evening everybody i'd like to welcome you on a snowy april fourth crazy as that is to the regular meeting of the school committee the town of foxborough we've got a an agenda that will go through in just a minute but i think perhaps the most appropriate way to start tonight's meeting we canceled our last meeting as a school committee in respect to the passing and loss of joe heinrich or our one of our two assistant principals here at the high school so since this is our first gathering as a committee since joe's passing i thought maybe we could just take a moment of silence in honor of joe services were today so we'll take a moment for susan anderson as well just about anybody could just speaking on behalf of our employee joe you know i think i think he touched so many people in his many many years here at the school system i'm so proud of  for him of his legacy i'm so proud of how the community responded mrs myers paklin and miss sylvia setting the tone here at the high school for the last they've had in this community our students t football team and the rest of the students and really the the services for joe were so special i really want to commend those who spoke in his memory and former principal laney was there one of the speakers jack martin ellie our football coach others it was so touching and the only way that i can think positively about the sudden passing is to think that joe did one final lesson in in life for his students and for all of us and that's to show us how precious life is and how to how to make a difference while you're here so i know the communities and healing i don't want to go a lot deeper into it but i just feel it's appropriate and i do want to mention the committee thanks janet for sharing this with us that the fox o school committee did receive a note the family of joseph a heinrich or wishes to thank you for your kindness and sympathy at a time when it was deeply appreciated and a handwritten note from sharon his wife thank you for the beautiful flowers and support sharon and family  so we're remembering joe and susan anderson tonight and thank you for along going to take a moment just to do that and i don't want to make a comment before i move on or i think our students i couldn't be more proud of them it's really difficult and it was a shocking and sudden death so i couldn't be more proud of them and our staff the high school who all pull together to get through this but you know you started with saying this is a special community and i think i would be remiss if i didn't thank association five members of the clergy step forward with a very early morning call and showed up at the high school early that morning to see whatever informal ways they could support their students whether they attended their their church of their religious pastor derek white from the bethany church so i think that's another example of what a wonderful community we have to you know when call they'll come together as a community to support our kids and you know so i want to make sure i think them and are in the volunteer about three hundred fifty of our high school students to bethany church just not that large so three it least three hundred fifty of our high school students who are over to your family right next door and i also want to thank bill cunning heard will approve some minutes our teaching and learning highlight follows which will be another visit from our folks from high school our school advocates we have some overnight travel we have to approve for mr mccabe and his deca team several individuals who qualified for the nationals which is fantastic we have a textbook adoption for a c p calculus course we will hear about breaking the cycle of poverty one meal at a time  policy manual and then we'll take up other matters so with that are there any visitors who aren't already on the agenda who wish to be heard ok thank you seeing none we have two sets of minutes we need to take up from the last time we met and did this the first is the executive said meeting minutes for february twenty second which was when the committee went into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiation strategies with union personnel specifically the maintenance workers association favor ok and can we also just get a motion to release those executive session minutes to make a motion to really any further discussion in favor five zero thank you ok in the second set of the regular meeting minutes from our township commerce donation we say the public presentation was previously of the previously except the donation was cancelled maybe just say due to the speaker's inability to well know with us or it was only a miscommunication c here and some of our school students yes come right up to our business table so while they're getting ready as you know i school advocates were in the second year of school advocate program where we have a cohort of students who in its second year here at its efficacy and we are not just a program about technology we are a program about leadership and facilitating change while leveraging the power of technology and these students to do an excellent job with that  they have researched they have conducted surveys they have contributed questions to both our staff and student technology survey they have worked on b y o d they have created video channels and they have  d in professional development and just a tremendous amount of work this year and i'm going with them highlight some of their projects we're going to start with math q this is how the kids started their year they present with travis allen the founder of the school advocates program and ask you are stuck technology conference they were able to attend both on wednesday and thursday and not only did they present just a great job a panel discussion on the program but they also got to visit the vendors they were sessions and really what they came back with was all the possibility of what was out there but they really didn't and what the point of it is is to encourage students to bring in devices not just phones also laptops and other devices that are bigger and it's going to encourage them to be able to use those piece of technology more in the classroom  we collaborated with a senior in class and we designed this sticker that you see on the screen and what we plan on doing with that is really going to print out stickers that we're going to put on like costume doors or windows that are going to show that the costume is be a y o t friendly and that it is ok to take your device if it's appropriate for the situation and as long as it follows what the teacher is allowing at that moment and really we just are trying to push this because we know that these bigger devices really have like definitely much broader use than just social media or things like that they can really be used for academics as well major issue that a lot of teachers  using technology in the classroom as they don't really know if the students are using it for academic purposes or if they're just goofing off and with these bigger screens it's easier to tell if they're on top going on not only that but it's also easier to co with other students and with teachers with programs such as office two sixty five and it's also easier to organize your costume and your workload so that it's not just papers everywhere and we can really move forward say in where all of the students and all the staff of the school can go if they have any technological issues it's basically a place that is going to be where you can get help for technology other than just always going to the top department we have multiple tabs on the technology website for example we have the home screen which is what's just played there we also have an f a q which include questions  lots of students have such as how to download office for your house how to log into your student e mail an office is five other things like that we also have an about us page and  other pages such as such as our help page and on our help page our student i school advocate e mail which is a place where not just students but teachers too if they have issues with technology can go and they can e mail us using their school supplied office you see five e mail and we're going to try and look at that every seventy two hours depending on our schedule since this is a student run program and we're going to use that to just help spread like the message about technology and help people with any issues that they might have or training team or as a group of high school have kids that go to professional development professional developments are where teachers get help to use technology and help them discover new ways to teach lessons using the technology and we provide tech support and student insight to help them create their lessons and a lot of teachers had positive feedback about our help during them and another part of our website is our videos we call these videos is to have a wide range of help beyond our f a q which are is our frequently asked questions our solution was to make quick videos on various topics and how we do this is everyone in the i school have kids program an ability to make videos on various topics they choose and hopefully if everyone contributes to this we will have a lot of videos on every  a video conference that talked about kind of where we were getting stuck you know where have to get g p s on the buses what their vendors were how they managed it and they also important to us that a lot of the coding that they use for the application is open source so it is available for everyone so those are both really great resources that they're sending to us for our team to look further into but it's not only really help caitlin and her team in the whole group but it's also sparked an interest in and they have been working steadily to complete their projects and they're about ninety five percent through at this point for the year you know really accomplished a tremendous amount of short period of time and they're already planning for next year like i said they have the idea of the that they would like to produce they also have top that expanding their web site and their video series into an actual run student help desk that would have ours here in the media center so they have lots of ideas and they have really funded so incredibly well and when our district technology plan ends and really make themselves an informed roll and really helping us to integrate technology throughout the system that's for sure thank you do you have any questions we always have to follow whatever the students visualize and not worry that we didn't know exactly what we wanted to do just say our vision is just to put kids can do in what you want to do and where you think you can contribute and i'll tell you it's far beyond what i thought but when you saw the different vendors when you went to your when you went to the seven when you went to the convention what type of technology that you saw you think we might need to stretch to look into down the road for you that that you think is a great fit that's absent and you know it to be too specific to sort of be high level but like these you know like google sticks or smaller be what you know b y o d everybody thinks of an i pad braid or a laptop but like you've been with us longer i'm sure that you know we can certainly get back with you on that ok that's fine thank you well let me expand on the students question is right thing you guys have seen that we could could provide with you provide for you that would be helpful i think maybe like expanding on the technology we're to  do have instead of trying to always find new technology to improve upon what we have so we don't have to increase my budgets and things like that like just finding new ways to use phones and what people already bring to school laptops bring more laptops and more tablets just things people already have to make use of those in our education i think would be a big part we're born wanting to achieve our apps are there apps out there will that you've seen for example or could you could you canvas the app portfolio out there and come up with things appears on up called coo which is really fun every class has really fun with this is a quiz out where you just go through and quizzes all the students every scene can connect with their phone and do the quizzes and it really helps with education you're taking like a quiz you're practicing but things what percentage of the classrooms are really using the b y o d i know we have capability throughout the building but you know in your experience when you're looking into the b way o day what do you think we actually did take data on then and we found that at least with me when i took the data there were not that many students using technology at least not for academic purposes like i'd see people using their phones but it was never really for like something academic correlated to what's going on the cost so when they do when they spent with teachers about this and they went through some of the informal survey process what they discovered was that simpler was going to be better that essentially teachers already do that in a lot of cases with phones and they essentially tell the kids you know when it is a day that you know their fans can be acceptable for use and when it's not and they said you know they're kind of army to that process so they're going to stick with it that way like i said you know if you come in and you kind of know but the stickers going in the window was born out of their idea because they told us one of the problems with the b was d program and what the reasons that they were very long was that they didn't know when they could use it so if they were carrying in a backpack all day i might be having the extra weight feedback now or down the line on your immersed experiences with etiquette and proper use of the technology you alluded to it at the beginning we said you know where people are and if you w using the system tools for what they shouldn't be using them for but you know you made a nice video there right how to quick easy to understand easy to implement but maybe there should be some you know approved  work with faculty to come up with an etiquette program on how to properly use this equipment to have the teachers be able to teach and not have to keep watching and seeing who's you know doing something off the grid and it would be interesting to hear what you folks have down the line from of the you know even our student reps about when the stuff's being used and whether to be used drugs or how to optimally use it with propriety have you seen any kind out their phones and like the teachers will just assume that they're doing something academic related to the last thing and they're really just like going on social media or doing something not related at all to what they're doing so like that's definitely an issue that we want to deal with and that's what's going to help with like the larger screens is that it's not just going to make it easier for like collaboration and things like that but it's also going to make it easier to know if students off top score on t backing up on that some of our medical technology that we have actually has lighting systems on the front so the teacher can see based upon the lights if it's on the network it's the wireless so you can tell where they team to do that much has been mostly classroom focused it's classroom focused but this time has been involved with us especially in the beginning when they're doing their projects so he kind of he helps them to see you know where we are how they fit and what technology is needed because lots of times there's questions you know about visibility you know what we can and cannot do a project last year that they would really like to have been able to push and where the television was all over the school for announcements but the feasibility of that a malady was not there so he is involved with them especially early on in their projects well i'll give you two more ideas that we've talked to him about that may or may not be appropriate for you guys to engage in but they might be and or at least offering a student perspective one is the functional schools website we've talked at the stable about how to make it more of a living breathing changing a valving active engaging site and i don't know he's probably in process on that but maybe you can give him a student perspective as well as one idea second idea is our athletic department we've talked about how it's hard and for those students who are in the room or parents watching or you know sometimes it's hard to keep up with where is the right site for a change in a in an event or a field or a and what's the right communication strategy because there are distribution lists there are texts phone text distribution lists there's all sorts of communication vehicles and it's getting hard at times to know where what's the right source of truth so those are two challenges that i know mr highers been talking to us a bit about and i bet they would welcome you guys to say his or anything we can do just to help on those projects the first one i think is they said  aaron's research into platform entire new platform for a website i think once he resolved that i think of course we have so much talent in our students would be great to leverage and we just keep them just a little busier i don't know how impossible i think so once once we get past that point that would be a great thing to do it would be nice when you're into researching the new platform if there is some way we could file more of our forms electronically the school nurse form i'm going to actually let them speak but this was really an extension of the overnight travel that first started out with our students doing so well at the regional level that our students were headed to boston and that was an overnight and that was an incredible experience i my partner can see anderson i actually compete at the states competition and we compete in travel and tourism team decision making and we got third place on our second role play and we also i think there were thirty people in our category and we also play six overall and because the top five qualifiers go to compete in nationals but one of the top five teams couldn't make it so they asked if we want  compete so right we're headed to compete at the national competition national if it gets pretty great congratulations you also had also qualify she finished and i think either fifth or sixth i you and i actually would like to publicly thank the patriots participation patriots and find out for their generous donation without which we probably shouldn't be going to this summit least it was not it more of a larger expense for the students so we are very appreciative of all they've done for us especially in this most recent donations yes it's a grant of seventy thousand dollars to support students from the parts for all time high school that had chapter participat gratitude once again accept with gratitude with much gratitude the partners in patriotism find donation of seven thousand dollars to support the fox for high school decca chapter trip to nashville tennessee and i personally would like to second question one question for me mr cave you're going so our thanks to you for rearranging your schedule because that's probably was not on your radar several months ago so thank you for that shouldn't be surprised because we're we're never surprised at how much you're going to accomplish but i think the greatest compliment perhaps and we come from your peers so i have a nephew that's in that another high school and he told me how amazing he thought the foxboro team was at the state de  and he was just in awe and when i don't think he realized it was our first year there so after he said hopedale so after he told me like we were like that it was amazing the facts were him like i couldn't believe how many words he was doing so well we were in our them into it my friends were up and they went they went last minute to go into another one of they had a great time and i said that was their first year of the decade and i almost florida because he had no idea so i think the best compliment comes when you say you win you amazing inspired said this before but i'm so pleased that we continue to bring new offerings like back up to this community and the fact of the success is just i guess the missing on the cake but you know we're so proud of the community and in of studies and we currently have forty nine students that have signed up for it and we are needed we are in need of textbooks we do not have enough of what we have currently to support those numbers so a couple of us in the department we went looking we we considered the a p text that we have we looked at the honors text that we have we didn't feel that either one of those were really appropriate for the college prep level students and so i have found one foundations of  sorry calculus with applications the applications are very important from pearson so i'm here to ask to have the money approved for that option so maybe you just take a minute to explain how you find those you know one when you find those are the come out trying to entice us with what they're latest and greatest and then i did some search on my own i know who some of the publishers are and i went and took a look at what they're offering a lot of the books are geared actually you know college courses they're not always all geared towards a high school level course and a lot of what i was finding were the a p textbooks so i had to do a little bit of searching to try to find something that i thought was going to be a better fit for the students that we have that are interested in the course so the book and i had this is relevant so look at it as well she's our a p calculus teacher and the other one in the department that it's really knowledgeable about the course and we went through and we looked we were looking specifically for the applications we looked at the order of the concepts as well it's a different order than what our current textbooks actually run and something that we were very happy she and i spent a lot of time sort of reordering the text that we currently have  we were very excited to see group projects for every chapter they were already incorporated and some extended application problems so maybe a little bit more hands on and the more theoretical calculus texts are out there for their students are going to be a math majors in engineers but you know more this will be more for the students who who need that background for some of the other majors and we can supply that with you know through these enriched activities we're very excited you know it's a it's a new it's a new book as to pearson so where we are very excited about so when i try to take a little piece sneak peek at a few things and there's not a lot of time left with the seniors but we will we want to try out a couple of things with the current group you know thinking just a couple with just a question you said you had forty nine students you're asking for forty books if you need any one of us to raise that number to forty nine all entertain a motion be happy and make a motion to purchase fifty five copies of calculus with applications in the amount of six thousand eight hundred eight and the department of education so we went on more about school breakfast programs as you know in a community like foxboro we don't necessarily have them built into what we do but i think every community is certainly experiencing the thought that maybe this could enhanced what we already do for students and maybe and in some places that it could be something we should consider so ellison's points really say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and educational extensive body of research has shown that offering breakfast at school can help struggling families reduce behavioral problems in absenteeism improve the child's diet and improve could improve academic achievement so i know that they have details about what they experience and what they learn but offer one of a couple of options we thought breakfast in the classroom had some merit and another model used at some other schools have physical activity followed by breakfast in the cafeteria so that's another option elson also was very interested in expanding the high school breakfast options which she actually is already working on herself it's not something that we have to adopt or do we already offer that more of a grab and go breakfast cart to kids as we know they obviously really get to high school very early so having some gr go options on board a cart in a more accessible location by the gym and you know front office whereas there as they're grabbing and going and then expand possibly the breakfast time which some high schools do they call it innovation cafe or be open all day for grab and go so she's already looked working on that and you should expect to see those changes being made as part of what we already do the breakfast program the i go would be a new program to create that would be interested in working with our school committee members and with our wellness committee on very instructive program it was interesting hear what other districts are doing about the issue of kids coming to school hungry and you know i think thinking about ways we can incorporate it into the you know piloted at the i go to school at the elementary level and also definitely of high school we have kids coming now we talked about how we have kids who come in for early jam and might not necessarily eat before gym class but might need something before they you know head off to first period and increasing our offerings in having them in different locations i think would be great over by the band room over by the gym you know there was something feasible and now that we have that you know that  they charge on their student number that would be pretty easy i think to work out you know grab and go cart kind of menu but it was very good program it was definitely worthwhile going i don't know what do you think now and i found i was more concerned about them proven that students work more efficiently and are able to pay better attention in the classroom if they have a full stomach and just makes sense but i am interested to hear what makes t and allison put together for the i go to school down pilot the largest school because if we can do it at the i go that we can do it in smaller schools so logistically it makes sense just to see if that's if we can do it there then the other two schools would be fairly easy the other thing is title one i mean let's put it this way fox was fairly just the same across the district but that is the money that we that is the school that we have federal funds going in there to try to one so it makes sense that if we would so both the size of the school and the slight difference in poverty levels it makes sense that if we're trying to pilot two i missed you mentioning the i go would be a pilot potentially for the other so that's great other questions from the committee you know the other one that i like and i like everything you said i love the idea of offering different locations here at the high school that both you and tina mention you know for a couple reasons first of all just you know we know the kids don't have a ton of time getting around a pretty big much on this because i'm sure you don't have elaborate plans to build a big snack stand that you know at different places but but you know when i really feel but we know we talk a lot about breaking down the walls of the classroom and in the school of more you know integrated environment and  think little things like that can i don't know much maybe melissa you have some thoughts on this topic but i just think they will things like that start to breaking up and making the whole the whole structure you know a learning environment so what are your thoughts overall to the topic well the food thing or really kind because like our teachers allows even class besides like obviously science classes and like when we're hungry honestly that's all we think about we're not going to we're not going to really pay attention if we're hungry and that's like if we have a snack like we eat our snack by like we're not making a ruckus or anything like that like we're eating and then i like help just like pay attention more it's like and if it was an expression different occasions because i know like every morning i'm always like running like i'm going to like be late to class or like you know i actually  like i might be a little like russia crunch on time and so i don't go into the cafe every morning like i go right through those gym doors and then i go it right to class like i don't so i'd be like coffee as always and to different locations and stuff like that because not everyone is acting the same way and i agree with what your point was like to try to integrate you know however you said it was very well put because i mean short of putting a dunkin drive through you know one school in the but do we have any data from teachers who indicate you know how many kids they think come to school hungry well you know i don't know i don't know that we need to because i think it depends on every day we we know we have kids either don't have time or they're not there early morning eaters i mean some of us might have been that way like you don't want to eat so early the morning when you're home but by the time you get in here first period might wish you had something with you so i think we know the market is  to her today of course selfishly we'd like to keep her she's a young woman and we'd like to keep her for as long as we possibly could her career but the days of young people keeping the same job for forty years doesn't exist anymore and you know she's been absolutely wonderful and we hope to find another allison i will say that right bill however her heart is his arch her heart is going what she charged to you find the other route the her heart is in what she was doing prior to coming to us which is helping other schools across the state ri systems that are touched by her and the children young people you know just a related topic that will stick in here versus the thing in other matters but you know there's continued talk about moving the start of the school day a little later you see that that the boston area schools started partnering good luck with the district sometimes well most districts because it would mean that have to change timing of afterschool activities and change your superintendent i spoke about this not that we have anything to preannounce here in this area but it's interesting to see that this topic is getting some momentum now the idea being that it's better research wise for students to start a little later in the day than quite at the hour that you start currently don't mind if as earlier i would mind if it's really here and i'm not active because like then we get out will be out earlier so like we'd be out earlier so i can after school activities we can be longer and we know all that kind of stuff but extending the sleep later in the morning so and i think that research is pretty solid i thought the boston globe article about it was spot on because the middlesex whatever they call them will sex the area superintendent it described how they realize that if their we've all seen the research it's been out there for a while and they realize that if they're actually going to make this a reality they've got to do it in a regional in concert regionally so that support us let x the kitties all of the all the schedules can be adjusted so that we're doing it regionally and i thought it was axed exactly the right process because it's impossible for one district system in all the of this is say well you know we're out of the seven thirty start and we're going and then everybody else has to do something different so i thought it was just the right approach and i'm hopeful it will catch on when was see from your how point is going to be on transitions our friend joe was an expert on this himself so she's got a wonderful presentation for you to update the committee on what transitions are being and why it is increasingly important in the world special education tonight all right transition let's say what is transition process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another and synonyms change passage movement transformation in conversion one of the things that we have a lot of transition for students when they come in from early intervention to preschool from preschool to elementary elementary to middle school and middle school to high school and then a very big transition from high school to adult life which could also be work or further schooling so i would like you know this person i also learned about stranger the big three star conversations like i'm talking accepting constructive criticism and moving on rather than a four step conversation so two years ago we we had bidden needs assessment on transition and we did very well in certain areas such as interagency communication collaboration results oriented curriculum but we did have some need to  really focus on transition assessments and actually develop self advocacy skills for students so we did air a survey which is a self determination survey for the high school students was primarily provided an academic lab and from that survey it was determined that we really need to help our students set goals for themselves make informed decisions and really develop more self advocacy skills transition assessments and professional development patty the young the department chair for special education at the high school did several official development sessions with our staff on different variety of  transition to assessments and that's really benefited everyone because it's helped with our transition plans are i and really developing each of our students has their own individual portfolio so individual work there  in their transitions so spencer in there so they'll have that were ever they go whether they go to work or whether they go into adult services or whether they go on to school services this summer so he you know as you can see he's learned these interviewing skills and really is trying to develop a self advocacy direction he is an amazing artist ts and not great he has always he is a musician i mean if  really developing our transition plans and making sure that they're a fish and ineffective in terms of development so we're starting the transition assessments in eighth grade and that's been very very helpful and the other thing is we're doing a program evaluation to wear for work and and if she doesn't have a work clothes on and she doesn't get to go to work and she understands that and she's actually didn't it has varied her wardrobe so that she has more opportunity to always get to work so it's been it was a very positive experience she well she actually diana parr was her preschool teacher so that's kind of a nice connection as well i love that she always expressed an interest in being a preschool teacher and when it came time for her to have a job that's what death that was her hope and that that's kind of how we view transition is like what's a student hope for themselves transition were dealt with and how do we make that come to reality and she's actually much more talkative with the preschool students and this was very difficult for but that was a tad on interview being filmed yes i can't even be scary you know yes definitely so she did a marvelous job and she i don't know i think you had an opportunity of seeing her in action and the students really really enjoy they were being behind her and when they see with the ip and we also talk about it it is very specific if the parents put their student's name on it we can be very specific on how we develop their i e piece in their transition planning for so that's a that's a very plus and then we collaborate with the y m c a our students from the paper program go to the y twice a week one to exercise using all the gym equipment as well as they are taught how to swim  leisure skill and a safety skill we also developed a variety of different work sites for them last summer and it's continued this year so that you'll see in a few minutes what kind of jobs that they have but they've been very good and we've really enjoyed collaborat in special ed students and to support both the students and their parents as the students transition to adults or to i don't services or to education or to work so i set the one that sum to it's we move it around the area is that back here that's so here are some pictures of our students working in the garden they did raise beds over at the y and they really really enjoyed it and so they have been doing the windows and  stanley this is a work at the renaissance he's been there for a couple of years and it's hope as he moves into adult and into the adult services that he'll be able to continue that work that would be the hope and again his cleaning and then leisure skills teaching our students how to swim and i'm talking we're not doctors in the new dog paddle and we're really talking there they learn all the strokes and they do a really really nice job and here's just a tender picture so inclosing transition starts with the first ip this is a repeat but i think it's a really important when we really have been talking about this at the preschool level that we really have to start focusing on what we want in terms of them to be successful and independent by the time they takes a team to to make this all work and patty young has done a wonderful job particularly on really focusing on the transition assessments and making sure these individual portfolios are with them so that wherever they go that they people have an idea of what they've been the privilege of being part of your hiring process and you mentioned quite a bit the transitions program for us and so here we are and you know with the budget this year having you know a substantial portion of what we're doing with  special education students and services are there any services for transitions that you think need to be expanded or strengthened within foxborough public schools so that we don't have to go for it that would help assessment process and we've purchased quite a few transition assessments and really working with the staff because it's really it's much better to have our staff who know the students do those translate those assessments for someone that they don't know what all so at this point in this great summary and joe for his great interview i think it helps me understand i know we did steve's right we weren't both on the search committee that hired sandra thankfully and the transition was discussed a tremendous amount amongst our special  ed professionals who are on that committee and this gives me a much better understanding of what we're doing and it's great to see that we're using the resources that we have within and also within our community with the y and the other businesses up at patriot plagues over in between now and the end of the year our expense budgets are running very good right now not not too concerned with any of them having a potential issue down the road i am basically at this point though  looking to probably take a little more aggressive look at the fuel budget that we have looks like by the end of the year because the favorable rates are probably going to save over seventy five thousand dollars as you all know in next year's funds obviously so they're not going to recur next year and the issue that i'd like to continue to use these funds for is as you know you approve the mice made of one vehicle for the maintenance department one pickup truck which was taken off the road by our mechanics in the past most of our vehicles were hand me downs from the d p w moved my vehicle was thirteen plus years old what i did do you know in as part of this process is i did present  one priority wise would be the replacement of the utility van that we use which carries pretty much most of our tools and equipment and again that was handed down from the police department while it only has thirty five thousand miles on it he gets it i'm going to try to be super imposed our will on it first the second thing would be a potential for another pickup truck and you know again we have one more vehicle similar to the first one and the third item is actually the one probably move into second place which is the replacement of the food service vehicle that we use a lot of our products that we get on federal grants and state grants come in in  bulk and they need to be then redistributed out to the district schools most of them come here obviously because we're the largest user of them and so on a daily basis we're moving product around the district this vehicle again is just pretty badly worn but i also decide i'm going to try to get a second purpose out of this vehicle because the vehicle is used in the morning usually from about seven thirty to about nine o'clock two to do that distribution but the second thing is that we've been talking and you know mr myers back on mars has brought this up a couple times having a vehicle that could move eight or less students for special things like the deck a program you know small sports events  where there's a small group maybe you know a couple golfers going to a vet type thing and not having to use a big bus to do it not really having kids do it in their cars that type of thing that would be advantageous so in looking at some of the new vehicles out there ford makes thousand we receive about a forty percent discount when we buy through the state bid list so that vehicle being a passenger are capable of having a back seat taken out and give us the flexibility we need for the courier side and when we do need it for the passenger we can use it at all and because it's under under ten passengers it doesn't require seventy license which is our bus driver's license and all i have to do is put whoever we use for driver's obviously teachers and on the town's insurance which is what most communities  they are we do do four wheel drive units so that we can move obviously during the bad weather but the issue really there is we are not the d p w i don't have the staff to be going out plowing everything you know we do have the one that goes and plows that our drive budget funds for this and not having it turned back on this particular thing is because we are servicing the town on the facility side as well so this is both benefit at the same time if we're capable of doing this and it's so i think it's a very positive note way to use these phones again they're one time funds so so bill if you would just summarize the math one more time please so right now we're about forty two thousand to the good with the seventy five thousand pounds in fuel surplus it will have by the end of the year the first truck is going to be just about twenty six thousand dollars so that would still leave us with about sixteen thousand dollars in surplus and i do believe we will have a little bit more in some of the expense lines that we could potentially get to the second maybe even third by the end of the year so  this does keep the load off of c i paedos so that actually when we voted it's the ip they actually pretty she just don't mind supporting it if we can afford it and it's not it's not affecting a lot of savvy this year or we have to wait till next year which means added on so it's a good solution for everybody especially since this is a vehicle use now we share maintenance you know it's also going to all the towns public buildings because now we share maintenance staff so it's a dual purpose so if we can use a school budget they get the benefit as well so i think that's more valuable to them than a return to be honest yeah well i think you know being able to contain this within our budget under runs a terrific and i think the only question would be with the town for the money back but i think you make a good case for why this is  of dollars right now and i think quite honestly an issue really here is that just like we've done with my teeth we're we're building oh the service past or the town and the beauty of these particular view because again not trying to get anything out rust as quickly as some of the steel bodies that we've been buying it's a new thing that ford just came out with this year so really kind of hoping that that's you know like i said or did to really a long term purchase for the schools in the town that i think the other option if there's not enough interest to it this way is to say the town when you knew me its vehicles that were going to cost you your share is this what town budget would you like to take that from the people and interest in that so i think this is definitely the way to go and again i think so i think we should take this and maybe two motions one to approve the budget report and then one to approve the expenditure for the utility van that mr you can that's recommended to make a motion to step before it is presented and that any further discussion on the report follows in favor five zero thank you any further discussion all those in favor of zero bill thank you as always you don't just keep the books but you think about what's right thing to be doing with the state of affairs fiscally so and i know for sure you've taken a few extra minutes with your track record we could've just floated this immediately i think but i think it's prudent for the public to understand your logic and once again i think you're doing a great job so who also went in with his legislative walton and was present said a few words so successful vote we're excited to begin working on the borough project and i do have the original of today's this is the letter and sixty three c m r two basically those are the first one is the actual grant prop not to grant process is the authority in which the building state school building authority is developed and then the second  one the nine sixty three is actually the grant process so that's all there really referring to are do have copies of much wanted for yourself but you know the general thing here is and obviously we've been kind of taking this thing apart for months now and what we're really going to be into is this two hundred seventy day cycle we are already ahead of pretty significantly because one of the things that they're looking for which they're going to give us almost ninety days to do at the end is to get the town to authorize us to move forward financially with the first part of that and as you know we already have a war article out there for may which if approved basically clicks out off of the oxon it's a fairly time consuming one on their mind because if you have to call a special time meeting and go through the whole process which most communities do you know then you're delayed so if we have about six deaths that we have to do in the next two hundred seventy days i really would like to drop that down to less than two hundred days if i can because we are trying to hit a starting ground being into a summer cycle because as you know we have to keep this building up and running so i have to do it very similar to what we did here at the high school which  is take the first summer do as much of the destructive stuff as we can eliminate any of the especially concerns that might still be in the building and then you know work at nights during that that year and then the next summer do the next largest piece that we have to do we are looking do an expansion of two classrooms for the pre k program that will give us some flex face if we do it right up front classroom there would be a big finish and then start working on other classrooms so to cycle that we have to get pretty quickly then i think we can move the process pretty quickly and i think that's you know again their biggest what i the reason i kind of liked and i asked for the war an article in january from you was that if the community does not support that it's better we know that before we spend the rest of the time doing all these other process because without that support we're going nowhere anyway so i think that's the first step so far we've gotten great reception from the c h p committee we've got a great reception from the thank debbie and bill i don't think you made that trip did you and two to go in the you know some of the things that the public doesn't see and i don't know that you're going in necessarily help desks i'm not that familiar with the process but i know it couldn't hurt us and  thank you for taking your time to shepherd this personally with the process i think those little things probably in the end do make a difference so thank you ok school committee vote to approve the public school's policy manual updated policies that you guys are already it's a madonna site well there's some that we've adopted but there are a couple of the substance abuse i think we have to take a look at there are a couple other things that you there's always little nits that we need to we can amend our policy manual required strikes me a little funny to bring it up a more i haven't talked about policy in a little while is there a time of year would make more sense to do this or is it i mean i know it doesn't matter and i guess because the polls are always evolving if the policies are only so valving you never know what's going to come up within the district or within the depends on the time the policy committee has to sit down and take care of things which we need to get together and maybe one way for me to think about it is the school year it is april this weekend are starting to wind down down we need to do it for  vote it could be later i would i wouldn't buy that earlier because i know that i also from here on and i mean after a vacation the rest of the year seems to fly by no i mean do this now and we get it we're going to says and we go to work and we need to sit down emotion us you must make a motion that we accept the policy manual as presented and discus the achieved so that was our celebration before we move off the cheerleaders we should also thank the partners in patriotism fun because they contributed to their trip and i believe know they are they they did not they didn't last fall the cheerleaders of how we started the meeting we have a plan in place to fill the role although never the shoes of place so just this afternoon i met with our candidate for an interim assistant principal as well so she's known to two members of her admin team in i was very impressed lovely and we have an agreement as of today and she's going to be starting wednesday just to be that extra here hands to help out of the high school to get the rest of the year  to have a new assistant principal hopefully starting july first so that process it has not changed the screening we'll be doing into field and starting with conducting conducting the initial interviews very soon ok and now i think they hope to do it by now with all the things that went principal for seven plus years duxbury she was just quite an interesting background the first several years she was that a pilot community high school pilot school of the boston public schools was a senior leader slash norwood so she has a special education background which is great and she was also co director of an alternative classroom for four years that norwood high school back in the ninety's so she has came up through the special education range so she will be a but no no actually we would not do that we don't we would never put someone or the school in a position of having an interim who's hoping to get the permit because it's it's just not fair all the way around to hear that person because it seems like you've already decided wh had the privilege of hearing them because we have children in the wind ensemble and they were magnificent there as well yeah and our history club just got back from all of the philadelphia and philadelphia pennsylvania so joe can t son was on the trip with joe and they had a wonderful time according to my jack but i'd love to hear what you have to say about it philadelphia we were up here at six in the morning friday and then we stopped we coffin at the high school just to tell him that i called the office saying can i be transferred to the pave clown from when i got to the store i first got to the burger king in new jersey and joe joe was the first one to let the high school know that it was a flat tire and  might my best was the franklin court thing how the constitution was printed i didn't get to go see the liberty bell by i got to walk by it i got to see the furtherance of the white house i mean and also i got to see the independen we went to the rocky stiffens to do our picture we're going to do friday but the schedule got screwed up but it was pretty much the same thing i saw on the dark tour yesterday pretty much by which you could still see the delaware