REPORTS - RULE 53

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▶ 47:31 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: A motion for passage made by Alderman McMaster, seconded by Alderman Mortimer. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. We have any reports under Rule 53?

▶ 47:43 Manisha Bewtra: Alderman Bewtra. Thank you, just wanted to report that the Water and Sewer Rate Committee met on April 25th when we heard recommendations from the consultant that put together the model for our water and sewer rates that we had another meeting on May 1st when we discussed and voted on the recommended water and sewer rates for folks who want to look into the details I recommend looking at tonight's meeting agenda orders 2019-88 89 90 91 and 92 we will be getting a more detailed presentation on the water and sewer rates from our Department of Public Works director and we have a public hearing on June 10th at 8 p.m. to finalize those rates thank you any

▶ 48:41 Monica C. Medeiros: further reports all the Madeira's thank you thank you I have a school committee report so based on the last meeting which was April 23rd we had a school spotlight the width of school was highlighted as this under the school spotlight segment the principal dr. Michael Tracy presented and talked about they're taking a new school-wide approach to PBIS and for those of you who are not familiar with the alphabet soup sometimes that's positive behavioral intervention and supports they have a team throughout the city school that works on this and the presentation itself focused it on one new component which they've added this year which is meant to foster ongoing community circles and build positive relationships and this is what they're calling advisory groups so the presentation was presented by a group of fourth graders which were led by their teachers Megan Lewis and Jessica Lombardi and they talked about the advisory group so it's these are groups that are made up of different classes throughout the schools so they're not just all fourth graders or all kindergartners they're a mix between kindergartners and fifth graders and so on so they can communicate back and forth and get to meet students maybe like or unlike themselves from different grades as well and they focus on five core principles which they can call reach respect effort achieve cooperate and honesty so these are all good things to remember and that's incorporated throughout their days and work days at the school so that was great in other news the school committee approved a secondary school code of conduct and fees for the summer program at the ECC and again most importantly was their work on the budget so what they did is they took a vote on the bottom line of the budget so the school committee budget is thirty six million one hundred forty one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and then two main budget categories so one for sale salary items which are thirty one million two hundred eighty six thousand six hundred nineteen dollars and that represents eighty seven percent of the school committee budget and the other budget category of non salary items which is the remaining 13 percent and that's four million eight hundred fifty five thousand thirty two dollars and they had much discussion and decided to hold off on a final vote on the budget document them that itself the line by line budget until their meeting on May 21st and this was sort of in the hopes that they would be more detail available line by line and also that some of the items related to the override would be have a chance to be allocated line by line rather right now some of them especially in relation to some of the contract negotiations that are out there have not been allocated by school for instance so the teachers contract is still sort of in process so there's some hope that some of this it may not be a hundred percent complete but that they'll be more detailed by May 21st so that's about it so we'll stay tuned to that and that is before our discussion of the school committee budget so hopefully we will have a full

▶ 52:14 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: document when it comes to us thank you very much any further reports there are