← City Council · 2018-12-17 · City Council Regular Meeting
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▶ 9:44 Michael P. Zwirko: committee there are none now reports under rule 53 this is the section of our
▶ 9:51 Michael P. Zwirko: meeting on the agenda where any member of the board that serves on a committee that is not of the board may provide an update on said committee and Manisha
▶ 10:02 Manisha Bewtra: alderman Bewtra thank you the library strategic planning committee continues to meet we're meeting about monthly at our last meeting on December 8th we broke up into sub subcommittees so we have one committee working on the community profile which is sort of a general introduction to Melrose statistics including demographics and sort of a general overview of the community community a survey committee which is working on putting together a a questionnaire and thinking about ways to disseminate that both in paper and online a stakeholder committee that's coming up with a list of various folks that whether affinity groups or non ones and various populations that we'd like to reach out to through the strategic planning process and a document committee intended to think about how to make this document more accessible to public i think an underlying theme of the work of the library strategic planning committee is a real effort this year to make the strategic plan a very public-facing document where it's been much more of sort of an internal document publicly available but internal document for library staff and the intention behind that is kind of gearing up and preparing for future conversations around potential renovation and expansion of the library but also considering on how to make the library more accessible in the 21st century thank you Thank You
▶ 11:46 Speaker 3: Alderman Bewtra any other members wishing to update us at this time Alderman
▶ 11:49 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: Lipper-Garabedian thank you presidents work oh last week the school committee met and interest I think to this committee in the broader community it were two enrollment projection studies that were completed and discussed at the school committee one by the Collins Center and the other by NASDAQ the two
▶ 12:09 Speaker 8: looked at data such as births per year the in migration of new families of real
▶ 12:20 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: estate pre-k enrollment and also migration in and out of the system over
▶ 12:26 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: the course of the K through 12 and so although there's no crystal ball to this both of the both of these studies were using data-informed projections and they
▶ 12:37 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: ranged in terms of looking out over the next decade from a low of 619 additional students entering the system to 840 and you'll compare that to the increase over
▶ 12:50 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: the last decade of 201 students. Superintendent Taymor also had one of her data specialists do a projection as well using their numbers and I think they went with a slightly more even more conservative approach and that in-house
▶ 13:02 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: analysis found that there would be a minimum of at least 400 more students entering the school system over the next 10 years right now we're at three thousand nine hundred and fifty one so that's quite interesting I think and important as we consider the override next spring both of the projection summary reports are available online under the school committee's agenda for last week and I would encourage you all to take a look and then the other thing just to share is that the school committee selected at O'Connell as its new chair in 2019 and Margaret Driscoll will serve as vice chair thank you thank
▶ 13:46 Robert A. Boisselle: all the number Gary beat an alderman boys out just to notify the public the traffic commission will have their meeting this coming wednesday 12 19 at 5 30 p.m in this chamber
▶ 13:57 Speaker 3: great thank you any other updates from any other alderman hearing them we move on to the calendar