School Committee: April 25, 2024

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0:00 Perfect. Thank you. Um, so I’m gonna open it for commendations. Anybody has commendations. I do. On Thursday, April 4th, during the rainy, windy northeaster, I went to high school to see firsthand the mold issues that have been raised in several school committee meetings. I was met at the high school with Dr. McGinnis, who organized the tour with Michelle Carlson, the high school principal. And Todd Bloodgood, the director of facilities, who then took me on a walk tour through the whole building. It was fortuitous to come during a Northeastern. We began on the first floor and walked every hallway through the entire high school. As we walked, I was shown classrooms that had leaks and how they were being mitigated. As our walk continues, if teachers noticed us,

0:46 they will pop out of their classrooms to report new leaks or leaks that were stopped. But it started up again. The custodians were everywhere with buckets and mops trying to keep up with the leaks. I specifically requested to see the room that was highlighted at school committee meetings for having severe mold. Todd explained to me as we entered the room pointing to a newly repaired wall Behind it, he explained was a slow leaking pipe and that the water damage had run all along the wall. Once the leak was fixed, several sections of the wall had been removed. The underlying areas were dried out and treated for mold. Before being redone with new wallboards, there was no sign of leakage from the rain storm. I want to compliment Todd and his custodians for the incredible effort to address the huge number of leaks.

1:31 These custodians worked very hard to keep our students staff and the building safe during this massive deluge. What is clear to me is that the continued priority must be made to move forward with a new replacement roof. Any other commendations? Uh oh, Joe, go ahead. Um, oh, I had one. Um, we’ve gotten an email, uh, we, I think the week before break, um, it said the North Shore Chamber of Commerce, um, is, um, honoring has their 2024 Honors Scholars recognition dinner on Thursday, May 9th. The North Shore Chamber celebrates the top 5% of students in the graduating class of every public and private high school on the North Shore. This year, more than 300 graduates from more than 30 high schools were selected.

2:17 And I just thought I would mention the names from Marblehead. Our students are ala boom, Ergen, I’m sorry, ala, if I didn’t pronounce your name incorrectly. Ergen Emmett Charney, Clara Donovan Hogan, sailor Aki Shannon Hit Church. Caroline Humphreys, Mave McElroy, Ezra Myerson, Anna Piper, Caroline Scru, and Catherine Tomi. So congratulations to our honors scholars. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, anybody else? Um, I just wanted to give a quick accommodation to anybody that, um, pulled and returned papers, or whether it’s a school committee seat, um, or any seat, uh, for a public office. It is a daunting, thankless task as most people judging

3:04 by the number or lack of, uh, people that pull in return papers that’s well known, uh, particularly this past year. So I just wanna applaud those that did do that and wish everybody the best of luck. Um, and I just wanna commend all the people that have been part of our hiring committees. We’ve had lots of interviews going on for multiple positions in the district. Um, parent volunteers, staff volunteers, um, school committee volunteers, and it’s the ones I’ve been part of. They’ve been so collaborative. I’ve heard a lot of feedback. Um, the caliber of candidates we’ve gotten has been topnotch. It’s been wonderful to see so many people interested in coming to the Marblehead Public Schools and to get a chance to start to welcome those folks.

3:51 We’re getting to the phase of that you’ll see tonight where we start to onboard people or, or get closer to that, if you will. And it’s just, it’s really wonderful to see the community working together on these committees to really help build a team. Um, and I’ve really enjoyed that work. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the people on those committees a little bit more and to see how well run they’ve been. So, thank you to Julia. I know you’re ru taking running point on a lot of those. Um, it’s been a great process, so I just wanted to commend everybody involved. Um, that brings us to public comment. Anybody has public comment? Just come on up. State your name and address for the record.

4:39 I really have two comments. I don’t know if I misread it in the newspaper that the town is gonna give you $250,000. Is that guaranteed or does That depend on whether, Um, it passes for the tax, for the food in the hotel rooms? And if it is tied with that and you don’t get the money, where are you gonna find that extra $250,000. And now the town is looking at 540,000 to give back to abatements in town. That’s one thing. Another thing is the firing of Ian Hasker. I don’t know, Theresa, you are two, two feet out the door almost.

5:24 And then there’s more chaos in the town. So I’m, it’d be interesting under oath if this does go to court, if the school committee had strongly had a comment about firing Anne Haskell. And I’ve know I knew this girl from when she was a young girl, haven’t had contact with her, but I’m gonna tell you, I know her lawyer. I know her, and I promised her I’d be in court every day if this goes, because she was nothing but caring, kind, supportive to me for 10 years until my mother died. So I’ll be there. I think you made a big mistake on this one.

6:12 Anybody up If there, uh, if there’s anybody online, if you just wanna raise your hand and calling you. All right. That brings us to the district updates. Dr. Theresa McGinnis. Great, thank you. First, I wanna take a moment to express my sincere gratitude on behalf of all of the staff for the extraordinary generosity of the Fund The field campaign, um, that we’re gonna hear more about this evening, led by Muffy Pickett and Victoria Dosh for raising more than $800,000, um, gifted from hundreds of community members, um, for the beautiful new turf field, um, for all of our students. And it, to me, it serves as a remarkable example

6:57 of the civic engagement in Marblehead that is resounding. And, um, it’s just a phenomenal gift to the town. So thank you to all everyone. I have a few staffing updates and in a few minutes, um, later in the agenda, I will give a staffing update about a, uh, finalist for the Director of Student Services. Um, but for now, uh, a couple other updates of positions that you, you all are aware of that we’re hiring for. I just hit The potato button.

7:27 Um, so the first is the Glover School Principal search update. The first round of interviews have taken place with, as, um, Sarah said, a great team of people. Thank you, Julia, for setting that all up. And a finalist for a candidate is having a site visit next week on May 2nd. And, um, the assistant superintendent will be sending out information to families and to staff tomorrow on all of the logistics around that. So we’ll welcome that opportunity. The assistant superintendent of, um, finance and operations. The interviews were today, and again, we had school committee, two school committee members on it, Julia, et cetera, with another fantastic, um, outcome. But it’s still in play. I just wanted you to let you know that we’ll be giving you updates on that within the next two weeks.

8:12 We still have the Village School principal search, which is starting next week, but we had to change a date. Um, and then the Assistant Director of Student Services, halftime, uh, 0.5 FTE. Um, we’ll be following that. A couple of procurement updates. Um, we had five firms submit proposals for the special education program review. Um, the deadline was today, and the evaluation committee is going to be reviewing all of those proposals next week. Um, and the goal is to select a vendor by the May 15th. So, and be awarding the contract by May 15th. Um, Allison, are you On that? So are we going to, are those gonna be shared? Uh, yes. Okay. It ended today. Okay. So Mary will be pulling that all together. Awesome.

8:58 And sharing it out for next week is when you guys will be looking at it. Perfect. Yep. Thank you Allison. And the OPM for the Marblehead High School Roof Replacement Project, um, that’s posted and the due date for those is May 16th, the day after this. And, um, so far, 12 firms have requested RFS and the evaluation committee similarly, will be reviewing those proposals the week of May 20th after they conclude the special ed program review ones. And their goal is to select a final vendor and award the contract by the end of the month, May 30th. Okay. Okay. Um, Now one of us, um, I would like one of us to be looped in and I’ll, I’ll, I would, if no one is, has objection to

9:43 that, would like to be loop in. Sure. Um, I was, um, our rep on the building project for Brown Mm-Hmm. Um, and got to go through that process of procurement for, um, OPM. I’m just interested to see if our OPM from that project is putting some information in and, and if so, which people we worked with. ‘cause you know, I, I would love to give some positive feedback on some of that. Okay. I will share that with Mary. Great. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Um, and starting tomorrow through the weekend, very exciting. At Marblehead High School, they’re gonna present the prom, um, school edition. I wanna be clear in saying at, in the auditorium at the high school, uh, it’s a Broadway hit winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding musical, um, reserve seating. Um, there’s, there’s an online link for that sent out

10:29 by the high school principal. And general admission tickets are also available at the door for any families that, um, just want to show up. The tickets are $20 for adults, 15 for seniors, and five for students and children. So it starts tomorrow at seven and it goes through Sunday. Theresa, Can you just let the community that’s watching know on that, so Michelle will send it out to the community, but if some of the larger community wants to go, how would we go about, um, getting tickets? I have the link in this So that I don’t know if it’s live. So, um, if you just go onto the school community Documents I’m sending also, I’m sending out my newsletter in the morning and it’s in there Perfect. With all the information and they can click right on that. All right. Perfect. It’s ready, set to go. You probably could buy tickets At the door too, unless they still Out, but who know? Uh, this afternoon, um, let’s see, what time is it? Seven?

11:17 Yeah. Must be over. Now. I’m not sure of the outcome, but the Marblehead girls lacrosse team, did they win? They were still out there. Okay. Yeah, they were still out. That came in here. Well, they dedicated their game. They won, yes. Oh, yay. That’s beautiful. Because, um, it was a really special game because they dedicated this game versus Salem to the move for Heather and Brain Cancer research in support of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, uh, to honor the legacy of Heather Walker. So it was a beautiful thanks. Really wonderful. Mm-Hmm. And finally, some upcoming dates for our seniors. Can’t believe it. Less than five weeks. Last day of classes is May 24th. Scholarship night, May 28th. Senior prom May 29th. And graduation Friday, May 31st. That was

12:04 Pretty cool stuff. I just wanna add, Kat, who’s not joining us tonight, our student rep, she is a senior. She’ll be graduating as is customary. She has identified, um, who she wants to hand her baton to. I’m sorry. It’s seating here. So awkward. Um, and I believe our next meeting, that person will be joining in a LEP cat, make a little introduction and announcement and, um, so we have that coming up as well. Wonderful. And that’s it. All right. Sounds good. Thank you very much. Um, the next item is updated school calendar. This ended up coming back to us. Um, we had approved this, just to give you a little bit of history, the year prior, um, there, I believe there had been a calendar committee that had worked to, to

12:50 front load those professional development. Ds kind of grouped together at the beginning of the calendar. Um, and I believe there was another group this year that Julia worked with that was a calendar committee. Um, after we approved it, that MEA just reached out and said that that approval, um, would re that calendar as proposed, would require their approval and sense were in negotiations. Um, that wasn’t really something that they were comfortable doing. So we just went back. There was some, a couple slight changes made just to make it in accordance with the contract. Um, it mainly affects when the teachers start and stop, not necessarily students. So instead of the teachers coming, um, and doing a couple days

13:37 before the school year, they’ll, they’ll come, they’ll do one day before the school year, and they’ll come back one day after the end of the year. So it’s lined up with their contract. So that’s really the change that we’re looking at voting here. Um, so what I’ll need is, since this, this to refresh everybody’s memory, um, passed unanimously. So anybody will be able to move. And second this motion. Um, we’ll need a motion to amend the previously approved motion to approve the 24 25 school calendar.

14:15 So moved. So moved, moved by, judge. I Don’t, don’t need me to say all that. No. Okay. So moved. So that was moved by Judge, judge Ner second, seconded by Allison Taylor. Um, all votes tonight will be roll call. Vote Al Williams. He’s Waving. Oh, he’s waving. We’re just gonna unmute. Oh. Do you need me to, okay. You’re unmuting asked to unmute. There we go.

14:45 Um, Oh, there you go. I’m in favor. In Favor, thank you. From muting? Yes. In favor. And just stay unmuted. ‘cause, ‘cause we’re gonna go through, through some quick votes after this. Uh, Brian Oda In favor. Allison Taylor In favor, Jen Schaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries five to zero. We’ll make sure that gets up, um, tomorrow. And updated on the website. Um, consent action in agenda items. The first is a schedule of bills everybody had in their packet. I’m gonna ask for a motion to approve the identified schedule of bills totaling 425,631. Do dollars and 81 cents. So moved. Moved by Allison Taylor, seconded. Second. Second, Jen Schaffner. Um, any any discussion?

15:33 No. Roll call vote Al Williams. In favor, Brian Oda In favor, Alison In favor, Jen Schaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries five to zero. We also had, um, minutes to approve. These were for January 18th, 2024. So I’ll ask for a motion to approve the minutes for January 18th, 2024. So moved. Moved by Jen Schaffner. Seconded. Second. Second. Alison Taylor. Roll call. Vote is Al Williams. We have discussion, uh, Abstain. Oh. Oh, wait, we’re gonna have, I wasn’t at the meeting. This typos, CPAC is spelled with an S, not C. Okay. So pending, we’ll make the motion pending. I didn’t catch that. Do you mind, um, shooting those over

16:20 to, to me and I’ll forward those on No problem. Okay. Um, so Al’s gonna Epstein ‘cause he was not at the meeting. Um, you’re an abstention, Brian. So in favor, Allison Taylor. In favor, Jen. Schaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries four to zero with one abstention. Next, I would like to welcome, um, Lisa or Lisa Marie Ito. And I’m gonna just kick it to Dr. McGinnis to get you a brief introduction. Great. Thank you so much. Its so good to see you so far away this evening. So I’m delighted to recommend to the school committee Ms. Lisa Marie Elito as a finalist, um, for consideration for her appointment as Marblehead Public Schools Director

17:08 of Student Services for the 24 25 school year. Ms. Eppolito has had 30 years as a teacher and a, uh, leader, and most, uh, recently and presently, um, the last three years as the assistant superintendent in Newburyport Public Schools. Um, beyond her years of experience leading many important educational programs, her greatest strength is her ability to provide collaborative leadership. Um, she is proven effective leader with strong ethical reputation, uh, by all including committee members, um, to provide this kind of collaborative leadership and opportunities for high academic achievement for students, fostering personal growth for all students,

17:54 and nurturing a true sense of community, which is what we need. And as one of her references shared, what truly sets Ms. Dippolito apart is her dedication to teacher leadership partnership with families and students. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary ed and a master’s degree in special education, um, from both from Fitchburg State College. And additionally, she holds all the necessary licenses and certifications for this position, um, from superintendent, um, all the way through, um, teacher. And, um, she has our strongest endorsement to the school committee to be appointed as the Director of student services. So I introduced Lisa. Thank You. I am so happy you’re here. So, so grateful to have the opportunity to be interviewing you tonight.

18:39 Um, so the, I’m gonna open it up to the committee, um, and we’ll, we’ll, you know, go through some questions or I’d like to prefer to think of it as a little bit of a conversation. But, um, Brian, if you would like to start, Um, I don’t have any questions. I just wanna say that I was impressed with your compassion, your ability to communicate with people. I think that’s exactly what we need right now as the Director of student services. So I’m very happy you’re going to be coming on board. I hope. Thank you so much, Brian. Um, per, I’m, I’m sorry. I was remiss. I should start by asking you if you want to, if there’s anything you think the committee should know or you wanna present the community who’s watching, um, as we start through this, this process together. Wonderful. Thank you.

19:25 Thank you so much for having me here tonight. I am very excited about this opportunity to come to, um, Marblehead and to work with all of you and the community and the staff and the students. Um, from the beginning of this process, it, I have felt very warm and welcomed. Um, and that is what I hope to also bring, um, to the table in terms of working with all of you and the community. Um, I am just thrilled, uh, to be able to, um, take on another educational, uh, challenge, um, for myself. Um, and I’m very excited to work with the central office team. Wonderful. Um, Allison, did you have any questions?

20:15 No, just really excited to have you here. I think, uh, you will be a wonderful addition. Um, hopefully it will all work out. Um, and, you know, please always know, always feel free that to, you know, lean on us for support. We are, you know, really looking forward to kind of a new chapter. Um, and, and I think you can lead us to that path really well. Thank you Allison. Absolutely. Jen. Yeah, I was just gonna say, sort of piggybacking on Allison, and maybe you could share very briefly some thoughts. You know, you’re coming in thankfully, um, um, to, uh, fill in where, you know, where we, where we need this leadership, but we have a lot of leadership changes coming in, starting in July 1st. So I wonder if you have any thoughts about just, you know,

21:00 what you’re thinking about coming in. Uh, there’ll be an interim superintendent, uh, new director, uh, assistant superintendent of fi uh, finance and operations and this position. So, you know, a lot of change in leadership and sort of your thoughts on all coming in. I, I’m very excited about that. There’s a lot of new ideas coming to the table, a new team developing, and thank goodness we have Julia who’s staying. And, um, I’m excited for us to work together and develop a vision and a mission as a team and to have each other’s, um, backs to support the staff and the students of, of Marblehead. So I think it’s a wonderful time in Marblehead and I’m really excited, um, for the adventure.

21:48 Truly, truly because, um, this community, you know, I’ve done a lot of research. I didn’t just apply anywhere and, um, I know some of the trials and tribulations that have occurred over the past couple of years. Um, but what I also picked up from that, the silver lining that I saw, was that this community continues to rally mm-Hmm. Um, and support this extraordinary staff, this extraordinary team. And that is something I would love to be part of. And, um, most importantly, I I, I can see through the interview process now, that interview process was so wonderful. It was such an eclectic group of people from all different walks of life asking important questions. And you could just feel the care, but the center of it all are our students.

22:36 And so for me, I, I will bore you to death with this quote that I always say, anything comes up. I want to know, are we doing best by kids? Period. So, um, yeah, I’m Very wonderful. Thank you. That’s, that’s our mission right there. Thank you. Yeah. Al, thank you.

22:56 Um, I don’t have anything to add. I, I do want to just echo my, uh, my committee, my members, uh, sentiments. And if there’s anything I can do to, to personally help with the transition, please let me know. Thank you, Al. Thanks for being here. Thanks for getting up. I do Have a que I you’ll, you’ll learn working with us. I always have a question, so, Excellent. I like questions. Can, can you tell us a little bit about what your philosophy is as far as, and how special education in general education and where those overlaps are? And just talk, talk me through that a little bit. Um, so I firmly believe, and I, I happen to have a strong curriculum background that every student should have access to your tier one instruction, your core instruction.

23:45 Um, and that’s where you should build from. Um, and so having the partnership with the assistant superintendent of curriculum, you know, I’m very much looking forward to like, what do those tiers actually look like? What materials do we have? What staffing do we have so that we can be really educated on, um, the achievement our students are making, the growth, they’re making, our curriculum tools, um, and making sure that there’s equal access for our, our most underserved populations. Uh, whether it be special ed or English language learners, et cetera. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you so much. You’re welcome. Um, so I’m very, very excited to, to have you with us,

24:30 and I will ask for a motion to approve the hiring of, um, Lisa Marie. Lisa Marie, I don’t. Lisa Marie Ippolito, um, for the director of Student services, pending contract negotiations, Assistant superintendent. Um, so do you wanna talk about Yeah. Oh, okay. That hadn’t come up yet. Oh, okay. So, yeah, I actually wanted to object to, before we do this, um, I had sent actually an email to, um, Sarah, ‘cause I didn’t, you know, wanna send it to everyone. So I thought I would bring it up here. Um, so I had done a little research and this position in many school districts is the assistant superintendent level. Um, and, uh, and I had sent you the list, but it includes Yeah.

25:16 Swamp, Scott, Dham, Redding, Andover. I mean, there are multiple, multiple ones. So I was, I was thinking that Newton, uh, Newton, right. Um, that, you know, given that we’re rebuilding this, you know, this team and this leadership team, the finance and operations position, we decided to move up to an assistant superintendent that we consider coming this coming, at least me coming in at the assistant superintendent level. I love that. So, um, where I think that that really kind of fits right now is we had structurally taken the director of student services and the Assistant Director of student services. And we had taken the assistant director role and made it a 0.5. So we’ll really be asking the director, um, welcome to the team. We’re adding more, um, to take on those additional duties.

26:02 So to do more than an, than a director position. Um, and really take on a more robust job description, if you will. Mm-Hmm. So I can, I can fully support that. I have no problem with, um, hiring you into that title Yeah. Problem. Especially ‘cause you are sitting Assistant, assistant superintendent. So, um, yeah. So I will ask then for a motion to hire Lisa Marie Ito as the Assistant Superintendent of student services pending successful contract negotiation. And also just pending, we have a policy about the creation of a role role and, um, voting, uh, a salary range. So we’ll need to, um, get a job description for

26:49 that new role to create it and vote that to formalize it. But pending those two approvals, so moved, um, moved by Allison Taylor, Seconded, Seconded by Brian Oda. Any discussion on that? This won’t affect that, but we’ll go forward with the hiring. We’ll go assistant superintendent. I’ll reach out to do the contract negotiations. And, um, we, we just need to get the wording on that job description, just ‘cause we’re working really hard to follow all of our policies and make sure it’s all lined up. Um, so I’ll do a roll call. Vote Al Williams can’t speak. Oh, he needs to, um, oh, I have to unmute. Unmute. Oh, again, I don’t know how I have that power over, over you, al, I’m sorry. It, you

27:36 Should can make him a cohot. Can I make him a co-host? I keep forgetting when I mute myself. I can’t unmute myself. I just made you a co-host. You should be able to Now I’m sorry, what was that, Sarah? I just made you a co-host, so that should be okay. So we’ll go back to the roll call. Okay. Thank you. Al Williams In favor. Brian Oda in favor. Allison Taylor In favor, Jen Shaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries five to zero. Yay. And welcome. We are so excited. You’re welcome. Thank you so much. I’m, I’m thrilled. I’m thrilled. So you guys will Yeah, you’ll Work together. I’ll reach out. Okay, Excellent. Yeah. And so as soon as that’s done we’ll, both at our next meeting. So we, I, we may or may not have our regular meeting next week, so we have town meeting coming up. So I will call you tomorrow, but with dates. Absolutely. Perfect.

28:21 Okay. Thank you. Thank you also very much. Thank you so much, Ms. Thank you. Welcome forward to working together.

28:29 Um, so next in our list here is, um, We’re gonna go to the high school turf replacement. Um, first of all, I just wanna take a moment. What the Boosters does is nothing short of amazing. We are so fortunate to have an organization in so many organizations in town like this, that bring private money into our schools so we can do, um, what we were able to do. And I’m very grateful to the boosters as a whole, particularly to the group that worked in the fund the field. Um, I just, I can’t say enough. So I just wanted to recognize them for that. Um, and the Muffy Puckette had, has been working

29:16 with Mary July, has gotten her the donation check. Um, what I’ll ask for is a suggestion, a motion to move to approve the acceptance of the donation from the Marblehead all sports boosters and the amount of $680,698 for the Piper Field replacement and site improvement. Um, I saw Mary’s hand go up. I’m hoping I got that number right. Just raise your hand again if I did not. Okay. So I have that, I’m asking for that motion. So move, moved by second Jen Schaffner, seconded by Allison Taylor. Um, I just am looking for Mary to make sure that, that number, oh, wait, where is she? We’re good. We’re good. Okay. Perfect. Um, was good to go.

30:05 Any discussion? No. All right. Just a thank you again. So, um, Al Williams In favor. Brian Oda in favor. Allison Taylor In favor, Jen Schaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries five to zero. Um, and again, we’re so grateful for, for that. Um, we’re gonna move to user fee rate setting. This is something that’s come before the committee, and we’ve talked about, um, prior to setting our budget,

30:39 there’s a memo in everybody’s Dropbox from Mary July with a recommendation that we thought went with option two. We’ve talked about these options and had a chance to all ask questions on that. So, I will ask for a motion to approve the new user fee schedule outlined in the enclosed packet for the 20 24 20 25 school year. So, moved. Moved by Jen Schaffner second. Second by Allison Taylor. Um, discussion?

31:13 Nope, I just, I do wanna just say that I don’t think any of us take this lightly. We’ve discussed this quite a bit at previous meetings. Um, this really was an effort to be as creative as possible to maintain staff position and positions and maintain, um, quite honestly, educators in front of students through user fees. And having really, it being somewhat, the program being mostly self-funded, um, was a way to, to save positions, quite frankly. So I just, it’s not something any of us take lightly. I think we all acknowledge the ideal is to be able to work towards, you know,

31:59 reducing those as we move forward. Um, but here we are. So I think also just a, a thank you to Mary for working so hard and, and you know, everyone, for working so hard to put those options together for us and, and try and really find for the community really, and really trying to find, you know, the best, the best options, really. Thank you. A lot of work. Um, and just remind everyone, we do have programs that if, if user fees are keeping your child from being able to enroll in something, please do not hesitate to reach out to your principal, to the athletic director, to a coach. Um, and we, we do what we can. And, and I’m confident we make those things work, right. Greg, I’m looking right at you, Greg.

32:46 We make those things work. Try our best. Yeah. Okay. Good. Um, all right. So we’ll ask for a roll call. Vote Al Williams. In favor. Brian Oda in favor. Alison Taylor in favor, Jen Schaffner in favor, Sarah Fox in favor. Motion carries five to zero. Um, that brings us to the s Superintendent search discussion. Um, again, I was really overwhelmed and very, very happy to see such a wealth of wonderful applicants. Um, we got more applications than I thought we would get given, you know, what many districts are seeing right now in this across the state. And the caliber of them was quite, um, impressive.

33:31 So I just wanna thank everybody that’s submitted. Um, what I’m gonna do is we’re gonna go through, and I’ll start, I’ll call off each person. If you can list in no particular order whatsoever, the, the, um, four, we’ll say four. I was gonna say three to four, the four people you would like to interview. Um, and then at the end of that, we’ll, we’ll look and see where we lie, and we’ll do it similar to how we, um, see people when we do an appointment. If there’s someone that was not on the list, they’ll fall off. And then we can start deliberations as we go. Um, so I will start with Al.

34:17 You should have the, oh, He’s unmuted. Um, so you asked, uh, for four, Sarah, do I have that right? Yeah. Four. And did you receive the update? The, I had sent out an email just on how, okay. I mean, I think if somebody wants five, I did five. We can do, I mean, yeah, no, no, no. That’s fine. We don’t, we’re not limited to four. It’s only self. No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah, that’s fine. Um, I’m just writing down a tally here so I can, Okay, we ready? Yep. I think I’m ready. Uh, Jose, uh, Munoz, I’m sorry if I’m mispronouncing it in his name here. I think you got it. Barbara Cataldo. Okay. Tha is Thaddeus King. Okay. And David Thompson.

35:04 All right. Just write that name down.

35:12 Okay. Brian. I have Fatus King, JJ Muni,

35:21 John Du I think that’s how you pronounce that. I think so, yeah. And David Thompson. Okay. Allison? Um, I have David Thompson, John Robo, Barbara Cataldo and David Rowley. Okay. Jen. I have, um, Barbara Cataldo. Mm-Hmm. Thaddeus King. John Robo. Um, Jose Muna. Mune. Mm-Hmm. I also had Paul Smith. I had five. Okay. Did you, you listed all those, right? Yes. Okay. Um, and I had Cataldo, king MNOs,

36:09 and I just, I had those three. Um, so that gives four for Cataldo, four for King, four for Munoz. Those all have four. So I would say that’s King. Cataldo Munoz. And then, um, the next highest was Robo Hit three. And Thompson hit three. Who was the other that had four From Aldo, Aldo, king, and Munoz. And I and I. Three hit four. Sorry. Apologetic. If we, if I’m butchering people’s names,

36:48 I think we should, I mean, I think we should do four. Um, 1, 2, 3. So we’ve got five names here. We Have five. Yeah. So if we’re going with, we can go with five if, yeah. So we’re gonna either go with three or five. I have no problem with going with either, Either of those. Why wouldn’t go with four? I would do five. Well, ‘cause um, three people got four votes. Oh. And two people. Unless you wanna go back through and, we’ll, we’ll split it between Robo and Thompson be five. I think. I, I think five’s good. Five. Yeah. And then we’ll do Robea and Thompson Tonight. Um, so the Names again will be, Will be Barbara Cataldo, Barbara Cataldo, Thaddeus King, John, Jose m MNOs, um, David Thompson, John Robo, and

37:36 David Thompson. David Thompson. So I will reach out to all those people tomorrow, um, first thing tomorrow. And that’s good, by the way. Great List of folks. I know. And that’s great. Slate. That’s a great number of people to be, um, interviewing and all. Very Highly. We’ll be, we’ll be doing this, um, next Thursday. We didn’t book any other interviews. Okay. So next Thursday is, are we going to do One night or two nights? I think it’s five people. I think. I don’t think think we can do two. I don’t think we can. Yeah. No, no. So next Thursday is a normal school committee night. So that’s a night we should all have in our schedule. That’s an easy scheduling. Um, I would like to start us a little bit earlier, if that’s okay with everyone, um, that, that night

38:25 I would like to start us at, um, our fir at 5:00 PM I don’t know if Al’s gonna be able to do that.

38:35 It’s 5:00 AM Uh, yeah, it is early here. But that, that’s fine. It’ll be 5:00 AM Friday. But that’s, I’ll make that work. Do you want I can, I can push us back if you want. Go to six. No, no. Whatever. Whatever makes sense for the committee. Sarah, I’ll, I’ll, Which Monday? My brother worked in China for me. Thursday. Thursday. I remember that challenge. I don’t know where. Um, but a second. So I’ll start us at 5:00 PM I Any chance We can do Friday? Depending. They’re all probably not. ‘cause they’re probably all, I have no problem doing it Friday. Oh, you mean during the day Or the, or the afternoon. Or I can do the, I can do it in the afternoon. ‘cause it’ll all be recorded as well. So if people can’t, um, and also just so the public knows, we, I’ll be working to make sure that there is a Google form

39:20 that people can fill out and give feedback. Yes. We’ll keep that open. And, um, I’ll be sending out a notice with, with all the information and the links and when the interviews will be. Um, I’ll put a link to our YouTube channel so that people have access to watch that. Um, and the Resumes are up, are Online. The resumes are up online. Um, there’s, if you go to our main website, there’s a quick link button right there on the main page that says, um, interim superintendent search. So we made it really quick and easy for people to get to that information. I’ll make sure all those updates as well as a link to the interviews gets added to that button so that people can get their really, really easy, um,

40:08 and I will start calling people tomorrow and, um, I think an hour per interview, at least with 15 minutes in between Yeah. Is, is reasonable. So I would say, we’ll, we’ll do, we’ll start at five. We’ll start our first meeting at five 15. Um, Five 15 And then our next one at six 30. And then I would like to do one at 7 45 as well. Yeah. And then we can do the same schedule. Um, Do you want to, is it possible to do Friday? I mean, Allison, I don’t want, I am Fine. I can’t do Friday. But we can’t do two or three anyway. ‘cause Al’s Right, that’s true actually. Right. We’d have, right. You Can’t make him get up at three. We could do, we could do, uh, six 30 to 7 45 on Friday. Friday night.

40:54 No, Sorry. Okay. Because the following week we have county meeting, but we town meeting. But what about Wednesday? Oh, we have to leave Wednesday open. We, Wednesday we have, um, negotiations. Oh, well we also have to leave what, Wednesday? We don’t have negotiations on Wednesday. I have negotiations. I have on May 8th. I, uh, no, May 1st. First. Oh, I’m sorry that we Oh, oh Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have negotiations on Monday and Tuesday is, no, That’s Wednesday. So Wednesday what? Monday or Tuesday? I was looking at Monday in her book and, and uh, Monday. Yeah. Can we, and Tuesday are the final days of Oh, um, Passover. Passover. My understanding Yep. Is those, those days really should be left for observers. Oh, it was the first two in the last two, right? That Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I knew there was. So I just wanna be cognizant of that. Um, with people.

41:41 There’s also, so by the way, there’s always, these people may have been entering into something with someone else I may call and one of them may say, I’ve taken another job. If it, I will tell you, if it comes down to that, we somehow wind up with only four interviewing, I will be asking us to Yeah. Figure out staying late that night. Or we’d have To go, we have to go eight to nine. Eight to nine. Yeah. Yeah, that’s fine. So, we’ll, we’ll see what we can do. But I will, um, well then, So all right, so then let’s assume we’re gonna have five. Okay. When are we doing the other two? Um, Because the following Thursday Is, so then we’re looking at, this week we have bargaining. We have town meeting, town meeting, town meeting bargaining. Yeah. So

42:25 I mean, the only thing we could do is if we did a five o, we could do a five o’clock and a six o’clock. No, we couldn’t. We could do a five o’clock. We could do a five o’clock Monday and a five o’clock Tuesday.

42:39 Um, Monday. Next Monday we have Time meetings at seven.

42:46 So just, you know. Yeah. It’s a Monday. The sixth and seventh is town meeting. Um, and then we have bargaining on Thursday. Mm-Hmm. Wednesday, Wednesday’s also town meeting. We have bargaining for Thursday. ‘cause we don’t, we don’t know That town meeting won’t go a third night. Yeah. Town meeting can go three nights. I’m hoping beyond hope it doesn’t. But last year it did. Yeah. Um, but why Can’t we do five o’clock? I mean, I, I, whether other people can do it. I dunno if it works. In which time? Oh, before town meeting. We could do one Tuesday, one Monday, one Tuesday, one Monday. One Tuesday. Oh yeah. Six and seven. Yeah. Hi. I’m not opposed to doing 5:00 PM before town meetings.

43:31 If we have to, it’s fine. Would you rather do Friday? I mean, it’s okay if you have to zoom in. I’ll be at baseball. I can’t do Friday. What time is baseball? It starts at five 30. It wouldn’t be over till seven 30. Yeah. We can’t you can’t do that to a candidate anyway. No, we can’t do that. Could we do a three and a four 15? Not For Al. Oh, can’t. Yeah. ‘cause we can’t do, what’s the earliest we could do? Al I think this is the earliest we, we Could go that I’m fine with it. If you wanna do a four or, I mean, I just, I, I’ll, I’ll, um, I’m not doing Friday. The only thing I can’t do is doing, um, because I’m teaching is like eight 30. I can’t go past 8:30 PM on Friday or Saturday, which doesn’t sound like they’re in play.

44:17 Other than that, I’ll make, I’ll make time. That’s Not a problem, Sarah. Okay. I think we should try to do the sixth and Seventh, um, one each. Sally, do we have a hard stop on bargaining time? No. Okay. On Wednesday. ‘cause I didn’t know if we could plug, I don’t have it on Wednesday. Wednesday the first. Oh. Could we plug one into the first after bargaining? You want a hard stop? You don’t, I dunno. I’m just trying to, I just wanna make sure we get the interviews in before people wind up going somewhere else. Yeah, let’s Do, we could do, we’re here. We could do a six 30 and a 7 45. That gives us three hours of bargaining. Would you be amicable with that?

45:01 What’s the custodians we’re doing anyway? Um, and tutors. That’s what I show on the first. Yeah. So Wednesday we could do a

45:11 6 45 and an 8 6 45 7. Yeah. Mm-Hmm. We would meet at six 30 mm-Hmm. And then for a 6 45.

45:23 So we would have a hard stop on next Wednesday. On Wednesday the, the ninth. But you gave the okay on that, right, Sally? Okay. Am I gonna get, am I gonna get a phone call later that the Okay. Was recent? Well, why don’t We go with that and we can always schedule Fill schedule. I’ll Thursday first. Yeah. And then we’ll try that way. ‘cause I just, I’d hate to lose a candidate ‘cause we, we didn’t and I still wanna make sure we’re pri properly observing holidays. Yeah. Um, alright. So I will let everybody know what the final schedule shakes out at. I’ll be reaching out to people tomorrow. People don’t always give you an answer right away, so don’t panic if you don’t hear from me right away. You can actually email them tonight. I can. I can’t. I might be able to call a Few people tonight. Um, so somebody Might be watching No. Or I call

46:10 Glen Glen’s Gonna have to do it. Oh, that’s fine. Alright, so I’ll reach out To Glen. Um, okay. So I’m very excited about that. That is, that brings us to subcommittee and liaison updates and discussion. We had a communication survey update. Um, Brian and Allison were on that subcommittee and had a meeting. And we have some feedback.

46:32 I have the, uh, final draft that, uh, what’d it go? We’re good. Here it is. Oh Yeah. Thank you. So we need to get that thumbs up in writing. Sally, thank You. S no, she’s on.

46:46 Thank you for being flexible on that. I appreciate it. Okay. Why can’t I see this? So what we’re proposing to do is to take that very first paragraph that says Marble Ed School Committee continues. And we’ll make that the introduction to the survey that will go in the newspapers and wherever we send it. And then the survey will start right with, um, the survey itself. I mean, I think it could be in both places, right? Right. Yeah. But it gets redundant if you repeated twice on the same article. I mean, if we’re gonna have that paragraph with the QR code. Yes. Or people could just go right to this link. Right. Like we can put this link on. The link is on the page. So I’m thinking social media, we’ll put the link

47:32 On social media and QR code. Yes. I mean, we don’t need the QR code if we’re putting the link on social media. ‘cause people can go directly to this. Well, they use either one. Okay. Some people don’t use QR codes, I mean yet. Right. That’s why I’m saying keep this paragraph in the survey and put it with the QR code as well. So if someone, so we have the blurb so people understand what it is. I don’t, I mean it’s five lines. I don’t think, I don’t think having it in both. I think it’s nice to have kind of an introduction on the survey. No, It’s fine if we don’t. So doesn’t it work now? This is me with my tech savviness, so just carry through with this with me. Um, you could highlight the word in that paragraph

48:20 that says survey or something. Survey and people click it. Click on it. Yes. As a hyperlink. That’s have the word survey. That’s what you, and then you have the QR code after it. So, but you wouldn’t need the QR code. You need the car code once you got survey. So that in like, I’m stage obviously the newspaper, what have you, but for social media. Mm-Hmm. You can just say, you know, we can just post and say here. Obviously it will be posted from the current I’m sure too. But you can post because if you’re on, if you’re on an electronic, you’re not gonna pick up a phone. You would just click on whatever word you hyperlink. So tech savvy. No, you, you’re right. You wouldn’t, you just wouldn’t need the PR code. You, the hyperlink would take you directly to it. Okay. That’s all. Okay. All right. Don’t need however you can we see the rest of it or no? Yes. Where’d it go? It

49:06 Should fine. Sarah, really quickly, I had um, told you we don’t have a faculty meeting next week, so we could start at four. Okay. For, um, borrowing. Oh, for Negoti Starting Guys. Reply to that though. We just, I have 20 emails. I haven’t replied. I have a starting at three 30. So would also Oh, we were starting at four 30. We start at an hour now. I’ve stabbed myself. We start at three 30 and they start at four. Yeah. Yeah. If that’s okay. ‘cause that backs it all up a little bit. Yeah. Better For next week. Yeah. And I’ll touch base with you to see if we can finalize those. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Brian, are you still connected? Yes. Um, can you share that? Can you feel that Jen just wanted, Jen just wanted to see all of it. Questions. Okay. Hang on. Uh, just so that you could see this, this is just something quick,

49:53 but as I was saying this like could be the lead going out to the public. There is the, um, if you want to go straight to the address, you can use that or the QR code. Okay. It’s, it’s listed both ways. Okay. Now the survey. I had a wordsmith this. Hey, hey Brian. I just have a comment on the paragraph before. Want the questions? On the what? On the, yeah, on the a. It shouldn’t be May 17th. It al 17th is way too long. Um, I, I guess I just, uh, it says we have held two successful forums and then we go and ask people what they thought of what of those forums. I’m just, I I think don’t think the word successful should be there. It’s, we’re kind of, we’re we’re saying it’s successful and then we’re asking people

50:38 about it. So I would just take that. Let’s delete that. Agree. We it off and we should have I disagree because I think they were successful. So that’s where we’re coming from. We also should not have, I Mean we, I I agree. I’m just saying it, it’s just um, it’s presumptive. I think in this case. I think that’s unfortunate. Don’t that out. You might be making changes on it. Were you gonna post the qr? That’s unfortunate read from. Um, and then I think we send it to her, right? You know, to date where it says we weave. Yes, I can. We need to make that we have, we can’t, we have held Mm-Hmm. Two forms not weave.

51:15 Okay.

51:20 And then, um, I can just touch base with Steven and have him take the link and just instead of having it below, have it hyperlinked under survey. Yeah. Yeah. Also May 17th. Do we wanna give people that is almost three weeks. I would like to get it back before then because I would like to be able to present some data from it at the May 16th meeting. We have a meeting on May 16th, so I’d like um, there to be some time to get the data reports back so we can do a little bit of a mini presentation if you will. Mm-Hmm. Um, does that make sense? Is that enough time though? We wanna give people enough time. I think you can do it by the 10th. That’s two weeks. Right? And then you have a whole week to get to do data Sarah, right?

52:06 Yeah. You’re almost just looking at the calendar. Yeah. Like they have it by here. Who are they going to? Steven. They’ll go to Steven. Um, because I think that’s a way for people to really trust the, the data com compilation. Um, and then he can just print out the reports so that no one has to worry that we are doing anything with the reports or with the data or so on and so forth. Um, we’ll put him in the hot seat on that. Oh good. So do Go ahead al The other uh, quick, just quick question I had is, so you know, most surveys you say whether they’re anonymous or not. Do we mention that at all here or should we mention that at all? They’re anonymous. It, I think ours are always um,

52:54 well you know what, even if they always are, people don’t always, I feel like intuitively know that and it is questioned. Yeah. So I would like, I would like to put, um, we have CR created the attached an anonymous survey which will be anonymous or anonymous survey, however you wanna write it. Yeah, The attached anonymous anonymous survey. Perfect. Because I think that’s really important. One question I do have, um, Y-M-O-U-S you go is does something, does something in the program. Um, I’m looking at Frank and can I ask Al one of you may know this answer. Does something in the program keep a single IP address from doing many responses?

53:42 Is there anything that says, you know, thank you, you’ve already responded to this. Or can one person sit there and take the survey 30 Times? I believe it only allows you one. You Um, set it. Okay. ‘cause if you set it up, people need to actually be logged in. Right. We can’t, people will not be logged in. So it doesn’t track like your phone or whatever. Like I can only do a coupon once from my phone. No, No. You could do it as many times as you want. It All depends how we say, I don’t know how Brian set it up, but you can set it up that you don’t have repetitions. Only if you’re tracking who has done it. And if we’re saying it’s no, you can make Ip no it, it auto automatically will not allow you to log in twice. That Will know that you would come in from the same IP address.

54:29 It won’t report your IP address, but it identifies it So well it, in order to take the survey, they have to log in under an IP address and it won’t allow redundancies. You can’t go back in and do it 10 times. You’re Not wanting Them at all. But there are, the answer is yes. There are ways to do that. I don’t know how this particular form is set. Well, we, I don’t think anybody’s married to using No. The we need this language in these questions. Correct. But whatever the programming is Correct, I would like to work with Yes you guys so that we make sure it’s anonymous. But I also want a safeguard so that one person’s not sitting there sending in 30. Oh. Already joining the team there. I’m

55:13 Um, under settings it says limit to one response. Do is just click that and it does not record. Oh, perfect. It dresses. It just does it. Um, like behind the Scenes. Perfect. And if someone feels so inclined, they can go through all the devices in their house probably, but it’s still, there’s still a limiting factor. ‘cause believe it or not, I know people who have said to me, oh, I took the survey five times. I’m like, did you know? Um, I hope it’s okay, but like when I just call it up, it immediately puts my email in It. We’re gonna Yeah, we are gonna, yeah. This is just for us to be able to wordsmith and fi figure it out and then we’re actually not gonna launch this one so that QR code’s gonna be useless. Okay. This is just for an example.

55:59 And then tomorrow we’ll work with the tech department to make sure that it’s set up so that it goes to them. ‘cause we don’t want it coming to anybody at this table. Okay. And all that set. Cool. Okay. Thank you. Um, do you mind scrolling down so we can see the other questions? Is everyone good with the, um, blurb at the top there? We just have to figure, so say May 10th, you put in May 10th. Oh yeah. May 10th, 2024.

56:29 And then can you just put a comma? 2024.

56:34 Sally, you’re killing me. I wanna see it. She constantly logs in in our meetings while sitting here.

56:44 Every All right. So you attend the conversation with the community. Did you find it? I’m gonna read it ‘cause not everybody will be able to see the typo. V Did you attend the school committee conversation with the community meeting on February 29th if you attended the conversation with the community? Well, the, by The way, the answers are yes, no or Unaware. Unaware. And I think those are great that it will be helpful to know if people were unaware. Um, Brian, that happening shouldn’t be capitalized. We were just trying to keep it all capitalized. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. It’s fine. Okay. You can un recapitalize it. I don’t ‘cause see on the bottom everything was capitalized. We’re just trying to make it consistent. Oh, okay. If you attend a, uh, can we do the, if you attend a conversation with the, well that is the title of our event. Did you find it informative? That’s, yeah. That’s why we kept that informative. Can we do the fix the informative in a lower case as well?

57:44 Okay. I keep trying to scroll down.

57:48 I’m interested to see what we might come back with the add an option. What was the thought process behind add? There isn’t, that’s not, that’s just because of editing it. They don’t get to add anything. Sorry. No. Like well, ‘cause I know in the day, my day I would’ve, Sarah’s like, I have thought, hey, this, This might be getting too, uh, fancy. But if, if you, if you said you didn’t attend it, can you not display the next question? You can. You may have attended the next one. No. You just, you don’t want them to be able to say whether it was informative if they didn’t attend Right. Or if They weren’t there. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Yeah, you can do that. Okay. Well then we, we should do, yeah, we should do that so that, yep. Okay. Um, yeah, Steven will be able to. Okay.

58:35 Let see. And then it’s the same questions for the League of Women Voters. Um, the League of Women Voters wanted us to ask or asked Brian to ask if they, if people had any suggestions. Suggestions to Approve. Okay. Okay. So that’s just open text. Okay. Yep. Would you be interested in receiving a monthly newsletter from your school committee? That’s great. Would you be interested in attending an informal coffee chat with one member of our school committee?

59:05 You might wanna say, um, with, We just wanted to make it clear. It wasn’t like violating open media. Oh yeah. It could be too, but yeah, that’s a good point. Yeah, that’s good point. With a, can we say offered periodically? Can we say one or Two? Yeah, you can say one or two me members of our school committee.

59:27 More coffee chat. I just got worried about that with, I would say with member with One or or two members. You could do one or two That would then prevent us from Yeah, you just can’t have three. I mean, it wouldn’t be considered a subcommittee, but That’s what I, I don’t know. That’s what I was worried about. That’s why I said a member. I leave it a one. I leave it a one. Just say a member. Don’t say one. Say a a Member of our school Committee. Yeah. That sounds a guess. Maybe. Yeah. ‘cause You don’t want that to be I just didn’t, if it’s assigned subcommittee who’s attending at this committee, it is a subcommittee. Yeah. Which it would probably be. Right. And that’s what makes it hard. Yeah. Which is why we changed it to one, because we talked about that, I think. And that’s why we changed it to one, so that we wouldn’t

1:00:13 run into any potential concerns there.

1:00:19 Do you mind scrolling down a little bit more?

1:00:29 Um, so those are cut off, right? Is that gonna be, Will they be part, will they be viewed The answers? Yeah. You should be able to, um, wrap the text.

1:00:45 See how conversations with the, it looks like it’s, and copy chat with a, it looks like it’s cut. Cut off. It’s, and I wouldn’t, um, I wouldn’t do sc Yeah, don’t do sc copy Chats. Um, the, the last second to last question with the radio buttons. So conversation with Yep. Right there. See how it looks like it’s cut off conversations with the scroll down a bit. Oh, oh, oh. I think when the uh,

1:01:10 When the So he’s in edit mode? Yeah. When it’s in publish mode. Lee, when you, okay. Do you see the whole thing? That would actually be, because if I do it, it’ll bring it up in edit mode. When you do it. Do you see conversations with the community in that last quest? That last radio button question? Which, or is it cut off second to last question? Yeah. And do you mind spelling out school committee member? I think we were trying to fit it. I see it. Yeah. He was trying to fit it. That’s why I’ll show you. Yes. That would be amazing. Me. Thank you. No, no, no. I just wanna make sure. I think it’s ‘cause he’s in edit mode. Yeah. Okay. So it shows the whole thing. It shows the whole thing when you’re not in edit mode. Okay. Thank you so much.

1:01:49 It’ll probably drop down It. Yeah, it wraps text on her. Should be even on her phone. It wrapped text. Alright. With a that that Should be with Yep. With A, yep. With a, not Ann. No, that one’s good Brian. It should be a not Anne. That’s good.

1:02:13 Number three there. You wanna say coffee chat with day number three by, yep, I got it. Okay. Or I just was saying. Okay. Any suggestions? And I wonder if, it sounds like you know how to fix the house, but I’m just curious if it was truncating and published. It Doesn’t. That’s what we just looked at. We just look at those Columns. The radio buttons. We just Too wide. So maybe you could stack like, very interested. Doesn’t we just look Shrink that column Not Written. We just looked at it on Lee’s phone and it’s, this is, he’s in edit mode. That’s why it looks this way on Lee’s phone. She logged in as like a, a, a community member taking it. It looks Fine. It looks fine. Yep. Yep. It, it wraps everything perfectly. Yep. Okay. And then on that final question, the wording of it just feels weird to me. Could we write, um, are there any other suggestions

1:03:02 for the school committee to help increase communication? Yeah. Or even to improve communication. Are there any, I think what we wanted to say is that we already have started to improve communication. We’re trying to, well it doesn’t of ways. It sounds weird. No, but that’s, I’m just trying to Yeah. Are there any other Suggestions? But the could in there doesn’t make sense. Yeah. Are there any other suggestions of ways you Would like to that shouldn’t be in there? Committee Could continue to, can

1:03:31 Two Continue? How about just of ways, your school committee. Committee. Are there any other suggestions of ways you would like to see? I mean, no. Are there any other suggestions? Suggestions? Yes. Any other suggestions for Mark to your school committee to increase? Are there any other suggestions To See your school committee increase communication? Yeah, That’s fine. How about the school committee? Yeah. Yeah. Just increase communication.

1:04:01 Yep. I, I should, I think it should say continue because we already have, That’s, I’m trying to stop the narrative that we haven’t, are there any other suggestions? So are there any other suggestions of how your school committee can continue to increase communication? That’s fine. Right. Wait, can I can’t,

1:04:27 What do you want to say now? Oh, are there any suggestions? Um, so take out of ways.

1:04:38 Are there any other suggestions of how your school committee can continue? I Is off power. We could take this offline too, but No, because then we have to Yeah. Have, That’s g have a subcommittee meeting too. Your school meeting can continue to, yeah. Perfect.

1:05:04 Dunno

1:05:12 To increase or That Perfect. Yeah. No, I think increase now. Great. Okay. So If you instead of your school committee, should you say the school committee? I think so. I mean, we’re there and we’re here for them. Okay.

1:05:29 My God. Let’s just do it. Okay.

1:05:34 It doesn’t sound right to me. Are there any Suggestions? Should I bring it back up to the top and go once, once more? No, I think we’re good. No, I think we’re, I think we’re good. We’re good. I run a spell, spell check. Um, do you wanna go through settings right now or will you do that with Steven? I’ll do that with Steven. Okay. So If you, I’ll have a call in Steve tomorrow morning anyway to double check that QR code. Okay. He’s gonna do, he’s gonna have to do issue a new QR code anyway because we’re gonna issue this on a new platform so that the settings go only to Steven. That you guys can’t edit anything. ‘cause I think for the public to trust that they can’t touch this, we need our hands off it. And Steven has to be the one to literally take your words and retype them on an, on a platform he owns only.

1:06:19 Does that make sense? He’s not gonna change what you did. Right. He needs to be the originator of the document. If He’s the person who originates it, how will we see the data then? So that we can He’s gonna provide It. He’s gonna provide it to us. We shouldn’t be able to But do the analysis of the No, I don’t, I I don’t want him to do analysis. We’ll do the analysis. He can give us the raw data. Yeah. Yeah. He’ll, he’ll be able to just forward the raw data reports. One of the nice things about this form is that we’ll put it in graphs and pie charts and whatever way you want it to do. Yep. But not if we only get the raw data. We’ll have to do that ourselves. One of us can sit with him after and have him do that. But I really think, yeah, I do that all day. I’ll do That’s I think for the community to feel Well, we’ll let Allison, ‘cause Allison Yeah. She can do it. ‘cause she does this.

1:07:04 So, ‘cause I, I will work with him to send a a I have access to the district wide messenger. That email that goes to all staff and parents. I will send out one with all of this when he has the link done. So if you can get this email, this link to Steven and we’ll touch base with him in the morning to tell him he’s originating it on his end. I Wonder if you can just take this woman capture it for himself. We, We maybe I think he can. Yeah. Yeah. He should be able to. Yeah. Just make him the owner of The, because when you sent it to me, that’s what I had to do. Right. So that I could do my own. And we, and then when we got together, we looked at both versions. Okay. So he should be able to do that. So I have a call him in the morning. Okay. And then you’re gonna talk to him later on about Yes.

1:07:50 Okay. Yes, absolutely. So if you can send this link to him and I that would be awesome. Thank you. Um, and then who is, is it gonna go to Lee as well? Yeah, we’ll make sure it’s, it gets the, oh, the media. It gets out. I have a, I I have a whole media list of all the Yep. Nope. I just, I just lee in the past this and that. I have everybody’s Sorry. I just know Brian had talked to Lee about it as well and I just didn’t want double work happening Sunday night. You need things by Right? Do you want it in Wednesday’s paper? We would like it. Yeah. So, um, I would need, I can hold a space for it, but yeah, I would need it no later than Sunday night. We go to print Monday. I can get it to you by Sunday night. I can’t promise I’ll get it to you by tomorrow. Okay. I have school hours and we, one of the kids’ birthdays,

1:08:37 so thumb off the clock. Tomorrow I’ll hold a space. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. And I, and I definitely, you’re good about letting me know when I don’t give you what I Yeah. I need. Um, so I’ll get that to you and that will remind me to get to the whole list. Um, perfect. So thank you guys for the work you did on this. Yeah, thank you. It’s wonderful. That’s great. There’s a couple more pieces though. Okay. Um, we’re pretty sure we’re going to end up getting a positive response to the newsletter. Okay. I talked to Steve about how do we get it to the non-parents in the district. He’s got a way of doing it. Okay. So that if we, once we launch this thing, he can send out and parents non-parents can say, I want to get the newsletter. He has a format that we can send it out to them and get Responses from him. Yeah. So we can put a button on the website

1:09:23 that says sign up for our newsletter and people can just sign up to the da that database. Right. Okay. That’s perfect. Um, and I’m sure that we can work with, um, to get that information out through the papers as well. All right. So Now before we move off, there’s still a couple Questions. I have one other thing question to do. I would like, um, Theresa be able to put that in her newsletter. Yes. This form. And then to ask the principals, they put it into their school newsletters going out to parents and to the staff. Okay. ‘cause we want the staff to respond to this also. Okay. Um, one question that was missing that we may or may not wanna think about is, did you guys talk about whether you wanted to have a button? Are you a parent student? Staff member or community? C member. C member.

1:10:10 No. I, I don’t know if that’s it’s, that’s a, it’s surveys are funny because if the more you start to break it down into categories, parents start wearing it. Gonna be able to figure out who they are. I know it’s absurd, but that’s what happened whenever I put out a survey, they wanted to know who it goes to and how all Is this. They’ll just give us a general idea. Okay. Yeah. All right. I think it’s a starting point. Yeah. I get the question. I just thought it’d be interesting to see, you know, staff may all, we may staff may feel strongly this way. Parents may still feel strongly this way. I just thought it would be, I think that this is a starting point for it. Yeah. And then there’ll be more. Um, one other thing we talked about was like an FAQ, um, because a lot of the questions that we got at the conversation with the community mirrored questions we got at

1:10:55 the legal women orders forum. Uh, and one thing that we did some research independently and both talked about, um, FAQ pages with maybe those questions and what the answers were. Um, so we were thinking we could put something like that together. Yeah, yeah. Just so that people can have a place, you know, they don’t wanna watch a three hour forum. They don’t, they don’t really necessarily wanna listen to anybody say anything. Just want go quickly read the paragraph. Okay. Um, and it could be also a place to quickly point people when there are conversations on social media as well, you know, that others can use. Okay. That sounds great. Right. We talk about, Yes. And with the newsletter, we also thinking that almost all of us on the school committee are in different parts, have different, um, subgroups that we work on that,

1:11:44 for example, Jen is on the budget to be able to write up an, a quick blurb that goes in the newsletter, says, here’s what we did in the month of April for the budget and how it came up. Just simple paragraphs. And then like, I’m on the district safety committee so everybody’s on committees. We can start reporting out what we’re doing that gives, uh, people a better feel for what all the school committee members are involved in and how we’re involved in things. Yeah. So we, um, we could always have a bot like standard areas of it that, you know, shows you what subcommittees there are. That when we all start putting individual messaging in, we start to run into open meeting issues. And when we collaborate, when we collaborate on that, what it really should, we should not be sharing new

1:12:29 information and we should not be sharing, um, opinions in this, what this newsletter should be. Well, we can get into that later. ‘cause we’re not doing that right now is a synopsis of what has happened the last few committees, because that’s how other districts do it town. Because then it’s not a violation. This isn’t our only mechanism to make changes and in action and statements is at this table. So a newsletter can be like a boiled down version of the minutes. That’s a report of what happened here at this table. 41. That’s it, I think. Did I? Yeah, we can get into that later. Yeah, we don’t need to go into those details now. Um, okay. ‘cause we wanna know, I think Brian just wanted to share with you all of the things that we talked about. Yeah, no, it’s great. That’s great. It’s great.

1:13:15 Um, and we’ll, we’ll hear what people wanna hear about, so that’s great. Thank you guys. A ton of work went into this. And I, Brian, thank you for spearheading this initially and bringing this to the committee. Thank you Allison for working with Brian on this. This has been great. Um, that brings us to closing business. Any new business or school committee announcements in requests?

1:13:34 No, um, no correspondence this week. Um, and so that brings us to adjournment at eight 15. Oh, thank you. Thank you.