the family and medical leave policy student activity accounts and long range strategic planning eight hundred and twenty pm the bicounty collaborative quarterly report of ms fanelli eight hundred and twenty five acceptance of donations eight hundred and thirty five the school committee will go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiation strategies with union personnel the foxborough extended day staff the committee will return to open session eight hundred and fifty we will return to open session vote on the proposed twenty million one hundred and sixty two thousand and seventeen foxborough extended day staff memorandum of agreement and then nine hundred pm other matters before we go on to visitors first we would like to offer our condolences to joseph garrity in the loss of your mimi i speak for the whole committee i'm sure in saying we offer you our sincere sympathy and deepest condolences joe on your loss thank you you're welcome this one maybe we could take a brief moment i know it's just been a hard week for all of us who knew pat very well and certainly joe you've been conducting yourself just wonderfully and you have so many people here that care about you and the whole town so it's been a hard thing maybe a brief moment of silence please okay now do we have any visitors who wish to be heard seeing none we'll move on to approval of minutes maybe we should take them in date order we have the april 4th two thousand and sixteen minutes janet has put a corrected version on the table of a couple of corrections on page two so we gonna have any no i recommend that we accept these as presented okay did you have any just no i was gonna second no i was gonna second just one thing i think it's a spelling thing on page three under the fy16 budget update second sentence from the bottom and courier vehicle is that the cou i know that some of us are a stickler for spelling and i don't know how'd that get past me but i'm so glad you're fixing that it's courier it's courier with beverly's motion as amended i don't know if we can proceed i know just need a second but thank you for pointing that out marilyn seconding marilyn seconding i did all right all in favor of approving the minutes forty i should say mr gardner is unable to be here tonight i forgot to mention that at the start of the meeting but since i'm here in his chair and he's not here he's unable to join us tonight so i will be running the meeting all right so those are done the next meeting minutes of the april 12th two thousand and six policy subcommittee meeting minutes does anybody have any changes rose if you'll accept as presented i second thank you marilyn all in favor aye forty all right dr baylor are you ready teaching and learning highlights i'm actually gonna move over to the guest table so i can access the laptop there fabulous give you a moment to get over there i also had the pleasure of attending the district wide parent technology night and that was very the fifth one i thought it was wonderful me too i thought it was the best ever actually yes i would agree with that and one of the things that i thought was definitely one of the best ever i'll wait till she gets set up but i thought which is why we kind of wanted to show this tonight is the video this is the part of the welcome in the auditorium but i thought the whole welcome was among the best so i give amy all the credit for that and erin hier our tech director and i will just have one thing to say cause there's so much that you can say after but i felt the difference between the first few and this our fifth was that the first one or two and i said this to amy on the evening that the first couple of years we spent a lot of time in that introductory message saying we wanna highlight all the good things we're doing related to technology integration and how technology supports the learning the teaching and learning but i felt we were still apologizing for we weren't and so we always had to offer the caveat okay these are all the great things but here's also where we're going and we know we need more of this and we know we don't have any mobile devices and we know so i felt the first two years we were still offering that balance of what we have that we're proud of where we honestly acknowledge where we need to go and i think that's what really struck me in amy's introduction was we don't do that we're not doing that any more we're actually just highlighting the wonderful ways that technology supports our staff and our students in the process so for me that was the big takeaway but amy did all the work so i'll let her talk to you about it well it took a village truly to put it together and what i wanted to just recap was the powerpoint presentation that we had in the auditorium just a couple of slides to set the stage here but again back to debbie's point is the video that was put together because the point of the evening really is to show how we're using technology in classrooms and it's what the teacher is doing with our curriculum and we always go back to the strategic plan and our technology plan being really the purpose and the intent and focusing on what our goal was which is really to show how we are leveraging technology in the classroom to improve student learning simply stated our vision really is to make it to where it is a compelling learning environment and one where kids are engaged and they're able to think critically and collaborate with all of the tools that we have through office three hundred and sixty five and to communicate and to have all that creativity with being able to produce things not just consume so speaking to where we've been in the last five years this was our fifth annual technology night plan for parents we had more teachers involved with more students involved down to first graders showing how they're using interactive whiteboards in their classrooms to high school as well as what it looks like in the autocad and then classroom as far as computer architecture design to physics software that we're using so many different pieces and based on all of those different ways that technology is being used we wanted to try to capture that across the district and we've spent the last several months our three technology integration specialist really capturing snippets of video from elementary classrooms middle and high what it looks like on a daily basis and how it really does spread across the curriculum so when we look at our journey and what that looks like in the classroom it really does come down to carrying out that vision we needed to increase our network infrastructure where the community and this committee has been so supportive in order to be able to have the capacity to do what we needed to do building human capacity with our three technology integration specialists now having darlene reed at the elementary level deanna brosio at the middle school and julia greenstein here at the high school and being able to work daily with teachers and how they're integrating technology in their curriculum again that supportive community and truly it is the collaborative nature of this district and the teamwork to be able to bring it all together we focus on technology integration the actual standards but it is embedded within our current curriculum so it plays out daily promises there and before i get to the video to show what this looks like across i think that this one particular quote here from bill gates actually where technology is just a tool in terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them the teacher is the most important and that's what we see each day and that's what parents were able to see whether they visited the classrooms for presentations or whether they came in here into the media center and visited poster sessions where they could see snippets of what takes place in classrooms so just to fast forward here to the video again this video was captured over several months it was captured from our three technology integration specialists as well as some of our teachers coming together and deanne ambrosio our middle school technology integration specialist took all of this raw footage and put it together in a video and i think that you'll be quite amazed of what is taking place across the district welcome to the fifth annual parent technology night thank you for coming the foxborough public schools envisions a compelling prek to twelve wearing environment in which students and staff have access to technologies that promote 21st century teaching and learning this environment leverages technology to provide access to authentic learning experiences that maximize student achievement and prepare students to be productive citizens in a competitive global society bring your own device also known as byod allow students to bring personally owned mobile devices including laptops tablets and smartphones to school for educational use this is what i'm gonna bring to school today i have all my school downloaded websites on here i have all like office three hundred and sixty five it's extremely helpful it's really good to get homework done and stuff it works on all the wifi here it helps me get stuff done faster i really like carrying it around the device is in the class in one sense like if they were to drop the ball seeing how high it bounces back up next to a meter stick it gives them a really good accurate measurement if they do it in slow motion to see exactly how high by the ball comes back up and i liked it for getting good accurate measurements if i've got a survey in class or kind of an exit ticket we can do it digitally and the kids will type in their answers on their devices they show up immediately instead of having to wait till they get home sixth grade students use their own devices in my class and has filled public service announcements on the ramifications of the dangers of bullying we took a runnerup award for massachusetts aggression reduction center and i'm very proud of the kids office three hundred and sixty five provides our community with office applications such as word excel powerpoint onenote outlook and suite these apps can be installed across multiple devices including pcs macs tablets and phones in addition office three hundred and sixty five provides online storage with onedrive and video call if you use skype office three hundred and sixty five in case like you want in literature or a question on homework or anything like that and then you can use onedrive to going and seeing projects you can just see them on there and do it but you can access it on onedrive on anywhere my dream instead of having it paper filled in is to have a wonder notebook filled with all of your ideas including pictures that you have your own something you can keep forever and hear about science forever let's you have a giant screen to work on and then you can paraphrase in the margins and they don't run out of room in the margins in their paraphrasing so they have a giant like a giant mural to work on this is all gonna look amazing i must say what we're doing is we're trying to place qr media codes over the school so we can have a bit more of a schedule one of the online platforms that i enjoy using for my class is called tablet and i use it as online bulletin boards chat rooms online work submission as well as web classes they just double click and then they're able to submit files from their computer or links on their computer i like to use a group in my classroom because i think it's a great way to have the kids be engaged in their own review for a test or grades what's great about the group is that does give us a nice data analysis and breakdown they are actually getting quite competitive for the digital scoreboard and what i focused on very pleasing is that some of the most struggling students end up seeing their name up before other it's a wonderful tool to help them get these thank you that was really special so there's lots of different ways technology is used from the instructional videos from recording for fluency and when the first graders are there recording their voices and reading and they hear themselves they go back and wanna read again and continue with that so it is engaging it's exciting for them what they're learning in different classrooms some of the parents that evening would ask questions is this going on in every classroom we teach the same standards and grade levels but how we approach that is different we might use technology in one way in one classroom and meet that same standard a different way in another classroom and the beautiful thing about that is they're exposed to different ways as they go through each of the grades to technology and really become proficient and so many different tools as well as software programs the one that you saw at the beginning where it was the they were creating badges so when you think about online and the badges that you can earn in different ways whether it's social media or different games and things those are the things that our students are doing and here at the high school so it really is some amazing things that they're exposed to and then what they end up creating in the end and it really is what's enhancing learning does anyone have any questions comments very impressive giant leaps giant leaps i agree with the giant leaps i mean having gone to all five of the last five parent technology nights the progress from the first year to this year is just amazing even the difference in what my now tenth grader was doing in eighth grade and what my now eighth grader is doing in eighth grade with the same teachers same curriculum but the technology has evolved so much in two years it's very exciting what is happening i think on a daily basis and you know one of the things that makes me the happiest is that not only have we really come leaps and bounced thanks really to this committee and the community who has supported all of our requests to add technology in different pieces but we've done all that while preserving our focus on teaching learning we didn't just say we needed a new initiative called technology we're gonna buy stuff so by maybe taking it a little bit slow the first couple of years back before say going over the last nine years that taking a little bit slowly really helped us preserve that idea that it's to serve up the curriculum it's not a means or an activity or an initiative in and of itself that we really have achieved that goal over time well i think the committee has supported you know the last few years the addition of the technology integration specialists and the supervisor and that has really led our teachers to be able to blossom in their use of technology so adding those positions has really been critical to maximizing the potential right that's actually it's not just the things yeah it's the human resource support that must come with the efficient and effective use of the things not make it to something new like here you go when i see tom i know tom's been around for a while and that's what we didn't do which i think is a mistake often that's cause it's kind of exciting and interesting and we didn't make that mistake it might've taken us a little bit longer than we'd hoped but we got to where we wanted without selling our souls of what we believe in so i think that's i couldn't be prouder yeah debbie spinelli brought it up earlier but i think it bears mentioning again or more that aside from the curriculum that we've done in the excellent work of the implementation and hopefully good adoption among the faculty i think a lot of credit needs to go to bill younker and to aaron heier who are under your administration who've produced a lot of the behind the scenes very important and highly technical and sometimes financially complicated implementations of this these laptops don't grow on trees and we have to be able to buy them and we've been able to get there and in the absence of our chair mr gardner i'm sure that there's more to do but this has been a remarkable three years or so in this process and there's always more to do but you made me have thought actually that because they have a vision hearing bill for the procurement of the things that we need we actually haven't increased our capital technology we've just repurposed it more flexibly so that we're not buying as many as what you would think of the standard desktop but we're buying the things we'll really use in the capacity that we believe they should be used so i think that's important to know it's not that we've necessarily asked for extra on top of what we already have we're just using the funds that we are lucky enough to get each year in a different way to achieve our goals so it definitely that is a big part of it is to have that vision of what is the priority and what can we do without or how does that philosophy shift what we hope to get versus what we've traditionally purchased so that's been a big help thank you amy that was great yeah thank you amy we appreciate it the work of many it was a great night thank you really a great night it sure was do you wanna stay there or wanna join me hurry up have a seat so as we know mr murray is our department chair for social studies but for high school welcome tom really see if you yes i'm here to ask for a new textbook adoption for the ap european history this has been proposed from two summers ago when we finished off the social studies evaluation and one of our needs was to find a european history textbook mr todd kayes has been teaching this class for over fifteen years now i looked up that number since kevin mccarthy left he's taken this class and he's done some great things with it he's been using the same textbook throughout and when he went to a conference a one week conference two summers ago and he met a lot of people he got five or six i think it was five different textbooks we looked at and this is the final one that he and i came down with and the reason why this is gonna be such a great textbook is they adopted this textbook as they made the changes to the test itself so there's some great resources that go with it the professor who wrote this actually mr kayes is our head as a professor at penn state university which was only a coincidence but the fact is this is an outstanding textbook we're very excited to hopefully adopt this for next year and going back to that k12 social studies review that we did two years ago actually when you go back to the timeline that we had proposed for this text it would have been last year and i think that speaks to being really thorough and thinking through what exactly do we need in order to make sure that we're best meeting the needs of the students and we're doing it in a timely fashion but we're not jumping into it at the same time based on the changes that have happened with the ap college board now yeah very thoughtful process absolutely so the total cost for purchasing fifty copies is six thousand and forty eight yes it is yeah and that would be the high school textbook that's why sixteen why all right anybody have any additional questions comments no i'll make a motion that we appropriate six thousand and forty eight for the purchase of this of the fifty copies of the new history textbook advanced placement european history textbook i'll second that thank you marilyn all in favor aye forty thank you thank you thanks guys thanks tom thank you exciting and thanks again for the technology because as a classroom teacher i can't say enough good stuff it changes the whole dynamic of the classroom when the kid's excited we just got to presidential who is the best president we started with mckinley we went right up to the present it's just the kids are actively involved and the kids get vote through kahoot so every kid is involved in this whole process and it's not me who's making the decision it's the class who's making the decision and it's really been a game changer from that to powerpoint when one person who's helped develop a powerpoint and everybody else would take credit for it it's totally different now that everybody actively participates and everybody because it's online so you can't kind of fight your way out of it everybody has to be involved yeah you know what the student engagement comes a little bit more naturally without the teacher having to work hard on student engagement harder than you have to because they want to be involved everybody's getting like we did one with seniors in preeconomics and they were reluctant at the beginning then when they were excited because look i gotta do my part of it and that's really a nice thing that's a great point great thank you i'd be interested if they did think who was the most effective president it was concluded it was john f kennedy and i didn't think i thought it'd be teddy roosevelt personally but it was the kids who did it and the kid who ran with it he was awesome that's great thanks tom thank you thank you thank you all right we're a little ahead of schedule but that's all good we got lot of policy coming up so our next agenda item is the first reading of three policies the first one is policy gcccgdcc i don't know who titles these family and medical leave we'll thank masc for the lettering process on that we don't know who else to thank so that is the first one and you have in your packets the current policy which is quite short and debbie and i met and discussed this and went through the very lengthy family leave policy i think it looks to me that when the policy handbook was initially adopted this was probably put in as a placeholder it sort of just references the family and medical leave act the new policy really delineates exactly what our employees are entitled to family and medical leave act so debbie do you want to start with i will start all right suggested new policy gcccgdcc family leave policy family medical and small necessities leaves of absence a purpose the family and medical leave act fmla of one thousand nine hundred and ninety three allows eligible employees twelve weeks of unpaid leave twenty six weeks for military caregiver leave per year under the circumstances outlined below employees may take leave for the following reasons one to care for the employee's child after birth or placement of a child with an employee through adoption or foster care two incapacity due to pregnancy prenatal medical care or childbirth three the employee is needed to care for his or her child spouse or parent who has a serious health condition four the employee is unable to perform the functions of hisher position because of a serious health condition five the employee is next of kin to or needed to care for a covered service member who incurred a serious injury or illness in the line of duty up to twenty six weeks of leave this is an exception to the twelve week maximum referenced throughout the policy six the employee needs leave due to a qualifying exigency arising out of his her child spouse or parent who is also a military member being called to or serving on covered active duty b use paid leave first employers are required to use certain types of accrued or available paid leave first as part of the fmla leave before commencing the unpaid portion of the leave employees who take leave because of birth or placement of a child or to care for an ill spouse parent or child must first use all accrued vacation and personal time in that order employees would take leave because of their own serious illness must use all accrued sick personal and vacation time in that order debbie hold up mrs panelli pointed out that somehow in our transition we dropped out a sentence that is important to include there is one sentence missing the next to the last sentence should say and the reason i know before employees who take leave correct so this is a policy recommended by your own school attorney and the sentence that is missing says contractual family sick leave must be used if an employee is out to care for an ill family member contract again so so it addresses and that comes before the boys who take leave because of their own their own serious illness could you do it once more please sure contractual family sick leave must be used if an employee is out to care for an ill family member that's a good cash and it must have just dropped out in our editing but i'm so glad that you remembered that thank you janet do you have that yeah i do i have that copy thank you i see you typed the note okay debbie do you want me to take over the next bit of reading or should you like to continue well why don't you do and then we'll swap back and forth no kidding one voice will not drone on okay so we are on c it is c c eligibility one thousand two hundred and fifty hours in previous twelve months to be eligible for leave under this policy an employee must have been employed by the employer for a total of at least twelve months and must've worked at least one thousand two hundred and fifty hours during the twelve month period preceding the commencement of the leave certain exceptions may apply if an employee has had a break in service with the employer totaling seven or more years unless the break was due to certain types of military leave d conditions one twelve weeks employees may take no more than twelve weeks of leave in a twelve month period the twelve month period is a rolling twelve months beginning twelve months prior to the proposed commencement of the requested leave if both spouses are employed by the employer they are together entitled to a total of twelve weeks of leave for the birth or placement of a child or care of a sick parent two notice employees wishing to take fmla leave must give thirty days notice for leave involving foreseeable events if the events giving rise to the need for leave is not foreseeable then the employee must give such notice as is practicable under the circumstances employees must schedule planned medical treatments with due regard for the employer's operational needs e definitions healthcare provider a doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery as appropriate by the state in which the doctor practices or any other person determined by the secretary to be capable of providing healthcare services parent the biological parent of an employee or an individual who stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a son or daughter reduced leave schedule it leaves schedule that reduces the usual number of hours per workweek or hours per work day of an employee secretary the secretary of labor serious health condition an illness injury impairment or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care in a hospital hospice or residential medical care facility or continuing treatment by a healthcare provider child a biological adopted or foster child a stepchild a legal ward or a child of a person standing in loco parentis who is under eighteen years of age or eighteen years of age or older and incapable of self care because of a mental or physical disability spouse an individual's legal husband or wife covered active duty in the case of a member of a regular component of the armed forces duty during the deployment of the member with the armed forces to a foreign country and in the case of a member of the reserve component of the armed forces duty during the deployment of the member with the armed forces to a foreign country under a call or order to active duty under a provision of law referred to as section 101a 13b of title x united states code covered service member a member of the armed forces including a member of the national guard reserves who is undergoing medical treatment recuperation or therapy or is otherwise in outpatient status or is otherwise on the temporary disability retired list for a serious injury or illness or a veteran who is undergoing medical treatment recuperation or therapy for a serious injury or illness or who was a member of the armed forces including a member of the national guard or reserves at any time during the period of five years proceeding the date on which the veteran undergoes that medical treatment recuperation or therapy next of kin with respect to an individual next of kin is the nearest blood relative of that individual qualifying exigencies excuse me may include attending certain military events arranging for alternative childcare addressing certain financial and legal arrangements attending certain counseling sessions and attending postdeployment reintegration briefing serious injury or illness in the case of a member of the armed forces including a member of the national guard or reserves an injury or illness that was incurred by the member in the line of duty on active duty in the armed forces or existed before the beginning of the member's active duty and was aggravated by service in line of duty on active duty in the armed forces and that may render the member medically unfit to perform the duties of the members office grade rank or rating and in the case of a veteran who was a member of the armed forces including a member of the national guard or reserves at any time during such a period a qualifying as defined by the secretary of labor injury or illness that was incurred by the member in line of duty on active duty in the armed forces or existed before the beginning of the member's active duty and was aggravated by service in line of duty on active duty in the armed forces and that manifested itself before or after the member became a veteran whew okay it's not for the fainthearted no but it really does spell it all out it's right there if anyone has a question about how we would deal with these issues it does delineate everything f certification employees must provide sufficient information for the employer to determine if the leave may qualify for fmla protection in the anticipated timing and duration of the leave employees requesting fmla leave must provide medical certification to support a claim for leave for an employee's own serious health condition or to care for a seriously ill child spouse or parent the medical certification must set forth the date on which serious health condition commenced the serious health condition commenced the probable duration of the condition and the appropriate medical facts within the knowledge of the healthcare provider regarding the condition in its discretion the employer may require a second medical opinion and periodic recertification at its own expense employer responsibilities the employer will inform employees requesting leave whether they are eligible under the fmla the employer will also inform employees what if any additional information is needed to process their request employees will be notified of the approval or denial of the leave and the reasons therefore the employer shall not interfere with restrain or deny the exercise of any right provided under the fmla and shall not take any adverse employment action against an employee for posing any practice made unlawful by the fmla or for involvement in any proceeding under or relating to the fmla debbie you wanna take over i will to take over h intermittent or reduced schedule leave if medically necessary for a serious health condition or qualifying exigency of the employee or his or her spouse child or parent will maybe taken on the intermittent or reduced leave schedule if leave is requested on this basis the employer may require the employee to transfer temporarily to a position with equivalent compensation which better accommodates recurring periods of absence or a parttime schedule i benefits one health coverage employees on leave are entitled to the continuance of group health coverage under the same conditions they received coverage prior to the leave employees who contribute to their health insurance premiums via payroll deduction must arrange to pay the premium contributions during the period of unpaid absence if they wish to retain coverage in the event that an employee elects not to return to work upon completion of an improved unpaid leave of absence the employer may recover from the employee the cost of any payments made to maintain the employee's coverage unless the failure to return to work was beyond reasons of the employee's control two other benefits benefits based upon the length of service will be calculated as of the last paid workday prior to the start of the fmla leave of absence employees do not accrue sick vacation or personal time while on leave in excess of thirty days employees will not forfeit any employment benefits that accrued prior to the start of the fmla leave of absence under j sick leave workers compensation leave or other absences employees who are out of work for reasons that would qualify for leave under this policy irrespective of whether the leave has been requested under this policy are required upon request to provide to the employer the information and certifications required by this policy the employer shall designate all such qualifying leave as family and medical leave which shall run against the twelve weeks allowed under this policy k return to work employees returning from fmla leave in accordance with this policy will be restored to their original positions or to equivalent positions with equivalent pay and benefits employees should contact the personnel department and their supervisors at least two weeks before their return date to make arrangements employees may be required to provide a medical opinion from a physician certifying their fitness for duty the employer reserves the right to send an employee to the employer's position for a second opinion regarding the employee's fitness to work l procedural requirements employees returning requesting excuse me i'm beginning it employees requesting an fmla leave must submit the request in writing to their department head request should be made thirty days in advance of the commencement of the leave but in any event as soon as practicable the employer will provide an employee with a certification of health care provider form the employee must return the completed form to the employer within fifteen days from receipt want me to take over sure this one's a monster it's just long rules specific to teachers leave taken near the end of an academic term the following rules shall apply with respect to periods of leave near the conclusion of an academic term in the case of any eligible employee employed principally in an instructional capacity leave more than five weeks prior to end of term if the employee begins leave more than five weeks prior the end of the academic term the employer may require the employee to continue taking leave until the end of such term if the leave is obvious at least three weeks duration and the return to employment would occur during the threeweek period before the end of such term leave less than five weeks prior to the end of term if the employee begins leave with less than five weeks remaining in the academic term the employer may require the employee to continue taking leave until the end of such term if the leave is of greater than two weeks duration and the return to employment would occur during the two week period before the end of such term leave less than three weeks prior to end of term if the employee begins leave with less than three weeks remaining in the academic term the employer may require the employee to continue to take leave until the end of such term intermittent or reduced leave reduced schedule leave in any case in which an eligible employee employed principally in an instructional capacity requests intermittent or reduced schedule leave that is foreseeable based on planned medical treatment and the employee would be on leave for greater than twenty of the total number of working days in the period during which the leave would extend the agency or school may require that such employee elect either to take leave for periods of a particular duration not to exceed the duration of the planned medical treatment or to transfer temporarily to an available alternative position offered by the employer for which the employee is qualified and that has equivalent pay and benefits and better accommodates recurring periods of leave then the regular employment position of the employee and small necessities one the small necessities act massachusetts general law chapter one hundred and forty nine section 52d became effective on august 4th one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight two an employee shall be entitled to a total of twenty four hours of unpaid leave during a twelve month period the twelve month period is a rolling twelve months beginning twelve months prior to the proposed commencement of requested leave in addition to leave available under the family and medical leave act of one thousand nine hundred and ninety three for the following purposes a to participate in school activities directly related to the educational advancement of a son or daughter b to accompany the son or daughter of an employee to routine medical or dental appointments such as checkups or vaccinations and c to accompany an elderly relative of the employee to a routine medical or dental appointments or appointments for other professional services related to the elder's care three employees who have accumulated sick personal or vacation time must choose such time as part of the twenty four hours before becoming eligible for unpaid time the employer will not provide paid leave in any situation where it would not normally provide such paid leave for at least seven days in advance the employee shall submit to the employer a written notice of hisher intent to take small necessities leave and the date and expected duration of the leave if seven days notice is not possible the employee shall give notice as soon as practicable reference is twenty nine usc section two thousand six hundred and one at seek twenty nine cfr part eight hundred and twenty five at seek and massachusetts general law chapter one hundred and forty nine section fifty two d any questions i just have one i'm sorry no don't apologize on page two b one so they're saying if a husband and wife had a baby they can only do a combined four weeks like why don't they get the individual that's the way the laws is the state law yes okay so four is the rule is the rule of the law that is true they must share the available time if they're both employees right at the same employer okay thank you i wanna clarify that that's good to clarify steve yes this is rich and thorough and thank you for all the work you both did on it i have no criticism of it at all i just have a couple of questions page one letter c eligibility like and we can answer these later in another reading or whatever we can answer them now pin anybody down but when it describes the number of hours in this case one thousand two hundred and fifty since we have a school year is it the contracted year of say some members of our school system say the union members versus nonmembers cause you have breaks right right but they're actually employed are they accumulated okay that helps the contracts are year round it is just that the work year is shorter than the contractual year but this actually is the federal law that you have to have been employed for at least twelve months and have to work at least that minimum number of hours in order to be eligible for fmla thank you i think you got me right in there debbie right on to answer my question the other page two if i may madam chair sure go on steve item two under d under d yeah this is based on my inexperience with this law is there flexibility with say the administration whoever is the stakeholder on helping the employee work through what scheduled planned medical treatments are with regards to the employer's operational needs so i'm not gonna mention any fictional medical conditions but there's gotta be something in the human condition where the person has to go for it and is it captured somewhere else or i don't know i don't know that it needs to be because we have several people a few people a year that get fmla and the way it actually works is more straightforward than some of the detailed language may lead one to believe but basically what that section says is that about scheduled planned medical treatments that if you have a need or an immediate family member has a need that you know the scheduled what the schedule of treatment is then yes you work with the employer to say okay that's actually a better situation than sometimes not knowing what is being faced so because then you're a little more predictable about what's gonna happen and have a little bit more of a plan to cover so in other words we're on top of it so thank you yes that was a good question though because fmla has been a federal law for a few decades so as you can see so it is it's just that our policy sort of just referenced it it said we'll comply with it and so if you were an employee looking to see what the benefits were you would have to then go somewhere else so the benefit of having it all here as you can see it right in the foxborough school committee policy manual steve on that one though i think we need to your question on the last sentence planned medical treatments are like if i'm gonna have knee surgery where it's at my schedule my wish to have done i see elect the right it's not talking about an emergency surgery or a need to have one got it thank you if it's a treatment where you're gonna be ill for a few days each time for example maybe cause i've been through that then we wouldn't necessarily wanna schedule it on a monday and then you would only come back in on friday so typically people will pick a thursday or friday so it's kind of those situations that it's mutually agreeable like this would work for you this would work for us let's come up for something that seems to be of mutual benefit sure and then finally medicare page five letter item l it references that the request should be made thirty days in advance with the commencement and leave but in any event as soon as that practicable and the employer will provide oh i know is there any language that we need or have already that once the employee submits whatever submission it is to the administration that the administration is required to act within twenty four forty eight thirty six days weeks hours or whatever yes we cover that one so it doesn't sit in an inbasket somewhere and oh no the cover form says you are or not eligible the minute we get it we send it right on okay and it says you are or are not eligible and it's and then it's sent back great thank you very much everybody appreciate it all great questions great questions yeah really and what this does it is our old policy that we're getting rid of said well we're not getting rid of it but we're amending like i said the superintendent shall issue and from time to time amend regulation setting forth the rights and procedures granted by the app that's really what we're doing it took a little while to get there this was eight and we're in sixteen but i think this is a thorough delineation of everybody's rights no that's a heavy lift you did a lot of work thank you so with the inclusion of that one sentence i think we've gone through and vetted the new policy correct and that is the version that your attorney is recommending that's right for your consideration okay we vote on that tonight or no this is the first reading it was the first reading but what i would like to do is i'd like to make a motion that we move this policy family leave policy as amended forward for a second reading yes thank you second would anyone like to second that i will thank you marilyn all in favor aye forty all right so we'll move that forward for a second reading at our next meeting the next policy is student activity accounts jjf you may remember that back in december mr youther brought to our attention the need to set some limits on the funds to be included in the student activity accounts and we voted in december to have a twenty five thousand limit at the high school and twenty thousand at the middle school the mesc had some policy suggestions changes based on the massachusetts law so bevy and i took a look at the msac suggested changes and have incorporated those into our policy on student activity accounts and it's not quite as long it's a little bit long but it's not quite as long and these regulations have changed they have changed become a little bit more that's right if i could speak more eloquently definitely have become more regulated and more accountabilities built in in more clearly defined requirements i think that's reflected in what the suggested language from maec is and so i asked bill to take a look at it and give us his thoughts tonight and i guess we'll just start debbie do you want to start sure and this one is the long range to do the plan student activity accounts student account activities file jjf student funds may be raised to finance the activities of authorized student organizations student activity funds are considered a part of the total fiscal operation of the foxborough public schools and are subject to policies established by the foxborough school committee and of the office of the superintendent the funds shall be this is added only for the benefit of the students and that's inserted in our old language managing accordance with the sound of business practices which include accepted budgetary this is new and internal control practices the superintendent will ensure that annually all principals and student organizations receive a copy of this policy as well as a copy of established procedures for control of receipts and expenditures that meet or exceed dese guidelines in compliance with massachusetts general law chapter seventy one section forty seven the foxborough school committee one authorizes the principals to accept money for organized student activity organizations which currently exist or as from time to time it may be revised this is new quote all funds received for the student activities must be deposited into the student activity agency account and no funds will be directly deposited to a student activity checking account except for the student activity agency account end quote two authorizes the town treasurer to establish and maintain a student activity agency account or accounts which is to be audited as part of the town's annual audit the interest that is earned on such accounts shall be maintained by the agency account and distributed annually among the student activity checking accounts as directed by the regulations established by the foxborough school committee policy debbie i'm gonna jump in with this next one because bill had given me a couple changes and i've had them on my copy here so i might as well jump in with the reading three authorizes student activity checking accounts for use by the principals with specific maximum balances established by each school for each school by foxborough school committee policy this is new payments for expenditures shall be made whenever possible by check debit or eft directly from the student activity that should say agency account not checking agency account so agency should say student activity agency account thank you that was a good catch by bill reimbursements to personal credit card holder shall require the prior authorization of the superintendent signatory authorization for student activity checking accounts shall be restricted to the principal and it should say assistant principal and then strike the parenthetical reference to superintendent or treasurer so okay the principal and assistant principal period and then that parenthetical should come out okay student activity checking account shall be audited annually in accordance with dese guidelines four directs principals to provide the treasurer with a bond in an amount agreeable to the treasurer five this is new shall annually prior to the start of each school year vote to establish or change the maximum balance that may be on deposit in each student activity checking account oh so i have a question so this should be on our radar for annually annually annually you're gonna review sort of like you do the curriculum like you're gonna revisit what are the maximum balances allowed on each student activity checking account do you wanna keep them the same do you wanna expand them or do you so every year they're going to revisit that but it does say prior to the start of each school year again this was the recommended language based on the changes in the law so we should put it on our calendar for the end of august and i mean as long as bill is satisfied that the two recommended amounts of twenty five thousand and twenty thousand if something changes over the summer then we can revisit those amounts then but that's a good catch for accounts with limits that exceed twenty five thousand the massachusetts department of education recommends that districts consider an audit constructed by an outside conducted by an outside accounting firm my eyes are failing me strike two to it just every three years so i now have another question so just as a matter of that language was always in there that language was always in there just as a matter of being consistent the massachusetts department of education is now called the massachusetts department of elementary and secondary education yes so we should say d elementary and secondary education we can read these things over and over again well i have read this once a night but as you're reading it out loud i hear it it makes me think so well this was the two thousand and eight skim over familiar words nope that's perfect so change massachusetts department of education to dese because that is what we've referenced spell it out fully massachusetts department of elementary and secondary education well we should probably spell it out in the first reference which is up at the top in the first paragraph and then we should meet or exceed department of elementary and secondary education parentheses dese and then we can just refer to dese great that's right throughout that's perfect oh thank you madam chair on the same item if i may and bill maybe you can answer this it says whatever the name of your organization you just changed i'm sorry i'm a little blurry on that one they use the verb recommends that the districts my question is do we do that or are we going to do that or do we not know yet at this time the guidelines basically state that to do an internal review for the first two years and then on the third year the outside auditing firm has to do the audits so effectively it's being audited each year it's just one every three years is actually done by an outside firm okay i didn't know that we have to so we haven't done an outside firm yet because the policy basically for us has just been put in place so we won't do that probably for another year okay thank you it does not force you to do it though it's saying it recommends that you consider and so basically what they're saying is this is good practice if you don't do it and you have a problem it's on you so that's really what they're saying that's why i called every three years but ironically they also put it if you don't do it they'll put it in your annual audit it's now gonna be a footnote that you're not doing it oh okay so the but we are doing it so so the law in itself doesn't force you to but what they're saying is you better do it i was just bringing it home thank you no good point steve this whole next section is new and was recommended by masc graduating class funds funds held on behalf of graduating classes are to be held within the student activity checking account for the high school such funds shall be designated by the class's year of graduation such as class of one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight except once a class has graduated from high school their fund should be removed from the high school student activity checking account no later than two years from the date of graduation it is the responsibility of the class officers to arrange for these funds to be removed from the high school activity checking account when requested and once all outstanding financial obligations of the graduating class have been met the remaining balance should be removed from the fund by check transfer a payable to the class of xxxx checks payable to individual members of the graduating class are not permitted should the class officers not request to have their funds removed from the student activity checking account within two years of their graduating the funds will be forfeited by the class and transferred into the general sub fund portion of the student activity agency account these funds will then be allocated by a vote of the school committee the source is masc march two thousand and sixteen the legal references are mass general laws chapter seventy one section forty seven as amended and this should say as amended by chapter sixty six of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and ninety six you skipped one last sentence there i did yeah the class officers the final sentence class officers should be given a copy of this policy during the course of their senior year to ensure their knowledge and their obligations to perform under this policy i was working off a different copy i don't know why or you are just getting tired then no i actually don't have that so bev read it in is that right class officers should be given a copy of this policy during the course of their senior year to ensure their knowledge of their obligations to perform under this policy thank you deb we have too many different i don't know how that happened i had a different copy that i was working on that's okay as long as we all are aware of that yep no that that's the one we should be all right one more question madam chair for the subject matter experts probably bill or deb is there any language we need to have or is it an accounting practice already in place that defines the accounts that the monies are held in so that say principal being the monies are not at risk for loss like instead of investment accounts or something like that just as checking but all well the two funds that exist one is the agency fund which is actually controlled by the town's treasurer collector it's not controlled by anybody on the school site that is where the primary source of money is supposed to be that's where all deposits go to the student activity checking account is what's actually under the control of the principal or assistant principal within the building and that's the one that has the limitations of the two thousand and twenty five that is strictly in a checking account that's interest bearing not being invested other than just the principal no however the other money is comingled with all town revenues and sources so therefore if they're investing the money out they're investing in this money as well out but they always obviously keep the liquid portion for us thank you the only comment i will make on this that i'm uncomfortable with but it's state law so we will obviously have to deal with it and i actually think and i apologize cause they don't have my copy with me right here but i don't believe the state law allows for the two year holding of the money i believe it's actually down to either six or nine months but the problem i have with that is in many cases we have graduating classes that are graduating with five thousand to ten thousand which they are specifically graduating with to have for their fiveyear reunion and i have a real problem personally giving five to ten thousand to a eighteen year old that basically would have to open an account under their social security number because it can no longer be under any of the the town valued accounts and just dispersing it so we typically have seen that the funds stay in our accounts for the five years and at the fiveyear time they usually clear them out because that's what they're using to do as their seed money for their reunion at which point obviously i have no concerns that it's gone it's not in our control any more but i think the state law really does not anticipate that some of these classes will have the size balances they have it'd be different if it's a five hundred one thousand dollar account but i have seen ten thousand twelve thousand still in some of these accounts so what do we do with that i've actually put a call into our state legislators just to say you really need to really think this one out because i think this is a problem absolutely personally i don't think that you're if you were thinking that these kids are graduating with a five hundred thing that's not the case and that's not in fact it was not unusual this is i've talked to a lot of the people the towns around us and they're the same exact situation and i'm sure it's sometimes a far more than that so you know this was the language that was recommended from masc we currently have nothing in our policy on graduating class funds so i think for i mean at least absent a change in the law this is and maybe masc put the two years in thinking along the same lines that you did i think for now at least this is a good way to go but we should keep an eye on it and make sure we're giving our students the best advice possible when they graduate isn't it under our purview if we realize that is really happening that we could recommend under this particular circumstance that it stays until the five year no well what's interesting is i think you might get away and i kept rereading this when you get to it but where it basically says that you will take control of it and put it into a general sub fund portion of the student activity account which technically doesn't exist by state law but anyways we'd put it there you could decide not to do anything with it for five years and then disperse it so you could effectively use their own wording if this is valid you could use their own wording to just keep it there just you know wouldn't be under the class of ninety eight but we would keep track of what the class of ninety eight had type of thing so we could we can work around it for the benefit of the class i with this wording you could i think okay well this is our first reading so we'll maybe all give this some more thought the mattress strategy the mattress strategy put it in your mattress so far it's been really fun so you know i just don't think they thought through the individual the effect on the individual it could even affect someone's financial aid for example you don't know so i think that that's definitely part of it that until the scenario has actually happened and i think at some point they'll say oh oh gee we need to fix this right well at least we have the phrase that of the sub whatever it was the subaccount well we can massage that we move it from high school and take possession right so we can massage that a little bit maybe we could get some feedback from our student our class advisors well i was gonna say the class advisors i think as long as it's the state law area i don't think we'll do any good because we already feel that way so i just don't know that i'm sure they will agree with us i think it's just questionable let us do a little bit more digging about how other people are handling that and how do you advise the kids how to best take control of the money without impacting yourself as an individual college student so we will have more information a month from now but i just don't know if people figured out that well this is the recommended language yes all good points on that we have one more policy well actually i would like to recommend that the policies the student activity accounts file jjf be moved forward for second reading with the additions of our corrections and amendments thank you second thank you steve all in favor aye forty okay one more this one's short and sweet this was just something this is a housekeeping matter that as we were flipping through our policy manual we noticed that our policy on long range strategic planning was not uptodate with our actual practice so that's we're just trying to bring this policy in line with what we have actually been doing over the last five years now i think yeah five years so this is file adaa long range strategic planning the key element of effective management of a school system is the use of long range plans long range strategic planning is strongly supported in the research related to the management of education the foxborough school committee and superintendent share the responsibility for setting direction for foxborough public schools long range strategic planning is the primary process for effecting longterm direction the foxborough school department is committed to the concept of long range strategic planning this planning is focused on the major components of the school system as recommended by the superintendent this concept will be implemented in the school system as a result of the following process a long range strategic plan will be developed to include a three changed from five to three year period the plan will be prepared by the superintendent recommended to the foxborough school committee for approval and when they're gonna strike the sentence the plan will be reviewed revised yearly the superintendent will provide the school committee with an annual update on the plan's progress the superintendent will ensure appropriate staff and community participation in the development of the plan the timeline for development presentation and approval of the plan is as follows i'm gonna strike the original a and then insert a six months prior to the expiration of the current three year plan the superintendent will form a strategic planning work group consisting of administrators staff and community members and we'll strike the second the b and insert b a draft will be submitted to the school committee for review and final approval and that is that and we'll strike c basically a b and c had to do with fiveyear plans which were not working i mean we're not doing because we went to the threeyear plan which is working for us i think a more effective way to plan for it so does anybody have any questions i think that it's just tweaking it's a housekeeping thing and a tweaking just to make sure what we say we're doing is based on what we're actually doing i move to accept the long range strategic planning with the amendments made to move it forward for a second reading yep please do we have a second second thank you steve all in favor aye forty okay well we're done with the policy portion of the meeting moving on to the bicounty quarterly update mrs pinelli okay so four times a year hence the name quarterly update we get an update from bicounty collaborative which is our member collaborative for special education programming that we do send a few kids to every year and we are a member district so this particular update contains information regarding referrals and enrollment status of the budget for bico fy16 parent information events regional training and an upcoming transition expo so just to elaborate on a couple of those there referrals and enrollment are continuing to increase for the backup in terms of the collaborative to where they typically are at this time every year which is close to two hundred they have one hundred and ninety six students they have had more growth in the elementary programs that they run they have been providing which i think is a really good thing they were expanding other services to districts other than just here are some programs and the student you pay us tuition which is the traditional bulk of the activity but they really expand things in the area of homebased services that are really have helped the districts afterschool programing and kids who need that that's for an extended day and professional development of interest to the member districts and some examples of that have been that they've been providing some sheltered english immersion training special education content training and other similar things that our faculty is looking for as well they have tried to begin some parent education programs which typically doesn't exist in a collaborative that big but they for example they mentioned signs of suicide information which is a program that's used in most of our schools us included and they are now using that for that and i think particularly interest of families of students with disabilities is that they're gonna be holding a family financial planning night on april oh that was april 6th so this has already gone by to help families really with topics about guardianship preservation of eligibility of government benefits and entitlement building financial solutions and legal planning so i hope that they do run that every year because i think a lot of people are interested in that and they do get that type of information when we have transition night that we run they are running their own transition night as you also see but we do transition night in collaboration with area districts as well so those are very helpful family events where you can learn about all kinds of things that you need to set your child up for adulthood and transition to future career and i think those things that they've been doing certainly have expanded the services for all of us who belong so that's great great do we need to move to accept this yes accept could i just ask a quick question of course the last item was the transition's expo are we participating in that as a school district in any way or attending it no because we have our own this is bicounty has well we had there's i think eighteen at this point maybe seventeen member districts is quite big so this is the first time they're cohosting their own with their own vendors and everything but foxborough actually runs their own and we move it around sometimes it's in alborough or norton foxborough we host a lot we do all the group setups we often run it here so we already have our own and they have rather than relying on all their member districts to have their own transition night or in partnership like we do regionally they are now starting to run their own so that they fill the gap in case they've member communities that don't need families that need that information it's good to see other organizations again rise to the foxborough standard yes it is so i think if some families could have made ours it could go to this one but it's typically for families of students who are attending the bico program although we have our own and they can go from the company thank you madam chair thank you deb well we have a motion do we have a second thank you marilyn all in favor aye thanks forty to accept the bico quarterly update thank you mrs pinelli okay we are back on schedule we are on our agenda awesome and we are at eight hundred and twenty five acceptance of donations we have several we do have several and several of them from the partners and patriotism funds in fact this was on me i forgot to ask about the first one maybe oh it says recess equipment thank goodness the checks that's what it is so this is i'm asking the committee to accept a donation from the partners and patriotism fund in the amount of five hundred to the john j ahern middle school for recess equipment and that would be going into the gift account motion to accept with much gratitude its oh we're doing all three i would do them separately i think we just accept them separately yes i second all in favor aye forty thank you for the donation of five hundred for recess equipment all right also from new england patriots partners and patriotism fund a donation to foxborough high school in the amount of three thousand four hundred for their tower garden project so many of you are familiar with the tower garden project that we have at the taylor school where we're growing our own food all should go to the taylor school and see it they've been doing that for almost two years now so they're growing their own greens vegetables and all kinds of things right in the cafeteria at the taylor school and our goal has been to increase this to other schools and we actually did get a donation of some of the towers about a year ago from patriot place who used to have them up near where tastings used to be and they weren't being used so they actually gave us five towers which we happily took and now this is also there are other equipment pieces needed for the tower so this is to help with the garden project so that we can start growing food at many or most of our schools anything else did i leave anything out and that's that grant was written by alison johnson our food service director i move to accept the check in the amount of three thousand four hundred for the tower garden project from the partners and patriotism fund with gratitude second thank you steve all in favor aye forty thank you so just for example certain specialized lights are required so the towers have been great we'd have to purchase them but as we all know green things require light i remember the potato things i thought that was fascinating yeah that's awesome very generous so once again from the new england patriots partners and patriotism fund they have made a donation to foxborough high school and the amount of one thousand to the foxborough high school theater guild we're also formerly known as the drama club for their metg performance that the one that just went on that's the competition the performance yeah i just don't know what i feel like i should know what the letters stand for but theater guild is you know what i thought i think that's something massachusetts is something of theater guild it's this anyway it's a theater guild i just can't call up the e usually i'm good at acronyms but deb we know what that e is i'm sorry massachusetts if miquel was here she could something of theater guild that would be good massachusetts educational theater guild and it's on the internet so it must be true thank you thank you steve that wireless is just coming in handy i never thought of that actually do we have a motion i will motion that we accept the one thousand so graciously donated by partners and patriotism for the massachusetts educational theater guild i'll second that all in favor aye forty thank you okay just before we move on those three alone from partners it's so nice to see how many what a variety of things they support so they'll support theater programs they support healthy foods in our food service and recreation to recess equipment it really they really are very generous in a variety of things and in our students in deca we accepted a very generous donation from the partners and patriotism fund for that so i think do what i think appropriately yes exactly we all do very generous speaking of generous yes we have a donation from the raytheon corporation in the amount of one thousand to the john j ahern middle school for the it says they they don't it says this is in honor of they didn't specify exactly what it's for but diane mcdonough and she actually has received an award in the past diane mcdonough one of our middle school science teachers was one of six finalists for the two thousand and fifteen stem science technology engineering and mathematics teacher of the year so this is an honor of that so it's donated to her school where she is a member of the faculty for their use if for whatever way the school would like to use that to honor her the letter says the finalist that five thousand will be used for the stem for stem education so i doesn't say it doesn't specify stem education for this but it does say the that's the winner though right the winner will be announced and then honored she wasn't the winner but she was i guess we maybe consider it a semifinalist yeah so i think so the winner clearly got five thousand but the semifinalist if you will their school gets a donation of a thousand right well i'd like to accept with gratitude the raytheon donation of one thousand in support of the stem program at the high school i second that is that okay yes all in favor forty and you know what would have been nice if i thought if i'm gonna read diane mcdonough we know she's a very creative science teacher she has been teaching in massachusetts for thirteen years she teaches sixth grade math and science if you remember her she was in eighth grade science and she moved down sixth to do both math and science at the middle school she cofoundered her school's robotics program and the lego league competitive team she is also a stem instructor at milton academy saturday program for gifted and talented students in grades four to eight and she was the two thousand and thirteen norfolk county teacher of the year she is quite a talented individual it's very impressive so congratulations to ms mcdonough terrific and thank you raytheon for the donation all good okay all right it being eight hundred and thirty now entertaining motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiation strategies with union personnel foxborough extended day staff the committee i'm sorry roll call yes roll call yeah yeah we'll be right back roll call vote roll call vote debbie aye aye aye aye all right committee is going to go into executive session we will return to open session around ten of nine something like that around ten of nine depending on well depending on the length of our we'll be back awaiting us we shall return okay right are we ready we are ready okay so we are still in session and we are back from our executive session do we have to have a roll call vote i forget do we have to have a roll call vote to reopen i make a motion that we return to our open session second to continue it okay roll call aye aye aye aye we're back in we're gonna have a vote on the proposed two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and nineteen foxborough extended day staff memorandum of agreement would anyone like to make that motion i will make that motion that we accept the contract as agreed upon between the administration and the extended day staff i second that any discussion none okay all in favor aye where's yours all right thank you for all your hard work on the contract negotiations mrs panelli and bill hickner and we actually should compliment our extended day staff representatives who give up their time as well to come and do that so they're it's an important program that we run an extended day important for families important to children for the continuity of their day the safety of being in one place so i can't say enough about the program i think it's terrific and i think they do a great job i agree other matters mrs panelli the last superintendent's evening coffee of the year is tomorrow night tuesday at the boyden library in the fuller room and we're gonna switch it up to cold drinks and some pastry rather than the decaffeinated coffee and the donut hole so come one come all actually so dr burleson and i always do that together for whoever wants to show up from our parent family group and we are gonna have our guest alison mellow who's our k8 math science director coming tomorrow night to follow up on some of the subjects from the last meeting and offer a little bit more detail about that so that's at six hundred and thirty it is six hundred and thirty to eight o'clock at the boyden library fuller room we hope to see you there all right and i just have steve i thought you did some those i had a couple other things bevy i'll let you okay i want to thank the world language staff for their world language and culture night which was the most successful one yet and they were up to nineteen restaurants and food places around that helped contribute to that it seems to get bigger and better every single year that is very true it was wonderful this one is definitely bigger than any other year i know it grows every year and then i also i think i would like to compliment kathy laden for putting together such an incredible expanding horizons enrichment programs there were a couple of things i wanna sign up i think i've aged out though it's a fabulous program my kids did that several years when they were first well kindergarten through fourth grade no one can say that foxborough does nothing for enrichment for their young people this is the time where i say oh thanks for you for remembering it i'm sure i'll be seeing it too i think you can i'm glad you brought that up because i think you can see that we're running the math camp that we have for many years now but we're also for the second year in a row running our computer science summer camps which we started last year pretty excited about that i've been back and forth with them and they are running you actually are gonna have a choice of two different weeks this year oh that's great and if you have someone at the beginner level which is age seven to twelve video game design and they're gonna have a star wars theme one week july eighteen to twenty two and they're gonna have a superhero theme the second week july twenty five to twenty nine and then hmm i thought we were gonna flip flop morning and afternoon but i'm looking at this and i don't see that so maybe they decided not to flip flop remember we talking about flipflopping morning and afternoon and so the intermediate level nine to fourteen one hundred to four hundred pm minecraft modding and that will run you'll have a choice of those two weeks as well sounds great and then i did have one other little thing on the math camp i think we were i'm sure we're gonna bring it in as a donation we did get the donation i noticed that there was no tuition here we weren't sure have we accepted that donation yet no it hasn't come in but every year they have generously supported the math camp and as you know companies change and grow and we weren't sure if that would continue and it is gonna continue at least this one more summer very generously but hmm i'm just now going back to that whole morning after we flipped so i guess we're not flipping cause i don't see it in there so it could be they missed it on typing so on the registration yeah they might have but this is what went home to families all right well anyway we're running computer science camp two separate weeks cause we had such great interest very good and throughout the year and i wanted to compliment once again the art department on this incredible monumental art show and i mean they carry the whole theme totally through and the monumental award certificates match the artwork it's just amazing so we have nothing nothing at the school committee can go up and destroy that oh no we will look at student artwork forget our blue for a few weeks marilyn do you wanna give us an update on the deca have you heard from your son i've heard from him they're having fun lauren alaina from american idol did a concert for the eighteen thousand students oh wow they're there and yeah can you imagine the enthusiasm with that and i don't know how the competition part's going he's just telling me all the fun stuff those few little words i get here and there i saw on twitter the opening ceremonies was looks so exciting it's i didn't get that i have to show it to you yeah you need to it looked so exciting so eighteen thousand students there right and it looked it and i know that it looked like a rock concert i'll show you yeah that's probably the lauren alaina amazing perfomance and i just wanted to thank everyone for a wonderful year and i'm hoping to get reelected next monday because i don't want this to be my last meeting so okay we'll see how it goes well good luck to you and all of the other candidates all of the candidates all of the candidates it's an exciting election year marilyn and i will be attending with mrs panelli the mask day on the hill tomorrow oh it's an excellent lunch we had a phenomenal lunch last year where we went so it's a good day so actually several important updates this year on charter school funding on transportation bills on chapter seventy funding and what's happened with that up and down and what hopefully will be happening on prek and kindergarten funding a lot of really things that do impact our district as well as any district so it'll be interesting to see what they have to say tomorrow as to the latest and you'll hear about it at our next meeting that sounds great steve do you have anything for other matters no this is my last meeting yes you're on my list and i would just like to sincerely thank the public for electing me and that was a big win huh it was a big win the ticker tape parade was the most exciting part through mansfield and foxborough but it truly was one of the most meaningful things that i've ever been able to do in my adult life it really was for me and my family and the heart and soul and character in this town is incredible and what we've seen over the last three years with students and faculty that have come and gone is a lot of people in the public don't see what goes on in the background all within propriety of ethics but there's a lot of heart in this group and i can't thank you all enough for the kindness you showed me and my family when my parents passed and i will really miss this group a lot thank you all but you can still come talk to us thank you steve thank you steve thank you for doing this thanks very much it's been a pleasure to talk to you about issues important to our kids and i'm sure we still will you all care and the qualities of schools are why i'm here and why other people come here and that's why we moved here it was for the schools and a lot of regional ice coffee stores that are very close by very important but thank you all i love you all very much and thank you all very much and to janet the quietest member at our table who does so much for all of us in the background professionally and bill and the other team and joe oh joe it's not gonna be the same seeing you all the time my friend but we love you here very much thank you all right buddy thank you but i wanna thank you i've i have had the pleasure of sitting at a table with you for the last seven years three on the advisory committee and the last three here with you and i am going to miss your valuable input your questions your sense of humor and i thank you for your dedication and hard work on behalf of our citizens and our school children thank you for everything couldn't have been more of a pleasure i wish bruce was here and i'll give him a call not in a serial fashion but i will give him a call bruce has been an excellent chair over the years and an excellent contributor to our town and i'm sorry he can't be here tonight but he means a lot to me too well thank you very much for all of your service i just had a couple other things to add to the other matters i saw that the borough school is doing a walkathon tomorrow to raise funds for dipg research and to honor danny nickerson yes and i just thought that was yes they decided to do that annually instead of other community service type things that the school did and i think that's a great way for his school family to remember him yes i agree and i just wanted to mention that because i thought it was a very wonderful way to recognize their classmates and to do community service and i also our history department trip to italy and france was a success from my sources tell me they had a wonderful time i know we talked a lot about that trip and they went they came back they had a great time and it's all good yes that's all i have so many good things the music department they're leaving on wednesday they are it's the festival of music it's this week no no they're leaving wednesday this wednesday the 22nd they are coming back oh they come back and then they go to again i'm thinking about the ellington leave day two trips i honestly can't keep up with that yeah a lot of good things going on yes and they went to the symphony between the last meeting and that one they did and the symphony on april 16th our ahern school students and our high school students it was magnificent i was there we have a lot of good students doing wonderful things all right amy anything bill janet well i am gonna say this evening that steve i will miss you as well you've been a true gentleman thank you i'll miss your little lefthanded backward checks on all those warrants it's nice to know that they were well vetted yeah they can still i can still make that stuff happen all right and thanks to our friends back there absolutely who keep the show on keep the show going and keeping the records they do a lot of work before we get here and after we get here and while we're leaving here so thanks to our friends at foxborough cable access steve do you want to make a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn tonight's meeting all in favor aye goodnight bye everybody all right