Opening Day Update (5 minutes)

Transcript (~4 min @ 5:20)

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▶ 5:20 Speaker 1: committee seeing none without objection the public comment period is thus closed next on our agenda are the announcements of the superintendent of schools madam

▶ 5:29 Speaker 2: superintendent okay thank you mr. O'Connor we are ready buildings are ready staff is ready we just had two full days of professional development staff came back very enthusiastic again everybody is very grateful for the new opportunities and resources that we have as we go into 1920 tomorrow everybody will come at their appointed times with the exception of KK comes about 20 minutes later we think it's a little bit much for the incoming babies on the first day especially when you consider some of our schools are over 400 kids so they come a little later after it's died down and their teachers welcome them and get them accustomed to the routines of the big buildings the I've been in touch with sergeant Gawk and chief Lyle they we will have four extra offices working Wednesday Thursday and Tuesday we will have somebody extra on the Parkway as we do every year offices will be available both a.m. and p.m. officer Applegate and Officer Meehan who are school resource officers will respond to all elementary schools to provide the safety talks over the first two weeks I also want to take note that we now have I think they're called RRFs we have the flashing lights now in four places and some of you remember the one we put in on the parkway last spring we now have one that is going to be installed at Gooch at Simmons and we have installed Upham at Gooch Franklin at Vinton and West Wyoming at Lincoln and then we have flashing lights at Vinton at Orris the chief will be sending information to families and schools to explain to children these are not pedestrian walk lights there is no red light involved all it does is flash flash flash real fast to warn cars to slow down that there are pedestrians in the area I will tell you because I travel the parkway every day there is often a state police officer there who watches very careful that people pay attention to that so we are ready to go for the first day other information I want to update you on is we try to give you today the most current information I think Diane uploaded it as close as

▶ 8:04 Speaker 2: four o'clock and it's already inaccurate so you have new numbers in front of you with the ECC we will be opening according to this document at 4047 I will tell you it's 4049 as a five o'clock and we expect that people will

▶ 8:22 Speaker 2: continue to register this week often people don't know that we open before Labor Day and so they come this week thinking they are doing the right thing and sometimes we have people registering next week because September 1 is often a move-in day on leases or purchase and sales so we will see people next week we are quite full as you can see from these numbers we are working hard to balance class size that means we cannot make everybody happy and

▶ 8:59 Speaker 1: will if my understanding is correct superintendent will also be discussing enrollment expectations on our policy and planning is that right yes okay

▶ 9:07 Speaker 2: great so you have numbers in front of you to refer to but those are the numbers for opening tomorrow the last thing that I wanted to update you on is you all know Mary Ann Farrell will be retiring in October we have a search committee at which you have miss McAndrew as the school committee