REPORTS - RULE 53

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▶ 1:01:24 Speaker 1: Alderman Mortimer on discussion this is a roll call vote Alderman Bewtra yes Alderman Boisselle yes Alderman Forbes yes Alderman Letter Garabedian yes Alderman McMaster yes Alderman Medeiros yes Alderman Mortimer. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Alderman Zwirko. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. The order passes.

▶ 1:01:48 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: That brings us to the end of orders from committee. We'll move on to reports under Rule 53 from any commissions or boards.

▶ 1:01:55 Robert A. Boisselle: Alderman Boisselle. The Transportation Commission will be having a meeting this coming Wednesday, June 19th at 530 in this chamber.

▶ 1:02:07 Monica C. Medeiros: Thank you. Any further reports? Alderman Medeiros. Thank you. I wanted to give a report from the school committee, a school committee liaison. First, I wanted to start off and say congratulations to the class of 2019 who graduated just this year. We're proud of them and wishing them the best of luck. Most importantly, the school committee has announced that they have come to reconciliation of three contracts, all with wage increases, with the drivers, with the traffic supervisors, and most notably, the teachers. The teachers' contract is, of course, the most anticipated. A three-year contract was approved and will be effective July 1st. It includes a creation of a health and safety advisory committee and additional time in the school day to promote wellness and movement for both students and staff the superintendent has recently given an update on the late start of the school day and after one year of implementation most notably tardiness has decreased in the older grade levels at the middle school they were tardiness was down 43 percent which is very significant and at the high school down 17.3% so it's too early to track the effect of this on student outcomes but certainly on tardiness it seems to be having a positive effect there still remain traffic concerns and you believe that really when we have about 2,000 people adults and students arriving at the campus of the middle school in the high school at the same time we're probably going to have traffic commission traffic congestion regardless of the time of day so we're still you know working through that and that's so far so the situation and one last comment is in regard to discipline as a system we've been engaging in restorative justice and it's seeming to be effective at the meeting superintendent tamor announced that we have not had one suspension all year which is again really virtually unheard of so that's the report from the school

▶ 1:04:12 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: committee thank you very much any further reports we will move on to