Archives for October 21, 2023

Meeting of the NASE Executive Committee

Tuesday, September 12, 4:00

JFK Community Room

APPROVED 10/10/2023

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In Attendance: (28 participants)

Veronica Douglas, Jennifer Hayden, Kira Henninger, Karen Schiaffo, Kevin Schmith, Jamie Lawrence, Hana Zayatz, Daria Steward, Sara Simmons, Carrie Foley, Cyndie Ouimette, Leslie Skantz-Hodgson, Ryan Parent, Laila Copperansky, Erica Lamanna, Laura St. Pierre, Helen Woods, Tammy LaChance, Erica Caron, Andrea Egitto, Ellen Brown, Paula Rigano Murray, Brian Bagdon, Jeromie Whalen, Sharon Carlson, Heather Brown, Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Nick Richert

 

Excused:

Mark Baldwin, Sandy Bombard, Kim Bowler, Mareatha Wallace

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:04 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order 

• Welcome to new Officers and Chapter Coordinators and Delegates!

 

Item II: New Business

• None at this time

 

Item III: Secretary’s Report

• Vacancies are up to date

MOTION: to accept the Secretary’s Report

Entertained by: Andrea

Moved by: Sharon

Seconded by: Paula

Motion Approved: unanimously

 

Item IV: Sub-Committees and PALs

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday,  June 13, 4:00

JFK – Community Room – JFK and JSS brings snacks

APPROVED 9/12/2023

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In Attendance: (28 participants)

Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Heather Brown, Erica Caron, Ellen Brown, Erica Lamanna, Helen Woods, Jennifer Hayden, Paula Rigano-Murray, Sandy Bombard, Sara Simmons, Sharon Carlson, Susan Rees, Veronica Douglas, Karen Schiaffo, Mareatha Wallace, Kate Fontaine, Daria Steward, Laila Copperansky, Kira Henninger, Jamie Lawrence, Kevin Schmith, Brian Bagdon, Cyndie Ouimette, Deirdre Johnson, Ryan Parent, Tammy LaChance

 

Heather calls the meeting to order at 4:02pm.

 

Item I:  Call to Order 

• Welcome to new delegates and make introductions
  • Tammy LaChance from JFK
• Review delegate vacancies
  • 2 at BSS
  • 1 at JFK
  • 1 at JSS 
  • 3 at Leeds 
  • 2 at NHS
  • 2 at Ryan Road
  • Full at SVAHS 
  • 1 at Clerical
  • 1 at custodial 
  • Have no cafeteria delegates

 

Item II: New Business

School Committee passed Resolution on the Thrive A

Meeting of the NASE Executive Board

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Room 200, Ryan Road Elementary School

APPROVED 10/3/2023

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In Attendance: (11 participants)

Andrea Egitto, Karen Schiaffo, Paula Rigano-Murray, Vanessa Coates-Cooney, Erica Lamanna, Sara Churchill-Winsor, Kim Bowler, Brian Badgon, Kate Fontaine, Cyndie Ouimette, Heather Brown,

 

Andrea calls the meeting to order at 4:05 pm.

 

Item I: Call to Order and New Business

• Leeds OT doing 3 programming (Leeds, Leeds Preschool, JFK) as a .9 and has 50 kids on her caseload. She can’t fit all of her caseload into her schedule. The other elementary OTs only have 2 programming, 2 programming or 1 programming. She is meeting with Celeste about this 9/5 → Kate will follow up with OT around how this meeting with Celeste went
• New 2nd floater position was cut with the budget
• First Wednesday of each month will be with the Superintendent Dr.Bonner to be open to join
• Retroactive snow pay communication for the 10-12 members needed, a janitorial meeting was discussed with Dr.Bonner around this issue and will be followed up on
• Could not get para orientation negotiated in the contract → NHS has 7 new paras who lacked NHS knowledge. Paula was able to talk with them for 20 minutes. NHS principal is going to budget with the budget to pay paras half day for a para orientation. 
  • Paula was able to get all 7 to sign up as members!!
  • Thoughts that Erica and Paula will run this
• Are staff having concerns around the COVID policy and the lack of response to this? Still currently no health office leader. Questions on COVID direct to BSS nurse
• People are reporting that they don’t want to test because they do not want to use 5 of their sick days for their 5 COVID out days. The COVID policy is not clear for the 23-24 school year