beyond the classroom is nothing short of phenomenal she has demonstrated keen abilities to observe her students listen to them and pay attention to her intuitions ultimately allowing her students to make effective progress in a safe and welcoming classroom most importantly  her students to be responsible respectful and effortful she consistently established a strong connection to her students and their parents and has always been a strong advocate for them misspell has been an inspirational teacher who will be greatly missed by her students and colleagues she has made a tremendous impact on the wellington community which i can attest to as well both professionally and personally and will leave a lasting legacy to her students families and peers the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to wellington school with a long and distinguished career as a canard th grade nd grade teacher respectively miss carlson a teen and her bachelor's degree in elementary education from leslie college now leslie university in  eighty one with a k to six certification and her master's degree in curriculum and instruction from leslie college in one thousand nine hundred as a lifelong learner miss carlson has continued to actively part in a variety of p d p and graduate level curriculum based courses as well as recent social emotional apres offered throughout her tenure at wellington miss carlson has had many leadership roles in the district throughout her tenure that has included the following facilitator for professional learning teams grade level chairperson a nd grade enrichment coordinator nd grade team leader for collaborative meetings wellington s c l steering committee mentoring program belmont education association representative cheery committee district s e l steering committee and staff development committee b miss carlson has recognized as one recognized for her love of teaching and her dedication to her students she is consistently a sad blessed a strong connection to her students and their parents and has always been a strong advocate for them miss carlson's lessons convey her passion for the curriculum and have enhanced each student's educational growth and development mr carlson strongly believes in educating and celebrating the whole child mr carlson has been an inspirational teacher someone her peers have admired she will be greatly missed by her students and colleagues she has made a tremendous impact on the wellington community both professionally and personally and will leave a lasting legacy to her students families and peers the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to laura carlson for her years of devoted dedicated and outstanding service the belmont school committee also extends best wishes to lori for a long happy  brigham young university and an m a in history and philosophy of science from indiana university prior to teaching she worked as a computer programmer and consultant her st five years of teaching where bill record high school and she joined the faculty of belmont high school in two thousand and six over the course of her career mr john has taught physics at college the college preparatory honors and advanced placement levels tina has made physics as excessive fascinating for thousands of over the past two decades ms john is an expert physics teacher who dedicates herself to making sure that each one of her students is successful she's always available to students and can be found at most afternoons working with students in her classroom many evenings she can be found cheering on the belmont high school sports team her turn around time on grading and feedback to students unparalleled tina is a deeply reflective practitioner is always striving to improve her craft and innovate with her often leading the way with new ideas on the miss johns deep and nuanced understanding of physics has been a tremendous assets to all of her students and her colleagues she will remembered for how she always kept the big picture schedule of where the physics team needed to go how they needed to get there and how long it should be as one colleague noted tina has been a guiding light for us and it's going to be very difficult to pick up the slack where she's no longer pinas growth mindset and tireless work ethic have been a priceless resource for the physics team and the department with her frequently taking the lead on projects field trips and curriculum changes last but not least tina is a cop uncompromisingly kind and her support of her colleagues and sense of humor will be the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its your prescience to teener john for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes to her for many years of continued happiness and h to now going to vacate bowen and she and also bob johnson bob is it was a head custodian at the butler school and he has retired during this during this school year already so he can give all of you new retirees in june some tips on my resolution on the retirement of robert johnson the belmont school committee here by records their retirement on september th two thousand and thirteen of robert bob johnson head custodian at the daniel butler s product of the belmont public schools having attended the candle school belmont junior high school and graduating from belmont high school in one thousand nine hundred and sixty seven after taking a year to work for his heirs in cambridge cambridge post graduation joined the united custodian at the burbank school and then as the head custodian of the daniel butler school bob worked with principal bruce mcdonald for fifteen and a half years with principal michael mcallister for seven years and finally with principal daniel betancourt for the last three years mr johnson took care of the dear old historical building butler school to sion knowledge his twenty five years have given he was reliably early every day and could be counted on to anticipate and solve dedicated to the building and community rarely taking off any time in all those twenty five years in his spare time bob has been an active member of the v f w proly participating in the butler schools annual veterans day assemblies we think mr johnson for his support of the teachers and for all that he has given to the butler community these years the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues this appreciation to bob johnson for his long and faithful service extend specialist completed her master's degree in learning disabilities and communication sciences and she has had a thirty six year career serving the needs of special education students ever since with well while that career big began at a private special education school in new jersey for that's  six years of work the last three decades of her professional service has been spent at the well beth began her career in belmont as a special education teacher in a self contained classroom for students with language based learning disabilities when this program transition to a more inclusion based service that supported her students within the regular education classes as well as in one dollar to one dollar or small group set within the service model beth became a resource room teacher a case manager a special education consultant to the teachers and the liaison between the school the families and every staff member and service provider involved with each she was responsible for delivering and coronating a variety of services for the students on her case involving an extensive amount of organisation attention to detail coronation and communication with colleagues and ministration and parents while extremely challenging beth handled these tests successfully always keeping the focus of her students and ensuring everyone involved did this that the effectively used her skills and experience to work with a variety of students presenting a wide range of learning challenges to provide solid instruction direct support and encouragement and an array of learning strategies and services to ensure that her students additionally both worked with new teachers as a mentor help provide staff trainings and workshops and was always available to brainstorm with administrators on ways programs and services produced a shift in student need and research tell she was a strong advocate for students and the support of colleagues in staff member who consistently gave up herself and presented as a true asset for  piece of her parting words to the staff were that quote that wellington has been my professional home for more than thirty years when i arrived everyone told me that the atmosphere the culture the feeling here was special how right they were beth felt the impact of that culture for her thirty years in belmont she also greatly contributed to making that culture what it was for the entire time she belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses the depreciation to beth last for her long and faithful service and expects tens best wishes for many many years s in biology from the state university of new york janessa co and then an m b a in biology while also serving as a teaching assistant she taught science in various schools in new york state before teaching at reading memorial high school and burlington middle school pat came to belmont high school in one thousand nine hundred and four and this dedicated twenty five years to the science education of belmont students she has taught and she has t integrated science advanced integrated science biology at the college the proprietary preparatory honors and advanced placement levels chemistry intro to physics a p environmental science and disease  what she has served on several steering committees the scholarship committee mentored new merced juden a new teachers and has been a building rep for the be a always advocating for the science department she's also served as a junior class advisor and hosted two dollars to three dollars clubs in each school year including the anime club miss parker she's callie colleagues will miss her selfless collaboration sharing of resources advocacy for our department constant supply of snacks in the office as one colleague noted pat is endlessly generous with her time and resources for others often staying late into the evening to get her own work done after helping her peers she brings many resources into the department from her own professional learning at conferences and content related workshops if you need material for class chances are pat has it and one of her storage rooms and her menagerie of class animals has enrich t resource for all new teachers who have joined the science team during her tenure the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses it to patricia partridge for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happiness and health in your retirement and last but certainly not least i was thinking about this mary jane weinstein with a name with a w you probably spent your entire life waiting for your turn it's your tearing come on out and i'm going to invite michael crowley from the school committee to come on  resolution on the retirement of mary jane weinstein weinstein weinstein the belmont school committee here buy records the retirement in june two thousand and nineteen of mary jane weinstein assistant director of student services for the belmont public schools mary jane came to the belmont public schools in two thousand and eight she has served the belmont public schools for the past eleven years as a special education administrator she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology with special education license sure from russell sage college and a master's degree in educational administration from lesley university cambridge mary jane is retiring after thirty eight years of service as a public and private school educator mary jane began her career in the belmont public schools after having served as a program director for specialized programs and then assistant director for special education in the somerville public schools for nineteen years prior to her positions in school administration mary jane worked in the capacity of special education teacher at approved private while in somerville she received the founders award for participation on the massachusetts committee for mental health services program for youth from one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine to two thousand and eight she has also served as an adjunct professor at wheelock college in belmont mary jane's efforts helped to foster an array of student services supportive of all the challenges and demands of our students present this was done while simultaneously ensuring that the districts procedures and protocols were in compliance with all special education regulatory mandates and developed and those are considerable and am developed in collaboration with the massachusetts department of department of elementary and secondary education education as well as the office of civil rights key examples of mary jane's efforts were the development of procedures for the special education evaluation and i e p development process extended school year services and coordination with program development for students with autism in collaboration with district administrators she provided leadership in the ongoing assessment and the revision of the department of student services programming and supports in addition mary jane has given over time in support of district wide initiatives she has been an administrative mentor and a member of the staff development council the most gratifying part of her administrative position was in collaborating and supporting the special education teachers and service providers in the district who she holds in high esteem the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to mary jane weinstein for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happiness and health in her so i always wonder when you all hear your you know your life's work recorded like that and read aloud does anyone have a like oh my gosh i forgot i did that moment because i think i would so congratulations to all of you it's amazing your amazing thank you for your contribution i think now our media folks are going to want to group photo and so i'm in it and you're all welcome to stay for the school committee meeting and you're also welcome to depart through the other door or through the back door whichever way you would like to go there's more refreshments please help yourself and if we can have all the retirees join in the back in the cafe will have a group photo thank you all for coming and thank you all for your years of service citizens concern doesn't appear we have anyone here for that we do not have any adjustment to the agenda i have a very brief chairs report just a note that we had a wonderful reception for recent retirees and to recognize all their years in belmont and when you mentioned that they had over a one thousand years of service to not want so even the hundreds probably that were served to this amazing great to see they all seem to be happy to be moving on to another chapter of their lives and we do know that's so and then also that there are plenty of upcoming concerts and to be activities coming out that are on our website on the calendar  we do not have a student representative here so our superintendent report short just a very quick update we had a wonderful graduation on sunday i'd like to think tom brow and the entire administration in the facilities department custodians and all the administrative and the ministry of assistant support that goes into pulling off a wonderful graduation ceremony for the exact graduating class of two thousand one hundred but a high school students are still performing on the playing fields an that is correct masterpiece being played that dumb one hill school varsity baseball diamond sighting at three thirty pm thank you very much so good luck to all of our teams in postseason play for our elementary parents in parents who are new to the district we were successful in our round to registration end assignments for us students we had our round one placements in april around two placements took place in the st week of june we were able to enroll another thirty six  students we were able to accommodate eleven requests that parents had from within the school district to be at the school their choice and due to some grades at certain schools being overcrowded we had to ask five families to go to a school outside of the district we will make our rd round of placements in august and that is the format that we do each year we do so in a way that ensures that we are being diligent in how we approach our students being assigned hopefully and st and foremost to the home district school and if need be to a secondary school within the time of belmont so we like to keep track of that and make sure that that's part of our discussion with the community in the schools with it and that's why we have  times over here to do and what those look like and how we're tackling those changes in our social studies program will start with the st lot this was signed into law this past fall in two thousand and  requires a couple of key components one is it requires a non partisan high school voter challenge program creates a civics trust fund and it has some teaching components that go along with  it it's asking for us to be sure that we're teaching the constitution including the bill of rights the declaration of independence some pieces around the functions in the foundations of the branches of government the roles and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy in terms of the content piece and then also some of the skills pieces that go along with being good citizens skills to access analyze and evaluate media as it relates to history and civics a also looking at the some of the historical trends of voter registration and civic participation can see there's a really strong civics theme that's going through this bill and with it it also comes with this idea that we need to promote at the reason that this act is out there is to create stronger better more knowledgeable citizens and so these projects are set up to ensure that students are practicing the skill and learning from it as they go forward so we're hoping to graduate  we are piloting two programs or pop projects right now to see what they might look like for our students this day is finalizing the requirements we've got a sense of what they're going to be and we're starting to work out what that might look like in our schools i'm going to turn it over to some teachers now to talk to a little bit about what they've done in their classrooms so we can get a sense of how this is looking for all of our students  talking eric berkman and i'm one of the th grade honors american studies teachers and this initiative for civic engagement came at the right time right when jamie and i were talking about how we wanted to potentially replace midterm and final exams with midterm and final projects there was a concern that the midterm and final exams don't really measure social studies skills they're not really an adequate way to measure what students done and just to have such a high stakes assessment focused on regurgitating and memorizing facts and being able to spill it back for an hour and a half at the end of the school year at the end of the term didn't really seem an a c measure of what we have them do want to day to day basis in the skills that they've learned so we wanted to do something that was going to bring in more critical thinking skills taking history and applying it and connecting it to today bringing in a civic engagement piece while also giving them a chance to use creativity and some collaboration skills so we were talking about this and then we thought is the issue of free and fair elections in america and the extent to which we have them and having the students explore a bunch of different it's election related issues either things that are happening in different locations or certain kinds of practices and policies that are happening on a national basis for them to explore that and see how that affects voting in elections and representation in our country and it just seemed really timely and then jamie can talk about some of what we did to prepare them so the product really had three parts it was they were they they did some group work where they created a multimedia investigative report on a voting issue in this country they had to tie it back to some historical data and events that we had studied so we spent a lot of time different groups in american society in that time frame additionally we also talked about the mechanism of voting because when we were doing the progressive era we talked a lot about the adoption of the ballot which if you don't know the australian ballot actually the private voting system we use today previous to the eight hundred and ninety s most people use the ticketing system which was a public voting process where you literally were in a bar or a saloon of some sort and you were voting publicly you were calling out who you were going to vote for so we talked a lot about the pros and cons of having a public voting system versus a private voting system so the kids were pretty adept that sort of understanding what some of the mechanisms of voting were and in addition we started this whole thing off by having ellen and brian ca who is the town clerk come and talk about how voting is done in belmont and what are some of the rules and regulations that she has to use in order to make sure that our voting is safe and secure and the town so addition in addition to creating a multimedia presentation students also individually wrote a letter to a public official that they felt had the ability to make a change in whatever they had research that whatever they had done their multimedia presentation on and actually saw several students receive responses from the public officials that they wrote to  which was pretty exciting for them great so here are some project examples students looked at felony disenfranchisement specifically in florida but looked at the different rules regulations around felony disenfranchisement nationally  gerrymandering purging of voter rolls the stricter voter id laws they looked at open versus closed primaries they looked at ballot harvesting which was a big deal in north carolina in the two thousand and sixteen election abolishing the electoral college the students were looking at the pros and cons of that and the closing of different polling stations in specific neighborhoods and how that affects one or turn out how that affects enfranchise and of certain groups so there you want to talk a little bit about the so when we elicited feedback from the kids when we were done with this project so by and large the majority of the kids really liked doing this and they preferred preferred this to a mid term or a final to some degree it alleviated students stress although i told them at the outset that this was going to be just as much work and it was going to be a little more complex and was going to challenge their thinking quite a bit and there were some hitches around sort of negotiating how they work in a group one thing we learned is that they do like to pick their own partners which i know i had a certain level of discomfort with just knowing that in the professional world you don't always get to pick your partners and you need to learn to negotiate these things and also sometimes it can be harder for a more introverted kid to find a group of their own but at the same time that seem to be a pretty wide preference or we sort of work with that for the final project they like to the creative piece and some of the projects were really amazing so like we said before there was a multimedia component where as a group they created either a documentary or an investigative news report about their voting issue and the extent to which it's impacting how free and fair our elections are in time get back to at least one or two specific voting issues from pre nine hundred and sixty five dollars that they learned about earlier in the year and the investigative reports would be in a format where one of the students was an anchor person and the other two or three would be correspondents reporting on the issue and bringing their findings they would bring in music they would bring in drama does ations they would bring in graphics footage from existing news reports and the creativity was unbelievable and the same thing with  documentaries they were on the level of some of the documentaries that we show in class at least some of them or so and the feedback was pretty positive they like being able to connect to the real world they loved the civic engagement piece where especially if they heard back from the person that they wrote to so i think they felt so the nd requirement in terms of a civics project goes comes in at the th grade level and we have now we've like every year from eight grade so studies department to talk about that project that they're piling so the th grade curriculum that we're transitioning from is u s history once there's or already u s government component to it and what we chose to do this year as a u s history team in the th grade was just expand and develop the lessons that we already had to kind of see where we could push them and extend them and really help to fulfill the new criteria of these the new curriculum and one area that we looked at was the structure of teaching how a bill becomes a law and hit we took what would have previously been perhaps a couple of class period less than teaching that structure or that process into sort of more of a two week simulation where we really put the students in the shoes of lawmakers and gave them the role of essentially being part of the chamber that is writing the laws right so they were at the house of representatives and they really sort of dove into this and embraced it in a way that really was was really wonderful to see they were very much a sort of motivated by the fact that they had they had the opportunity to st of all all of them come up with their own idea for a law like what there ought to be a law and they came in with their with their proposals and then we move them through the motions of how a bill becomes a law so they started in a committee a small committee they had to decide as a committee which bills would move forward and which would not once they had identified which bills would move for they had to do research into those bills to really get them ready to present to the full class which was going to simply stimulate that house chamber and then as they sort of fine tune their bills they presented them to the class there was a component of research here gathering evidence to support the bill that they've come up with why was it so necessary why was it so critical there was a public speaking component because they had to present it to the class and explain why they had  come up with this idea why this is something that they wanted the house to vote for so there's that persuasive piece there was discussion debate within the house or within the class as a whole where they ask questions of each other and came up with  ments to the bill you know much to the frustration of the people who'd written the bill because they didn't want it to be changed and they kind of the purpose of this was for them to really go through the motions but feel what it's like to be negotiating those things right and the frustration and the disappointment and the excitement when it gets passed and all those things and that was really wonderful to kind of witness and the way that we also tried to make this engaging and they really got hooked in i think by this is that we were three team grade so there are three history classes working simultaneously and we just sort of put ourselves my class for example was one chamber of congress and then the other classes where the other chamber cerf we were the house were going to send our bills over to the senate so they knew the other students in their grade that are in their classes were going to be looking at their work and reviewing their work and critics critiquing their work and then hopefully passing their bills and so that really got them into it as well and so we did that we transitioned our the bills that made it out of my question for example went over to another teacher's classroom they did the same process committee made amendments voted on it discussed it voted on it and then we ended up having sort of a conference committee among the teachers to weed out the differences and then our assistant principal president lewis was our president and he essentially he took the bills that had passed out of both chambers he did a really nice job of you know making his own amendments and suggestions for if he was going to veto a bill why was he going to veto it or if he was going to pass it if he had reservations and so forth and then we hold the whole grade together and and he presented that to them and their kids were just i mean they just couldn't wait to hear what was he going to do what was he going to say and they couldn't wait to try and override it when he did any one and pass there and they also felt the reality of how it's hard difficult to get the votes right and so they they saw all kind of come together and i think a piece of it that to me indicated that this really was a positive project was that we all did this prior to a vacation and this was kept them really focused and engaged in two weeks prior to vacation which is challenging to do but they were really just kind of waiting to see what was going to happen to them and we have just to give you sort of a taste of the sorts of things that they came up with we have on one hand here the bills that were actually passed into law again they may have had some amendments made to them so what they started out was out as doesn't necessarily  put together a bill proposal and met with senator brown because he felt so inspired that this that he had a voice as an th grader and like this project helped eliminate that and i mean this is one piece  of sort of feedback that we got and you know that if there's just one it definitely is trickling around the th grade so that really meant a lot to here for her especially but even as her colleague that this had inspired a student in th grade just navigating a lot of the digital sources today is really complex and you know it's hard we've got a lot of evidence that most adults can't navigate this is thing of late and so this is also the piece that the teachers have been bringing out is how are kids sourcing how are they find the information to y are really focused on this idea of historical practices content and literacy standards like how are all of these three pieces coming together for our students really looking at how can we can incorporate more diverse perspectives how can we work on students historical thinking skills and how can we integrate knowledge from a lot of different studies so it's trying to bring a lot of pieces together not start something brand new but to take a lot of the pieces that we have and collect them and so the size them a little bit more easily for and specifically it has a focus on civics at all levels including a new great civics course and so we are transitioning to that it really focuses on some historical thinking practices  specifically looking at inquiry how can we get kids to ask more questions and answer more of their own questions and then the sourcing piece really looking at news and media literacy to make sure students are discerning readers really knowing what's fact  on a lot lately particularly we have been working on our reading workshop and we've been working with science so we're moving a little bit slower with the roll out with the social studies frameworks and some of that is we have a commitment to a three year plan we are right at the end of the three year plan so we are now going to begin discussing these new frameworks next year with our teachers the exciting thing is though as we listen to everything that's in the frameworks what we've actually done with our reading workshop actually covers much of what the social studies is saying so we've been working on an inquiry process for a while now in our readers workshop we've been changing the libraries across all of our schools in our classrooms with the mindset that we know that some of these standards have changed and we've been looking at diverse perspectives looking at multiple cultures making sure that everybody in our classrooms represented and that's actually going to go a long ways when we actually move to the new frameworks the other piece is exciting is that much of the frameworks for elementary are already happening in our schools in our grade levels there might be some tweaks where you see the frameworks look like they're now in a different grade level and we might choose to keep them where they're at because they're already scopes so nicely to fit with our reading and  writing and they also are integrated to fit with our science which is really important out of our curriculum center we are not we're not in the practice of just dropping new standards without if it is with every other standard because it has to integrate so nicely into our elementary so right now we are teasing out what they're saying at every grade level and then we will start our conversations next year to see if anything needs to be  the biggest tweaks will be in th grade and as i say that it's a perfect grade level for it to happen because they are in the midst of big conversations right now to become more unified perfectly we're excited about those opportunities with eight grade civics the historical practices at the middle and high school level as well and those are our focus that's our starting point and we will continue to monitor this as it develops but i think we're in a really strong spot oh so they rolled out for example a new science unit this year of looking at an energy unit for three and so early on in the year we actually in through our reading units actually went through and actually taught how to look at research how to study advocate for why some of how these things are impacting us across the country across even in our own state our own town and so we took resources different media had the students actually do a research project early on in the or getting research teams and get ready for the energy unit that was going to happen in the spring but they already kind of studied it and then we had guest speakers come in and talk to them about how this might impact them as citizens and good or bad and then they're actually we're trying to tie it separate into teams and they had their own language to look through green communities between solar and other aspects and it was amazing the amount of research that was done the public speaking that was done the impact to the community the impact on the environment and the economic ones and that was one lesson that actually brought in so many different haunted areas and civic engagement in public speaking and advocacy it was like it was everything right there in that  obviously we're reading to learn but we're also reading to be change agents and i think it's going to fit in really nicely with what we want to come on her social science curriculum and also what does that mean change agent as far as science and social studies and all of that coming together i think the piece we have to be very careful with with when doing it though is that they are still th graders and there are some topics when it comes to science that  come up that are fascinating to study and to understand but developmentally how much do we want to expose and do for th graders and that's not really in the science curriculum but is also part of it and comes up so we've kind of had to go slow a little bit to talk about and even when we choose resources to back up what we're doing in both science and social studies just have to be really just seem to get on the topic of the elementary things and i am i was really happy to hear some of what you mentioned about the book in a classroom libraries across the districts to make sure that diverse identities and viewpoints are represented and i know because my own kids have gone to wellington i know a little bit about what's happened to wellington but i haven't heard a lot about what's happening in terms of all throughout the district and i think that i know other parents have talked to me and have i think not gotten the message that that work is happening and i think it's great work that the teachers are doing and about what's happening there we're actually collecting more data right now making a lot of classroom washers and not only upgrading the libraries but we're now going back through and so starting from our early brits moving up it's really interesting to watch and i march so much the fact that there's not enough time in the school day to all the things that we're being asked to do by the state so the only way that you can really make it work is by you know doing different content areas through cover projects so science and civics and social studies in english and in research and reading and presenting are all those things that come together and remember that's only one teacher so it's a lot of work for one teacher to be able to navigate in it we're introducing a lot of things so all of our on the tree teachers at the same time so i give jeannine so much credit in all of our elementary teachers and just your counterpart for math and science  our elementary teachers are working really really hard and then when we get to middle and high school it's so great to see this theme of giving students agency to choose topics and then tell a lot of them to express their learning in different ways the truth becomes a much more powerful in gauging and learning environment that last with them for a long time so to hear that we're not having the midterms kind of i know it sounds funny for a superintendent it's always music to my ears they kids can demonstrate learning in a way that allow the creativity in the independence to do it in ways that express their learning that unique to them and then have a connect to the world those are all terms that were said tonight by our educators and what more important do you want you know how much better does it get than that so i think this is such a great way to move our our approach to teaching and learning and i think it's been really really really big seeds being planted across the district that are really moving into how we operate can i the leadership of folks like that mcdevitt is is a big part of this and i think janice for being the person who is allowing all the art directors in our ministry does not teachers to to have the freedom to also have agency think creatively and the way that they work because how we work as adults should we or how we expect to work with us students so that this is a great night we're going to talk about the capstone that after this and take a boat that was a great night and i just i thank you so much for your creativity and your respect for kids and in really in really good opportunities to learn the ways that are so important to them so that you very much and it's really nice to be a part of the district next thi for student learning and professional practice school the school committee was given all of this information artifacts to review over the last two weeks and respond and so i put together a four components of the rubric the four standards of addition to having the goals and feedback on the goals two out of seven people using this to use those all the standards and commented on all the standards so i'm not sure if it's really something that's necessary for us to include because a lot of the what was put in the comments were substantially less than what was provided in the other portions of it so i think that's what happened the st year that we did this evaluation is that there was that difference in the responses so we took the fo standards and just the goals and commenting on the goals like that's just food for thought for when we do this again so i will go through so the st goal for effective strategic planning was to leave the district routes to teaching planning very spacing great configuration work this work will be conducted through the belmont high school building committee educator steering committee with a successful seven through twelve  or through alternative planning to kill me if the debt exclusion does not pass and also that i think that there are two out of seven so two of the former school committee members did contribute to this because they asked before they left if they could and i think it's a good idea to have people have a full year purchased so some of the comments included the scope of the work is indeed hard to encapsulate in a few paragraphs hard to quantify is the nature of the work involved over time as new information is learned and our demands are imposed superintendent failand has been able to maintain the focus on what is best for teaching and learning throughout several years of evolving work with new numerous community stakeholders it's a testament to student superintendent failings commitment to open open and includes an inclusive input communication that the work has developed and the strong manner that it has he has tremendous wisdom to share experience to inform the process and visibly boundless patience to admire the strong work of this one individual who we are evaluating actually reflects the collaborative efforts of many superintendent fillin has been a dedicated leader on all aspects of the strategic planning to address and roman challenges he has led the development of by and for an implementation of a plan that addresses the enrollment needs across the district the central component of which is the new seven  superintendent failon led the efforts to gather input from staff community members to collect data and information about the current projected in roman numbers and student teacher ratios he then communicated this information clearly transparently and often to an exhaustive list of community groups and staff members without his work to identify school system needs and appropriate responses it would have been difficult for the town voters to approve a debt exclusion for the new seven through to crawl through school last fall his invested a great deal of time in this project including many late night and early morning meetings on another topic the work to plan the educator steering committee scope and sequence of work has been well thought out and comprehensive the attention to detail in making sure  the public school educators would have a voice and input in each area the planning for the new belmont middle high school has been commendable commendable and i should note too that that for the goal line the majority voted so we are would say that the school committee would determine that your work was exemplary in that area goal number two was to impact the instruction of our classrooms as it relates to our strategic plan in through the use of consistent school based walks through with principals in this area was clean profession and exemplary per student having bowl superintendent failing focused on getting into schools regularly to participate in walk through with building addition to the stated goal of impacting instruction as relates to a strategic plan initiatives in s c else year the walk through service an opportunity to build relationships with principals as well as to dress the culture in each school given the amount of time the building project has taken this year with a tremendous amount of time needed for meetings on building related topics choosing a goal to ensure that the focus would not drift from the c s e l and c are two goals was an excellent choice the desire to support principals in their roles in different buildings is a very important one and a critical goal that the relationships and experiences do impact the work of all staff members in the building increased opportunities for such on the ground walk series would be terrific  it could be helpful to learn about mechanisms for communication and feedback that can be utilized or created to systemize communication flow in between schedule the superintendent failon and his team have worked hard to find the best people for each of the principal openings in the last year superintendent feelings comments about the importance of supporting the work of the principals and how critical it is not only to recruit highly qualified educators  offer them ongoing support in order that they have the best chance of meeting with success highlight some of the work accomplished in this area so goal number three and educators and increase productive conversations that improve teaching and learning outcomes for students this we also scored between profession and exemplary superintendent failings focus on  educator evaluation system reflects his priority to use this as a tool to strengthen relationships between evaluators and educators school committee members have been extremely impressed with not only the way superintendent failand has worked to accomplish this goal but also the fact that the burdens for both teachers and evaluators superintend tended fail and listen to the feedback from the b e a and it's crafted a goal that will not only improve the way the teachers are evaluated and damani but hopefully free up time for both teachers and evaluators to avoid paperwork and focus on the real work of teaching and supporting students that work with the be a on this issue is to  this important work is still ongoing and reflects an exemplary vision effort and humility it's terrific to learn that the work was received well tress feel stronger and proved and the work load feels more meaningful for the required tasks and meaningful so we also looked at the three standards and the few comments that i got for instructional leadership the focus on s c l and c r t has been commendable in the manner in which these goals have been supportive and especially excellent management an operations efforts to contribute to the recruitment of a diverse staff and learning about what their egos and obstacles there were commendable superintendent failings work on the school budget has been excellent his fist he is fiscally conservative and his requests for additional funding are always very clear he is extremely effective at communicating these issues to town meeting on the slack board for family to be in need gauge meant standard number three work on planning the start school later initiative at the high school as well managing the great example over for responding to family concerns engaging the community on the topic of the ice rink was also well managed superintendent feelings work on start times ice rink and after school care are to be commended and professional culture the comment proficient exemplary superintendent failing as had another successful year with excellent work on the ball high school building committee start times the budget ice rink and teacher evaluations a lot he said an aggressive list of actions and shown exceptional leadership in managing the budget to ensure st and foremost so does is sure that the district manages its resources wisely wisely and is able to meet its financial obligations today as well as to be best prepared to be meeting them in the future superintendent failing to prioritise his communication the relationship building he makes himself available for one on one discussions with parents and community members and generally learns from those conversations one example is openness to enter into dialogue on the challenges that some parents are experiencing with aftercare options well aftercare is not a service that is directly responsible for when it became clear that a group of parents were upset he met with various stakeholders considered their perspectives and main changes to ensure an increase in the number of students or superintendent pilin has also excelled at the tricky balance of prior to it ties in the district school one is a small district relative to other districts in the state and it's particularly lean in that central office staffing relative to other small districts because of this is essential that found months superintendent manages priorities to ensure that the most critical tasks get done and done well off acquiring a firm posture to withstand the pull from various stakeholders and to prioritize on their own child's interests or needs superintendent failing to study has kept his focus on and guided this can school committee to keep its focus on the goal because superintendent failing is such a competent leader and belmont is a relatively small district it seems nd nature it seems nd nature for him to take on the leadership and decision making for a vast array of initiatives as a new high school project ramps up and takes an increased amount of attention a time it would be great to see superintendent fail and identify other leaders and empower them to lead some of the new initiatives this should allow the district to accomplish more than one human being even and exceptionally talented want like superintendent failand is able to  community members to ensure the belmont takes full advantage of all the educational opportunities that the new building will provide such as new ways to use technology expanded project based learning options and new opportunities to build social emotional skills so thank you very much for all of that and that's just a compilation of all the amazing comments and feedback that the school committee provided thank you i would only say that that every every paragraph has  yes i just want to make a quick comment about the process of it and you mentioned at the beginning that i mean i think me asked for there to be a spot to give feedback on the four standards and i think this is maybe something they can discuss that are treat in the summer or something like that but i just wanted to mention for the record that i think because of my experience in the evaluation system as a teacher which follows all the same you know same things of the superintendent system with the you know for standards and things like that the description of each standard  slightly different but it's the same four categories i do think it would be a good thing for us to have moved further discussion on in the future because i think those four standards like having a discussion about those and including comments about them is an important thing and this is not at all personal to superintend and failing but i think the way the process was designed is that the educators or the leaders or whoever picks their holes and work on those goals and are all supposed to get evaluated consistently across the state every single educator every single leader on these four objective standards and i feel that there is value in doing and again not at all personal regardless of the evaluations about i think that that there's value to that said superintendent of schools and there's these general standards that everyone gets evaluated against so say that i would love for us to further discuss that in the future if not everyone is on the same page about them having value i think there's at least space to have them about that in the future i just wanted to give that because of what was produced to just live everybody is aware of what came back and you know i think it's totally fine and i also think it's not exactly a level playing field between committee members that i've been a part of the system for i don't know how many years it's been in existence maybe eight years or six years or something but so i've had is sort of extraordinary so just hearing that you didn't reach that on and one of your goals is quite quite impressive and i think for those who are sort of less familiar with the ratings  e same thing and sort of having that tool of the standard makes that so apparent when you thought of glee so i appreciate the template in a way because it helps me capture more information thursday of last week regarding the rake in the potential for a public private partnership that was posted as a dual meeting and we probably had a good thirty five or forty people there this was the follow up meeting to the one that we had in february w becoming to the end of its useful life and we want to talk about the school committee table in the school committee of the four sort of had a great conversation last thursday in this was hopefully going to be a continuation of that conversation and then potentially a decision that we are  just regarding whether or not we want to pursue the thought of the process of a public private partnership kind of stopping there or not worrying about the other pieces until we come to some sort of an understanding of whether or not this pa private partnership so so i'm supportive and and if at the end of the day we we we may find that we can't meet most of our needs in our most critical me and i'm going down this path exploring the how public private partnership we have to i think we have to do that and i think that is of the i think you said which is that we have to explore that option and we have to be prepared to say no  possibility of this no cost option and that we can say no and that was a helpful way to frame it for me because i along with i think most people that we didn't have any rank but  given the amount of money the taxpayers have just laid out for them in schools and also given what's coming across the town in terms of needs and do you think that it's nice to explore whether we can solve this i agree with everything that's been said so i won't repeat it i think you know clearly just to add that it's important to continue to hear community members be back in input on what's important to them and i appreciated all of the folks who spoke on last thursday sort of acknowledging that this is complicated has some risks involved and a lot of the details have to be figured out and i think would tomorrow and tomorrow night we will be taking a similar boat to the next step in the process it would be great if we could get a similar boat here and then once that was complete would like to just talk about  meeting in two weeks or we'll come back to you again with another request i'd like to provide a bit of context for that but what you perceive with this vote and we can come back to that we have a motion to move forward with the concept  a the great discussion and dialogue that we had on both sides of the table but the goal here is to provide enough guidance to go in the next couple weeks and provide enough guidance to the town administrators office that they can begin the  process and what that group has identified they really need at this stage and there will be many questions to be answered but they really need at this stage is one that was just taken just now by the school committee and we have to do a similar vote by the the board select minutes like board tomorrow night and that's to acknowledge the town would like to explore actively public private partnership the nd is that we need to provide some guidance as to location and as to size in size to be framed a writers with that in mind knowing this will be doesn't mean over the over the summer the hope was to get back in front of this group in two weeks and ask for some guidance and sort of a vote in providing direction there with that in mind i guess the question i would have to have for this group is we don't have a lot of time but are there some specific things that folks would like to see or hear or investigate in the time that between now and then that would help inform them that that conversation if so be great to hear that now we can see what can be accomplished in the short timeframe yes and i've asked this question three or four different times three or four different audiences three or four different ways including they asked  last meeting i still don't really feel one hundred per cent like the answer is clear about whether there can be the how she or whatever on in but i also feel compelled to know the steward of the school property and feel that we're talking about losing face to have a little bit of a more clear answer to how much more money are we talking about design i do wonder though if we can get some high level sort of guidance from folks who have done this in in this in the past are engineering ready estimates that would provide ranges to at least help inform them so i again we can see what we can accomplish in the next two weeks i don't know what can be done but we can at least endeavor to provide some more color on that because it's a very reasonable and yeah i've had several conversations with different municipalities over the course of the last couple of conversations with people on cape with some developers that are doing projects within the area right now to try to get a sense of you know the sheet plus the sheet and a half there's nothing that i've stumbled across where they've actually put a nd sheet above and any of the recent projects with what they've done the big driver in the additional space really is just for them to be able to recover costs for the initial capital investment so i can continue to look and see if i can find something out there but it could create a situation where it's cost prohibitive for someone to even bid on it i think the way different requests for proposals could be structured sure i mean there may be ways to frame it that we have to explore this where we you know we're stipulate through the r p process a number of criteria in which we evaluate things and the number of approaches we would like the potential applicants to take maybe one is we can say we would look to agree yeah i guess so in terms of the location i guess it would be helpful maybe to talk a little more about sort of what i know we've seen some options are those the options that are still on the table and just to sort of know what to expect as well as i think any additional details not this really tonight about sort of the consequences of different locations particularly from the st the district in the design and the feel space to sort of minimize i guess from the school committee perspective that in impact that would have been on field space and and other aspects of i  guess the construction as well but also just sort of getting more of a handle on some of the pros and cons understand there may be other non school community in town factors as well which would also like to understand i think to you know where would you like to see it go and what it really comes down to is we really want to rink because we know we need one for the town for this student athletes as well as a community and we also know that we'd like to preserve the j v baseball field the j v softball to the soccer field so the best location for me is wherever that creative person can come to us and deliver a rink whether it's stacked over there it's a one sheet or sheet in half with the amount of parking we need and keep the fields so i in my head i ought to and i'm not a creative person so i say we'll just pocket behind the mobile station and call it a day and we'll work it out but i would want to be able to give the r p the  the person reading the r p clear guidance that these are expectations for up comes and let's let you didn't around with how you think that the the the landscape of the the campus should look in order to come with that that ultimate outcome we would like to keep all those fields in place those fields are owned by the work of the building community so once we decide that we can then interact with them in the end of how that may look at the result of both of those projects going forward so i'm not as davis had that this is our joint i just want to make sure i was saying things that he was coming to with and he gave me his feedback and that that would be our st goal is to keep the field to have the right and that's a tall order because i think that the sketches that  thought they were very interesting and i think it gave us the real insight as to this is possible but the devil is in the details and feet come down inches and it just comes down to whether things can work in our i think that's where our goals of providing an r p that have those expectations in them will then dictate what responses we get and then the nitty gritty will start to come out and whether it actually can be completed with that so those would be my that's my feedback on that location in the sizes one and a half we can do it as long as you  orientation of your baseball field is very important from where the sun rises and when the sun sets because of pitching in a batting advantage to it so we're really going to have i said to jim can you be flexible with that because that might be one of the things that we don't want to not have this project happen because but that might be one that we might say you know we can live with not an ideal setting of how the fields are related according to the sun which is really important that's not the varsity feel however that the deal breaker could be you know softball field or no baseball team you know they could be well you know that's just not worth it we don't we we might want to not go through this process so there's i think that the challenge that we will have as a group as we go through this process is then is this going for the community you know between the parking the traffic the orientation of the field how much i space we get do we get we even if there's a couple of clicks that add up to just doesn't make sense for us and it's a no if these clicks add up to this keeps making sense and we can we can see ourselves forgiving those aspects because we're getting this investment in the community of this asset for a period time and it's a yes but i don't think that that's that's a judgment as we go along in what we begin to put in the our p and then we assess  parameters you know we want to keep the fields we need so many parking spaces you go figure it out i think if we can do that yeah i think that is much the best and i think it's right maybe doable we'll have to work it through and i actually like  giving opportunities for creativity and flexibility into the process because odds are when someone really digs in they may find opportunities and we don't want to have over constrained it and say the one thing i would think we should all be careful about is if we do think there are things that are deal killer should make sure those are taking place because of what i think would be a shame as we go this whole process something is put forth and we come back and say well we don't like it because it's directly about in concord half if that is a deal killer we should probably say it can't be directly buying con them a couple of a few different options looking at that plan i never actually want to lump the building with other buildings that s logical but i can imagine they're obviously there's three different sort of six different solutions just looking at the maps we have you can appreciate says setting the parameters one thing that does stand out to me is the quantity of parking is different is the sketches that way that enables us to have more field space that that makes sense or tennis court or whatever it is but some thoughtfulness around what would be in that space as the design develops to push back the idea that ten years from now if we or fifteen years from now if we don't need as much parking is it natural today kept that parking and put a test court back in it has we designed it in such a way that that is a natural evolution as opposed to the altar and after agreed to of putting boyd to have on the site a budding the school and there are hocking spots that we have as part of the building program that where we have the white field houses currently because we're designing the school without the new rink in mind we're designing the school the campus with the reports of where it is currently so there are parking spots that we need to have a minimum amount in which to get that number from the building community that we should be aware of that we would like to see part of this process that can be shared that is going to be it has projected to be the student side so the students can park their walk across and keep the students out of that loop of where parents and students drop off and and we also have space for student parking on corporate out in the at the end of the design so i just want to be mindful of that when we start talking about number of parking spots we should consult with build out in the design team at the building to music if you have something that you can i will i will say that that issue is one i think we should come back to because there is this is prime real estate and how we're thinking about student students parking on campus and transportation needs i think it's an important conversation taking us back to this initial building process and how things are a little upside down with there not being any costs for students to park on campus not be getting any cost or if there is a cost it's very minimal as i understand it to staff in the visitors for pickup and drop off and buses we actually reduced a section of parking spots on the site that actually on the right hand side by hitting your field which would be right here at the right field of the new baseball field that they were not the the belmont building community nor the the the selecting nor the school committee it's actually the planning board so we have a couple of masters that we're trying to keep in mind as we bring this process through and that was pretty evident that they had a certain amount and they wanted a certain amount they wanted to plan for that plan to pick up a plan for drop off how buses came in and out what the circulation looked like and they are a accurate have already decided or have already walked all the almost all the way down the path of wanting students to park on carpet out and in that way field house parking lot as it's currently drawn and again it be nice to make those spots  an over on the field side on the rink side thoughtfully that in a way that if they did they were not needed in ten or fifteen years they could be recouped and repurposed in a meaningful way to your point in time point but that's something that i don't know if process which i think we've talked about in different forms and the other question i personally and having a sense of the business plan for i don't know where exactly that comes in our process but i think you know our public forum the other night the idea of completely relinquishing the entire building our liability is i think that yeah and to clarify you said you said business plan but i heard you partially talking about the construction and the kind of building design what level of oversight that we were a contribution we could make to that i recognize it would largely be at least a rd party entity would be executing very obviously they have to take into account planning board and other other restrictions but to what degree we have say in that and then i heard the other point which you made before and others have raised about what happens in the event that the entity that ultimately applies becomes insolvent or you know there are some things that don't go courting to the plate then you know what happens and how do we account for i don't think there was all that in two weeks but i do think that certainly has to be resolved prior to signing of the lease and our objective is that there is a draft lease that would cover most of these major issues provided alongside the thing which is not to say that the applicant couldn't come back and say hey i have to plan maybe september the public that are feeling it together over the summer there was a suggestion that we have some sort of maybe some committee of the school committee working group to help work on that and department and give input and then we're going to have an open public meeting about that to just talk about that to kill a piece of the process and that maybe even would go to town meeting perhaps there might be another meeting in between there to for yeah i mean i think there will be helpful five the next meeting in two weeks is to have an idea of what we would want and i'm not even sure if this is possible but you know maybe one of the renderings that is most suitable i guess to the school familiar is that the school committee feels it would be the best option based on what perkins and moe put together  flexibility to get creative in terms of finding them so i'm not sure if that's doing well but you know we can certainly look into that and come back at the next meeting but maybe we can look at one of desire as a community is to be very firm about the fact that perhaps the half sheet if it were to get built would be converted into batting cages in the summer and that was something that we thought was critical to the program whether or not the academic program where the schools program where the recreation program we should probably be stipulated is i would factor into the business again if we're open minded and we say we you know we would encourage alternative uses for the half sheet in the summer and would like to see it properly utilized you know we can leave it rink in a town that's always had one and has not been used to paying the bill to have the children skate and do all those things is this huge the one of the drawbacks that i see they only want to be honest and say that a lot of the time we have this conversation is that we are already creating a new area around concord out that makes it difficult for us to now things to be able to maintain their programming for the next two years and in jim davis and i talked about this today that and we're very fully aware that if in fact this goes through and we get everything we want and someone visiting they can site work in you know spring of twenty summer of twenty whatever that date is this go be a period of time we're going to be without some of the precious fields that we have that we're leaning on very heavily to be able to make all of our programming work so that's not a stopper because we're actually going through this process but it is something that we should all as a community understand that we're going to experience some challenges for our athletic programs over the next two years regardless of the rate and that would just further complicate the need to find other fields and find other spaces for us students  to play soccer softball about baseball across rugby on and you know at one point when we were talking about this whole process what a year ago we all assumed would rather just close down car going to have all together for two years and make it all go away and then just move into you know fields that are ready to go but that that's just something consider we are you know wounding our ability to you know we have a sprained ankle on our left leg and now we're looking to sprain he play in so that that's just part of the conversation we should be proactive and let people know like we have been with the other parts of the i thought it challenges there will be challenges for the next two years you know we're going to swim somewhere else we might play baseball games somewhere recommendation and what we're deciding on location is something a little more specific than a broader area i think i've heard joint say so they could actually put it up but you know i mean i don't have experience building rinks in full disclosure i don't know if any of you thought that i did but i know sometimes where playgrounds installed or something along those lines you might want types of equipment within it and then you'll turn around and say this equipment because you know what it is or alternative that was kind of how i was thinking in my head you want these elements of baseball field softball field multipurpose field within the space i think it just gives them something to visually look at and then they don't have to use that but we want all these elements and it might be a starting point for them  if the group as a whole here is the nd in arranging agreement maybe it's you know this one in this one seem to be the ones that are closest to what we would envision you don't have to hear that but that and when we'll come back in preparation for the conversation in two weeks with some more information about what is specifically required where we think is required but i think the feedback that the greater the flexibility we can offer that sounds like that's something that this group where the parking is relative to the building where the field so i don't think and i think an architecture planner would look at those as a constraint but as helpful information to to shape the proposal curious to know how many spots i mean i know there are lines but like when it's fully parked up how many cars can park in there because that i guess is good information to know in all these different ideas we're thinking about about how many would encourage us again as we go through this process of we do know there are things that we just don't don't see as negotiable those should be in the art of peace it would be a real shame to have someone go through the time the effort the cost in applying and responding to the  only to have us tonight for something that we could have known in advance was not work with us yeah i agree with the members all over the next two weeks so that it was a very just clear by so about the location specifically and i agree with you that generally as well but i just meant in terms of anything else that we  ice time for our use programming which is not our purview but the times your view and one of the things that we haven't talked about is just the safety of the in and out how how the how the driveway and the actual car get out of it getting to the  parking getting to the site interact with the safety of the campus of the of the folks who were there during the day so i and i know that that will come up in our community conversations soon but you know how does it interact with the campus overall and how does the parking in the the access of programming element in terms of the youth organization as well the recreation commission at their meeting next tuesday night we'll be discussing this as well to try to look at the program moments in terms of what should be in to learn to skate programs you know public skate yeah so mike my question is if we're willing to do some sort of broad area for the location hearing questions on are things that will be considered down the road the are people roscius not necessarily specific to this to me the location is kind of broad area unless we want to say put it behind the gas station or put it and not give them right right and what area of the of the campus are we willing to consider placing a ring so the question would be and the answer could be we're willing to put the right somewhere we couldn't go with a season without a race car could but i think those are the things that we were i think we should make sure we're stipulating if they really are not there so so be you know built adjacent to or not in place of the current week think those are the key things that would be good to get some level of where i am now to your point is i'm not sure a lot going to change in the next few weeks this is the devil is in the details a little bit this may have to be an editor process the idea that there would be some form of working committee that would you know engage periodically over the course of the summer in collaboration ready with community development that's writing this you know john's work that might be a way some of the stuff has to get resolved if there are clearly articulated non think the conversation we had there is still there on the eve of the st part of the rank and then the weekend to think about it you'll get a very clean vote tonight because people talked discussed thought about it a little bit and were able to come today feeling pretty settled about what they thought it may be that you want to have the vote on the th because it will give everybody a chance to digest what we're talking about tonight and in the conversation might not change but it gives people a chance to be reflective and thoughtful and maybe a couple more questions might pop up but at least then you'll have a chance to have been reflective about it and it's a ten minute i generate a minute to ten minute generator and i'm supportive of that too because i'm cognizant of the fact that the folks that actually have got more experience writing these things than certainly we do are not actually at this table and i'd like to be able to circle back with glenn that to even make sure that you know whether or not it's legal or procedure or just standard practice that we have those little those requests in front of this group to sort of  i think just the one thing that i would want everyone to want the school committee to consider in the size of the ring is i believe in order to make this work whoever comes and put the somebody cares to switch from one to the other so you have in your packet a power point that i showed tonight and we also received an e mail from a member crowley as well as jim gamble jim is the don't want a resident who is our school committee person on the minuteman board and he gave us some updated figures as well the reason why we're talking about minuteman is that tomorrow night at tom meeting former board chair dash asked me to meet with the superintendent of minutemen to talk about whether or not it made sense for us to discuss with in any kind of pathway back to member status or to the town want to just stay as a nonmember so i was going to walk you through this presentation this was not supposed to be a presentation  time meeting was supposed to be a report out but i felt like i needed some words and slides to help describe so i'm practicing tonight and you can let me know how i do and then you can give me my grade and i can study tonight and get ready for tomorrow night but in essence this is just  h to talk about this subject one last time in preparation for the fall where tom meeting is going to have to decide whether or not they want to move forward with and the ten year conversation about returning as a member if it is available and what would that look capital cost of the building of a new school as well as if i remember correctly some other aspects of being a regional member that didn't feel comfortable to the time leadership at the time like person dash said you know why we're going to go through this again if nothing's changed people didn't want to be in it we have given updates of the last couple of tommy things let's find out if anything has changed in a couple of things have changed is th still intuition gap between the member cost of the number of cost well yes the risk but over the last couple of years that gap has become smaller because the state gave minutemen permission to charge nonmember districts a capital feat in the capital fees associated with the building of the new school so if the gap before was say twelve thousand dollars between what a member would pay and what a nonmember pay that may be has grown a little smaller to say a seven or eight thousand dollars gap between a member of the other issue was and as we withdrew and six other members did we thought that the enrollment would always be lower than the capacity and that we would always have room to go to it and the last few years of enrollment have given us the evidence that you know i don't think i ever got to get at the capacity so we'll always have room so why would we have to be a member to assure us seats and pay an extra or ten thousand dollars per student why couldn't we just remain as nonmembers paid ten thousand dollars less because it looks like we always have room what has changed since then and we gave you a supplemental document is that they are experiencing a very large freshman class and they do it to support their moments go up if the trend follows with the current freshman class with ones that come after that so the data shows i think we you have two sheets in front of you seventeen from belmont nine from watertown eleven from the six declan towns that left in two thousand and seventeen this one hundred and seventy five total from the seventeen natural constituent times i shouldn't read this because i don't know if i understand what  guess the reason why i brought the stater up or why jim asked me to bring it up was to show that we had been comfortable with the low in roman number our experience alone roman number which gave us the idea that capacity would be available which would lead us to be non members from a financial perspective and now having one hundred and twenty eight dollars students declare that they would like to be freshman next year from a variety of those towns would give us maybe some more urgency that maybe that a roman pitcher shifting to one that could be capacity filling sooner than we thought in the present postcards one moment in the presentation that we presented that jim did with the task force of intense task force that's online and i do have a copy of it and we can make it acceptances to translate into next year's freshman class for which we won't actually have the official data until october but for comparison this year's freshman class was one hundred and twenty two so zeina roman number is the number of students that they build the school to which means if you have a certain amount of students at home and in certain classes at the beginning of the day that's how the defining moment designed in roman capacity is more than that because when you start your day you move into all these different spaces and you have different ways of your schedule moving your students through and your your capacity is usually larger than that i asked that question of the superintendent  n he he really didn't give me a hard number only to say that it was somewhere in the high seven hundred s so my next question was well are you going to use designed in roman to create a waiting list for members  members are you going to use that capacity to determine whether or not you had space available for non members etc and i don't think that he has gotten that far and how he's approaching that work but that is a that is a question mark that we that that's want to add that i hesitate to say numbers i don't know what that number is but i do believe somewhere in the seven hundred s that he does what he said i'm actually going to have my notes in front of me for my conversation with him on may th one thing that could seven hundred and fifty is what he said  one thing that could be good i don't know if it's possible to get this summer but i do remember from the original conversation in town meeting him when he bowed to the district is the didn't roll the capacity of the old building i think was quite a bit larger by several one hundred students and so at the time they were substantially under and roll and there literally seemed like no possible consequence to leaving the district like there would be no way that they would max their capacity but with the smaller passerby of the new building i think it would be important for a town meeting to understand that that is a thing that's changed that there used to be this report in it what our goal is at the end is to give more through mission work with jim gamble get the exact numbers discuss the potential pathways what those past pathways would look like legally in functionally to be thinking about one is trying to pass to one which may not reflect what they can actually squeeze on in terms of numbers of students and there's the operational capacity but there's another sort of near term capacity issue that they can't they can't necessarily ramp up so if they're experiencing big big demand on on if the experiencing a big increase in applications they may have an operational limb in terms of the amount of hiring they can do to to adjust to enrollment in any particular year  so so so for example i think i think they decided that their their their freshman class in rome and you know is going to be somewhere somewhere around this level i'm not i'm not being clear big because to go higher than that even though there may be capacity in the facility to go higher than that in terms of going to roll meant that there's also the issue of how many people have to be hired to meet back kind of demand and whether it's reasonable and whether they can reasonably do that kind of hiring and make those kinds of adjustments within the course of several months a b how do you scale up to that level of new to have the essentials the bread and butter positions to matter what your role is so when you only have four hundred students you still need more folks than you because you need to have enough to have capacity of your staff as well so i agree there is a scaling up that they have to determine members tools and we become a nonmember so we could get squeezed out we could get squeezed out in terms of our students being able to attend minuteman  that sort of them though the physical capacity of the school how many students they can physically absorb but also in terms of the scaling capacity and so they both present  agree and i think that that's going to be his determination it mean that that's certainly not i would assume that's nobody's calling any district do it while you have to serve to support the students he's going to he's going to have to explain to a school committee what he can scale up to what that number is at certain p  the enrolment is a concern it is a significant variable for the decision as it couldn't impact future access to the school but almost students on a variety of levels to have a problem why are we discussing this our e reenter as members we bring this your attention now is time meeting to be asked to take a position on this issue in the fall of two thousand and six and then i want to give everybody the link to the report so there's something is definitely more data in the report  that folks could go back to if they so choose some or the temple or so i believe right now in the district jim gamble is probably the one of the more knowledgeable folks about the agreement watch conversation will happen in the fall this is to make sure that we keep this discussion of this topic on the front burner of our time meeting membership and allows us to do some work over the summer and come back with this information to school committee in the fall and then  four greats was somewhere hovering between twenty two and twenty eight it's always that high twenty's number for the whole to be divided up by four you know that's eighty nine students are great so seventeen is significant  if it's that if there is but that's double the amount of usual freshman that that was the case i think that you know so so decide to do it's also our enrollment is increasing and therefore simply as a question i have related to this which may be in progress is i recalled in our subcommittee meetings a sense of the office is a changing landscape of vocational education that there is another other buildings very serious about offering some as well into a partnering with with walt who we obviously have a great program where over medford we have a good program became our traditional latin that we've already talked to those folks so  have to really impact this there's a lot of other variables you know one of the reasons and that's why to put to go back and read the the original report despite the fact that those other schools have good programs when we think of our group as a cohort one of the things and tony was a member of this group that really spoke to believe me it was the fact that we had one consistent program delivery that we can say here's all the venue of our friends that you have here and all of our students would go together and there was a consistency about that that people felt comfortable with which goes along with having students feel comfortable that if i don't go to bum one i can go there and i know with their their wrists if we did have a situation where we use different schools i'd have to figure out what the cambridge offer versus what that method offered us you know something so that the consistency of that was it was a really big deal and one of the other parts of this i want people to think about and this is a fall conversation we have building a brand new school  we're designing robotics labs physics labs technology labs drama workshops where they cut build sets it's certainly not a book ational school setting but it is a place where students will be able to learn by doing and we're also moving towards the things you hearing tonight where students are also learning by creating their own ways of demonstrating learning so i i never would say that those things are replace a vocational setting because vocational settings really cook those skills all the way through for those who really want to go see plumbing or really want to seek electrical those folks even to be with their job right through that this is a significant experience again but i think that we're going to be able to offer things that will maybe marginally pull some students over and having a raise great in the same building that seeing those rooms in use may reduce our numbers however if our numbers go from seventeen st really back to nine those so nine students that want that that opportunity and we have the obligation by law to provide them a solid in consistent access to good opportunities so i guess the numbers don't matter but i think to some people the numbers force recommended minutemen because of that reason not because they didn't have individually quality programs within the school but they were as comprehensive it wasn't a one stop shopping place that all of our kids would go to as a as a col such an important issue making sure they  that i just had a question about the government's yeah and so that was a little confusing in the summary so there's the st two sentences of the governance section and there's a reference to the the state also has a representative that has to be a voting member so they appoint somebody a staff member who's who used to sit on the board as a voting member and a change was made where that that spot that seat committee but one high school building committee has a meeting tomorrow morning at seven thirty am the the work has been continuing to move again  like amazing and it was the best part of the day we are starting mild construction on the tent with the fences will go up around the field and construction will start in earnest on  tuesday june th when school gets which would be the st day of summer for i don't want students i would like to thank jim davis and steve dorrance who have been working at all the salvaging of the things inside the gymnasium the field house and the pool that we're going to we're to clear those areas because some work will be done there over the summer tom brow in this in the in the high school administration for supporting all the work of what's going to happen over the summer in my quick ouster for housing the high school folks for the summer community development everybody is working hard to make sure that this contraction starts well at the end of the month and we're really really thankful to all of them they work they're all working really hard every every belmont time department is working so the community path update i have is that leslie are police on a has to step down so we need to either have one of us service liaison or go through the appointment process  it is something we need to add to that short to send a message to russ to find out where they are and what the need is for you know how are they going to be meeting the because i think they sent out  groups i mean i think now that the power site has been chosen we don't quite have so much input them i agree with andrea i think it would be helpful going to do it from russ to know what what the expectations i think mostly from what i understand has been a real asset to the job she was to one person with  sense for us what what the next year looks like for instance in terms of the work find out where we are and get a good sense of what we want to do as a community and any thank steve for his work and then leave the work to tony and glen to use the format and use a spreadsheet as a basis of how we want to make projections measures and improvements on school st orchard street and gordon street and so they're presenting a draft of those elements such as you know for the for us him it's important how the public gets to use those as they might have some implications for other areas that serve the schools directly and what they choose  looking for a vote to support the troops so we have to do one for the time open up to discussion of people have questions or should we have a