effort last meeting so misspelling i were kind to the group tonight we've got a relatively appreciated agenda i happen to know we have a scout in training in the audience who picked a night to come and i told him he picked a good night last meeting would have been a little longer as always we'll start with the visitors any visitors would like to be recognized in the approval of minutes going to then take us through the teaching and learning highlight which is the credit fair for life that the high school students just went through recently we have the tri town chamber of commerce stem donation will then take a look at the school committee meeting dates for next school year we also have the you will school c participation and then we're fortunate enough to have some donations tonight to take a look at and accept and of course any other matters mr unions and i will be with us tonight you gave me a call that anybody of anything before we start if not will and welcome to our both our student representatives with us tonight i mean visitors like you recognize before we start yes sir if you'd please walk up to the microphone and state your if we think there are going to be we look at the size of groups of people that live in our community and if we think it's mean we do it one way and if we think this we can be able to cover things we may do it another way so why do you think people got good friday because if you we have the minutes from february twenty second contract as presented i would appreciate that any other adjustments of not motion to prove the minutes as amended i'll make that motion thank you very thank you any further discussion follows in favor or zero so over the summer i worked touching base with all of the people that we needed to touch base with and we got our venue donated this year which was marvelous a chill at stadium at the showcase li and that was through diane griffin was very very nice and supportive and came davie's was the manager and she just helped to make the day go it was a breeze so after getting the venue set then i spent a few weeks getting volunteers and you need the volunteers to run the survey and a lot of the volunteers for this event are true financial advisors and bankers and then you have your community members so i touched base with a lot of the people that we did our fairs with in the past and i asked them i knew before we left the partnership but they were going to come to warfare with us because i went around and said will you come if we do or own where you come and they said absolutely they would come mansfield bank had a huge showing this year whereas last year they only had one or two people so that was a marvelous i mean the more volunteers you have because the day of the event people back out so we got our venue set we had our volunteers all there and then the next step was to work with the students and can you step up once they get in just give a quick summary of what is credit for life ok credit for my favorite is a financial literacy day for seniors only so we really want to give them a snapshot in time five years out of college what they are going to be making five years out of college so they're not making a lot of money they come with a lot of debt and that's the way it is so back in so we got our volunteers to them back in october i meet with the entire class and i say ok i'm going to give you a selection sheet you're all going to pick and you're all going to pick a profession they pick one they put their name on the sheet they give it back to me then assign that profession and then come the kids don't they don't know anything until the day of the fair all they know is they pick that they're going to be like one of the students here a mere pic she was going to be a fashion designer think he's going to make  huge books after and so you each have a spending sheet so what happens is the kids pick the profession i assign their profession and income we go through all the formulas and this is what they're spending she looks like so near had sixteen hundred ninety eight dollars to spend for a month this is just a month snapshot but he then has to go to fourteen different food so all the food served in the center here they have to go to everybody and they have to buy a plan they can't say they're living with mom because i'm going to charge them rent to live with their mother we do make a military exclusion they don't have to pay for rent they don't have to pay there are so of their security but they do have to pay rent they can't say that they don't need a wardrobe because they have to have casual clothes to go out they're not going to be in their military uniform all the time so when they go to every booth they have to buy a plan and then the people in the booth sign off so we know that they've been there and as they go through been dumped on the back sheet all their expenses some of them will find that they're running into problems early in the go in the game here and so they go to the true financial planners who are all lined up in the back of the room and these are just some snapshots of kids at the fair and they saw those the financial planner and then they'll be advised to go back and return the car is right here  and i can talk about this because he's talked about it with everybody decided that he thought the cars were junk that they had so he bought the mercedes and he did real well because he went there first and a went through the fare he found he was having trouble so he went to a financial planner and the guy said you need to go get another job and mirrors like wow ok so he gets in line to go get another job but we called the recession in the middle of fair and  standing there next guy in line like what do you mean you're calling the recession i need that job because again for about an hour and he kind of flipped out he's like this is so not good and then he went to the insurance booth and they made him buy apartment insurance and he was like what do you mean apartment insurance who has that and they so then he spun the wheel of doom and he had a flood in one of our lives and so it's really so with the money had to come out of his personal savings because he didn't have renters insurance so he said it was a very in a lightning experience he said it made him think of things that he wouldn't normally think of and that's really work trust trying to spark that interest to make them stop and think that maybe mom and dad been paying all your expenses up to now but when you get out into the real world this is really what's going to happen some of the kids did really well and others did not but that's ok they were in debt at the end i had some kids come take that because i collected all their spending sheets some of the kids came in and wanted to take them home and show their parents how they had done some good while one girl is in the hole one hundred dollars and she thought she was doing really well and she was  if we can just make them stop and think we've done really well i think they all had a great experience so the we bus them up they each started at the booth that's up in the left hand corner in the r corner and that's where the if for traffic flow reasons we haven't started a certain beliefs and there are certain rules you can't start at if you don't have a car you can't buy insurance if you don't have a car and then the traffic flows from there on it and they can have roommates but they can't cohabitate in the same bed the chap have the well they can split the food bill if they have a roommate so if they're creative they can do very well here and if not they've learned that they need to make some adjustments going forward the one thing i i think that was most amazing to the kids is that they really don't make a lot of money five years out of school and they thought that they'd heard there was a student who was a graphic designer and he was making forty five thousand he said i thought i'd be making eighty five i said well not so so i think they had a good time the feedback was very positive we will be doing it again next year i will probably start planning  september for february march and there we had two hundred twenty students participate this year which was great and it was fun doing in our own this year i think we did a really great job i think the students had fun the volunteers all said that they would come back i've already touched base with them and tweak some things for next year's fair but i think you've got a couple of the students here if i were a few in mind i'll invite them up now which is ok so this is jam interesting to see what people a group together like gamli house who took mr mccain's personal finance class and i really didn't join this experience i think it's very important that we do this because not everyone takes his class and not everyone maybe going to college or they maybe go right into the real world so that's why i think it's very important and i really did enjoy myself i high so i walked in and i'm like i don't how do this math and then eventually i figured it out and then i liked it because i did pretty well i didn't go debt well obviously like i had college loans that kind of debt like the money i had per month i had money left over so i liked it and i also really enjoyed the experience i had picked a career that would be similar to what i'm looking forward to with music so i got music production which is a really scary thought because you know people can make a really good living but i went in and i had to remain says well i worked with them the whole day and we kind of had our plans together we cut cut things like we took the bus or we didn't have a t v but we had this we had cell phones  and i ended up with like i don't know around forty dollars a month extra and i thought it was a really good experience because you learn things that you wouldn't think about until you're five years out of college for example i know something i had no idea i was that you're supposed to have three months worth of expenses in your savings account which is something i would have never learned until god forbid i needed three months of expenses like saving the big house so i think i think we all definitely learned from the adults they were all there willing to help us and really enthusiastic to have us all there did you ever imagine i did i nails done if they're here is frosted because if they say i don't need any luxury items here we're charging you one hundred dollars for the phone and the nails so you can't say that you don't have any luxury items and then they try to sell you well if you give us another thousand to enter to take a trip we'll give you a card you know a gift card to spend in the store and the kids will in all cases and you know when they realize when they step back that they maybe should have thought about that and they maybe should not have given the extra thousand so i think overall the kids had a great day it was fascinating i noticed that some kids so that they had to get a a second job to make their expenses meet and some kids chose to get a second job you know because they want to do you know it's hard i chose to get a second job and ended up making an additional five hundred dollars a month my income per month after taxes and everything was three thousand three hundred ninety seven dollars so i ended up taking in an additional five hundred dollars just because i knew that if there was a recession and i couldn't find a job and i needed one i'd rather have one  and i ended up having an extra one thousand one hundred sixteen dollars left over every month which was something that i was really glad i did not want to well and that people like rich doctors and the nurses and the lawyers could not get a job another job because they just didn't have time in their life to get another job so they really had to budget so i think kids caught on pretty quick i think when they looked at their income they're like oh i better get in line for another job just so that i have that cushion and that's what emily did and i was also working with my roommates and we decided to go get another job because after going to be education booth he offered us to get our mastery in whatever program he wanted to so after seeing the they didn't get married and had separate rooms as well you know that and i got to be an actress no one made thirty five thousand dollars unfortunately it's amazing that they come out of school and they think that they're going to make a million bucks and they're not going to have to budget too much and they can kind of do what they want but for a lot of them it was just a real reality check and that's ok that's what this they used yeah and somebody said they wished that the juniors could go casual no sweat pants no shorts so they all do come dressed appropriately and very respectful and it was very well noted by everybody that was there and they did come up  said something to lorraine and they came up and said something to me and since the other supervisors that were there for the day they made a comment so they are all to be funded for their for a job well other comments that's great i want to go next year i know you know that will give you chills up eleanor remind me i know we've featured this before and i always enjoy hearing the story about how was it different remind me when we did it with other schools was a just a bigger venue but al simultaneously well with the other venue you're splitting the numbers were split amongst four schools and this year we had as in the first year that we did the fair that he remembers we had all our own students there this year and that hasn't happened for seven or eight years because we've been paying extra for most of our kids to be able to go but we had to pay extra to the partnership so that we could send most of our kids or as many as could go not that there was a limit but there was a conflict so this is this is the first time doing it all around but the other the other schools would send i think we were told you have sixty or seventy slots per school correct but i would we would then pay extra for additional i see so this way we didn't have to worry about any other schools rotary also contributed so between all of that it was really it made life very easy for us this year you know i remember thanks for mana and recognize our appreciation for those folks who contributed i will also say though i know from the conversations the committee said that we would support this every year to your point and we'll find the money thanks so let's continue to pursue the available grants but i i think we all would like to see this happen every year if we can do it on our own that's terrific i think things like this on the career day that you sponsor you know these are such valuable lessons and you guys can tell me if this is wrong but i just think things like this are so helpful to what the kids as you know so i'm very appreciative of the programs you put on questions or anything you would have done differently or that you've suggested to miss pillsbury that we consider for future events i don't think so i think you ran very good just at some points you could get to the crowded but other than that i think i had a we spend so much time talking about college and career ready this is life readiness i mean whatever you choose to do after high school this is going to help you in that way and jason i hope you'll come back and talk to us about your senior project yeah i'd really like it is exciting to see where they're going and what they're going to be doing and it's a smaller pool this year but it's the long have a great time to master thirty already this year as opposed to seven of you last year what do you attribute that to  they are regretful they're glad they're taking the classes that they are but they're regretful that they won't have the opportunity the senior project you know i'm already recruiting for next year senior project i know five or six already for kids for next year you know both avenues are winners so correct absolutely and you know they'll still do fine so it'll be interesting to see hear the feedback when they come back i'm excited with anything else well this is just one more program i think we're very proud of that's outside the norm so thank you and thank you for the students for coming in tonight we really appreciate you much good to see what if you just k is next year's a school committee meeting dates i'm guessing we did our normal yes every other monday or you know so happy to jackets to tell us about it yes jenna we should make you go to the center table no will i actually had one question actually more for bill and debbie but i see that our january because jerry first is on a sunday the legal holiday is the first monday the second so we've bumped it to the ninth and the twenty third we usually know what i mean i think what debbie is saying what every single other times when the dispersant when we've done first and third and the third is not exactly the last monday what we've done is say if we if you don't feel comfortable voting on the twenty third they will come back the next week as you saw them were shot so this has this is been the calendar you had before and we do still have the meeting the twenty third understand if you need next year you sold one more week to i know just just the way i am just wanted to make sure you would have enough time because this time around usually for three year term thank you for running again yes ok well i think that's a good observation so we have a motion to approve it as presented we can vote down that motion if anyone has a concern with russia or we can go forward we can always make a change to as we get closer so thank you for pointing that out joe and janet and any further discussion to vote on school choice participation and i think it's always helpful to just remind us what ok so this is an equal vote that each committee in each community in massachusetts must take into the state regulations as to whether or not you want to participate  included in the package of the pertinent laws and legal references about school choice and we do that every year in the committee is to undertake that deliberation every year and decide if you want to just pay fox who has not ever participated if if their vote is to participate you can see there are certainly deadlines involved but the book vote to participate means that kids who reside here could make another choice kids from anywhere can choose to apply to come here  given space sort of issues so it's it's a standard thing that you consider every year and it does go over the year what they propose over in the regulations what would have to happen if you could just  many questions about that before we vote on it i know most most of them through this all of us are from maryland and through i always being so proud of our school system think you know all of our students should just come here and and everybody does and there's a lot of mixing and matching and transportation back and forth and if you if you don't than most people in the region tend not to do much i mean the time i've been around school committee we've never participated in this w school choice so they do participate in a lot of students from brockton randolph other communities around them that want to smaller school or school district and or some kids will go there because they can play athletics there they may not him which is a very large school so there are lots of different reasons why they might but you know avon often jokes that they wouldn't have left teams without school choice so this is this there are positive reasons why people participate it kind of depends on where you are what the yes we have a second donation from the foxboro high school diamond club for seven hundred dollars and this is for game balls in terms of balls for baseball you want to take the i want to chime of the third one we might as well just go right ahead and you can vote separately on each of the third one is for the new england patriots foundation and it is for one thousand dollars and this is if you remember back in the fall coach nellie it was deemed the coach of the week and so this is in honor of his coach of the week award from the england patriots organization in the amount of one thousand dollars to foxborough high school in honor of  and sorry there's actually a fourth and the fourth is from the taylor school p t o public schools for seven thousand nine hundred twenty nine dollars and this is for white boards him and i also think you know the use of the grant was important too and i think it will be it'll certainly be put to very good use in our football program but it specifies that you know certain appropriate uses include the purchase of new helmets equipment helmet and equipment reconditioning football field or barber threats stipends for a certified athletic trainer artist in the prevention and treatment of injuries football video equipment all things football related so i'm sure that the football sure i make the motion to accept the foxboro high school diamond club donation in the amount of seven hundred dollars for a game balls and tournaments i think and all those in favor or zero done for the media center ok so what they what they decided to do is to advance the media center to have a wholly in your whole different program the we've got throughout the district so your policy basically has been to be equal across the district when we want we distribute we you know typically each school b t l has its own way of contributing and you know in different programs there is a lot of consistency but there are definitely individual all different  excellent and i think record time in my years on the committee we are on other matters now while we have skipped my them are we going to try to accept that when you have the time you had already accepted it with me and we had offered for her to come back and i'd given her today's date to present the check so something just went wrong in the communication or to me but i we had talked about having her come on this night so we have already accepted it yes you have and do we remember the amount yes that's right see we don't have a cost you know despite our short agenda tonight there's an awful lot of stuff going on behind the scenes a bunch of us are involved in which is which is great so we probably some other matters we can discuss you want to want to well congratulations the boys and girls basketball team they have had an outstanding season and the girls made it all went to the finals and just as flight director hit the ground at last in a heartbreaker they were had most festival and competition sponsored by the massachusetts jazz educators sociate the festival was held on thursday evening march fourth king philip regional high school both fox will be as were awarded gold medals by a team of expert judges as a musician from all the bands in division one so whether you're an art student with a room whether you're an athlete a student athlete with your academically oriented student and that's your thing duxford high school against six other schools i think two schools move on to states so we're just and we also have our show the twelfth of march so next this coming saturday here at the high school at seven so performing there and they're doing it saturday night at seven o'clock you get the same or she kills monster yes is it a short show is that how you are able to do it in this competition of events is up what it's a one act play competitions so you have around  was great he was terrific really very engaging and every single student in the school received a copy of his latest book that just was published january of two thousand and sixteen and that's courtesy the first five hundred copies courtesy guys oh there's an art so people who won gold keys for the scholastics there is an art show i don't know where it is but it was over the weekend and i think it is throughout this week and next  we're doing it on and how you like express yourself i'm like what like let's say like if you have like what you think about like bad about yourself and like how you can overcome and like how like you express yourself to people and like