Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Letter to the Town Council
The letter from the Franklin School Committee to the Town Council regarding the new teacher union contract signed last week.
FSC Letter to Council Oct 2011
The link to the document from Harvard on the Interest Based Bargaining approach is provided here
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/lkaboolian/publications/Win-Win-chapter1.pdf
Live reporting - Darkness to Light Program
F. HEARINGS - none
G. LICENSE TRANSACTIONS - none
H. PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
Tony (10th year with local Y)
Vice President Child Responsibility
YMCA – Darkness to Light Program
Program to prevent child sexual abuse, training developed and community awareness programs coming to Franklin
goal is to have 5% of the adult population take the training within 3-5 years
the 5% is calculated to be the tipping point (from a book by Malcolm Gladwell)
90% of the abused children know their abuser, it is generally not the "stranger danger' that has been popularized.
Program coming to five communities served by the YMCA
Meeting with various organizations to build awareness for the program
Information on the program was previously published here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/09/community-awareness-meetings-on-child.html
Looking for about 1,000 adults to take this training
by training the adults, the word should spread and the abuse should diminish
similar approach to that taken for improving seat belt use in autos
McGann - congrats this is a great program
This is not a YMCA program, this is a community program, the facilitators need training, the Y has five people trained, we'll be looking to train other facilitators
It is not any one's problem, it is a community problem, a societal problem
Child protective behaviors are enhanced by the training
Powderly - the preventative approach to this is groundbreaking. I am thrilled that the Town groups are on board. Thank you for bringing it to our community
One quick example, a Y on the north shore went through this training, a staff person noticed some changes in a young girl, through the observation and the training, she was able to identify a situation to change the life of a 10 year old girl. Charleston, SC where this program started has just trained their 10,000 adult.
There is tremendous economic impact to this problem that we don't always recognize.
Live reporting - Town Council - 10/05/11
Present: Kelly, Jones, Vallee, Whalen, Mason, Pfeffer, McGann, Zollo (late), Powderly
Absent:
A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – July 13, 2011 and August 10, 2011
motion to approve, passed 8-0
B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
C. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
D. CITIZEN COMMENTS
Graydon Smith from Long Range Financial Planning Committee. The Committee will be posting a document to help the candidates for the Town Council understand some of the financial issues that Franklin is facing. The doc will be on the Franklin website in the Long Range Planning committee section
E. APPOINTMENTS
- Chief of Police - Stephan H Semerjian appointed as new chief
motion to approve appointment, passed 9-0
- Cultural Council
Ann Knapp
Denise Jandreski
motion to approve appointments, passed 9-0
Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
Do you have a pencil and paper handy?
Get ready for some worthy insights From Sunni Brown on doodling! (6 minute video)
Now go doodle!
Note: email subscribers will need to click through to Franklin Matters to view this video
Get ready for some worthy insights From Sunni Brown on doodling! (6 minute video)
Now go doodle!
Note: email subscribers will need to click through to Franklin Matters to view this video
Mass. schools eye $250M in bonds to finance projects
You can click through to read the full story.
More than a dozen Bay State communities are preparing to issue nearly $250 million in debt in the months ahead to finance a slew of school building and renovation projects. The planned projects involve everything from the construction of new $128 million high school in Duxbury to a $1.3 million window-replacement program at the Atkinson Elementary School in Andover.
Six of the 25 project proposals involve the construction of new schools, according to the Massachusetts School Building Authority. The project and bond-financing pipelines were detailed during the MSBA's Sept...
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More than a dozen Bay State communities are preparing to issue nearly $250 million in debt in the months ahead to finance a slew of school building and renovation projects. The planned projects involve everything from the construction of new $128 million high school in Duxbury to a $1.3 million window-replacement program at the Atkinson Elementary School in Andover.Six of the 25 project proposals involve the construction of new schools, according to the Massachusetts School Building Authority. The project and bond-financing pipelines were detailed during the MSBA's Sept...
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