and come back and think about getting all your classroom already that it might actually hit you that you've retired it will probably hit us long before that so thank you so much for your contribution and for your family and friends who could be here to support you tonight and we are going to start i am going to ask our school committee members are each going to read something lovely about you and we're going to begin with elementary school so i'm going to ask selena miller to come on up here one moment you get to shine usually you have the kids up in the you know the star of the week and all those things you do when the belmont school committee here hereby records the retirement in june two thousand and seventeen of celina mohler first grade teacher at the burbank school miss miller earned a bachelor of science at bridgewater state college and our master of art at lesley college she a teaching career in brockton various grades k through six in one nine hundred seventy seven after teaching in brockton miss mauler taught special education and randolph after leaving randolph she taught kindergarten and acton and then started her career in belmont mrs miller taught fifth grade when burbank had a fifth grade fourth grade and during the past six years she has taught first grade at the burbank school her career as an educator spanned thirty one years from the minute you step into m classroom it's very clear what type of teachers she is carrying supportive and positive she treats each and every student with respect and she conveys a sense that they can do anything they put their minds to she believes in them as people and a students mr waller is an expert teacher she's been a mentor and a model for beginning teachers she understands every aspect of teaching how to create units and lessons how to connect every g with every single digit in the classroom and how to make parents feel at ease miss maulers always enjoyed learning new curriculum and has always been excited about her new technology tools or instructional purchased that will improve her students miller's always been extremely effective in working with students she understands their needs and is able to quickly provide the assistance and destruction they need to be successful mrs miller's experience as a teacher is extensive she taught very many different grades and has always been able to use her experience and knowledge to address the various needs of students when she moved from fourth grade to first grade she became very quickly became familiar with the developmental needs of the first graders and became a model to others with their use of reading workshop strategies the belmont school committee along with friends and colleagues expresses its appreciation to  long and faithful thirty one years of service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happiness and health in her to gradually and throughout her career she has worked in the capacity of a psycho education leader especially education teacher for at risk and emotionally child and student an educational director a math teacher this cherry has consistently functioned at the highest level of competence her hard work compassionate sensitivity in meeting all the need to versus go without mention her learning environment has been built on warmth a mutual respect missed the belmont school committee along with friends and called expresses its appreciation to rhonda cherry for her long and faithful service the bellman school committee also extends best wishes to rhonda for many years  god i noticed that if you could've kept backing up you would have backed right out of the room the one thing i've noticed from my seven years of being in the district is that every time we do these these celebrations that the you folks as educators are always so used to putting the kids in front that it's always hard for you all to stand to be recognized i'm really glad that we do this as you all should do that you know good heavens all these years and all these things you've done is quite a quite an accomplishment so our last but not least retire each at that we will be celebrating is diane lance and i'm going to ask you to come on up the belmont school committee here by records the retirement june sixth two thousand and seventeen of diane the lint's math teacher at belmont high school ms lewinsky earned her undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the massachusetts institute of technology she continued her studies in civil and environmental engineering at the university of california davis muslins completed a program in landscape design at radcliffe college and earned the equivalent of a masters in education she began her career in the field of environmental consulting and migrated to high tech marketing working for such notable firms as arthur d little incorporated and prime computer prime computer after a significant period of managing her own landscape design business muslims transitioned into teaching and has been at thousand september two thousand and two ms lynch has brought the knowledge and experience gained from this diverse career into both her approach to teaching and the lessons themselves working both in industry and the private sector has given muslins an understanding of the applications of mathematics and how logical problem solving takes place in the real world she has always encouraged her students to produce clear well constructed complete and terse problem solutions based on the philosophy that your work represents you when you are not there the fundamental principle that communication via symbols is essential in mathematics and shapes one ability to think with clarity has always been stressed in her classes ms lynch has served on the scholarship in mathematics curriculum committees and served as an advisor to the engineering design and middle east culture clubs when her son attended belmont high school she was decorations co chair for the all night party and holds dear the transformation of belmont high school into hog school of witchcraft and wizardry for one memorable night the belmont school committee expresses its appreciation for her long and faithful service and extends best wishes for many years of continued happiness and health in her retirement and now that we're about seven o'clock you're welcome to stay for the school committee meeting but we're also going to open up a few minutes for you to graciously take your exit if you would like thank you all for coming in so i decided to just say thank you to everybody for all of the tremendous work and effort that is going into every day as these final weeks of school are unfolding all of the shifting with schedules to accommodate either field trips or getting to school and you know forging through these last couple weeks can often be very challenging so just a big thank you to everyone on every side of the building families staff and teachers and that's well so really that's it we've got one table the superintendent reported just a few highlights that are happening in the district first of all thank you very much to the government high school administration for a wonderful graduation ceremony on sunday and think the two assistant superintendent stars who worked in richard's principal to make sure that the graduates were off for the great ceremony on sunday we wish them well and and i heard it was a great day it was not an attendance record it was a great day ezra flamm the belmont high school theater for their production of chicago in the following categories best lighting and design execution best stage management best student orchestra best dance ensemble best specialty ensemble the featured dancers best featured actress miriam best overall production that's a really big deal in the theater world that was so happy that those students and that whole crew is being recognized individually and as a group so well done to the high school group and well done to her jim davis reports that our high school baseball team will play braintree tonight they got rained out last night they'll play down to brockton hope i'm sorry they rescheduled for wednesday to the rain that they are in the big eight or it's the the elite eight it's a special thirty it was announced at the senior awards on friday that this is the first in the nation's girls rugby championship event ever to be played under high school  sanctioned scholastic classic sports so what that means is right because usually under its own government body and now it's under the m i a the massachusetts sports scholastic association and this is the first national memorial day services at the wynn brook at the burbank and at the high school we could go friday as we reported each time we get together of at least twice a year and it was over they are pretty thankful appreciative and age service years of service ranging from five i'm sorry ten to twenty five years and we did have a twenty five year person there and someone at this table was his reco process as of june one three homes three hundred students to kindergarten that registered online all of which only four were signed to a school not the district school so it's a very high percentage of folks who live in the district school we also have online for our chairs petition services and in the first three days we had one hundred fifty seven students and families signed up that represents twenty percent of our districts signing up online within the first three days so we're really seeing that automation in that access to on all this online registration and it's so it's a really incredible amount of work for her to do on top of her regular work that she doesn't departments at thank you to those folks as well and i would also like to recognize on t v that we did just recognize that three retiree's raja cherry special education teacher from the cherry middle school tie and went about teacher at the high school in salina all of whose a grade one teacher at the burbank school so congratulations to those folks as well first half of the information needed is filled out online and then the other half is given to the schools and what we do is we play students at two points during the year june one in a part august fifteenth will set that second date probably the next week we had the meeting last week kindergarten families register with us from the boat april all the way through the end of may and then we lined everybody up at their home school initially and we look at set a class size  number that we want to stay at and remember this year we were able to add a kindergarten so we're setting our class size maximum at twenty two instead of a twenty five because we have that extra class when we set that number twenty two we then fill every school up to that number with the children that are in that district and if any one school had more than twenty two in a class we would call those families and determine which families would be chosen not to go to their home school but go to a school next door so at that wouldn't work school for families recalled and given their assignment at another school which was actually the burbank because that's where the extra kindergarten will be held for families in grades rising rates one through four we have a handful of families who are registering for next year already and did so by that you want deadline and we also register to sign those students as well we have signed our mikko students in our teachers students on top of that so that first batch is a really big  piece of the work now from june one all the way to august fifteenth all those families will register with a register in june fifth july fifth or august fifth they'll all be considered at one time for student in the reason why we do that is that it allows us to pull out all the ways that all children have the greats that can see that they're going to enter in nature that we can maximize and balance our class size so the example of doing it the old way would to say if i came in june fifth and one schools filled a twenty two we had to have you go all the way across town but later on during the summer we were signing people all over the district and that child could have actually gone to the home school in the twenty third anyways because we've had subsequent rowley's we make the decision to have our families wait and that lets us see all the dust settled and then assign our students this gives our families the best chance to remain in their home school district and it gives us the best strategy to keep our class size balanced across all of were somewhere around two ninety four as of what we can africa that may have changed already but we are but you know but then we did take in i think we had to ninety four but we have people who are partially registered douglas was about twenty or so to ninety four really represent about three fourteen because people were maybe one document away or didn't have enough of the information to be fully registered so we know that we're about even in terms of the numbers but we  we have been so fortunate with the override they've received two fiscal years ago to be able to predict in post and hire our teaching positions at an earlier stage in the hiring season than we used to where we positions for a good three to four weeks at least and we're actively hiring for next year we have been so i think that that's a good news story and it's an aspect of the district that some general community members would understand that that's a good that work right now so they can vary you're welcome thank you as superintendent helen said it really has helped us i've been here seven years and since the override it has been so much of a help to be able to go out early because all of our neighboring districts all the people we compete with for hiring go out early so it's just been tremendously helpful in your packets and as an exhibit tonight there is a sort of a summary of how we've hired in and we've broken this down there into a new position  those were from the financial taskforce budget that were planned for and you could see that where we're at with hiring those positions of are about thirty five positions not all of those are full time i think about twenty nine of those are full time but of all of our open positions we have what i can best estimate today we have about five that remain open at the end of the day today even from the time i put this together for you on friday for your packets we've more hiring has come in so we are more than well under way and i'm very happy to see some of the candidates they've come through we have a nice variety of people with experience and people who are newer to the profession we have a really nice mix of people coming and you know you always want to hire people at various stages of their career so that your workforce has a lot of variety and perspectives and all of those kinds of things so all of that going out and being able to hire as we started hiring as early as march and that is just incredibly helpful it certainly helps us in terms of  represent diversity we know that that you know across education you know around the country there are not there's a shortage of of educators who represent diversity and so everybody is is you know playing the same game of trying to attract and recruit and so to be able to go out early has really helped us even in terms of you know retirements and resignations we as you saw tonight we only had three retirees each year which is great you know kind of abs and flow some years you have quite a few this year we only have three we have had a number of people leave us this year for other reasons you know relocating out of state that kind of thing and also being able to just fill those positions and keep moving has been really helpful so i feel very confident with the new staff we will welcome in late august does anyone have any questions about any of these great yes i do it once have there been cases where we've made offers to educators and not been able to secure an acceptance not this year so far well one one we had we did have one which was a position it's a very fill but that was because it was a long term sub position and not a permanent position it was a somebody who's out for next year and always when you're trying to fill a long term sub position versus a permanent position it's good that it's a whole year but it's still temporary and so the person that we had found was fantastic but they found a permanent position but otherwise we everybody who we have made offers to have accepted and we've gotten everybody decide on the dotted line pretty quickly because we have got it seen where there are very good team and you know we have attracted a number of educators this year as in past years but in particular this year i think who are bring a wealth of experience and are highly sought after and so i think the reputation of the district goes a long way in terms of this is a community that has a supportive school committee as support administration a supportive parent community supportive in the foundation for moment education so all of those things combined with you know the fact that we have a blue ribbon school and that we're level one all of those things go together to give us a reputation in the education world that this is a good place to work and so we've we've gotten we've signed some pretty good heavy hitters this year that i'm very excited about and i would add to that that when the time mechanics come to us at central office nature and desire to work together and it just the enthusiasm for the work and so that is something that is very attractive to candidates and they have a really strong positive them want to be part of it and i think that's actually not only does it help the educators know what they're you know looking what they're looking at in terms of our district it also helps us tremendously in terms of hiring because because we can go out and hire early we can actually have folks in to teach them and you know demonstration lessons and you know we have the advantage that our our own staff is here to participate means interview change whereas if we had to do this in july they're gone and some we can many times get people back to help out but it's much easier when they're all here  they do a demonstration lesson of their interview they come up and you know anyone who can get past assistant superintendent areas and then makes their way to my office i usually do the cheerleading you know this is a great district and talk about how we so after our discussion on the calendar is the policy committee made that and about the current policy we had a couple of drafts that we went through with changes to the policy from labor day occurs on it before september third the start date for students will be the wednesday after labor day and then labor day or kurds later than september third the start date will be the wednesday before labor day whereas before we what we can read the whole thing you're funny so the school calendar for student named suing your shall be prepared by the superintendent and submitted to the school committee for approval annually the official calendar of the bom our public school shall include one hundred eighty instructional days and five additional days for emergency school closings as required by law the calendar will set forth the days that schools will be in session including holidays vacation periods  service days and parent conferences for the start date when the labor day occurs on or before september third the start date for students will be the wednesday after labor day when labor day occurs later than september third start date for so this for us today is just to read and think and discuss and then at our next meeting we can have a vote on the proposed policy change and in looking ahead it seems like that is labor day years and if i remember correctly this would give us four days prior to labor day three after it was the current policy that we're operating under it's just the opposite so it's really only a shift from one whe one year that you actually be doing something different to the kurds and i did i think that the intent was just to try to balance to try to not make any year be too early before we wouldn't join the year too far after so this is the state shift i think represents a nice balance between that said and that would be a less of an issue for your policy committee i think because it wouldn't be so much of an issue of when do you start school but what is the school calendar look like as far as days off so wouldn't be it wouldn't change the wouldn't change anything about what's the start date so this policy really speaks to when when you start school and this is what we heard when we got feedback from parents that they just want to consistent understand what it means years out so they can plan their summer we had a meeting on may ninth of the school committee where i presented this fat space task force and elementary modular proposals generated a lot of conversation and a lot of emails and that resulted in myself going out to both the burbank and the schools to meet with parents and listen more to their feedback and concerns about the different aspects of having modules at either side location we learned a lot space task force on the impression for example that a parking space in front of the burbank in a parking space behind the playground at butler were both good things that would provide safe aspects to entering in dismissal procedures at each school and we found out from both of the community said that they were welcome that there for different reasons they wanted to keep their green space in clean i keep playground spaces as open as possible and that permanent change did not want to be put in place if in fact the modules are going to be temporary all very good points all well heard and we have those meetings in those discussions and meet with parents for that very reason  at both the burbank in the the butler you know the big concerns are how much of the playground is going to be taken up how much impact will students have on the other parts of the building what are going to be the safety mechanisms are going to put in place to get students in and out safely in what are some of the enhancements that we can can bring into the to the school area the playground or inside that may be helpful if we're going to add more students so a lot of suggestions were made of both meetings everything from drainage to repave in the back of the burbank drainage of the butler revamping the playground a little bit of the butler grass artificial playground to cetera all those are being considered by the architect that we asked to re design some of the options and the pricing model for both of those proposals will come out and be ready for the twentieth in the way that we're going to try to present to the rain from s m a will do what it cost to do the infrastructure for the modules and then the modules themselves had both schools as one price for each school and then she will price out per unit the different aspects that folks would like to see happen or maybe not see happen we will still price out the front parking lot of the burbank because you want to know what it costs just in case we need to have it happen in years from now we will price out the butler parking lot even though folks don't want it because you want to know just in case something happens in later years that we would have a rough number that we would have to shoot for in case that was unnecessary item if that was a school chosen so we'll look at that proposal will visit the subject again i hope to get that proposal sooner than later i can give it to the school community van so you can look it over and then i will make my recommendation at the twenty eighth meeting in june i have to say that the meetings that we had in both the burbank and the butler were well attended and the questions were great i think that our folks came in who were able to attend the meetings a little while they were thankful to be able to have a chance to speak and in and provide their feedback and i want to let them know that i appreciate them coming out to those meetings during the day  d night and that if you back was hurt in the changes are being made in alterations of being considered in i think what we propose on the twentieth will be each of those school communities will see all their suggestions from put in place whether side we will check the drainage of the butler and we will price out some work behind the burbank and we do feel like we explore those things that other parents will feel like their voices were heard and and we're glad for that so we look forward to that  so we normally don't engage in a traditional answer but i think i think we had a citizens concerns can we allow this one is that fair i don't start a slippery slope you know what i'm going to know i'm just i have forwarded this document to cheer person fury who will send this to you via word so you can put all your comments feedback in word form and then as we did last year she will some of those  not only the goals that i said in that were approved by you school thirty for those schools also how the superintendent schubert's attached to it so imbedded in each one of my goals is a superintendent rubric standard as well as the coal specific to the district behind that there is the original draft of the goals that we were they were approved on with number fifteen and the strategic plan and then there is a  series of documents behind this appendix that a reference to the narrative of my mission that you can look at you go through so i would like to just read through and provide the highlights a apologize that just might be a little more reading than presenting it but for the public i think it's important that the argument that they will have this online after you provide to talk to the twentieth will pushes all of onto our website as well so the first goal was effective strategic planning to leave the district through the  planning of our space in great configuration work the school until someone is he working with and leading the beaumont high school building committee the b h s b c in the space task force to research and decide on action steps needed to resolve the role of the space challenges that face the district this process will also support in for the long term education should teach a plan of the district and to not read from it this is the bulk of the work that we did this year you know three years ago we identified the budget we identified s c l and class size and spaces are big issues and i have to say very probably that the work that we're doing has taken such great root in the district the budget override was a huge help that we got two years ago and now that we're going out working simultaneously with both of these task force the belmont high school building committee i believe is on meeting almost you know twenty five we are completing module a two by the beginning of july where we'll hire on a project manager we've already submitted all of our other documents to the state for marginal one when we get that team on board that the design architect and the on a project manager together we will give them all the work that we did with frank visioning presentations and seminars that we did in may with the community and teachers and students and also the work that we did with educators in march and in january so we had five days of vision work in plenty work with our educators in our community that will begin the foundation of that discussion that will have in the fall about what our configurations look like for the high school while we do that big picture thinking about what we will look like in the long range of whether we have a nine to twelve high school a through twelve high school or a seven through twelve high school we still have students moving in every day we still have our room is increasing so we definitely need to take a look at our short term work in providing space at every level of district as you know we did that at the high school with marginal classrooms last year this year we implemented middle school modulus and as we just mentioned we're looking at margins at the elementary level starting in school year eighteen nineteen so those short term  paths pathways that we have created are all feeding into the decision that we make or we don't make around how we address all three levels of the district with the high school project so that's very exciting work and there's a lot of multiple uses of that work all the demographic information that we got when we worked with the high school building project in the m s p a we were able to utilize for a space task force to look at not only thirty years back up in roman but ten to twenty years ahead of enrollment so that first task force that was done in december work as a member of the high school building committee to ensure the transition to module into which happened the module into again will be ending on schedule in july which is next month  marched two thousand and seventeen to hold meetings with the facilitator to create the visioning work that took place in march and in may utilize the content of those focus group and visionary work days to support our strategic plan long term i can say that the only key action does not have a check mark next to it is that because we held those visioning day so late in the year that at the dock it was enough time to turn that around to a k twelve plan but that will be the work that we embark on next year lastly in the spring of two thousand and seventeen provide data and feedback for the owner project manager and the architect and prepare for feasibility we are prepared to do so we're just waiting the hiring of the design architect i met with the high school  committee subcommittee for that purpose last thursday we have a second meeting this thursday and we will be in the m s b a boston office next week to begin the hiring and selection process so that's good news on behalf of our space in  just say those words out loud and again all key actions and all benchmarks for met with the exception of the should teach it planning work that we hope to do ok to twelve will take place next year the second rubric standard c we meet every year with the building principals in the fall just as teachers me every year with their supervisors to go over goals the the administrators provide those schools in advance we review them in a fall meeting and those schools are adjusted and decided upon as the work for that that educator for the year five of our six principals are on a two year plan so they'll have a formative done this july and this summer it will be done at the end of next year we have one new principal to the district and you know betancourt at the butler so she received formative feedback in january and we'll see a summit of at the end of this year like always we're trying to be flexible with how we're working with all the different things that principals need to do  evaluating to do from our unit the folks who are principals that they are taking in so many evaluative sets of artifactual the folks that they're evaluating the feedback that they asked for last year was that could they extend their period to submit that work until the end of june or july first so i did grant them that i'm in no rush to give them their feedback in july that i can do that and that gives them a little more time to be more reflective and more responsive to their folks who they evaluate i have to say that the the gold meetings were held on time the learning walks and the check ins that we do in the schools janice comes with me when we go to schools we talk about teaching and learning we walk into classrooms we've meet with the teacher or we walk to class we talk to students we look at the goals of the board we look at student work we talk about teaching and learning we can pack as a group and you know that process really helps calibrate how we all look at teaching learning process district it helps to see our principals as you know practitioners in educational leaders as it relates to teaching and learning but that's not the only aspect of their work we also do check and so we just come in and talk about their days and their weeks we go to p t o events  observe when they are at principals meetings at leadership council meetings all their work all the time is being observed and is up for feedback and observation back to them so we're happy to do that they enjoy the exchange i go back to the first year in the district where we all read thank you for the feedback and i think that that was a nice book start because it really has developed a dialogue and vocabulary for us to have those conversations all the key actions have been met and all the bench process and i have to say that i can do a better job of doing more consistent feedback entries into our principals teach point count and i will work on that next year call to improve my practice or one needing in effect affected meetings for the use of leadership council meetings in retreats to provide continuous learning opportunities for the collective implementation of our district to teach a plan that also represents standard for professional culture of the superintendents rubric committed to high standards indicator meetings continuous learning indicator and continuous learning administration so you know we talk a lot about how we do our work with each other as administrators and we try to attach our content work to our goal so our focus has been a c e o an achievement gap so our content of our meetings has been definitely around those two major areas we've brought in outside support for many workshops on achievement gap through l and we also use that time to make sure that we're all accountable to the different aspects of the city to plan that each administrator is responsible for so we had spotlight meetings where people had to present what they were doing as relates to the goals that they're responsible for across the district i had to present i was responsible for space in rome and so i had to present to the leadership council other folks responsible for maybe a high school goal or a another goal that related to their work and they had to present to the group  the overarching expectation was that we would all be better informed when we heard from the people who are responsible for the goals to break out what they're doing across the course of the year and also it's a sense of accountability that when you were asked to take on that responsibility type of format to you know sit us you know work and whole folks accountable for our leadership council so each one of these documents that follows is an artifact to demonstrate pieces of the narrative that i just provided to demonstrate the proficiency in each one of those goals and the street where for the administrator valuation tool so i encourage you to read through it and ask any questions if you have questions or would like to see any more evidence of what has been suggested as been done this year i have a lot of thank yous that are involved in my own evaluation i thank jan a star has for her work on the visioning that has been presentations that were done from the school committee this year that were very very uplifting informative of the work and the tone they were setting in the district the negotiation works that we did this year when we look and say i have a summary where we talk about some of the th  did a great job and has been doing a great job and will continue to do one around preparation in planning for that work so she's acknowledging this and quite frankly the the budget quietly we have turned the corner in the budget conversation for the beaumont schools we are going from an era where we were in usually about seven hundred thousand dollars short to have now an area where we are prepared for ou district student tuition is why by having id a federal funding general funding and circuit breaker funds that can make up a strong enough strategic fiscal plan to support that over time we've been able to hold our classrooms harmless and keep instructional supplies in the teachers and principals and directors hands so that work can continue we've actually been able to support the assets of you know textbook adoptions and a few more pieces of  acquiring materials that are well needed in the classroom we've been able to add to the capital committee get several million dollars for the modular classrooms technology for classrooms furniture for classrooms to support our  his work on the budget the team of mary janice and tony have been incredibly supportive so any work that i can take credit for is only work that can be spread across the three of those folks as well  as it happens this process occurs fairly quickly after our elections for these positions so we can talk about what the tails and i mean and i also you're always the first to think everyone and i would just like to thank you for the work this year and you've been putting this documentation together i know everyone does it in their respective positions but this year you need to say we've quietly turned a corner this has been a heck of a year and a heck of a three years and so while perhaps quiet anyone who wishes to delve through the archives of this you know the documents on our website can see the full transparency the steps that it takes to get quietly around a corner and all the work so i just want to say thank you and thank you to the financial considerations as well and we talk through all of that and there will be a recommendation put forward in two weeks at the next meeting that we as a school committee approved the  proposal kind of moving forward to the next stage of planning for a final review and vote in september as to whether or not we want to accept this gift of a solar array or chair so it was a good discussion to be more more on that in two weeks and then we reviewed with superintendent fail and the presentation we're going front of town meeting tomorrow regarding the budget and the creation of the special education  thoughtfully review and respectfully provide us with funding for some of these items that i have not normally gone through capitol we respect their their opinion and their thoughts and they always have great questions and revalue their partnership at the couple committee i don't know if the folks at home know how hard that committee works to ensure not just school items but these are items that go all the way across the yard to communities and indeed been very  our favor here at times not always but there are a lot of things we're very grateful to have wanted committee has been meeting at least once a week for the last month or so most recently designers that were vetted in this process is different from when we hired the on a project manager we will have receipts in the m s p a will have twelve seats for this board of fifteen that will decide which design architect a ton of government is able to utilize so when we go through these proposals where trying to make sure that we have a good understanding about how much time that each building or each design architect has to dedicate to our program what's the make up of their company do they have all the infrastructure for all the mechanical zine each back design landscape design furniture purchase and not just the architect they want to build it will look like but they have to have a certain you know size company that can provide all these in house services that we all have for having been directed by following week for the first round of discussions about who we may hire we hope that a result is if you process that will be able to hold with each of the architects that were interested in and then going back to the n we would like to see and don't want but it's not totally the town's call where before when we are now on a project manager we conducted interviews and we hired and then made a proposal of one of three people that we ranked in order just a different process of the stage of the game and one path would come out along the front of the high school and during that conversation i did reiterate my concern about the pathway being directly behind the high school if you know that when they asked about that space i was concerned that would have been about security and safety and also continued to say that we are engaged in a building project that will be on that site that we're represented he's a school of the same size nine to twelve  bigger or eight through twelve and the little bigger than that or seven through twelve and a lot bigger than that and any notion that we were going to plan anything before that footprint has been decided you know what that configuration option looks like maybe a little path would be you know come across the school property i feel and i don't want to speak for everybody here that the community has a great idea and k'nex schools and interest potations and community and there's a lot of great things it can happen with this power be accessible to the community for folks to get to our wife safely and i can walk cetera but i would always make sure that i'm advocating for the safety of our students in the school  committee to have the maturity of how folks committed talk about where they think they'd like to have the path go just like with the hockey rink if the designers know that something is being considered on that site early and they can s little differently have over the night it can work or not work as opposed to having something that's already set in that introducing it later in the process it may be too late so that may be an option that we can provide some face time with the new team through the summer as well and it was helpful for me just think of because i have explained i have set theory three different school committee chairs were meetings that conducted and the same hesitation about that particular path had been expressed and there's a very clear differen superintendent pale and help me understand very starkly between traffic and business that goes on when it's not a public three way and then what happens when it is a public there when people have a right to be there and have it changes it is a dramatic