] I have a question of the turnaround behind the baseball.
[18:26] Yes.
[18:27] That's right now, 18 wheelers can't pull behind the high school and turn around.
[18:32] So that will allow 18 wheelers to come back there and actually turn around.
[18:36] That was actually something that was in the original design as well and was veied out when
[18:40] we were talking about cost savings.
[18:44] Right now, you can't back up to that loading.
[18:46] That loading is great.
[18:49] That's why there's a big dirt patch.
[18:54] Yep.
[18:54] And the next slide, thank you to Ms. Athanas for the pictures.
[19:00] I was too busy talking on the tour and didn't take any pictures.
[19:04] So here's some pictures we're going to get.
[19:06] First one, the left is the main entrance against the woodwork going down the main drag
[19:10] there, the main street.
[19:11] You can see that the wood looks soft, it's in the cafeteria, the middle picture, really
[19:15] bringing it to life and really coming together.
[19:17] And the picture in the right is a mock-up, but that's just some of the fall graphics or
[19:22] some of the wall graphics that will be throughout the entire school. So basically, they
[19:27] had to put this mark up and that will not be a finished product, but they had to put it
[19:31] in so that our architect could sign off on the installation of this to say, yes, this is
[19:36] how we wanted it's fault. So that's those pictures. The next slide is the flex performing space.
[19:43] You could see the sound barriers on the ceiling and the pixel on the left and just another
[19:47] shot of the flex performance space from the catwalk.
[19:52] And that's the MSB-A update.
[20:00] Before we get to would like what we did a tour a group of us last Wednesday, and it's really coming together
[20:10] It's the wings of the school are almost completed
[20:14] So it looks amazing and our staff and kids are going to be lucky to attend that school
[20:21] Teaching learning just to look okay. Thank you. So last Wednesday, March 19th
[20:27] We held our second of three during, you know, school year all admin meetings, that's very hard to get all of our admin together during the school year, so we've committed to that for this year.
[20:38] And our focus was really on utilizing the Desi coherence guidebook, which is basically gives us a structure and a practice, this is in protocols to kind of self evaluate.
[20:51] We talk a lot about wanting to strengthen our MTSS, our Tier 1 instruction, support our teachers.
[20:59] It's hard sometimes to measure like, are we doing a good job?
[21:02] I think we're doing a good job, but we always want to be self-reflective on some of those things.
[21:09] Some of the things we looked at was really looking at the assessment of the MTSS progress.
[21:15] Talking about drafting and instructional vision, we talk a lot about what good instruction looks like,
[21:19] But we haven't ever crafted a document that says this is what we believe.
[21:25] Sometimes I would argue that crafting such documents can sometimes feel like a waste of time for people.
[21:34] Like, oh, let's create a document. We need a vision state.
[21:36] We need this and then some people don't ever look at it again.
[21:39] So certainly that wasn't our intent just to say, like,
[21:42] How can we put into words for our staff, for ourselves?
[21:45] These are our core values when it comes to instruction.
[21:48] And so we kind of began that process.
[21:50] I drafted a really rough draft of what it could look like.
[21:57] And building the building, we've mixed up in different groups.
[21:59] And we kind of said, we got to love this part at this part.
[22:02] I'm not so sure about.
[22:04] So that was a really healthy process, I think.
[22:07] And then some of the guiding questions
[22:09] within the coherent guidebook about what is our progress look like.
[22:13] And so here's an example.
[22:15] one of the slides from the slide deck we used last Wednesday.
[22:20] So those guiding questions,
[22:21] how well does our vision show up in our daily practice
[22:24] in our classroom experience?
[22:26] So we are engaging this week in our walkthrough,
[22:28] so we have members.
[22:30] Members of each admin team come to different buildings and we walk through five or six classes and we talk about it. It's not a value for teachers. That's really for us.
[22:38] And just trying to talk about like, are we doing what we say we want to do? Is that happening? Is there evidence of that?
[22:44] So that's a really important part of that to say, you know, yes, no, is it somewhere in the middle of what do we need to focus on?
[22:53] How well do we ensure that all students have equitable access to our instructional vision?
[22:57] meeting all students, our students, we talk a lot when we look at MCAS and standardized testing
[23:04] about our high-needs population, our students with disabilities, our ML students, our low-income
[23:10] students, but not just them, but all of our students, are we meeting the needs of all of our students
[23:15] across the board? And the last ones, how well do our systems and structure support our instructional
[23:21] vision? That we really talked about and you are all a part of that. You know, when we talk about
[23:25] we want to do this, does it start from the top and is that where our priorities lie when we
[23:30] budget?
[23:31] And we talk about these are the things that are important to us, things that you've supported
[23:34] and been really gracious about throughout.
[23:38] So those are the things we really want to take time in the middle of the year and say, are we
[23:42] doing what we say we want to do?
[23:44] And if we're not, what do we need to do differently?
[23:46] Because March is the time of year when we start kind of buttoning up like these are the things
[23:50] We said we wanted to do, can we do them by the end of the year, and if not, what do we need
[23:57] to start doing to make sure that's prioritized for next school year so we don't lose
[24:01] sight of it?
[24:02] Dr. Flatagan says it a lot, we don't want to just pick something up and put it down.
[24:06] We want this to be a cyclical process where we are considering already, what do we need to
[24:12] start thinking about for next year so that we can continue making progress?
[24:16] So I was a really valuable few hours that we spent together.
[24:22] Anytime we can get a bunch of people together talking about
[24:25] good instructional practices and what do we need to do to make our schools better.
[24:29] Really smart people in the room.
[24:30] I think you make progress.
[24:34] I don't know Dr. Flanagan, anything else that I miss anything?
[24:38] No, I think you had a pretty well on the head.
[24:39] I think it's important.
[24:41] Just having the conversation and having dialogue and allowing us to come together
[24:44] and talk about structural practices in Calibrate and the walkthroughs that we've been going through
[24:49] this past week are really insightful because we all see something a little bit different
[24:54] and to get back in a room and talk about that and really say I really like this,
[24:59] I didn't see that, I'll look for that next time.
[25:02] The more calibrated we are as an administrative team, I think the better off we can drive
[25:05] instruction or improve instruction or support our teachers with instruction.
[25:11] So any questions I can answer?
[25:14] I just want to say that I love the idea of the walkthroughs and that the different administrators
[25:20] are walking through the different buildings because Dr. Planning had said someone's going
[25:25] to see something that someone else doesn't see and it's just a great way to get feedback
[25:29] on. Are we doing the things that we say we want to be doing? So I love that idea.
[25:35] That's something we hadn't done until this year. It was really, we would go to the high school
[25:39] do walkthroughs with the high school admin middle school middle school admin so this year we
[25:43] committed that every administrator would do a walkthrough and one of the other buildings
[25:47] at one point during the year so we do this for four weeks per year so everyone as we are
[25:55] last one is tomorrow every administrator will have been out of walkthrough and every building
[25:59] including their own so. And I'd love from like transitions standpoint that you have like
[26:06] the elementary school, going to the middle school, the middle school, the middle school,
[26:11] the high school, the high school, going to the middle school, to help with those.
[26:15] Hopefully that helps with those transitions.
[26:17] I think it's making a big impact.
[26:21] I think it's kind of nice to just have the students seeing the different administrators
[26:26] and their building, putting names to faces, just getting, you know,
[26:32] Recognizing people, I think that's pretty nice to do for the students and I think they kind of like seeing, you know,
[26:40] Oh, there's Mrs. Cavanaugher.
[26:42] There's a different plan again.
[26:44] The staff to knew when we went through the middle school in Kristen Russo was going in.
[26:48] And these are students she had a couple of years ago, right?
[26:50] And she's, you know, just could see like checking in on them as they're working and they were happy to see each other.
[26:56] So it was nice.
[26:57] Yeah, do they get introduced in one of the ones for me?
[27:00] No, we try not to be intrusive.
[27:03] You know, just kind of settle in for six or seven minutes.
[27:06] It really depends on the teachers and the students
[27:08] and kind of the class atmosphere sometimes.
[27:11] At the elementary school, the kids talk to you.
[27:14] You go into a second grade class,
[27:16] it would be like, who are you?
[27:18] You know, it's different in each school,
[27:24] but to your points, I think, as administrator.
[27:27] When I became a principal and got into all of the classrooms in the building, that was one of the most
[27:32] eye-opening experiences for me.
[27:34] I can't believe all of these things are happening.
[27:36] I didn't know about which is a shame, right?
[27:39] When I took this position and got to be a part of the middle school and then in the elementary
[27:43] school and being those classrooms, I am learning so much more.
[27:48] So having that experience myself, that was one of the catalysts for saying we need to get
[27:54] admin and all buildings. It's really too valuable to miss the opportunity.
[27:59] Well, and I think I think to it, it shows the community, the commitment that the district has.
[28:03] He does continuing to move forward and always check in and be progressive.
[28:08] And so it's I appreciate it a lot.
[28:13] Thank you. Thank you.
[28:16] New business policy press reads.
[28:20] I'll turn over to the chair of the policy.
[28:24] We have two policies coming up for first reads.
[28:28] The first is policy FG for flag policy.
[28:32] This is in sync with what the town has back from West Paul.
[28:38] And basically, it's on school committee control property
[28:43] applying the flags of the U.S.
[28:45] come off the mass in time.
[28:47] Tingsboro, accordingly, it's not our choice to decide
[28:54] whether to raise it to quite a raise a flag on school committee
[28:58] control properties, particularly as a public form of a non-governmental
[29:05] agency.
[29:06] The school committee superintendent or designated would
[29:10] bit of want to go through and do the execution of the policies, and I would assume we'd like
[29:15] to do separate boats and probably, yeah.
[29:21] All right, so I'll see you in the next part of the Tinsboro Public School flag policy.
[29:28] First read, sorry.
[29:30] Second, any discussion?
[29:33] I have a question.
[29:36] What's considered flying a flag, so say a French class or Spanish class, can they put like a picture of a French flag on the wall or is that considered flying a flag?
[29:46] Just in front of the school. Okay, in front of the school. Okay.
[29:50] And then something that I did ask during the some committee meeting was whether this was in line with the NISC, like standard policy handbook.
[30:00] And Dr. Flanagan informed me that there is no policy in the MSC standard policy handbook for the latest
[30:08] effects.
[30:09] It's really a community-based decision. Yes, this is what our select board decided to go with,
[30:14] right, so I would just kind of stay in line with them.
[30:18] I know we're doing this in the first three, but we've got this, you will vote in the
[30:23] to the second vote of the second rate.
[30:26] And this would be actually half tuned.
[30:29] Typically would people consider it?
[30:31] Typically would people see it tonight.
[30:33] And it's entirely up to the committee.
[30:35] What we've done historically is done as a first read tonight that if anyone wants to
[30:39] apply or comment any manner they get their comments to the chair of the policy
[30:43] subcommittee on the next two weeks.
[30:44] And we can do it as a second read at the next meeting.
[30:47] That's what we've been doing.
[30:50] I don't know what to say.
[30:51] If there's no questions, we can just vote to approve the policy.
[30:58] I don't see a need to jump to secondary tonight.
[31:01] I think we should stay in line with President.
[31:05] That's fine.
[31:07] Okay.
[31:08] What have you got as a hold?
[31:09] All right.
[31:10] So have a motion on the second?
[31:14] All those in favour?
[31:15] Aye.
[31:16] Opposed?
[31:17] Okay.
[31:17] The second one is policy JEC, it's for upper entrance aid school admission, and just reading
[31:26] it in the virtual 18 years of age, we're all just seeking a mission to the Kingsville
[31:30] Public Schools with an adequate or no prior academic credits, we'll be free to programs
[31:36] off at locally or at Massachusetts Community Colleges, any individual who has completed high
[31:43] or a change in a GED or a equivalent will not be admitted to the tinged girl public schools,
[31:49] special education students between the ages of 18, and 21 will be assigned our case
[31:55] by cases, spaces, and accordance with their IEPs.
[32:02] Could I get a motion to approve the upper entrance aid school administration policy?
[32:07] Some of us.
[32:08] Second, any discussion?
[32:12] All those in favour?
[32:13] I oppose abstain, and that was the first read on that policy as well.
[32:19] Thank you.
[32:21] Thank you.
[32:23] Finance, Mr. Massina.
[32:25] Thank you, Mr. Chair.
[32:26] For signing of bills, we had nine bill warrants presented to the committee tonight.
[32:32] I do have them back proved, as always in your drive is the list of warrant numbers
[32:37] accounts in a month.
[32:38] For a signing of payroll since we last reviewed, we had the payrolls of March 10th and 24th.
[32:46] Those warrant numbers accounts and amounts are also listed in your drive.
[32:51] As well in your drive is the reports that make up the February 2025 financial package.
[32:58] That is your school committee budget at the end of February.
[33:01] You are revolving account balances at the end of February as well as the student account balances at the end of February.
[33:07] and I will leave the match first enrollment to the chair.
[33:11] Thank you.
[33:12] Tinsboro Elementary School, 2727, middle school 398, high school 411 out of district 24 for a total of 1,560 students.
[33:26] That's it.
[33:27] Thank you very much, Mr. Marcina.
[33:29] We have nothing for other.
[33:32] So school community discussion.
[33:33] It's not what I'm, and thank you.
[33:38] Yeah, thank you to everyone for the first read votes on two policies.
[33:44] Mr. Missing it, thank you again for your work on the budget.
[33:48] The Dr. Flanagan certainly, I think, the legislative agenda is basically coming up with the tribal,
[33:57] And I certainly would like to speak from a historical standpoint, too, because it's been
[34:03] the same since 1994.
[34:06] And Mr. Woodrock, thank you for the assessment report.
[34:12] Good.
[34:14] Thank you.
[34:15] I'm all set.
[34:18] I just want to very quickly say that I know we have our sports that are being there kicking off.
[34:24] They're getting excited with their season.
[34:26] and to good luck to our spring coaches and all of our spring athletes.
[34:33] Thank you, Joe, and the budget subcommittee for all the hard work.
[34:37] It's never an easy lift, so I appreciate all that work.
[34:40] Dr. Flanagan, I want to thank you and the MBSA once again for the push to have voice with the legislature on the special education costs.
[34:48] I know that's been a recurring theme. The last three cycles in the budget subcommittee is just how unsustainable and ridiculous they're getting.
[34:54] So that is such a huge need to be addressed at a state level.
[34:58] So thank you for all the work on that.
[35:00] And the new building does look absolutely fantastic.
[35:03] And it is going to be a completely different energy here
[35:06] in next year.
[35:07] And I'm so excited to see what that looks like.
[35:10] It's going to be great.
[35:13] Mr. Seedon, the budget's like me.
[35:15] Thank you for all your hard work, and this I know is a ton of hours
[35:18] and it's not easy and it's a grind.
[35:21] But we appreciate all that you do to get us here.
[35:24] All right, I'll let go everyone else's comments.
[35:28] We do not have a need for executive session this evening.
[35:32] So I will seek a motion to adjourn.
[35:34] I'll move.
[35:36] Any discussion?
[35:37] All those in favor.
[35:38] Aye.
[35:39] Opposed?
[35:40] I'm staying.
[35:41] Okay.
[35:42] Thank you and have a good night.