september twenty sixth two thousand and seventeen meeting of the school committee and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance great for those of you who are watching from the comfort volume of the pledge of allegiance was not a new stereo system it was the voices of a crowd of be a members who embrace just with their presence thank you people show up because they care and i've said that to individuals like that or to speak with this we have on our agenda always as the first item of business citizens concerns where we invite citizens in the audience to come up to the microphone and there's a time limit because in such a brief period of time we've got about three minutes and i hate to be the time keeper but i will click that button on my smart phone but we invite any citizens in the audience to come up and just ask that we follow protocol where you say your name address and then we'll stick to that time limit but we welcome any citizens in attendance are there any  right when so in terms of the chairpersons you're for it at our last and first meeting and the second in the clear i did mention that a lot of events were coming in to have this opportunity to speak of that before they actually occurred is a bunch of swag as incentives for the first one hundred years to race t shirts and mugs and just again a thank you to the foundation for belmont education as well as our community partners for supporting this event and helping to coord in fact i did receive an email today that they are looking for course monitors if anyone is interested and hearing contact and driver with interesting that you can actually be a course monitor as well as run the race if you wish community engagement meetings i have a feeling that will be discussed further along in our agenda they have started to happen so we had one wonderful community engagement meeting us here at the general middle school board folks have opportunities to come and participate in meetings to engage the community in discussion about our hoops and vision for a new belmont high school we have subsequent meetings scheduled to in october one in november one in december chairperson will follow happens to be here in attendance and will participate with us in an update around that project and the work so all the details up for that portion of our agenda we are entering our early release stacey's and as i was looking at the academic calendar depending on the grades that a child falls into there will be multiple wednesdays where early release will be in effect and so starting next wednesday there will be an early release date for students so i would just encourage folks to check the calendar and make sure that everyone's aware of those and then in terms of entertainment we are  into our wonderful talent showpiece season as well throughout the year we're very privileged to have such amazing performances that we have the option to take place for participating in our community simper oddly night will be  on friday october thirteenth and saturday october fourteenth in the belmont high school  to complete a job description create an ad for the job and that advertisement will go out today or tomorrow i believe so we look forward to putting together a screening team that we've already identified members throughout the community that will be involved in that in hopes to put the ad out and hire someone prior to the end of this to the calendar year to see if we get some over lap time with gerry boyle and if not we expect them that person to be on board by generosity around our professional development the grant cycles that are going to we would not be able to be as successful and have teachers with materials in hand for students to engage them if it were not for the f e c so we think the they do have the shah who is coming up in the have a spelling bee in november all big events for them to raise money that goes right back to the classroom so thank you very much the f b we are preparing to get ready for some school curriculum nights that are coming up butlers on and september twenty eighth wellington and wind river are on october fifth burbank already have theirs on the nineteenth of september the middle school upper school will be on ten three and the lower school here at the middle school will be on nine twenty seven which is this week next week we are really excited to update you on soccer night in don't want which is a huge success both the boys in the johnny carson who had the idea for this great night last year put it together and really moved the community saturday night i heard it was a fantastic night so thank you for all who showed up and thank you for all who are planning to make that night a wonderful night for the community  we have a high school fear a job fair at belmont high school college fair belmont high school in october for at seven pm and i also want to let folks know that the press box over at harrah's field has been completed and that has  been a really big combination of efforts from the boosters at belmont high school we can't thank them enough for all the work they just had a successful go through this past week and the long term members of the harris field press box committee that have been in place for i think over ten years that initially got funding had some issues around the ability to make sure that the press box was eighty eight compliant they complied with all those rules they a little extra money and they put the press box in over the summer so we can't thank the boosters enough and we didn't think the long term members of that press box committee dedicated a long time to see that work come to its fruition so for graduations to  so i would like to introduce a bill the follow who's the chair of the belmont high school building committee bill will let you know about the belmont high school building committee you know the work that's been going on for the last year or so with that committee or something like this actually bigger because this is the school only one configuration and and that will be submitted for their initial review in there we like to say that this will be the somewhere in here will be the story of the new school it will have multiple configurations in here i think that's a chosen at the time it will have multiple designs for those configuration but somewhere in this will be the ultimate description of what we  and then we're going to be putting another submission in february this is where we choose or see our solution which is most appropriate for a moment through a variety of evaluations of each design so that would be the end the work and then from there you can't really predict too much if we keep talking about this twelve or fifteen months for design depending on what the final program is and then from there structure could be two or three years depending on what the learning really focusing on small groups of students vibration you know we are focusing on how we engage students and then how can we build a building that doesn't just house that work but actually facilitates are we going to go in there really  emotional warning at all levels of project based learning on a regular basis students and small their environments this is how we want to gauge the destruction of this is how teachers were saying they wanted to engage students in how parents and teachers were to have the two thousand and eleven we are averaging still over a hundred students per year this year i'm officially we have taken in one hundred thirty new students yes to the district the gross number in that exchange that the the elementary schools are large right well what happens when that bulge moves up i mean wouldn't we if we if we did that wouldn't we not be solving wouldn't we end committee have already put in numbers and numbers of hours of the bones here a piece of this work is considerable so i think bill first time he has been out every night last week it will be odd every night this week he has put in a lot of work and other members   the strips that they have to measure to house and why we have engineers all over the town you know doing that for traffic watching how the kids come in and out of school asking us about how many bikes to be see every day and how much we want to kind of extend this campus to ensure that our streets of flowing in so students can access by bike and walking and how you can redirect traffic to be safe into flow well depending on the size of the students that we have so there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes to testing soil they already walk the building structural engineers landscape engineers plumbing electric we heard from so many people in the last two weeks that are getting very familiar with the site th building what can be rehabbed what used to be knocked down but most of the part of this is nine so it's really exciting so this is part of it but there's a whole set of folks working really hard behind the scenes as well so thanks to go with a group of i'm very much collective or missed information so i would just encourage everybody to hold her for the farmers market or whatever it is you know it to take an opportunity to remember to just inform people that there are these community forums and ask people if they're aware of it because it impacts our citizens whether you're a taxpayer that's one reason but just by virtue of having a beautiful functional building that serves our community members well for decades and decades important to pay attention to their best and if anyone has suggestions about how to engage community members who you're missing please let us one quick question i tend to visioning session with their look like so many every graph paper that was he said to the wall the whole we use the the small gym at the high school it was covered in community educator and student work all of it has been memorialized with digital pictures and  give you an update on some changes that we're going to be making to the trip the washington d c trip is relatively new maybe seven seven years but for the kids who have been have genera it ideal world all eighth grade teachers would go with the students but that's not the reality we had fifty teachers sixth grade seventh grade eighth grade professional leagues administrators and in five days a lot and so we're hoping we're hoping for this year i think i wrote it dissipated is predominately from greeley away from their students it really is just for three days be that wednesday thursday friday in the past we had no notorious lewis for five days which it's not the way i would like to to leave around six or seven am right to arrive in washington d c around eight thirty or nine o'clock and what you do you could be ground running start touring the first day going all day long and then go to hotel at night so basically your first on the table for sort of scaling back or changing they're really looking you know i think the question became yes we can do it and the question again can we sustain this year in the year and i think that the answer is no we can't keep having said that i think as the as the person who they call when it all goes badly it does feel like a tremendous responsibility it feels like we're putting ourselves out there and so even though we can probably get away with  sustainability the numbers of the generally a very high there's a lot of other reasons why this works for the entire building a lot of things that been at the chadri right now so anytime we get more people here for more days to support supervising engage kids the the work i'm going to the trip so the trip is probably the better three days of the portion of working the planning the work but parents the roommate story interface with the different vendors you know worrying about th logistics all those things are ongoing leading up to this and so we appreciate his efforts to do so hopefully this makes it a little easier in compacts to work but that's a lot of work on the side to say thank you leon in terms of just adding this is the type of thinking we're talking with every aspect of the school so one other one is just parent teacher conferences we started talking recently about like we used to we used to have this one teacher you know one hundred twenty minutes or thirty minute conferences for every parent and we just everything is in point of the day what can we continue to do the same thing with a massive increase in students and less of an increase in teachers so this is like one very real example of it and i think what i like about this is we still manage to keep the essence of what's good about it while also making it  just we do have to think of this work at the new with the new building project if it is a multi graded new space we do have to think of it as teaching you were doing for students of a certain age of a certain development stage of their life that is middle school versus what it would look like a high school those are those are two different groups of folks and so having their expertise there and that insight is part of how we would navigate the shared space but also dowbiggin sure the separated space is really important so it's not just a high school thing it's been a little school in high school with the feedback from did and his team in mike and his team have been great just another connection having had a student has a greater benefit from the trip and now in tenth grade experiencing us history again you know having you know taken us history you need to create learning about it physically being in d c and experiencing you know having a reference point and so it's a tremendous privilege to have the opportunity to go and i also want to underscore the social emotional developmental opportunity for students to interact with faculty in a different setting as well as each other which anyone has any questions about the budget based on the agenda items tonight and looming for instance information that will influence our town meeting a special town meeting in november or just ordinary business decisions that might not feel transparent but in fact are rather transparent if you attend the meetings or look at the agenda items and remind that policy for