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Data Presentations (10 minutes) vote required

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(ID # 6079) Announcements - Chair Data Presentations (10 minutes) vote required

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▶ 56:21 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: discussion I would entertain a motion to not participate in school choice for school year 18 second 19 made by mr. O'Connell seconded by miss McAllister grand discussion on that motion seeing none all in favor opposed that motion carries unanimously next on our agenda is data presentations as you may recall from last year's document in 2015 we had a substantive discussion on the kinds of reporting that we would expect from the administration in order to do the business that we needed to do this was intended to accomplish two things one it was intended to allow the committee to share with the superintendent basically a year in advance the kinds of data and information that we would expect on our agendas to support the votes that we need to take and the discussion we would have secondly it it is designed to keep us within our roles and responsibilities so the data is aligned with the work that we do and it allows the administration to stay aligned with the work that they are responsible for doing so this 2016 was the second year and that is the date that is referenced at the top of this memo and we are now in the third year you can see that the document is extremely similar the only change proposed is the addition of the maintenance report which is something that we have been getting I think it was an omission in the past so that's in effect not a substantive change it is more a correction so that is this is an item that does require a vote so I would invite the a motion by the committee motion to accept the memo as written the

▶ 58:20 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: recommendation of the memo is written very good second seconded by mr. O'Connell

▶ 58:26 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: the superintendent is indicated that the end of cycle department review has now been moved to June so I would entertain a friendly amendment to that effect so again it's about halfway down Department review end of cycle is currently listed as September and the end the superintendent is suggesting if it be the will of the committee that that be changed to June so I would consider that a friendly amendment if that is acceptable to those who made the motion and the second I would accept that as a friendly amendment indeed very good so So we are back to the original motion, which is to approve the data presentations document with the change noted. Any further discussion? Ms. McAllister-Gran?

▶ 59:13 Speaker 4: Could you just clarify the enrollments, including kindergarten enrollments, why are those under P&P policy and procedure rather than EP&P, ed programs and personnel? The last two items.

▶ 59:27 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: Ah, yes. I think that's what had been done probably at the time. Okay. my recollection is probably your recollection that this year we were putting them under EP&P we did well no we didn't they fell under P&P but they

▶ 59:40 Speaker 4: made more sense to me under EP&P which is why I was okay so I think that's a

▶ 59:46 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: good question I think the original and thank you for the reminder too is where you're kind of doing a look back I think what we were doing is the our enrollments are the drivers of our policy and our planning particularly the planning so that's where that's why they landed in that spot I don't want to take

▶ 1:00:11 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: away the only two items so thanks for taking one for the team further discussion seeing none all in favor opposed that motion carries unanimously next on our agenda is a reflection at the end of the year similar to our self-evaluation and we are looking at the goals that we set for ourselves last