and it's a race to that raises proceeds to benefit of high school student after student athletes costumes and athletes scholarships and the overall athletic program at the high school  i've been to it for the past three years and it's a very moving event to see the teachers get up and speak about their experience and their working environment public schools and how it makes them feel and it's a great and students get very excited about their teachers and all that so it's a great event tomorrow night the special education parent pfizer council is having an information test on one basic rights for parents and this weekend the twenty seventh and the twenty eighth high school is having their annual pops concert at the high school at seven o'clock on the thirtieth the middle school so and that sample concert is at seven o'clock here at the  and then may twenty third is a very busy day here in belmont there's a great five began an orchestra concert a chorus concert for grade five as well and then valid posters are having  steve representative present and then we have the superintendence i only want to emphasize that the outstanding teacher of the year award ceremony that they have on may first was preceded by notifying the teachers straight before the  april break the f b e in their team go from school to school recognizing all the teachers we started at the high school recognized two teachers at belmont high capes the middle school went to the wynn burke in the burbank in the butler and the wellington and the teachers are truly grateful to be recognized i think they start off in shock and then they're very very happy and then the kids get really fired up and it's a really good morning  so very very thankful to be a part of that day and like you said susan the may want to drink is a really special night starting at six thirty and we invite all the children to come we tell them they don't have any homework that night and that they can stay up late need cookies and drink every year we have to do an open bubble public forum or not and we've already put hundreds of the budget to the school committee at this table we have to set the budget to the warrant committee in the board of selectmen in the school committee at a separate meeting back in february or early march we will be presenting just an updated summary of the budget presentation that we've already provided and we do not vote in the budget tonight we will vote in the budget on may twenty second that gives us a chance to take any feedback that we get and make any adjustments leading into our town meeting segment be sessions which are in june that all financial articles are discussed a town meeting so we have a little time to make any adjustments if needed  and so we'll give you the highlights tonight i also have provided in related work the updated in roman projections that we got from mckibbin associates as a second presentation because i think it really rings the alarm for our concerns for a role in the updated information is is interesting to view and it was requested by the school committee and we did receive a few weeks ago tony and his team have made it into some very sick slides a nd i think that that will be information that will be helpful to inform not only this party but the viewing public in the town meeting in june as well so a summary of our f y nine hundred budget if you remember we worked our budget through three increase the next section of our budget which are our strategic plan cost drivers is the nine positions that we're asking for or the nine f t e as they won't actually be nine teachers they'll be made up of full time staff part time staff  that will make up more people but nine full time equivalent sees that nine f t e allocation along with the health insurance and along with some extra funds that we believe are really important to have in our teachers hands that have been historically donated by folks like the f b m p t o s and boosters and poms we added more money to ensure that our teachers had what they needed and that was a one point six percent increase or a total of eight hundred twenty eight thousand dollars the last cost driver which is an external cost driver which i described as almost a bill that the town needs to pay consists of a special education tuitions that we pay each year interest petition and contract and services that we're obligated to do by law or mandate and also the health insurance that we provide our staff teachers and staff and custodians alike and that increase town wide this year was eleven percent so that increase in and of itself was two point seven so if w e add these up they all seem reasonable as you walk your way through each category but we do and with a request of seven point six percent in our budget from f y e y nineteen which is a total request of four million sixteen thousand dollars it's sixteen thousand eight hundred one hundred eight dollars in the total budget would be fifty six million nine hundred eighty five thousand five hundred ninety two dollars for fiscal nineteen so that's a summary page of what was a long presentation that we provided  two occasions prior just to kind of frame this work when folks see ninety just and say well how do you how do you need more teachers we should remind our community that we're very thankful for the overall funds that we have received for three years that gave us a three year budgeting process where we were able to hire ten teachers in the first fiscal year five in fiscal year two and five more in fiscal year three next year is the fourth the year that we are now in and the financial task force model even though it went out in services and needs it didn't go out as it related to revenue so we are asking for more revenue to support some additional teaches that we feel we really need for a roman and when we look at that and we start to do a comparison we say well where does the witnesses the time get money for and roman think rhys's and that increase is supported by chapter sevent state aid from the state of massachusetts so are the seventy funds actually went up by a a little over a million dollars which is a forty percent increase in our requests for those strategic plan cost drivers which are the nine f t s plus some materials f roman totals eight hundred twenty eight so we're really we're giving you this information to show that we're not after way asking for so much money beyond our roman needs and that we are in the ballpark of not only rolling our staff over at a reasonable percentage increase from one year to the next that our increase that we're asking for as it relates to rome and it was is within the boundary of that chapter seventy money that the state is actually providing that time so just a quick overview of the rollover amounts that three point three percent is in line with is in line with the other town expenses on the town side it's it relates to what it cost to rollover the town expenses the cost drivers is a one point six percent increase y eighteen but it is below the amount of money that the town receive from the state for chapter seventy to account for the increase in roman and that increase for our rollover for special education and mandated bills  is in line went to the task force budget that we made over four years ago which called for a seven percent increase every year and is also a product of the health insurance going up this year for the second year in a row it up at a pretty large clip we went up eleven percent this year going into next last year was a nine percent increase but the four or five previous fiscal years were zero zero maybe two percent so we had a really good stretch of low increases in our health insurance but that eleven percent this year that number alone i think for dollars represents almost one hundred thousand dollars just in insurance for our teachers and our staff so that's why you would see a sizable increase in the budget what are we doing with the funds relates to are up to ease as we have already noted in draft one we asked for elementary classroom teacher point one physical education elementary teacher we had asked for a point six our teacher but as we started to look at how we are arranging our classes in our marginal classes that each school we know that we can provide the necessary are without adding any staff with the travel time that we're having at each school reduced a little bit and instead we're putting point six elementary guidance councils and that would be one for a point to add for when brooke a point to add for butler in a point to add for burbank right now the wellington already has one and a half guidance counselors in the other schools don't have full time as of this point in time so it's a little bit of a calibration for that service we will continue with a point six elementary special educator we will continue with the point to music teacher two point zero middle school teachers that will be great five that will add another team to our grade five remember right now that the grade five average class size is about twenty eight and this should bring that down to about twenty four twenty schools get getting to the point of being almost three hundred thirteen hundred fifty almost fourteen hundred students and it only has three administrators for all those students it makes it challenging and at the moment we have two point five high school teachers that have been allocated by department that just got broken up by the leadership council so we don't have that updated information we received it last week before vacation we went over and over those selections with the team and we can provide an update on that two point five prego breakout of positions at our next meeting we are also including one district wide english language learner teacher we don't put that into school or a level until we find out where the students actually attend the enrollment tends to go up and down to each of our schools each at each level so we just usually hire that position to have as a placeholder we know our population is going up it was in our roman projections i believe that we were eleven or thirteen percent from washington this year we anticipate a continued growth and we know we have high class size in that service delivery right now so that will go to good use of that is our nine f t e it's the changes that we have outlined is a net zero budget shift and one more change in our draft one to our draft two has been shift in how we allocate funds within our technology department they're not using or asking for more money than just shifting how they use it technology staff and they're basically going from less contract in service  support to hiring one more individual that will be an employee of the district that will be a net zero impact to the budget and steve mazola who we all know does phenomenal work feels like he can serve the school population best with this reallocation of his funds so that's the second change to from our draft from door draft two and also just to make sure that we're on the same page we'd like to include this general summary our general fund budget is fifty six million nine hundred eighty five thousand five hundred ninety two dollars we are rolling over all existing positions and adding nine f t ease not nine people but nine f t e health insurance is a big driver this year at eleven percent and special education is in line with our the task force model that we developed over four years ago we have developed an implementation plan for how we address our out of cost like think tony first work on this we have worked with the finance committee over the period of two years to come up with a full miller of how we can balance our special education expenses against predictable revenue through grant our general fund our circuit breaker in our lab credit allocations we use all that revenue and we have a three year model that we keep moving forward in to ensure that we have enough funds to pay those important bills each year funding resources in a year in advance of those costs so a circuit breaker that we get every year that the state says you should hold for the next year's expenditure we made it's that level of being able to be a solvent community around this expense and we're very proud to be able to have that that work done and it's been something that's been really talked about it i find it's meetings and the war committee is well aware of our work in that area as well we want to make sure we emphasise that we are asking for an increase in text with tears and supplies of about one hundred nine thousand dollars this is more than we have asked for in the past we have always kept our tech materials and supplies growing at about two percent and we feel that we've been able to prioritize our needs for our teachers each year but we've also been leaning too much on the f b i to much in our p t o s and this is a real shift to try to make that those purchases on general fund money not on the hope that p t o s and boosters and the f b i will provide funding for that and we believe that these are general expense items and they should be in the budget and so we did want to include them our federal grants are budgeted f y nineteen as they exist now and eighteen that doesn't mean that that's how they'll come in so that's that's a variable that we want to keep out there and we have kept our user fees the same and i believe this is the fourth period fourth year in a row that we've been able to keep our bus fees and student athletic fees and club fees consistent full day kindergarten fund revolving funds will continue to support kindergarten teacher salaries in aid salaries as they have in the past and we will continue to use our school  building rental revolving find to support the facilities work now that we are a combined facilities town and it's nice to report that we have a new director for the facilities department who will be able to support the schools in the town buildings and not his rental income that we get through our using our school as for mental properties over the reconsider i will go to supporting the schools each year for anything from fixing baskets to roofs to windows etc so we're lucky to have the money to go to that purpose so in the end we're recommending and requesting the school committee vote and approve and i meeting in may the draft to budget and will wait until may to do that  fifty six million nine hundred eighty five five ninety two and the all in budget in a lot of folks like to know what that means the all in budget is not just the general fund money that's provided by the town but also the money that we receive from the state and federal grants that total budget that will expend next year in fiscal nineteen will be sixty four million six hundred sixty eight thousand and forty dollars and that's what we call the all in budget the budget package in the binder that we gave you earlier in the year has every general fund expenditure and every grants expenditure as well so we have an all invited that's in front of you and it's actually online right now so for the viewing public you can go online to see the longer presentation and you can go online and see all seven hundred  would like to provide to really go to have i don't i don't have any insight on scores i would just add that the devices are being used very well for instruction so i'm grateful to have the devices if that was th wonderful way so we were fortunate to use money from our general fund in the current year in leverage that to receive funds from the capital committee and to also receive money from the general p t o or other o s as well as the f b two support technology in our classrooms into genesis point having chrome books in the middle schools a good thing having every test on a computer is something different but we're glad that we can have those devices available for students to use and at the elementary the middle school level and so we are an i pad school the high school level but we are exploring utilizing heavily from books at the elementary and middle school of those so it's a win kind of when this is something that i think bring gets part of the time reading a lot it does not include money that the f p has provided or p t o has provided because that is another level of revenue that supports the basic functions of the district sometimes and so that's not including  background on that is why had such a fifty percent increase in custody over time or whatever the exact number was and all that category all together i'll give you a couple of parts and if i miss any tour you can fill in we are we've committed to in our contract negotiations up to the high school we haven't had them in the past so adding money to that line to be able to provide that could have coverage for teachers who are open for us students got to park a story all over time has really been substantial over the last few years due to a couple of reasons and we want to make sure we have enough money for that with our new director facilities one of the questions that we had in the interview process was how do you provide a cost but if in analysis to too much overtime it when would that be for another historian and trying to have that kind of look at all the things that we do as relates to facilities and so that's something that the new person coming in will be in charge of doing because that could really that over time cost could actually be another and to fill a role in to get the work done on a regular shift instead of having overtime i know that because we have night cleaning at the middle school in the high school that by the end of the winter season arc of stories it's hard to do a lot of night very yeah so just as part of our we were asked to provide updated information for the title make him an associates was the group that we engaged back in two thousand and sixteen to get ready for the m s b a process in the new high school project we wanted to make sure that we had data that we could could peer the m s b a's in roman data too and after a couple of years have gone by we decided that to refresh the the data points we wanted to provide them to the and what the mckibben associates folks would tell us for the first five years of their estimates they seem very very confident and for maybe a seven to eight year period they feel pretty confident and then anything after nine to ten years is really just that formula year we're about at that peak in roman from their perspective that we are hitting that that wave is at the highest point at the elementary school as as they would suggest if you noticed the line doesn't go really back down too deep until way out until thirty two but we are supposedly at our peak at the elementary level we'll wait to see how that bears out in these numbers are higher and every level than they were in the two thousand and sixteen presentation to us at the middle school level it gets a little  more concerning the peak will come at about two thousand and twenty one twenty two and it actually reflects a peak in romans of sixteen hundred twenty one students at the middle school this is a school that is currently about three thirty two hundred  fifty and just a few years ago it was just twelve hundred so they're going to absorb over four hundred or so students over about a five or six year period that's like the butler for the burbank school and of water for five year period when you look at how that starts to go down this doesn't go all the way back down to where it used to be it actually stays so it's hovering at that fifteen hundred fifteen hundred twenty level is a sizable increase and that's that's the long run stay so we talk about the watermark going up and down if you flooded your basement now that new line that you see in your basement is getting up towards the third or fourth or fifth year it's going to stay there so there's a worry about the four grades at the middle school being such a large number in two thousand and twenty one twenty that you want to peaks and then it stays pretty high when you go to the high school you see that that tide roll forward when you're out of sixteen hundred sixty seven pekin roman  in the school year two thousand twenty five twenty six and again with youth that doesn't like to go it stays in about fifteen fifty for the ongoing period so again our new water mark is much higher so this concern that we had a few years ago ago about a roman being higher than we anticipated we thought about three sixty per grade and right now we know what those numbers were going to be averaging about three ninety at the high school three eighty at the middle school and about three sixty at the elementary school so why are they different they're different because students come in as the years go by and they might start high but they add a little bit each year that incrementally creates at average that's higher at the higher grade levels so in summary  we have where we were in sixteen seventeen twenty four seventy again we're using just one year ago if we went back three or four years that number would be about thirty three hundred that was a very it wasn't very long ago we were thirty three hundred history when we look at the peaks and different years we we want to make sure that we're aware that these peak numbers are really really high pro grade but then we look at that we decided to pick a ten year out number and we look at that ten year old number we have an average of three sixty five three seventy nine and three ninety seven and we will be almost to five thousand school districts in the next five to ten years with thirty three hundred so it's a substantial amount of students  support the capacity to to have this in roman co op and we're excited that we are engaged in the building process where we have reconfigured the district which is a really big deal for district to take on but it does actually  get the district to school in another school in a one building project which is at seventh and eighth grade building next to include what that nine to twelve building that will alleviate a lot of our capacity concerns and not to mention that  when we talk about the operating budget adding nine teachers will be great but are we're noticing that our f t e easer a full time equivalent season our teachers are going up but the enrollment seems to be beating a little bit so that gap is still there  so we will be continually asking for more staff as we move through the next two fiscal years and we won't ask for staff forever we'll ask for staff so we can meet that need of what what does a school look like to  staff for three hundred ninety seven students per grade at the high school level in the seven to twelve level one of the school look like to be staffed at a three hundred seventy nine program so we we're not going to ask for more than that but we now we know what the ranges and what the peaks are and what the so we had that conversation today so we have a roman design and roman capacity to design in roman number of about twenty three hundred i don't know the exact number we may have said it twenty three hundred but in the high school that does not measure up to be your capacity that means is enough homeroom seats for about twenty three hundred students but when students pick up and move to their classes which is also art the fieldhouse for physical fitness and wellness and world language  etc now you're building is almost like a four thousand to forty three hundred capacity building goal of alo has that escalator on in his memory dial so we believe that we have enough room in the new building seven through twelve to address this in rome and increase the spaces that will be compromised at certain p p r it's what we places like the cafeteria as an example that might be one space that's a little bit limited we can build it could be right away practically we could we could build it it would be a design in roman capacity but it certainly wouldn't be at camp design and roman amount but it wouldn't be a capacity as a relates to we would have enough rooms as students go into their schedules to support more students that are on that list so i'm comfortable with the day to day schedule with em but those are the things i think it is to the people here it's a hitting right when all the students who've been in twenty five twenty six the students but look at the for that but those would be the highest numbers right at the time when the school opens moment projections have claims to account for new housing developments i can't help but we always seem to outpace the projections so with so many new housing projects coming online in the next five years i know that's one thing but also the trends in the sales demographics of houses and like people moving out who don't have kids and schools are going to replac think they always we've always experienced a little more actually room with them with their projections are they have taken continue into consideration the two apartment complexes that are going up one that's not built yet and the one that's coming on line right by our wife they have included those in the projections and as a relates to heart of the a comfort zone over of houses they actually have the average age of a person who sells their home and then they'd go to the census and they find out how many people are turning that age and as they turn that age they dissipate the home opening up and then what's the average move in of a field we have how many children do they have so they have a real long list of variables that play into this formula that's pretty consistent with the m s b is formula but they go into a little more  detail and so i do feel confident that they're hitting all the right spots in terms of the data points but we continue to beat the odds as a relates to just having a few more folks every year incrementally that begins to catch up with us so  but it won't that this is a very reputable group and they're based out of north carolina and a lot of massachusetts schools and schools nationwide use the desperately will have in a few years as a relates to the condition of the ice rink that we are lucky to have on our high school campus the rink has been revived many times over the last ten to fifteen years and it is definitely on its last leg and it would be a substantial cost to the district in the town to build a new rink or continue to put money good money after after bad money in person something is continually asked them to present to us a few years ago to get ready and then the new high school came aboard and we wanted to make sure that we had our space and footprint of the new high school set before we had bought go too far down a design owners or one of our parents and citizens is here tonight as well to do some work to design this facility in bob is going to show us what it could look like if in fact the school committee in the town wanted to enter into a private public private partnership to have the rink built and maintained in service by a private group but it had the full amenities and full open service to not only the high school athletes but also to the town in the community for youth hockey and house will see some other uses as well so we've been talking about this a lot bob behind the scenes with different groups and we wanted to have tonight be where we just put the whole presentation forward so the time can get a little view of what kind of creative options are available to us and i think it will be incumbent on the school committee and eventually the board of selectmen to talk about whether or not this public private partnership would would work and what it would entail legally from a lot of different angles but we want to kind working with the town over the past five to seven years you know there are a number of programs in town that are on the council recognise that and it's really great to see that in high school forward but as john mentioned we are the primary user of the facility and so value talkie has a major interest in having a functioning facility in town so we're offering to essentially go into a public private partnership where in exchange for a land these we would raise the private funds to build a rate that would be for public use in the town and user fees  we have about four hundred kids in the program to year that's growing up as your programs are they range from four years old up to nineteen years old and we run a different development programs that range from learn to skate to learn to play for both boys and for girls and then we have twenty two competitive teams that compete in different the greater boston area and as john mentioned we are the primary user of the current facility we account for about seventy five percent of the purchased or the revenues that come in to fund the operation of the facility the high school and others use it so we are a significant interest in making sure there's a functional facility what we know though is that the car facility  we actually rented about seven other rinks around to meet our demand for our programs and so our kids are traveling from there we were in somerville cambridge watertown all those other rates too to get enough time for them so while we are the seventy five percent purchaser we actually cash from a failure other point which they can no longer be revived and so that they could be any day coming up and and unfortunately the the structure of the way it's built is not up to current codes so the option to renovate really isn't there because if you were to try and it's one small part you actually have to replace essentially entire structure so you're looking at basically a new facility in one situation or another from a programming perspective the town growth that you're seeing in the middle school  school was driving demand for use force around town over the past twenty years the growth in girls programming has extended family up we have a huge number of girls and girls have a program as well as in our joint programs and then there are programs like ours but indoor space for other recreation activities just throughout the town whether they be indoor space for walking or for running whether that be space for community meetings or in concert or what drives all those things became apparent that there is a need for companies that provide food service schools to companies you hire to go garbage all the way up to partnerships that have occurred locally and i walk through a couple examples where the nonprofit or for profit and people manager build a recreational facility way that works is a nonprofit like ours secured a lease for the ground use that these for the ground to go out secure financing to build the facility and then with the facilities built the town recreation department actually manages the facility charges user fees those user fees to go pay the back the financing for these so we're working on something that's very comparable to that but that's a situation again that addressed a public need for recreational facilities for the town didn't have the capital to build the right then and there the second one is happening right now that just broke ground but the town of wellesley has at least planned to a private developer who's going to run a commercial operation this one is a multipurpose a very large operation center it's going to have two full size ranks and indoor soccer use of the film high school for the recreation programs in town that the town that had the option once the facility for the loan is paid off to take back operation of the facility if they love how everything was going to continue to contract for its operation externally but that would be an option at the end of the term of the lease my youth hockey would go and secure private financing to build the facility and then we would secure private management to run the facility and so that's how this would work  for skating between you know figure skating lessons and the figure skating practices the public skating ice hockey sled hockey broom ball curling all demands for ice time in town on the field house side there was demand for some indoors tennis courts indoor field space  soccer baseball across options to have other athletic events in there like rock climbing running and walking space a potentially event space and then from a point of view of infrastructure on the high school campus team meeting rooms or community meeting rooms  this corner so that would go away so the new facility would be on concrete out so we did retain the r c softball field and the soccer field we were also asked to improve the parking and drop off and so there's a new improvement to the flow of traffic to targeting access as well as safety on hunker down and so we know that's going to hopefully align with the traffic light that's going to come down to this area for the high school project as well so especially facilities as well and then from the rear of the building which you can see here is it integrates into the athletic fields by creating a set of steps that serve as effectively stands for both soccer and for is a half range that can serve as a rig for the winter season but the rest of the year it's field house space that would be to tennis courts or indoor baseball indoor softball indoor soccer concerts or community events or whatever could be on that on the side and so you pick up a facility that's not just supporting hockey is creating the infrastructure support the entire thought a complex with restrooms locker rooms indoor space meeting space teams space and other community space as well as opposed to just addressing skating hockey figure skating and those events you have to salute that you support additional fieldhouse space which you're not going to pick up on your high school design for the show classes and grey's that are down the campus so we think e's an additional site that has been under consideration which i just want to mention briefly we haven't done a ton of this i'm more there but we have a look at whether it's feasible and this would also be unconquered out but much further west out on the old incinerator  fields or other buildings or something like that so there is one other spot and i think this facility on concord half we tried to design something that integrated right into the high school campus and hopefully become a major you know civic asset for all the different lot to think about and even though there's been a lot of conversation over the last few years and some planning and then some idling because of the new building project and getting a footprint said and the hope would be that we could  conversation as a town and really try to be creative about how we have a real challenge that could be solved without really expensive town but a partnership that would really be creative  and to add my two cents a i really after looking at different views of the incinerators side versus a school site it gets complicated to put it on the school site given the construction that will have in the new school building but when you really think about what that would look like in  the value would bring to that that whole downtown area with the pool in the summer and the use of parking in the loop that goes in and out to get cars off the street and to have all those immunities right there in our in the place that's the heart of the town is a would like to say that i'm dating myself but years and a long long time ago that ring was used for multiple a different purpose in the spring it was tennis courts about that which it's not for now anymore so it be nice to be able to have a facility that could offer and all the other opportunities that are being presented because i think that's what it was was tennis in the supplemental supplemental in complimentary features it could have to go out only the community but to to our student athletes of the high school so creating options for students who use locker facilities and have access outside fields and maybe indoor practices in the spring when everybody's looking for a dry space right now to play softball or baseball or across it and having space to practice and to use in tandem with our field house is a huge asset to the to the town not to mention the community and and i keep thinking about the f b f p's rule of the road race that we have for dan scharf been in that would be a really cool spot to be able to host atlanta shine in and have those types of increase on this site so my my sense is that the reason miners facilities are replacing the facilities that are being replaced so obviously there is a little bit more with the enhanced are you already have a rate so you're not really adding a lot of population or you just take taking away from gesture making the sequence much safer better but there's a little bit that are not significant parking issue so taking cars off the streets for parking getting them off golden gate in the off orchard getting the market conquered now provides folks who are traveling through to take that right in that i took to come up here to and go down and there's a car par both sides and you had cars going both ways so hopefully that hundred eighty five spots in that loop in in front of the facility take all those cars are the neighborhoods to put into the parking lots that are already going to these functions anyway so off so the town will have multiple options yes i just want to add so to me these are the steps that we have to take and in the order is really important the first thing we want to do is put this idea for the public to make sure they understand what it was until and what it would look like and it would need an approval from the school couldn't even move any father in this from that because we quote own the land the town owns the land with the school so obviously the board of selectmen are equally as important in this and so it would then have to be put in front of the board of selectmen for their approval and while we're doing that we would and we are the have been in contact with town council what this is kind of a lease look like what does this legal language look like one of the legal terms that we would like to come to  agreement on what are some of the best practices what some of the town said have been presented hits and i had that we could review will look at in a fall that felt comfortable in the legal pieces recovered do we really want to enter into this and if we do we would have to go in front of town meeting for final approval when we do that you'd have to go out and then have an r f p process who who's going to build it who's going to run it how is going to works as does another process after that after that's all been secured in the fine and things been secured but the terms of that agreement will will be really clear in the language of the lease that shows what happens at the end of this the terms of it how long it lasts what the hours out of the school gets what they  that youth hockey gets what right get sick cetera all those things to be explained very explicit piece and so this is the first step of about four or five you know big steps that would have to look at one by one do you have a graphic timeline for this because i'm thinking of construction of this facility in the construction of the new high school and it could just be a lot of construction but i could be i mean you know i think  from next year and have it done before much of the real work starts on the high school there is a time when that could happen in parallel which i know is not ideal and there's a time when it could happen after which is probably least ideal because the rig won't make it ba on high school campus and the other facility can also a second option that get hasn't been explored anywhere near as in depth as this option but to me become the default option at the time just can't i have a question about the flex spaces around the site it's a little hard to tell from my paper copy because you can't read that the key to it all the spaces on the paper copy get that that's like so is it has there been any thought and some of the other major space issues in the town we've been talking about are a lack of space for aftercare for heads in the afternoon hours between say think two and six o'clock is there any possibility of integrating into the black space base where there could be some capacity for aftercare programs to be run out of that building back could greatly increase our capacity to serve the needs of kids just you know in a pretty limited set of hours today of two to six pm basically laws you know to create additional for space i think what actually happens in the after care in terms of what kids actually do and aftercare really does align with the other purposes of the building and we have such a lack of space in the those spaces could look like as well so i think that i think a lot of folks have been asking about parking reckon i think part of rec needs space they don't have the space of this could be supplemental to their work as well as another potential o does the land right now the land has designated school land very educational use does this change that status because there's a concern about land becoming designated recreational may not ever become school again i mean there seems to be a great divide there and school wise we're very short on land and i'm looking at the enrollment numbers here we may have four hundred or but does it change the designation i do i would leave that to the the legal review of the deed of the land which they are actually doing in the purpose of the land in that would probably be be used this way and or do we want to hold it in case we need another school that's of the i think that's a separate conversation in terms of what the political views that believe could be used for another school be sure down the road if that was trying to meet the biggest need we have right which is we currently have four kids travel all over greater boston and this would allow us to bring all those kids back to normal and have them all here you know during the week nights for practice never th tribute i think on the financing side you know this is only really financially feasible for us if the land comes in this private partnership it makes officially  transaction it's right that's that's a lot of work that we've done on a lot of different if the user fees aren't there because we lose some of this programming space or if we had to you know  just one last comment if the rink went away tomorrow and we started next school year with no rink access we would be finding money in our operating budget for busses in for rick rental time both of which are substantial that we don't pay right now but it's a really big cost the district but to those districts that have to travel even within town to rent ice or to go out of town toronto so we know that we're going to do a little bit of that potentially during the contraction of the new school for different fields it will be offline and then come online but ice time in the renting sheets of ice is a really expensive proposition for the majority of town to don't have ice rinks of their own so this is an asset to the town that can be preserved a little bit and it total operating cost is for that rang through your own fees rate so what what do you do if the rink is just off line to what happens to your program do you that we participate so for the leads that we participate in we have to provide allocations of ice time that they read from dawn to cover not just our games but other means of the run through there and so the loss of that rink does a couple things one is we love  the winter as a regular half crazy opportunity for three teams to practice per hour as opposed to currently two so it's a significant reason truman in the capacity for both the high school programs where there's you know it's one hundred so thank you very much we have a lot to think about the time that's what to think about and we're trying to get in touch with the moderator to see if maybe a report hope tumbling in the spring would be an effective leave everything on the slides because i know that you have a long but basically our goal was to get rich the culture of film on high school by giving students and faculty opportunities to be introduced to ideas cultures experiences that they otherwise would not be and from here more about leaders so there were students on that panel mixed with with adults and i was really nice to see everybody navigating that differential and the g s a panel this year this was the first year that on the topic of bill g t students were up on the stage really speaking very honestly and very briefly about their experiences both personally and  and i would say of all of the years from january through february we got the most positive most interesting feedback on the student the student  oh yeah sorry april was was an interesting we did two weeks this year so that was kind of another taking and april was i thought different and a lot of ways from february a lot more student representation there was a capstone class of non high school degree students who conducted a research project on teen dating abuse and that was really cool to watch them up there trying  styles that was completely new we approach mostly the students experiencing ahtisaari night our school it had them with the help of a lot of support staff at the high school had t really well done and done it echoed some from an earlier presentation that they had done but it was it showed that they had come a long way in communicating really what they're about the thing that went when i host my show on it because this is going to spark getting someone to get some charged over something whether it's a sports game or you know some political leader it's about getting a reaction and getting someone to do even if they don't care too much to get you know out of the penalty could go to the caf talk about their friends oh really cool i know that and i think that's amazing that we able to have two weeks of the ear her to bits where almost anything is acceptable you can talk about ideas that you haven't thought about in young high school students is something we want right there the future reach out and it's really hard you know in a class of twenty students you might not be comfortable including raising a hand but going to a panel like this and you know in an area you know in are trying to sixty students you might not able grubby hands either but you have the comfort of that should've been up and last year yes it was the start was in the works and so pretty much the point of the presentation was to present to the student body what it meant to be black the amount of people that showed up to the presentation in order to hear our stories and that in you shows that these kids are interested in what we have seen and although we are the minority in the building  the warm and cool feedback that we got i think that our students here tonight pretty much summarize the more feedback so i could feel through that some of the cool feedback we   there was some desire for the events to be more interactive smaller groups less less lecturing although we do try to avoid that is not just possible it's more still thinking in terms of oppressed groups and talking about how different groups are oppressed and that is certainly you know a part of the kind of programming that we do as as gabby pointed out we are trying to broaden the definition of diversity and really bring in lots of different kinds of things and so you know that that was some of the cool down and where we were after right now and of course we're going to have to wait and see who the interim principal is going to be and that's that's also a big factor book one of the things we're thinking my address some of the cool feedback the students gave us was if we were to does a day to our days and make them like devote them to diversity programming and workshops so we would probably be able to do three have like three different sessions it would be sort of like a conference call sort of like a meal to a conference where we would have a range of different workshops and you know lectures and things different topics and students would be able to choose the three you know three bands that they wanted to attend and all students would be attending that logistical because we definitely want to see their diversity reek diversity the days continue i think gill's point of having this spread out across the course of the year is certainly the ideal  and you know maybe at some point we'll get there so i think now gabby is going to talk a little bit about some students that were that we've been preparing pretty amazing international organization and she came in and we we basically cast a pretty wide net in terms of inviting student leaders of any kind whether that would be student coun that question in you know there to just get them to talk about the high school in general we obviously had a archaeal t obviously had a goal of helping having them grow to help us with diversity week but it was interesting what the main in those three outcomes were from from their guided conversations sometimes you groups sometimes out to two the group and then in one big group setting which is a little bit difficult to navigate but we did see some good noting and these are the three categories that i would say really resonated from thought was pretty pretty insightful and then they did we didn't talk about their first few weeks we did talk about what it experienced and what they thought similar comments to these students here but what really came out are two two pretty significant words i think moving forward yesterday were city as chris was saying points out sort of marginalized or oprah asked people that the programming has that duck focus or at least w imagine presenters are when we imagine workshops we sort of a voice kind of started in that place however students are trying to figure out ways that that programming could unify you know point and point things out point out differences but in a way to bridge people together and meet people all of them are curious about what's not like girls explaining what's not like them what's different from them and then that's always been the goal we didn't mention it tonight but it's always been the goal to sort of have these presentations move into classrooms and have teachers facilitate that's a that's a big step community very high the sky but to have conversations coming out of these presentations of these explosions for the students and so i think this is this going back looking forward to this conference sort of in the logistics i think she could be pretty pretty helpful in terms of imagining when our groups to our troops are imagining how to how to get the kids together and how to get them talking around a think i really like that you're pushing the bar you're what diversity means in him in really ask you what that definition is and it could be said better than in the last line that it's really a discovery of different things so when you can ask why and get involved and learn things that you didn't know before it was it's you pushing the boundaries of what that means i think is really hopeful for everybody so i really appreciate your diversity in a very very different way there was a lot of good conversations or good learning to happen from expanding that definition of the it's great respectful of everything that makes everybody unique and different and exploring that in talking to bart and learning from it so when you mention the kids kid we're really sort of like you're like forty five years old lots of things and i also with the word leadership by i sometimes wonder you know ok that's a word that has its own implication what about the students who aren't identify the others and how could over time as people get more confidence or curious about things how to reach students who might not be the ones that people think about as leaders to participate in the fifty to sixty student group and how that can catch on that's likely to hurt you brought up to something else that part of the vision that we have for next year which we mentioned at one of the assemblies which was that we tried to put together for an on line so that anybody could come forward with you know an issue a hobby perception perspective for you know keeping it buzz as you were saying very very broad and when we envision the workshops that would happen in this conference style we really invision a lot of them being run by students now i'm not sure what kind of training would need to be involved or you know how it would front without her say but i people and how separate you can become in your lives and try to bring them together i spoke with someone who lead to bias and to bias training and he was talking about how he needs like you know it's literally a two to two and a half hour training and again i've thought about this new format in the sense that you know you could do an in school field trip for kids are along those lines of like they did go to one that was done through the i think the something is really really popular and can actually imagine you know on paper a student or even hear this this looks like this amount of interesting but then when you go it could be hugely more interesting or huge less interesting so would be nice to have that sense of latitude of time and different groupings of people to repeat programming or better programming or have more people go to the programming you know sort of easing the logistical piece is if something  amazing and we can do it then let's have it happening in four different classrooms or six different classrooms you know this is way just in the future in terms of logistics but it definitely thinking about it now that format definitely get faculty involved one of the things that i really liked about the the mormon hall was we had a faculty member we had students and we hired people from the community and for next year so i'd like to say thank you because the world's a nerd i'd use another word for the middle but the having said that having spirit and pride i was created by creating traditions so you can have pride in who you are and your belonging to a larger school community instead of award ceremony just recognition recognition of everybody's growth in work and not necessarily the competition of who's the best but recognizing people for the growth of the good work that they do a lot of ar ways and then you to find the folks at the school those are all really great words when you think about what a school coach should look like a kid looks like and we would want to look like some of that this is a really nice blueprint for for moving some of the wor of they all are when they have a chance to show their work and demonstrate their work but the work that teachers do to make that happen you know the diversity weeks type is that if we reimplemented a couple of years ago  the amount of good will in good learning in great outcomes in opportunities that kids are being exposed to that are gabbing chris are providing after school and  through a very small stipend is enormous the payback is huge and so their hard work is very much appreciated and valued and those other warning opportunities that some of those students will never forget you might remember some of your math classes but you certainly remember your participation your planning your you're being asked to speak being on a panel those things are huge for us students and so we really appreciate the teachers that make those things possible and out in the complement i was just so impressed to see the number of events they planned to be part of that it's so much work to plan even and one of those things and to do it on two separate weeks and have so many advance leads time  is part of what they after they started to discuss if they felt that was important to do so out of town side and not the school side of the project which is helpful to us because we've i think collectively found it to be a very good asset to the district we have an m o way with our police department now and have a resource officer at the high school we have a dear officer here at the middle school but adding another resource officer i think would provide a lot of good high quality support to our students and our families that they currently get through our one resource officer and we would be able to double that capacity and just to reiterate that that that resource officer that we currently have works with elementary middle school in high school families and we really believe they provide a great  benefit to our support to schools to students to the families and the staff so i think that the time was hoping to get a vote not just that we think it's a good idea and that's why we voted back in our region to vote to accept the position that they are offer any discussion clarifying question i have heard that their office or mentioned separately from some resource officer but i thought those were kind of the same thing is that is there a difference in what officer is trained specifically for different types of interactions with students and families and children and does all of our lockdown another training for staff in connection with other staff of the at the police station so there's definitely a different training model and a different function for both of those positions likely we did not to notice an invitation to try to get together until we knew it was going to be in the committee so that's why we waited to put that out so now we know that we know we'll put hello curriculum in instructions subcommittee and the capital budget committee is meeting and we have a meeting scheduled for this thursday at eight am to continue discussions on the capital budget the work committee is meeting tomorrow night to continue discussions of and our seven to twelve steering committee of educators that have committed almost every wednesday to giving feedback to the design teams to the teachers will get a chance to provide that feedback tomorrow and we are getting ready for an invitation as a school committee member the board slotman did as well the public are invited it's going to be a workshop on some of the aspects of the of the new way out of the building and we're really getting down to that time where finalizing the layout as  relates to the big picture systems in the workings of the school are being prepared for the it must be a good it's going to be a busy time between now and june so we appreciate the work of all the different educators and parents and community members who are coming