five where she worked as a nurse and then at the wiring middle school for four years in two thousand she became the supervisor of public health nursing an assistant to help counselor for the city of lowell and in two thousand and three was appointed as the acting nursing coordinator for the city she transitioned to the massachusetts department of public health where she worked for eleven years primarily in the role of  nations we are very fortunate that miss cantor decided to return to school nursing just at the moment where we were seeking a director of school of nursing she joined the district in twenty fifteen and there's a company much during her three years with the district discount or tremendous nursing expertise and was an expanding leader of the belmore public schools nurses she demonstrated servant leadership working alongside nurses supported them through changes and challenges validat acknowledging their strengths and always problem solving and learning with them a true leader cultivates and empowers leadership among those she supervises and this is exactly what she did she leaves behind a legacy of outstanding nurses to continue keeping our children healthy and safe well getting them back in the classroom as quickly as possible judging by the list of accomplishments you would think that this country has been with us for far more than three years thanks to come to the district is not a set up for medicaid reimbursement she completed all of the behind the scenes work to get the program in place working with we are grateful that she chose the gullible public schools to return to school before school nursing before retiring and we will miss her tenacious determination and wonderful sense of humor at the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses school and she was on the fortunately not able to be here with us tonight but we will celebrate her in her a collusion obtained her bachelor's degree in art education from regis college and with her k to twelve certification has taught at several schools throughout belmont including wellington when broke butler and chattery in a ddition throughout her career she completed continuing education courses at the massachusetts college of art and design instrumental in championing champion championing technology into our curriculum she promoted the use of smart boards and i pads for student learning by applying for a special grant through the f b i and p t o and was successful in receiving the grant funding since obtaining the funding miscall agents utilized the smart board and i pads in her classroom on a regular basis in her curriculum and has been on the cutting edge of designing the highest quality lessons for her students in addition this collation has brought her ideas and experience on the use of the above technology and shared it with her peers to advance the use lessons convey her love for the subject as well as her passion to use the art curriculum to enhance each of her students educational growth and development this collusion strongly believes that the value of creativity is essential to all learning and  devoted advocate for the belmont public schools to ensure that the visual arts are always promoted throughout the curriculum this collision has tirelessly encouraged her students to discover their creativity and consistently display as her students are at her school the superintendent's office and whole art show this collation is a truly inspirational teacher for the arts and she will be missed greatly by her students and colleagues she has had a tremendous impact on both the subject matter and spirit of the  curriculum and has been a tireless promoter of the arts for this my school in general leave a lasting legacy to the art department in the bombed out public schools the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses it she earned a bachelor's of fine arts degree in my junior three graduating minor marty from the university of massachusetts amherst she earned a master's of science and art education from massachusetts college of art miss larkin began her career at the middle school in wynberg elementary schools and eventually taught in all four elementary schools in the mid ninety's miss larkin began teaching at belmont high school for sure may for the rest of her career after teaching drawing and painting for several years pottery sale at back to school night to raise money for the victims it became an annual tradition with a portion of the sales always going to a good cause such as the red cross and the belmont food bank miss larkin frequently volunteered her time and pieces and for the special and enduring relationships she fosters with her students in two thousand and eighteen miss larkin was extremely honored to be recognized as the outstanding teacher of belmont high school having been nominated by a colleague students and members of the community one of the nominations included this representative statement quote miss larkin makes every student feel like they have worth and that their individual creativity is remarkable another asserted every time i leave her classroom i feel as if she knows me and that i am special among her colleagues miss larkin well remembered for her wit and her unique recycle repurpose and reuse philosophy with the clay philosophy of ms lark practicing artist and as illustrated to books upon retirement she intends to continue painting and doing ceramics and she expects to always in some way be connected to kids who have been a career long so our source of joy to her the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to kathy larkin for her long and faithful service the belmont school committee also extends special best wishes to kathy for many years of continued happiness and health in her ret right as i'm sitting here the weight of this is really landing on me of all these wonderful people who are going to leave us at the end of this year it's very something to behold so i in that note i'm going to invite children orton up from the school committee and also was lois mason lewis resolution on the retirement of lois mason the belmont school committee here by records the retirement in june two thousand and eighteen of lois mason reading specialist for the belmont public schools at the chandler a middle school ms mason has served  serve the tenor in middle school since two thousand and twelve for five of her twenty years as a public school educator she earned a bachelor's degree in literate from newton college of the sacred heart in one thousand nine hundred four and a master's degree in reading from boston university in one nine hundred seventy five ms mason began her career in the public schools after having taught in modesto california east la and los angeles norwood massachusetts needham massachusetts westboro massachusetts and lincoln massachusetts  as a public school educator throughout her career she has worked in the capacity of a fourth grade teacher a fifth grade teacher an early education teacher an adult tutor a technical writer for computer graphic arts company and a periodical librarian during her years in belmont ms mason has been a continuous learner she has completed numerous graduate level courses and has also learned through her pretty prolific reading and traveling as far as four thousand thank you this basin has consistently function at the highest level of competence for hard work compassion and sensitivity in meeting all the needs of our students go without mention her learning environment has been built on warmth and mutual respect is a tireless advocate for students who need support as mason's colleagues respect her knowledge and appreciate her dedication to the field of reading her classroom is highly motivating with its colorful displays that aid in stimulating student achievement involvement and pride miss mason is an outstanding teacher and a supportive colleague her incredible work ethic and the impact she has had on our entire belmont school district community will be great the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to lois mason for her long and faithful service the belmont school committee also extends best wishes to lois for many years of continued happiness and health in her retirement right in the belmont school committee here by records the retirement in june two thousand and eighteen of john mcclelland and instrumental music educator for belmont public schools who over the course of the last thirty five years has taught band and strings from the beginning through to the b h s wind ensemble mr mcclelland graduated magna cum laude from east carolina university with a dual degree in music education and composition and started his career in  leaving the rural community in one thousand nine hundred two to pursue a master's degree from the heart school of music university of hartford while teaching and farming him connect farmington connecticut mr mcclelland eventually migrated to belmont with his wife lisa who was pregnant with their first child and woodwind and brass the flute ensemble parent teacher band and parent teacher chorus and along with sharon phipps established the cherry wins our highly acclaimed after school wind ensemble additionally he has led the saturday morning music school for the last thirty one years a program that has brought attention to our school system by bringing older and younger students together in learning instrumental music in conjunction with former b h s student jesse metal men he also initiate b h s c m s mentor program finally using his penchant for composition mr mcclellan has developed a highly distinctive culture of artistic and creative excellence that has been at the heart of the belmont public schools music program for over three decades mr mcclellan's contributions to music education expanded beyond the belmont public schools he served on the executive board of m i c c a the massachusetts instrumental and choral conductors association for many years and in one thousand nine hundred nine founded the m i c a solo and ensemble festival attended by hundreds of students annually from all over the commonwealth he has been commissioned to write small and full ensemble works for numerous area samples and chamber groups and has served as guest conductor slash slash clinician throughout the northeastern united states he has been a great presenter guest presenter and great at the massachusetts music educators association state conference on numerous occasions as well as in new hampshire vermont and minnesota in one thousand nine hundred nine john mcclelland was nationally recognized as the first recipient of the heidi castleman award from chamber music america for his advocacy and proliferation of chamber music education he was awarded the two thousand and fourteen paul smith hall of fame award the lowell mason award and was the first recipient of the s warren fowle award from the foundation for bellman education mr mcclellan plans to continue to compose music for classroom use but his main target will be child care for his two grandsons and the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to john mcclelland for his long and faithful service the belmont school committee also extends best wishes to john for many years of continued happiness and home in his retirement just want to note something that was in there that maybe you heard but maybe you didn't thirty one years of getting up on saturdays to teach little kids music was amazing the belmont school committee here by records the retirement in june two thousand and eighteen of robin and morrison second grade teacher at the wynn burke school robin received her bachelor's degree in master's degree from lesley university she began her teaching career in a first grade classroom at the wynn burke school in one nine hundred ninety nine in two thousand and five she moved to grade two years she remained for the last thirteen years after almost two decades and teaching in belmont robin touched the lives of hundreds of students getting one here tonight she's an educator holds a special place in the hearts of her students and they often return to visit years after they've left when brooke the gratitude that so many families feel is reflected in the war and words of one parent who wrote we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to ms robin morrison for another magnificent magnificent second great experience robin is such a patient kind creative and open minded teacher we have visitor classroom on several occasions and she always inspires the students to do their best treats them with calm respect and engages their curiosity over a wide range of topics beyond the classroom robin has given generously of her time that language arts and social studies steering current committees have benefited from her years of service and commitment to curriculum development after serving on search committees to hire new teachers robin has also bol to mentor them she has been an active member of the belmont education association executive board and as insisted in the development of school and proven plans through her work on the duke student advice school advisory coun robin is when books schools technology guru she's always looking for innovative ways to integrate technology into her craft her interest in scale resulted in years of service as a technology leader in the district robin has done a phenomenal amount of professional reading and is always the first to find promising cutting edge resources her love of books extends to children's literature students a benefit for the maison collection of children's books that she is amass if a child doesn't like reading it's probably because he or she has not met miss morrison who's always able to find just the right book to peek a child's curiosity and open up new worlds the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues especially expresses appreciation to robin morris and for her long and faithful service extends best wishes for many years prestwich back to the podium and tonight there's another person who was not able to be with us tonight is elizabeth otherwise known as betty or dio and he has been a cafeteria worker at the butler elementary school for a really crazy a long amount the belmont school committee here by record the retirement in june twenty eighth betty ordeal food service worker at butler elementary school since betty's hiring in september one thousand nine hundred ninety two she served close to a million meals that is truly remarkable over the years betty has been a reliable teamwork team member and able to fill in for the head with no substitute worker handling the workload of two people at first betty may come off as shy but once you get to know her she has an incredible sense of humor as betty's direct supervisor donna hubbard stated betty's stories about the old days would knock you off your chair betty is true is true one of a kind she's she's always cared about the kids first but she knows what they like and how they'd like their meals prepared she absolutely loves serving the kids and always has butler elementary has been lucky to have such a passionate team member in the kitchen the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues express its appreciation to bet ordeal for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happiness and health and her in her retirement well done on this new new england life an insurance company in boston she worked in the training department teaching typing shorthand and new employee orientation giving tours of kept company administrate and administering the tuition reimbursement program she worked there for nine wonderful years until she left to have her daughter lauren who's now thirty nine and graduated with my sister this is propel you moved about want thirty six years ago she stayed at home for the next twenty years volunteering in her kids schools she had her son matthew by then doing some cooking for a caterer and volunteering at her kids schools and being a mom in general mrs prevailing came to the clerk job at the wellington because a friend of hers talked to go talked her into going back to work mrs paley's shares that she has thoroughly enjoyed her twenty years at the wellington mrs pre pay is made so many friends and thoroughly enjoyed eating each new kindergarten class and seeing them grow over the years she still bumps into families in town who whose kids came to camp to the wellington twenty years ago mrs pigg creates an atmosphere in the main office where all children are welcome she's very fond of children and always gives them a warm she's one of the first people most wellington families meet and she welcomes them with open arms mrs perry develops perfect personal relationships with many students and students sense that she takes a genuine interest in their wellbeing she handles many of the office tasks in conjunction with the secretary and brings a sense of humor to the work and keeps everyone smiling in addition to her work in the office as a clerk this is prepare you helps out a sesame lunch with and with bus duty every day she spends time in the library helping students and reading to them mrs palea brings a common sense seared dedication to her job and has a loyal team player who is a great support to her colleagues although misses paya will miss being at the wellington she's going to enjoy being with her grandchildren more travelling to san francisco going to museums that she has to catching up on her reading cooking with her husband and spending time with their friends we thank mrs propel you for all that you've given to the wellington community over these twenty years the belmont school committee along with their friends and colleagues expresses their appreciation to joanne popular for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happy belmont school committee here by records their retirement in june two thousand and eighteen of colleen sullivan executive secretary for the assistant superintendent for belmont public schools missal of and has served the district since one thousand nine hundred two beginning as a substitute secretary in schools throughout the district before being hired as a clerical aide for special education at belmont high school in one thousand nine hundred three in march one thousand nine hundred eight she joined a central office staff as a general secretary and in october two thousand became the executive secretary to the assistant superintendent and provided exemplary service for her eighteen years in that role miss seldon has six and was successful in her role due to her incredible work ethic attention to detail and ability to manage countless task many of them simultaneously there have been many changes in the tasks in technology over the course of her tenure and she approached each change with tenacious determination to figure out the best strategy to accomplish the work and achieve the desired goals for the administration in all of her roles and most especially in the central office miss ellen serve the public graciously and kindly and making them feel welcome no matter what the question or concern that brought them to the office mrs sullivan supported the work of three assistant superintendent and five superintendents during her twenty years in the central office throughout this time miss ellen was the cornerstone of maintaining institutional knowledge routines and traditions for all of us whether was collecting money to donate to a worthy cause or planning the annual luncheon to spend time together ms delavan was central to the office rituals and relationship building she never forgot a bird always made sure there was cake and a celebration and if she sensed something wasn't right she would check in call or text to make sure you were ok and at the end of every day she reminded us to shut down our computers and head home to our families and she always juggled the handle to make sure the door was locked behind us in the am mr alvin has left an incredible legacy of caring and commitment to the public schools her insights skills sense of humor an incredible work ethic and the impact she has had on our entire belmont school district community will be greatly missed the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to caerleon televen for her long and faithful service the belmont school committee also extends best wishes to colleen for many years  continued happiness and health in her retirement last but not least our last honorees tonight is diane wilshire who has been our met code director very important very important person i'm an invite diane up here and dr belmont school committee here by records the retirement in june two thousand and eighteen of diane wiltshire director of the met co program for the belmont public schools ms wiltshire earned a bachelor of arts and psychology and social work from rutgers university and a master of education in school counseling from cambridge college she began her thirty six year career as an educator at boston university specifically as a residence hall director counseling students and developing programs to support diverse student populations then became the program coordinator and counselor for the met co program at brookline high school where she worked for sixteen years creating a scholars program and increased the college acceptance rate in november two thousand and six ms wiltshire became the k to twelve director of m for the belmont public schools ms wiltshire has made many contributions to the belmont public schools during her twelve years of service to the district under her leadership academic support programs were established for middle and high school students at the middle school this included changing the afternoon bus schedule to allow students to participate in afterschool activities and receive extra help from their teachers before going home at the high school she established an academic tutoring program as she supported students to be successful and encourage them to take academically challenging classes ms wiltshire believes in the potential of all students and understands deeply the challenges particularly for african american black students attending school in the suburbs through the medco program from the first interview to bring a student into the mco program until the day the student walks across the stage and receives their diploma his wiltshire is there holding them to high standards and supporting them to achieve those standards ms wiltshire has provided valuable expertise knowledge and support on behalf of the district goal of improving the social emotional and academic outcomes for african american black students she was a key member of the professional learning team that started in two thousand and fifteen with a goal of better understanding the experience of african american black students in our schools she has continued this work for three years and is now focusing on the affinity group black in belmont whose members have been supported to take on leadership roles and have been provided a powerful voice in our schools we are grateful to ms wiltshire for her role in this work the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to diane wiltshire for her long and faithful service to the belmont school committee also extends best wishes to diane so i'm sure that you join me in congratulating all these folks on this incredible accomplishment and you know you know one of these years i'm actually and i think ahead in add up all the years in the it's hard to even imagine the number of students the number of teachers and staff in every building that all of these folks have impacted certainly they've sent out tentacles and ripples for lots and lots of people have taken all of that really wonderful goodwill and joy into the rest of the world so thank you thank you thank you and thank thank you to all the family and friends who came out to join us normally i would invite you to go back into the character to enjoy a more refreshment but i'm fortunate that room was double booked tonight so refreshments are no more however i do believe there are some media folks here who would like a picture of all the retirees so in the interest of time since the school committee does have to start their meeting officially here and get to the business i'm going to suggest we go to the cafeteria and reconvene there with the retirees ok everybody and unless you want to stay for the be aware of events last night there was a concert here at the charity there's another one for grade six on the seventh and then something else for families to be thinking about is a lot of people at the end of the school year provide star words from the foundation for belmont education which is a great way to contribute to the foundation and to award the teacher with their work for the year and that's especially for a kindergarten students we have placed over three hundred eighteen students and we have had to place thirteen students outside the district which has i think it's good odds when it comes  to placing three hundred eighteen and only having thirty not but if you're one of those thirteen families it's a big deal so we've been working with those families of the last few days and communicating with them about options and discussing their concerns we are working  policy subcommittee on the after school programming and have identified some increases in the capacity of each of the afterschool programs we have had follow up discussions with each program about their pursuit of increased capacity at the state level and certification and we hope to send out those new numbers soon so the public in each of the schools can see that there is some space that will be made available and thus the after school programs will be calling the parents who are on w to free up some seats for them to take advantage of for next year so excited to announce those in the next couple days i've been asked by the several of the vendors to slow down while they check the rooms and make sure that their numbers are correct so we're just holding off on that but that excited and thankful as a district to be able to continue to add teachers to support class size in all of our schools at all of our levels and the the continuous support of the belmont community is truly generous and appreciated by the schools and just as a last quick reminder of some of the events that we have on june seventh we have a building building high school building committee meeting at seven thirty am at the home or gallery on june twelfth we have finance at the superintendent's conference room at seven thirty am on june nineteenth will be here for a joint session of the board of selectmen in the belmont high school building committee of the school committee regarding some phasing in construction information on the new high school and the educators who went through the process of screening and hiring and interviewing allie who also met with staff met with parents and toward the school and absolutely rose to the level of  welcome i'm going to read a little quick bio on you if you don't mind allie frankie is a seasoned educator who comes to us with the depth of experience she has built a career rich with experiences beginning with teaching kindergarten in second grade in south central los angeles after four years she relocated to the boston area continued to teach can regard in second grade at the renaissance child school in boston through her work in the classroom she developed an interest in literacy leading her to pursue a master's degree at harvard university school of education with a focus on language and literacy this in turn led her to the massachusetts department of elementary and secondary education which she worked as a specialist implementing programs across the commonwealth with a desire to return to districts in truxton alley moved into the role of literacy specialist with the marburg public schools followed by the newton public schools her experience few bally's interest in school leadership in administration after completing her educational leadership program allie assume the role of assistant principal to some of the public schools a role she has served since two thousand and fourteen we are excited to welcome our to the belmont public schools as the next principal of the wellington elementary school thank you very much  need assistance superintendent doris and i met allie for the first of three times i've even had three interviews as part of the end of the process what impressed me the most was allie's true investment an authentic interest in supporting students not only who do well in school but all students in supporting the students who may need to be scaffold it up to meet high expectations every single day and that commitment to all students is absolute well why alys here it's the brow comes to us and we're so happy for him to be here in the new role and don't want tom has been hired as the in term principle of belmont high school and this is not the first time tom has been charge years including principal of the middle school for seventeen years prior to assuming the role of principal tom served as middle school system principal chair of the social studies department in a social studies teacher during his tenure in melrose tom was asked to serve as  interim principal of morals high after retiring from melrose public schools in two thousand and fourteen tom joined the belmont public schools first as interim a soup and assistant principal of cherry middle school and then is in terms sister principal belmont high school as an instructional leadership coach in the district during the seventeen eighteen school year tom has been the assistant principal part time at belmont high over the course of tom's career he has received numerous awards and distinctions and has belmont he has made such a great impression on classes of students not classes as in classes but cold words grades of students who he will not welcome to belmont high as he was at the middle school over some time in the genuine impressions that he makes on people with his ability to build relationships with teachers students and parents that are genuine and authentic in the fall through and the respect he has for students and in his teachers is phenomenal and that is felt by him when you actually walk into the building and you walk into his presence so we truly appreciate you bringing that to belmont high school and we look forward to seeing you in that role next year  i'm very honored to have been appointed as the liaison to the media center for two and a half years since outside of the state and on but at least i feel like i've had some still sort of connections to the school committee in the school department and i'm still a big cheerleader you guys so thank you for having us here one update you on there's been a lot of that has gone on over the past year year and a half since two thousand and five the media center has mating outreach efforts to develop public schools through the students parents the teachers the administrators the school committee members and volunteers who serve the community the resulted in many more programs in and out of school classes teacher training student internships program and technology upgrades there is a teaching and outreach coordinator jean peters who is in there for a year  who oversees after school media video classes with basic as well as with individual teachers we have partnered with high school history department to have students record video interviews with belmont veterans and i don't know if everybody has seen those but they're very powerful interviews and i think the experience for both the students who we're doing the interviewing the people who are putting together the video and certainly the veterans has been a really powerful connection  to the community and i think that that's a huge asset and his really made a big impression on everybody who was involved we partnered with the english department to provide studio space and training for black in belmont and that which is an after school club and i know was referenced with that and they produced the videos for public presentation which is also been shown on the media center and i think i'm pretty impressed viewership that we have added t of many of the meetings and events of the bellman high school building committee and associated groups and i know that people watch those regularly and it's a great great way for people to really get some information in multiple ways about this really important project m c has committed the time the staff time and t v film production expertise of be a chess graduate lucas traders who does shooting and editing and video about the high school project and he also you know if you've ever experienced any of the drone photography that he takes his own drummer and he does wonderful footage that's incorporated into many productions at the media center not just things through the school system other b h o sports t v which is produced by jeremy was there continues with parent volunteers students and coaches to provide as much t v coverage of as many sports as possible throughout the school year and over the last two years the media center has won several awards for school sports programming including two first place awards in the national hometown media festival the school committee scuse me and b m c strives to cover all the school committee meetings and other public and special events as possible for ten years and running live v coverage of the f b i spelling bee which it's one of my personal favorite things it's cool not that that matters but it's it's great coverage and again i think that that's a wonderful way of showing us the community what the school department's doing students awards musical concerts the m l k breakfast which is a really wonderful community event and we provide ongoing technical support to the school id an audio visual department over the last year the board has donated five thousand dollars to the new press box pairs field which is now used by home and visiting coaches commentators scores and that is a huge improvement and a huge asset to the community to be able to both do productions from there but also to have a press box that really allows other people to come in and see that this is a community that's invested in sports in collaboration having other students come here and that was a big collaboration between the media center and the schools they also coordinated and funded the extension of the town's school fiber network to finally connect the harris field and other public buildings  athletic complex and it's a capital improvement to provide public infrastructure which not would not have been possible without the b n fees financial commitment and technical expertise and finally at the harris field the b m c took charge of modernizing the p a system and continues to oversee ongoing plans an improvement to the p a speakers and the entire system and a major major project this year has been the collaboration between generally library specialists care and  and the b m see executive director geoffrey and so on which resulted in the creation of the new general library t v studio which is a state of the art media classroom and creation statement which is  station which is in use by students and teachers of this past year and the p m c is committed considerable time to train the teachers and the students to oversee projects and will continue to maintain the operations as well as make changes  improvements based on input from us from staff and students as i think ongoing is sort of the same as collaboration being able to use the limited resources that the media center has that the school department has to couple of things very quickly in the process of planning a modernization of this room for the broadcast of the meetings so you had three cameras and little bit better sound equipment so we're planning that with the facilities department so that's a major thing and then just again about the charity studio it's just an amazing project and karen duff deserves a lot of credit for her energy and sort of pushing me as well to say we can do more with this we can do more with this but then also not being afraid to call us up and say help which is great because when we know we want to make that we want to make it effective we want to make it you know really make a difference so knowing what the teachers questions or yes i just said when would laurie and jeff thank you because not only are there coverage of all the student events creating the school events great but i especially know that we're working with the  belmont high school building committee do you realize how many folks can access those meetings or school committee meetings or work committee meetings and other meetings that people really want to see in learn from and have feedback on and give input to dumb what media provides that normally why but you can go back and get it on the internet and watch it after it happens and we have a lot of folks watching our high school building committee meetings and it's really great to be able to have them access the information in a timely way because we have been going fairly quickly and i think that the access to the t v and the media has been especially helpful so thank you very very much and lucas is unbelievable yet he would have actually pulled together a video know next on the agenda is our appointment to the energy committee james booth to come to the table back on the energy committee was created to help belmont achieve the goals of climate action plan in two thousand and nine to reduce greenhouse gas emissions eighty percent by two thousand and fifty and the charge of the energy committee has two slots of people very lovely ceremony terms of what i've been doing on the committee and would like to continue doing i prepared the greenhouse gas inventory update for the town which hadn't been done since the original two thousand and nine climate action plan i'm involved in the drugs electric campaign that you may have seen around town and what we're excited about right now is we're looking to roll out a more forward looking sort of roadmap for the next couple of decades with some timelines and targets for how we can actually get to of course the big development on the school front from energy is the new school so i and other members of the energy committee have been going to the building committee meetings and subcommittee meetings to provide our input find out what the design team is doing and we're certainly excited and hopeful that the new building will really be an exemplar both within town and more broadly i low energy and low emissions building so i think that's a really exciting prospect for drama so i'm just here today to to respectfully request committee to get a successful vote in january which also was an outcome that was achieved the narrative that's provided over the next page and a half basically just breaks the work down that we did together around goals and long term goals reincorporated allocating spaces in the district and with the district schools to support teaching and learning from taking over parts of libraries utilizing space differently in an attempt to provide classroom space reduce class sizes for teachers  to ensure that the timeline of this work met the deadlines of the v a which were really anchored in the need to have this vote in november of two thousand and eighteen which was the community school and i think if we look back a year i thought that this work would be pretty much done when we reached the configuration conversation that we had in january and i was very surprised with the next level of work that happened after that but we're very very purchased and secured and put in place behind it there is a lot of site work happening there that that infrastructure that will support the school for the long term will be in place widening the driveway increasing parking resurfacing the playground and providing a play area  s corner which is a really unique part of the building that we believe will support the school for a long time even even if and when the modules come off the site years down the road that that work had to be done at the burbank that school has been working under the constrain discussion in seattle i said building base educated teams to drive the achievement gap and social motional learning work in the district it represents superintendent rubric stated for professional culture superintendent rubrics hundred one instruction school to ensure educator student community voice and the continued visionary work of the district through the building high school program to ensure educator community voice in the building program to commission a seven through twelve steering committee of educators to provide feedback work that was substantial we met every day of the summer to prepare for our flood of professional development courageous conversations regarding race throughout the district in september we engage the community and visioning with perkins and well in our design team regarding the building project in october we oversee we attended and oversaw the implementation of the district wide professional development for achievement gap and s c l and in february we created the seven to twelve steering team and begin t feedback loop for our educators into the design process and then in february we facilitated meetings with the steering committee in the design team and continue to do so through the month of june all of that feedback has been provided and is working in prioritizing the district it's important work and we're very thankful that with her leadership in genesis leadership as well say leadership council members who have taken this on through and through our work as a leadership council it's been vital  helpful in an important part of the building process but really relationship building with the staff i think that their ability to in week one say what they thought the the needs were we to see how the the shape of the design was changing in weeks three four and five see exactly what they wanted in print in an model in front of them by the design team example diot rooms coming from the third floor to the first floor datos request to science labs being put on every floor  request tipping the auditorium in a certain direction to take advantage of the entrance biography requests the fields from jim davis and all of our teachers being able to support how middle school students will go in and out of the seventh grade ring and how we can keep those careful connections and careful separations of nine through twelve and seven through its students in one building has been really exciting so the work was extraordinary this year and believe it or not that work will continue unfold as and i in mary and tony begin that process of what's to work for the next two years to prepare the professional development and the staffing allocation and the budget the leadership configuration the instructional configuration for a new district that will have schools four to six upper elementary and a seven through twelve high school re actually met with the fourth grade teachers because they had that group that's getting ready to think differently and be in a new building and we have outlined the work for the next two years regarding the professional development in the discussions around what the culture of the school should look like so we look forward to those being some of the goals that will happen next year we are excited that through some of the visioning work that we have twenty eight very very high powered thoughtful and and dedicated folks that we need to be able to team with to get the most out of each of them and to put all their work and energy in the right direction we're very thankful to have twenty eight dedicated professional intelligent dedicated leadership professionals and it is my honor to be able to be the one who gets the kind of shepherd that work and work with them to achieve our  goals the the key actions are to prepare and meet the leadership council members for the district work of articles of each year and we did that in seventeen eighteen support the require professional development this group dedicated every monday through july and provide a schedule of agendas of all the council meetings and provided the educated feedback as a mechanism to the work we do with the high school building can be the benchmark june and august are our retreats november the professional development a monthly meeting leadership meetings that we have all of which are all coming process related and obviously in january to organize a leader teacher involved committees to support the design team with the directors in the principals was very very and her real skill of being able to provide experiences that in our only meeting the content of our work and our objectives but creating learning opportunities for the the professional work that we do so we're always learning about ourselves about real process that we have in schools and just a summary of some of the things that happened that are below the line of the maid initiatives that we take on that we are focused on the budget process so that the think tony and his team for another successful budget year the finest subcommittee meets every other week and tony has prepared agendas and continuous production of work that supports the finance committee our work with the warren committee this year i think was  unprecedented as it relates to building partnerships and working together and having similar in joining comes an initiative through our budget work and that resulted in nine positions being approved for this year's for next year's budget last night a town meeting and a unanimous vote this is the fourth year of adding staff to the belmont public schools after about thirteen years of no additions or potentially a lot of reductions so we're very proud of the work that we're trying to do to give education funding when we arrived four years ago we were short seven hundred fifty thousand dollars and at this point in time moving in nineteen we have a one point one million dollars circuit breaker find that will be spent over the next three years so we're definitely positioning ourselves to budget from strength and not from reacting to our needs over the course of the year and that dedication to that work has stabilised only the special education work that we do every day but actually stabilizes the general three or four years back by david keogh in the for task force team and so being able to hold to that and also being able to provide other aspects of the contract that teachers supported i think was a good balance i think the school committee members who participated on all those bargaining teams the academic season had some challenges this year with the work of the facilities department last the three members of our supervision team for the facilities department over the course of the year and started the calendar year with no one in the facilities department in in our work to make sure that our schools were he didn't clear that snow and fixed when needed phyllis marshall our former town  job courtenay the work we admit that's things have fallen off the table that we need to pick up and get to right away given that we had no department at the supervising level i think we did a pretty good job getting through a very difficult march with the heating issues we had excited i can't thank enough the custodians and the facilities workers time wide they just went into work every day and did their job and they were very patient and very flexible so i think that was well we have hi as a director of facilities after interviewing five candidates and looking at over twenty applications and steve is an experience hardworking and thoughtful director who's been with us for about a month and we really look forward to working with them moving forward  i really want to say that the achievement gap work is related also to the hiring in pursuing the diverse teaching staff and faculty that we have the petition painting in  staff and diversify our staff and this is not only important to our students of color to see a diverse population of faculty and staff it's important to our students who are white to see different people in charge and in positions of authority and t  our two major tasks that we had hoped to take on to change next year i think that we've made progress on which was to add capacity to the district in each of the four elementary schools to create process which we've begun electronically but we will have one that starts with a centralized introduction to our families and where they can meet the principals and the transportation folks in our after school folks in the district and then be placed in their accomplishments i won't go through communication is really important in being president just really important things that we go to that are outside the school day not just the meetings that we go to but the functions in the events that we try to be present  communicating with parents through the news blog and through the different mechanisms that we have are super important and i thank the school committee for being at a lot of the events that we have committee meetings being part of different grant to improve the recycling efforts of the district and it's my understand there was a great deal of discussion about that the grant is due this week so what was recommended as that and what was asked of the school committee was to send it and give the group a letter in favor of our commitment to recycling in the district so we do have that letter here many efforts of the belmont public schools can do you can do to reduce pollution conserve the world's limited resources and conserve energy while exercising fine signage financial practices this commitment aligned to the public schools existing energy conservation policy and it gives the text of our energy cost conservation policy which includes the district supporting conservation and efficiency in the use of electricity gas and oil water and other resources maintaining and enhancing present resource conservation measures developing the ships to make infrastructure and infrastructure improvements which take advantage of technological advances that conserve resources work to educate staff and stoop it's about the benefits of an opportunities for resource conservation and the use of alternative sources of energy the end to the sad about our public schools for cycle materials including paper cardboard bottles and cans and recycled posix using a consistent bottle across the district so we will present that to the group to submit with their grant application based on the discussion and that occurred at that meeting for a reason or to  idea does anyone have anything else that they want to add to that meeting your discussion their incoming topics we discussed came up in your superintendent's report which were just the expansion of the aftercare language students two thousand and nineteen trip to italy also had a presentation about this at the last meeting and had some discussion you have any further discussion so we have a motion to prove the trip has presented on july first i think she's a very very strong candidate street please she is currently the interim director of elementary teaching and learning in brooklyn public schools and previously she served in superintendent of schools in the starting at seven o'clock