School Committee: March 6, 2025

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0:05 There we go.

0:09 Okay, Perfect. Um, so we’ll start with the Pledge of Allegiance for a and t

0:17 Flags. In the back, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice fraud.

0:37 Okay, that moves us to commendations.

0:43 I, if there’s no other commendations, I want to preemptively, um, commend our Glover students who are here today. It’s very exciting. Um, we’re all very proud of you. I know it probably can be a little nerve wracking to do this, but this is great that you’re here to represent your school and your fellow students. Um, and I am so excited to see what you guys are gonna show us. So we’ll get to that in just a couple minutes. Any other commendations? No, I think that’s fine. Thank you. Um, public comment, if anybody has public comment online. I see a hand raised. Um, Mr. Cantor,

1:25 Um, There we go. You should be able to unmute yourself at this point.

1:31 Hi, can you hear? Yes. Okay, great. Thank, um, I have two sort of different comments slash questions. The first one is in regards to the budget. I know we had the budget open comment the other night, and I regret not asking this question. There’s a line item for federal funding in 26 and in 27 of $947,000. Then there’s clearly a lot of turmoil at the federal level right now that none of us could ever sort through. But do we have thoughts on if this will impact us and how we’re planning in the event of an emergency and that money disappears? Um, I’d love to hear the committee

2:17 share their thoughts on that. Um, and then my second item is just in regards to sharing of information. I know that the committee’s committed to sharing information. There’s monthly newsletters. I’ve noticed that there’s, there’s been some posting of information, which is great in private Facebook groups by the committee. And my question is, has the committee ever considered starting their own Facebook groups so they could post things like agenda materials and others ahead of time so that the public can be informed at turnout for this meeting? I think the calendar is a good example of that. You maybe would’ve had more folks turn out if they had paid closer attention to the agenda that would’ve was posted. So just two unrelated things for the committee to consider.

3:05 I appreciate your time. Thank you. Um, and just so folks know that we don’t engage with public comment, but if you hang in through the rest of the meeting, um, we do try to commit to answering your questions. I know we have an update coming for our financial update and our communications update towards the end should answer clearly both of those questions. Thank you. Um, no other public comment. Okay. That brings us to our student representative, Ella. Thank you. So the school play, the sleepwalker attended Massachusetts Educational Theater Guilds Drama Festival this weekend. It was a student original play, written and directed by Benji Boyd. Um, congrats to Benji Boyd, Anya Kane and Sam Jen Dreek for their acting and directing awards.

3:53 Also, the boys hockey team has a playoff game against NACE this afternoon. As I’m sure most people know, NACE is the number one seed. So it’s a big game. Spring sports are starting up March 17th, which is a week from Monday. The seniors had a scholarship meeting this past Monday. They’re preparing their scholarships and will find out if they’ve been awarded one at scholarship night in the spring. And freshmen, sophomores and juniors got their class recommendations and are beginning to shape their schedules for next year. The class of 2026 is having a class auction and are seeking donations to fill out their auction. And seniors have begun to find out their regular round college decisions. Congrats seniors. Thank you. Thank you. That brings us to the next agenda item, which is very exciting. It’s our student spotlight. This is the first of five.

4:39 Each week there will be a different spotlight. I’m very excited. Glover School is our first spotlight. Thank you, Ms. Chairwoman. So, um, I just want to preface this by saying, you know, we, we’ve decided to have each school do a spotlight. Um, one of our administrative goals as, as a shared goal is student voice. And I think, um, what you’ll see tonight is an expression of student voice and each, um, school is gonna do a subsequent spotlight. And I think it’s great to see and hear from the students around the really cool stuff they’re doing within the schools. So tonight we have Glover School and Maggie Doin is here with, um, some of her students. So, Maggie, I’m gonna turn it over to you. Thank you so much. Alright, Frank, can we pull up that slide deck too? We’re each gonna need. Thanks, miss Doman, the materials.

5:27 Thank you. So the Students are here tonight, um, to tell you about some of the work that we’ve been doing on participate. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Um, anybody in the audience wants to participate? I’ll, um, Sarah, do you wanna come Up? One of the things that, do you wanna come up here to get better picture? You can in all our schools, but at Glover especially, is to make sure that we’re really make making, um, learning accessible for kids and integrating our learning. Um, this is my 28th year as an educator and my 16th in Marblehead. And after 14 years in the gen ed classroom in Marblehead, I transferred into the art and I hold a dual certificate, um, and dual licensure in both areas. And so it was natural for me to bring classroom curriculum with me.

6:13 I also am quite familiar with it. Uh, the nice thing about being in the art studio is we don’t have to worry about the data driven curriculum. We get to really make sure that we’re meeting students’ needs. So one of the big focuses I know in Marblehead this year has been wayfinder. Um, so we’re bringing some of that learning with us is the art studio. And this year we studied neuro graphic art, which is, as they will tell you, directly connected to Wayfind. So they’re gonna walk you through an art lesson. So here they go. Awesome. Wait. First I’m Maya. I’m third grade. I’m second Grade. I’m, I’m in second grade

6:57 High school committee. Tonight we want you to try something with us. It’s called Graphic Art. In our studio, we are all artists and mistakes are known as beautiful. So don’t be nervous. Graphic art is about taking care of yourself. It connects to wayfinder to find into social emotional, ready to draw First, think of Something that is bothering you. It can be big or small. Some of us thought about things not like, like not wanting to go to the YMCA after school, that small others were worried about a parent being deployed. That’s huge. Think of what makes sense for you. There’s no right or wrong. First it curve and twist.

7:50 A second run can intersect or not as try to

8:19 now look at your watch, Observe where they intersect, smooth them out, no points, spots. Make smooth edges like tiny hugs, curvy and cozy in every spot where your lines intercept. Use the smoothing out technique. Pause for a moment. Notice how you are feeling. Still bother, distracted and lost in your art calmer nerve. Graphic art is a wonderful tool. When you’re feeling stressed out, upset or frustrated, we hope you like what we taught you.

8:57 Awesome. So this is what they did. Over the course of two sessions, they’re holding their own versions. Um, in the first session we talked about what they told you. How graphic art helps you release and de-stress as you’re working because you often get so lost in your work that you kind of forget what might have been bothering you at first. And we made our hugs, which is softening the lines in the intersections because it’s supposed to mimic the neurons in your brain. We also watched a video about brain science and how the neurons and the synapses develop as you learn something new, including make mistakes, which we do a lot in the art studio. We have lots of beautiful, oops, as Maya told you. Um, and then in our second session, students explored how it felt to add color and vibrancy to their work and to paint.

9:44 And again, to just get lost in that, um, art making where sometimes it’s easy to just release the things that are stressing you out in other parts of your life. So, um, at the end, students had an opportunity to then share and reflect how do you feel now given what you went into? And many students chose to share something that they had thought of at the beginning and how they were feeling at the end, and most reported that they were feeling significantly better. Um, it’s also a tool that anywhere we talked about, you have paper and a pencil or marker or any kind of drawing tool you can do. So it’s a great thing if you’re in a car, in a doctor’s office, waiting somewhere in your room feeling angry in a classroom, you can go to your quiet spot and make this art and they’re willing

10:31 to take questions. That’s wonderful. Does anybody in the committee have questions? Questions? I do. I always have questions. I’m that person. Sorry. Have any of you guys gotten a chance or felt like you maybe wanted to use this at another time? Even if you maybe didn’t get a chance to ‘cause she didn’t have paper with you. Yes, go ahead. You go. Um, At home when I have nothing to do, I just draw. That’s wonderful. Anybody else? Well, you get, you’ll get a chance, I’m sure. That’s awesome. That’s awesome. I can add lots of ‘em. Use in classrooms, I’ve seen. That’s awesome. So I have a couple thoughts if, if, if the committee’s all done, I I’m sure we’ll have more, but go on. Okay. Yeah. Alright. So one, thank you so much for sharing all your stuff with us. This is great. You guys are

11:17 on television, that’s really cool. That art looks awesome and I really need some extra art for my office. So, you know, if you’re willing to give up. Um, is there anything that says, like, my mine looks like a bunch of spaghetti. Is that a bad thing or is that a good thing? I’m not sure. No, I’m just joking. No, you guys did a really nice job. I’m, I’m really impressed. Um, that’s a really neat strategy and I, I appreciate that you guys already understand that that’s something that could help you when you’re frustrated or you’re angry or when you’re upset, or even just when you just need to chill out and relax, right? So that’s really neat. I think it’s awesome that we’re connecting that with Wayfinder. Um, that’s a very important thing. We’ve been talking a lot about that in the district. So, um, congratulations to all you and thank you again for sharing. I think this is, this has been awesome. I, I love hearing from our students. Um, I love seeing all the really cool stuff we’re doing. So thank you so much for Thank you.

12:04 And to tell you, this has been like, the best part of the last several months of meetings is getting to see what you guys are doing at school with your teachers and everything, and with each other. I have certificates for each of you. Um, this one’s for Rowan and I can get that. This one. Yay. Beautiful.

12:29 And this is for Nico. And you know what guys? I just realized I forgot to sign them, but I forgot to sign them. So I, I don’t know that you can, but, Um, Frank also has, uh, the slide deck. We wanted the kids to have the chance to be on screen. Absolutely. But Frank and forward you the deck. Oh, perfect. And I’m gonna leave this article to you just, just about, We’d love that. The benefits Maggie have, um, I don’t know if you have it scanned their artwork, but if you wanna share it, that’d be awesome. You did A really, it is in the slide deck. Oh, Perfect. Yep. It’s in the slide back. Congratulations guys. And thank you so much for coming and joining us tonight. Ms. Oen, thank you so much. Thank You. Thank you for parents for coming out tonight.

13:11 Budget only So many Sharpies. I know you probably didn’t hear, but thanks for the parents for coming out as well. Thank You so much. It was awesome. Awesome. You guys did such a good job. Awesome. I feel bad I didn’t sign. I, that’s awesome. Alright. All right. So the next brings us to our district updates for superintendent. Thank you. Um, so, uh, thank you. Um, since we just met last week, I don’t have a whole lot to share, but I just wanted to, um, go through a few things, um, over the next several school committee meetings. We, we’ll continue to have spotlights, um, for the rest of our schools, and we’ll continue to hear from principals regarding the school improvement plans, handbook changes. Uh, so we’ll, um, have everything ready and updated, uh, for the start

13:56 of the school year in this, uh, in the fall. Sorry, I’m distracted. Um, when I share, when I share my goal progress later you will hear more about the district improvement plan and how the school improvement plans and the shared administrative goals all dovetailed together to provide consistency, transparency, and accountability. I wanted to bring an update. Uh, the, the hockey team is tied one, one-to-one. I just kind think so. We’re still at one-to-one. Um, also briefly, I wanted to share that as one of the principles shared evaluation goals, we also instituted learning walks, also sometimes referred to as instructional rounds. This is important work as a step in shifting school culture, lending consistency of instruction, dismantling work that may have previously been done, uh, within silos. This collaborative effort and approach ensures that principles gain a better understanding of instructional practices

14:42 outside of their building while celebrating instructional practices when colleagues visit their schools. We have some, we’ve had some rich discussions regarding these learning walks and the buy-in and implementation has been well received. No one’s made a bit of, uh, we will continue this practice and begin to further identify focus areas as we move forward. This is an exciting and, and, and I’m proud to have a team of administrators who have fully embraced this endeavor. In addition to the student voice goal as these things are, um, these are things that will help us enhance our capacity regarding solid instructional practices, increased rigor needed for student success. Um, that’s all I have. Thank you. There’s Some Very exciting I know. That’s why it’s, it’s it’s fine. It’s, it’s all good. That’s more important than anything I have to say anyway, so it’s all good. Um, thank you. So Our consent, action and agenda items,

15:29 there aren’t none this week. We, um, just met last week, so there’s no, um, new schedule of bills to approve, nor is there a new set of minutes that was ready for us to, to, um, approve. So, we’ll, we’ll move on from that. Um, the school committee communication and discussion items. I’m very happy to say that we are here tonight to vote on the approval of naming the Athletic Complex after Mr. Alex Kovich. Um, last week we had a beautiful presentation by his family. Throughout the week, our inboxes have been overflowing with beautiful words of, um, commendation for Mr. Kvi. There’s been so many very, very personal stories.

16:14 Um, we’ve heard from people from Wisconsin, um, all over, all over the country, really, that have, that have chimed in. Um, we’ve heard from people who were students, were colleagues, were parents in the system. Um, what I thought was really wonderful is we heard from some swamp Scott athletes that played at the time that you were coaching Marblehead, and they talked about how wonderful you were. Um, even as an opposing team’s coach, we heard it from the daughter of, uh, the athletic director, the former athletic director in Swamp Scott, who said, again, you know, here we are with two hardy rivalries between the two, but just spoke of the character. Um, and it, it really, I have to say this week has been

17:03 so wonderful, uh, to fit, to have our inboxes filled with such kind, um, gracious stories that it’s been a long time since we got to focus on really the good stuff that happens at our schools. So between seeing the students today and in this, it’s, it’s one of those weeks where we’re reminded why we do this and really what we hope our students experience. And it sounds like anyone that had the, the, the glory to be able to work with you or serve under you or be a student or a student athlete, um, really is better off for that. So I am so honored and so excited to be here tonight to do this.

17:48 So, so I’m gonna ask for a motion and then we’ll open it up for discussion after that. Um, so I’m gonna ask for a motion to name the Marblehead High School Athletic Complex, the Alexander w Kovich Junior Athletic Complex. So Move, Move by Brian Second, Moved by Brian ota, seconded by Jen Schaffner. And I’m gonna open it up for the committee. I have to admit, I read those testimonials coming in and it was really touching. I mean, everyone from students to now parents whose kids are in the schools. It’s just really uplifting to hear such kind words for the hard work that you did over the years.

18:31 Yeah. Um, Sarah, can you hear me Okay? Absolutely, yes. Yeah, Thanks everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there tonight. I I was, I was away and wish I was there in person, but I, I, you know, I concur with, with Sarah’s words and, and Brian’s and, and to the Kovi is there, and Mr. Kovich that, you know, the, the incoming communications we’ve had, um, mostly through email, I’ve spoken to some folks, uh, in person and on the phone has just been, um, not surprising, but, um, very heartwarming, um, knowing the, the legacy that you Mr. Kovich have had in on our district. And, um, I think too, and you think about, um, Sarah Brian, we think about, you know, we had folks who, who, who worked under Mr. Kovich. We had students and athletes who, who played and studied under Mr.

19:16 Kovich. We have current administrators and current staff who had, um, who had worked with him earlier, you know, in the two thousands. It just, I mean, it, it goes, comes decades, um, of, of his career and post career. So I don’t, I don’t think there’s any, I think we could probably stay here all night and talk about, you know, how great this is. Um, I feel honored to be able to be, participate in this vote. And, um, I can’t imagine that there would be, um, another person that would be appropriate for us to be considering this naming for the sports complex.

19:51 This really is a very, very ha I I, I have to say, it’s been a long time since I have looked forward to a school committee meeting as much as I have tonight. So this is wonderful. Um, you’re still affecting people, you’re still bringing joy to Marblehead High School. Um, so if if there’s no nothing else, then um, I think the only thing, Sarah, I just wanna mention before, ‘cause we’re gonna take the vote that, um, after the vote, assuming this goes where we think it will, that, uh, we’ll be following up with, with Joe and Tom and, and the family on the actual sort of unveiling once the, once the lettering is up there, and we’ll, we’ll be, there’ll be more information forthcoming after that, and we’ll work with the press on that as well. I also did promise one of our members, um, a um, I just went blank, I’m sorry.

20:38 Uh, one of our members who isn’t able to be here tonight, um, Allison was very upset. She, she missed tonight, her son is actually in a play. So that’s where she is right now, because she had the pleasure of attending Marblehead High School and, and being a student athlete. Well, you were the, the athletic director and she really was upset to miss the honor of voting for this and had just wonderful, wonderful things to say. So I did, did wanna mention that, um, that Allison Taylor had wanted to, to be part of this, but that is why she’s not here tonight. Um, so I will call for a vote. Brian Oda In favor, Jen Schaffner. Enthusiastically in Favor, Sarah Fox in favor. The motion carries three to zero, and the new name of our athletic complex is now the

21:24 Alexander w Kovich Junior Athletic Conference.

21:34 Thank you guys so much. That’s awesome.

21:45 Yes. So he gets mic in here.

21:54 I can’t thank you enough. All members of the school committee superintendent, it’s been a pleasure to be involved in Marblehead over the years. Um, You can’t do it alone. And I was very thankful for an awful lot of good people, coaches, parents, student athletes. They made it. I was on the sideline watching all the things that they did, and they did some outstanding things. If you look back at the time that I was there, there was, there was a lot of good things happening. Marblehead winning Globe thing for a couple years.

22:43 We had, uh, a number of people, uh, made all star teams. But I think the key thing that we tried to promote was the fact that you’re there first as a student. Okay? Uh, and beyond the student, we actually want you to get involved. And I never forced anybody to go wherever, even my own kids. I had eight kids and they could go all over the place, but I wanted them to not only study, but also to get involved. And I think that’s the thing that I really preached. And, uh, hopefully it worked. I can only say, uh, a big thank you to Mark Tommy, who’s over here on my right.

23:29 Um, I had a chance to work with Mark when one of the, uh, principals got sick and, uh, we, uh, held it out well. And also another person who was right beside me at all times was my secretary, pat McGee. Pat was just outstanding. She did everything. And, uh, it was a pleasure to have her and Mark and, and all the people here. I mean, I know you mentioned about the letters and so forth. I, I can’t believe the nice things said, uh, relative to their involvement here in Marblehead and what they accomplished and where they are today. And, uh, I, I’m just so blessed.

24:14 Uh, I am a wonderful wife who have to say, taught at, I think it’s the Bell School for five years as a nurse. And, uh, you know, at home, it’s a team effort, team effort with the kids. Uh, and I can only say that I’m appreciative of the award, but the award really goes to all the people who had the opportunity to do the things that they wanted at Marblehead High School. And I think, for example, the education was outstanding. My eight children had a great education in Marblehead. They went on to college, got their degrees, but they also enjoyed doing the extracurricular activities. And my main thing was they didn’t have to go in athletics.

25:01 They could be in the band, they could be anything but the idea to do something. Because I think when people are involved, they do much better academically. And that’s basically my, my story. And I want to thank the school committee again for giving this wonderful honor. And I have tears and my eyes. It really is our honor to be able to do this Shake hand. Thank you. Thank,

25:46 that’s awesome.

25:51 Yeah.

25:58 John, can you hear me? Yes. Are we getting pictures of that? I hope. Oh, photos okay. Yeah. Yeah. We tried. Lee. Is is Lee getting pictures? Somebody’s getting pictures. I just Have to say it again. This tonight. Everything that’s happening tonight, this is why we do this. This is why all of us go through the process of trying to get on a school committee to, to, to see someone that’s been a mentor and a leader in our community. Like Mr. Kovich has to see our students up here showing us what they’re doing. Tonight has been just such a wonderful evening. And I Am, maybe We can get like one more picture, picture of the school cleaning and stuff For the newsletter too. Do you wanna do that real quick? Sure, sure. Yeah, let’s go one more. Take the lead.

26:43 Um, headline needs to be, do quote, do something unquote late.

26:49 That’s awesome. Love it.

27:46 Lemme picture. See if I can get in the You got it. You got it. Absolutely. Like, so emotional. I just wanted to say that our family, um, is honored. Know that you That our request to name the Marblehead High School Athletic, uh, complex after our father Alex Kovich. We appreciate the school committee’s, uh, support and the approval of this, uh, very important request. Um, we are so humble And grateful for the outpouring of support from past and present teachers, coaches, students, athletes, as well as members from the community. This past week. I know, um, you know, your e your emails were inundated and we, and some of them forwarded to myself and, um, my brother that we shared with my father.

28:32 And it was very, um, very humbling. Um, we made the request because we felt that, um, our father and body, not only Marblehead athletics, but also the student athletes, coaches in the whole town of Marblehead, um, as you know, as you know, he’s a man of character, willing to go the extra mile for someone and for everyone always giving and always helping others. He’s been a role model to all of us children and to his 20 grandchildren. He is also a man with great faith who, um, also continues to volunteer and is still vol volunteering in many capacities today. Um, and I just wanted to do a shout out that my father, uh, beat me to, because behind every great guy is a great woman, and our family is blessed with a wonderful mother as well, who too is a role model to all of us.

29:18 Thank you again for honoring our request. Our family is very, uh, appreciative. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks Joe. Thank you, Joe.

29:31 Motion to adjourn. So Mike, can’t be done. No pressure, but it’s all been good. So bring us the financial update And Like I said, no pressure.

29:46 Oh, you need to be un unmuted. Oh, here we go. I thought you were doing the chicken dance. Thank you all for coming so much. Thank you. Well, you couldn’t stick something in between me and that. I know. I know.

30:03 Uh, good evening. Uh, so just providing you the, uh, end of February financial update for the committee. Um, in the memo I did highlight that we have expended, uh, just about 24 million, 20 point $23.9 million of our, uh, budget so far this year. Uh, we have encumbered another 20 million of which is primarily salaries. And, uh, at the end of the month of February, we had an unended balance of $2.89 million. And, um, as, as I’ve said in previous meetings, the encumbering of salaries is a little bit of a, um, balancing act with the software that, uh, the software system that we use right now. So, um, the difference in unended balance between the month of March, uh, Feb, January, end of January

30:49 and the end of February was $51,000. But I think we’re really spot on with our encumbrances right now. We’re gonna have to continue to track it, um, and make sure that we’re, we’re still following along those same trend lines. Um, so that’s where we are there. Um, as of right now, the end of the year projections, while we’re still early, we still have four months after the school year or the fiscal year. Um, my projection is that we should be able to once again prepay $900,000 worth of out of district tuitions, which we have, uh, we did last year. Uh, I think we did some number the year before, but, uh, it was before my time and I really haven’t researched it. But, uh, it’s my expectation that we should be able to do that with the committee’s approval. Um, that’s kind of it for the FY 25 budget.

31:35 There really isn’t much difference from previous months. Um, utilities are tracking. Okay. Uh, everything seems to be where we, we thought it would be. Um, we’ve given updates on special education, so, um, salary, special education and utilities. There are three big buckets in the budget, and all three of them seem to be where we, uh, either reported previously or we expect them to be. Anybody have any questions for Mike? Um, I had a couple questions. Sarah, Go ahead. Um, so Mike, um, a couple questions. So first you did mention utilities, I just wanted to make sure, ‘cause you know, I know personally my, uh, gas bill has gone up. So are we, is there any concern about any of the recent bump bumps in the, um, natural gas? Um, just going to that section of the report, I’m sorry.

32:21 And we may have a contract. I don’t know how we, if we’re Just, we do have, we, well, we do have a contract. Yeah. We, we have a, um, we have a contract. We pay National Grid for the delivery and, um, we contract with another company. I, it’s slipping my mind right now. It’s okay. For the young, for the supply. So you’re not anticipating, um, any of the, any unforeseen, uh, popups? Yes. On the gas line right now, um, we’ve expended $208,000 this year. We have, um, a $262,000 balance on that account. So considering we’re into March now, I know we’re probably a month behind on the bills, but I think the Colt snaps behind us, so we should be pretty good to get through the end of the year on that one. Uh, same with electricity. We’ve expended 528,000.

33:07 Uh, we still got the 628,000 in the line. So, uh, being halfway through the fiscal year, um, eight months in, I feel very comfortable with where we are with utilities at this point. Okay. I had two other quick questions. One is, you had mentioned about the prepay. You expect, um, we, we may be looking at prepaying again. I just wanted to concur, or this actually could be for Sarah too. Um, and Al um, who’s not here is FinCon aware of this, obviously, we just wanna make sure they’re in the loop on that. Um, and then finally, is there any update on the Muni conversion? Is that on track? ‘cause that will probably yeah. Make a difference for us next year. So, um, on the first thing, on the prepaying tuitions, I think that’ll be a conversation that we have in April or May with the finance subcommittee. Once we have, um, you know, as we, as we get closer

33:53 to the end of the year, we always know it, it tightens the hold on how much, um, c uh, unexpanded balance we have and what we’re able to do at the end of the year. So I think early in March is a little too, too early to make those projections, uh, to make a a, a motion or a decision on prepaying. But having the conversations down and let it be out there, I think is important. Um, and Uni Uni, I was gonna say the second question. Um, uni, so yes, everything’s on track. Um, Mary Deli and Kristen from the, well, Mary Deli is a consultant. Kristen Morello have been, uh, leading the charge for the Munis conversion from the school department. Uh, Alicia and her team from the town department, everybody seems to be on track. Um, you know, my biggest thing is that our chart of accounts is accurate, so we can report accurately.

34:39 Uh, that’s my biggest thing. Uh, obviously there’s so many pieces to it, but yeah, July one is our go live date for accounts payable and general Ledger. And January one is our projected go live date for payroll and human resources. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it, Mike. Thank you, Ryan. Any questions? Um, so I just wanted to point out when you go through their areas of the salary lines, where when you look at the percentage, you know, the range, this grouping range is like between 25 and 40% running at a deficit. That’s, um, it’s, there’s a commonality I just wanna point out in case there’s questions later on. It’s for the, um, special ed instructional aids because one, one of the pieces of the contract was we took them from being paras and we elevated them to a tutor wage in the contract.

35:27 So that was the significant, I wanna say that was at any point, it was anywhere from like a 30 to a 40%, um, increase immediately this active this year. So that was anticipated when we, we settled the contract. But it, for folks looking at that and seeing that larger jo jump that was due to that. And then, um, as we’ve been very transparent and openly talking about our OUTTA district, tuitions came in much higher than what were budgeted. Um, those were out at a district placements set, had been

35:57 committed to, um, in the previous year, but perhaps not, um, accounted for as one would expect that would be accurate. So that’s why we’re over on that. Uh, Lisa Maria has been working with John and Mike diligently to, um, make sure everything’s accounted for and we have a clear understanding. So again, if you see large jumps in that it was because those, those were not previously budgeted and accounted for. So I just wanted to let people know that. Um, all right. No other questions On, on, on the, uh, just on the added districts, uh, on the report we built, I believe when they built the budget last year, um, you’ll see it’s, it’s about $2.4 million, um, of out district tuition, um, budgeted. There is a special education, I mean, a circuit breaker reduction somewhere in there,

36:43 but I couldn’t see where they exactly tied it out to. Um, and next year’s budget, you’ll see there’s a separate line that has the full tuition amounts with an, with an offset for circuit breaker. So you can kind of see where each bucket of money is. Um, my assumption is just looking at, there’s the private day tuition of $426,000 budgeted, uh, probably is much higher than that. They just took the circuit breaker expectation out of that line. Um, and also this had been talked about in the budget meeting, but because there was such a jump in our outer districts compared to what we had budgeted, um, Mike, again, working with John and Lisa Marie is applying for, um, unforeseen circumstances. That’s not the name of it, Mike. Extraordinary Relief, Extraordinary relief for Circuit breaker, which instead of being paid a a year in arrears would,

37:30 um, come much sooner. And so bring, Bring some monies. Yeah. So let’s do, yeah. So they are working on recouping some of that, um, and trying to kind of clean that up and well, this is discussed and fin comm’s aware as well. I was happy to hear this. Yeah. All right. So that brings us to superintendent goals update next. Sure. Um, so I just, I did a, I just did a quick, I, I’ve shared my goals with you, so this is just a, a reference to what my goals are and the summary. Um, just so you have ‘em in front of you. Um, can you just Email this to the rest of the committee? Yeah, Yeah, I will. Um, yeah, sorry, this was done two o’clock this afternoon. No, that’s okay. Um, so, uh, so typically what I do is when I, when we do my goals, my evaluation goals, we set them, we,

38:16 we set them here October to October. So what I try to do is I try to do periodic, um, updates. Um, I haven’t been able to really do that with, with, um, everything that’s been going on. So this is the first update that I have for the committee. Um, moving towards, you know, when we have my, uh, sumative, I mean, my formative of Val, hopefully in April, like we discussed, but just this is just down and dirty. So, um, there’s three, there’s three evaluation goals. The first one is professional practice goal, and that’s establishing a consistent district-wide culture and development of appropriate staffing patterns to meet the needs of our students. And the summary of that goal is just to, um, determine clear avenues of communication, but staff, parents can’t, givers and community partners, so that pertinent stakeholders have a venue to provide meaningful, appropriate, and pertinent feedback input as we determine the current needs of the district. Uh, the first step in working towards this goal is

39:02 to do an in-depth staff student analysis that will help inform the next steps required in order to determine how to meet all students where they are academically and socially, emotionally. So that was my goal that I set forth to the committee that they agreed upon, um, back at the beginning of the school year. Um, so just the progress to that goal, I just did a little blurp for each one. Um, I have made progress in this area, although it’s taken some time to establish relational trust, I have established communication with our school committee, uh, school community through my district updates and the school committee meetings via my superintendent messages through the s’mores, um, newsletters. And by being open to meeting corresponding with stakeholders, I’ve been working with administrators and student service office to look at programming to determine efficiencies across the district as we move into next school year and beyond to assist with student academic success. This will be ongoing, uh, goal

39:48 of students’ needs are constantly changing, which necessitate further planning discussion. So it’s just really, um, this goal is in progress. It was kind of a nebulous goal, and we talked about it at the beginning. It was kinda like, how are we gonna measure that? Um, so it’s just really, um, some of the my communication avenues that I try to have been trying to put in place so that people understand, um, you know, where we are and what we’re doing. A lot of the budgeting discussion around the special ed programming is, is, is taking place and looking at efficiencies. So I think I’m making progress towards that goal. It’s, um, you know, not exactly where I want it to be at this point, but, uh, just moving forward. Um, hopefully some more of that will come to fruition as we, as we go forward. Um, the second one is district improvement goal. Um, that’s the Marblehead, uh, school district improvement plan, which is slated to be. So currently we have a, uh, a district, uh, plan

40:36 for success, which technically, um, finishes up in 2020, uh, 2026. Um, my hopeful goal was to start the new district improvement plan, uh, towards the end of this school year. I don’t know if I’ll meet that goal, and I’ll explain why in a second. But what I’m looking to do is take that, um, district plan for success and really elevate that and make it a little bit more robust and, um, and, um, comprehensive so that our district improvement plan actually makes sense to what we’re doing. And, um, you know, dovetailing with the school improvement plan. So, um, I just talked a little bit about that. And where I am with the progress is, um, so I took, so it’s multi-step, I explained this at the beginning, but I’ll just do a quick overview again. So I took the district plan for success. I put it into a template that, um,

41:23 is much more comprehensive, and then I took the p the different pieces, and I started enhancing it. So, so what it will look like in the end is there’s six different goal areas, um, that’ll be focused upon. Um, and I’ll just share those goals. It’s kind of through Desi. They, they kind of outline this for us. Um, and then we kind of backfill the information. So the first goal is curriculum instruction evaluation. The second goal is we look at teacher quality and professional development. The third goal is human resource management. The fourth is student support programs and services. The fifth goal is leadership, governance and communication. And the sixth goal is financial asset management, effectiveness and efficiency. So each of those goals are outlined. And then under each goal, there’s an objective or several objectives that we need to look at and how do we meet those objectives?

42:10 So we outlined the goal, we outlined the objective, and under those objectives, we determine, um, you know, who, who is, um, um, who’s in charge or who’s responsible for that. We look at the objectives, we look at the funding. If there’s funding, um, mechanisms in place, we identify that. We identify the assessment and the evidence, um, so that we know we’re on track with all those areas. And just to give you an idea, the, uh, plan for success is like a three or four page document. I’m currently in the very initial phases. I’m at 16 or 17 pages on the district improvement plan. And that’s not just say, oh, I’m just making a fluffy 16 page document. It’s really way more comprehensive. So the first part of the plan has been completed. So I took this plan for success. I put it into the template. I went through it. I, I, I identified, um, you know,

42:57 the person’s responsible, identified the resources that we need, identified, um, the evidence or assessments that we would need. And then, um, I did all that. Then I gave it to our assistant superintendent. So Julia, Lisa, Marie, and Mike, um, currently have that plan. They’re gonna give me feedback into that plan. Then I’m gonna integrate that feedback. And then once that’s done, I’m gonna send out to the principals to get their feedback. When that comes back, then what I’ll do is that fee. And it takes a little bit of time because I, I really go through it all and I, and I update the goals and the objectives and the areas, and then I’ll send it out to, uh, staff, um, in, I’ll take the whole progress and I’ll make it into like a Google form, a Google survey. So it’ll have the goal, the objectives and everything that we’ve outlined so far. And we’ll ask for everybody’s input under each objective.

43:43 So it’s gonna be pretty extensive, and we’ll get that from staff that’ll integrate that all. Then I’ll send out the parents and do the same thing, get their input, integrate that all. And then once I go through that, I’ll have a final, i a draft document to then bring back to the school committee to go through and say, you know, here you go. Scoop me. This is, this is the result of all the input that I’ve gotten. And here’s where I, here’s where I think our, all of our stakeholders think we need to focus on for the district improvement plan. Um, I’ve done it this way in previously, and it’s much more comprehensive than, say, having a a a a committee of 14, 24, 34 people. Um, I will get literally probably a 1500, 2000 responses from each group, um, to, to this.

44:30 So that’s why it takes so long to do. So I’m hoping to have this done by the end of the school year to start for next school year. But realistically, our district current plan isn’t due till 26. So I have a little bit of wiggle room there. Um, so I’ll give more updates to the committee as to where I am in the process, um, once I do the next step. So that’s a big long way of saying I’ve taken the first step, and that’s all the first step. So, um, it’s like I said, it’s very, um, very comprehensive. Um, so I just wanna share that. And then the last, the last goal is, uh, our student learning goal. We’ve talked about this a lot. Um, students having a voice in their teaching and learning. Um, I put this into place in the district when I came in. Um, I created a goal. My goal was more like making sure that everybody else was, um, ensuring that each school had student voice being implemented in

45:15 their schools and getting impact, input and, um, feedback from the students. So, as you could see, like tonight was a little bit of that. Um, when we get the other, um, spotlights, you’ll see more of like, here’s how I, how I’m listening student feedback in my, my school. Here’s how I’m listening student feedback in my school. From my perspective, I’ve had those conversations ongoing with the, with the principals. Um, they’re all doing specific things specific to their schools. We’re having ongoing communications with our admin admin team about what that looks like. And then in addition to that, I’m working with students directly. I’ve, um, met with them, uh, our Boston based students, gotten some feedback from them. Um, I’ve talked about the anti-discrimination committee that I’ve put together. So I’ve met with the students in that forum, um, gotten some input from them.

46:00 I’m gonna go start meeting, um, I’m gonna go to Brown and meet with Mary and her. Um, she’s got a little leadership team that she’s put together. I wanna meet with those students. Um, and, and I’m still working with all the principals to see when and where I can kind of dovetail and have those conversations. Um, but it’s really important to, to get student voice and their input into their teaching and learning, um, in as much as it makes sense for the, their specific grade levels. And I thought it was important for me to have an overarching goal and to all of our administrators to have a shared goal in that respect. And I think, um, I think it’s going really well. I think everyone’s been really responsive to that. And I’m really excited that we’re starting to see some of the fruits for our labors in the, in regards to the student voice goal. So that’s kind of down and dirty where I am with our, with our, um, with our goals. I know when we do my formative eval,

46:45 it’s gonna be a lot more specific, um, questions and conversations about parts of my goals. But that was just, uh, that’s my update thus far. But I’m open to any questions you might have at this point. Any Questions? Brian or Jeff? Uh, No. Jen? Um, yeah, I, oh, sorry, go ahead Brian. No, He passed. He said no. Um, so I, so alright. So I think what I got, so we’re gonna get a copy of that, right? Just ‘cause I couldn’t write down all those, um, district improvement plan goals. So, we’ll, you’ll send out a copy of at least what you’ve got so far. Yeah. So, so yeah, it was just, it was just what I shared tonight was just a hard copy of my, my goals that I shared with the committee earlier, but I’ll certainly send that back out to you. Um, just so you can look at it again. Um, my, my, my notes for what my actual progress are are fairly benign, but I’ll, I’ll send that out as Well. Be real, be as you were reading it, it was, I would,

47:31 it would be really helpful to kind of have that, ‘cause I think you did go through and talk about where you were with everything. Yeah, no, I will share that with you. Yeah, and I was just, I was just gonna say like it’s, I mean this is, you know, pretty, you know, pretty robust, um, and rigorous. So, um, you know, I can see that it in with the amount of folks that you’re gonna be getting input from between community staff, students, um, y you know, I could see it, it could take, take some time. Um, so would the idea be, at some point, I would imagine you’d present this to us at, at whenever it’s read the final draft is ready in a, in an open meeting and be an opportunity for the entire community to see, For the district improvement plan? Yeah, so the fin the final step in that stage. So I, I try to outline all the steps, but when we get to that final step where I’ve gotten input from everybody, I’ve integrated everything that’s pertinent into the,

48:17 um, um, plan. I’ll take the full entire plan, bring it to the committee and all its full glory. We’ll go through it. You guys will already have it and we will have discussed it anyway ‘cause you’ll, you’ll have seen it. Um, but we’ll discuss it. And then yeah, there’s a vote of the committee to, uh, you know, approve the district improvement plan. So at that point, whether it’s at the end of this school year, may probably more towards, uh, October-ish of next year, I think is probably more realistic, to be honest with you, for me to get the whole thing. Um, ‘cause realistically what will also happen, Jen, is right now the schools are doing their school improvement plans and they’re aligning them to the current district, um, plan for success and also dovetailing in a lot of the conversations we’re having about sense of belonging, student voice, et cetera, et cetera. So they’re already starting to move in that direction,

49:03 but once we get the plan, this is just one of those overlap years. So, but once we have the plan in place, every district improvement plan from there on will dovetail exactly with what’s in the district improvement plan. We’ll have those discussions, but yeah, so that’s the plan. So Let, so let’s say it is that the fall, this is right, even in the current plan for success goes through 26. So would this district improvement plan start right away, or would it be starting in, you know, July of 26? I Think typically it would start at the beginning of the school year, just ‘cause it makes more sense. But at some point I have to present it and get the approval from the, from the board. So whether we approve it now for implementation in, you know, 26, 27 school year, or we imp approve it and just say, you know, um, typically I, you, I, you guys, the school committee will approve it for implementation in that beginning of that next school year.

49:49 So that’s what I mean, you know, I would, I wanted to try to get done at the beginning, you know, this school year to start next school year, but I wanna be mindful of, I, there’s a lot of steps and I want to be mindful of all the steps and make sure that I’m not rushing it. ‘cause it’s, it’s very important. Um, so like likely for the 26, 27, the Question would be that, ‘cause it does sound like just from what you’ve outlined, you know, a far more, um, detailed and rigorous plan that even if it’s imple, the implementation would be the following school year. There would be nothing stopping you from beginning the process of this, Right? No, no. The pro the process is part of the part of the whole thing, right? So the process would be, I’m doing, doing all the things I just explained, bring it back to the committee committee says, yes, this is a great plan, let’s move forward with it. Um, the conversations would start in next school year

50:36 to be able to start dovetailing their school improvement plans with the, um, district improvement plan for the, for the beginning of the 26, 27 school year anyway. So there’s always that, there’s a couple month kind of overlap anyway, so it would actually work out really well if I bring it to the school committee for approval in say, October-ish timeframe. And then all the principals can start working on that mid midyear next year for implementation, the following. That’s usually how it works out. So I was just trying to, I was a little over zealous in my, my initial, uh, plan to try to get it in place, but it’s not, it’s probably not gonna happen. Well We had a, you know, we had a few bumps In the right. So couple bumps we’re good. Got it. Thank we’re in good place. Thank you. Sure. So, um, as far as the timing goes, it being done in October, we’ll really dovetail nicely.

51:22 We’ve been, we’ve been really transparent with talking about there’s a larger jump in the contract next year and the following year. And, um, there will be a, a deeper level of planning needed, whether that’s override planning or whatever that looks like. So to have this framework to guide throughout that process and then to also be able to have this framework to present to the public will be very helpful. Because one of the biggest pitfalls to our last two overrides was we heard a lot about that there was no strategic plan. Mm-hmm. Um, it was really hard when you take a plan for success that is two pages long and you compare it to something like Milton’s, um, strategic plan, I think was 58 pages. And, and it reflects more of what you’re talking about, who’s doing it, when are they doing it, how will you measure that and what does it cost.

52:08 So when you have a plan like that, it makes long-term fiscal planning much, um, better, more factual. And it’s our, our community has said they will support a well thought out plan. And so I think this will be really helpful when bringing that forth to the community if we can say, listen, we know who’s doing what, when, and how we’re gonna measure the success and what it’s gonna cost. That I, I think that we, we have a community that wants to invest in our schools if we can tell them where their investment’s going long Term. And, and I think, so two other things, Sarah, if you, if I can, um, so two things. One, our current district plan for success, I think is a five year plan crafted. Um, which humbly the district improvement is supposed to be a three year plan. So once I create this, we’re gonna,

52:55 it’ll be on a three year cycle. Mm-hmm. So that’s one, two, I wholeheartedly agree with what you just said because everyone in the community, everyone in the community will have an opportunity to put, give input into this plan. So I’ll get pages and pages and pages of input and I’ll sift through it. And a lot of it’s gonna overlap. I’ve done this before. It’s, it’s, it’s a lot, a lot of work, but a lot of it will overlap. And I will literally go through every comment and I’ll put in what makes sense and I’ll col, you know, collapse all the overlap and I’ll, and I’ll put those things in. So there’ll be some things that are, you know, reflected that make no sense to the, you know, from anyone. There’s, there’s always reflection that’s like, you know, I want something, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That makes no sense to district improvement plan. But most of it is pretty thoughtful. Most of it will be, there’ll be a lot of overlap from,

53:42 you know, staff, um, community members, everything. But at the end of the day, there won’t be anyone that said, I did not have an opportunity to, to, um, be a part of this plan. So it, you know, I’m beginning to hate the word transparency, but transparency is what we need to do. And this is the ca there’s not a more transparent process than this, to be honest with you. Um, and I, and I will stand by that. And, and I think this, this is the way to do it in a way that is helpful. I mean, some people would be like, well, it was on, it was online, it was very cumbersome and I had to read a bunch of stuff. True, true and true. But you will still have an opportunity to give your input. And um, and like I said, I will read through every single comment. I’ve done it before. I’ve done it three times before and it’s, um, it’s a lot of work, but it’s necessary. And, and when we’re done, it will, you know,

54:28 it’s a live document, so it’s not something we just take and say, okay, it’s done. Check, put it on the shelf for the next three years. We have to pull it out and say, Hey principals, remember your school improvement plan needs to dovetail with this, and here are all the errors. There may be some things that we’ve, you know, we’ve met and we’ve completed. That’s fine. Here’s the things we haven’t, here’s where you need to dovetail what you’re doing in your school to meet the district improvement plan. That’s why you do a or strategic plan when, you know, I call it district improvement plan. A lot of places call it strategic plan. Um, it’s the same thing. So, um, I think we’ll be in a really good place once this gets completed, to be honest with you. So Good. And then to show how our, how your goals overlap and intertwine with each other. I just wanna make sure when you went through the layers that the final or some layer will be getting student voice mm-hmm. As feedback for this, whether that’s yes,

55:13 you sitting in on a magic block and getting some, but you will be including some student feedback and voice in the strategic Plan as well. Yes. Um, yeah. I didn’t mention this specifically as one of the groups that I will send the survey thing out to only because it’s, I may, I may with the high school. It depends. Um, yeah. But either way I will, it works out that you Do it. I just wanna Make sure they get, I’ll definitely get input. I think it’s, it’s, it becomes very cumbersome as you move to the next level. Next level it becomes very like, you know, um, cumbersome. But it needs to be. So, you know, not to say that students, you know, wouldn’t give good input. I just don’t know that a lot of students would take the time to read through it. I mean, they may, It may be as simple as you having a magic block or two to say, you know, as we look to moving forward, what are your recommendations? And it’s just a discussion

55:58 And maybe I could just highlight certain areas and say Anything. Yeah. But I just wanna make sure it’s, that’s goods input. No, they will definitely have input. Perfect. Um, so that brings us through superintendent goals, update that. Next is subcommittee and liaison updates. We did meet one week ago, so I’m not anticipating a ton here. Um, the finance, uh, liaisons did meet with fin com last Friday morning. All of that was covered in Mike’s update. Um, to answer your question, Jen, they fin income is aware of the projected pre-payment and we will be meeting again in about a week and a half to talk. We’d run out of, out of meeting, talk about robust meetings. Uh, I think we pushed it up to two hours. So we’ll be meeting again just to talk about where the revolving funds and grants topped off at the last fiscal year and what the projections are for this year.

56:45 ‘cause that’s another layer of transparency we introduced last year, and we wanna keep that going. Right. Uh, the communications we haven’t met yet this month. We met last week to, and then yeah, so we’re, we are gonna be working on the survey to see how the school committee newsletter is being received. And, uh, we’re also putting, um, together some ideas on how we can increase our interactions with the public. So, um, those are the two topics that we’ll be discussing. Uh, this safety advisory committee doesn’t meet until later on this month. The same with cpac, so. Okay. Um, the gentleman at the beginning had asked about a Facebook page. Um, Facebook is not easy as it was a few years ago to get an account. Um, Jen and I tried every angle during,

57:31 um, November to try to get an account. Finally, Jen was able to, um, there’s still, I think, are a few webs around that to, no pun intended, um, to get to work. But I know that you’ve been working diligently on that. And so that will be something I think that will be coming soon. Correct, Jeff? Um, yeah, in fact, I wanted to mention that to Brian. Um, so yes, we were able to finally secure a school committee Facebook page. Um, worked with Steve Ek. He was instrumental in that. Um, so thank you to him. Um, so I wanna work with Brian and Al. I may actually even, even come to a meeting. We’ll have to figure it out. Come to a communication subcommittee meeting, we’ll post it properly. Um, ‘cause I think what the important thing is, um, to the gentleman, I think it was Mr. Cantor who, who made the comment earlier.

58:17 Um, I do think it could be a very valuable, um, social media account for us, but we also have to be really careful about it. Um, uh, I think we, you know, have to talk. I think it would be just for posting updates and things like that. And I think the communication subcommittee should be weighing in on that. Um, and then also talking about who’s gonna be doing the posting and what are we post. There’s a lot of moving parts. So I, I appreciate Hi, you know, his, his input and request and, and we’re working on it. Um, and two, also to that comment from the beginning, Sarah, I don’t know if the budget subcommittee has talked about this or not, and John wants to weigh in, but there was the mention at the beginning some concern around federal, um, funding at the federal level. Yes. Um, so I don’t know. I mean, I have some thoughts, but I, I, I’ll defer to the, we Have discussed it. Um,

59:03 we, that, that took up, um, a portion of our, our meeting last week at the, the subcommittee. Um, I think we’ll probably talk more, a little bit more about that when we get into the grants, the next one. Um, but it definitely is something that’s been on everybody’s radar. Um, John really spoke to the fact that it’s, until we know more currently, nothing is being withheld until we know more. Um, we can’t necessarily react. But it’s definitely something that is being discussed between FinCon and the finance subcommittee. Um, the superintendent, the finance director, um, and we’re just kind of in a holding pattern right now. My understanding is Desi is coming out with some more guidance in the coming week or so,

59:48 and until we get some more guidance on that, we, we don’t really have anywhere to go. Yeah. That encapsulates it pretty well. I mean, it’s 976,000 I think, ish, uh, for the, for those grants. Um, and I think, uh, 976,000 ish, I don’t have the actual numbers. Um, but I think, uh, yeah, for what Sarah said is, is accurate. My, my, my stance is until our Massachusetts Department of Education tells us something different and or there’s legal, um, legal, uh, notification that we have to do something different, I’m staying status quo. Um, and if the federal stuff kind of trickles down, we’ll, we’ll deal with it when we get there. But I, I, I really struggle with knee-jerk reactions around stuff. And I know some of this may not be knee-jerk at this point,

1:00:34 so I don’t wanna have my head in the sand. So we, we are starting to have those conversations about if, if it does come to fruition, then what, um, we just, you know, we, we need to have those more specific conversations between myself and Mike and the, uh, budget subcommittee. So we, we, we will be having those conversations. I see Mike’s hand up. Yeah. Just to click on, on top of that, um, the money that’s allocated cannot, uh, only a small portion could be carried into the future years. Like 15% could be tied into an the next year. So even tightening our belt right now on those funds would do us no, uh, great benefit. There’s, there’s no way we can carry a large amount into another fiscal year. And everything that we get this year was actually allocated last year. So we’re working on last year’s federal government allocation.

1:01:19 And it’s, um, you know, it’s, it’s not something that we can take action on right now to secure funds for the future. Right now we are at the liberty of the federal government.

1:01:29 Yeah. Um, and I just wanted to say too, I mean, Sarah, you’ll probably concur with me and Brian too. Like, I’m, I’m a big sort of process person and, um, you know, I think that it’s, you know, we have to stay focused on what our, you know, what our procedures are, what our processes are. To John’s point, we are under the direct regulation of the State Department of Education, second dsi. Um, and we also have attorneys, um, who advise us. So we, you know, we have, um, you know, folks in place whose, whose job is to help us guide, guide us through these waters. Um, and you know, obviously we’re not alone. There’s 300 plus other school districts in the state of Massachusetts. Um, and we are not, um, you know, we’re, we’re, we’re focused on it. And we will, we will take advice from the, from the professionals who will, will help guide us on this.

1:02:17 And just for one additional layer of data and transparency, we, um, last year we, we began the process of listing all of our grants and revolving funds. But what Mike had, he touched on this a little bit before when he talked about circuit breaker. What he’s going to do in the, throughout this budget process is also list where those individual, for instance, circuit breaker, what that’s offsetting in various line items. So if God forbid something were to happen, we have another layer of data and transparency so that we would be really prepared to, um, figure out next steps.

1:02:55 Um, so Sarah, I just wanted to mention, um, policy subcommittee is meeting tomorrow, um, at, uh, I believe it’s 1130. Um, and we will be having, um, we will be talking about the flag policy, and we will also have, um, Alicia Mallon from MASC, who’s gonna be helping, um, some initial discussions with Allison and I talking about the operating school committee operating protocols that we’ll be, uh, reviewing and possibly, um, um, updating with a, a presentation eventually to the school committee, which was one of the school committee goals for this year. Um, and the only, and the other thing I’d like to mention, which is’ really a specific subcommittee, but, um, the school committee will, um, be meeting next week on the 11th to do, uh, also with our MASC representative Alicia Mallon, um, to be, um,

1:03:43 um, going through the superintendent evaluation process and developing what that’s going to look like as we move forward later into the spring, um, in review the superintendent. Perfect. And that’s a posted meeting. Very good. Um, closing business. Anybody school committee announcements or requests? No. Um, correspondence. We got a tremendous amount of positive correspondence, um, as we touched on before. And I have to say, this has been a, a wonderful meeting and a wonderful week. And I am going to adjourn us. Wait, Nope, nope. Update on the hockey game. Oh, sorry. We lost, I’m sorry to be a downer, but the hockey boys hockey loss. So great Season. Well, congratulations. Great Season how they did do, getting as far as they went.

1:04:30 Proud of them. Yep. Um, Proud of them. And congrats on, on getting as far as you did. So tough, tough loss. Yes. Um, okay. Sorry that you were ending on A good note. I know, but I, I, I said I journal us at 7 0 5. Thank.