all right it is 7:04 and I will be calling the Sunland Elementary School District school committee meeting to order this meeting is recorded first order of business is reorganization do I have a nomination for chair I nominate go ahead Joe Amanda no Jessica Corin second I have a first and second for Jessica Corin any other nominations seeing none I'll close nominations all in favor for Jessica to be shed I got three here Amanda with a hand up and with a hand up and welcome haai those who in the room here is joining us and it is now your meeting okay uh I think we're looking for a nomination for vice chair I'll nominate Megan second nomination of Megan by Amanda second by Joe are are you open to doing it again Megan yeah all right seeing no other nominations we'll close nominations all in favor of Megan for vice chair three in person and Amanda and l i with hands on online um Amanda are you taking minutes already uh I can right now I have the um uh I did get the template for it so um are you willing to serve as our clerk I'm happy to do it sure thank you I thought that was an elected position but I thought that the template said appointed oh okay yeah so you're willing to serve in an ongoing capacity thank you sure I will try to do Peter Proud yeah those are big shoes to fil he beautiful minute great um so the rest of these I hope we can do conversationally as we did last year um all we are not going to have a where is it superintendency agreement committee this year right darus no so we don't need to fill that don't position okay um but we need to have a frontier committee rep three people to vote on Union 38 matters negotiations team Capital Improvement committee uh collaborative rep policy subcommittee sick leave bank for two people school council leaon and Town Park committee I'm interested in hearing what interests you all have I would like to keep two of doing just because I'm comfortable doing so Frontier and collaborate unless someone else would like to do either of those or um so I am interested in ter informing my school committee work I would actually be interested in serving on Frontier I also have a kid at that school now okay I'll step over that that's okay with you any anybody else have strong feelings about that one or about collaborative okay thank you L I definitely want to make you a union 38 voting member that doesn't really carry any extra responsibilities in meetings you just get to vote at the Joint meetings I would love that great um I'm interested in doing negotiations next year as a negotiations here and that was the issue that brought me to school committee work yeah anybody gonna fight me for it okay can I ask one question I also represent the collaborative from Frontier yeah so that will have to change but not Frontier they reorganize in September sept oh wait okay because lately June meeting I'm happy to continue on the policy sube thank you Megan for subcommittee air for policy um we need Capital Improvement school council Town Park and two people for sick Le Bank um actually met daras has it been years well in other in other buildings it has that so it just depends on need so okay there's only one or two meetings a year for you know 15 to 30 minutes okay right and well that's not connected to that's connected to negotiation on your right okay um I'll do it okay um so I'll do sick leave it's a good tradeoff from the frontier need a second person for sick leave back it was Megan and Amanda I'm fine to do it again okay thanks Amanda um let's see here for the union 38 voting members I put down L um can I keep Joe and Amanda as the other two voting members okay um all right Town Park Amanda will you keep that one absolutely I know I'm jumping around here I'll I'll send you a photo of my notes later um so Peter has also left big shoes to fill on the capital Improvement committee I'd be okay doing that that I mean do it is it conflict with finance committee I don't know that's a conflict um I did speak to Peter after the election um and he pointed out that Megan is on the um Community preservation committee which is an important connection to Capital Improvements yeah I don't mind I'm just helping I said he would be there to help me that you're will thank you and I I did go through the to ethics called ethics in Boston and they said it was okay more so then the last one is school council Le I'm happy to do again but if you wanted it be happy for you to take it it's up to you it's your time I mean you get a lot right there I did it before I'd be happy to do it again um the coin no no keep it if you want to keep it keep it just it's up to you I don't need anymore I can do those but I'm just trying to help out are you sure yeah know I enjoy that one but okay it's Joe Joe for school council thank you all right that was all of them anybody need a recap I've got it written down all right uming up my agenda sorry who's got the agenda what's next sorry about that oh minutes we're looking for motions to approve the minutes of March 12th and 28th thank you all motion so approves the minutes thank you motion from Amanda second from Megan any discussion um so Lui on this you you can vote um you could abstain if you're more comfortable doing that um all in favor of uh of approving minutes of March 12th and 28th we have three yeses in the room all right and two yeses online by raised hands 5 Z financial statements okay so 35 warrants were signed electronically totaling $1,259 48 L if you have any problems accessing uh J be sign let me know I'm happy to help out or if you have questions as you start seeing first warrant come through just reach out um on my phone my laptop will load um the only thing I want to say quickly is the expense reports I gave you were through April 30th so it currently showed through April 30th that we had just shy of 200,000 remaining in the budget that would be F to help oh thank you look at you tonight thank you that's why paper Sol yes um that would get us through the months obviously of May and June to wrap up the school year we are looking over every single account right now to see where we do have savings because there's definitely some savings going to be captured in here um in particular I'm looking at the transportation line uh we had planned when we built the budget last year to pay a teacher with s money um to offset the budget but mtrs charges you when you pay a teacher from a federally funded Grant so we decided to pay Transportation instead so you're seeing a big savings on the transportation line which should have put the teacher line over however we have had a unpaid leag of absence um and then some other Personnel changes throughout the year and uh even an IA that hasn't been filled due to several turnovers in IA so we're actually going to see Savings of about the $50,000 so that's positive for us knowing that our school choice B bance is coming down and that um we may be looking at some more difficult conversations as we go for Budget Cycles so while we want to balance um end of your spending and make sure that we take advantage of having some extra money to buy things that we wouldn't normally have within the budget we also want to make sure that we're seeing what we can so we'll do some transfers to move money around and make sure that we can build up our Sol but whatever we can so there'll be another update in June still preliminary a lot of work and the school's still spending you know custodial lines supply lines textbook lines making sure that we fully take advantage of using those funds before the end that's all I have unless you have specific line item questions any questions thank you um actually is this the right time to ask about kindergarten stuff should we ask report we're on some principal report anyway okay um I I'll touch on it's the kindergarten piece wasn't part of my principal report but I'll I'll touch on that afterwards so um steam night success led by our incredible library media specialist Rachel kit SC hosted steam night on Thursday April 25th the event featured a sustain had a sustainability Focus included both vendor and vendors and then student projects as well materials food and staff uh member ping stiens uh were supported by a grant that we received from The Herald gr SCH Foundation um and that's always any event that happens here at the school um you know although someone may take the lead with it we have many staff members help out um and it adds the Beauty and the the community feel that so um and really thank you Rachel for for putting that all together it was really a huge success and then har was here har was here yeah for a little bit so yeah it was really nice for him to uh swing by uh campus beautification so we recently met with a representative from abound design to discuss ideas for campus pollinator Gardens um we have a pending Grant uh from the Franklin Conservation District and uh in partnership with our own toown conservation committee we are looking to revamp over time our current perennial garden right outside um behind the school behind the main entrance and then also identify other potential um other project possibilities on campus as well uh yesterday um actually came to my inbox this uh this evening we did receive a a letter from the Franklin Conservation District and I'm just going to read this brief part of it the District offers uh the District not the school district shell we just the Conservation District offers to provide and pay for a consultant design the Garden or Meadow and once the scope of the project is agreed upon by both parties the Conservation District um pays for the plant stock um at wholesale price so it's really exciting there's a few fewe commitment behind it and um whatever area that um we're looking at to to build a pollinator Garden or Meadow field um there there's like certain conditions like you can't use [Music] um uh pesticides to to treat anything in that area um so more info to come but it's um one of the uh exciting things that we have um going on and then in terms of kindergarten not too much has changed since our last meeting um right now we have 20 confirmed kindergarten um registrations for next year and three are pending um and so it's um you know one family's trying to um figure out which way they're going to go whether it's homeschooling or NS um and then there's a couple the last two are a couple other reasons that um you know families are are working through um you know in a communication I sent out to school committee about this process um I sent it out last week or the week before that you know we really want to be as transparent with um and staff as as possible so I shared a communication that I sent to um my colleagues and then over the next week or so um meetings have been scheduled and set up to um to meet with individual grade levels classroom teachers and special education teachers to really get a um sense paint the picture of what it would look like if we were to give buying a particular grade level um and it's it's a discussion Beyond numbers right because the the class sizes don't tell an entire story so um so yeah and I'm looking at potentially three possibilities moving forward from this that prior to the end of the school year will um will be playing on one class uh prior to the the school year will split up um the in incoming kindergarten class into two sections and teachers will know assignments and the third possibility um is that we leave the school year with planning on one class but with the ability to Pivot and everyone would know their assignments ahead of time we would know which grade level we were to combine um if it came to that with that being said um you know I don't want this to be a last minute decision here because you know as it is there's a lot of stress for everyone involved leading into the school year families um teachers right and so we want I want to be able to provide the staff as much time as possible um that's realistically possible to this so in terms of school committee who would involved if there's a budgetary change right so we had to hire a new teacher to support A change is that correct other than that right you guys your ball you roll with it right right school committee is basically saying you know Administration you have this much money to spend and now you connect the dot but is it if you needed more is there is there a loophole to do that or no is there budget I don't know shell is there so the budget is set currently if there were Savings in any particular line then we could move things around if we needed to add a position that would increase the budget we can't increase the general fund at this we'd be looking for another funding s that would come back to discussion and if you have do you have like 20 you say possibly 23 yeah is there a number that you would like if you had 23 we say we have to split this up or you're still GNA wait and hear what how do all the other work you do again I think it's more than just numbers and I um would probably get in trouble with if I were to commit to a number right yeah and so we do need to like look at the class as a whole right and the needs of the incoming class um the the needs of our upper grade classes um and so it's just I don't think it's like just kind of black or white where it's like you reach this number um you know the other the class sizes across the district are around 20 um steer field and W um Conway's playing on a class of 24 y you know um do they have IAS helping they do they do you know and so the other the other pieces that we would be looking to um you know obviously staff any classroom appropriately um but if we did have a higher number of kindergarten students one possible um format feuture the classroom teacher and then two instructional assistants supporting that room at least to start the year um because what we found is that at times there there are some unknowns coming into the kindergarten Here Yeah and just making sure that's staff appropriate would be important um we're probably also going to be looking to hire a Bilal tutor um Spanish speaking Bilal tutor to at least start the year in as well pepp but one more so if we ended up doubling up well pooling a class another grade level would that have an so let's say I don't know I'm just going to say sixth grade so sixth grade had to emerge I know it's not but you know if they had emerged would you have the ability to give them an IA they support of bigger cost yes um but it also depends on um what what the needs are at that grade level right so um we have some grade levels that um have an IIA or two in that classroom throughout the entire day we have some grade levels that um share share instructional assistant support and um and that is really to make sure that we have um IP services covered as well additionally our master schedule is set up so that we are pulling resources to a specific grade level um for our our core academics whether the ELA or or math so our math interventionist is available during the intervention block for sixth grade right as is our um special education teacher that provides support to those kids during that time okay so you know even though on paper you're seeing um you know 20 plus kids 25 kids or whatever there there's there's not just the classroom teacher helping out that grade level at that particular time okay I mean you know you know because I know you know my kids transition yeah transition times and recess times and lunchtime if you have bigger group sometimes you need more eyes of it you know and I know in the classroom at there's really good coverage I just worry if the numbers are odd that there's also coverage in those informal times yeah so just put it yeah right and you know and we found that really for especially for for recet both recess and lunch that active supervision makes makes a really big difference and it's not just the number of bodies on on the playground but it's the it's how we as adults are engaging with with the students um you know and and I'm just thinking in particular to with our our third and uh fourth grade students right now we we've changed our format a little bit in the past month and a half or so and the students um a core group have experienced a lot more success um due to even just a minor adjustment in so and the grade levels go together that are specials anyways right so whether you have two classrooms or one classroom no right so you know with um two fourth grade classes right now one will have PE while the other will be at library so if you end up with a bigger class that's going to special support yeah you need some extra support okay thank you yeah thanks Ben any other questions right I do have another outside of that sorry believe it's public knowledge of the new ad at Frontier right because it's been announced is this I know the new ad is told we haven't sent a message to the school community that keep okay yeah okay moving on the public comments Dr Palmer hello there everyone good evening I'm Victoria Palmer and I'm am here tonight with my colleague Jody Frasier grade four teacher at Sunderland School I'm the co-president of the Union 38 Educators Association and a school psychologist here at sundland which in my opinion which is unbiased the best school in the district I'm here tonight tonight because I want to Echo some of what principal barfy has remarked about with regard to this amazing school and this wonderful school year he's described different events that have happened here at school experiences relationships that teachers have built with students the incredible curriculum that's taught here the experiential learning the social and academic expectations here at this school I could go on and on I'm emphasizing tonight that you all have such a fabulous faculty and staff here and I want to thank all of the school committee members and welcome Lui to help for your help in making this school suland is a pretty special place and without the dedication of the faculty and staff it would not happen as it has happened all this year I'd like you all to keep this in mind as you enter into the negotiations process for next year and reward these fabulous Educators for their incredibly hard work the collaboration that happens and the experiences that help bring the community's children uh to be amazing adults so again I'm speaking tonight as a member of this faculty a proud member of this faculty I thank you all for your support and I hope this support continues throughout your tenure as school committee members thank you thank you Dr Palmer is there any other public comment there's no unfinished business tonight moving on to new business um roof project so in one of our discussions we tabled exactly how it was it was but I was instructed to come back with discussion regarding um if we are going to get involved with the um msba which the Massachusetts assoc uh School Building Association um about would we use them in a roof project um to help offset the cost so you can do as part of um msba you can do something called a accelerated repair program which does Windows and Doors in roof um roof and then boilers as well so you know kind of get some history on it so uh Deerfield used msba about 10 years ago and had very mixed results um the program itself um you know offers to reimburse at 31% and then takes other factors of community wealth and some other things and puts into a system um and kind of spits out what your actual reimbursement rate is so it's not when you hear some may talking about they got 50% some may get 40% some people communties may be in the 30th perc um you know we don't know what that percentage would be um right now you know as we look through how it works is you um start with saying by providing a statement of Interest so you have to actually let them know that you're interested in applying so you don't just apply you say you're interested in applying you submit a statement of interest um and then they then they send you an invitation to apply if you meet the criteria um of it right now we don't meet the criteria to apply for um the roof was redone in 2003 and it has to be 25 years old um in order to even provide statement Advent so we can't apply for this until 2028 um they are right now doing a whole bunch of um overhauling the system last year they didn't award any projects and um this year they're now talking about doing twoyear cycles and so they're trying to figure out their new kind of things so I guess what I guess I'm summarizing is we're not ready yet because this may the whole system may change because they're trying to improve the availabity to do it when you research it um I hadly drag shell in I was like wow this is incredibly confusing and there's a lot of works and a lot of steps and we have to get the town on board as well if we go about doing this um some of the downsides and I've been talking to um other districts um other districts have also some have done it and some haven't based on um a few of the things that you have to do within it is that you have to do a feasibility study you have to have a um a project manager um these are things on a project that may cost half a million dollars is getting you put those kind of things together and you can get close to $100,000 so you know it eats away um Deerfield was upset with the fact that they had to use contractors from out east rather than local contractors they had to fit the certain bid specs that fall under the um mba's um overall um the steps that make you fall through and there's a lot of a lot of work clerical work on behalf of central office and of the town of sun so where we're at now is we are still out to wait and see um we did have the roof looked at by Titan Roofing they're the ones who did the roof in 2003 after the collapse Titan Roofing right now is doing Frontier roof so they were in town Bill hild said hey you guys do the roof can you go over and take a look at it and see what you think um they looked at it and they said that it is near the end of life but you don't have any major structural areas that you can't throw a few thousand dollars at over the next couple years to keep the keep leaking up um out um you know as you guys know the nails are starting to pop up and those kind of things they can those things can be repaired um so we do have a little bit of time there is no active leaks let get you B to make sure I'm making a correct statement sh the one above it there's no active like we don't have ongoing active leaks where you know every now and then we have trouble spots after a storm um you know and different um things that have to get repaired but there's nothing that is is hurting the asset one of the things you have to think about when you talk about roofs is if you start having major leaks and you start your price starts to instantly go up if you're starting have to replace insulation and anything else that's underneath that and being a woodframe building you get start wor about rot and that kind of other kind of thing so it's something we want to keep on where you can't go um your price starts to increase as you if you pass that point um so we do have a couple years um I did talk with um Jeff Travis about what he thought his opinion what of the Town field like all the town being the select board and stuff um he said you know you basically should show us why you're not going to do you know I mean if you're not going to do the msba um I don't have enough information right now of you know if we should or shouldn't do but something that we can build on um originally that's what was going to come back today in May because we were going to try to set up to apply for statement of interest in the next reporting period which is next spring and so now we have to actually wait and so it's more of a wait and see the good news at the same time we had the roof looked at um and again I just that assessment is only as good until the next week you know I mean he's at least he walked around walked got up on the roof went around looked at different places he's not seeing anything but you know it doesn't mean that hey he said that it's GNA last three more years it's it's his his professional guest at the time and um and he had um he was part of the project that was in 2003 and he's as I said he's working for Frontier right now so he was his skin in the game on both sides to kind of give us his best shot so that is um um MSP you know if um if when we do get to that we probably will have to make a I know we have to create a um a committee to oversee the project um it's probably something we want to get on early because of the complex nature of it and the cooperation has to work with the town that um in a few years I'll be I'll be looking to thejust prep to say can we create a subcommittee to help support that that kind of thing so um I do encourage if you're having trouble sleeping at night to go on to the msba website they do have a lot there's a lot of information there a lot of links it's almost too much um it's not we kep on adding and adding links and adding and adding and so you could kind of down these different rabbit holes as you go through it um but you can start to familiarize with what's going on there so two things that darus didn't mention is I know you talked about we have to wait till we get 202 thinking so 2028 before we can even apply it could be a full year process before they even invite you to officially become part of the program um and then you have to have funding available within 12 months of um I can't remember if it's acceptance of the statement of Interest or 12 months of design an S should only be filed for a facility where the district has the ability to fund a schematic design within 90 days of invitation and a total budget within 12 months of the imitations so they give you you have to get it in the following so it is in the spring so I guess we would be in big trouble if they were a June meeting but because they're an April meeting you probably could get the F yeah I just think there's a lot of coordination before that like you said already I mean we always have partnership with the town on these major projects anyways but we're not talking about a 100,000 we're talking about hundreds of thousands so so so you said msba would render their decision in April no no so they so you typically have to submit your at at least on this cycle it was s sois accepted in January and then they would let you know I think by the spring if they're inviting you to continue the process but that doesn't mean you're approved okay the process is I I'm wondering when when in the year we would know that suddenly we had to come up with the funding you almost have to know where your funding is coming from ahead of time it's my interpretation of it but it would also require like we need to call them and you know set up a meeting administratively and make sure that we have all the ducks in a row Darius has reached out to his network of superintendents I've reached out to M business managers to see who else locally has worked with them um you can see all of the other schools that are doing projects with them online so I just think we're really from consider the type of roof we have um it's not as complex as Benny roofs if you were doing a flat roof of multi multi-tiered with units on it and that kind of stuff this is a shingle roof which is a much more easier application um I mean those are the kind of things that we have to um kind of figure out as things kind of go through you know and I don't know if this kind of a project is something that the town would have to borrow for which is part of the conversation which changes town meeting that goes on and it's just going to be a complicated thing not that we shouldn't do it but um and you don't know upfront what you said this a little bit in the beginning you don't know what percentage they're going to match they know that in the process you know it must you know within the document there must be somewhere in there they tell you where they um so basically it says eligibility period you project team then you do a feasibility study schematic design and then they deal with the funding of the project so you have to kind of get through all those other stages and then I mean a feasibility study and design could take months and cost a lot and cost a lot yes and you're not um it's not first come first serve so you're not getting in the queue for one year into the next year each year you are put up against whatever the the needs of other districts as well right so um right now let's say we applied right now we probably don't have enough leaking to get ahead of some of the schools that are leaking you know what I mean so it's one of those things well we'll be able to figure out um you know and like I said I've heard both sides you know I heard um you know some other local schools have gone on Port and some others have not and so it also the project so someone would I know the question IMM come up why don't we look at um you know msba for Windows we just did the window project right but you have to be over $250,000 for them so I'm saying that Lou in anybody's listening because we just we started on that project for 120 yeah so um and so I think probably we're looking at if this is 2028 before we're even eligible we probably are backing up the fiscal year before that where we're really starting like planning a funding and making sure that we have everything and oh goad oh no I bunch question but okay and then the final part is that you know the town has um done a lot of work to create the capital um their their own capital accounts they know this is in the queue so that this is coming and whether or not um you know starting having conversations you know whether not they can create an account a stabilization account to fund it over a couple years so it's not coming on to a taxpayer where they have to take the loans and that kind of stuff so the town set itself in a good spot to fund capital projects um and like I said it's well on their radar and we'll continue to do it um who's on Capital continue to be on it'll be on the list for them to be on the yeah yeah that's one of the things I was going to say we also you know with the capital predictions for FY 25 26 27 28 there there are years that the towns predict are going to be higher and the years are lower so you know projecting when we might want to start thinking about we look at one of the lower years that you know there's a couple years that they're predicting 800,00 in capital spending and so we wouldn't want to try to remove that same year so looking at that spreadsheet I think would help um couple quick question just about the roof itself so if it was redone in 2003 must be different than if someone did your house I mean you usually look for 30 years life I me 30 to 40 but we're only looking at right now 20 so I don't know what the shingle lifespan is out there um it's not doing well I know um and so I don't know if it was a 20 year shingle 25 year shingle or 30-year shingle okay um and I think they are I bet you msba and this is just an educated guest or you can say It's Not educated or just a guess a lot of school building are flat roofed or are not using shingles so you're you know looking at 25 usually is a 30-year roof and you start to getting in you're having problems with your roof early um it is possible that they went they I don't know to find out they find from yeah and also you know with the home you can put two layers on but but I don't know if you put two layers on except a massive root and I don't know if there's two up there already or they put a whole new layer one layer so that's sometimes the second layer also helps with insulation and protection but if there's a big leak then you a problem so um the question for the capital um committee is also I brought up with Frontier I'll bring it up here too I think brought as well is solar grants I mean can you go with solar signals I mean they're high demand on a low Supply but are the grants to do a school so would there be a company that might want to come in that's trying to promote it you know Tesla or someone who wants to do a good community service and have a pilot and put on I mean that if you had solar shingles up there you could probably run most of electrical power here because we have so much sun and the way that the way this n is designed and positioned you get a really good percent yield on your soul so it costs more but in then you're creating you know revenue for your electricity and saving them so I just would you know point that out I know the frontier group was tougher because of all the different angles and solar singles and I think that's exactly I we were talking about that earlier um about the ability to other thing to be do exactly that is to keep an eye out because there's going to be solar on municipal buildings you there's talk about that when we talk with our legislators um about you know the fact that um you know white aren't we just putting us on every municipal building it just they have you know we have the money in savings within the state why aren't they just putting these grants out there to reduce the electricity cost of all it planning ahead for all our communities and such um to me it's kind of a no-brainer but it would make complete sense that they would have school building solar redo your roof and solar at the same time so maybe that will roll out next couple years and that would change this whole project to be twice as benef I agree I have a question in the meantime do you just kind of take a walk up there every year and see what's going on or is there like an inspection process or how do you kind of well so they do they did inspection walkth through to find anything that's um the thing about Roofing is sometimes you know you can see missing shingles or something gets blown off or Nails have popped up so you reeal them and kind of you do that fortunately the fastest way you find a problem is when it's dripping on you you know and so um it usually start it's small and then grows bigger and you know like this building you you could have hidden problems for a while before you see them unfortunately depending on how much water is going so yeah say it's not a science but it's a science but it's not pred could be a vapor barrier you could have leak in one place but it's showing some place else and then right you a leak in that area you below because you don't have access to that area you know so Amanda L any questions thanks for that update we on to committee and chare reports Joe do you want to talk about the day on the hill yeah it's pretty amazing it's exciting to get up there and meet some of our Congress people and and I I got to spend quite a bit of time with Natalie and her a in in push rural schools billan I know there's been mixed feelings about where it is and how it's been but you know she is I feel like gearing back up for another fight for it um there's a tremendous um support within the the keynote speakers and support from they going miss some of the names but the new president of masc is all for and he comes from a Regional School Silver Lakes and um you know there were who the two Congress people who spoke that uh the chair and vice chair of The Joint Committee on education um rep garlic and re Al trino yes which were really impressive they they talked talked about Chapter 70 formula being looked at again you know in the coming months year that they do know that the formula is a little off um in terms of how they calculate things especially for towns like us um so that's one thing that's way up there on the agenda um transportation in the rural areas is is up there as well there's even um some discussion about Charter Schools getting 20,000 what was if they didn't get 20,000 anymore and it was less the savings one person quoted was right now currently 20,000 per kid all the charas schools in m is correct is like $900 million I think and if they broke that down to 10,000 now you have $450 million extra dollars to go elsewhere or you broke it down 15,000 so all those things are political and controversial you know one of the states where the charter schools got that money early to start Charters chars are established now and the question about the charters now do they still need that much money to keep going um uh what else came up um I think that was most what I recall the food was really food was fun because it was it was the it was the tech schools of Massachusetts there was one from New Bedford who they came with many qua Hogs you know very proud and another Cape school had clench out and it just was fun to have the kids all dressed up in cooking hats and everything serving and very proud of what they were doing and um so that was exciting to see you know maybe something we I don't know just you know get one of our local text I if there's a culinary or not try to get them involved in the future but um yeah it was exciting to be up there you did more than I did I oh I did go to um senator who was the specialist he said just said his name um alino aro's office he was supposed to speak to a bunch of us and Greenfield was in the room um Mohawk was in the room uh Frontier was in the room um a couple others and he was supposed to speak but he got called out so we had his Aid speak to us who actually she said she does more with Chapter 70 and he does so she explained a lot of what I just brought up about the formula and about recognizing that it's not fair to everyone um I did step up one point when I think it was he said well you know it's hard because if one District wins then another District loses I I said so with all due respect I don't like I don't like that as an answer like that that shouldn't it shouldn't be that way one wins one loses it's got to be balanced we are a commonwealth we got to share the wealth and that's when I made a plug for schools again anything else there think that's good it was an interesting day it was um I'll report that the masv rural schools committee had our first meeting and we're having another one next week 29 maybe that's two weeks from now um uh we're yep working on continuing to advocate for Rural needs particularly rural a right now you know focused on the FY 25 budget there is an amendment for the Senate budget to bring rural aid from 15 million up to 17.5 um full funding would be 60 million so it's still really short from where we'd like it to be um but right now we're we're focused on the short term and as soon as this budget is through we'll be going back to long term which is hopefully getting the original Ro schools still R and fighting for that any other reports from committee members can do the collaborative if you want please okay so it's going to be redund to but the director um has almost renewed his contract with the vote on it on the 29th but it looks like he's going to be Todd guys will be back again it looks like a four-year term and everything looks good and as we voted in um the collab also has something I thought be interesting for Sunderland um they provide digital um or audio kind of recordings and guidance to help PR school and they've been in some other schools it's free to the school if you're remember and they can come up and help I we might want to think of having them come to International night or come to something we always have the recording some local press but it might be fun to have them if they could do it you know for free and just create a little PowerPoint or video piece for us that we use internally or externally so something for next year we can talk about then but just it was neat to learn about that they don't do a lot more you they they focus a lot more with Secondary School so yeah I'm still learning what they could do for elementary schools great thanks John superintendent report um I sent it out to you earlier this week um just so you know that the the B Administration put out new title N9 Guidance the administrative team is being trained on that uh next Tuesday or Wednesday the the 21st is um by one of our attorneys and also reviewing title 7even which is your civil rights just Cil rights but also civil rights um and the laog goes in effect April April August 1 and so just going to get up to speed on that I attached the memo from Mike long sent to the school administrators our superintendent he just has a nice job summarizing up and updating laws that are happening so I said that out just for reading fun if you're into the reading those kind of things but he kind of gives the kind of the tone with it that I think makes it more interesting to read than just reading legal brief um still uh we are going to be looking at updating our family handbook um I'm working with David Thal and um his his company there he kind of he helped the frontier out um recently and with messaging out and he kind of looked at our our handbooks and said that they're at a date in the sense that if you go I bullying is probably easiest way to kind of you went into the bullying policy of the handbook the policy isn't connect to our kind of our procedures in the handbook you don't have the record you don't have the button to press there if you want to make a report or Anonymous report um and you don't have you know you know all the kind of links to that he say that your modern day handbook should have all that there you people should not have to be searching around when they're FR especially when they're frustrated or something's wrong um to find those kind of things and so he's gonna we're gonna employing him to help us create a h up that's more succinct people can find things easier and kind of interl interlinking things not completely writing what doing but also but providing cleaner language on certain things that may be confusing so that will be brought back to the school committee because handbooks have to be approved by the school committee um policy subcommittee didn't have a quum at the last meeting um we do have one more section to go through I believe it's I and we have some things we put in the parking l so we're going to have to do at the beginning of next year because right now we kind of the memberships are in flux um and and you're not going to get people in June to come out to those things the anti-racism equity committee met in May 1 um and the major part of that agenda was um looking at the non-discrimination the basis of gender identity I thought it was a very productive meeting this there as well um and it was great because we were able to put together um a proposed policy right and then we it was talk about let's get the students involved with this so I have sent it on to um the GSA is the great state gate and straight Alliance Club at Frontier they are looking at as well and I I actually ran into their um advisor today and I said how's it going she said they have some recommendations they're going to be sending it our way back to us then we'll go to legal council um if it's ready there's a lot of changes going to have to go back to the& committee but and then we come forward to adoption probably the beginning of next year me I missing anything I'm just wondering does GSA still stand for Gay stade Alliance I think that's maybe out of date sometimes it now stands for gender and sexuality Alliance I don't know what it is at Frontier I have to double check when I was in high school it sted for you know what I just you know what and I will look I look it up um and I apologize if I have I've been confused by GSA now for a few years I went yeah I I'll look that up that we I should know that um and then the um further on I think I have the where the the House and Senate budgets are as Jessica was just talking about and I have the I Shar this all with everyone the um just the update of who's filing amendments as you know Jessica just mentioned that um you know the you know Senator Mark is the one who's filing for the 17.5 million for Ral schools and that actually being played out as we speak so you can kind of read through there um the big thing to really look at is that Chapter 70 while we want them to really look at I know I'm talking people are intimately involved with this but this is for people watching really um the Chapter 70 adjustments and the price per pupil is not what our district really is watching the the change in from fifth I mean from 30 to 60 to $14 per students doesn't affect our budget by much a few thousand do here a few thousand there we really are string on that rural schools it's um and um so you know as they move the different buckets you got to look at what the total um Hill amount is if we really do need that rural schools to be at least level funded if not added to Worlds it's going to have a rle effect on on the portion of our town pays for for the for the budget and then the last part you can kind of read through but I have all the ongoing projects across the districts a lot of the capital projects um it just kind of shows all the keeping things a motion it's my report thanks any questions well thank you everybody we have uh reached adjournment we'll take a motion to adjourn second from Megan second from Joe all in favor three in the room two hands online 5 zero we're adjourned thank you you everybody Welcome L we're glad you're here