some things to discuss regarding wage and contract negotiations with nonunion personnel as well as the deployment of a strategy regarding school safety and security which is typically an executive session topic and then we are scheduled to begin our open session should anyone be watching at home at approximately seven thirty at that time we will entertain any visitors i don't expect to many on a summer evening we have some minutes to prove we're going to do our usual update on all the summer work that's been going  subcommittee and policy subcommittee will then take a second look at our school district goals of are ready we will approve them for the coming school year we'll take a quick look at the school calendar and then we're going to do a second reading of all the policies we did last month i'm sure will be inclined to waive the first reading because mrs bell injured such a good job last time we would want her to do that again but we have a number of policies that we're looking at internet computer usage internet acceptable use policy technology except to use policy educational technologies as relates to employees educational technologies as relates to an employee form school district web pages website guidelines and procedures for approval  cell phone and all other electronic devices for students and if i recall our thought is that we want to get those in place ideally before the start of the school year before we open so we'll take a look at those discussion on surplus property specifically prep school and quicker hill school the review of school lunch prices and then other matters sound ok to everybody i miss anything ok so do i have a motion to go into executive session  about the great service frank provide to the town and to to us as a committee you know he's been such a supporter such an ally and and well beyond that just such a you know i say our you know really open communicator or what you know for the public you know you come up after meeting to talk to debbie just about if not every meeting to clarify is understanding really take time to understand the issues and what you want to report upon and i just want to congratulate frank and retirement so i will miss him i personally appreciate having been at this chair a few times now just how positive news for the school system and how well i think you you reflected all that was going on in good times and bad in you know strength and weakness and all things school oriented and i felt like you always did a fair and accurate job i also felt like you sort supported so i totally agree i think he always wrote a balance piece frank with meticulous fact checker and i just want to say i know i live in town but i don't know where i was a summer i had no idea i know that all the new it's i didn't get on how that say on thursday morning and i drove by and saw the wrecked apartment he really just always gave it you know he he always gave everything a thorough n'est ce that we appreciate you know i will miss seeing him come miss it seeing him riding his bike to all the here so i certainly plan on writing him a letter myself he's a very eloquent person he's very deep also and so i do plan on writing him something to express how much i appreciate his they were innocent even if it wasn't going to be a you know i celebrate things i think you know this was a little bit more quiet a year than we've had in the past couple but we still got the major conference items completed obviously at the i go we are literally just stacking the books on the  and stuff off have all been remounted in place and it's all been redesigned as far as the layout of that media center to be a little bit more user friendly for the student groups as well as for the teachers so that's that's completed the parking lot we were able to take a good advantage of the town's surge bed and on paving and you could see that that looks on a thousand percent better than it did it should last a number of years at a fraction of the cost of what we've been typically doing in the past so i think we're going to try to continue that program along but it really really did make a huge improvement and i think it will be for the not only the teachers but the kids kind of coming back to the school to see that here in the turf field obviously you can see that the lights are up in place the next two pieces to that is actually us running the piping to a central location and we're still waiting for mass electric national grid to actually bring the power over to us i have a feeling we will be done with our side before they get their side done but we are somewhat at their mercy we started that process quite a while ago we have paid our fees for it we've done everything we're supposed to do so it's really on their schedule at this point to come on connect to us i do believe by the time we really need it over the next month or so it will be up and running so hopefully that's the case typical stuff that we normally do obviously the three gym floors that we use you know significantly whether it's our for our own uses or for community uses the high school middle school in the i go are being resurfaced and we've been doing that every year so i think it really makes a big difference on how those floors look as compared to previously when we subdued him through our retail house with them where yes it definitely does that that is part of the thing that stops you from getting down into the service itself energy program tony started this actually last spring and he's finally just gotten to the point where all of the demo fixtures have come in and we've put up samples around  be will be going to l e d s on all the exterior of the major buildings and once we get that fully completed we'll go down to the elementary levels as well but it's you're going to see like all of the street lighting that comes up to the high school in the middle school all b the the lights on the buildings and the power usage will be about ten percent of what it used to be which would be a great savings and it will be actually paid through our monthly bills or savings will pay for our costs and i think that's going to be a huge advantage to us and then the you know again the staff i think has done a phenomenal job and it's always the crunch this was a short summer from a time perspective it's even shorter when you realize that we have you know four to six weeks worth of summer programs that are going on the same time so when we lose a week or two the staff really has that much less time to prepare the floors the you know and it obviously will reflect on what i was going to tell you on the tax side trying to get everything back into loans as well so  this point you know basically we're really good shape the urns pretty much done most of the elementary is are nearly complete if not complete and we have a few things left here at the high school which obviously is the one that gets help to the last because of the amount of stuff that's moving here  and then you know just some general maintenance cleaning painting you know updates that we typically do and try to do while the schools are out of session so i think again i think tony and i think i both the maintenance and the custodial staff really have done a great job this year it all together force right and good evening on the technical side i'm step by saying it's really exciting to be here as we gear up for the opening of schools to talk to you about all of the technical  updates and programs that have been implemented over the summer so in terms of b y o b as you know we've been working on updating our b y o b lissie and helping a one to one computing vision wireless network access is no twelve stations students along set up along the perimeter so we've been able to set up a computer lab for them or more properly a computer classroom and environment which is more appropriate for a direct instruction on technology and for independent work how many seats is twenty four stations are station one teaching station media carts for each building and health and wellness were weeks discover video it's a it's a software and hardware implementation and it's actually multifaceted in terms of what it delivers to us so so  discover video acts as a video distribution system similar to cable t v or cable remodel a sham rides the ability to rebroadcast information throughout the district it also  allows for teachers to essentially have their own private d v r content in which they can share that information with students it also on the teaching and learning side has a number of very students to be able to actually respond other than that it can be used for a live streaming in my broadcasting so attention could be used to broadcast curriculum events such as technology night our graduation or any other around assembly that would be of interest to the community and we're also working with cable access to talk about opportunities for us to share content and to be able to really showcase and provide more content for the town's educational channel and i missed them star which is another beginnings of a new video distribution system it's a new video distribution system it's a software based system one of the unique things about this system it doesn't require a big expensive investment and set top boxes ok so on a number of the other solutions that are out there require these fairly expensive set top boxes discover video it works with mobile devices works with android it works with i o s or apple devices both macin p c computers but it's also has an embedded app on samsung smart t v s and it's also compatible with technologies streaming technologies like the roku and that's something else we're exploring in terms of the roku stick it's a it's a small video device about the size of a thumb drive that can be plugged into the back of the projector it has wireless capabilities and it adds a number  the ability to access on a very large library of content such as the smithsonian museum as well but these devices are there approximately thirty or thirty five dollars apiece so for thirty thirty five dollars apiece you could turn them into a digital sign or a set top box for this video distribution system so right now with helpful lack of our cable infrastructure for instance for the presidential inauguration we really have limited ability to allow students say in social studies classes to to view this and take part of the survey and as part of their class yes we have cable t v access and here we have it in the cafeteria in a and a couple of limited classrooms so this would allow us to actually be able to redistribute content to just about every classroom as well as share content from within the district before he goes on this is i just want to interject this is a great example of what karen brings to the table is this something came to us with so usually we're coming up with something we think we've seen that we like and we say what do you think but this is something he came to us with and said this would solve this would be a solution for a lot of things we think including how to make our website a life for example but this is something he came and said this would really this would do ten things and so i think that just because his value that he's not just technically responsible for getting everything up and operating that he is a very forward thinker that brings ideas and the recommendations to us is the direction we should be going so very smart no book smart no book is an interactive board or interactive platform software platform for interactive boards or interactive displays this year our technology advisory committee conducted a pilot of three pieces of interactive software and through the community's work consensus was that smart notebook would serve the district well in terms of standardizing on a software platform so one of the things that we have learned is that interactive technology in terms of hardware changes so quickly that we really can't keep up so standardising on smart notebooks software world will allow us to be able to coordinate all development activities and really have a longer life cycle in terms of our products so it doesn't matter for using you know internet interactive product a or b that you're familiar with the tools and the content and which you need to to deliver your license so that's  that's a welcome the addition this year and i know a number of teachers are very excited about that in just a moment they are of how important that pieces by having three different software platforms the implications for professional development have been really challenging for example if we want a particular teacher to present a workshop the answer is well i have this particular software so unless i can be in this room i can't present so it is really tight  so being able to have a common platform is going to be able to provide greater support for professional development but more teacher leadership as far as being able to present to other teachers and will have a greater impact question just interject there would also help with their own with teacher collaboration oh i was actually going to say when i went out with something that we really wanted to address in our strategic plan it sounds to me that this will help achieve that goal yes that as well as some of the other office three sixty five updates that you hear about yeah absolutely and we talk about strengthening our learning communities in our teaching professional teaching communities in terms of giving teachers a common platform to work with to share lessons work so it's no longer about what board you  have you know it really does improve our ability to share content that's great because it was one of the identified needs to me over and over again during our strategic planning process by the teachers that were in the group in the administrators but was it's great to hear that it's being addressed things and really this is this is goes hand in hand with everything we're doing in terms of improving access to software and hardware for both teachers and students  of both business continuity our educational operation so how they serve us in terms of answering phone calls coming in but also student safety in terms of being able to communicate throughout the building in case of emergency  well as our abilities to to collaborate with public safety around i'm urgencies that involved mine on one so hopefully i'll have more of an update in the weeks to come on that but we're getting very close in terms of  were actually you know errors you know say we're close we're literally down to a meeting on thursday with the time side to present you know the work that has done i think we've had three stream lee competent in and capable vendors  that have really fought very hard financially as well as technically to come up with the need i think we are both come through with one that will be recommending to the to the town side that from cost point of view is should have been way out of our reach but they want the business they want fox rovers are interesting reason so i think seeing you know it will be a great deal be a great resource to it but we're really that close so i mean in terms of offerings and always revealing some some hardware requirements with hillary today i mean we'll have things like why fire mobile handsets for administrators or in case for emergencies or even for health and wellness staff to take students outside you know the united states the perimeter of the building to build access to the telephone or nine on one and things like that as well so so hopefully we can share some more information with you in the next week or so to welcome some new some new staff on the technical team friendly davis has has joined us as a technical network support specialist computer and network support specialist team and i know will help us continue in terms of our growth and ability to collaborate and support teaching and learning in foxborough the way that it really deserves to be support dedicated integration specialist at each eat each of the grade level so elementary middle and high school so in addition dan will serve in the system meaning many short term and long term goals in the and productivity tools as well so office two thousand and thirteen pro plus has been deployed to district computers this provides us with tighter integration with office three sixty five while office two thousand and thirteen means all the tried and true products that teachers and students have been become familiar with over the past couple of years such as one no word excel and powerpoint there are a number of new additions this year so all workstations will have access to microsoft access microsoft access is a powerful data tool in which we can use within the classroom to to analyze and store data for design needs all computers will have access to publisher which is a desktop publishing software and a couple of other enhancements to some older products off this mix is an add in for power point which adds interactivity to power points that you notebooks as well as office three sixty five groups which is an enhancement for collaboration it's a conduit really between between our e mail system and our contacts and calendars and one drive and our ability to create documents as well i have to say that one thing about office three sixty five according to google docs originally came out everybody was jumping on the bed waiting because it was free and it was a solution in the end we did look at it and we were slow because we didn't feel that it had the real  were necessary this community very happy that they ended up with office three sixty five because that the times it did adopt the other side of that really don't have the access to all of these tools now that we're able to just roll out day after day so it's been a huge difference in what's available to the school district and at a cost that you can't refuse obviously it's just like the google docs it's very very so the terms of student e mail we continue to roll out student e mail and making adjustments in terms of user names for students so that they're there more in line with our instructional practices so in the past students logons have have been numerical number for hosting of course of course work so our structural technology team continues to explore that and create content and publish content there as well and as we know there's a number of policy updates that may be approved later tonight which have been made to really reflect our current infrastructure and our current instructional practices in terms of  technology i hope i hope to get everything i want to think truly greenstein who collaborated with me to put this information together to share with you tonight as well as this our staff here that there will be returning in the next couple of days this summer has been and it's going incredibly fast there's been a number of moving parts and i would like to think the maintenance team in the custod team for all their support around getting the building ready and really collaborating with us to to get computers back in rome's and technology ready to be used as well as think the technology staff who who i don't doubt for a minute i apologize but did did you say anything about the installation of the security you know we basically are at the final stages of that like we are with the phones the we actually got to a point where we have had a number of proposals and you know i will say the one thing that that does better than probably anybody i've ever seen is is really b things open when the answers were coming out exactly what we thought they should have we actually reach back to the vendors and have the vendors come in themselves not even the reps and design we have now we have a final design that is being priced so as we receive the price back we'll make the award on it but it's actually very different than what we were looking at a while ago because the specific cameras that are now going to be triggered for each location really are individual are used for the school the location and everything and i think we're both really culturally get that we've now come up with the right solution so we'll start rolling that out and again part of all the same thing we talked about high school for us working our way down one of the key factors too is really today with technology there's so much integration between systems and  one of the things that we we really wanted to to understand was the integration between the security cameras and actually our to our telephone system so there was a number of tight integration integrations between the two which provide for for enhanced safety so for instance with with the new phone system we anticipate the ability that when a nine one one call goes out which you can on it interfere with what you can  you can listen you can listen in or observe so we're now on call goes out that the system real to alert a number of people and then the office will have the opportunity to gather some information to help them better respond so for instance if a student has fallen and there's a medical emergency they'll know right away and they can start mobilizing staff whether it's the school nurse but they'll also have the integration between the phone system to potentially trigger cameras in  an area where an were an event is and be able to view them from the phone so the two are actually really close slee related in terms of in terms of really getting the most benefit in terms of each each individual system making sure that they would integrate well together so i anticipate we'll be reporting back very soon probably very shortly after we communicate some more information about the phone system i really appreciate access the cameras in the phones are so there's so tightly integrated now you know that that having the right systems really does make a big difference but i'm glad to hear that everything is coming technology team to really put forth some thoughtful solutions to really enhance instruction this year so again i think them i know that i get to sit here and collect they q s which i will be passing along in the morning to both international technology and technology teams but really with all the hard work of our instructional technology team and our technology technology support team this this couldn't happen we're all right we're going to move on to our subcommittee appointments for the new year we have a budget subcommittee in a policy subcommittee and i think the way i'd like to start this is to invite our you know i really appreciate the work that the subcommittees do and having been on them before myself you know i i often i'm asked by people relatively new school committee was the school committee really responsible for it it's the superintendent so in the budget and the policies so we can't do that without people who are in depth on the budget information and policy so thank you to everybody in advance for that and the other discussion on that point if not we'll move on to  for the public we spent our last meeting spending a lot of time going through our our school district conference which typically you know going to further same five categories communication community relations student achievement financial management policy development and superintendents performance but we do go through them pretty thoughtfully and make minor adjustments based on where we feel we are on behalf of the town and progressing through these five areas so they have a think you re took our input and prepared a new for yes so what you see in front of you is you can see the red line so it's shows the track changes for the last years looser goals and now what it would say this year if you chose not to report card to enhance community relations and communications so you kept that will also kept the goal of including teaching learning highlights and new student involvement initiatives at each regularly scheduled school committee meeting separately night when kids and teachers aren't here yet so it was would be hard to somebody appear in some things they've been doing lately it might involve the cations beach maybe some summer reading on the third bullet the thieve always have a goal with home school connection but this is changing depending on what the focus is and what things have been updated and where you want to go so the goal for next year reads continue to strengthen and hence the home school connection by updating the district's website and expanding the district's web presence so that is really our focus is something we talked about it in the street you plan so it kind of dovetails nicely to that the next goal under communication in community relations is to update and involved parents in the community are important topics of interest to the community including the plans to complete the outdoor campus and i thought of facilities at fox for high school and then you kept the goal continue to maintain collaborative relationships with legislative leaders and geo efforts to enhance chapter seventy funding to monitor charter school funding for like there's the technology is such that we can improve the functionality in timeliness and i think i also recall the notion of not only continuing with the superintendent coffees and opportunities to inform the community but actually  down and involve the parents in the community so i think we if i remember make many but we talked about what our continued new ways we can think of doing gauge our parents out there and for those watching and listening and paying attention we would welcome your ideas and feedback and one of the things i think the superintendent us very well is try to be very transparent and thoughtful on issues with the community so those are the two main updates here is anybody remember anything different from our discussion few weeks ago now you kept the focus however on the technology plan by keeping the majority the wording in the next goal review the details and progress of implementation in the district's five year technology plan june two thousand and fourteen and to update progress mid year and end  year and we did have a lengthy discussion at this table actually about what that uptick should include but the focus should be a little bit more a little bit more objective with data included rather than just the narrative of the student achievement that we value and feel that you know you should be informed on and we report that all in one picture to paint the picture of how we're doing in foxborough and how do we know what we're doing and what we plan to do to monitor progress and explore ways to measure student gauge meant for richmond and challenge within the core curriculum with associated review of budgetary impact and that update would be in december of two thousand and fifteen so this has just changed a little bit from a few years ago when expanding opportunities for richmond challenge was really our collective goal and we feel we've done that so we have many more clubs neck to bodies available for kids enrichment opportunities and the focus of this is really how do we challenge students and get them engaged in challenge offerings which best support academic achievement with review of mental health services college and career planning opportunities and school to work life skills so i think that we set a good job watching the guidance of mental health services and making sure that we have appropriate services in place in appropriate levels of support but really putting special emphasis at this level on what's happening at the high school and how do we continue to enhance what we're doing there that continue the curriculum review cycle to support student achievement and to ensure alignment with national state national standards we do that every year expand global connections within the academic curriculum and all schools this is a new poll that comes from a strategic plan and you'll the street plan the emphasis more on global connections and helping students realise that they're a microcosm in the world at large in that they have a role in the world at large and how they can make connections and understand other cultures traditions educational systems and how does that impact them and prepare them more for living and working in that world in the future so that's a new goal for us the financial managed oh yeah sorry discussion the response for second on that section any comments or suggestions i have one first of all i really appreciate your reading and adding your comments there about some of the things we're trying to do behind the words like here from aaron and teams more of the details of the progress of the technology play and i wanted to ask some of those questions and i just went through a list like are we going to get all this out to the teachers and tells us can work so i'm glad we're going to do that you talked about how we're going to move next to the next level of enrichment challenge to actually measure what students are getting out of that which is can we just under financial management the the basic goals don't change much year to year in the section i don't think people should expect them to because financial management is such an important part of what we all do both at your level and in our level so the the goals in the essence have stayed the same so ensure the budget budget adequately supports the district's mission vision goals i'll get back to the the red tape and second review the monthly budget reports as a student brings every month take appropriate actions which is to approve it or ask questions whatever it is you want to do continue to meet and collaborate with municipal and legislative leaders on fiscal matters continue work with municipal officials in support  massachusetts school building authority in the community to articulate the needs for the renovation of all schools in the district i look forward to the day that calls will present great a point to budget subcommittee to monitor budget development the difference in this section as we discussed in july is that we have did we during the budget season last year we were here discussing could we possibly eliminate the fee for full day kindergarten we do believe in free public education we don't have fees anywhere else it is curious that we're still charging for an academic program and we don't know if we're very lucky to have any of you saw the real analysis of the boston globe about fees that was a recent one just the last few days about fees and how much people how much of the districts are charging for transportation some have lifted the cap for families so there's no cap i mean it was it was an eye opener so if if you haven't seen it it was a boston globe it was a recent article on transportation and other fees that decision charge went mostly for transportation and what's happening in the only thing the article was missing was kudos to communities like ours where to manage themselves in a way that they don't charge families all those fees so would have been nice if they recognized any such as ours that don't do that but in in that context we do still have a fee and it is for fully kindergarten we came during budget season last year with a cost estimate of what it would take to eliminate the fee on one where it was a little bit pricey it was about four hundred twenty thousand dollars if you remember and that was physically impossible for the committee to and for us to accommodate that but i think it was your comment that we should come up with a strategy for phasing in the elimination of the fee and and so that's why you see i don't know what that is yet but i look forward to working with all of you on that it says to ensure the budget adequate supports the district mission vision and goals such as the possibility of offering free for the universal kindergarten and i think that is something that we need to take into account as to how we're going to manage that going in the future and what what what steps do you want to take as we prepare the budget this this fall so that might be the first thing the budget subcommittee could take up with to begin to consider what you what you think is a good idea for starting to phase out the full day kindergarten fee we haven't gone up in about four five years on the field just commendable the twenty five and it's twenty five hundred men back in september of zero eight and seven years we've only gone up to three thousand but we are still dependent on collection of those tuitions in order to one full day kindergarten again this year we only have enough for one half day session in the mid high teens so we're seeing very little market desire for have taken a garden and we're going to run the one section as we must offer a free option which is a free half day but you know i think we have to have a strategy for accommodating that so that might be the first thing you can actually think about before we start a budget hearings is what you know what does the committee thinking of doing and what you want to advise us and then start working with people we can start work with people in the town side to say in addition to what we regularly do with the budget the committee would like us to consider this phase and plan which involves x whatever so questions are really good with the financial management subgoals section forest policy development this also does not change year to year by april of each year the committee reviews the policy man manual to monitor ongoing changes in policy per  be we didn't i did go through my notes and i matched up what we did ok but it was so i don't think we took it out but did we have a discussion we were told we decided to leave it and we did decide to waive it and because we have it as support to superintend the information strategy for systemic improvement on the oversight of the mass educator evaluation system in the ongoing development of a high functioning leadership team in the last poll evaluate the superintendence performance and complete the school committee overall composite and no goals i'm just a little tedious as we go through that but i really think the mornin i know that devin amy and bill really do a really nice job as we go through the school year of looking back regularly terms of the work they're doing and how they match up to what we've asked so i thank you for that i think getting a good set of goals that are consistent but updated you know based on where we are in any given year's is a really important foundation to what we all do so thank you ok we have a only difference is that as you saw in the spring recommended new approved a new elementary report card which is trying based on trimesters rather than semesters and quarters so the only change that you see here that's different and it is not requiring a review of the calendar because there's nothing different about the calendar is you will see too easy on there you'll see each one in december and you'll see two in march as opposed to the other months which say t one term one term two term three in april so the middle and high school will follow the same traditional term schedule in the elementary is going to follow the trimester so one stands for elementary and  of the first trimester to end of the second trimester fell into schools and that is so coded at the bottom i think that's a great addition janet show that to me and just for anyone who hasn't heard the background to that the idea was to give the elementary students a little longer before they get into a marking period or view progress right so right because there's a shift to standards based reporting in this in a more important for students to continue their work and and collect samples of what they know one can first easy to remember that's for students first to school if your staff member watching is tomorrow morning tomorrow morning staff tomorrow and students a week from tomorrow correct students will report the edits thank you a hundred percent in agreement with her and which ones weren't a little fix this and then i went to mine and made a few more based on mine so it really this is so dense that it really took three people going back to the notes from the discussion at the first reading to get it right blank line with a question mark because we said what do we mean by that so it is very possible that we don't have any references for that policy i couldn't actually find any so i think that actually was typed when maybe people thought there might be a reference a couple of iteration ago and then didn't put anything in because it wasn't anything and nobody ever deleted reference foxborough because the only other place that what was that existed was at the end of the form that we use it said reference foxborough and i thought well that's silly because we made up our own form so i took it out of there with fairly good confidence because i had written a delete on my notes but on the actual policy i didn't feel comfortable doing so might forget to say to you is there and did anyone ever know what the reference was because we do not have any so i think it's  fine sure the first one is file i kid and internet computer usage access to electronic media and our major changes were to conform this to the children's internet protection air in the children's online privacy protection act so we took out some language that was really no longer necessary because the first paragraph talked about designing develop and implementing procedures we have those procedures so we could take that in that language l and the rest of this you know addresses internet safety measures and also the need for  students in the use of the internet and what isn't is not acceptable behavior and i think our changes that we've made here on the next page i think i so i guess the major change on the second page you know discusses that the school system reserves the right to monitor local network and internet traffic including information sent or received through the on line actions are stored on our computer system itself and students should not expect their use to remain private and though we can modify these guidelines at any time so i think the other thing that you did here was you updated terminology i j and d b dash our which is acceptable use policy technology administratively procedures for implementation and you'll recall we went through these at length  in july at our meeting and did a lot of parsing of how how our administrative team will implement the acceptable use policy in the sets that out in detail and cross references our new student conduct and discipline policy and i guess are there any questions that if we if we look at what is now remembered as twelve  my suggestion would be promptly notify the technology department or put some kind of timeline in there and i guess a question might be fair and i'm not sure but a couple of months ago that you know my password which changes something i'd rather that we we we know that we want it to be known as soon as one knows but i don't know could you just read that again and sure it's  violation if what they did is in violation of some other area of the policy or some other policy there would be consequences not trying to catch anybody understand just don't bring in your own hard drive and load it up to ours you know any inappropriate or harmful to minors ok i threw in the word deliberate because there have been times when the dirty even it has gone up because somebody got a virus or something like that and they may not be responsible for such transmission i didn't know if we wanted to put in deliberate or does it even matter that's for the polls first and only if i come out i don't think it matters because anything that wasn't deliberate and that we have proof of that it's like i tripped and knocked over a computer and shattered the screen ok you know i think anything that's not deliberate we we know it's not deliberate and nothing happens  it's you sure good point the next one is by i j and t b a educational technologies employees and again this update language it is compliant with our in this is actually this is the policy that the source says foxborough question mark that i didn't know i mean i guess my thought was i didn't know if this was from the far right now the employee and like the the internet acceptable use policy for students the one for employees also clearly states that the district reserves the right to monitor local network and internet traffic and that includes all information center received through o  line connections are stored on our computer systems it also you know clearly states and he yes they're not really numbers it's the fourth page and it's social networking electronic messaging and phone usage it clearly states what is in is not allowable you know by employees of foxboro public schools and i think makes it even more clear than our previous policy you bring a what is allowed this is a great example of how even though it's limited is tedious work for all of you for those of us than reading in proofreading but this is this is another great example of the updating of the morning modern language in order to be this clear for people it's not necessarily all new for example but when you referred to it did you this was always in the since two thousand and eight when this was first created it was in our policy to say that that the distributor of the right to monitor whitman services technology used to access the internet therefore the folks from schools reserves the right to monitor internet traffic because of the time that was the phrase internet traffic and reserve the right to retrieve and really need data the  center received through online connections or stored in a computer system and the more modern language which is a little bit more specific inclusive says that we reserve the right to monitor local network and internet traffic including information sent through online connections or stored on computer systems so it's not a big change when you look at the actual words but it's just a little bit more clarity and using making sure that we're using a language everybody will understand the intent to change t educational technologies employee employees acknowledgement form and i don't think we need any changes to it but i do know that as part of the policy review all the employees will be asked to sign a new one of these to make sure they are aware of it so that's why this is included in here right we're not really revising it but it would be probably wise to vote on it and have everything dated of the same piece that we reviewed and web presence just a web page but also presents through social media and this responds to that endeavor desire talks about the web pages that our children and our students that we'll be using in school and how they get approved and how we're going to use them to it is teaching and learning tools but one thing i did know i d cell phone and all other electronic devices students bring your own device b y o d n you remember that we piloted this last year as wireless came up in all of our schools and so now we've had it for a year an amy wrote a workable you know policy to govern the use of cell phones and all other electronic devices in school because now phones are more than phones they're tiny little computers in our kids can use them for all kinds of educational purposes so that used to be and they're not being and they're welcome that's what this is all about and i don't think we need to read the whole thing i think we made a few minor changes in the language at our last meeting but other than that i think it is very helpful so just before we vote on this one i think this is real time we topic it it to be it's not a bad idea to spend an extra minute just for anyone watching you want to just be good maybe to just talk about what it is it's really is it it's really a couple of different things so in terms of the bring your own device policy sometimes it's been referred to  as the un banning of cell phones there is a lot of teacher discretion and volved in terms of what's appropriate in terms of the instructional environment so if students are maybe watching you know a film or engaged in in lassen devices may not be allowed and in terms of we're beginning to develop the pedagogy in terms of the terms and in the cues in terms of when devices are a lot and not a lot so there is a lot of teacher discretion on the ball so in this policy for example it does not say students must lock up their phones in their lockers or cannot use them in school this is now subject to a teacher subject to a learning environment that any given time in the school now so this this policy really is the district policy or even a framework to provide some consistency throughout the district in terms of b y o b but it does  it does redirect you to each school student handbook in terms of defining appropriate usage at the at that that grade level so the high school handbook for instance  defines times when it's appropriate to use devices such as in the cafeteria you know war or certain times of the day you want to student or a parent has a question they should go back to the  correct correct so that care is ready if so at the district level this provides kind of a consistent framework and then within the school handbook provides age appropriate or educationally  appropriate information in terms of that in their particular environment and then lastly just stating some of the things that i read here just for again anyone who's interested this also talks about things like the school system will not be responsible for loss or damage which i think is fairly common sense but also it talks about the use of the device for photographing video audio so several of those all must be approved by our school system by our policies correct and i just like to interject there too that it all all of your device usage has to be in accordance with the acceptable use policy that we put in place for the internet and new cisco computers same policies of hi same good boy same policy applies to the use of the device itself if you couldn't do it on a school computer you can't do it on your tablet or phone or laptop this goes back to in terms of all the work we're doing around digital citizenship in terms of teaching students how to use their devices both of you know instructional year educationally or academically in preparing them for for the work place or for college or for whatever their next there was one other point i wanted to remind the public of is when we were going through the pilot program amy did talk to a lot of students at both middle school and the high school level who said they preferred to bring their own devices as opposed to having like a one to one system where we gave everybody and i pad always something and i looked at you because i'm sorry i thought it was a me no i had the student focus groups yes yes some of that is there so i was trying to pull i think the easy answer was some of them said you know just give us all same thing but most of them said don't because we like what we're used to at home i like using my cell phone my friend likes using his whatever and you know in terms of our deployment of mobile devices is what is really being able to provide students with options and choice so some students may choose to bring in their own device or use their own device and other students may choose to use one of the surplus property prep school and breaker hill school ok this is a do this quick this is actually just housekeeping these are two properties that were under the control room of the controlled school committee i truly believe something was done years ago but there's no record in the town side of this the town has actually used it from the town side they used the quaker school as a storage facility for while they actually rented out the pratt school but in order for them to move forward we really and if you go up there the building was used as a karate school and just recently but it's really in bad shape in the town along with some of it's all the surplus property needs to make a decision with how they want to deal with this but i can't i just interject something it's simple but it might help a little bit of people watching people are thinking when he when you meet if you release that what you even own it because they do know that our current school is owned by the town town built in the home that's what you would say but they're owned by they're actually run and managed by the school committee right so these buildings have been heard of in years in the most recent documents you know a long time ago say that we in school even though anyone driving around town with think the town on those buildings probably want to even talking about these buildings that's why the owner of record is still schooled in and any property owned by the town in its different groups where the conservation recreation or school apartment  once that department no longer has a use for conservation is a different wants of the department or is used for you have to do this vote basically to create a surplus which then puts it back into the town side other departments then have a right to say they have committee did until there's a vote it's on record that basically says these two properties are definitively not properties that we use for school purposes then nothing could have that and that's what can't be found right now of those  so i think you know again it's a parcel of the town can make other arrangements to deal with but we have no interest and no use for either one of these probably some sentimentality of some of our residents who spend some time in some of these buildings you know i imagine board's will have we've been as a school committee and manages the property incurring any costs of those and now as they go away this year plus where they go away and we get that sort of money you know and that's why it's this is kind of an two parcel forty one zero one with any improvements there want to be no longer needed for the school or educational purposes and that the committee so notify the board of selectmen of its action for purposes of further disposition as you know the part of the program that the school department puts out in advertising to families in town that if they qualify because of state and federal grants and and funding  you know families that are meet a certain threshold financially can't get assistance and that assistance is obviously supported by the federal government the family might qualify for children to have a free lunch or they might they are great reimbursement to us as a community is and making sure that our fee that we charge others is not so low that they're actually supplementing the cost in other words they want us to stay comparable and therefore that you know what they're paying is equal to what you know family that is capable of pain does and in this particular case when you and you have your weighted average so it's based on how many meals we sell you know the elementary level which is currently a two dollars and fifty cents versus how many meals do we sell it at the high school level which is to seventy five the average came out to sixty five based on their calculator we would need to be at least up to seventy  meet the minimum guidelines what i'm recommending is that we mop instead of by five cents by ten cents which is the cap maximum that you are required to do you can always do more but the in order to start to get to their standard they said that you never have to do more than ten cents a year my opinion is that we were about fifteen hundred dollars shy of break even last year was very close it's close as we've been a number of years since they changed the regulations on what we serve obviously we lost all the snack foods which the kids like to buy and he's with a lot of my own but with all the nutritional foods and stuff that we sell that the it took a while and i think allison and her team done a great job as far as creating better menus and better options and that the kids seem to enjoy and are interested in buying so we had very close last year but we still weren't there so i think they're just going up the five cents if we go up to ten hopefully we won't have to have this conversation for at least two years and i think that's what we did last time  actually last time we went to buy a water and we were able to go for almost three years you know without having to raise it so i think that would bring us up on the elementary level to two sixty and it would mean it's up to to eighty five on the middle school high school level and again you know right in line with what i'm seeing in other districts in our area i think you know some have made the jump by a quarter and i think it's not necessary  not many that's when we got to the fruit smoothies which was a great option because it not only brought in the yogurts in the in the fruits and vegetables and stuff like that into the drink it made it something that kids and actually would enjoy getting and that really was huge was an amazing turnaround both the middle school and high school kids really love that so again those things actually brought them to space and back up we had that one year that they really you know if you remember you know the you know two hundred pound football player got a little piece of chicken on the plate and that was supposed to sustain him for the day that didn't really fly so that created a lot of basic issues on the participation side i think i have marilyn actually spoke back now because we're son yeah sorry but i think the so i think from from our perspective participations back to where we want to be pricing needs to be adjusted to to meet the minimum on the federal standards but if we go to just a slight amount might give us a little cushion in the account we used to actually  have a nice little surplus in that account which helped us to buy equipment stuff like that right now we're going to great raiders never yet making a point right now we've been making up for in the school budget as we move forward with when things break in or need replacement so so i think again i think phone which welcoming all of our staff members back on opening day was a fun day and then also included among other things an informational matters it was a letter from the department head saying if you remember we had the four new book review which is quite lengthy it was a short summer i'm back and it was a week just in combination with this the e l l english language learner according to programme review we're still waiting on the final report from them so that when we'll bring back as soon as we receive it it's done we've seen a draft but we're still waiting on that one and then really looking forward to coming back in our professional development days that are coming in the next couple of days you know you always do such a great job with the program and i wish everyone could see  the workshops that are there we had a very extensive professional development survey they went out in the spring and we're using that data to really drive based on the needs of the district so where you see the office three sixty five out of the twelve top feedback from a friend of mine whose daughter attended p c c and i can't wait i hope that those kids are going to come and be one of our teaching and learning highlights oh they know they had a phenomenal experience there and they did so it was nice to have the visiting day where we get to go and see them and i was able to find all the kids and just to see them just forging those relationships following something they love their passion about finding other kids with the same passion and that the they have there are tremendous so we had kids doing all kinds of things we had fun to forensics we had a couple in the theater program so i hope that that grows usually they're there they're the leaders so the four that went this summer we thought we'd have five we end up with four we'll spread the word i'm sure we'll have more kids going next year but i'm really glad that we joined that program they have such a terrific experience it's great i actually saw one other thing i wanted to show share that the  wonderful job doing there with that was how to drive but in the end we have many many many generous businesses and individuals who help with that but i just happen to see this on facebook so if anybody needs school supplies thank you to the dollar tree store and go but the clarification is there is there are multiple news outlets in our terms without naming it one of electronically posted that the first day of school but still when i saw it is the second that is not true school starts on her september first is when school starts so i just wanted to clarify that because it is a widely read electronic news  and some families some nice people spent last saturday spreading wood chips around the nature trail getting ready for the barrels schools opening and there was some nice work done there and this still a little to continue but probably ninety five percent of the work that had to be done got done and there was a lot of community involvement it was all volunteer volunteer and jim kelly the most gentleman who worked with michelle mccarthy and reached out to several organizations and put