School Committee Meeting - Feb. 1st, 2024

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

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 January 4, 2024.
4. School Building Project: Updates regarding the plan to complete the work during February break for the building project to address the ADA accessibility issue with a chairlift on the back stairwell.  Any updates regarding school safety and security, including the library, will be discussed as well.
5. Clarksburg Select Board Meeting Update: Review the school related topics that were on the agenda for the public meeting of the select board on January 24, 2024.
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 initial 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. Assistant Superintendent’s Report:
10. Superintendent’s Report:
11. School Committee Business:
    1. New Business:
       1. Literacy Committee: Presentation by committee members and review of the work that will be covered by the committee during this process
       2. Prekindergarten Program: Review of the current program, including issues with late payments from families that are necessary to fund the three-year old program.  Begin discussions about the format for three-year old program in 2024-2025.
    2. Continuing Business:
       1. Admin Assistant Position: Continue the discussion about creating a sub-committee to address this situation, along with looking at the teaching assistant position benefits.
12. Executive Session- Per Chapter 30A, Section 21 MGL: None
13. Next School Committee Meeting: Thursday, March 7, 2024, 5:00 p.m.                
14. 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.