Superintendent's Update

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▶ 33:15 Speaker 1: committee seeing none and without objection the public comment period is now closed and let me say on behalf of the committee thank you all very much for the input we greatly appreciate it and that brings us to the announcements

▶ 33:31 Speaker 6: the superintendent of schools madam superintendent thank you mr o'connell i just want to remind the school committee and the public that parent university is set for november 23rd i think this is our third year and it is a wonderful event in which the melrose education foundation puts together a program of very important courses and information for parents in the community many of the elementary and secondary staff present as well as some outside presenters you can register for the parent university at the melrose ed foundation website which is melrose ed foundation 2es in the middle dot org just to inform the school committee we were informed today by desi that we have been accepted to the educator evaluation pilot and that margaret and I will be presenting on it at MASC on November 7th and there'll be a drive-in from DESE and MASS on November 25th for any members of the committee who want to hear about it I can get you additional information on that if you're interested and the last thing is our new business manager began yesterday she is off and running getting to go through all the documents meeting with staff and has already produced some good documents for future packets so if those of you who work with her can contact her directly to set up a meeting very good any comments or

▶ 35:07 Speaker 1: questions for the superintendent at this time seeing none thank you superintendent and that brings us to the consent agenda which this evening consists of the following items the school committee regular meeting minutes for october 15 2019 a melrose high school international field trip requests for the 2021 spanish exchange trip and the warrants as follows fy20 school s2 zero zero one one in the amount of seven hundred and fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty five dollars and sixty cents and fy twenty september debit card s two zero zero one two in the amount of one thousand nine hundred ninety four dollars and three cents are there any items which any member of the committee wishes to remove from the consent agenda