Superintendent's Update (5 minutes)

Transcript (~2 min @ 47:04)

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▶ 47:03 Speaker 1: Are there any other members of the public who wish to address the committee? Seeing none and without objection, the public comment period is now closed. And that brings us to the announcements of the superintendent of schools, Madame Superintendent.

▶ 47:17 Speaker 4: Thank you, Mr. O'Connell. Tonight, I inform the school committee that I will be retiring on June 30th, 2020. Those of you who work with me, I'm looking at some of my faces. I love my work and I enjoy working. never a day I come to work where I don't want to be here but as I tell the committee during budget deliberations sometimes there are no right or wrong choices there's just competing choices and similarly in the intersection of my professional and personal lives I find I have competing choices so after much thought and discussion with my family I have decided to retire at the end of this year by announcing now I hope to give the school committee the maximum amount of time they need to conduct a full search and I'm sure they will be coming forward shortly with their plans to do so I just want to thank this committee they've been a fabulous committee to work with we do have seven months to go I continue to I will continue to be my combative impassioned and trying to get everything I can from my kids and my staff but I really really had to make this choice and I'm glad I would have been able to make it under your supervision and having worked with you very good Thank You superintendent

▶ 48:51 Speaker 1: as I mentioned when we came out of executive session the school committee did vote to amend the superintendent's contract at her request such that it will end on June 30th, 2020. Any comments or questions from the committee?

▶ 49:10 Speaker 1: Seeing none at this time, thank you, Superintendent, for your service.

▶ 49:15 Speaker 4: Not crying yet, Mr. O'Connell. It's so comfortable.

▶ 49:17 Speaker 1: The beginning of the end of an era. But we have promises to keep and miles to go before we sleep, so we carry on. Next up on our agenda this evening is the consent agenda, which this evening consists of the following items. School Committee regular meeting minutes for October 29, 2019. The maintenance report, the personnel report, the monthly budget summary, and the warrants as follows. FY20 October Debit Card S20013 in the amount of $1,526.68. FY20 School S20014 in the amount of $255,382.92. FY20 October Meals Tax S20015 in the amount of $103.88 and finally FY20 October High School Wire S20016 in the amount of $11,263.44 are there any items which any member of the committee