##VIDEO ID:jB1Wlmuzyww## [Music] school committee meeting of the new school year I'm a call it order and a reminder that we have the camera going now we do now we do okay got to make sure we know this meeting is being recorded and if anyone is intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting you should notify me at this TimeWise for benefit of everybody else it is being recorded do we have any public participation all right seen none looking for an approval of minutes from the July 11th meeting so move any further discussion see none all in favor I think that was unanimous Karen right um Mr andreon is prepared to talk about EV charging stations Mark I think you all heard a full um a full presentation and maybe you would like to summarize what we you saw and heard and can mron and Company are uh presenting tonight um to uh propose that we uh put uh EV charging stations on the ca property for the benefit of our faculty students and uh the general public in uh the area these charging stations are a little bit different than uh the typical ones this is a different level and I'll let her explain for that they're quick charging uh device and there is an opportunity for us to uh proceed with some Revenue input from this um to help provide met programs here at Silver Lake as well as the idea the technology in our parking lot would be a nice thing for our students to see as a possible career choice so without that Mr and so I have a PowerPoint I could go through it' be a little bit more exhaustive if I do or I can just off the rip talk about what we're proposing to do for the town or for the school district uh if standing here is okay with everybody then I'll just do that or if you would like me to stand in the center I can do that as well but I won't be able to I think if you stand there and give us the off the roof and then okay very good well thank you everyone for uh the time tonight I appreciate moving me to the front so that I can have some dinner before you um so it a little bit about uh the company that I'm representing uh I'm one of the owners we're annovis energy we were founded in 2019 both my business partner and I came out of our last company as things went a little bit sideways there when they went uh public on the stock exchange um we jumped into the EV charging space right in 2019 because we heard that the utility companies were going to be getting into what's called decarbonization a lot of our relationships are with ever and National Grid uh since that time in 2019 we've installed about a th000 ports in about uh 15 different states in the country so really understand the technology right now there's a limited window that is closing on fast charging rebates so when I say it's closing we don't know if it's going to go away in a year or two or if they're going to reduce the amount of money they're paying how it's relevant to the town is there's a business model specific to the m municipalities that works really well where a third- party investor will pay for the stations and they will maintain own and operate the stations at a municipal site so that the municipality doesn't have to take responsibility for taking care of the stations maintaining them and in exchange for having the stations on site for a set amount of time there's a revenue share what we've offered through the third party to uh Silver Lake Regional High School is a two- tiered offer uh one would be if we just do this site here then that um company would share 20% of the profit with the high school or the the school district um and then if we get the site in uh at Kingston Elementary School we would combine that and offer a 30% profit share um so that's how that works I want to talk a little bit about EV and where it's going um we've seen a pretty significant uh increase in EV sales in this country from you know somewhere around 100,000 units in 2013 to in 2018 there was about uh 350,000 units sold the trend has gone off slightly over the past one or two years it's still maintaining but it's not shooting up like it did in 18 and 17 and 16 um one thing we need to understand about uh EV I I drive a Tesla um is it is technology and what happens with technology is because it's technology it continues to improve so about two months ago about four weeks ago there was a big EV show out in Los Angeles uh my car right now will get about 320 M of range per charge and that takes me about 40 minutes to to uh to fill up at a fast charging station which is what we're talking about putting in at the district um now Samsung just released a new battery it's called solid state so with solid state batteries there's uh significantly less risk of fires they don't respond to cold uh nearly as much as the lithium ion battery does and this particular battery is designed to charge in 10 minutes with a range of 600 miles so that's like a gamechanging Leap Frog technology that's right they're going to actually be producing these in vehicles next year in 2025 the purpose of me sharing that with you is EV adoption is underway I just came out of a meeting with a guy from Kanas City who came out to our office and was explaining what's happening in California it's happening in Michigan it's happening in Ohio Indiana we've done some work in Texas this technology is moving so the numbers that I'm going to project for you in just a few minutes here are estimates based on today's usage 5 years from now I would anticipate we're probably going to have 40 50 60% more usage than we do right now does that make sense any questions okay one question sorry I've got a question so would these be Tesla only or like Tes Tesla specific charging stations um or like my husband drives an Eevee that is not a Tesla Model are these more Broad applicable so this is a great question Amy because what's happening is there's a consolidation in the market um Tesla was really smart in the way that they've rolled out their supercharging Network to be very specific the difference is what's called a CCS adapter versus uh a KNX adapter and KNX which is also the anacronym is a uh North American charging standard that's what Tesla the port is it's kind of getting universalized so with my Tesla I now have an adapter that will allow me to plug into a CCS charging station generally the way we're specifying because each um unit has two plugs so it's a dual Port unit one plug will be CCS one will be KNX however it really is becoming a nonissue because it can all be interchanged with adapters does that answer your question yes it does thank you great um I wish that I oh yeah yeah go ahead so I'm not familiar with EV vehicles I don't drive one but when I think of a parking spot I think of like a teacher coming in for work for the day but if these are EV spots that means that there's going to be continual traffic rotation yes throughout so is this something that you've identified a specific area on campus or where would yes so there's two options one which is my original proposal would be to be right on the corner of 27 and the parking lot in what I believe is called the senior parking lot upper lap upper lap thank you however I did discover three-phase power on the up Road next to the admin building and it might make sense to relocate the original suggestion to the first six spots in that part of the parking lot because I would Gander it's probably a lot less traffic in that area to clarify those are the spots painted red right now that are uh your overflow parking spots right but further from the the school but closer to the admin building in the middle school and then by the spring they are assigned because we have more drivers than spots okay thank from a revenue perspective um in the short term I would recommend over in the senior lot just from a revenue perspective but medium long term once people understand that these stations are here then it won't matter I I just as a safety issue for students I mean what I mean it's safer meeting what is it 40 minutes for a full charge mhm so or just random people just going to be walking around the Lots because they don't want to sit in their cars I mean that's a safety issue we have no idea who's coming on school grounds and now they're just walking around and oh I'm just charging my car we have no idea who these people are and it's it's a big concern for me just uh and especially where you have it primarily set into a student parking lot sure yeah I mean all I can say um is um that that's valid uh Franklin has done this their Chargers are literally on the side of the building and they have not had this trouble um or they haven't so far had any problems um and then just personally like anecdotally when I charge my car at a fast charger generally I'm on my device mhm checking emails and um so I don't know that you would have uh trouble with people walking around the school campus uh but again that's just me anecdotally I tend to how long as Franklin hethers um they have put we put them in over there uh in last December I think okay um you know the the benefit to their Community he they're they're saying that having the charging stations there is actually uh increased adoption of EVS they're seeing more and more traffic come to the school during off hours uh charging um and he's gotten several uh emails from people in the town thanking them for putting the stations uh and being able to be a public uh accessible charging Point any other questions before I continue yes is there any chance that silet could lose money or that there are any costs that we would need to incur as a result of putting these units in the only responsibility that you're going to have that has some cost Associated is making sure that those stations are free and clear of snow that's the the spaces need to be guaranteed and the spaces need to be free and clear from snow yes how many guaranteed spaces do you how many what how many spaces parking spes parking spots six six is enough because there will be six charging stations right there'll be three charging stations with two plugs per station okay we don't need any uh space for the people waiting no okay um what happens if they're damaged somebody drives away still connected takes a you know like who's responsible for any damage so the charging stations will be on an insurance policy paid by uh the owning entity so the third party will pay for the um insurance policy um fortunately because it's electronic I was not able to drive away when I was plugged in which I tried to do once won let do that who is this third party it's a company called charging networks I a couple comments yep but just uh the presentation you encage is pretty close to what we heard as a a facility safer committee um I did some research uh regarding zoning uh with the Kingston zoning um officer and uh his original opinion was that um you know a commercial use of of of this was going to have an issue I touch B again with him today and it it was not um in a situation where he felt this would be a showstopper to the operation uh especially seeing we would be using them for either fact the admin uh building Personnel or students um going forward as well he said considered an assessor use after further thought on it so um the the other part that um uh our Silver Lake graduate by the way um uh uh presented in the other was that uh typically uh organizations like ourselves that he has provided us with a sample contract and our um school council has reviewed that contract in its um You Know sample form and identified a couple things that we can easily address the renewal Clause uh removal Clause would be in there so the equipment would have to be removed this is basically a a land lease we're leasing the property in exchange for a share of the profits um I will tell you I did reach out also to the Kingston Town Administrator they have this on the 26th of September I believe for the Kingston school committee to consider um basically the 30% offer if we have another client another uh party within our region was come back and there is an uh credit for educational use from what I understand is that correct um I'm not familiar with educational use credit but uh the incentives are are they're very high right now um National Grid which uh fortunately we're not in National Grid territory they put put a pause on um approving charging station applications because the program's over subscribed ever source is not there yet but I would suggest you get an application in as soon as possible um to avoid uh the program shuttering until it's refilled another question we have an option to um get permitting for the six stations and perhaps put in four if we didn't feel like we it to and then um add to that if the permit was approved so that we don't it when they become more popular that's a little tough um the reason is eversource is going to size the Transformer accordingly so we could get for example three stations approved then you could reduce to four but they would on the application would reduce the size of the Transformer so it's sized for the amount of stations that we're putting in and you would indicated there only certain number of transform is manufactured and I thought perhaps that they would go with the six six is is like the sweet spot right yeah we could do four but the Transformer would be sized for four sorry U Luke yes if we get involved two other times it's going to go to 40% I think 30 is the C no you said you said 40 did I say 40 yes you said 40 let's go yes is there a way to set like working hours or business hours for the Chargers so that if there's a safety concern during the school day it could be before and after dismissal or weekends or is it a 24/7 it's the requirement is the public would have access for 12 hours a day and I'm not exact like it can be everything can be accomplished with technology nowadays um the way to do that during school hours for um faculty and students there would have to be some kinds of fob some kind of a you know what I mean that would give them access but nobody else um that can be done um but there would be probably some additional costing involved I'm not sure during the school day staff member or student would have to go and then move their vehicle after that charging time ended right yeah that's the you get dwell charges um which is more profit for you but but then they're missing they're paying more money but then students faculty are incurring that charge and they just can't like up and leave and say oh sorry my car is fully charged I have the lead now and where that is it's not like a you know I'll be back in 2 minutes it's I'll see in 105 depending on the weather yep so you can set dwell charges and start kicking in as long as you want so it could be an hour um you know you get notified on your phone that you're 80% full and that in such and such amount of time dwell charges will start so we could definitely put something in play that would work but if this is geared towards During certain times towards the administra administrative faculty student staff whatever they just can't just all of a sudden you know in between a break I'm sure that they have other things that they have to do and probably not unplugging their vehicle and it just they already have enough on their plate so my problem is them having to worry about oh I have I have I got like 10 minutes and then when I get out of here I was supposed to go to guidance but now I have to run out it's and teachers have to prepare for their next class so it's a even the physical yeah yeah that's that's my thing yeah J do you have something else you want to just a question uh you mentioned Franklin are there any other districts in mass that have accepted these proposals them so we're right now in process of installing 85 ports in Barnstable at several schools in towns uh Town buildings for for Barnstable um Boston right now is putting in I think 300 Chargers um uh throughout scattered throughout the city um West for I think we installed 255 or 24 stations in the town of Westford uh those are all level twos [Music] um there's a lot happening right now in this industry MRIs do you have other points you want to make um you know with an app called plug share you can see where stations are located there's very few um level three stations almost none around here so I think it's be a very good opportunity um for both parties um right now Franklin High School is seeing about 33 sessions per week uh that would yield somewhere between $1,500 and $117,000 depending on the profit share and as my friend uh luk brought forward if it went to 40% it would be even more than that and that's again at today's rate of use it's going like this yes I'm sorry clarify the the 11,5 to 17 is that a 20% is that 20% 115 okay 30% 175 and so if we add uh 6,000 to that it would be about 23,000 my ma teacher did well that would be for 40% yeah thanks are we taxed on that income you would be taxed as a1099 type of thing yeah so Mark where does the sav committee stand on this do you have a recommendation yet are there still more studies to do are there things you need to clear with Fred are you looking for a vote um well obviously Fred would have to chime in on the final contract to be signed we don't didn't feel that we were ready to have the superintendent sign a um an agreement at this point um but we certainly wanted to give Mr andreon uh the benefit of of the presentation in Tim and manner so he can get his permitting in if if then and the buildout explained is a 5 to six months so generally it takes um and all of this is predicated on the incentives the way they are right now so we want to get the application in generally what we're finding from ever source is taking five to 6 months to get those approvals in place once they're in place then we put final details in terms of the contracts and S host agreements those get signed at that time so you can proceed with the permitting without us officially voting 100% to support the uh so generally we're not going to do any permitting work until we know know that we have an agreement of some sort yeah yeah but we could work on that 40% as we get closer um I I did also want to add that uh SRE has offered to come into the school during career days and uh present the information uh not just that he presented today but the technology that's involved with these um to the student body and he had a dog and pony show he's been asked to do this before so it would be a benefit to us students to actually hear a presentation about some of the new technology as they go forward um my my opinion personally as an individual uh memb is that if they can be placed on site without impacting U the significantly impacting the school um uh the area down by the Admin Building and the entrance to the Middle School seemed like a better spot uh for them at this point for the impact of the parking um parking lot they won't have the same visibility to the student stent body as they would in his original proposed site um the other site that I um saw this afternoon um after our meeting yesterday is the um they could be uh put on the Lake Street Parking Spot out by the maintenance sheds there's uh 12 spots that face F Street uh six of them were full of Vans and the other six were full of folks walking on to the football field um those spots didn't seem to be assigned anybody particularly they weren't numbered I'm not sure exactly how they're used Michaela but um that's more of a utilitarian area of the campus because of the maintenance facilities I don't think they would be a bigger impact over there um might have to reconsider our one-way uh Passage through there but people can follow the oneway signs to get to their EV station I assume too so I I think looking at those three sites of the of the three I would prefer going over to the admin building side or being put out on the corner of lake in pemro Street and the three face power on both Lake Street and on pmro street so you could pick it up I think pretty easy in both places that's my I'm I'm I'm in support of moving forward um conceptually with at least 30% guaranteed to the region uh the 20% deal didn't seem worth our time um but I I think the the revenue base the perception of the revenue that we're we're working on and I firmly believe that this type of vehicle is going to take off a little more and we would have those available to encourage our students to be think more uh towards the environment and the this alternate kind of vehicle just wondering if there's a cut off the that we would have to um agree by getting information from ever source which is exceedingly difficult so there's not a cut off date until they tell me the program is closed um but I can't stress the importance of allowing me to get those application in the application submitt is not obligatory which means we can get you in line and you don't have to go forward even if you get an approval you just tell them that that appli canel so I don't see there any risk to doing that and um the downside is if we miss the window we miss the window so it sounds like what you could use tonight would be a vote to proceed with the application um which could also be understood as not binding this continue that would be great if we did not wish to continue first say pending her whatever the other just point of order I don't believe there's a potential vote on the agenda think we have agenda do we know we will but it doesn't it's assumed if it's on the agenda that might be a v contact ask the wording is uh reasonably anticipated yeah MH okay I have one further point of discussion this kind of goes back to Jen's question about the safety and I guess this is addressed to you Michaela um so I know at a lot of schools there are people coming and going to use the facilities I don't know what our high school policy is are members of the public allowed to run on the track during the school day or anything so they're not okay so that would be that's my thing like I started to kind of spiral head into like all different you know because you can only spend so much time in your car and you know what I mean that's my biggest fear and even after hours when kids get out of school there's Sports and track and it's middle and high school so there's always a lot going on till I don't know even what tomorrow night Friday Night Lights 7 o' so it's constant con that's I think the only month we really you guys get off really is like July because come August it's tryy outs and it's like you're in theck things well not you you heard that right no I know you guys work every day 365 but I'm just saying like yeah we have summer school um there's like strength and conditioning some camps but not as not as much for about that so yeah no school's never really closed we could put cameras I assume yeah take to that probably behoove your insurance policy too to have the camera on the on the site anyway so I I think there's there additional things for us to discuss I think there's additional things for the safer committee both to um consider and to um bring forward um for a possible final recommendation um it appears to me I don't think I see a lot of harm in us uh putting in an application um that doesn't bind us to anything um seems like that might be wise to do I can tell you from my own personal standpoint and this is partly reflected on what's on the uh agenda overall um I am extremely interested in fighting even for nickels and dimes um in terms of pulling in um revenue and free cash flow and things like that um given what you know could be or is even likely to be the challenges of our finances at the end of the year whether they're directly our finances or or the finances of the uh towns um separately so ours might look okay and the elementaries might look tougher so to speak and with that understanding I would like to see us get to a healthier model overall and as I said I'm um very interested in fighting even for nickels and dimes that gets us to a healthier model um so I'm at least interested in exploring it so that said I think we probably need to round up the topic this evening we're half hour into the meeting and we've covered one item on a very long agenda so um we could either use a motion or everybody can agree we're not moving yet but I I don't see it as as an issue to have a motion to proceed with the application I like make that motion to proceed to the application process and have authorized superintend to sign an agreement to uh apply and and at that point for the program um pending um the application process we can revisit that for final Fe I one more questions have second second okay go ahead um Mrs Gil in regards to the parking spots because I know that they're extremely difficult to come by you said that those red spots are used for overflow in the spring but would anyone be losing a parking privilege if we were to move forward with the application this gets approved this year would anybody use the red spots if we would anyone like this affect your no students this year would lose a parking spot what we use those spots for now is because we assign spots so I'm going to use chis our student rep as an example right what's your spot number she's got 60 she's in spot 60 right if someone was visiting our school they had a meeting at the school that morning and they happened to park in her spot or another student parking her spot she would go to that red spot so that she is guaranteed a spot that day and not parking The Faculty thought so that's what we mean by overflow during the school year they're not currently assigned to any one student but by spring when our Juniors our younger juniors are licensed or purchase their vehicles we do have a significant number of students who register for parking the second half of the year and by then we are running low on spots so we tend to assign those usually starting in like March or April after after we know Snow's not coming anymore my concern is just six doesn't sound like a lot until six people are looking for spots half that half that bank do we need to add a review and approval by Russ to the motion um I mean I'm not against it I I would assume that the fact that it's nonbinding in the fact that um we uh intend to um continue to review it and get a recommendation from safeer and have a full committee approval before any a Further full committee approval before um officially going through with it I think all of that would be Li and one last one I promis for this um do we do you have a general consensus of what was it Franklin yeah what what their revenue is and what they're going to be tax on what they're actually making a month for having so Franklin has level two stations at the high school okay I base these economics off of translating their data to here right now they're not charging for their charging you heard me correctly they're offering it for free someone's got to be paying cuz if it's free it's too good to be true so who's really paying for this well the T of Franklin is paying for the electricity coming through the high school um now they're right now asking me to put together plan to make it so that they can start charging so that's in the works that would not be a intention are you feeling better yeah I have a question now and I'm sorry um because I just sent myself an email to call the school business manager in Franklin and ask how the revenue works and now you're saying I can't call that person for that because they're not getting Revenue so I'm going to need you to send me a contact of somebody in Massachusetts that is a school that receives this type of Revenue sure just because I have things to figure out yeah thank you Lucas yes I just wanted to say that uh I'm a part of sfr committee and uh we had a long discussion about that I think the impact is minimal it's not going to be forever it's only 10e agreement right there's no doubt that the EV Vehicles is it's a future so it's only going to grow and uh that's that's I think we came to uh conclusion to to accept it and to move forward take aul all right well I have a motion on the floor one last question anyway for me on this topic I've heard the word tax a few times there's no tax impact to us on on this correct cuz I mean if we if we getting 12,5 Grand 17 grand and then tax it Jen asked and he said there was he said it's $199 $199 but municip I need to go back and that's correct I need to go back and look into that yeah CU if there's a tax impact which I can't believe from municipality for school there would be right we're not a privately owned like I was looking on your website and you got them at like s in other places those are for-profit businesses so they are going to be paying taxes but we're a school it's a very good question and I'll clarify that that's part of part of the diligence and homework that's still definitely need um and that we should work up over the course of time so any further discussion okay we have a motion on the floor to proceed with putting an application in which would not bind us to um the installation of the station so it would just put the application in pursuant to further diligence discussion and final approval of the committee all in favor that was unanimous okay all right so um the next note I had added in there CU and I already kind of given something of my preamble to it um and we've spoken long enough so we might on on this uh EV topic so we might um postpone addition a lot of additional discussion for um thanks guys appreciate it um we might postpone a lot of additional discussion for for future meeting but as I said um I'm particularly interested in doing anything and everything that helps us get into a better model and uh I called Mark one day and you know said things like can we have a fishery Outback can we do um can we raise fish for uh stocking can we do I mean if there anything is there anything further that we can do um on the property that would be Revenue generating is there anything about CTE that we could um grow expand and again I'm happy to fight for nickels and dimes because every $100,000 of sort of freestanding cash flow is a teacher's job so um that was really sort of the concept um Mark if you want to add anything to that um we can keep this kind of brief because we've spent so long on the EV stations which is kind of Done In The Same Spirit but in a nutshell I was able to to discuss with v and tell what of his ideas we've already beat down the bush tried to pursue and uh unfortunately didn't come up with anything and and some of them are still possible uh the CTE kids are currently raising uh uh Marsh uh Doom grass on the town property behind us I'm not sure if there's a a profit revenue for it but it's an educational process so there's a lot of that stuff going on um we've investigated that part of my report I'll talk briefly about why the solar canopy project is uh is not going to provide U cash flow at this Point we've vetted that pretty extensively so we have given and continue to look at that we discussed things like our sewage treatment plant is eligible to certify sewage treatment plan operators if we could put a program together for that we could provide that the state can come down run their Certification testing and they can produce uh some pretty highly paid uh operators to operate sewage treatment plan but we're continuing at the safer committee to think way outside the box and every Revenue source we can and we're going to bring them to you one at a time and uh anything that we can even bake a little bit we're going to bring to you okay thank you anybody have anything else they want to add to that discussion I was going to have a more open discussion but like I said we spend a l time anybody's welcome to call me from the general public or from the committee and uh plant the idea and we will put it on the agenda for the safer group to review and uh process we do have another meeting coming up on September 26th uh that we can uh discuss anything that anybody has thank okay um for the March meeting date our March meeting day conflicted with the uh spring concert and um I want to try to give a deference to the spring concert um we've had cases where we conflicted with the spring concert and we' had people dashing to and from and things like that but um I think that um I I thought there was a good case to be able to move so we would be proposing to move um our meeting date to March the 6th I think that actually moves us um up in the schedule with the idea that we need to be voting budgets right around that time to meet um you know our statutory mandates for for towns so we don't want to move back we want to move uh forward so um anybody have any questions comments um worries about that or any bad conflicts or anything like that so um that is the it's the first Thursday of the month that is also say as a pack meeting yes somebody did raise that which would might mean we might have to excuse you for it yeah so that would be it I also I I spoke with Mr Pasco about maybe they could start a little bit earlier so they could start at like 4:30 or 5 and then done by the time yeah which just puts a lot of pressure on working parents and I I don't mind us having our hand force a little bit on getting our budget stuff in line if we can give difference to to motion to move the 13th to the 6th any further discussion okay all in favor as all right um we had I can't remember if it was a parent or somebody else write in and say um hey cell phones are a giant dist distraction in the classroom and um there are plenty of districts that are Banning their use within the classroom um and um should we look at that as a districtwide policy um my understanding at least from my kids at various times is that at least some of the teachers have had um uh classroom policies of no cell phones and at times has everybody put their cell phones in a bin as they walk in and things like that they try to force that um early on and then um I probably the discipline sort of disappears as the time goes along but I wanted to open up uh I wanted to hear from the administration first on um thoughts on having a cell phone policy or if there is a practice that we were already doing and that we could do more of and Chris is like I don't my pH time so I asked one of our new teachers today you know in the first 20 days that you're here I'd love to know you know if something's wrong or something you know in your last District you did better and he goes I have never been in a district where I have not seen a cell phone so in six 5 days 5 days of school he has not seen a cell phone our policy is that students have to keep it in their lockers I have not seen one yet so I do not have a concern about cell phones at the middle school level so that's been a that middle school policy correct correct SCH I believe that's right I think I think um my kids were more or less unreachable during the day that's good to hear and that that was really well enforced at the middle school on education the high school policy is a little different they're a little bit older allowed to use their phones during passing time and during their lunch wave but they are not allowed to have their phones during instructional time that includes the classroom the hallways offices so if they're asking to leave to go to the bathroom they're not supposed to have their phones um they can either keep them in their backpacks our kids don't really use lockers at the high school level it's the weirdest thing to me um or teachers have like a a phone storage bin on their desk so some teachers will collect them there um they are allowed to use them in class for academic Purp purposes at the teacher discretion you know there are some like quizlets and apps that they'll use or if they're doing you know special projects where they're making movies or taking pictures sometimes it's easier than using their Chromebook um this was the hill we committed to dying on last year as a as a staff um so at the beginning of last school year we hammered in our cell phone policy to students and families and across the board our staff were consistent with enforcing our policy I took on all the cell phone referrals I took that off of our assistant principal's plates and there were you know some frequent flyers who you know we spent a lot of quity time together but you know by their second or third offense I was collecting their phone and mom and dad had to come and pick it up um I got to know a few parents pretty close last year um but for the most part I mean the kids that it's enforced the kids follow it um we had a couple of different working groups throughout last year where we invited students and staff to kind of speak to the was they thought it was a new policy but really were just enforcing the policy um you know our students that sat on that panel really commented on you know they don't love it but they don't feel like they're missing out on anything because they know their friends also aren't on their phones at the same time um and then last spring we had a couple of tweaks we wanted to make after living it for a year so last spring I had presented those handbook changes to you that were approved um just to sort of like really specify what the discipline followup would be for students who are using their their phones when they're not supposed to um but it it's it's been great our staff did a great job of being consistent they've already started off with that consistency this year I mean Chrissa maybe you can speak to a little bit as a student um as a student I definitely I think ever since cuz I was there before the cell phone policy went in and after there was a very large change for sure and all the staff I've seen them be like even in my classes with like seniors they're still like really strict with it like give referrals and stuff like that and the only class I've really Ed my phone in is Art to like get like photos and take photos of art so yeah it's really turned into a nonprofit and I think because of of the policy of the middle school right like last year's freshman this your sophomore is like this this is nothing new for them this is like you get to use during passing time this is great um so they're a little bit more trained it's our current Juniors and seniors that is the biggest impact on So within two years no one's going to know any different so it's been good go ahead um obviously they have an impact it it can be used for cheating or Googling the answer to the test uh too um but U I was curious how you regulate the Apple watch same way I mean teachers are pretty cognizant of if kids are looking at it you know they can't have them on during mcast testing um you know I mean there are so many ways that kids can cheat they want to cheat they're going to buy it away um but our teachers are pretty Savvy you know our our our exams aren't multiple choice questions right children or students have to demonstrate their understanding through Project based assessments or writing so it's not as easy to so Apple watch oh it is it's part of yeah they they can't have them and they have to be in their locker or I take them thank my sister-in-law is a teacher and she says it's is how many students think they're getting away with something and I see them is like you're looking at your watch and just so everyone's aware policy isn't just the formal policies that we adopt in the policy manual annually the principles of our buildings come to us um with recommendations for their handbook and we vote upon the handbook so by default that becomes our policies and as the school committee and similarly with when we do strategic planning if the Strategic plan is presented to the school committee and we vote to accept that strategic plan um that becomes policy as well so not everything is the alphabet soup to read policy situation so these are formally our policies too by the fact that we voted on the have a so any worries or further discussions about where we are does do anybody feel like they seemly need to adjust or change anything like that happy for the information though thank you appreciate it all right Ste your principal report first I would like to honor um our one of our teachers Lorie Parker who has been teaching for 30 years many of them in silver Le um she's a math teacher and she's retiring on September 19th we have a slew of new teachers in many different disciplines but I will start with somebody who will never replace her but certainly um has her classroom right now that's Ali mot we welcome her to seventh grade math we welcome Carla Estrada to our Spanish position um Liam Sweeney is our new Wellness Co our Wellness teacher but he is also a coach and Sate Erica Swift to special education Chris Davis to science Sam Pendergast Ela andk than to all of you Lana tresko is now full-time at the middle school I also wanted to just bring attention to um you know the front of the school um the amn ambassadors came in August August 22nd to help organize the Opening Ceremonies for the school prepare an opening um assembly they they organized and um practice how to do announcements all done by former amasty ambassadors thanks to Miss Gill and some sophomores that came over um they did it better than I would ever teach them it was amazing um and they also decorated the front windows which you can see when you come in I also want to just recognize the custodial work this summer um it was a team effort but the whole entire first floor I'm going to say it again the whole entire first floor was painted the gym floor thanks to the safer committee and their support was ALS Al refinished um sanded all the way down to the hardwood and if you go in there it looks like a brand new gymnasium so thank you for all of um your support and for the teamwork in our building we're very proud that is my report I have a little bit more apologies in advance um we welcome some new staff members this year as well Megan Willis and Olivia souland our new Math teachers in our department Elizabeth MCC joins us our curriculum team as our special ed coordinator Mike lob returns to Silver Lake he is taking over our Pathways program we welcome Christina White um and Keith McKay in our science department Matt alberes Josh Raymond and Michelle scuo in our CTE Department Zachary yakubian is our new full-time ESL teacher we're thrilled so thank you again for your support with that position and um Rachel McGuire's out she's taking a year U maternity leave so we have Deb depal filling in for her for the year um as you know we had to make some cuts to our budget last year that impacted our two-day freshman orientation program so We Shrunk it into a 2hour program that relied solely on volunteers we had several staff members who came in our guidance counselors um our data coaches helped us out our coordinators and we also had a ton of student volunteers our HS um members came in and led tours and did like a student panel and the weirdest thing all summer long I kept getting emails from students that were like hey can we help out with fresh orientation just random kids who weren't part of a club or an organization and so we had about 15 additional students who came some of them had siblings who were Rising freshmen but I just it was every week I got a different request and come on in so um it was it was overall all things considered it was a solid 2 hours we packed a lot in um for the students I do have four donation requests for you tonight would it be helpful just to State all of them sure okay great um so two are in the CTE Department one is from hangam lumber company out of hangam um they would like to donate building materials um at an approximate value of $3,000 for our carpentry program Christian zanner IV would like to donate a 2006 Ford Expedition for automotive program the Kingston public library and all these documents are in your share drive as well has a slew of books they would like to donate for us um and then I have my yearly donation as my graduation gift to the library and then our PTO would like to donate just under $300 to our unified wellness program to help with the cost of resources and materials for our new program um obviously thank you notes would be sent to all of the donors if you agree I have a motion to accept those motion to accept the donations as described by principal guil second second R any further discussion all in favor thank you and then I have an out ofate field Tri request on behalf of Miss Kelly dep Pasa and Greg duie this is for um members of our selected choir and band who would um be given the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall the trip would be from March 29th to April 3rd which is a little bit wony I think they leave on a Sunday and come back on a Wednesday but that's because they don't want high schoolers to pering Cary Hall on a Saturday night apparently so they gave us a Tuesday um and then in addition to that we would have an opportunity to see a Broadway show visit some historical sites as part of that experience um and the package the cost for students is pretty Steve it's about $1,800 but it would be offset by fundraising and any student who is accepted to perform um wouldn't be denied the trip based on on finances we would make sure that they have that support um yeah I just ask a question how many students would be going those 4 before I think we can bring about 40 kids if I remember correctly so they have to like apply for it be selected um and then I I think even if they don't sing they can be like a company band members for some of them so we'll try to get as many as we can a motion to approve the uh out of District out of out of state so second any further discussion just a question you said it's a Tuesday that they'll be perform how many days of school will they miss and will be they'll Miss Monday Tuesday Wednesday okay and that's obviously excused because it's yeah thank yep and we actually they'll be back in time for um Athletics and other programs on Wednesday that's travel day the leave that morning all in favor right thank you the Silver Lake Hall of Fame committee reached out this summer um they would like permission to fundraise for and create a memorial to be placed on campus honoring the late buddy tens um who attended Silver Lake um unfortunately he passed a year ago he is the winningest coach at Dartmouth he's in the Silver Lake Hall of Fame who's class of 74 um I asked for some more information they had like some samples of other Memorial so they're not quite sure what they want to do yet or what the funny would look like but I told them the beginning stages of that process obviously would be to come to this group first um I can ask them for more information if it's too premature to take a vote because I'm not sure what it would be yet if it's a tree if it's a plaque if it's a brick walkway I'm not sure but um I told them we had a meeting tonight I was hopeful to get more information but I haven't received any additional yet so that could be it love i' i' like to hear more information about what they would like to do in order to vote on it generally speaking on in favor of the concept if you uh don't know American football very well was not just um a great coach at Dartmouth he actually changed the game across C practices of how he um managed um his team to reduce injuries and head injuries and things like that have generally speaking been adopted everywhere across American football um which is pretty aming all right um I do have another program of studies request and update uh we talked about this last July too um as we continue to try to align the course offerings and the level offerings that we have in um Spanish with the ones we offer in French we are looking to add French to honors to the program of studies very similar to um what I explained in July to the committee those of you who are on that call um again we have teachers who are willing to teach both in the same class are taking on that additional prep work um so that students who would like to take it at a higher level would be able to but I would need you our approval to put that officially into our program on studies and I did put the language there's a copy of that I didn't put it in there work together is that for this current year yeah so someone would be upgrading class yeah and then moving forward the idea would be again it would be separate classes forward so I have one question I was reading through this earlier and um there's repeated mentions of AP French this might be jumping again a little bit is that planned to be added to the program studies for next year or further along the future yeah yeah I'm hoping that by next year it'll all be sorry I'm really excited yeah no absolutely didn't know that any further questions for Mel about that motion to approve the update to the course please second any further discussion see none all in favor we're almost done thanks for your patience everyone um so I want I just wanted to bring something to your attention regarding MIAA eligibility and this was put on um our our new ad Rick Swanson's radar and my radar recently when we had a student who was previously enrolled in District signed did spring registration or excuse me registration for fall Sports in the spring when they were enrolled here and then over the summer um ended up transferring out and into a virtual high school and so we sort of had this wait a minute are they eligible to still play football for us um or is is this considered a different school district and therefore they're not eligible so we did a little bit of digging um the first few pieces of information that we found we thought it would have to be a school committee approval but then we found the MIAA language um which states that Commonwealth virtual school students residing in Massachusetts are eligible to apply to the superintendent of schools of the school district in which the student resides and if approved shall be able to participate in inter inter classic Athletics within the district so um I this is just a point of information I wanted to share with you so that you're aware if you get this question or if the scenario presents itself again um moving forward we'll make sure to communicate to these families that they would need to uh we counsel them to email Dr PR requesting um permission and obviousy copying the athletic director on that email but for the Mia it is permissible um but I just wanted to share that with you in case someone is says you know this kid doesn't go to sliver leg why are they playing on the team so I learned something new this summer I have two questions some like along this line um isn't that true that if a child say attends a charter school that does not have a specific sport they could also attend this District that they're from I've heard that before and also homeschooling children are also eligible for home school absolutely that I'm starting on yet I think there are some there's a couple of layers to the charter school students I think it depends on if they have athletic prr programs or not I would have to dig up that have to go deeper into the Mia handbook to confirm but I can I can look into that for the next on the fin no it's a great it's a great question I mean these aren't usual scenarios for us that one stumped it was like a stump the DJ question this summer but yeah um so a student that's enrolled in Virtual uh program or H school is are students subject to grades being effective whether or not allowed to participate in sports they get suspended for a wild period until their grades come up how do you monitor that in the case of so they have to they have to submit their grades to us they submit that to you yeah they have to demonstrate eligibility in the same way okay yeah so eligibility for us um it's not like week by week right so eligibility for fall Sports is based on your year end transcript grades winter is based on term one and spring is based on term two Level Playing yeah yeah all right um our school resource officer officer Allen um for the last few years has he's developed a lot of great relationships with our students who um May otherwise struggle to make connections with someone in in our building and he's very heavily involved in the boxing um program he actually competes himself um throughout the year and he has over the years made great connections with some of our students who just needed a different outlet and um they joined the gym that he goes to um and so he has worked with the new Kingston Chief to try to actually formalize this program and so the Kingston police is looking to launch the Kingston Police Boxing Club um which would be run by KPD would be run by Officer Allen and it would be exclusive to Silver Lake students it wouldn't be open to anybody else um and so over the summer they did a lot of work and these documents are in your shared Boulder as well um to get this up and running there are other high schools that have similar um clubs as well and so I shared sort of a a medical release and consent form that our attorney has reviewed as well um the idea we have a there's a a local boxing gym right down the road that um officer Alan has connected with and they would like to donate free gym time for our students to use under officer Allen's um supervision and so I wanted to share this with you cuz you know we would be looking to share this information with our students and share the flyer and information obvious Bally um Russ did make one suggestion that we update the language to make sure that like silver L this isn't a silver like sponsored event um there is language in here that makes sure that we're not we're held harmless we're not liable for anything at neither as Kingston Police or the town of Kingston um so officer Allen's going to update that um but once that is updated I'm looking for your approval to share this information with our students and families so are you looking for approval tonight or you waiting until I say approval pending the attorney's recommendations if you trust me to make those for you I can run it by bu one more time too before I questions discuss so we can get it started before we have a motion I'll make a motion that we accept the Kingston Police Boxing Club flyer and distribution ending the um updates from Russ second okay further discussion see none all in favor thank you all right and I'm excited to introduce reintroduce Carissa Smith she's our student representative this year elected by her peers at the high school she's going to give a quick little update tonight we're excited to have her she came to a few meetings last year all right where's yours hi um the main thing we have going on in student voles we're going to be hosting Cass um for those of you sorry I'm just going to get the date up September 26th September 26th thank you um so that's going to be a bunch of schools are coming together and we're it's like leadership workshops a lot of that you're going to learn a lot of leadership skills so everyone's very excited about that we also have the first football game tomorrow actually and we have spirit week coming up too so we've been busy planning that and we do have an in school student council Retreat that is also coming up so we can help plan fors cuz it is a lot of work um NHS induction is October 8th so that is exciting for anyone that's getting inducted into that that's things that are going on we didn't to make any schedule adjustments because of Triple E or football or soft anything like that typically like the town would um let us know if they make that recommendation yeah we follow their guidance thank you C so see I feel like you're under selling it a little bit there our student council is hosting 700 students from the state of Massachusetts so like the student council members from all Massachusetts high school will be coming to campus it's our early dismissal day so they'll spend the morning in the auditorium in the cafeteria doing um some bigger presentations and then the afternoon they'll break into workshops throughout the building so we hosted it probably it's about 10 years ago at this point Hannah SE leg um is the Cs president she's one of our senior students which is a pretty big deal it's the first time um um student from Silver Lake has has had that position so she's the head the president of all of student councils in the state so it's a pretty cool opportunity for us and our student council officers are doing a lot to plan for this day so we're leadership in action it's pretty cool so all right I'm done talking now thank you regarding tripa um Kingston school can be met with the board of Select last we for an appointment and they said any guidance will be distributed by the Kingston Board of Health direcor and um there is currently no you said there was a boxing club I was thinking gr when he was in eth grader tried to start a fight club in the long jump pit and his track coaches wouldn't let him do and I was like if he succeeded the first of Fight Club is we talk about Club all right um Sarah I think you're up thank you chairman laws and school committee members for having me here I'm going to start off [Music] by apologizing because this is going to be a completely different show than in the past um one of my goals last year when I came in was to make the transition from Christine Hy to myself as smooth as possible and so my financial report I tried to model after her financial report and I'm going to start tonight by telling you a story that's going to explain why it won't look like that anymore and I'm going to talk about football helmets so the MIAA requires the football helmets to be inspected and reconditioned or replaced every year and I have put two things into your um into the folder for the financial report one of them is the document that you're using to seeing and one of them is the chart of accounts for the uh from the Department of Education about how we're supposed to report things so imagine my surprise in the spring when I found out that principal Gil who was a rockstar a thanks was budgeting for helmet conditioning under an account um it was a 4,000 account because it was called maintenance of a equipment contractual Services maintenance of equipment contractual services and and according to the Department of Education maintenance of equipment which is a 4,000 account you I love this housekeeping activities relating to the physical plant and maintenance activities for grounds buildings and Equipment expenditures classified as 4,000 expenditure must not exceed per people project dollar limit for Extraordinary mten that's like boilers and um hbac units um or for non-instructional equipment so football helmets actually belong in uh an account that would have the code 3510 which if I read it to you it says Athletics record only the expenditures from appropriated funds used to support Athletics including and it gives a whole list but the second thing on the list is contractual Services there isn't currently a contractual Services line for athletics in our chart of accounts and so this equipment given the description of the account principal Gil put in the best place it could go because there didn't exist another place so one of the things that has happened is you as a school committee and the school committee prior to you for however many years were looking at a year toye toye comparison of things and my reports are going to look a bit different because I have to move some things around so what I'm going to tell you is football helmet conditioning was budgeted for but when we spend the money this year I have to create that line and spend it out of the correct space that way when it's time to do the end of year report it will take me a reasonable amount of time and I can submit it on time not forever which it might take me this year that's the first thing I wanted to say if you were to look at the report the financial report that is in your folder for tonight you would notice at the bottom of page four and it goes over on to the top of page five you'll notice that there's under the um budget balance there's some significant negative numbers there if you look over on the left hand side for what those expenditures are there's there was a naming convention at Silver Lake that when you created an account everything was always capital letters I'm telling you everything I created cre is going because of the changes that need to be made I'm going to put in mower case letters so you can see that these accounts that I created for the were for the extended school year professional staff and support staff I'll be creating an account for extended school year supplies that money had been paid for out of the revolving the preschool revolving account in previous years for this this year it was budgeted and I didn't have these account numbers yet so the money was budgeted in a tuition line 2920 I just haven't moved haven't had the time to move it into the appropriate line so things are going to things are going to look different and and my report is going to be different because you know at some point I'm going to come and say okay I've had the time to move the things to the right place now so you can see that we we spent $9,000 at the integrated preschool for staff for extended school year and we had budgeted $9,000 for that so I have the the money that's been spent but I'm going to have to move money from one part of the budget column to the other part of the budget column As Time makes itself available any questions for my new strange financial report the other big deal which I'm so excited about is that we've made some significant changes in the business office in how we do things and I can tell you that the number on this number on the bottom right hand corner which is the unexpended budget balance to date is the actual balance so everything is being tracked in our financial Software System and I'm going to come to you for meetings and be able to talk to you about things and there's not not going to be any surprises which is a big step forward for us thank you thank you second part of my report for tonight um I I apologize I put this on the agenda and I don't want 100% have all of the uh the paperwork back yet but our FY 23 audit which was the fiscal year that closed on June 30th 2023 4 months before I started working here that audit is complete and um has been signed off on I just don't have the final documents to share with you yet I had hoped I was going to have those and then we had a long weekend for the Labor Day holiday and then the auditor had conference he had to attend which I'm sure was rivy um so I just want to remind you that we have three audits over the course of the year there's the audit of our books as the Regional School District just like Kingston is audited and Clinton is audited so the books are audited and then there's an audit of federal grants over $750,000 and there's the audit of the end ofe report so this FY 23 audit that that is complete that I will definitely have for you next time is the audit that goes to the Department of Revenue the audit that goes to the federal government the single audit for the federal grants is complete I have the corrective action plan in the folder for you if you'd like me to talk about that tonight it's going to look amazingly s similar to the corrective action plan from January because we could I couldn't make any changes between fy22 and FY 23 because I wasn't here yet and um we won't be able to see any significant changes until fi 24 any questions about item two or item three moving on to the high school building envelope bid and award um so this is a project that was part of our FY 24 Capital um the funding for this was our um was last year's Capital money which there was no really real progress made on FY 24 C Capital between July and January so when we entered into the agreement with the house doctor with har habiban associate Architects we have been going full steam off head on many things so with the building envelope study for the Middle School in the high school we um put together the drawings in the facts back in the beginning of July we went out to bid on July 31st the bids were due on August 22 when the bids come in they then go to helan Associates architects for review and they have sent me the letter that I put in your uh folder for tonight which is their recommendation so they we've received 1 2 3 4 we received five bids for the building envelopes study and Commercial masonry Corporation had the lowest bid including the base bid in the two alternates and the amount we had budgeted for that was $100,000 in the FY 24 Capital plan and so this meets our requirements for the bid so I am seeking your approval to award a contract to commercial Mason masonry Corporation for the envelope repairs at the middle school and high school so move second pa um just a quick question do we know when they will start um I have the this is the the schedule from khabib and Associates and it's always a lot of background stuff so on here it says contract awarded September 11th mobilization construction start September 30th substantial completion November 15th thank you so this is all right um motion on the table all in favor unanimous Ken and then if you flip the page on the agenda I'm still at the top of the next page uh prior your fiscal bills impossible vote I have two types of bills again new school business manager changes I said fy2 and I'm sorry fy2 24 ends on June 30th and I presented to you uh encumbered funds that we set aside to spend on things that knew about in fi25 that we were going to spend FY 24 money on and there are bills that have come into us since July 1st um we have a bill for $3,000 to stowman Chandler Miller that came into the business office on July 30th and that's not my favorite one my favorite one is the transportation company that has been sending bills to Christine hey since January and called the office at the beginning of August and said how come you haven't paid us I can't pay bills I don't know about were they emailing they were emailing bills to an email address that had an outof office response that said I've retired please send the bill you please contact Sarah picky so they make and they weren't contacting you and they weren't contacting me until a phone call in August um so it is my understanding and you're going to hear this conversation again for those of you that are um on other school committees because there are some things that have come in that are considered prior fiscal year bills at a regional level we need to pay prior fiscal year bills out of any end we have at a town level prior years fisal bills generally get paid out of um free cash or some other funding source if the town has it uh but what I'm looking for and my computer keeps falling asleep on me is to pay hang on and my password's incorrect uh $18,000 $330 in Prior fiscal year bills of which 3,000 is to our attorney stman chanler Miller and 15,330 is to wcl Transportation Gord ask a question about that are any of those late p no so they didn't Sarah did you say we're paying them out of e and D which is our equivalent to free cash yes can we do that I didn't think we could we have voted I'm sure I that any money movement out of had to the uh voted at town meeting am I wrong on that I don't think I am Jason you want to throw up I think but I just I don't want to say anything that could be misconstrued in this circumstance um we have had a prior incident before where we had a boiler go mid year and we did draw from E for a critical physical plan we do need to notify the towns of the boat and they are allowed to then hold special Town meetings if they choose to if they decline to that is an affirmative vote on behalf of the municipalities to go along with us so we did reach out to the select Boards of the three towns when we had that emergency several years ago I would say this would be akin to it we're not increasing our operational budget we're paying prior years obligations with the empty funds so I think it takes a 2/3 majority vote of us which I think is just academic at this point but we should also communicate it out to uh the select Boards of the three question we have the option to pay it any other way if you have a bag of gold somewhere that I don't know about I would love to hear about it um [Music] it's not an appropriate use of any of our grant funding we don't have a revolving account that's Transportation I'm sorry for the it's a transportation charge cor for which kind of special ed Transportation homeless Transportation homeless transportation and there no grant that that it's available there's no other source that we could based on the fact that we didn't receive this request to pay till after our first school year Mr chair through you to Mark I think our business director has identified the proper okay thank you I have I'll make the motion to use end funds to pay the past Year's bills with the requests that we convey this information to the select boards the three towns second any further discussion just just a quick question um who will be doing the communicating I just want to make sure it actually gets done the chair okay thanks G I will WR that up and send it to you okay all right um all in favor thank you that concludes my report hi thank you so we have um the is implemented we have training and the platform is implemented um a little bit of the bugs we made a Google form for all the questions and concerns people might have had with the new process and there's only been about 12 people and we're going around to the different schools and having open hours of support with each of the teachers um general education teachers at the high school were um trained yesterday afternoon on the new IEP um parent meeting for CPAC will also receive the training they received the training last year and they'll get a follow-up training this this um fall we have um the tiered Focus monitoring process which is the Champs process but it's not it's not um it's from Team I did something wrong no oh we have the chance proc I keep laughing and then we can't look at each other like stop laughing apologize the Champs process for the for this monitoring will be coming this year um and we're got a parent survey for after IEP meetings coming up this well we are going to have a budget report starting next month because we're only into the first couple weeks of school where you'll get a report for all of the UN budgeted financials um every month may I ask a question regarding um the PD that was done for the new IEPs can you please um just I guess Express to the public that this is Desy mandated this isn't something that we rolled out in the district for the new I teach re received training all last year to prepare for this year and then they have additional training Miss as well um all right drer hi everyone um I'm happy to be here thanks for having me and I'm excited to join Silver Lake so this is my first um report and I will make it thorough but brief um a few things that we've been working on one of the things that um teachers participated in new teachers participated in was the studying skillful teacher course which which they spent 4 days in August um with research for better teaching getting professional development and good teaching um strategies so that that occurred in August the second piece is I've been working on the um Essa title Grant so Title One 2 three um and four which helped find lots of different things in the different districts so that's been um something I've been working on and the other piece is the new teacher orientation which happened on August 21st at the high school all new teachers came for um a day um we were able to um introduce the administrators and spend time talking about our strategy for district Improvement and then we were able to go on a bus ride throughout all of the towns which was really helpful and informative for me um also so that was the 21st and then we've also been working on the strategy for district Improvement so what I mean by that is our leadership team met on August 19th um we worked on each one of the goals we worked on action steps and we worked on individual plans for each school so that's work that's happened and the last piece just happened Tuesday which was a professional development day um all of the elementary teachers K through six from throughout the district went to kis um where we worked on um alignment curriculum alignment in particular English language arts curriculum alignment looking at the standards looking at item analysis from preliminary mest reports and also um connecting with our own curriculum that we use in the district and um making plans to change UNS or lessons if needed at the high school and middle school the morning was spent at each one of the schools um around their own professional development connected with their um School Improvement plans and then they spent the time in the afternoon in departments which I was able to go around and go to as many department meetings as I could go to and they were also working on alignment and spoken sequence with their curriculum and that is the short story on that day but it was a really useful day and I was super impressed with the high level of focus and work hard work that everybody was putting in on that day so there'll be more work that we're going to do on November 5th um and I'll be working with the principals and PR coordinators on that to help plan those days so that's it in that sh so thank you questions welcome thank you Dr so um over the summer we had uh three Leadership Institute days where we reviewed our strategy for district Improvement and focused on goals and setting goals for the upcoming school year um both as a district at the building level and as As Leaders um in planning for our opening day welcome uh for the district as well um in August we had a training with uh parade law on the new title 9 uh expectations and regulations and uh we were also very busy hiring a number of new staff um in terms of um District wide leadership um as you know Dr flier joined us um this summer athletic director Rick Swanson uh Elementary curriculum coordinator Brian dantz HR Director Liz grindle um integrated prek principal Sarah chick math coordinator Dan Korea special education coordinator Elizabeth McKay so um those are all new faces that um we certainly um would love to introduce you to as um particular topics become uh pertinent to you and and your level of interest but I wanted you to be aware of those those new hires as well um I wanted to thank Dr panar for her Opening Day presentation on the new U 504 and IEP requirements and um she presented a nice overview to staff and then also provided additional training to our um our our special education staff uh the following day uh throughout the day and um I think I think that was it okay covered everything any questions for Dr crew okaya super quick I promise um good evening my name is Jessica Drew and I'm a Spanish teacher at the high school um I'm also the newly elected president of the Silver Lake Education Association and I would just like to take a quick minute of your time this evening it is an honor to represent my colleagues within the Silver Lake Education Association or the slea our teachers Librarians counselors nurses Paris custodians cafeteria workers and secretaries have worked tireless tirelessly to start the 24 25 school year off on an excellent foot alongside our building admit we are enjoying getting to know our students as we begin this year's Journey as Educators we take very seriously our responsibility to reach all students and guide them to grow more than they ever thought possible for us being a part of the world of education is more than a job it's a passion and an identity our role as Educators as experts in what we do is to get to know our students and help them hone the skills and knowledge that they need to thrive in the community the role of our Union is to ensure that our Educators have what they need to do that we seek transparency collaboration and partnership with the district school committee and Community to solidify brighter futures for our students we seek to be members of the team that makes decisions that have historically been made without us these decisions affect how our educators are best able to run their classrooms we look forward to the opportunity to partner together to make Silverlake an even stronger Community for all of our students thank you for your time this evening um admin review I think we'll do update in executive session CTE um no update no meeting we have on the agenda drivers that increase on Fe okay I'll cover that lat all right um I think I already talked about our main correspondents which been to ask about cellone policy we covered that um Jason you want to cover our legislative update I think last we spoke I gave a a fairly substantial update on the state budget um over the summer I spent more time working with maava than masc uh maava is the mass Association of vocational administrators um there is a bill currently in the Senate side of the house um looking at potentially doing a blind lottery for CTE admissions um maava and masc stand firmly against this um we were lucky enough to have Senate chair Rodriguez of the Senate ways and needs committee the second most powerful senator in the state um bring us together at the table with Senator Cronin who is proposing the legislation and we've had several long um thorough meetings over the summer discussing uh the pros and cons of different positions um the ultimate goal is to increase funding for CTE programs so every single student in the Commonwealth will have access to a seat and a CTE program if they so choose and desire currently there are deserts where there's no options for students we all know pem's dilemma with not having access to CT programming since they pulled out of Civil Lake and weren't eligible for sore um and there's also some concerns about who gets in and how they get it and the equity issues behind it so those conversations are ongoing all bills that were filed during the last legislative cycle which is a 2-year cycle um that weren't passed died um including our two bills looking to increase um the amount of monies we were able to hold back for Extraordinary special ed costs we were looking to increase that from 2% in net School spending to five and we're also looking to create um the ability to hold back funds for regional assessments and years where it's low in our town we can hold some money in reserve for a year where we see a buff they didn't die in committee they actually went to a third reading which basically means they were about to be passed but they ran out of time So the plan is to refile them in January February of this legislative cycle and see if we can get them through but this vocational Bild the same thing happened to it it made it through quite a few readings and was border line going to get past so we need to keep our eye on this it could deeply affect how we admit kids into the CTE program but also how much input our Educators have on what shops and rotations students are actually Placer that could be comined as well under some proposed language thank you can I just ask a question when do we need to Be watchful for that um you and I don't have to worry about anything until after the elections because they're all busy doing that right so so after November yeah the business of the state is pretty much shut down until all of these things happen and then the swearing in process so the new legislative cycle kicks off in early January um I will let you know to be ready yep negotiations we'll do an update executive session first meeting is uh October 3rd so nothing to report yet except they did send us an email that said that we had a smooth and positive opening to the school year policy so I guess I'm technically the chair of policy uh we haven't had a meeting since reor has happened uh we do need to get together to codify the tipe of nine changes in law into our policy so I'll work with Aaron to set up a time for all the policy people to get together but I would love to take that hat off I appreciate how many of you have taken chairmanships of subcommittees away from me in the past two years it's been great to have a team approach and not have it all concentrated in one little area this is another one I'd like to take off I'm happy to be part of the committee and continue to work so I'll work with Karen to put that together guy that's not here can we make a motion yeah right that's the way it works right yeah so that's the policy update we do have to do some Title 9 work and we'll get we'll get a meeting on the agenda to reorg and do some work okay Mark uh thank you um appreciate uh a little bit of of bearing we've had two meetings this summer um since the last time we met um both of them have been productive and I just want to have a chance to to update you on some of the issues the solar panel that's on the agenda first um we looked at a uh out of uh State company from Pennsylvania that was doing one locally in uh Kingston and uh had promises prayers and some numbers that were in 100 uh50 to $150,000 Revenue stream that we could see um went back to the company that did the initial resource search with us was uh and they have responded with a letter that's in the folder I believe if not I can get it that uh indicated that uh what the out of state company doesn't aware of is the different in particularities and one of those is the fact we have power purchase already covering are um U electric needs at current and um at some point and whenever Sarah can get caught up and we down the list on the things that she's got to do uh we could look at the power purchase agreement and as soon as she understands it better she probably explain it to us but anyway we need to uh it it wasn't fiscally sound to go forward we'd have to have a host person to take the electricity we produce on our lease agreement and it would have to be some other municipality or affordable housing or something like that that we'd have to figure out it's very complicated so we we're taking that one off the agenda for a while uh school zone discussion and possible vote so um the town of Kingston um initiated uh as part of the safety audit that we did one of the items was a school zone and we didn't have authority to have a school zone in the past because high schools did not qualify in our Middle School was set too far back in the street to qualify we went through this when we built the schools some almost 20 years ago we pursued it all along but uh thanks to uh select Kim Ember who did some uh further research unly notes to the town of Kingston or this uh this member here the state changed the rules and allows high schools now to be qualified for school zone so the town of Kingston took the initiative upon themselves um to move forward to put a school zone in place they've done some research um a signage that's required of courses mandates and recommendations and we're trying to Define which one's which right now of how to put a school zone together in U in front of our schools and it would basically be a flashing sign uh speed limit whatever when flashing the signs are some $155,000 a piece uh bringing the budget up to about 60,000 that nobody has actually uh been funded for including the school or the town so they're looking for different funding sources some of the arer money that we returned may be available to reapply for in this from the the district did return almost $100,000 and we're hoping that we can tap into that um conversation with Keith hickey uh Town Administrator from Kingston today indicated that he had found all but about 10 to 20,000 of the money he needs to try to put this into effect those of you interested can tune in to the kingon selects meeting on the 24th of September where they'll be discussing it further and hopefully they'll come to fluish what I'd like to do as possible vote is just today uh to vote our support for the placement of a school zone um in in front of the school just as an addendum item we're not require if it would be obviously we could support that um one of the ways um I suggested to save funding would be to have a school zone that was linear along Route 27 and have signs that just said approaching School Zone on Lake Street Station Street and that would save us two very expensive signs um the state guidelines however don't seem to indicate that without further research um that that amendment is being considered but they'd rather follow the guidelines due to litigation that may result from us putting a school zone in effect that didn't meet guidelines so that's that's a school zone thing so um I'd like a motion I make a motion that we uh vote a uh support of a school zone along PM Street and be infect in morning and afternoon uh during our U times that the schools get aring on the party I have a second second is there any further discussion just a question um there's a speed liement sign in front of the admin building is that not a school speed sign um that sign um I highlighted and was uh in effect for a uh temporary school zone at 1 point and then it was never taken down so it's not enforceable at this point but we already have one sign and so this right but then it's not a flashing light sign and the times that were reported first of all I don't think anybody can actually read that sign even if you're going 10 mph because there a lot of lot of verbage on it but anyway it it may be integrated into part of it or replaced I asked that question any further discussion same none all in favor no County again Ken um all right so um the other safety issue that was brought up is and has been highlighted over the summer there was another accident at Fook Lake Station intersection um with the town of Kingston and I want to specifically thank uh Highway superintendent Paul Basler for all his help in uh increasing sight distances the town of Kingston and permission from Neighbors to go on the private property and trim trees and cut back and mol Lawns and get things done and the highway superintendant uh prior school starting was able to clear out a significant sight distance from um Station Street looking up to the right so that the parties can see each other and uh they are still working on um enforcement uh police chief has indicated that our resource officers and additional officers will be out uh particularly during the time schools come arriving and departing um the intersection was identified in the top 10 things that Kingston has asked the state to address um I am not sure exactly where that placement was but it is in the top 10 and I was uh told that the uh list would be pursued by the town of Kingston asking the state to move forward the roundabout idea is still on the table um we're still looking for a way to get that funded certain resource uh research has to be done in um in the process to be eligible for federal grants and the town of Kingston did not uh feel that we had funding to pay for the research so we could apply for the Federal grant so some of the research that Jason did at the federal level has been put on hold until we can move forward with um uh the initiative correctly with the right research in place to prove that we need to uh but it's not off the table it certainly will continue to be on Kingston's list now that it's been brought to their attention um Silver Lake Land the parcel that we were supposed to transfer from Silver Lake uh from the Silver Lake Region to the town of Kingston so they can conduct uh drainage uh improvements on Lake Street and improved the water quality of the Jones River and the fish run and everything else um did not make the number the line was not voted by the end of the session however uh Kathleen not's office has informed me that it is still on the table it's still being pursued as a home rule and that um it was in a third committee I don't know which one it is at this point to perhaps move forward so we can actually uh make that Improvement for the neighborhood um that that plan May segue into further improvements on Lake Street and with the turnaround with the roundabout um with more pedestrian friendly use of Lake Street between between the two uh projects so it's going to be a win-win if we can uh find the funding uh facilities uh director reported that we have HVAC issues running throughout uh the schools uh we've had outages several have been able to be replaced the CT office currently has not been able to be uh repaired and some temporary uh Provisions were made but right now we're going to find ourselves looking at some funding for HVAC either that has failed uh the admin building is highlighted also as a failure that's uh been mediated to some extent but we are going to have to address some of these HVAC units and they're expensive and um I'd just like to give the committee a heads up that um from budget time next year we're going to have to make some decisions on uh on these units and Facilities going forward um and Sarah has included in a a spreadsheet this is available to everybody right yes fer and I'm I'm going to let her speak to it but some of the the funds that we have appropriated came back below and above and there may be some funding sources uh I thank her for showing us this because the doom and glom on what we had to pay for felt a little better when she shared this um going forward and if you like like to take over for a minute Sarah and explain it thank you um as you know there were changes in personnel and Mike Wallace director facilities and I pretty much got up and running in January and and so the money that was voted for the FY 24 capital projects we were really getting going on spending in the spring in the summer and so what I put together for you is a spreadsheet that has um the year uh the fiscal year uh when something was voted what the project was what the budget was what has been expended and then um and then any balance or shortfall and so right now um the high school electrical panels we budgeted 50,000 for the lowest quote that that Mike has received is 65,000 but even using that number the $65,000 we have $42,000 left over of fy4 capital that was not spent on the projects for fy4 and again the um the envelope project we just voted to the FY 24 money $130,000 we just voted tonight to award the contract and so Mike laws and I feel that the money that was set aside in fy2 for the middle school high school envelope repairs would be better used uh the uh Mike and I brought an idea to safer about having a comprehensive facility study done and Mark mentioned HVAC repairs and I just want to mention that when you hear the word hbac the AC part sticks out in your mind we're required by law to provide heat and we have some issues with the units providing heat and so what I wanted to ask was if we could use the 100,000 from FY 25 buildin envelope and the excess from fy4 unspent projects to fund uh facil a comprehensive facility study where our house doctor would go through and look at all of our systems and say this is an immediate repair this is a 3E 5 years you know 10 year give us an idea so that it could guide our discussions of of the capital Committee in the future um any questions like the the facility study depending on the what depth we ask them to do would range somewhere between 50 and $775,000 and Mike Lawless would like to with any of the excess of the money that wouldn't be spent on this the facility study would go to immediate repairs of hbac okay so um buildings that's uh this is basically a restructuring of our Capital plan and um we historically have done that as a full committee vote to make these funds available um the safer committee supported the proposal that uh um Sarah put forward um yesterday at our meeting um then I I think it's the good use the comprehensive Facilities Review would mean for the first time we will be making a facilities a capital plan with some concrete information on what type of components are most likely to be failed what we need to fix now we need to fix down the road um our Capital plan right now is put pretty much a a gut feeling of yeah we're going to put this out there because it's coming um and without that kind of organization that was comprehensive review we're going to continue to spin our wheels and and maybe fund the wrong projects when we should be funding other ones so uh we'd like to go forward with that does uh Lynn U Massachusetts has a similar one I believe it's in your folder take a look at it if you want to see that but um it's also and Associates did that one yes reviewed it this afternoon and I think it's going to be uh very effective to move forward if we could have that funding to to go forward with that it's better spent than trying to chase our tail we'll know for example we can we take one wing and we'll completely get it up to speed and and do it geographically as opposed to fixing window leaks as we go all over the place going back over the same area twice so what are you looking for I'd like to vote to uh use the uh excess funding from the projects at 42,44 and uh the other Revenue that uh she has at a total of it's still 126 $100,000 from the FY 25 capital for the middle school high school on board so a total 142 442 or is there other anything else on the gym flooor any of that stuff you have a grant total of 126 on the sheet I have is that the 126 is the FY 25 project okay and some of those projects the high school bathrooms haven't been done yet okay that's still going to be done so it's a total of uh 142,143 for hbac and the comprehensive study we focus is that correct correct I'll make that motion then so before I we put that out to motion um this is not technically on the agenda I about that um Can it actually be voted change of the capital ploc if it was discussed and this is part of your report you can vote on the report of the subject technically Mark's motion doesn't even need to be seconded if it comes from the subcommittee is that carries with it the fact it was more than one person but yeah we can take a vote on a report but are we taking a vote of just the like accepting the report or also accepting the recommendation to move money somewhere we can say that the the facilities Committee of the business manager plan to do this and and I'll make that report and the end of my report that should be adequate for vote vote to accept the report you rather do that we we're informing the the committee that our Capital situations are changing um let's say for is recommending that the that we make an adjustment to the capital plan and then we would have to accept that we're still spending the same money we were anticipating corre we not moving just reallocated just reallocated okay I'll continue with my report then um we uh had a u discussion on driver's education Revenue um and driver's education program I made a outstanding uh synopsis of the program what we were spending and we're in the low end of what driver's education costs um and it was not adequately funding the expenses we had for student um um we made a motion to increase the fee uh 825 I believe and that um fee will cover not just uh the expenses but it also puts a very small amount of money away from maintenance we do get a lot of our car maintenance done by the CTE program however there are the items that we have to get taken care of we currently are teaching with a 2015 vehicle that is having some major issues and um before we asked this committee to fund replacing the driver's education vehicle in the capital plan uh it's prudent we felt that we go forward and generate a little bit of Revenue towards maintaining and replacing the equipment so um I will say with that the driver at teacher was out with a student driving and the car died and thank God he used his own AAA and was able to safely get a vehicle there and then get that vehicle to back to the school and when you look at the comparables for just public schools around we're $700 and we are the cheapest around and we offer that with the certification like the whole package and if you look at like let's just say Plymouth they're 875 in Marshfield they're 825 and it doesn't include the R&B sht and $175 for a road test sponsor so when you take what we provide for the kids and what they're getting in that amount of money as opposed to what they have and then all the other add-ons they're looking at close to $1,000 if not more and then price schools you're looking at probably 950 to 1,000 so we're very fortunate to have a driver said the head tripa who was driving that student that day but also we want to get like a little rainy day fund so when stuff like this happens that we can kind of tap into those resources you want to make a motion to approve the Fe I will make a motion to approve the fee from 700 to 825 have a second second question please um would this be for this school year that was going to be and the reason I'm asking is because parents have already signed their children up the fall um can I get closed in for we would we would honor that session the follow you would honor we've already advertised that sign up so spring of 2025 the next class the next session next yeah we we try to squeeze one in the winter I was just going to say the win to break one mhm and Jen has how many kids took went through this program at the same time already had triplet and I got my other one coming up looks like I got to pay up I pay thank you for using the program happy to do so any further discussion about the motion see none all in favor I I'll obain because it actually affects my children this year so stand all right um the the last thing is um I just want to keep on the table and bring up uh we discussed at length the administration building and the current one we have the possibility of getting moving along with something um I I think that um it's going to generate um something that like to bring to the budget process to move forward on at least helping us toine which direction we're going to go the three options we discussed was the 8, 8,000 ft² building that was presented to us uh by the study that was done that would replace the administration building um in an adjacent site um the second thing we had pursued was renting or purchasing of an an off-site facility uh commercial space right now is depressed and there is some office space available in one of the towns there several of uh about one of those uh we looked at actually viewed as a committee um and it looked as if it was uh possible it is still on the market and that price was in the 1.8 range uh millionar Which is less than one qu of the price would be renovating to to make it accommodating in great shape right now but it would need a configuration to meet our edmin space need the third one um was brought forth by member of the saf committee Lucas um was to look at and myself we looked at U building a a 4,000 squ ft um Annex next to and immediately adjacent to the m building we had that would bring our square footage um and that would um be at the same floor level as the second floor of the existing building we would use handicap ramp for the new building that would have then go the 3 or 4 ft over to the new the older building and we uh accessible we' bring the bathrooms and plumbing into the new facility and we'd be able to use both and some future school committee could decide to remove and replace the older section and then they have a completely so sort of cut the cost in half at this point and see if we can move forward with the initiative um um so all three of those are out there we would need further study to to see what our new building would look like it be back to an architect and if we decide on that it's going to require funding Force which would be it's Springtown meeting um in the middle of that conversation the superintendent brought up the fact that we may be in the in the need because of uh space considerations at Kingston Elementary School where we leas space for our preschool uh we may be in the need of a preschool facility so we may be incorporating these into one um look and that puts us back into the offsite we go offsite and get a building building big enough for both um but to move forward on the preschool and whether we really need one uh demographic study would be needed1 to 15,000 would need to be found to do that take a look at the uh planed population growth and student growth in the three towns and I think that personally that would be a good initiative to move forward with as a school um put on the budget come up uh next fiscal year to do actually studying see what we're going to need for the schools going forward and lastly um the middle school project the aror funds that were put aside for the Middle School um um was a bid at 1.2 million to try to bring classroom AC into a substantial part of the middle school that project has add a scope of it um though not required does ire I was highly recommended that we have somebody oversee the the process going forward we currently don't have funding for that so if we need to have somebody be on site to watch the contractor uh conduct that uh program that's scheduled for right now bid out for next summer we would have to find funding between now and next summer to be able to fund this this uh oversight um we're going to do some more research and find out how much what level of oversight we need whether or not a house doctor can do it which we're not sure and if they can it's still going to be a charge that we're going to have to find a funding source for again put on the I think your superintendent has a comment and that's all we got I have two um my first comment is on the demographic study my recommendation is um was related to a Kingston concern about their population increase and their facility in particular particular that pressure on Space could impact Silver Lake but the demographic study recommendation was to determine Kingston's needs for their school building um so I wanted to clarify that the other item is the arpa funds if I recall correctly we had discussed and recognize that we would probably need to have someone oversee a project of this capacity and EXP to make sure that it was done properly um so I recognize that we're at that point where we need to start thinking about that again but I I don't believe that that's news to some members of our committee who were part of that original process Jason so tangentially off that then we're talking about reallocating some unused Capital funds from last year but yet we need to find funds to move forward with the $1.4 million project why why are we not using the funds from last year to fund that oversight well if I can take the beginning of that I don't know if that's a full answer but the U the envelope money that we had a substantial amount of was $100,000 that envelope study we discussed whether spending that money arbitrarily to continue our envelope uh work arbitrarily or go forward with a plan we thought we'd take a breather get the plan done and then be able to move forward it's somewhat directly related to our facilities maintenance but I understand and I love that idea I just want to put that out there we've been trying to get our facilities director since we created that position to try and map out the needs of our buildings in a timeline so it sounds like we might be getting there with your idea for the use of the funds right we just want to U understand the limitations of the individuals we have nobody on the committee is experienced enough to oversay air conditioning nor are they uh experienced enough to go through 20-year-old schools and be able to identify the component that might fail next and some of the items that have been brought up in discussions are major heating components that if they fail we're going to have an emergency situation like you highlighted before so um that part of the study I think is important and I think we need to do it sooner than later in this year so that we can move forward with a good plan we have until next summer to find funding I understand it's going to be a little tight if you get approval at a town meeting for funding um July 1st and you've already got the job starting when school gets out in June so um we were still discussing and we ran out of time for the meeting we're going to have another meeting September 26 to continue the discussion of what type of oversight but the first indicators were 10% of the bid and that's the substantial not the correct and we don't have enough money here to even talk about it so I don't think that going forward it should be that much I don't think we need that level of oversight we need to Define it more and I I would want to take one little minute of editorial that we have a facilities director and more particularly business manager that is absolutely out straight doing 14 hours a day or whatever she can and answering emails that I send her at 9:30 at night and she still answered them because she doesn't want to have to answer the next day I'm sure um we really need to look at um our staffing and our financial side and uh one of the things we're doing is trying to unload and focus the business department and Facilities department on the Silver Lake Region that they were Ted to employ to manage the town have been very nice getting nice services from us but whether or not the job description involves us to prepare bid documents for town schools um that these are facilities that the Silver Lake Region doesn't own so we've been helpful in the education side of that but we have to cre Define that line and we're working uh this month with the three town administrators to draw that line and Define where our resources are going and I hope to unload these guys a little bit and have them be able to get more of the silver l stuff can I sum that up well enough Sarah I don't know but I just I I I really would like to to um keep focused on the region but the summary answer to the question I asked is this site manager for the $1.4 million project that we're using the arpa funds for is not as time sensitive as putting together a comprehensive plan of the life expectancy of all the H unit air handlers we have on our RS and other components of our buildings and that's why safer subcommittee has suggested us using the excess funds from last year to fund that project in stad it is and and additionally we have yet to Define what level of oversight we need and and there's still some a wide spectrum I think of what we expect and what the contract that we have for the bid should be responsible legally for that if they don't perform in a w we need some type of oversight because I certainly not qualified and I don't think we have any expectations that we have the time or resources within the staff to be able to do that so that's but we do have a little time to solve that problem thank you thanks so through now so we need to vote on accepting your report and the recommended move adjust of C I think SAR question I I was just going to make a statement and it's not a good one so if you glossed over it I would have been okay but given that I've been called out I'm going to say um one of my big concerns since I got here and uh is uh priorities of projects and I have to be honest with you I sort of Hit the roof the day I found out that we spent a half a million dollars on the new tennis courts and we have portions of the buildings that the heat doesn't work so I absolutely feel strongly I understand what you're saying but uh about the amount of money we're talking about with the capital and that's going towards a comprehensive study because we know what's not working and part of that money will go towards that but I have no idea what's going to go next because I have a degree in math I love spreadsheets so um we really need somebody to say hey you've got this $500 system that's going to go any minute now I I actually think the last time we did the envelope stud Marin Springer was on the committee I mean it goes back 2014 was it 2014 so 2014 yeah so 10 11 years ago yeah okay I have a [Music] motion we need a motion to we accept changes on the recomended changes okay okay I would make a motion to reallocate the excess dollars um as described in our discussion um uh reallocate those dollars on from the capital plan uh on the capital plan rather to engaging in envelope study I'll second further discussion all in favor does that not HB left over that it it's not an envelope study it's a comprehensive facility plan I said so it's use the envelope funds funds for more comprehensive facility PL and the remain of the funds will be used for hbac repairs okay somebody wants to adjust that Mo what's up I have Mark original I can just use that word okay made in second good second okay with that second we've already okay she's she's I just like to add one more thing that going to be gone in October and Pa is going to take over as the chair safer if you have any issues okay I'm taking over his chair of sa wait a minute I'm here I'm not M you for one meeting I thank you that's what I goodness October get you need need anything call is going to be gone too treasur report yeah I don't know what I've got sah do I have anything to report don't have anything to report all right thank you anything from Union 31 um just that there is a meeting thank you Gordon for changing the time of this meeting to 6:30 on the 17th of um October it is a reorganization meeting but um we'll discuss the rest in thank you okay uh s signature warrant So currently our meetings are out of sync with the warrant cycle the next warrant is September 12th which will go out for digital signatures next okay um have anything else about attachments I think we can to not return do not return can I get a motion I'll make a motion to adjourn to Executive session under uh chapter 38 section 212 to conduct strategy sessions and preparation for negotiations with non Personnel superintendent not to return to open session an executive session pursing to mgl 38 section 2187 to comply with their act under the authority of any general or special law approval of executive session minutes May 16th 2024 June 6th 2024 June 26 2024 not to turn open second all right that's our old call yes okay Jason yes Lucas yes PA John yes Jam yes yes Amy yes yes thank you everyone [Music]