the regular meeting of the school committee the town of foxborough today april twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen tonight's agenda agenda will begin with visitors followed by approval of minutes we then have a proposal for the same burns memorial field community field will have a teaching and learning highway tonight a discussion on unified track and field day update on the cambridge institute for international education the computer science summer camp program enormous panel is excited to talk about that tonight approval of overnight travel for the fight for high school european trip an update on the fiscal year fifteen budget acceptance of donation from schneider electric and then other matters they want to start tonight these are always hard to do especially hard when we lose one of our students i think most everyone in the community knows how i just want to take a moment of silence on behalf of dating a person who wishes family strength at this time we know danny's in a good place ok any visitors who want to be recognized tonight seeing none will move to approval of minutes we have but two minutes tonight i think two sets of and come right up to the visitor's table we thought we'd start with you since you probably have homework and other things to do or we will give you the first slot and so these two wonderful students representing the graduating class of two thousand and fifteen and if you remember back in the fall it was a discussion about the class wanting to do something as their class and they're coming to you tonight so that you can consider is in honor of our classmates and friends after previously dedicating the turf field in memory of sam we felt that a way in which we could further attribute would be through building a garden and our patio in remembrance of sam along with his name on the scoreboard we hope to have an area that allows our community to have a personalized understanding of sam and with that we were posing for a garden and our walkway to be designed and presented from the senior are going to kind of go over the fund raising in the design and construction timetable but first we're start off with the design you guys all have the picture in front of you right so that right now is just kind of a idea we're going to construct it takes a lot of steps like we mr bill mada helping us right now he's a young design company you're trying to help go through the process but like i said this is an idea because we're not sure what the exact funds are going to be or what the turf might look like in a couple of years let's say there's a track which is a possibility so this idea right now and take a lot of steps we have to act as i'm sorry excavate the lawn of the base material the sand bedding and this is come out to about roughly sixteen seventeen thousand dollars so let's say we get a couple thousand extra or a little short we might make the square footage larger or smaller maybe change the flowers or move it a little bit so this is kind of an idea that's more we're going to push to later when we have an idea of the funds and how long how much we have and how much we had to spare so yeah that's all right now we like to kind of focus on the funds and see where work takes us for the funds like brian said probably the most we'll be looking at fifteen thousand but if we downscaled design which will be a possibility in the future the funds could go down to the slowest sap and and with that we also have to take into consideration the plantings on the patio so there's something to consider but our plan of action for fund raising would also like to take the use forth into our project and hopefully they can assist us and fund raising and high school sports as well because we all know that sam had up such an impact on the high schoolers and we know this is a close project to high schoolers we'd also like to possibly put this on the fox for cable access and another idea that we had was  fundraiser which is now online and what it basically is is you can create a page and you talk about your design your project and anyone through facebook or online just a type of social media they can go to your page and they can join me whichever donation they'd like to give you and one more thing about the fonz i mean i've never us being high school kids because ever dealt with this much money before but we feel is a very big supporting group i mean it's kind of an icon we have his followers was like we said we'd reach out to the youth sports and they have on they use the field all the time that be they might feel inclined to help donate and  he used the go fund me account he's i'm sure you guys know but just for anyone who doesn't he's a he's a senior and i was a freshman and he was injured when he went into the boston for the parade and he was assaulted and he raised twenty thousand five hundred dollars in about a month so i mean he was very successful in the at a very big supporting group and we know sam those as well as well believe that this town is a strong and and i believe th he would he gave me an idea and he sat down with us and talked about the manual labor and ordering supplies he is first to give us an original price of what it cost us and then he's going to kind of help bump a doll a little bit with maybe he would help donate or i know we could get plenty of volunteers who help come out with us for a couple days and they said about three days for volunteers to help them come out and that would lower the cost i'm sure felt going volunteers would be no problem maybe sometime late in may or early june and ask for a timeline we know that this is a little ambitious obviously but on we're hoping to possibly get it done for graduation because it is a class gift and we're hoping to present it as a class for graduation if not next step would be to have the plan on class night and to present her proposed the plan to the class basically children and show them my idea and explain to them that this will be bill after graduation but if not then our plans where they have the funds by me twenty third and then have construction start by may thirtieth and then which i think is very appropriate to a group and i have no doubt you would be able do it so if someone had a graduating senior and they wanted to contribute to this in on of their own child as part they could do that assuming it doesn't replace the laptop me account so that'll be i will create a separate page for the project but then also as a class we have an account and i'm sure can we like set aside maybe a smart it's a great idea and you're going to reach people outside of foxborough to grandparents aunts uncles people who never see him people who read about and seen so i think it's a great idea for fund raising for this particular every stephen you have i like the design i love the idea i mean i also think as a school committee we should consider and i think it's completely good to do is the costs of ownership that is maintenance it seems like the maintenance cost to be very minimal yet i don't think we have to really be concerned about that i think it would be something would be grateful to be able to maintain that's my opinion and do you do students need any help managing the funds how will they be managed as they come in and attract and that sort of thing do you ever go into that it will be the we will be faculty helping you or something like that with we can move that a little i mean another option would have to would be to kind of so this is this is off the walkway another option we're considering would be to move it to the walkway make it nicer put the pavers have some flowering on the sides and then put  the standard ask me feel but we also want people to kind of get a sense of sam and not who he was and his legacy and i think having and it's flat when you walk in with a nice garden and to kind of represent kind of give a supportive of the project we haven't been in touch with them lately but we actually did we call them the other day so yeah and when we when we were in touch with them they seem very supportive and they were happy that we were brian great great presentation thank you and my only two cents in addition would be i would love to see you do with even if you didn't know a smaller scale before graduation because once you guys are graduated you're going to probably want to do and other things and yeah and you know other classes could add to it the school committee might be all that to it so even if you can't get to the full scale you envision you might decide it's worth doing what you can use what you do have in time for graduation if mr markham accommodate the schedule but i should like your choice but i just  meeting so don't worry but they are also currently taking the intro to piano and keyboarding class which also involves our technology department and i wanted to publicly thank not only the talent but  who was kind of our front man for making this dream come true and he expressed his gratitude for giving us the opportunity to share this with the town of foxborough and for those it's kind of fun seeing  know she's one of the moms in my life and so not only in my representing the music department but also a product of what the town of fox for music program has meant to me and it's truly an honor to pass it on to now the new students that sit in the seats where i sat a while ago so i'm really excited to be here tonight and cory and danielle are two of my best students and i'm not just saying that to bother them up they have worked very hard  be here tonight so some of the things that i want to share with you i've got a few pictures here that will hopefully work and i always like to say that when we're doing a technology presentation of the technology that fails first so the first thing i want to show you this is a panoramic view of our music technology lab at the in her middle school as you can see we've got twenty five working computers that tha connected to keyboards so that the students are able to play into the computer whether it's through musical composition and we also have a program that they use to learn music notes rhythms and they're able to play notation into the computer to see how accurate their learning in each of them has their own private set of headphones and we also have a set of keyboards that wrap around the classroom in the middle i don't go up there and point i guess but that's fine and then there's a teacher computer hug right in the middle where i have my own headset and i can sing come over here really quick so right here we have children this one oh this is a smart board isn't it this one right here connection me to all of the computers so if they want to be working independently i can communicate with them through the headset and we don't have to be yelling across the classroom it also helps to save my voice if we're having a class discussion and then this hope right here connects to all of the piano keyboards so that when they're playing individual pieces i could actually listen to it through my headset and give them instruction if i needed to or just want to hear what they're working on that's not exactly how i work my classroom i do walk around and i interact with them i don't just sit at the computer but it could be worked for that way so the first set of new electives that we've offered trying to use this lab and this is only the second year that we've offered it is the music technology program which has recently been continued up at the high school level as well so we've kind of become a feeder program now into the high school which is great at having mr piper here who is trained in music production technology really adds to all of these components and then this is the second semester we've also offered the intro to piano in keyboarding class which is for students who are basically starting out from scratch or have had minimal lessons and they want to improve so we start basically learning keep giving note names rhythms how to read music and the goal if you don't have you know three weeks of snow days is that by the end of the semester they can actually accompany songs using chords and their final is to play a piece so in a matter of about five months they've been able to progress that much so i meet with them every other day so they either see me three days a week or twice a week depending on which week it is so i would like to just ask maybe corey first to explain his experience and i've got one of his thought this class was really quite amazing because it lets me express express myself through music and not through words and it makes me share my interests and being musician i think this helps me let it out and it also helps me with songwriting which is something i just started doing now with mixed craft the first time you've been involved in composition or had you done anything else before i haven't done like real composition i've done transcription which is taking other songs and making like covers of the but one of his composition yes that's a first six which they use up here at the high school but we're still using mix craft five which is fine so what you see in front of you is basically a looping program so how the students first started is they would go into a library where there were all sorts of looping tracks which means prerecorded tracks these were not their own tracks but later on in the semester they actually do compose their own music and track them down and make their own piece so what you're seeing in front of you is multiple tracks that the students were going to fill up so that's the blank canvas that they first receive when they start this project and then as they continue they start to fill up the tracks and you can see the sound waves going across them and down at the bottom of the screen is the library that they have to choose from so they can listen to the sample tracks and then they drag them up into their looping and you can hear them all together so the first piece i'm going to play for you this is cory's jazz and hopefully where we can always hope  not coming through the speakers th and they were giving jive lines so this was the syllabus that the students received and they worked on seven different projects throughout the semester and this one was one two three four their fifth project was their job so they had done some composing before they got to this soon i'll let daniel share a little bit about his experience with music tell me a little normal and i found both classes enriching because they have not only helped me understand the composition composition of the songs as well as what the note order is but it has helped me with just tone i guess if that makes any sense the piano class has definitely helped me understand this different range of instruments that do  exist and it gives me something to do with the piano i have at my house so and i have already worked out a few rhythms that i didn't know were as simple as i used a lot of the sound of facts this one might be a little softer so slicing so they had a lot of fun with sound effects and what that later became which we didn't quite get to everyone doing stuff in their semester but i do have one example and i really really hope it comes out so this was a video that owen made he did a soundtrack to a video game and every sound that you hear of course you can partly soft but every sound from that video that i can hear is not on the screen he created every sound effect so he started with soft sounds and then as the dragon comes out he created a building crescendo in the music and something that you would typically hear in a video game just some background music and then as the dragon crashes i don't know if you'll be able to hear but he has a growl in there and it's a good car and then it goes down into the sand and if you were watching it not knowing you would think it was part of the soundtrack but he created that so the kids get to do so much and the last one that i got permission to play  is called heavy and this with him being experimental during piano class one day anyway but he was just playing around with the chords that we had been working on and you know was singing the song but they have fun learning how to use all this technology that's in front of them so we really do have a good time in the class and as the class is evolving we're developing more curriculums that fit this age group better there are more curriculums out there for music technology for the high school and college level so i've been progressive lee working on a middle school curriculum for music technology as well as the intro to piano keyboard in class so the kids who are taking intro to piano keyboarding actually get four units of information that i've compiled from books from all over the world and i put together this data so that they can learn it to the best of their ability and they can also work independently so they don't feel rushed and they can work at a pace that works for them but still all learning the same information so we're really excited to have this program and to have the support of not only the music program but to support the students and they can actually get the mix craft five as a trial session on their own computers at home so that they can do the work at home as well so that's pretty exciting for them to take home and figure  during the day and i hide in the past i've had students come down and work on their projects they also do podcast projects and they've come down and worked together on creating podcast during their twenty minutes as well so i don't know if you to have come in afterwards to work but you know the looks on their faces  that's great actually that's an interesting tidbit to know about you know it's fun day here there how their personalities come through in their music because you can't judge a book by their cover at all but it does come out in their composition the creators does is express whatever term i don't know of any of the middle school has a music technology lab i don't know you have a network that it's bigger than mine is a few and far between  the last time i've seen a lot of like this was actually when i was student teaching about eight years ago so that was in utah actually i know they exist in massachusetts but i would say in our district we are one of the rarities and we've actually had quite a few music teachers on staff development days or they take a day off just to come in and look at our music point just to see what we have and we then are given another point of view that we are very very fortunate because i think we i mean you know the music staff here most of us have been a product of it and so i mean we've seen other examples but we just expect it and we expect excellence and so we feel very privileged when other teachers come to our community and there's what you're getting out of this class help you in other classes and do you help do you appreciate the mentoring that you have from the teacher as well as other students and can you get that i don't know that you're studying the climate the smarts on this have you been doing that already and think it's something that you'll be doing down the road shows people see the ropes yeah that's something i'm going to use in my future very cool thank you that was my dancing crowd that really is the kind of thing that very few people know about it next summer we advocated for that project but when you actually see what it does for kids on the on the way i don't think i would say differently and so i'm not sure another song just think i think maybe a song technology lab in the keyboards and on many were broken he really was a great advocate so he can be here tonight but many kudos to him please he's really second to none really is when it comes to ethics six so let's make a sentially is is a track program and mrs we're fortunate enough to have missed out here teresa here because she has a great background in special olympics so it's a combination of student athletes with intellectual developmental disabilities partnering with a another student from that within the student body that offer to beating on one hundred together it's been going on in central mass for the last eleven years but this is the first time this is the first year we're bringing it to southern massachusetts so right now we have three meets set up with a lea me and we'll have arced a student athletes competing together and i'm really i think trees if i was speak to more about how the meat will work because i'm very excited but i really don't know what to expect because this is so new new they have a state need for track and field but just for special of that and special want beings only not a unified team so this is becoming new and will not have a state meet this year so we're just doing the regional meets with the hopes of next year i and they'll do the one hundred yard dash there's also a running long jump for to pitch pursuit and so we are going to be using the middle school track and field for that to practice with the start of  next year will be able to use that as an incorporated practice time for next year so this year is really just kind of getting the feel for all these teams because it's new to everyone and with the meets and next year will be you know  all the kinks you know how fresh air goes and so that they expect and see is that they'll be some little kinks this year that will get worked out and that will be able to move through for all the teams so the meets are all scheduled for around four o'clock and they n to work with their students and the best buddies program that dave runs on at the high school to try to incorporate as many kids as we can i think that if you've ever seen i don't know if it's on cable access but the special olympics pep rally that the high school has done in the last three years it's just is a testament to our students and the support they give each other and everyone so that we're hoping to build on that support and we'll see how it goes i w you know the other kids i mean they love the success and just all the students love just the feeling of knowing that they're being successful and doing it ultimate fun smiles on their face the whole time and the winner last usually doesn't matter and you know the meddling and what i've been involved in special olympics in the past you know the kids are very excited to get their medal but if they don't meddle go out of the times they just had a great time you know so i love the community that special olympics brings you know i feel all people should have access to and at a healthy lifestyle and special olympics really helps promote that because we all type for us to motivate to exercise or move without a goal towards special olympics gives them a goal a people everyone a goal to kind of work for so even some of our mainstream students that maybe not have students are really excited and you know you sound good so i'm going to actually run yes you're going to run so we have a four by fourteen you're going to be running the four by four so they're all going to work together so it's going to be an absolute great experience for everyone and only get better i think so that together and they were you know help and support each other and we can do like a heat one two if there's more participants than that we can do a second thing it's just curious how many students you have participating so we have of her knowledge and her background it's really allowed us to take this on and as much an inside as i have about starting something new in the first year not having a template to kind of work off of she's been so beneficial to me you know making talking me through it and our recruitment for students coming from most in china we expect that it could be anywhere in the world actually if you want to be just inserted back up into spend a minute on the program just if you're that's the idea so the cambridge we recently formed a partnership with cambridge institute for international education and they are out of cambridge but one of our we are probably one of about twenty to twenty one high schools in massachusetts that are  cambridge institute schools and i think they're going to capitol at about that so we believe will one of the last few to get in and actually just spoke to them today about different things having to do with this so really what the program is is an opportunity to bring international students here to foxborough high school the in terms of taxpayers actually pay tuition to come here so they typically students from other countries in the first round at least we expect mostly china we don't i'm going to look to recruit four or five students for september and we probably will never grow to more than ten because you do want to be a manageable program and those students will come from other countries they'll pay tuition they pay feed in cambridge institute they pay tuition and we've established here which will be thirteen thousand five hundred dollars and the they also the families also pay cambridge for host family opportunities which is what i'm going to get into tonight so we've put a lot of information out there but the program the committee voted to support the program so i think this her tenure as principal is is a global education so it's hard to provide those opportunities here in our wonderful little town foxborough so one of the things that we wanted to do was to start bringing international students here so that we could provide our students with more connection find out what happens around the world and what are the issues and what's there what is their life like and and how do what we have in common and really that's really what it is is to connect our students to others around the world and have that appreciation understanding of cultural interdependence and cultural appreciation so and as part of that i hope i summed it up margaret as part of that we are inviting up to five international students to join us starting the september so we've started the recruitment we had a very unique opportunity to have karen frazier was our world language department head literally with only a few weeks notice go with cambridge institute to china over the school vacation week she just returned in that usually doesn't happen most of the recruitment happens as students apply a good student students apply and we get to decide whether we're going to accept students here for the international program but  usually you do that either through skype ing or interview or paperwork over the phone conversations and interviews and usually a china's largest international education company china showed a very recent interest in partnering with cambridge here in in massachusetts to recruit students that they have which is a wonderful opportunity for us for cambridge and students so they requested representatives from five high schools to trap to china and do some face to face recruiting in five different provinces and cities in china so i think with two and a half weeks notice karen said she would be the one to go and so she left with a delegation from cambridge institute and went to china and traveled across china completely at the expense of cambridge institute because they're developing this new partnership so that's why it was unique opportunity they paid all of her expenses except for souvenirs as they put it so there was no expense to us your insights about it people gave us a great opportunity as the newest member of the cambridge institute family to put our face to people in china who are going to be recommending high schools and and guneet matches to their students there so she certainly had a busy ten days in china program we're very confident we'll be able to recruit some good students coming to the either students who want the one year educational experience in the united states just to have the educational experience or they could be the profile of student that they want to come here to get the united states diploma so that they may apply to american colleges and universities so those are the two profiles of students that we have decided to accept here so they are students whose english proficiency is good  cambridge provides all the tutoring academic tutoring and they also provide a home state coordinator so someone who is only going to be the network the mentor to the homestay families so that's our subject for tonight which is we're looking for host families so that would mean people who are willing to have a student from another country live with you you're considering this for the school year so it's ten months you need to offer them a private room three meals a day unless it's a school day which case they're responsible for lunch in school or whatever and a supportive home environment here in frocks borough ideally they would be people who had school students at the high school so they could have that connection go to person doesn't have to be though it could be anyone in the community that wants to provide this experience so the partner company the sister company to cambridge is called g p homestay and so they're the corporate corporate partner that vets the home state programs it's not something we have to do at the school level they are professionals in a serious of a world that can approve the home state families through interviews and visits they will also be the main liaison to those families if something isn't working out with a host family is their responsibility would be mine or the school committees or of the principals or anyone else and cambridge offers a ten thousand dollars and each host family so it's a thousand dollars a month for the ten months to offset the cost for hosting that international student in the hopes there will be an orientation for international students host families in the school so we are having most importantly a host family parent information night on tuesday may fifth from six thirty to seven thirty pm here a possible high school about it all please come for that night there are going to be people here from cambridge and from g p homestay the people who will be responsible for this so you'll have an opportunity to ask questions of people who really know how this works and they do it for a living so i'm not the expert in it but i will be there so that's what we're here tonight to advertise the fact that we're trying to recruit host families we don't need many and there's a commonly you know commonly asked questions attachment here that we have there  tough as far as making sure that they've got the families to the students and i know i think that's the first step but i actually think that the monitoring the academic progress of the students  their adjustment to an american education is probably the hardest from what i hear the been to a lot of meetings with them i've talked to a lot that's why they have a separate person who's the academic mentor and we do have one guidance counselor at the high school chuck who's going to be responsible for those four or five students that they all the same go to person so they'll be only kids that were high school that was guidance counsellor isn't determined by the first letter of their last name but we believe that it was important to keep them together the group to have a saying go to person  and as you'll hear at one of our upcoming age and i've seen i this this idea of global connectivity and learning about other cultures is really becoming so we're fortunate that there are so few things you can go on and do without that being involved now it doesn't matter if you're in manufacturing or if you're in education or if you're in business development it's going to it's it's going to be part of your life so we are trying to have really concrete steps we're taking that increase that global connectivity for students and we hope this is the beginning and it's a pretty powerful step that we're taking but there are so many others that we have to you know there are some businesses now that do not hire people and alas they have exposed themselves to another  culture and we're planning to say to an enterprise exchange in spanish exchange they prefer they prefer their hires to have at least one semester study in a foreign country that is becoming you know don't don't apply times proven to be really challenging to find a viable curriculum that is deliverable that can be taught by somebody who's not a computer scientist because they can tell you if you are a computer scientist you're probably not teaching in a public high school so that has proven a little bit more challenging so that's  figure but if so in it when i realized that couldn't happen we started thinking what else could we do so this is a good lesson in you know you i get so many e mails every day and a lot of it is is it will to filter out phillips currently lives in california he works for the american chess institute and the founder of that company has a long history as does david of providing summercamp opportunities in both chess in computer science so the e mail said i'm moving to massachusetts i'm going to be a harvard law school student in the fall my wife and i are moving here and if our public school systems interested in learning more about our computer science summer camps which is gone on in person and met his lovely wife and we wait on where we thought they should live and maybe where she should apply for a job in the cambridge area just so so it's really a great so if we got a lot of registrations and we knew early enough there's a possibility that we could have two weeks but right now it's that one week so the beginners which is open to seven to twelve years old is nine am to noon the week of july twenty to twenty four  the intermediate and advanced computers summer camp which is their program is called code to the future that's their name brand program that is from one to four pm in the same week and that is open to ages nine to fourteen roughly one adult for every twelve students if we get more than that they will bring a second person with david that stopped this before so i'm pretty excited because it is at least something unique we haven't been able to offer something like this i think it's a great way to spark you know our car children ages seven to fourteen and possibly in this area that can hopefully the one and maybe one just something like this which is learn more about it so are you accepting registration now yes so today the summer school brochure went out last week it was a post on our website today that's i was told i didn't check but i will so if you are home you should check your expanding horizons summer camp public schools in richmond program brochure all the information needed is in here flying green this year and the registration forms are in the air and they are available through the link on the website as well and all the information my senior pink everyone to blackboard connected a with this exact information to senior packet so that people would have a heads up on it if it wasn't something if you don't read your brochure cover to cover so i hope we get great interest because he's he's is you know trying to help me out with that but it's it's really it's really elusive i was surprised i really expected to find a couple of options that we could then vet and see which one fit us because we do have someone in the wonderful souce that it's department that are not necessarily but i think these last two topics speak really well debbie to your you know continued contributions but you know we've asked you to expand our students a rise in the global culture and you found that the the china program the cambridge institute program and this lack of a computer science curriculum is a gap rather than just saying we're still looking you know i appreciate that you do come up with something to really stop some our students and we've got to keep pushing but i prefer the fact that you've you know done couple of things here that are spot on so and i go absolutely i go this is a high quality short program where we have a staff member i assume they are with him since he's not known to us  because i think i saw my best days are when i feel like i've made something happen so when good things are happening for kids i'm happy and i feel like these are two things that i know really took person work on directly i like to work on projects myself directly and so these certainly have come about from that and i think it'll be great and i can't wait to go visit someone you know like never let you rest on the laurels too long now you're going to hear how to take it from twelve students to twenty four hundred that's what i believe and that's when i really am really good with the two programs i don't need you i'm glad that it extends up to age fourteen for the intermediate in advance because i remember we had some very enthusiastic coders who came see problems like publishing and even said that we can't go too far into august because that's when all the floor is being lax in the hotel if i were to venture down that road of using another week i'd probably in the interfere with the summer cleaning schedule and this is a very very short studies history teachers up to the guest table and they are here to tell you about their latest greatest new idea which is a special travel opportunity  i do some domestic stuff our history club this year took a group of students to washington d c which was absolutely clearly go because we've done other things within the within the history club of bringing kids to new york city i'm we have multiple foreign exchange students going over to france who are strange even going to england and here's another opportunity for our social studies and for all of our students to make us more of an international school yet so  he does a trip to england through you have to worse and so i look at some of the opportunities that they offer you know one of the trips they offered brings students to france and italy and so i thought it would be a really fun opportunity as well as an educational opportunity because they could explore the culture as well as the history of our you know the high school curriculum this focus on world history and in the american curriculum has many ties to the european history as well so from that perspective i thought it was a really great tie in to the trip and you know there is there's some of you know potential for it of between how many days it is and exactly where it's going to go basic idea is given students an opportunity to to visit both france and italy and before i started you know going any further with it i just wanted to propose it here because the students do you have to put your money actually for a trip like this you have to put a deposit down and i didn't want to get a getting the students hopes up that he places would happen but i especially didn't want them to get tied up in any sense financially without knowing that th so this isn't actually the first time roswell high school summit so he went on at the time it was london paris and rome still talks about it to this day at age thirty about the impression that the just the buildings the people so he still goes on about it so  he had a very memorable trip that he wanted a lot about culture and history and i think it only fuels the passion a little bit so i we said yes as parents if you're listening at home parents and you're saying   just think it's great i don't know when to stop but i'm wondering comments questions i was telling my freshman son at supper tonight about this opportunity and and the nine day  which sounds phenomenal but thank you for taking this on and in exploring this opportunity i think it's another great opportunity for my kids to see how far into the world that is outside of our communit ok and so if that that many students were interested you know i think that that's you know ideal size from the tor perspective because then you're all together and there's no other schools involved at minimum i think  for the ninth grade curriculum and the eleventh grade curriculum because suddenly i think you know if you're a parent of a ninth grader eleventh grader next year you say wow we could really bring this to life you know so i like that a lot and the question is the thirty four hundred dollar approximate cost that would cover we intend to cover all the cost by the parents or the car the student attending right this is not a dish that for souvenirs so yes my my understanding is that it covers  overseas every year as it is so it's not any different from those from others are insurance right and handled all through that these and they they help with the mechanism have to walk by and walk around it's made of opponents melted down cannons and as you go up it it shows all these different campaigns and victories right up to the top of the column for  doing it now because these kids are heading into summer vacation and if they're really serious and this is something they want to do they can work to earn some money to pay for it you know if it's a financial hardship on a family the kids can really retire pretty much the rest of the year old so it's increased our surplus from about nine thousand ninety five hundred last time to about twenty thousand we are looking at a couple accounts that were a with those but we still have you know numerous accounts that were you know obviously not this point to be able to you know to turn the actual final balances on yet so i'm not concerned that we have an issue for the end of the year just you know but i i do see some need for some things might work already we just haven't quite allocated yet so you already have places for this twenty thousand to go i think the i think between our spread transportation  or one of our utility accounts will probably use up at least fifteen to twenty again just you know we have hundreds of accounts so there's a lot of things that haven't been finalized yet and to early on some of them the utility wants part time our next one comes out will be pretty much closed down because now we're we're through the main parts of the year and our last big deal because of the one that comes in this month so we'll see where we sit there and you know we have been running well on our side transportation starts to fuel side so that may make up for some of the differences well  obviously the fuel cost gone down significantly this year although we're not getting you know high credit because the balance of left on the townsite to cover fuel so again i'm not concerned about the level that we're at right now or be a little bit of expensive now you know that we know we're looking at right now to come out of this so there were going to come this is this will be one of the causes just we've come to well again depending shave the way down it depends on really what how the us o'clock the accounts clo bill just while you have the stage for a moment i just want to say thank you for some of your work and i'm sure that every name in the rest of the teams on the the new baseball field and i know it's been open for a little while now but i got a chance to drive by and sit in a parking lot today for the first time watch a j v out there and you know it seems to me in a relatively short period of time we've got two new fields out there which already look pretty darn good considering and it will just that plenty but i was i just sat there proud of the new campus you know a factor of kids out there playing ball ready i know we get the bullpen pads in and stands all that the updated me on but that was really kind of  e just sitting there watching these kids play but i think to your point i think to deb's point along here the more kids that we keep on this campus the more activity happens around the school itself i think you see more kids actually even watching other kids so i think that's the big difference now where you know the the travel to the other you know location still is a problem for tracking you know for cellular sports but you know more and more the activity is it will happen here you know you know again i think the a lot of things actually goes out to the five different baseball organizations that use our field you know for being willing to stay off last year and give us the ability to do we did it you know it's not to the level it was when we you know they will feel that we took down but within the next year or two with the right treatments and we've got a program going forward i do believe that we'll be right back up to that same level of turf the bushes club still is going to be putting up the dugout fairly shortly you know we have some additional fencing going around the  softball field actually probably sometime this week that will start so i think you know off on the fence with you know the the safety guards on the fence actually border that to hopefully be here this week and he will get that up so you know i think we're pulling all the pieces together again i'll probably c s difficult to belittle the pump when there was nothing out there but treason and stops but i think so if you know if there are things that aren't quite right or the were finishing just patient communicate let us know and bill and his team very responsive so you know we'll get there close to perfection eventually and right now i think it's in great shape so it's you know it takes a team so you just ask people if you if things aren't exactly right we'll fix it and we'll keep going and you know it's all just work to it's beautiful it's beautiful and it's just going to mature you know wants knows bill says you know kudos to the baseball guys for their flexibility and certainly we disrupted a little bit of what we had going on but you know it's going to come in time  kaitlin the rest of the team so the on screen you guys also support obviously using a lot of the revolving accounts and things like that too to do the job the right way and i think that's you know we weren't flush with having you know all the money in the world to do honored with the ac t fellow award from the american association of community theater which is what a cd refers to for the award will be presented at an awards ceremony during the a c t national community theater festival t fest two thousand and fifteen in grand rapids michigan on june twenty third twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen the a c t fellow award is bestowed upon those members of a c t who over a period of years have contributed significantly to the idea and ideal of community theatre beverly lord majored in theatre in college during her junior year abroad in paris she studied acting at the cold the r her career as a high school french teacher also included directing musicals she served several years on the foxboro arts council their views on the committee of public action for the arts in boston she performs with and volunteers for bay school committee so heavy on behalf of the committee and all of your friends here congratulations on a fantastic achievement believe your may i i quickly double checked the calendar and i don't have to miss a school committee and i didn't read it although i would have i would have to receive the support but i don't and i don't know where  good but a couple of things in your packet and you have our flyer for a bus to the future so the committee is invited to join us by the way from bus to the future so this is a senior citizen stockwell who last spring when we were talking about our events last spring and i had the first time i'd met her and she said when i lived in pennsylvania before i moved here a few years ago we did bus to the future we got in a bus and we just went to visit all the schools and i said no what was the focus was no we just went to visit the schools i said i love bus to the future i'm going to use your idea of a combine it with technology because that's the future knowledge is a feature so all credit to the very clever title bus of the future to  and i'm this is going to be on friday may eighth we are going to pick the bus the seniors up on one of our buses at the senior center at nine o'clock we're going to stop at foxboro high school to see video the video production class and our really impressive language lab in american sign language class then we're going to travel to the taylor elementary school to see a grade for virtual fieldtrip and should have an asterisk it see document cameras used in mathematics then we're going to travel to the ahern middle school to see the music technology lab live that you just heard about tonight we're going to have some a nice lunch at the her middle school prepared by a very talented food service department and we are going to then travel to the barrel elementary school to see interactive whiteboard technology and learn a little bit more about that and then we're going to enter again at the idle elementary school seeing the mystery skype which is a form of video conferencing our fourth greens have been using this year and last year it's kind of mystery sky it's really pretty great to watch  and and they're also going to seen an example of using the i pad for special education so so it's really an opportunity for you know as a proof i would like to see technology being used in today's classrooms is very different from what we all remember turnout you're welcome to join us so you you can come in and out you have the schedule if you want to just pop in at one or two schools that is a great point and i can't wait for the cool it's it's going to be fabulous and what a great idea she had it's so clever we have congratulations to a few students get the baro school well one who ate here we announce the miscues this aggression reduction center howard i believe might be repeat winners and i think it's great that assumes just me that every year we have a few winners which is wonderful that the students are keeping the messages of hope that alive i've said at this table that as a community we would take ownership of the fund raising for the next phase which is the concession stand and working together as a school in a flooded community to get that going dynamos and we have come up with a fundraising plan that we are starting today executing and we've been we've met a couple times already and will continue to meet to keep this going so are our major partner for fundraising is it still that patriot place called bowling and dining for a cause it's on a monday through thursday june fifteenth to eighteenth that particular week the same burns community field concession stand fund raising it will go all this will go into the turf you give to count which we already have existing so that we can pay for things out of that so that already exists and we were receiving twenty percent profit on all dine in and take out orders that splitsville with the f so it's very similar to other organizations where you see if you patronize that that establishment during their giving us actually four days normally it's one night in we ask for a week and they're willing to give us monday through thursday so awesome yes that's terrific even better is we're going to have an adult night out on thursday may twenty eighth and we're calling it the c m burns community field fundraiser so this is seven to ten pm adults only forty dollars a ticket per person and splitsville is generously agreed club presidents in the main office approx one high school at the fox four public school superintendent's office and at the town recreation department and they have they have created an online purchase of tickets as well melissa  the president and you can also make a donation to the cause if you can't go so information will be coming in the next week or so and we expect a great turnout for that i think it'll be a fun event and i think it's a great opportunity for all of us to show something that involves students so help with this idea committee liked it they picked the theme which i think is great called school's out for the summer not quite it's not really a summer at this point this is the tentative date because we just found out today that if we have it on that date that you see listed here in early june we have to collapse into a small period of time so we're we're working on deciding that by tomorrow and it's called just turn it of champions so students could register a team of four faculty could register a team of four it could be a combined faculty student team and the each team is going to pay a registration fee it's basically a both on and they'll be a couple of rounds that will give prizes the top three teams students were going to sell the t shirts at various events vocations to late spring and summer and i've seen the design and i have to say it's it's it's so beautifully brokerage we have our beloved warrior on the front and it says the title and i believe the credit is to make  one of our very talented students and it says live the inspiration for high school and on the back is to see and burns community field if we have businesses that want to sponsor the t shirts their names will be printed below the same field in the back of the t shirt so we're looking for core for corporate sponsors and acknowledge them on the t shirts and with a plaque placed permanently in the concession stand we're going to sell t shirts at the splitsville events and everywhere we can think of and we will have a booth on election day inside the back entrance of the er hern to promote our fundraising events in the t shirt so the town is graciously agreed to give us a table i believe that will have a presence at founders day as well  honor him and to raise money for the concession stand and bring our community together so i think this is great i love the thought that has already been put into it it's great you know thank you thanks to the committee melissa mary jo you're watching there absolutely we i was unable to be in town for and the delightful one act musical presented at their current school just prior to vacation because i was at a the main community theater festival so i had a legitimate use but i asked permission could i please watch one of the final dress rehearsals which i did and oppressive was a delightful production but i also want to mention the fact spiral high school drama we have a wonderful english teacher shannon was a risky over the years did the drama program and then she because of the study of shakespeare and her cultural awareness started taking trips through with her while organized to london and they would many things including gold theatre and and see real theater and i've been in her position you cannot do theatre and trips all at once she this year has completed her six so she stepped down from that and there is one keeping the thought and hope of drama alive and foxboro high school and that is mrs jones and i personally from the theater standpoint want to thank her she was the lone person who came forward and i've tried to do things alone and it's hard and when you are just the right one person in one hand carrying the torch for theater it leaves you only one other hand to do everything else to gather anybody keep any kind of theatre alive and you literally become a one handed what it what's th one hour and she received very little help nor did she receive any i don't think she received appropriate thanks for it if it had not been for her the replacement of three people to pick up what she was trying to do is a single person would never have happened so i would thank you for keeping the torch of theater alive at foxborough high school for the three years and i think that will aptly express and the prizes involved and because he's definitely an arts he really appreciates the arts and he came last summer to meet with with us and want to just put something in the arts and we put his desire together with akasha wanting to do a street pin festival the experience that improv is and he and put those two people together and then we thought about where we could have it we reach out to patriot place diana griffin i want to give her a shout out because they stepped to the plate and said not only would they provide it because this is a strict investable you get a six by six section of the pavement and you create using chalk your own piece of art right then it's like sand castle building you'll come in and then go away and anyone can buy a square so it could be local artists it could be students it's going to be a great day on saturday and so with our wonderful partners at the patriot place at your place to what they want do they have not only come forward with posting it but they're going to have other events around it they have helped advertise that they've been absolutely great what is the time frame africa gets i think new to six known to six yes going to be terrific so that's  can't miss event so that's a that's a great example of someone who wants to support with a talented department that has a great idea and our corporate partners that can make it happen you know you know wonderful publications and then you get to come home and go to pops and i am not doing exactly that so pops this weekend said you night and sunday afternoon yes we have one more thing we think and saturday is a busy day because it's al cleanup foxborough day in the morning and i've had the good fortune to be working with mr awful that and a j dooley on clean up facts per day and i have been taking all of the registrations and compiling them and i just want to say i'm so proud of our students i know so many kids but we have had so many elementary middle and high school students sign up to give their time saturday morning between eight and twelve to help clean up our town and i'm just i'm just so happ and actually i try i want ever i can to go to both parts saturday night and sunday afternoon because believe it or not they are two entirely different programs they are i mean it's a weekend of incredible music