School Committee Meeting - Apr. 4th, 2024

Meeting will be held in a classroom. Please park and enter through the main school entrance.

REMOTE MEETING PARTICIPATION:

Online Meeting ID:  meet.google.com/gpf-uvtn-qcw

By Phone: 1-575-689-8628 (PIN 155 745 641#)

(This meeting may be conducted remotely in the event of inclement weather this week.  If school is postponed on Thursday, then the meeting will be held online.)

Agenda

1. Call to order:
2. Public Comment/Open Meeting Rules: Clarification of the official legal rules of participation in an open meeting.
3. Approval of Minutes: Suggested Motion: Move to approve the minutes from the Clarksburg School Committee Meeting dated March 7, 2024.
4. School Building: Updates regarding the ongoing plan to complete a building project in June to address the ADA accessibility issue with a chairlift on the back stairwell.  School building safety and security updates, as well as transportation challenges.
5. Clarksburg Select Board Meeting Update: Discuss recent communication between the Town Administrator, Select Board Chair, and Superintendent in reference to a joint meeting with the new finance committee (and Select Board) to review the FY25 budget draft.
6. Financial Statement: Suggested Motion: Move to approve the current financial statement for FY24.
7. Business Administrators Report: Review and discussion in reference to the draft of the FY 25 school budget document
8. Principal’s Report: Principal Cote will provide an update on school related events, activities, student learning, and staffing.
9. Superintendent’s Report:
10. School Committee Business:
    1. New Business:
       1. School Calendar: Principal Cote will review the 2024-2025 school calendar proposal with the committee, followed by discussion and a vote to approve.
       2. School Improvement Plan: Principal Cote will review the school improvement plan with the committee, followed by discussion and a vote to approve.
       3. Prekindergarten Program: Updates on the progress to get all families up to date with monthly payments for the current school year.  Discuss options for hours, tuition, and enrollment during the 2024-2025 school year, including the recommendation from the school attorney to discontinue the practice of accepting non-resident students in the prekindergarten program.  The committee will vote to approve any changes for the 2024-2025 school year.
    2. Ski Program: Discuss concerns about the ski program that have arisen in reference to equity, loss of learning time, and impact on school each Wednesday for six weeks.
       1. Continuing Business:
       2. Admin Assistant Position: Continue the discussion about creating a sub-committee to address this situation, along with looking at the teaching assistant position benefits.
       3. Non-union staff member request for a staff increase: Review the request for a salary increase by a non-union staff member during the FY25 school year.
11. Executive Session- Per Chapter 30A, Section 21 MGL: None
12. Next School Committee Meeting: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
13. Adjournment: 

The 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 also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. 

Posted: Any person may, pursuant to the provisions of the Open Meeting Law, audiotape an open meeting.  As such, please be advised that this meeting may be taped by any person present.