Agenda for the October 6 Regular Meeting of the Medford School Committee

The Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Medford School Committee

Date/Time

Monday, October 6, 2025

Executive Session: 5:15 p.m.

Regular Session: 6:00 p.m.

Location

Please be advised that there will be a Regular Meeting of the Medford School Committee held in the Alden Memorial Chambers at Medford City Hall and via remote participation.

This meeting can be viewed live on the Medford Public Schools YouTube channel or via Medford Community Media on your local cable channel (Comcast Channel 9, 8 or 22 and Verizon Channel 43, 45 or 47). Participants can log in by using the link below.

Agenda

Agenda for the October 6, 2025 Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Medford School Committee

Zoom Link

https://mps02155-org.zoom.us/j/99990015529?pwd=r9Kv99QdH9k4RPQaCc5mHGO2D0bXSA.1

Questions or comments can be submitted during the meeting by emailing: medfordsc@medford.k12.ma.us

Those submitting questions or comments must include the following information:

1. Your first and last name
2. Your Medford street address
3. Your question or comment

Agenda

I. Roll Call of Members and Student Representatives

II. Salute the Flag

III. Executive Session

Executive session pursuant to G.L c. 30A (a) (3): the Medford School Committee will convene in Executive Session to discuss collective bargaining with Teamsters Local 25 MTA regarding an administrator grievance dated July 15, 2025 and the Chair so declares.

The Medford School Committee will convene in public session immediately following the conclusion of the Executive Session, approximately at 6:00 p.m.

IV. Good of the Order

V. Consent Agenda

• Approval of Bills and Payrolls
• Approval of Capital Purchases
• Approval of Donations
  • Kid’s Corner Child Care Center $600.00 playground donation from Japanese Language School of Greater Boston
  • $10,000 Scholarship to the Medford Track Team In Memory of Michael Mobilia 1965 Medford High School Graduate To be Awarded as follows:  $2,000 in 2026; $2,000 in 2027; $2,000 in 2028 and $4,000 in 2029.
• Approval of Grants
• Approval of Field Trips
• Approval of Meeting Minutes
  • Regular Meeting  - September 22, 2025

VI. Report of Subcommittees

VII. Report of the Superintendent

1. Mustang Moment
2. CTE Lottery Report - Mr. Chad Fallon, Executive Director of Career and Technical Education
3. Update to CCSR Donation from the Cummings Foundation - Mr. Rich Trotta, Director of The Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility
4. Bus Monitor Report Update - Dr. Suzanne B. Galusi, Interim Superintendent 

Presentations of the Public (not to begin before 7:00 pm)

“Regular Meetings of the School Committee include this ‘Presentations of the Public’ agenda item to give any resident the opportunity to place a presentation before the School Committee. A resident may only present once at any meeting.

These presentations are an opportunity for the public to make a presentation to the Committee but are not opportunities for dialog with the Committee. If one or more members of the Committee wishes to have a conversation about the topic presented, a member may request that the item be added to a subsequent Regular Meeting.

The details for submitting a presentation can be found within the policy BEDH, Public Comment and Presentations of the Public”

Pursuant to policy BEDH, Public Comment and Presentations of the Public - any resident in the audience may be given permission to speak once on any item on the agenda for up to three (3) minutes. The speaker is expected to keep their comments to the item on the agenda. The speaker must begin their comments by providing their full name and full Medford street address where they reside. A welcoming, inclusive community is both a value of the School Committee and an aspirational goal. We ask for your help in achieving this goal and value your perspective. Employees of the Medford Public Schools are exempt from the residency requirement of this policy. The voice of our employees is welcomed on all matters before this body. When a non-Medford-resident employee is participating in public comment or submitting a presentation of the public they will include their home address and identify themselves as an employee of the Medford Public Schools.

VIII. Continued Business

IX. New Business

2025-32           Offered by Member Reinfeld

Whereas the Medford School Committee unanimously accepted the ad hoc resolution that the design firm selected to work on the new Medford High School present to the Medford School Committee in a public meeting before commencing work on the Feasibility Study in January 2026;

Be it now resolved that the seven individuals elected on November 4, 2025 to serve on the Medford City Council for the term beginning January 1, 2026 shall be invited to attend this meeting of the Medford School Committee wherein the presentation is made.

Date Submitted: September 27, 2025

Date Requested to be on Agenda:  October 6, 2025

2025-33                     Offered by Member Reinfeld 

Whereas the Medford School Committee desires to take student experience into account in its decision-making and understanding the impact of those decisions; and

Whereas student councils meet regularly in the schools to discuss issues relevant to the student experience;

Be it therefore resolved that the regular school committee meeting agenda shall include a designated block for presentations by student representatives; and

Be it resolved that these presentations shall not preclude additional contributions by student representatives during the rest of the meeting; and

Be it resolved that the Superintendent shall work with student council leaders to encourage cross-school communication to inform the presentations of student representatives; and

Be it further resolved that the school committee shall designate one member each season whom the high school student council may invite to attend their meetings on a monthly basis; and

Be it resolved that the school committee member in attendance at the student council meetings shall act primarily as an engaged observer and shall not speak in any official capacity for the elected body in these meetings; and

Be it finally resolved that the Rules of the Medford School Committee and Policy BEDB (Agenda Creation and Format of Regular Meetings of the School Committee) shall be updated to include these provisions.

Date Submitted: September 29, 2025

Date Requested to be on Agenda:  October 6, 2025

X. Reports Requested

XI. Condolences

The Members of the Medford School Committee express their sincerest condolences to the family of Richard Dowd, husband of Maureen Dowd a Medford Public Schools Educator for over 30 years serving as a 4th grade teacher at the Lincoln Kennedy and Roberts Elementary Schools and Uncle of Andrew O’Brien, Principal of the McGlynn Elementary School. 

XII. Next Meeting

October 22, 2025 - Alden Memorial Chambers, Medford City Hall in addition to Zoom

XIII. Adjournment