After School Wrap Around Program (15 minutes) vote required

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▶ 34:58 Speaker 5: is meeting those students needs very well thank you very much if there's no further discussion I thank you for this report and discussion madam chair does

▶ 35:05 Speaker 1: it make sense that we change the order of business since we have miss Whiteman right here I know she has something else on the agenda I am perfectly amenable to

▶ 35:15 Speaker 5: that so you're proposing we go to after-school wraparound services very well madam superintendent would you like to introduce after-school wraparound

▶ 35:28 Speaker 4: sure so last year when we made the move to later start time one of these pieces of feedback we had received from the community was a concern that a number of high school and middle school students walk over to a local elementary school to escort home a younger sibling and with the change in time there would be a gap in which those students at the elementary school would need coverage so we created this short fix called wraparound services inexpensive meant to be no more than a half hour and when we first did it we thought not that many

▶ 36:12 Speaker 4: kids maybe 60 and lo and behold it became very popular with parents and we

▶ 36:18 Speaker 6: were up to how many Patty some of the buildings were some of the buildings

▶ 36:23 Speaker 4: were having 60 students a day right never mind across five schools and so it became unwieldy to manage and who was there who wasn't there who was supervising them what were they doing so we took a step back and said okay maybe we need to return turn to another line on the ed stations program and rethink wraparound so after a lot of conversation this winter this white lamb right is here to present a new option for that gap of time between the new end of day for elementary is 2 20 2 3 3 15 so exactly what the superintendent

▶ 37:15 Speaker 6: had shared our purpose with wraparound was to provide a supervised setting in

▶ 37:27 Speaker 6: which students would wait quietly for an hour that expectation may have been unrealistic and the feedback from student from the principals was that this was actually pretty challenging not to have a more structured piece for students and in thinking about the type of programming we have already a well-established after-school program education stations and how can we hold that piece in and so my idea is that we would in fact discontinue wraparound we would provide a shorter term so currently parents can have their students stay at education stations until 430 or until six o'clock we would be instituting what we came up with the idea of the express line for this one hour period of time so it would be from 220 to 320 students would go into education stations we have our system of how we keep track of everyone so parents would have to register we would know who's there we would provide them with a snack we will provide them with structured activity and or opportunities for outdoor play as opposed to just supervising them in a enclosed setting and that's what wraparound was so this would be more engaging for students also give them that snack time and be provided supervision by education station staff in order to provide that level of

▶ 39:20 Speaker 6: programming I would be looking to increase wraparound service which the

▶ 39:30 Speaker 6: cost had been five dollars I am looking I am proposing that we provide that service at the rate of twelve dollars which I know is a significant increase from five however we would be providing more programming and a snack for students and I think a more engaging experience for the students that need to

▶ 39:59 Speaker 6: stay the group of people that we had designed wraparound for when we talked about the change in the end times the high school students coming over whether they were siblings or babysitters that's really not the group who has been taking the most advantage of wraparound time so I think this is a good option for people who need additional time and will provide the students with the more enriching hour than trying to wait quietly for pickup so that's my proposal

▶ 40:41 Speaker 4: so since you voted on ed stations earlier we are basically asking you to

▶ 40:49 Speaker 1: revote this mr. O'Connell Thank You miniature so for purposes of discussion if any I would make a motion to approve the proposed express line after school option and the proposed tuition rate for same do I have a second second motion

▶ 41:04 Speaker 5: made by mr. O'Connell second by miss McAndrew discussion miss McAndrew thank

▶ 41:14 Jennifer McAndrew: you I think it makes a lot of sense to put this in its stations for some of the reasons you described I had a few questions that I think would be helpful to maybe add to the description of this program before we go out so I would assume then that the registration fee to ed stations would still and the other fees here would still apply for families who choose this is that right so like a late fee all these fees that are here okay and could families choose to use express lane on some days and the blue or green lane on other days yes okay so there'd be so that will be added to this grid somehow okay I think that would be helpful and is there a sibling discount like there are for the blue and green

▶ 42:05 Speaker 4: lines for this I'm sorry miss the son was trying to help me navigate my screen

▶ 42:11 Jennifer McAndrew: and I wasn't doing a good job that's okay I'm asking whether so for the blue so you you could see a scenario where families would choose different lanes on different days of the week based on their schedules and for the other lanes there are sibling discounts so I'm wondering if there's also gonna be a sibling discount for the express lane or not so we had not discussed a sibling

▶ 42:37 Speaker 6: discount we had there wasn't a discount for wraparound right but it was but as

▶ 42:45 Speaker 6: you pointed out it's a pretty big increase right I mean we do have discounts for siblings and all of our other options so I think that could be a reasonable piece that we could add into it I'd have to I don't know what that actually is I guess I'd have to think about but I think that would be

▶ 43:09 Speaker 4: reasonable yeah and we kind of so let me look at this a moment so if your sibling

▶ 43:13 Jennifer McAndrew: discount so like in the is about it depends I know how many days and this is a comp that's why I think having the grid with the express lane on here for sibling would be because I know it depends and that makes sense to me that like if you're only using edge if you're using it five days the discounts well

▶ 43:32 Jennifer McAndrew: maybe the discount rate is not I don't know after I would didn't do this

▶ 43:47 Speaker 5: counts about 20% maybe not exact but miss McAndrew are you asking that we amend the proposal to include in a sibling discount of approximately 20% or

▶ 43:55 Jennifer McAndrew: are you asking that we well I think that would be appropriate but I also don't know if the calculation of $12 was based on like I assume you're gonna have if you have 60 kids at some schools using this you're gonna have additional staff ed stations and if that was figured in I was just asking I think it could be I mean I would support that like $12 and $10 or however makes sense but I you

▶ 44:21 Jennifer McAndrew: know I just wanted to I think it's something we should talk about so I

▶ 44:29 Speaker 6: think that's a reasonable piece it's so in with our structure currently one of

▶ 44:32 Speaker 4: the discussions that we had today with the elementary principals is that we need to get this out to parents soon as I know along with a letter explaining the new end of day time yes so you know how do you want to proceed since you

▶ 44:49 Jennifer McAndrew: have to vote this right so we could make a motion to have the express line added to the you know to the twelve dollars per day for first child ten dollars per

▶ 45:06 Jennifer McAndrew: day for sibling I get that and but I don't want to I if you think that that is still and I get that we're a little bit in a guessing game here because you don't know how many students are going to use this it's brand new I suppose if we get to a situation where any of these options is no longer tenable you come

▶ 45:28 Jennifer McAndrew: back to the committee so it's reasonable I would I guess amend the motion to to

▶ 45:34 Speaker 1: fit that proposal and madam chair I would consider that a friendly amendment

▶ 45:37 Speaker 5: you would consider that a friendly amendment excellent thank you so the friendly amendment is that we accept the current proposal here and add a $10 our sibling fee as opposed to the full rate for each sibling any further

▶ 45:58 Speaker 5: discussion miss McKay our mr. Ozzie Thomas I just want to say it's great I

▶ 46:00 Speaker 3: think we have the flexibility for families to go up or down in terms of the amount of time that they're in care and I also think it's probably makes a lot of sense to have it more structured but it was also like a year where you were trying a lot of things out so I think it was good that you tried it but also it makes sense that you can't have a kid unstructured the first hour after school when they really need to go run around and play and to have fun and not be quiet so it is a huge bump up in terms of the cost but I also think the flexibility goes a long way that parents can keep choosing how much or how little little care they they need based on their schedules that so they and then they get if they they pay all this after the fact they get billed after the fact

▶ 46:51 Speaker 6: no they'll have a register they're gonna have to register and decide what they're doing and then if things change yep and they get to change on a monthly basis as everyone else and then if they need more flexibility we also option of the drop in days and we switched that this year we had you had to do ten and now people have the option of just doing five just to give you know flexibility so and just I'll just mention for people that you know we were trying to come up with something again like you said to meet the need of this school year and in that process if you recall back in FY 18 we used to have what we called the red line and I went back just to see what that comparison so an hourly rate for the red line from FY 18 was $15.75 so we're not going back to that and it's I know know it's more than the five dollars but I think the twelve dollars was a reasonable place to land thank you any further discussion okay all in favor

▶ 48:19 Speaker 5: motion passes 5 4 2 absent thank you very much and I think you are done for

▶ 48:30 Speaker 5: the evening thanks thank you at this time we will begin the final program review for science i would invite dr adams to uh the table uh and miss greenwood i'm sorry

▶ 48:47 Speaker 4: yes of course uh superintendent would you like to so as you know we have a as well-established process of program reviews we began it seven years ago we are making our way through every content area and the program reviews overlap this is year two of science so therefore it's the final year energy one of wellness and they will come forward in the fall to present on their first year i also remind the committee that science we ngss came into the national science standards came in and the new state frameworks came into being three years ago so while we were doing this review it was opportune because we were also assessing for how we were making that transition to the new standards and what work remains to be done on those standards. Dr. Adams, Ms. Greenwood. So I just want to start by