Minutes – Apr. 14, 2016

BERKSHIRE HILLS REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Great Barrington           Stockbridge        West Stockbridge

 SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING

MONUMENT MOUNTAIN REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – Library – 7:00 p.m.

April 14, 2016

Present:

School Committee:   S. Bannon, R. Bradway,  D. Weston, A. Potter, J. St. Peter, W. Fields,  K. Piasecki, C. Shelton,     Phone-In:  R. Dohoney

Administration:        P. Dillon

 Staff/Public:        M. Berle,  M. Young, J. Briggs, Kate Burdsall, Glen Chamberlin, S.Soule, Tiffany Wilding-White

Absent:           B. Doren, F. Clark, S. Harrison

List of Documents Distributed:

2015 – 2016 PTA Events, Efforts, Field Trips; 2016 – 2017 CALENDAR w sc dates; 2016 Virtual Enterprise Field Trip – NYC; AMENDMENT TO POLICY JJIB; April 14, 2016 Agenda; April 14, 2016 Pers Report; April 14, 2016 Revised Agenda; Clinician Memo; Clinician; District Programmatic Review – revised; Finance Committee Protocol; January 21, 2016 Joint Mtg w Lee Meeting Minutes; Policy JJIB – InterScholastic Athletics; Request for approval – BHTF; School Committee Meetings – FY17 tentative schedule w locations – public.

RECORDER NOTE: Meeting attended by recorder and minutes transcribed via recorded CTSB DVD after the fact. Length of meeting: 1hr 56min

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 CALL TO ORDER – Chairman Steve Bannon called the meeting to order @ 7:00pm

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

The listing of agenda items are those reasonably anticipated by the chair, which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed, and other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. This meeting is being recorded by CTSB and will be broadcast at a later date. Minutes will be transcribed and made public, as well as added to our website, www.bhrsd.org once approved.

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MINUTES –

BHRSD School Committee 01/21/16 Joint Meeting with Lee- minutes

Motion to approve minutes: D.Weston     Seconded: W.Fields      Approved: Unanimous

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TREASURER’S REPORT  -None

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SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

P.Dillon:

• Monday interviewed with Shaker Mountain School Union for Shared Superintendent- They Approved through unanimous vote. BHRSD shared services team will meet with Shaker Mountain Union to make plan.

GOOD NEWS ITEM(S)

Muddy Brook Elementary School (MBE)

1. Berle, Principal:

• 30 volunteers came to MBE to read to students for Read Across America- Mary read and presented letters from students to Rich Bradway and William Fields, two of the reader volunteers.
• Elizabeth Hamilton from the Rotary Club gave dictionaries to every third-grader. Long standing tradition and students were thrilled.
• Project Connection- >80 students participating.
• Opinion writing by students throughout the school. Students are making sense of what it means to have an opinion.
• Smitty Pignatelli 2nd visit – First visit was to talk about public and spirited work. – Amy Salinetti’s class was tasked to look around the school to see what they could do to make a difference. The children noticed a slightly fraying flag and wrote to Smitty and he responded with a second visit the MBE with a new flag to be put up in its place.
• Flying Cloud working on a sound unit with first and second grade all around the pond.
• VFW wants to meet with the unicycle team to discuss appropriate dress and demeanor for the Stockbridge Memorial Day Parade. Great opportunity to have a conversation with the students about that ceremony and what it means.
• PTA field trips coming up. PTA president, Tiffany Wilding-White, will speak to that later in meeting.

Monument Valley Middle School (DBM)

P.Dillon reporting for B.Doren, Principal: Ben is at Nature’s Classroom for the week with the 5th and 6th grade classes.

• Newly-formed Committee of 27 people consisting of parents and community members, Teachers, paras. Interviewed 8 candidates for the position of the assistant principal. 3 rounds of interviews and the committee unanimously voted Miles Wheat. He will come to a future meeting for introductions and he is a teacher of science with 7 years of experience primarily at the middle school level and he’s been an assistant principal for 2 years.
• Andy Potter: Wanted to mention how great the musical of Willy Wonka was at the middle school, which he attended this week. Peter: Someone recorded it in the whole performance is on YouTube.

Monument Mountain Regional High School (MMRHS)

M.Young, Principal:

• Berkshire County Superintendent’s Round Table and MCLA Select to The Berkshire County educator of the Year-Lisken Van Pelt Dus selected for grades 7-12  and Ann Kinne has been selected for EK-PK-K-1-2-3.
• Swim Coach, Jill Svirida, Has been selected by the MIAA as the boys swim coach of the year.
• Self Study- first part completed w first day as March 11th with 41 Community Partners joining. The following 2 weeks spent with them visiting teachers and classes and observing on regular days. Returned on April 5th giving feedback and notes. Will be presented to The Faculty after April vacation and those findings and their own findings from Community Partners will set the direction for Monument and to set the goals for the next three, five, ten, twenty years. Very positive and productive. Very positive and productive. Very good and strong constructive criticism and positive feedback.
• Spring Musical- The Drowsy Chaperone. Very well done. Very contemporary and smart and funny. All of the student actors did a phenomenal job.
• April 28th- hosting first of many speakers, Dr. David Levering Lewis, for the W.E.B. Dubois Educational Series in Great Barrington. Working with community members: led by John Horan, Randy Weinstein, and Skip Mead. Dr. David Levering-Lewis Is a Pulitzer prize-winning author for his two part Biography of W.E.B Dubois. The opening event will be students performing passages of Dubois’ work followed by Dr. Lovering-Lewis presenting.
• Annual blood drive this week. In addition to supporting our community with the needed resource we are also able to provide scholarships to the students based on the number of pints collected during the drive.
• Hosted 8th grade orientation and program of studies. New model this year: where students joined guidance counselors to talk with incoming freshmen and their parents. Well-received and students did a great job.
• MMRHS Facebook page how that Nick Fredsall collected $187.00 of change by using his metal detector on the front and back hills and donated the money back to the school.
• Wise Program is up and running and those presentations by students will begin the first week of May. Schedule will be posted on web page and Facebook page.
• Hosting a race-based focus group this week. Have asked the students for their input, as we are a predominantly white community and school, and any time there was a racist incident it was addressed by talking about respect, diversity, and tolerance. Conversations with parents has made clear that racism is a very present concern and that needs to be addressed very straightforwardly and not blended with other topics like tolerance. 15 students in the focus group to work with the administrators and staff to make sure that no one in this school is feeling minimized.
• Paul Gibbons, athletic director 40+ years, has been ill for 3-4 weeks. .People who have stepped up to fill in to get the spring Sports up and running, with great appreciation: Athletic coaches, Scott Annand, Kristen Flynn, Tracy Clark, community members stepping up in Paul’s absence.

PTA Update: Tiffany Wilding-White, PTA President-

Started out the school year with an entirely new leadership of 5 new people. Put together events this year based on connection; Put together events this year based on connection: family-to-family, student-to-student, teacher to family-to-family, student-to-student, teacher to teacher, families-to-community, families-to-area surroundings. Stronger social networks leads to more classroom participation and discussions, lower stress levels, better learning.

• Hosting 7 or 8 field trips: Fourth grade is going to the Connecticut Science Center, Third and fourth grade go to the Mahaiwe theater, Second grade art trip with teacher Ali Benton to Mass MoCA (ties in with some of her summer work and curriculum), Third grade is going to the Ashley House (classes discussing local history), First grade is going to the Berkshire Botanical Gardens (classes working on plant life-cycle).
• Two social dances: January dance was a huge success with about 150 attendees with dancing and laughing and clapping and swinging- Learned old fashioned line and swing dancing that is in connection with our local history. Another coming in April.
• Student directory is highly relied on by teachers and parents to create social events outside of the school: playdates, birthday parties.
• Professional Storyteller, Diane Edgecomb, Did two performance presentations half the school then half the school telling folk stories about the environment and friendship.
• CHP grant for parents about bringing storytelling into the home, hosted on the same evening.

All of these events had a relatively small financial impact. Came into the school year with approximately $10,000 in funds and have taken in another $10,000 to $15,000 and will expect to spend about $15,000 this year. Calculating out to be about $40 per student for all the activities offered through the PTA during the school year. Showing a big impact can be made with very little money but also it took a lot of effort from PTA members, staff and families.

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SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT:

Requests:

• Proposed New Position Clinician:

Kate Burdsall. SPED Director: Worked with staff from the elementary school-  Glenn Chamberlain, Sharon Connolly, Mary Berle, Melinda Olds, Nan Thompson. Tried to create something different than what the school adjustment counselors do. Position for this would be within the therapeutic classroom. Articulate qualifications and job roles that connect specifically to the program and what the program goals are that will benefit the students, their families, and the staff as part of the program. Looking for someone to do direct intervention with those students in that classroom. Working with, reaching out to, collaborating with parents and community members. Broad techniques: social skills, Arts-based activities, Movement activities, sensory brakes- A wide range of qualifications and activities for this person to bring to the team and to the room. Be able to help in that setting and be able to lead/support in a crisis: assessments, facilitate hospitalization (qualifications of clinician). Completing functional behavioral analysis. Reading intervention behavioral plans and suggestions of monitoring or tweaking those plans as children grow and acquire skills.

A.Potter Moved to accept the new position        Seconded: D.Weston

Discussion:

D.Weston: Position budgeted for?

P.Dillon: Budgeted for already at Elementary level.

1. Shelton: Position only for Muddy Brook to start? Don’t want to overtask this person going back and forth across the street.
2. Dillon: There would be a position at Muddy Brook only and then maybe later another position at Monument Valley Middle

C.Shelton: Perfect. That’s what I wanted to hear.

Approved: Unanimously

• Overnight Field Trip –MMRHS–Virtual Enterprise–NYC Trade Fair:

Peter Dillon Asks for Committee to approve this annual trip.

1. Shelton Made Motion to Approve Seconded: W.Fields Approved: Unanimously 

District Programmatic Review:

P.Dillon: Josh Briggs and Peter will present but being 85 pages long- covering the whole district. Rather than go through line-by-line, simply address individual questions. Even if no questions, there is a list of questions to be given out, not to be answered, but to continue the conversations of District needs moving forward.

P.Dillon opens floor for questions from Committee:

• Q- D.Weston: is this to be viewed with eyes of “Vision”
• A- P.Dillon: This is where we are now and each sub-section has hints of where we might go.
• A- J.Briggs: The 11 questions presented really address the direction we think the district might go. Progammatic overview was written with the thought of really explaining where we are “at” as a district so we can better know where we are going and how to get there from here.

1. Are there ways that we can simplify and align our schedules across all three buildings?
2. What are we going to do with assessment? Our portfolios and performance based assessments? How are we crafting assessments that are connected and aligned with our values?
3. Money and sustainability?
4. High School physical plant?
5. Shared services?
6. Vocational education. How can we work to develop a plan that includes all South County?
7. Project-based learning. Minor shifts to allow for more? Major shifts needed to open up more opportunity? Targeted professional development?
8. Blended learning. Incorporating technology, how & when, how does it look different at the different grade levels?
9. Are our offerings aligned with our values and budget?
10. PK-12 alignment. Are we doing that? If done correctly, it should be liberating to teachers, not restraining. Allowing more time for teachers to talk and work together to find what works best for their classroom rather than have all classes conform to the same schedule.
11. What are the shifts we can make to reach the level of social/emotional needs of students? Minor shifts? Major shifts? Today’s students have very different complex needs than 10 years ago.

Q-Steve Bannon: The hope is, as the year goes along, these questions/topics will be discussed and answers will be gotten? Some solved, some not solved, some deferred.

A-Josh Briggs: Yes and, as committee members, what is missing on the list?

Q- W.Fields: In the report itself – Resources financial planning infrastructure maintenance. Where does school choice come into play here? No mention of school choice.

A- P.Dillon: Those were set goals from 7 years ago and School Choice was not talked about then. We talk about it now and realize we mis-stepped around school choice. These questions are to be used as a discussion springboard to re-set our goals from where they were to where they are.

D.Weston: Pleased shared services is not seen as part of “money” because benefit of shared services is a better education for students not as much as saving money.

S.Bannon: Good point because community views the shared services primarily as a money saver, when it’s really not.

D.Weston: Re:#11 – The social/emotional needs are so much greater now than they were 20 years ago and those needs have to be heavily addressed as to break the cycle for the next generation, 20 years from now.

R.Bradway: Budget funded activities that happen outside of the normal school day (like band, orchestra, chorus), will those be addressed in the scheduling question?

P.Dillon: Consensus on a good public school is reliant on access, of which we cannot be dependant on parents driving students to/from school so they can participate in certain programs OR being sure busses are available outside of the normal school day to accommodate those program students.

R.Bradway: Re-Blended Learning: Not just a function of using  technology better but also a philosophical change in how technology is viewed and incorporated into the infrastructure, budget, and schedule.

R.Dohoney: Are we biting off more than we can chew? Best use of our resources. The renovation took a lot of staff time, now building shared services relationships is also taking a lot of staff time. Is this a solution in search of a problem? Time and resources issues. Focus on two big issues: a) Building relationships with neighboring districts. b) Getting High School physical plant squared away. Concerns lay in overburdening admin staff at MBE and DBM.

Receipt of Gift(s) from Berkshire Taconic Foundation:

Berkshire Hills Technology Fund is very supportive. Hasn’t made a big donation in past year or two, and this year funds made available quite for many projects (see attached memo of funded items). Asking committee to accept the donation from the Berkshire Hills Technology Fund through the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in the amount of $15,000

R.Bradway Made Motion to Accept        Seconded: A.Potter      Approved: Unanimously

Updates:

• Southern Berkshire Shared Services Project(SBSSP)- Mass IT group from private non-profit from State Office of Technology- Met with the 6 South County districts in regard to technology, Broadband, purchasing, and trying to negotiate better service contracts with internet service providers. We are providing them with data and they will be preparing information for us. Using Community Compact of $75,000, Bringing in former graduate of Lee, Joshua Shaw, who is a consultant in technology at Silica Valley to do an assessment of all systems. He saved Lee approximately $80,000 to $100,000. Work continuing around Professional Development as well.

• Discussions with Shaker Mountain, Lee, Farmington River: Discussions with Shaker Mountain are very exciting. Met with Lee, discussion around operational items- buildings and grounds, facilities. Additional meeting to continue conversation. Meeting scheduled with Farmington River on April 27 @ Farmington River.

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SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS:

• Policy SubCommittee- needs to schedule a meeting
• Building and Grounds SubCommittee- haven’t met, will schedule a meeting
• Superintendent’s Evaluation SubCommittee- needs to schedule a meeting
• Technology SubCommittee- needs to schedule a meeting
• Finance SubCommittee- Scheduled
• Regional Agreement Amendment SubCommittee:

P.Dillon: Met two days ago and had a heated discussion around financial matters and what that means and how / if there should be developed a different way to do the assessment. Currently assessment is done by a per-student calculation. Committee members are bringing forth different proposals to be heard. Outcome: Collect more data, speak to financial experts and have them come to propose other alternatives to the assessment formulas. Greatest amount of tension around conversation that Great Barrington will see a reduction at the cost with the other towns having an increase and how the other towns are feeling about that.

• District Consolidation Sharing SubCommittee- topic already covered

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                                                                  PERSONNEL REPORT

April 14, 2016

             Name                                    Position                                    Fund            Salary/Stipend

                                                                                                               Source          Effective Date:

• Long Term Substitute Appointment(s)
• Non Certified Appointment(s)
• Transfer(s)
• Retirement(s)
• Susan Ebitz: 4th grade teacher, after school activities, driving force behind Project Yolk
• Kristen Flynn- Assistant Athletic Director. Taking position at Berkshire South Community Center.
• Resignations(s)
• ExtraCurricular Appointment(s)

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EDUCATION NEWS– None

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 OLD BUSINESS– None

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NEW BUSINESS-

W.Fields: Reads Resolution on BHS RSD policy regarding Parental Rights to Opt their children in grades 3-8 out of Massachusetts mandated standardized testing. Whereas, There have been parental questions as to their right to up their children’s out of the Massachusetts standardized testing in grades 3-8. Whereas, there has been a growing movement both nationally and on the state level which allows parents the right to opt their children out of the mandatory standardized testing in grades 3-8. There are successful movements all over the country, especially in New York state where over 50% of the New York students are opting out; not due to anything other than the objections to the test.

W.Fields Makes Motion: RESOLVE that we, the Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee, direct the subcommittee on policy to study the parental right to opt their children out of the state-mandated standardized testing in grades three through eight. Whether it be MCAS, PARCC, MCAS 2.0 and report back to the entire committee by June 2, 2016. Report will address which rights do parents have as too often their children out of such tests, sub committee recommendation to what the policy of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District should be in regards to this issue.      Seconded by D.Weston

Discussion:

A.Potter: Special committee just for that charge? Broader than most of the policy issues that subcommittee discusses.

W.Fields: Policy issue. We could discuss it as a committee on the whole, based on whatever they come up with based on whatever the resolution asks them to do. Anticipate a full night’s discussion with parents here to participate. Parents have rights, but the DESE is not certain if they pertain to this subject. Opting out is an issue the Committee will need to address, liked or not, because of the number of parents who feel their children are already tested enough. Should be in the policy book and something about treatment of those students whose parents opt them out should be addressed/defined with regards to the alternate educational activity given to those students during the testing period. Needs to be looked at. State curriculum is driven by the standardized testing. Administration is concerned about DESE school ranking based on participation. If DESE says they will “punish” the school for the level of opted-out students, then they are actually punishing the parents for exercising their legal rights, and that is inappropriate.

D.Weston: Regulations already supersede our policy and regulations already state parents have right to opt-out.

P.Dillon: The whole district becomes the level of the lowest -level school.

W.Fields: That can be possibly refuted as illegal.

D.Weston: What would the policy say?

W.Fields: That we re-affirm the parents rights to make the best decision for their children in regards to state-mandated standardized testing, whether that be to participate or to opt out.

R.Bradway: Letter/Memo on DESE website from Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester, dated October 15, 2014 saying, statute does not contain an opt-out provision…… and participation in the state-wide student assessment program is mandatory. Would like to get clarity on position at DESE.

W.Fields: You won’t find an answer from DESE. I asked 2 years ago.

P.Dillon: The state’s position has softened over the past few years. Concern about opt-out movement is that there is not always a thoughtful alternative presented. Better conversation is: If we want to assess student’s learning and growth, are there additional ways to do that that provide us thoughtful information. That is what we should spend time doing.

Josh Briggs: Add to that, what is important as a whole community and as a public school committee is what position you want to take with the state for that. We don’t have a policy but we have an “approach” to not tell opt-out parents they can’t and we are working with teachers to prepare educational viable alternatives for those opt-out students. Reaching that 90% threshold is very possible for this district and the better conversation might be, “What are we doing next? What conversation do we want to have with the state?” Level 3 designation is assumable so “Then what?”

W.Fields: What does DESA make those classifications based on? If based on test percentage, is that right?

P.Dillon: Administration serves at the Committee’s pleasure but we need to also be conscious of how many big topics we tackle at once and let’s put them in priority order.

D.Weston: We’re not in time to effect this round of testing. No rush right now. Doesn’t like what is seen at the schools when testing approaches and instruction changes. Suggests this issue gets tabled until this testing round is finished, see the opt-out numbers and the state’s reaction and then there will be full support of a new policy being written.

J.StPeter: For public information, can we hear how much time students spend testing?

J.Briggs: PARCC tests are times (different form MCAS)

Grade 3 – 3 language arts units @ 90/75/90 minutes, over 3 days

Grade 3 – 4 math units @ 60/60/60/60 minutes, over 4 days

Grades 4 & 5-  ELA has (3) 90 minute test, over 3 days

Grades 4 & 5 – 4 math units @ 60/60/60/60 minutes, over 4 days

Grades 6 & 8 – ELA has (2) 110 minute tests, (1) 90 minute test

Grades 6 & 8- Math (3) 80 minute tests

In order for students to get extended time, that student needs to have an IEP, a 504 or English Language learner plan.

Purposes are for data collection only and the higher the grade the more important the data becomes.

Chairman Steve Bannon calls for a vote on the motion.

Motion fails with Committee vote   Note: it was requested that the motion be re-submitted after this round of testing

Brought before the Committee by Rich Dohoney, presented by Chairman Steve Bannon in R.Dohoney’s absence:

AMENDMENT TO POLICY JJIB- See attached memo

R.Dohoney requests be referred to the policy sub-committee.

R.Bradway made motion to refer to the finance sub-committee     Seconded:W.Fields

Discussion:

Marianne Young, Principal Monument Mountain Regional High School:  The committee’s approval is in keeping with the committee’s role and past  practice because if the school ever became involved in a co-op that requires funding it is the committee’s jurisdiction to approve that funding.  What should be taken off is, “Such approval shall be required annually.” Because Co-op agreement are generally 2 year commitment.

S.Bannon: That change would be made by the policy sub-committee, approving the motion to send the amendment there is proper.

R.Bradway: Question about the 2 year commitments, is there now way out of the agreement?

M.Young: There are ways out based on certain circumstances but going into a co-op is with the understanding that it is a 2 year commitment as a MIAA guideline.

Call for vote:

Motion Approved: Unanimously 

PROPOSED FINANCE COMMITTEE PROTOCOL- See attached memo

R.Dohoney requests be referred to the finance sub-committee for their recommendation

D.Weston made motion to refer to the finance sub-committee     Seconded: R.Bradway

Discussion:

R.Bradway: Is this something we are going to have to do every year?

S.Bannon: I would assume that the finance subcommittee would rewrite this so that it is not something we would have to do every year.

P.Dillon: The committee should give the finance subcommittee Direction when crafting an annual budget. To send the subcommittee off without such guidance would be a missed opportunity. Framework of how the budget should look is best presented by the School Committee to the Finance subcommittee.

A,Potter: That kind of guidance should be a year-round activity, explicitly with the budget in mind.

S.Bannon: If we do it at every meeting do we need to have a finance subcommittee any longer?

A.Potter: That is a very good question.

R.Bradway: Concern is with the timing situation because this is a problem we run into perennially. Do we have time to receive the preliminary budget and talk about it in this committee and then go back to the finance subcommittee with our input?

S.Bannon: There are a lot of larger issues that the committee as a whole should take up. Recommend the “Motion” be withdrawn,the “Seconded” be withdrawn and put this on the next agenda when everyone is here and we craft this ourselves. It may be that we do away with the finance subcommittee. It may be that we give some really good suggestions and then referred to the finance subcommittee. There are a lot of questions with this proposition and it would be best to wait for Rich Dohoney to be present before taking a vote.

D.Weston withdraws motion to refer to the finance sub-committee         R.Bradway withdraws motion’s Second

D. Weston makes motion to table proposition until the next meeting, Seconded: R.Bradway Approved: Unanimously

Foundation Budget Review Commission:

P.Dillon: Budget formula has not changed much since 1991 /1993 when reform started. General feeling as the state is not meeting their obligation with funding and a few other things. This resolution is calling for the adoption of the recommendation of the Foundation Budget Review Commission in the immediate future. In essence it’s saying the old formula is broken and that the new Foundation Budget Review Commission formula is better and it is viewed as a step in the right direction although it is not a solution for all problems.  Not aware of any school committee that has not voted affirmatively on this resolution.

A.Potter makes motion to approve the resolution,          Seconded: R.Bradway            Approved: Unanimously

Not raising the existing “cap” on Charter Schools in the Commonwealth:

P.Dillon: This has gotten a lot of attention lately. No high impact on this District right now because we only have one student attending a charter school but the concern is that the districts are not getting full reimbursement from the state for the students who attend Charter Schools.

J.StPeter makes motion to approve resolution,          Seconded: W.Fields           

Discussion:

A.Potter: These two issues are directly linked in Boston; the foundation budget formula and the cap on Charter School. Issues are cloudy in this state.

S.Bannon: There’s a way to read this which states: unless you are going to fully fund then we don’t want you to raise the cap. Point understood.

P.Dillon: Feels less strong about this issue than the last one.

J.St Peter: Feels MORE strongly about this issue than the last one. Requirements that the charter schools have the way the system is set up now compared to what regular public schools are, the separation between what each is responsible for is grossly unfair to the rest of the school.

Call for vote:

Approved: Unanimously

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PUBLIC COMMENT– None

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WRITTEN COMMUNICATION- None

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The next meeting is scheduled for May 5, 2016 – –Muddy Brook Elementary School

W.Fields made Motion to move to Executive Session Agenda, for the Purpose of Negotiations (Chapter 30A, Sections 21, 22, 23 # 3)   Not to return to public session.

Seconded: A.Potter                     Roll Call: All “yes”

Public Session Adjourned at 8:56pm

Submitted by:   Rebecca Burcher, Recorder

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Rebecca Burcher, Recorder

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School Committee Secretary