Superintendent Updates (5 minutes)

Transcript (~2 min @ 10:20)

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▶ 10:13 Speaker 1: Seeing none, and without objection, the public comment portion of our meeting is now closed. That brings us to the announcements of the superintendent of schools, Madam Superintendent.

▶ 10:23 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Couple of announcements, those of you who may or may not be aware Ed and I mr. O'Connell and I today attended the first meeting of the capital improvements planning committee we presented a number of projects that we would like them to consider for the schools ranging from windows doors safety reconfiguration to make more space at the high school boilers it was a comprehensive list and we will hope they will then take the information we provided mr. Merrill was there also to speak and rank our Requests and hopefully the city will be coming forth with a multi-year plan to address many of those large issues again We want to recognize the work that we've been able to do over the past seven eight years with the Department of Public Works That did not require capital improvements projects that we were just able to do out of the Melrose City budget but there are a number of projects that have beyond the city's capacity to bond and that we may have to look at in a more long-term basis so that did happen today and we will see where that evolves over the next few weeks the other thing is the emergency plan update we are providing you with the dates of the fire drills the lockdowns and the evacuations the city now has a pretty hands-on emergency management director he does only work three days a week but he is working with all the departments throughout the city to try to update procedures throughout the city and we are in discussions with him about having tabletop exercises if you're not familiar with tabletop exercises it's basically just what you say you sit around a table you have a scenario and you talk through how you would respond and try to figure out where you have weaknesses in your plans so mr. Alpert is trying to arrange that with the school department as well as City Hall it takes a little bit of planning to get