Holyoke School Committee Meeting, November 12, 2024

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MEETING NOTICE

SCHOOL COMMITTEE AGENDA

DATE: November 12, 2024

TIME: 6:00 PM

LOCATION: Fifield Room, HOLYOKE HIGH DEAN CAMPUS, 1045 MAIN ST, HOLYOKE, MA 01040

Members of the public can access the meeting here: 

https://hps-holyoke-ma-us.zoom.us/j/85266232176?pwd=ci9tWEs3cG81SkQxdXZrWW5GenBXQT09 

(Spanish Interpretation will be available).    

On March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed into law An Act Relative to Extending Certain State

of Emergency Accommodations, which, among other things, extends the expiration of the

provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2025. Specifically, this extension

allows public bodies to continue holding meetings remotely without a quorum of the public body

physically present at a meeting location, and to provide “adequate, alternative” access to remote

meetings. The Act does not make any new changes to the Open Meeting Law other than

extending the expiration date of the temporary provisions regarding remote meetings from

March 31, 2023, to March 31, 2025. 

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 28 OF THE ACTS OF 2009, SECTIONS 17-20 (FORMERLY SECTION 23B OF CHAPTER 39) OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAWS, THAT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE HOLYOKE SCHOOL COMMITTEE WILL BE HELD ON November 12, 2024.

• CALL TO ORDER ~ ROLL CALL ~ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
• Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 30A, s. 20, I am hereby informing all attendees that a video and audio recording is being made of the meeting and the meeting is being live-streamed and run live on the City’s community TV channel. 
• Student Showcase – No Student Showcase

• Public Comment- Members of the public wishing to submit public comments can email ifeliciano@hps.holyoke.ma.us no later than 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2024. 

• Comments will either be displayed or read during the meeting.

 

• Communication Reports-

1. Student Reports

• HHS North-Student Representative
• HHS Dean Campus- Student Representative

1. Superintendent’s Report – None 
2. Vice Chair Report- None 
3. New Business-
4. Holyoke Receivership Provisional Exit 

• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to receive and accept the communication from Acting Commissioner Russell Johnston on the Provisional decision to remove Holyoke Public Schools from chronically underperforming designation at the end of the school year with return to local control on July 1, 2025.

1. Approval of Meeting Minutes

• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to approve the meeting minutes of the Holyoke School Committee meeting of August 19,2024.
• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to approve the meeting minutes of the Holyoke School Committee meeting of September 9,2024
• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to approve the meeting minutes of the Holyoke School Committee meeting of September 23,2024
• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to receive and approve the meeting minutes of Local Control Subcommittee meeting of July 22, 2024.

1. Community Advisory Team 

• RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to receive and approve the proposal from Pioneer Valley Planning Commission to facilitate meetings with the

 

6. Ongoing Business- Policy Revision

• DGA – Authorized Signatures

RECOMMENDATION: That the School Committee vote to recommend that the

Superintendent/Receiver adopt said policy (DGA) as revised.

1. MASC Training

• Superintendent Evaluation Report 

7. Announce

• Donahue Parent Teacher Conference Day, November 12 (No Classes)
• Sports Event Calendar 
  • https://www.arbiterlive.com/School/Calendar/10372