good evening calling the school committee meeting to order it being about seven o three this evening box for high school media center the agenda for this evening is as follows seven o'clock visitors seven ten approval of minutes seven fifteen teaching and learning highlights model un conference ms julie grant and her middle school students seven thirty review of the policy at a naming existing facilities  then move on to teacher teaching and learning highlights model un conference yes usually i would like to invite our first two adults guest presenters up to the guest table so just drag one of those chairs up so you can both stand and they'll introduce themselves in a  agree more well turn it over to julie grant and she'll give me a little bit of background remember that the microphone right there so both might want to share the microphone a little bit welcome to enjoy it hey i'm actually grant fifth and sixth grade technology teacher at the herne middle school i was invited by mrs anderson to join them in their u n model un conference back in december and we started in december mediocre eighteenth of september eighteenth and susan can tell you a little bit about how they decided to just pay in this year's model un it boston university well actually i had never heard of model un before and my husband and i were looking online one day and we kind of came across it because our daughter is very interested in countries and learning international stuff and we saw some video on it and it was really amazing to me to see these kids not only just high school but middle school kids talking about international relations and countries and so it really inspired us to try to do it ourselves so when we thought about trying to do it ourselves we're like well who can we ask to be on our in our group and so cannot get out the little book into as well going through it and she's like well let's see i think i'll ask mary and these are all the girls behind me and and so we came up with five girls that committed to doing it and it was a whirlwind of an experience from december eighteen through the end of january they researched they drafted they revised they had two hundred footnoting with julius how we talked about parliamentary procedure which is the way they run the meeting we tried to help them with public speaking by have them getting standing up and talking in front of us and giving feedback they also had to learn some persuasive writing and speaking to i wasn't sure if they'd have to do speeches which they didn't have to do and they were very thankful for that but it was a lot to cover in a short amount of time but the girls got i think so much out of it and i will let you hear them talk in a minute about that one thing i'd like to say is it was such an amazing experience to go to the model you and conference that i would love to see our school district get involved in something like that because i just think it's such an amazing experience and the kids learn so much about international relations and and and different countries i just think it would be a great thing for us i did include in the handouts i bought a rod a couple of those binders three binders with me i don't happen right now but there is some information from online and there's a plethora of information about model us on line so there's some information in there about how to begin a model year and group and and there's lots of resources for that to so this is abramson i spoke about having a club next year because the experience was so great for all of us and now that we know a little bit about it it should be even easier i mean we met once a week which to me wasn't enough but that's all we could fit in with the girls busy schedules so from december eighteenth through the end of january to february first we met once a week and i would love to if we had more time to cover that stuff and if if you could even build up to the researching parts and the drafting and writing revising of how to do a research paper did speak with the english teachers or the girls about you know citing sources and getting some information with them on how they write their papers and use their microsoft word tools to cite their sources that we're on the same so why don't we hear each of them in what your part was as we love to hear directly from the people who so once each introduce yourself and say a little  know it's hard they don't really travel very well so just when you're when you're taking turns just sort of make the microphone point to your yourself and then  and i really enjoyed the concept of going to a miniature united nations because i always wanted a career in politics and i found it to be a good experience to find out how alike politics really were shaped as far as a mile un would go and throughout all of january we were given a topic two topics for me and several other people on the team and i was given the long term peace in mind maher and long term to peace in egypt and i had to write about those topics throughout january it took a lot of effort to try to write about the two topics and i think that's why i tried to group together the most hardworking people i saw and it took a lot of work and a lot of parent involvement because there is a lot every part of this there's a sample background in that binder that i gave you and that's something that was sent to all of the you know all the students on this in this group had to read like a i don't know how many pages it was like eighteen to twenty page background guide on the problem that they had to write about and the country so even that was the how it started just reading the background guide and then starting the research international security committee of  one kendo first told me about this i thought it would be a really good idea because i always liked history just like kendall good and i've always been like interested and like current events and stuff like that and so it turned out to be a lot more work than i anticipated but it was worth it because the weekend was really fun and i found it like yeah there was a lot of experience and gave you a lot of experience too for public speaking especially that improve my public speaking a lot and i think it would be a great idea to start a club and just so kids can learn about this end mary where was this help and the men it was the generals in the roman army and hannah bowl farkas was attacking so she it was an interesting committee too because they had people coming in at all different times changing the scenarios as if it was involving at that point in time so you can talk about yours so it was it was pretty crazy  it was there were so many different names and so many different places that all affected what was happening at the current moment and it was a lot of work like mary and kendall said a lot more than i definitely expected but it was very cool in the end to have it all come together and see these group of kids all together working on press releases and  moving the navy and troops across the mediterranean sea area and it was really crazy kind of chaotic the first time we did it because there were a lot of new people who really didn't know what they were doing like we didn't know we're doing this but in the end it was all really fun and really really cool to to experience a new point in history that i had never known about before and it's only case there is two people with educator parents i'm sure they're very proud all along with all the other parents that great caroline served on the human rights council for the un and she had the two topics of sweatshop labor and human rights in tibet and i failed to point out that the three committees  fun to go and they the topics that i had which was sweatshops in india and how we can improve them and human rights in tibet and it was really fun but it was a lot of work to prepare for speeches and reports on that and in the end it all came together and it was so much fun to go and do it would you too like to have a club like that meets you know without being in such a short period but have a club maybe next year when you're only eighth grade and you would have the opportunity to really be the founders of the new club do you think that would be kind of cool since you have a little bit of experience  n in geneva so i think we could certainly set something up maybe you know if your club want to have some contact with him or skype with him i can't tell you what he does although i try has something to do with data he's a data analyst for something having to do with the economies of third world countries and he's hoping to get better countries to work on all email so you probably know more about what they do but it's really interesting contact i think if you could if you if you do have a club to really find i thought they might have to do speeches at the end so at the end we were rushing to put together speeches and then i found out a week before the conference that they could bring a research binder i mean it was like very very hectic but the girl needed an awesome job and i think it would be better served by having like more time to prepare for you know what i'm impressed about is this theme of a lot of work hard work but a lot of fun ah it's really impressive thing you guys took this on yourselves and you know brought this to two miscreant got her advice and assistance and work together as a team i was curious what were the age ranges there from was love all of us got papers papers all of us got awards you're getting the best important lesson in life and i promise you it's going to happen over and over again when you get excited about something you go after it i promise you it is always going to be longer last week the y m c a people were here and we were joking about how one year dr martin when you the second year you ever did this you were walking with your umbrellas to rain and dr his was lunch time and they got to draw on this map and decide where they were putting their troops and then the soldiers would actually come in and tell them that they've been attacked and what are you guys going to do about it really what we have and i could talk about any questions you might have ok so it's policy f i f a naming existing facilities says it is not the practice of the past for public schools to name parts of their buildings or facilities after individuals however the school committee may consider such a request using using the following standards and guidelines to be considered an individual must be known and recognized by their peers administrators in the foxboro community as an extra narry educator slash community leader as demonstrated by their exceptional teaching educational innovation and or leadership which uniquely impacted student achievement in the foxboro school district this is an individual who would be recognized as remarkable and for consistently going far beyond the ordinary in their dedication and service to the foxboro public schools this level of recognition will be brought and supported by the superintendent who will make the recommendation to the school committee such requests will require a school committee vote which must be unanimous and this is a little meek and in terms of our normal protocol of voting that it must be unanimous it states it clearly in the policy versus other policies that we have so far wanted to point that out as well as any other comments or one disc of questions for tina or bev about the policy some that the association of school committees recommends that needs a fresh look and on occasion like this there's going to be a policy that that the committee will focus on an upcoming meeting and that's a reason for the subcommittee to convene which they did at a posted  in just two so they are the ones who most really like the policies and they took a look at it to make sure that they're fully informed as to what the policy says and in how the policy could be acted upon so they d agenda item which is naming existing facility community tour fueled honoring samberg presentation by fox for high school students yes would like to invite the students who are going to be presentation i know there are several to come up to the guests table so this agenda item is made at the request of a large group of folks one high school students who requested to be on your school committee so that they could make a presentation to you and will give them a minute is yours is your thumb drive in the you president of the junior class is that correct and daniel develops who is also working who is checked as well and they're going to get themselves prepped up but there are several students here we're going to make a group presentation they request and that's why they before the board to make a welcome all of you welcome and maybe when each person comes up they can identify themselves so you can reintroduce yourself and i'm a junior i'm danielle develops and i'm a senior and we just want to thank you for having us and giving us this opportunity to speak about this cause which holds great importance to us after the sudden passing of our good friend sam burns we discussed ways and which we as a community could remember the legacy sam has left behind dedicating the turf field to sam as a way in which he would be able to remember a member of our community who touched countless lives whether through his ted talks inspirational speeches or impact on the band true educator to anyone who walked through foxboro high school establishing what a true warrior embodies throughout this presentation examples in which sam has shown qualities of an educator a leader and inspiration will be discussed and use to show why sam b where all the softball fields and baseball fields and this is the turf before it went in so you can still see the baseball field here is there a parking lot where this seniors park in the front this is before it went in and that's just sort of a drawing of where it is so you get a better understanding this is the parking lot of times and this is that there's about sixty feet by sixty feet right here but then you see eventually there is a track going in so you can see how close are the fans actually does get but over here you have the sixty or sixty feet space the little heart is where it's going to go and they were thinking of making of it like a collison path with pavers to raise money for and then a concession stand would go there so that's just an idea of what it would look like an extraordinary educator community here as demonstrated by their exceptional teaching educational innovation and our leadership was uniquely in fact the student achievement and the foster high school the school district this is an individual individual who'd be recognized as remarkable and for consistently whether was the boy scouts music athletics or his perjury a work stamp strive to be a leader teach and apply his towns where every soffit moreover sam a strong new work ethic and attitude positively influenced everyone he came into contact with could be understood by the testimonies of any number of his peers and their presence today at this meeting sam was a remarkable remarkable individual samberg was a dedicated young man who constantly put others above himself what made sam such an extraordinary individual that even while being afflicted of afflicted by project he still wanted to help others make a difference during his ted talk while speaking about his future ambitions sam for family stated that the matter of what i choose to become i believe i can change the world although he did not live long he left a lasting legacy an impression on the fox for community through his commitment to school friends and beloved activities above all is an italian life which is clearly demonstrated in his eloquent speech along with his desire to help others identifies him as an individual who has gone far beyond the ordinary in their dedication in service to the fox for public schools familiar with whatever i mention from it but i'm only going on depth on one theme from his documentary which was one of his best qualities i'm speaking of his ability to never get discouraged no matter how highly the odds are stacked against them and when this documentary aired in october that theme kind of stuck with me personally and the football team as well which is not long before we played thanksgiving in the mansfield football game and this is kind of a parallel because we're playing mansfield which is number one in the state and we'd heard so much about other supposed to beat us like it was it was to be close but his words kind of stuck with us and i'm pretty sure i have to check but i remember coach mentioned something about sam before the game and  despite all this pre game hype we gave him the best game that they played all year and it was our best performance of the year and if we needed any reminders of sam's words he was right over there in the stands supporting us and playing with the band which what he love and another thing about sam was he wasn't all talk he led by example like when he dismissed the physical limitations other people set form when he was told that he can participate in the marching band but knowing sammy didn't take no for an answer and achieve his go and his influence is also reflected not only by the football team not just one example but all the teams in the winter season hundreds of kids from the track team hockey team basketball teams and swimming teams all display s b his initials during the competition show their specked and the basketball team even even got his initials sewn into their jerseys my point is that everyone you see everyone in this community is so eager to show their support respect for him and that's why i believe we have a great display of admiration for him such as this field thank you any questions thanks as one of sam's big goals was for him to be an eagle scout and that is a very difficult task as very few people actually make it through the entire rank of the boys get to become an eagle scout and to become an east eagle scout you must have a project that's big enough in scope that the community deems you can become an eagle scout so sam combined his own disease and as eagle scout ambitions to create a billboard on route one for progeria research this billboard was prominently displayed as you can see in the picture and help spread awareness about the disease because as it affects only one in every forty eight million people very few people knew about it outside of the foxboro community so this billboard really helps spread the disease and garner funding for the disease then he went on ted me and twelve to talk with dr collins who was the director of the national institute of health and essentially he talked about his experience with clinical trials and he talked about the importance of him being in the clinical trial because clinical trials were the only solution where the drug could actually be tested and a hope could be found for the cure now sam like most people didn't like completely called trial but he knew that he was one of the few people who could make a difference and because he had the disease so in this he was able to participate in the clinical trial and scientists are able to gather evidence on the disease which would help hopefully find the cure one day then sam again went on a tech stock in october of this past october and he talked about how he dealt with daily life progeria he had many physical limitations however he was determined to enjoy life to its fullest while also achieving as many dreams as he said in the ted talk you can do so much that you can't focus on what you cannot do you can do so much and life is so precious that you have to seize hold of that opportunity and this talk especially inspired a lot of our students because it showed them that if you work hard enough and if you are dedicated you can achieve your dreams and this was one of the major ways that sam was an educator now lastly as most of you know sam had a documentary life according the sam and this documentary wasn't to make him famous but it was to again promote awareness for the disease because only by spreading the word about the disease would they eventually find the cure so sam agreed to make this documentary and as since millions of people have watched it and learned about progeria and donated to perjury and really made a difference and as we said that millions of people watch both the progeria research and the ted so sam's words and ideas have greatly impacted the educational world and been used as an inspiration for people across the country when people look at sam they see how someone can truly accomplish their dreams even with such high odds stacked against them also his as we mentioned before spreading awareness about progeria will have a great future impact on the medical research and one day the  starting from eighth grade sam was thoroughly determined to plain integra role in the foxboro high school marching band yet right from the start he faced obstacles at which most other people would just accept defeat and move on but sam who never took no for an answer found a way to get past these challenges and do what he wanted being physically incapable of carrying a drum sam and his parents well especially engineered snare drum and harness so he could then march with the precautions section in the halftime show this was the beginning of sam's impact on the music program where he showed that not even physical limits could prevent success in the music world from early on we could see he was a phenomenal percussionist that was a perfect fit for foxboro is highly recognized and coupled with his drive to be the best sam prove that success came to anyone willing to work for sam continued his tradition of excellence by making fresh air in the junior district band as a freshman and during this he took on the responsibility of representing fox at the festival simply because he felt it was important even after making such an impact in his freshman year sam kept pushing the bar on what could be done he became a section leader in his sophomore year and work tirelessly to improve not only him self but also his whole section after making the senior district band again in tenth grade he worked even harder to achieve his dream goal which was to be first chair in the district band and he even achieve and achieve this goal as well getting the highest score in the region as well as garnering an all state recommendation the marks and left on the band was powerful in so many ways his pursuit of perfection motivated others to work harder smarter and longer so that they wouldn't be left in the dust by his skill is wearing this to give up time to work with others  his most precious resource showed his commitment to his community and his firm belief that the lives of others were just as important as his advice an input greatly affected the lives of others and the way they approach music and in some cases the way they approach life according to foster a public schools an educator someone who shows leadership educational innovation exceptional teaching and is recognized by their peers because of their impact on the community sam in the light of the major challenges he faced became a role model in the band and made all those around him follow his example and strive to be the best musician they could his compassion and knowledge made people listen to what he had to say and take his lessons to hear to us sam was a remarkable teacher musician and friend that will never be replaced and we hope you feel that way as well thank you for your time just stay right there with people we can we may have more questions for you so those two percent stay safe in the vicinity first of all on behalf of the committee i want to thank you all for this presentation it's you all have all spoken so eloquently of your friend of your dear friend  so moving i don't think words can really do justice in terms of my response listening to all of you and i think that you have truly represented in my mind exactly what this  policy states in terms of all of the wonderful examples that you've given us this evening about sam you've just done an amazing job i want to open it up to the rest of the committee to have their feedback yes well something else that i'd like to say to all the students under sam's parents who are here because we haven't had a chance to talk to you guys as we are so very proud of all of you and we've talked about that at this meeting a few times you have been here and it's great to see you all here and i wish it wasn't for the reason it was but we are very very proud of how you have all handled yourselves and gone through this process this is a process but ranging from the things we see on the walls behind us the cranes down the other end of the school and i'm sure countless other things that we have not seen at this table regardless of how we discuss this topic going forward regardless of that what's important for you to know first and foremost is we are very very proud of this class of students and i don't mean the seniors or the juniors i mean collectively you guys have done just a very very good job getting through something that's really hard for all of us so we're proud of you and i want you to know that i never have anything to say that's not true yes absolutely right and what who said yes amen to th we do this because we love you and we love this community and the little light that shines that sam has been whipped by you and i love that and i love you presentation and you know i was thinking of this crowd this movement and the core nucleus being you know the light of sam enduring around town and i  remembered being a kid in and sometimes i still do it with my children and i always ask them you know like if you could have superpower what would it be and you know i was wanted to fly and play with my daughters and do that you know you're right in the car and i asked my kids once and my twelve year old said that you'd like to lay hands and and that's what sam did with his family so the dedication that you're proposing is did an excellent job i mean when i went through and read the policies that they need to hit every single point in order to make their case and you all did you did a really good job became great examples and i think we all had the privilege of knowing sam and sort of seeing him in action on the in the band and in boy scouts and in school but you did a really good job of explaining perhaps to people who did not know c m why he fits within these criteria and you great job like i have no words no more words excellent job he had a wisdom beyond his years and to me he does represent real community when asked who is your favorite player he totally understood he said i can't have a favorite player because it takes a team to women game and say i loved like girls so much i very much wanted to take him to the lego movie that has just come out w sat through it and it's too much to get and one showing so the serac to know and i went again and i have the fear it's almost like the theme song of that movie was written about it because it is so positive and the title of it is everything is awesome and one of and one of the bass lines in the entire movie everything is cool when you're part of a team and that turf field is part is teamwork it is the community that started it it is the n f l who contributed it is the school system and the voters who helped move us forward with our budget and it belongs to the community and if it were name for sam it would represent that to everybody from now  and say we would like to make a presentation there's nothing better than that because that's that's what your education is all about so i brought it to you because i certainly do recommend this that this proposal to students are saying and regardless of going to say before the vote this is nothing better than when your shot minds and your caring hearts come together and you apply those two things with such purpose like you have to name in something better than that and that just shows you not just citizens of the school you are really citizens of this community and and that's what sam was so be more proud really of all of you and thank you all the rest of people turn know we're going that way then not only citizens of our community they are citizens of our world and i promise you i wish every high school students like you coming forward we would have nothing to worry in the world there are people like you k or whether anyone else with whom i like to speak to represent i haven't because this this even though yes it is a community field built by the community it's on school property and the naming of it resides with you per policy them with their policy but i would be more than happy to hear from  i came to support the the students and everybody else that wanted this field to be named after seeing him and it is a community field and with that in mind with the school and speaking on behalf of myself and have a having the only two that we have from recreation and beverly pardon me i would like to give you our full support and congratulations to everybody that spoke gardens as you know from food service to do you know through that to do is a project so different at different times joe morgan and at different times people on our people in different ways and this is a very specific policy and so this is this makes it a very different situation because i mean i know personally i don't know anyone of the same that's had a worldwide far reaching impact know you mr massey said the same as he's the most inspirational person ever met so each time joe people come forward with what they think is is appropriate to honor certain people and and we're here tonight just to talk about this one ok all right thank you thank you thanks for your question is there any further discussion or that and i think you know they had only a really big presentation to do so my advice to the students was that i don't think they had to worry about all those details tonight in the the support of the committee if it's there to dedicate the field to see him and we had a brief you can conference about this but it's their proposal so let's just see what their leaders thought because i did advise them they don't have to have everything i know tonight the purpose of tonight was this one of the thoughts that we had was sam and his community that i think we all know why we're here tonight so we would certainly like to see what happens with that but i think the rest is is as it should be a community effort so what i think the students have i know i'll speak personally way more creative ideas  i do so they've already got some seeds of ideas that you know from they invited us to their initial presentation which i was told that was going to be like a little conversation with your kids and they already had their their presentation ready so i was impressed from the get go but i think they pieces of it and then our job is to continue moving forward with our faces as you know so i think both can happen simultaneously one can go with the other one can go in and they have their interest in the personal dedication and if tonight goes favorable way and they can work on that and we can continue to work on what the heart of which is the rest of the money for the faces what well i thought with that being said  organization representatives and with the craft organization who was the conduit by which the right that's right yeah came so that was our problem in late late fall early winter is that they coordinate that and we couldn't coordinated and they couldn't coordinate it so sometimes things happen for reasons that actually hasn't been a dedication of the community feel yet so that's important i think for the committee to know now that you know undoing something that's already been k any further discussion all those in favor five zero motion passes  hi i'm scott burns and this is my wife was lee gordon we we did not come prepared tonight to make any remarks and we we have been compelled and inspired to here with you all to here tonight at this meeting in and sam would be so proud of all of you for i'm looking at all the students from all the grades and and i don't and i can't even imagine how much work went into that presentation and  you guys really knocked it out of the park we thank the committee for passing this and was a nice leslie and i stand prepared to help with this endeavor in any way that we can  including helping with the fund raising efforts so we'll be right right behind you all the way and we really haven't had an opportunity to to thank the entire town and since we are in this public forum i want to also thank i thank you thank you very much yeah yeah thank you all very much i know oh i get to team sam here i jotted down quickly another couple more of the lyrics everything is special when we stick together when we're live in a dream and we're side by side when we're working in harmony i think you need to get that the music to that song  few minor changes on the salary side again as we go through the year we will tweak it for anything that's you know potentially somebody leaving on the maternity leave or if we have a position that we haven't filled yet you know we were hoping to fill it obviously will start to adjust for those so that we really know where we're going as we move forward in a year so at this point we're about one hundred one hundred eleven thousand dollars on the salary side to the good  and we're about thirty two thousand eight hundred on the expense side which i'll go into a few of the details on that so our overall at this is stands today would be seventy eight thousand assuming you approve of what's in this  you know update the as far as the expense side as we discussed in the past a lot of it has to do with some moving parts you know the career to school career specialist being moved from a salary two hundred you know  a salary line changing our temporary scorekeepers and stuff into salary versus an expense and moving the money along with it so the major changes really in this particular rendition is that we have been working on a number of issues a couple of more we were able to accomplish during the february of occasion we encountered an issue at the high school here with the generator the backup generator which a great machine but it is about the building is  and in doing one of our test runs we found that we had some some issues with it starting and some leaks that were involved with it so we took the time while those who was going to be out of session to tear the machine apart into to basically rebuild the issues it's probably about a seventy or eighty thousand dollars generator and so for about one thousand dollars we were able to rebuild all the issues that we had with it is running very well now so basically what i'm looking is to move nine thousand from the surplus into covering that expense we also originally discussed moving twenty to twenty five thousand from the school rental revolving account to cover the final cost on the taylor generator but at this point i think i would ask you leave that money where it stands because we can we probably will have a need for it based on the turf field and the softball fields as a move forward because of a obviously trying to finish everything in one fell swoop here so i'd like to try to use that twenty thousand dollars from the current budget surplus to cover the generator and has an update on the generator it's actually installed and the cut over is planned for this for saturday so that building will be one hundred percent covered and we will move that to be the emergency just selter as we go forward here we have to file with the state and a few other formalities there the other thing was there was a a few electrical things well again where we're taking the advantage of the february break that we found that we're trying to deal with on a new data year from a temperature point of view everything you read see showing that the degree days are much higher in this particular year than they have been and therefore our gas bill actually up to the end of february is about thirty five thousand over budget we think there's enough in it for the rest of the year so i'm not too concerned about that our electric bill actually is running about fifteen thousand under budget so we've got a net difference of about twenty and i think that the electricity running better is because we did do some final large things last year as far as energy conservation replacements and stuff so that's actually paying off when you know with the fuel going the other way on us so we need about twenty thousand and when you make all these adjustments that gets us that surplus of seventy eight thousand dollars still to move forward so i think we're you know we're ok as far as making him and i think this basically puts us in pretty good stead as far as maintaining his the buildings and the equipment  i think we're fortunate and i know how closely you watch the overall budget and try to figure out how to offset that and you're talking about ways to do that here are there any other concerns as the town pick up all of the plowing the salt the snow remov the i think the you know some of the cost that we run into in a much higher base is trying again to keep especially because this this one is a little unusual we've had a lot of you know heavy snows quick thought as freezes so we're getting a lot more ice obviously so so things like the ice melt that we use on the buildings themselves we we we buy and we've gone through about three times what we normally go through to keep the sidewalks safe and to keep the the front of the building safe and the parking lots but everything else really you know we're very fortunate with the rangers that we have the town manages the general plowing they managed salting and sanding on the bigger parking lots of that nature as you know you guys agreed last year to to buy a pickup truck with a plow which has been a godsend to have this year because you can actually hear supplement what the d p w does in a in a very small sense i mean it really is able to get to sidewalks the big sidewalks at the high school as an example or even just build do a clean up pass them with or wait for a bus to come through like that to do a couple times this year when buses were going out for just you know field trips and things like that so you know i think the working relationship between the town and what we're going what we do who is has been working out extremely well and you know i think that's why we as a hopefully you guys agree but we have been supplementing them as well as far as on the meat inside we kind of do some things for them as well so i think it's a give and take relationship that's worked out well in terms of a meal or exposures from my obviously we call them out but yeah i know why there aren't others because i have no we you know we  really do monitor all the way down on pretty much every level whether it's transportation or facilities obviously as i said with salaries we're looking by every individual on a monthly basis to see if there's any kind of adjustments we have to worry about so  really i think at this point i'm very comfortable with what we're showing you and by doing being able to do some of these things which typically would have been things we would have done during the summer but obviously i can't hold off on generators because their life safe you know having to take  a the advantage of when we can so have the funding i think is slight think we're probably pretty lucky to have a surplus not surplus position but there are towns that with the winter we've had and don't have you know the dome staffing  take what they did last time and just move forward with it so that you have a process where actually i'm able to submit and i and i finished it today with basically taking a last year's submission on the borough and then redrafting it into the f y fourteen version now i am going through it and word smithing it i'm trying to obviously make things clear is that possibly can with them but i also will tell you that i've printed off about seven other districts statement of interest to see if maybe we're just missing the beginning of their whole process there are eight criteria in which they basically will judge any project and they're i think they're pretty much in the order in which they look at them so somebody who is able to click off the first one  which is replace renovate of a building which isn't structurally unsound or otherwise condition seriously jeopardizing the health and safety of schoolchildren were no alternative exist as a category one that's category which is very hard for anybody to really do unless you literally have a building that's going down because you have to have send in engineering reports and everything else obviously the burled we've we've done our job as far as maintaining so the barrel is not going to qualify under that but any district you can would more than likely be in the top of the priority list state the second one is to eliminate existing severe overcrowding again we've been fortunate we fit within the building we don't have all the space we need as far as dedicated computer labs and things of that nature but you won't qualify under the severe overcrowding so let me just kind of just to be so i'm just thinking about the no good deed goes unpunished i think so if you're a town that hasn't maintain your building you literally have a building is unsafe and children in it you go to the interesting is because what has somewhat more out of the s b a is years ago they gave you extra credit for being a district that paid attention to its buildings because they realize that your costs were going to be a lot less than if you had to tear a building down start all over that doesn't seem to be the true measure anymore and it could be just because the level of funding that it really they're trying to do a quick wishes first the third one was prevention of the you know prevention of the loss of accreditation obviously i think the district has done very well that it's not going to lose its accreditation because of the condition of the borough and then again another issue around severe overcrowding based not increased in romance you know expectation which we don't see and we finally get to the fifth one which is where we finally qualify and that the replacement renovation or modernization of school facilities systems such as roofs windows boiling heating systems ventilation systems to increase the energy conservation and decrease energy related costs in a school facility obviously that's exactly what we're talking about we have a draftee building in the sense that a single pane windows we have a roof that leaks although we continue to repair the roof and try to maintain it for as long as we can we have a boiler system in ventilation system that's as old as the building and quite honestly close to unserviceable at this point as far as parts so we definitely fall with the number five number six is a short term and roman growth we again don't see that coming and number seven is replacement of additional replacement or addition of obsolete building in order to provide a full range of programs consistent with state approved local requirements we qualify under that because again we are not able to do with the full scope of requirements for like a full lab for computer sciences our  preschool classrooms really aren't the appropriate size or design for the feature they would never be built the way they are today we have number of issues within the building relative to bathrooms handicapped accessibility and things of that nature so you know and then the final one is just a court order requirement to do it so we foot five in seven out of eight lower on the on the scale but again i think we've defined the statement of interest to fully highlight all of the issues we have and last year to see understand this is the actual book that went into almost far as the documentation reports that we had done pictures all the state report itself so i think we give them everything they asked for and as much as i'd like to say it you know could be our turn the issue the article in the sun i mean in the globe on sunday was somewhat to you know disconcerting where they saw like bill is under six the tap to get their high school well funded by the of us being so it's not you know it's as much of a slam dunk if you'd like to think about getting this done so but that all said with the rick one of the first requirements i have been a meeting probably saluted i'm with you guys but tomorrow night the board of selectmen is they require within the minutes the body of the minutes to exact wording in which i i supplied you be in the here minutes and approved so it goes in as part of this package basically all that stating that your state number one that you recognize is no guarantee to getting these funds but it basically says that you are behind the process of the superintendent supplying you a statement of interest for the renovation and an addition of the girls school and that's all it says so we should probably just read the text of the first part of the vote so that  people at home can see it so says resolved having convened an open meeting on march third prior to the closing date the school committee of the town of foxborough and accordance with its charter by laws and ordinances has voted to authorize a superintendent to submit to the massachusetts school building authority the statement of interest form dated april eleventh two thousand and fourteen for the borough elementary school located sixteen more street which describes it explains the following deficiencies in the priority categories for which an application may be submitted to the massachusetts school building in calgary seven replacement of or addition to obsolete building in order to provide for a full range of programs consistent with state and approval for twenty minutes with details into that as to what that means for the pearl school in here by further specifically acknowledges that by submitting the statement of interest form the massachusetts school building authority in no way guarantees the acceptance or the approval of an application the awarding of a grant or any other funding commitment from the massachusetts school been building authority or commits the city town regional school district to  the process that we've been kind of working through as you know not this last summer but the summer before that's part of our whole process and we used the funding that we received through the town as well as some of the school funding we  fully renovated the parking handicap accessibility from the exterior side of the building this summer we did some roof work again to try to maintain the integrity of the system the way i guess i look at it is and it makes it a little tough because of the scope of work that we need to do but you know in the worst of cases if this continues to get delayed i guess i would make recommendations to the committee to use some of our excess money at the end of each year to continue to do whatever we can towards that building improvement it's very hard because again the second you jump on this in any large way boiler systems alone to marry hundred thousand dollars roofing systems the same type of money so it's not like we you know and again once you start doing that then you triggering the different codes relative to bring it up to code for handicap accessibility it's like one thing pushes the other so you can only do really what i would call it you know just good making its practic find the horizon way off to school do we ultimately have to submit both the barrel and the tail or down the line like his tail or catching up to the barrel to the point we have to go now we have two schools roof so that is got a brand new roof similar to what we've done on the other buildings it's actually one of the best that you can put in obviously you've approved the generator upgrade or not upgrade the weather one so the installation of a new generated for that building which gives us some life safety things in groups so we're able to make a little dance on to that building on a progressive basis which i think again is it is it the same as going through and totally renovating and redoing windows and doors you know but it's you know we're making strides towards keeping that a safe and clean environment as well i give the custodial staff a main staff you know great marks for really in all of our facilities i think to have made the comment the other day with the secretary of education coming through and saying how clean the buildings were and how well they looked at that respect and i think they get that way because the me as crew does what it does and therefore the students react appropriately i think if you don't take care you facilities i quite honestly think that the students you know see that and and feel the same lack of fright so so i think my perspective on the the tailor is second in line for sure we've done more for as we've had the opportunity to and the barrel is really the one that you know we need to try to strive to to get this the unfortunate thing here is far as both your comments as far as this we move down the road it's a year at a time you just don't know so it's not like they're telling you you know you're going to get it four years so you can make a decision on to do something it could be this coming december it could be the following december who knows that's why it makes me think about the you know what if scenario you know ok well thank you for that update and keep our fingers crossed right all right the proposed school committee meeting with allie yes so we usually you know have you approve your meeting dates for next year and it looks pretty much exactly what you've always seen except for one change i'd like to call it your attention so typically you have one meeting in september because you have one of the very end of august and then you have to in october i have a personal conflict on october sixth so i'm going to call that to attention that we happen to be lucky in that september starts earlier than it usually does so we have two mondays that you could have meetings two weeks apart in september on the fifteenth and the twenty ninth and then have the one in october but if you prefer to do what you ben doing then you would have the one of the fifteenth of september and you could still have meetings on the six normally would just have one thing that's great and it's at the end of the month so i don't i would prefer to you have a lot of business at the beginning of the year any way you do and i like this system that it's setting a pattern for every other week which is the usual pattern right throughout the year so other than that it's traditionally the first and third mondays unless there's a monday holiday which goes to the first on the fourth really there is a make any sense march to look at going to the second and fourth just so we don't have back to back like we are right now or know as we talk well that's up to you your tradition they say is the first and third mondays in the selection is the first and third tuesday so sometimes when you needed one to vote like is happening this week  it works out better but that's totally up to the will of the committee i say i mean we can always cancel a day if we feel like maybe we need and then we're finding that we don't have enough agenda items for the following week because this is like last year i think we just had one february meeting i don't remember having to we do but it's because of the back to back and having usually january's kind of intensive all the budget discussion and so if there isn't a lot coming up we you know th a saturday and i will have an update for you and it's meeting as to how the c h p projects they don't we want to bring up again the high school p e requirements so what i learned is that i can't just wait a week and then have a complete update on how everybody did because the kids are still in the process so i thought best to have diana back and explain where we are and address any more questions that you have at this point but perhaps i thought the timeline was you know could be exacted in a short a fashion and i was absolutely wrong so go our students to take a look at what they had put into the computer as far as the course selections and so they sat down with all of the students they said this is what you've selected let's take a look at electives let's make sure that you've got several electives in there in case something doesn't fit if there are two singletons follow one and top of the other so they're working through that process right now once all of that is put into the computer when we do a role which usually everything kind of gets cleaned up by about april vacation to kind of give you a timeline on it and we do a role and what we look for is somewhere between eighty and eighty five percent of matches not having conflicts with a fifteen percent or less conflict some years we've been very lucky and it's been much higher but that's usually what you aim for the higher the better of course with not having conflicts then what happens is we also have to take a look at i should back up too we also have to take a look at the number of students that have elected into certain courses that goes to the department heads the department heads then this is how many people we have and f t s how many sections of each are we going to run and at what numbers are we going to run those particular sections we always hope that with our college prep the numbers are a little bit less potentially than what our honors classes might be and we've been very fortunate to be able to run several of our classes on the high end and then on the other end as  well in smaller numbers so that's always a good thing too that we're able to really meet and accommodate the student selections so all of that being done all of those sections being put in we roll that schedule again hoping for that very hyped higher percentage or that high percentage on a lack of conflicts once we get that then the conflicts are pulled out the students are pulled out who have conflicts and guidance starts that process with that either fifteen ten or eight percent whatever it might be of students to say ok here you go you know we've got a conflict here it's two singletons that are backed up what is it that you're interested in taking and it could mean a whole flip of many classes in some cases for some students i know i definitely don't want to do this or i don't want to do that so we won't know while our students leave let me tell you this to our students leave in june knowing the list of classes that they have not the teachers that they have because teachers can change you know we can hire somebody new because somebody decides not to come back or just due to some changes that might take place somebody who had taught something might not be teaching at the next year so the students have a list of the classes that they do go home with in the summertime so that they have that come september will receive their schedule some little tweaks might happen over the summer they'll receive their schedule with the classes the teachers the places that they're all land so that's pretty much the process of what is happening i know as far as the p e in the electorate are concerned i can tell you what's hot and what's  not they were pretty much even up on friday when i had a quick conversation with guidance and again it's a it's a laborious process because our guidance team does meet with all of the students you know to make those picks and to make those selections does take time and so that really does happen throughout march and then we will from there so that's where we're at so it's a very long process so to summarize it's students individually select yes and then we look to see how that played out so do we have sections that are big enough to a sections that are too great how many sections are going to run classic example is i think you told me we had forty students and will the new engineering course yes great so far are many forty forty so far so now we're trying to figure out if we can run two sections because that would be you know that was a really high putting very exciting so and then after that the schedule goal says see if we can roll a schedule with sections and see if everybody fits in and then the conflicts are worked out and student when i added up the first science and the lottery incisions that happened to me so you know like i have personally i've had to go to talk to my guidance counselor about this because i'm also dropping my language but i'm going to be taking an a p history class instead and so it's like i've had to work around that i see it's all about choices just what we're talking about this week because a lot of things that they have to consider ok for you guys benefit i don't thank you at the last meeting but we're talking about the new visit requirement in junior senior year right are you guys hearing talk about that about how my going to fit in yeah yeah as it's i think that's what has really made especially for me think having because it's a point to five credits not a point five or a whole credit it's like so i have to try to like i just want a class that i would like to see you can also make sure that i still feel the requirements and somehow study for yeah this is a decision that we made to require this but now we're trying to monitor the impact on your schedules we think it's a good decision and we think the programs are goods not going to be typical p e s going to be some why fitness understand what we're doing but they're somewhat frustrated because now they can take a full year like a lot of people want to take another science course next year for our junior year but they're not able to because it's taking less they exercise one of the creative options  pick something that's in the program of studies that it goes right into your day schedule which i think most kids will do we just if you're one of those kids that want to take something else like that you are then then you have to really think about how are you go right so we'll wait to hear some more people back right yes ok and i just have to congratulate the students like they did a fabulous fabulous job right and they've worked so hard on this show so i just really publicly need to just really congratulate have a lot of folks there to see the students i think were the late game at seven forty five so they play they're playing ducks for who is right now undefeated their number one so but any given day there's a cinderella team out there always so hopefully that's t