DESE meeting submission requirement and updates on new athletic field and campus roads discussed
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Summary
Committee members were told the Massachusetts DESE will require meetings involving collaboratives be submitted in the minutes; members also received an update that the new athletic field drainage and parking are complete, turf installation will happen in spring, and concerns were raised about potholes on the driveway off Exchange Street.
A committee member announced that the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) will require that meetings involving collaboratives be submitted and included in the minutes, though the DESE notice indicated the item need not be discussed in full at each meeting.
On facilities, Unidentified Speaker 1 gave a project update for the new athletic field: underground drainage systems and the parking lot are complete, roughly 500 tons of stone have been placed and contractors will add the final road top coat and turf in spring as the project winds down. Unidentified Speaker 2 raised concerns about potholes and cracked concrete on the driveway and access road off Exchange Street into the high school parking lot and asked the superintendent to check whether those repairs are covered by the project contract.
The transcript records these updates and the DESE reporting notice as informational; no formal vote or contract decision appears in the provided segments.