← School Committee · 2019-08-27 · School Committee Regular Meeting
Liaison Reports (5 minutes)
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(ID # 7433) Announcements - Chair Liaison Reports (5 minutes) Note: The listed agenda items are those that are reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items, in fact, may be discussed, and other items not listed also may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. City of Melrose Page 2 Updated 9/17/2019 12:11 PM
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▶ 39:34 Speaker 5: weeks ago I had the pleasure of going to a friend of Melrose Metco group that's in the early stages of forming ed Schultz has been tremendously persistent and patient regarding building up this this group and Amy Jackson the Mecca director has been wonderful working with them and has given them some good ideas about how to begin to foster friendship and trust with the parents of the Mecco students who we can then hopefully have them join some of the join the group and direct the group as to what they really believe is in what will make each student in the Mecco program have the best possible experience going to school in Melrose so it's a great little group they are working hard and they're going to be at the Victorian Fair in two different locations at the with the UU church table and I forgot the other one I think it's the white people facing racism and I forget which group that is which table that will be but look for them and let people know that if they want to help get this group off the ground they're already doing a great job they're going to go into Boston at the next meeting in Boston for the Melrose Mecco parents that meet there terrific
▶ 40:52 Speaker 1: thank you for that any further liaison reports anything further madam mayor
▶ 41:01 Gail Infurna: thank you if I could just take a moment of personal privilege I think it would be remiss if we did not publicly thank John Shana for all the work that he has done through the years for our schools preparing our schools getting them ready for September and he's always the man behind the scenes in anything that the schools does he does yeoman's work he is moving on to Linfield in the water and sewer department and we certainly wish him well we will miss him all his knowledge he has such institutional history here in Melrose but as many people may know I did hire an interim and he's been working with John this week so I think he'll be ready to hit the road and and certainly thank you to john and his crew um that are always doing the work also so we really thank them thank you john