So they're definitely keeping up. Anybody else have any questions for Raj? No, but just maybe a comment about the marathon day. So, I don't know if we talked about it in the last meeting or not, but you're welcome if you want or you have time to um help out at the emergency shelters and it's not that exciting. I I work at the one at the high school often help um but yeah, you come in the morning. Um you're there for support if anything happens or if there's any for emergency services at one of the sites. One's at the middle school. There you can see another one where I am at the high school um with some other folks that help out. So that sounds like something that you'd want to do just let Okay. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay. Uh, so the next thing on the agenda is the consent agenda.
So Sherburn town meeting is April 29th. Dobertown meeting is Monday, May 5th, and then the elections um Sherburn May 13th and Dover May 19th. Hoping to see people out for that. Other items. Let me have our other items. Okay. Sorry about that. Um other items. We're kind of out of order. How did that happen? Hang on. Um Oh, I know what it is. Okay, so another example. Um I apologize this is out of order. Going back to seminar day, um for our students who take engineering at the high school and for those of you who know Nick Grout, the teacher, he's a fantastic individual, fantastic human. The kids love him and he's super passionate about engineering and technology. Um super innovative. He came up with a project this year working with Brandon Hall, who you all met, the director of technology. And the students designed video game arcade cabinets and built them from scratch and they work.
I'm here for questions. Uh thanks so much for allowing me to provide testimony. Thank you very much. Uh that's everyone who had signed up to testify uh online or in person. Is there anyone else wishing to testify on these measures? Seeing no one in the room. Sorry.
I feel sometimes I think and obviously teachers I feel are the big thing of a school district of but uh transportation I feel sometimes is forgotten and just to bring a voice from the transportation department to meet and confer. Okay. Well needed. Hi Rebecca Connor. Um, I am a classroom teacher within the district. Um, I have a picture of my students on my phone. Um, and it was a students plus a class yesterday. Um, unfortunately that's the realistic of what our classrooms here in Kraton look like currently. And my reason for coming to main confer is just to do better for them. Okay. Um because I we can't have our student outcome, our focused outcome if we can't do better for our kids. For sure. Next.
Review and approve the fiscal year 25 year-to- date budget report and review and approve the meeting minutes from the March 4th, 2025 meeting. Do I have a motion? Yep. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as written. Second.
And they were the first students to ever present at a seminar day to have a student strand um to talk about their process. So, here's the video. I apologize this is out of order, but it's unreal. [Music] Yep. [Music] Code of the game and everything. So cool. Code the game. So, they bought the games and they had to program it to work with the um the technology. I'll read you what he wrote. He said, "Our students picked a blueprint for an arcade cabinet, programmed our CNC machine to cut the parts. They assembled the parts, created decals, and applied them, laid out and wired a control panel, 3D printed parts, programmed a computer, and have been adding and testing ROM games this week. In the coming days, we'll be adding code to the computers for safe shutdown and custom loading screens, and also finishing some last minute details.
Seeing no one in the room, uh are there any questions? And seeing none. Thank you. Um, that is the last set of measures on this 3:01 p.m. agenda. So, why don't we go straight into decision- making? Um, at the top of the agenda, we're be voting on uh both the Senate concurrent resolutions and the Senate resolutions uh together uh with one vote. Beginning with at the top of the agenda, STR 196 and SR76, office of the governor. Oh, you know what? Uh, we'll take a quick recess uh let folks come into the room and to get our paperwork in order. Recess. All right, we're reconvening the Committee on Transportation, Culture, and the Arts on our uh 3:01 p.m. agenda. Uh we're in decision-making. Thank you everyone for your patience. Um beginning with Senate Concurrent Resolution 196 and Senate Resolution 176. I'd like to recommend passing with amendments just adding uh a clause uh relating to prisons and criminal justice as a potential uh uh place of conversation and collaboration.
Good morning everyone. My name is Katie Cardier. Um, I brought this plaque that says work hard and be nice to people because I think that um I feel like the first part I'm here to represent excellent employees in general. Um, I think that I I really don't want to support like anything less than excellence. And I think that um I really want us to kind of kumbaya together and come to consensus and find common ground. So that's the be nice to people part. Okay. Thank you. Sorry I was late. Um I assume we're sharing our thing. Yes. My name is Dorothy Green. Um, I brought u it's an elephant puzzle and there's a little baby elephant under the adult elephant and um I think for me when I s I was on my shelf I was looking around my room last night looking for something.
Any discussion? All in favor? Hi. All right. What's that? Um go to uh discuss future agenda items. External grease trap waiverss 12 oak tree lane. So if we are still waiting from DPW to clear the the grease trap waiverss, right? So we're still waiting on that with 120 oak tree lane. Uh they are they're going through the process with conservation commission right now. Once we have that, we'll we'll have Thank you. You're up, Jay. Yeah, I'm happy to talk about this. All right. So, the next thing on our agenda, um Jay Burns is going to discuss in-person versus hybrid meetings and the state update. I don't know much about the state update. We can discuss that. And I guess this is sort of a discussion for for all of us and folks, but maybe get a chance to read the letter. So um really this is just simply about having a conversation related to um a hybrid meeting format versus fully remote which what we've been doing since I have been on the board um and I'm going into my um what now finishing my fourth year.
Um, and there's a whole gallery of photos that I'm happy to share with you, but it is unbelievable what our kids can do. They can get all the quarters I put in those. I want my money back. I really believe you. So, they're trying to determine next steps for these for these arcade games and I'm sure there'll be probably some donated to various aspects of our community and it's perhaps a fundraiser that our kids can decide where the money um will go. So, super exciting. So that was seminar day, a highlight of seminar day cuz the kids got to present about the work and I mean you should see the teachers flooding down there and the classes flooding down there to see this. It's just amazing. Do has a new community center. So I know some of these. I already recommended that. I was like Don, you need to come see these.
There's no discussion on those. Vice chair for the vote. Chair's recommendation on STR 196 and SR1 176 to pass with amendments with five members present. Any voting with reservations? Any no votes? Measure is adopted. Mr. Chair, thank you. Moving on to STR 197 and SR77. Uh like to recommend moving us forward with amendments. Um making or excuse me, adopting amendments based on the proposed draft as it was posted and making further amendments which include uh cleaning up and clarifying the recognition of the um uh holidays uh in the title as well as the clauses. And we'll also add a uh provision at the end inviting Canadian leaders and others as may be appropriate um to meet with Hawaii leaders to collaborate on shared issues of mutual benefit and concern.
So the little elephant obviously represents the children that we are charged with putting first and making sure that we're protecting and nurturing. And then to me um kind of each of the different types of people that are in our group represent the different puzzles pieces because we all need to come together in order to do what's best and you know make the right decisions to protect the children and do the do what's best for them. And then I also thought of kind of that, you know, that old uh story about the blind mice that run up different parts of the elephant and then think it's something completely different because I think we each come with our own perspectives and our own knowledge base and so we need to share and collaborate with that information in order to understand the bigger picture. Great. That is a wonderful symbol for our negotiations.
So um I personally I like to do meetings in person. Um I'm not sure what the rationale is for continuing fully remote. If there is a rationale, I'm I'm happy to to hear it. But, um, you know, I I think that many of you know I've been kind of like pushing a conversation about this for some time now. And I, you know, my I I listed, you know, a few um I think benefits of meeting in person. you read this this letter, but you know this we we were interrupted with the Zoom bomb a couple uh me or a meeting ago or a couple of meetings ago. Um I think that's uh we have a little bit more control over that kind of thing if we're meeting in person. That's my understanding. Um the select board is already having has a hybrid format. My understanding is that that works fairly well for people.
Um okay, so I apologize going back to updates. Um social media presentations. So, as you know, both Dober and Sherburn as communities um have done a uh a townwide or two townwide read of um the anxious generation. And coming out of that, I know that there was a panel presentation at uh the Pilgrim Church in Sherburn. Um we are partnering with the Pilgrim Church and other local um places of worship and community agencies to support um two additional presentations all under the theme of social media with kind of different angles. Um, tomorrow night is Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:30 at the Sherburn Community Center. Dr. Jill Walsh will be coming and I mentioned her at my January update. She's from BEu. And if you remember the example I gave that I stole from her about the kids watching '90s videos of us actually talking to each other in high school.
Any discussion on this one? Seeing none, vice chair for the vote. Chair's recommendation on STR 197 and SR 177 to pass with amendments. Any voting with reservations with five members present? Any no votes?
Next, I was really trying to figure out hard what to bring and um this came to me just the other day is like a multicord charger. Um because you and like my earbuds take one, my cell phone take one, you know, the whole thing. Um so when I was really thinking about it, I thought um the USBC at the end is really just the students. This is why we're all here and we're all united together, working together for our students. But part of this process is that there's also multiple perspectives and I promised myself when I became a teacher, I wasn't for going to forget what it was like to be a student in the classroom. So I try and bring the student perspective and then when I moved into instructional coaching and administration, I didn't want to forget what it was like to be a teacher in the classroom and all the demands that teachers have.
Um I think you know personally my experience with inerson meetings it's you've got chitchat before and after and it just people it certainly keeps me more engaged um and I think that the public can certainly access our meetings um both online as well as in person. So um you know again this is I just kind of wanted to hear from the board and Raj and you are about you know what what do how do you folks feel about um going to the hybrid meeting and what are the I mean I know there must be a reason that we are continuing to do it fully remote I'm just not fully aware of what that and me too you know it's up to the board you know however they want to do but be okay either way. And and what what does on your part that involves staying obvious, right?
That's her. Um so she will be talking about kind of the science and how social media affects the adolescent and child brain and what we can do as parents to kind of support and intervene um you know with this new world that we're entering. Um and then just announced as of yesterday there is going to be a presentation and a question and answer. Um we're calling it the paradox of parental controls and it's going to talk about um it's going to be informational. Uh Brandon Hall will be there and some of our health teachers. They're going to talk about the what you what your kids can do on social media that you might not know they can do or what others can do with social media involving your students. Um what sort of monitors and um tools can be used as parents at home. Um and what are some of the implications of all of this um within the community.
Hearing none. Vice Chair U measure is adopted. Thank you. Moving on to STR 195 and SR 175. Uh recommendation is to move forward as is. If there's no discussion, uh vice chair chair's recommendation on STR 195 and SR 175 is to pass un amended with five members present. Any voting with reservations? Any no votes?
So I promised myself I wouldn't forget that. And then when I now I'm shifting into my new role as a a director. Um I and I've worked for many years as an assistant principal and a principal. I don't also want to forget that perspective. So I think that's kind of what I bring to the team is all of those um ideas and different perspectives that come together. Okay. Thank you. Um not I totally forgot about this. So um thinking what I have besides my eaten muffin uh my computer is our artifact because one it allows us to peruse all the data um all the resources and in doing so you know I've kind of everybody knows I've been struggling where we are since the last meeting in hearing some of the benchmark data and seeing that only 12% of our third graders are proficient that breaks my heart.