Opening Day Update (5 minutes)

Transcript (~3 min @ 37:35)

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▶ 37:35 Speaker 3: comments for the superintendent uh opening day went terrific um i have to tell you i only had one parent phone call so that was great we continue to struggle with the crossing guards as you know marianne has shared some information with you recently um you may have seen was it this week we put the paper the newspaper ad in on thursday we're going to put a little ad we're going to actually pay for an ad in the newspaper looking for crossing guides

▶ 38:08 Speaker 3: cafeteria workers and drivers and substitute teachers um because we've tried other means

▶ 38:14 Speaker 3: and it hasn't worked school spring indeed is that this right and that hasn't really produced a lot so we're going to try that what are we doing now

▶ 38:30 Christine Casatelli: before we have the crossing guards so so for the time being right now of the 22

▶ 38:41 Speaker 1: posts 17 of them are manned we should have two more people back within a car manned you said are manned yeah and we'll have two more people back shortly so in the end will be about three positions short and so at this point we cannot man them and the police department knows they lend a hand whenever they can but it's also challenging for them to be there every

▶ 39:06 Speaker 3: day so one of the things we're trying to do is assess is there a change in our pattern because as population shifts sometimes you have places that are no longer highly populated so that's one of the things we're trying to assess next

▶ 39:21 Speaker 1: next week one of the traffic supervisors is going to be going from post to post to see what the traffic pattern looks like we know that with the influx of students this year that it may be very different and so we want to address it earlier rather than later and then know exactly how many positions we need to

▶ 39:41 Speaker 3: fill and I remind the committee and the public that the Parkway does not belong to Melrose that is DCR and it's their choice whether or not to have crossing

▶ 39:55 Jessica Dugan: guides and how many thanks with that in particular is that staffed as it has

▶ 40:01 Speaker 3: been in the past or has that changed its staff is it has as far as I know I've

▶ 40:06 Speaker 3: not heard anything different the opening week of school the police did give us extra extra police on the pathway and at Winthrop and Hoover but they cannot sustain that obviously if they get a call the police officer has to leave for

▶ 40:24 Christine Casatelli: the call miss Castelli do parents know where those holes and the crossing

▶ 40:31 Speaker 6: guards are have we made that public did we mention it at last week's meeting or not the actual post we can put it up on the website on the school's website

▶ 40:37 Christine Casatelli: which ones are not being covered yeah I think parents would like to know that and help their children navigate around those to the places where they are okay

▶ 40:52 Speaker 3: thank you summary of school building repairs John Shana the director of DPW has provided you with a short memo and many pages of all the work we did this