again i also don't know enough about what it is that they want that we could i think we have to talk about that before you're so welcome back to those that were watching our ceremony before this more be recognised thirty five teachers that were game professional status as of this year and now we're going to call to order the meeting of the school committee seven o two pm everything could rise to say the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of can come to the microphone if you could please state your name and address that would be helpful frederick we could all even you would forward so far as a one who knows me as a part of b m c staff i'm not here for that time of year where there are no sidewalk and right in the corner so this burst stop you know he's walking for my daughter and two kids just are on a boat so i just want to have a safer place to we don't responder tonight ok so you with somebody will follow up with you about that ok thank you for coming starting at two o'clock of the middle school the deadline to register is october th and the f e notes on their website the spots to fill up quickly before the deadline date of october th and it is an exciting event for students family and friends on october th and th about one high school is broadway night on monday october th i think this is the st year that the town hall is doing trick or treating from four  and then on saturday october th from nine to three is how we wind up painting contest in belmont center for grades two through eight and registration is a chocolate dream that's all i have it's good to push ourselves all of the sports teams for the fall are doing very well football is off to a three and to start field hockey team is off to an impressive even one start in the marching band is sounding on really and i have a couple friends that are freshman in high school as well that i know through sports and my sister is also freshman series so i talk to her friends a little bit and they all say that it's a big step was in the high school last week with principal tom brower we went through every math class and not only was the instruction grading the students were great in the classrooms but it was really interesting to see in and i felt  really happy to see that the hallways are a little calmer because a substitute teacher says the high school that we were able to put in place this year and also put in place a building so you know when you walk the halls of belmont high just two years ago when you were freshmen it was a pretty busy hallway and now we have pretty quiet hallways where students are supervised in classrooms doing their work with a substitute teacher and i think that creates a culture that's a lot that the tone came down a little bit in it  really feels like a good place to learn and be and the tone was always a little high at belmont high which wasn't always a bad thing but i think you know this these small steps these basics that we got with having such a two teachers in the building seven adding some teachers along the way have really created a shift in the culture at one high so it's really great to see that those small things that we do at the school committee level have really clear impact at the school level so they can you go for reporting out of the freshman feel good i feel good that's how i look at it right and also to report out that are now at every one of our schools we have things coming up in our newsletter from the situation that will go out tomorrow parents reading to students at the butler with their favorite author at the burbank they have the massachusetts horticultural society out with support from the gum art foundation for education the windbreak had a great social ice cream social in fall social as well with the burbank more than seventy five clubs were available to students at the activities fair belmont high and at the chantry they had two authors visit the school already this year for great experiences for us students in the th grade huge congratulations to  the folks that run belmont night and soccer night in belmont huge turnout again saturday night where for this volunteer leg group with the support of jim davis our athletic director and support from belmont savings bank put on really a wonderful night for the town to come out boys and girls soccer teams play they get the youth sports involved which is a terrific night in that this was an idea of johnny carson who was a winner apparently chinnery parents and i think a former high school parent i think his son graduated last year who continues to support our student athletes in our community in a high school what a wonderful night so i want to thank him as well and they don't want savings bank for the support i also wan congratulate because jodi and bob johnson from the butler school who retired his last day was a last friday we could go friday we had a big celebration at the butler where every single student who was in the cafeteria to see him walk his last walk his family came out for the event and it was truly a great moment where all students learn that everybody is important every individual every adult everybody who major business business is an appointment to the information technology advisory council so here at our meeting we have jonathan freed is served for sixteen years as the school committee liaison and then our other candidate is phil lawrence who has served on twelve for twelve years and phil right now is the vice chair and both bill and jonathan have served in the chair position and have served on the council so we the school committee needs to do an appointment every few years so this would be our opportunity to do the thing for the two so i would open it up to discussion if anyone has questions or things that they want to ask about the appointment or if not then we could have a motion to appoint jonathan green and philip lawrence as the school committee liaison to the information technology advisory council in motion so the  all those in favor thank you very much for coming thank you so much you said you were so next on our agenda is the i hate update from the bell on high school building committee for a bill follow on to come join us at the table efficient building and they started talking to us about the any one of us didn't know what that was and so we spent some time talking and before we have consulted as we were strategizing over what this school can be to meet online energies i'm sorry some hard work and being one of the largest resources their own i will have coming forward this building will be one of those that could move the needle on that goal so so i think folks are such as phil just walked you're starting to reduce as much of the buildings in human energy needs as possible and then with efficient designs and so forth you know both gotten better and then you balance those energy use was supplied energy from you know real energy for three or four stories tall doesn't that will not achieve very easily because it doesn't have enough roof surface area if you have a one story building or two story building they often can't harvest enough energy to operate the building but  so i brought this i put this slide up because one of the one of our experts have this in her talk and it's very true we started with really collaboration on our side and the founder and then we instilled that in our design team and so you don't take a building and design for energy halfway through believe design you're not going to get really really start right from the get which is what we did here and i really go through this slide the architect said you know how we got here we did a few things we started with our baseline which is the ashtray  model where that sixty two number is what is the one of these numbers without getting into too much technical energy intensity energy use intensity that's a measure metric that measures how intense the building energy needs are thirty is the water where we want to get to if we want to be zero net energy that's sort of a very nice place to be so sixty two is where you start by energy codes away every day so the st thing you do is try  to be smart about how you design the building just the building itself looking at the skin to volume ratio trying to be compact trying to use very good materials on the exterior of the building for insulation purposes we  solar aspects so that got us down a little and then you go to the next one energy reductions through services so one hundred percent only the lighting well that's pretty much the norm these days but that certainly helps out and then we started doing some new things we're federation we have sensors in the rooms now that will shut the system down to an occupied mode when it doesn't sense anyone there have to worry about the light switches anymore although it's still good to do it still that the the the building's going to be smart so it's going to only put energy where it's needed based on the use and so we have different types of systems and marking it's a typo but very efficient systems knock this down with more and then finally you probably heard this but we have made a big push into getting a geo change well field on this site which allows us to use geothermal energy solar energy from the ground to achieve the building that really in town already that used your earlier you know the senior center granted it's a much smaller building but it has no mechanical place so it just adds to wells and it gets all this energy for video coming out of those two wells and then we have water from the room there's the building back in the ground so you're always balancing out which are taking your bell see what you're taking out with which are put it back and forth and that's how the geothermal change is basically just exchanging energy back and pretty simple to understand not that complicated actually execute so going back to this now that the sort of the final thing we do is try to minimize plug rows and respect a lot of time we staff in meetings talking about this it's going to be a little if what we talked about in the energy summit is that using a building like this or reducing it and then to reduce energy it's not just going in like you do today and turning out allies which are ready to go on by itself it's also a mindset it's it's about what you use that you don't need to  what energy you use or today that you don't need to use it or waste it so for instance when you leave this room there may be computers printers or in computers that are plugged in that are still using energy they don't really need to be using energy if you're not here but they're just running in the basically shut the plugs off when you leave obviously there may need to be water to the roof or to cave use and we're going to be going through that as we get further into this by dialing down the demand for plug those you're able to achieve those  finally this is this is the last piece of go through you've probably heard of the bit about this so if he's going to say five million dollars and i just want to walk you through our little energy experts that put this together so  on the left we have to do is what we're spending so we do have to put it is a premium put in a geothermal exchange fuel but the savings this is a life cycle savings really for thirty years working out this over thirty year life cycle  cost to install the solar and again there's a savings that you're not spending on over just the three dollars so that tricks up a little and then finally these are energy credits that you have to actually invest or you use it last and you look at the average over the years so it will take some time but i was very impressed with the people that came out and asking questions to our expert panel now discussion was very informative important to the community and they're sort of beyond the basic work of the building committee and it's great to see that you know the deeply appreciate the time that you and others are put into this can i add that this was not just about the  alone i want to thank build not only for this work last week i think bill was out three nights on behalf of the committee we had a couple of community events where we've been presenting the seven through twelve material in the alternative  h material to our community will as a community presentation tomorrow night at belmont high school at seven pm that we invite folks to come to to learn more about the high school program as well in this also a meeting here at generally on street center to high school p t a meetings that we're going to do a little f a q in the newsletter tomorrow so folks can maybe benefit by some of the questions that are being asked of these forms that don't have a chance to come out and some really good ones have come  out specially from our high school parents who are worried that they're in the middle of this work and what will their child's you know th grade life be like of the th we're going to be like i think a lot of the rd th th and th grade parents know what it's going to be like when their children go there in the future so you know i really wanted to get the word out for our high school parents that you know the full course of our program the studies will be delivered in the next two years while the construction happens we're not losing any space at the high school in terms of classroom space so the same program studies a p courses will run all of our arts music in them except it will run all the spaces are intact students have their own side of that campus while the construction happens on the west side if we are fortunate to get a vote and the students who are enduring high school life during this building project will from an academic standpoint get the same service delivery in supporting programming opportunities as the you know fifty grades us that have come before them but just maybe at times a little noisier and with some restrictions getting in and out of the site and sharing the site with a construction company so you know those types of questions i think we want to reinforce to folks who don't have a chance to get outside meetings that they might want to walk you in on the report that we have online and come out tomorrow night and come out there said i to talk about what their child's experience might feel over the next couple years so how do we make sure th bill again i thank you a lot of for your time and your support and your your enthusiasm around the as you work on behalf of the town that that that the very important part of what the community expects to watch for the new high school and all the buildings and so i appreciate all your work i'll start by explaining the rating system or countability categories tell you the results for belmont schools i'm going to explain the indicators indicators give you some highlights on our students and cast achievement and then go more in detail on the components of the system the criterion reference can harness the norm and component and how it all comes together so going to start with the end of the story and then work my way through it and then come back to the end again and feel free to get it here confused or have a question to interrupt as you go along so these are the new accountability categories you may recall in the past we had level construction but i do find that the the way it works is you start over here everybody starts on the right hand side and then if you don't meet these these designations of underperforming schools then you might move to the next section focus target support reasons why you might really require focus targeted targeted support including if your school percentile is ten or lower  which is not the case for us if you have a low graduation rate if your graduation rate is less than sixty six percent which is also not the case for us although as i go more into the system all explain that the the  measures are based primarily on all students and the group they call the the lowest performing student group and they also still measure look at data from all subgroups that have the number of at least twenty and if one of those subgroups for any subgroup for a school or district is a low performing and has a percentile of five or below then you would be in this focus targeted support and then the last reason why you might be in focus targeted support is if you have low participation we are required to have ninety five percent participation for all students and for all student groups also so if we had a students to take the and pass and and it is possible especially when you're dealing with some of the smaller groups that one student one student out and one more stood out to make that so just that's one of the areas we need to keep paying attention to so assuming that you don't have anything in this category then you get to go into this next area of schools without required assistance or intervention and within that category you either are meeting targets with a criterion referenced target percentage between seventy five dollars or one hundred dollars or you are partially meeting targets from zero to seventy four percent they have told us that next year the nd year using the system they anticipate divided into three groups meaning targets partially meeting targets and not meeting targets the not be targets would be the zero to forty nine dollars and then within this group of schools without required assistance or intervention they selected a small number of schools and schools or recognition so i will come to the next slide in tell you that work with students and their work really making sure that all students are accessing the curriculum all the new system measures some things are the same as in the old system and some things that are different and this is the list of the indicators that are used to determine a school several pieces of that they look at a four year cohort graduation rate extended engagement rate in other words to you it's students who withdraw do you bring them back and keep them engaged until they graduate and then can we drop  a new measure this year is progress towards english proficiency this measure they they look at all of your english learners in the school and they look to see if they are on direction for that measure another new measure in this year is frantic absenteeism that is a student is considered chronically absent if they miss more than ten percent of the days of their world in a so one of the things that that they have maintained from the old system is a ratio of greed to one achievement to grow achievement is still the largest percentage of the accountability system and growth is twenty percent for the high school they include in terms of what counts as achievement they need high school completion as a measure of achievement so high school completion is twenty percent here they had projected that at the state level they projected that about a fifty percent rate meeting expectations that the green bar on the chart actually fifty percent of both mean and exceeding expectations and that is what the state is measuring about forty nine percent last year fifty one percent this year as you can see our students last year seventy five legacy and cast so they really have multiple more years of data for that next year science for grades five dollars and eight dollars will be the new next generation test and will be administered on computers as will all we are we are seeing some improvement we saw especially for th grade and the advanced percentage went up our total our percent proficient in advances eighty one a test i'm not sure how that will impact how the accountability is determined with the new test sometimes where we transition the test they've done some  so when the next generation l a grade ten test comes out will you say that they are maintaining the calibration maintain the calibrations compared to what we see there where we can expect ninety five percent to get m graduation requirement and giving districts the opportunity to learn from the test over a couple of years and to make adjustments so yes that's exactly right that's exactly what they do so so i imagine that next year is bar percentage overall is still the same ninety six percent but in the same danced and again i want to give a shout out to the science teachers and the state for the science of the physics teachers and their special positive impact of that collaboration with those educators who to them for their work and that's an example of looking at data that we have from the previous year and thinking about woodworking how can we adjust our practice to better meet the needs of our students group them as one of these three grades and they call them non high schools it's not really recognizing the hard work that they do to be non something but that's what they are they're not high schools and you can see that there is a  different way to over here if you are a school that didn't have at least twenty english learners then then the ten percent that's assigned to english language proficiency is reallocated evenly across the other measures to maintain the three to one d in high school again you have that achievement is sixty percent because it's a combination of the achievement on the m cas as well as the graduation rate twenty percent  return you can see in the appendix a that i shared with you in the memo how they broke that out both for not high schools and high schools for some of them it's an actual percentage that you have to strive for and for some of combining students who are economically disadvantaged with students with special needs with students who are english it was the un duplicated count of those three seconds they have they still provide the data for that i did some gro they no longer use that is part of the mission instead they have created what they're calling the lowest performing student group and that is based on how well the students performed in the previous years and order them and they choose the lowest quintile or the lowest twenty five percent or twenty students at the school has a has a c and those that becomes then your lowest performing student group that is now we look at those students how they perform on the next year or the th grade and it's and did that same group of students meet the target that was set for them so we're measured against all students and th it in the presentation of the system that there were several reasons why they moved to this model one of them is that there are some schools that didn't have enough the for me that can change this subgroup is beneficial because when there was a high need subgroup it left out some groups of students that we felt that was important to them and and then the rd reason that and that the state spoke about in their presentations that the goal of looking at students through this lens is to raise the achievement floor so that more students are so that you're you're looking still with you how did those same students do i think that there's a lot more to be learned from that because we can see what's the impact we have on there the state also controls for changing seats so student is only eligible to be in that lowest performing student group if they have been in in the enroll in your school for two years so they must be in the october one count one year tested that year and then the other one count the next year  we say ok we recognize that all students are our students to educate and we are dedicated to six or even our students and when state is looking at it through that lens of a value and how we're doing they're giving us a chance to have that impact on students so we we received our lists of these students and we can look at those students and we can say ok we need to make sure that these students were already known to us at the all students do they need to target for each indicator the lowest performing students as they need the target for each indicator and they give you a point they give you points for points if you exceeded the target three if you met the target two if you improve one if there was are all of our schools and i i don't guess at this yet so in the past the district received the same rating or level as your lowest performing school this year this is just now it's different where a district is treated as if it were one large school so the same all the same accountability measures apply and they rank order  intervention category and within the categories all of the schools except the wellington school are in the seventy five to one hundred percent of median targets and the wellington school is at seventy three percent and here's the chart just below partially turn so you can see on this chart which is the same chart that i put in here your memory here's the percentages for all students here at the percentages for the most performing student groups and then these two percentages fifty percent of your of your school grade hearing backwards percentage is from all students in it to percent is from the last week and looking at the data with them together and one of the areas that we that we are looking at very closely is this this number here of the lowest performing students the percentage in one ar and those averages seventy six and then rating the high school students thirty percent and not high school seventy percent you get that eighty four percent which is a median targets for all of the points assigned for each of the indicators you can see in the school profiles on the website it's public information there just to see the areas that where we are meeting our target and things that we need to work on  the other component of the evaluation system for schools and districts is a normative component they call it the accountability percentile similar to what we used to have in the past it was called the school percentile and what it does is it compares the performance of the student students in a school to all other similar or similar schools in the state one change is that in the past it was similar grade students so all elementary schools were compared with other elementary schools middle and that the way that they come here schools is they take each one of those indicators and we rank order them with schools across the state and then they combine that number and they give the school a number from one to ninety nine  o say look this school is if you're number is ninety five percent then this schools students are performing better than ninety five percent of the schools of the state that students in that bucket grades districts are is setting it that doesn't mean that we are not going to look closely at our data of course we are and especially looking at the students that are that are not demonstrating proficiency such high levels they're a group of educators who are always looking to see how they can improve their instruction we are in a in a an ongoing process of adopting new curriculum making sure that is aligned standards and best practices for instruction and helping students not just on the content but the skills and the practices of the scientists and with an accountability percentile of ninety seven percent yet only partially mean expectations so do you feel like that other percentile of you know the fifty four percent for lowest performing students like how do you reconcile those two separate numbers together and you do feel like that fifty four percent for the lowest performing is a meaningful measure of what's happening in terms of the education of wellington you know how do you reconcile those so i think it's important to remember that the criterion reference component is taking where you are and moving toward a target so you might be right up here close to the ceiling and there's still you're still not one hundred percent of students meeting or exceeding so there's room to continue to grow so the status continues and the system has always had this kind of component where they're asking you to to to make progress from where you are in the case of the the fifty four percent and the points as i mentioned the points that there were  where they actually declined is is i think it is meaningful i don't think it's not it's not an an expression of problems school why but it is looking at a small number of students who were who were identified in the lower court time of students in their performance the year before and and we always want to take students to a matter where they are and move them forward making progress and in the area particular mathematics we didn't do as well as we should have there so that gives us an opportunity to go back and look and see will so how are we providing not just high priority to one instruction but other supports tier two and two or three instruction to  the extra support that a student might need either to fill in gaps or to just have the material have the the concept presented again with more practice in a different way so what are the things that that maybe they might be doing the other schools that we can learn from them replicate we are a district that we have reading specialists in the elementary school that that provide some of that extra support if we do not have  and there are ways that we can be treated with their resources and provide help teachers work on r t i supports and additional  instruction within the classroom similar to the way we do with guided reading with guided math where you have students working at stations in some students getting extra support within the classroom so these are all things that you know i think what it does it doesn't say this school is doing a horrible job and the percentile bad nor the normative component tells you that the school is not doing the job the schools doing a wonderful job and within this new measure that they've created it's highlighted an area that we need to focus on  i anticipate just like the science teachers at the high school when they really focused in on well how could they do better for students at the high school we saw a dramatic increase anticipate the same thing will happen here i don't i think it's valuable to always look at not just the students who are scoring at the high end but also students who are  to grow and improve and i think that overall i don't mind parents to be alarmed i think this pool is doing a wonderful job educating students and will learn from what we what we have here we actually look at it from the between the wellington versus the other element trees can any of that be accounted for by what programs the wellington offers versus what programs they are there only trees offer in terms of make certain specialized programs that have a little different demographics of students because i know you know because wellington is the biggest school and i'm not sure what the answer to that is so i went by programs i'm not sure what you mean students who are going to wellington from across other parts like the neighborhood i mean if they are needing certain supports that only the mind offers some schools in some places do that your true issues that we could probably do a little better job in the small group math with that tier three people focus to that fifty four to fifty four which is fifty five or sixty one then that whole average will looks very different so i think what the intent for the state is that just as much as it's important to find out how the whole schools doing you never want to make sure you always want to make sure that you're not leaving the last link of students behind to the for the heavy focus and that it's important for all the pay attention to accountability status and the the algorithms behind each of those change in keeping up with that alone is difficult for our educators and for parents and guardians watching at home for sure this is a long time of how come that look so different in the students will get a report card sent home that will provide a real good graphic of where the children ours are related to their peers in their school in across the state which is always a good indicator for folks to take a look at in that they creating great opportunities for those students but also focusing on what's not working for the students at the other side of that equation and how can we shore up and i think that raising the floor of the achievement level for all students and in pulling that up as high as we found so it's created so schools look we always have work to do and we look for to do work in that this is only one data point in all the other things that we do across our school to feel like we're serving students well and measuring that in different ways  this is one measurement but we measure our success in a lot of different ways and this is just one of those so next on our agenda is the school committee representative and currently our representative now is andrea who has agreed to continue that role and we are in agreement in support of it she likes enjoy so forth so she is excited about continuing that work everybody is in agreement so do we have a motion to appoint andrea prestwich as our school committee representative to come we have a  and they every year are no separate bank they're going to have a meeting of all the members of the association where they propose a number of resolutions that  they may se wants to take forward to the legislature or the state and so there are nine resolutions and they want to know to have school committees will vote on these and then they take the majority of those in favor and move forward with the resolutions that the members of th we would be asked to look for our position on each of these and it's a good thing just to sort of inform the community where belmont would stand on these things whether or not we're at the meeting or not but just to give some information to our community about their positions and then also where we if we are in support of them or not so we could go through and do a summary of each one and vote on them to  the time yeah well i would say yes i guess like the other option would be if people did have the chance since we had these before to review them and vote on them and if there are those that people are object to or don't find in favor i refute them and i am in support of all the resolutions that they are proposing some of them i have no have very little if any impact on  for example there's a resolution on st small in rural districts there is one that deals with regional schools and their transportation and the others are a little more broad i didn't read it as turnaround time i read it as providing it five days before a meeting which right now i believe parents if they ask for it they can get it this is what change that and just require that it instead of the parent have the having to be aware of their rights and knowing what they need to do it would be provided to them is by understanding it which i i think is i would i understand possibly the difficulty but if we're here to represent the community in the parents of you know that i think we would encourage that this become a practice and not be on the families to have to know and be aware of their rights and make the request themselves because they are not aware of it you wouldn't make the request and you it yeah i guess  placate i just wonder if the meeting could be in with so if it has just be five days prior to a meeting so if there is a crunch the meeting could potentially be moved in order to get a five day window so parents have it translation and sometimes hard to find qualified translator for that they're going to have to have it anyway for a have it there five days later and it's i would think that they'd ensure everyone to have i mean the other thing we could do just so people are aware of just the name of the present the names of the resolutions one has to do with rejecting the arming of the educators the other one has to do with small rural districts fighting a working group to advise legislation on best called public policy solutions to support these districts financially and otherwise another one has to do with a proposal to number six is but reproductive health education number seven is gender identity inclusive athletic participation policy and it's about protecting students from discrimination and the other one is about sports wagering should the general korten act legislation to legalize wagering on sporting events they sh commit a portion of revenues to public education access to information for parents which we just talked about which is would be to amend the state law to require that parents and students be provided with a copy the e mail or mail the assessments that are performed for students in the familiar preferred language at least five days prior to any meeting i mean i think now there are resources that are available that might be difficult but there are a number of services out there that provide translations for sorts of documents and  to look and read the documents that there are other ways that the translation could be provided be yond in writing possibly on the question the he so could we say that we move to that we the belmont school committee would support preselections one through nine eliminating fo motion to on whether or not the belmont school thought it would support resolution one rejecting the arming educators to the rationals the safest environment would be provide additional mental health resources in silence prevention programs in the public elimination of the federal department of education i mean see works at the federal delegation to reject any notion of combining the u s department of education with other government departments the proposal is to possibly merge the department of education with the department of labor to create one agency so do we have a motion to support their resolution can draft so the peace regional school transportation we're not going to vote on ok resolution number five reporting and accountability standards  elementary and secondary education to ensure that all students are persons and schools receive public funds under thirty of the partner of elementary and secondary education our local public school districts are held to the same standards and health curricula further we call upon the u s department of education the executive board stop their support of abstinence only education the nd era and all those in favor so the resolution seven gender identity inclusive half political participation policy the legislature to amend state law to require that parents and students be provided with a copy of i email or mail of all the assessments that are performed for students in the families preferred language at least five days prior to any meeting in which parents  least two divisions resolutions submitted by a single school committee may be presented to the delegate assembly so this is just changing the date that we would need to get these resolutions so they wanted to give we normally include the enrollment report after are the october one state assessment of our roman in connection with our class size report which is a sizable task that  is easy to do at the elementary level because our students are otherwise that way but at the middle school and high school takes a lot of time for our directors in principals to meet with janice to organize those ranges and minimums the maximum class sizes we will provide that to the thousand eight hundred and seventy seven students you can see this continuous climb each year every york toba one is getting bigger than the previous one in this is the in roman that we have right now for all k to twelve students that does not include our preschool students and that does not include our out of district students so this continuation of increase each year is very much aligned with what we've been showing in the mckibben report in   their projections are pretty impressive as you notice that these projections always look at where we're going to and i like to always say that you know that the next slide gives us this view of what's what's happened in the past what are roman numbers look like over the past sixty seven years and this slide gets to show us what the future looks like so i think it is the important piece of the enrollment numbers is what's coming ahead but always look a the enrollment continues to grow the amount of students that we've had is six hundred and sixty eight in the last seven years that is bigger than the wellington that's a sizable  of students just in the last seven years for any one district to take on if we don't backwards or we can say now that we're averaging over the last seven years about ninety five dollars students per per year in addition to the district but that's past history that's not the future of the future is pretty clear in this in rome a chart here that it looks to go up at a pretty good clip all the way to two thousand and twenty four some of the big takeaways is that our roman continues to rise period thirty seven students this year as our toba one we keep track of all the students who are actively unrolled on the website but have not part of the paper work yet we have twenty students behind that thirty seven that are probably already enrolled since october one so the numbers already old i actually approved to students this morning in just shows you the active year long enroll meant that we have in the town of belmont the october one in roman number is consistent with the embassy p a in the mckibben growth report their forecast is is pretty much on line so this is not a surprise this has been told to us over the past few years this will be the growth rate in this will be the arc that we will be working with in there it's very consistent with that projection and that those forecasts if they hold true when they have been holding true to this point will not peak but will level off at grade level sizes of about four hundred in a high school grades at about three one hundred and eighty dollars students at our middle school grades and out about three hundred and seventy dollars students at our elementary grades so that is what we would call the new normal this this this rise in students is not it's a pain to go back down in any dramatic way it's expected to hold a certain number and flatten out for a period of time and the numbers that the averages will look  like will be these right here this is what we're building our new school towards is that these in roman numbers are the projections that we're utilizing with the s b a and we have been using as a guideline to project  u enter into an agreement regarding traffic in the high school in the new project the goal of the agreement the school committee we discussed and you agreed with the overall goal which was to have the high school building committee proceed with the state and local financing of the new expanded high school through the passage of a debt override and to assure the safety of our students about much  that i think is always been will be the goal of the bell in public schools and we do work to ensure safety prosecutes and staff when it comes to traffic and getting to school safely what we discussed was a meeting of the memorandum in response to this proposed agreement with the commitment to demonstrate our commitment to pursue traffic and safety issues in the future and to provide that group with information on the work that is going on currently that is ongoing that will continue to develop as this project moves forward and as the district goes through changes in configuration with this high school and then the other schools the traffic and safety and the ensuring the students that they are safe and that the community is safe is an active ongoing work of the administration  so our memorandum also gives examples of the current and ongoing work such as the addition of school to school buses in the last three years for review of the bus routes and changes to the routes within this last year which is so far  working well i believe to it and helps to stay on the main thoroughfares to increase safety and efficiency of the school of the busses right now we are maintaining the current bus fees with the goal of increasing ridership and reducing the financial burden to families and then the schools also collaborate with other groups and town officials including safe routes to schools the p t a s and p t o s community planning balla police department the department of public works and the work that has been done in the past includes constructing raised tables on school street supporting the installation of curbing on maple terrace and signage for a safe entry into the butler school constructing raise tables and curbing for the sidewalks at the wynn brook instituting flag systems for a busy corner surrounding the schools participating in the walk to school days widening widening the driveway at the burbank and reconstruction of the walkway in front of the school to safely connect with the existing sidewalks and crosswalk coordinating signage and the pain across walk on washington street in dalton street they're reviewing changes to school arrival and departure to increase the safety of walkers and bikers making their school street tables around this is also part of the ongoing work is working with the high school building committee's design team traffic consultant to review and assess the practices to support the upcoming safety measures in the school there's been meetings with walk boston with the superintendent and school committee members six schools and the school department is also committed to working with the selectmen and the building committee and other town officials that support safety and going to and from school so are we support what was written up in this agreement that was proposed to by the high school traffic working group and that idea on the premise behind it what was concerning was one of the things that they asked was that it was in the interest of everyone for  the board of selectmen the school committee the building committee to make decisions and their respective areas of responsibility to work together to resolve or commit to resolve outstanding issues related to traffic on or before november th two thousand and eighteen which i believe we see this is ongoing work doesn't necessarily have a timeline or a deadline it's been progressing and so we have this response to that group that i believe everybody has seen and review that we would like to present to them not because we don't agree with the idea of this proposal but the terms are not necessarily those that we and that there's not an understanding of this ongoing work that we have that that will continue i don't know if you have more to add because you went to the meeting and i think there was some discussion about th development coming back with some language that well some some ideas and then the language that we take to a design consultant for that particular area so when part of the agreement will be whether or not the school committee in the border selectman and the building committee all agree to the terms of this agreement which i knew not what was proposed to us that correct there was but it was discussed my understanding i will say i got a message from one of the members of the working group saying that she was concerned that the school committee was and agreeing with the terms of this agreement and i would say th paulson who said she drafted this and my response to her was that we would be discussing it tonight we had this memorandum in response to there and that we support the idea of their and their goals and i get it's my understanding that the concern is that once the high school project hopefully is approved and moves forward that the school committee the selectmen the building committee will no longer be focusing on traffic and that will sort of lose sight of that and i think our memorandum in whatever the building committee decides to do is provide me with just provide the answers about the work that we're doing the work that we're going to continue to do and that we're committed just i believe as the town will be committed to not because it has been ongoing discussions for the last year i think it's there's been a lot of light shed on the issue of traffic over the last year in the selectmen are taking action the school committee is taking action and i don't see it falling by the wayside but i'm also not really clear as to why we need to have a date certain to act on certain on some of these tasks when it's ongoing work that we're doing that we've just explained to them that that's what we're doing rather than signing this agreement to do work that we continue to that we've already started with and so i guess what i would ask is that we would move to present this to that group and you could presented to them at the meeting  on friday because you think that there will be a discussion about it right there with you we know all of our members there but in the last meeting that the st meeting it was think we agree with the spirit of it be agree with the principles behind me and i think that that's outlined in our memo that would be presented to them because i wouldn't want people to think that we're not in support of ensuring that there's safety and traffic is something that we're concerned about related to this student and schools and we want children to get to school safely and we have a commitment to doing that now and in the future so does anyone have any other discussion  with the deadline and that it's appears to here to there to be a misunderstanding about what it is in there that we are doing that we're going to continue to do that we're committed to doing now and in the future and how to the impact of not only this one school but on the district in the reconfiguration of the district how that will impact traffic how that will continue to have our discussions of traffic how we will have to decide have to be an ongoing dialogue  there just a quick we went through our proposed meeting our proposed agenda items for the upcoming year things that we were going to prioritize for the finance for budgeting forecasting and discussed in general are what some of the assumptions were in that in that work through the policy work that they did in through the tool that they're using and  schedule a meeting as it was brought try tension that ken cramer been under in a student services audit and so got some guidance from the state on certain policies that this process of getting maybe we'll have to review and possibly a man from our policies based on those recommendations they have to deal with students and foster care students homeless students and students of military families and how to address those populations the state didn't think that our policies were as comprehensive and we didn't have procedures that was comprehensive as to what they would recommend and it's something that we will can has some ideas about policies proposals based on research that he's done that we would review and present to the school committee is that yes to those who actually knew then they have not been policies that have been in any school committee's policy books so that we were taking the state's recommendation for what those policies would be and can kramer director of student services work to do here with tariffs lot of back from the d n c to get the wording get the information the way that they would like to see it so this is really conforming with what the state would like to see as relates to policy and fitting that into our formatted way of having policy be you know somewhat of a subcommittees for human services education general government public safety and public services so those are people who are volunteering and those subcommittees are getting organized there's also at the suggestion of the chair going to be working groups that work are being organized simultaneously on weren't committee report rethinking that report to make it user friendly and easy to read  when you thank you high school building committee hope the next reviews tomorrow morning at seven thirty am and then we have all the presentations that they're doing tomorrow night and presentation tomorrow night at the high school presentation thursday that the middle school presentation next monday night at the wellington presentation next thursday night at the when brooke so other business you don't have to consent agenda no personal audience no business item so the next item would be the approval of minutes from september th two thousand and e while we're doing that i think lisa for doing our minutes tonight and then they also looks back at my notes in addition to his expressing concern about the current work policy he also specifically asked the committee to study a better way to set the guidelines ok anyone else