All right, let's get started.

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the May 7th School Committee meeting.

This meeting will be conducted remotely over Zoom. Attendance by board and commission members will be remote and remote attendance shall count towards quorum. The meeting will be broadcast live and recorded by Sharon TV. If you would like to enable your webcam, your image and background may be broadcast with or without sound. And we do encourage you if you make a community comment to enable your webcam because then people can see you.

So I'm now going to open it up for our first item on the agenda, which is community comments.

So I should you have a question?

I do. Can I make a quick comment before we start?

Sure.

Is that legal?

So in, so this could possibly be my last meeting.

So I wanted to take a moment to thank you guys. The last three years have been remarkable.

I know I've worked with some longer than others and it has truly been a gift. I cannot thank you enough for my own personal knowledge that I've gained and professional experiences.

The advocacy that I've been able to do on behalf of our students, teachers, administrators has really resonated with me. And I hope that I'm back here at the next meeting.

I truly am. I think our work isn't done and I think I have a lot to bring, but we'll figure that out as, as the time comes, what's meant to be is meant to be. So I'm a firm believer of fate and everything happening for a reason.

And with that, I just, I, whoa, I just want to say thank you. And I really appreciate everything that you guys have done for me. Thank you.

Well, on behalf of the committee, I think I can say for all of us, thank you. And again, you're welcome.

So, so we'll, we'll be moving to the community comments and Adam, as usual, be keeping time.

So our first speaker is Judy Crosby.

Thanks, Julie.

I wanted to discuss the fact that the vice chair of this committee went onto a media platform, Sharon TV, and announced that the district and the school committee were entirely liable for the Thanksgiving accident that led to incredible harm to one of our students.

And not only that, but he went chapter and verse through how the district was fully aware that it needed a full-time athletic, athletic trainer, that coaches had approached the district about needing a full-time athletic trainer, that the district understood the concussion protocols can only be followed if you have an athletic trainer, and then finished up by saying, whoever's in this seat next might want to prioritize it. And then last night, Dr. Patelow stood at town meeting and said, oh no, we have money in the budget for a trainer.

We've just been hiring per diems.

So I wanted to encourage you all to get out your insurance policy provided by the town and take a quick look. Because last time I read it, it has exclusions for gross negligence and willful misconduct.

I am concerned that your vice chair just conceded in a very public forum on tape forever that the district was most assuredly liable for gross negligence and that the Shuklas who deserve every penny they can ever get for what happened to Rohan will be getting that from budgetary dollars and not town insurance dollars because of your vice chair's reckless behavior.

I ask this committee to censure the vice chair.

I ask this committee to behave professionally.

You all manage not to comment to the Boston Globe.

Media is media.

Share on TV is media.

Do better.

Thank you, Judy.

That was exactly two minutes.

George Ann Lewis.

Thank you. I just wanted to ask, well, first I want to say thanks to Dan. I know we're going to review the JIH policy tonight. I appreciate all the work you guys have all put into it. And I just wanted to ask that if Dan's presenting, if he could take the time to just clarify the exigent circumstance piece, I would appreciate it. And I also want to thank everyone for showing up at town meeting the past two days to vote and weigh in on our town's issues and matters and wants and et cetera, et cetera. It was greatly appreciated.

And I love being part of the process. Thank you.

Thank you, George Ann. Is there anyone else? So I think we should move on to correspondence.

Shauna. All right, let's do this.

Here we go. I apologize for me coughing, sneezing, sniffling in advance.

Here we go. School committee correspondence summary, May 7th, 2025.

The school committee has received 14 pieces of correspondence between April 16th, 2025 at 9am and May 7th, 2025 at 9am. We received a letter with some additional feedback on policy JIF specific to the current activities of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

We received an edition of Millie's Metco newsletter with a focus on celebrating local events happening in Metco districts.

The school committee has been invited to the 8th grade civics showcase scheduled for May 7th, 2025 at 8.45

in the middle school.

8th grade civics action project students wrote to the school committee to request for financial support for a new water station at the Sharon Middle School. We received an invitation to the Sharon Pride Day on June 1st, 2025. We received several letters from community members regarding the recent Boston Globe and Boston Magazine articles related to the tragic injury of an SHS student at the time of the Thanksgiving Day game, the football program, and Sharon Athletics.

A couple of these letters also highlighted the importance of hiring a full-time athletic trainer. We received a letter from a student services director candidate who expressed her appreciation for the time that the school committee members spent with her during her site visit to the district.

We received the May edition of the Sharon High School Library newsletter.

We were forwarded a letter that was sent to the superintendent regarding recent communications shared with staff regarding their obligations to specific quote-unquote responding to bullying allegations, end quote. We received an email from the Muslim Student Association at SHS expressing their concerns regarding Eid celebrations and requesting that the school committee consider reinstating the celebration that was recently canceled during the early July, sorry, early June holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Finally, a parent wrote to express their concerns regarding the town meeting vote with a specific focus on how the reductions in the budget, how reductions in the budget as well as of that vote would impact families at East Elementary School.

All right, that's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Shana.

And do we have a student school committee representative here tonight?

I didn't hear about any, but I just want to add that the we were invited to the CAP event at the middle school put on by the eighth graders.

All of the the eighth graders had to do a civic action project.

And they spent months on it doing research and we were all invited.

I'm so glad I know Adam was there and Ellen and Peter and I think Joelle, you were there too. And it was, it was incredible how much work the kids put in. They were so excited and happy and I'm so glad that we got a chance to go by. So, I'm glad that we got a chance to go by. Okay, so the next item is the superintendent updates.

Okay, thank you.

First of all, yesterday at town meeting the finance committee, the town meeting approved the finance committee recommended school district budget.

This approval was approximately $237,000 less than the district recommended budget.

As was discussed at previous meetings, we had the committee along with administration developed a contingency plan. If this budget was passed, it includes an additional cut of a grade two teacher at East elementary school, an additional cut of a Spanish teacher at the high school, and increased athletic fees and transportation fees.

Just to reiterate the impacts of these additional cuts, the elementary teacher cut results in 22 to 23 students per class in grade two at East, based upon current enrollment before any spring or summer move ins or move outs. New East area students will mostly need to be placed at cottage, which is currently projected to be 20 students, but requiring some special transportation costs in order to make that happen.

So, for the next step, we have the opportunity to be a high school student, which is currently in the high school district. So, the high school district is currently in the high school district. So, the high school district is currently in the high school district. Overall grade one and two classes based upon the cuts this year are projected to sit between 18 to 23, with most classes, unfortunately, in the 21 to 23 range based on current projections.

As far as the Spanish cut at the high school, this would result in one Spanish teacher being cut and consequently four Spanish sections.

Spanish one, instead of having two sections, would be having one. Spanish one is for kids who struggled with middle school Spanish and want to take, because middle school Spanish is the equivalent of Spanish one, need to take that again or students who are new to Spanish.

By reducing this section, we'll start off with approximately 25 students in the class unless there is additional enrollment.

Spanish two honors will be reduced from six to five sections with an average class size of 23, but knowing the way schedules work, possibly some sections would be up in the 25 to 27 range.

And then Spanish five standard honors sections would be cut, resulting in Spanish five only being offered at the AP level. As a result, some students might not be able to take this fourth year of Spanish due to enrollment limitations or schedule conflicts.

And we'll continue to monitor enrollment, especially in kindergarten, which continues throughout the summer, along with enrollment in other grades in high school classes going forward.

The district is moving ahead with plans for next year based upon final approval budget.

We've hired a new principal at Cottage Elementary School, Saravi Connolly, which was announced last week. Mark Crean, who is the current Heights Special Education Administrator slash AP, is moving from Heights to ECC as the new ECC director.

We have post for full-time student service administrators at both Heights and East, post for a new assistant principal at the high school.

Mike Vitelli will be taking on the full-time athletic director role. We hope to have an announcement of a new director of student services soon. And again, we'll continue to post recruit and hire as well as work out the logistics of the reductions that have occurred and any transfers that need to be made. As far as the hiring process, we really appreciate the staff and community members who participated in the process.

Their feedback has been, you know, great and invaluable in the process. On May 21st, we have a scheduled fee presentation for both athletic and the new activity fees as well as other fees. This will include a vote on the increased fee rates for athletics and transportation.

It also will include for athletics and new activity fees, how the fee is determined, what it covers, the background and budget resources to support these costs and where appropriate the cost of activity.

The high school in particular has been kind of collecting this information so it can be presented at this May 21st meeting.

There will also be a vote on food services related fees, which has not yet been voted on this year.

Just some general final updates.

We have AP exam week. So kids are working hard and the high school staff is providing that great opportunity for kids to take those APs and has been mentioned already previously.

The eighth grade civic showcase.

As a former English and history teacher and civics teacher, this is like one of my favorite events. I get kids visiting me throughout the spring, sharing some of the projects and then getting to see their capstones.

And they did a number of incredible topics, including child gambling, the rising cost of college education, ECC book buddies in early literacy, supporting school supplies, all these other data privacy.

So their projects were really meaningful in the topics that I found there was an array of really, really important topics.

Great research that was done. Presentation was strong.

And then the actions that are really key to the projects were really thoughtfully done and could really impact our school and community.

So we thank the kids for sharing with us. Ted Phillips was there and I got to speak with him and he really enjoyed and appreciated the civic action that the kids were taking.

And finally, we have both School Nurse Appreciation Day on May 7th and Teacher Appreciation this week. So our teachers really are the heart of making sure that our students get what they need and are supported.

And we greatly appreciate their tremendous efforts.

And that's it for me.

Great.

Are there any questions on anything in this presentation?

For anyone?

Okay.

Adam?

Yeah, just a quick question.

Are we going to, so we need to vote the new budget, that was determined at a town meeting.

Are we going to do that tonight or will we also schedule that for the next meeting?

We're going to schedule that for the next meeting because we're also going to be doing fees.

So sort of like all together.

Thank you. Thanks.

If nobody else has any questions, I have a quick one. I was just curious how you make those high school numbers and all of the numbers actually, class size numbers work with the contractual limitations that we have with the STA? Yeah. As far as the high school, we have to really carefully determine who teaches what sections in order to make sure that their overall caseload stays under 100. So we have a, you know, several Spanish teachers.

It gets harder, obviously with less, but we'll really carefully do that. And then at the elementary level, we're within the guidelines, but not in the preferred range of the guidelines.

So we, unless something extraordinary happens, we'll be at the very, very high end of the guidelines, but not conflicting.

Thank you. Okay.

If there's no other questions for Peter, let us move to our discussion items.

Ellen Whittemore with our financial updates, fiscal 25 operating budget, quarter two, quarter three, budget transfers and eight votes to approve the budget transfers.

Thank you. Thank you, Jane.

Jane.

So tonight is the quarter three financial report.

It is on our general fund expenditures through March 30th, 2025. This information is generated from the year to date budget report from UNIS. It includes the original appropriation, which is the approved budget that school committee voted last May. It includes all transfers that have been made. It includes a revised budget, which is the sum of the original appropriation plus all transfers.

It includes a year expended, year to date expended amount, which is the actual expenditures that have been posted in the municipal financial system as of March 30th. It includes all of our encumbrances, which are all of our salary obligations that have been encumbered, as well as purchase orders for anticipated expenditures as of March 30th. And then it provides us with a total remaining balance that is available at the time of the report generation.

The unencumbered balance is available does not necessarily mean that we have a surplus, as there are other obligations that the district does have that are not encumbered.

Next slide, please.

So our FY25 appropriated budget was $54,031,855.

That amount was appropriated at the Springtown meeting last May of 2024.

As of March 30th, we had expended $33,239,863.

$19,174,414.30

was encumbered as of March 30th, leaving an unencumbered balance of $1,617,577.70.

Again, this is not an anticipated surplus.

The quarterly quarter three review by location.

This is cottage, district wide, East Heights, the high school, the middle school, the early childhood center, as well as an elementary line that is in the budget.

The revised budget totals $54,031,855.

The year to date expenditure is $33,239,863.

With the encumbered amount of $19,174,414.30

and the remaining unencumbered amount of $1,617,577.70.

And then the next few pages provide, we do, in addition to providing the information by location, we also provide the breakdown by department.

That would be the cottage building administrative accounts.

Each building has administrator accounts, then the administrative administration office for district wide, central office, school committee lines, nursing supplies, early childhood.

Next slide please, Jane. Jane.

We further breakdown through all each of the elementary departments, as well as the secondary departments, social studies, world language.

Next slide please, Jane.

Data processing, athletics, transportation, special education, all have their own department breakdowns, as well.

Next slide please, Jane.

And next slide.

So, again, quarter three, our expenditure expend rate is actually a little bit less than it was this time, last year, due to billing cycles with utilities, as well as other bills that have invoices and timing of things.

But from the forecasting that I've been doing with Judy in my office, as well as taking hard looks at utilities, we look like we are in very good shape as we progress through the end of the school year and progress through the fourth quarter.

Jeremy, do you have a question for Alex?

Yeah, I was looking at line eight in the FY quarter three fiscal review.

I was just curious what that adjustment was. Sure, just give me one moment, please.

Line eight for the special admin outplacement, $461.

Oh, sorry, on the slide.

Okay.

The high school building admin accounts? Yeah.

Yeah.

Adjustment.

Let me go back and take a look at that real quick.

We did have quite a few, and actually let me go back and look to see where we were at the beginning of the school year as well, and do a deeper dive into that for you. Jeremy?

Got it. Thank you. Thank you. And then, on the more detailed table.

Sure.

Wait, hold on.

So in slide seven, line 49 athletic school budget, I noticed a big adjustment.

That was adding $75,000 into the athletic budget?

Yeah. And that was for coaching positions as well as contracted services, I believe.

But again, I will confirm that and provide you with more detailed information.

Okay.

And then finally, line 67, there was a large drop in salary clerical and office staff.

Okay. I believe that that was from the beginning of the school year with where a couple of the accounts were budgeted that we shift funds from.

But again, I will do a deeper dive.

Yeah, that would be helpful. Sure. Thank you. Absolutely.

Thank you. All right.

Thanks, Jeremy.

Anybody else have questions or should we, we can move on? Okay, Ellen. Thank you. Also included in your package are the transfers for the fourth quarter.

As you can see, going through, I did make many comments.

As we go through the budget process through the school year, we're going through the fourth quarter.

Operational needs do shift. Staffing does change.

We consistently have turnover and changes in our instructional assistance, as well as the staffing needs for our students.

So we traditionally do always have some movement in those lines. This year, it was more so because we have had issues with having vacancies that have continued throughout the school year. So we have contracted for services for those positions and those salaries have been moved to contractual services lines. In addition, textbooks and classroom supply materials, those lines are typically used interchangeably based upon the classroom needs at both the elementary and secondary basis, services, as well as maintenance and custodial supply funds are moved throughout the year based upon the maintenance needs within the district.

We do find that, you know, that there are some areas that we, you know, budget for and that we were finding we don't need, you know, as much in repairs at one building.

But then there were, you know, significant repairs at another building.

So we do the transfers to, you know, to make everything balanced as soon as it happens.

We did, I have noted that there have been some additional mid-year resignations and changes in staffing.

For instance, these, the nurse leader for the district did resign.

So you'll see a variance being transferred from that line. We also had a change over at Cottage with a a vacancy for a teacher.

And then you'll see the line, the funds being shifted to the budget line underneath it because the replacement was being paid on a different pay cycle.

And this time of year, we also are monitoring the utilities.

As the weather gets warmer, we have, we scale back on the gas usage in the buildings.

So we are able to get a better handle, you know, as we go into May, as far as what the gas invoices were as of, you know, April, we can pretty much start to, you know, predict down, you know, that those accounts will be trending on the very downward side. And we'll be able to start looking at unencumbering funds from those accounts and reevaluating all of the electrical utilities.

We did that in March.

So we will do that again in May. And then we'll continue doing it on a weekly basis on all of the fixed expenditure accounts from now until June 30th.

Okay. Thank you so much. Anybody have any questions?

On that? Kind of straightforward.

And if anybody does have any questions, they certainly, Julie, they can reach out to me through you or they can reach out directly to me. And I'm happy to have provide, you know, a deeper dive or an offline conversation.

Great.

All right.

Is everybody ready to vote on these transfers?

Is anyone not ready to vote? Okay. I will accept a motion to approve these budget transfers.

Yeah, Avi. Avi Kahneman Yes. Oh, sorry.

I guess I thought I'm not ready to vote. Okay.

Sorry.

I think there were some good questions asked by Jeremy. I'm looking at those line items. I mean, I trust that Ellen has answers for those. And I know there's a lot of line items. So I trust that it, I understand the need to go back and just look at our system.

But I think for us to approve, for me at least, to approve transfers that we don't have an answer specifically on specific, I guess for me, like the question that I would want to know, for example, Ellen, and you started to give a kind of an explanation as to what the 75,000 covered that was transferred into athletics.

And certainly that answer helps. But obviously we don't, I'd also like to know what, where was transferred from and what, why that those items weren't needed. So I trust that there's answers for these. But for me, I don't feel comfortable approving transfer requests that we don't have answers on. And with respect to at the athletics, because these are, when we're looking at the first sections of slides where it shows what the original appropriation and the adjustment amount was, that's the year to date. So when we did budget realignment in the, in November, many of these were, were included back to that. So that's why I do need the opportunity to do a deeper dive. So what I think I'm going to do moving forward is to actually put with the, with the quarterly adjusted amount is, rather than the year to date adjusted amount on those pages. I think that that would be more helpful.

I agree. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right.

Then shall we postpone the vote?

If everyone is not, everybody would like some time?

We'll postpone?

Okay.

I think then if we will postpone this vote until the next meeting then.

Okay, Jane?

Thank you. Okay. I'm starting to think maybe nobody heard me. Yeah, I'll put it on the next agenda. I'll make sure it's on the next agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right.

So now we are going to have a discussion and policy possible vote on policy J I H. Take it away, Dan.

Thanks, Julie.

So we've had a few reads this year of policy J I H, which is our questioning and searches policy.

This is a policy.

If you're joining for the first time that describes how our schools interact with law enforcement.

We got through a lot of policy updates earlier this year and some take more iterations than others.

So this is having gone through a few iterations already at our committee.

So our last touch point on J I H was at an April 16th meeting.

And we discussed a draft that our legal counsel had prepared that incorporated some of the latest input from our committee members.

Uh, for example, it removed a sentence that the committee had asked counselor move about legal custody of students that could be misconstrued.

We also got some public comments about that. It also incorporated a statement that our special education council or CPAC had requested as part of our outreach about J I H to protect students who might have disabilities that could affect the knowing waiver.

So that's all in council's version that we discussed at the April 16th meeting.

So my role with all of this was to gather the feedback, work with council, uh, help finalize the policy and bring it to the school committee for a discussion.

So, uh, we had that discussion in the April meetings.

So I don't have a presentation tonight.

We don't need to, um, necessarily relitigate anything we talked about last time. Uh, and you've heard enough about me, about it from me already, as far as I'm concerned.

So, uh, what are we discussing here tonight?

Uh, there were some unfilled action items that came out of that April 16th meeting, and those are reflected in the minutes, if you look, so we should probably close the loop on some of those. That's the thing. So, uh, just to recap, there were at least a couple of members on school committee, uh, maybe even three, as many as three members who had asked during that meeting, if we could delay the vote on council's version of JAH. And the reason, as I understood, was to give the public a couple of extra weeks so that, um, we could vote a clean version that hadn't had any changes that the public had already seen at the next meeting without anything having changed. The last time we reviewed, there were some changes that, uh, the public hadn't had a full opportunity to comment about. So I guess it shouldn't have come to any surprise to me that when we had our vote that night, those members voted no. They told us they would. So they said they weren't ready to vote, and so they didn't. Um, fair enough. So, uh, there was also a request at that April meeting that since this is a document that our, that I didn't prepare, our legal council prepared it for us, that everybody, uh, could be able to review council's advice about the policy directly.

And I agree with that request.

Uh, I had the opportunity to work with council on this, uh, but everybody hadn't received the direct communication with council.

Everybody hadn't had the same opportunity I have. So, um, uh, I, I support fully sharing with everybody.

And, uh, right after that meeting, I discussed with our chair, um, how we should proceed, um, after that vote. And, uh, Julie has been very helpful and supportive throughout this process. Uh, she's helped us get all these on the agenda and work, work with us, um, to figure out how best to bring this to the committee.

So we agreed that we should, uh, get that council feedback to everybody.

So that was distributed right after the meeting. Uh, and there's also a copy in the drive if anyone needs it.

Uh, and that we could then, um, and that, that also had the bonus of giving the public that extra, uh, review and comment period that some of the other members asked for. So, um, we agreed we could then put it back on the agenda and, um, have one additional discussion about it. So now everybody has a copy of council's advice, um, which is for us to adopt the final version.

There's also some specifics in there about why it's drafted the way it is and what council views as, um, the advantages of this new policy and why, why they believe it's necessary.

Um, so, um, council, one note is that because it came from council right now, it's a privileged communication because it's technically legal advice, but, uh, we can vote to unprivilege it tonight. If anyone wants to do that may or may not be necessary.

It actually says right in the email, um, the council suggests that we can do that. Um, so it, I don't think it has anything really sensitive in it. It's just policy advice. So if everybody is amenable, we could either, um, vote to privilege it right at the outset or as necessary, or we could just talk about the policy in the abstract.

If it's not, uh, just before I turn it back to the committee, a member of the public did ask for a clarification about exit, exigent circumstances.

So, uh, I really value all the public comments that we've gotten about this policy and incorporated in some instances into the policy. I think it's a better policy because of that feedback.

And so exigent circumstances means emergencies.

It's like a bomb threat, uh, a situation involving some imminent harm. I'm comfortable saying that on the record that it doesn't refer to police procedural needs like preserving evidence.

I know somebody had asked about that from the public too. Um, so, uh, the last time we discussed that council recommends not defining exigent circumstances, but that's what it means. So I just wanted to get that in the record.

Uh, I'll turn it back to Julie now, uh, and any of you who want to speak, uh, we just wanted to make sure everybody got what they requested last time and close the loop on that. So, uh, I'd be pleased if the outcome tonight is that if we can all get comfortable and realize a benefit, uh, all the legal expense and outreach we've done for this policy, uh, but that's something we can talk about and decide together.

So I want to hear what everyone else thinks. Thank you. Uh, thanks a lot, Dan. And thank you for, you know, taking all the time and, and the extensive measures to, uh, listen to the public on this and, and work to get there, uh, you know, get, get it to a point where people can all either really like it or at least live with it. Avi. Um, I have a couple of quick points.

I'll try to make it quick.

Um, so first of all, I, I had some criticisms during the last discussion about JIH, about the process.

Um, I now just want to make it clear that I'd like to compliment where, where, you know, Dan has been able to take this in a sense that I do think Dan was, and I did say this in the last, the last set of comments I had on JIH. I think this was a unique, uh, a uniquely collaborative, uh, situation that Dan created for our community.

I think there's a lot of different stakeholders, feedback involved in this policy.

Um, so for me, I was honest the last time that we sat here that I, a big piece of me getting there would be seeing council's advice.

Not that I did not trust Dan, but that I believe that, you know, that council works for all of us. We have a responsibility to the public, uh, to do this a certain way. I want, for one would, um, be in favor of unprivileging that document because I think, you know, this is a policy that has a lot of concern around it. And I would love for just as I needed to see council's advice on this to feel comfortable with it. I think that would be very fair for our community to see as well. So they see that this is, in fact, advice that's being given to us by council. But I do want to be clear that, you know, I, I meant what I said, if I could see that the advice our council was giving us that not only protected this district, but most importantly, I needed to see that the advice was in the best interest to coordinate our council for our students and for our families, um, that, that, that would get me there. And I want to be clear, I'm, I'm in support of this policy at this point after having gone through those steps. Okay, great.

Um, thank you.

Um, anybody else have any thoughts?

Um, so Avi has indicated that he thinks we should, um, I make, uh, public the attorney letter with the, um, with the advice from our council.

Um, is there anyone who has any strong feelings about that? Yes, Shauna?

Um, I, I was just coming on here to, to say that I would support that. Um, and also, Dan, um, I just wanted to thank you for, um, your due diligence in also making sure that you looked at all, um, groups, uh, especially students with disabilities.

Okay. Um, so can, I think, well, one of you, oh yeah, Alan. Julie, I'm going to do what I think you were asking.

I'm going to make a motion that the school committee, um, agreed to, uh, deprivilege the correspondence from council related to policy Jih and adopt the revised policy of Jih consistent with the advice of council.

Okay.

Second.

Second.

I think I heard Avi or Shauna.

Okay.

All right.

Let's do the roll call.

Uh, Alan.

Yes.

Shauna.

Yes.

Avi.

Yes.

Adam.

Yes.

Dan.

Yes.

Jeremy.

Yes.

And I'm a yes.

So the motion passes.

Okay.

So the, um, Jane, I assume this, this letter will appear in the packet that we have.

Or. That's correct.

That's correct.

It will be released tomorrow when I make public the entire path. Okay. Doke. All right.

I think we are. Just give me one second.

I lost them. All right.

Here we go. All right.

So now we just have some decision items.

So I will accept a, uh, motion to approve the minutes of April 16th, 2025.

So moved.

Second.

Okay.

Alan.

Yes.

Sorry. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Adam. Yes.

Dan.

Yes.

Jeremy.

Yes.

And I'm a yes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of April 30th? So moved.

Second.

Okay.

Alan.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Adam.

Yes. Yes.

Jeremy.

Yes. Jeremy.

Oh, Jeremy.

And then Dan.

Yes. I was doing it in a circle with the little boxes.

So, um, and I'm a yes as well. Um, the, we have a vote. Will someone make a motion to approve the out of state field trip of eighth grade chorus strings and band to the great East music festival at Kenobi Lake Park? So moved.

So moved. So moved. Wow. Okay. All right.

Uh, Alan.

Yes.

Donna.

Yes.

Bobby.

Yes.

Adam.

Yes.

Daniel.

Dan.

Yes.

Either is fine. All right.

I hate you. I'm going to call you. Okay.

Jeremy.

Yes.

And, uh, I'm a yes.

Uh, that sounds like a great trip and I hope they have a great time. Um, and finally, uh, um, I will accept a motion to approve the transfer of surplus property, a 77 inch interactive whiteboard with projector bundle that, um, is being donated from Sharon library to Sharon public schools.

So moved.

Second.

Okay. Alan.

Yes.

Shana.

Yes. Yes. Bobby. Yes.

Adam.

Yes. Dan. Yes.

Dan. SPEAKER_UNKNOWN: Yes. Jeremy. Yes. And I'm a yes.

Um, okay.

Are there any, uh, announcements or updates?

Uh, Ellen.

I just wanted to, uh, just to clarify, um, I did go back and look at the quarter one, um, realignment report and those transfers, um, that we, uh, were discussed did occur in quarter one. So I will, uh, go back and pull all the information and, uh, send, um, the information out through Julie. Okay.

Thank you very much. Um, Alan.

Uh, two announcements first. Well, I certainly hope that this is not the case. Uh, if this is the last meeting for Avi and Shauna, I want to thank them for on behalf of the community for, uh, their years of service to the, uh, committee for their diligence, both on camera and off camera, which I think is the part that obviously people don't see and don't have a real appreciation for because, uh, that's where a lot of the work gets done. Um, but, uh, the town is better for your service, regardless of what happens on May 20th. And, uh, the town owes you gratitude as a result of that. So thank you.

Second announcement I want to make. And I thank you, Alan. Hope this isn't oversharing just so that there's no conspiracy theories.

Um, I'm going to have surgery next week. It is highly unlikely that I'm going to be at the first meeting after the, uh, election.

So I don't want that to be perceived in any way as any reflection on the election.

So thanks.

Thank you, Alan.

And, uh, I'm sure we'll wish you good luck on your surgery.

Okay. Judy, do you have an announcement?

Thanks. I actually have two.

Uh, may 17th at noon at Ames street playground is a unity potluck.

Um, and I know it's been shared online.

There was one last year. I think this is going to be an annual tradition.

And the rain date is Sunday, May 18th, May 18th.

There's also the shock festival thing at town hall, um, which is supposed to be really cool.

And I believe it's from 10 to one. So thanks.

Thank you.

Um, and let's see.

So I don't know if my announcement is for, okay. My announcement is for next meeting.

Um, I, um, okay.

So, uh, I, oh yeah, savvy.

Uh, just real quick, I guess.

I, I really didn't want to make a statement of any kind, but I guess just in case it be read, um, a lack of statement be read as a statement.

I just want to say, if this were to be my last meeting, um, I've really appreciated everything that the folks in this town have done for me. Um, I've appreciated working here with this administration.

Um, and to the group that exists right now, um, I've appreciated everything that you've all brought to the table without exception. Every single one of you I know has, has worked really hard for the kids of Sharon. We haven't always agreed. Um, but I've really appreciated being able to work with you. And so whether the, whether this is my last meeting or not, it's certainly not goodbye. Uh, and, um, again, I just didn't want to not say I appreciate you since some of you chose to say you appreciate me, but either way, I appreciate you all. So no more of that. All right, let's move on.

Hey, thank you. Thank you, Avi. Um, and, uh, I'm now going to accept a motion to, um, adjourn this meeting and go into executive session, um, pursuant to MGL C 30A S 21 A 3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation with the STA and STIA unit and pursuant to MGL C 30A. A S 21 A 2 to discuss strategy sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel, director of student services, and pursuant to MGL C 30A S 21 A 7 to comply with or act under the authority of any general or specific law of FERPA or federal grant and aid requirements.

If an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigation position of the Sharon School Committee and the chair. So declares and not to return to open session.

Okay.

Okay. Thank you. Uh, Avi.

Yes.

Al.

Yes.

Sean.

Yes.

Adam.

Yes.

Jeremy.

Yes.

Dan.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm a, yes. I just resent the link. See you over there. Good night, everyone.