School Committee, April 6, 2022

The town has published neither minutes nor an agenda for this meeting. The recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

athleticsbudgetcapitalcurriculumgrantsmonty techpersonnelpolicyprimary schoolpublic commentsuperintendent reporttransfers

Present: mrs carol ashambo (archambault) (chair); mr brian leighton (vice chair); ms laura kelly (secretary); ms sophie shapiro (member); mr anthony school briny (member); shawn delaney (student representative); dr burnham (superintendent); mr michael cassidy (business manager); ms susan summers (recording secretary); mrs leblanc (K-8 social studies coordinator / presenter); mr warren stevenson (LHS history department head); miss mary coyle (foyle) (English teacher / presenter); mr james funnell (bundle) (athletic director); mr santry (principal, middle high school); mr adams (primary school principal); mrs champagne (Turkey Hill principal). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

1. ▶ 13:40Accept line item transfers as presented — moved by mr leighton, as heardpassed (roll call, all five yes)
2. ▶ 2:43:03Accept the Keystone Collaborative quarterly update — moved by mrs kelly, as heardpassed (roll call, all yes)

And 2 procedural: approve minutes of march 16, 2022 (▶ 5:53); adjourn at 9:04 pm (▶ 3:02:57).

Transfers

The money

1. ▶ 9:27COVID supplies account

   The general supplies account used for COVID-related expenses was drawn down; masks and plexiglass were the main costs.

   as heard:600

2. ▶ 16:51Supply chain assistance grant

   The district received a grant to support food service, to be spent on commodities only.

   as heard:thirty seven thousand five hundred ninety six dollars and seventy one cents

3. ▶ 2:46:54Monty Tech assessment

   The Finance Committee heard Monty Tech's assessment; a member said Lunenburg pays far more per student than some towns, driven by enrollment and the state formula, and that Chapter 70 low-income funding doesn't help with it.

   as heard:sixty thousand dollars82 to 94three thousand dollarstwelve or thirteen thousand dollars

4. ▶ 2:49:40Primary school air conditioning cost

   The capital plan figure for primary school air conditioning was questioned and the superintendent is arranging an engineer peer review before Town Meeting.

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 14:21Business manager said the budget update will be given to the committee on April 27th rather than May 4th.
• ▶ 1:54:47Equity goal discussion added as a future agenda item; a member will send a policy from another district to the superintendent to distribute.
• ▶ 3:00:33The May 4 meeting stays on the calendar since a quorum is expected.
• ▶ 19:15Superintendent announced the middle high school principal will remain in a permanent combined role, with the facilities director position to be posted.

Documents and exhibits

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

• policy73 min · 40%
• high school36 min · 19%
• curriculum34 min · 19%
• athletics28 min · 15%
• monty tech15 min · 8%
• capital15 min · 8%
• primary school15 min · 8%
• superintendent report10 min · 5%
• grants10 min · 5%
• personnel10 min · 5%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:00Call to order, roll call, open meeting lawinformational · 4:43 long
2. ▶ 4:43Chair's report and public commentno comment · 1:10 long · public comment
3. ▶ 5:53Approve March 16 minutesvoted · 0:42 long
4. ▶ 6:35Line item transfersvoted · 8:08 long · transfers, budget
5. ▶ 14:43Superintendent's report, covid, grant, principal appointmentinformational · 9:40 long · superintendent report, grants, personnel
6. ▶ 24:44Student representative reportinformational · 1:22 long · high school
7. ▶ 26:06Introduction to Law courseinformational · 16:06 long · curriculum, high school
8. ▶ 42:12School climate survey, SWOT, relationship mappinginformational · 1:05:41 long · policy
9. ▶ 1:47:53MASC equity workshopreferred to future agenda · 7:35 long · policy
10. ▶ 1:55:28Civics requirement updateinformational · 18:08 long · curriculum, high school
11. ▶ 2:13:36Athletics presentationinformational · 27:41 long · athletics
12. ▶ 2:41:17Keystone Collaborative updatevoted · 2:49 long · special education
13. ▶ 2:44:06Public comment and committee reports (Finance, Monty Tech, AC)informational · 15:23 long · monty tech, capital, primary school
14. ▶ 2:59:29Future agenda and adjournmentvoted · 3:48 long

What the captions could not carry

• Individual transfer line totals were partly garbled in captions.
• Exact roll call was not fully heard on some votes; counts only inferred from names listed.

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

• ▶ 2:46:54Monty Tech assessmentWhy does Lunenburg pay far more per Monty Tech student than other member towns?already answered: topic:monty-tech-assessment
• ▶ 2:50:02Primary school air conditioningWhat will air conditioning at the primary school cost and which estimate is right?

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